Faceless Queen 15

“Hey guys what are you up to?”Rosalie asked her four siblings who were all sitting coupled up on couches in front of a large screen in the castle’s private movie theater. Rosalie had expected them to be with the guard training not relaxing watching a movie. Then again after everything they had been through recently Rosalie couldn’t blame them for wanting to be in a quiet place without anyone else around. It did make for the perfect place for her to tell them all about Isabella, Queenie and the options that they had for the future.

“Rosalie check it out. Jane kicked everyone out and let us have the whole place to ourselves.”Emmett told her.

“She even let us pick whatever movie we wanted to watch. This one hasn’t even been released to the public yet.”Alice had been surprised that Jane had been so nice to them.

“Overall she was very helpful.”Jasper said.

“She is very close to Isabella and as her mate she will treat you well because I care about you.”Rosalie was touched Jane went out of her way to help out her family. Even if it was only because of Rosalie’s mate bond with Isabella.

“I can see those two getting along.”Fran could easily see both of the violent women being friends.

“So what’s been going on?”Jasper wanted to know what was going to happen to him and the rest of the family now.

Rosalie sat down on a couch in front of the row the others were sitting on and turned to face them.”I don’t even know where to begin.”

“We have been through a whole bunch of crap. You especially.”Fran was sure that it would take years to recover from everything that happened. It would probably take Rosalie even longer than the rest of them.

“I can’t believe Carlisle and Edward did that.”Emmett would have never guessed they would have done what they did to Rosalie and everything else they did after she was turned.

“It’s so gross that actually formed a bond over their shared obsession for you.”Alice had always thought Edward and Carlisle had an unnatural relationship but never looked to close.”The fact that Edward was calling Carlisle daddy and Carlisle would praise Edward for being a good boy. What the fuck was wrong with them?”

“It ones thing to have a fetish but they told people they were father and son. They even had the audacity to try and make us pretend to be siblings because they both claimed people would think it was wrong for adopted siblings to date. What hypocrites.”Fran and the others had listened to many lectures about how to act properly in public from both men.”I hope we get to see Carlisle again so we can rub their relationship in his face.”

“I think you will get your chance very soon.”Jasper said.

“Yeah Carlisle isn’t going to let us go without a fight. He sure as hell isn’t going to let Rosalie go.”Alice didn’t think someone who went to the extreme measures Carlisle went to to get Rosalie would just forget about her.

“I somewhat regret that I let him go but I know him living with what Isabella carved on his forehead and the fact I castrated him would be worse than death. I mean how is he going to go out in public with sex offender carved on his forehead. He certainly isn’t going to be taken seriously by any of his so called allies.”Rosalie thought that death would have been too much of a reward for Carlisle.

“His whole life has been him crafting the perfect image of himself. The vampire who cares so much about human life that he has never drank human blood and fights off his discomfort to be doctor. Now he can’t do that. Unless he figured out a way to have the words removed.”Jasper thought Rosalie made the right choice concerning Carlisle. The man’s image was more important than living to him.

“Only if he can find a shifter who would be willing to scratch the words out. Even then it would leave weird marks on his forehead that he wouldn’t be able to explain to humans.”Rosalie was positive that Carlisle wouldn’t get any help from any shifters because the words on his forehead were obviously made by one and they would most likely trust their own kind over a vampire with those words carved in his skin.

“Wait if a shifter is the only one who can scratch them out does that mean Isabella is a shifter because she carved them?”Emmett asked.

“Isabella gave me permission to tell you her story but you will all have to receive the block after I do.”Rosalie told them.

“Is it the same block you got?”Jasper would happily get it if it was.

Rosalie nodded.”It will block all mental gifts.”

“I’m in.”Fran didn’t even have to think about it. She would do anything to have her mind to herself.

“After living with Edward all these years I will happily get a block that would prevent it from happening again.”Alice hated that her mind wasn’t her own.

“I would happily get it as well.”Jasper said.

“Yeah being able to have no one use a mental gift on me is not something I’m going to pass up.”Emmett had dealt with Edward from the moment he woke up. Having the chance at privacy was not something he was going to pass up.

“Then I can tell you Isabella’s story.”Rosalie was relieved her siblings wanted the block because she wanted them to have the added protection.

“After all the research we have done about her I’m excited to find out the truth.”Alice was happy they were finally solving the mystery that was Isabella the lost queen.

“Well to begin with she is from a species of shifters that no longer exist. They were killed off in a war between humans and supernaturals that happened thousands of years before the first civilization was documented.”Rosalie told them.

“Does that make Isabella the last of her kind?”Jasper asked.

“She is. They were targeted because Isabella came from their kind. There was a seer who had a vision of Isabella’s being born and her saving her people when the war against humans happened.”Rosalie explained.

