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Skin Deep

Chapter 8

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Right after the Volturi left

Rose P.O.V

After Sara and the Volturi left we attended to Natalya. She was crying over our fireplace where her sister was still burning. There wasn¡¯t much left now, mostly ash. A few minutes nothing would be left. The smell of burning vampire flesh was thick in the air.

Esme pulled her away from the fire and took her into the next room to console her. Edward and Bella took a crying Nessie back to their cabin to try and put her to rest. If they manage to do that I doubt she will dream anything good.

¡°Well this sure has been a crazy night,¡± Embry said.

¡°Your not very upset,¡± I hissed angry he broke up with Sara before she left.

¡°Well, I mean I¡¯m not happy she left with those leeches but she made her choice.¡± he shrugged his shoulders.

I ran at him and grabbed him by his throat and lifted him up in the air. ¡°She was your fianc¨¦e you bastard!¡± I snarled.

¡°Rose stop!¡± Carlisle ordered.

I felt Emmett come up behind me and wrap his arms around my waist. He lifted me up and I dropped the filthy mongrel on the floor. ¡°I knew you would do this! I told her to stay away from you! Damn you! You betrayed her!¡±

¡°Easy baby,¡± Emmett said carrying me out of the room.

¡°Let me go I am going to tear his throat out!¡± I raged.

Emmett took me all the way outside. I hit him with my fists and tried to kick him, but he held me too firmly for me to get at him.

¡°Calm down Rose,¡± Emmett said finally letting me go.

¡°Emmett he left her! He left her for those monsters to have!¡± I raged.

¡°Rose, she used her power on him.¡± he said grabbing my shoulders.

¡°What? Why in the hell would she do that! If she uses her power on a wolf she can never return!¡±

¡°She knew that, it¡¯s why she did it. You saw him, he was about ready to phase, and if he did that then there would have been a fight. She knew that, she saw we were out numbered and out gunned. She did it to save us.¡±

¡°But¡but were supposed to save her, us! Not her, she doesn¡¯t save us we save her!¡± I cried.

He wrapped me into a hug and let me cry into his shoulder. I wasn¡¯t able to cry but my body and face still shook like it could.

¡°We have to save her Emmett, we have to save her! They¡¯ll make her into a monster! They¡¯ll make her drink human blood and kill her humanity!¡± I cried.

¡°We¡¯ll get her back baby, I promise.¡± Emmett said.

I cried as Emmett held me. Barely taking comfort from his words. Knowing it was impossible to save her now. Once the Volturi have you they never let you go.

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Volterra

Sara P.O.V

I was in my new room.

Marcus had shown me much of the castle I know lived in. It was absolutely fabulous. The castle was connected to four other buildings through underground tunnels. The tunnels were all interconnected and it was like a giant maze.

Marcus and I spent hours talking. He told me how he had been a Hungarian warlord¡¯s son and was turned by a vampire who found him near dead on a battle field. He wondered for a few centuries until he met Aro who introduced him to Didyme.

How he spent many centuries with her happy until he lost her in the fire of Rome. How for the past few millennia he had been nothing more then a zombie, lost in his sorrow, his despair. Only going on because of his loyalty to Aro and the Volturi.

He told me he had a power. Apparently he could see the bonds between people. It was kind of like Jasper¡¯s power only he can¡¯t manipulate emotions, he just see¡¯s the emotional ties people have with one another. He can tell who is the most loyal, who is the most disloyal, who is in the most love, how much a person hates some one.

I can only imagine what that must be like. To see every single thread of emotion, to see the millions and millions of feelings people can feel in exact detail.

I told him about me, my father, my mother, Vincent, living with the Cullens and the Denalis. I left out Embry of course; I was still in to much pain to talk to him to anybody.

Marcus grew angry when I told him of my mother and father. How my father left us when I was three, how my mom abused me mentally and physically until she died. I told him what she said before she died. But that didn¡¯t help him get a good opinion of her.

He was more pleased when I described my time with the Cullens and in Alaska. How Emmett liked to wrestle with me, how Alice would take me shopping, how Rose would braid my hair, how Eleazar and Carmen would teach me Spanish, how Edward showed me how to play piano, how Jasper told me of the days of the southern war and Garrett would teach me of the days of George Washington, how Tanya and Kate taught me to be a woman, Esme taught me to weave and cook and Carlisle taught me science.

But I never once mentioned Embry.

He did ask about the charm bracelet, I lied and told him it was something I found and liked. I think he didn¡¯t believe me, but he didn¡¯t ask any more questions about it.

