Everything happens for a reason

by piusangel04

What happens when Bella befriends the new girl at school? And the Cullen's leave b/c of what happens at the b-day party? What happens when Bella finds out her new frined knew everything and never told her? Everything happens for a reason. OOC AU

6. Learning how to fight

I am Enough ~ Chelsea Hellings

"You cannot change what is a part of you,"

Although I've often tried.

My body was never thin enough,

My imperfections I'd always hid.

I smiled when they said I was beautiful,

I laughed when they said I was great.

But it took a long time to believe in their words,

I figured loneliness was my fate.

The boys I wanted didn't want me,

I was tossed, used and torn.

So many took me as a joke,

I crawled inside myself-scared and forlorn.

My self-esteem had let me down,

My belief in myself was nil.

I did not understand where I was headed,

Could not understand until….

I finally decided to believe in me,

I realized that I was worth so much.

This was when I could see through the storm,

When I allowed my soul to be touched.

I sometimes wish for money and love,

When times get distressing and tough.

But I know that I will always love myself,

No matter what-

I AM ENOUGH!

Jasmine POV

Things started to get back to normal after I told Bella, Angela, and Ben about who I truly am. I didn't start their training right away. I gave them time to really wrap their heads around everything I had told them. I am now living with Bella and Charlie. When I tried to go back to my apartment Charlie said there was no need. That I could stay with them. I tried to decline but every time I tried to say something he would just cut me off saying he would worry too much about me. I could tell from his thoughts and emotions that he wasn't going to back down. And I didn't have the heart to tell him no. I knew that Charlie didn't like talking about his emotions and here he was doing just that.

So we packed up all of my belongings. Not that I really had all that many. And I moved into their house. I didn't realize until I was unpacking my things how much I truly did miss my family. For the first time I allowed myself to grieve for their lose. I was starting to be a part of a family again and it scared the shit out of me. Because I didn't know what I would do if I lost them too. I couldn't lose them. I knew now more than ever that I would do anything I needed to do to keep them safe. I would truly give my own life to save theirs.

It was now mid February and I was thinking about starting their training. I was going to bring it up at lunch today at school. But before I could get downstairs to join Bella and Charlie for breakfast there was a knock on the front door. I had just cleared the last step when Charlie reached the front the door. He opened it to reveal Angela and Ben.

"Come in," Charlie said to both of them. Then he said, "Bells, Jazz you have company. I have to head out; I'll be home later than usual. Have a good day at school." With that he was out the door.

"Jasmine how are you?" Angela asked.

"I'm good. How are you guys doing?" I asked both of them. They really hadn't said much to me since I told them. I knew they were okay with all of this, but I still worried that it might be too much for them. They didn't want to slip and let others know.

"I'm good," Angela said with a huge smile on her face.

"I'm great," Ben said with the same huge smile. I was just looking at them in confusion. This was really the first time I had seen them like this in a long time. Ben went on to say, "Okay Jasmine about what you told us. We've been talking a lot about it. Your right we've known for a long time….err well at least about the Cullen's. It just never made sense to us. We knew to stay away from them but didn't know why. But now it makes sense. So okay we are definitely cool with what you are and everything else you told us. But no more secrets."

"We understand that there are some things that have happened in your life that you haven't told us," Angela said timidly at first but then she gained some confidence and added, "But we are your friends, or even your family. We care about you. With you being able to get inside our heads we want you to be honest with us."

"You guys want to be able to get inside my head," I said with a smile.

"In a way yes," Ben said seriously.

"We are also ready for you to teach us how to fight. We need to know how to handle ourselves if we are going to keep up with you," Angela said with a small laugh.

"I was going to broche the subject today at lunch. But you guys seem determined so why don't we start today after school?" I asked them. Bella had just been standing quietly during this whole conversation.

"Alright," they all said together.

Then Bella added, "You said that because of a spell that we're connected. Is there a spell that could connect all of our minds so that we can talk to each other without having to talk out loud? I mean if you think about it, it would be kick ass in a fight. Or even when we have to tell the Cullen's about all of this. It might help Angela and Ben block their thoughts from Fuckward."

"That would be great. I don't want him inside my head," Ben said.

Angela just said, "Yea but even if there was a spell. You guys do we really want to do that to Jasmine. She already has enough to worry about without adding two more people to it."

"Angela I love your compassion, but casting a spell like this wouldn't hurt me. It wouldn't be like the one that is cast on B and me. It would just open up another way for us to talk. And if we did this you two wouldn't have to worry about someone over hearing our conversation. We have been sitting in silence at lunch for a while so if we continue to do so no one would think anything of it.

"And yes B there is a spell for what you guys are asking. But I don't know if it will block Fuckward or not. I could put that in when I cast the spell. But when I do cast the spell we have to be the only ones around. I have everything I need to cast it, I think right now would be the best time to do it. But you all have to be open to it in order for it to work," I tell all of them.

"As long as it won't hurt you I'm game," Angela said with a smile.

"Count me in," Ben said.

"You don't even have to ask me," Bella said.

"B now Angela and Ben will be able to hear your thoughts along with you hearing all of ours. We will also be able to talk to each other this way. Are you guys really sure you want this?" I asked all of them. I wanted them to understand what doing this would really mean.

"I know, but I also know that it would really piss off Doucheward if I did this. HE wanted inside my head so bad and he could never do it. But I am willingly letting you guys in my head, something I would never do for him," she said with a smile playing on her lips.

"Alright let me get what's needed," I told them and using my full speed I ran back upstairs to our room and grabbed what was needed. When I got back downstairs it had only been a few seconds.

"Okay that is really going to take some getting used to," Ben said laughing.

"Oh don't worry I usually don't do that. I like moving at normal speed. Moving that fast is a little disorienting for me," I tell them.

