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Crazier Than it Seems

A/N: This may or may not be the title of the story, it hasn't been decided yet! This story is written as a collaboration by both Xo Bella Italiana oX (My new pen name) and casey21791. If you have any questions or comments, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note at the bottom of the chapter! We hope that you enjoy the story and look forward to reading your reviews.

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Chapter 7
(Jasper's POV)

Something is different about today.

I can feel it.

No, literally... I can feel it.

It feels almost like a sense of relief, like I'm getting closer and closer to whatever it is as it feels like a true sense of belonging, of home.

But it was just like any other day here in the small town of Forks under the constant cloud cover. I left for school with the rest of my siblings, immediately noticing that I felt much lighter. I couldn't quite put my finger on it at this point, but I knew that I would figure it out as the day wore on.

The first four periods until lunch passed in a blur, though during second period Calc, the light feeling increased for a matter of minutes before once again decreasing slightly, but noticeably.

"Where's Edward?" Emmett asked as he took his usual seat at lunch next to his mate. "I haven't seen him since this morning when he left to go pick the human up."

Rosalie scoffed at hearing this, though I knew that she honestly didn't mind having to drive. She liked that she got to show off her BMW and give the other students here another reason to be envious of her. She was vane like that, however, underneath it all, she was fiercely loyal and a good sister to me. When she became someone that she cared about, you never had to worry about someone being on your side, because she would stick with you until the end.

"I don't understand why he's bothering with her. He's only putting the family in more jeopardy than he has already. It's only a matter of time before he slips again and reveals to her what we are. We can't afford to have her discover any more ab out us then she already has." She complained. "We have to be extra careful as it is because of how we live so differently from the rest on our kind and we can't afford any mistakes that will bring the hammer of the Volturi down on us. They have been itching for a reason to take our family down. We are the largest coven known, aside from themselves. You know how paranoid Aro is. He thinks that Carlisle is trying to take him down in order to take his place. If you ask me, he should be paying closer attention to other covens, rather than us."

Her eyes flickered pointedly to me and I knew who she meant when she said that. My sire, Maria, is power hungry and she would do anything to take over the Volturi and rule the vampire race. She might have actually been able to accomplish that at one time when she had me, but now, she is struggling as it is to keep her own territory as it is, let alone try to take someone else's or even blink an eyelash towards the Volturi. She is still continuously looking for her meal ticket.

Emmett wrapped his arms around his mate in a soothing manner. "Don't worry, Rosie." He coaxed her. "Edward may be a little fool hardy these days, but he wouldn't intentionally do anything to jeopardize our family."

She snorted at that. "Yeah, we'll see about that, won't we?"

Throughout her whole rant, Alice remained quiet. It was very unlike her and I noticed her out of the corner of my eye constantly looking for glimpses into the future. Going by her emotions, something had surprised her and it was very unlike her to be taken by surprise.

"Hey, is everythin' alright, Alice?" I asked her softly, placing a tentative hand on her back.

She looked toward me kindly and smiled a small reassuring smile and nodded. "Yes, everything is fine. Something just took me by surprise and I'm trying to figure some things out, but it doesn't seem like anything that can hurt our family, so I wouldn't worry about it."

I studded her for a moment before finally nodding. "You would tell me, though, if there was anythin', right?" I pressed cryptically and she knew exactly what I was referring to and it had nothing to do with the Cullen's.

She smiled and nodded, placing her hand on top of my own. "Of course."

The honesty and sincerity in her emotions satisfied me and I didn't push the subject – not that I would even have time to, because just then, the lunch bell rang, dismissing us from the cafeteria to go back to class.


The last two periods flew by quickly and before I knew it, I was on my way back home with the rest of my siblings, sans Edward.

"Don't worry," Alice reassured us all as we all seemed to be worrying about the same thing. "Edward will be home when we get there and Bella is still alive and well."

