Jasper:
The night wore on and on and the fucking clock seemed to taunt me by ticking backwards. Finally the sun begin to rise and that got me one step closer to seeing my mate again. I heard the door open and Carlisle and Esme walk in. They didn't bother to stop and ask if I was here, they went straight to their room. So I went back to watching the clock. At a quarter till nine I heard the familiar sounds of Edwards Volvo, Alice's Porsche and Emmett's Jeep pulling up in front of the house. Damn they made good time.
Pulling myself from my bed I head downstairs to greet them. Alice is the first through the door, she squeals with delight as soon as she steps through.
"Oh, I'm in love with this house already!" Chris comes up behind her.
"Should I be worried?" He asks jokingly. Alice turns to face him.
"Maybe." They both laugh then Alice turns to me.
"I know you are dying to know, what I know but give me a chance to put my things away and freshen up, then I'll tell you everything you want to know." I nod, then her and Chris disappear. Next comes Emmett and Rose.
"What's up Jazz. How was your first night in Dixieland?" Emmett asks with a wide grin.
"It was fine Em, why do you ask?"
"No reason really." He laughs and stalks off. Rose stops to look at me.
"Alice told us before we got here that you've found your mate. Jazz we've all been through hell over one human. Personally I don't want to go through that again!" I love Rose, out of everybody in this family she understands me the most but she sure can be a real bitch sometimes.
"You know Rose, opinions are like assholes everyone has them but most are full of shit. So if you don't mind keep your comments to yerself. I have waited a long time for her and I'll go through hell a dozen times to be by her side..." I start to say more but I'm cut off when a loud "Hot damn!" comes from the living room. I smile, Emmett has discovered the very large collection of video games, lord help us.
Rose shakes her head and walks off. I feel a hand on my shoulder and turn to see Bella smiling at me.
"Don't worry Jazz, she'll come around."
"Sure she will, hell it took her ages to warm to you and that took you getting pregnant to do it." Edward comes in.
"Everything will be fine, you'll see." He smiles then walks off with Bella to explore the new house.
"Hey wait, what do you know?" He calls back.
"Nothing, Jazz!" I can hear him laughing as they get further into the house.
"Uncle Jasper!" I turn in time to see Nessie launch herself at me. I catch her with ease.
"Is it true Uncle Jasper!? Is it!? Is it!?" I laugh. She pulls back and leans against her soon to be husband Jacob.
"Is what true sugar?" I see the grin on Jake's face.
"Is it true you've found your soul mate and that I'm getting a new Aunt!"
"Yes it's true I've met my mate but as far as you getting a new aunt, well we'll have to wait and see. We just met yesterday I don't know a whole lot about her." She bounces up and down and hugs me again.
"I'm so happy for you Uncle Jasper! I can't wait to meet her! When can I meet her?"
"Tonight if you and Jake would like to come with us to Uncle Brewskies." Alice comes skipping down the stairs.
"I have the perfect outfit for you Ness, come to your mothers room in a couple of hours and we'll start getting ready." Nessie smiles.
"Okay Aunt Alice." She turns to Jake. "Come on sweetie lets go check out the rest of the house." They leave me and Alice standing there before I can open my mouth, Alice holds up a finger.
"Just a few more minutes Jazz. I want the whole family to hear and most are still looking over the house. Go wait for me in the living room." I growl, she's frustrating the hell out of me. I want her to tell me what she's seen now!
"Don't growl at me Jasper or you'll never get what you want! Now go sit down and wait for me!" I huff, walk to the living room and flop down on the couch. I cross my arms in front of my chest and wait impatiently for Alice and the rest of them. Five minutes later. Alice dances into the room, followed by Chris, Emmett, Rose, Bella and Edward.
"Where's the rest of family." I ask Alice.
"They'll be here in a few seconds."
"Start without them."
"No!" Dammit this woman is really beginning to piss me off. Nessie comes through the archway and smiles.