"Yeah I know what you mean. Every time I would run with Fuckward it was the same for me. But I did get use to it. It was even a little fun, a bit of an adrenalin rush," she said laughing at the end.

"Wait what?" Angela asked.

"How did you manage to keep up with him when he was running?" Ben asked.

"Oh you guys I wasn't the one running. I was riding on his back while he ran. It got us to places a lot faster," she told them laughing at what they were thinking. Angela and Ben started laughing along with her. I was getting everything set up shaking my head. Once they were done with their conversation they paid attention to what I was doing.

"Okay so what do we need to do?" Ben asked trying to get down to business now.

I thought this was cute so I just looked at him and shook my head again trying not to laugh. I just said, "Okay I never would have thought you would be the one so eager to get inside your girlfriends head."

"That's not why I want to do this," he said blushing.

"Oh I know that's not why you want to do this. But your reasoning is still a little hard for me to….understand. Yes I trusted you guys with my secret, but I never thought that you would feel so protective of me," I told him honestly.

Ben looked at me shaking his head now and said, "You are so protective of everyone around you Jasmine. You need someone to be protective of you. Friends have each other's backs, the same as family. You lost your family and we," he pointed to each of them, "know that you blame yourself for that. But like you've said you can't change the past. Let us help you change the future that you were shown. You can't do it on your own. And you don't have to. If being connected like this will help us be stronger then we are going to do it. You are not alone in this anymore. We are your family. Blood be damned."

"Ben's right. I know you would give your life to save any one of us. But you don't have to do this alone. You have us. Trust that we are able to help you. Besides if we can talk to each other without everyone knowing we can pull off a lot of interesting things. I know I'm not one for fighting but it would be useful in a fight and in working with each other. No one would be able to stop us," Angela said.

"Besides we don't want to be the weak humans. If we can do this then we will have the upper hand in a way. I know that if the Volturi ever get involved it might slow them down from trying to kill us three," Bella said pointing again between them.

"Let's hope they never find out. Aro likes to collect people and use them for his own personal gain. It's bad enough that I'm a freak among my kind. I don't want to drag you guys into it with me. I know once Aro finds out about me he will come for me," I tell them.

"Then we stop him," Ben says like it was that simple.

"Ben it's not that simple. If Aro wants something he doesn't stop until he gets it. Let's put it this way, he is like….the president/king of the vampires. Now they only have one rule…..err well law, like all of us. Keep the secret. But he is corrupted by power. He has been in power for over two millenniums. Out of the three leaders of the Volturi only one would be sympathetic and he wouldn't even say anything to stop his brothers from hunting me or anyone else down."

"How do you know all of this?" Angela asked.

"My family was worried that they would come for me. So they did entail on them. I was trained as a warrior. The only female in my family that was taught to fight in hand to hand combat. Every other female was only taught how to use their gifts. But I was shown more. That's what I am going to show you guys. Yes I have my gifts but I don't always relay on them to help me in a fight. Because they may be rendered useless, and that's what my family was worried about. They didn't want me to be forced into surrendering so they gave me the tools to fight no matter what.

"It wasn't easy for me. Since my witchy gifts are tied to my emotions. So they created a tool that they could use to help me keep my powers under control and also learn how to fight. I'll show you but I will not use it on you. You guys don't need to go through what I did…Alright everything is ready but one thing. I am going to have to have blood from all of us in order for this spell to work the way we want it to."

"Alright," they all said sitting around the little table in the living room. They all sat in silence and watched what I was doing. Once I finished putting everything into the marble mortar and then using the pestle grinding it together. Once I had the ingredients into a nice powder I moved it into my red mosaic offering bowl. I added in a few other things then I grabbed my small athame so that we could cut our palms just enough to get a small amount of blood to go into the bowl also.

"Okay guys this may hurt a little. I am going to have to do a little more than just poke your finger in order to get blood. Do you trust me?" I ask all of them.

"Yes," they all said putting their hands over the offering bowl.

So I took each of their hands and made a cut from the base of their thumb to almost their wrist. It wasn't a deep enough cut that we would need stitches but deep enough to get the amount of blood that was needed. "Okay just tilt your hands over the bowl and let the blood drip into it," I told them. They each tilted their hand over the bowl. As they did that I placed a piece of gauze in front of each of them. After enough blood was in from each of them I told them to remove their hands and place the gauze over the cut.

As soon as Angela put the gauze on her cut she gasped. "What is on this, it stings really badly?" she asked.

"Another thing that I am really good at. Healing spells are always a good thing to know. The only bad thing is I can't us it on myself. The whole using magic for personal gain. So the only time I use magic is when I absolutely have to. I would call this a reason to use it," I told her with a little laugh.

"So how does this work," Ben asked holding up his gauzed wrapped hand.

"I'll tell you another time. Right now we need to focus on this," I tell him.

He just nodded and I got to work on finishing the spell. "I call upon the powers to be, and upon Hecate queen of the witches to aid me in this spell. I call upon you to connect our minds and block them from others. We ask that through our blood our minds be linked so that we can communicate. We ask to be protected from those who wish to know our every thought and desire. We give our blood to aid in this spell to help our bond to be stronger. I also call upon the elements to give strength to this spell.

"Air is what gives us life and I call upon you to aid us in this spell, Fire is what brings warmth to each of us and I call upon you to aid us in this spell, Water cools us off from the heat of fire and I call upon you to aid us in this spell, Earth is where we all shall go when our lives are over and I call upon you to aid us in this spell, Spirit is inside of all of us and is the last element that I call upon to aid us in this spell," as I call upon each of the elements they made themselves present encircling us as I continued to cast my spell.

"I ask that Angela Sophia Webber, Isabella Marie Swan, Benjamin Michel Cheney, and Jasmine Evangeline Annabelle Whitlock be granted the gift of telepathy between the four of us," I finished my incantation and a sweet smelling smoke started to come up out of the offering bowl and filled the room.

