Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, but I do own the OC's and copies of New Moon and Eclipse movies.
Most of the Volturi look like they do in the movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon". Demetri looks like he does in Eclipse and Marcus and Caius look like they do in Breaking Dawn part 1.
Chapter 2 ~ Johnna's History
Johnna was extremely nervous and a bit excited as she followed Carlisle and Esme to their house. Carlisle seemed to notice this and pulled her closer to him. "It's going to work out, my dear." He told her gently. Johnna sighed and looked up at her old friend and mentor and her blue eyes widened. "But what eef ze rest of your family doesn't like me?" "I'm sure Emmett and Alice already like you, my dear." Esme told her. Johnna froze when they reached the house. Carlisle and Esme stopped as well. "Is something wrong, Johnna?" Carlisle asked. Johnna stared at the house for a few seconds, and then spoke. "Eet es 'uge!" Then remembering her manners, she said. "Eet es magnificently beautiful 'ouse, Esme." Esme smiled warmly at Johnna and then entered the house. Carlisle and Johnna followed her inside.
Jasper and Alice were sitting on one of the loveseats, while Rosalie and Emmett were on the other. Edward was sitting on one end of the white couch and while Esme sat down on the other end. Carlisle chose to stand with Johnna in front of the huge plasma T.V. Carlisle cleared his throat and looked down at Johnna. "Johnna, why don't you start by telling my family about yourself? Then I'll take over the narration, when it gets to the unpleasant parts." Johnna nodded, thought a moment, and then began cheerfully.
"Mon nom est Johnna Jacqueline Pierre. Je suis physiquement quatorze ans, mais je suis vraiment un vampire de deux cent soixante-dix ans. Je suis né dans le petit village de Château-Thierry, dans la région française de Picardie en 1721. Mon père était un charpentier vraiment bon. Mon frère, Mathieu, David, avait sept ans, quand je suis né. Quand il avait seize ans et j'ai été neuf ans, il est devenu apprenti chez mon père. Ma mère m'a appris à être une bonne épouse et de ménagère. Mathieu s'est marié à Élise Cécile Abney, alors qu'il était apprenti. J'ai rencontré et est devenu de bons amis avec Carlisle quand j'avais dix. J'ai rencontré l'amour de ma vie, Jacques Beaufort, quand j'avais onze ans. Nous courtisés et étaient censés se marier quand il avait dix-huit et j'ai été dix-sept. À l'époque j'avais treize ans, Mathieu et Élise a eu une fille, Isabel Michèle, qui était ma filleule, et un jeune fils, Michel René. Jacques a disparu, un couple de jours avant mon quatorzième anniversaire et je suis devenu ... un zombie. J'ai été mariée à Grégoire, à l'âge de quatorze ans. Il semblait agréable première."
All of the Cullens, except Carlisle of course, were looking back at her open mouthed. Johnna smiled slightly amused. Carlisle chuckled once at his family reaction to Johnna speaking her native language.
"Johnna, my dear, I think it would be wise to repeat what you just said in English. I'm the only one in this family, who speaks French."
Johnna looked curiously at Carlisle, and then sighed dramatically as she shook her head. "In Eenglish; my name is Johnna Jacqueline Pierre. I am physically fourteen years old, but I am really a vampire of two hundred seventy years. I was born in the small village of Château - Thierry, in the French region of Picardy in 1721. My father was a really good carpenter. My brother, Mathieu David, was seven years old, when I was born. When he was sixteen and I was nine, he became apprenticed to my father. My mother taught me how to be a good wife and housekeeper. Mathieu got married to Élise Cécile Abney while he was apprenticed. I met and became good friends with Carlisle when I was ten. I met the love of my life, Jacque Beaufort, when I was eleven. We courted and were supposed to get married when he was eighteen and I was seventeen. By the time I was thirteen, Mathieu and Élise had a daughter, Isabel Michèle, who was my goddaughter, and a young son, Michel René. Jacque disappeared, a couple of days before my fourteenth birthday and I became...a zombie. I was married to Grégoire at the age of fourteen. He seemed pleasant first." Johnna thought she did a good job not letting her accent slip out. She shuddered at the memory of her husband. Johnna and Carlisle exchanged a look and Carlisle continued from where Johnna left off.
