Three of a Kind Ch. 04

Hey, got this one out fast right? lol anyway we starting off again from were we left off. (If you didn't read the other, plz do.) Thanks for the reviews.. xoxoxo

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Bpov

"Well from what I can remember when I was human me, Aro and Caius worked together and had become friends almost immediately."

"One day we were leaving the palace to do some shopping and all three of us got pulled forcefully into an alleyway. We didn't know what the hell was going on because there was no one around us. All of a sudden we heard a laugh coming from down the alleyway and turned to watch a man with bright red eyes and pale skin walking towards up."

"I don't remember much of what happened after that until the fire took over my body. I wasn't sure how long I was burning for but it felt like years. I could hear my friends screaming beside me but there was nothing I could do, my body was incapable of moving. So I just laid there and screamed alongside my friends."

"Finally the fire started to leave my legs and arms, but unfortunately all the fire that was in my arms and legs settled in my heart. It was the worst pain imaginable. Then all of a sudden the pain just stopped along with the beating of my heart."

"I was so confused when the pain was gone. I could hear everything and taste everything. It felt like my brain had grown to triple its mass, I was able to think about dozens of things at once without getting confused. Then I opened my eyes. Nothing looked the way it used to, everything was so much clearer and I could even see the little speckles of dust that where floating around me." Marcus stopped talking and looked at me.

"Why don't we move over by the water and get a little more comfortable." Marcus said. He picked up all the leftover food and my plate and put it all away. He grabbed the blanket that we were sitting on and walked over to a tree that was next to the edge of the water. He spread the blanket out by the tree and sat down with his back to the tree so he was looking out at the water. I walked over to Marcus and sat between his legs with my back to his chest and leaned back on him. He wrapped his arms around my waist and started to play with the hem of my shirt.

Marcus returned to telling me his story.

"I started to sit up when I had the strangest feeling that I wasn't alone. I shot up like a bullet into the corner of the room as far away from the "threat" as possible. Once I settled down and actually looked at who was there I saw Aro and Caius in opposite corners of the room doing the same thing as me. I couldn't help but notice that their eyes where the most brilliant red and their skin was alabaster white. After a few moments of feeling each other out we walked back into the center of the room and started shooting questions at one another until we heard a voice in the background say 'I can explain everything if you three shut up for a minute.' All three of us turn to the man that walked into the room and started growling at him as we got into a defensive crouch."

"He explained what happened to us. We were so angry, we couldn't figure out why he would do this to us. So we asked him why. He said 'I am building an army so I can rule over all vampires'. We were furious to find out we were created to be soldiers. Within a split second after he said that we had him tore apart and burned him."

"One day we were passing through a little village, which just so happens to be this one, and came across three nomads that where terrorizing the people of this village. We went to the head of the town and asked him if we fixed his problem with the nomads, if he would allow us to take up permanent residency in his village, and we would promises never to hunt anywhere near here. He was a little hesitant at first but eventually accepted."

"That night we took care of the nomads and the head of the town was so happy he gave us the castle that we live in now. The villagers even helped us fix it up."

"From that day on we decided we needed to put a stop to vampires like the ones we came across when we moved here. Vampires needed boundaries just like humans to keep the world running as smoothly as possible. We started recruiting gifted vampires to help us out. long story short this is pretty much what we ended up with." Marcus leaned his head down and kissed my cheek.

I didn't even know what to say. These three men have been through so much to get to where they are today. All that came out of my mouth was "wow."

"Well Isabella since I told you a little about my life why don't you tell me a little about yours." Marcus said.

"Well let's see, I was born on September 13th, I am 18 years old. My parents are Renee Dwyer and Charlie Swan. When I was 6 months old my mom decided she didn't want to be with my dad anymore and took me with her to California. We ended up staying there for a while, but finally moved to Arizona."