A few hours of exploring later Marcus took me to my new room. It was bigger then the Cullens living room and a lot more fancy. ¡°It is only temporary, when we get your room ready you will live in the tower with the coven, we use this as a spare for the guards.¡±

¡°Thank you Marcus, I really enjoyed our walk,¡± I smiled at him. I was being truthful. It had been fun learning more of my ancestor, to hear tales of people who lived so long ago.

There were no windows in my room. Wouldn¡¯t do well for there to be sunlight and some random human catching a peek of one of us sparkling I guess. There were many paintings though, all beautiful and artistic.

I was still wearing the dress from the party. I was touching the bracelet Embry got me. Missing him so deeply now. Knowing he wasn¡¯t even thinking about me right now.

A knock on the door brought me from my cloud of pity.

¡°Come in.¡±

The door opened and a woman came in. She was absolutely beautiful, tall, long mahogany hair, slim curvy body, red eyes. She was in league with Rosalie in the beauty department.

¡°Hello, I am Heidi,¡± she greeted with a bow. ¡°Master Aro has asked I be your companion during your stay here in Volterra.¡±

¡°Oh hello, I am Sara.¡± I said.

She smiled showing off perfect set teeth. ¡°Oh I know, you have caused quit the stir mistress, the whole coven is simply buzzing about you.¡±

¡°Please, call me Sara, not mistress. I¡¯m not important enough to be referred as that,¡± I said.

¡°Oh but you are one of the Volturi now, not one of the guard but a full fledged member. No one has joined them since the wives that were millennia ago. Joining the guard happens every so often but to sit on the thrones, that my dear happens practically never.¡±

¡°But I mean I¡¯m only related to Aro very distantly,¡± I said.

¡°You still descend from Didyme, that is all the reason there needs to be,¡± she smiled.

I looked in her eyes, so red. I shuddered and looked away.

¡°Have I done something to offend you?¡± Heidi asked.

¡°It¡¯s your eyes¡I don¡¯t have good memories of vampires with red eyes,¡± I said.

¡°Oh, I can take care of that.¡± I looked up and saw she had turned her back and had her hand in her pocket. She pulled something compact out. I heard her open the compact and she did something with her eyes. She put the compact back in her pocket and turned around. ¡°Ta da!¡±

Her eyes. They were a pretty shade of violet, like pansies. ¡°How did you do that?¡± I asked.

¡°Contacts, special made.¡± she laughed seeing the look on my face.

¡°That¡¯s amazing,¡± I said.

¡°They only last a few hours; the venom in our eyes eats it away. We were these when we need to go out amongst the humans.¡±

¡°Wow, that¡¯s amazing!¡±

¡°Would you like to try?¡± she asked bringing her compact back out.

¡°May I?¡±

She opened the compact and handed me two lenses. I put them in my eyes and went to look at the vanity mirror.

My eyes were green. ¡°Huh?¡±

¡°The contacts are blue, blue with red you get purple, blue and gold gets you green,¡± she said.

¡°Oh, they still look pretty, thank you.¡±

¡°If you want I can get you some different colored lenses, I like to experiment, give myself a new pair of eyes every so often. Oh that reminds me, Aro wanted me to tell you he has sent for some animals for you. I¡¯m not into the whole animal blood thing but I love the color of your eyes, perfect gold color.¡±

¡°Thanks,¡± I smiled.

¡°Speaking of Aro he wanted to let you know that the ball he was going to have for you tonight has been moved to tomorrow night. More time to prepare and get some guests rounded up.¡±

I sighed. ¡°I hate parties. Everyone is going to want to talk to me and get to know me. I hate being at the center of attention.¡±

¡°Well of course, you are Aros niece that is going to make you get a lot of attention. The Volturi are the closest thing the vampire world has to royalty, people are going to be kissing your ass to gain your favor.¡±

¡°I don¡¯t want to gain people¡¯s favor, I just want to be left alone and live my life.¡± I sat back on my bed. Heidi came up behind me sitting on the bed. She moved my hair out of my face.

¡°You are royalty now, you have connections to powerful people. You have become one of the most powerful beings in the world.¡± she leaned in and whispered in my ear. ¡°You¡¯ve lived your life in pain and squalor, now is the time to shine, to get all the things you deserve. People have killed to get just a bit of what you now have, embrace your new life, relish in it.¡±

She had a point. I missed Embry greatly but living the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself wasn¡¯t going to help me. I could never see Embry again but I could still talk to the Cullens and the Alaskans.

