To say the next few minutes were tense would be the understatement of the freaking century; well besides vampires exist, of course.
Everyone seemed to just realize what dunderhead formerly known as Jacob had just said and the room promptly became my living hell.
"You've told people about us being vampires?!" Alice screeched.
"Your trust in me is...astounding." I said pausing for dramatic effect, sarcastically.
"Look at the mess they've created! Aro you must see the problem they've made, I say we kill all of the Cullens and go and kill the humans that the girl told our secret!" Caius boomed.
I held back a smirk when I noticed he hadn't mentioned me being killed.
"Yeah, good luck with that. Call me when you realize the huge mistake you made." I said smartly.
"What do you mean human?" Caius sneered looking at me, his eyes narrowed.
"I never said they were human." I admitted, having fun knowing something vampire's didn't.
All the vampires in the suddenly seemed very interested excepting Alice and Edward who were looking superior because they knew-just had to take my power, didn't they?- but no one paid them any attention. good.
"There shifters, theres a pack near forks." I said slowly a bit hesitant that my telling on the pack would get them into trouble not they couldn't handle it,
"What do they shift into?" Aro asked excitedly.
That seems -excitement- the only emotion besides curiosity that it seemed Aro had.
"Wolves." I replied.
"Children of the moon!" Caius accused his voice booming.
"No, no, no! not children of the moon they can shift whenever they like and there are in complete control when they are wolves." I assured hurriedly,
"Hmm, it seems we will have to discuss this further." Marcus said thoughtfully.
"Carlisle has a treaty with them!" I voiced knowing he would be less hesitant to trust his old friend instead of the human girl whom they had just met.
"Yes, yes he does." Aro agreed, I then remembered he had seen everything Edward had ever seen because of his mind reading gift, poor man; The horror's of Edward's stupidity forever imprinted in his eidetic memory.
"But just to make sure everyone is on the same page- as I believe young people say these days-, Bella would you mind me using my gift on you?" Aro asked me politely,
"You can try." I said, sighing dramatically as I extended my arm in invitation. He grabbed hold of my hand eagerly.
After a few moments a frown appeared on his face but it disappeared as quickly as it came, and he pulled back with a grin on his face.
"Curious." Was the only thing he said.
"Brother?" Marcus inquired the boredom clear in his voice but he still seemed slightly intrigued by the way his eyes were sparkling. If that makes any sense.
"It seems I cannot read dear, Isabella's mind." He said happily, making me frown why in the hell was he happy about his gift not working? strange vampire.
"Aro? perhaps we should continue this later? I am sure Isabella is tired from her journey." Marcus said, gazing down at me as I wrapped an arm around my stomach to keep my stomach from growling.
"Did Dear, Alice not feed you?" Aro joked chuckling but when he say me glaring at Alice he stopped.
"No, she did not." I narrowing my eyes at her.
"I thought saving Edward was a little more important!" She defended.
"You know if I didn't know any better I would say you were Edward's mate!" I said crossly.
Both the Cullens looked at me; jaws dropping and there eyes almost hit me in the face.
"Huh, I was only kidding. Didn't think it was actually true." I said thoughtfully.
"We are not mates! we are!" Edward said indicating him and Alice then me and him.
"Were you not listening to this entire conversation? we are not mates!" I snapped, tired of him and his drama.
"Be reasonable, Bella my love." He said his eyes pleading, I held back a shudder at 'my love' I'd always hated being called that; it sounded stupid in my opinion.
I was also glad to find I felt nothing, when I looked in his eyes. besides disgust perhaps.
"Shut up," I said simply turning to the kings, I was going to said it would be amazing if I could get something to drink but then several things happened at once; I suddenly felt myself being pushed against something hard whether it was the floor or the wall I didn't know, I heard snarling, and saw Edward's face inches from mine as venom dripped from the right side of his mouth, not expecting him to be so close to me I screamed, a high pitched, girly, scream.
Through my halfway coherent thoughts I figured I was being held up by my arm.
Suddenly Edward was ripped away from me and I fell on my hands and knees I heard a 'pop' and then I felt a burning in my left hand.
"Holy! oh, god! Holy shit!" I cried grabbing my left hand with my right.
"Isabella?" Inquired Marcus as he appeared at my side looking at my hand.
I bit hard on my cheek to keep from screaming and making everything worse.
I looked up to see who had pulled Edward off me and saw Caius he was halfway turned to me and half way to Edward snarling in warning at Edward who was being held down by the two vampire guys who had brought us in earlier and Alice was being held still by the boy who had greeted the girl who had lead us in earlier, Alice was completely still looking straight at me but not seeing me.
"Isabella?" Marcus inquired again looking worried.
"It's fine Marcus, I've gone through much worse." I said smiling tightly. it was true; I had been through much worse.
"Perhaps we should take Isabella into the next room?" Marcus encouraged.
"Yes, yes of course!" Aro said looking up from beside Caius he seemed to be trying to calm him down, it was not working.
"Come, Isabella." Marcus said as he helped me stand.
We started walking towards the doors, all eyes following us.
"Oh, I forgot." I said turning around to glare at Edward.
Using my right hand I lifted Edward off the ground slightly, shocking the vampires and they promptly let go of him and took several steps back, I then brought my hand down sharply causing him to sink several feet into the ground.
All the vampires turned to look at me months hanging open and eyes bulging.
"If you ever touch me again you stuck up, bambi sucking freak, I swear to god I will make sure you are a virgin indefinitely." I said my voice deadly calm.
I grabbed hold of Marcus's arm and nodded towards the indicating door for him to lead the way, he obliged; thankfully.
