New Chappy Chapter! In this one, we get embarrassed Lily, and meeting the Denali coven (don't get too excited). Enjoy! ^-^
~Chapter Two~
My head jostles, eyes heavy in the backseat, I slump over to connect with a bulging shoulder, causing a quiet, yet roaring laugh to echo in the car, causing me to jump, blinking rapidly against the encroaching darkness. "Tired?" Emmett taunts as I yawn, stretching purposely to hit him in the face with my elbow, causing Emmett to wince playfully, before turning to Rosalie behind him. "Rose," He whines. "Lily hit me."
"You're a big boy, you can handle it." Rosalie answers as she shakes out her magazine, flipping to the next page as Emmett huffs.
"Can we stop soon, please, I need to stretch." Jennifer asks softly, from her seat behind my own, causing Esme to look back from the front, and she smiles.
"There is a restaurant up the road, we'll stop there to get you and Lilith something to eat." Carlisle answers from the driver's seat.
"You okay, darlin?" Jasper asks as I shift next to him, resting my head on his chest.
"Yeah, just tired, and Emmett's taking up so much room." I playfully glare at my pseudo brother. "Fatty."
"It's not fat, it's muscle." Emmett smirks, flexing so that his arm is in my face, causing me to wrinkle my nose, kicking him in the leg, causing his smirk to fall as he reaches over, musing up my hair causing me to bat at his hand.
"Jasper, tell him to stop." I whine, causing my soulmate to chuckle.
"Emmett, you need to stop messing with Lily, or I'm gonna have to kick your ass, again." Jasper states, causing Emmett to gape at him.
"Dude, you did not kick my ass last time!" Emmett denies.
"Whatever makes you feel better about yourself." I state, causing Emmett to growl, crossing his arms in a pout. A few minutes later, Carlisle pulls the van, that we had rented, into a small dinner where everyone starts to pile out, Alice, Pandora, Rose, and Jennifer in the back, Jasper, Emmett, and myself in the middle, Esme and Carlisle in the front, Edward had opted to stay behind, not wanting to be away from Bella for long periods of time.
"You're riding in the middle with Jasper and I the rest of the way." I tell Jennifer, causing her to laugh.
"That's going to be interesting! Alice, Rose, Pandora, and Emmett smashed in the back." Jennifer laughs.
"Pandora can sit in the middle with us, let the vampires be uncomfortable." I puff my cheeks, causing Jasper to chuckle as he leans down, pressing a kiss to one, causing heat to invade my ivory skin.
"We'll talk about it, while you two eat." He wraps an arm around my waist, directing us inside the diner, where we sit at a large table, and a waitress scurries over, eyes bugging in surprise at my family's good looks.
"I-I'm Wendy, I'll be your server today. Wh-What can I get ya'll to drink?" She asks, a slight southern tint to her voice, she's got a fluffy golden red ponytail, freckles dotting her nose and cheeks, and bright green eyes.
"Six waters, two Sprites, and a Cherry Pepsi." Carlisle answers instantly, causing Wendy's hand to fly across the pad of paper in her hand, writing it down, before she drops nine menus on the table.
"I'll get ya'll that right away, please take your time with reading the menu." She states, causing me to beam as I lean against Jasper, who is resting an arm on the back of my chair.
"What're you guys gonna do?" I whisper to him.
"We'll push the food around, make it look like we ate most of it, and probably leave the rest." He states, causing me to nod as I open the menu, eyes scanning over the food, before my stomach growls, causing them each to let out a light laugh.
"You can order whatever you want, Lily." Esme says sweetly.
"Thank you." After we order, we eat quickly before filing out to the car as Esme and Carlisle pay, Rosalie wrestles Emmett into the backseat, before cutting off his escape by sitting beside him, then Alice scrambles in, pulling the seat up, letting Jasper into the far side, then myself, Jennifer, and finally Pandora, while Esme and Carlisle come out, climbing into the front seats, we start to drive again. Before long, my head falls against Jasper's chest, eyes fluttering weakly as he chuckles, wrapping his arm around my shoulder, rubbing the back over my neck softly, as I fall fast asleep. It is sometime later, when I jostle awake, realizing that we'd stopped, I vaguely feel myself being lifted, curling into the wall of chest against me, the rocking motion of being carried lulls me back to sleep.
