ᴏᴍɢ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴇxᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀꜱᴛ ʀᴇᴀʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴏᴍɢɢɢɢɢɢɢɢ.

ꜱᴏ ʟɪᴋᴇ ɪ ꜱᴀɪᴅ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪ ꜱᴀɪᴅ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ.

Our arrival went unnoticed by all of the locals. Many of the cities that we had to sneak through didn't care to notice that about a hundred people were travelling through the area at high speeds. The fact that we are all wearing black coats also doesn't help.

While it was quite dark out today, we still did have to stay out of the sun. Staying in alleyways did help us get around, as many of the large cities all had connected alleyways. We were lucky that no low end people or criminals were chilling inside of them. That could have been a mess waiting to happen. A bunch of people missing and connected in LA would not make for a good impression on our part.

The town that I once found some comfort in felt drier than ever. Even with the cloudy skies and the snow, the place was a desert of old and fractured memories. Many of the people who had lived here betrayed me in ways I never thought possible.

Speaking badly about me was one thing, creating an army to attack the people I loved was another. The latter was unforgivable. Edward, Bella, and Alice may not die today, but they will never be allowed to step into Italy or into any gathering we have. Our social events will not involve them. To us, they won't exist.

Until they break the law, that is.

Quite a few laws concerning people attending trials would have to be made after this. First of all, limiting three witnesses per defendant. Likely we would make sure that these witnesses were from one coven and not just one from three different covens. Nomads would count as a coven, as they are alone. That makes maybe seven of these people able to come in the end. The Olympic coven maybe had four members left and yet they were able to grab about thirty vampires.

Things would be changing after this trial. No more division like this. If you have personal ties to a defendant, you are not allowed to watch like we would have other covens do. I mean, they would try to pull some but you have witnesses as well bullshit.

There, plothole fixed with my own damn venom.

Stefan wants a fight. Damn, Maeve, what's new? Nahuel and Huilen want to protect the young Masen girl and are being manipulated into thinking that the Volturi will try to destroy Nahuel if they don't fight against their rule to kill Renesmee. Ridiculous, you haven't made a ruling yet. What the hell are they even playing at anymore?

Did Alice see any of your faulty visions? She may be using that to her advantage. I mean, you did make it seem like we were coming in for the kill. I blocked her. What do you mean you blocked her? Her visions, I blocked them entirely. She can't see you or any of your family members until I will it so.

After everything that Maeve was supposedly able to do, blocking Alice shouldn't have seemed surprising. No shocker. The problem was that it was a shocker and I was surprised. Doing something like that, having a damn voice inside of my head be able to block another person's gift, it was confusing.

Whatever Maeve was, I knew that she was powerful.

They haven't noticed our presence or our scents. Alice is confused on why she cannot see what is about to happen. She thinks that either you aren't coming until sunset or you have found a way to block out her powers. Hah, it wasn't Anna, hoe, it was me. That it was. Though at least she is smart enough to know when her powers could be failing her. What else do you see, Maeve?

Currently Jacob is reluctantly on their side. Pure guilt tripping, I promise. He hates Edward and Bella and actually considers just taking Renesmee and leaving. Poor guy, having to imprint on a child. Not his fault, though, those kinds of things can't be helped. Anyways, the young girl doesn't really care about what is about to go down, she just doesn't want to have a fight. Cute little thing, but Helios is prettier. I mean, she kind of looked creepy as a baby. Helios just looked so cute when he was smaller. Kind of wish he were human just so we could have that for longer.

Have her gifts manifested further? No, not really, for the most part she can communicate via touch and break mental shields. Not very powerful, but it is quite odd that she has two gifts. Like Heelie. My son has two gifts? You haven't noticed? Quite like Aro's sister, Helios has the ability to make people happy. It isn't induction, but it is more like a way that he interacts with people. Their bonds light up and bring them happiness. He can't see the bonds and doesn't have much control over it.

Marcus hasn't told me anything about our son's bonds. Then again, we had been quite busy worrying about this 'battle'. Time to ourselves would be hard to find. Aro would have been able to notice through Marcus' memories.

The two of them were just thick, I guess.

Our two sides would now face off. They had not noticed us, but I had been able to see them gathering for about half an hour. Other hybrids had joined them, Nahuel's sisters. Serena, Maysun, and Jennifer. The last one is actually younger than you, believe it or not. She is matured, but still young. I think you would like her. She is like the only sister Nahuel likes. Joham is not here. I don't like him. Scientist or not, he basically murders women by getting them pregnant with his spawn.

