Paradise I Wish! Truly I Do

Paradise Epilogue: Your Sins Will Catch You Out!

A/N: The end is nearly now here and all is soon to be right in Bella's world, going to split it in 2 as it's just too long otherwise. xx Alexis

Paradise Epilogue Part 1

'The trial was a spectacle of epic fucked up proportions! Many revelations came to light that day and several shocking things were learned by all who attended. It basically happened like this!'

As the charges against Edward were read out first, he started to pompously interrupt, still not getting that he was a nobody here, just a peculiarity to be ridiculed. Jane dropped him like a stone and Jasper filled him with so much fear that he felt like he dared not call out. Aro raised his hand and they both stopped,

"If you speak out of turn again Edward, I will have your head removed for the remainder of the trial! I'm sure it sitting in a bowl of blood is quite sufficient for our needs" Aro stated quite matter of fact like and every grievance he'd had since arriving dried up on his tongue.

'I want to see that, yes I do!' I pleaded in my head to no avail.

Aro then explained to the assembly what he'd read from Edward's mind, his complete indifference to the plight of his targets and basically anyone else who got in his way. His firm belief that he was a superior being and should not be held accountable for crimes against humans for any reason, but also his lack of knowledge of the vampire world.

How he has always used threats, coercion and blackmail to get what he wanted, again against both humans and his own coven, even murdering any humans who opposed him. But worse of all, in the beginning, he didn't even drain them, he felt himself above others of his kind who would have chosen to do so.

Disgruntled sounds were heard around the room, yes, they were food many said, but only a fool would waste the blood. It was also a known fact that only the weak preyed upon humans for any other reason they grumbled, it was beneath the human drinking vampire to do so. After all, they were hardly a challenge to them, so Edward became the recipient of much scorn and sneering from his peers.

He had never been seen and I'm sure felt so much like an oddity, as he did now. For once he was without a doubt, out of his depth, these were real vampires and they were unimpressed by him, or the other two Cullens.

"But like all small-minded, delusional beings, even his demands were mediocre and banal. He lacked the intelligence to gain any real power that he should have been looking for!" Aro informed the crowd scathingly,

"I have ascertained from Edward himself how minor his gift is, reading only surface thoughts of all, humans and vampires alike. He has at no point tried to strengthen his gift, to give it depth or a longer reach, finding himself to be 'Practically Perfect In Every Way!' Therefore it is weak and worthless in the extreme" Aro informed the crowd. He then called his first witness, Rosalie Hale Volturi of the Paradise and Volturi covens.

'Fuck me, did Aro just quote Mary Poppins?' I thought looking around the room,

glancing at Demetri, I frowned as this was happening and he nodded his head to me imperceptibly, with a little smirk,

'I was right he had, but why?' I had no idea, but it was strange,

Rose came forward and was asked about the coven before Alice and Jasper arrived, she explained that Edward made all of the decisions right or wrong, how he often had tantrums until he got his way if anyone else made a more favourable, or sensible suggestion.

He would threaten both Esme and her with violence if they went against him until Emmett arrived and showed Edward what he'd do to him if he tried it then. Thus things quietened down on the home front, but he became more secretive and outright nasty when Carlisle was not present.