Sorry the update is late. There is a little bit of Kol in here but mostly twilight characters. Keep up the reviews and if you haven't noticed I try to update on Saturdays and Sundays. Thanks again and enjoy :)
"Alice?" I asked truly and utterly surprised.
"You're alive?" She asked amazed.
"Of course I'm alive, why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know Edward thinks you're dead, he's going to the Volturi, he wants to die too."
"I swear to god I'm going to kill him before they get the chance. Come inside I'll go change, you call the airport or we'll just hijack Nik's plane," I said walking inside leading her to the dining room. "Alice, people, people, Alice, Elijah come with me for a moment." I took off toward my room before anyone could put in another word. Thankfully Elijah met me in my room and knocked on my closet door.
"Elijah I'll be back soon. I have to take a quick trip to Italy." I walked out of my closet in skinny jeans, black boots, a white blouse and a cute black lace blazer. I went to the desk in the corner of my room and scribbled a quick note to Kol, Rebekah and Finn folded it up and handed it to Elijah. "Give this to them and wait a few days before you leave." I moved to my bedroom door stopping to make sure I had a few matches and the white oak stake. I grabbed the door handle and hesitated. "Did you mean that, at dinner?" I turned and looked at him. He looked at me and took three long strides over to where I stood at the door.
"Yes, I haven't truly loved anyone since you." I bit my lip fighting my urge to close the distance and kiss him. Eventually I took a step towards him and put my hand on his cheek so he was looking into my eyes.
"I am not going to let history repeat itself, one of us will end up hurting each other. Or I'll hurt you or Nik. I won't do this again." Then I turned and left him standing in my room fighting the urge to turn back and tell him what a fool I've been like some movie. But we aren't in the movies, no one does that. I walk into the dining room and see Alice staring at Nik as he tears into one of his waitresses. "See you Nik, come on Alice. Good luck surviving tonight you two," I said grabbing Alice's wrist and leading her out of the house and sliding into the passenger seat of Alice's car.
After giving her directions to Nik's landing strip I compelled the pilots to take us to Voltaire pronto and sat back for fifteen minutes before they took off. I asked for a bottle of wine to be brought out and poured myself a glass of red wine. Finding it surprisingly sweet I looked at it puzzled. Then I concluded that Nik laced the bottle with blood. I drained the glass quickly and poured another. Drinking this one slower and watching Alice out of the corner of my eye.
"So what's up with Edward will we be able to save him?" I asked after we were in the air for a while.
"To soon to say, I'll know in the morning. He is going to make a plea to Aro. If they kill him then we won't make it. If they don't and Aro decides as he would say 'a waste of his gift' then we should be able to."
"What will he do if they don't kill him then?"
"He'll make a scene, through a truck through a wall or something." I nodded and sipped my wine. What if he died? What happens if I can't save him? I put my thoughts about Edward to rest and thought about what was going on back at Mystic Falls. I looked at my watch. It was already 10:00. I asked for a blanket and fell asleep on the leather couch across from where Alice was sitting.
I woke up around 1:00 to see Alice looking happier than she was when I went to sleep.
"What is it? Did they say no?"
"They said no and if Edward follows this train of thought then we will have just enough time."
"What is he thinking?"
"He is going to walk into the sunlight and expose himself," she said simply, "Now go back to sleep I'm going to keep watching Edward." I rolled my eyes knowing I could snap her in two before she could see the vision of it happening. I sighed and went back to sleep.
"Bella we're landing in five minutes," Alice said shaking my shoulders and waking me up.
I poured myself a glass of wine from the bottle I opened last night and perked up as I drained it and the rest of the bottle as we landed. I stood up and turned my cell phone on and saw all of the messages from Nik, and Elijah. I shrugged when I didn't see one from Kol. He probably didn't get the whole cell phone thing yet. I walked down the stairs after telling the pilots to prepare for a trip back to Mystic Falls soon. The sun was glaring down at us obviously making Alice uncomfortable seeing as she tried to stick to the shadows and pulled a scarf on sparkling whenever a stray ray hit her face.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom quickly you get a car." I said as we walked into the airport. I walked into the restroom and tried to make myself not look terrible then I stole a bag of chips from one of the stores and headed outside the front of the airport to find Alice sitting in the driver's seat of a bright yellow Porsche. "Couldn't go with anything less conspicuous?" Sliding in and ignoring the fact that it was more than likely stolen.
"I like this car." She said ending the conversation. She drove quickly on the winding roads. Then Voltaire was in view, a beautiful city with ancient buildings and breathtaking town squares nothing I wasn't used to. I checked my phone fifteen minutes until noon and we weren't even in the city yet.
"Alice hurry up," She speed up and skidded to a stop at the city gates she slipped the person manning the gates a good amount of money and sped through the streets flashes of red cloaks at street corners.
"It's Saint Marcus day, he will never get out of here if he goes through with this." We came to a road block filled with pedestrians dressed head to toe in red. She beeped and they slowly cleared a path bringing us to a police set up.
"Can't go this way Miss." An officer said stepping up to the car.
"Bella go, he can't read your thoughts you have two minutes, he'll be under the clock tower," I nodded and took off running fast enough so that no one could see me and if they did I didn't really care. Then I was standing in a fountain I looked up again and saw Edward take a step out of a doorway under the clock tower. I ran and pushed him back into the building. I turned around and closed the door then tapped my foot waiting for him to come back.