No one said a word. Once it the smoke disappeared Ben asked, "Uh did it work?"

"One way to find out we stop talking out loud and see if we can talk to each other in our heads," Bella said. With that we all gave a small nod.

"Alright this is really strange. Can anyone hear me?" Angela thought.

Ben gave a small laugh, "Yeah your right this is strange but I can hear you. Hey Bella, Jasmine are you guys in here too?"

"Yep, I'm here. So now we can talk without talking nice," Bella said laughing. Angela and Ben joined in with her. Then Bella got a little worried. She remembered what I had told all of them at the beach. She then asked, "Hey Jasmine we know you can hear us, you were able to do that before you cast this spell but can you talk to us now?"

"Yeah I can talk to guys. I…..I just…..I just couldn't believe that this worked. I thought for me it might fall under the realm of personal gain. But I don't know. Now I may sound like a parent but spells have a way of doing more then what we ask. So this might be a little bigger then we think" I tell them.

"Wait you think we might be able to hear what other people are thinking, or talk to them like this?" Ben asked.

I replied with, "That is a possibility yes. I mean I know I only asked for it to be between us four. But the powers to be have a way of doing what they want if they think it would be of better help in the future. So let's be clear when we use this. Think and say full names, like I did when I cast the spell, when you want to talk inside our heads. And let's try not to use this unless we are by each other. We will always be able to hear each other's thoughts that's not what I am worrying about. It's the talking without moving our lips. We cannot use this for personal gain."

Angela looked a little worried now but asked, "What do you mean?"

I answered her question by saying, "If this does work on the people around us then no cheating on test or trying to make people think they are going crazy. As much fun as it would be to us this on a few people at school we can't. You guys know I have always been able to hear your thoughts but I have never used the information that's what I am telling you. You can know something but you just can't do anything with it."

Ben asked then, "What if what we know is something that needs to be stopped? I mean I don't want to sit by and let something bad happen if I could have stopped it."

I responded with, "That wouldn't be for personal gain now would it. But we need to first see if we even have to worry about any of this. I only told you guys as a percussion. So that you don't freak out if you start hearing like Mike Newton's or twit one and two's thoughts."

"Good thinking on that. I doubt any one of us wants to even know what they are thinking. I want to stay out of their heads or I might hurt them," Bella says with Angela and Ben agreeing.

I say out loud, "Okay let me put this back in our room and then we need to head to school. B can you grab me a pop tart since I didn't get to eat breakfast. I can eat that in the car on the way to school. Angela, Ben since you guys are coming back here after school for fight training I think we should all ride together what do you say?"

"That sounds fine with me. But we can't all fit in B's truck. So we'll take my car," Ben said with a smile on his face.

"What are you smiling about Ben?" Angela asked with a smile of her own.

"It really seems like we are a family riding to school together. Making plans for what we are doing after school. And the fact that we are going to try to kick the shit out of each other is just kinda funny," he told her. I had already ran all of my things back upstairs and I was back down by the time he finished he statement.

"Yea but Ben if we are a family in the since you're talking about then your and Angela's relationship is really inappropriate don't you think?" I said teasingly.

"I never said that I saw her as a sister now did I. And besides our family could be like the Cullen's," he said with a smug smile.

"Okay point taken little brother. But don't think for one second I will be hooking up with Jasmine," B said with a laugh.

Ben gave a laugh and said, "Hey I wasn't thinking that or even suggesting it. And I am older then you B by the way. So it wouldn't be little brother but big."

"Alright, alright no fighting at least not yet," I said laughing as I pushed everyone towards the door.

Ben POV

Okay I have to say watching Jasmine as she cast that spell was interesting. None of us said a word the entire time she was working. I would like to say that I am a tough guy but when she cut my hand with her little knife I have to say it hurt like a motherfucker. That blade was sharp.

Then after the spell was cast and we were trying to figure out if it worked that was really cool. I can't believe that it worked. It will be nice to be able to talk to them without having to worry about being over heard by someone. I just hope that now no one can get inside our heads.

The ride to school was interesting. None of said a word but it was cool to be able to listen to what they were thinking. It is a little unnerving being the only guy. But I will do what is needed to protect my family. Ever since Jasmine called us a family the day she told us about what she was, I had been thinking of us in that way. I always wanted to have a sister. And now I have two. I was no longer the baby in the group. Bella was that. I wonder when Jasmines birthday is.

"Same day as B's and I don't want you to make a big deal about it Ben Cheney. Do you understand me," Jasmine tells me in my head.

"Oh right you can always hear my thoughts. Sorry I was just wondering. I won't make a big deal about."

Jasmine just said, "It's okay Ben. This will take some getting used to for you guys. Knowing someone can do something is one thing, but then having them do it is another. But the fact that this little thing was something you guys wanted was different for me."

"How so?" I asked her.

Jasmine just laughed and said, "Most people don't want others in their head. I mean that's part of the reason why Fuckward was never able to get inside B's head. That and when she does become a vamp she is going to have a really kick ass power."

"What do you mean I am going to have a kick ass power?" Bella asked a little confused.

Jasmine just told her, "You have a very unique type of shield. B you can protect yourself now as a human. That will cross over with you. I also have a feeling that since you are such a protective and caring person now you will be able to expand your shield over others to keep them safe. We can try to test that theory when we get back home if you want."

Bella decided, "Let's learn how to fight first. Then we can work on the other."

"Okay Jasmine you're going to go easy on us at first right?" Angela asked timidly.

"Angela things will start out slow. Don't do anything you don't want to sweetie. I will always be there to keep you safe," I tell her.