"Grégoire played the perfect husband when they were out in public, but when they were alone, he was abusive. Johnna went missing a month later." Carlisle stopped there, as Johnna had started dry sobbing. He bent down and whispered something into her ear; it was low enough that no one else heard what was said. Johnna moved from in front of the T.V. and joined Esme and Edward on the couch. Esme wrapped her arms around Johnna, and started to comfort her. Everyone was startled when Edward suddenly growled after hearing Carlisle's thoughts.
"What is it, Edward?" Esme asked worriedly, as she looked over at him. Edward just shook his head and frowned. Carlisle took a deep breath then continued speaking, "I was hunting a ways away from Château-Thierry, when I heard someone screaming. Naturally, I ran towards the sound, only to find Johnna on the ground screaming. She looked like she had been a vampire, for a few days already. There was a vampire on top of her, was biting her for pleasure or discipline, I don't know which." Carlisle had said this last part with disdain, a look of absolute loathing crossed his face for a moment, but then it became extremely sad again. Johnna knowing what part was coming up curled up closer to Esme.
"Jasper, will you please try to calm her down." Carlisle calmly asked. Jasper shook his head sadly. "I've been trying, but I can't reach her. Its like she isn't there." Carlisle nodded and just as he was going to continue, Alice spoke. "We should give her a chance to calm down, before you continue, Carlisle. Maybe we can get her settled into her room."
Carlisle just shook his head. "Alice, it won't help us or Johnna. If I don't tell you now, then no one but Edward, Johnna and I, will know what happened. As much as she would deny it, you all do need to know this. Her brother, Mathieu was huge part of her life, and one of the only people besides myself, who what Grégoire was really like." Alice looked sadly at Johnna. Carlisle continued on from where he had left off. "Unfortunately, I was not the only who heard Johnna screaming. It seems her brother, Mathieu, had been looking for her." A low moan erupted from Johnna, interrupted Carlisle. Her tiny body began to shake. Jasper moved from the loveseat he was sharing with Alice, over to the couch in a vain attempt to calm Johnna down.
Carlisle closed his eyes and continued. "The other vampire didn't catch Mathieu's scent until he had entered the area where we were. He noticed I was there, and made a quick little nod. I took this gesture to mean that he knew that I was trying to save Johnna as well. The other vampire pounced on him then and there. While the vampire was busy, I got over to Johnna and carried her farther north to another small French town." Carlisle took a deep unneeded breath and then moved to the couch. He bent down to Johnna's level and gently spoke directly to her. "I know your dealing with immensely distressing memories, but could you please lift your shield Johnna, so Jasper can help you calm down?" Johnna's agreeable little nod was so fast and minute that a human would not have been able to see it, but the Cullens did. Johnna put her shield around Jasper and opened her eyes at the same time. She saw Jasper sitting in front of her instead of Carlisle. Johnna was surprised to see all of his scars and felt an urge to touch them. She included everyone on her shield for a second and felt that Carlisle was behind her, and drew back her shield back to just her and Jasper. "Carlisle, je veux toucher ses cicatrices. Je ne veux pas qu'il pense que j'ai peur de ses cicatrices." Johnna spoke in fluent French. Carlisle chuckled knowing that she spoke in her native tongue, because she didn't want everyone else to know what she had asked him.
"My dear Johnna, you'll have to ask him, if you can. It's his business, not mine."
Johnna grimaced, then stammered "Jasper, would eet be alright….. I mean would you mind eef I touched your scars?" Jasper was a bit shocked at her request, but nodded. Johnna's light, nimble fingers traced the scars over his left eye, and then they went down to his neck. She noticed that they didn't stop at his neck, but probably went all the way down his arms. She pulled her shirt off each shoulder in turn and showed them all, but mostly Jasper, the scars that Vincent had given her.
"Carlisle, would you go with Johnna to get her belongs from whenever she's living, while the rest of us get her room ready?" Alice asked, bubbling over with excitement and as she spoke she rushed up the stairs at vampire speed to the empty guest bedroom. Carlisle nodded and went towards the door, when he heard Johnna making a noise. He looked back at her expectedly. Johnna was still sitting on the couch with Jasper and Edward. Esme had followed Alice to the guest bedroom.
