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Chapter 12

BPoV

"WHAT?!"

Everyone was yelling and screaming trying to get their bit in, it was like a tug of war five ways, trying to get yourself heard, if their were more people you would think we were arguing over stocks.

Alice: "what the hell Carlisle! How could you keep this from us, are you meaning to say that there is another Cullen out there, but thats trying to kill Bella? Are you insane?"

Jasper: "Carlisle, what does this mean for the rest of the family, how is this going to affect Bella's safety in this situation?"

Rosalie: "are you fucked in the head? When did you plan on telling everyone this? This totally messes with the family dynamics, not to mention that hes mainstream, he drinks human blood for god sake!"

Emmett: "how can he be a Masen and a Cullen at the same time, im confused?"

and me: "are you trying to say that the person hunting me down, trying to kill me is not only working for my biological parents, but is apart of my family as well?"

It was safe to say that we were all freaked out just a little. Well that it, except for Esme.

Esme sat in a chair in the corner of the lounge room, keeping to herself, her outburst earlier had been one in a million, but this? Well she looked heart broken, she looked pained, but most of all, she looked betrayed.

"Carlisle, you told me you didn't have any kids before I came along" she whispered, but he heard it, and so did everyone else, because as soon as Carlisle moved away from the mobbing crowd of angered Cullen's we followed in complete silence.

"I think I have some explaining to do" Carlisle said as he rubbed his wife's shoulder.

"I think your right" Alice said, and took first and foremost seat on the floor in front of Carlisle and Esme.

The sight would have been amusing had the tension in the air not been so thick that you could cut it with a knife.

CPoV

"It was about 1918, mid September...

"I was working in the hospital, the Spanish influenza raging worse than ever before.

One of my patients, her name was Elizabeth Masen, she was dying, all my patients were dying, but she was special, and so was her son.

Edward was in the pediatric ward down the hall, equally as sick as his mother, but a fighter, boy was he a fighter, he was able to hold on longer...

Just before Elizabeth passed she whispered to me, ever so softly that I had to do whatever it took to save her son, to rid him of the awful virus that was plaguing his system.

I had just nodded at the time, but when I looked into her eyes, I could see that there was a level of understanding in them, almost like she knew exactly what she was asking me to do, but she knew that it would be for the better.

She died five minutes later.

…

…

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That night Edward's stats dropped dramatically and he wasn't going to make it through the night, and I had a choice to make, one of the hardest choices that I've ever had to make.

That night... he was going to die either way, it was just up to me to decide how, and whether he was going to see another day or night. Ever be able to feel again, breathe again, smell again. But I had made that promise to Elizabeth, and so I went through with it.

It was possibly one of the hardest things that I ever did, forget the decision, the actual procedure was hell, my diet of animal blood was hardly satisfying. But it was the sacrifice that I had to make to be able to lead the life that I was, it was mandatory.

So that night, when all of the doctors were asleep, and the clinic was shut for the night, I moved Edwards bed into an empty room, one where they couldn't hear the inevitable screaming that would occur before I had the chance to move him to my more recent place of residence.

He woke on the first movement of the bed, he looked up into my eyes and asked me where we were going. But pleading me to tell him that everything would be alright.

I didn't know how to tell him that he was going to die. So I just laid a hand on his forehead and guided him back onto the bed.

I didn't have the heart.

I didn't have to heart to tell him, that in all reality, what he was about to experience would be one of the most painful things that he would ever have to endure in his entire existence.

So instead, I plunged for his neck.

The taste of his sweet and warm but tainted blood ran down the back of my through, I could feel the slight sting in my pallet as the venom was produced and ready to flow into his every vein.

But when it came time to let go, so that there was still enough blood in his system to help the venom travel through his body, to keep his heart pumping till its very last and unneeded beat, I found it extremely hard to let go, harder than I thought possible.

I had overestimated my self control.

