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Phone conversations
"I need to call my mother." She said looking at Jake and the Vampires in the room. "Jake please take Selene and play with her, QUIETLY." Bella said raising her voice on the last word making Jake grin and Selene giggle. "Aro, can I tell her that I met someone? It will make her happier and she will be less likely to cause problems later on. It will also mean less time listening to her shout at me." Aro smiled at his newly found mate and nodded. Bella smiled and dialed her mother's number.
"Hello?" Renee answered causing Bella to jump at her answering on the first ring.
"Mom, it's Bella." Bella stated and nearly giggled when Aro blanched at her shortening her name. "Hey sorry about freaking you out, I needed to get away from the states."
"ISABELLA MARIE SWAN! Do you have any idea what your father and I have been going through the last two days?" Renee shouted causing most of the Vampires to flinch at her tone and voice level. "WHERE ARE YOU AND WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME?" Bella flinched at the anger in her mother's voice.
"Mom, calm down, I am in Italy with Jake and Selene." Bella informed her mother. "Dad knows where I am and he is going to come meet my..." She trailed off bating her mother.
"Oh, Bella did you meet someone over there?" Renee asked giddily. "I hear that Italians are great cooks and even better in-"
"MOM, so not going there right now." Bella said cutting her mother off and looking up at Aro who was grinning widely at her. "I was calling to inform you that I am safe and sound and I will email you soon. Love you Mom. Bye." Bella swiftly hung up the phone and looked up at the room full of Vampires that were grinning at her.
"I do believe I will like your mother." Ciaus stated from his throne, causing Marcus to chuckle. Bella responded by blushing heavily and then when Selene cried out, she ran to her daughter and noticed that she was getting tired and after looking at Jake with a smile Bella lifted her daughter up and turned to Aro.
"Somebody needs a nap." She said making her daughter start to struggle.
"NO NAP. I DON'T WANTA TAKE A NAP. NAPS ARE EVIL. NO NAP, NO NAP, NO NAP." Selene started yelling trying to turn and squirm out of her mothers arms.
"My dear Selene, what ever made you think that you were the one needing the nap?" Bella asked looking at her daughter in 'shock'. "I was under the impression that Mommy needed a nap and you were going to stand guard for me." Bella said looking sad and down. "If you don't want Mommy to be safe well then we will just have to let the Napping Nasties get me." She looked over at Aro and almost laughed at his expression.
"I sorry Mommy, I will stand guard all afternoon if you want. I don't want anything bad to happen to you." Selene said starting to cry.
"No need to cry dear." Aro said, "I will join you in protecting your mother while she sleeps." Jake snorted at this as did many of the guard.
"Okay, but I get to cuddle with her first." Selene said wrapping her arms around her mother's neck, snuggling into Bella as her eyes got heavy. Aro led the way back to his private chambers and allowed the two humans to get comfortable before sliding in and wrapping his arms around both of them. Soon Selene was sleeping soundly and Bella was talking softly to Aro.
"I have to ask, what are the Napping Nasties?" He asked looking at her and watching her blush.
"Bed bugs and other things that scare children at night time during the afternoon." Bella answered sheepishly. "I use to lay her down alone and stay with her until she fell asleep, but she kept trying to play with me instead of sleeping so I started laying down with her and taking a nap as well. And no, you don't have to leave I don't mind being able to talk to you without feeling like the entire guard is listening." She giggled knowing that if they wanted to they could still hear her. "Yes I know that if they wanted to they could still listen in but it makes me feel better." Aro chuckled lightly at her words.
"If it makes you feel better, this part of the Castle is far enough away from the Throne room that unless they listened really hard they wouldn't hear anything from us." He assured her with a smile. Bella shifted slightly against him as she turned onto her back so she could look at Aro easily.
"Aro, I am sorry about the shock of me having a baby already, I was not intending on having a child so early in life. Or even at all, knowing what I do about your kind."
"I thought humans had things to keep a woman from getting pregnant." Aro said letting some of his anger slip into his tone.
"We do, but I don't take the pill or have the Depo shot." She said softly trying not to cry.
"How did you get pregnant then? Did he not act responsible and use a condom?" Aro growled.
"I think he was more into the whole 'must have sex' thoughts to use one or even carry one on him." Bella said shaking softly. "And don't go condemning me for something you don't have any clue about." She snarled at him. Aro arched an eyebrow at her tone.
"Then enlighten me." He snapped at her.
