ꜱᴏ ᴡᴇ ɢᴏᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ¹¹ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀɴ ᴇᴘɪʟᴏɢᴜᴇ ʟᴇꜰᴛ. ᴜᴍ, ᴡᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ꜱᴏ ᴄʟᴏꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ɴᴏ ᴄʟᴜᴇ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ. ᴅᴏ ɪ ʀᴜꜱʜ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴏʀ ᴅᴏ ɪ ᴡᴀɪᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇQᴜᴇʟ?

ɪᴍᴍᴀ ᴡᴀɪᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇQᴜᴇʟ. ʏᴇꜱ, ᴅɪꜱᴛɪʟʟᴇᴅ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍꜱ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇQᴜᴇʟ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜɪꜱ ʙᴏᴏᴋ.

ɪ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʜᴏᴡ ᴍᴀᴇᴠᴇ ɪꜱ ʟɪᴛᴇʀᴀʟʟʏ ᴀ ʀᴇꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱʜᴇ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ᴅᴏᴇꜱɴ'ᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪᴛ ʏᴇᴛ-

ᴀʟꜱᴏ, ᴀɴɴᴀ'ꜱ ꜱᴀꜱꜱ ɪꜱ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ-

The ties of a coven were important. They are the ties that bind us, that make us whole. A coven is a family filled with different ties. Just for us, we call them our bonds. All of mine have carried me, kept me safe and loved. A bond was what made me a queen.

Such fickle things, bonds. How they could make or break what a person can become is still not only unusual, but magical.

Most of the Cullens had chosen to take on a diet of blood bags instead of feeding on humans directly. I'm pretty sure Rose did it out of pure spite towards Edward and his animal blood supremacy. The only Cullen that stayed with their way of animal blood was Carlisle, who had been given the option to drink from a bag of animal blood instead of having to go out hunting all of the time.

It was the only option that he seemed to take when it came to blood. He said that I was right on extermination animals, that his diet could make creatures go extinct.

That small victory was enough for me.

"Anna," Rose called out from across the hallway. With her newly red eyes, her red lipstick really did match her. "Am I allowed to bake cookies for your son or has Jasper just been doing that behind your back?"

I groaned at the knowledge. I did tell you that he would love cookies. You can't say that I didn't warn ya, Anna. Did you even mean to foreshadow this? Nope, but I knew. And when you know, you know, miss queenliness. You and your random sing songs. I swear, if you are just randomly predicting future songs or musicals I am going to lose it. We may never know until they come out, darling. I hate you sometimes.

"Maeve told me that he would love cookies, but I didn't think that she meant Jasper was going to bake him dozens of cookies!" Rose laughs at my horror. "Bake him the cookies if it means that you can spend time with him. He's half vampire, he can't get heart disease or get fat. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be seen with a fat hybrid child. That would look really bad on my part."

"Hun, I wouldn't want to be the one who made the hybrid fat in the first place," She swings her hair along, "I'll be back in an hour with some sugar cookies! Love you!"

"Love you too!" I replied back, watching as she ran down the hall and into the kitchens. These poor human servants, constantly seeing people go in there to make my child cookies. Hopefully they know that the Cullens don't drink from humans. They don't. I think that Emmett is going to write a note explaining that to them so they stop getting scared when they go in there. Good, they get scared even when I go in there.

Most of our days were spent inside, as we didn't want to risk any exposure of our little boy. Helios did play in the gardens with the twins, but that was because it was cut off with huge ferns and brush. No human or vampire would be able to see him. The way to the outside was also but off and too high for any vampire to jump over. We had made sure that things were secure for the young prince.

I mean, nobody would want to be cooped up inside for months on end. Especially kids.

It had been a week since the Cullens joined the Volturi and we couldn't be happier. The one problem was that we would have to go back soon to Forks in order to get the rest of Jasper and the group's stuff. They had barely packed anything and still needed their important belongings.

We were ready for whatever hell the leftover Cullens paid us. We had dealt with the Romanians, we could deal with pissy overgrown cats.

All of us could handle Caius, afterall.

"What do you think Edward and Isabella will do when they realize that we are going to get people's belongings at their reception?" Aro asks me from my right side. I giggled, knowing that Maeve had wanted me to get back at them all by showing up after the wedding to get the stuff.