I could buy all the cloths, all the jewelry, everything I ever wanted to buy as a human I could now buy! And people will finally respect me! All those years I was picked on and made fun off will be filled with years of respect.

¡°Your right Heidi, since I am going to be here I should have fun! No reason this should be a bad experience. It¡¯ll be like summer camp!¡±

¡°What¡¯s summer camp?¡± she asked.

¡°Oh, I¡¯ll tell you later. So what do you do here?¡± I asked.

¡°Well I¡¯m a part of the guard but mostly I bring the food in for every one,¡± she said.

My face fell, I remembered what she ate. ¡°Oh.¡±

¡°Sorry, not liking the whole eating people thing huh?¡± she asked.

¡°How can you do it?¡± I asked. ¡°How can eat people?¡±

¡°Vampire,¡± she said.

¡°But their people, you were human once.¡± I said.

¡°We all were once, no one is born a vampire,¡± she said.

Well Nessie was, but she is only half vampire so I guess she doesn¡¯t count.

¡°It is who we are; humans are our natural blood source. Besides it¡¯s not like they are endangered or something. So what if a few dozen people go missing, for every human that dies a dozen more take their place.¡±

¡°But they have feelings, they have a family, people who loved them,¡± I argued.

¡°We are who we are Sara, we are meant to drink human blood. From what I have heard drinking animal is a very difficult life style. It never fully sates you, always leaves you wanting more, am I right?¡± she asked.

¡°I don¡¯t know, I have only had animal blood,¡± I said.

¡°We are not evil Sara, we need to drink blood or else we slowly go mad, why fight what nature made us to be?¡±

¡°Wouldn¡¯t you feel bad if someone was killing you? How would you feel to be someone¡¯s victim?¡±

She laid on her side like a great cat. ¡°I know what it is like to be a victim. When I was five years old my mother sold me to a rich aristocrat. Five years old I was forced to do hard labor and when I did poorly I was beat. Then when I turned ten the aristocrat found¡other uses for me. When I grew too old for his liking he sold me to a brothel. There I found some happiness. Over the years I became popular with the men, I was always able to sweet talk them into giving me more money then what they had paid. All I had to do was sleep with men and get paid lots of money for it what was not to love.¡±

What was I supposed to say? She just told me she had been a slave and molested by her owner then sold to a whore house and she liked it there. I just decided to keep my mouth shut and listen.

¡°Then one night I was at a party as an escort. I had done it dozens of times before but that night was special. That night I met Demitri.¡±

She ran her hands down her dress, smoothing out the wrinkles.

¡°I remember first seeing him. He took my breath away. The man who bought me for the night had some unexpected guests. A small group of people showed up unexpectedly. When the man saw them he looked scared. They were all beautiful more so then me. Even the men made me envious. I knew right away they were something special.¡±

¡°What happened?¡± I asked.

¡°Well the man who paid for me, whose name I can¡¯t even remember, he went upstairs to talk to some of the people. He had me stay behind and entertain the rest. There was only one man I was interested and that was Demitri. We talked the whole night away. We flirted outrageously with each other.¡± She smiled recalling the old days.

¡°Then the night wore on and one by one the guests left. I had to stay; the man had paid me for some after hour company. Soon only I and the men remained in the main hall while the servants remained. The servants began to pick up the mess the guests had left. I left them to go see what was taking my buyer so long, I walked upstairs and found him dead, just killed by the people he left to talk with. I screamed and ran downstairs only to find a new horror, Demitri and the rest of the group was killing the help, tearing into their throats and drinking their blood.¡±

I covered my mouth with my hands shocked. I could only imagine, watching my mother be killed was horrible, seeing dozens of people would be worse!

¡°I screamed in horror of course, that drew their attention, I was about to run back upstairs when I the men began to walk down, I tried to run for the door thinking I could make it but then someone grabbed me from behind, I was spun around and found myself face to face with Demitri. It was funny, even as he held me I still felt safe, he told me to stop crying, that beautiful women don¡¯t cry.¡±

¡°How did you make it out?¡± I asked.

¡°Demitri asked Aro to have me changed. He had served Aro faithfully for many years and as reward Aro allowed me to be turned. I and Demitri have been mated ever since.¡±

¡°Why did they have the man killed?¡± I asked.

