A/N I need to say a huge thank you to my beta KareBear1965, she had to do some work on this chapter. I also need to say thank you to my prereader sinfulroad69, she gave me the names to go in with the characters I needed. This is partly her story too, I love both of ya. There is a ton of stuff going on in this chapter, please know that there will be questions coming up in your minds, you can either ask in a review, or just wait. Most of them will be answered in the next chapter. Enjoy!
I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.
Bella POV
Jasper showed up five minutes after we settled down to wait. He was alone. Edward had decided to stay with the group, promising to keep us updated if they changed course. I was worried, as now he had no shield to cover his scent.
Jasper assured me that he was staying far enough away that they wouldn't smell him. He sent Edward a text letting him know that he was with us. A few seconds later, he got a text telling us that it would be about ten minutes until they arrived.
Jasper had checked all three of us over, making sure we had no injuries. Since we had the confrontation with the stray vampire, he went into his mate/father mode, needing to make sure we were alright.
Jasper asked what had Alayla so upset concerning Robert. None of us really wanted to tell him what he had told us about Alayla. I told Jasper that he would have to let Alayla use her gift on him to keep him calm, but we needed to wait until after the vampires were either gone, or dead.
I did tell him that he could take a vampire's gift and turn it back on them. He had also told us that no gifts were able to affect him. He had decided that once we had taken care of the business at hand that, we would go back, collect Robert, and use him to experiment on. Knowing what he had said to our daughter, I quickly agreed.
Jasper's phone vibrated with a text message. He opened it, and I watched as his face went from passive to worry, and then finally to fearful. The next words out of his mouth scared me, "Shit, fuck, fuck, fuck, shit, shit, shit. Did you say that you scattered Robert after ripping him apart?"
Suddenly, we could hear the footsteps of vampires approaching. We saw them come into the clearing where the house was. Jasper quickly typed something out on his phone. He then showed it to us, and all it said was shields up, keep them up. We have problems.
Of course, we did it without question. They went into the house, and we could hear them talking about the fact that they knew Carlisle had been there. Now they would have to try to find him all over again. They were going to scout out the area, and wait until Libris could pick up what direction he had gone in.
Of course, they took into account that maybe him and his mate had just gone off to hunt and would be back shortly. They had decided to wait. Some of them would wait a short distance in different directions, so they would know that they were coming back. They didn't want them running off before talking to them.
I could see that Jasper was tense, and he was watching the woods in another direction. Edward had just joined us; he looked nervous, tense, and maybe even a little scared. I decided that I had had enough of this fucked up shit and I was going to go into Jasper's mind and try to find the thought as to what was going on.
A long time ago, when we first realized what the kids and I could do with going into someone's head and finding thoughts; we promised Jasper and the family that we would never do it, unless we had permission first. While Edward couldn't really turn off his gift completely, we could.
Just as I was about to do this, we heard the footsteps of two more vampires coming from the opposite direction. They were coming from the same direction that we had gone in and confronted Robert. We heard Alayla whimper, and looking over at her. She was curling up like she was in pain or extremely fearful.
I knew then that one of the footsteps had to be Robert. Shit, this was bad. A second later, sure enough Robert came out of the trees with another vampire that not even Edward knew about. Apparently, Robert had been sent to meet up with the other vampire, to come to the house in the opposite direction.
What I couldn't figure out was why, didn't Edward pick it up even in one of the others thoughts. I was given no time at all to think about this though. As soon as Robert was close to the others, he told them to be alert as there were other vampires up in the trees surrounding the house.
He pointed straight at the tree we were in. We were far enough away that we couldn't be seen, even with them knowing that we were there. Still, now that they knew we were there we had no choice but to show ourselves. Jasper motioned for me and the kids to stay put.
Edward and he jumped down out of the tree. As they were walking over to the vampires, CJ and I extended our shields to cover them. As soon as they got to the others Robert shook his head.
Edward asked him what his problem was. Robert told them that the three that had attacked him were still up in the tree. The one that we didn't know then spoke up, "My name is Matias, I would suggest that you tell the rest of your party to join us, or I will have you both burned where you stand."