She said I would show up at the wedding. I denied it.

I never said anything about after the wedding.

"I think that Bella, she'll call me a liar, and then I'll call her a whore, and then we will go inside and get our shit and leave. Honestly, Edward might attack if we are alone and away from humans. We can sneak in the house and wait for people to notice. People are going to have to wear some contacts in order to be around this many humans," I theorize. Aro smirks, knowing just how much he wanted to screw with the rest of the Cullen clan for not only hurting Carlisle, his friend, but his mate through her soul brother.

I mean, Jasper was technically his soul-brother-in-soul but we just don't talk about that.

"I just realized that if Carlisle is like my dad, he's your soul-father-in-soul. That is..." Aro groans at the thought.

"Some things we just don't need to point out, il mio amore. Does that mean that I start calling him dad as well?"

"Please don't."

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August 13th, 2006

Forks, Washington, United States of America

I would have expected us to be bombarded with questions. I mean, I technically was still a missing person. The only person who had noticed us was an old lady that I didn't remember the name of. I just told her that I moved in with my boyfriend and didn't want to do long distance. She was happy to know that I was with a Greek man who lived in Italy.

Old ladies, amirite?

The wedding had been moved to a church, since Carlisle was not there to authorize a wedding in his backyard like before. The wedding reception would be held in the backyard, as Edward had technically been locked out.

People would literally need to use the garage bathroom.

Edward was living in a fantasy world. He had been calling everyone nonstop and wouldn't let up his idea that somehow I was an evil monster and that I would ruin their lives if they stayed in contact with me. He even tried to insinuate that I would ruin them if they even spoke well of me.

I would think it would be the damn opposite, Eddie Boy.

We had successfully gotten into the house. It had taken so long to find a way in that would not cause attention that most of the humans had already left. This put Carlisle at ease, as less humans meant less residents that he would have to make up a story for. He hated lying to people, even if it was for their own safety. Carlisle did want them to stay away from any potential fight.

From what we had watched, the place had been nicely decorated and had some good snacks. Of course, the humans would have eaten them all.

The one problem we could come across while doing this little mission was that the Denalis were here.

And they hated the Volturi.

"I'll get all of our photo albums, babe," Emmett whispered to his mate, who was picking out all of her favorite pieces of priceless jewelry. Some of these must have been almost a million dollars. Vintage, of course, and rarely worn unless she had something important to go to.

"Aro, can you go upstairs and get my degrees?" Carlisle asks my mate, who nods and carefully runs upstairs to his room.

Their scents had faded from lack of use. After a month, a scent was basically gone, erased from the world like it never existed. It did help us in the long run, because nobody could compare scents from the house to our own bodies. Of course, Edward did not yet know my scent. He wasn't the best tracker in the world and would be unable to find me through my scent.

Unfortunately, he had found us all through our thoughts.

Who would have known that those could be heard through windows and walls? I mean, has he ever even heard of privacy? This isn't even his house anymore. He has no right to the Cullen name anymore. Practically disowned, he had been.

"What the hell are you all doing here in our house?" Edward sneered at us. I heard Aro and Marcus laughing from wherever they were in the house. Caius stood beside me, ready to attack if he needed.

Well you see, you fucking bitch, I have something called authority over you and my covenmate's houses, although I don't use it because we all live in Italy under the same house. We are here to pick up belongings. We won't be long, little dick, just passing by. Pretend you never saw us here.

"For someone who's calling me a dick, you sure do have quite a few up-" Before he could get any worse, Carlisle intervened.

"If you dare finish that sentence, Edward, I am going to rip you apart and show you how to respect your queen. Never would I think that you would treat a woman with such disrespect. Did I teach you to behave like a man in the damn 1640s or did I teach you what would happen if you spew your malice?"

"You broke into my house-"

"My house, Edward, this is my house that I paid for because you don't have a job and have no money to your name."

"Fine, you broke into my wedding!" Rose comes running down the stairs with Emmett following. Both of them snarl when they see their former covenmate. "You said that she wasn't going to ruin my wedding, that she wasn't going to be at my wedding-"

"I never said anything about the reception, bitch," I snark. My covenmates cackle, almost unable to hold themselves upright. "Maeve really does know how to make some damn fine loopholes, doesn't she?"