"Calm down uncle Jasper, we're here." Finally! Alice clears her throat, then smiles at me and the rest.
"Let me start by saying that Chris, Carlisle and Esme already know what I'm about to tell the rest of you." Chris sighs.
"And it's been hell trying to keep my mouth shut! You have no idea how many times I came to spilling the beans!"
"Just tell us, already!" I know I'm being rude but I can't wait anymore. Alice glares at me, then smiles.
"You're lucky I'm in a good mood or I would get up, walk out and leave your ass sitting here wondering!"
"I'm sorry." She nods.
"You're forgiven! Now I'll tell you my story. Jasper, I saw when you made the decision to move back in with us and I knew that it was going to be very awkward and ruff on you. When you moved back in I did my best to make sure that Chris and I avoided you. It worked for about two weeks. Then you and I saw each other as you where coming back from hunting and I was leaving to go meet Rose in Seattle. You didn't say anything, just looked at me, gave me a pissy ass smile and walked inside. I got in my car and sat there. I know you Jasper, we were together for over sixty years, I could tell you were unhappy. And I don't believe it had anything to do with our break up. You were unhappy because you had to watch us with our mates, feel what we feel for them and you wanted that. I still cared about you as my friend and I wanted to see you happy, so I made the decision that someway, somehow I'd see you happy again.
And I was hit with a vision of you standing on a mountain top looking out at the sky but you wasn't alone, there was a woman standing there with you. I could feel the love radiating between the two of you I'd never felt love that strong before. I could even feel the familia love I had for the woman in my vision. I never saw her face, all I saw was her hair. It was long, just a inch or two shy of touching her butt and it was dark brown, with blonde streaks running threw it. I was thrilled I had seen your mate. But I wasn't sure how far into the future it was, so I filed it away for safe keeping. A little over a month later I had another vision." Alice looks at Chris, then back to me. The look on her face tells me I'm probably not going to like what hear.
"The second vision was of a woman with dark green eyes and long dark hair with blonde streaks fighting Demetri of the Volturi. I saw her put up one hell of a fight against him but then Felix and Alec showed up, she didn't stand a chance. They subdued her and drug her way into the night. It felt has if I was watching one of the family being dragged away, like I was loosing someone very dear to me. I had never seen this woman but I knew I had to help her. But I didn't even know where to start or how long I had.
I looked through the vision again thinking I had missed something but I couldn't find a thing. So I went to Chris and told him what I had seen. We talked for hours but I still came up empty handed. Chris suggested I tell the rest of the family, in hopes that they could help. I wasn't sure about telling everyone, so I went to Carlisle and told him what I had seen. He asked me if I'd had any other visions, I was just about to tell him no, when I remembered the vision I'd gotten a month earlier. I rushed from Carlisle's office and locked myself in my room." My eyes go wide. I knew what she was talking about, she had everyone worried and poor Chris had almost tore his hair out.
"You wouldn't open the door for anyone not even Chris. You stayed locked up in there for over twenty four hours, when you came out you wouldn't talk to anyone." Alice nods.
"I looked through both visions over and over, until I figured out that the girl I saw with you on the mountain was also the one I saw being taken away by the Volturi. I came to the conclusion that I was watching your mate being kidnapped by some of Aro's guard." Red colors my vision and I lunge for Alice. She jumps out of the way before I can reach her. I turn to try and get to her again but Emmett and Edward get to me before I can. They grab me under my arms and pull me away. Carlisle approaches me with his hands out in front of him.
"Jasper, son calm down. Please." I jerk myself free from Em and Edward.
"I'm calm but she should have told me! She had no right to keep this from me!" I look at Alice and growl. She growls back.
"I tried telling you about the first vision, that I had seen you happy with your mate but nooo you didn't want to hear it! Chewed my ass out, told me I no longer had any right to look into or know anything about your future and to stay out! What the hell makes you think I'd try telling you about the second one! That you caused!"