"You'll going to have to use your voice, ma petite chérie. They do not understand all of the different sounds you make, like I do." he smiled. Johnna mumbled "Well zeir going to 'ave to learn, as I make lots sounds. Eets 'ow I communicate along with my French accented English." Then she turned to Jasper and asked out loud "Would you like to join us Jasper?" Jasper looked from her to Carlisle and back again.
"She's accepted the fact that since I trust you, that you pose no threat to her." Carlisle said matter-of-factly, as if this was obvious. The others just looked at him, but Johnna made a derisive noise and commented, "You'll all get used to eet as Carlisle and I 'ave known each ozer for at least two centuries. 'E understands me as well as my own family did." She smiled proudly at Carlisle as she danced her way to him at the door. Jasper joined them and they set off into the woods.
Once they were deep in the forest surrounding Forks, Carlisle began to question Johnna about what happened after he left. "So where did you go after the French Revolution, mon ami?" Jasper perked up a bit at this. "You were in Paris during the French Revolution?" Johnna smiled sadly at him.
"I was and so was Carlisle. After my newborn year, Carlisle and I traveled all over France before settling en ze poorer section of Paris and only coming out at night or when eet was cloudy. I was ashamed of being French at zat time, as I was a good, honest Frenchwoman 'o loved 'er king and queen. After ze end of ze 18th century, Carlisle left to study medicine. I 'ad begun ballet training, and didn't feel comfortable with leaving my native land. I did Ballet d'action, which envolves expression of character and emotion zrough dancers' bodies and faces, razer zan zrough elaborate costumes and props. It was during the July revolution, that I met my good friend, Aurélie, 'o es also a vampire. She can make people believe what she wants zem to believe. When ze Great War or World War I started, I sang for ze French troops and for ozer soldiers' zat were en France. I was known as France's Leetle Fairy and sang all over Paris and all of ze surrounding towns and cities."
"We were attacked by Vincent around 1938. Both Aurélie and I sustained enjuries, neezer of us was killed. Zen I traveled to Volterra to request 'elp from ze Volturi and zey agreed. World War II started a year later, while I was learning 'ow to fight. I was and still am good friends with Aro, because I like 'es bubbly personality and 'unger for knowledge. I am really good friends with Marcus, Chelsea, 'er mate, Afton, Renata, Demetri and Santiago. Jane and Alec 'ated me because zeir powers didn't work on me. "
"What about the others?" Jasper asked curiously.
"Caius was and es too bloodzirsty, Felix es creepy and I don't like ze way 'e looks at me. As for 'eidi and Corin, I didn't see zem much but whenever I did, we 'ad eenteresting conversations. I lived with zem for eight years. En 1949, I left Volterra and went to visit my 'ometown for ze first time since my change. I was surprised at 'ow much et 'ad changed. Zen en 1950, I went to ze French region of Aquitaine. I lived and worked on a horse ranch with my new friend and co-founder of Extraordinary Steeds, Damia, a French native and vampire, like me. She es younger zan me en vampire years, being only 260, but older en 'uman years, as she es about 20. A male French vampire named Pierre joined us a couple months later. Ze zree of us got along quite nicely. 'E es 19 en 'uman years, but was actually 89 years old at the time. 'e 'elped Damia en ze 'ouse, and I worked en ze stables with ze 'orses. We got guests of 'umans and vampires, but never both at ze same time of course. Ze last to join our leetle group was Clémence Marie 'o es 16 en 'uman years, but actually was 93 at the time. She joined our group zree years after Pierre. She es one of my best friends. I paid ze Volturi another visit en 1997 and stayed with zem till 2000. En 2001, I came to ze States and started wandering around trying to find you and your family. I met Charlotte and Peter, two years later. I became good friends with Charlotte, despite our defferent tastes. Zees es when I learned about your charming new family, Carlisle. Zey also told me to look 'ere en Forks, Washington for your family, Carlisle. Finally, two years and a couple days later I met you all en ze tiny clearing."