There was no fucking way we were going to let those assholes hurt either one of them, so we were out of the tree in a flash. I could tell that Jasper was pissed off that we came out of the tree, but we couldn't just let them get hurt. This was turning out to be a disaster. I was very afraid for our children.
We had worked out a signal so that we would know it was time to try to pull thoughts out of at least one of them. It no longer mattered who it was, as long as one of them was destroyed. They were threats against our family; I would gladly kill every fucking one of them.
We walked up and joined Jasper and Edward. Since there were more of them, they were spread out so we couldn't really put the kids behind us. Alayla was standing in between her dad and me; CJ was on my other side, slightly in front of me.
The one called Matias came up to me and the kids. I could tell that Jasper was ready to pounce. He just looked at Alayla, then myself, and then CJ. After a minute, he looked at Jasper and studied him before speaking, "I thought that I had seen everything in my very long existence, but this is a first for me. I want to know how you have children? I can tell that this one is your mate, but she is a vampire. Yet, I see both, you and her in these young ones."
Jasper just stared at him. Oh, good he's gone into Major mode. After a few minutes of him staring at the vampire, Matias finally spoke, "Fine, if you want to keep quiet I can work with that. Robert, you said something about wanting the blonde female for a companion. Why don't you take her, and see if maybe while you are having fun, you can get information out of her."
That was the last straw, all hell broke loose. Jasper lunged for Robert; unfortunately, the one named Jeric was faster, and stronger. He had Jasper around the chest with his arms pinned to his sides.
Alayla started screaming for the vampire to let go of her daddy. Robert was able to get to her and had grabbed her. He then nodded for Jeric to let go of Jasper. I think that we were a little shocked, I had my shield around Alayla and CJ yet Robert had been able to get past it. I guess I should have had it around Jasper too, maybe if I had this wouldn't have happened.
Matias then said that we would all go into the house, and it would be explained to us what our options were. Jasper, Edward and CJ were all growling at Robert. He wasn't about to let Alayla go, and I couldn't stand to see her with his filthy hands all over her.
I looked over just in time to see Jasper about to lunge again. One of the females who had been quiet suddenly concentrated on Jasper. Alayla yelled as she had seen her. Immediately, CJ threw his shield around his dad.
Just as he did, I threw mine up as well. The second it was around him, the female suddenly had a ball of fire floating, and it headed straight for Jasper. There was no time to react, it was coming too fast, all I could do was watch as my husband and mate, was about to be burned.
I never expected to see what happened next. The fire, literally bounced off of our shields. Before we could even realize what had happened, the female,who had sent it was suddenly being consumed by flames. We took advantage of the shock coming from the other vampires. We put our shields around everyone, in our party so to speak. Even Alayla, that meant that we had also covered Robert.
We got another shock then. Alayla had been trying to send different emotions to Robert, and was suddenly successful. He dropped her when she sent him extreme fear. She ran right into my arms. Jasper then lunged and grabbed Robert.
The other vampires were about to attack when suddenly they all froze. I looked at my daughter to see she was concentrating, looking at everyone. She quickly told us she was sending them the thought to freeze and not move.
She then sent them the thought that they would stay that way for four days. We then looked over at Jasper, who had Robert without limbs. He yelled for Edward to get the limbs, and we took off.
We knew the kids were supposed to go to Peter's place. Since we were taking Robert with us, we really didn't want him to know about the compound. So we all headed straight for Nevada.
Jasper/Major POV
As we were headed to Peter's, I kept thinking about the fucking bastard that put his fucking hands on my daughter. It took everything I had within me not to kill him. The only thing that made it alright to keep him alive is thinking about all of the fucking torture, I can do to his ass, before I fucking rip him apart, slowly.
I also knew that CJ, Edward, Bella, and even Alayla all wanted a piece of his ass. Fuck, we could rip him apart, put him back together, and then have the next one rip his ass apart, just to do it again. Yeah, this motherfucker was going to understand before he died, that you can mess with the Major, but you don't fucking mess with his kids.
