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Aro knew that of the three Volturi kings he had always been the one most focused on the expansion of the coven, he had become well known for it among his kind. Collecting those who could be of use to him. How unfortunate, then, to have one of the most powerfully gifted vampires he had seen in his long, long life out of his grasp.

He had known about Alice since a few decades after her entrance into the world of the undead. Carlisle’s small coven was truly a thing to envy, even then. The amount of gifted vampires he had was enough to spark jealousy in Aro. The urge to destroy the Cullens and collect Alice for himself was strong, her mate Jasper was of less use to him. His ability to affect emotion wasn’t one he needed since he had Corin to ensure that his guard was loyal to him. Edward, too, wasn’t too useful when he himself had the ability to read thoughts although it could be used to preempt danger which certainly would be useful. Alice, however, her gift was remarkable and the ways that it could be used were only too apparent to him without any stipulations.

That much he had already known when Isabella had come into the picture. Though human, she had the loyalty of most of the Cullens and the love of one of them. That in itself was remarkable. And that she was immune to the psychic gifts of others was a boon to him, to find such power in a human was a rare treat. Aro coveted her greatly once he discovered this about her, he was convinced that, once turned, that her gift would benefit the Volturi.

Edward had growled then which had brought him out of his thoughts, the boy didn’t know the danger they were all in, for all that he had wanted them to kill him not a day ago. Aro dismissed Edward, having Dimitri drag him down to the dungeon until such time as Aro saw fit to release him. It wouldn’t do to have him spilling all of Aro’s plans, now would it? And besides, maybe he could bring Edward around to his way of thinking as well with Corin’s help.

“Come to me, Alice Cullen. I wish to see into that mind just one more time, to see what you see,” he purred and the rest of the court looked on, interested to see what he would do.
Once he had her hand safely in his he looked into the precious face, so innocent for one of their kind and decided. A flash of the future, a conversation taking place, a refusal, a death. All flashed in a thousand different ways as Alice tried to find a way out but there was none. Her “family” was her weak spot just as he had predicted.
“Magnifico...such power held within such beauty. The world is graced to have you, as are we should you decide to remain.”
“I don’t see how I have a choice,” the elfin creature snarled and he laughed even as Caius demanded her execution for her insolence.
“She is too powerful to be allowed to die, Caius. Think of what we could do with her alongside us. She knows if she does not join us I will kill her coven, that is enough incentive for now. Though that will change,” Aro replied to Caius, though without letting go of Alice even as she tried to remove her hand. Being inside her mind was intoxicating.
“She will need to learn respect if she is to join us,” Marcus said listlessly.
Aro looked through Alice’s visions of the future now that she had decided to join and laughed, “She will fit in remarkably well,” a particularly juicy vision flitted by of Alice with blood red eyes and Aro grinned, “Perhaps better than she would like.”
She glared, those exotically golden eyes boring into his. Though the gold was unique he would have to get her back onto a proper diet, it would be unseemly for any of his guard to engage in such deviant practices as forgoing proper nutrition.

Aro turned to the human who had been staring at the goings on with a mixture of terror and confusion, looking especially fragile now that she wasn’t standing behind Edward.
“Ah, bella donna, you must be wondering what is going on. Well, I am known to be a collector of sorts, gifted vampires who can join our ranks here. I have been fortunate enough to add dear Alice to my collection and now you...the mind boggles at my luck.”
She gasped, looking horrified and her heart thundered in her chest in a way that begged to be stopped, “But I’m not a vampire.”
Aro laughed, long and hard this time, “Easily remedied, my dear. In fact, I’ve had enough of these games. Take them both to my rooms, I shall change the human myself. And Felix, collect Alice in a while to take her for something to eat, she needs it”
“I’m vegetarian,” she butted in. Aro focused on his decision and through his connection to her they both saw her try to resist and nearly starve to death before giving in.
“No point in drawing out the inevitable, precious,” he replied to her vision. “You will learn that it is better not to oppose me.”

Aro took Isabella and dragged her to his rooms, walking at human speed was a bore but he didn’t feel like carrying her. Alice followed behind, likely because she saw what would happen if she didn’t.
“I can’t see if you want me to change her or to change her yourself,” Alice said reluctantly after a while, Isabella gasped but didn’t speak. “The future keeps changing.”
“Ah, well, I cannot decide whether I want my two brunette beauties to be bonded together in such a way or whether I want the honour of siring Isabella myself. Both have their merits…”
“I want Alice to change me,” the girl in question said.
“I want doesn’t get,” he retorted. “Besides, I will be your master, your king, why not be your sire also? It’s been a while since I had a pet.”
“I am not going to be your pet!” She cried out, trying to wrestle out of his grip but only succeeding in bruising herself.
“You both have a lot to learn about our coven,” he said as they entered his rooms. He locked the door behind them, even a vampire wouldn’t be able to escape this room now, not even a newborn. “I am your master and I expect obedience. I find myself quite taken with your gifts and your potential and I also find myself eager to welcome you both into the Volturi in the traditional way. You see, when a new member is added against their will it can take a while to get them to see that this is the best place for them even with Corin’s gift and so I have been known to take them under my wing so to speak.”
Alice snarled, “I can see what you’re planning and it won’t work!”
“Won’t it?” He knew he’d hit the mark when she faltered.
“I will find a way out eventually and I’ll take Bella with me.”
He shrugged, “You are not the first of my guard who wanted to escape at first. Perhaps if I bring your mate here that would cheer you up, I shall see what I can do, Alice.”

Aro felt Isabella’s blood sing to him potently through Edward’s memories and venom filled his mouth. The sooner she was turned the better, she was a liability with her blood in the castle.
“Exquisite, such sweet blood humming under the surface,” Aro purred and found the look on her face urging him to go further than even he had planned.
“You could kill her if you do it, Aro. She’ll be no use to you then.”
“Give me your hand, my pet,” he said by way of reply and the vision of him taking the lovely human in front of him filled his mind as he took her hand in one of his, his other hand holding Isabella tight. More venom filled his mouth. “Ah, but you forget that I am not young and inexperienced like your coven. I have had my share of human lovers and know perfectly well how to treat them so as not to cause them undue harm.”
“It is a possibility,” she countered.
“An unlikely one, and even if I do harm her venom cures most injuries.”
“It would kill Edward.”
“What do I care for the boy? And besides, he gave the lovely Isabella up of his own free will and has no claim.”
“He will change her, I’ve seen it.”
Aro sobered for a moment, “What good does it do to have the two of you out of my grasp? Before I would have waited however long it would have taken to win the both of you over to my side along with the other talented members of the Cullen coven but I find that I can wait to bring the rest into the fold. Two new pets is more than enough for me at least for now. The rest can wait.”

The human tried to tug away from him again and he let her go, amused at her tenacity.
“I understand that I have to...be changed. I want that, I do. But this is ridiculous, why can’t Alice just change me now and you let us go? You can’t expect us to do what you want, whatever it is that you want.”
Aro laughed, “Ah, of course, you haven’t been privy to the battle of wills I’ve had with dear Alice. She has tried everything she can think of to get the two of you out of my clutches so to speak but there is none that won’t involve the deaths of not only her mate but also of the rest of the Cullens. You see, I want the two of you for my own. Such power cannot be allowed to escape me. And I do expect the both of you to do what I want.”
“You’re threatening us?”
“Less of a threat and more of a persuasion tactic. In a few decades you’ll have gotten over it. Both of you.”
“You can’t do this!” She protested.
Aro smirked, “Believe me, I most certainly can…”

Alice looked over to Bella and shook her head minutely, clearly having seen what the human would do. Isabella’s immunity to his gifts was both refreshing and intensely frustrating. Even with a hand on her he knew nothing of her mind.
“I’ll change the human myself, dear Alice. For your sake I won’t make you stay for it. However I can hear Felix coming up to collect you. Forgive me if I don’t indulge, however, he will make sure that you do.”
“None of you can make me!” She shouted, looking to the window of the tower and he didn’t need to be touching her to see her plans. He grabbed her tightly.
“Felix will be able to make you, love. I wouldn’t suggest provoking him.” A slight knock at the door and Felix entered. “Take young Alice here down to eat, she needs her strength.”
Alice didn’t bother fighting and walked away meekly but not without looking to Isabella desperately.
“Do what he says and we will get out of here, I promise.”
The human nodded, shaking.