“Isabella’s birth was foretold?”Fran was very surprised to hear that.

“It was. When she was still in her mother’s womb the goddess Artemis blessed her with the ability to shift into anything she wanted. It didn’t matter what it could be any animal or human. The goddess gave her those abilities and immortality so that she could protect the world’s population of shifters.”Rosalie expected the looks of shock she was getting. She had been shocked as well.

“Okay a couple things to unpack there. First Isabella was blessed by a goddess?”Emmett hadn’t even thought the Christian god was real. Finding out the old gods were was unbelievable.

“She was.”Rosalie confirmed.

“And that is extremely cool and something I will have hundreds of questions about later but did you seriously just claim that Isabella can shift into any animal or human she wants?”Alice asked.

“Yes and you have all seen proof of that because she was actually Queenie this whole time.”Rosalie flinched when everyone included Jasper reacted to that.”Calm down.”

“How do you expect us to calm down when you just told us that a woman who is known for brutal violence and her skill in convincing people to take their own life has been living in our home as a pet? A pet that has basically been spying on us for over a week.”Fran tried to think of anything she said in front of the cat that would upset Isabella.

“She told me she enjoyed being the cat and liked wearing the collar and outfits we bought for it.”Rosalie was planning on breaking the collar and outfits out anytime Isabella shifted into Queenie.

Jasper shook his head at the craziness of the whole situation.”I thought the cat was communicating with Isabella. I never even suspected the cat was actually a shifter and that shifter was Isabella.”

“She can shift into any human?”Emmett asked.

“Any human and I think she used that skill to get the pictures she needed for our ids.”Rosalie figured that was why she didn’t remember the picture.

“I had wondered where that picture came from.”Alice like Rosalie didn’t remember taking the pictures for her ids.

“I don’t know how I feel knowing there is someone in the world who could take the form of any human or animal. I mean can we even trust that each of us are who we say we are?”Fran shivered at the thought of Emmett not being Emmett.

“Luckily Isabella is the only one with the ability and from what I can tell she only uses it for missions or to get out situations that are uncomfortable for her. Those situations being having to talk to people. Which she hates doing and told me when we all travel together she will be spending most of her time as Queenie.”Rosalie just hoped that Isabella would form relationships with her siblings like the ones she had with Sulpicia and Didyme.

“What do you mean when we travel together?”Fran wasn’t sure she wanted to travel with the scary woman.

“That is something we all have to talk about. I want to know what everyone wants to do now that we are free of Carlisle. Actually where is Esme?”Rosalie had just realized the woman wasn’t with them.

“She is talking to the Irish coven who she randomly is very close to.”Alice said.

“Esme is close to the Irish coven?”Rosalie didn’t even know when Esme would have met them.

“Apparently she met them a year after Carlisle turned her and kept in contact with them in secret because Carlisle disapproved of her friendship with them. They had been trying to get Esme to leave Carlisle but she was still believing they were mates even though she admitted to us that she and Carlisle never had sex. She didn’t think that was weird because she never craved it.”Jasper told her.

“And Carlisle never craved it because he had Edward.”Emmett had always thought Esme and Carlisle weren’t affectionate because of Carlisle’s old fashion beliefs on public displays of affection.

“Now that we know they were sleeping together so many things make sense about their relationship and the way they both acted towards us.”Fran couldn’t believe they hadn’t figured it out long before it was revealed.

“I also now know why Edward was so hateful and why he and Carlisle were so keen on trying to control my every movement.”Rosalie had dealt with the pair constantly trying to get her to inform them every time she went somewhere and would bombard her with texts and calls if she was gone longer than she had originally told them she would be.

“I just can’t even believe it. They are so fucked up. To know that they been spying on you this whole time. I can’t get my head around it.”Alice wasn’t the one targeted and she felt violated. She couldn’t imagine how Rosalie felt.

“I wish we didn’t have to see what they did while watching the videos they took but it was a good way of hurting Carlisle and Edward. Edward especially because it caused his mate to leave him before he was killed.”Jasper thought it was poet justice that Edward died knowing his mate threw him away.

“I hope Angela is alright after all this.”Fran wasn’t that close to the human but cared enough to hope for the best.

“She never wanted to be a part of this life. Remember how she fight the bond in the beginning and she looked beyond relieved when she was walking out of the the throne room.”Rosalie thought that Angela would be just fine.

“She will actually get a chance to go college and be a teacher like she always wanted.”Emmet was happy for Angela.

“We need to decide what we want to do.”Jasper said.

“Isabella has given me a few options to bring up to you.”Rosalie told them.

“What is she offering?”Alice asked.