But I knew that somehow I had to find the strength in myself to stop, that this was the exact reason that I had to stop, because I had been fighting this very moment ever since I had been changed, and that I was saving someones humanity and soul by giving them a never ending second chance, immortality, and that one day, he would thank me.

He was such a nice boy as a human, exactly the kind of person that I would have approved of Bella dating, that I guess I assumed that he would be sweet and gental in the after life, but after his three days of transformation, and a name change, -from Masen to Cullen- he got snarky, he wanted a piece of the real world. Of how the real vampires lived.

He didn't want to drink animal blood, he found the desire for the human blood to be too enticing, he couldn't control himself, couldn't restrain his hunger.

By this time we had already figured out that he could read people's minds, and he wanted to know what else he could do, he was power greedy.

But I didn't want him hanging around in the streets draining innocent victims like the nomads, so I decided I was going to take him to the Volturi, they still drank human blood, but they did with an authority, and class about it, and I figured, if anyone was going to take him, and teach him to be the vampire version of a gentlemen, then it would be Charles Volturi."

"Carlisle, why have I never heard a word about this before?" Esme asked me, and to tell the truth, I didn't exactly know why myself, its not like there was anything to be particularly ashamed of, I don't regret one thing that I did, well I didn't , not until now.

"I don't know dear..."

"So what happened when you went back to the Volturi when Bella was 7? and how come I didn't see anything" Alice asked.

"Well Alice, sometimes you will miss things because you don't know that your supposed to be looking for them, so they slip through." she just nodded and motioned for me to continue my story.

"In 1995, I took a trip to Italy, I had recently discovered Bella's history, and who her biological parents were, I was going to talk to Charles and Renee, and let them know that Bella was here with us, and that she was apart of our family now. But things didn't go so much according to plan."

I got a plane the moment I figured it out. The moment I knew that you were destined to be one of the most powerful vampires in the world if changed. I caught the first plane out of there, it turned out to be a fishing charter plane going to Alaska, where I had to catch another plane from their to Italy and drive the rest of the way to Volterra.

If I wasn't in such a mode of calculated panic and rush, I would have been able to take in the beautiful scenery surrounding me.

When I got there I was at a loss as to what to do, I was standing in the lobby thinking to myself, 'Carlisle, your an idiot, what did you think you would accomplish traveling all the way to Italy to tell a man that is virtually your king, that you have adopted his human daughter and that she will in fact one day have the power to take over the whole vampiric empire as a newborn. Yes well done Carlisle!'

I was sitting in the lobby when this reception girl approached me, much reminding me of a doctors office back here, but when I entered the room where the council was assembled, I felt like I was in a court room, before a judge getting read to decide whether I would get to live or die.

Essentially that was what it was. With the information that I was about to present before the Volturi council, it would be no surprise to me if they had taken out their frustration and anger in the situation out on me.

Luckily they didn't.

They called me in, and I sat at a small table in front of a big chair worthy of a king, and 'pleaded my case'.

I told them all about Bella, how I found her at the hospital, how I took her home and accepted her as one of my family, I even showed them photos, letting them know what she looked like, so that they had a picture to think of when they thought about her.

But at first they didn't know who she was, its not like a vampire to forget anything...ever, so when they asked who I was talking about. I presented them with my evidence, I showed them everything that I had found in my research, everything from hunches, that I had written, down to conclusive evidence.

They just thought me a fool, telling me that I had no right to come in here telling them I had a child that belonged to them, but the thing is that I could see it in their eyes, they knew exactly who I was talking about, and what I was talking about.

When I finally got them to confess up, they wanted me to bring Bella to them, so that they could see over the rest of her education and see that she had a proper bringing up in order for the transformation at eighteen.

I had to fight, boy did I have to fight to get them to let her stay, I had to convince them that when she was eighteen she would change and that she would go to them, that or I give her to them straight away, and I just wasn't having that."

"Bella you have to understand that I was doing this to protect you."

BPoV

"Bella you have to understand that I was doing this to protect you." Carlisle had spent what felt like days telling us the stories of Edward, and then the one of his trip to Italy.