Finally alone with his human prize he stalked over to her slowly, enjoying watching her back away from him. The stone wall hit her back and she looked around, clearly trying to find some sort of weapon to use against him. It was rather cute, in a way, Aro didn’t interact much with humans beyond feeding from them and so it was interesting to see her instinct to escape manifesting itself in front of his eyes.
“Isabella, mia bella donna. Do you see the situation you’re in? Truly you should feel lucky to have fallen into my favour. Knowing young Edward’s mind he would not have allowed you to be changed and he would have forced my hand into killing you. I’m sure neither of us want that.”
“Alice said she would change me herself,” she said, shivering when Aro reached to cup her cheek, revelling in the utter silence.
“I couldn’t possibly let her have all of the fun. Besides, there’s a very…special relationship that a sire shares with their creation. You will find it more difficult to leave my side and if you end up half as powerful as a vampire as I predict you will be a great boon to the Volturi.”
“What...what do you think I’ll be able to do?” She questioned, those big brown eyes looking up at him with a remarkable lack of fear considering her position.
Aro hummed in thought, “You are able to shield yourself from psychic powers, I would presume that would transfer over into you being able to shield yourself and others. That is my hope, I must admit. Renata can shield from physical attacks but mental ones are beyond her and with the two of you together, our defense would be impenetrable.”
“Oh, so it really is like pokemon for you,” she said, looking amused.
“Pokemon? I have no idea what that is,” he said, he was sure that someone he had touched would know but looking through all of the memories stored in his head was incredibly taxing.
Isabella shrugged, far more at ease than he would have expected to be possible for someone in her situation, “Human thing. Also, um, what were you talking about before? You said you kept people as pets but I have a feeling there’s more to it than that.”
“There is. As your sire it would be my job to bring you into this world and teach you. The same goes for bringing you into the Volturi and that applies to Alice also. However it is tradition for either myself or Caius, Marcus wouldn’t enjoy such a thing, to take new recruits as our lovers so as to make sure they are properly loyal, especially when they are newborns as newborns are volatile. Only for a few decades, of course, those who we do take under our wing like that do know where their loyalties lie.”
“Who they belong to, you mean,” Isabella said and Aro laughed at her daring.
“That too. I haven’t had the pleasure of changing a gifted human like yourself and I relish the opportunity. However, there are some things I’d like to do first…”
She looked at him, heart hammering and what he wouldn’t give to be able to see into her mind.
“But surely that’s not possible, between a human and a vampire.”
“Oh that Edward! The things he told you were true for himself, he wouldn’t have been able to control himself enough to become your lover as you are his singer but I am not so undisciplined.”
“You mean…”
“What I mean, my pet, is that I will take you as a human before I change you. Bring you to the heights of ecstasy before giving you the gift of immortality. And when you wake, it will be me who you see-your sire, your master, your king...and you will worship me.”
“Do I have a choice?”
“You have a choice as to how much this hurts you but that’s it, I’m afraid. The rules are the rules.”
She nodded, “I’ll do it.”
“You will?” She had shocked him with her easy agreement.
“I want to become a vampire and if this is how things work then the sooner I get used to it the better. I know not all vampires are like Carlisle and his family.”
“Indeed not, and a good thing too. You will not be engaging in their unusual diet, Isabella.”
“Why not? What does it matter? You sent Alice off to drink human blood so it must be important to you.”
Aro thought of how to explain, wanting her to understand fully, “Human blood is what we are meant to drink. If we can survive on animal blood like the Cullens do that is a mere fluke, it is not how we are meant to live. I need my guards at their strongest at all times and human blood is the only way to ensure this. If, for example, you enjoyed the taste of animal blood and wanted to have it in addition to human blood I would not be opposed but from what I have seen in the minds of others it is disgusting. Trust me, you will not want animal blood once you have had the real thing.”
“Oh, well, that makes sense I guess. The lover thing I can understand in a gross sort of way but why do it before I’ve changed? If humans are just food to you, that is.”
“I have had human lovers, like I said to Alice,” Aro purred and she shuddered, he leaned into her neck and inhaled as he listened to her heart stutter. “The last moments of a vampire’s life before they are turned are most clear to them and I want your clearest moments to be of me taking you. It will help you transition greatly and it doesn’t hurt that I haven’t taken a human lover in a few hundred years and any novelty around here is eagerly taken.”
Aro licked her neck and she whimpered, humans could be adorable sometimes, or maybe it was just her that sparked such a reaction in him. Her breath quickened and she gripped his shoulders in a way that would have been uncomfortable if he hadn’t been a vampire.
“I’m going to kiss you now, cara mia,” Aro growled and her pupils dilated, what an unexpected but pleasing reaction.

Aro kissed her gently at first, a mere peck more than anything just to get his bearings. He trusted his own control and he had fed recently but it didn’t do to tempt fate and he wanted to enjoy himself properly before turning her. She opened her mouth obediently to him as he deepened the kiss and Aro was glad to see that she had the instinct to obey even before she was turned. Her mouth tasted sweet like Aro imagined her blood would be and he pressed her back slightly harder against the wall as he sucked her lower lip, teeth dragging against it just enough to make her whimper. Tired of fooling around he picked her up and took them quickly over to his bed, it’s only purpose being for sex and it showed in both the size of the bed and the luxury of the sheets. Depositing her carefully into the bed he made quick work of ripping her clothes off, she wouldn’t be wearing them again anyway so it wasn’t as though it mattered in the slightest. Isabella protested but found herself too busy trying to cover herself to protest too much.

Aro couldn’t help but wonder what was going on behind those brown eyes, she seemed to be happy enough to go along with what he was doing which was good for her self preservation instincts but different to what his dealings with humans had led him to believe about them.
“Penny for your thoughts,” he said, pulling away from her and leaving her wide eyed and panting.
“Huh?” She said dumbly.
“I’m used to knowing what my lovers are thinking but you are a unique case.”
Isabella shrugged, “Yeah, not the first time I’ve heard that one.”
Aro bit back a growl, finding himself inexplicably jealous, “I imagine not. Still, I would like to hear.”
She sighed, “Well Edward always said we couldn’t have sex before I was turned and he didn’t want to turn me so I sort of thought I’d die a virgin or something. And, uh, considering I don’t have a choice I figured why not see the bright side of the situation, you know? I wanted to become a vampire and I wanted to have sex before I turned and I get to have both. And well, I’m not Edward’s biggest fan right now so that helps.”
He shook his head slightly, smiling, “That is surprisingly pragmatic for one so young. You have gone up in my estimations. The way Edward sees you in his mind is very different to the Isabella that stands before me.”
“Let me guess, a sweet little lamb who doesn’t know what’s good for her?”
Aro giggled, “That does just about sum it up, yes.”
“He’s wrong.”
“Oh, of that I have no doubt, bella donna.”
She looked at him slightly suspiciously, “You’re sweeter than I thought you’d be...you’re trying to get me to like you, aren’t you?”
Aro found himself taken aback by her logic and said so, “Sweetness, I am actively trying to seduce you and bring you into my coven. I would say that getting you to like me is an understatement.”
“No,” she shook her head. “That’s different, that’s business. You want me to like you, to think you’re different to how I thought you’d be.”
“I have no idea what you think of me,” he said and he wasn’t sure if he liked it or not.
“But you know what Edward said and that should give you a good clue of what I think, at least at the beginning.”
“His opinion is shared by the vast majority of our kind,” he said, tilting his head slightly at her slightly sad expression. “I’ll allow you to form your own opinions. Do not pity me, child.”
“I don’t pity you, Aro. I just think you don’t realise that people can see behind your facade more than you think.”