"Renee was always kind of scatterbrained and impulsive. She would often forget to pay the bills because something more important caught her eye so I took over the mother roll while she became the child. I think I was about 15 when my mom met Phil he was trying to get into major leagues baseball when they started seeing each other. Phil's a good guy, he takes real good care of my mom but I could tell my mom wasn't happy having to stay home with me while Phil was on the road. So I decided to go and live with my dad so my mom could be with Phil."

"It had been a few years since the last time I had seen my dad, but he was more than happy for me to come home to him. I started school a couple days after I got to Forks, and let's just say, that's when my life got interesting, that's when I met the Cullen's."

"I first saw them in the cafeteria at lunch. They were the most beautiful people I had ever seen. It's kind of funny because I think the first time I saw them I know something was different about them they were just too beautiful. Lunch ended and I went off to biology that's when I had my first one on one encounter with Edward, the teacher sat me right next to him. It didn't go over well, he stayed as far away from me as possible while covering his nose and mouth. I was kind of getting pissed off because It looked like he was insinuating that I stunk and I knew for a fact I didn't. Once class ended he bolted out of the room so fast my head spun."

"I didn't see him for almost a week after that. Then one day he just shows back up and tries to be my friend."

"One day I was standing next to my truck and one of the guys I go to school with lost control of his van when he hit a patch of black ice. The van came sliding towards me, as it was about to hit I closed my eyes. All of a sudden I was pushed out of the way and landed on the ground and all I heard was the sound of bending metal. I opened my eyes to see Edward kind of lying but crouched over me with his hand in the center of a big dent in the side of the minivan. I asked him a few times how he did it but he would always beat around the bush."

"Finally one day I went to the beach on the Indian reservation a few miles away and met up with one of my friends that lives there. His buddies had said something along the lines of the Cullen's weren't allowed on their land and I asked him about it. He told me a story about the Cullen's making a treaty with them stating if they promised not to hunt on their land they could take up residence in Forks. He called the Cullen's 'the cold ones.'

"I did a little research and put two and two together and I figured out what they were. I confronted Edward about it and he told me the truth about him being a vampire and how they lived the veggie diet. I was intrigued and also falling in love with Edward. We were inseparable from that day on."

"Well we were inseparable at least until my 18th birthday."

I stopped talking for a minute.

"Marcus do you mind if I leave the rest of the story to tell when all four of us are together? I really only want to have to say it once. It was a really bad time in my life and the fewer times I have to repeat it the better." I asked him

"That's no problem at all Isabella. Thank you for sharing your story with me." Marcus said.

"Marcus I wanted to call my dad today but I don't know what to say to him about where I am and why. I was wondering if you had any ideas?" I asked.

"I think we could come up with something believable. Let's go find Aro and Caius and we will put our heads together and come up with something." He said.

"That sounds good to me." I said as I turned around to face Marcus. I gave him a hug and a sweet kiss on the lips before we started packing everything up to heading back in to find Aro and Caius. I wonder what cover story we will come up with. This should be interesting.

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Alice pov

As I pulled up the driveway to the house I saw Jasper waiting for me at the end of the driveway. I was so happy to see him, it's so hard spending time like this away from one another even for a situation like this. It was physically starting to hurt my chest.

Once the car was parked I jumped out of the car right into his arms, wrapping my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist, I gave him a huge kiss on the lips. Once I pulled away from his lips he said. "Darlin' I missed you so much. You are never allowed to leave me for that long again."

"Aww Jazzy I don't plan on ever leaving you that long again. I have missed you so much." I gave him a worried look and whispered so no one in the house was able to hear. "How was Edward when he got back here?"

Jasper had a worried look on his face. "Ali I'm not sure, he never made it back. What's going on and where is Bella?"

Oh shit! He should have made it back before me. This can't be good at all. "Jazz lets go in the house, I need to talk to everyone at once. I think we have a problem."

As we walked in too the house everyone was already sitting in the living room.

"Welcome back Alice. We have all missed you." Carlisle said while walking over to me with Esme next to him and giving me a fatherly hug.