However, through her emotions, I could tell that she was hiding something. That same something that she had been hiding the night that Edward had saved Bella from those thugs that tried to take advantage of her. That night was odd for me as well, except for the fact that it had nothing to do with Bella and Edward. It was very first time that I noticed that the pain in my chest had lessened.

A thought began to brew in my head as I realized that the closer home we got back to the house, the more the pain in my chest subsided. A theory began to form within my head and I immediately leaned forward in between the seats .

"Drive faster!" I insisted impatiently to Rosalie . "I need us ta get home as soon as possible!"

"Is everything okay?" Rosalie turned briefly to answer me and looked back at me slightly worried.

I nodded. "It will be as long as ya step on it an' haul ass back to the house as fast as ya can!" I hissed causing her to speed up and Emmett to turn to look at me.

"Watch your mouth with my mate, dude!" He growled. "You may be my brother, but that don't mean I won't punch your face in!"

I brushed him off, but not because I knew that if I didn't want him to, he wouldn't lay a hand on me either. "I don't have time for this with you, Emmett. I just need ta get back to the house as soon as possible. It's important, man!"

"What the fuck is so important that you have to act like an asshole?" He growled.

I didn't have the time of focus to argue with him, so I ignored him and turned to look back at Alice, who was sitting behind Emmett, since she was the smallest and able to fit much better than I would have been. "Is it her, Ali?"

A blank face overcame her face as she searched the future and I waited impatiently for her answer.

"Who?" Rosalie asked, but I ignored them in favor of watching Alice and monitoring her emotions. It seemed as though she was concentrating mighty hard on her vision and yet, something was confusing her.

"I think it might be." She whispered as she continued to remain immersed in her vision.

I nodded my head, but even with her verification, I couldn't seem to relax. I could remember the last time that I saw her as she curled up in her bed after I helped stage her foster parent's deaths.

I could remember that night like it was yesterday...

...FLASHBACK...

I was visiting with Peter and Charlotte out in Vegas. (A/N: Yes, I know that Emma lived in California in the beginning of the book, but if you read the preface, she has been around in different states of the country – preferably the western side – so, at this time, she was living in Las Vegas with Margaret and Seamus)

We were out enjoying the night life in one of their many casino's inside a hotel called the Bellagio. (A/N: Here's a pic link of the Bellagio Hotel - www. filmapia sites/default/files/filmapia/pub/place/413163459_ _ But without the spaces! Check it out and Enjoy!) With both my gift and his, we always left the tables with a small fortune to add to our accounts. Charlotte's gift of seeing mated pairs didn't help us, but being a vampire, she was naturally beautiful and would serve to distract our opponents as she leaned against Peter having a blast with the rest of us.

We were playing Peter's game – craps - (His gift would always tell him what to call) when I suddenly stiffened up and started to feel like I needed to be somewhere else immediately and that it was vital that I get there.

I asked Peter to step outside the so that we could talk. He was obviously getting something, as well, because he was no longer smiling and laughing and Char was looking at him with concern. He nodded and had Char help him gather up our chips before leading her by her arm outside as they followed behind me out of the casino and into a quiet corner in the Bellagio's front lobby.

"What's goin' on, y'all?" Char asked with obvious worry and concern etched into her pretty little face as she brushed strands of her short platinum blonde hair out of her face.

I ignored her since I, myself, didn't even know and turned to Peter. "Peter, what's yer knower tellin' ya? I feel like somethin's not right?!"

Peter pursed his lips as he concentrated on what the information being thrown into his head was saying when his eyes suddenly widened. "Major, ya need to hurry. Head to the suburban area an' get ta Belmont Lake Drive (Yes, that's a real street in a suburban area in Las Vegas) smell around for a pair a vampires an' follow their scent. You'll find what cha are lookin' for there." He explained. "Hurry! Go, now!"He insisted, pushing me in the direction of suburbia.

