Chapter 3

I tried to correct all my errors in this chapter before I posted it, but let me know if you catch anything. Also, wanted you to know that I will be posting chapters often. I have this story almost complete.

Jaspers POV

"Now tell me again, why are we here?" Rosalie asks for the seventh time annoyed. I roll my eyes at my adopted sister and look back out the window. "Now Rosalie, you know Alice has her reasons," Carlisle answers her.

I can feel the anxiety in the room and it drives me insane, I slowly let the calm out and feel everybody relax. "Thanks Jazz," I hear Alice whisper. I turn my head towards her and see her grabbing her head as her mate Jackson rubs her back, the thing I use to do when she was my lover and had visions. I give her a quick nod and look away.

I'd loved Alice since the moment I laid my eyes on her in that little diner. She helped me change from the monster I was into something better. When we met all those years ago I swore she was my mate but as the years past she told me we weren't meant to be.

We still had a great friendship even if it had its ups and downs. Then she found her mate two years back. She told me how badly he needed her, and that one day I would understand. Then she walked out the door as our family and I stood in shock.

So, she went to him and was gone for almost a year, it tore me apart. I couldn't believe that she would ever leave me, not even for her supposed mate. I didn't understand how she could choose him over hurting me. But I learned something in that year, that I would always walk this earth alone, because for who I was in the past. No one wanted to be with a monster.

"Don't say that Jasper," Edward answers me bringing me out of my thoughts. "Get out of my head, that's my personal business," I snap at him. I hated that he could read my thoughts.

"I'm sorry Jasper I can't help my gift," Edward whispers quietly but he knew we all could hear him plan as day. I sighed and sent him waves of understanding even if I was mad because I understood that the gifts we had couldn't be turned off.

"What is it Alice? What do you see?" Jackson asks and I turn around to look towards her and her eyes have a faraway look. "It's blurry and I can't see much but someone is crying for help. They're being held down and they feel trapped! Oh God we have to help them, they sound so scared" Alice says and if vampires could cry I knew she would be.

I look at Edward and I can see he is stiff. "It sounds like a female, but I'm not sure" he says irritated. "They're in the forest by the big mountain that has a face on it, well it looks like a face," Alice speaks again her face in confusion.

I look around the small room to my adoptive family. Rosalie and Emmett are standing on the other side of the room, Emmett with his arm around his mate and standing by them was Edward, who looked like he was still concentrating on Alice's vision. While Carlisle and Esme where standing just left of the couch where Alice and Jackson were sitting.

"Then, let's head out! What are we all waiting for?" Emmett asks and I bring my eyes back to him. He is clearly excited by the potential of another vampire around.

"Why are we helping this vampire anyway Alice?" Rosalie growls out, her annoyance escalating again. "Rosalie! How could you say that! We've helped others before and look how our family has grown," Esme tells her. Rosalie goes to speak again but Carlisle cuts her off, "What if it was you? You know we would help you Rosalie." Her eyes snap to Carlisle and I can feel the shame come rolling of her in waves.

Alice jumps off the couch and stands up her eyes clearing some, "we need to leave now!" she says looking at us as she heads for the door.

I watch Carlisle nod at all of us and we take off out the hotel door and run through the night. I hear nothing but the wildlife but I can feel my family's nervousness as we get closer to the mountain. Out of nowhere I get hit with different scents. I freeze when I smell human blood. The monster in me comes out wanting to get to it, remembering how it tasted so divine.

"Alice, you didn't say there was going to be humans around, especially bloody ones," Rosalie hisses as they freeze beside me. I feel someone or two someone's grab my arms. "Jasper relax," Carlisle says as he holds onto one of my arms. I can feel the need to feed and its driving me insane.

"I'm sorry I didn't see that part," Alice whispers apologetically, "Jasper stay here if you need but I need to get to them." I glance as Alice runs off with Jackson right behind her, wishing I had the control they did.

"I'm fine let me go," I growl but the hands squeeze me tighter. I start to pull away from the hands when I get hit by the smell of honeysuckle mixed with rain. It smells amazing and it calls to me, even more than the blood.

I get the overwhelming feeling of fear coming from the same area the smell is coming from. I shake off the hands and take off running towards it. "JASPER!" Carlisle calls but I just ignore him running for the smell. I pass Alice and Jackson in a heartbeat trying to get to it, it was for me not them the monster in me growls.

It takes only a minute to get to the source of the smell. I break into a clearing and I see a man with blonde hair holding someone down. He snaps his head to me and growls pulling the person against him. I get a good look and it's a small female and she's beautiful, they smell was clearly coming from her.

