The doors slammed against the walls making everyone inside leap to attention as I called out, "Catch" and threw the head in my hand right into Aro's.

Aro caught the head with ease, his eyes sliding close on contact with the skin. While he was doing his thing, Izzy was taking a look around the room, taking in all the eyes that were looking at her. She slid a little closer to me but didn't slide behind me.

I knew the moment that she saw him, because her body went into lockdown. I glanced at her, and I could almost SEE her limited memories flashing before her eyes. When her lips began to pull from teeth, I switched my hold on her so when she snarled loud enough to rattle the walls, I was ready to snatch her up off the ground to keep her from lunging.

"Hey there Sugar, if you don't behave, you're gonna have to wait outside."

She rounded on me with a growl and I just cocked a brow at her, "You know better, Youngin. You just knock it off for now. You'll get your chance, but you gotta be a good girl for the moment."

After she snapped her teeth at me again, she turned back and glared at Edward who was stuck somewhere between shocked at seeing her, and turned on by her actions. I was about fuck him up.

I turned my attention to Aro when he hummed in his throat. After he opened his eyes, he tossed the head over his shoulder and clasped his hands behind his back, looking first to the baby in my arms, and then to Mr. Bitchy Pants. "Seems you have much to answer for young man, but we will get to you in a moment." Then he looked back at my girl and smiled, probably the first real one fucker ever has in his unlife. "I must say, My Dear, that immortality certainly suits you. I do apologize for the way it came about, but you were destined for it to happen five years ago."

She just blinked at him. That was when I explained, "She doesn't remember her human life, Aro, and what she can, is nothing but flashes and cut to shit pictures. She can only recall two different things, and neither one is pleasant."

He tisked, "Ah, I see. Well, from what I saw it is probably for the better that she doesn't remember anything substantial. However, it seems she does recall Mr. Cullen here to some degree," then he looked back at her, "Don't you, Stella?"

I watched her lip curl up and complete disgust overtook her features at that. She looked at me and I could see the demon inside her fighting to retaliate against that. "Who the fuck is he calling 'Stella'?"

I heard a snort and snicker from the other side of the room, and glanced that way just in time to see the other two brothers averting their eyes, trying their damnedest not to draw Izzy's attention to them for laughing at her. I shook my head before looking back at her, and smirking a little, "Simmer down, Iz. It's an endearment; kinda like when I call ya Sugar. It means 'Star' in his language."

She glanced over at Aro for a second and turned that over in her mind a few times before slowly nodding her head, "oh, well, that's alright then." The she looked back at Edward and growled low and deep in her chest, "I remember that he's a piece of shit that deserves to have his ass handed to him."

I love newborns and their fucked up emotions and attention span.

Aro chuckled at that, "I agree. And you will have your chance, Tesoro, of that you have my word. First though, I would like to see for myself your recollections of your human life, that is," looking back at me, "if it is alright with you, Captain Whitlock."

Izzy growled again at being called a name she didn't understand so I dipped my head and whispered in her ear, "That one means 'sweetheart'." And just like that, the growl was gone, and all was right with my Sugar.

When I pulled back and glanced at her, I waited to see if she was against it, but all she did was look at me. Jasper however had something to say to it, "I doubt you're gonna get anything from her. The fucktard over there couldn't read her mind as a human."

Aro glanced at him and nodded, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained, Major. I am also not a mind reader, I am a soul reader; there is a difference." Turning back to me, "I leave it to you, Captain. I will not overstep my boundaries with your mate."

I smirked at him, "Ask the Lady, it's gonna be her privacy you're invading, not mine."

I don't think I have ever seen him look truly amused before, but he was trying really hard not to giggle, "Of course." Moving his eyes to hers, "Do you mind, Stella?"

She looked at me again, and I nodded to her so she looked back at him and swallowed hard, "What do I have to do?"

It was the tremble in her voice, that got him to understand just how fucked up she was when it came to the current situation. His eyes softened and he waved a hand, dismissing the majority of the others in the room, so she would feel a little more comfortable. The main guard stayed as they always do, but the lesser ones vacated, making sure not to move too fast as to put her on defense in the wrong way. If they freaked her out, they knew she would attack, and I doubt that they knew how to handle a baby her age.

Once the room was empty, Aro gave her a slight smile, "There is no need for you to fear, young lady. You are not the one in trouble." Once she nodded at him, he walked down the three steps from dais and slowly made his way to her. He came to a stop in the middle of the room before speaking again as he held out a hand, "if you consent, all you have to is place your hand in mine. I will take it from there."

She looked at his hand before looking back at him, "That's it? Just touch your hand, nothing else?"

He nodded, "That's it. If you prefer, Captain Whitlock can come with you but you have my word that nothing untold will occur." He saw her eyes move to Edward if I saw that shit. The look on his face could only be described as indulgent when he smiled at her this time, "Alec, Felix, if you would be so kind." The words were barely out of his mouth before the two flashed to Edward's side, making Izzy nearly jump out of her skin and slide behind me for the first time since we came in. Aro sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose between his eyes with the tip of his finger, "idiots." Sending a glare their way, he spoke to my Sugar in a very soothing sounding voice, "Pay them no mind, Stella. You are perfectly safe within these walls."

