Disclaimer: Warning, I'm not Stephenie Meyer, precede with caution

Disclaimer Deuce: The name of the chapter is "Hurt" it's called hurt because of a passage from the song "hurt" by thousand foot Krutch "Everyone owns a gun deep inside... it's just a matter of how much you let it slide"

Ulrich POV:

I was reading a book when the door slammed open. Felix was at the door.

"Training room now!" is all I heard. I set my book down but I wasn't fast enough. Felix crossed the cell grabbing my shirt and tossed me at the door.

"Get your ass moving pupil or I'll beat up to a pulp myself." I jumped back up to me feet and I "Go now!" He roared at me bestially. I had learned to listen to him because he had what was best for me in mind. Now I listened to him because he was angry. He wasn't himself. He was always controlled but over the last weeks he hadn't been himself, he'd been disturbed, off his game, and now he was a ticking time bomb.
I stumbled in to the large room I only knew as the training room. Felix was behind me and still held that same anger he wore at my door. He slammed the door behind him.

"Hit me damn it." He yelled at me. I was taken aback, I hadn't been able to touch him ever but at the same time I held a certain admiration for my teacher.

"I don't want to." I said honestly. He laughed darkly. He turned his back then charged at me faking left jumping right then connected with my jaw with his fist. I tried to move but I wasn't as fast as he was, I wasn't prepared. My body sailed after my head across the room.

"I DIDN'T ASK IF YOU WANTED TO." He yelled at me. He stood and beckoned me forward. I charged at him. I opened my arms he side stepped and connected with a round house kick to my stomach. I bent over in pain and I felt an elbow against where my spine connected to my head. My body shut down hitting the ground face first. I started to get up. I was on my knees before feeling the top of Felix's boot against my upper chest. I was propelled back across the room.

"Again!" I charged faked right stepped left but before I could strike his fist connected with the side of my jaw throwing me back against the wall. I slowly shook out my head and got back up to a vertical base.

"Again!" He yelled at me as a cadence. I charged at him making no real movement besides forward. I threw my leg out with a front kick. Instead of backing up and blocking it. He stepped forward blocking the outside of my leg. I was thrown off balance I turned my head as he spun to my side connecting with an elbow to my kidneys. I bent forward catching my second leg on the ground before I felt Felix's arm wrap around my body pull me off my feet before my shoulders and head slammed against the ground. I rolled through. Putting my hands flat on the ground I threw myself backwards up to my feet.

"Again!" Felix called angrily. I charged at him throwing a knee he blocked with both hands. I took another swing. He leaned back and caught my arm. I felt his hand strike my stomach then I was on my back behind him. He turned and I jumped back to my feet before he struck another time.

"You're predictable, hit me with something I never taught you damn it! Again!" I ran at him. I swung an obvious close line. He ducked it and I dropped to the ground as he stood back up I was flat on the ground, I spun my legs and swept him quickly taking his legs out from under him. I quickly got up to one knee and reached for his throat. I caught him and slammed him to the ground by his neck using my leverage to hold him down. He reached up and grabbed my neck. His free hand pressed off the ground and he threw us both and up to a standing base. There we stared in to each other's eyes neither one of us releasing our grip.
Felix's eyes softened and his grip released on my neck. The anger in his eyes disappeared and my grip loosened. He laughed.

"Good job... you finally caught me off guard." I smiled. He moved to the opposite side of the room and sat down his body relaxed visibly.

"What got you all riled up?" I asked and he shrugged as I slid down the wall sitting down next to him.

"What do you think? What else could mess up a guy... a woman of course." I laughed in response.

"What about you and that red haired girl in the market... I heard about that." I shrugged. "Nothing can come of that, She'll be happy and live her life alive... If I just leave her alone she doesn't need to become a vampire... she can be happy without me." I answered straight... there would be no discussing this. I heard the sound of someone passing by but disregarded it.

"If you say so." Felix shrugged.

"I admire your restraint... come on let's get back to sparring." Felix said helping me back to my feet.

Evelyn's POV:

A couple of hours ago I saw something that was horrifying… and a little hot. I warned Demetri not to push Felix's buttons, not only because I didn't want to see Felix hurt, but I didn't want to see Demetri hurt either. I just didn't see the need to throw it in Felix's face. I remembered exactly how it happened. I knew Demetri probably started it.

I didn't feel great about what happened and how it was hurting Felix but it was his fault he crossed the line. Demetri was simply the most logical next step. I was just walking down the hall way when I heard Felix and Demetri talking. No good can come of this. I stopped around the corner to listen to the conversation.

