Previously:

He had a smug expression on his face as he said "I guess it's good we got rid of Didyme then, isn't it?"

"You did what?" asked a voice so calm yet filled with so much venom that it sent chills up their spine. They turned and saw Marcus standing there watching them.

Chapter 3:

Aro looked at Marcus with an expression of pure fear written all over his face, fear that he had heard of their misjudgement many years ago. Caius however looked his brother in the eye, seemingly undeterred by the fire in his eyes that literally said I want to kill you.

Aro quickly covered up his fear and schooled his face into its normal smiling self.

"Marcus! Brother! What are you doing here? I thought you would have been in Didyme's garden at this moment?" asked Aro with a smile on his face.

If Marcus hadn't known his brother for so long he wouldn't have been able to see how tense he was. He would have thought he was just being his cheery self. But alas, fate lucked out for Aro and his brother recognised his fraud almost immediately.

Marcus scowled. "Do not test me brother. I asked you a question. And I have no wish to be ignored either."

"Oh? Really? What was this question you asked? I seem to have missed it." Aro started fidgeting slightly, so slight that had a normal human looked at him they would have missed it. But with a vampire's enhanced senses, it was clearly noticeable to both of his brothers.

"What did you do to her?" Marcus growled out while death staring his brothers.

"Her? Who is this, her, you speak of Marcus?" asked Aro while trying his best to look confused. Seeing his brother's face literally almost turn purple from his anger, which is quite a feat for him to do seeing as his heart hasn't been pumping blood in his body for centuries, Aro mentally sighed and faked a look of recognition on his face.

"Oh! Her! Didyme! You do mean her, right? Didy-"

Aro was suddenly cut off as Marcus couldn't handle the way his brother had said his loves name like it was such a normal occurrence. He wondered briefly if his brothers knew how much it hurt to hear her name. Spoken as if she was still here, and not murdered so long ago.

Marcus had lunged at Aro while snarling like a mountain lion and together they both went flying through the air. They crashed through the wall of the study, dust and rubble surrounded them yet Marcus took no notice of it. His attention was solely focused on his brother.

The Guard had heard Marcus's snarl and the loud earth-shattering collapse of the wall and rushed to aid him thinking he was in trouble. They arrived the same time as the Wives did and what the Guard saw completely shocked them.

They had been trained rigorously in how to protect the three brothers from all sorts of dangers. Yet they never were told as how to handle the situation if one of the brothers tried to kill them.

Finally after the shock at what they were seeing had processed through their minds, it was Caius who brought them out of their stupor.

"Don't just stand there like fools! GET HIM OFF HIM!" snarled Caius.

The Guard broke into action trying to get Marcus off Aro as soon as they could without hurting him, for they may have been ordered by Caius to get him off Aro they still doubted he wouldn't kill them if harm came to Marcus.

The Guard managed to get Marcus off Aro with Jane using her ability. While Marcus was incapacitated Aro got up and growled at them.

"What are you waiting for? LEAVE! You've done your job now leave unless you want me to rip you limb from limb and burn you!" howled Aro.

Marcus was still on the ground recovering from the shock of Jane's ability taking many sharp, shallow unneeded breaths.

He looked up and the pain in his eyes was almost unbearable and he uttered one single word.

"Why?"

The brothers stood apprehensively and looked at each other while both of their wives were on the other side of the room. Sulpicia stood impassively already knowing that this day had come and it was time for her husband to tell the truth. Athenodora however had no idea what was going on and made a move to go forward but before she could, Sulpicia's hand reached out to her shoulder and stopped her.

With a tiny shake of her head, Sulpicia stopped Athenodora from moving forward to Caius's side. They looked into each other's eyes and she knew she had to wait this out. It was between them and no one else was to interfere. So she stepped back and watched.

"It's… complicated," said Aro.

"Well then why don't you try and explain?" growled Marcus.

"I'm not sure exactly how to word this brother…"

"You had no reason. No right to do what you did. Do you enjoy watching me, your own brother suffer? Is this some kind of sick twisted enjoyment for you?"

"We… I... " hesitated Aro, his mouth opened and closed, unsure of what to say.

"Well? DO YOU?"

"NO! WE DON'T MARCUS! WE DID IT FOR YOU, DAMMIT!" roared Caius.

And then everything was silent.

AN:Thank you to those who reviewed last chapter. Hope you like this one. Hmmm so what does Caius mean by that? What are his reasons ey? Was it really for Marcus? Find out next chapter what he means. OH! And don't forget to review!

Alleiya

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