After Carlisle released me from his hug Esme took me in her arm and gave me a hug. "We missed you daughter. If you don't mind me asking, where are Edward and Bella. Didn't they come home with you?" Esme said with sadness in her eyes. Since the day Edward told us we were leaving Forks no one has been the same, especially Esma. Bella was truly a daughter to her.

"Yeah where's my Jelly belly?" Emmett asks with brotherly love radiating off of him.

"Why don't we all have a seat and I will explain everything." We all got comfortable. I started to explain.

"I take it Rose explained to everyone that Bella was fine when I got to her house and that I had a vision of Edward going to the Volturi to kill himself?" I asked. Everyone nodded that she had in fact told them all.

"Bella agreed to go to Italy with me to try to save Edward. I had to send her by herself through the streets of Volterra to save Edward because if I hadn't he would have heard my thoughts and exposed himself before we could get to him. When I got there I seen that Bella was successful in stopping Edward but the brothers sent Jane, Felix and Dimetri to retrieve Edward.

"We all got escorted to the throne room, and let me tell you I was not prepared for what happened when we got there. At first it looked like the brothers where going to kill Bella without one word being said from anyone. Bella got scared and whimpered and the next thing I know the brothers where by her side in a split second purring to her and stroking her hair and arms." Everyone gasped in shock. "Yeah I know, who would have thought the three big bad vampires had a soft spot."

"Anyways, Edward flipped out. Thank god Felix had him restrained or he would most likely be dead right now." I said.

Rose interrupted me and said. "Why in the world would the brothers comfort a human, it just doesn't make any sense?"

"It almost sounds like they were comforting there..." Carlisle stopped his train of thought and started to rub his temple. I think he was starting to figure out where I was going with this. "Wait a minute Alice you're telling me that they were purring? They only time you will hear a vampire purr is when they are purring to their.."

"Anima Gemella, yes that's correct." I interrupted him.

Carlisle took in a huge gulp of air and got off the couch and started pacing the room.

"Can someone please explain what the hell is going on? And what the hell is an Anima Gemella?" Emmett said raising his voice.

"Anima Gemella means soul mate. It just so happens that our beautiful little Isabella Swan is Aro, Marcus, and Caius true soul mate." I said right before everyone in the house hissed.

"Alice how could you say that, you know your brother is mated to Bella?" Esme said. Damn she is pissed.

"Esme I had a vision while I was there. They are going to make her so happy, happier then I had ever seen her. They are meant to be together." After I finished talking Esme started crying, Carlisle went over to his mate and comforted her.

"Alice I am still a little confused, if Bella is going to be so happy then why did I hear you tell Jasper there was a problem?" Carlisle asked.

"Ever since we left Volterra the vision that I had of Bella kept changing." I took a deep breath. I just had to spit it out. "In some of the visions I see Edward kidnapping Bella and draining her, in other visions I see him getting himself killed trying to get to Bella. There is a lot more I have been getting but I really don't want to talk about them. Edward is furious. I don't know if he is just blowing off some steam or if he is really going to follow through with one of my visions. And now he has gone missing. He told me he was going to run home to think and he never made it here." I said with worry in my voice.

"We need to find Edward as soon as possible. Alice, try to get a vision of where Edward is and in the meantime let's all split up and go search for him. Keep your cell phones on so we can communicate to one another." Carlisle said. And with that we took off looking for Edward.

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Bpov

When we got done putting away the stuff from our picnic we headed over to Aro's office to talk about what to say to my dad. I couldn't think of any story to tell him. Marcus opened the door to the office and we walked in. As soon as I walked through the door Aro had me wrapped in his arms giving me a hug and then passed me over to Caius to do the same.

"Hello Cara Mia. We missed you. How was your picnic? And may I say you look ravishing today?" Aro said while eye fucking me. I couldn't help but blush.

"I am doing well Aro and the picnic was lovely. I am making myself a promise that I will explore the castle's gardens, the one we went to was beautiful. How has both of your day gone?" I asked Aro and Caius.