"Me? How the hell did I cause you to have the vision that you saw!" She got up in my face, with Chris right behind her.
"When you made the decision not to find your mate!" She shoved me and I fell back over the couch when I looked up Alice was standing over me growling.
"You screwed everything up with that one decision! You had a mate coming to you! I, we had a new sister and daughter coming to us! You were happy, we were happy. Our family was finally complete and you just had to find yourself! Dammit Jasper, what you've been looking for you whole damn vampire existence, is your mate! She's the one who will help you become the vampire you've always wanted to be! And you had to decide to do it own your own! If I hadn't of step in your mate would have been taken by the Volturi and you would have been none the fucking wiser! They want her Jazz and I don't know why!" She backs off and sits back down. Chris sits down with her and glares at me. I feel bad, not because of Chris's death glare but because I shouldn't have blamed Alice, it's not her fault. I should have listened when she tried telling me about the first vision.
"Alice I'm sorry. It's not your fault."
"Damn right it's not but I forgive you. Just next time don't try and kill the messenger!" She smiles. "Would you like to hear the rest of what I was going to say?" I nod.
"Okay as I was saying, I knew I was seeing your mate and my sister being taken. But I didn't really know where to start looking then it dawned on me, duh! The mountain! It was all I had, so I went with it. I started looking online doing my damnedest to find it. At first I thought I was seeing you two on one of the mountains, that make up the Olympic Mountains back in Washington. But the more I watched the vision the more I realized it wasn't, so I widen my search. I looked at pictures of the well know mountain ranges, that are close to where we would normally live but none of them matched what I had seen in my vision. I began to get discouraged but my loving husband told me that I might need to think out side the box for this one. I listen to him. Finally after two weeks of searching I found what I'd been looking for! Cheaha Mounatin the highest peak in Alabama. I told Chris, Carlisle and Esme what I had figured out and what was going on. They all agreed that since you weren't going to go hunt your mate out for yourself we'd take your ass to her! I looked through the vision again and saw that our moving to Alabama would change the outcome. They still come after her but this time Jasper, you'll be there to help her. And I don't lose my sister before I even get the chance to know her!"
"Alice you said Kiri was able to hold her own against Demetri, how the hell did she do that!?"
"So Kiri's the mystery woman's name, I love it!" I roll my eyes.
"Alice please focus and answer the question."
"Sometimes you're such a killjoy, Jazz. But to answer your question, I don't know, she just went to whooping his ass, then Felix and Alec showed up and she couldn't fight all three of them!" Shit! Of course it couldn't be simple.
"What if we get Eleazar, to come check her out. He can see if she's gifted as a human like Bella was" I snort at Carlisle's suggestion.
"Won't work, Carlisle. We'd never get him to come down here!"
"What about taking her to him?" He asks.
"Yeah sure! What am I suppose to say to her!? Hi I'm a vampire, I'm your mate and I believe you have a strong gift that can be used against our kind. And another of my kind, a crazy ass fucker greedy for as much power as he can get, wants you. Mind coming with me to Alaska so a friend of mine can tell me what kind of gift you have that the crazy ass fucker wants. Yeah that will work out great!" Dumb ass! I though Carlisle was smarter than that.
"Don't be facetious, Jasper it was just a suggestion."
"I know Carlisle and I'm sorry I was being a smart ass. I'm just a little wound up."
"It's alright but we still need to know why Kiri is so important to Aro. I'm sure he's the one that sends those three after her"
"Yes, but I don't understand how Aro could know about her. I guess I'll just have to wait and ask one of the guards he sends after Kiri. I'm gonna give Peter a call and see if he knows or as heard anything. Then after that no matter his answer, I'm going to get ready to go see my mate." I excuse myself and step outside. I place the call to Peter and explain to him what I had just learned.
"Damn, Jazz that's one hell of a story! Do you believe it?"
