First Meeting

Hi Guys Welcome to another twilight story.

Still Waters

My first attempt at a Marcus/Bella Romance

Part 3 of the Kings Trillogy

You may thank my other wonderful readers for saving this story someone had saved a copy and emailed it to me so be aware it is not finished yet but as always your positive feedback is what keeps me writing,

That being said I will need another beta for this story as Bella my original beta is no longer available

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Now with the formalities concluded I bring you

Chapter 1. First Meeting

Skydancinghobbit

I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful. Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 1, p.19

Isabella stood numbly staring at the high clock tower, the mournful tolls having fallen silent a moment before. For a single moment she had seen him and he had her. So intent on his own demise was he that her shout had only reached his ears a moment too late. She doubted if any of the humans around her had even noticed the split second dazzling brilliance of sunlight on his pale skin before it was over. One moment he had stood, the next he was gone, reduced to nothing more than a pile of dust blowing on the wind.

Edward was gone.

Yet even as the cheers of the crowd sounded around her in celebration of an event that truly never happened in the first place, Bella felt nothing, perhaps the most surprising fact of the entire trip. For hours she had doubted, feared, even lamented this possible end and yet when it came; She felt nothing. Alice found her some time later, her amber eyes glittering with the venom of her unshed tears.

"Bella come, they have summoned us"

In silence she had followed; mind numb from shock and reeling from the void that the unspoken words and series of small events in her life that were never to be. She could only chastise herself, knowing she should have felt something; horror, pain, even the agony of a lost love all the famous romance novels spoke of. Yet there was only a sense of peace, the feeling of a long war now over and settled at last. It was little comfort as they entered the imposing structure. The ageless stone walls and tastes of decoration barely registered with her as they passed along endless corridors as she looked up flanked in close quarters by two imposing immortals wearing odd grey cloaks. These then Bella thought must be some of the Volturi, the Cullen family had mentioned them so often in conversation she felt nothing more than vague interest as they approached a pair of imposing double doors.

What was her fate to be? Meal or swift end, it truly mattered naught to her and she had just finished a silent prayer when the door swung back to allow them entrance. She squared her shoulders and raised her chin suddenly. She was a Swan and would face her fate with honor or as close to the ideal as she was currently able. Alice indeed stood beside her as the vampire leading them came to a stop bowing low and pulling his hair to the side in what even she recognized as a gesture of submission.

"Great Kings, I have brought the two women as you wished"

A voice answered him that caught Bella like a lightning strike, soft silky and with a soft trace of accent it drew her ear as surely as if it had been tailored made for her. In her shock she looked up having watched the other immortal with some interest, he seemed afraid. Dimly she felt a faint stirring of interest,

What frightened a vampire?

"Excellent Felix, be so good as to guard the door"

In a blur he was gone and they were left alone. She having sought the speaker with something vague. Three immortals that sat on thrones before them regarding her with interest, their crimson eyes glittering in the light from torches that stood in wrought irons brackets about the room. One in the middle with shorter dark hair and a smile that suggested he wasn't quite sane. A blond such as any women would swoon over on his right eyed her with loathing. Then her eyes found the other and a soft gasp escaped her lips.

"Ah... you must be Isabella"

Shaken as if from a trance by the words, she blinked choosing her words with some care, after all if she was to die it was best to be civil least the immortals get the idea of playing with their food before eating it. That never worked out well for the food so she settled on the simplest answer.

"I am"

Soft stirring of fabric caught her ear as suddenly he was before her, the words of his brother having been wiped from his cold lips as Bella found herself lost in a pair of soft crimson eyes. Pale fingers touched her jaw with a gentleness she would not have thought possible. All eyes seemed to burn into her skin but yet Isabella could not have looked away from this immortal if this moment was to be her last it was a good way to go. There was a world of emotion in these clouded depths, understanding of the deepest level, ancient sadness and yet a new hope so clearly written it made her wish to weep.

"Shh Isabella."

She had not known at that moment that indeed silent tears had been flowing down her cheeks until he wiped them away. His voice was soothing, as if she had never truly heard anything properly before. It wrapped around the shattered pieces of her heart, still jagged and rough from the loss of Edward the first time, and wove the fragments together. She trembled from the sheer overload of emotions as they slammed into her, stealing her breath as she blinked, then was released just as suddenly from his thrall as if someone had thrown icy water onto the pair. His brother had joined them, placing a hand on the shoulders of both, his expression shifting to one of outright amazement. Alice gasped

"It's...not possible"

Cold hands rested on her shoulders, the touch as familiar as if it had been her own. Real, solid, and yet belonging to an immortal, whose name she didn't even know; with his long dark hair and cold skin like fine china. He was a wonder to her eyes. It was all too much for her and as the stone floor rushed up and the darkness closed in she heard these words ending in a laugh so cold, high in octave, it was unbalanced and frightening.

"The possibilities are only limited by our own beliefs Miss Cullen. What an interesting day this has been!

" Oh brothers, we must celebrate!"

So what do you think? Is it worth a second Chapter? -hands out cookies and tea-

Thanks as always go out to my wonderful Beta Bella and her awesome sidekick TwilightAddict71484 who bravely tackled this story with their mighty ninja skills!

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Stay tuned accordingly for chapter 2 Still Waters Run Deep

Skydancinghobbit

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