Standing on the edge of a tall building, the wind whips my hair around my face as I look out, around me is a long drop. Taking a deep breath, I turn to step off, when the wind direction changes sharply, jostling me enough to where my arms windmill, balancing on one foot, turning as I lean too far backwards, a scream rips from my throat as I'm falling, wind whipping around me, everything is going by to fast, the ground seems to rush to meet me, and just before I connect... I jolt awake, sitting up sharply as I look around, my breathing ragged, confusion evident as Jasper flies up the stairs, appearing at my side in an instant, his arms around me as I rest my head on his chest, arms around his waist.
"Breath, darlin. Just breath, it was just a dream." He attempts to sooth, moving my arms from his waist, he sits on the edge of the bed, fingers carding through my hair as I breath in through my nose, and out through my mouth, repeatedly. "You alright?" He asks softly, causing me to nod, rubbing at my eyes tiredly.
"I'm fine, it was just a dream." I answer, causing him to sigh, leaning back to cup my face.
"What was it this time?" He asks softly.
"It was just one of those falling dreams." He raises an eyebrow at me, chuckling softly.
"I can't say I'm not surprised, that's oddly… normal, for you to have such a dream." He shakes his head, causing me to laugh, nodding.
"Right." I stretch my arms as he presses his forehead to mine, before I stand. "I need a human minute." I state, causing him to nod.
"Alright, take your human minute, darlin. I'll go make you breakfast." He walks over to me, cupping my cheek. "But, just so you know. Your morning breath has never bothered me." He smirks, pecking me on the lips, before disappearing as I blink, then shake my head as I grab my toiletries bag, crossing to the bathroom in the loft, closing the door behind me. 'Well, it matters to me.' I think as I strip down to shower, before I dress in blue jeans, my combat boots, a green turtleneck with a black vest over it, before I brush out my long black hair, taking a green ribbon from my bag, I tie my hair up in a bun, then brush my teeth, placing studs in my ears, before I walk out of the room, starting down the stairs after place my bag on the bed. Entering the kitchen, Esme looks up from cutting up a tomato to smile at me, while Jasper turns from the fridge with a pitcher of orange juice in hand, Pandora and Jennifer as sitting at the table, Pandora is reading, while Jennifer is studying her grimoire. Dropping into the chair beside her, I pick a piece of toast off her plate, but she's too busy with her nose in her book to notice as I chew on the crispy bread.
"What're you reading, Jenni?" I ask, drawing her attention as she bites into an apple slice, Esme's been ecstatic to try vegetarian recipes since Jennifer moved in with them.
"I may have found a spell to undo Sheryl's deal with the demon, before it claims her life." She sees my look, causing her to frown. "Would you subject the others to going back into the systems? Especially, if they end up getting their powers then?" Her question gives me pause, imagining little Sam being thrown home to home, because he accidently sets something on fire, or Melody being separated from Mary, because nobody wants twins, let alone teen twins, causing me to sigh softly.
"What's needed?" I ask.
"We need mugwort, wolfsbane, a topaz, some horned toad skin, and three teaspoons of riverhorn." Jennifer answers, causing me to nod as I write out the list in my head.
"We should probably do this as soon as possible, the demon's already claimed Matthew." I state.
"It says a copper container is best, all we have to do, is pour it on something valuable to Sheryl, and she has to be able to destroy it, then the demon's deal will be broken." Jennifer explains as Esme sets a plate before me, it has an cheesy ham omelette, slices of tomatoes, a piece of buttered toast, and some sausage links on it. Jasper comes over, setting a glass of orange juice before me, placing a kiss on the crown of my head, before he sits down with his arm across the back over my chair, close enough that he's still touching me.
"This better work, otherwise we'll be wasting our magic." I state as I bite into my sausage link.
"It's got to." Jennifer says, lifting her head to look at me, her eyes falling on Jasper's arm around my seat. "Okay, that was cute at first, but now it's just odd."
"What?"I ask, confusion evident as Jennifer gapes at me.
"You don't even realize you're doing it, do you?" She states, before getting a goofy smile on her face. "It's like, you move, and he moves, wherever you two are, you're always touching, someway or another."
"What're you talking about?" Jasper asks in confusion as I shift so that I can lean forward, biting into my omelette, Jasper's hand rests on my back, causing me to smile softly.