"There wasn't even the smallest hint of a lie coming from Alice, so yeah Pete, I believe her."
"Well if you're calling to ask me if I know anything, the answer is no. I haven't heard anything and my spidy senses haven't been tingling. I'm sorry man "
"Don't worry about it, you not knowing anything is a good thing."
"If anything changes you'll be the first to know!"
"Thanks Peter."
"No sweat. I'll holler at you later." I ended the call and slid my cell in my pocket. All was clear on Peter's end and that put me at ease for now. I still wanted to know how the Volturi found out about my mate and why they want her. But I couldn't think about that now, I needed to focus my attention on getting Kiri. I had a feeling it would be easy. I just needed to lay my good old southern charm on a little thicker and she'd be all mine. I look at my watch. Only 10:30, it's still a little early for me to be getting ready.
Just to kill time and not annoy everyone in the house with my constant clock watching I go inside and challenge Emmett to play Call of Duty: AW, online. Maybe this time he'll get a kill in. Alice is sitting on the bottom stair waiting for me.
"What's up Alice?"
"May I make a suggestion, Jazz?"
"As if I could stop you but thanks for asking first, go head."
"When we go to meet Kiri tonight, wear the long sleeve black button down shirt, Esme got you for Christmas and a pair of your Wrangler blue jeans. Save the black jeans for next time. And don't forget the hat."
"Thanks Ali, and I'm really sorry about earlier." She smiles.
"Your welcome and I have already forgiven you so don't sweat it. I can't wait to meet Kiri. To be honest Jasper I love her as my sister already."
"You don't know anything about her, Alice. You may not like her." She gets that I know more than I'm saying look on her face and grins.
"Did you leave anything out of what you told us earlier?"
"I might have but I have a good reason for it. And I'm not telling you what I know, it stays in my head. Edward is the only one who knows and he won't talk."
"Why won't you tell me?"
"Because I don't want to, it's a surprise!"
"Okay."
"Okay? Your not going to bug me about it?"
"Nah, you got your reasons. I understand."
"Thank you, Jazz. I have to go help Bella get ready for tonight. Eight years as a vamp and she still has no sense of style!" I laugh and watch her disappear up the stairs. Seven hours and fifty games later. I was still the champ and Emmett was, well he was not a happy vampire. It wasn't my fault he couldn't control his damn screen camera. I leave Emmett bitching about cheating ass vampire's in the living room and go to my room to get ready. I was beyond excited to see Kiri again tonight and I really, really hoped she and the rest of my family would get along. I showered, dressed and was back downstairs in twenty minutes. I still had about two hours before we would leave and I was counting the minutes. The sun finally disappeared completely at 7:45 and I was out the door, in the back of Emmett's jeep yelling for the others to hurry the hell up. We still had an hour drive, okay a thirty minute drive as long as there was no cops.
"Okay, Okay we're here. Just tell me which way I need to go." Emmett says as he climbs in the drivers side.
"When you get back up to the main road, take a right and go south. Kiri said just drive straight, you can't miss it." He nods, then heads toward the main road, the others follow him. Once on the highway. Rose turns around to face me.
"Do you know anything about this place we're going to?" I look at her like she's crazy.
"Sure! I know all types of things about a place I've never been to before!" Her eyes narrow and a small growl slips out.
"You're a smart ass! You were by yourself all night, why didn't you just Google it?" I laugh.
"Google doesn't have the answer for everything, Rose. Anyway I didn't want to know, it's someplace I haven't been and I didn't want to show up already knowing everything about the place." She smiles and reaches for her phone.
"How about I just look it up now?" I try to grab her phone but she just turns around and leans toward the front. I growl, Emmett laughs.
"Don't do it Rosie, lets just wait and found out what the place is like!" Rose smiles at me and slides her phone back in her purse.
