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A/N: sorry for any mistakes do try to catch them.

Chapter 2:

Bella allowed the water from the shower head to run over her back. The warmth of the water helped soothed Bella so that her emotions weren't all over the place. Bella was disappointed in herself for showing that she was a weak human in front of the vampires in the throne room.

Bella finally finished up in the shower. She was happy that she was able to change her clothes. She brushed her hair as she looked at herself in the foggy mirror. She could see that there were dark circles under her eyes from the lack of sleep from the last few months.

Bella grabbed her make up bag and lightly applied cover up around her eyes; in a way she wanted to look her best for Jane.

'Jane' Bella thought to herself.

Bella couldn't believe that she was mated to the blonde, but she was still unsure by it all. The last time someone said that they were mates, they had left her heart broken and it had almost destroyed her, she didn't want to go through that again if she could help it. She knew that what they had told her about being mated to Jane was the truth, she could feel it, the way he heart acted around Jane and the pull that she could feel, but that doesn't mean she isn't scared; to tell the truth she was terrified about it.

Being here; with Volturi, has been a lot more different than she thought. From what Edward had told her of the Volturi is that they were power hungry and that they don't care about human life or anything else for that matter, so basically they were blood thirsty monsters, but then again they could be showing her some respect due to the she mated to Jane. Bella had so much to think about, but she knew that there was no chance of her leaving her, even if she was given a small chance to. Something told her that this would her new home, her new life.

Bella finished getting dressed before heading back into the bedroom where she knew that Jane was waiting for her. Bella sighed to herself as prepared herself to face the leaders of the Volturi, she knew that they would have a lot questions for her and she told herself that she will have to tell them everything; starting from the beginning, when she first meet the Cullen's.

Bella opened the door and stepped in to the bedroom where she saw Jane had moved back to sit in one of the arm chairs.

"Did you enjoy your shower?" Jane said as she stood up from the chair.

"I did thank you." Bella replied dropping her bag on the bed, but didn't make any movement to move towards Jane.

"I am glad." Jane smiled as she glided closer towards Bella very carefully she didn't want to scare Bella.

Bella shifted her feet nervously as Jane got closer. "The Masters are waiting for along with their wives. It is also my understanding that Demetri willing be returning shortly with something for you to eat. I would have gone and got you something myself, but I did not want to leave you unprotected." Jane told her.

"I am sure I would have been safe, if you had left."

Jane tilted her and cocked her eyebrow at Bella, "That is probably true, but as you are my mate it is my job to protect you as you are still human."

"Oh, so I should probably get used to it then." Bella grumbled.

Jane smirked, "Only until you are a vampire, and I know you can care of yourself, so until then I will be by your side. Don't worry too much, you still have some freedom."

"I guess. I just don't want to be smothered." Bella muttered as she looked away from Jane.

A dark expression flashed across her face as she continued to look at Bella, "I will try and not smother you to the best of my abilities, but I cannot make any promises."

Bella sighed she had a feeling that Jane had be able to work out that her part relationship was like that, "I guess that is all I can ask for."

"We should go, they are waiting for us. Don't worry I will be right next to you at all times."

"Alright, lead the way." Bella replied, as she followed Jane.

Jane opened the door and held it open for Bella, once Bella walked out Jane followed her. Jane grabbed Bella's hand as they made her way down the hallway.

"I am hoping that we might be able to talk later tonight, if you aren't tired and that you willing to? If not maybe tomorrow?" Jane asked as she looked at Bella from the corner of her eye.

"I would like that very much Jane." Bella agreed to talk to Jane later.

"I look forward to it."

After a few minutes of them trekking down the hallway, they arrived outside a black double door. Jane stopped at the door but made no movement to open the door.

"Inside this room, will be Aro, Caius and Marcus and their wives who will be introduced to you. There maybe also a few members of the guard. They are to protect the Kings and Queen, but I don't think you are a threat to them."