If Aro’s heart had beat since before Jesus was in the imaginings of the human population it would have stuttered in its rhythm. He would have become angry if anyone else had said it to him but coming from this girl, naked before him and yet so oddly trusting, he couldn’t find the anger inside him.
“Well...do you like me, Isabella?”
“I’d like you more if you called me Bella,” she retorted.
Aro laughed, “Both monikers suit you, however I find Isabella to be far more refined.”
“Not like me at all then,” she stuttered, looking into his eyes.
Aro knew that his red eyes made humans nervous even if they were used to his kind, they signalled danger. He couldn’t tell if she was nervous, her heart was beating fast but that had a lot of meanings. He wanted to ask her what she was thinking again but it would be a sign of weakness to ask again so soon. Instead he ran a hand lazily down her side and then up again, watching the goosebumps form on her skin in fascination. As Aro trailed a finger around her nipple it hardened quickly and Isabella shuddered, her heart becoming impossibly faster in its staccato rhythm .
“You are so receptive, Bella. I will enjoy this greatly.”

Without waiting for her reply he took her nipple into his mouth, sucking gently, well, gently for a vampire. The human cried out and fisted her hands in his hair, Aro didn’t know if she was trying to push him away or pull him closer. It hardly mattered anyway as her strength was negligible for him.
“Aro!” She whined, voice breaking.
“Yes, mia cara? What do you need?” He purred.
“Oh god, your voice is so sexy,” Isabella said in a rush of breath.
He chuckled deep in his throat, enjoying how the sound made her blush travel further down her body.
“You are not the first of my lovers to think that, though perhaps the first to say so in those words. You still haven’t answered my question, Isabella.”
“Oh,” she sounded dumbfounded, clearly distracted by how his hands were stoking her body, slowly making their way lower, “I just need you to keep doing what you’re doing.”
“I am flattered to hear that, though I have a feeling you’ll become a bit more demanding when you have more experience in sexual matters.”
“Demanding...like, in a rude way? I hope not.”
“You have a lot to learn about pleasing me, I enjoy knowing what my lover wants from me. Usually they don’t have to tell me but with you...I will definitely enjoy making you tell me.”
“Well, I’d like you to kiss me again.”
“That’s a start,” he rumbled, allowing his voice to deepen and enjoying the way it flustered her.

As he took her lips again she gasped and arched into his touch. Aro knew from Edward’s mind that the boy had had a very chaste relationship with her, never allowing himself to take liberties with the young human. Perhaps if he had known just how desperate it would have made Isabella he would have acted differently, she was clearly so desperate to be touched that she would have given in to anyone. Or perhaps it was that Aro was offering her the gift of immortality that she desires so intensely. The reasons for her desire mattered not to him, and he found the lack of knowledge momentarily thrilling.
The human whined in the back of her throat when Aro tugged her head back and pressed a line of biting kisses into her skin.
“Ah, not yet, mia bella. I have more I want to do to you.”
“Please!” Her voice sounded strained and Aro knew he could easily push her into a frenzy of lust, humans were so easy to manipulate even without knowing their every thought.
“Do you want me to touch you? You have to say the words out loud…”
“I thought you didn’t care what I wanted,” she gasped, not sounding upset at the fact.
“You aren’t wrong but I do like to hear how I affect you, especially since you remain a mystery to me.”
“I really, really want you to do something-I don’t know what,” she said through gritted teeth, hissing when his hands slipped lower down but likely not where she wanted them to be. “You’re teasing me.”
“Not for long, mia bella.”

Aro allowed himself to stop teasing her and focus more on his own pleasure. He had to be careful so as not to hurt her, she seemed even more fragile than the average human and it had been a long time since he had to think about such things. Still, it didn’t matter if he hurt her a bit as the venom would counteract it but he found himself wanting the experience to be completely pleasurable for the young human.

He grabbed one of her legs and hooked it around his still clothed hips and growled in appreciation when she hooked the other one around without being told. Grinding down against her he could feel the heat of her almost scolding him even through his clothes and he wanted to get closer to it.
As they kissed more ardently, Isabella found her confidence and in fact was being surprisingly cavalier about it; after all, surely if you bite a vampire you should expect to be bitten back?

He disrobed quickly and allowed himself the satisfaction of her expression as he looked at him, nervous for what he would do but her eyes were dark with arousal. Not a combination that he saw very often. Aro pressed a curious finger inside of her and found that she was wet for him. If he had been a more compassionate individual he would have prepared her but he found himself unwilling to do so. He couldn’t wait to sink into her heat and luxuriate in it. Humans weren’t just good for food, after all.

Not bothering with giving her time to adjust he pushed into her quickly; she whined and gripped him tightly but was otherwise silent.
“You are very tight, Bella,” Aro managed to say after a long moment of staying absolutely still and getting his control together, he pressed a kiss to her lips and she reciprocated easily.
They kissed for a while but Aro didn’t move. He was waiting for her to grow restless and to beg him to fuck her, he enjoyed waiting for his lovers to give in and beg. Bella was no exception, she moved her hips against him in a feeble attempt to gain some friction and broke their kiss to pant against his neck desperately.
“What do you want, sweetheart?” He asked, knowing full well what she wanted.
“Please move,” she gasped, a blush high on her cheek as she rolled her hips against him again, fruitlessly trying to pleasure herself.

Aro eagerly obliged and the tight, hot grip of her was intoxicating and he was tempted to keep her human a little while longer, to really experience what this body had to offer but he knew that he couldn’t bend the rules, not even if he’d helped to make them himself. He would have plenty of time to take her when she was a vampire and newborns had their own special appeal, he mused. He set a bruising rhythm against her and he gripped her hips tightly enough that he knew that she would bear indentations of his hands. That didn’t seem to matter to the human who was crying out in pleasure and muttering formless pleas for him to continue what he was doing, to go harder. Aro allowed himself to be spurred on by her words, to get lost in the heat of her and the pleasure of it. He wouldn’t say that taking a human lover was better than a vampire one exactly but there was a certain exoticism to it. Isabella was so breakable, so fragile that it made him feel even more powerful than he usually did. Venom coated his teeth in preparation for what he so badly wanted to do but he said that he would draw her into ecstasy first and he would keep that promise. Aro angled his thrusts so that they were even more pleasurable to her and soon enough she was trembling against him as she cried out her orgasm. He grinned wolfishly into her neck but didn’t slow down, he had plenty of stamina left.

Not giving her time to come down from her high, he urged her into another orgasm and then another. A couple of thousand years of sexual expertise made it relatively simple for him to do this for a partner, especially a human as they were so easily overwhelmed with pleasure. He used his fingers on her clit to coax out a fourth orgasm from the girl and soon she was panting and moaning, incoherent words tumbling from her lips in an unbroken stream as her legs shook against him. Aro chuckled to himself, she was delirious. Isabella seemed truly strung out with pleasure, however, and the timing seemed right.
“Isabella,” he growled, kissing her neck hard enough to bruise, “you belong to me, don’t you?”
“Yes!” She cried out eagerly. “Only you. God, please I can’t take it.”
“Soon, cara mia, soon,” he hushed her by pressing a few kisses to her lips, red with abuse.

Aro could feel the orgasm rolling up his spine and he allowed it as he trailed kisses from her lips down to her throat and she moaned and tilted her head to offer him better access, he wouldn’t give her a chance to realise what was coming. He took pleasure in the idea of surprising her with it, it was kind in a way, not giving her time to worry and anticipate the feeling of the bite. He gripped her hair, quickly tilting her head to the side and he sank his teeth into her neck in less than a second just as he emptied his seed into her and he growled out his pleasure even as the girl screamed, the venom working quickly.
Her blood filled his mouth and while she wasn’t his singer, she did taste absolutely delightful, he savoured the taste knowing that he couldn’t drain her dry if he wanted her to be at her strongest as a newborn; the more blood she had in her body the better. Still, that didn’t stop him from swallowing a few blissful mouthfuls before he pulled himself away.
“Open your eyes, sweetheart,” he crooned and she obeyed, brown eyes clouded with pain met red.
“Hurts, Aro,” she managed to say with difficulty.
“It’s ok. The pain will end eventually and then you will be mine for the rest of time.”
“Till you get bored,” the human countered and Aro bristled unexpectedly at this.
“Neither of us can know what the future brings. Though with Alice’s help, maybe...But,” he punctuated his words with a thrust that made her whimper, “it is I who decides when I am finished with you and that time may never come for all that you know.”
“Oh,” she said dumbly and Aro could tell that she would fall into that odd state of not quite unconsciousness soon.
“Look at me,” he thrust again and her eyes snapped to his. “You will remember me. You belong only to me.”
She nodded weakly, “Yours.”