"Ben's right Angela if you don't want to learn how to fight you don't have to. Only do what you feel comfortable doing. You can watch what we are doing and if you want to join in then you can if you don't no big. This is completely up to you. You are not going to be left out or unprotected," Jasmine tells her.

I could hear the sincerity in Jasmines thoughts and I knew that she would never let any harm come to Angela just like she wouldn't let any harm come to Bella. I wanted to learn how to fight more than ever because Jasmine shouldn't have to do this all on her own. In listening to her thoughts I now see that she is more protective of us then she let on. She shouldn't have to worry about us. And I know that the others are thinking the same thing.

Angela POV

I don't like the ideal of fighting. But I know that it's something that I should know how to do. I know that Ben would go out of his way to keep me safe, that's just the type of guy he is. But I also know that Jasmine would do the same. I don't want to have them worrying about me. I have until after school to make up my mind on weather or not I learn how to fight. But once I make my choice there is no going back.

We made it to school without saying anything else on the matter. I have to say this whole talking to each other in our heads is fun. It will save a lot of time. The only thing is now how are we ever going to be able to surprise each other. I mean I know that B doesn't like to celebrate her birthday but I think getting her a present on that day or taking her out wouldn't be a bad idea. But it would've had to of been a surprise now that will be tricky to do.

It seemed like once we hit the school parking lot the morning went by in a blur. It was already lunch time. I couldn't believe it. Sitting at our regular lunch table was interesting. I mean I know it's been awhile but today it really does feel like we are missing part of our group. And in a way we are. I don't know if I would call them family, but I know B and Jasmine did or well still do.

"Hey don't worry about if you see them as family or not. But you notice their absence. You know that they should be here. Just follow your instincts and you'll be fine in this world," Jasmine tells me in my head.

"Thanks Jasmine. How are you so calm about all of this?" I ask her.

She just tells me, "Easy I've had my whole life to get use to this. You've only had a month. I'd love to tell you that it gets easier, but I won't lie to you. It might not. But that all depends on what you do with the information you have. You're a good person Angela, never doubt your instincts. If something doesn't feel right say it. If you think something is going to happne tell us."

"Do Ben and I become vampires like Bella will?" I ask her.

I can hear the sincerity in her thoughts as she says, "I honestly don't know. But I will say if you both choose to become vampires I will be there for you every step of the way. I know B does but only because she fell in love with a vampire and his family. She sees them as her family. She wants to have her forever. You have Ben and I know that whatever happens you guys are in it together. You two are meant to be."

Just then Ben and Bella joined us. I don't know if they were listening in on our conversation or not. And to be honest it's not like anything that was said is something they couldn't or shouldn't know. So it really didn't bother me.

Lunch went by with no problems. And the rest of the day went by in the same fashion as the morning. It was a complete blur to me. I don't remember going to any of my classes. That can't be a good thing. I really should focus more. At least for now. The one thing that kept popping into my head was Jasmine and what she's been through.

I really find it amazing how much faith Jasmine has in the three of us. She only met us this year and she trusted us enough to tell us her secret. Something that she wasn't supposed to do. She is willing to go to hell and back in order to keep all of us safe. And she would do it all on her own. She has been through so much and still doesn't take the time to worry about herself.

I don't know if it was me; if I would be able to do what she is doing. She is such a strong person but I don't think she really sees that. I don't' think that she see herself in a very good light. I think she blames herself for everything that has happened in her life. I think she even blames herself for what has happened to Bella since she wasn't here when she was supposed to be.

Ben POV

School was boring like always. The only exciting thing that happened today was Jasmine casting that spell. It was fun being able to talk to each other in our heads. It was fun to have a conversation in front of others without having anyone know that we were talking.

I couldn't wait for school to be over. I wanted to start learning how to fight. I bet that Jasmine could teach us a lot of interesting moves. She seems like she would really know how to take someone out in a fight. So when school was finished I raced to the car. The girls weren't there yet so I waited for them. I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on around me. And I started to wonder about Jasmine and her life before everything happened. I mean I knew that she was a good person but I got the feeling that she didn't always believe it. I also wondered how she learned how to fight. Did her parents teach her?

"My uncles taught me on my mom's side. And also my cousins. My dad's side didn't believe in hand to hand combat. They would only use their magic if it was really needed. They tried to keep the peace in a way," Jasmine told me in my head as we all got into the car.

Once in the car I looked at her in the review mirror and keeping the conversation in our heads said, "Did you want to learn how to fight?"

"Yes," was her only answer. She then started to talk to everyone. Aloud, "Alright when we get back to the house I am going to change. You guys don't need to worry about changing right now. I am only going to show you the basics. You won't really be doing anything you can't do in jeans. But you all want to know what I can do so I will show you. In order to do that I need to be in something not so tight and restricting."

"So you can't fight in jeans?" Angela asked.

"I can but when training it is easier not to. It is easier to show you exactly how to do each move. But if you think about it jeans make it really hard to shift in they don't disappear they just rip and I can't keep losing cloths every time I shift. And you have all been thinking about what I look like in my other form," she said with a little laugh.

"So you're going to phase in front of us?" Bella asked.

"Yes. I'm going to show you what I'm able to do. Guys look I know how to fight but I also know how to phase at the same time as I'm fighting. I told you what a shifters weakness was. Well with enough practice it isn't a weakness anymore. That's one of the things I was taught. You guys need to know when to come at me and when to back away in a fight. If you ever came across other shifters this is important information. I am not going to let anything happen to you guys," she tells all of us.

"Alright so you change when we get to the house and meet us outside in the back yard. Do you want us to stretch so that we are ready when you come out?" I ask her.

She just said, "No I'll show you everything you'll need to do. That includes the stretches."

The ride back to Bella's house was quiet. As soon as I pulled in the driveway and the car was almost to a complete stop Jasmine was out and running to the front door. I also noticed that she was holding something in her hands. I looked to Angela and Bella and they both laughed at me as we got out of the car.