I heard her gulp a little, but she slowly came back out from behind me and looked over at the two that were giving her apologetic looks. After one more look at me, she swallowed again but stepped towards Aro. It was slow going, but when dealing with babies you have to have some patience if you're gonna get anywhere.

Aro lifted his hand again and after another glance over her shoulder at me, slowly set her hand in his. Once she did, he gently closed his fingers around hers. closed his eyes, and bowed his head over her hand. I could see her visibly shaking from the twenty five feet away she was and I was driving me up the fucking wall. I looked over at Jasper and nodded her direction and within a blink she stopped and just stood there while Aro did his little invasion of privacy act.

Since she wasn't that old it didn't take him long before he was done. A minute later his eyes opened and he smiled at her, "Well, seems the Captain was right about you not having the best recollection of your human life. That being said, you seem to be doing well under his care under the circumstances."

"You could read her?"

That stupid mother fucker. He just had to open his fucking mouth, didn't he?

The moment Edward's voice caressed Izzy's ears, she rounded on him and with a snarl. once again went on the attack. She was out for his blood, and it seemed she was ready to take out anyone she had to, to get it. However, since Aro was still holding her hand at the time, he knew what she was about to do and countered the best way he could. In an action that I was rather impressed with, he twisted his body and twirled her around, crouched, and sacrificed his own forearm to her anger. He closed his eyes and grunted a little at the feel of getting bit, but otherwise showed no indication as to the fact he had a baby's teeth gums deep in his arm.

The guard members that were still present went to go to his aid but he just called them off, "If you move, she'll rip my hand off. That happens, and I kill the one that made her do it. She's an infant that still has a way to go in learning to control her temper. Now, get the fuck back."

He then glanced my way, "She prefers Izzy these days, yes?" I nodded at him but was on guard in case this went tits up. One does not bite the self-proclaimed king without repercussions. He turned back to the still growling baby, and lowered his voice, "Izzy, It's alright Stella. He isn't going to do anything stupid. You can let go."

There was no understanding in her eyes. They were locked on Edward and she was biting someone that she was fully convinced was him. It didn't matter that there was no way possible she was biting the right person to her. All that mattered to her was she tasted venom.

Jasper and I looked at each other a moment before he looked over to Aro that was still trying to talk Iz into letting go. "Do you want me to calm her down so she'll open her mouth?"

Aro shook his head, "I don't think that is currently a good idea, Major, though I thank you for the offer. She knows when you mess with her emotions, but doesn't understand how because she has not yet be educated to the existence of gifted vampires. If you try, she could well see it as an attack and that would more than likely end with her ripping off my arm. She'll let go eventually." A moment later there was a slight smirk on his lips and a light chuckle on the air. "I see what you want, Stella. Very well," he nodded towards Edward and called out, "Jane."

The next thing we know Edward is screaming like a girl, and you could see satisfaction enter Izzy's eyes and a smirk pull at her lips. She held onto Aro's arm a moment longer before she let go, and darted back behind me, her very satisfied eyes watching as Edward rolled around on the ground, a snicker coming from her as he continued to scream.

Aro stood from his position and looked at his arm, ripping the sleeve to his shirt off to see the mark that she left in her wake, a smirk on his lips. "Hmm, well, that was interesting, no?" He looked over at Izzy and smirked at her before calling off Jane and turning to Edward. Once he stopped screaming, Aro cocked a brow, "Time to deal with you. Considering that I took a bite from a newborn for you, you owe me."

Edward just laid there panting hard. It took him well over a minute before he could respond. Fucking pussy, you have no idea what real pain is. His voice was raspy, and clouded when he spoke, and I had to restrain Izzy when she heard it, "I would rather die."

Aro chuckled at that, "No shit. I know that. However, I do not believe I was giving you that choice. You invited a human into our world and let her live when you left. Never mind the hired help that floundered in doing it for you, the fact remains that there was a human walking the earth for five years with knowledge she should not have had. I know you were raised to think that there were no such thing as consequences, but I assure you, they are very real. For breaking that particular rule, the punishment is one decade of service on my guard for every year the human knows before death or transformation. She knew for five years so by my count that is fifty years of service. Adding the fact that I took a bite for you, I am adding another fifty. You owe me a century, while the others of your little family owe me fifty for their part and punishment. The rest of them will be arriving in two days."

Edward pushed himself up and glared at Aro, "You can't do that!"

Aro just shrugged, "I do believe I just did. Take your judgment like a man and simply be grateful that I do not turn the young one on you for mere shit and giggles." He then turned to Jasper, "Major, not even you are above taking punishment for you part in this. You also allowed a human to walk around knowing of us and out of all of them; I would have thought that you would have had the sense of mind to deal with the situation long before now."

Jasper's head lifted as his shoulders squared and he nodded with a 'Yes, Sir' knowing full well that Aro was right.