It took us a couple of hours to get to Peter's. It would have taken less time, but we had to stop to give the kids time to take care of their human needs. We did hunt on the way. While we fed, I refused to give any blood to Robert, and even told Edward that the only blood, he would allow the "fucking asshole" to taste would be skunk blood.
Once we got to the place, we saw Peter waiting for us on the porch. I had called him while waiting for the kids to take care of their needs. When I told Peter what had happened, I actually had to move the fucking phone away, from my ear, Peter had growled so loudly.
He stopped long enough to make sure that the kids were alright, before moving to the asshole. I had made sure that we brought his limbs with us, but he wasn't getting them back; at least until it was time to put him together and rip him apart, again. Yeah, we were really planning on doing just that.
The problem is that Krissy is here still going through the transformation, so we needed, him dealt with before she woke up. She had about thirty-six hours left, before waking up.
We had planned on getting information out of him before killing him. As far as we knew, he didn't know about Edward's mind reading gift, so we were counting on him to be able to get the information from his mind just by asking the questions.
As for the torture; oh hell yeah! We already knew exactly what we would be doing. Bella and the kids would try to pull all of his thoughts out to see what would happen. Of course, we would wait until we had done other things, like try to find out more about what the deal was up with CJ's shield.
We also wanted to find out why suddenly Robert's gift of bouncing Alayla's gift back on her stopped working, and why ours suddenly did work on him. Edward, and I both felt that since gifts didn't work on him, that maybe, somehow, him being under the shields caused his gift to stop working. It sounded crazy, but it was the only explanation we could come up with.
So, we would be using him as our lab rat so to speak. Peter said that he would go and try to find a few skunks to feed to him, but I reminded him that they stink, and he would probably end up having to stay away until the smell was gone, without his mate. He changed his mind quickly.
The kids went into the house. Peter, Edward, and I were going to take Robert to a spot not too far from the house, but not close enough for the kids to hear his screams, in case we had to hurt him to get information. Once we got what we needed from him then we would bring him back, and then it would be time to experiment.
I was really having a hard time to not just finish him off. He had not only touched Alayla. He had his mouth on her face and neck. He wasn't being affected by her gift; she had no clue what to do and was between scared, and pissed off.
The worst part was that she was scared. No one scared my baby girl and got away with it. I had never felt her fear like that before. Even when CJ and she had come up against the vampire, they had killed in the woods; she still had no fear.
Don't get me wrong, she wasn't feeling smug either. She did have confidence in her and her brother's gifts to help protect them. I made sure after that they had the training so that they could fight and win, without using their gifts, if they needed to.
I decided that I wanted to see if he knew who I was. It's not like he would be able to tell anyone. No matter what, he wouldn't be leaving here alive. The thing is I never really expected it to be as easy as it turned out it was. He seemed to be lacking in the intelligence department.
I could feel his smugness, when he had shown up. According to what Edward said, he depended on his gift, and felt like no one could touch him. That's why Bella, and the kids were able to rip him apart so easily, he didn't believe they were a threat.
While his gift was very powerful, his attitude made him weak. He wasn't much of a fighter; he had never trained. He didn't think that he needed it, he had his gift after all.
When we got to where we would be questioning him, I threw his torso down against a tree. I made sure that he was sitting upright. I wanted to look in his eyes when he realized whom he had just fucked with. Of course, there was always the possibility that he hadn't heard of the Major.
Peter started it off by asking him if he knew who I was. He shook his head no. Then Peter asked him if he had ever heard of the Major. He waited a minute before saying that if he was referring to the vampire that was called the Major in the Southern Vampire wars, yes he had heard of him.
He went on to tell us that he had heard that he was the best fighter, and that made him the most feared vampire in the south. What came out next was really fucked up. He told us that he had actually wanted to meet him, find out what his secret was for being such a bad ass; the Major was his "hero".
I couldn't believe the shit that was coming out of his mouth. The next thing he said made us laugh. Yeah, we fucking laughed at the shit that came out next. He told us that he knew that the Major was dead.