That was the one that got me really aggravated.

He kept telling me that he had done it to protect me, when in actual fact if he had never had gone, none of this would be happening.

Or not even that, had he stopped when they insisted they didn't have a clue who I was, and he had of just said 'yep sorry, its seems I've made a mistake, shes not your daughter after all, see ya' but no, he pushed and pushed, and now what the hell is going to happen to me?

"yeah but do you realize that if you never had of gone to the Volturi, none of this would be happing? We wouldn't even need to be having this conversation..."

EPoV

They had been talking for nearly an hour now, all sitting in their living room talking about me. And about my new families connections to this strange human girl.

I mean I guess she wasn't that strange, she had a rare quality about her, a youthful wisdom that very few of these parasites possess.

I had learned quite a lot in the past month, lots to take back to my father figure of sorts, the Alice girl, she could see the future, very handy.

Jasper, feeling emotions and being able to manipulate them, one of the most powerful of all, but what I had learned that had meant the most to this whole mission, was that Bella was going to change, and soon. They were going to try and stop my family from getting what they really wanted...power... and Bella was the one standing in the way of that plan.

The story that Carlisle told was true, though he never came across my path while visiting us in Italy, I was there, in the same room, hearing all about this human girl, the one that was going to take over the vampire world

well whoopdy doo

I was sent here to kill her, well that was what I was supposed to do, until she kissed me.

'Edward, I want you to go to America, Washington specifically, and I need you to kill a human girl that goes by the name of Isabella Cullen' Cullen? That can't be... no, he said human, thats just a coincidence.

'I want you to seek her out and drain her until there is not one drop of blood left.' okay

'my pleasure'

'this wouldn't have anything to do with the human girl that Carlisle Cullen claimed was your child a couple of years back would it? I was under the impression that she would live, and work for us' I asked.

'well I thought about it, but I decided that if she turns out to be as powerful as Carlisle says she will be, she will be more of a threat then a help, we need to eliminate that threat. That why your here' brilliant.

'oh, and Edward? Try not to get noticed.'

I headed off for the united states, in search of one of my countless missions, the ones where Charles got nervous that there was some petty human that was going to threaten his position in the vampiric royals.

Its never anything that takes too long, an day at the most, trying to find a quiet and secluded place from me to lure them too and make my strike.

But Bella was different. Because when I got to her house to scope out the area, she wasn't alone, most of the people I go after aren't, but she was accompanied by other vampires, six of them to be exact, thats what unnerved me.

This was where I started to observe her, it was going to be harder to get to her with vampires surrounding her, and even harder if she knew they were vampires.

Which turned out to be exactly how it was.

I started watching how she moved, what she did, how she knew about the vampires.

I watched the vamps too.

I watched where they went, how strong they were, what their eating habits were.

I discovered a lot about the whole family in one week, and then they returned to school.

With the little pixie vampire Alice and her future seeing powers, I knew that if I was going to get to Bella I needed to be spontaneous, and quick, I needed to be precise, but scrambled so that my plans weren't as clear as day to her, it made it harder because she was looking for me.

My break came when she decided that she needed a break from school and crowds and people, and best of all... vampires.

As I tracked her movements I found that she was going to pass through a small meadow that I had stumbled across while running one evening, and decided that that was going to be THE place. Almost like our place, in a way.

I liked the sound of that...our place

The moment in the meadow itself hadn't exactly gone to plan either, nothing about this girl was normal, she had to do everything just a little messed up.

No, her fucking family had to get in the way.

The fight would have been a pain in the ass if I wasn't so eager for some action, its a shame it wasn't harder, that Emmett guy didn't put up much of a fight, though he could've been a bit more of a challenge if he wasn't so under fueled with that animal blood crap that he puts in his body instead of the real stuff, the human stuff.

I managed to incapacitate him within a couple of minutes, the screams of his family pierced my supernatural hearing and hurt my ears.

