My mouth fell open. NOT HIM! I wanted to scream. Was Aro CRAZY?

Evidently Caius felt the same. "You cannot be serious." He whispered, yet the words were just a deadly as if he had his teeth at Aro's throat.

"Do you not agree Marcus, my brother?" asked Aro, turning to Marcus and ignoring the raging figure of Caius.

Marcus had to drag his attention away from the thin air, and focused on Aro. I thought I saw a flash of amusement in his dead face. Then it vanished so quickly I was sure it was never there. "Hmmm? Yes of course Aro." I wondered whether he even knew what he was agreeing to.

"Then it is settled!" Aro cried clapping his hands together in satisfaction. "Caius will be Bella's escort and guard during her stay here! Run along now!"

Caius looked furious. Snarls were erupting from his chest, and he looked like Jacob, just when he was about to phase, only a thousand times worse. "I will not spend the next few months attending to this human." He spat venomously. He said several other things so quickly I couldn't hear them, and I was rather glad I couldn't. I was just praying that Caius could convince Aro to CHANGE HIS MIND. Caius hated me… I was afraid of him…. Two very good reasons why not to have him with me.

Aro replied and I caught three words. "You owe me."

"Fine!" snarled Caius and sprang at me.

I was vaguely aware of moving, and the wind from the speed of his movement, and then I blinked. I was inside my rented room again. Only this time there was a vampire trembling with rage inches from me. I shook my head, dizzy. Caius was even faster than Edward if possible.

