Iridescence | Edward x OC

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Feel the fear, and do it anyway.

                                                         - Susan Jeffers
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Aris scoffed. "You're kidding, right?" Osiris shook his head no. "You want me to kill someone? And not only that, but someone that I care deeply for?"

Osiris chuckled. "I wish there could be some other way, but the fact that you care deeply for him is sort of just icing on the cake, in a sick and twisted way. Since you seem to know the Cullen's so well, they'll never see it coming, so the task should be fairly easy."

"And what if I don't do it?" She challenged.

"We've been over this. I'll simply just bring you to the Volturi, and then they'll give you the same choice that they gave me - join them or die." He shrugged. "I'm giving you a way out, Aris, and I'm truly not asking for much."

She groaned, slumping her head in her hands. "Why can't you just do it? I mean, why do you even want him dead in the first place?"

"Ah, that truly is a lovely story." He sighed, putting his hands behind his head. "Edward and I go way back, and from your cluelessness about why I'd want him dead, tells me that he hasn't told you the story, or probably even mentioned me for that matter, I'm assuming?"

Aris shook her head no, causing him to tsk. "Well, to put it in its simplest terms, Edward killed my fiancé about three decades ago when he'd just moved to Oregon." He shrugged. "I only later found out that the reason he'd moved to Oregon in the first place was due to the tragedy that took place the previous year in Forks."

Aris scoffed. "Edward doesn't just kill for no reason, there has to be something that your fiancé did, or was doing, for him to act like that."

Osiris hummed. "Sure, my fiancé wasn't completely innocent, but the reason for Edward murdering him was unjustified." He scoffed. "My fiancé was simply just hunting, seeing as he was compelled to do so because that's what vampires need to do to survive. However, Edward didn't seem to like that." He continued. "We were out and about, walking around in a mostly deserted part of town, when my fiancé got a whiff of someone's blood that he wanted for himself. We tracked down the person, who just so happened to be a teenage girl, probably around your age or so. Luckily for us, the girl was by herself in a back alley, most likely waiting for an Uber or something." He explained. "She wasn't my preference for my fiancé's prey, since she was so young, but once he smelled someone that he knew would satiate his appetite, who was I to stand in his way, even if it was only a teenage girl? Anyways, like usual, I stood back while he did his thing, drinking the young girl's blood, but your dear friend Edward happened to catch us as that was happening." He sighed. "Something must've hit close to home, watching my fiancé drink a teenage girl's blood, and Edward didn't like that. My fiancé was too focused on his kill to notice as Edward came up from behind, ripping him to shreds easily, and I was too weak at the time to stop him." Aris struggled to understand how Osiris had managed to keep his tone so casual, talking about his fiancé's death like this.

"Edward burned my fiancé's body, though let me be. I could tell he wasn't a killer, and as grateful as I was that he hadn't decided to kill me too, I still vowed to get my revenge on him that day." He continued darkly. "I needed to mourn though, so stupidly enough, I decided to run away to Italy, where I was then captured by Jane and Felix who happened to cross my path as they were out looking for iridescent's." He scoffed at his unfortunance. "And now you're caught up. Living in Volterra and working for them, I'd never gotten a chance to plan out my revenge on Edward Cullen, but when you just so happened to be in the same place as him, I couldn't believe my luck." He finished, smiling.