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Bella was in the throes of the transformation in his chambers and Aro had time before he needed to be back into the room to keep vigil over her. Time to visit Alice, he thought excitedly. He knew from her thoughts that Felix wouldn’t have been able to force her to drink from a human, not when she was so well fed. Despite his threats, he had made it clear to Felix that he shouldn’t hurt her, only threaten her. But Aro knew that if Alice could see using her gift that his threats were empty then it would do nothing to persuade her. Secretly, Aro preferred it this way, he could be there, experience it with her. Watching her corrupt herself would be bliss.

Alice had been what Aro had wanted for his coven for so long and the obsession had turned sexual very quickly. That meant that he had a lot of time to think over what he wanted their first encounter to be and, upon reflection, after her first taste of human blood seemed like the perfect time. Having her in his dungeons now was almost too much for him to stand and he made his way there quickly, sending away the guards with a flick of his hand.
She didn’t bother looking up when he walked into her cell. She still managed to look immaculate even in such squalid surroundings with her legs curled up into a position that reminded Aro of yoga, from Edward’s memories Alice was always in some odd position and she had to often be reminded to straighten out when playing human, especially when she was younger.
“You were expecting me,” Aro said, amused.
“Naturally,” she replied, levelling him with a hard look. “You managed not to kill her at least. I’m glad for that.”
He winked, “Hope you enjoyed what you saw.” She scowled but didn’t reply and Aro continued, “You didn’t eat like I told you to.”
“I won’t do it until I’m forced to.”
“And dear Felix wasn’t enough incentive?” He replied and Aro saw her eyes unfocusing for a moment as a vision overtook her. Aro had seen inside her mind but he could never truly know what it was like to live with such a thing.
“His bark is worse than his bite.”
“Ah,” Aro purred, “but you know full well that my bite is not to be trifled with.”
“I have learnt that, yes.”
“I couldn’t let him damage you,” Aro purred, “I have my own uses for you as I’m sure you’re well aware. Possibly even more so than I am…”
Alice didn’t reply, she simply looked at the wall as if it held some answer that she was searching for.
“Now, come with me. If you don’t...you know that I will never allow you to see Bella again, no matter how long you stay here,” Aro said, he looked forward to the day when he no longer had to threaten Alice to make her obey him.

They made their way to the part of the dungeons that served as an emergency food stash: drug addicts, vagrants and criminals filled the cells down in the bottom of the castle. The scum of the earth that would not be missed by anyone. Aro had requested something special for Alice and Heidi being who she was, pulled it off spectacularly even if the short time frame.
“I have a little gift prepared for you, Alice dear,” he said as he opened one of the doors and Alice gasped before the door had even finished opening.
Inside was a man in his early twenties, blond and lightly muscled. Aro knew that he was a member of one of the local gangs, a new initiate called Luca. Aro knew much more about him than merely that, of course, he had touched his skin when he grabbed him and brought him forward towards Alice who had reluctantly entered the cell with him.
“Are you not grateful?” Aro asked in faux upset, “He truly is a delicious morsel.”
“You did this on purpose,” she growled. “He looks so much like Jasper...”
Aro chuckled as he locked all three of them into the cell, though the door would only successfully keep one of the three of them in, “Indeed he does.”
Luca was staring at them in dumbfounded shock, he knew enough English to understand that his life was going to come to an end and he had a fairly good idea of what they were even if the word vampire hadn’t come to his mind. Still, that information wasn’t going to do him any good.

Aro could see that Alice was forcing herself to remain very still so she didn’t pounce. She had fed fairly recently but her body had undergone a lot of stress which had increased her hunger. And besides, Aro knew from the minds of the various ‘vegetarians’ that he had encountered that animal blood could never compare to the real thing. Aro reached out and grabbed Alice’s hand, revelling in the intoxicating thrill of her mind. Visions of her not giving in and the dire consequences filled her mind and Alice was searching through them, trying to find something that she could work with. In parallel to this, ran her internal monologue which was putting up an impressive mental block, a talent she had learnt from being around Edward, Aro knew.

With a seismic shift, when Alice accepted what she would have to do. One human life for her own future happiness and any chance of her seeing Bella again. Bella, who she realised she loved. It was enthralling to behold such a change in perspective as it was happening and Aro grinned down at her even as her face began to crumple. They both knew what would have to happen.
“I’m so sorry,” she whispered, far too low for the human to hear.

In a fraction of a moment Alice was on him, biting into his neck savagely and Aro was on her in an instant, his hand resting on the back of her neck. He was able to feel the muscles of her throat working to swallow the blood even as her thoughts flooded his mind. She was in a guilt ridden ecstasy and Aro loved it. He had gone weeks without blood before but this was something completely other, her body was coming alive and a strength that she hadn’t realised she possessed filled her muscles to the point where she was vibrating with tension. The closest thing Aro could compare it to was the first feeding of a newborn but even then it wasn’t completely the same as Alice had all of her mental faculties. Today seemed to be a day full of novel experiences for Aro and he made sure to file the memories away in a special part of his mind where they could not be corrupted by the memories of the many others that he had to touch. Such an experience was to be treasured.

The body of the now useless human dropped to the ground with a dull thump and Alice turned towards him wordlessly, her eyes a vibrant red. Aro smiled, things were as they should be.
“Red eyes suit you, darling.”
“I prefer gold,” she replied icily, her lips still coated in blood.
“Give it some time, I am sure that you shall come around to my way of thinking” Aro wasn’t angry, he knew from his hand that was still on her what would happen as visions clouded her mind. The unspoken knowledge of it hummed between them.

Deceptively gently, Aro pressed a kiss to her lips, chasing the lingering taste of blood that he found there. The smaller vampire didn’t move but also didn’t resist and when Aro pressed his hand to her jaw she opened her mouth obediently. He hummed in pleasure as he explored her mouth, the taste of her mixed with the blood was delightful. A vision of him backing her against the wall entered her mind a second before the desire hit him and Aro was fascinated by the chicken and egg nature of how their two gifts interacted. Was she seeing an inevitable desire of his or did it only occur to him because of her vision? Her back hit the wall with a thump and Alice gasped against him, though of course it was no surprise to her. Aro slotted his leg between her thighs, using the leverage to make her stand on her tiptoes as he gripped her face tightly with one hand and explored her body with the other. Alice was well formed and Aro couldn’t help but think that she had been wasted both in Carlisle’s coven and with Jasper as her mate.

Her mind was in turmoil and Aro was a captive audience to it even as his body moved against her through instinct. Alice was still riding the high of her first taste of human blood, still thinking of her family and what they would think, of the human life that she had taken and of Bella. Those thoughts were more interesting to Aro. The thought of never seeing Bella again except through visions was enough to make Alice give into Aro’s plans, he knew that if it wasn’t for Bella she wouldn’t be nearly so pliant.
“I didn’t think you’d enjoy yourself so much, however you continue to surprise me, Alice,” Aro laughed as he pulled away from her and took in her ruffled hair and those red eyes that were currently glaring daggers at him.
“I am not enjoying it,” their faces were close enough together that Aro could feel the slight puff of air as she spoke.
When he licked his lips his tongue touched her lower lip and she shuddered, “Darling, lying to me when I am touching you isn’t worth the effort.”
“My mind doesn’t enjoy it even if my body might, you knew that I meant that.”
He shrugged, not put off in the slightest, “Is it not better to accept your true nature than to pointlessly fight it? Is your body not just as much you as your mind is?”
“Enough with the philosophical debate, I’d honestly rather you kissed me than that,” Alice said, fighting the urge to roll her eyes and Aro chuckled at how easily she was riled up. She was quite the little minx.
“Your wish is my command,” he replied, closing the short distance between their lips.

This time their kiss was a lot more equal and Aro found himself transfixed by the dichotomy between the constant visions that Alice had a few milliseconds at a time and how effortlessly she was able to navigate through them. Every flick of the tongue or movement of the hands sprang forth a multitude of other, ever so slightly different possibilities and Aro let himself be swept up in it. It was more amazing and more overwhelming than he could have imagined. He was distantly aware that he was being shepherded into the direction that Alice wanted to take them in but Aro couldn’t bring himself to care one bit. Everything that she was doing was purposely chosen to garner the most intense reaction from him as Alice had decided that if she had to give in, then she may as well do it thoroughly and he couldn’t help but be grateful for it as this was certainly an experience to remember even for one who had experienced as much as he had. Aro could not fully understand her logic as it relied on flimsy visions of the future that he could not make any sense of even with his access to her mind.