"She grabbed all of our bags," Angela said with a small laugh.

"Why did she do that?" I asked.

"So if my dad came home he would know who was here if he didn't see us," Bella said.

Before we even made it to the back yard Jasmine was there sitting on the ground in the splits. If I didn't know any better I would have said she had detached her torso from her legs. Her stomach was laying flat on the ground with her head turned to the right. Her eyes were closed. She could have been asleep laying like that.

"Okay guys just sit on the ground in front of me. Don't worry it's not that wet," she told us without even opening her eyes.

"How did you know we were watching?" Bella asked as she sat down.

"I have all of my senses opened right now. I also felt the vibrations in the ground as you guys were walking," she told her. Then she said, "Seth you can come out and join us along with Embry. I know you guys are watching,"

"Okay you are good," Embry said as he came out of the woods.

"Did you know we were there the entire time?" Seth asked.

"Yes," she told him as she raised her torso. So she was now sitting in the splits.

"Doesn't that hurt?" Embry asked.

"Nope. And if you guys were smart you would be stretching everyday like this. You guys can really hurt yourselves if you're not careful," she told both Embry and Seth.

"So what are guys doing out here?" Embry asked trying to change the subject.

"I'm going to show them how to fight. But today they are just going to be watching. So they don't have to do anything. It is better to see first then learn. It will also help them to decided if they want to learn," she told them. But I didn't have to think about it I already knew my answer.

Embry then asked, "So how are you going to show them how to fight if you don't have someone to fight against?"

"When you learned how to read, did you just pick up a book and start. Or did you look at a single letter first. If I had another person they wouldn't know who to have their focus on. They need to learn one type of fighting first before they lean the other. You can't learn offensive and defensive fighting at the same time now can you? But if you want a demonstration on how I fight I will fight you be it in this form or the other," she told him completely straight faced.

He on the other hand just gaped at her. Seth finally said, "See I told you Embry. You should really listen to me next time."

"What are you talking about?" I asked him.

"We tried to tell them that Jasmine was going to teach you guys how to fight. None of them believed us even though we showed them the entire conversation. Oh and Jazz, Paul is freaking out right now."

"Why? He already knew what happened to me. Charlie told Billy and Jacob and Paul over heard all of that," she asked him. Then she looked at Seth and said, "Jazz really," with a small laugh.

Seth just said, "Yeah really. He is freaking out about at nineteen the stop aging or die part. And the fact that Jake phased to close to you. He tried to go after Jake but Sam stopped him. He didn't know either of those things. Sam also told him he couldn't patrol anywhere but La Push until he was able to calm down."

"Why does Paul even care," Bella asked. And then before anyone could answer we all gasped. Jasmine had told us in our heads hoping that the subject would be dropped. But Bella just looked at her and said, "Jasmine are you kidding me. He imprinted on you. When did that happen?"

"The day Sam found you in the woods," Jasmine told us reluctantly out loud. But in our heads she said, "Guys we can talk about this latter. Right now isn't the time. And besides I am not going to get involved with him. I cannot afford to fall in love with anyone. And besides with how he feels about the Cullen's it would never work. So can we pleas just drop it right now?" We all nodded in agreement with her.

You know this whole conversation in your head thing is really fun. The look on Embry and Seth's faces right now were priceless. They couldn't figure out why we all gasped without ever being told something that should make us gasp. But Jasmine just acted like nothing out of the ordinary happened. And I guess to her nothing did.

Bella POV

I cannot believe that Jasmine never told me this. Here we all were sitting in the back yard waiting for her to teach us how to fight and we find out that one of the wolves had imprinted on her. I mean I can kinda see why she never said anything. Since it was the same day that my world went to shit. But she could have told us at some point after things started to get back to normal.

Why didn't she want' any of us to know? Is the only thing that I wanted an answer to. I mean she's told us everything else why not that. I was pulled out of my internal babble when I heard Jasmine say, "Okay guys when we have are training sessions stretching is really important. You saw how I was laying when you walked back here. You will be able to do that when we are done. Yes even you Ben. Don't worry it won't hurt you it will actually help you."

"Where would that help Ben at?" Embry asked.

Jasmine just had a huge smile on her face and said, "Embry if you have to ask then you are not old enough to know the answer to that question."

But in my head I heard Ben ask, "I'm with him where would that help me?"

"Ben think about it. It will help you in a fight and also someplace else," Jasmine said to him.

But he still wasn't comprehending what she was hinting at so all of us girls mentally yelled, "In bed."

"Oh, OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! Alright not something I would have thought of obviously," Ben said shaking his head trying not to laugh. Seth and Embry were just staring at us totally confused.

Jasmine just moved right along after that. Telling us about different stretches we will be doing and showing us what muscle would be affected by that stretch. She never moved from how she was sitting. It wasn't until she was going to demonstrated the stance that she wanted us to use that we even noticed she had something attached to her right thigh. We all noticed at the same time and all of us asked, "What's that?" pointing to her thigh.

She looked at it then at us and said, "It was one of the ways my family used to train me to fight. I told you they taught me to manage pain to my body. This," she patted the thing on her thigh, "is an agile. It brings great pain to whoever comes in contact with it."

"So if you used it on us it would hurt?" Angela asked.

"Yes it will hurt you," she dead pained.

"Does it still hurt you?" I asked.

"Yes," was all she said.

"Then why do you have it if it still hurts you?" Ben asked.

"Because it will bring an opponent to their knees in the blink of an eye," she said. She was now holding it like it was just any other object.

"It can't hurt that bad if you are able to just hold it like that," Embry said.

"Care to find out," she said looking at him through her lashes. I have to say at that moment she looked like she was the playing him like a fiddle.

