Caius POV

I sat at the edge of my throne, with a vindictive smirk on my face. Victoria paled as soon as those words came tumbling out of her mouth, and how she quickly snapped her jaw shut. She knew that she was in trouble as soon as Isabella left the room, and everyone wanted a piece of her once they knew what she had to Isabella.

Good.

No one was going to harm Isabella, again. I will make sure of that. Everything on the girl's head was going to remain intact, and she was going to be out of harm's way. I knew I was going to have my work cut out with me, dealing with Athenodora and trying to bring Isabella out of her catalytic shell of hers.

She was my mate.

I could spend all of eternity trying to make it up to her. To hopefully, know that what the idiotic boy done to her wasn't right, nor was it love. How the moron was able to hurt her like that, and knowing Isabella was just surviving, not living.

She was only just there.

But I can make amends to her.

First, by starting with Victoria.

I watched as Victoria tried to out match our guards, by dodging and clawing at the guards who tried to get close to her. Jane used her power on her, and the red-haired vampire stopped in her tracks and started screaming, being brought to her knees.

Her screaming filled the room. I relished in those screams on how she thought she was oh so mighty, and thought she was able to hurt Isabella the way she did, and thought she could get away with it. No one could forget the enticing smell of her blood or how broken the girl looked.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't have been much fun if Jane was the only one who got her fun to touch the red-haired vampire. Jane immediately stopped her power, and Victoria sprang up off her knees, and attacked the vampire that was the closest to her. It was a lowly guard, Antonnio, who had only been with us for a few centuries. The guard struggled trying to get Victoria off of him, clawing at her, even going as far as biting her. Victoria quickly tore off the head of the vampire, and threw it across the room, a deadly smile on her face. Victoria grabbed the arms of Antonnio, and started throwing them to the guards that dared to get close to her.

They dodged the throwing body parts with ease and Victoria soon realized that she was screwed without anything else to throw at the guards. She was about to dodge an impending attack before Felix pulled her from the hair, and threw down towards the floor, causing not only a nice dent in the floor, creating cracks among the stone marble, but also cracks on the pale skin of the redhead.

Victoria flailed underneath the weight of Felix, struggling to regain control and escape the strong clutches of Felix. She scratched and clawed, but didn't really do anything to get him off of her.

Eventually, she managed enough strength to kick Felix off of her, sending Felix flying across the room. Felix fell on his back, and got up- a smile on his face.

Victoria continued to dodge vampires, and fought the vampires, avoiding the ones that would have her brought to her knees. Because of this, Jane didn't really have a clear target of getting Victoria being brought down to her knees, screaming in pain.

A hazy mist crept slowly on the floor as it approached Victoria, as Alec held his hands out. Victoria didn't notice the mist that stayed low to the floor, until it was too late.

She stopped in her tracks as her senses were numbed. She flailed around the room loudly as she realized that she couldn't see or hear anything. It appeared Alec only partially paralyzed her senses in order to stop her from moving around so often, before the guards had the chance of picking up and flinging her around until they were completely satisfied with their anger, and the resentment that she had dared to hurting Isabella.

Demetri tore off one of the arms that belonged to Victoria. He started playing catch with Felix for a little bit once Victoria's senses had returned. She started screeching as she realized that the guards were throwing her arm around the room. She tried catching the arm with her other arm, but it was clear the guards weren't going to let her have her arm back as they threw it to the other side of the arm once Victoria tried to get close to the vampire who was holding her arm.

I smiled as I saw Victoria struggle as she continually fleeted around the room, more focused on her arm than anything else.

Jane managed to pinpoint her, and Victoria fell to her knees as she started to scream once more. The screaming continued on as the guards dismembered her limb for limb again. Throwing the limbs to each other, and at the wall, smiles on their faces.

Felix tore off her head and Jane stopped using her power. Demetri caught Victoria's head that Felix threw to him. They threw to the guard members who decided to throw the head against the marble floor and the stone walls.

Eventually, the guards attached the head back on. Victoria couldn't really do anything, but lay there, screaming as Jane resumed the torture. I saw how one of the guards disappeared, and reappeared with a flaming torch in their hands.

I got up from the throne, approaching the guards and Vitoria. Alec handed me the torch, and with a smile I started burning the pieces. Starting with her arms, then her feet and eventually her head. She couldn't do anything as I torched her head.

She caught on fire and one of the guards extinguished the fire.

Good.

She was dead.

"Clean this up," I ordered them.

The guards cleaned up the body as I headed out of the throne room, without another word.

This story is on Ao3, under Fire is Everywhere!

Update (12/18/22): A lot more details added, fixed grammar and spelling mistakes.