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A/N: We have no idea why some of our chapters are ending up underlined so please forgive us.
Chapter Four
Saying Good-bye
Jazz and Alice stepped off of the private plane first just to make sure that everything would go smoothly. It was a good thing that it was night time in Louisville, Kentucky but that wouldn't matter at this time of year. It was the middle of winter and it was hardly sunny here anymore except during the other three seasons. Aurora and Nika were next to get off and watched the plane attendants grab their luggage and carried them behind the four of them.
It was a good thing Alice had went on ahead and rented a Lotus Project Eagle. The first time the girls saw the car Aurora was in awe while Nika just whistled low enough for everyone to hear. Jasper gave Alice a small smile and a knowing look.
Nika pulled out her phone and dialed up Edward. "Edward, change in car plans. Forget the Corvette I now want a Lotus Project Eagle, teal green."
"Since when do you speak car and driver?" Edward asked.
"All of two seconds ago."
"What is it that the new fang girl wants?" Nika heard Jacob in the background.
"A 2010 Lotus Project Eagle. And I have no idea how she got that one in her head or line of sight."
"Beats me but I wouldn't mind having that beauty in our garage along with all the other pretty maids."
"Thanks guys." Hanging up Nika got into the backseat next to Aurora. "So my parents first or yours?" She looked over at Aurora wondering who's parents would be easier to tell them the truth.
"Mine, they already know the basics to make the connection while yours are just nonbelievers. Plus they live in two different places."
"Alright then off we go to your mom's."
"Directions? That would help." Jasper said as he looked in the rearview.
"Right, left, left, right, and then a left."
"Ha, ha Nika. Aurora some help here." Jasper pleaded.
"NIIIIKA! Turn left once you get out of the parking lot."
"Thanks." And so they were off. Listening to Aurora telling Jazz how to get to her mom's house. Once they were there Aurora walked up the steps leading to the front porch.
"Um…Aurora, the tree's up." Nika said as she started to walk to the back of the house. "This way ladies and gent." The two older vampires rolled their eyes as they followed the newborn. Aurora shook her head and followed them to the backyard. Once inside the gate Aurora moved in front of them to knock on the door. They could hear the three small Chihuahuas barking their heads off at the quests. Eagle, Aurora's step-father, answered the door looking over the small group as he met Aurora's eyes.
"Welcome home. Your mother will be pleased. " Eagle said as he led them into the living room with the large tree taking up the front entrance. "Dutch, your daughter is home with friends."
Dutch came out of her room rushing to Aurora and hugging her. "I'm so glad you're home. I've missed you." Letting her go she looked at Nika. "So how was the trip?"
"Eventful, very eventful." Aurora answered.
"Who are they?" Dutch said as she looked Jasper up and down then moving over to the fairy at his side.
"Mom, Jasper and Alice Whitlock Hale."
Dutch just gave her daughter a look that said, should I know them? And once it hit the older woman she rolled her eyes. "You have to be kidding me. Vampires don't exist."
"Oh but we do Dutch. We're just as real as you." Nika said as she petted the dogs that for some reason weren't scared of her.
"Wait we? What do you mean we?"
"Well mom…Nika is now a vampire."
"What do you mean Nika's a vampire?"
"Just what it sounds like Dutch. I'm a being that lives only on blood, animal not human." Dutch snatched Bambi off of the floor. "I don't eat pets. Not enough blood even for an appetizer."
"And I'm moving to Forks permanently." Aurora said as she went to move behind Jasper.
"WHAT?! YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE WITH BLOODSUCKERS?" Two snarls came out at the last comment. Dutch started to move away from the vampires. Alice just shook her head at them.
"Sorry about that. We don't like the name you just called us and they get it enough at home from the wolves."
Dutch trying to peer around the tall blonde looked at her daughter. "The wolves are real too?"
"Well, I thought you would put that together once we told you vampires are real." Nika said as she started to play with Pipit. "Anyways, we just wanted to come tell you grab a few things and then go tell my parents and do a few things and be off back home."