"Oh, well it's not like I can hurt them. I am only a human and they are vampires, but I can understand that need some sort of protection." Bella replied, wondering why though?

"I will be at your side at all times." Jane said and opened the door.

Bella looked around the room, it looked like a modern business conference room, and in the middle was a huge dark brown oval table with chairs around it.

By the head of the table Bella could see Aro, Caius and Marcus. Next to them each stood a women who Bella had gathered were their wives; the Queens.

The woman next to Aro had long dark brown curly hair and the same red eyes as her mate. She was wearing a deep blue dress that came down just below her knees. The women next to Caius had blonde hair slightly darker than her mate that went just past her shoulders, and was wearing a black dress about the same length as the other woman. The third and final woman stood next to Marcus and Bella was positive that was his wife. She had black hair that was passed her shoulders about the same color as Aro. Bella could see some resemblance between her and Aro. Was it possible that they are related? She wasn't dressed in a dress like the other women but a feminine dark grey business suit.

"Welcome Bella." Aro said as she and Jane moved closer to her, "I see that you were able to fresh up."

"Yes thank you for allowing me to." Bella replied.

"You are quite welcome my dear, before we start I would like to introduce to some people. This is my wife and one of queens of Volturi; Sulpicia." Aro said with the woman next to him.

"This is Athenodora, Caius wife." Aro said as he pointed her out, Athenodora nodded her head.

"And finally this Didyme, Marcus's wife and my younger sister." Aro said as he too pointed to her.

"Nice to meet you all." Bella said shyly.

"It is nice to meet you as well. I am sure that the other Queen's and I will look forward to getting to know you know in time." Aro's wife; Sulpicia replied as the other two nodded; agreeing with what Sulpicia had said.

"I look forward to it as well." Bella replied.

"Well, with the introductions out of the way, I am sure you will meet the others from the guard at another time, but for now let's talk about what brought you here to see us today."

"Yeah sure." Bella mumbled.

"Wonderful, please sit." Aro pointed to one of the chairs at the table. Bella sat down and Jane sat in the chair next to her.

Bella watched the Kings and Queens walk around the table and sat down opposite her.

"Demetri." Aro called.

Within a few seconds Demetri entered the room with a plate of food in one hand while the other one was holding a glass of orange juice by the looks of things.

Demetri placed the plate and glass down in front of Bella.

"Thank you Demetri, this looks amazing." Bella said.

"You are welcome. I wasn't sure what you would like so I ordered you one of my favorites." Demetri replied.

Bella looked up at him confusion then looked down her plate, and could see that it was some type of pasta dish. Bella believed that it was carbonara and it was one of her favorites to. "What did he mean that this was one of his favorites? Do vampires eat food?" Bella thought to herself.

Bella glanced around the table and saw everyone watching her. ''How is this one of your favorites, I thought vampires couldn't eat human food?"

"Who told you that?" Aro asked looking at Bella curiously as well as the other leaders.

"Vampires can eat human food." Demetri replied at the same time as Aro.

"Really I was told that human food smells bad to vampires and that it taste like dirt to them." Bella replied clearly stunned that they can eat human food.

"What you were told is wrong. Vampires can eat food and it doesn't smell bad to us and probably tastes the same to humans." Jane explained, "We like to go out and experience the food that the human world has to offer. I, for one enjoy going to restaurants."

"Wow, I can't believe what I was told was wrong." Bella muttered. Bella couldn't believe that she told yet another lie. How much of what the Cullen's, mainly Edward, had told about the Vampire world was actually false.

Bella picked up her fork and took a mouth full of the food. Bella moaned at the taste, it was truly amazing.

She heard several chuckles after she moaned, especially from the blonde vampire sitting next to her. It caused Bella to blush bright red, "Sorry."

"That is quite okay, I am glad that you enjoy the food." Aro smirked.

"I do like it, thank you." Bella replied honestly.

Bella took another fork full of food.