"Fine." Bella answered back. "I was raped. That is why we didn't use protection. He refused to take no for an answer and took not only my virginity, but also almost got me killed." She shouted at Aro, who was staring at her in shock. "If Laurent hadn't shown up when he did, Mike would have done more to me. After all the lessons my father gave me, I still had to rely on a Vampire that wanted me dead, to protect me. And when he was done with my rapist, he came after me and for that Jake and his tribe killed him. Laurent was part of Victoria and James's coven." She was crying and trying to keep her voice quiet as to not wake her daughter. Aro's look of shock turned to anger at the mention of another Vampire wanting to kill his mate. He began shaking and growling at the very notion. "Aro calm down, your going to wake Selene." Bella whispered to him.
"So your daughter's father, this Mike, is dead at the hands of a Vampire named Laurent, who is also dead because?" Aro asked confused.
"Laurent is dead because after he drained Mike he came after me as a second course." Bella informed her mate with sad eyes. "I have been protected by the wolf shifters ever since the Cullens left Forks, even more so after Selene was born." She said with a small smile. Aro looked at her in shock.
"You truly are a danger magnet, aren't you?" He asked his mate, shaking his head at her bad luck. "Any idea when your father will be here?"
"I would assume he would arrive sometime tomorrow." Bella answered hesitantly. "Aro, who will pick him up? He knows too much and yet too little at the same time. Vampires will scare him and seeing me and Jake will make him want to load us up and return to the States without coming here to meet you." She warned the Vampire king.
"You, Jake, Selene, Jane, Alec, and I will go to pick him up." Aro answered easily. "Or better yet call him back and we will meet him back in your hometown, using the private jet. That way we can gather all of you stuff and bring it back with us."
"And the fact that doing so means that you would 'have' to meet Jake's pack is just an added bonus?" Bella teased him with a small grin. Aro smiled at how she seemed to know what he was thinking.
"But of course, I must thank them for protecting my mate while I couldn't do anything for you." He answered with a small grin of his own. "Not to mention we need to find a way for Selene and Jake to stay together, while they live on different continents." Aro reminded her.
"True." Bella acknowledged his point. "I will call Dad back after Selene wakes." She decided with a nod. They fell into a comfortable silence and Bella soon fell asleep in Aro's arms.
"Mommy wake up!" Selene demanded, tickling Bella awake. "Mommy are you awake now?" She asked when Bella opened her eyes and looked at the clock she had been asleep for 2 and a half hours.
"Yes sweetheart, Mommy had a nice nap. Thank you for watching over me as I slept." She said to her daughter, causing her to giggle.
"Don't forget about your other guard, Mommy, it is manners." Selene said pointing to Aro who was watching with barely concealed amusement.
"That is right, Aro, thank you for watching over us as we slept." Bella said looking over her shoulder at her mate.
"Your welcome, Isabella." Aro answered with a slight tilting of his head. "It was a pleasure." He added giving her a slightly heated look, causing Bella to blush at his implication.
"Selene, what do you say about a plane ride back to see Grandpa?" Bella asked her daughter who grinned.
"I wanna go." She answered instantly. "But only if you and Jake and Mr. Aro, and some of his friends can come too."
"Aro, what do you say," Bella asked turning towards him with a smile. "Do you want to accompany us back to Forks?"
"I think I can do that." He answered looking at her lovingly. "Why don't we alert your father and my brothers?"
"Sounds like a plan." Bella said lifting her daughter into her arms and following him back to the Throne Room. "Jake, can I use your phone?" She asked her best friend and he handed it over to her without hesitating. She dialed her father's number and waited for him to pick up.
"Hello, this is Chief Charlie Swan. How can I help you?"
"Dad, hey cancel your flight, Aro, Jake, Selene, I and some of Aro's guards will be flying over to Forks." Bella said right off the bat.
"Wait, we will?" Jake asked along with the guard.
"Aro said it, not me." Bella said to the guard and looked at Jake with amusement at his protesting.
"When do you need me to pick you up?" Charlie asked his only child. Bella turned and looked at Aro with a raised eyebrow.
"We will arrive tomorrow afternoon and we will rent cars to travel, he doesn't need to do anything."
"Aro says we will take care of everything, so I will call you when we land. Also, can you call Billy and get him and Sam over to the house? It would help things a lot. Just tell them Bella is coming with Vampires- Not the Cullens."
"Will do, just tell me how many are eating at the house."
"Ummm... Six, but prepare enough for an army, Jake and Sam can really pack it in."
"Okay will do, see you tomorrow Bells." With that her father hung up the phone and she turned it off as well turning to see everyone looking at her in shock. "What? Did you want me to have him make food for those Vampires coming only for it to go to waist?" She asked.
"No, we were just wanting to know what was going on." Ciaus said looking from the human to Aro. "Brother explain please."
