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Silence filled the whole room.

"Your so-… You're pregnant?" Edward rasped as he struggled against Felix's iron grip. "That's just-NOOO!"

While his sister responded with a more quiet, yet just as dramatic approach,

"Bella? W-WHY didn't you tell me?" she staged-whispered which got Aro's attention.

"-Why would you need to be told young Alice? Has Carlisle infamous animal blood diet that you seem to favor sabotaged your keen senses? You mean that all this time you have been with Isabella. You have not smelt the change in her blood? Or heard the tiny second heartbeat within her?"

He raised any eyebrow inquisitively at the pixie.

"Well I- ah…no" she confessed, "But… to be fair, I had mind on other things"

"THERE IS NOTHING FAIR ABOUT THIS!"
I couldn't resist hissing at her, "You're worse than Victoria."

That got her "Bella!"

"-We have witnessed enough of this ugly little argument of yours" a new voice spoke in a dull tone. King Marcus was standing on his feet.

"Brother" stated, Aro surprised to see his brethren out of the chair but the ancient continued.

"-It does not matter who started it. The second you showed up on our door step, you made it our business. So WE will finish it and our word IS law. Something your coven has forgotten."
Marcus stared the Cullens down. "Now then, we must deal with facts: Demetri- Please escort young Alice over to Isabella. Aro is right, we need to check her abilities to smell and hear."

The guard started to do as he was told but the pixie broke away. "This really isn't necessary, I can go over to Bella by myself. See-"

But Demetri got ahold of her as Aro replied.

"I'm afraid it is, during your short time with us. Both you and your brother have demonstrated that you do not know or have respect for anyone. Including personal boundaries." He tutted his tongue and slightly shook his head like a disappointed grandfather.

I stepped away as Alice and Demetri came closer but then Kayley patted my back saying

"It's gonna be okay Bella. You're not alone I'm right here. You trust me? " I paused, less then fifteen minutes ago she had just saved mine and my son's life. Perhaps she could do it again?

I nervously nodded and the girl smiled before turning to the guard "We're ready."

Turns out it only took 10 seconds of Alice being in my close proximity for her to listen and take a whiff of my baby and his heart before she sagged to her knees and hung her head in despair.

"This is all my fault" No one contradicted her as Demetri picked her up and supported her weight hauling her back to the same position as Edward.

"Now that we have got that settled!" the blond leader, Caius spat with vicious anger evident in his voice. "Given that you are pregnant human, how long after this pathetic excuse of a vampire left did you betray us?"

"I-I never-" I started to explain but the ice king cut me off with just a look.

Then Kayley stepped in, "Caius your honor, this isn't a normal case. Master Aro's power doesn't work. So certain curtesy might be afforded to her"

He steamed with frustration for a moment then grumbled.

"-You are lucky you are Alec's mate and that we are currently in your debt Witch, proceed"

"-Thank you"

She turned back to Aro who was smiling like the cat that swallowed the canary. He came forward and took her free hand. Holding it close with such tenderness. I almost thought he was going to kiss it.

"Kayley-I have missed you dear one and thank you brother, for mentioning what we owe to this brilliant girl. She has now saved four lives under our roof, including myself."
Then he let her hand go before abruptly clapped his hands together in a cheery manner.

"-Getting back to the matter of Isabella Swan. As Kayley already pointed out you are immune to my mind reading ability. so we must settle for a verbal account."

"I looked at my witch of an ally, "What?"

"Just speak the truth of what happened from the time Edward left until now." I nodded, clearing my throat.

" First of all, I have never spoken about your kind to another living soul that wasn't supernatural and to truly understand my story sir. I have to go back to before the Cullens came in?"

I waited 'til I received the "go ahead."

"-I didn't have the most conventional upbringing. My parents officially separated and divorced when I was a baby. With my mother, Renee getting full custody and my father, Charlie getting visitation rights.

I guess everything was fine until I got out of the toddler stage. Then our roles were reversed:

Renee was the child and I was the Mom.

Suddenly it was my responsibility to make sure my "Mother" got up and went to work.

She could barely hold down a job with how flighty she was. She also had a drinking problem. If I didn't hide the checks and paid the bills, we went without.

Finally, when I was thirteen. Renee came home wasted and loudly admitted that I should never have been born.

That statement stayed with me and I spent my adolescents feeling like a worthless piece of shit. Pardon my language, then when I moved back to Forks to give her more alone time with her new husband Phil. I truly didn't expect much, I thought my life would go on as it always but call it destiny or fate had different ideas. Enter the Cullens…"

I went on to give a full description of our first days,- my rescue from the thugs in Port Angeles.- The confrontation, meeting the family.- The baseball game,- the troublesome trio: aka James, Victoria and Laurent.- The dreadful birthday party and the gut wrenching dumping in the woods which I quoted word for word.

