Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.
Authors note: If anything about the story so far confuses you don't be afraid to ask for clarification.
Looking back Bella shouldn't have agreed. The choice had been entirely hers no one was forcing anything on her.
Yet the person offering her was so smart that when they approached Bella she couldn't refuse.
Bella couldn't even imagine refusing when the ghost of the late Archibald Remington Stanford Crank Netted Forming Worth Hellcat came to her and made his offer. His charm hadn't deserted him since his death late in the year 1331. Archibald had been and still was a very cautious man. Not cautious enough. In his lifetime he had attracted the attention of a strange group of people that called themselves the Volturi.
At first Archibald was charmed by a small beautiful woman, Archibald introduced himself and got a laugh out of his object of interest. The woman then revealed her name to be Jane. Jane what a lovely name, Archibald had thought upon learning it.
A man who apparently was Jane's boss then walked up to Archibald asking if he could take his hands. Archibald wasn't above friendly skin contact; he came from somewhat of a perverted family. Aro as he had introduced himself as then told Archibald that he didn't need to be afraid. Archibald didn't realize he looked afraid so he told Aro he wasn't afraid and a friendly handshake was more than welcome.
Aro had laughed at that and had told Archibald that what he wanted to do wasn't handshaking. Back in the medieval times in which Archibald lived his life people were a lot simpler. Aro was simply making things easier for Archibald by explaining exactly what was going to happen. It turned out Archibald was a simple man and once it was explained to him in detail he went right along with it.
Aro discovered that if Archibald was to turn into a vampire Archibald would be infinitely more powerful than Aro could hope to be. Aro also discovered that Archibald despised authority and since Aro had already established himself as the foremost justice bringer among the vampires Archibald would most likely despise him. In fact at that very moment when Aro delved into Archibald's mind he knocked some memories loose. This caused Archibald to hate Aro.
Unfortunately for Archibald Aro discovered his hatred the moment it flared up and Archibald found himself on the floor experiencing the most exquisite pain. Archibald being consumed with pain heard Aro's voice congratulating Jane once again on perfect display of her rare and difficult to maintain gift. Vampires with gifts, Archibald had thought. The pain was never too great that Archibald never lost control of his thoughts Archibald had always been a man of great thought.
If Aro or Jane would have spared Archibald's life the man might have gone on to be the most influential philosopher of the 1300s and numbered among the greatest of all time. But no alas Archibald was killed shortly thereafter upon meeting Aro and Jane. The experience of dying if he had lived through it would have given Archibald more than enough thought matter to become the greatest philosopher to ever walk the earth.
His ghost had lingered however and had haunted the halls of the Volturi capitol for hundreds of years afterwards. It was late in the year 1997 by the time Archibald realized that the vampires he was haunting couldn't recognize him at all. So Archibald decided to move on to some place else to find someone else to haunt. It was a day in the middle of December when Archibald finally found what he was looking for.
Only born a day previous the baby was asleep on her mother's bosom dreaming peacefully. Until Archibald drifted in the room Bella slept once the ghost manifested itself Bella mewed herself awake. If Archibald hadn't been hell bent on revenge he would have thought the sight of Bella waking up as a baby quite cute. Archibald had looked in Bella's soft brown eyes trying to calm the visibly agitated infant. Silently communicating with the baby Archibald pulled out a very beautiful black rose and a wilting white rose.
He pointed to Bella and held out the strong beautiful black rose. Bella nodded and the deal was sealed. Forevermore Bella would be cursed with the knowledge implanted very early into her mind that she was a black rose among a never-ending ocean of white roses.
The simple trick and mind spell was all Archibald needed to exact his revenge on Aro. The long dead philosopher knew the still alive ancient vampire was a black rose and he surrounded himself with 4 more black roses beside himself. The Volturi or the company of black roses as Archibald called them Aro, Marcus, Caius, Jane, and Alec. eventually Bella would pull herself to Aro and beg him go make her a vampire.