Chapter 5:
RENESMEE
I didn't sleep a wink on the flight to Italy. Nervous about Italy, I didn't know anyone but the Volturi and we weren't in talking terms. I still had the money I took from Carlisle and Damon had opened me a bank account to place the money and he placed a bit more to into even if I protested on the way that I didn't need the money.
As I exited the aircraft, I never felt more alone in my life that in this moment. I needed to find somewhere to say, buy or rent.
Everything else I can figure out later.
Adjusting the only bag I had with me I went to hail a taxi. The need to constantly look over my shoulder couldn't be shaken. I knew I was being watched, followed. I probably was calling more attention to myself by constantly looking at my surroundings.
A taxi pulled up and I got in,
"Dove sei diretto, signorina?" I blanked, I knew how to speak Italian but when the driver asked me it hit me that I was somewhere else, away from home. Carlisle and Esme made it there mission to teach us everything, my interest was always learning new languages and history of the world.
I had a flash back to when I was three but I looked like a six year old with too much knowledge, and I was in Carlisle office in my 'language' class. It was the beginning of the month so that meant new language to be learned. EJ and I never had the same lesson at the same time, we would play around too much. Since Carlisle, Esmee, Edward, Rosalie and Jasper would teach us, they thought it was best to have lectures on different subjects away from one another. "Now, Renesmee, this month's language is Italian." I was always excited to learn a new language and its history behind it. "If you happen to forget how to speak always remember this." He paused and turned to the roll way white board to write. "Say: Parli inglese?" He turns to face me. He told me to repeat it and did multiple times. "Parli inglese, means, do you speak English."
I blink back to reality. I can't do this here not with normal people around.
"Parli inglese?" No accent at all.
"Mi dispiace signorina, ma io non cercherò di capire." I understood but I wasn't going to make the man suffer with trying to understand me in English. I was grateful for Carlisle teaching me language classes.
"No, la sua fine. Si prega di prendere me Volterra, Palazzo dei Priori."
"Va bene, signora" I sighed and put my head back, the sun was beginning to set and I no longer had to hid my glow. The city did looked beautiful, the colors that the portrait in Carlisle had in his office defined the city.
After what felt hours of driving the car stop and I snap my eyes open. I didn't realize I had closed them during the drive. I looked through the window. It the sun was giving its last few rays of sun before it became twilight.
"Siamo qui." We were here. I looked to my left. So many stories I heard of this place. So many images from Bella's mind when she came here as human. Yet, when I saw those thoughts they seem evil, dark, this place was beautiful, stunning, vibrant.
I paid the taxi and told him to keep the change. I walk a around a bit and noticed a hotel near by but notice something strange in the dark alley. Something told me not to go there, I just knew i had to check it out.
"Chi è?" I asked. No reply. "Who's there?" I ask now in English.
I keep walking till I hit the corner. Maybe it was just my mind going crazy, knowing I was alone. A fear ran through me thinking I had been found. I turned around and almost got a scream out before I got a cold hard hand on my throat. I tried kick, struggled to get out of the grip but it just tighten.
I put my hand on top of theirs.
"Stop! Please! I know what you are and you know what I am too."
Couldn't see their face, having a hood on over there head that darken their facial features but I knew it was a man. A Volturi to be exact.
"Volturi! PUT. ME. DOWN!" He let go of my throat causing me to fall down hard on the floor and trying to catch my breath. I looked up, seeing his face and blood red eyes. "Demetri?" He removed his hood. I stood up, standing straight and tall still rubbing my throat trying to ease the throbbing pain.
"How do you know who I am?" Definitely Demetri, I laughed. He gave me a weird crazy look, I was insane less than 5 hours and I had managed to run into the Volturi. I shook my head, insane I am.
I sighed. "So sad, Demetri. Don't you remember me? Who did you went to try to kill ten years ago?" I said. I raised an eyebrow and put both hands on my hips. I remembered I still had my duffle bag on the floor next to me I look down to see if it was still there.
"Ah, Renesmee Cu-" I growled. I never ever will be a Cullen again.
"Don't call me a Cullen! I'm not a Cullen! Not any more" I hissed. He seemed shocked and pleased. What could be so great about that?
"Well, okay. No need to get all vampy on me, hydrid." He laughed. "Well well, you're quite grown. You look 16, 17 years old." He said looking at me from top to bottom. I rolled my eyes at how blatantly he was checking me out.
"Demetri? Where in bloody hell are you?" Some big looking guy said. He was looking bit bigger than Emmett. This had to be Felix.
"Over here, Felix." Soon he came walking closer.
"Ah, if it isn't any other than Miss Renesmee Cullen." I sighed heavy.
