"And what would that be?"
"The southern vampire wars. Vampires fought for the biggest populations, and they started to create armies of newborn vampires, which are stronger than normal, and fight each other. I stayed there for decades before I escaped. Before I had left, however, my maker, Maria, and I, made the most feared coven in all of the south, minus the Volturi. She didn't take lightly to my leaving. That's why she's here today," I said.
"So, you survived fighting your own kind for how long?" he said, procuring a pencil and paper from nowhere.
"About 90 years."
"Almost a century, wow." Then Emmett had to barge in. bringing Alice and Edward too.
"So this is what you looked like as a human. Huh. And you made the history books. Hey, show him your scars from the fights in the south," he said all at once.
"Slow down Emmett, he's thinking daggers at you," Edward said, smiling.
"I know I can feel it," he returned, suddenly grasping his head as I sent some emotional pain at him.
"All three of you stop it. I think it's nice that someone remembered all that jasper did. Besides, he looks cute in that uniform."
I chuckled darkly as Emmett let go of his head, then, stopped when he grabbed for my arms to raise up my long sleeves. I easily evaded him, but he kept coming after me, and we started to fight, snarling and snapping at each other until we were nothing more than a blur to the human eye. The all of a sudden I heard a loud rip and a rush of air against my skin and Emmett was standing there holding my shirt. All of the humans had given us a wide berth, but unfortunately I landed rather close the very teacher I wanted to avoid. Where he could easily see my scars. I crouched, ready to tear Emmett limb from limb.
"What's this on your skin jasper? Is that a bite mark? Oh my god, how many do you have jasper?" he said in rapid succession. I turned and snarled at him.
"That's none of your business," I said, satisfied when he backed away. Then Alice was there, snarling in my face. I didn't back down. Then she did something I never expected her to do. She slapped me. Hard. I stood up and stopped snarling. I sent out waves of shock. I couldn't help but project my emotions. I couldn't speak them right now if I tried.
"Now, I don't want you to say another negative word to him, snarl or do anything else. He was genuinely interested and curious about your scars. Now tell him, or I will," said Alice, oblivious to my shock.
I kept my mouth shut.
"Fine, then I will. I know the story as well as you do. I believe that he told you that he was changed for the southern vampire wars, am I correct in saying he told you the woman outside is the one that changed him?"
"Yes, but why won't he tell me this?" he said, curiosity emanating from him.
"Because he's a little sensitive about his scars. But he needs to get over it, so I'm telling about them anyway." I growled lightly, but didn't say anything.
"When fighting someone of our kind, the only way to destroy them is to rip them apart and burn them. The only thing that penetrates our skin is our teeth."
I could feel him putting the connection together. Then he gasped and felt very shocked, then fearful as he stepped away from me. I smirked a little, then stopped at the expression on Alice's face.
"Those scars signify all those who tried, failed, and died, trying to kill him."
"Then, after he let his best friend and a woman go, he was severely punished. Soon after, Peter came back for him and they left Maria behind. In short, I found him, he switched diets, and we joined the Cullen's. Much to the dismay of Edward," said Alice, who was apparently humoring my foul mood by letting most of the story fall out of the picture. I shuddered as I recalled that punishment. It didn't go unnoticed. Alice hugged me and my anger towards her dissolved instantly. I smiled at her, my love outshining anything she could ever say or do to me.
My family re-dispersed and the humans eventually went after them to ask about their beginnings. I could hear Edward explaining his life as a human and Emmett explaining the bear hunt that changed his life.
"So, when would you like me to speak to your class?" I asked as politely as I could.
"Um, well, how about tomorrow, of we have school then. Maybe a bit about the civil war and you life as a vampire?" fear and uneasiness came off of him in waves but I said sure, as cordially as I could. There was no point in holding anything back now. My scars, and sub sequentially, my shame, was out for everybody to see.
Then I felt new emotions outside the door and that was the only warning we got before Carlisle came in. I had never felt any kind of anger as great as this coming off him before. We were in big trouble.
"Everybody that I made and the two who I did not, please join me for a minute," he said in a loud voice. The room went quiet and we quickly made our way to him. I tried to calm him down a little, but he immediately knew what I was doing and glared at me. I suppose it was my fault for killing the vampire in front of humans. But I'm not the one who blurted out what we were either. I stopped trying to mess with his emotions, it was completely justified.
Esme looked like she was about to explode into tears, though I knew she couldn't. The history teacher looked like he wanted to die for just knowing what we were while Carlisle was there. Maybe he would. Who knew? Maybe Alice, but I wasn't about to ask her.
"How did this happen?" he asked in a deceivingly calm voice. I knew better though. He was in a flat rage.
"A newborn vampire attacked Alice and tried to kill her, so jasper came up behind it and killed it," said Edward, knowing that he didn't want me or Emmett talking.
"And who told them about us?"
"Emmett did, sir," said Edward.
"And how did rumors get all the way to the hospital where a mob was waiting for me?"
"A few people called home," said Alice from slightly behind me.
"A few? Esme was near tears when she came to the hospital looking for me. And then they thought they could stake us."
"It was the only way. We couldn't just leave, or they would have followed and the Volturi would have been involved," said Alice from further behind me.
"Well, we can't leave the humans here to fend for themselves, and she's after Jasper anyway, so we stay here and fight. We need to call peter, charlotte, and the Denali's."