"I'll be good, for now!" I'm really not looking forward to Rosalie's and Kiri's meeting. I can only imagine, the crap that's gonna come out of Rosalie's mouth. Emmett's probably gonna have to keep me from sticking my foot up his mate's ass before this night is through. No one says anything else and for that I'm grateful. I relax back against the seat and get lost in my memories of Kiri. I'm still having trouble believing that, that beautiful creature is my mate. What the hell did I do to deserve her? If I hadn't gotten the reaction I did from her yesterday, I would swear that a woman like her wouldn't look twice at me. But our encounter yesterday and her telling me to come find her gives me hope. Maybe just maybe I can finally, be really happy. I feel the Jeep slowing and raise up to look around. We're stopped at a four way. There's nothing much to see, just two gas station's, a small bank, a Dollar General and more trees. Emmett turns to look at me.
"Where the fuck are we?" I shrug.
"Hell if I know."
"So which way do you want me to go?"
"Kiri said that if you went straight,you couldn't miss it and I don't see shit around here, that looks like a bar or night club, so keep going straight." He looks both ways to make sure no ones coming. When he's made sure it's clear he hits the gas, squealing tires and speeds off down the road. I swear the idiot's gonna get pulled over but it ain't my problem. I ain't the one driving, so I ain't the one paying the ticket. I look back behind us to see if the others are still with us. Edward waves at me and smiles. Should've figured they wouldn't have a problem keeping up. I wave back, then turn around. I tilt my head back against the sear and whisper Kiri's name to the stars. A pair of dark green eyes appear in the night sky. They stare at me for a moment then disappeared. What the fuck was that!? I'm I going crazy? No, I was just thinking about Kiri and saw her eyes, that's it.
I open my mouth to ask Em and Rose if they had seen, what I had just seen but I can't talk. The wind that roars in my ears begins to roar louder, I start to feel drowsy. I can't keep my eyes open. What the hell vampires don't get slee... Before I can finish that thought I'm sucked into a world of darkness.
Jasper's Dream:
The darkness covered him. No matter which way he looked there was nothing but darkness. He had to get out of the darkness he couldn't stand it any longer. Jasper runs trying to find a way through the endless black that covers him. Nothing, nothing but the darkness. He cry's out into the hell that he's landed in.
"Hello! Is there anybody there?! Is there anybody anywhere?!" Jasper listens hoping to hear something, anything.
"Over here." If he could have cried he would have. Jasper tries to call out to the voice but no sound would pass from his lips. He begin to panic. There was still nothing but darkness, if he could not ask the voice to keep talking how in the hell was he going to find the owner. He tried calling out again still no sound. Jasper was just about to lay down in the darkness and give up, when a light starts to shine in the distance.
"Come this way." The voice calls again. He jumps to his feet and runs toward the light, never slowing. Feet from the light, he closes his eyes and burst through it. When he opens his eyes, he' standing on a snowy path, the winter sun shines down on him, making the snow glisten like diamonds at his feet. Mountains rose into the sky on both sides of the path.
"Where am I?" He looks around hoping to see some type of landmark he might recognize, after all he had traveled a lot during his time as a vampire, but alas he saw nothing.
"Follow the path." The voice whispered. He did as it said. Slowly he made his way up the path, as he walked he begin to feel something he had only felt from his human victims, fear. Something about this place made the venom in his veins freeze. He wanted out of here, more than he had wanted out of the darkness. He followed the snowy path, as he climbed higher the mountains begin to give away to trees, pine trees. When he finally top the hill, there standing no more than a two hundred feet from him surrounded by a forest of northern pines sat a little wooden house. The fear that had followed him up the trail begin to ease. The house had a porch stretched it's length, three wooden steps led to the snow below. On the porch sat a old man with long white hair, thin pale, almost translucent skin. Dark green eyes looked back at Jasper through sunken in eye sockets. He was wrapped in what appeared to be a red throw. Jasper cautiously walked toward the porch. The old man watched as he walked toward him, his eyes never left his. When he reached the bottom step he stopped. He and the old man stared at one another. The man motioned for him to sit, he stepped up one step and lowered himself down onto the porch.