"Stay away from Evelyn… this isn't a game to me." I distinctly heard an edge on Felix's voice.

"Or what? You'll kill me? Hah… You may have had your time as the Volturi's top dog but let's face it… with Alec and Jane… with everyone else with powers… and you with none… you're nothing special." No! Bad idea Demetri! I may not have done a psychological profile on Felix but it was plain as day that he was proud of his position in the guard. That was one button Demetri didn't want to push, especially if Felix is as volatile as I think he is right now.

I turned the corner and was amazed at what I saw. In a quick blur of moment I saw Felix move right then Demetri was up against the wall being choked in mid air. Oh damn he's gotten good. I wanted to do something but a part of me was stuck admiring how he had developed in to the elite Vampire he'd become. Demetri looked like he was trying to break Felix's grip but to no avail.

"You have no special powers… You're a thug… easily replaceable." If there was a phrase Demetri could have said to tip Felix off more I didn't know it. Maybe if he said something about him and you. I thought to myself. I could physically see Felix's body rippling in anger as he threw Demetri on the ground.

"Then replace me!" He yelled as he ran at Demetri. Demetri tried to get back up but he was met with Felix's knee. Felix climbed on top of him and brutally assaulted him. I was surprised that he could dominate Demetri in physical combat like he could. It wasn't in any report I'd read. His anger was pressing him harder now. Corin and Santiago appeared from a door and wrapped their arms on either shoulder of Felix pulling him off Demetri. Good this will end. Felix made some movement I couldn't quite recognize and then Corin and Santiago were thrown over his shoulder and he was chasing Demetri again. He was flawless, strong, controlled. I watched in amazement as they tried to stop the fight and failed. He'd only become a better fighter over the last hundred years. Whatever started this I knew it was probably Demetri. He'd been flaunting our relationship to Felix… not verbally but with small things. Felix was by no means stupid. My complete lack of concern for Demetri surprised me anyway.
Felix grabbed Demetri by his shoulder pulling him back down to the ground before turning back to Corin and Santiago. He jumped and spun gracefully through the air before pinning Santiago to the wall with a devastating kick, before turning back and catching Corin with an elbow and slamming his body in to the wall.

I always found him attractive, but this was something else completely. At the far end of the hallway I saw Alec and Jane. Good they'll stop this… I thought to myself but they didn't.
"Stop Felix!" they yelled not using their powers. Why aren't they stopping him? Demetri caught Felix's elbow to the temple before looking up and seeing Aro.

"Felix!" Aro called. Felix immediately stood straight up. Demetri was laying on the ground between his legs. The sight was kind of humiliating. Felix had utterly and completely dominated Demetri while keeping Corin and Santiago busy. Demetri climbed out from under Felix.

"What is the meaning of this!?!" Aro yelled. He didn't hold his usual calm demeanor. Felix didn't look comfortable but told Aro the truth, or at least part of it.

"Demetri said without any powers… I was a thug… and replaceable… I asked him to replace me then." Aro smiled and laughed quietly. He really is a master of the theatrics.

"You just took out three members of the guard, one of them being your second… I think your have the answer to your question." I could physically see a small swagger back in Felix's step. Damn he's hot when he's confident…

"You are dismissed." Aro said from the other side of the hall. I lingered and Felix approached me but didn't have the same swagger as before. He had a determination in his eyes. I needed to say something.

"You… just took out three members of the Volturi guard at once?" I said barely believing what I was saying. He shrugged it off.

"Well Demetri was more or less running away." He said offhandedly.

We turned the corner and then he pressed his body against mine pinning me to the wall. If my heart could beat it would have skipped in that moment. I felt the familiar tightening of my stomach at the feeling of his body against mine.

"I want you Lyn… and you know you feel the same." I almost lost my resolve when he called me Lyn. I loved it when he called me that, and almost a century later and he still remembered. He was so close. I could feel his breath on me. With every word I panicked. Nothing could have prepared me for what he said.

I lithely slipped out of his hold and hurried back to my office. With my back to the door. With his every advance my need for him was only growing stronger. What's wrong with me? I thought I could resist him. I sat in contemplation for what seemed like forever. Every possible scenario ended with Felix getting hurt. If I gave in to my feelings of attraction, I would hurt him in the end because I was not looking for a relationship with him. If I ended it with Demetri, it would give Felix hope and he would continue to pursue me with no end in sight. If I continued to see Demetri it would hurt him even more. All scenarios had the same end. I decided I would stay with Demetri. Maybe Felix would learn to accept that we won't be together.