I couldn't disagree with Maeve, what he did was borderline murder. Of course the Volturi didn't have any laws against doing such things.

We might need to change that soon. Too many hybrids would be a problem. Possible regulations may need to be set in stone after the trial. I mean, these hybrids are great and all, but what would happen if one of them were found by a human after their birth? If someone was not there to care for them before and after the birth, it could become an issue of exposure.
Some of the other vampires there were unrecognizable. Many had red eyes, but a few did have golden eyes just like the Olympic Coven.

One coven that I did recognize was the Denali Coven where Irina had come from. All of them fed from animals and were quite peaceful according to Maeve. They just wished to protect the child, not kill the Volturi or go against us. In the end, they were going against us based on their fears of our potential amorality.

I could respect that.

"Cara mia, that's a lot of people," Caius whispers, fixing his coat. Quite a few more people than I was expecting. People were here to defend the child and prove themselves witness to the fact that she was not purely immortal and had never been turned by another vampire. To do so would be illegal, an immortal child, that of which she was not.

Little do they know, we already know that.

"We will be fine, amore, they don't know the real reason why we are here. Do not punish the Denali's, they only wish to protect an innocent hybrid child," I whisper right back.

"Of course, cara mia, but I am worried that they may attack us first. I mean, look at them all. Stefan is right there and looks ready to kill us all. What an idiot. This fight could be one that we were not expecting."

"Whatever Stefan wants, he will not get," Aro buds in, voice low. "By the time that he could even get a chance to see what is really happening, his head will be in the fire I plan to set for him."

A wicked smile is plastered on my mate's face. Stefan had been the one to kill Didyme, his baby sister. He had murdered her right in front of Marcus, who was unable to stop him. You will be avenged, Didyme, I promise. I know that you can't hear me, but I will make sure that your death was not in vain. The Romanians will be put to death. They will never be able to hurt children or women anymore.

"I do suspect that I will get to play a part in that little plan you have cooking up, brother," Marcus had come to his brother's side. "Maybe we can get Jane to have some fun with him. Make the death painful."

"Such good ideas from you today, Marcus," Aro praises.

"Two millennia of good ideas from me, brother. What he did to her will never happen to anyone again if I have a say in it."

"Ideas of revenge do sound like a good way to pass your time as an immortal. He will pay, we will make sure of it. No matter what happens with the Olympic Coven and their allies, the man who took my sister and your wife away from us will pay the price. Stefan's sins will not go unnoticed."

"Didyme deserved so much better."

"That she did. Out of everything I regret, making sure that she stayed protected with our entire guard, no matter how small at the time, will be my greatest regret."

"I should have done more."

"What choice did you have, Marcus? They held you down while they...killed her. You did everything that you could have done. You gave her the best immortal life that she could have dreamed of. I do hope that she is in a better place now. She was not born to be a killer. My sister was good in all regards."

"What we would all do to speak to her one last time," Caius mutters. "I think that we can all agree that we miss her dearly."

"I do wish that she got to see Anna," Aro gives me a weak smile, "Or Helios, or Jane and Alec. Lord, she would have spoilt them to bits if she were here. I think she always did want a child of her own. Adopted, she never wanted to go through pregnancy. Too risky, I think I knew that too well."

"No matter what happened or what she did or didn't get to see, she can be at peace knowing that you three have your mates and have coven children of your own," I kiss each of my mate's cheeks.

Even if I did not know Didyme, I knew just how much she meant to the coven. Marcus had been destroyed after he lost her. While Aro did not show it, her loss did still leave a hole in his heart that not even I could fill with my own love.

I had no siblings. No known siblings at least. I did not know what it felt like to lose someone that close to you. The worst I had gone through was when I was separated from my friend in foster care. Her time had been up and she went back with her abusive parents. I wonder how Lorelei is doing right now. God, I haven't talked to her since before I turned. She must know that I'm missing by now. She wouldn't think that I had died. No, I always did want to leave America and go somewhere else, somewhere I could find to call home.

Before my mates I didn't have family or a home. God, before them I didn't even have a strong will to live. My capability to keep myself alive and healthy just was lacking at that point in my life. Now I have everything, but things are not normal yet. No, things would not be anywhere near normal until after this trial.

Taking one step onto the snow, I bring myself one step closer to normality.