Peter finally was able to ask him how he knew that the Major was dead. He told us that he had heard that Maria, his sire, had killed him. He had heard this from some vampire by the name of Marco about ten years ago.
This was one of those WTF moments. We just stared at him. Finally, Peter couldn't stay quiet anymore and told him that what Marco had said to him was a lie. That he knew for a fact, the Major was alive and kicking.
He asked how he could be so sure. I just smiled an evil smile, and removed my shirt. To say that he was shocked would be an understatement. I squatted so that I was eye level with him. Once I had his attention, I told him, "I'm the Major, as you can see I have the scars to prove it. Just so, you know, the girl you touched, the one you wanted to fuck. She. Is. MY. Daughter."
The fear that came off of him was so thick, even Peter and Edward could feel it. This was good; I could really work with this. I wanted to make sure that he felt what Alayla had felt when he had her. I pulled the emotions that she had going through her when she was in his grasp, and sent them to him.
If a vampire could shit, he would have. I let up after a minute, and we started to question him. This was so easy. I asked the question, and he would give us the answer.
He told us what the plan was, who was involved, and why. The only thing he wouldn't give us is the whereabouts, and the gifts of those they already had joining them. We got that information easily; we just asked, and Edward read his mind. He was weak from pain and the loss of his limbs, so his gift was too weak to stop Edward from being able to read him.
After we had what we wanted, we took him back to the house. We left him in the yard and went into the house. Char was waiting for us; she had called Carlisle to tell him what had happened. He wanted me to call him, as soon as I was back.
I quickly dialed the number, and he answered on the first ring. I told him that we had all the information we needed, and were about to try the gifts on him. Carlisle was really angry about what had happened with his granddaughter. He told us that Aro wanted us to go ahead and bring Krissy as is to come to the compound.
He didn't want to take the chance that the vampires could catch up to us. I asked the main question; had he told Aro about the kids? He told me that no, he wanted to tell him in person.
I told him that the kids were going to help with the experiment with the gifts, and then we would leave to come there. We would have to destroy Robert if he wasn't already dead after that.
I asked if Aro had gotten there yet, and he told me no, but was expecting him in a day or so. He told me to give the kids his love and hung up. It sounded like he was too pissed off to talk. I had never heard him that angry before.
Now, it was time to do the experiments. I called the kids down so that we could start. Without any other gifts to use to try different things we would just have to use Alayla's, and my gift to try to see what would happen with CJ's shield. We went over everything that happened right before the incident with the fireball.
All we knew was that CJ had put his shield up, then Bella put hers up. First, we needed to find out if it was just CJ or Bella, or both combined. Something was telling me that it was CJ's, but Bella's made it stronger.
The kids came down, and I could tell that they really hated leaving Krissy again. This was too important, and I had to tell them we were leaving as soon as we were finished with the asshole.
My mate had come straight to me after the phone call and wrapped her arms around my waist. I really needed to run her upstairs and make sure she wasn't hurt anywhere. Shit, whom am I kidding? I needed to claim her, fuck her, and then make love to her. Now was not the time though. Besides, I was still too pissed off at what had happened to Alayla.
Bella sensing what I was feeling pulled me down for a kiss. It was passionate, full of love, need, want, and desire. It was what I needed to help calm me down. At least, part of me, another part was getting a rise up. I needed to stop but I just couldn't find it in me to care at this point. This was my anchor to keep me from losing it.
Just as I was about to take this upstairs, I heard a groan. Then a voice that said, "Don't they ever stop!" It belonged to our son.
Alayla spoke up, "I think it's cute. I just hope that when it's my turn, I can find that kind of love."
I broke away from my mate and went to hug our son. I asked him if he was alright, and he told me that he will be better when the one who touched Alayla was dead. I could feel there was still a shit load of anger. He told me that before they removed all thoughts from the vampire he had an idea that he wanted to try. He told me that it might help him get rid of some of the rage he had going inside of him. I promised him; he would have his turn at hurting him.
I could tell that Alayla had been crying. I knew that my mate had talked with her, and she was feeling somewhat better. I needed to check her out and make sure she was unharmed. In my mind, I knew she was alright, but my instincts said to check anyway.