"Who are you?" He asked. The man remained quite for a moment, then smiled and said.
"My name is Avery."
"Where am I?" Avery smiles gently.
"Our time grows shorter by the minute. You must listen and listen well Jasper Whitlock." Jasper climbed to his feet.
"How do you know my name!?" This time Avery did not smile, he looked sad and well, scared.
"It doesn't matter how I know. What matters is her! He's coming for her, he knows what she is and he will stop at nothing to gain her! You must protect her, at all cost!" The fear that had eased when he came upon the house was back full force. He step toward the old man.
"What the hell are you talking about!? Protect who, Kiri!? From who, who's coming for her!?" Avery said nothing.
"Answer me, dammit!" Jasper roared. Avery didn't flinch, he shook his head gravely.
"There's a storm coming." Jasper looked out at the sky, then back to Avery confused.
"What storm?" Avery pointed out toward the pines.
"His storm!" Jasper spun quickly and looked to where the old man had been pointing. Standing where the snow covered ground met the thick layer of pines, was a silhouette of a man. He was dressed in black and had no face. Where eyes should have been, were glowing embers of red. Jasper let out a growl and stared to make his way down the steps. Before he could reach the ground, the silhouette begin to laugh. It's laugh sounded like nails on a chalk board, it stopped Jasper in his tracks. He covered his ears and hit his knees. He gritted his teeth to keep from screaming out. When the laugh stopped, Jasper removed his hands from his ears and stood. Glowing red eyes stared into his and he became afraid not for himself but for Kiri. He started to speak but was cut off.
"You can't stop me, God of War. Her blood is in my hands! She will be my bride and with her under my control, nothing will stop me!" Jasper roared with anger, the sound echoed off the mountains. He could hear a small avalanche start somewhere off in the distance.
"YOU'LL NEVER TOUCH HER!" The man with the dark red eyes and no face begin to laugh again and while Jasper was on his knees trying to keep his head from imploding, he vanished just as quick as he had appeared. Once the sound had dissipated, Jasper rose to his feet again. He turned to face the old man. Avery seemed fine.
"Who was that?"
"I do not know, but he wants what is yours and he must not get it. Protect her at all cost." Jasper nods.
"I will." Avery smiles.
"You're a good man. Our time has come to an end you must wake up now. Your family is starting to worry."
"No, not yet! You haven't told me why he wants her!" The darkness that Jasper had ran from crept toward him.
"Please tell me!" As the darkness swallowed him whole he heard.
"You'll find out soon enough, vampire."
End.
"Jasper! Dammit open your eyes! What's wrong!?" I open my eyes to a very frantic Rose and a worried Emmett.
"About time! You alright man?" Emmett asks concerned.
"Yeah I'm fine. What happened?" Rose shakes her head.
"We don't know. After we passed the four way. You just kinda spaced out. We've been here at the club for ten minutes, trying to get you to move." I sit straight up
"We're here?"
"Did you hear anything I just said Jazz?"
"Yes Rose and I'll tell you later." I jump out of the back to see the rest of my family staring at me.
"I'm fine, lets go see Kiri." I look around to see where we're at, all I see are trees, cars and the back of the building.
"Why are we behind the building?"
"Place is fucking packed, this was the only place we could find to park!" Emmett gripes. I shrug and start walking toward the front. Edward comes up to walk beside me.
"I saw what you saw, Jazz. Do you know what it means?" He whispers lowly trying his best to make his question for my ears only, but we both know the rest heard him. I glance his way.
"Yeah it means, I haven't even had a date with my mate yet and some fucker is already trying to take her from me!"
"Could the dream and Alice's vision of the Volturi, going after Kiri be related somehow?"