She looks to be around sixteen and I can hear her heartbeat racing wildly. It sounds strange and it has me thinking she is having complications. I look at her big green eyes and messy long brown hair which has soft curls in it mixed with dirt and small twigs. She's almost as pale as me but her cheeks are flushed from her blood.

My chest gets a pain in it and I feel a pull to her. I get a sensation of overwhelming possessiveness through me and I get in a crouch position letting out my own angry growl, this vampire has no right to be touching what was mine, this girl was mine! I could feel it in my non-beating heart.

I sense my family come up behind me and I see them get in a fighting stance. I knew they would have my back no matter what. That's why I loved them and never left. They were always there for me.

The girl looks even more frightened when my family shows up and I go to make a move to get to the vampire holding her before he hurt her, but before I can two more vampires show up behind him. I look them over to calculate the risks of getting to the girl without her dying. The blonde vampire seems to notice and he gives me an evil grin as he tightens his grip on the girl. A flash of anger shoots through me.

"Let her go!" I hiss and I can feel my family's head snap to me along with the feeling of curiosity and worry. "Now why would I do something like that when she's mine," he answers never letting the grin slip. I look down at the girl and I can see how scared she is and pray that she wouldn't have a heart attack before I got to her.

Before I can say anything, Alice takes a step forward with Jackson by her side and starts speaking, "my family and I came here for what's ours." The blonde doesn't take his eyes off me as he starts to speak.

"Now what do you think is yours?" The blonde asks pulling the girl back with him some more so he is standing next to his friends. "She is," Alice says pointing at the girl and I watch as the girls eyes open wide and she glances around at my family. The blonde finally glances at Alice. "See that's where your wrong, she's mine, my pet!" he growls out in anger.

"Your pet?" Carlisle asks in a disgusted voice. "Yes, I found her first and she is mine to do with what I please," he answers Carlisle in a cruel voice. I feel Rosalie's anger and hate before she growls taking a step forward so she was by my side.

"You're disgusting," she bites out at him and Emmett's by her side in a flash holding her arm, so he could protect her. The blonde lets out a loud laugh and the waves of anger that are coming from my family fuel my own even more.

"Now don't be jealous," he says and smirks at her. Rosalie starts to shake in hate and anger and her teeth bare in the same fashion as mine. If anyone could see us standing together right now they wouldn't believe we weren't actually twins.

I can sense the terror coming from the girl and I can't help but step a few feet towards her still growling at the blonde. I watch her eyes move to mine and I feel the pull again and her eyes look to be begging me to help her. I watch his hand move down to her hip and push her back flush against his body. I can't help myself and I start walking towards them growling louder.

"STOP," the blonde yells and I watch as he moves so the others step in front of him. The woman with the red hair looks to be excited about the fight but the other male is nervous and scared. His eyes travel over my family and stop at me, and I can tell he is looking at all my scars showing.

"She is not yours!" I hiss. I calculate the advantage of getting to her before he can hurt her when Esme speaks. "Let us have the girl and we will be on our way," she says in a gentle voice obviously trying to persuade him. The blonde starts laughing, "No, but how about you leave and the girl stays with me."

I finally snap when his hand goes under her torn shirt and I let out the Major. I let out a loud possessive growl, and his eyes dart to me as I run for him. My family follows my lead as they go for the others. The blonde takes off with my girl and I chase him down. He is quick and he knows what he is doing but I've hunted many and always won.

He runs towards a ravine and I knew that if he jumped into the roaring river below I wouldn't be able to get to him in time. I push myself faster and jump off the closest tree near him taking him down by the side of the cliff. The sound of the water below and his growl fill the air. I see the girl fly out of his arms and she rolls away, crawling to get further away from the blonde. He tries to get to her but I hurry and step in between them and he lets out a hiss, "I'm going to kill you, she's mine!"

I give him my evil grin and let him charge me, 'what a fool', I think. He has no idea who he is messing with, I've killed over hundreds of newborns and he thinks he has a chance. I duck his oncoming blow and grab his leg throwing him back to where he was. I could feel a flash of annoyance when he hits the ground but he stands in a flash. He starts to come at me again but stops when my family comes out of the tree's and runs to my side. I smell a bit of fear and anger as he looks us over.

He then turns to the girl and speaks, "I will find you pet and when I do you'll be forever mine, and oh the things I'll do to you." Her eyes get wide and she crawls back further. I go to grab him getting angry that he threatened her but he jumps off the cliff into the rushing river below. I look over the cliff and lose track of him when he goes under the water.