"Jane, Alec, Felix, and I will be traveling to Isabella's hometown to meet her father, and negotiate with the pack in that area. We will also pack my mate's stuff up and when we return to Voltaira she will be here to stay." Aro said simply, shrugging his shoulders. "Felix, get the jet ready to leave, we will be flying to-" He cut off looking at his mate for the nearest town with an airport.
"Seattle." She supplied dryly. "Go Seahawks." She said rolling her eyes at Jake's expression. "What Dad's a fan." She said looking pointedly at Jake.
"Bella you hate all sports, don't try to fake it now." He answered laughing at her expression of distaste.
"Master the Jet is ready." Felix said looking at Aro expectantly.
"Good then let us be on our way then." With those words the group leaving turned towards the door and headed to the nearest airport.
They arrived early the next afternoon and after Bella called to alert her father she was on her way from Seattle, they rented cars and drove the few hour drive to Forks, making it in under an hour. They parked the two cars infront of her father's house noting that there was a police car in the driveway along with a van.
"Your father invited the police?" Jane asked spitting her words angrily at Bella.
"No, Jane, my father is the Chief of Police." Bella answered setting Selene down and watching the young girl run up to the house and pound on the door. A young native opened the door and Selene shouted happily.
"Uncle Sam!" Selene's voice brought Jake and the guard's eyes to the door and the happenings of the house.
"Sam, how are you doing?" Jake and Bella spoke in unison.
"Good, now that we know you are alive, Bella." Sam answered. "Jake took off without a word and we were worried." He stated, looking beyond Jake and Bella to see the red eyes of the Vampires with them. "Who are your friends?" He asked causing Jake to snort.
"Not my friends." Jake answered rolling his eyes at his Alpha.
"These are Aro, Jane, Alec, and Felix." Bella answered pointing to each in turn. "Aro is my mate, kind of like your imprints." She informed the Alpha male. He nodded his understanding.
"I would like to request that you don't hunt in the area, we have enough problems with nomads running through the area as it is." He said looking at Aro, sensing that he was the leader. Aro nodded his acceptance of his words.
"Well now that that is out of the way, I would like to see my Dad." Bella said pushing past the shifters and into her father's house. "DAD?" She called out, sighing when she saw him exit the kitchen. "What are you doing in there? You know you can't cook, Dad." She teased her father, causing him to smile and wrap his arms around her in a hug.
"What's burning?" Jake asked entering the house after Bella.
"Shit, that would be dinner." Charlie shouted heading towards the kitchen as the Vampires entered the house. Bella rolled her eyes and jogged past her dad and into the kitchen. After looking around she laughed.
"Dad you have to stir the noodles, and brown the meat. Not the other way around." She said still chuckling. Aro walked in behind her and started helping fix the problems. Bella turned and saw everything she used to make the sauce was out but not combined and she shook her head. "Dad, you are fired, stay out of the kitchen." She called to the amusement of everyone in the house. "Go watch the game or something." She ordered swiftly combining ingredients and making her homemade sauce from memory. She and Aro made dinner and once it was finished she dished up for all the humans and shifters. "Jane, Alec, can you help me get the food on the table?" She called to her mate's guard. She blinked and noticed it was already there. "Ummm, thanks." She said shaking her head and sitting in her normal spot at the table. "Dad, Jake, Billy, Sam, Selene, dinner." She called, and everyone came into the room and sat down to eat or watch. "Okay now to introduce everyone." Her dad looked at her in shock.
"Dad, this is Aro, Jane, Alec, and Felix." She pointed to everyone in turn. "Aro is one of the three Vampire kings and is my mate. Jane and Alec are twins and along with Felix are apart of his guard." She informed the group. She stopped her father from shaking Aro's hand with a glare at her mate. "Dad, Aro can read minds by touching people." She warned. Her father shot her a look of gratitude and then extended his hand to Aro.
"What other gifts are there in this group?" Sam asked Bella.
"Jane can torture someone mentally, and Alec can cut off a person's senses. Felix is abnormally strong, and Isabella is a shield." Aro answered honestly, looking at the young shifter in the eye.
"I have a question, why are all of your eyes red and the Cullens all had golden eyes?" Charlie asked bringing attention back to the other human in the room.
"Vampires that feed on animals have golden eyes, where as my brothers, myself, and our guard feed on human blood." Aro answered instantly. "I won't lie to you, Charles. We feed on all sorts of humans, from criminals to random tourists." He informed them. "The Volturi don't care who we feed on, just that we make it inconspicuous." He stated honestly. "Once I turn Isabella, she will be allowed to feed anyway she wishes, be it on humans or animals. I hope she will at least try human blood, even if it is just bagged, but I won't force her to do anything she doesn't wish to do."
"I will try it, but only after my newborn year." Bella said, drawing attention back to her and the matter at hand. "And when I do, I want it to be a criminal." She said looking right at Aro expectantly.