"Bella, I was hoping that we could talk while you ate. From your little speech earlier in the throne room, it is our understanding that you had some type of relationship with a vampire and probably their family. Would you care to tell us what coven you had contact with?" Aro asked curiously as he watched Bella.

Bella sighed and placed her fork on her plate; she grabbed the glass and took a sip of the orange juice. She looked at Aro and the other vampires next to him. Bella knew that she would have to tell them everything, but she was scared, she really didn't want to relive all the pain she had to go through because of Edward and the rest of the Cullen's.

She felt a hand lightly squeeze her arm; she turned and saw that Jane was wearing a worried look on her face. "It's alright." Jane whispered to her. Bella knew that she was trying to comfort her and the strength that would be needed to tell her story. Bella may have changed since the Cullen's left her but it change the fact that this was part of her history she didn't like to talk about. If they were going to help her they will have to know everything about her. There is no point in hiding anymore. It's time for Bella to start fresh and move forward.

"The coven is the Cullen family." Bella said looking at the kings and queens. There were a few light gasps in the room. Bella watched as the Kings and Queens looked at each other, some were stunned, while others looked down right pissed.

"As in Carlisle Cullen?" Caius hissed angrily while looking at Bella.

"Yes him and his family." Bella gulped looking at the angry vampire.

"Who did you have a relationship with, that said you were their mate?" Aro asked frowning, clearly not happy.

"Edward Cullen." Bella spat out in anger, playing with food with her fork.

"The mind reader." Aro replied watching Bella play with the food that was in front of her.

"Yeah, but he couldn't read my mind either." Bella replied

"Interesting. We will return to that topic at a later date. I would like to tell us how you met the Cullen's?" Aro asked, wondering what type of gift Bella had as she was able to stop to mind readers.

"Ok I can do that. Well, I met them when I moved to Forks, Washington to live with my father so my mother could travel with her new husband. I first saw the Cullen's when I started school. On my first day was when I noticed them and I knew that they were different; they stood out from everyone else. Anyway, I met Edward in biology and I had to seat next to him. That was when he started to act weird. He looked sick and couldn't stand to be seated next to me, it was like that I smelt bad. Later on I found out why he acted like that. Anyway he disappeared for a week, when he came back he tried talking to me and tried to get to know me." Bella stopped so she could take a sip of her drink.

"I start to notice small things about him and his siblings like that their eyes changed color and that they had cold skin even the way they spoke, but what really made me start to question things about them was when Edward saved me by pushing a van away from me when the van hit some black ice and nearly crashed into me. That was when I started to work out what they were, well, actually an ex friend of mine clued me in on what they were as they had legends or stories, and I kind of tricked him into telling me. When I told Edward my theory he confirmed it, and from there we started to date I guess."

"I wasn't afraid of him even though he tried to scare me by showing what he could do because he was a vampire. That was when he told me that I was his singer, and that I had become very important to him, and that he didn't want to lose me because he loved me."

Jane hissed out angrily, "You were his singer. He had no right to date you and claim you as his." Bella looked around the room to see that they were all angry at this and she couldn't understand why.

"You see Bella, a vampire can never be mated to their singer. I believe Edward his took his feelings for you as that of a mate. He fell in love with you blood, not only that, but also that he couldn't read your mind." Marcus replied, "A singer bond and a mating are very different how Edward got them mixed up, confuses me. Carlisle should have been able to tell the difference, and should have told Edward.

"Mm, maybe Edward did know, but didn't want to believe it. I think Edward didn't want to be on his own, and decided that Bella was his. I won't know until I have read Edward thoughts." Aro wondered, "Please continue."

"We start to date; I met the rest of his family. Edward brought me along to watch his family play baseball until three nomads turned up, and that turned into a nightmare. One of them called James was a tracker and decided that I smelt good. He then decided that he wanted me. The family split up, and I travelled with Alice and Jasper to Phoenix to hide me. Long story short, I went to meet James and that is where he attacked me, and bit me before the Cullen's turned up."

"This James bit you and yet you are still human?" Jane asked angrily.