"Like, right now!" Jennifer points to his hand. "Lily leans forward to get a bite, and Jasper, you unconsciously rested your hand on her back. You guys don't even realize you're doing it, do you?" Jennifer asks, causing Jasper and I to exchange looks, before Esme laughs softly at the counter.
"I just realized, you do do that." Esme smiles. "Like Edward and Bella."
"Is that bad?" I ask softly.
"Not exactly, you're just… in love." Jennifer states, causing me to blush brightly at someone else pointing it out, Jasper beams proudly as he rests a hand on my thigh, rubbing my leg gently as I look down, reaching out I guzzle my orange juice, before I stick a piece of bread in my mouth as Jennifer giggles.
"You know, Alice and I are the exact same." Pandora says, causing me to look up as she smiles softly at me. "It's not bad at all, in fact, Alice and I were just looking at rings last week. Maybe, that's something you and Jasper should do?" My eyes bug as I start to cough, choking on a piece of toast, Jasper hurriedly gets me more juice, while Jennifer pounds on my back, I swallow large gulps of the juice that Jasper got me, just before slamming the glass on the table, causing the plates to rattle, and gulp down air greedily.
"Rings?!" I touch the promise ring hanging from my neck, causing Jasper's gaze to follow it, before his eyes sparkle with something that can only be described as… love. "I mean, it's not that we haven't talked about marriage, and the like, but I just…" I frown. "I mean, we're not exactly- we…" I stammer over my words, before Pandora burst out laughing, her voice is light, like the twinkling of bells, her bright green eyes sparkling with mischief against her dark skin.
"It's alright, Lily. I mean, he's alright got one on you, so-" I cut her off, standing with my hands slammed on the table.
"By the plot!"I shout, causing them to each look at me in confusion. "It's a promise ring!" I can feel my cheeks burning as Emmett and Rosalie enter from outside, Alice twirling after them.
"What's going on here?" Emmett asks. "Are we embarrassing Lily today?"
"No!" I bark, causing the others to break out in laughter.
"Pandora brought up rings." Jennifer explains.
"Rings? So, we're talking wedding bells?" Emmett grins. "Jazz, you dog! Are you that far into your relationship?" My eyes widen at Emmett's accusation, before even more heat presses on my cheeks.
"No! We are not that far! How would you-? Why would you?" I start to splutter while Jasper just beams, laughing as he watches my reaction. "You could help!" I cry out, my face is overwhelmingly hot, causing everyone to laugh again as I huff, stalking towards the front door.
"Lily, where are you going?!" Jennifer calls.
"Away from you lunatics!" I snarl, crossing the threshold as Carlisle starts up the steps to the cabin, he observes my face, before hurrying past, obviously not wanting to provoke me even more. "Unbelievable." I scoff as I shove my hands in my pockets, starting into the nearby woods, my boots crunching the snow as I attempt to lower both my blood pressure, and the heat in my face.
"Lily." I look up in time to find Jasper stepping within two feet of me, his expression is worried. "Are you really that upset?" He asks.
"I'm not upset with you, I'm upset with how easy they could get a rise out of me." I sigh, he wraps an arm around my waist, pulling me close.
"Is it that bad? Talking about marrying me?" He asks.
"No!" I gape, eyes wide at him as I take a step back. "No, not at all! I've never been opposed to the idea of marrying you but…" I look down as he sighs, lifting my face by my chin.
"I hate it when you do that. Don't ever hang your head, you didn't do anything wrong." He presses a kiss to the corner of my mouth. "I understand how uncomfortable the subject makes you, but when it's just you and I, how do you feel?" He asks softly, I know he can feel how I feel, but I know that he wants me to say it.
"I love you, being with you makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, and I hate feeling so lonely when we're apart, you make my heart thump, and my head swim, and it's hard to breath without you, it's like you're my air." I take a deep breath. "I love you, I can never love anyone but you, this way." I finish, looking up into his eyes, which are swimming with venomous, unshed tears, he pulls me tight against him, pressing his lips to mine passionately.
"I love you." He breathes out between kissing me, one hand tangles in his hair, the other is clenching his shirt as I kiss him back, the two of us attempting to pour every emotion towards each other, that we can, into this single kiss, as though we're desperate for each other, more so than we are for air. Breaking apart finally, I let out a ragged gasp, before taking a deep breath, my eyes landing on his crumpled shirt, the collar is a bit torn in our passion, causing me to let out a soft laugh.
