Summary:
Hey everybody! This is a slightly shorter chapter. Bella and Edward are now in Seattle. Alice takes Bella… shopping of course! Edward and Jasper have a very important talk during this time and they form a horrific scheme! As always please let me know what you think! :p
Truce Is Finally Over (EPOV)
So now that Bella and I were on the plane to Seattle, I felt tons and tons of different emotions stream through me. The first and mainly emotion was irritation – irritation that as from now on we would have to disguise ourselves to look older and that Bella would probably be all day shopping with Alice. Second, I both dreaded and amused the inevitable confrontation I was going to have with… that dog. If he only dared to touch or hurt my love…
Right then she, my everything, broke my horrific thoughts about how I was going to rip down the skin off the dog. I snarled quickly and looked at her.
'Edward, what's wrong?', with that innocent look in her eyes, it was for her sake that we were surrounded by so much people. Did she have any idea what she could do to me with just one snap of her fingers?
If she knew, then she was sure playing with fire!
'Nothing, love. Just dreading our little…trip. That's all.', I grimaced at her.
'Oh Edward, it's going to last just for a week! Alice said she was sure.'
'We could… ah I mean I could do a lot to you in seven days.' I met her gaze, but she immediately looked through the window – she was hiding something. All my annoyance was gone and replaced by some pretty amusing thoughts by now.
'Bella… is there something wrong with you?', I grinned and though she still didn't look at me, she shifted uncomfortably as a reaction of my grin.
'Nothing Edward… Just stop staring at me with this much lust in your eyes, okay? It's no like I'm overexcited that we are going to have to live as if we were in a monastery.', the temptation to keep on teasing her was immense, but the fact that I made her just as crazy as she made me feel was enough… for now.
Further on, nothing special happened during our flight. Yes, Bella wanted to suck the life out of the 5 stewardesses who looked as if they were going to offer themselves as my meal and I wanted to behead every single male on the plane for thinking these thoughts about her, my wife but after 20 years that went under the category 'normal, nothing special'.
Finally we arrived. At the airport were Alice and Jasper waiting for us.
'Would Bella want to go shopping straight away? I mean we are in Seattle anyways. And there is still plenty of time till the malls closed. I will ask her in a minute.' Ok, so Alice's thoughts were just the normal outcome of her hyperactive brain, but as I tuned in for Jasper's I was a bit surprised. This was one of the fewer times that he 'sounded' worried.
'Hi, Edward. Listen, I need to talk to you straight away, without these two here. Do you think Bella would want to join Alice for a shopping spree?'
I nodded in response to his thoughts wandering what needed such an urgency. He swiftly nodded back as Bella and I approached him.
'Bella! Oh you want believe this! On the way to the airport I say a whole new Marc Jacobs! There's no way you got enough clothes with you! Please, please, please let's go now! The boys will load the Mercedes and have a talk and we will have a round… Please, please, please!'
Alice started jumping up and down. I looked in Bella direction, hoping she was in the mood for this manic vampire's company.
'Alice, Alice calm down! I'll go. I really don't have enough clothes. Plus you already foresaw this, didn't you?', Bella tried to sound angry, but at the end she gave her favorite sister a big smile. They turned towards us.
'Oh, hi Jasper. Alice had me completely occupied back there.'
'Hi, Bella. So you're, too, thrilled about the new Marc Jacobs store?' Jasper laughed, effected by both mine and his wife.
'Yes, she is, Jazz. Hi Edward. Of course I already greeted you silently but it would be strange to onlookers, right? So you boys do what you have to do and we'll be back… well soon.'
Alice grabbed Bella and they hurried to the exit. Jasper and I immediately loaded the little luggage we had brought with us and once inside the car we spoke with the speed of light.
'Edward, Emmett crossed the line. The leader of their damned pack was furious and it took me great effort to somewhat calm the situation. Emmett was definitely ready to snap. You know he prefers the physical …dialogue.'
We laughed loud at remembering our big brother and his past interactions, but both knew that had it gone out of control things we going to get bloody.
'What did Carlisle say?', I asked though it wasn't even necessary for me to look into his thoughts to know the answer.
'You know him, Edward. Peace and peace only, right?' Jasper looked in front of him and doubt was written on his face. I waited for him to continue. He was definitely not finished.
'Edward, a part of me tells me that it was difficult for me to control the situation because it wasn't what I really… wanted to do. I mean… Bella's been one of us for over 20 years now and I guess, I feel, that she doesn't really look at them the same way. You remember the fight that she had with that werewolf-girl, right? Leah, was it? She nearly killed her, remember?'
