BPOV
Today is Monday….
Today I start Aro's training….
Today I see James again….and hopefully I'll be able to kick his ass some today. I just have to remember that I am not supposed to know how to fight and just pretend to be a natural for Aro's sake so he stays in the dark on what I truly am.
I can't believe he is soo stupid! I mean dad always talked about how cold and calculated Aro was, but since actually being here and seeing the man, I am seriously questioning this. Although how he was when he was younger could be a different story and maybe I am seeing a different side to him due to what he saw me do and what James has done to him.
*Shrugs* Still don't trust any of the Volturi's. Over the weekend I did rest for the most part and I did stay in bed except when I needed the bathroom. On Saturday, my mother and sister in law both gave me the creeps by insisting they bathe me in the big spa bath, I told them that I should be able to do that on my own without stressing out or straining myself, but my MIL (that means Mother In Law by the way) was having none of that.
She even told me it was some kind of tradition in her family with the first grandchild and that Jane would have to endure this when she has her first child too so I just need to sit back and relax and let them do the work of cleansing my body and lavishing me with family love or some other bullshit.
I actually had to force myself to only internally roll my eyes. Then to top it off she insisted on drying me…. everywhere! I mean I have never felt so violated in my life until she put the towel in between my legs and started to gently rub me both front and back. If I didn't know any better, and she had kept going, I would have sworn she was trying to get me to have an orgasm right then.
The worst part was Jane staring at the whole thing with what looked like jealousy in her eyes, like what the fuck? Does this woman molest her kids? Or what? Then to make things oh so much better Aro walks in as they were dressing me with a stack of paper work in his arms.
The only thankful part was that I at least had underwear on and he didn't see my private parts, although I have a feeling Edward still saw and wanted to come and kill the fucker and his wife and daughter. I know I do, but I can't unless they give me no other reason not to.
And believe me I am already looking for an excuse to kill them all!
Anyway I spent the rest of the weekend on the bed looking over the paperwork, all I can say is James has really screwed over his father and his family. I already knew most of this before coming here and that Edward had a lot of it made to look even worse, but still there is no way Aro can come out of this on top without selling everything they own with the exception of their home in Volterra, Italy where their family came from and even then that is a stretch.
If I work this right, we can pretty much buy them out and make them very happy as a way to buy their silence and never bother us for the rest of your lives. As much as I want to kill them I know that this could be a better way as I just want to go home.
I have a plan to be home well and truly before this baby is born, hell I want to be home by the end of the week, but I know that won't happen so as soon as the paper work is done for me to be named as Aro's heir till my child is born, the Volturi's have nothing left and leave to live in Italy forever and James is dead I'll be outta here and in Edwards arms once again.
I'll be considered a widow and I can freely marry Edward. I got a message from Edward that he had a message from my dad to pass along and that was he had started to respond to treatments that Carlisle put him on when we first came to the Mason's. This made me so happy and just spurred me on to get this over with quickly and safely.
Oh and I found out that James and Jane never called Aro by anything other than Aro or Sir and when I called him father in the office he was like putty in my hands. Anyway I am currently waiting for Aro to come and get me to go with him to 'learn' how to torture someone without fully killing them straight away.
Oh he is in for a treat, although with me being pregnant it will be interesting how this day will go. I know I have to stay calm and that is why I am sitting in bed just meditating to get my head in the right space.
I hear a knock on the door and I call out for whomever to come in. I look up in time to see Aro walk in and over to me pushing a wheel chair. I give him a puzzled look as I am no longer on strict bed rest.
"I didn't want you to strain yourself before today's training and then afterwards we will go to the office to have some lunch and to discuss the paperwork. So hop in and we will go get your training started." He said in a cheery tone that sort of freaked me out, if I hadn't of known what we were going to be doing today it may have been a nicety that would have me just keep my guard up, but think nothing more of it.
However, knowing that he was taking me to torture his son was just plain unsettling. It reminded me I have to make sure to cover my tracks and make this go as smoothly as possible to avoid Aro's wrath if he were to ever find out.