Embry got up and walked over to her. He stopped right in front of her and said, "I'm not scared of a little baton." With that said she had a small smirk on her face. She moved so fast that Embry didn't even have time to react. She was behind him in an instant and had the agile to his back. As soon as it touched him he fell to the ground howling in pain. It wasn't on him for more than a few seconds.

Once she removed the agile she bent down to his ear and said, "See I told you it hurt."

"How can you hold it then?" he panted.

"I learned to deal with the pain. I don't feel it any more. How do you think I was able to not scream when Jacob phased in front of me and this happened? Physical pain doesn't affect me like it does you guys. My family taught me how to be a warrior. How to fight like a warrior. No matter how much pain you are in you don't stop fighting unless you or your enemy is dead," she said looking down at the ground.

I walked up to her and placed my hand on her shoulder. Then I said, "Show me."

"Are you sure," was all she asked me.

I nodded my head once and she closed her eyes. I knew that if she did this she would feel the pain as well. She opened her eyes again and said, "Okay." After that was said she touched the agile to my forearm. It hurt like a motherfucker and I screamed out in pain. It only lasted a few seconds but still. I don't know how she was able to hold that thing like it was nothing.

"What are you doing?" Jacob yelled as he ran from the tree line.

"Jasmine is showing us how the agile works," I panted out.

"Did she have to show you by using it on you," he snapped.

"She tried to just tell us. But I asked her to use it on me. It hurts like a motherfucker. You can even ask Embry he'll tell you the same. But I can see how that would be useful in a fight. I bet it would even take down a vamp with no problems," I say.

"It does. It is about one of the only things that can knock them out for a short amount of time. Since I smell like a human they don't know how strong I am. And I usually always have these on me. So instead of using one of my gifts I use these. They still only think I'm a human that way and they won't try to control me. Or keep me as a pet," she spat the last part.

I turned to Jake then and asked, "What are you doing here?"

He looked down at the ground and then said, "I came to see how you were. I was worried about you."

"What was that you were just thinking Jacob," Jasmine asked him worried.

"Nothing," he said a little too fast.

"He's hiding something," I tell Jasmine.

"Yeah and he is trying to block me now," she says in reply.

I tell her, "We need to know what it is. I have a feeling it's about me."

She agrees and says, "I have more than a feeling. He wasn't lying when he said he was worried about you. And Seth and Embry aren't just here because Embry didn't believe I was going to teach you guys how to fight but they won't think about the real reason."

"How can we get the information we need?" Ben asks.

Angela is the one to say, "Jasmine can force it out of them with the agile. I know it's a cruel thing to do but if they won't tell you on their own that's a fast way to get the information."

Jasmine just tells us, "Unless Sam gave them an order not to tell us. Then it would just be torturing them and I won't do that. I have an idea. But you guys are going to have to trust me completely on this."

"Alright," we all agree.

Jasmine walks up to Seth and says, "Seth I can trust you right?"

"Yes, you can trust me," he tells her.

"And you would tell me if Bella was in danger right?" she asked him as she knelt in front of him.

He answered with, "Of course I would. I know you are only trying to keep her safe."

She leaned in and whispered in his ear, "Then why are you trying to block you thoughts from me?"

His eyes widened and he said, "Because it's not Bella we are trying to protect at the moment."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Jake was the one to answer, "Jasmine said that she was also in trouble. There's been a vampire trying to get close to Forks. She's looking for someone. We know that much. We didn't want Jasmine to run off and try to handle it on her own."

"What does this vampire look like?" I asked him.

"She has flaming red hair. That's all we've been able to see of her. Every time she catches our sent she takes off," Embry said.

At the same time Jasmine and I say, "Victoria."

"Who?" everyone else asks.

I shook my head and then said, "She's not after Jasmine she's most likely looking for me."

"Why?" Jacob asked through clenched teeth.

Jasmine answered before I could, "Because the Cullen's killed her mate. She wants revenge mate for mate."

"But Edward wasn't the one who killed James," I tell her.

"Yeah I know that and to some extent so does she but you are the reason why he is dead. So if she kills you …" she let her sentence trail off at the end.

"What is it?" Ben asked,

"She won't attack you here at the house. But she is going to try to attack. But I'm not sure when," she told us and then she yelled, "I hate this."

"It's okay. You'll know when you need to. I know we'll be okay," I tell her. She just nods.

Then she said, "Okay now you," looking at me, "really need to know this so let's get to work."

With that all said she started to show us the stance we would want to use. It was just a simple fighting stance. She showed us how to move from a punch to a kick. It all relied on being balanced. That was going to be hard for me. But I am determined to learn how to fight. She showed us how to throw a punch without hurting ourselves.

But I have to say the funniest thing in all of this was when she started to fight Embry. He was trying to go easy on her. You could tell he was trying not hurt her. But she wasn't having any of that. Finally when he wouldn't really fight her she asked Jake to step in. That was when it got good.

Jacob POV

I knew that Seth and Embry were at Bella's house so I knew that she and Jasmine were protected. Not that Jasmine really needed it but still. But the red head had just tried again to get to Forks. I need to make sure that everything was still okay.

As soon as I got close enough to the house I heard Bella scream in pain. But I didn't smell any vampires around. So I phased out of my wolf form and headed to her house. When I got there I saw Bella on the ground in pain and Jasmine just standing over her. What the hell?

"What are you doing?" I yelled as I ran from the tree line.

"Jasmine is showing us how the agile works," Bella panted out.

What the hell is an agile? And why the hell couldn't she just tell them about it? I snapped and said, "Did she have to show you by using it on you."

Bella just said, "She tried to just tell us. But I asked her to use it on me. It hurts like a motherfucker. You can even ask Embry he'll tell you the same. But I can see how that would be useful in a fight. I bet it would even take down a vamp with no problems."

