Paradise I Wish! Truly I Do

Villa Paradiso: Trials And Tribulations!

A/N:- Just a little lemonette in this chap, I'm leaving most to your own imaginations. Two more chaps to round it off, an epilogue of sorts xx Alexis

Bella contacted Emmett and asked him to check for missing male persons up to five years before her own change in the Seattle area, this was where her brother awoke to this life. He didn't really know how long ago it was and had started wandering almost immediately, his instinct knowing not to stay in one place. Giving Emmett his description helped narrow it down and within eighteen hours he had the answer.

Two people had gone missing at the same time, Bree Tanner and Riley Biers, so they assumed poor Bree ended up in the sex trade business and Riley got caught in the crossfire, protecting his new stepsister. As his sire's bite was on his leg of all places it was assumed, Laurent once again fucked up and bit an escaping prisoner. Then either not checking if he was dead or lazily not tidying up his kills left Riley to turn unknowingly.

' Dead God the man was a total moron, no wonder James wanted rid of him, what a dumb ass!'

Aro was delighted with the news and although no fault of his own Riley needed to be seen to be punished. So he was being held in Volterra, for a still to be determined length of time. Where he would be given intensive vampire training and taught how to fight properly and allowed to finish his education if he wanted to.

PIWTID

Down below in the dungeons silence reigned, Edward and Alice could hardly believe it. No thoughts, words or visions, it was as if he'd disappeared completely. Though they could still smell his scent so knew he was there. Malachi had lucid periods once in a while, less and less as the centuries passed, so it was at that moment he came back to himself and sat motionless absorbing the world around him, while like this his own mind became absolutely blank.

He see's past, present and future events, knows the entire truth about everything and everybody, this is why Aro keeps him alive, but he wants to die now, he is so tired of this life and the cage he is in. His gift had driven him insane over the long centuries.

Therefore as always, he wrote a message to Aro as quickly as he could before losing himself once again. He had recognised Carlisle's scent on the two prisoners either side of him, admitting to Aro, to being Carlisle's sire, therefore, Alice and Edward's grandfather by venom.

This was where Alice's insanity and visions came from, due to her being a blood relative of Carlisle and Edwards his evil malicious streak, not dissimilar to Carlisle's own, also passed down from Malachi.

Luckily for the others, Esme, Rose and Emmett they had not inherited these traits, maybe because they had no gifts to speak of, mind you, Rose did have one hell of a temper if crossed, after all, Aro knew what she'd done to her killers.

Malachi had been banned long ago by the Romanians from transforming anyone so as not to pass on his insanity and other undesirable ways, but had lost his grip while in London and had attacked Carlisle. He, after all, reasoned that he hadn't been told not to by the Volturi brothers, this had been his skewed logic at the time.

PIWTID

Bella decided to do something about Demetri, he had been so apologetic and hard on himself he could barely look Bella in the eye anymore. So it was, that after a training session, where Charlotte and Jane were now teaching Bella and Esme to fight she set her plan in motion.

Everyone had showered and left, but Bella stood in the centre of the room wearing one of Jane's cloaks. When Demetri turned up, obviously unaware she was there, he saw Bella and liked the look immensely,

"Thinking of trying out for a place in my guard Miss Swan?" Demetri asked smiling at the thought, he'd love nothing more than to have her under him, literally.