"And why aren't they eating you?" Dutch asked as she tried to grab her daughter as she stayed behind Jasper.
Extending her arm Aurora showed her mother the mark on her hand. "See Mom, Jasper's already bitten me, and had a taste of my blood. Out of sight out of mind. See his eyes?" She said as she pointed at his face.
Dutch keeping her distance looked to see the blood red eyes lock onto her. Just as she took a step forward Nika stepped up to her face. "SEE!" Dutch jumped back holding her chest, gasping. "Oops sorry."
Once Aurora got some of her things and her cats and ferret they left to drop the things off at the hotel. When they got to Nika's mother's house Nika told them to stay in the car she would only be a minute.
Walking to the front door Nika took an unneeded deep breath. Knocking she waited for her mother to answer the door. When her mother smiled at her she returned it. "Hi momma. I'm only here for a few seconds. I came to let you know I'm moving to Forks, Washington for good. I feel at peace there."
"Nika Nicole, what is wrong with your eyes?" Her mother asked as she looked her daughter over.
"Nothing is wrong with them, they're contacts. I love you." Nika kissed her mother's cheek and went to the car. She gave Jasper directions to her dad's house.
Going down the windy road that her father lived off of she had few memories of growing up even as a human and now she had even fewer. Once they pulled up next to her dad's '86 Harley Davidson Jasper got out to look it over.
"Look its BLUE!" Jasper said as he looked over at Aurora, because he knew it was her favorite color.
"And SPARKLY, like you." Nika started to laugh at her friend's comment.
Wesley stepped out seeing where all the noise was coming from. "NIKI!" He ran to his daughter and hugged her. "I've missed you. You are never leaving Kentucky again."
"There in lays the problem Dad. I'm moving to Forks, Washington. There is nothing that you can say that can keep me here. I love you and everything but the thing is I'm happy in Forks. More happy there than I am here."
"Oh." He looked down at her explanation. "Who are your friends?"
"Dad I'd like you to meet Jasper and Alice Whitlock Hale. And since you never meet Aurora this is Aurora." Jasper, Alice and Aurora were still standing by the bike.
"So you like my bike? I've had that baby since Nika was a year old."
"Yeah it's nice. Mine is a Ducati." Jasper said beaming with pride.
"A what?" Wesley asked his daughter.
"Dad it's a crotch rocket."
"Oh a piece of shit that explodes when you crash it."
"I won't crash it." Jasper said clearly upset.
They made their way into the house. Denise looked up as she cooked dinner. She sized up Jasper as she stirred the pot of peas. She stopped as the realization hit. "Wesley, Wesley," she started to tap his arm.
"What is it Denise?" Wesley looked at his wife as if he was starting to get annoyed.
"Can we go to the back room?" she asked.
"Why, the three of them will hear every word anyway." Aurora said.
"Oh yeah…wait three…Nika? And why are his…and her, eyes red? Wesley they're vampires!"
"Yeesss, and your point being what?" Aurora asked crossing her arms over her small, narrow chest.
"Yep, I'm one of them too." Nika said as she walked up to her and whispered, "My eyes are red cuz I'm a newborn. And as for Jazz his eyes are red cuz he drank some of Aurora's blood so he wouldn't thirst for her blood while we live with them." Turning to her father she smiled. "By the way Dad. I'm taking Mew with me to Forks. So if you don't mind I'm grabbing a few things and then we'll be leaving." As she went to grab her cat she remembered something. "Oh yeah Dad. Here's sixty thousand dollars to take care of everything around here." Getting her books and cat she waited in the car for everyone else to get in.
Once back at the hotel Aurora laid down to get some sleep for tomorrow. It would be an action packed day.
The next morning, the four of them headed to Lindsey's house. When they got there Nika broke through the front door, and Aurora followed her through it.
"Get out!" Lindsey yelled as soon as she saw the two women, not even stopping to notice Nika's red eyes.
"I don't think so, Lindsey," Nika said in a sinisterly low voice. "We're getting our revenge."