Alice’s small hands drifted in a hundred directions over his body in her mind before her physical body followed the optimal path and Aro let out a moan into her mouth, surprised at how his body was reacting without any clothes having been shed. This woman would be the death of him, he was sure of it. There was a vision of him saying so much, the words sounding choked off and Alice preened mentally at the praise and Aro was struck by how her gift could extend into the realms of his own. A possibility that he had thus far not considered.
“You are full of surprises, dear Alice,” Aro said as he hurriedly unbuttoned her coat and shrugged it off of her shoulders, taking in the clearer view of her figure appreciatively.
She looked at him carefully, visions of a future with her, Aro and Bella swirling around, nebulous and delicate.
‘So are you,’ she said and then she continued in thought. ‘You can be quite nice when you aren’t obsessing over getting more power, you know?’
Aro didn’t bother to reply, instead focusing on undressing his new prize.

Their surroundings were far from romantic, especially given the lifeless body in the corner but the idea of stopping, even for the few moments that it would take to get to another room, was something that Aro couldn’t stand and Alice didn’t seem to mind the rush either. Alice was intoxicating to him and the sooner he could fuck her the better. That subtle change in his psyche was enough to send the future spiralling in a myriad of unfolding directions and Alice moaned, the mental stimulation combining with her recent feed to begin to push her into a frenzy. Aro, not wanting to lose this opportunity with the newly eager Alice began to search through her mind for her most enjoyable sexual experiences, all of them with Jasper, and filter through intending to action them. The combination of this was beginning to get to the Volturi king also, he hadn’t considered himself one for mental stimulation given that his gift was more of a burden after so many millennia but now he found himself fascinated anew. Her lust, the rapidly shifting futures controlled by a mixture of both of their intents seemed to be a joining that was far more intimate than sex. Still, when Aro got them both naked and lifted her up to sink down onto his cock, the relief between them was palpable.
“Aren’t we a good fit?” Aro said as he began to thrust into her, his awareness momentarily narrowing down to only the feel of her body around him, the tight clench of her and how her arms and legs were wrapped so tightly around him that it felt like she was trying to merge completely with him.
‘There is something to be said for it,’ Alice thought back, letting her head fall back against the wall with a crack.

Alice’s pleasure suffused Aro’s mind and it spurred him on. He thought of Bella for a moment, her mind closed off to him but then realised that through Alice he could have more access to her, any potential thought or action would be accessible to him and the thought of unlocking more of that inscrutable girl filled him with satisfaction.
‘You’re thinking of Bella,’ Alice thought, amused.
“How can you tell?” Aro replied, nipping at her neck in a way that he knew she liked.
‘The future is changing,’ she then thought carefully through a vision of the three of them, most likely in a few hundred years in a large bed curled up together naked. Aro’s hands were drifting over both of their bodies while Bella and Alice were in deep discussion, both of their eyes glowing red.
His thrusts picked up in speed, his plan looked like it would work. Aro hadn’t felt so victorious in quite a while.

Deciding that the mental side could wait, Aro focused on bringing Alice back to the here and now. As much as her mind was intensely thrilling Aro knew full well that her diving deep into her mind was a way to forget who it was who was touching her and that was the last thing that Aro wanted. He wanted her to know who she belonged to now. Of course there was Corin whose job it was to ensure the loyalty of all of the guard but Aro wanted for that to be a mere formality; he tried to look through the futures that Alice was seeing to pin something down about it but it was nigh on impossible. Shaking himself out of his own psychic fixation he brought his entire attention to bear on Alice.
“Focus on me, tesoro mio,” he crooned, adjusting the angle of his thrusts ever so slightly until she was forced to gasp in pleasure, her hands digging into his shoulder blades.
Her blood red eyes met his and he could read the effect that it was having on her. Alice was, despite everything, trying to mentally detach herself from what was happening but she wasn’t able to anymore. Aro grinned against her neck.
“Don’t feel guilty, dear one. It’s only natural that I would make Jasper pale in comparison, my gift ensures it.” Suddenly one of the more distant futures flared to life under Alice’s scrutiny and she moaned, even the idea of it making her buck against him. Aro smirked, “Easily done.”
His hand settled around her throat, his other arm easily keeping her in place while he fucked her against the wall hard enough for dust to come off of the brickwork in a shower of particles. He tightened his grip until her eyes snapped open and focused on him, every part of her was focused entirely on him and finally the pleasure was beginning to get to her. She was not as above it all as she wanted to be, she was a being of the physical world just as much as he was.

His grip tightened until the relatively delicate skin of her neck began to crack and she gasped uselessly, clenching tightly around him as her pleasure began to get away from her. Aro kissed her then and she was gasping against him. While she didn’t need to breathe, still, every instinct she had was telling her to try to get away and yet it was intensely pleasurable for her. It served to bring her into her own body and away from her visions. Their kiss deepened as Alice began to whimper and her hips rolled against him desperately. A short while later she tensed and threw her head back to let out a long moan; Aro tightened his hand around her neck even tighter momentarily-expertly drawing out her orgasm until she was shaking against him, Aro knew that she had to stop herself from screaming his name and he growled.
“No point keeping quiet, darling,” he pointed out.
“I don’t want to give you the satisfaction,” she panted, both looking and sounding entirely debauched and with Aro’s cock still inside her.
Aro sucked her lower lip into his mouth and let it go with an obscene pop, enjoying her whimper, “Believe me when I say I am satisfied enough already, that would have simply been the pièce de résistance.”
‘Well when you put it that way,’ she snarked mentally, it was uncommon for him to come across someone who was so at ease with communicating in a one direction way through thoughts but then again she had plenty of experience with Edward.

Alice was beginning to grow overstimulated as Aro continued to fuck her, searching out his own release. Tht sensation coupled with his own pleasure was getting him to the edge quickly and he gripped her throat to pull Alice in for a kiss which soon turned into an uncoordinated press of mouths trying to get as close to each other as possible, the tingle of their venom mixing filling their mouths.
‘Come for me, Aro,’ Alice crooned to him in her mind, as if she were whispering directly into his ear and it sent him careening into his orgasm.
Aro groaned, gripping her hips tightly and he came deep inside of her. The intensity of it almost made him let go of her but luckily he had just enough of his mental faculties to put her gently down onto the ground.

Some time later once they had collected themselves and redressed Aro turned to Alice and looked at her intently, already wanting to have access to her mind again.
“How do you feel, darling?”
Alice looked at him, her red eyes blazing, “A little thirsty actually. Do you want to go for a snack with me?”
Aro hid his surprise under a pleased smirk, “I would love to.”

Chapter Text

The days crawled by all too slowly for Aro’s liking as he waited for the transformation to finish. Isabella, like every other that he had seen change, was utterly still and silent but that belay the raging fires of agony that were no doubt going on inside of her. Aro almost wished that he could take that pain from her but it was the natural way of things, perhaps the sacrifice that must be made to attain such power. Aro had dressed her and placed her on his be to wait out the transformation and hadn’t left the room after the first two days, the transformations usually took between 3 and 5 days and he dreaded the idea of her waking up and him not being there, it wouldn’t bode well for him exercising any authority over her if she had any time by herself when she first awoke.

When her eyes opened Aro couldn’t help but think that she was very well suited for the immortal life. Isabella was gorgeous like this, her long brunette hair had tints of red that Aro could easily pick out and the transformation had heightened that. Her cheekbones were high and her eyelashes brushed against her eyelids in a thick fan which framed her crimson eyes, glowing with the strength of her blood as a human when she finally opened them to look at him. He stroked his hand over her face lightly as she stared up at him with an inscrutable look on her newly perfected face.
“Isabella,” he said as he stroked her full lower lip with his finger slowly.
“Aro,” she replied breathily, then continued in a more controlled tone. “Master.”
He hummed in pleasure, “I am glad to see that you remember me, dear one.”
“I’m thirsty,” she said, her voice sounding strained as she raised a hand to her throat.
Aro grinned, “You shall have blood in time but I have my own plans for you in the meantime, dearest.” The newborn looked at him uncomprehendingly, “I was your first and only lover as a human and I will be your first as a vampire if not your only. I watched you during your transformation, you have grown so much lovelier and I had plenty of time to think of what I wanted to do to you. Now, how do you feel?”

