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Chapter 2
Dismissed
I dragged my feet out of the throne room quickly before Aro noticed my discomfort. I had eight hours till my plane took off. Then it would only be a matter of time till I started depriving an innocent man of all his free-will.
I tried to put aside my opinion about the task I was given. This wasn't the first time I disagreed with the ancients about a mission. But I would just have to do the same thing that I had done all those other times. Put aside my morels and do what I was told. You'd expect that I'd be used to it by now.
I said nothing as I left the lobby and traveled up the large spiral staircase that wove through the center of the building, keeping the hood of my cloak low. When I got to the seventh floor I turned off to a dark hallway and stopped at the door to my room. Not bothering to unlock the already open door, I stepped in.
My room was a very large and open space with three straight sides. Sense the Volturi Tower is circular the fourth wall that faces the outside is rounded. There, were the only two windows that illuminated the large room. They were large enough that I could sit on the cushioned windowsill as if it were a couch.
Across the room were the doors to my bathroom and closet, and a huge bookshelf in-between them. The only thing in the room not leaning on a wall was a huge leather couch facing a large flat-screen TV surrounded by DVDs. Just behind the couch was a very expensive sound system, standing in-between my large desk and the door I was walking through.
Finally, now that I was alone, I let my feelings show. Shoulders slouched and head down I tossed my cloak onto the coach as I dragged my feet toward my closet. I had a short amount of time to get ready, so I might as well get started.
Long trips made on short notice were just something you had to get used to in the Volturi, so I always kept a few bags and backpacks in my closet. I took one and tossed in a few items of clothing that looked appropriate for the Olympic Peninsula.
Then I walked out of the tiny room and into my own. I only took a few more things; my iPod, a couple books, a small journal I wrote in sometimes and a few others. Aro had said that I could be gone a while, so I might as well bring a few small but probably useless distractions.
Everything was packed and ready much too soon. There goes my number one distraction. Sigh.
Let's just get this over with, I thought. Within a second I was walking back down the large spiral staircase again with my cloak back on and my backpack dangling a few inches from the ground. Aro had said to meet him in the throne room when I was done packing and to not speak a word about this to anyone. Strange as it sounded, I obeyed.
When I arrived it appeared that he had not even left the room since he left. Not that unlikely since I was only gone for a few minutes.
"Hello Bella," he greeted me with a smile.
"Hello." I said back, hoping Aro wouldn't be able to guess my mood through my voice. If he did, he pretended not to.
"I see you are all packed and ready," he said, eyeing my half-full backpack approvingly. "Very good. You have always been quick and efficient. That is exactly why," he reached into his cloak and pulled out an official-looking envelope "I was ready with this ahead of time."
I already knew what was in the envelope as I took it from his chalky-white skin. Whenever we were going on a mission, especially a long one, we were given an envelope with all the things we needed inside of it; plane tickets, passports, money, exedra. What was unusual was that Aro was doing it all. He never did anything he didn't gain from. What could he possibly gain from this?
The envelope was heavier than I would expect, not that it made much of a difference to me, it just made me curious. What was inside of it?
"Do you remember all you must do?"Aro asked. Of course I did. He had told me everything no more than five minutes ago.
I just nodded.
"Then I wish you good luck. I know you won't disappoint me. Don't take too long," he said.
I gave him one last farewell bow, and then headed out.
But on my way out of the door I was passed by Felix. As usual, we glared at each other and he snarled at me until we passed. Ever since I had joined the guard he hated me and eventually I felt the same towards him. I think he hated me because I lowered his status, and it really didn't help that Chelsea couldn't bind me closer to anyone because of my gift. I was absolutely positive that if Aro was not constantly watching him he would rip me to pieces slowly and painfully, all the while smiling.
I tried not to act too smug at the fact that because I was Aro's "prize" Felix could never touch me.
The small, delicate piece of folded paper that was still in my lifeless fingers didn't gain my curiosity until I was out of the tower. Now that I was out, I would need instructions. Quietly, being ever so sneaky, I slipped into a back alley that reeked but smelled as if a human hasn't set foot in it for weeks, so I desisted it was a safe place to stay undetected. I was just about to open the envelope when I heard footsteps. Fast footsteps. Much too fast to be human. Aro had said not to tell anyone about my trip under any circumstance, and the envelope was a dead give-away. Panicking, I threw the evidence into my backpack as fast as I could.
Just about an eight of a second after I put it away, a hooded figure emerged out of what looked like nowhere. I let my breath out. It was just Jane.
The hooded figure stopped a few feet in front of me. I suddenly remembered the first time we meat, all those years ago…
*****
"Well, look at that! That was just amazing! I could not get anything from you! Like you were blocking me from your mind entirely! And from just a human! Perhaps…" The strange man the cloaked figures called Aro said. His expression looked amazed and thinking.
What could this man possibly have to be excited about? Didn't he see the bodies, spread out on the ground around him? I did, and I sincerely did not care about this Aro, or whatever it was he was babbling about. I just wanted to curl up in a ball and wait for the pale demons to come back and kill me too.
But Aro had other plans for me.
"Jane, won't you come?"He said. In a flash, one of them was standing beside him.
Oh no. They were the same as the demons. I was surrounded. But somehow still alive. What was this? Couldn't they just kill me already?
The demon named Aro said to the smaller demon, "Jane, darling, could you try, perhaps-"
"Yes, master." She said with a frightening smile, not even needing to hear the rest of his command. And then she looked at me with the true face of a demon.
I was sure I would die just then. I sat still, waiting for the end. Again. Would this waiting ever end?
But nothing came. I felt nothing. Lost nothing. The demon Jane continued to stare at me, but her stare changed. It went from a sick happiness to frustration. Frustration to concentration. Frustration again. Then the frustration turned into anger, which seemed to grow and grow until I was truly wondering why this demon Jane had not attacked me yet.
"Amazing," murmured Aro, "The first ever. This human seems to do this completely unconsciously! Can you imagine how powerful she could be as an immortal?!"
I didn't quite understand what he meant, but Jane did, and she definitely didn't like it.
I didn't even know it was possible, but Jane got even more furious than she was before. Just this time she couldn't keep her anger inside.
Before I could move, she jumped.
"Jane stop that now!"
"Stop Jane! You don't want to do this!"
"GET OFF HER!!!"
*****
It was hard to believe that that very same vampire was standing in front of me now. For the longest time, we had hated each other, but somehow something changed. I don't even know myself when the real click happened, just that one day, we didn't glare at each other anymore. Someday after that we just started talking to each other. We weren't really "BFF's" as the humans say, but she was the closest thing to a friend I had. She had her bad past and I had mine. Though I greatly disagreed with the way she acted, I knew the reason.
Jane took her hood down so I could see her face. She wasn't happy.
"You're leaving," she accused.
"Maybe," I replied.
She was quiet for a few moments. Then, finally, she said, "You're not going to tell me anything."
I just shook my head.
Upset as she normally is when I left her out, she was quiet. It was very clear in her expression she was very angry at me. She really never did hide her feelings.
"Come back soon," was all she said.
"I will," was all that I said before we both turned around and headed in opposite directions. Jane to continue her duty in the city while she fumed over this conversation, me to start a long mission, one that I will not return from alone.
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