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Chapter 15

Rose POV

Some of the guards came up to my room minutes later to retrieve me. Their eyes widened at my appearance and then smiled. We walked down to the main ballroom in the castle and I could already hear the murmur of the guests and the music. I hoped that immortality had given me enough grace to ballroom dance but I cast that thought aside and I waited for my cue to enter the room. Caius and Marcus quieted the music and the guests and Caius began to speak.

"As you all have already noticed, Aro is no longer with us." Murmurs started but were quickly silenced. Aro charged a young woman to aquire her power and his ruthlessness caused him to taunt this young vampire with blood soon after she awoke to this life. In her fury, this young woman killed Aro and as our rules state, she will assume the throne as our new queen. I would like to formally introduce you to your new Queen Rosemarie Hathaway." Caius announced and I stepped gracefully into the room. The guests stepped aside, creating an aisle from the doorway toward the dais that Caius and Marucs were standing. Caius reached for my left hand and Marcus my right, leading me up to the seat in between them. I turned and stood between them, looking out into the crowd. Caius announced that although Aro was dead, Sulpicia would remain with the Volturi. He announced Athenadora and Sulpicia and they came up, taking positions behind Caius and Marcus. I smiled at the lightly as they approached.

"I have more news for us all. Marcus has found his true mate in the most unlikely of places. Sulpicia has stated that although she did love Aro, he was not her true mate. Sulpicia and Marcus are mates and will be married soon." Caius stated and I turned to Sulpicia and smiled at her widely.

"What of Rosemarie, Does she not have a mate?" One of the guests asked. Caius started to answer but I stopped him. He nodded for me to answer.

"In fact I do. I have been with them since long before I was awakened to this life. I would like to introduce my mate, my friend, my teacher and my lover. Dimitri Belikov." I announced and Dimitri came up as I did. He took my hand and kissed it lightly before taking his position behind me.

"Please welcome Rose and Dimitri as new members of the Volturi." Caius said and they all clapped and cheered. "Please enjoy the party and the festivities as we celebrate our new additions." I sat down and Dimitri leaned to whisper in my ear as the music started again.

"You look beautiful as always Roza. I shall enjoy taking that dress off you tonight." He whispered and I shivered in anticipation and delight. I looked over to Marcus who was smiling brightly at me.

"I told you Marcus that she was much closer than you thought." I said as he smiled wider and pulled Sulpicia's hand gently to him and kissed it lightly.

"Thank you Rose, for giving me the hope I needed to open my eyes to what was in front of me." Marcus said and I nodded. Dimitri moved from his position behind me to ask me to dance. I stood and followed him to the dance floor where I was met with our extended family. The Cullens and the denalis all smiled brightly at me and I noticed that Abe was approaching and so I smiled at him. He pulled one of my hands up and placed a light kiss on it and then kissed my forehead.

"You are beautiful my daughter." He said and I smiled at him. I swear I don't think I have ever smiled so much, but I was happy. Dimitri and I danced for hours and we started to walk back to where Caius and Marcus sat when I felt the familiar strigoi nausea and I tensed. Dimitri noticed the change in posture and I faced the direction of the doorway as the hoard of strigoi busted through. I was pissed that they thought they could invade what was now considered home to me. The strigoi in the front of the hoard leered at me and spoke.

"Rosemarie Hathaway, I might have known that you would be a part of the treaty to ensure our destruction. Did they know that your boy toy there used to be one of us?" The strigoi sneered and I growled.

"He is no concern of yours. What is concerning for you should be how many more seconds you will exist." I said and the strigoi laughed.

"It would be comical to see you fight in that dress, even more entertaining to see you out of it." He said and I smiled.

"Who said anything about physically fighting?" I questioned and grinned as confusion crossed his featured. I tapped into my power as Edward, knowing what I was about to do, pushed the guests back away from me. I pulled all the darkness I could find and picked up all of the strigoi up simultaneously. Fear crossed the strigoi features and I smiled as they were pulled apart and I shot fire at them to reduce them to ash. As the last strigoi became ash, I asked some of the guard on duty to clean up the mess. I turned and walked to the dais as if nothing had happened. The guests were a little stunned and eventually came out of their stupor. I took my seat and Marcus and Caius watched me closely with wonder and a little fear.

"You are very powerful Rose." Caius commented and I smiled as Emmet and the others came up to the dais. Emmet grinned widely at me.

"Remind me never to get on your bad side Rose." He said and I smiled.

"Hell Emmet, you stay on my bad side." I said smirking and we all laughed. Caius told me that it was time for our guests to hear my story of my past and I cringed a little at the thought but I stood and prepared to tell them how I came to be here.