"It does. It is about one of the only things that can knock them out for a short amount of time. Since I smell like a human they don't know how strong I am. And I usually always have these on me. So instead of using one of my gifts I use these. They still only think I'm a human that way and they won't try to control me. Or keep me as a pet," Jasmine spat the last part.

Bella turned to me then and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Shit can't let Jasmine know the truth. I looked down at the ground and then said, "I came to see how you were. I was worried about you."

"What was that you were just thinking Jacob," Jasmine asked me worried.

"Nothing," I said a little too fast. And I knew then that she knew something was up. I looked over to Embry and Seth and they both nodded in understanding.

When Jasmine walked over to Seth I knew she was trying to get answers. I didn't know how she planned on getting them. But if she was going to Seth I knew she wasn't going to use force. No what she used was even worse. She played on he's soft side. As much as we were trying to protect her she wasn't going to make it easy.

Jasmine just asked, "Seth I can trust you right?"

"Yes, you can trust me," he tells her.

"And you would tell me if Bella was in danger right?" she asked him as she knelt in front of him.

He answered with, "Of course I would. I know you are only trying to keep her safe."

She leaned in and whispered in his ear, "Then why are you trying to block you thoughts from me?"

His eyes widened and he said, "Because it's not Bella we're trying to protect at the moment."

"What do you mean?" Bella asked.

I answered this time, "Jasmine said that she was also in trouble. There's been a vampire trying to get close to Forks. She's looking for someone. We know that much. We didn't want Jasmine to run off and try to handle it on her own."

"What does this vampire look like?" Bella asked.

"She has flaming red hair. That's all we've been able to see of her. Every time she catches our sent she takes off," Embry told her.

At the same time Jasmine and Bella say, "Victoria."

"Who?" we all ask them.

Bella shook her head and then said, "She's not after Jasmine she's most likely looking for me."

"Why?" I asked through clenched teeth.

Jasmine answered before she could, "Because the Cullen's killed her mate. She wants revenge mate for mate."

Bella simply said, "But Edward wasn't the one who killed James."

"Yeah I know that and to some extent so does she but you are the reason why he is dead. So if she kills you …" Jasmine let her sentence trail off at the end.

"What is it?" Ben asked. I was curious to know too.

"She won't attack you here at the house. But she is going to try to attack. But I'm not sure when," Jasmine told us and then she yelled, "I hate this." I could tell that she was really getting frustrated with her gift. I would be too. It can't be easy to know something is going to happen but not know when or how to stop it from happening until it got closer to the time of the event.

Bella tells her, "It's okay. You'll know when you need to. I know we'll be okay." And she just nods.

Then Jasmine said, "Okay now you," looking at Bella, "really need to know this so let's get to work."

With that all said she started to show them the stance they would want to use. It was just a simple fighting stance. She showed them how to move from a punch to a kick. It all relied on being balanced. Something I really wasn't sure that Bella would be able to do. She also showed them how to throw a punch without hurting themselves. I thought this might be hard for Bella but she had a look of determination on her face.

But I have to say the funniest thing in all of this was when she started to fight Embry. He was trying to go easy on her. You could tell he was trying not to hurt her. But she wasn't having any of that. Finally when he wouldn't really fight her she asked me to step in. That was when it got good.

"Jacob I don't want you holding back. Give me all you got," she tells me.

"Alright Paul is already pissed at me. Why not. As long as you don't hold back on me either," I tell her.

"So you want me to treat you like a real threat?" she asked with a sly smile playing on her lips.

Shit what did I just get myself into? Oh well no backing down now. So I tell her, "Yes."

With that said she gave a small nod. She started to circle me. I didn't know what she was doing at first I thought she was treating me like her prey. And I guess in a way I was. She wouldn't attack me so I went for her. That was a mistake. As soon as I lunged at her she moved out of the way and I was hit in the back of the head with her right foot.

She gave a small laugh and repositioned herself. I did the same and lunged for her again. Again she dodged my attack but this time it was her fist that hit me followed by her foot. I was getting tired of this. Every time I went to attack her she dodged it and I ended up being the one to get hit or kicked. I wasn't able to land a single blow.

That's when I remembered she could hear my thoughts. So I tried to mislead her. I tried to think one thing but do the opposite. It worked the first time. Or well at least I think it did. I got in one good punch to her gut. But in doing that she got in one good hit with her agile. And that thing really did hurt like a motherfucker. How the fuck was she able to hold that?

Our fight didn't end until I was pinned on the ground face down hands pined behind my back and her straddling me. I knew that when the others saw this I would be given shit for being taken down by a girl. But I would like to see any of them try to take her out. She may look like a fragile little girl but she most definitely is not. She can definitely take care of herself.

I would love to see her take down any of the Cullen's. They wouldn't stand a chance against' her. I wonder if they even know it. I mean I know she said that they didn't know what she was before they left. But I wonder if they saw her as a weak human or if they knew how tough she truly was?

Jasmine POV

We got a little side tracked by Seth, Embry and Jacob. But it worked out better for us. I had someone to spar with. Bella, Ben and Angela were really able to see how it looked when putting all of the combinations together.

I have to say I was little disappointed in Embry. He didn't seem like the type of person to back down from a fight. Not that he would really fight a girl. But we were just sparing. And he wasn't putting forth any type of effort. I mean he made it really easy for me to take him down.

I finally gave up on him and asked Jacob if he would spar with me. Now he was all too eager to do this. When I told him not to hold back I knew he wouldn't. But when he told me not to I was a little intrigued. He had no clue what he just gotten himself into by saying that. But I wanted to make sure that this was what he really wanted. "So you want me to treat you like a real threat?" I asked with a sly smile playing on my lips.

When he said, "Yes." it was go time.