Their thoughts none but concerned for their fallen brother. Well at least four of them were. I was surprisingly hearing nothing but... well...nothing, coming from a certain human girl.

She stood their shocked, but screaming for her brother, but her thoughts were silent, eerily so.

And then she was gone.

Surprisingly fast on her feet for a human, a clumsy human at that. She ran and ran and ran, the brush scratching her legs and drawing blood, that was all the motivation that I needed to follow her, to make my kill now.

The scent of her blood enticed me, it just smelled, SO DAMN GOO!

The slight mixture of freesia and strawberry from her shampoo, had me literally licking my lips, I couldn't wait to bury my teeth in her neck and claim her blood as my own.

Just the smell of it lingering in the air was like an aphrodisiac, amorous in its scent, I had to taste it, I had to have that delicious blood running down my throat. I no longer needed the Volturi's orders on this one, I would do whatever it took to have that blood.

It only took me, not even a couple of seconds to find her fallen in the brush, hidden by the undergrowth had it not been for her delicious smell.

I moved over to her oh so very slowly and stood above her shaking form, I had a small smirk pulled across my lips, trying hard to hide the satisfaction on my hunt, my prey, my kill.

'that was a rather unfortunate fall, you were going pretty fast, for a human that is...' I laughed down at her, with a cold look in my eyes, wanting so very swiftly to gouge out her neck, to make for my teeth to suck up her glorious blood, the one that had been haunting my senses.

'Oh I am going to rather enjoy this.' she was looking up at me, I could tell that she wanted to move back, but thought better of it, her knowledge of vampires clearly over riding her human instincts. I could see it in her eyes, the hesitation, the deliberation.

'Well you are quite special aren't you now my Bella?' I normally don't claim my prey in such a "human" way, but I felt this a special occasion, she was delicate, the gourmet selection for vampires, she deserved entitlement.

'H-h-how do you know my name?' she squeaked much to my delight

'how do I know your name? How do I know your name? Bella, are you not the legendary Isabella Cullen?'

'Well yes, but there is nothing legendary to me'

'oh Bella, I know everything there is to know about you, more than you could possibly imagine.'

'you know you shouldn't doubt yourself so, Formerly a Swan, biological daughter to one of the most powerful Vampires in the world, sure its a coincidence that you ended up with the Cullen's, as unwanted as you were, your nothing but a human for gods sake, but your Father wasn't, and neither is your mother...anymore. All biological of course.'

I shouldn't have been telling her any of this, I should have just kept my mouth open, but around her neck savoring her blood.

'How do you know that! I don't even know that! You've got the wrong person, yes the Cullen's are Vampires, But they are also my family, and they don't know anything about my biological parents, Carlisle tried, so what do you think makes you so much more resourceful than Carlisle, and the rest of my family!'

She was yelling now, enraged by my knowledge, and her lack of. I had to end this...and soon, this was getting out of hand, why couldn't I just kill her already?

'oh Bella, as young and beautiful as you are, you are awfully naive. What makes me more resourceful? The Volturi thats who! Now! If you would politely pipe down so that I can kill you already, I have a plane to catch.'

And with that I zoned in for her neck, taking it oh so very slowly, trying to keep it human like, to prolong the experience for myself, only a little more painful for her, but who cares, she going to be dead anyway.

'WAIT!' she called out, I was only millimetres from her throat.

'What is it now?' I growled, I was getting impatient, I could feel the burn on my throat, as my body began to tense up from not having her running down my throat.

'Why me?' that was the last thing that I had expected to hear, I had just explained to her, the whole history behind her birth, and who she was, and she was still asking the 'why me' questions.

'Why you Isabella Cullen? Because if you were changed, you'd have the power to be one of the most powerful vampires in the world, and I'm here to keep that from happening, now hold still, I'm going to kill you now.'

'no you're not.' she stated simply.

'is that right?' I was finding it hard to not to laugh at how comical this situation was getting getting, but at the same time I was more than shocked at her bravery, that she was standing up to me, without a doubt, ready to lose her life, but willing to fight damn hard to keep that from happening.