"As you wish, mate." He responded easily. "Now on to more pressing ideas." He said turning to the shifters and Billy. "I intend to declare this area a Vampire free zone, on the condition that the Cullens may continue to return here. As we all know they do not drink from humans and will be of no threat to you or your people." He informed them.
Sam looked at him in shock. "That would help us considerably. Why would you do that for us?" He asked Aro wearily.
"Because of her." Aro said pointing at Selene. "She is the daughter of my mate and the mate of one of your pack. She is Isabella's daughter which makes her mine as well and a child of the Volturi is always protected. She will be a princess because of her mother and when she is old enough to understand she will have the choice to become one of us or stay human." He declared looking at Bella and Selene. "The only question is where will she live. If your imprinting is anything like Vampire mating then she and Jacob won't be able to part for more than a few days. If she lives with her mother then she would be living in Italy. If not then Isabella would be coming back here every few weeks, which is tiring on her. And because we are mates, she can't be parted from me for very long either." He added. "So what do-" he cut off hearing something and turned to Charlie. "Are you expecting anyone?" Charlie shook his head in the negative. "Someone is coming up the path to the door." He informed the group. "Jane, Alec see who it is, without being seen." He ordered his guard who disappeared.
"It is a young native woman that smells like the Alpha over there." Jane said pointing at Sam.
"That would be Emily. She and Bella are close. She is my imprint." Sam answered shifting to stand only to find that Bella was out of her seat and heading to the door.
"Hey wolf girl come on in." Bella called opening the door for her friend.
"Wolf girl?" Aro asked quietly to Sam.
"Emily is the wolf girl and Bella is the Vampire girl." Sam answered with a grin.
"Bella we have been worried sick about you." Emily chastised her friend.
"Sorry, had a problem with Edtard and then found out something amazing and then watched Jake kill the redheaded menace of our lives." Bella answered with a laugh. "Sam is through here." She lead the way to the dinning room and watched Sam rise out of his seat and embrace his mate. "Go ahead and take my seat, next to Sam." She said to Emily moving to sit on Aro's lap.
"Bella you know that Vampire feeds on humans right?" Emily asked, shocked at her friend's actions.
"Yeah this is my Vampire mate Aro. He is a king of Vampires." Bella introduced her friend. "He won't hurt me."
"You are mates with a Vampire king?" Emily asked shocked. "How does this sort of thing always happen to you?" Bella just laughed.
"I have to have some good luck to balance the fact that I am a Danger Magnet." She answered giggling.
"Only you Bella, only you." Billy interjected shaking his head in astonishment.
"Isabella is rather unique isn't she?" Aro stated pulling her closer to his chest.
"Isabella?" Emily asked her friend with a 'what the hell' look.
"He is old fashioned, okay?" She defended. "Not to mention it sounds sexy the way he says it." She murmured forgetting about the heightened senses of those around her. Jane and Alec snorted as Aro grinned broadly at her words. She blushed when he chuckled slightly against her ear whispering her name in a sexy tone. "Okay moving on." She said as she shuddered at his tone. "Back to the discussion at hand." She said pointedly at her friends.
"Right, what do we do about Bella and Selene?" Jake asked drawing the attention back to matters at hand. "Selene should be with her mother and her mother has to be with Mr. Vampire King, and Selene and I can't be parted." He summed up. "I guess I am moving to Italy." He answered shrugging his shoulders like it was no big deal.
"Jake what about your dad and the pack?" Bella asked. "Would you really be able to give them up? Not to mention Voltaira isn't exactly the safest place for a shifter. It is the Vampire capital of the world." Bella reminded him.
"He is right, as much as I hate to admit it, I can't leave Voltaira for long, I have responsibilities there that I must attend." Aro pointed out to his mate with a sigh. "He could train with the guard and when he returns to visit, say every few months, he can teach his pack new techniques for fighting Vampires." He added, bringing up a good point for the wolves.
"He makes a good point." Sam said looking at Billy. "What do you have to say, Billy? Jake is your son." Billy looked at his son and sighed.
"Jake is old enough to do as he pleases. I won't stop him and I will support his decision, whatever it is." Billy answered.
"I will come home every few months and I will have Quill and Embry come by every day to help you." Jake said to his father, they will take care of you. "Not to mention Paul, seeing as Rebecca is his imprint." Jake pointed out to his father. "And Charlie will probably be by just as much if not more than he already is." He turned to Bella. "I have to be with Selene, so if that means I have to move to Italy and into a palace full of Vampires, then so be it."
"We are never going to get the smell of dog out of there now." Jane groaned to her twin, causing Alec to grin and laugh.