"Oh it wasn't too bad we did some work. Now that you're here our day is great." Caius said smoothly. How in the hell can three most feared vampires in the world be so kind at the same time. It just amazes me on how loving and intuitive these three are. I am a lucky woman.

We all took a seat around Aro's desk. "So I needed to see if you all could help me out with something." "Sure Isabella what do you need?" Said Caius.

"Well I need to call my dad today. I know he has to be freaking out right now, but for the life of me I can't figure out what to tell him about why I am in Italy, and why I am not coming home besides to visit. So I thought if we put our heads together maybe we can come up with something together." I hoped we could come up with something before I called him.

We sat there and shot a few things out. But nothing we came up with would work. We had been at this for about an hour now.

"I just don't know Cara, I just can't come up with a story to tell him." Aro said with a frown on his face.

We sat there for a couple more minute when Caius spoke. "I don't know how you would feel about this, but what do you think about telling your father the truth. If you did decide to tell him he would have to come live here with us, and as long as he was able to keep our secret and be under the watchful eye of the Volturi then he could stay human. Oh course he also would have the choice of being turned to. What do you think, would that be something you would consider?"

"Hmm that is defiantly something to consider. If I did decide to go that route I would ask him first if he would consider moving to Italy with me before I even brought up vampires. If he agreed then I would let him in on the secret. And it would be nice having my dad with me. I think I really like that idea." I said

Having my dad with me would be great. The best part about it is even when I am turned I will still be able to have him with me.

A few minute later after thinking more on it I came up with a decision. "As long as it's ok with all three of you I want to tell him the truth. When I ask him if he want to move to Italy and if he says no, then I will tell him that I will keep in contact with him but I won't say why I am moving. And he will just have to deal with it. But I really don't believe he will say no." I concluded.

"If that's what you want then we are perfectly fine with it." Marcus said

"I was wondering if you three would come with me to talk to him? I really prefer not to do this over the phone. And I just don't want to be that far away from you guys." I say with tears in my eyes. I know these emotions are coming from what Edward did to me.

Aro walked over to me and dropped down to his knees in front of me. "Cara Mia." He said as he placed his hands on my cheeks. "I know some of what happened between you and Edward. I saw it in his mind. But you don't have to worry about us leaving you like he did. You are our world now. We will never leave you."

I need to get past what Edward did to me. In my heart I know that they will not hurt me, but my head keeps telling me they will leave me just like Edward did.

"He really screwed me up when he left me. I know you guys won't leave me but there is still that little voice in the back of my head that is telling me to watch my back." I said with tears rolling down my cheeks.

Marcus and Caius came and sat down beside me. Marcus put his hand around my waist and Caius turned my face towards him and brushed some of the tears away with his thumbs. "Isabella we know it's going to take some time for you to heal after what he did. Just know that we will be there with you the entire time. And we would love to go with you to talk to your father. Just let us know when." Caius said.

I leaned over and gave all of them a hug. "Thank you for being so understanding and sticking by my side. I think I would like to go there tomorrow if that's works for you guys. But I am still going to call him in a little bit to let him know I am coming and that I am ok." I said smiling at my mates.

"Why don't we pack tonight so we can just head out tomorrow morning." Marcus said and we all shook our heads that we agreed. "What would you like for dinner tonight Isabella?"

I thought about it for a minute. "Mmm can I order pizza? That sounds so good right now." As I say that my stomach growled really loud and everyone started laughing.

"Ok let's split up and get everything taken care of, and order your pizza. We will meet back in Isabella's room when we are done." Aro said.

When I got back to my room I packed a suit case with a few outfits, P.J's and underwear. I figured I would pack my toiletries when I got done using them in the morning.

I sat down on my bed when I was done and just staring down at the phone in my hand. He's going to be so mad when I call him. This is not going to be a good phone call. Ok here I go.

Ring, Ring

"Hello." He sounds so tired.

"Hi dad."