"yeah"

"and why is that?"

"because I want to do this first."

Thats when she kissed me.

Her soft lips were pressed against mine with a warm and yet hesitant fever, I couldn't explain the exhilaration laced with a slight tinge of anxiety, that I was feeling. It worried me that I couldn't pull away, that I wanted this, but what worried me more was that she was kissing me. I was the monster and she was kissing me.

Coherency slowly dwindled back to the front of brain, ready to take command of the situation that was so quickly getting out of hand.

I took hold of her shoulders and shoved her back off me roughly. She fell back into the hard ground.

'Are you stupid?!' I screamed at her.

I had no other way of telling her how that was silly and ignorant and naive and, I didn't know what was wrong with me, but I couldn't find the strength in myself to lunge forth and kill her like any other victim that I may have been preying on.

"what makes you think that?" she yelled back, still bewildered by what had happened in the last twenty seconds.

"I am here to kill you, I was sent here to destroy you, to seal the fate of the Volturi council and its leaders for all time, I am here to destroy you and you KISS ME?" I was slightly hysterical, venom lacing everyone of my words.

"oh what am I going to do now?" I mumbled to myself as I paced back and forth in front of her

My thought were so scrambled, a mess, I couldn't think straight.

I could hear the thoughts and movements of the other vampires in the distance, and found that this would be the best time to leave. I needed to get back to my hide out and contemplate what had just happened.

I ran straight to a little house out by the high school, it used to belong to the chief of police, until he died in a car crash one year.

I had been staying in this house for the trip, keeping my distance from the locals. It was great because it had a forest leading into the backyard, ideal for a quick sneak in. The tree by the back window was good too, because I could jump in there and survey the surroundings and make sure that no one could see me.

Once in the house, I had a cold shower, that was the only kind of water that would come out of the tap, though it was exactly what I needed at that moment.

From there on after my shower I went looking for them I was going to find Bella and study her. Even more tediously than I had before,i was going to watch her calculating her every move, watching what it was about her that drew her to me, that made me want to reconsider killing her.

I knew I was being crazy, killing humans is what I do, it is literally in my job description with the Volturi. And I liked it, I enjoyed it. I took great pride in my work.

But this human had to come by and knock all of that off the table. Make me question everything that I took pride in, everything that I was. She was driving me INSANE!

This trip is what took me out to their house. The one that had me standing there in their front yard, watching them through the window.

That was when I decided.

Watching her was one of the most pleasurable things that I had done in my life, and I didn't know why. It wasn't because I knew that from this study I would achieve then end result of tasting the most divine blood that I had ever encountered.

Its because I liked to watch her, she intrigued my every sense, and she made my heart pump, metaphorically of course, but she made me FEEL again. And I couldn't get enough.

But I didn't understand her, I didn't know her, I knew how she worked but I didn't know her... and I wanted to.

So it was time that I introduced myself to the family. Properly this time, without trying to kill them, then maybe they would return the favor.

I slowly made my way up the front steps of the porch, feeling more and more like a teenage boy, trying to ask a girl out on a date...in front of her family.

I made it to the door and rang the bell.

"who is it?" a vice rang out, I recognized it as Esme's, so loving, it would be a shame.

All of a sudden standing there I got this burst of murderous feelings, I wanted to kill them all, all of a sudden I felt like my normal self again.

"open the door and you'll find out" I called back, the whole time a murderous smirk planted on my face.

I could hear the distinct tap of high heels on the floor, I felt I had done a good job of disguising my voice, so that they wouldn't know it was me, though they would any second now.

They should be able to smell my scent.

And if not, well then any second now jasper would be able to feel my excitement.

I didn't bother waiting for the door to be opened to me.

I lunged, straight through the door.

Bring. It. On.

Okay so that was chapter 12, I hope you enjoyed it, this chapter was a lot longer, tell me if you like the length of this chapter more than the shorter ones, its up to you guys.

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