"I tore your shirt." I state, causing him to chuckle, sweeping low enough to barely brush his lips against my own.
"I don't really care, it's not my favorite." He states, causing me to laugh again. "We should head back though, Tanya and her coven are at the cabin, they're dying to meet you." He reaches down, taking my hand in his own, before leading me back down the path with a smile on both of our lips. Once at the cabin, he opens the door, allowing me to duck under his arm, crossing into the living room where three blonde women, a dark haired man, and a dark hair woman are sitting with my family, everyone looks up as Jasper closes the door behind me, a sudden sense of shyness floods me.
"Ah, Jasper has returned with his mate." One of the blonde girls speaks, standing with a soft smile on her dusty pink lips. She's rather beautiful with long, curly, strawberry blonde hair and is 5'5" tall, her skin is a pink color under the usual vampire pallor, and her eyes are just a golden as the rest of my family's. "I am Tanya," She takes my hand in her own. "a pleasure to meet you." She says sweetly.
"Lilith." I breath out, one of the blondes jumps to her feet, hissing at me as my family moves to before me, Carlisle has a gentle hand out.
"You let her live?" The woman demands. "She killed Laurent!" This must be Irina, she was Laurent's mate.
"Laurent attempted to kill Bella and myself." I state calmly.
"I don't believe that! He wanted to be like us, to live in peace with humans, with me." She states, her eyes watering.
"Look, I'm sorry-" I reach out to her peacefully, but everyone seems to move at once, Irina lunges at me, before Jasper grabs her by the throat, slamming her into the nearest wall, the other members of the Denali coven freeze, Kate, being the last blonde it has to be, and Tanya are being held back by Emmett and Rosalie, while Carmen and Eleazar are crouched while Esme and Carlisle are before them, Alice is directly before myself, Jennifer is on my left, and Pandora is on my right in a second. "Jasper." His head snaps over to me, his teeth bared, eyes dark, evidence that it's the Major. "Major, let her go." He frowns, eyes going back to the golden haired, beautiful vampiress with her hands on his wrist, his grip is practically crushing her neck, I can even see cracks slowly starting to form. "Major, that's an order." I bark, causing him to snatch his hand back, dropping Irina to the floor, while Jasper's body goes ramrod straight, and I move carefully, over to Irina's side, bending down to help her to her feet. Her tearful golden eyes are on mine, surprise is evident, but the flick over to the other members of her coven, she looks at me with a frown, eyes hardening over with hate, before she disappears out the front door, the rest of her coven following behind.
"Well, that was certainly educational." Carlisle states.
"Did I cause trouble?"I ask fearfully.
"Nothing that time will not fix." Carlisle promises, before everyone slowly trickles out and about, doing their own thing as I walk over to Jasper, who is still the Major currently, I circle him slowly, frowning as I stand before him.
"That was dangerous, Major." I state, causing his eyes to flick down to my face, my disappointment in him is on my face. "You never attack your extended coven mates, even for me, understand?" I demand.
"Yes ma'am." He states.
"Good, I want one thing from you." He looks at me, ready to comply. "I want you to think before acting." I order.
"Yes ma'am." He nods.
"Right, now give me back Jasper, now." I order, I watch as Jasper's shoulders slacken, eyes brightening, and face relaxes as I reach up, pressing a hand to his cheek, he looks down at me as he frowns, turning my head every which way, checking me over for any bruises or damages, causing me to laugh. "I'm fine, my love." I state, his eyes widen at the new nickname, before he bends down, kissing me softly.
"That was reckless of me." He sighs.
"You cannot blame your instincts." I state, causing him to pause, before nodding at me. "I love you." I state, reaching up on my tiptoes to kiss him on the lips.
"I love you, darlin." He answers, meeting me halfway, before pulling back to grin at me. "I want to take you somewhere." My question is evidently on my face, cause he smirks at me. "It's a secret, just follow me." He orders, taking me by the wrist, leading me out the front door, back down the path to the woods. "I believe you're going to love it."
"Alright, I'm trusting you." I say, making my wariness clear in my voice.
"I'd never steer you wrong." He vows, looking back at me. "Never."
Whew! That was a certainly... interesting chapter, it soft of just wrote itself. Hehe! XD Anyway, two reviews for the next chapter, which I really think you're going to enjoy, particularly the ending. Read, Review, and Enjoy!