“Before we do anything Isabella thinks and I agree we need to collect our belongings from all the storage units and homes Carlisle owns before we do anything else. We all know Carlisle is petty and will most likely target our things.”Rosalie was very worried about her new car.

“He would definitely wreck our stuff.”Fran fully agreed with Rosalie. Carlisle was petty.

“We need a place to put everything and we haven’t built our houses yet.”Emmett to wanted to get his stuff they just didn’t have place to put it.

“There is a shifter community that is located near our new house that has offered to let us store anything we wanted on their land. I personally think we should accept the offer because with shifters guarding it Carlisle wouldn’t be able to get close enough to even touch anything let alone wreck it.”Rosalie knew that the shifters would be able to keep Carlisle away.

“That would be much better security than any storage unit could offer.”Jasper was more than happy to accept the shifters’ help.

“I’m ok with it.”Alice said.

“It will likely be the only way to stop Carlisle.”Emmett didn’t think Carlisle would be able to get around a group of shifters.

“So that takes care of our stuff now we have to worry about where to live. We have the land but we need to build our houses on it. While that’s happening where are we going to go?”Fran asked.

“Once again Isabella is offering us a solution to that problem. She suggested that we get everything started on construction then she will take us traveling while everything is getting built and before you dismiss traveling with Isabella I should tell you that part of her gift is that she blocks uv rays and makes it so that when she’s around vampires don’t sparkle in the sun.”Rosalie smiled at the disbelieving looks she was getting.

“Wait she can make it so we could be in public on a sunny day and not be exposed?”Alice had never heard of a gift like that.

“Yes she can. Which is extremely helpful because her species were nomads who don’t like to stay in one place for long periods of time. Her gift makes so I can travel with her.”Rosalie was very happy that she wouldn’t have to stay behind while Isabella gave into her wanderlust.

“That is so rad!”Emmett was already coming up with a list of places he wanted to go.”Would she take us to the Super Bowl?”

“I always wanted to go to Egypt.”Fran had been very enamored with Egyptian culture and hated the fact that she would never get the chance to visit.

“It would nice to be able to go back to Texas and see what happened to my family’s homestead.”Jasper said.

“I think the best way to get her to take you to specific places is if you let me do the asking. She really hates talking to people and people in general so it may take a while before she warms up to you guys and while she is doing that the safest way to stop any fights would be for me to to handle all conversations with her.”Rosalie didn’t think Isabella would hurt any of her siblings she was more worried about Isabella getting pissed off and leaving.

“That’s no problem.”Fran would happily let Rosalie handle all their interactions with Isabella. The woman scared her to death.

“It’s going to be hard holding back all the questions I have for her.”Alice had a list of things she wanted to know about Isabella.

“Yeah I really wanted to ask her if she would train me.”Emmett wanted to learn from the best and there was no one better than Isabella in his opinion.

“Actually I asked her about training all of us and she agreed.”Rosalie had expected Isabella to say no and was very happy she didn’t.

“I would appreciate learning how to properly fight from a talented warrior.”Jasper wasn’t a horrible fighter but he knew he wasn’t that great. That being the case he would do anything he had to to be able to protect Alice better. Including getting training from a woman Carlisle called Death personified.

“I’m in.”Emmett didn’t care if he got his ass kicked over and over again because he knew that he would come out of the lessons with more skills than the royal guard.

“I am absolutely petrified of the idea of me being involved in training with Isabella but after the newborn army situation I do want to learn how to protect myself and my mate.”Fran knew that she wouldn’t have lasted against one newborn let alone any army and that made her push aside her fear and accept the help.

“I like the idea of actually learning to fight instead of just relying on my gift to help me.”Alice said.

“We have tons of things that have to happen before we start but I’m glad you are all on board.”Rosalie wanted her family to be prepared for future threats and with Isabella help they would be.

“When are we going to start collecting our stuff?”Emmett asked.

“Isabella asked us to wait for her but she wasn’t sure how long she was going to be because she promised to take Didyme riding in her horse form.”Rosalie had never ridden a horse before and was planning on asking Isabella to let her try sometime.

“Since Isabella can turn into any animal does that mean we are going to have to buy different outfits for her different forms?”Alice figured if Isabella liked to be dressed when she was a cat she would like it when she was other animals as well.

Rosalie shrugged.”I don’t know. She told me we were the first ones to ever do something like that and normally the queens just got stuff that benefited them like the custom saddle and all the other stuff needed to ride a horse.”

“It’s still blows my mind that she was Queenie this whole time.”Jasper wasn’t sure he would ever fully believe it.

“The only reason I know she was being truthful was because transformed right in front of me. I actually fainted when I saw it.”Rosalie wasn’t embarrassed by her reaction as anyone in her position would have done the same.

“Vampires can’t faint.”Emmett said.