I asked if everyone could wait outside for us, I needed to talk to Alayla privately. As soon as everyone was gone, she was in my arms. She used her vampire speed, which kind of surprised me as she usually doesn't do that in the house. She buried her face in my chest, and started sobbing.
I could have helped calm her down, but I knew she needed to feel this, so I just held her. This was rare for her, but then again, she had never been man handled either. I was going to fucking rip him apart, put him back together and do it fucking again. He had caused my baby girl to be afraid, and to cry; his ass was going to pay!
It took a few minutes for her to calm down. When she finally did, I pulled her slightly away and started checking her over. She sighed, but didn't say anything; she knew exactly what was going on.
While the need to do this is usually only for mates, I had found that for me, it also goes for my kids. Whenever there was an accident, or something dangerous happened, or they did something new I found myself checking them over. Then again, so did their mama.
After I knew she was uninjured, I pulled her back into my arms. I could have lost her today. She could have been killed, or even raped while I watched; unable to stop him. Shit, I need to stop this. I'm starting to get even more pissed off.
"Baby girl, please forgive me. I should have never let you come with us. I failed you; I didn't protect you like I should have. That vampire should have never been able to touch you. I'm so fucking sorry." I whispered, knowing she could hear me.
Great, she started to fucking cry again. It took her a minute finally to speak, "Daddy, please stop that shit right now. You know that as far as we knew I was needed there. It wasn't your fault, you didn't know that there was another vampire that could put him back together out there. Please daddy, don't blame yourself, I don't. I love you, and you are the best daddy ever to exist."
"Still, I fucking let you down. Your mama too. I almost died out there, and I can't even imagine what would have happened to you then. If your brother hadn't sent the fire back to the bitch, I would be dead right now. You could have easily been raped." I told her.
"Well, I didn't get raped. I'm safe here with you. You need to focus on the fact that we are all safe right now. Stop with the shit of "I should have". You also should probably figure out how you're going to explain to mama why you are cussing, in front of me and letting me cuss too." she was giggling by this point.
Shit, she was right! Bella hated me cussing in front of the kids, and even more so hated them cussing and me letting them do it. I was really fucked now. I knew it, and so did my beautiful daughter. She had gone from giggling to full-blown laughter. Even if it was at my own expense, I fucking loved it.
We walked outside and sure enough, there was my beautiful mate, glaring daggers at me. She was really fucking scary when she was like this. I knew that if I couldn't dazzle her into forgiving me, I might be without her for night or two. Then again, the make up sex was always awesome, so maybe it will be worth it after all.
I tried to look sheepish; maybe if I work it good enough she'll forgive me right away. She started stalking towards me, nope. It wasn't gonna work this time. I'm royally fucked.
When she got to my side, she looked at our daughter and told her, she needed to go say hi to her uncle Peter. I could tell that my daughter didn't want to leave her daddy with such a vicious creature as her mama, but she left anyway.
She stood up on her tip toes and pulled me down so that she could whisper in my ear, "I think you know better, Major. We will deal with this later." Shit, this is going to be worse than I thought. She then walked away.
We decided to work with CJ's shield first. Then we added Bella's shield. Using my gift, I sent him some fear, not much. It took a second or two before I felt the fear I had sent him come back on me. I didn't tell CJ what emotion I sent in case he could feel it, I wanted to make sure he was actually feeling what I sent and not his own emotions.
Then we added Bella's shield. I sent mirth this time. Again, just a tiny bit, enough to cause mild giggles. When it hit me, I stared laughing hysterically. It had tripled from the amount I had sent. Of course, everyone fucking loved watching me laughing my ass off at nothing. We needed this, especially since we still had to deal with the asshole.
Then Alayla tried to put the thought into CJ's head to remove his shoes. He didn't know what she sent him, but a second after sending him the thought, she was taking her shoes off. Apparently, our son's shield had an extra side effect just like my mate's did. She could amplify any gift under her shield and CJs could bounce any gift back to the one who sent it.