I fell backwards, reeling, sitting on the edge of the bed while Caius stalked around the room breathing heavily. He was tall, around a head taller than me, and in his rage he seemed to be even taller. I just sat there meekly while he paced even though I was tired and jetlagged, it'd be rude to pass out. He'd probably rip my head off for the unintended insult. But his endless pacing made me feel even dizzier, and his yells seemed to come from further and further away until finally, the blackness claimed me.

~~~(O.o)~~~

Caius

The human passed out. Humans were such a weak inferior species. Did Aro really believe that I was going to be her guard for the next goodness-knows-how-long next few months? Especially this female, she was more trouble than she was worth, and if Aro was not so fascinated by her gift and afraid of offending Carlisle, I would have snapped her neck the moment we entered the room. As it was…. WHY ME? Did he delight in making my life a misery? I knew he did. Why? I never asked any favors of Aro, merely to be left alone. Surely that wasn't too much?

And now- I was stuck guarding a human girl just because Aro had said three words. You owe me. I did owe him, but still it made me no less content with the situation.

Now the girl was sprawled across the bed in an ungainly fashion.

Argh!

I threw myself into one of the three chairs scattered across the room. Aro even expected me to remain here with her while she slept? I scowled furiously, losing myself in my sadistic thoughts. My head jerked up, realizing Aro and Marcus had entered the room. I glowered at them both.

"Still sulking dear brother?" Aro asked me, before blurring to the human's side. "What did you do to her?" he exclaimed, examining her.

I rolled my eyes at him. "She fainted. I do not know why."

Marcus glanced at me with something that looked marginally close to interest. I glared back at him. Let him read my hate for the human. It made no difference.

"Why do you not just kill her?" I asked Aro, who was now straightening out the human's body on the bed. A pointless gesture and also somewhat lacking the compassion that usually was accompanied by such a motion. But then my heart had been dead for several centuries. I wouldn't know.

Aro finished his ministrations on her and turned to me. "You know why brother. As it is, she is quite attractive is she not?"

My eyes widened. Honestly? "You are married brother. You love Sculpia." Love. I did not know what love meant.

Aro raised his eyes at me. "You say that I am married brother? Truly you do not know yourself." What was that meant to mean? "Now I expect you to be with her at all times. If she wishes to go somewhere you must accompany her. Do not leave her side at any time." Aro ordered me.

I growled at him. "Brother, all this effort for one insignificant human?"

Aro fixed me with a penetrating stare. "She will be useful to us in the future. I expect for you to not harm her in any way. Have fun!" The last few words were spoken accompanied by his usual psychotic grin.

Marcus followed him silently.

I drew back an arm to punch the wall, and then decided against it. The noise might wake the human and then she would be chattering nonstop and most likely crying over her beloved Cullen boy. It repulsed me to think of one of our kind consorting with a human.

I plucked a book from the bookcase beside me, having nothing better to do. After a while- around seven hours later, I judged by the clock on the wall, the human began muttering meaningless words, strung together improperly. "Greek gods…. Hot… Charlie…. just a stupid…. moron…. Jane… no…. Caius…"

I raised my eyes from the book, which in truth I had not really been reading, and frowned at her. Was she dreaming about me? It was a discomforting notion.

"DAMN VAMPIRES!" she screamed, her eyes flying open, and she bolted upright. Her eyes immediately fixed on me. "It's rude to watch people while they sleep." She stated in clipped tones. Yes. She definitely annoyed me.

I did not grace her with an answer. She had sooner learn that I was superior to her, and that I did not have time to speak to mere humans. Although what intrigued me is that she no longer seemed as afraid of me as she had been before. That was something I had to work on. I stared at her coldly.

After a minute or so she tore her gaze away, and grabbed her bag, stomping over to the bathroom door. Was it really necessary to make so much noise while walking? "What are you doing?" I called out; making sure that my tone was just as hostile.

She turned and shot me a withering look. "I'm going to the bathroom. Then I'm going to have a shower. I feel disgusting." She slammed the door. I heard the lock click into place.

Apparently she had more nerve than I gave her credit for. Although it meant that she annoyed me even more. I could hear the shower being turned on, and the creak of the glass door. The smell of artificial scents came wafting over to me, orange and lemon. Ugh. Mass manufactured products.

A few more minutes passed and the water was turned off. I could hear the door opening and the sound of rummaging in her bag. The door to the bath room cracked open and her head, water still shining in her hair, peered out. "Could you leave for a minute?" She asked. Perhaps she meant it to sound polite, but it merely sounded demanding. I did not reply.

"Could you leave for a minute, please?" she asked again. I wanted to laugh. Odd. I hadn't even given a genuine smile for over two centuries and now I wanted to laugh?

"Fine, could you just turn around?" I made no move to do so.

"Ok, then, just have it your way." The door closed, and then a second later, opened again, the girl stepping out wrapped only in a towel. She edged over to the closet and opened one of the doors. I assumed Heidi had stocked the closet before. Much as she hated the human, she loved clothes more. The human did not look pleased. "You cannot be serious!" I heard her mutter as she yanked the other door open. The whole closet was filled with dresses of all shapes and sizes and dimensions. "Freaking stupid feminist vampires." The girl swore. Odd. I though women loved dresses.

"Fine." She grabbed one of the plainest black dresses and then rummaged around at the side of the closet. I heard her breathing stop. Withdrawing from the closet, she was holding a see through lacy thong. Her eyes slid in my direction.

I quickly adverted my gaze back to the book. Why should I care what she thought?

Keeping my gaze lowered I heard her sigh several more times before returning to the bathroom. There was silence for several seconds then the sound of fabric tearing and shredding. My eyes narrowed. What was she doing?

Silence again. Then the door opened and I laughed. I could not help it.

Isabella was wearing her previous leggings but her shirt was made of the ragged top half of the dress she had selected. She shot me an appraising glance then settled down on the bed looking at the clock. It was eleven pm. That did not overly concern me, but the human looked worried. She glanced at me again.

"Um, could you leave?"

"No. But why?" I surprised myself by answering.

"I don't like people watching me while I sleep, except Edward."

I was disgusted by her mentioning of the Cullen. "No." I maintained.

"You are a stubborn vampire."

I simply smirked, glad I angered the girl by simply existing. Her brown eyes narrowed in aggravation and went to the closet and dragged out all the dresses and… undergarments, and threw them in a pile on a chair, and then she pulled a blanket and a pillow from the bed and stuffed them into the closet. Then she climbed in. "Goodnight." She said frostily, obviously still angered from before.

When she had pulled the doors closed I smiled for the first time in a long while. Goodnight indeed.

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