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Chapter 27

Seven years, hard to believe it's been seven years of Aro's bitching. Too night he can have his first human since Carman's punishment. I mean it's a drop in the bucket compared to our life time. I look over at Kat. "Lighten up, he's an ass, but he made it. I'll grant you not without bitching the whole way, but Carman doesn't seem to mind."

"Fucking ass-wipe" she mutters at me. "One step, just one out of line and I will have him in five pieces before you can utter one word to stop me." Kat looks me defiantly in the eyes.

I had a sneaking feeling that Petty had his marching orders and would have some form of fire going at the time of the dismembering. I was jerked back from my mussing by the humans being brought in. The black plague was in full swing. Humans were dropping like flies. It was uncommon to see so many in one place they tended to keep to small family groups.

"Welcome my friends" Aro is all smiles as they file in. "So nice of you to join us." He has that shit eating grin on his face.

Kat and Lil are growling I have always taken the view that humans were on the food chain and we the immortals are sitting on the top. "Everyone has to eat" I whisper to my daughters. Carman is looking away while Peter and EL watch with a detached look remembering there times having human blood.

"They were dead the moment Hidey found them Kat. Let it go." Peter slung his arm around her shoulders as he said this.

"Shit-head could have let them die with a little dignity, but no bring them in as a group and let them watch their family and friends die before it's there time." Kat stares at me, "You don't think this is playing with their food?"

The feeding starts with the three leaders and their mates. Humans are running around screaming. With a shake of my head I look right in her eyes. "Kat it's their territory, their herd. Who's to say we are right? Because we abstain and feed only from less intelligent life forms does that make it any better?"

She struggles with that concept "maybe not but at least we hunt them as every other predator in the world, we do not lead them like lambs to slaughter."

"Human's do it; they feel they have the right." EL looks at his sister, he was turned in his mid-twenties like his mate, and sometimes I think he has a more mature life view.

Kat's eyes never leave Aro looking for the slip she needs. I laugh "I think it's not so much this." I wave at the carnage "it's Aro." I had spoken loud enough for most to hear and the eating habits of some of the more robust eaters abruptly changed. Aro looked over at me and nodded his head.

Blood was dripping from his mouth "my friends let us finish and move on to the other festivities." He was aware of Kat and her growing dislike for him. Jane had become a close friend and Kat took it personally how Aro had chained her and her brother to his coven. He clapped his hands and music started he had changed the greatest singers and dancers of the time, his eternal troupe of players if you will, to keep him entertained for all time. Who was I to judge how too bestowed immortality. He used EL to find humans with slight gifts in the hope that changing them would strengthen them. Some like the twins were visible right away but most were not. I think that is why Aro ignored the warning I had sent him. EL was a prize he wishes to keep and hoped I would let it go.

Kat and Lil lightened up after all the humans had been removed. "I must say I do love the harpsichord and the plays." Lil smiled as she squeezed Kat's arm.

Kat cracked a smile for her sister and Peter never to let a chance slip by pipes up, "is that the sun rising or a smile on Kat's face we all know it only happens once a day."

Kat smacks him in the back of his head at her top speed and he stumbles forward, she had hit him as hard as she could. "ASS" she murmurs as he picks himself up off the floor with a shit eating grin.

"Come on you know you love me!" a crowd watched to see if "Petty" had finally gone too far.

Kat just laughed and grabbed him in a hug "You're my brother I will always love you."

As the night of festivities wore on I looked back at the talk I had wit Kat about Jane. Six years ago she came storming into our rooms demanding that I make Aro release Jane and her brother. "Dad they are his slaves doing as he says all the time and unable to even hate him for it."

It was about that time that our world leaned about immortal children. We found a coven that had changed a 10 year old she was the most precious, sweetest thing any of us had seen. All the woman in both of our covens wanted to make one, until we saw they had no will power. If they wanted something they took it, unless an adult was standing right there. Whole villages destroyed, everyone killed, and not for blood but because the little one wanted to play. Lil and Kat looked on in horror after seeing one hour unsupervised, a slip by her coven. Aro took the child and the coven was ready to fight to the last to stop him till he told them he would destroy them all, and the child. Would it not be better for him to study the child and see if like the twins she could be taught? He ended up agreeing to one of their coven accompanying him back home.

We watched her for four years Kat and Lil worked with Aro's coven we all wanted it to work, for some breakthrough, a glimmer of understanding, that they must show some restraint. In the end even Kat agreed it was not going to happen. Jane and Alaric were turned at 13 Aro was almost too late to save them from the flames. He had been watching them and was going to change them at 18 the perfect age as far as he was concerned. All though Aro has set the age at under 13 years to be an immortal child everyone knew Jane and Alaric were borderline.

I remember looking at Kat, "they need to be kept on a short leash. You have problems resisting your inner demon at times and you were turned at 15. I'm not saying that the twins will never not need a strong hand but it could take 1000 or 2000 years or more. All we can do is wait and see."

Kat was not happy with that, "Can you at least tell Aro to lighten up they should not be treated like slaves and have to act like they love it!"

I nod my head "I will speak with him, but Kat, I will not ever take them into my coven. Aro changed them knowing how much more work younger coven members are. I would end them, if you feel living under his rule is too much, but that is the best I can do." I remember think that without Chelsey's gift the twins would most likely have to be destroyed.

My talk with Aro was to put it mildly heated. "There eyes are not golden eyed, you have no claim, my venom runs in there bodies. What I do in my coven is my business."

"Maybe not, but I will end them mercifully rather than see them suffer for your amusement." I stared him right in the eye he knew I did not make idol threats.

Aro throws up his one arm "FINE" hatting every moment of this conversation.

Softening my eyes, "treat them like beloved children, of your own body. I will never interfere with them again." His stand softened, he was truly fond of them. His mate had taken a patricianly liking to them almost babying them at times.

I come back to myself and see Aro and his mate enjoying the music, Jane and Alaric bunched together like a family. Kat watching her friend making sure she is happy. That may be the one thing that stops her from ending Aro one day, Jane's growing love for him.

After our talk Aro moved the two into his home anyone could see the new bonds growing tighter you did not need Markus to tell them. The other masters also took young ones into their home after see Aro's success. Markus and his mate took in Demetri only 16 and to the shock of everyone she opened up and spoke with him. Cassias and his mate took in a 16 year old girl named Seraphim, as like her name she was a great beauty. Some thought it was for other reasons, she never said and no one asked. I looked at my family. I hope others saw how close we were, that like Aro's it shined through.

my eyes were drawn back to the stage my wool gathering done a quartet singing in Latin.

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