Her bright red eyes looked at him and Aro still couldn’t see into her mind and in that moment he would have given anything to know what she was thinking. Luckily he didn’t have to wait long to find out.
“I’m not just thirsty. Everything is so much...more, I don’t know if I can take it,” she said and looked up at him with large, trusting eyes, he was her sire after all. “I desire so much.”
“Fear not, little one. I will guide you through everything you need to know. Now tell me, what do you remember of the time before I changed you?” Aro was curious to see how well his plan had worked.
She thought for a moment, “It’s all very blurry but I remember you telling me you were going to change me and then we...well, you know. I remember you biting me. The rest of my life before is all very blurry right now. I knew about vampires before, didn’t I?”
He smiled, “You did indeed, don’t worry, your memories shall come back to you in time though you will not remember everything. In fact one of them is here with you. Alice.”
Recognition lit up her face, “I remember her! I like Alice.”
“She likes you too, dear one,” more than just liked from what Aro had seen of her mind, he almost felt sorry for Jasper. Alice hadn’t been fully invested in their union for decades for all that she loved him, though Aro wasn’t even sure if that was something Alice consciously knew.
“Can I see her soon?” She sounded very eager, maybe Alice’s feelings weren’t unrequited?
Aro nodded, “After a little while, you still need to settle down and adjust to your new body. I also will admit that I want to keep you to myself for a while but soon, dear one.”
“Oh, I understand.”
“Now, why don’t you try out your new body?” Aro asked, sitting down to watch her.

It was slightly amusing to see Isabella navigating the world as a newborn. He had seen Bella through the memories of both Edward and Alice and they had both thought of her as a profoundly clumsy and danger prone human. As a vampire, however, she was imbued with the same natural grace that they all were. However she seemed to find that same grace to be odd to the point of it making it difficult for her to function. She had stood up, walked with an inhuman speed from one end of the room to the other, looked incredulously at the ground and then had nearly fallen over twice while trying to make her way back at a human pace. Aro had to stifle his amusement as it would surely only upset the poor girl.
“How long will it take me to get used to this?” She whined, looking up at him with an intensely frustrated expression.
“It is different for everyone. Do not fret, young one.”
Isabella frowned, “How long will I have to live before you stop calling me ‘young one’?”
Aro laughed, “I doubt that will ever happen, dear. I still call Jane and Alec young as they are younger than me both in age when turned and number of years lived. The same goes for you. Although,” he continued, amused, “we have a drastically different relationship to the one that I share with the twins. Perhaps another name for you is in order.”
“Am I allowed to make any suggestions?”
Aro laughed, “Perhaps, though I make no promises in whether I shall listen to them.”

She was refreshingly candid and unafraid to speak her mind, Aro found himself enjoying it but also knowing that he would have to break her of that habit, at least in public. Newborns tried to overpower their sires all too often and Aro would never and could never allow that to happen and he most certainly did not want anyone to see any weakness in him.
“You will have to learn to respect me, little one,” he cooed, enjoying the way she stared at him in panic.
“I’m sorry, master,” she said quickly, so she was able to be taught, then.
“I’m glad that your newborn instincts aren’t too strong. Sometimes newborns like to try to rebel against their sires and that would not go well for you, sweetness. I’m sure you know that.”
He took a step towards her and the newborn flinched away but quickly stopped herself and stood still, watching him carefully. Once he was directly in front of her he brought a hand up to tilt her face up to him.
“Behave, little one,” he said before kissing her before she could reply.

Her lips were pleasantly warm against his now that they were the same temperature and pliant. Isabella was clinging to him so tightly that his shirt ripped but he didn’t care. Aro had far more important things to be giving his attention to, namely the feel of her pert bottom under his hands as he squeezed it, wordlessly encouraging her to move even closer to him. Aro had to admit that he missed the allure of her scent as a human but it was more than made up for by the fact that she wasn’t so horridly breakable now. Aro could really let go and use his strength with her and Isabella seemed only too willing. She was moaning and her hands were running all over his body, seemingly unable to pick a place to rest for any length of time. She eagerly wrapped her legs around him when he lifted her and he growled in satisfaction when she presented her neck to him in an act of submission and Aro licked a slow stripe where the scar of his own bite rested, an even lighter white and slightly raised indentations of his teeth. Aro could only hope that she wouldn’t mind having such a prominent scar for all of eternity as with the others he had changed he had been rather more discreet.
Regardless of that, by the time Aro was done with her she would be suitably broken in and fit to see company without embarrassing him, he certainly would have a lot of fun ensuring that.

Aro dropped her uncaringly onto the bed and she looked up at him in confusion.
“Strip,” Aro ordered and the newborn ripped the clothes off her in seconds. “Good girl, now I want you to lie stomach down on the bed with your head off of the mattress.”
“Yes, master Aro,” she said, her voice quivering slightly. He would have known that this was nothing that she had ever done before even without having seen Edward’s thoughts just by the intimidated look in her eyes and Aro grinned as he unbuttoned his trousers, not bothering to get undressed fully. As he stepped up to her he could feel her panting breath on his quickly hardening cock, Aro placed a thumb to her lips and she opened her mouth obediently.
“Good girl,” Aro purred as he sank into her mouth, glad that he didn’t have to worry about anything as frustrating as her needing to breathe.

He set a slow pace at first, luxuriating in the feel of her silky smooth mouth around him as she whimpered at the foriegn feeling. Soon, however, Aro grew bored with being gentle and grabbed a fistful of her hair, using his leverage to bring her head forward to meet his thrusts as he began to fuck her throat in earnest. Isabella placed her hands on his hips as if she was going to stop him, which she could have as she was stronger than him for the moment at least, but she didn’t, instead she just rested them there. After a while, however, she began to try to snake them under his shirt and Aro lost his patience, needing to keep her in a completely pliant and obedient mindset to avoid any unpleasantness with her newfound newborn instincts.
“Put your hands behind your back and keep them there,” he snapped.

The newborn whined but obeyed, keeping very still as his thrusts increased in speed. While by virtue of her being a vampire she didn’t need to breathe and didn’t have a gag reflex, Aro knew from the minds of his other lovers that the feeling of being penetrated so aggressively could be uncomfortable if one wasn’t used to it and he took pleasure in the idea of her having to push aside the instinct to fight him because she knew who she really belonged to. She swallowed around him and he groaned, wondering if she had done it on purpose or not and cursing the fact that he would never know.

“Meae sanies,” he groaned, the Latin expression meaning ‘of my venom’ was usually used in a negative way but right then Aro felt as if the fact that she was his creation was the best thing in the world. Isabella’s mouth was so pleasurable and looking into those red eyes, the redness that he had created and would make sure never faded to gold, pushed him over the edge in a burst of intense pleasure. Once he had calmed himself and she had swallowed every drop of his seed he spoke again, “I shall have you properly.”
She looked at him, slightly confused and he laughed, “Vampiric stamina has its benefits in this area of life also, little one. Now lie back on the bed,” she scrambled to obey him, “good girl. Now do not move a muscle.”
She had been very obedient so far but Aro didn’t want her to have too much freedom. If he had thought of it before he would have brought up some restraints for her, but then again, he also enjoyed the idea of her own loyalty to and fear of him keeping her in place.

Isabella’s body hadn’t changed much in shape from when she was a human. Granted, her curves were fuller, the gauntness of her months of self-neglect gone from her frame, but she was still slim as she had been in her human life. She was just on the edge of full adulthood as she had been changed at 18 but with a touch of fat in the cheeks and eyes that were just slightly too large to be an adult proper, a flower almost in full bloom. Aro had never contemplated the looks of those that he turned before but he couldn’t prevent himself from doing so. He couldn’t help but think that she truly had been made for the life of a vampire, he hadn’t seen it suit anyone so well before.

