Chapter Nine: Busted.......
Demetri stepped forward, and explained to Caius what we had done, we all bowed our heads, we had been caught red handed. I did not know what the punishment for this was going to be, but by the reaction of Jane, Felix and Demetri I could tell we were in big trouble. Even Alice was subdued....
After he had explained our prank, Caius looked us all over, and said "We can't have you all going around mistreating our human staff. But, Gianna did need a lesson in humility, she was getting a little too comfortable around us. A little too smug. Clean that mess up, and go make yourselves scarce!" He said gesturing to Gianna. That is when the smell hit me. I guess I scared her a bit too much. She was going to need a change of clothes.......
So Jane and Alice took me down the hall back to my room and Felix called Heidi to help with Gianna getting her something to wear, and getting her cleaned up while Demetri finished her morning work.
After they had gotten Gianna back to work they came into my room pushing a cart with a television and video tape machine. Followed by several other members of the guard, who were all animatedly discussing our genius and how they could not wait to see it for themselves.
Somebody even brought popcorn. Kinda funny, bit it fit. Even if we couldn't eat it, it smelled nice, and kind of appropriate for watching our little film.
We laughed into the night watching it over and over again, they even switched to infrared camera view a couple of times and we watched her heart pound out of her chest, and her reaction as she returned to work. She was shaken the rest of the day. Heidi told us how when she woke up, how apologetic and fearful she was. She kept looking around and over her shoulder and asked about me a couple of times and where I was.
I thought that was a much more appropriate response. When I first learned about vampires, it was different. It was the Cullens, they were not the monsters the Volturi are. Although it is tough to view them as "monsters" since I understand all too well the drive, I would have not been comfortable around them as a human, knowing that I was food. So I felt a little smug, and justified at teaching Gianna a lesson. Plus, c'mon, that was just funny!
After we had watched the prank enough everyone welcomed me to the guard, and walked out, and it was just Alice and I left in the room. I asked Alice. "So now, I suppose I am going to have to deal with what I am aren't I?"