Izzy however, didn't like that idea and protested, loudly, "No, you can't take him away."

Aro looked at her with a very patient look on his face, "Captain Whitlock has yet to have the time to explain this to you, Stella, but we do have rules to follow, and there are consequences for breaking them. The Major here knew what would happen if I was to find out about you, and still he sat back and did nothing. This is nothing more than I would have handed out to any other that did the same."

She looked back and forth between Aro and Jasper a few times before she turned her wide and scared eyes on Aro, "But, he was helping me. Please, you can't take him away."

Jasper looked down at her and gave her a smile, "Calm down Darlin'. There will be plenty of time for that later."

She shook her head hard and fast, "Later won't matter. Now matters." She looked back at Aro and whimpered, "Please, don't take him away."

Aro's thoughts swirled in his eyes as he listened to her beg. You could SEE that he wanted to give in to her but at the same time this was the normal punishment for breaking the exposure law. She was putting him between a rock and a hard place because he couldn't let Jasper go with no punishment but he never did well with upset females. After a long moment he tisked, "I will take into account the facts of the situation as it is and will give you an answer on my ruling tomorrow. Whatever is decided, Stella, is the way it will be."

She nodded at that but didn't look any happier. Fuck, now I had to once again get Jasper's ass out of the hot seat for being an idiot. I knew that I could get him out of it, but it was the principal of the fucking matter that irritates me. I am forever getting him out of shit but where the fuck is he when I need a little back up? Fucking a whore, that's where. However, if it will make my girl happy, I'll talk to Aro, and get this shit tossed out on its ass.

Jasper is going to owe me a new fucking fleet of bikes for this.

It was then that Izzy went ramrod straight again, like she was kicked in the ass. Out of nowhere she turned and kicked Jasper in the kidney so he went flying to the side before shoving me the other way and diving at Aro, taking him to the ground. No one got a word out before there was an explosion of fire right where we were all standing.

I rolled over and slid on my foot and knee and whipped around in time to see Aro take control of the breakfall, stopping the tumble and covered Izzy with his body, making sure to cover her hair so it didn't catch from the falling embers and ash.

After I was convinced she was alright, I was on my feet looking up where that had to have come from. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Edward trying to fight against Felix and snorted. Best of luck ya fucking idiot. I nearly missed it but I didn't, there was a shadow on the wall on the upper story. Baring my teeth with a growl I called out to Jasper, "Major, seven o'clock." He whirled around and snarled when he saw what I did. He lifted his hand, gave me my orders and we were off, a well-oiled machine that was built in a time of unknowns, and honed over years of comradeship.

It was like nothing changed, like we never left the war as we moved as one mind. We knew the other so perfectly that we didn't need communication to talk. We took the lead from the other, our movements shifting seamlessly to coincide to the other until our target was obtained. In this case, the target was the mutant midget. I knew there was a reason I hated the bitch.

While she was focused on Jasper, she never saw me coming. Some fucking foresight she has. I snatched her up by the hair on her head on tossed her ass over the railing with a 'heads up' and watched as she went splat. Jasper came to stand beside me with a satchel of Molotov cocktails. I rolled my eyes up at that. They might not last long, but they can be very deadly if they actually hit their target.

I looked back down at the floor and saw Izzy standing in the center of the three brothers, peeking out from around Aro's arm. Guess she made an impression on him, you know, saving his ass and all. From my vantage point I could see the whole room. Edward was now face planted into the floor with Felix's knee in his back, and about to lose his arms, and Demetri was holding Alice in much the same position. Once the excitement settled down, I heard Aro call for Chelsea. Looks like he was getting his time out of them no matter the means he had to go through to get it. It wasn't unheard of for him to have to do this to those that broke the law for them to serve their time, so this really didn't surprise me.

Glancing at Jasper, I jerked my head to the stairs. He nodded and down we went. The moment my feet were on the ground, Iz was in my arms. Jesus the little shit was fast. I just smiled at the top of her head and chuckled when she apologized for pushing me, Jasper snorting when she did the same to him.

He reached over and ruffled her hair, "you ain't gonna hear me complain Darlin'. I'll take a footprint on my organs over frying any day."

She giggled a little before batting his hand away. Pulling her face out of my chest she looked up at me, "I'm hungry."

I pursed my lips a little at that. Cocking my head to the side I looked at Aro, "Where do you want me to take her to get something to eat? It's been awhile since she last fed, on top of her overstimulated nerves."

Aro smiled at her, "If you think you can wait about an hour, I do have one of my guards out right now retrieving something for you. If you need something to tide you over until then, I had some bags brought in for you as well. I know you ate right before coming, but I must admit that it has been a decent amount of years since I have housed a vampire as young as you are, so the feeding schedule might be a bit rusty on my part."

Her eyes dropped and she looked at the floor for a minute before looking back up, embarrassment shining nice and bright, "I don't think I can wait that long anymore."

He nodded at her and crooked a finger at Afton, "Perfectly alright, Stella. Afton will to show you to your room where you will find something to tide you over until Heidi returns with a proper meal for you."