"Revenge?" Lindsey asked stalling for the first time clearly confused.
"Yes, for all the hell you put us through. You hated me for no reason, and Nika for no good reason. You didn't even know what you had with Brandon. He was so devoted to you." Aurora explained their reasoning behind their unannounced visit.
Lindsey stopped and stared. "You don't know what you're talking about!" she screamed at them.
"I don't know what I'm talking about?" Aurora repeated laughing. "You really were blind. He looked over all of your flaws, he wouldn't leave because he loved you, and he didn't go to California because you didn't want to leave your family."
Lindsey gaped openly at Aurora. She never realized how observant the young woman was. She knew too much for her own good.
Nika launched herself at Lindsey pinning her to the floor. She leaned down as if to whisper in the girl's ear, but instead she sank her teeth into Lindsey's neck.
Lindsey let out a strangled scream, and Aurora heard Jasper groan out on the front lawn.
"Nika, stop, you're hurting him," Aurora pleaded knowing Nika would know who she was talking about.
Nika retracted her teeth, but kept her mouth on the girl's neck.
Outside Jasper's groan became dry sobs. Having a past like his, with his gift, feeding off humans was nearly killing him when Alice found him. Every time he slipped he sank down into a depression. Feeling Lindsey's pain, and Nika's almost sadistic joy, he was reminded of life with Maria.
Aurora's heart went out to him, but she had a job to do here too, and couldn't leave Nika alone with Lindsey until the job was finished.
"Stop, her blood's clean Nika," Jasper called from outside loud enough for Aurora to hear, knowing she wouldn't appreciate being left out.
Nika pulled away from Lindsey's neck, her eyes a brighter red than before. Wanting to prolong the girl's agony, Nika grabbed a knife from the kitchen and slit her wrists. Grabbing Lindsey's cut wrists she dragged her off to the bathroom.
Aurora slipped gloves on her hands and sat down at Lindsey's computer. Opening her e-mail account Aurora started typing:
Brandon,
I realize now what a mistake letting you go was. I still love you. I cant live with out you. I'm ending both of our suffering. Please don't hate me for what I do. Remember that I love you, now and forever. Goodbye.
Lindsey
Aurora then sent it to a fake e-mail account they had created before leaving home. She went in to check on Nika. Entering the bathroom, Nika had taken Lindsey's clothes off and lowered her into a bath of warm water, which was slowly turning red with her still flowing blood. Nika was lightly putting pressure to the top of Lindsey's head, keeping her in the water and dropped the knife into the warm, bloody bath water. Suddenly to both their surprises she stopped struggling and passed out. Aurora rushed over and checked her pulse. "She's alive but just barely. She won't be anymore trouble. We should go, we do not want to be when she dies."
Both girls rushed out to where Jasper and Alice waited. Jasper was still crouched on the lawn, dry sobs racking his body from the strangers pain.
"Jasper, we gotta go. She's not dead yet, just unconscious," Aurora commented kneeling down over him.
Jasper didn't move, but the sobs stopped. Slowly he rose from the ground. Suddenly both girls were hit with incredible pain. Both crumbled to the ground. "This is what I feel every time a human is hurt by one of us," Jasper explained leaning over them. He had incredible control to send light sparks into Aurora to keep from killing her and stronger sparks into Nika, making the newborn crumble. Suddenly the pain stopped for both girls. Nika leapt off the ground with a frown on her face, glaring at Jasper. Aurora stayed where she was on the ground, sobbing as Jasper had done earlier. He leaned down and picked her up cradling her to him. "I'm sorry, but you needed to feel that. Murder should not be taken so lightly."
Aurora looked up at him with tears still in her eyes. "How do you stand it? How did you do it for so long?" she asked him.
Jasper chuckled at her words. "I didn't know of another way. It was excruciating every time I hunted and killed."
Aurora, still in Jasper's arms, reached up and threw both arms around his neck. "I am so sorry," she whispered at his ear.