Finally, we tried doing this to Bella's shield. While the "attacks" were blocked, they didn't bounce back to the sender. So, we now know that CJs would bounce back gifts, while Bella's could amplify them. We would have to use more gifts to continue to test CJ's shield, though.
Now, it was time to deal with the asshole who dared to try to hurt my family. He was still on the ground where I had thrown him. CJ tried first to pull a thought out of his mind. It worked but took a minute, and we needed it to be quicker in order to use it.
Alayla went next, with the same results. Bella tried but couldn't do it. Then all three of them concentrated and were able to do it quickly. They pulled out three separate thoughts. Then, Bella used her shield, and they were able to start pulling out thoughts faster than even they thought possible.
I had to stop them as I had promised CJ his turn at hurting this asshole for hurting his sister, before completely draining him of all thoughts. We did, however, find that we would not need to question anyone; we could pull the thoughts out and get the information that way.
CJ asked if we could put his limbs back on first. He refused to kick a vampire while he was down. We knew that even with his limbs reattached he would need blood to heal enough to be full power, so we did as he asked.
My son is strong enough to fight a vampire, and win. He can also bite. He does have venom; it seems to be regular vampire venom. So, when he bites, it will hurt like a motherfucker.
Which is what he started doing. He would bite and pump venom into the wound. He did not. However, close the wounds. They were left open, gaping, and seeping venom. Those were the worst kind of bites. I should know; Maria gave me those kinds of bites as punishment.
After doing this for a few minutes, it was like the rage flared up inside of him, and he started kicking and punching him. No one of course was going to stop him. I had decided that if it went on for more than a couple of minutes, I would calm him down. Not to save the asshole, but to keep my son from going into a dark place later. That too I was very familiar with.
He finally stopped on his own, his rage seeming to have been spent. I was glad that he had the opportunity to use it in some way, instead of bottling it up. He was able to do something for his sister.
He wasn't feeling proud of what he did. He was feeling like what he did showed his sister that he loved her, and would kill anyone who tried to hurt her.
Once he had calmed down some, it was time to do the experiments. First, the shields went up. Then Bella, CJ, and Alayla all started to pull thoughts out of his mind. He had been sitting on the ground, with his legs stretched out. It took almost a minute, and then it was over.
His body slumped over on the ground. He wasn't moving, breathing, and I felt no emotions from him at all. I looked over at Edward, and he said that his mind was blank, and he had actually gotten to "see" the thoughts being removed. From all appearances, Robert was now dead.
We decided to give it about an hour to see if anything changed. The kids went inside, and Bella fixed them both something to eat. They had not been able to eat food since early this morning.
I asked if Peter, Char, and Edward could stay out here with him and monitor what was going on. I needed to make sure my family was alright. I knew that none of them were physically hurt, I needed to make sure that the kids weren't going to have serious repercussions from what had happened to them, and what they had done.
They were both eating when I walked in. Alayla was quiet; I knew that she was probably trying to process all that had happened today. The thing is that we still weren't done with the bastard.
When she saw me, she smiled at me. She knew that I needed to know she was alright. She came over and gave me a hug. Next thing, I knew CJ was there hugging both of us, then my mate was there hugging all of us. We stayed that way for several minutes. We all needed to know that everyone was alright.
After the kids were finished eating, we went back outside to see what was going on. Edward said there had been no change; he was still void of thoughts. I knew there were also no emotions coming from him. He hadn't moved.
Alayla tried to send him a thought to sit up. Nothing, it never even registered in his mind. She tried to send him other thoughts, feeling pain, anger, and then she tried to send him pain. Then under Bella's shield, I sent him pain, then anger, still nothing. He was now dead.
Bella, CJ, and I started ripping him apart. We carried the parts into the house. Char and Peter were grabbing what they wanted to keep, while Edward and Bella grabbed some of the food, no sense in letting it go to waste.
Once everything was loaded in the truck, and we were ready to leave Alayla was given the honor of setting the house on fire. We wanted to try to cover our scents as much as possible.