A knock on the door broke my silent deliberations. With a sigh I lifted myself from the floor, all the while hoping that it wasn't Felix on the other side of the door. I didn't think I could resist his advances again so soon. I didn't think I could resist him.
I slowly opened the door and I smirked looking at the figure before me. It was Demetri, Standing there with a defeated look, probably looking for sympathy he didn't deserve.

"What happened to you?" I asked trying to keep a straight face.

"Felix is crazy. One moment we're talking, the next he's flipping out and throwing me up against the wall." He said feigning his own innocence.

"Aro needs to have him fucking dealt with, he's a ticking time bomb, completely unstable." I had to laugh at that assessment.

"Well you shouldn't say he's a replaceable thug then…" Demetri's face emulated that of a kid that got caught with his hand in a cookie jar.

"Well how about this." I said pushing him up against the wall lightly pressing my body up against him. If I'm going to hold true to my resolve, I can't be wound tight and sexually frustrated around Felix So Demetri will have to do for now.

"Show me where it hurts and I'll make it feel better." He pointed to the bruises Felix left on his neck. I pictured Felix holding him up by the throat with one hand. That was hot. I kissed across his jaw and down his neck trying to keep my thoughts on Demetri because the last thing I wanted to do was call out Felix's name by mistake.

Felix's POV:

I was taking Ulrich and Ivan out to Abhash for additional training. If I paid Abhash I could work with Ivan while he worked with Ulrich and vice versa. I didn't want my pupil's to defeat Demetri's I wanted them to utterly annihilate them. If that wasn't enough a reason I needed some time away from Evelyn. I would never admit it but her coming back shook me to the core. I had buried all sexual feelings when she left and her coming back resurrected them inside of me. I'd forgotten how much I needed her and even though she denied it I could see it in her eyes. Or are you just seeing things you want to see? I asked myself. I had my doubts in the back of my mind but I pressed on knowing they were wrong. I could see it. It wasn't my imagination. I would run Ulrich up to Abhash first then bring Ivan, they still could never meet.

We stood in the main chamber and I noticed Evelyn on the opposite side of the hall, I forced myself to ignore her. Demetri stepped in to the chamber pulling along an attractive woman. I noticed Ulrich was tense next to me. I knew he didn't like feeding, or public slaughtering.

"This woman is my meal, I'm about to feed, just thought I'd ask if that's okay." He said addressing Aro.

"Yes that's fine Demetri." Three things happened at one moment. First was Demetri moved the woman in to our view and I noticed her red hair. The second was Ulrich leaping from my side sprinting at Demetri, the third was I figured out who the girl was. I had no time to think, if I thought Ulrich was dead, or at least losing an appendage. I sprinted after my student.
Demetri intercepted Ulrich with a quick strike and got a grab of his arm, immediately trying to rip it off. Ulrich started the fight so he has every right to kill him. That was his plan all along. I was only a full stride behind my apprentice and as Demetri turned and I kicked with all my power. My front kick landed square on his chest freeing his fingers from Ulrich. I tackled him and threw him off he growled at me and stepped back. I looked back and saw Ulrich growling at the Volturi. He pulled the woman behind him trying to protect her from all the Volturi.

"He attacked me! His penalty should be death, or at least a duel with me!" Demetri said point at Ulrich as if the people in the room didn't see what happened.

"You provoked him, You found out he liked this girl and hunted her down and brought her to get him to fight you… you're trying to kill my student!" I roared at them.

"Regardless of his reason Felix, Ulrich's punishment will be a duel to the death." I growled.

"Demetri will need to kill me first before he can attack my student." Demetri scoffed. He wanted to take out my pupils so he'd win by default… It wasn't about that… he knew how much Evelyn meant to me, and he wouldn't let himself lose at anything.

"Demetri… is what Felix said true?" Demetri looked like he considered lying for a moment but reconsidered it.

"Yes… what he said is true." Aro looked displeased then turn to Ulrich.

"We do have a problem though… This woman has seen us, seen what we are, and for that she can't walk away." He said evenly. I looked back at Ulrich who didn't like the sound of that. He looked like he was trying to protect her.

"She doesn't need to… she can leave, she…" Aro shook his head and Marcus interrupted him.

"Her fate is in your hands… either turn her or feed on her… but YOU will do it." he said with a morbid bit of enjoyment. Ulrich didn't like it but he looked at her staring in to her eyes…

"I'm sorry" he whispered in to her ear before he plunged his teeth in to her arm.

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