He hugged her close for a few seconds then released her. "You think you can walk now," he asked her.
She nodded against his neck and he leaned down to set her feet on the ground. She let go of him and steadied herself. There was one more murder the two girls were planning, but Aurora knew she would get no pleasure from it. She wondered if Nika felt the same way or if the thought of causing Ashley pain was keeping her too focused to heed Jasper's warning.
Jasper and Alice escorted them to Ashley's place. Aurora looked at Jasper. "I'm sorry, but you know we have to do this."
Jasper nodded gravely at the girls, then walked away. He wouldn't be able to handle the pain of a second death in one day. He turned to Alice, "You wait for the girls. I'll meet you back at the hotel."
For the second time that day Nika broke the front door of someone else's front door. "You are about to pay for everything you have ever done to me." Nika snarled at the human girl frozen on the couch.
Aurora stepped in and off to the side.
"Everything I've done to you? What are you talking about?" Ashley asked sickly innocent.
"How about spreading lies about me and almost costing me my job!" Nika was quickly becoming shrill.
This was what Aurora was afraid of. Her hatred for the girl in front of her had kept Nika's vision too clouded to pay attention to a word Jasper had said. Aurora wasn't even sure if she remembered the dose of pain he had dealt them this morning.
Nika stepped up to her and yanked her off the couch. Spinning with her she grabbed Ashley's head and yanked it sideways quickly breaking her neck. The problem was Nika was so strong Ashley's head severed from her body in the same yank. Blood went everywhere.
Aurora jumped backwards, but not fast enough. "You. Got. Blood. In. My. Hair." she screamed at Nika. "Do you know how long it will take me to get all this out of my hair, not to mention my clothes!" she screamed looking down her front where blood had spattered all over her clothes. It was a known fact Aurora was most proud of her thick, slightly wavy, auburn hair that flowed all the way past her butt.
Nika was staring at her horrorstruck. "Oops," she said not about Aurora's hair and clothes but the fact that she had severed Ashley's head. That had not been her plan.
"Nika, you have blood all over you! How do plan on getting out of here and not getting caught?" Aurora was screaming hysterically.
Alice stepped through the door to see all the damage. "Aurora climb on my back. Nika, let's go."
Aurora did as she was told and Alice and Nika took off toward the hotel. When they got back to their room, Aurora rushed to the bathroom. Stripping she stepped into the shower. She washed her hair at least twice and still wasn't sure if she got all the blood out. She would not forgive Nika for this anytime soon. Finishing her shower she dressed and went back out to the room.
Jasper and Nika were glaring at each other from across the room. Alice was sitting on the bed cross-legged rocking herself back and forth. "Jasper," Aurora yelled and pointed at Alice. He tore his eyes away from Nika and turned to his wife.
Seeing her he rushed to her side and gathered her in his arms. Alice came out of her trance. "This is not going to end well, is it?" she asked Jasper.
"It'll be fine," he assured her. "We'll be long gone before they discover the bodies. They can't trace anything back to us or the girls."
The next morning the four of them boarded the plane. Before takeoff Alice handed each of the girls a package. "Since you're both technically one of us now you might want these," she told them.
The girls exchanged a bewildered look then opened their packages. Sitting inside was their crest, marking them part of the family. Aurora had a thin gold armband with a small crest on the front of it, Nika's was a dainty anklet with and even smaller charm that was the crest.
Aurora fingered hers lightly before lifting it from the box. With tears glistening in her eyes she slipped the band up her arm until it caught and couldn't go any further. It settled perfectly centered between her elbow and shoulder.
Nika was smiling as she continued to stare at her crest for a long moment. Finally she lifted it out of the box and clasped it around her ankle branding herself a Cullen.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed the action packed chapter. Had to add the Jasper losing it scene. Thought it was a nice touch since no one really knows what he goes through during a kill. The crest is the only part we took from the movie instead of the book. Bella wears a necklace resembling Rosalie's but smaller. Nessie wears a charm bracelet like her mothers with the crest the only charm. As always R&R please.