I just smile back and get in the wheel chair. We leave as soon as I am settled into the chair. We turn right out of my room and go down the hall towards the staircase, pass the lift I thought we were going to take as I assumed James was being held in the basement that I know has to be around somewhere.
I was hoping to get to see it so I could tell Edward where the entrance was, but I guess that is not going to be the case. We come to the door of the room where I discovered James fucking Victoria the other day and quickly look up at Aro in a silent question.
He chuckles before answering "I never took him out of his sexual playroom, Isabella, as he is my son still and I didn't want his mother to see him in a filthy cage. Trust me when I say that he has no freedom in here and he has not been very comfortable to know his new place in this house till I have taught you what you need to know to take your revenge for your mother.
Yes I know that he had her killed for your parents not following through with their end of the deal they made with me and I want you to know that I had nothing to do with that, nor did I approve of his method however, I didn't do anything about punishing him then as they had done something wrong to us in the first place. Now are you ready to go in?"
What the fuck? I don't care that he knew, but how could he say that he didn't approve of his method of punishing my parents for not honouring their deal with the Volturi's and then say he didn't punish James because he was punishing my parents?!
I work hard at keep my face blank while I try to process this information and I reply blankly and coolly that I was ready and I take a deep breath to calm down. He opens the door and the first thing I see is James curled up on the bed completely naked, covered in bruises and chained to the ceiling by his neck with cuffs on his ankles and wrists.
All of the skin under these cuffs and his neck looked like it was red raw from where he had obviously been thrashing around to try and get away from whatever torture Aro had already been subjecting his son too. Which left an unsettled feeling come back to my gut.
Once inside of the room, Aro closes and locks the door behind us. At the sound of the door closing James looks up at us and then I see anger flash in his eyes before he gets up and tries to rush us, only to get choked by the chain round his neck.
"James, how many times do you have to do that till you learn you will be the only one hurt by doing it? Now get up and walk over to the cross and put your hands on it so your back is facing us like a good slave."
James doesn't move, just gives me a murderous stare. Aro didn't like this so he moves from behind me to James' side and says to his son in an equally murderous tone as he picks James up by his hair and drags him to the cross on the wall to the right of the bed, but was at the max limit of the chain around his neck's range so even though it wouldn't be choking him, he couldn't lean his head forward without it choking him.
"Now James that isn't anyway to greet your wife and my daughter and soon to be heir. Every time you misbehave will only serve to lengthen your suffering. I am going to use you to train her to replace you seeing as you have been nothing but a disappointment to me and you can consider what is happening and is going to happen to you, your last chance to prove your loyalty and servitude to your family, but it won't save you from your fate.
However, I will let Isabella be the one who decides your fate once she is trained to my satisfaction. We both will have our revenge for the wrongs you have committed against us. Please be a good boy James, and assume the position."
With that James just looks mad, but does as he was told without complaint. I guess he knows that he won't be getting out of this alive and he will get tortured whether he resists or not. I mean I know Aro would have trained James too so I guess this was more than likely similar to what he is about to train me in.
Aro attaches the cuffs at his wrists and ankles to the cross and then comes to help me out of the chair. We walk over to a line on the floor about 4 – 5 feet away from where James is and I see we are standing next to a metal table trolley. This looks like one of those trolleys you see in hair salons, but it also looks like the table carts for food only smaller.
I was wondering what it would be needed for, when I realized it was to hold the torture tools we were going to be using and was similar to one I know Edward and I have in our own torture rooms for our enemies. As the minutes pass I was becoming more and more settled in the mind set for what was about to happen while also maintaining that I didn't know anything and to make it look like I was a born natural.
I also somehow knew that Edward was watching and it was turning me on that I was about to do what I did best and mess with these fuckers' heads and show off my skills. Then I see Aro place some whips and crops on the table trolley, he also puts some knives down as well.
These were no ordinary knives either, these were throwing knives! I look at them for a moment and realise that one of these were ones my father told me his father lost in a bet to Aro's father back in the olden days.