-0-

By the time I got to Belmont Lake Drive, I immediately could smell the scent of two vampires that I recognized as a nomadic couple that I had come across a couple of times named Olivia and Ethan. They were not people that I considered friends, but merely acquaintances and not ones that I liked.

I sped through the dark deserted streets, following their scent. They seemed to have entered one of the houses and I could smell the fresh blood from their most recent meal, most likely.

I quickly flitted into the house through the side door as they had and found the dead bodies of a curly red headed woman and a dark haired man. They were drained and left on the dark hard wood floor of their dining room, the remaining blood leaking across the floor and into the carpet of the living room.

I began to search the rest of the house, but before I could look for other bodies, I found immediately saw an open door that led to an empty girls room. I took in a breath of her scent and immediately began to feel something that I had never felt before, not even with my companion, Alice.

'MINE' the beast within me exclaimed loudly as my alter, the Major, bucked and rattled the bars of his cage in an attempt to get loose. It was then that I realized that this missing little girl was my mate and I knew that I had to find her before this sadistic nomadic couple caught her and killed my once chance at my perfect match.

I followed their scents, along with the girl's, out the front door and ended up at the head of an alleyway in between the neighborhood's community center and an empty town house. She was probably heading towards Sagemont Drive, which was a busy road that separated two of the developments.

The two vampires were taunting her as she shook against the wall dressed in her pajamas, absolutely terrified.

"W-What do you want w-with me?" She stuttered out in a tiny voice.

"Oh, you'll find out soon enough," Ethan growled, tauntingly.

At seeing this, I couldn't hold the Major back in his chains any longer as my pupils took over the golden color of my eyes and turned them black as he growled and flew forward before either of them could make a move and crouched in front of her defensively, refusing to let either of them past me to get to my young mate.

"I wouldn't if I were you," The Major warned them at vampire speed.

They immediately looked uneasy and the Major reveled in their fear.

"M-Major," Olivia stuttered, slipping slightly behind her mate.

Ethan stepped up – figuratively – to speak for her. "To what do we owe the pleasure?"

"This one's mine," the Major snarled, all of this happening at vampire speed as to not frighten my little mate.

They knew what the Major meant, he didn't need to explain any more as I watched from behind our eyes, helpless to contribute until the Major was content that our mate was safe.

"W-We're sorry, we didn't k-know!" Olivia insisted pleadingly. "P-Please don't hurt us!"

The Major just growled, not known for showing mercy.

'Not in front of our mate,' I told the Major from within our mind. 'There's no reason ta frighten her any more than she is an' their emotions are backin' their statement. They may be a sadistic pair while huntin', but they're too afraid a us ta do any a this purposely. Just let em' leave an' tend ta our mate.'

The Major growled again but I could feel his agreement within his thoughts.

"Get yer asses outta here an' if I even so much as smell ya, let alone see ya round my mate again, I won't be as merciful, nor will it be a quick an' painless endin'." He warned them, once again at vampire speed.

"Yes sir," Ethan nodded frantically before grabbing his mate and disappearing from sight.

The Major turned and eyed squatted down, eying our mate for injuries, not wanting to frighten her by toughing her. Once he was satisfied that there were no visible injuries, he pulled back, letting me take control once again as my eyes changed from onyx to liquid gold.

"Are ya alright?" I asked her with concern.

She nodded, shivering as a cool breeze blew through the area. "D-Do you want to eat me too?" She asked, looking away from me as if she was afraid of the answer.

Shock covered my expression as she finally looked up at my face. Was it possible that Olivia and Ethan had told her about what we were? I asked her that very question, forgoing their names.

"Y-Yes," she murmured unsure if she should be truthful.

Shit, this could cause trouble if she told anyone and it would be too risky in more ways than one to keep her with me since her foster parents were both dead. (I knew that they were her foster parents after I had read the article in the paper days later, but I didn't know it at the time) Not to mention, the biggest issue would be if the Volturi got wind of it. I would figure out what to do later, but for now, I had to take care of the issue at hand.

