Chapter 2
Maria POV
I was awakened by surprisingly my dad telling me it was time for me to go hunt with the rest of the family. I nodded and went to get dressed in jeans and a t-shirt with running shoes.
"You ready?" Japer asked as I came down the stairs at a human pace which the others laughed at. I pocketed my phone because I was texting a friend back in Bolivia.
I rolled my eyes but answered as I hopped onto the blonde's back, "Yes. Now let's go. I'm hungry." Jasper shook his head along with my father and ran into the woods with the others going in different directions. When we were a good distance from the house he slowed down and allowed me to get off his back and run alongside with him.
"Why are you hunting? All you need is sleep and a little food whether it be human or animal and you're at your peak." I shrugged at my husband and looked at the gold necklace with a purple diamond he got me for my birthday twenty years ago. He grabbed my hand and lifted my chin with the other to look into the identical amber eyes of ours and placed a small quick kiss on my lips. "Stop thinking about tomorrow. Nothing is going to happen to you or the rest of the family." I nodded and ruffled his hair before running full speed to the waterfall.
I faintly heard him come after me but I am the fastest in the family because of my abilities. My father was the second fastest and then it was Rose. The rest were normal paced vamp speed.
I got to the waterfall and spotted two mountain lions. A mother and a baby. It made my heart break knowing that Jasper would never let me go through the pain and heartbreak of having a baby and having to give it up.
"There you are. What are you looking at?" Jasper asked me when he finally caught up to me.
"I want one." I had tears in my eyes looking into his own. He sighed and held me to his body.
"Are you sure?" I nodded into his chest and he sighed again. "We can try." I looked up into his eyes surprised. "You know how much we need a kid in the house." I nodded again but this time reaching up to kiss his cheek real fast. "On three conditions, we never abandon it and we make sure it happens after graduation." I laughed a little and nodded. "Also, Carlise makes the delivery." I rolled my eyes at that. A vampire child born in an actual hospital, like that wouldn't raise a bunch of questions.
"Who else when we have a doctor living in our house?" I asked with an eyebrow raised and he rolled his eyes.
"Now, let's get to hunting…" Jasper said and we left the two mountain lions alone knowing one would be lost without the other and the baby wasn't big enough to drink.
After drinking at least 15 deer and a few mountain lions we finally reached the house where the rest were. Dad and the whore already left for the camp site they would be staying at while we were fighting the newborns.
"What took you two so long?" Emm asked me with raised eyebrows.
"We stopped to talk for a while…" I trailed off and Rose squealed knowing what we talked about.
"When?" She asked excitedly which the rest turned to Japer and I with a confused gaze on.
"What is she talking about?" Alice asked me and gasped after and I knew she was having a vision. She squealed like Rose after it had finished and started jumping up and down.
"Please tell me you two aren't thinking of…?" Esme asked and I nodded and she squealed also.
"How do all of you know?" Jasper asked them and I whistled innocently. "You told them?!"
"I would have done no such thing. Rose and I were talking one day and the subject came up." I shrugged and he sighed rubbing his face. "Alice had a vision and Esme just guessed it." I said and Emmet and Carlise looked confused.
"Will someone tell me what is going on?" Emm asked and I shook my head.
"We'll tell everyone after the battle." I said to him and he nodded.
"Speaking of which, we should head there now." Carlise suggested and we all ran to the clearing with me in the lead. I got there first and then Rose and then the rest of them.
"They're coming." Alice announced and the wolves went to hide. Jasper held me close for a minute before the newborns decided then was the time to come up from the ocean. I held my eyes locked on the one in front and the family nodded and I led them into battle. I punched the first one's thought out and his head went to the ground and I kept doing that until it got boring and started ripping off limbs and punching a hole in their chests. A wolf came up and helped me kill one and I nodded in gratitude.
Jasper was having his ass handed to him by three newborns at once and I went to help him. My eyes turned black at the condition he was in and tore through two of the vamps we was fighting with while he killed the last one. I was pissed but he healed quickly and we went back to killing newborns left and right.
We were back to back until I saw one last one and ripped its head off and threw it into the fire.
I noticed a girl about 16 cowering behind a tree and held my hand out to her knowing she didn't want to hurt anyone. "I'm not going to hurt you." I told her and she took my hand before I led her back to the family and Emm made a moved to attack but I used a power to keep him back. "She doesn't want to hurt anyone." I told everyone and they nodded. "What's your name?"
"Alex." She said in a small voice and I looked down at her before sighing and brought her into a hug. She must have had a very traumatic experience to be a part of that army. She was shaking and I calmed her down. I looked to Carlise and he nodded at my unasked question that would let her join our coven.