They have white American oak wood handles that have a swan on them, like his ring that I gave to Edward only a bit bigger. The blades had a slight curve to it to make it look more like hunting knives, only these were perfectly balanced to be thrown.
Aro sees me looking at them and chuckles "Ah I see you realise what these knives are to you, it's good that your father told you some things. I want to see how you do with throwing them as your father was always a gun man, but your grandfather on the other hand was an amazing thrower of these knives.
Now first I want you to pick your weapon, then I'll show you how to aim for non-vital places to inflict the most amount of pain without causing too much blood-loss or damage so as to be able to continue for a long time. You want to break your enemy's will first before you break their body, if you get what I mean.
In the old days when I was a boy, we just started with the pulling of nails and teeth and breaking of fingers and toes, but these days you can train to withstand that pain so I had to learn other ways. Now please, Isabella, pick."
I look at him and then back at the table of stuff. There is only one choice for me and that are those knives, I reach over and pick them up and feel their familiar weight in my hands. What I haven't been able to tell or show Edward was that although I am good at fighting and packing a good punch and also shooting guns with deadly aim I am also good with archery, but knife throwing is what I am best at just like my grandfather.
"Ah interesting." Is all Aro says for a moment with a look that looks like he is having a memory play in his head. After a few minutes pass, he gently shakes his head and chuckles again…. Like seriously what is it with this guy and chuckling all the time?
He takes one of the knives out of my hands and then starts to show me how to stand and hold the knife in my hands and then shows me how to take just the right aim. He also goes on to tell me a bit about the history of the knives' making, that I already knew, but I acted all enthralled by his every word and made myself look like the perfect student. Which he seemed to be soo happy about that he was actually supporting an erection – like eww gross and that totally confirmed that there was something going on with Aro, his wife and Jane.
I put that out of my head for the time being and get on with pretending to be learning how to be his 'perfect' heir. Aro throws a knife at James and nicks him on the underside of his right forearm. James howls in pain and tries to jerk away, but obviously can't.
"Your turn." Aro says and I take my position and then throw to James' left arm at the same place on this side as Aro's throw on his right side. James must not have been anticipating me actually hitting him as he actually squeaked and then looked at his arm and then jerked away while groaning in pain.
Aro clapped his hands next to me and said in a proud tone, but still totally sounding like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons "Excellent" He walks over and pulls the knives out of James' arms and comes back over to me and then says
"I see you are just like your grandfather and are a natural with knives." He puts the knives in my hands and tells me to just throw as it feels is right to, but to remember we only want to inflict pain and not death or too much injury.
I nod my head and then look back at James while shifting the knives so they sit just right in my hands. I have missed throwing knives, I must do it more when I get home. Maybe I'll show Edward how to, if he doesn't know how to that is.
I grin a little at the thought, Aro chuckles yet again, gosh that's getting annoying, I take a deep breath and close my eyes for a moment before opening them and look at James once more. I pull my hand back and then let the knife in my right hand fly out at James and hit the side of his left inner leg, right near his balls, but only nicking his upper thigh.
I repeat this with my left hand and then Aro retrieves them only to give them back to me with a shit eating grin on his face and a fucking huge tent in his pants that was hard to miss and I wasn't even looking there.
I then have a thought and remember that I have to look like I am only learning so I figure missing one of these throws would make it look good for my charade and so I make my next throw a bit off and hit the wall behind him where it just falls to the floor with a clatter.
Aro full on laughs again and James sighs in relief. Aro then tells me why I was off and comes over to stand behind me with his erection poking my lower back to 'show' me how to stand like I did before. Although he so totally rubbed himself against me before he stepped away and told me to take another go.
I threw again and again till James was moaning in pain and looking half passed out. Aro goes to the little table and pulls out a syringe with a redish liquid in it. As Aro moves towards his son he tells me in a blank cold almost business like tone
"This is just something to wake him up a little." And then he injects the liquid into James neck. After only a couple of seconds James just starts to jerk and squirm about against his restraints. Aro chuckles again and then says in a tone that was gloating while holding his throat
"Now now James, none of that or I will have to get your slave master in and we will watch as you make him happy! I will be happy to watch again, like when you and your sister were younger." I look at him and then back to James who hasn't stopped thrashing like he no longer cares what happens to him.