“I said the same thing to Isabella who rolled her eyes and told me that yes vampires could faint and that she would probably be teaching me things about vampires for years to come.”Rosalie knew that Isabella was right she would be teaching Rosalie.

“Carlisle really did a number on us didn’t he?”Jasper wished that he had been smarter when he first met the coven and prevent him and Alice from joining.

“Carlisle was a predator. He found each of when we were most vulnerable and swooped in presenting himself as our savior. He then isolated us from others of our kind and forced us into the roles he chose for us by making us believe that was the way the vampire world worked. It actually makes me a kind of angry at the Denali because they never said anything. I mean none of us were quiet about our hatred of going to school or pretending to be teenagers and yet they never offered us advice or told us that there was another way to live.”Rosalie had taken the Denali’s lack of words as proof that Carlisle’s way of living was normal.

“You know you’re right. Why didn’t they say something? Like Rosalie just said none of us were quiet about our hatred of not only school but the life we lived with Carlisle. Not one word about living a different life was said by any of them. They could have at least given us the name of the person they used to get identification from so that we could have a way to break off from Carlisle.”Fran didn’t understand why they hadn’t helped. They were supposed to be close.

“Maybe we can stop by and ask them some questions.”Alice suggested.

“We should bring Isabella with us.”Emmett said.

“Isabella isn’t happy with that coven right now because of them giving information to us about her so I don’t think bringing this up to her would a good idea because although they were assholes they don’t deserve either a brutal beating or death.”Rosalie knew Isabella would have no mercy on the Denali if Rosalie told her about their grievances with the coven.

“Out of all of us you should be calling for their heads. I mean with their help you could have gotten away from Carlisle and Edward.”Fran would be running to Isabella about this if she was in Rosalie’s place.

“I know that but I can’t justify the violence. Maybe I will change my mind after we talk to them but for now I’m giving them a reprieve until we find out why they didn’t help us.”Rosalie wanted to know the Denali’s motivation before she decided to punish them.

“I doubt they will have a good excuse.”Jasper couldn’t think of anything the Denali could say that would make him forgive them for not helping.

“Do you think Carlisle has reached out to them?”Alice asked.

“Of course he did. The Denali are known for their hatred of the queens. He would have reached out to them and told them some convoluted story about how he was attacked unjustly and we were stolen from him. I have no doubt that not only the Denali will be hearing from him but others as well.”Rosalie knew that Carlisle wasn’t going to take what happened laying down.

“I think his biggest motivation will be attacking the queens to get to you because there is no way someone who is so obsessed with someone like Carlisle is with you will let the object of that obsession get away.”Jasper didn’t think Carlisle would rest until he got Rosalie back.

“Do you think he is really waiting for us to show up in Forks?”Emmett didn’t what Carlisle would be thinking if he was.

“Definitely and that is the reason I want to wait until Isabella is done to leave the castle so that she can come with us. That way we have some kind of protection against whatever bullshit Carlisle pulls.”Rosalie also wanted Isabella to come with them so she could spend time with her mate.

“I will feel better having her with us.”Fran may be scared of Isabella but she knew that they would be the safest with her with them.

Rosalie stood from the couch.“Until she’s ready I’m personally going to go check out the library the guard told me about.”

“I bet they have very rare books.”Jasper said.

“I was hoping to find some ones on vampires so I can learn some more about our species.”Rosalie knew the library had to have something about vampires.

“We are going to restart the movie.”Fran wanted to finish it.

“Us as well.”Alice would check out the library later.

“I’ll be in the library if you need me and I will let you know when Isabella is ready to go.”Rosalie told them.

“Alright.”Emmett gave her a wave and then got up from his seat and went to the projector.

“See you later.”Rosalie said returning Emmett’s wave before making her way out of the room. She followed the guard through the hallway thinking about her talk with her siblings. They hadn’t really gotten into anything to deep. Which Rosalie figured was because everyone was still in shock of what had happened. It would take time for them to work though everything. Luckily they would have each other to rely on to do the work with. Rosalie just hated that they weren’t going to get time to relax before they were pulled into more drama. She didn’t regret not killing Carlisle as she truly believed that the punishment he received was worth than death. It was just she hated that he would be a problem for them. Rosalie wasn’t worried about him harming them because not only was Carlisle weak they Isabella on their side and she would easily keep them safe. She just didn’t want to have to deal with the drama. Hopefully Carlisle would give up whatever plans he had when he couldn’t find them because it would likely take a couple years before everything was built and during that time they would be traveling around the world to places vampires usually couldn’t go. Thinking about traveling with her mate and her siblings Rosalie smiled. It was all of their first taste of true freedom and Rosalie was very happy that she got to enjoy it with her mate.