"You ruin everything!" Edward yells.

"No, I make everything more difficult for rulebreakers and criminals. Yeah, that does ruin a lot of things, but it doesn't ruin everything. I mean, I didn't ruin making cookies. I didn't ruin mates. I didn't ruin myself. Don't generalize or you will look like a fool, Edward," the telepath in front of me growls.

So like, I did you a favor and cut him off from your thoughts. Don't ask, I just did. Makes things better for you anyways. But...but I can't make him look like a fool now. Just call him a fool and you'll be fine, babes.

"How could you?" Edward turns to his sire. "How could you join them? Our enemies."

"The Volturi have many enemies, but you will never be one. I will never be an enemy of my friends and my family. I have told you what happens when you disregard the law and you just don't care as long as it keeps Bella human. Guess what, Edward, sometimes you just have to figure out that the adults are talking," Carlisle looks quite bored, ready to go already.

"It's that woman. The woman who can change the bonds-" Marcus and Aro roll their eyes and groan. Aro had come down from Carlisle's bedroom and now was able to watch the scene in front of him, Jasper at his side.

"No, you asinine fool, it is not Chelsea. God, Edward, can't you see why I left? Why did I stop being a coven leader? I am blind. I have always been blind. Ever since I have created this coven, I have allowed you to get away with everything. I did it because I was an idiot, not because I was nice. I see that now," Aro scoffed at the idea that his friend was somehow an idiot.

"I would not be friends with an idiot," Aro declares.

Edward snarls again at my mate. Thankfully, I did not have to see Bella come in.

I had to see Alice come in.

"What are you all doing here?" What, did she not know? The Volturi are quite unknown to her and she cannot relate to so many of you because your gifts do not work in the way that hers does. I have also made a small shield. I don't like her. She focuses on one outcome and one outcome only. She has hurt Jasper as well. I like him.

"Getting our stuff and we will be out of your hair. I promise," Jasper grabs the bag of stuff he had gotten from his room

"You're leaving?" She almost sounded hurt. "Jasper, we're married-"

"Get the damn divorce papers then," Jasper deadpanned. He was done with her. He couldn't go back to her, not after she had neglected him and joined in on the Anna hate gang.

It was at that moment that Isabella Masen had come in. Of course, she would be calling herself Bella Cullen, but we all knew Carlisle was not going to be happy with her either.

"Volturi," she yelps, looking at my mates, who were now situated around me. Marcus ran his hands through my hair before he kissed my head lovingly. Caius held one of my hands as he glared at the newlyweds and the seer.

"Go away, Isabella," I glared at her.

"What the hell is wrong with you all? What did you do to her?" She questions.

"I turned her," Marcus admits.

"I stole her innocence," everyone groans as Caius smirks at the girl, looking proud of his accomplishment.

"I..." Aro looks at me and then looks at the rest of the group. "I shouldn't share that information."

"No, go on," Emmett ushers, "Do tell."

"Emmett!" Rose hits her mate on the back of the head.

"You would choose sex over humanity? Over children that you so desperately wanted?" So who's gonna tell her-Not me. Not me either.

"I mean the sex was spectacular but that just isn't the point-" I cut myself off. Aro and Caius smirk. Carlisle bangs his head against one of his degrees, not needing to know that information. "I mean, kids are great, but the pregnancy sounds awful. It isn't personal, Isabella, but I find my mates better than cheap telepathic dicks. You'll find out that he probably doesn't compare."

"You!" Bella points to my mates, who were giving me lots of attention as I insulted them. "She chose you three over me, over us. We were her friends, I considered her my sister, but she chose you over me! You are the ones who corrupted her. Annalise was doing amazing in Forks. She had the chance to be human. You ruined her. I hope you're happy."

"Would you get mad if I said that we are happy?" Marcus snarks, taking in a sharp breath. Bella lets out a screech and tries to throw a lamp at my mates and I. I growl, running up to her, grabbing her by the throat.

"I will do exactly what I did to Edward if you do that. The only problem is that you are human and you will die if I do that. Go ahead, live a good life with Edward, have sex. I bet he can't even do it," I knew the consequences of that, but she deserved it. She deserved to be confused over a pregnancy with a vampire.

It was my punishment for her.

"We can leave, we have all that we need, Anna," Jasper announced.

"Toodles, little dick."