"Hello Edward. How are you doing? You know depression can often lead to suicide if you aren't careful. The key to stopping depression is action," I said sarcastically once he was standing back in front of me.
"You're alive?" He asked amazed. Then he tensed before I could say something snappy back to him and turned around in a defensive crouch in front of me. I rolled my eyes and noticed two figure step out from the shadows down the hall.
"Turns out I won't be needing your services after all gentleman." Edward said lightly. They stepped into the light and I recognized Demetri and Felix from the last tie I was here.
"Hey Felix what up buddy long time no see!" I said walking over and bro hugging the big vampire.
"Aro still wants to talk to you," Felix said a second later.
"Okay Bella why don't you go and enjoy the festival?" He said trying to get me out of there.
"No she comes with us," Demetri said.
"Over my dead body," Edward said dangerously. I huffed and put my hands on my hips. The door opened and I saw Alice stride in confidently.
"Come on boys this is a festival wouldn't want to start a scene," she said nodding to the door she left open.
"Enough," said a voice from down the hallway. I saw a petite vampire walk in and instantly Felix and Demetri looked more confident. I didn't recognize her though.
"Okay who are you?" I said after a moment of silence.
"Follow me Aro would like a word with all of you," she said ignoring my question. I rolled my eyes at Miss High and Mighty. When Edward took my hand and held it in his.
"Just listen to her," he said shortly, I shrugged and let him hold my hand, not having the heart to pull away. We jumped through a hole in the ground and went through a bunch of tunnels leading to an elevator. We filed into the elevator and listened to the weird elevator music play. We walked out of the elevator and filed into a beautiful hallway walking into a room I know they used as the feeding chamber.
"I've brought them to you master," said the petite blonde vampire.
"Sent out for one and returns with two and a half," said a vampire with shaggy black hair. I laughed and turned to Aro, Caius, Marcus.
"Long time no see Aro, Caius, looking bored as ever Marcus," I said. "Aro your new recruits aren't too bright I see?"
"Ah Bella! It's been years." he said ecstatic. "How are my dear friends the Mikealson's?"
"Not too bad, dealing with some family turmoil I'd imagine."
"When are they not?" He said shaking his head faking sadness.
"Do you mind if I give a little lesson to your new recruits?" I asked raising an eyebrow. Felix and Demetri instantly perked up knowing what lesson they already learned.
"Not at all," he said absently, "I'll talk to Edward and Alice over here, they are quite useful though please don't break them." I turned to the blonde and the dark haired hot one that called me a half. I pulled out a small pocket knife I always carried with me and slowly cut my neck deeply, letting the blood drip to the floor. Then I moved my hair back so they could see it heal and so that my hair was out of the way. Then I disappeared from their view faster than they could ever move. I appeared behind them and swung at their heads with enough power to break them but not send them flying off their bodies.
"Lesson number one, don't mess with me, because I will tear you apart."I pull the blonde to her feet and look at her. Moving my head and trying to come up with a reason as to why she's so important to Aro. "Lesson number two, you gifts don"t work on me." I said as I tossed her into a waiting Felix. He caught her after stumbling backwards and I turned to the other. "Third, insult me again and you won't be as lucky as today," I said ripping off the guys head and letting it bounce a few times on the floor. Satisfied I crossed my arms and walked back over to Edward, Alice and Aro. They were arguing about who knows what so I rolled my eyes.
"Aro, not to be rude but you can't kill him because he saved my life and I owe him. Of course you can kill him, you just have to go through me, and I can't die. So let's cut this meeting short because it is almost 1:00 and we know what happens then. I can't believe I missed seeing Kol for this." I said with a sweet smile that would've tricked anyone into thinking I've never killed anyone.
"Yes, yes of course." He was going to say more but was interrupted by my exploding cell. I held up a finger and walked to the side of the room and answered Nik's call since I ignored all of the others.
"What Nik!" I nearly screamed.
"Actually it's me and Bekah. I stole Nik's phone." I smiled hearing Kol's voice. "Look you need to get back here mother is making us get dates to the ball and I'd love to take this beautiful girl I saw 600 years ago but she's in Italy," I sigh knowing how much I've missed him.
"I will call you back in a few," I said quickly hanging up on him and walking back over to Aro, Edward and Alice. "As you were saying?"
"Please leave at night so you don't attract unwanted attention."
"I actually need to leave now," I cut in.
"Do what you must but you two I insist." He said pointedly to Alice and Edward.
"Goodbye Friends," he said happily I shook his hand and turned to leave but was stopped by hot vamp.
"Let me show you the way out," he said politely. I rolled my eyes about to decline but was stopped by a puppy dog look that only looked weird because of a pair of breathtaking red eyes.
"I could use a car," I said giving in. He smiled and showed me the way out. "See ya people." I followed him to a small garage and saw a black Ferrari. I opened the door and shook my head at the fact that I didn't have to break in. I hot wired the car and pulled out of the parking space. I stopped besides the vamp and rolled my window down. "Thanks..."
"Alec," he filled in. I nodded and wove my way out of the garage and out of Voltaire. On the plane as I waited for the pilots to get their acts together and the plane off the ground I dialed up Nik's number and hoped Kol would answer.