"What's your name, lil darlin'?" I asked as I looked back up at her sweet little tear streaked face.

"Emma," she hiccuped.

I smiled gently, sending her some calm and reassurance, along with some trust. "Well, Emma," I began."I'm going to need you to keep everything about what really happened tonight a secret for me. Can you do that?"

She nodded frantically. "Yes. But you're not going to eat me?" She asked again.

"No," I promised her with conviction, but I knew that I needed to prove that to her and give her future advice. "You can see by my gold eyes that I only eat animals. I don't have red eyes like the other two scary people."

She studied my eyes for a moment before she nodded and allowed me to pick her up and take her back to her house where I helped clean her up and tucked her into bed, sending her calm and lethargy to help her go to sleep while continuously monitoring her for signs of distress, not wanting the nightmares that were sure to come to take over her as I cleaned up the mess that the two nomads left behind to stage it as a homicide/suicide.

...END FLASHBACK...,

Peter, Char and I stuck around after that to make sure that the nomadic couple didn't return and that there were no suspicions with the scene I staged that Emma didn't reveal what had really happened. I was proud of her as she told the police that she hadn't heard anything until the two loud bangs, but was too scared to leave her room to see what had happened. I would also stick around for a few weeks

at night to make sure that no nightmares overtook her as they moved her into social services custody before being put into another foster home in Santiago, California.

I had gotten multiple calls from Alice after that, telling me that everything with Emma would be fine and that I would see her again in the future and that when the time came, I could just follow the pull that I felt in my chest to her location and that I had made the right choice in letting Social Services take her, but that we should probably keep this from the rest of the family for now and file for divorce immediately so that when the time came, there would be no hard feelings towards Emma for breaking the two of us up. Not to mention, that she would be finding her own mate shortly after Emma and I were reunited, though, she wasn't sure exactly when that would be, only that she would be eighteen years old and out of the foster system.

"Hey, Jazzman, we're here." Emmett announced getting my attention.

"Oh yeah," I shook myself out of the memories. "Sorry about that. I'm coming." I said as I grabbed my bag and flitted in through the front door, following my siblings into the living room only to come to a stand still.

The little girl who I remembered from my favorite memories sat next to Bella Swan and Edward on the couch. Well, she definitely wasn't a little girl anymore, but had transformed into a beautiful young woman, the most stunningly gorgeous woman I had ever seen and she was only a human. However, I did take notice immediately that she did look very similar to the Swan girl and it completely befuddled me.

(A/N: Read the Author's Note at the bottom for an explanation, but here is a pic from the scene of this point in the story of Jasper and Emmett entering the house after school! I will be doing this from now on at points in the story! Here's the direct link Enjoy!: www 3. images . coolspotters photos / 771028 / the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1-gallery . jpgy!)

Her eyes connected to mine and the first words to leave her mouth were, "Do I know you?"

Edward's head immediately whipped towards mine as the memories began to flow while his emotions ranged from shock to confusion.

It was going to be a long night...


A/N: So, there you have it! Jasper was her hero! How did you guys like Jasper's POV?! Remember, Edward's siblings, besides Alice, don't know that Bella knows that they are vampires yet! What will their reactions be when they find out that not one but two humans know about them? What about when they learn Jasper's secret? And how was he and Alice able to keep it from Edward all these years? Review! I'd love to hear your guesses!

I will be adding a picture of a scene from within the chapter from now on during that scene, so don't forget to check it out WITHOUT THE SPACES! In case you missed it, here it is again! It is of Jasper and Emmett as they enter the house! www 3. images . coolspotters photos / 771028 / the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1-gallery . jpg
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And here's the pic of the Bellagio Hotel: Here's a pic link of the Bellagio Hotel from the flashback- www. filmapia sites/default/files/filmapia/pub/place/413163459_

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