"I don't know but I don't want to talk about it anymore tonight." He nods and drifts back to walk with Bella. I turn the corner of the building and stop, there's a line of folks going up the ramp that leads to the entrance, it's a lot longer than I anticipated. I growl lowly. This is shit, now I have to wait even longer to see Kiri.
"Jazz! Dude, check it out! They have a female bouncer and she's fucking hot!" I look at him, then look to the front of the line. Standing there dressed in the black halter top, the Maltese cross jeans and a pair of knee high black heeled boots that zip up the side, is Kiri. Her hair is pulled up in a high pony tail, long silver angel wings dangle from her ears. The pot leave belly ring that I had, had the pleasure of seeing had been replaced by a silver wolf. The makeup around her eyes is a smokey gray and her eyelashes are a thick black. Her green eyes shine like cat eyes when light hits them in the dark. Her lushes lips are stained a medium brown color, she's jaw dropping.
'That's Kiri."
"You're shitin' me! That's your mate!" I turn around and face Jacob.
"I wouldn't shit you Jake. You're my favorite turd." I laugh loudly at his expression.
"Haha, very funny."
"Sorry, Jake I couldn't resist, but I'm telling the truth that's my mate." Emmett pats me on the back and grins.
"Jasper, man I don't know if I should say congrats or not. That mate of yours looks like she'd kick your ass just for looking at her wrong." I glance at Rose.
"You'd know all about a woman like that, wouldn't ya Em." He snickers.
"Yeah and I wouldn't have it any other way." We fell silent after that and I thought about what I had seen. Something or someone was coming for Kiri, for the gift and I had to stop it. I would need help, the kind of help the Cullens are not fond of and as soon as I get home I intend on calling him. After what felt like an eternity, we finally made it to the front of the line and just happened to be the last of it. Which was good maybe Kiri could get away for awhile. Kiri smiled brightly when she saw me.
"Well if ain't the Washington cowboy, I was beginning to wonder if you'd find the place." I laugh.
"No problem and it's the Texas cowboy, not Washington I was born and raised most of my life in Texas." Emmett leans in and whispers.
"Your line good, her line better. The difference? Showman ship." I shrug him off, he's such an ass. Kiri starts to giggle, looks at Em then back to me.
"Who's the muscle man that thinks my opening line was better?" She heard that? I point to Emmett.
"This is my brother, Emmett. He's a big goof but I think he might grow on ya."
"Hey! I'm not that bad!" We all laugh. I turn and introduce the rest of the family to Kiri. One at a time they all greeted her and shook her hand. Not once did she act like she noticed how hard or cold our skin was. Jake was the last to greet her. When he stepped up to shake her hand she hissed loudly at him and damn near threw herself off the ramp. I moved quickly and got between them, when Kiri could no longer see Jake, she started to calm down. I brushed the few pieces of hair that had come undone, from her face. She looked up at me and I forgot about what happened, I forgot about my family standing there, I forgot about my horrifying dream, I forgot the world. There was nothing but her and I. Our faces moved closer, our lips just mere inches from uniting. I was going to kiss her and she was willing going to let me.
"Um, Jazz. I hate to interrupt but Ness is freaking out." I growl, irritated that we had been interrupted. I spin around to face Edward
"I'm sorry man but you need to go talk to Ness, she's freaking out over that little mishap, that just happened."
"Why."
"She thinks, you're going to hurt Jake for scaring Kiri."
"Ok, I'll go tal..." I was cut off by a hand being laid on my shoulder. I turn back to face Kiri.
'Can I talk to her?" I look at Edward, he shrugs.
"I don't see the harm in it Jazz." I nod.
"Where is she?"
"Jake took her back to the car." I lead Kiri to Edwards car. Ness was sitting in the back seat crying and Jake was kneeling down in front of her asking her to please stop crying and reassuring her that he would be fine, he hadn't done anything wrong.
