A New King (Caius Volturi X male Oc)

~~~~~~~CHAPTER TWO: WHAT JUST HAPPENED?~~~~~~~

Henry

In the almost week since I had been home, dad has been able to get more sleep, and while still helping him with Bella, I was also able to do a lot of college course work. He left earlier this morning for work, and at some point, Bella had decided to go out for a little while, which I agreed to because I was hoping her getting fresh air will help her finally come out of her funk.

I finished packing up my book bag and my bag of spare clothes, since I had promised Jacob Black that I would come over to spend a 'guys' night with him while Bella was with a friend. As I finish my lunch though, a knock in my sister's room startles me, and I run up the stairs, cell phone in hand and ready to call dad to tell him if something is wrong when I see a pixy like girl emerge from Bella's door, a look of horror on her face when she sees me. 

"I take it you are chief Swan's son,Bella's older brother who was living in California?" 

Her bell like voice is a bit unsettling, and she looks like she is combating serious concern within herself. But I answer her question with a nod anyways, making sure to secretly pocket my cell until I can get to a better vantage point to call my father if it so needs to be done.

"Have you talked to your sister? Has she called you lately? I am her friend Alice, and she hasn't answered my calls, which is not normal for her." Alice lies smoothly, making sure the brunette's brother is not suspicious of her real motive of the line of questions.

"I haven't talked to her since this morning, but I can try and call her, tell her dad wants her home, I just have to get my phone from my room." I say, something feels off with this pixy, who seems to be looking rather troubled. I'm not sure if it is because she has snuck out of a family house while grounded, or if she was trying to avoid my dad due to some record, but I had to make sure she was unaware I knew something was off.

"Of course. Do you mind if I just wait down in the living room?" 

"Go ahead, I will be there as soon as possible to help you in any way I can to get a hold of my sister." I say, walking to the bathroom, but making it look like it was my bedroom, since I already have my cell, and she has already gone down the stairs. 

Just as I get ready to call my dad, I hear her shouting at Bella, her voice much less soft than it had been earlier, more like an upset parent. 

"Bella! What were you thinking, you could have died." 

"Alice,chill. I was just cliff jumping." Bella says, my sister's voice becoming agitated, and soon I realize, something more sinister is going on in this town, the following words coming from Alice cause anxiety to fill my veins.

"Bella, what is that god awful wet dog smell?" 

"That's probably Jacob." My ears perk at my sister saying his name, and I silently creep from the bathroom to the top of the stairs, watching in the shadows with confusion and worry, why the hell would she say Jacob was the reason she smelled like wet dogs? He didn't have a dog..

"Bella! Wear wolves aren't good company to keep!" Alice hisses, my eyebrows shooting up to my hairline, now this was interesting.. I remember the legend's that Billy Black told me and Jake as kids for bedtime..The cold ones...Oh fuck, my sister is alone with a vampire, I have to do something. And I have to do it now.

"Bella, Edward thinks you died, he's going to the Volturi..He wants to die too. The only way he will belive you're alive is if you do it, he will read my mind and think I am lying." Alice now sounds sad, and I practically fly down the stairs, my long brown curls bouncing behind me, my freckled face clearly painted with what can only be described as a protective brother on a tare, and try to get between Bella and this Alice I now suspect to be a Vampire. 

"My baby sister is not going anywhere with you alone, if she really must  go, I will be going with her. My dad told me about her running off the first time, and if you think I will let her go on her own to track down her suicidal boyfriend without me to protect her, and keep an eye on her for my father, you are dead wrong little lady." The growl-like tone leaves even Bella stunned, not used to such standoffish behavior coming from me, but at the moment, manners are the least of my worries. 

"That's not a good idea, if anything, you should stay here with your father,keep him calm until your sister is home." Alice tries to reason, only to be met with the shaking of brown curls and freckles on a reddening face becoming more noticeable under the hazel brown eyes.

"It's my duty to protect her, and that is final. I go with her, or she won't go at all, and your brother who from what I have heard, left my sister in the WOODS to freeze after breaking her heart will have to deal." My hands gently wrap around Bella's shoulder as I keep myself between her and this Alice, though she had tried to separate us.

For a moment, the potential vampire chick freezes, her unnatural topaz eyes suddenly glazing over, and then once she comes to, she sighs with a dejected slump of her shoulders, "Fine, but just know that this will cause you to have some...minor set backs." 

"Alice, you can't seriously let him come with us!" Bella says, at the same time as Jacob growls and says, "YOU are letting HIM go be with more blood sucking leaches?? They could KILL him." 

Before my voice can even conjure a response, we are being whisked away to a fancy car by cold hands, shoving us and our bags into the car and leaving Jacob grovelling through a window to my sister and myself.

"Please, don't do this. Please." Jacob begs, his voice shaking and his knuckles turning white from the grip they have created around nothing amidst the chaos of the last five minutes. 

The flight to Italy is a blur, Bella and Alice quietly catching up, and me left to ponder my thoughts as I recount what led me to this moment, and wonder if I had made the right choice in trying to protect Bella, or if I should have told Alice that neither of us would be going and I would call my father in if needed. But my gut feelings were telling me that a storm was brewing within my life, and while inevitable, it was coming sooner rather than later.

Alice stealing a car and rushing like a demon to an old creepy castle was definitely not how I had envisioned my next few days going, and while breathtaking, the scenery felt ominous. When I snap out of my thoughts, Bells is long gone, running through a crowd while the fairy like girl looks at me and says, "There is no turning back now, but please, whatever you do. Just do what I say and don't draw attention to yourself." 

I comply but wonder what is in the future for me, a castle filled with what I can only assume is vampires, and now my little sister and I are thrown into it like being ejected from a plane in a sky dive, but the parachute is taking a bit long to deploy, and as we walk in, I zone out, Alice talking, this Edward guy trying to protect my sister and suddenly me as some other people, ones with creepy crimson eyes come to us, telling us some guy named Aro wants him. Jesus Belly-bear, what did you get into while I have been in college?

A grand room is the next thing my brain registers, three chairs with more creepy people who seem to be all too eager for the arrival of our little gaggle. More vampires. Edward nods at me, making me draw back in apprehension of the many bodies in the room, these ones look far less friendly than Edward and his sister. And my worry for Bella only increased. I don't want her getting killed by some bloodthirsty monsters.

Caius and Henry 

As my eyes trace over the people in the room, they land on someone so breathtaking, it felt like the wind was knocked out of me. He was beautiful, stunning beyond all belief, and looked like he was straight out of a fairy tale. 

Henry 

A laugh breaks me from my trance, and seems to knock the blonde with shoulder length straight hair out of our joint trance. What just happened...?