Knowing I lost him I turn towards the young girl as does my family. I can hear her heart beating like crazy and it sounds strange. I can feel her fear as she frantically looks over my family and the trees, seeming to calculate how she was going to escape.

"Are you okay Darlin?" I ask. She doesn't answer me but keeps looking around at my family. Before anyone else speaks she turns around and takes off running at a vampire's speed stunning us all.

"What the hell?" Emmett says. I ignore him and take off after her with my family on my tail. "What is she? I can't make anything of her thoughts they are changing so rapidly!" Edward tells us.

"I don't know but she's running from us because she is scared, we are making it worse by chasing her," Carlisle answers trying to stop us from chasing her down, knowing him he wanted to do a different approach.

Not happening, I'm not going to lose her I growl in my head. "I'm not leaving her alone with them out there," I answer and take off faster not caring what they thought, she was mine and I was going to protect her. I catch up to her quickly and when she notices me catching up so quick she jumps into a tree growling.

"Leave me alone," she hisses at me and a flare of anger and annoyance go through me. She was supposed to come to me not run and hide in a damn tree. I go to say something but Edward is next to me in a second. When the others appear, they stay back twenty feet to give her some space.

Edward speaks before I can and I glare at him "It's okay, we aren't here to hurt you, we're not like him, I promise," he tells her. "Will you please come down here darlin?" I ask her in my softest voice letting the accent come out more. I just want to hold her and let her know she was mine and that I would protect her. "Now's not the time Jasper," Edward whispers. I ignore his comment and look back up at her.

"You're like him," she says and I can feel her fear, it's a bit overwhelming so I send her waves of calm and I watch her visible relax. "We are nothing like that other man," I answer her trying to help calm her fears more. "She's not talking about him Jasper, she's referring to her father," Edward answers me.

"How the fuck did you know that?" She asks and I can feel her fear return. Alice answers before any of us could respond. "We have gifts, it's why we are here now, I heard you calling out for help." I watch her think for a moment before she speaks.

"I never called out for help," she answers skeptically. "You must have called out in your mind because I saw it, everything was blurry but I could see the mountain with the face on it and someone calling for help," Alice answers back.

I watch her go deep into thought. "No, not all vampires have gifts," Edward says out of nowhere. "Well Fuck, you can read minds," she answers with a small nervous laugh.

"Wait! What did you say? Was it vampires?" She asks hurriedly. "Yes, that's what we are and it seems you as well, well part of you," Carlisle answers her and slowly walks up to where we are standing.

"I don't understand how that's possible?" Edward asks. I let out a soft growl and her eyes snap to me. "Can we not have a one-sided conversation? Would you mind coming down? We won't hurt you," I tell her and I look at her begging. I've never begged before and it worried me, but I never wanted something so bad in my life, I was a mess.

She seems to understand my struggle and nods very slowly. She moves her eyes back to Edward and I turn my head to see he is nodding at her causing me to get angry. "Calm down Jasper she was just asking if she's truly safe," he says giving me a glance and I could feel his nervousness that I growled at him.

I take a deep breath and her smell hits me hard again making me want to pull her into my side and hold her. I go to move when she jumps and hits the ground but Edward puts his hand on me. "Don't scare her," he says and I glare at his hand not believing he touched me right now. He removes his hand quickly, "be patient Jasper, please," he answers quickly.

Carlisle slowly approaches her but he looks over at me for permission first. I nod my head but I tense up. She should come to me, she is mine, I growl out in my head. I watch Edward give me another nervous glance but I ignore it and keep my eyes on Carlisle and the girl that was mine.

Carlisle stops about four feet from her and gives her one of his fatherly smiles. I can tell he is trying to not scare her again. I watch her carefully making sure if she ran again I could get to her.

He finally speaks after a few moments, "I'm Carlisle and this is my family," he says as he points to us. He names us all off and I watch her look at everyone quickly when he points to them telling her our names. When he finally introduces me, her eyes meet mine and stop, unlike the others.

I watch her take a few steps towards me but she pauses and I feel her confusion. I give her a smile and send out waves of calm and understanding, hoping she knows how much I need to hold her. She keeps staring at me lost in thought and I finally speak, "what's your name Darlin?" I ask her since her eyes seem to be still on me not knowing what to do.

Her eyes never leave mine as she answers, "my names Haylee, Haylee Conner."