Aro delighted in touching her pale skin and the silence that he found there, able to focus on the feel of it rather than on her thoughts. She whimpered when Aro began to press openmouthed kisses to her neck, focusing on where his mark lay. He had to admit that seeing it there, his claim on her, was incredibly arousing to him. He couldn’t wait to take her properly, to use all of his strength with her at last.
Aro hadn’t bothered with a lover in many decades, finding that his role in the Volturi meant that anyone not a part of it was intensely afraid of him, as they should be but it was rather off putting during the physical act to have to ignore their nerves. He would occasionally take Renata or Demitri to bed but that was purely a physical release, no mental stimulation involved at all. But figuring out this silent mind was more interesting than anything that he had done in a long time.

“How desperate are you for me, bella mia?” Aro asked as he ground against her still fully clothed.
“Oh!” She gasped, clearly suppressing an urge to move. “I’m very glad you can’t read my thoughts, master.”
“And why is that?” He was curious even as his attentions were pulled inexorably further south.
“I...I want this far more than you do, I’m sure,” she said, looking bashful.
Aro laughed, “Perhaps, or perhaps not. But do not fret, we are both in accord in our desires. That is surely more than enough.”
Isabella looked like she was going to argue with that but thought better of it, instead she said something that Aro hadn’t expected.
“I hope I don’t get punished too badly for this.”

Before Aro could reply she had flipped them over and had ripped his shirt completely off of his body and torn his trousers to unrecognisable shreds. Aro growled in warning but the newborn didn’t seem to either hear or take notice of it as she sank down onto his cock, a look of intense satisfaction on her face. Aro moved to flip them over but she grabbed his wrists and pinned them next to his head.
“Please,” she said desperately, “please let me have this.”
As if he could do anything about it, short of calling for his guards but he really didn’t want to have to do that. He would see where this went first, part of him wanted to see where this was going to go.
“You have disobeyed me,” he pointed out unnecessarily.
Bella began to move and he moaned, feeling utterly broken by the sensation. It had certainly been a long time indeed since any lover of his had been in the dominant position with him, he would have enjoyed it if he wasn’t so worried about her potential rebellion against him in more ways than just ignoring one of his direct orders. Isabella had taken to immortality well, Aro couldn’t help but think again as he regarded her even as he simmered with indignation and rage, she was utterly breath-taking as she rode him. Every now and then she would press a kiss to his lips before moaning and focusing on her task. He had no choice but to take the pleasure that she gave him as he couldn’t move his hands from where she had them pinned and it was proving difficult not to get entirely lost in it.

She let go of his wrists eventually however, too wrapped up in her own pleasure to notice and Aro used her distraction to flip them over and tightened his hand around her neck until she winced but didn’t attempt to fight him.
“You will pay for your behaviour,” he growled menacingly.
“I understand, master,” she said, not looking nearly as sorry as she was going to be.
Not letting go of her neck he began to pound into her ruthlessly with the sort of force that would have shattered most of the bones in her body if she had been human. Aro could hear her moaning and calling his name distantly but he wasn’t paying attention, he was focusing on not allowing her to view him as someone who could be dominated. He was her sire, her king, her master and she would not be allowed to forget that, not even for a moment.
“Who do you belong to?” Aro said into ear as she writhed at the overwhelming sensations she was feeling. He had told her not to move a muscle but he knew there was no point in punishing her for a minor discretion when she had disobeyed him so flagrantly so recently.
“You, you! Please, oh my god, Aro!” She was rambling and he tightened his hand until she stopped speaking.
“Master or master Aro, not Aro,” he chided without any real heat as he grew bored of holding onto her neck and slid his hands downwards.
“Who do you belong to?” He repeated, waiting for her to answer properly, even gentling his movements to give her a bit more space to think.
“You, master. Only you. You’re my sire and my king, of course I belong to you,” Isabella was growing desperate, reaching up to pull him to her to kiss by the hair but a low growl stopped her.
“You belong to me, I do not belong to you. You are not in control, Isabella. The sooner you take that lesson to heart the better.”
“Yes, master. It’s just so hard, I want you so much.”
“You’re a newborn, that’s to be expected but,” Aro picked up his speed then, finding his pleasure within her tight body easily, “you must learn to overcome it.”
“I will, I promise,” Isabella groaned, arching up into him and baring her neck eagerly.
Aro growled and bit down over where her scar lay, not hard enough to break her skin but hard enough to be a definite reminder. The newborn cried out and shook around him as her orgasm took her.

Aro was filled with the urge to overwhelm her with pleasure the way he had the first time he had fucked her, he wanted it more than he wanted his own release at that moment. He pulled out of her and quickly slid down her body. Aro enjoyed both giving and receiving oral sex but he had to admit that the idea of doing it without knowing exactly how each movement was being received was going to be difficult for him, he could only be grateful that she wasn’t experienced enough to be able to pick up on his nerves. He couldn’t help but find it refreshing to be nervous, he hadn’t felt that way in many years, millenia even. He started by licking a long stripe across her folds and smirking when she bucked against him before he was sucking and licking. Generally getting lost in the sensation of pleasuring another.
“Master!” She called out, fisting a hand in his hair and Aro didn’t even think to punish her for touching him in such a way. Isabella smelled wonderful and she responded so well to him that it was an absolute pleasure to pleasure her. “Please fuck me!”
He pulled back slightly, looking up at her wrecked expression and pupils that were blown wide with lust.
“Are you not enjoying yourself, little one? Something tells me that you are,” he smirked, gripping her thigh to open her legs wider.
“I do, I do. I love it!” She assured him. “I just...I want all of you. I want you to come inside me...like you did before.”
Aro knew that speaking such lustful words didn’t come naturally to her and the effect that they had on him was instantaneous.

In less than a second he was level with her face again and kissing her deeply even as he grabbed her legs and hooked them around his hips. Isabella placed a hand on his cheek reverently as she sucked his tongue, trying to get as close to him as possible. They would be closer still. Her legs tightened around him and he winced as he heard his body crack under the pressure and the newborn quickly loosened her grip.
“I’m sorry, master. Please,” she sounded utterly ruined and desperate and Aro couldn’t help but wonder what Edward would think if he could see this. Maybe his mental range stretched far enough that he could read Aro’s mind, he hoped viciously that Edward could. He should know the mistake he had made and what exactly he had so eagerly given up, he had driven Bella into Aro’s waiting arms.
“I don’t expect you to be perfect with your new strength yet, bella mia. I am perfectly able to handle you,” he replied and she visibly relaxed once she knew that he wasn’t going to retreat.
Aro held both of her hands tightly in his and slowly brought them up next to her head, mimicking the position that she had him in not long ago. They shifted slightly and suddenly he was much deeper inside her and they both gasped at the sensation of it.

The inescapable pleasure of release began to curl around them and Aro could see that Isabella was getting closer, could see it in the slight crease in her brow even if her panting words weren’t obvious.
“Please, oh god, master!”
“What do you want, cara?” Aro smirked, rolling his hips in a way he knew would make her cry out.
She looked embarrassed for a moment before speaking, “Please make me come.”
“Since you asked so nicely I shall have to oblige,” he kissed her then and held himself up with one hand so he could use his other hand to stroke her and he smiled against her lips at how easy it was to bring her to completion.

Isabella was beauty incarnate when she was consumed by pleasure, her head thrown back as she tensed and moaned. Truly, Aro was pulled into his own orgasm just by looking at her. He thrust into her and gripped her hips sharply, using her body to draw out his own pleasure and the newborn clutched him tightly.

Once they had come down from their orgasmic high Aro regarded her studiously. She seemed content and not aggressive but he knew newborns and he had been lucky to be able to have this much time with her without her going crazy from bloodlust.
“I think it is time for you to hunt, young one.”
Her eyes snapped to look at him and she whined, “Please…”
Aro wondered what she was thinking, ‘please get me blood soon’ or ‘please don’t make me eat people’? It didn’t matter either way.

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Aro hadn’t been back in Volterra for long, his duties had taken him to Japan for a month and now that he was back he was desperate to get some alone time with his mates. That wasn’t to be, it seemed as the moment he arrived back in the castle he was whisked into a court session. Duty waited for no king, it seemed. Court had bored Aro into a near comatose state and he had just been about to call it to a premature end when Bella placed a hand discreetly on his.
‘It isn’t becoming for a king to look like he wants to be somewhere else,’ she thought to him, her mental voice tinged with amusement.
He looked at her and raised an eyebrow, not caring if anyone saw their exchange as Caius spoke at length about the need to execute some newborn or other.

