A/N- I am soooooo sorry but it was the holiday season and it's still school holidays and things have been hectic and my iPod was taken off me and that's where I write this story and also my internet was cut off and I'm going to stop making excuses now :s

Now this is only a short chapter. I'm sorry. My new years revolution shall be to be more dedicated to FanFiction this year.

Following up on my last A/N I did not get to go to the midnight sesh of Breaking dawn because I was on holiday AND then all my friends except llamalovesdragons went without me and then the day we had planned to go to see it she cancelled and went with her boyfriend instead -.-

Anyway on with the backstory!

Chapter 7

Bella's POV

"That's terrible Bella." said Edward sympathetically but I could tell under his sympathy what he really wanted was for me to finish the story.

I wiped my eyes and composed myself, ready to tell the next part of the story. "We had a ceremony for my brothers within a few days and I was due back back Venice for the memorial of Lorenzo soon after."

As I walked towards the family crypt with Father I thought of how enraptured my brothers had been by Katherine. I knew my brothers had not got along but they would never have killed one another. I had come to the conclusion that Katherine must have worked some sort of spell on them. I was glad she was dead. She had brought nothing but pain to my family.

The ceremony seemed to move by at snails pace but eventually it had finished and I was left standing in the crypt alone. I placed a hand each on Stefan and Damon's coffins.

"Stefan, Damon, if you can hear me from wherever you have gone to now, I want you to both know I love you so much. Damon, you have been the best older brother in the world and I will cherish our time together. Stefan, I know Damon and I blamed you for mothers death but I want you to know that it wasn't your fault and that I always enjoyed having you around. I love you both dearly. Father wanted me back at the house to say goodbye to our guests but you are my brothers and I want to stay here with you."

I finished my speech and stood there for a moment, half-expecting someone to come and tell me this was just a prank of Damon's and that my brothers weren't really dead. When this didn't happen I turned to exit the crypt and walk back to the house when I heard something.

Something was shifting inside Damon's tomb. I looked back but nothing had changed.

It's probably a rat I thought to myself.

When nothing happened for another five minutes I turned to leave once again.

As I was about to step out of the gate I heard a different sound. The sound of stone sliding against stone. I turned around to see the lid of Damon's coffin sliding open.

I backed up against the wall holding my cross in my hand. The coffin lid slid open halfway, just enough for, say, a person to fit through. I saw a pale hand grip the side of the coffin and something pulling it's way up through the darkness. I turned to run but it beat me to the entrance.

"Hello Bella." said Damon, razor sharp fangs included in his smile. Then he attacked.

A/N- Yes, yes it's a short chapter.

So I see everyone except giselabelikov1 and LadyElana17 think Edward and Bella shouldn't get back together. I was going to put them back together but I aim to please so they probably wont.

SlytherinMalfoy1 suggested she end up with Jeremy. Two problems with this. 1. I am a pround Jeremy/Bonnie shipper. 2.This story does happen to be in the book world, if you hadn't already noticed by the fact that Meredith is in it and that they lived in 16th centuary Italy not 19th sentuary America, so there is no Jeremy, Elena only has a sister called Margaret.

If anyone else has suggestions for someone for Bella to end up with please leave a review :)