The bastard's face crumbled as he listened to his cold words repeated back.

" A human's mind is like a sieve" Yeah right! Edward, I just proved that there's a good deal many of my kind that can remember. Especially something tragic and repulsive. " And Time does NOT heal ALL wounds"

"-After spending three months in almost comatose like depression. I felt myself becoming alive again just before Christmas. As I realized that the boy's hurtful words and actions merely reconfirmed what I had known all along:

I was nothing.

But I should at least try to function for my father, Charlie's sake.

I had unintendedly made his life harder and costed him several nights of sleep in the process with my endless line of screaming nightmares…

-Charlie and I got invited to a Christmas Party down in La Push that some of his buddies and their family were throwing. It was there as I was sombering on the couch that an old childhood friend of mine, "Jacob Black" came over and sat down next to me offering cup of punch. I guess… we reconnected out of loneliness and companionship.

Soon I started to feel a little more like I used to and the nightmares died down some. It was like a new energy was breathed into me. Suddenly I thought I could almost see and hear Edward. Whenever I did these dangerous extreme stunts. I wasn't yet over him so I craved his presence and set out to do whatever it took. Including buying two old run down motorbikes and have Jacob fix them up.

I grew to enjoy hanging around him and I actually almost forgot about Edward. As time passed I began to feel guilty for using my best friend like that. Then came this one horrid day in late January where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

Jake was there for me and one thing led to another.

Things went smooth afterwards almost back to they were until Valentine's day. Both he and I came home from the movies early because we started coming down with something."

I hesitated about telling this next part but the truth is the truth.

"It turned out the Jacob was a werewolf-"

Gasps echoed throughout the chamber followed by a furious growling irrupted from fair haired king. "Why you-?!"

But surprisingly Aro cut his hot headed brother off. "-Remember Caius, these creatures are not true werewolves as Children of the Moon do not travel in packs and they have no control over their transformation or their mind. They are also scavenging nomads. The natives of La Push are more like shape-shifters whose appearance happens to be in the form a wolf"

I blinked, confusion evident on mine and the Cullen's faces.

Aro sighed, "We came looking for Carlisle Cullen about forty years ago. It had been awhile since we heard anything. So Demetri tracked their scent to edge of La Push Washington, USA. Where we encounter an "Ephraim Black?" and his pack. We soon discovered that they were intelligent. The alpha shifted in broad daylight to converse and ultimately we reached an… understanding and went our separate ways. Please continue on lovely Isabella"

A little disturbed but I obeyed,

"Jake stared pushing me away on his leader Sam's command. He and his father Billy said hurtful things about me to protect their secret. For no one knows about the pack until they turn or become a tribal elder. Their actions broke my heart for the third time, shattering my trust and beliefs in humanity.

On the first of this month was when I officially discovered I was pregnant. Which was a giant wake up call. It really got me thinking about everything in my life that brought me to this point:

I don't know who I am right now or who to trust. But the one thing I do believe to be true is that: I want a better life for my son.

Whether it is with me or someone else who can provide both physically and mentally. Now after weeks of being persistent and using forcefulness. Jacob knows he's going to be a father and we just barely reached a truce on where do we go from here.

-When this pixie out of the blue just shows up on my doorstep. Despite having ignored me for the last six months. Due to an apparently lie Edward told his family. She then abducts me and my baby without much an explanation or choice and proceeds dragging us to Italy expecting me to bail her con man brother out of trouble. Cause he didn't stop to verify the facts."

I finished with a huff as Kayley rubbed my back. Then I got my second wind.

"Your Majesties, my father Charlie is a policeman. In my opinion, one of the best. He taught me to obey and uphold the laws of our country. I know there's a penalty to be paid for my knowing about Vampires and I am willing to pay it. All I ask is that you don't punish my son. He's innocent…"

I took a step back as I heard Kayley whisper comfortingly that I did good. While the three kings chose to gather in a triangle as they counseled amongst themselves…

The Cullen kids tried to get my attention but I wouldn't look at them.

Finally several agonizing minutes later the leaders broke apart and Aro came over to Kayley and I.

"After much deliberation Isabella. We the Volturi are prepared to offer you a deal:

-You will go home from here, settle things with the father and give birth to your son. But if you survive as I know having a child is a tricky business . Do I have your word that you will come back to the Volturi and take your place among the guard. We really could use you?"

I paused this isn't what I wanted to happen. Oh why did Alice have to come back and get me involved!

But this probably was the best offer that could get both me and my baby out of here with our lives intact. I wordlessly reached out my hand to the Vampire King and we shook on it.

Aro cleared his throat sighing,

"I'm glad we got that arranged, now it is time we drew our attention back to the main reason for our gathering… Edward? Alice? What ARE we going to do with you young ones?"