Chapter 2
"Didyme?" Aro came forward, looking at the girl on the floor in awe. "È che voi, il mio angelo gioiosa?"
Once he got closer to her, Bella scrambled to a crouch, growling deep in her throat. The room was suddenly silent as a sudden wave of happiness hit everyone, much like Jasper's power would do. Feeling it, Edward tried to come towards Bella, but she pulled away from him too.
"No, Edward. You left. You may have suffered. You may have wanted to die, but you still left. I came here to save you and you will always be my friend, but nothing more." Bella hissed at Edward, slowly unfolding her body and standing full.
"Bella?" Alice called out to the girl, who looked at the vampires around her. She took in Aro's face of wonder, Caius's surprise, Edward's suffering, Alice's resignment, the others confusion and then at last Marcus, his face full of wonder.
"Sono molto molto dispiaciuto, il mio amore." She spoke to him softly before running out the double doors.
Felix and Demetri started after her, but Aro held up his hands, "Let her go!" He watched the girls retreat with a smile, "She won't get far."
The vampires now heard what he meant as Heidi's voice travelled down the hall with several humans behind her. "Oh no, little one, you must come with me."
Aro turned to his brother, "Marcus, what has happened? You see her bonds... you must know what has happened."
Marcus looked after the girl, hearing Aro but not really listening. He stood from his throne and in one move grabbed the human as she entered the throne room before Heidi arrived, closing the doors to the throne room loudly behind her to keep the humans out.
"Marcus," she barely spoke, her voice coming out in a squeak.
His voice rough, "Sei qui a tormentarmi?"
"I don't understand." She looked over the dark haired vampire's shoulder, "Alice? What happened?"
Aro sigh, clapping his hands together in thought. He looked over Edward, Alice and Bella carefully before speaking, "Stay with us for a night. I am sure you are very tired and our dinner has arrived. I am sure this... girl... would love to see the local sights and there is no need to rush. You are welcome to eat with us, of course, Edward and Alice, but I must ask that Bella be taken to a room. We would not want any accidents during her stay."
"Demetri."
Nodding, the tall one, who Bella now knew was Demetri, led them out the door past the humans. "Save some for me," he said to Heidi as he passed. Edward pulled the girl into his arms while Alice held her head forward as the screams began.
The trio was led to a simple room with tan walls and a wooden floor. On one wall a red flower pattern covered most of the wall, but the others were blank for the most. On the back wall a huge red shelf held a television and at least a hundred books, while along the left side of the room was a long off-white sofa that ran almost the entire wall. In front of the sofa sat a slim glass coffee table. Edward led her to the couch and set her down, sitting next to her, Alice on the other side.
"Do you remember anything that happened in the throne room?" He asked her gently, but she ducked her head, hiding her eyes from him. He sighed, "Oh, of all the times I wish I could read your thoughts."
Bella looked up at him in anger, "I remember it all. I remember Aro's shock, Caius for once speechless and poor Marcus. What have I done? Che cosa ha fatto per il tempo che l'uomo?"
Looking quickly up, she slapped her hands on her mouth, "Oh my gosh! I'm doing it again." She motioned Alice to move down and put her head down on her lap, "I just need some sleep. I'm exhausted. I'm sorry I got you guys into this mess."
Edward looked from Bella to Alice and frowned as he read her flashes of the future. Alice was scanning every version of their future and none of them looked right for all of them.
The Throne Room - and hour later
"What to do..." Aro spoke to himself. The throne room only held the three kings now with the twins guarding the door. Once cleaned of their dinner, the trio sat down to brainstorm on what happened before.
"Could she be picking up Didyme's memories possibly or possibly pretending? There is no way that human girl could know of her in that way." Caius was picking at straws, the girls words... she said things only Didyme would say. "Could she be channeling her some way?"
"We should use Chelsea, but I doubt her powers would work on the girl. We can demand the human stay since she knows too much, but Alice and Edward... if we keep them here I suspect Carlisle will visit soon enough. I would much rather they join on their own."
"Turn the girl then," Caius tapped his finger on the desk, getting impatient with this situation.
"No!" Both Marcus and Aro answered, but Aro continued, "Not yet. We need to know more about her. Perhaps we can bring Eleazar here. He would know if this is her ability or... her... if his power even works on her."
Marcus looked at his two brothers and laughed, a sound they haven't heard from his lips in three millennia, "Why not simply ask the girl to stay? The others will stay if they wish or leave if they wish. If it is Isabella's choice they cannot fight you on it."
"You think she would simply stay if we asked?" Aro looked at his brother as if he were crazy.
"You felt what she did. We ask Eleazar to come see her and see what she really is and then we decide what to do. Until he gets here, perhaps we should test her and see what the girl knows and what she can do."
Aro looked over his brother's smiling face carefully, "Do you see any bonds coming from the girl or does she block you as well?"
"When she panicked her bonds changed in a blink of an eye," he smiled, "but once she calmed, they were almost the same as when she entered the room. "
Caius leaned forward in his chair, "Almost, you say?"
"Yes." Marcus steepled his hands and tapped his chin, "The other bonds are there as well, but barely. I believe the more she is made to see, the stronger the other bonds will become… the bonds to us. Right now the girl is scared and fearing for her life. We must let her know she is safe and protected." I cannot lose any link to Didyme I may have, no matter how small. If she is turned she will make a formidable vampire, but I could lose my link to my beloved.
This time Caius leaned back, "I still say to just turn her." She will be too fragile and tempting as a human.
Denali
Esme walked into Carlisle's office as he hung up the phone with Eleazar. His face was grave as he looked upon his wife.
"It appears that Alice, Bella and Edward are being held by the Volturi. Eleazar has asked me to accompany him to Italy to test Bella's abilities. It seems something very strange happened while she went to save Edward. We'll be leaving tonight."
Back in Volterra
Alice sat next to her brother reading through the futures. Most of what she now saw before them was of Bella staying in Volterra and everyone else leaving. A few futures had both Edward and Alice staying as members of the guard, but those did not end well for anyone. Everything depended on how Bella would respond to Aro's request and more depended on how she responded to Marcus. She couldn't see how to fix the situation.
"Carlisle is coming with Eleazar to check on Bella. He's worried about her." She sighed softly, "You never should have left her, Edward. She disappeared from my sights for a while there because of those dog friends of hers. And now I can barely see any future for her at all."
"I had no way of knowing what would happen, Alice," he looked down at Bella, moving some hair from her face. "Now I fear the worst for her. She has woken Marcus from his dead existence and he will not stop until he knows what she is."
"Who she is, you mean, right?" Alice saw the doubtful look on his face.
"I fear she may be even more than Carlisle thought and fear more what they will do to her when they know."
All Italian done on Google translator, but if they don't translate correctly, here's what I meant.
È che voi, il mio angelo gioiosa?
Is that you, my joyful angel?
Sono molto molto dispiaciuto, il mio amore.
I am so very sorry, my love.
Sei qui a tormentarmi?"
Are you here to torment me?
Che cosa ha fatto per il tempo che l'uomo?
What has time done to that man?