The next few minutes remained silent as we walked down the dark halls.
Marcus seemed content not to say anything at moment and just look at me as if studying me every few minutes.
I, on the other hand could barely contain my excitement, even if Dickward and Pixy were here it didn't matter! I was here, where I was meant to be.
For the first time since Charlie died I felt, whole.
I subconsciously grabbed hold of the necklace, a chain with Charlies old wedding ring on it, the wolves had given it to me soon after Charlie's death.
"Thats a very beautiful ring." Marcus commented looking down at me hand.
"It..was my father's." I said choking on 'was' as my stupid eyes starting to tear up.
"You miss him?" He asked but it was more of a statement.
"Yes, he died a little while ago." I admitted, I was beginning to grow very mad at myself for not remembering Charlie in the throne room; I should have made sure he would be a virgin forever.
I had forgotten about Charlie for a moment, and it angered me; I promised myself I would never forget him! May have seem stupid; to be so mad about forgetting him for a few minutes but it scared me, I had already had to struggle to remember things about my grandmother, things that a few years before I would be able to say without thought, I didn't want to forget Charlie. Anything about him.
I was brought out of my concerned thoughts by Marcus stopping and turning slightly to look up at a huge, beautiful painting of a woman it was obvious by the pale skin and red eyes she was or had been a vampire, her black curls contrasting to her pale skin, she had full pinks lips and was smiling.
"Wow," I said taking in a deep breath; she could put Rosalie's beauty to shame.
"I know." Marcus chuckled humorlessly looking at the picture wistfully.
" You loved her?" I guessed.
" I love her, but she died a very long time ago." He said mournfully.
Wow, for vampire to say it was a long time ago it must be at least a few hundred years ago and he is still in love.
Know that's one devoted man. I liked him better for it.
"I would sorry, but I know that pity doesn't help." I said making a face at 'pity'; I hated when people pitied me.
"You are very smart for such a young person," He complimented as he almost.. smiled but it looked slightly like a grimace none they the less it was a smile. sort of.
I laughed a small, humorlessly laugh.
"That's what my mother use to say," I said sullenly.
"She is not with you either?" He asked frowning down at me.
"My mother is very much alive, she is just very difficult. After she didn't come to my father's funeral-they were divorced- it became hard for us to get along." I explained looking at my hand.
Marcus just nodded and we started walking again.
"Marcus?" I inquired.
"Yes?" He asked still looking dead ahead.
"You should smile more." I commented thoughtfully.
"Is that so?" He said his face lifting into that grimace smile.
"Hmm." I said returning his smile.
The rest of our walk was in silence and we both seemed content with it finally after another ten or so minutes we came to stand in front of two large-although much smaller than the throne room doors- dark wood doors.
Marcus grabbed the handle of one of the doors, opened it and then ushered me inside -not that I was protesting much.
Walking into the room I had to stifle my gasp; the room was beautiful.
Like the rest of the castle most of the coloring was red and black, there were three couches two of them black sitting on either side of the one red one the were all in one corner of the room with a big window behind them, there were a few loveseats scattered here and there, and a table in the middle of the room, there was a fire blazing with beautiful reds and yellows-of course not fire could compare to the blue and purple fire's of the La Push- there were wooden shelves that climbed up the walls with different pieces of art covering their shelves varying from small statues to beautiful pieces of jewelry.
To the side of the room there was a door,
"Can I look in there?" I asked Marcus.
"Of course, it will be your bedroom for now." Marcus said nodding.
Not wasting anymore time and becoming increasingly excited and nervous I walked towards the door, opening it I was hit with the scent of cinnamon.
Looking inside I saw a rather large bed most likely a king size with more pillows than anyone really needs, there were two small tables on either side of the the bed both with a simple lamp, there was a TV stand with an old looking TV on it and a VCR player, there was a window with one of those window seat things, and black and white photos framed the walls with different pictures of Volterra, there were two other doors-with Marcus's consent- I looked into; one was a walk in closet that would hold my wardrobe four times over, the next was bathroom.
I had forgotten the pain in my hand with all the excitement until I went to grab something and cried in pain, Marcus then called for Felix who I saw was the vampire whose mate was the receptionist he told him to get wrapping stuff for my hand and pain medication, he was back in a matter of minutes both things in his hands and smiling cheekily, After a few minutes of pain Marcus had wrapped my hand and I had taken the pain medication. The pain soon subsided and I soon forgot about again.
After re-seeing everything about five times Marcus told me to get some rest and that he would come back to get me in a few hours after he talked with his brothers.
After Marcus left I wandered back into 'my' room, looking around the TV I found a few old movies and decided on one I hadn't seen in a while putting it in I slowly got into the bed being careful not to put weight on my left arm, I had planned on staying awake throughout the movie but I didn't make it past 'they call me thumper' before I was out, I hoped that I would get at least a few hours of dreamless sleep but it seems that wasn't what fate had in store for me.
A/N: Hello, my lovelies! It's been a while hasn't it? feel's like forever for me. Anyway I big thank you to all my reviewers I love you guys, and your reviews give me motivation to write. I was listening to Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood so that song is sort of my inspiration for this chappy. Okay, some of yall know I put A Light In The Darkness-my other twilight fanfiction- on hiatus because I wasn't really feelin' it but I have a few ideas for some other fanfic would any of you be interested in me putting up a new fanfic or should I just focus on V for Volturi? I figure this story is going to be 30 chapters or so, so should I just wait it out or what? Well I hope you guys are havin' an awesome day so review! -Monet