"I was a Damphir. Guardians to the mortal Moroi vampires. We start training in physical fighting from a young age. My mother left me at the academy as she was a guardian and I started there at the age of four. I trained, made friends, lost friends and found love while at the academy. My best friend and I ran from the academy for two years until this big Russian brought us back. I was about to be thrown out of the academy, expelled while my royal Moroi friend stayed on, but he spoke for me. After grueling trainings and constant house arrest for things I was accused of like destruction of school property, I was finally given reprieve. My friend was kidnapped and tortured by someone close to her family and after she was rescued, a certain Russian and I realized we had strong feelings for one another." I paused and smiled at him and he returned it.

"After many strigoi attacks is a short time, the school took a trip to a 'safe location'. I struggled with my feelings for my Comrade and in anger, I let information of a strigoi hideout get to one of my friends. He snuck out of the resort with two others and I want after them with another friend. We reached them before they ran into strigoi, but were captured by humans who worked with the strigoi. After several days we managed to escape and I killed the two stigoi who held us, but my dear friend Mason didn't make it."

"After that, there were more strigoi attacks and began to struggle with the darkness caused by the bond between the Moroi and i. You see, she lost her parents and brother in a car accident I was also in. She possessed the magic of spirit, a very rare element. I died in that car accident with the rest and she was the only survivor but her power brought me back, creating a bond between us. It caused me to struggle with darkness and I began to see ghosts whenever outside the wards. There was a strigoi attack on the school and using the information from the ghosts, we were able to rescue most of those that were taken, but some of those sent on the rescue didn't return. Dimitri was taken and turned strigoi. On my eighteenth birthday I dropped out of school and went to kill him, free him from the strigoi lifestyle. I didn't succeed and after finding him in Russia, he captured me. I finally escaped after some time and staked him twice that night. I thought I had accomplished what I had set out to do but I was wrong. You see We made a promise if we were ever turned strigoi that we would kill the other, freeing their soul from a eternity of killing innocents."

"I found my father in Russia as well, although I didn't know it at the time. He sent me back to the US where I went back to the academy and my friends. I received word I had failed and through a series of events, mostly illegal, my friend and I returned him to his damphir form. Ironically enough I was accused and almost killed for the murder of the Moroi queen. After breaking out of jail and being on the run, I found the real killer and when I called her out, I was shot in the chest. I took the bullet meant for my friend who was announced as the next queen of the Moroi. The murderer framed me so that she could try and win Dimitri. She thought that the only way she could have him is if I was out of the way. I died but spirit was not used to heal me, so the bond we had went silent. The bond returned around the time we met the Cullen clan. That's when Aro found me and wanted me for his collection. I escaped his first attempt but not without injury. I received a small dose of the venom that cause me to have to feed, but didn't fully change me. It gave me the power Aro wanted, but he wanted me turned fully. He sent armies of strigoi and our kind to capture me, but they all met the same fate."

"Finally, he held my mother hostage so I would turn. When I woke, I wanted to feed from animals like before and I requested it, but Aro laughed. He brought in a human girl and cut her arm so the blood lust would take over. To this day, that was the only human I ever drank from. After that I killed Aro for the grief and anger and humiliation he had caused me. He flaunted human blood in front of a newly awakened vampire and laughed as I fought the bloodlust. I have no remorse for killing him and never will." I finished and the room was quiet. The emotion in the room was overwhelming and filled with sorrow and remorse for what I had went through.

"So you are friends with the Moroi queen?" one asked. I laughed.

"Only since we were about five years old." I answered.

"So who is this Moroi father of yours?" Another asked and I smiled.

"That would be me." Abe announced and approached the dais where I sat. Shocked gasp filled the room and I almost laughed at the expressions throughout the room.

"There you go Old Man. Leaving everyone speechless again huh?" I said and we both laughed.

"Of course Rosemarie." I groaned.

"You know you're the only one that can call me Rosemarie without dying right?" I asked and he nodded. "You know I hate that." He laughed.

"I know you do Rose." He said smiling.

"For the record, the name is Rose, not Rosemarie or Rosie. Rose." I announced and we laughed lightly. The party dispersed soon after and Dimitri and I retired to our room. The clans were all leaving Volterra in the morning but right now, I knew what I wanted and needed. I welcomed my new life as queen, as long as I had my Comrade beside me. We spent most of the night enjoying the feel of one another and were content in knowing there were no rules or age differences or duties to separate us ever again. I would spend an eternity with my Russian God.

This will be the last chapter in this story guys. If i get people wanting more, i may write more to this story but for now this is the end. Please R&R.