"Alex, how would you like to become a Cullen?" I asked and she nodded and a wide grin made its way onto my face. "Jasper?" He nodded and I heard the Voltori coming and I pushed the trembling girl to Esme gently before putting on my mask that held emotions from coming. Dad and Bella had already come from the mountain and the wolves left.
Jacob got hurt apparently and I rolled my eyes. Stupid wolf shouldn't have let the newborn put its arms around him.
Jasper held me close to him as Aro and the others made their way from the forest.
"Such a disappointment. I see one survived," Aro said to us.
"We will take care of her and her actions can be blamed on us." I informed him and his gaze was put on me.
"Ah yes, the hybrid taking the care of a newborn." He said and I nodded. He nodded back and said some other stuff to us before leaving. Alex was safe with us and that was all I cared about.
"Now will you tell us what all the girls seem to know besides Bella?" Emm asked me and I laughed.
"Yes, well, here it goes. Jasper and I are going to try for a baby." I said and dad looked furious, Rose, Alice and Esme looked exited, Emmett, Bella and Carlise looked surprised while Anna looked confused. The vampire girls tackled me in hugs while Carlise and Emmett were holding back my father from murdering my husband. "DAD! It was my idea." I called to him and he calmed down and I rushed to Alex knowing she was scared.
"It's alright, he gets a little riled up sometimes because he is my father." I assured her and she nodded. I took in her appearance and shook my head before leading her back to house that was exactly 50 miles from the mountain clearing before telling her to use one of the guest bedrooms and bathrooms for her own before lending her some clothes telling her we would go shopping in a few days.
"You seem to have grown attached to her." Jasper's voice made me jump and he put his arms around my waist.
"She's scared. A newborn and I just want to help her." I said and he nodded into my chocolate brown hair. I sighed and turned around in his arms before putting my own around his neck. "I know you want to, but with her around, I think she just needs someone to help her through this, ya know. I've been in her position before, remember. I was scared out of my witz." He chuckled before leaning down to kiss me softly.
"I know, and right before we got married." I chuckled at him this time remembering the almost panic attack I had the day of our wedding day.
"Oh yes, I remember that day clear. Too many things happened. One being an attack and we had to get changed because your tux was ripped and my dress was ruined. Luckily we still had Esme's because if not, that would have been a disaster." He nodded and pecked my lips once before leaving to go sit on the couch. Lazy ass.
I sat next to him and sighed while cuddling into his chest. He had his arms around me protectively and I just rolled my eyes at that because that was the major coming out in him and the major had to protect his mate. Soon the rest of the family came home with Bella and I hissed at her.
"She needs to leave. Alex is just upstairs and I'm not taking any risks." I said jumping off the couch. "She's in danger here and I don't want that girl upstairs feeling guilty. We're trying to get her on the diet." Dad nodded but the she devil complained the entire time they were leaving that she couldn't stay but the stray vamp could.
"Thank you." Carlise said and I nodded. Alex came down the stairs a few minutes later looking good as new.
"Alice, Rose, Esme and I will take you shopping this weekend, Alex. For now, you can just get to know you're new family." I said to her and she nodded. She sat next to Emmett and began to play Call of Duty with him and I rolled my eyes shaking my head. "Carlise, can I talk to you in the kitchen?" He nodded and we walked in the kitchen.
"What's up?" He asked me curious.
"I don't want Bella here to take risks with a newborn in the house for now. I want Alex to get to know the family and diet first before Bella comes back and ruins it." I said to him and he nodded agreeing with me. For my age, I act a lot like a parent.
"Yeah, bad thing about that is I don't think Bella is ever going to stay away from this house with Edward here. I don't want Alex feeling uncomfortable either. She's a new family member and I'd hate for her to feel guilty that she accidently killed a human but everyone does it. I think we should get her on the diet too though, and it would be safer if Bella stayed away for a while." He said back to me and I nodded back. I would hate for her to feel guilty about killing a human by accident.
"Just, make sure she doesn't come here until Alex is ready." I told him and he nodded again before we both walked out to see Emmett get beaten by Alex in the game which I laughed at; Rose and the rest of the family not too far behind. "Alex, I was thinking you would like to go hunting, do you want to come?" She nodded and Jasper came along with us. "We're not like normal vampires. We drink animal blood. Do you think you can handle that?" She nodded and I smiled at her.
Jasper POV
I watched how Maria interacted with Alex. Almost like a mother would a child. I know she wants one really bad but we don't know if she can get pregnant or not. I really hoped so because I couldn't live to see her depressed all the time. I can see the way she looks like Alex is her child that needs help- which she does. I loved Maria with all my heart and I can only just hope that she can get pregnant because seeing her with Alex almost makes me think that we should adopt her because we are older than her. Like a lot older.