I waited for him to make the first move. It was better to start out on the defensive and get an understanding of what your opponent was going to do. And also how they fight. Every time he lunged for me I would move at the last second and land a blow on him. Weather it was a punch or a kick it didn't matter. He was never able to get a blow in on me.

I let my guard down once and he was able to get me in the gut. But I got him good. I slipped behind him. Knocked his legs out from under him making him fall forward. I wasted no time after that I grabbed both of his arms and pined them behind his back. I straddled him so that he knew that it was over and he had lost.

When he didn't try to move I got up and let his arms go. He quickly got to his feet. He didn't say anything about being pinned. It was Embry who said, "Where did you learn how to do that?"

"My uncles taught me how to fight. So I am use to taking down guys twice my size," I told him. I looked to Jacob and added, "Now do you see why I said size and strength don't matter. You are taller and outweigh me. But yet I was the one with the upper hand."

"Yeah I get it. But are you able to fight like that with a vampire? We are still relatively soft compared to them," Jacob asked me.

I tell him, "Yup. But I will say I use my agile a lot more on them then I did you."

"That thing hurts like a motherfucker. I don't see how anyone could be able to not let it affect them," he says pointing to my agiles now resting on my thigh again.

"You just have to get use to it is all," I tell him shrugging my shoulders.

"What do you mean by that?" he asked confused by my statement.

"She means that she isn't immune to its effects. She is affected by it just like you are whenever she touches it," Seth tells him.

Jacob shakes his head in disbelief and says, "Seth if that was the case I think she would be on the ground withering in pain."

"Jacob you don't believe what he says?" I ask him. He shakes his head no. So I go on to say, "Alright then come over here and test your theory. Take the agile out of its holster."

He walked up to me and went to grab the agile I stood still and as soon as his hand touched the handle he yelled out in pain again. I just looked at him and said, "Should've listened to Seth." I moved away from him then.

Angela then said, "It's getting late. Ben and I should head home. Same arrangement for tomorrow?"

I looked at Bella and we both nodded. And I said, "Bring a change a cloths with you." They both nodded at this and headed inside with Bella. They grabbed their backpacks and then they left.

I just looked at Seth, Embry and Jacob and then said, "You guys are more than welcome to join us. And that goes for the others as well. But if you do you cannot phase so you have to be able to have your emotions under control. And trust that I know I what I am doing."

They just nodded and then headed to the tree line. As soon as they were out of sight I went into the house. As soon as I stepped through the door Bella asked, "What are we going to do about Victoria?"

"Nothing right now," I tell her.

"What do you mean nothing?" she nearly yells.

I just say, "There is nothing we can do yet. I don't know where she is and neither does the pack. Once they started talking about her they stopped trying to block me. They chased her nearly to Canada. She hasn't been back yet. I don't know where she is. So it's not as if we can go looking for her. All we can do is wait for her to make a move.

"But while we are waiting for that to happen we are going to train. She sees you as a weak human. An easy kill. We're not going to let that be the case. The pack is keeping an eye out for her?"

"But they shouldn't have too. If any of them get hurt by her it will be my fault. They shouldn't have to protect me. If the Cullen's would have never left they wouldn't have too," Bella said.

"That's where you're wrong. They still would have. She went through their land. That's how they got her sent. If she would have tried to get to Forks from another way they never would have known about her until she was already in Forks and by then it might have been too late for them to have done anything," I tell her.

"If anything happens to any of them…"she starts to say but I cut her off.

Telling her, "Nothing is going to happen to any of them."

After that we both fixed dinner. Things went much faster when we were working together. As soon as we had the enchilada casserole in the oven I hurried up the stairs to put my agiles away so that Charlie wouldn't see them.

The rest of the night went without a hitch. We ate dinner did our homework we each took a shower. Which was a little tricky with only one bathroom. I went last and had no hot water. Which was fine with me. It really didn't matter. Then we went to bed.

The four of us fell into an easy routine. Ben would pick all of us up in the morning and we would go to school. After school we would train. Sometimes some of the pack members would show up. And every time one of them did they would try to take me down. That would only resolute in them getting their asses kicked. The only one who did manage to almost take me down was Leah. She really didn't hold back when she would fight. The guys always did. And Leah and I would give them shit for it.

The only thing I really didn't want to do was use the agile on Bella, Ben and Angela. And I put it off for as long as I could. It wasn't until they all started yelling at me mentally, so the others couldn't hear that I caved. They did have a good a reason for doing this but I just didn't want to be the one to cause them pain like that. I didn't want to have to be the one to use the agile against them. I always had two on me. But I did have six other ones with me.

My aunt made sure to grab them as we ran. She didn't want anyone else getting their hands on them. So I gave them two each. It didn't take them long to get use to the sting of them. And once I started to show them how to use them in a fight things really got fun. I knew then that they really would be able to handle themselves in a fight. If they ever had to fight. Which I prayed never happened.

Things stayed quiet. Victoria still tried to get to Bella but the wolves kept her away. But I knew she would get around them one day. I just didn't know yet when that was or how she was going to do it. But we had other things to worry about besides her.

The end of the school year was approaching. And we were trying to also study for our finals. Our study sessions were funny. I think if anyone looked in on us during one of them they would think that we were crazy. We study inside of the house or outside. But every time we studied outside we would always start fighting. Not because we didn't agree on the answer to the question but because it would help us to think on our feet.

We had to stop when Charlie came home early one day and saw us. That was the first time he yelled at all of us. I had never seen him raise his voice and neither had Bella. So after that we stopped studying that way. To be honest all of us were a little scared of him after that. We all definitely didn't want to have him yell at us again that was for sure.

Our finals came and went and Victoria still hadn't made her move. The wolves started to relax a little since she hadn't shown her face for a few months. Something didn't feel right with that. But I just couldn't put my finger on it. I didn't say anything because I didn't know why it didn't feel right.