They had now reached a tiny break in the woods and nestled right up against the opposite woods, was a medium sized white cottage. It had a red door underneath a porch supported by two columns. The steps were made out of bricks and the bases of the columns were made out of rocks. There were lots of windows in sets of three and above the porch was a set of four small windows. Each set of windows had a flower box full of flowers. . There were flowers along the walkway. Near the garage was a flagpole with an American flag and a French flag below it. Jasper gasped when he saw what car was in the driveway. "Johnna, is that a midnight blue Bugatti Veyron in your driveway?" "Oui, il est, Jasper. I got eet en Italy recently." Carlisle looked at the house, and flagpole, while smiling, "It suits you perfectly, Johnna." Johnna just smiled her rare eye-twinkling smile.
"I just 'ave to step eenside for a moment to get my steamer trunk packed. Would you like to come eenside?" She asked. Carlisle and Jasper both nodded and followed her inside. The entrance hall was very simple. It had an antique mahogany stationary desk against one wall with an ornate golden mirror above it. Above them was a simple, yet elegant white chandelier. The whole room was a warm beige color. A few minutes later they heard Johnna coming downstairs. Over her shoulder was a small multi-colored Coach handbag. She was carrying an old flat topped steamer trunk made out of pine with a vampire proof lock. Johnna turned to Carlisle as she glided towards them. "Would you and Jasper like to drive back to ze 'ouse with me?' Carlisle looked over at Jasper, who nodded. "Thank you, Johnna, we would love to." Johnna smiled and ushered them out of her cottage. She joined them in the car, after locking up her cottage and putting her trunk in the trunk. Carlisle sat in the passenger's seat, while Jasper sat in back. They made it back to the Cullens' house rather slowly as to give Esme and Alice more time, but Carlisle could tell that Johnna loved to drive fast and was trying to prolong the inevitable.
They entered the house and found some of the family gathered in the living room. Carlisle and Jasper went to sit down and were soon joined by their mates. Johnna stood in front of the widescreen TV. "Johnna why don't you tell everyone what you told Jasper and I." Carlisle said calmly. Johnna made a questioning noise as she looked from Carlisle to Jasper, to Edward and then back to Carlisle. Carlisle sighed "Yes, Edward could pick out what you told us from Jasper's mind, but I think they would like it better if you told it."
Johnna sighed heavily and muttered something in French before speaking out loud.
"You are so lucky zat I love and respect you as much as I do Carlisle." Carlisle just chuckled at what she had muttered. Johnna proceeded to tell everyone what she had told Jasper and Carlisle. When she got to the part of going to the Volturi for help and opened her shield and flashed a smile at Edward. Johnna saw shock cross Edward's face after she did so.
Johnna's memory
Johnna followed the brown-haired Volturi guard into the throne room. She saw three male vampires sitting on three thrones on a platform near the back of the room and knew that they were the leaders of the Volturi and the entire vampire world. All three of them had dark crimson eyes that looked slightly clouded and milky. The two males on either side of the males in the middle had on black cloaks, while the middle vampire had on a black suit. He had sleek long jet black hair that went a little ways past his shoulders. The male to his right had shoulder-length white blonde hair, while the male on his left had the same long jet black hair of the man in the center. He had a vacant look on his face, that Johnna remembered having on her face when she heard that no one could find Jacques.
Behind these three were four other vampires with dark crimson eyes and dark gray cloaks. There was a long blonde haired female behind the man on the left and a set of twins, both of which were really short and had brown hair. The girl twin was between the man in the center and the man on the right. Her twin brother was on the other side of the man on the right. Behind the man in the center was a timid-looking brown haired female. All around the room were other cloaked vampires in lighter shades of gray. Johnna figured that color of the cloak determined how important the vampire was. The center male stood up from his throne and glided towards Johnna.
"Bonjour mon cher, je suis Aro et ce sont mes frères Caïus et Marcus." Aro told her gesturing to the man on the right and then the left. "Qui pourrait vous être?"
"Mon nom est Johnna Jacqueline Pierre." She told him.
"Alors vous avez la petite fille française que notre cher ami, Carlisle Cullen, nous a parlé." Aro exclaimed. Johnna would have blushed if she could when she heard that Carlisle had told the Volturi about her.