Alex was starting to grow on me like a child too and I don't want to see her get hurt by accidentally killing a human like Maria did all those years ago.
"Come on, Alex. It's going to take some time getting used to but you can do it. You just go up, snap its neck and drink the blood. That's all." Maria kept trying to convince the small terrified newborn.
"Alright, I can do this." Alex said to herself and flung herself at the closet deer and did as Maria told her. "That was… different." I smiled at her and held my wife closer.
"Like I said, it'll take some time to get used to. Especially the taste." My wife said as she smiled up at me knowingly. I nodded because it took me two years to get used to the diet. "Let's head back to the house unless you're still hungry."
"No. I think I can handle for a while." Alex said and I smiled at her.
"Just make sure to tell us you're hungry. You don't need to be embarrassed." I assured her and she nodded. We all ran back to the house with Maria in the lead because she is the fastest in the family because she's a hybrid.
Alex went straight up to her room that she claimed that was just across the hall from us which Maria sighed at. I held her close to my chest and surprisingly she didn't oblige. I sat on the closest couch with her sill cuddled into my chest and held her protectively like I did earlier until her father brought the to-be-vampire into the house which we all reacted badly to. We all wanted Alex to get to know the diet before letting her anywhere near Bella.
"Come on; let's let you get some sleep. You seem like you need it." I said and picked her up bridal style that I seem to be doing a lot of lately. I set her down on the bed and pulled up the covers for her and climbed in behind her and put my arm around her waist. I kissed her shoulder lightly and listened as her heart slowed down to a steady pace as she went to sleep.
"You seem to care for her. A lot which I do not like." Edward stated from the doorway and I looked over to him.
"She's my mate and wife. Kind of like Bella is to you except I've had more time with mine." I said and looked back down at the sleeping hybrid before placing a kiss to her hair and leaving the bed to go down to the living room. Edward followed me down and threw me into a wall.
"If you get my daughter pregnant before I get married, so help you, Jasper you won't even exist to see your child be born." He threatened as he held my throat to the wall and I chuckled before I flung him off of me and sat on the couch.
"I already told her that we aren't having a baby until after graduation. So don't worry. I will be there for my wife and nothing will separate us, Edward, not even your little mate." I stated as I propped my feet up on the coffee table.
"Will you two stop threatening each other? Edward, they are mates and married, Jasper, Edward just wants to protect his daughter. Be nice." Esme said as she walked in from the kitchen. We nodded in understanding and I turned on the TV.
"I don't think having Alex here is such a great idea…" He trailed off.
"Yeah, well I don't think having Bella here is such a good idea either." Maria's voice said as she sat next to me on the couch. "And dad, if I want to have a baby I will with or without your permission, I'm married and old enough to." She cuddled into my chest and I put an arm around her shoulders.
"But you're still my baby girl." She rolled her eyes at her father and looked at him.
"I don't care. You don't have to take care of me anymore. I'm fucking 165 years old." She said and I was so close to laughing at his face.
"Edward, respect that she is old enough to make her own decisions." Carlise came into the conversation.
"But she is my daughter." Edward argued.
"I understand that, but she is old enough to make her own decisions and to do what she wants." Carlise said and my wife smirked with me not to far behind her. "They already talked to me about it before she left to go visit her mother and they already settled on after graduation. Can you respect that?"
"I guess I can."
"Also, you're going to be married too, so you can try for another hybrid." I said and Maria chuckled. I could so see her being an older sister. Taking care of the baby while Edward and Bella are out hunting with another baby in my arms. This time ours.
"Speaking of which, we all know your anniversary is in a week and we wanted to get you both something which we did. Well we had some help, but I think it's perfect." Alice said as she came to sit on the armchair in front of us. We eyed her suspiciously. "But, you have to wait for the day." Maria groaned and I smirked knowing she hates surprises.
"Please, Alice, you know I hate surprises!" Maria said and everyone else smirked.
"Nope. You have to wait even though I have a feeling you will love it." Rose said as she walked into the room. Maria glared at them and I was so close to laughing it wasn't even funny anymore.
"Come on guys! You two are the only ones I tell my secrets to, aside from the dope here."
"Hey!" I exclaimed a little hurt. She turned to me with a raised eyebrow and pecked me on the lips once before turning to the other vampire girls. She was pissed. I could feel that.
"I've already seen it. You love it. Just wait until the day." Alice said and Maria curled up into my chest again. She sighed and soon enough was back asleep. I picked her up once again and went back upstairs to put her back in the bed. I kissed her head after I got her in the bed under the covers and walked shut the curtains before turning off the light and walking back downstairs.