And he hadn't, all he did was step forward to shake Kiri's hand. In my book that doesn't deserve a ass whooping. Nessie looked away from Jake long enough to see us coming. She started freaking out more. She through herself around him and started screaming and begging me not to hurt him. I stop and raise my hands up.
"Ness, I didn't come to hurt Jake. He didn't do anything wrong. Kiri just wanted to speak to you."
"Really?" I nod. "Okay." I lead Kiri over. As we get closer a light sweat blooms on Kiri's forehead and she starts to shake but she acts as if nothings wrong and keeps walking forward. She stops a few feet from Ness and Jake.
"Renessme, Jacob I would like to apologize for my reaction earlier. For very simple reasons, I will not tell you why I reacted the way I did and more than likely it will happen again. That's why I didn't come any closer. But I promise you Jake will not be hurt because of it. It's not his fault, there for no one." She looks at me. "And I mean no one is going to hurt him." Ness lets go of Jake and nods her head.
"Thank you but why can't you tell us, why that happened?" Kiri smiles softly.
"I told you my reasons were simple. I do not know you, so I don't trust you. Not yet anyway. Someday when you've earned my trust and I have earned yours then I'll tell you." She looks at me again. "That day maybe closer than I think." I grin. Looking back at Ness, I ask.
"Are you okay now? Would you like to go inside?" She nods.
"Great!" I toss my arm over Kiri's shoulders and start walking back to where we left the rest. When we get back to the front. Edward and Bella ask if everything's alright. The four of us smile at them and nod. Three SUV's full of men and women pull into the parking lot and head toward the back to park. Kiri groans.
"Damn, I was hoping for a longer break, aw well." She smirks at me. "Let me see your ID."
"Why?"
"So when my boss asks me if I checked your ID I can say yes and not be lying."
"Why would your boss ask about me?"
"He saw me laughing with you before you introduced everybody and you look sorted young for twenty-one. I don't want him thinking I let you in just because you're gorgeous." I raise an eyebrow.
"You think I'm gorgeous?" She scoffs.
"DUH! Now let me see your ID!." I pull my ID from my wallet and hand it to her. She scans over it quickly and hands it back.
"Looks good to me. You and your family go on in and I'll be in as soon as I can."
"Okay." Stepping around her I start to walk over to the others.
"Just a minute, cowboy." Kiri grabs my arm, spins me around, grabs me by the shirt collar, pulls my lips to hers and slips her tongue in mouth. After what was not even close to being long enough, she pushes me away, turns me back toward my family, swats me on my ass and says.
"Just making sure you don't forget me." I hope I remember to ask later, how she was able to do that. I stand there stunned, I can hear booming laughter coming from the guys and hysterical giggles coming from the girls. I straighten myself out and make my way over to them. Emmett who had been bent over in laughter looks up
"That's the funniest shit I've ever seen! Tell me mister bad ass, how did it feel to be manhandle by a human.?" I grin.
"I won't say I hated it." He cracks up even more.
"Admit it, you fucking loved it!" My smile grows wider. "I knew it! Man it's good to see you happy and I do believe maybe even in love. Come on lets go in and try to get us some seats and drinks." Believe it or don't but alcohol is the one human beverage vampires can consume and it does affect us it just takes a hell of a lot to get the job done. I was the last to follow, I stood watching Kiri a few more seconds. I think Emmett's right, I think I've fallen head over heels in love with her and I am very happy, happier than I've ever been. Glowing red eyes stared into his. "You can't stop me, God of War. Her blood is in my hands." I am happy but for how long?
Hope you liked this chapter, let me know what you think. Reviews are welcomed but remember to be nice. Next chapter will either be in Kiri's, Jasper's or Third POV. I haven't decided yet. We will get to know Kiri more either way. Thank you for the reviews I have received so far. I'll do my best to post quickly but I don't know if I will be able to Gabriel has learned to crawl and I can't let him out of my sight, the only chance I get to wright is at night after he goes to sleep an dby then I'm so tired my brain as quit working LOL but I will do my best!