Holy shit, Aro just confirmed he used to have them sexually abused as kids, the way him and his wife have been acting I would take a positive guess they joined in. James may be an asshole, but he may have been a completely different person had he had different parents.
I pity James as no one deserves to be abused like that by those they trust, however he does deserve to be tortured for everything he has done and physical torture may not work on James, but by the look on his face he was terrified of sexual torture.
Aro walks away from James to go over to the intercom next to the door and askes for someone by the name of Mitch to come in. I hear a knock on the door and Aro opens it up to reveal a tall mountain of a man that would be possibly bigger than Emmett wearing a black face mask and only these black wet look leather pants and black boots.
"Isabella, this is Mitch and he is going to get James squealing like the little bitch that he is and then well leave to let him be after a few minutes of that to go to my office as you did very well today and I'm so happy with how natural you are."
All I could do was nod my head for fear of Aro's wrath and watch as this Mitch bloke moves James to this bench where his is cuffed to it face down with his ass in the air because his knees are on a flat part of the bench and it curves up under him.
Mitch forces James head to look out towards the other wall to the one with the cross on it, but still in range of the chain attached to the collar around his neck. Mitch makes sure James can't move his head around and then moves to a chest of draws and pulls out the biggest butt plug I have ever seen, my eye bug out at how big it is.
Mitch makes sure James sees what he has and James does indeed squeal and he tries to move, but it is no use. As Mitch moves around to James' ass, which is facing towards the cross thank goodness as I didn't want to poke my eyes out and pour bleach over them with get rid of that image, I look to Aro who is actually stroking himself through his pants. I quickly look away as I really don't want to see that shit and look back at the scene in front of me.
I don't know what came over me, but I just had a sudden urge to be the one to shove that thing up his ass so that he'd be feeling it for days. Just as Mitch was about to do so I call out "Wait, I want to shove that in him and then you can do whatever after." I look at Aro who looks amused and then back at Mitch who looks perplexed.
Aro motions for me to proceed and I walk over to Mitch and he gives me the plug and then leans over James to hold both his ass cheeks open for me and with a smile on my face I ram that huge fucking metal thing up his ass so quick that James cries out in agony that turns to sobs as Mitch lets go of his cheeks.
I next hear a buzzing noise and James is once again trying to thrash around without much success. I walk back to Aro who hands me some hand sanitiser and then he motions for me to sit in the wheelchair. I do as he indicated as I listen to James try to say sorry over and over and over.
Maybe if I can get Aro eating out of my palms with the paperwork I can convince him to let me off James tomorrow, have his funeral by Saturday at the latest and naming me his successor by mid next week.
I can almost see the finish line now and I am racing towards it, I just want to have one last go with James so I am the one to finish him off as per our mission and to let off some steam from being cooped up in here.
Anyway Aro walks us to the office which I found out is different than the one James went to after our wedding. Don't know why you would need two offices, but guess James only used one for a private office so he could have had Victoria's company without interruptions and the other for actual work – if he ever did any work that is.
I am pulled from my musings by the wheelchair coming to a stop in front of the desk, I watch as Aro moves behind it and sits down then shuffles some papers before looking at me. He then sighs and says in a tired tone
"Well let me get it out there that you did wonderful today, wish it didn't have to be my son that I had my eyes open to the possibilities that females were capable of and I get to see the action first hand, but I am glad that I did get to see you in action and be so much like your grandfather. He was a good man, smart man unlike your father I'm sorry to say.
Anyway let's talk about your findings shall we?" He waited to see my reaction to which I just nodded my head and then he continues in a sad, but hard and cold tone that gave off an odd weird vibe. "Ok then, I looked over everything that you made notes on and I want to just get some clarification on some points you made. Don't get me wrong I trust your judgement, but its more for your recommendations that need clarification. Do you know which ones I refer too?"
