If I turn my back I'm defenseless
And to go blindly seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they'll take from me 'till everything is gone
If I let them go I'll be outdone
But if I try to catch them I'll be outrun
If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer
Then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer.
By Myself - Linkin Park.
Jasper.
Fear gripped me for a second, looking into those crazed red eyes. I foolishly slammed the breaks on, hoping to throw her a little. But when She kept her balance as if she were walking along a tight rope.. Sense kicked in. Reality kicked in.
Her red eyes danced with excitement as she ripped my door off of it's hinges, reaching in, gripping my hoody and throwing me out. I didn't know how far she threw me. But fuck if it didn't hurt. She stalked toward me, eyeing her prey intensely.
The thought of running crossed my mind, but I knew from her eyes.. She was a vampire. And they were to fast. I stayed slumped against the ground, cradling my head.
"Well, here I was thinking that would be harder. Pity." She taunted. Her voice was high pitched. Crazed. Everything about this fucking woman was crazed. Her eyes, her posture, her words..
"Here I was thinking vampires were beautiful.." I shot back through clenched teeth. Her eyes widened a fraction, then a sinister smirk appeared on her face.
"She told you? Oh how wonderful! This makes it even sweeter.." She rambled. Who told me? And what did they tell me? I hissed as she pulled me by my hair, bringing me face to face with her.
"James was a dear friend of mine, you know.." And with that, my eyes were as wide as saucers. "Then that little bitch just had to be changed and kill him. He was human.. Not capable of defending himself against our kind.."
"He deserved everything he fucking got. I would have taken pleasure in killing him if I got the chance." My jaw was tight as I forced out the words.
"You.." She hissed, she slapped my face, I felt her razor like nails dig into my skin. I could smell my own blood and feel it trail down my face. She smiled again, her mouth inches from my face, as she leaned in dangerously, she whispered in my ear.
"I'm going to kill you slowly.. You're going to scream and beg for me to stop.. Imagine how poor, little Bella will feel about that.." She laughed maniacally at her own speech.
I guessed this was it.
They say your whole life flashes before your eyes when you're about to die. I guess it was partially true. I thought of the happy times. Our group together, happy and laughing. Holding Bella, talking to her. Everything about her. I closed my eyes tightly as I waited for my death. She chuckled at my antics.
I love you, Bella.
Her fist connected with my shoulder, instantly dislocating it. I bit my tongue, forcing the scream to stay in, but grunting anyway.
"Fucking psychotic bitch!" I yelled at her, now holding my injured shoulder.
"You say the kindest things.." Another voice came in. This voice was deep, a males voice. I forced my eyes open and looked.
He was dark skinned, with long dark hair tied back in dreadlocks. His red eyes in the same crazed state.
"I am Laurent, this is Victoria. We will be you're attackers for this evening." He laughed at his joke.
"And the last thing you ever see." Victoria sang. Again, I closed my eyes tightly. I saw Bella. Her gentle face smiling back at me. It brought a small smile to my face. Then I heard screaming.
Was that me?
"Get Jasper." I heard Bella's voice.
"But-"
"Do it, Charlotte!" Bella yelled angrily. I chanced a look and opened my eyes. I saw Bella looking like she was fighting herself. Her eyes fixed in a glare on the two vampires who tried to kill me.
They were both screaming, on the ground thrashing. Begging for it to stop.
"Bella, you take icky Vicky." I recognized Peter's voice, but my eyes were locked on Bella alone. She nodded and charged toward the redhead at such a speed it was a blur.
"I fucking warned you." She whispered, crouching down to her level. Victoria stopped screaming. She started to stand, looking fearfully at Bella. She wanted to run. I knew she did.
Then she was screaming again. She collapsed to the floor.
"So this.. Victoria.. This was your biggest fear? Pathetic.." Bella hissed. What was she doing?
"Stop! ..Please. Just stop!" Victoria begged.
"Oh? I thought we were having so much fun.." Bella's voice was sarcastic. I smelled smoke and looked to the right. Peter was throwing the remains of Laurent into a fire, purple smoke rising.
"Jasper, you have to let me help you.." Shit, how long had Charlotte been there? "Bella would kill me if you were hurt." I looked back over at Bella and saw her tearing apart the redhead. My eyes widened and my mouth hung open slightly.
Peter dashed toward her, scooping up the pieces and adding them to the fire. Bella now held Victoria's head. It was amazing. And horrifying at the same time. Victoria was still screaming and begging Bella to stop.
"You're lucky they're all here." Bella snarled, pointing to all of us. "Otherwise I'd keep your fucking head in a jar and slowly tear it apart. Then bury it." A clear substance was leaking from Victoria's head. Venom.
"Please.." Victoria begged. Bella tossed the head in the fire. When she turned back her eyes were dead set on me. She looked wild.
"Peter.." She called weakly. Peter was at her side in a second. He nodded to whatever she whispered to him.
"Char, take him home. Fix him up. I'll calm Bella down." Peter barked out orders. Charlotte nodded and I felt so weak being scooped up into the arms of such a small creature.
"You're not weak. Don't feel so worthless." She said, placing me in the passenger seat of my car and quickly doing the seat belt. She ran around the other side of the car at vampire pace and was speeding in a direction I didn't know of.
"I can't believe this.." She muttered.
"What?" I asked.
"All this time, we've never let her go back and see you. We thought you'd be at peace knowing she was gone. We couldn't be more wrong.." She thought aloud.
"Bella was so strong today. You're her singer.. You were bleeding and she didn't attack you. I'm not sure I could have done that.."
"Singer?" I thought aloud. She gasped, realizing she had spoken of what I hadn't been told. Just how many more secrets had Bella not told me?
"La Tua Cantante." Charlotte smiled. "Extremely rare."
"I don't know french.."
"It's Italian." She corrected me.
"Guess I don't know Italian either."
"Good. Lei ti ama più di voi saprà mai, Jasper."
I was confused to say the least.
"I wish you vampires would stop fucking over your words and just tell me." I growled. Charlotte chuckled as we pulled up to a huge mansion.
"All in due time. Can you walk?" I nodded, opening my door with my non-dislocated arm. I walked painfully slow toward the concrete steps that led to the huge house. (Cullen's house lol)
"This place is huge." Charlotte just nodded and led me to a medical looking room. I looked at her questioningly.
"Not only humans get hurt. Bella's lucky to have mastered that power. She used to be the main one in this room. If you had vampire eyes, you would see all the scars.." Char trailed off sadly.
That didn't make me feel better. Not by a long shot. It made me feel worse. What could possibly happen in two years that left her so scarred?
"Why?"
"She's a bit.. Feisty." I snorted.
"Tell me something I don't know." I snickered. Bella's always been a hot shot wild card. Unpredictable.
"I've never seen one vampire take down more than 50 vampires at once." My eyes widened.
"What?" I choked.
"The woman back there, Victoria. She was creating newborn armies. Wanting to eventually overthrow the Volturi,"
"Vampire police, right?" I asked. She chuckled.
"Sure. Anyway, she had a small army. Her front line was only 50 vampires. But against us three, with some of the Guard, they out numbered us. Bella took down the whole front line with one glance. Most of the guard ripped into them quickly, while Jane worked on dropping the second row, Bella was a lot.. Darker.. then." Char stuttered over her choice of words.
"She would encase people in her shield. She liked watching them squirm. She wanted them to feel her pain. She tightened the shield and would crush them. So easily." Char's voice was sad and her head hung. My eyes were once again wide.
I knew Bella had a lot of pent up emotions, but why did it get this bad?
I stayed silent as Char popped my shoulder back into place and cleaned the wound on my face.