"Edward sucked the venom out; he didn't want me to become a vampire." Bella explained

"He stopped the transformation?" Caius spitted out, looking angry.

"Quite amazing that he was able to stop as Bella was his singer" Aro mused.

"It doesn't matter. He should have allowed her to be turned as it is our law." Caius said to him angrily

"Yes, yes he did break the law by stopping it, and will be punished when the time comes." Aro smirked and motioned for Bella to continue.

"Everything after that was fine, until my 18th birthday party, which I didn't want. I got a paper cut and Jasper lunged for me which caused Edward to knock me out of the way, and I crashed into a glass table that caused me to slice my arm opened. After Carlisle stitched my arm back up, Edward took me home. Over the following next few days I noticed that Edward was different, and I hadn't seen any of his family. On the third day after my birthday Edward takes me to the woods and dumps me saying that I was a distraction, and that I wasn't good enough for him, that I basically a toy for him and his family." Bella said sneered angrily, even the words had hurt she no longer sad about it. She hated Edward and his whole family.

Bella could hear Jane growling next to her quietly, "After that things went downhill from there. I was basically a zombie for the next few months until I woke up hating the Cullen's especially Edward and realized that they had lied to me and that Edward was not my mate like I thought he was. Just after New Year's I lost my mother and step father in an accident. I was gutted for a while, but it made me go out and try to live. That is when I started hanging out with Jacob." Bella hissed out in disgusted.

"Everything was going well between us we had a good friendship, he was there for me after my mom died, until one day he changed and said he didn't want to see me again. It hurt, I couldn't believe I had someone else walk away from me. One day I decided to go hiking when a vampire came across me." Jane growled loudly at this.

"I recognized this vampire. His name is Laurent, and he was one of the vampires that turned up when the Cullen's played baseball. He had actually helped the Cullen's when James started to hunt me, and then went his own way. I was surprised to see him there, he told me that he had come down to look for the Cullen's to let them know that Victoria, James mate, was after them. He told me that Victoria had plans for me. That she had already started her game. He told me she was responsible for my mother's death, and she won't stop until the Cullen's and I were dead. Laurent was about to kill me when 5 giant wolves turned up and chased him away."

"How big were these wolves? Was it at night, during a full moon?" Caius asked Bella with a worried expression on his face.

"There were about the size of horse and it was during the day."

"Sounds like they are shifters; not children of the moon." Caius sighed in relief.

"They were shifters, it wasn't long until I worked out that Jacob and other people from his tribe could turn into the wolves."

"I would like to know more about these wolves but at another time." Aro said and motioned for Bella to continue.

"Once I worked it out, I went and told them what I knew and they confirmed it. They told me that Laurent had taken off and they were unable to kill me. They also told me that there was another vampire hanging around and they were unable to catch her, and they didn't know what she was after, it was Victoria. I told the pack leader; Sam that I knew what she was after; me. They decided to protect from then on and that they would try to stop her."

Bella sighed, "That didn't last for long though. About three weeks ago Victoria made her move and killed my father. I was devastated and I still am. Jacob become my rock after that; he was always there to comfort me until one day about a week ago he decided he wanted more, and tried to force himself on me. He would have gone through with if not for one of the other wolves pulled him off me and beat the shit out of him. Sam, the leader of the pack contacted me to let me know that they were no longer going protect me. He said that the elders blamed me for my father's death, and that it was my fault that Victoria was after me, and that I should have never got involved with the Cullen's. Sam didn't say it, but I could tell that they blamed me for how Jacob acted, that I lead him on and used him."

"I didn't know what to do after that, but I knew that I needed help. So I broke into the Cullen house, to look for clues to where they might be. My search of their house to where they had gone turned up empty until I saw a painting of you guys hanging up in Carlisle office, and I remembered what they told me of the Volturi. I knew right then and there that I had to come here. Now you know why I came here asking for your help." Bella said as she allowed her tears to run down her cheeks.

