Chapter 3
Waking up a different person
Three days passed by.
Three agonising days before Anna had stopped writhing in pain on jasper's little narrow bed.
Three days of watching his little sister cry out, scream out in un-imaginable pain. He had not moved from her side, his cold hands on her face hoping to cool her burning skin.
He hated what he had done. He hates Maria for making him do it to her.
He was supposed to be dead, that's what he had wanted his family to know, so they could move on with their lives.
Anna wasn't supposed to be here, she was supposed to be at home with their parents, she was supposed to be getting married and starting a family with a boy from town, what most girls did at her age.
She wasn't supposed to be dying because of him, writhing in pain because of the venom he put into her, slowly stopping her heart.
He hated himself at that moment.
Why did it have to be Anna, why not a random person dragged from the street.
Maria was a cruel monster. She knew what would get a reaction out jasper and went right to his heart, his reason for going on, his little Anna.
He sat by her side for three days wishing, praying that she would survive the transformation, wishing to any god that was listening to help her through the agonising pain he knew she was going through.
He thought his un-beating heart would cease to exist when he heard the last beat of her heart.
He placed his head against her cold hand and sobbed. How could he have done this to his Anna. He was a monster, how could he let his little sister become what he was. She wasn't meant for this life.
Anna took a big intake of breath as she opened her eyes.
The pain she had felt after jasper had bitten her was gone, like it had never happened in the first pace. She frowned, why did jasper bite her?
As she took in her surroundings she found herself in a different room that Maria had left her in. it was more bigger now, with two narrow little beds on either side of the room. Turning her head to observe the room more, her eyes landed on someone sitting beside her. Their head was turned down, with their shoulders slumped, it looked like they were crying.
He was a beautiful man that was for sure, his blonde messy hair covered his face from her view though. He looked familiar, like she had once seen him in a dream.
Anna blinked as she tried to remember who he was searching through her dreams quickly.
He was the one who had bitten her, why had he bitten her?
Faces of people filled her mind trying to remember who he was, until she suddenly figured it out.
It was jasper.
He was here. After two years he was here, alive and well.
"jasper" she whispered, frowning at how strange her voice sounded, more velvety than before, more soft.
Jasper's head snapped up at the sound of her voice and gasped.
"Anna, you're here!" he said, like the wind had been knocked out of him.
He quickly observed her face, like he was seeing if she was real.
He moved himself to sit next her so he could pull her into his arms.
"jasper what happened. They said you were dead. Why did you bite me?
Why did it hurt so much?" anna quickly asked her mind still not focused.
Jasper froze. How could he tell her what she now was. Why he did it, why she could never go back home.
He pulled back from her and looked into her eyes.
"anna, please don't be afraid of me, I swear I only did this to protect you. Please listen to what I have to say before you think ill of me." he said slowly looking into her eyes.
Anna didn't reply, he bit her to protect her, protect her from what?
Jasper sat opposite her bringing her hands to his so he could keep contact with her. He hoped she wouldn't hate him.
"anna, do remember the stories that old mrs Carmichael used to tell us all?" he asked.
Mrs carmichael was an old lady where they used to live, she was a witch some would say because of her long white hair and the long black dress she used to wear. Jasper and his friends would help the old woman on her farm sometimes when he was a boy.
She used to tell the children of the town stories. Stories of evil dark forces, that were coming. Coming to steal children from the night to make their slaves.
Most people tended to ignore the old woman's ramblings forcing her to live in the confinements of her home.
" yes, old mrs Carmichael, she used to tell ghost stories when we were younger." Anna replied.
"do you remember the one about…vampires?" he asked, pausing slightly to look into her eyes.
Anna frowned. " yes of course I do. I couldn't sleep for a week after them stories. But jasper what has this got to do with this all?" Anna replied getting a little confused.
Jasper didn't reply. He just looked into her eyes, trying to let her figure it out.
He watched as the answers became clear in her mind, how her eyes widened and her mouth fell open in shock.
"you're…you're…." Anna stammered.
Jasper clutched her hand tighter.
"please anna, you must understand I didn't ask for this I didn't. I thought it was stories too, I didn't know they existed anna, I swear!" jasper said.
"a vampire." anna stated, her body becoming frozen.
He watched as she turned away from him to look at her hands in his.
" you turned me into a vampire didn't you?!" she said, her body becoming still.
Jasper didn't reply. He was too ashamed to.
Not once in his human life had he ever let Anna down. He had promised to protect her with his every being.
Now it seemed he couldn't even protect her from himself.
" the young girl who brought you here, she turned me. She brought me here two years ago, a few month after I left you, mother and father. She was kind to me. She helped me through it all. She isn't what you'd call a friend, she's someone I have to look up to. She's the only one that can help a new born." jasper stated.
" after I was transformed, she told me that she was planning a war. A war against other vampires, against humans. She said she chose me because I was a solider. Because I knew what I was doing. I told her I didn't want to be part of it. I was leaving, to find a new life away from this all, away from Maria. She of course knew this and so followed me home. Back to the ranch." he said.
Anna let out a sob. He had come home. He had come back to her.
" I used to watch you sleep Anna, you looked so tormented, so restless, you would sometimes, call for me in your sleep. You have no idea how much I wanted to hold you them nights. To make everything better again."
"but she followed me there. She saw me watching you, mother and father.
She knew my weaknesses. She said one way or another I would have to fight along side her. I said no, I would rather the new borns finish me off than fight along side a monster like her.
But she took you anna. She brought you here."
"she was going to kill you. Anna, she said it was either she did it, and let me watch as you died, or there was another option." he said not able to carry on with his story.
Anna looked back into her brother's eyes.
"you did it to save me didn't you ?!" she asked
Jasper nodded. Not able to word his reply.
Pulling her hands out of his, anna leapt into his arms pulling him close to her.
A few seconds later, jasper put his arms around her and breathed her in.
" oh jasper, you have no idea how much I've missed you. I don't care how we've came to be, all that matter's that we're together again." she said.
"anna, you should be mortified, I have damned you into this monstrous life, you should scream at me, hit me do anything." he replied.
"jasper, I will do that once this has all sunk in, but right now, I have my brother back, I have you back jasper. There's nothing more I want now, than this moment with you." anna said holding onto him much tigher.
"ouch!" jasper complained. Anna pulled away from him quickly.
He smiled and rubbed his shoulder where she had hugged him.
" you're a little strong Anna!" he chuckled.
Anna laughed and pulled him down to the bed so they could both sit side by side.
After a little while of sitting in silence, anna sighed.
"we can never go home can we?!" she said.
She felt jasper shake his head.
" no anna, they think we're dead now, they wouldn't understand. This is our home now, for now anyway. You're my family now, that is all I need!" he replied.
"but what about ma', pa'. Jasper, I said some horrible things to them, I know this would break ma's heart!" anna said. She could see it now, her father would have the whole town searching for his little girl. He already had lost his only son, now his daughter, she couldn't believe how foolish she had been.
" I don't know anna, I really don't know!" he said resting his head on the top of her head.
Anna snuggled up to her brother, as the silence took over them.