We had no idea if Alayla's suggestion that they not move for four days would work or not. When we ran here, we stayed under the shields to hide our scents. Traveling by truck would cover them going away from the house.
We would eventually have to park the truck and go the rest of the way by foot. It was inaccessible to humans, and the only way for vampires to get there was either by foot or helicopter. Since we didn't have one at the moment, we would have to walk.
It would be tomorrow morning before we arrived. I was hoping that Aro would already be there. I didn't give a flying fuck if he didn't like the idea of half human, half vampires. I was pissed, and I wanted answers. I didn't care either that he was Volturi.
With the information, we had gotten from Robert, I knew that for the most part, this was all of their fucking fault. Even if they are the Volturi, they were going to give us answers.
Of course, we had to make a few stops on the way. Gas, food, and bathroom breaks for the kids. It was later than we had planned when we got to the place where we had to leave the truck.
CJ insisted on carrying his friend Krissy. The problem was that there were at least two spots where we would have to climb straight up. We would have to tie her to his back so that he could use both hands to climb with. Both spots were at least a mile up.
I watched my kids as they climbed over rocks went under trees and then climbed the first part that was straight up. I had been secretly concerned about the kids being able to make it. It was a long way, and while they may have vampire shit, they still tire out.
After the first climb straight up, I could tell that Alayla was starting to get tired. They had both slept on the way, during the night. Still, this part of the journey would be physically exhausting to them.
Once we were over the first bad climb, I made everyone stop so that the kids could rest. I could tell that the trip was taking a toll on both of them. Especially CJ as he was carrying Krissy. I made him untie her and lay her down. I also told him, that either I or someone else would be carrying her, the rest of the way.
He was upset that he couldn't do it, but understood that he could endanger her. If he got too tired out, he could slip, and they would both fall. While he would probably be alright, Krissy still had too much of her human traits and wouldn't survive the fall.
I decided to change up things. We all had stuff tied to our backs, food, clothes, and personal belongings. Peter and I both undid our loads and were going to leave them; Edward also undid his and stacked his load along with ours. We would come back and carry the shit back to the compound later; right now we needed to get the kids there, safely.
We ended up with Edward carrying Krissy. Peter carried CJ, even though CJ was arguing that he could walk on his own. I had Alayla. We carried them the regular way until we got to the next straight climb.
Well, as normal as CJ could handle, Peter had him slung over his shoulder. CJ was yelling the whole time that he could do this on his own, and Uncle Em would never let him live this down.
Alayla finally told CJ that if Uncle Em tried to tease him about it, she would make him do something that would make him look stupid. He told her she needed to do it anyway; he still owed him for the last prank Em had done to him.
After another hour of climbing, we finally made it to the compound. I tried calling Carlisle to let us in so we didn't have to climb the walls. He never answered. I then call Esme, and still no answer. I finally got in touch with Ethan. I could hear yelling in the background but was unable to tell who it was.
Ethan said that he would open the gate for us, and that Alayla and I were both needed to try to calm Carlisle down. This was another one of those WTF moments. He hung up the phone without even giving me the chance to ask what was going on.
Setting down Alayla, and CJ we ran the rest of the way. Edward still had Krissy and said he would take her and try to find someplace out of the way to place her until they could find a bedroom for her.
The scene that we walked in on was shocking to say the least. Standing there was the man I considered to be a father; the man who was always calm even in the middle of the storm; he was standing there with his hands around Aro's throat, and had him pinned against the wall!
Emmett, Ethan, and Rose had Felix pinned to the floor. We just stood there for a few seconds in shock. Finally, I asked Carlisle what was going on, and he growled at me. Whoa, Carlisle just fucking growled! He. Growled. At. Me.
Felix then spoke up and said that Carlisle had gone mad and was trying to kill Aro. I knew there had to be more to it. I asked Emmett how long had they been here, and he said they had just gotten there. It was just Felix and Aro as they wanted to travel separately in case the others found out about them coming here.
Aro had walked in the room, and had been talking to Carlisle when Carlisle attacked him. Felix went to help him but Emmett, Ethan, and Rose tackled him. They didn't really understand what was going on, but they sure as hell were not going to let Felix stop Carlisle. He was their leader, and should be protected even if they didn't know why he attacked.