"Don't mention the Cullen's . Apparently, Lady Renesmee isn't one of them anymore." Thank you! I grimaced at them, shrugging after reading Felix face expression.
"What is all the commotion here, Felix? Demetri?" Jane. As she approached I stood up straighter and stood more taller, when she finally say me, she new immediately who I was and glared. What ever did I do to her? I glared back. I saw someone behind her. Her twin, Alec. He looked bored? Or uninterested on what Felix and Demetri were up to. He crosses my stare, we looked in to each others eyes, a current went through me, unnoticed by everyone maybe it was my brother calling out who knows.
"Hello Jane, pleasure to finally meet you. You seem different in person." I had my shield up, I couldn't risk it with these twins. I could feel her trying to break through. I could also feel Alec's power trying to break through the shield, he knew what Jane was doing. I could feel my 'sponge' power getting worked up absorbing the power from Jane and Alec. Demetri was a skill but I still got it when he touched me as well as Felix.
"Well, hello Cullen." I groan. Exhausted, no one knew why I hated the Cullen's and they didn't have to know but I wanted to stop being referred or associated with them.
"I. AM. NOT. A. CULLEN!" I snapped. Jane smirked. Felix, Demetri were neutral. Alec was stunned. That was the minute it started to rain.
"They must have done something really bad to stop you of calling yourself a Cullen." I laughed.
"You have no idea." I nodded and put my hands in my sweater pockets and put my hood up but there was no point I was all soaked by now. Jane, Felix, Demetri, and Alec were protected by their cloak.
"Regardless, I hate you being one and for having your mother's power." I froze and sight went to a blur. A vision came, seeing Jane and I talking like friends. I snap out of it. Choosing not to continue the vision. Unfortunately, my visions are subjective I blink my eyes twice and looked at them.
"Oh well, not all can control what we want." Shrugging. "What would make you not hate me if given the chance?"
She approached me slowly and smiled, "I'd inflict the pain I couldn't inflict on to your mother. It's not you, it's them. I'd kill you but not before torturing you slowly, making sure your parents can hear your screams from where you are only to find you dead. Everything they fought for taken away..." She snaps her fingers causing me to jump. "Like that."
I gulped, how was I supposed to be friends with this loon? "How about I give you a different scenario?" She nodded for me to go ahead. "I see the future like Alice but like hers it isn't subjective and I can't see it willingly unless I want too then it becomes subjective. That being said, I saw us being friends, if I told you I'd let you inflict the pain, and not kill me in the process-"
"Sure. Pain." Soon I was on the ground rolling, I did not scream through, I saw no point on doing it, I just keep twitching, focusing on anything else but the pain she was inflicting on me. After all I had grown used to similar powers like Jane from my aunt Katie. After a minute the pain stopped. I laid there and stood up fast.
Felix stunned at how fast. "How did she do that? It was too fast to be a hydrid." He though. I laughed and looked at me like I was crazy. I shook my head.
"Felix, I'm half vampire. Well more vampire, than human now." He nodded and understood. "Well that was fun." I looked at her and nodded. "..But why didn't you scream?" She raised an eye brow.
"Well I didn't see a point on doing so I knew it was going to stop" I paused, "Anyways," she looked up. "Pain." She was on the floor. She never seemed to understand her own power. I let a minute second pass and stopped. Sat up quickly and dusted her self off how come she hasn't gotten wet?
"You..." She pointed at me. She looked scary that moment. "Got some guts, hydrid." Everyone was stunned, I was ready for an attrack. "I like it! Renesmee, you, just become my best ally." I laughed. Well that was weird.
"I'm not mean." She looks mean because of the Volturi's image. Well my POV, the Cullens think differently.
"Just misunderstood and loyalty to who saved you." She looked shocked but nodded. "Been there, so I understand."
"So you're a sponge?" Asked Felix, I nodded I hated being a sponge I have not much training with it. "Yes,"
"Well, Renesmee I never asked why did you came to Volterra?" I looked down. Alec seemed more interested.
"Less than a month ago it was my birthday and I found out my twin EJ and I were the Demon Childs that Edward didn't want." I hiss his name out. "My family had also played keep away on information about the werewolf - shapeshifter - Jacob had imprinted on me and everyone but I and EJ knew he had. Bella wanted me with him, to get us both married with each-other for me to make Jacob happy because she once upon a time couldn't." I looked at there faces. They all looked bothered enough. "I left and traveled alone across the states settled with some -people- I know until I was discovered by friends from the Cullen's that I had to be on the run again. So that's why I left, and came here to hide."