¡°He learned of vampires and had to be silenced. The help had to go because they had seen the guard and could tell others. I don¡¯t regret becoming a vampire Sara. Being a vampire was the best thing to eve happen to me. My mind, my body, and my soul they all belong to me now, now I give orders and when I am told to do it I know I serve a greater purpose.¡±

She got up and hugged me. ¡°I am sorry you had to see the dark side of our existence in such a horrible way.¡± she pulled back to look at me. ¡°We don¡¯t torture our prey, we make it as quick as possible, but there are vampires out there who do such disgraceful things. That is why we exist, to keep order in the world, to keep back vampires like this Vincent from making a mess of things. We are a harsh people Sara, so in order to rule we must be harsh, but that does not make us evil, now you are a part of that, now you will play a hand a larger hand in shaping the world, here you can make a bigger difference.¡±

Her words had meaning. She was right. Maybe I could help change things. Maybe I could help change things for the best. Maybe I can make the Volturi be a more fair and honest group. Instead of being so feared maybe I could just make them a little bit more respected.

Why not? I mean history is full of people who changed things, one person in a million who made a difference. Maybe coming here wasn¡¯t such a bad thing after all. I mean I am well taken care of; I can use my influence with Aro to make acceptations to the rules, get him to show a little bit more leniency.

Plus with me gone Em¡..Embry can have the life he deserves. A wife he can take home to his mother, a normal job with pay, have kids, and grow old, things he could never have with me.

Plus I can make sure the Volturi stay away from the Cullens and leave them alone. Now they can live in peace and not have to worry about one day having to fight for their lives.

Yes, this is all going to work out nicely.

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Aro P.O.V

I had all the unmated male guards come into the throne room. I and Caius sat in our chairs. Marcus was with Sara now. According to Heidi they had bonded really well, this pleased me greatly.

¡°Thank you all for coming,¡± I said. ¡°As you all know we have recently gained a very special new member, special to me especially.¡±

¡°You refer to Sara master?¡± Alec asked.

¡°Indeed Alec, Sara coming brings us many changes, very big changes indeed,¡± I said.

¡°As you all know do to her lineage Sara will be a full member, not a member of the guard,¡± Caius said. ¡°Since she is so young, both in human terms and vampire we have decided that she will need a mate, a husband.¡±

The room was deadly silent. I may not be a full blown telepathic but I knew exactly what they were thinking. They knew what this meant.

Caius continued. ¡°So to help make her transition to our way of life smoother we have naturally selected you, who are un-mated as potential candidates.¡±

¡°Naturally if one of you is successful you will get a rare an honor. Something that has not happened in millennia, you will become a full fledged member of the Volturi and sit along side me, Caius and Marcus.¡±

They all had power hungry looks on their faces. It has been a dream among the guard to be actual members instead of guards. To make the rules, not enforce them.

¡°Now Sara does not know what we plan for obvious reasons. Tomorrow night will be the night we throw the party for her, that should give you all plenty of time to find ways to woe her.¡± I got up from my throne and fixed them all with a stern glare. ¡°Just remember she is my niece, my only link to my sister, if any of you hurts her in any way I will have you ripped to shreds and your head put on a pike for the rest of eternity as a warning to others¡dismissed.¡±

They all left the hall, muttering amongst themselves. ¡°You think this is a good idea Aro? It might be too soon,¡± Caius said.

¡°We have to try and get her to forget the Cullens way of life as soon as possible. And that wolf,¡± I said.

¡°I still think we should have trimmed the list, the thought of Felix on the throne makes me ill,¡± he said.

¡°I doubt Felix will win, he is not her type. Trust me after reading her mind I know more then half the guard don¡¯t stand a chance. She does seem to have a shine for Santiago though.¡±

Caius thought for a moment. ¡°Santiago is adequate. He is smart, strong, and loyal.¡±

¡°Plus he doesn¡¯t have a power, I am sure you would hate it if another with a power joined us,¡± I smiled.

He glared at me.

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Embry P.O.V

¡°Oh Embry I am sorry it had to end this way,¡± mom said.

¡°Its okay, I¡¯m sorry I made you cry about the whole marriage thing,¡± I said.

¡°Its okay, I¡¯m just glad, now you can go back to school and a job and a real family, I knew this vampire thing was a phase, seems like the whole world is going through one these days.¡±

I went back to my room. I decided to go to bed early, tomorrow was school, lots to do. There was a girl in my class who had been eyeing me up. I hadn¡¯t taken her up on it because of Sara, but maybe now I can fix that.

Fusedtwilight: A cookie for whoever figures out what power Heidi has. Next chapter Embry moves on with his life and the guard begin to plan to woo sara. Please review
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