Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight. Just this little plot bunny.

AN: Like I said this fiction won't be too much longer.

Chapter 5

"Bella, please."

I echoed Master Caius's scoff at Edward's plea. Did he truly believe that I was naive enough to fall back into his arms like he had never abandoned me? Like I was still enthralled with him?

"Your please fall on deaf ears here, boy." The Major, the tone and power behind it was just too much to be Jasper.

Edward looked to Jasper. A sneer came across his handsome face. He was reading Jasper's mind and the Major was enjoying it. Edward's face suddenly became a grimace. I have no idea what he saw but it made me glad that I couldn't read minds. I wouldn't want to anyways, there is just some things better left unheard or unseen.

"You're a monster." Edward gasped out.

"Like you're any better." I snipped out.

Edward swung his amber gaze to me. He was trying to appeal to me with his gaze. Did he just not understand that I was not human Bella anymore. I wouldn't be easily enthralled anymore.

"I'm not human anymore Edward. Stop trying to thrall me!" I almost yelled at him, "You left me to die!"

"No! I left to keep you safe. To keep you human. You deserved to have a full human life." he pleaded with me.

"Well, how'd that work out for you? You left me stranded in the woods. I was lost and alone for hours in the rain when Sam and Paul found me. I was withdrawing from the effects of the thrall you had placed me under. I was almost out of my mind. Then just when I was starting to get better, it was shortly after the new year after you left, I was hiking to the meadow. Lo and behold Laurent comes across me. He told me Victoria was hunting me. She wanted to torture me. A mate for a mate. Only you're not my mate, never was. I am your blood singer. Well, Laurent did me a favor. He was going to kill me but the shapeshifters from the Rez came and stopped him in just the nick of time. I ended up changing. The wolves helped me. They kept me sane and fed with animal blood. And now I am here. I chose to come to Volterra to learn the vampire ways and to be around my own kind." I unloaded everything off my chest.

Edward opened his mouth to speak but I cut him off again. He was not going to try and sway me with any kind of half-hearted excuse. I was not in the mood for this shit. I was damn well pissed, and I felt that I deserved to get everything off my chest.

"No, Edward. I don't want to hear it. There is no excuse for what you did to me. Even if you didn't mean for it to happen it still happened on account of your choices. And your choices not only took my human life away, I can never see my father again. I can't see my mother or Phil anymore. I never got to say goodbye. Then to top it all off your choices to keep me enthralled so bad I almost never got to make my connection to my mates. You almost took everything from me with your choices. Why did I never get a say with you? I wanted to come with you. Why did you not take me too? Was it because if you had Jasper and Alice would have me, like they do now? Was all of this truly about my blood?" I said.

I know that this was not how I wanted to have this go but I had questions that needed answering. Why did he do this to me? Why did I never get a say or a choice for my own life? He always made the decisions. Was it about me or was it about my blood? Did he ever truly care about me like he claimed? Or was it all a facade just to test himself? Or was he going to come back for me at a later date and take my blood? I know he would never tell me the truth.

"Jazzy, I'm done. I don't care what they do with him. I never want to see him again." I told Jasper as I fled to the safety of his arms.

Jasper encircled his scarred arms around my body. It felt so safe. I felt Alice's hand come to my back and I looked over to her, grateful for her light and love. I grabbed her other hand and pressed my lips to the back of it. My dear sweet Alice.

"Dear me, Edward Cullen. It seems you have made quite the mess of poor Miss Swan. Now if I may have your hand. I would like the answers to Miss Swan's questions as well as a few of my own." Aro chimed in as he stood before Edward awaiting his hand.

"Master Aro?" I spoke up suddenly.

"Yes, child?" he asked of me still awaiting Edward's hand.

"Would it be alright if we stayed in Volterra for a time? I want to learn about what we are and pretty much anything that I can?" I asked him, looking to Jasper and Alice.

Alice had a bright smile on her face and nodded at Jasper. Jasper looked back down to me and nodded his consent. We were in agreement then that we would like to stay in Volterra. At least for a while. Who knows how long we will stay.

"Why of course. Stay as long as you'd like. Maybe after some time we could speak about a possible permanent arrangement?" Aro asked brightly.

"We will see sir. We shall leave you to it then." We all bowed our heads and left when Aro made a dismissive sound.

"Miss Swan before you go could you let Miss Clearwater know that I will facetime her tribe this evening? I would like to know them better." Aro said as he snatched Edward's hand as Felix held him still.

"Yes, Sir." I answered.

Jasper closed the heavy doors behind us. He closed the doors on a chapter of my life that had hurt me. A chapter that had destroyed my human life and had rebirthed me into the vampire world. Into his and Alice's arms. And I couldn't be happier.