Bella felt a pair of cold arms wrap around her and pull her closer to them. Bella knew that it was Jane. Janes scent filled Bella's nose. Jane smelt like chocolate and vanilla. She felt safe, safer than she had ever felt before.

Jane on the other hand was murderous; she could not believe what her mate had gone through. Not only did she want to tear apart the mutts, but also the whole Cullen family. She wanted to make them suffer and make them burn in pain. Jane smirked mentality at the idea of using her gift on them. Jane stopped planning their deaths and remembered that her mate was in her arms and needed comfort and support.

"Bella, my dear." Aro called out softly trying not to scare her. Bella turned her head and looked at him and the other Kings. Bella could tell that all the vampires in the room were furious about her story.

"You have been through so much; I think we can understand why you came here." Aro said.

Jane removed her arms around Bella so she could look at them.

"I think I we should retire for the evening, it would seem that you would need some rest from telling us your emotional story. We will talk more tomorrow and plan what course of act to take against this Victoria and also about your future here." Aro told everyone. He knew that everyone had to calm down.

"Do you plan to turn me?" Bella asked curiously.

"Yes we do, but not today. I will discuss it more tomorrow." Aro told Bella.

"Ok I guess we talk more tomorrow." Bella agreed with Aro.

"That we shall. Jane will escort you to your room and will stay with you."

"Thank you for allowing to tell you my story." Bella said as she stood up from the table.

"You are welcome. Sleep well, Isabella." Aro said a small smile on his lips but Bella could tell he was angry, Bella and Jane walked to the door.

"Everyone is dismissed." Aro said as they walked out the door.

It didn't take long for Jane and Bella to arrive at the guest room Bella was staying in. As soon as she entered the room, Bella flopped on the bed and sighed loudly. Bella was exhausted but yet she felt free for the first time in months.

Bella felt the bed dip and knew that Jane had joined her. Bella knew that she had to let go of the past and finally start a new life for herself. She knew that she could have it here with the Volturi; with her mate Jane. Bella could feel that her heart was happier with Jane next to her. Bella was worried about her heart getting broken again but, she was sure that Jane wouldn't do that to her. Jane made her feel safer than Edward did.

"Are you alright mio amore?" Jane asked softly but Bella could hear the concern in her voice.

Bella sighed, "Yeah I am right, I actually feel free."

Jane hummed, "I am glad to hear it."

"I do have to ask, but are you fine with being mated to me?"

"Oh, my sweet Bella, I am more than fine with being mated to you. I have wait over 1000 years for you. I am very happy with this. Are you fine with being mated to me?"

"I'll be honest that I am surprised that I am mated to you, I never though I would end up being mated to someone from here let alone a female."

"Are you upset that I am not male?" Jane asked a bit upset

"What? No, I don't care that you aren't male I was just surprise that was all. I have always been opened minded about same sex relationships. What about you? Are sad that I'm not a male?" Bella said sitting up to look at her.

"No it does not bother me. I have always been attracted to females more than males so I am not surprised that I am mated to a female." Jane replied sitting up as well.

"I am happy to hear that." Bella smiled at her

"Sono veramente fortunato. Sei così bello." Jane whispered softly to her.

Bella knew that Jane was speaking Italian, "I don't understand what you just said." Bella said confused.

Jane giggled, "I will teach you but not right now. I believe you should get some sleep."

Bella nodded her head, and agreed that she should go to sleep.

Bella got up and went to the bathroom and changed into her sleep wear. She cleaned off the makeup off her face, and then returned to the bedroom. Bella crawled into bed; she felt Jane slip in next to her and wrapped her arms around her.

"Good night, Jane" Bella said as she snuggled into her.

"Sleep well, my angel." Jane said and pressed her lips to Belles forehead.

A/N: Review and let me know what you think. I know in some stories authors have made vampires eat food and it has become more common. I liked the idea and wanted to it used in my story as it will help Bella along the way, to help her understand vampires better after she has been lied to. More of it will be explained in other chapters.