"Oui, Carlisle nous a dit que vous aviez le don de changement de forme." Whilst he was speaking, he gently clasped one of Johnna's tiny hands in one of his own. "Mon cadeau ne semble pas fonctionner sur vous, mon cher. Vous n'auriez pas d'avoir un deuxième don, vous?"
Johnna giggled at this; her intuition told her that his gift required skin to skin contact. "Avant que je vous raconte mon deuxième cadeau, s'il vous plaît me dire sur toi?" She asked politely.
Aro nodded. "Je vois chaque pensée, la mémoire, d'un homme ou vampire a jamais eu avec une seule touche."
"Wow zat es quite impressive." Johnna said and was glad that her shield automatically protected her mind. "Mon deuxième cadeau, c'est que j'ai un bouclier physique et mentale."
"That is interesting. Now what can we do for you my dear?" Aro asked after looking Johnna over for a moment.
"I would like you to get rid of a vampire for me. Ze vampire en question es my sire, a vampire named Vincent. He bit me constantly after my transformation was complete, which was about a century ago."
"You won't get pity, if that's what you're after." Caius sneered. Johnna spun on her heel quicker than it took to human to blink and spat at Caius. "I don't need or want your pity, Caius." The vampires around her growled, but she paid them no attention as she turned back to Aro's curious face. 'I don't want anyone's pity, much less his. I have gotten along just fine by myself, thank you ever so much.' Johnna thought irritably. This Caius rubbed her the wrong way, reminding her of Grégoire, and more recently of Jean-Philippe.
"As I was saying before your brozer rudely enterrupted, Zankfully, Carlisle saved me from Vincent. Zen just recently, Vincent attacked my friend, and I with a couple ozer vampires. I do not know or care why 'e did so." Johnna finished.
"We will help you with getting rid of your sire, because you are a good friend of Carlisle's, but may I ask why you and your friend did not get rid him yourselves?"
Johnna looked down at her tiny feet. "My friend and I do not 'ave any fighting skills." She said softly.
"Well then, you must stay here and learn how to fight my dear." Aro then summoned the brown haired vampire that had lead Johnna into the throne room. "Will you please tell Demetri here what your sire smelled like?"
Johnna nodded. "'e smelled a bit like a pine tree." Demetri nodded at her and Aro then left the room.
End of memory.
Johnna closed her mind and finished telling the second part of her history. "Zen I found all of you en ze small clearing en ze woods." She looked over at Edward who had a slightly shocked looked on his face. "Edward is something wrong?" Carlisle asked him. Edward just shook his head and Johnna smiled at him. Alice started bouncing up and down.
Translation:
"Carlisle, je veux toucher ses cicatrices. Je ne veux pas qu'il pense que j'ai peur de ses cicatrices." = "Carlisle, I want to touch the scars. I don't want him to think that I am afraid of his scars. "
Ma petite chérie = my little darling
"Bonjour mon cher, je suis Aro et ce sont mes frères Caïus et Marcus." = "Hello my dear, I am Aro and these are my brothers Caius and Marcus."
"Qui pourrait vous être?" = "Who would you be?"
"Alors vous avez la petite fille française que notre cher ami, Carlisle Cullen, nous a parlé." = "Ah so you are the little French girl that our dear friend, Carlisle Cullen, told us about."
"Oui, Carlisle nous a dit que vous aviez le don de changement de forme." = "Yes, Carlisle told us that you had the gift of shape shifting."
Mon cadeau ne semble pas fonctionner sur vous, mon cher. Vous n'auriez pas d'avoir un deuxième don, vous?"= "My gift does not seem to work on you, my dear. You would not happen to have a second gift, would you?"
"Avant que je vous raconte mon deuxième cadeau, s'il vous plaît me dire sur toi?" = "Before I tell you of my second gift, will tell me about yourself?"
"Je vois chaque pensée, la mémoire, d'un homme ou vampire a jamais eu avec une seule touche." = ""I see every thought, memory, a man or vampire has ever had with a single touch."
"Mon deuxième cadeau, c'est que j'ai un bouclier physique et mentale." = "My second gift is that I have a physical and mental shield."
* ~ * ~ * There's the 2nd chapter. This chapter was hard to write, and very long. I hoped you really liked Johnna's memory. Next chapter will be called "Bonding with Alice." Please review!