"Renesmee, we'll be nothing more than honored for you to join us, here and Aro without a doubt take you in and make you part of the guard." She paused
I hesitated. It could potentially be a risk to join or live with the Volturi. "I don't want to be a bother, I have more than enough to live here on my own."
"Nonsense, you're coming with us." Taking my elbow leading me way from the rain "So where is your brother EJ?" She asked. Oh Eddy.
"He's still in Washington at the Cullen's house. I made a whole scene before I left he knew nothing and couldn't catch up." I missed him so much.
Jane hugged me, which it surprised me. "Will someone be gentlemen to lend Renesmee their cloak?"
Alec came forward and gave me his. I was stunned. "Here." He looked like an angel, no, a god. I blushed and I got it the cloak from his hands. Our hands made contact a shock went through us, I knew he had felt it too.
"Thanks." As I put in on. "So, Jane stops calling me Renesmee and call me Ren. All of you. Okay?" They all nodded, Jane was still standing next to me, link arms and begins dragging me into a hall. I'm glad Jane is on my side. I touch Jane's hand, "Let's see Aro and ask him to let me join the guard." She nodded.
"Someone get Ness bag. She has to see Aro." Apparently, Alec got my bag when Demetri reached for it. They glared at each other. I didn't bother with them in their minds there was just a macho alfa chant going on. I looked over to Felix he just shrugged.
"You know what happening with them?" I send to Felix mind. I sometimes wonder why I can't develop well this power much. If it's not by touch, it's by telepathy. Felix shrugged and had an amused look on his face. "Oh you do know and you're going to tell me." I smirked. He looked frighten. Good, he should be.
I realize all of us were walking to a deadend. Felix keep chanting in his head saying I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you. That chant got annoying. He remind me a lot of Emmett when he was up to no good. Demetri seem to have now something against Alec as well he did too, they had these walls that was hard for me to get through.
I was shivering, my clothes are soaked and Alec cloak seem to be only keeping me half warm. Jane disappear next me to falling down. I look under me, there was a hole? Ha-ha what in holy lands was there a hole here? Next was Felix and Demetri. I was surprised Felix fit. I wasn't sure if I wanted to jump.
"Renesmee," Alec called the way he said my name send a shiver down my spine. "Are you going to jump?" I looked at him crazily. Jump?
"I don't know. Uh..." I looked down to the hole and back at him. "I can't. Is there another way down?" I finished in whisper.
He laughed, it seem normal. I loved his voice and laugh. "How about I jump and catch you?" He suggested. I was dazzled by his smirked. I nodded stupidly as I hug myself to keep my self warm and tug a piece of hair behind my ear.
"Be ready when I call you to jump, okay?" I nodded, and smiled. I felt something weird in my stomach like if someone was tickling me
I saw him disappear next to me. I look around me waiting for him to call me. Was the drop that long? "Renesmee, jump." I close my eyes and breath in and out. I step forward and fall. Still my eyes shut, I wanted to scream but was too scared. I felt a pair of strong, cold, hard arms carrying me. I open my eyes. I realized I had my arms around Alec's neck. It seem right. I realize I had my hand press against his neck. I blush red deep and jump down from his arms.
I look around no sign of Jane, Demetri, or Felix. "Where's everyone?" I asked. I looked back to him. He seem in thought. "HEY!" I shot at him, not in a mean way. His head shot to look at me.
"I asked you a question, Alec."
"And what was that?" I rolled my eyes and laughed.
"Where is everyone?" I asked again, slightly frustrated, but also amused smirk appeared in my face.
"They went ahead to tell Aro. We must be going." He said he extended his elbow towards me I walk to him and put half my arm through it. I felt the shock again making my stomach feel funny, but in a good way, again. I looked at him he seemed no different.
We started started walking. Curiosity got me at the best time. So bad I wanted to know what was he thinking.
"So tell me, Renesmee. Real reason your here?" Real reason? Was there?
I shrugged, "I guess, I'm sick and tired of it that my family is planning my life for me, Edward pretending to love me. The people I was with before coming here thought it was best since no one wouldn't think of me coming here."
"How do you mean planing your life?" We got in the elevator I had my back leaning against the wall of the elevator.
"They wanted me to be with Jacob. The dirty filthy dog." I hated him, now. Did the imprint broke as soon as I left? Would they find me because the imprintee is pulling the imprinter here? I wish I knew the answers to these questions running through my mind.
As we got out of the elevator we continue walking. I felt a odd emotion of Alec it felt like jealously? Anger? Weird, sometimes I hated Jaspers power but this time I like it. We stop against two big wooden metal doors. Alec pushed them open . I saw Marcus, Aro, and Cauis at their thrones. I sighed. Here goes nothing.