'Yes, what are you getting at, Jasper?', his thoughts were racing like crazy now and I gave up trying to decipher them. Instead I listened to his whispers now.
'Edward, I know that you, just like Emmett… and Rosalie… and Alice for that matter hate this truce that Carlisle started so many decades ago. Hell, Alice and I weren't even there then! I bet that the stinking mongrels abhor it just as much.'
I smiled to myself. I knew where Jasper was getting at and I had to admit that I loved the idea. I loved it. The only obstacle for me to finally give in and comply with his proposal – which he was now creating in his mind – was my Bella.
'Jasper, I don't know. I really don't know.'
'Edward, I feel your anticipation about this! Come on! Is Bella the problem? Yes. But Edward how do you know that she'll be against it? She's a vampire!', Jasper was talking fast, desperately trying to talk me into this. Hell knew, I didn't need his persuasion either!
Yes, after I changed Bella she had a lot of negative 'admirations' for her onetime friends. She had had a lot a clashes with Sam and that stupid Leah girl… but never with him! Now that I thought about it I grew angry. Even the newborn Bella had stayed friendly and caring for this dog.
Jasper smiled wide. He sensed my decision. My determination. It took everything not to run back to Forks right away and snap the head out of this stupid mongrel. I didn't care what Bella thought anymore or what I thought she would say. I wanted to be sure she was mine… and there was no way I was going to rest in peace till I slaughtered the dog myself.
'So brother, you're in?', Jasper grinned at me and we clashed our fists together.
'I'm in and I'm gonna lead. So Jasper, take it or leave it. You'll still have the honor to execute their leader... All I want is him!, I growled, when I thought once again of Jacob Black.
'We still might have a little problem, though, Edward.', my brother's thoughts were now flowing smoothly though his mind as he made different schemes and strategies. I raised an eyebrow at him.
'Well, first I taught the filthy bastards some of the hunting techniques. Second, their group grew to 20 now – which doesn't really bother me, 'cause it means I'll get to play more and longer, but I just had to mention it – and thirdly which worries me the most is…'
'…Carlisle and Esme.', I put some sound to his thoughts.
'Well, yeah, but also your wife, Edward. Or do you sense she won't be a hindrance any more?', I smiled at my brother's choice of vocabulary. He was always so into his talent that he spoke like it.
'Honestly, brother, I don't know what I should think. I do hope she'll like the idea – I sure did – but even if that's not the case then we'll go with our… diversion.'
'Okay', Jasper thought, 'what about Carlisle and Esme?'
'I don't care. We're in the majority and they can join us or let us have some fun.' My nostrils flared and my hands formed into fists. The face of Jacob Black was in front of me…but his body was laying 2 feet further on the blood stained ground. This was going to be the first time I was going to slaughter some thing without drinking the blood. I liked it!
'Wow, Edward, stop the murderous urge otherwise I'm gonna decapitate these two men there. You hate Jacob Black so much, huh?', I looked at him annoyed.
'Jasper, if some dog tried to take away your Alice, what would you do?', Jasper snarled furiously and said with a low voice.
'Ok, you definitely made a point there. But Edward? You've made this to yourself. You should have destroyed him 2 decades ago, brother.'
'I know', I rumbled, 'that's why I'm gonna right my mistake… somewhere in the next 7 days.' I thought I was going to explode, but Jasper sent a wave of calm through my tensed chest and I felt a little better.
'So that leaves us with the last problem: the fact that the dogs know some of our techniques. Do you have a solution for this too, my infuriated brother?'
My grin got bigger and bigger for two reasons. Firstly because I suspected that Jasper was a little annoyed that I and not him, the military mind, came with the most 'solutions' and second because I just thought of my third solution. Oh, the wolves were in for a wild ride…
'Edward! I, as crazy as it might seem to you, can't actually read someone's thoughts! Will you tell me what you're thinking of?', I grinned once again at Jasper and when he rolled his eyes I spoke slowly, enjoying my brilliant idea once more.
'Brother… can you think of others… who happen to hold a grudge… against the wolves too?'
Jasper's excitement hit me in the chest and I hugged him, after that he joined me and my grin.
'Edward, I have to admit… you would have made a great Southern soldier! So... when are we going to call and invite our dear friends from Denali to come pay us a visit?'
'Right away, my brother! I assume this is going to be a long call, do you think Bella and Alice will be back in the next…'
'… 7 or 8 hours? No, I don't think so!' Jasper tried to hide his smirk, but when we thought about our two divine shopaholics we burst into laughter so that the tinted windows shrieked dangerously.