I nod my head again and take a deep breath as I put my game face on because this is going to be make or break for me going home early or not, hope Edward can see and hear so I don't have to repeat this.
"Well, father, my recommendations are not there as my way of saying you have to do as I say, if you don't want to follow them then my predictions that I also wrote out for you will most likely happen based on the current state of James' affairs when he is dead." I pause to take another deep breath and then give him the most serious look that I can muster and continue in a full professional tone that I usually only use for pitching business ideas to hostile parties
"However, if you do choose to follow my recommendations then you, mum and sister will be able to retire in peace and quiet while your grandson and I will be able to continue the Volturi name with what honour you have left." Oh god talk about verbal diarrhea at its best, but it looks like he is lapping this shit up better than a toilet paper does, just got to add in the perfect amount of gentle hope in my tone to the next bit and I think I'll have him hook line and sinker, talk about a moron.
"There may be a day when he has taken over from me, as you will it, where you three may be able to come home again, but James has almost completely damaged everything you have worked so hard to build. I know that you don't want to have to sell everything to the Mason's, but I did hear a few things that my father thought he kept quiet from me and that is that they are fair to those who are down on their luck and they don't make deals that won't be able to be paid back safely and fairly.
I'm sure with what I overheard my father talking with someone from Mason Corporations that if we work it right and let them know of James' moronic body guards shady dealings with them and you have dealt with that problem and what you have chosen to do with me and your grandson then I am sure you can work the family man angle with them and get a great deal that I can then work with once you and our family have settled in till" I pause here to look down at my small baby bump and give it a little rub then look back up to him and see he is beaming with pride, I have to force myself to not give in to the shiver that goes up my spin at the look of it
"this little fella is ready and then maybe he can make your fortune great again." I finish here and let him digest this information and I wait to see if he is in agreement so that I can maybe breathe a little easier and that I can hopefully get home soon. I see that he is nodding his head and holding his chin in deep thought.
He takes a deep breath and then looks over the papers in front of him on the desk, then he runs his hand over his face in defeat and I have to resist the urge to smile at my own acting skills and the endorphins that are running in my system from knowing that I have him where we want him and he fell for it.
"You have done well my daughter, I can't believe that James, my own flesh and blood has done this to me after how well I have looked after both him and Jane. At least Jane has always done everything her mother and I have ever told her. I am go grateful that you have been so loyal to me that is why I have chosen to name you my successor at a family meeting I will be holding at James' funeral, which by the way I think will be better to be quicker than later.
I did want to train you more, but after reading through these papers I have to agree with you and know that we don't have as long as I would have liked. Then again you're such a natural and so much like your grandfather that I have faith in you and how well you'll raise my grandson to be loyal, honest to his family and to not screw over family and important businesses that could cause dishonour to the family.
Just wish that things would be different. I guess I'll take you back to your room and then get on with this phone call to Edward Mason snr and his son and see if I can get them to go easy on an old friend, then once that is done I'll let you know when we will finish off James so you can have your go, just know that it will be in no longer than a week or however long it will take me to organise the funeral, which would be more for your mother and sister than for that poor excuse of a son of mine and the meeting to announce you as my new heir till my grandson is born and old enough so I don't foresee it being too long, but just keep that in mind."
With that he got up and walked over to me and then turned the wheelchair around and headed towards my room and I have to fight to keep my face neutral till I am alone I am that happy. I so can't wait to tell Edward and hug him, I can almost see home now.
Once we get to my room he waits till I have gotten out of the chair and onto my bed before he leans down and kisses my forehead, that I so will be scrubbing right after he leaves, and then gives me a smile that I return, He then reaches into his pockets and pulls out my grandfather's knifes and says in a gentle fatherly proud tone "Have these, you've earned them today and know your grandfather would be as proud as am I" and with that he leaves me to my own devices.
As I run carefully to the bathroom to have that shower and to scrub myself clean from his filthy touches today. I make it quick so I can text Edward to let him know that Aro took the bullshit and swallowed it whole and we can go to the next phase sooner than we thought.
The next week or so will go very quickly now.