Carlisle had turned his attention back to Aro, "You fucking piece of shit. How could you fucking do that? Why did you let them get away with what they did? Do you know how much my family has been hurt by these fucking bastards already? Why didn't you fucking rip them apart when you had the fucking chance?" he roared out.
Aro started to say something but was cut off, "Don't you say a fucking word. One of those fucking bastards put his hands all over my granddaughter!" At this Carlisle let out another roar, that shook the windows.
I called his name, hoping that maybe if he saw me, he would calm down. He never even flinched. I decided that I needed to try to calm him down. While I didn't really care if he killed the asshole myself, it could cause problems for us later.
I sent him some calm, and was shocked once again at the reaction I got. He turned to me, and he looked murderous. He actually looked like a vampire. The ones that nightmares are made of.
He was growling, snarling, and he roared at me before saying, "Don't you fucking dare use your shit on me Jasper. I need to feel this shit. I really need to fucking hurt him for what he has caused. Do you realize that it's him and his fucking brothers, who has brought all of this shit on us. They are the fucking reasons we are running, again. If they had dealt with this shit the same way, they have dealt with everyone else there wouldn't be a problem right now! On top of all of this fucked up shit, he now wants to punish Ethan, and the kids, he wants to take and add them to the guard."
I saw red. I was just about to lunge for Aro when I suddenly felt calm come over me. I turned and looked into my daughter's eyes. She was crying. She told me, "I'm sorry daddy but you need to calm down. Everyone here is wanting to kill the vampire that papaw has pinned to the wall. Mama asked me to calm you, so we could all calm down and talk."
I let the emotions she sent me wash over me and go inside of me. While I didn't want to I knew she was right. My mate was right; we needed to all calm down and talk. Yet, I had never seen Carlisle this angry, ever!
He was the only one that was not calming down. Alayla started to walk over to her papaw, and I started to jump in front of her to stop her, but my mate had come over and placed her hand on my chest. I looked down at her, and she shook her head "no".
I couldn't believe that she would let our daughter walk over to a dangerous vampire. I had looked over at my daughter and then back down at Bella. She mouthed the words "trust her and me".
Carlisle had his attention back on Aro. Alayla walked right up to her papaw and put her tiny hand on his arms. He looked down at her, and she told him, "Papaw, I love you, and I know that you are upset, I was messed with. I'm alright now, but I really need a hug from you. You hug better than anyone I know, well except maybe Ohma. Will you please put the vampire down and give me one?"
At first, I thought he was going to growl at her, but he didn't. He studied her for a minute before sighing heavily, and then he let go of Aro. She wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him tightly. He put his arms around her and told her that he was sorry she had to see him like that, but the thought of some strange vampire man handling her was just too much for him. Especially, since it was Aro's fault as far as he was concerned.
I could tell that Aro was about to say something, but the look I gave him told him that if he did it might be the last words he ever said. I walked over to him and gently took him by the arm and led him over to the couch. I whispered to him to be quiet if he knew what was good for him.
I knew now that only my baby girl could give what Carlisle really needed right now, the security of knowing that his only granddaughter was alright. That while she may have been in danger, she was right now safe, and in his arms. When I looked over at Carlisle again, he was sobbing, while clutching at her.
She may be safe, for the moment, but I knew we had a battle coming up. Right now, I wasn't sure if we could win. I did know one thing for sure, the Cullens and Whitlocks would not go down without a fight. I just wish that my kids didn't have to be involved, but I knew that they would never let us fight without them.
I could only hope that we had trained them well enough. I could only hope that at they would survive.
A/N Please review and tell me your I may be stumped as to what to write for the next chapter. It's you readers that help me to write what happens in the chapters. Also, once again if you have questions please review and ask. I will say it again that most of them will be answered in the next chapter. Also, the next couple of chapters will be "calmer", less stress, maybe. Krissy will wake up, and the Cullens, Whitlocks, and Volturi will have a long talk.