The day that Bella had discovered how to raise the shield that sat over her had been a blessed one indeed and truly he had found a boon companion in her, both able to reveal her mind to him when needed and be a bastion of silence in a world filled with the trivial thoughts of others.
‘Alice said that tonight will be especially fun,’ Bella went on, showing him the conversation that his two Queens had earlier that day. Alice, who was sitting on his other side, looked over to him and winked.

Impatience filled Aro as yet more of his subject flitted through with their petty problems, squabbles within covens, personal vendettas etc. it was all entirely boring. Soon enough, however, he could leave and as the Volturi kings and their mates made their way from the courtroom Aro was filled with Alice’s speculations about tonight. She was never wrong. Besides, it had been too long since the three of them had spent some proper quality time together as their extensive duties kept them apart.

As soon as the three of them were safely in Aro’s chambers he reached for Alice’s hand, pulling her towards him in a fierce kiss as her visions for tonight flooded him. It was like many nights they had experienced in the two hundred years since he had taken them into the Volturi but after so long without it they were all desperate for the connection. Alice and Bella had been left to their own devices without him and Aro sequestered those memories away for when he would need to pleasure himself next time he was away. Having both sides of those memories was as good as he was going to get, but not for long.

Bella approached them and caressed one hand over Aro’s shoulders while running the other through Alice’s hair and the short haired vampire leaned into the touch even as she kissed Aro.
“Do you think we can take this to the bed?” Bella asked just as the two of them broke apart.
Visions of Alice taking Bella by the hand and running with her to bed, of Aro picking Bella up and walking her back to the bed, Bella grabbing Alice and kissing her before Aro grew too frustrated and picked them both up to take them to the bedroom.

Instead, however, Aro decided that he would take himself to the bed and wait for his two Queens to join him, not that it would take long. He undressed himself quickly, thankful for vampire speed.
“I think dear Aro is becoming impatient,” Alice said, pressing a kiss to Bella’s lips and flicking her eyes to him and grinning.
“Not impatient, merely thinking ahead,” he replied, reclining back into the bed that he had especially commissioned for the three of them, it was far larger than anything that would be found anywhere other than an ostentatious hotel in Las Vegas but it suited their needs well and so it stayed..
“You’re a regular boy scout,” Bella teased, making her way over to the bed, shedding her clothes as she did so.
Aro had meant to reply but when he saw her, naked and crawling over the bed towards him, deliberately slow, it shut him up soundly.

Their lips met in an incessant press, both eager to get as close to the other as physically possible. Aro could hear Alice chuckling and her steps as she approached the bed, clothes hitting the ground quickly. Bella straddled Aro and their bodies began to move together, nothing too intense for the time being. Aro had seen from Alice’s visions that tonight would be a more languid affair.
Alice gripped Aro’s jaw and turned his head to the side, breaking their kiss, “You really have to learn to share, Bella,” she winked before kissing Aro deeply.
“We all have two mates instead of one, I don’t think any of us can talk about sharing,” Bella retorted, grinding against Aro’s by now almost painfully hard cock, he could feel how wet she was for him but he knew that she enjoyed teasing him which was likely what she was doing.

Aro gripped Bella’s hips and stilled her movements before lifting her up slightly so that she was hovering just above his cock. He was still kissing Alice but he didn’t have to look over to Bella to know what she looked like in that moment, impatient and her red eyes darkened to an almost purple with arousal. The tight grip of her around him as he pulled her ever so slowly down onto him was torture for both of them, but one that he was eager for. Aro never went against Alice’s visions and she had seen this. Alice smiled against his lips as if he was the one who could read his thoughts.

They continued in the same vein for a while, Aro fucking Bella steadily, never going as fast as he would have liked. For all that he was king they all knew that Alice was in charge and it wasn’t worth going against what she had planned, she had been very thorough. Bella whimpered and tried to increase the pace but Aro merely tightened his grip and held her still; while her time as a newborn had been a lot of fun he couldn’t help but enjoy being able to overpower her more. Alice had taken a backseat for the moment, touching herself as she watched her two mates taunt with pure want as they fucked, it never being quite enough to take them over the edge.
“I think Bella’s had enough teasing for now, don’t you think?” Alice purred, and Aro knew that she was putting a show on for them as she rolled her hips into her hand. Both of their eyes were glued to her elfin form as she pleasured herself.
“We don’t need your permission,” Bella grumbled but Alice just laughed.

The two of them had been on the edge for so long that one they properly started to go at it, it didn’t take long for Bella to clench hard around him as she came, whimpers and moans catching in her throat as Aro kissed her deeply. He had one hand on her hip, guiding her movement and his other arm wrapped around her back, holding her close to him as he pounded into her with all of the built up tension from their time apart. Aro was about to tip over the edge and follow Bella into orgasm when Alice tutted.
“Not yet, Aro. That wasn’t a part of the vision.”
Aro growled but knew that listening to her would work out better for all of them if he went along with it. Stilling his movements, he pulled out from Bella who was looking rather dazed, her eyes glazed over with pleasure.

They all knew what was going to happen next and the tension of it hung in the air, even Bella who had just come was strung tight with it. Aro especially was beginning to feel feral with desire, delayed gratification had never been his strong suit but if it would make Alice happy then he would try at the very least.

Alice was still languidly touching herself when Aro reached her and flipped her onto all fours with a growl, he wasn’t going to go easy on her. She had brought that much on herself. He entered her roughly and began to fuck her in earnest, the loop of pleasure between them a familiar sensation that he adored so. Visions, a multitude of them, filled his mind. Milliseconds in the future right the way through to after they had finished and even some of the far flung future, it made Aro shudder. He was much better at sorting through Alice’s visions now but he still found it overwhelming in the best way.

He was so wrapped up in the feel of her body and the visions assaulting his mind that he barely even noticed that Alice had let herself fall onto her chest and for good reason. Bella was in front of her, legs splayed wantonly as she offered herself up to the elf-like vampire. Dark hair and pale skin was all that Aro could see and he knew that it would fill his mind even if he had his eyes closed. Bella was writhing under Alice’s skilled tongue and the secondhand taste of her sat on his tongue as his thrusts became harsher and less controlled. Aro tired to never come before his partner if he could help it and after so long together he knew just how to push the shorthaired vampire to the edge, a slight adjustment in the angle of his thrusts and a hand on her clit was all it took and she was soon crying out loudly, the sound muffled slightly.

A familiar pride filled Aro at this, he had pleasured both of his mates and now they were wrapped up together. This had been what Alice had been wanting, he knew now. Aro had been gone for weeks and Alice in her perceptive wisdom knew that he would be feeling anxious about his place between them, whether they needed him. Without having to say a word she had proven to him that he had nothing to worry about.
‘There we go, you seem happier now,’ Alice thought to him smugly, even as her mind was still clouded with pleasure. She still hadn’t given up on pleasing Bella either, she had three fingers inside her mate and was fucking her relentlessly with her fingers while she sucked Bella’s clit sharply.
Unable to keep his composure anymore under the onslaught of sensation, both mental and physical he came hard into his mate, a growl ripping its way through his throat.

Some time later the three of them were curled up just like he had seen in Alice’s mind, the closest that any of them would get to sleep.
“It’s good to have you back, Aro,” Alice said, pulling Bella closer to her chest.
Bella hummed in contentment even as she wiggled her arms around Aro and pulled him closer so that she could lay her head on his chest, “Yeah we missed you,” the sound was muffled by his body but he heard it and smiled, pressing a kiss to the top of her head.
“Come here, darling,” he beckoned to Alice who leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his lips, short and sweet. “Caius can go next time there is business to be done, I am not leaving you two for a long time.”
“Or we could come with you,” Bella pointed out.
“You’ll have to go to Iceland at some point, there is a coven there that will begin to cause trouble in a few months,” Alice said seriously before suddenly perking up. “It will be dark all the time there so we can go out normally, wouldn’t that be fun?”
Bella seemed terribly excited about the prospect and so Aro didn’t argue, he was happy if they were happy. His Queens, his heart and soul and his power. His prized possessions.