Maybe I'll become a beautiful monster,
A heartless creature
A goddess of pain
Maybe then the emptiness of this bullet hole
They left in my chest
Will make sense.
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"I hate this." I grumbled, practically sitting on a gear shift in the yellow sports car Alice had stolen. "I mean I really hate this, why are we doing this again? To save the men who abandoned us?"
"You are very negative today. This is Jasper we're talking about! You love him!" She exclaimed and I rolled my eyes.
"Hope, you would feel horrible later if you didn't save him…trust me?" I sighed, nodding, not caring enough to verbally respond as Alice stopped the car.
"They'll be at the clock tower, go! Run!" She demanded and I jumped out with Bella, running behind her at a human pace, seeing the boys about to step into the sun and sprinting forward, tackling them both out of the way, dragging them into the building quickly. Bella stood beside me and I tossed Edward into the wall as he tried to touch her.
"Listen here cold one, you put your hand on my sister again, and I'll rip you to pieces and toss a match over you. She doesn't want you anymore, you're not her mate, she has her own out there that she'll meet someday after I turn her. You will not interfere. Understand?" I growled, flashing my fangs and seeing him jump back as Jasper took my face in his hands. "Can I help you?" I asked, looking him up and down, really noticing his body for the first time. "Or maybe you can help me…" I smirked, pulling him closer by his pants and hearing him gasp.
"Hope…what are you-"
"You all must come with us." A giant stated as he rounded a corner with a shorter man.
"Nahh, I've done enough good deeds for one day I think." I told them and was cut off from leaving by Alice.
"Now boys, it's a festival. Wouldn't want to make a scene." The large man was about to respond when a small girl rounded the corner and looked at us.
"I came to see what was taking so long. Come." She stated and felt Jasper's arms around my waist, giving me the chills as we got onto an elevator and I spun around, connecting my lips with his happily, reaching my fingers under his shirt and feeling his chest before he grabbed my hands, pulling them away.
"What has gotten into you?" He asked, everyone now staring.
"Nothing, and that's kind of the problem! I need something to get into me!" I complained and he looked stunned at what I had said.
"I volunteer!" The shorter guy grinned and I looked him over, considering it, which made Jasper pull me in tighter and snarl at the man.
"Calm Demetri, you have plenty of women waiting, you don't need this one." The girl stated.
"Of course not Jane, but it would be nice to take the Major's women from him. A true accomplishment." He snickered and I quickly nailed him in the face, making him smack his head against the wall.
"I may not have my humanity right now, however I still recognize that he is my mate. Therefor I will not allow you to upset him, that is my job." I snarled, flashing my fangs and he nodded, looking terrified as the elevator doors opened and I stepped out, feeling a cold arm around my waist.
"What do you mean you have no humanity? When were you turned?" I shrugged.
"Fantastic questions, though I don't think now is the time to answer them." I told him as the large doors were opened and I saw 3 men sitting on thrones.
"My, my, a wonderful surprise. Bella and Hope are alive after all." I surveyed the room and I must admit, I tuned out as I did this, looking over the elite guard and not seeing anything too special as Edward got his ass beat by the large man I came to know as Felix.
"Do you think you could stop that? His screams are making me hostile." I admitted and Bella snorted, securely in Jasper's other arm
"What doesn't make you hostile anymore?" I shrugged.
"You know your powers don't work on her, and you know she's a human who knows your secret. She will be changed however, after graduation, into a traditional. I will change her, and if you have any problems with that, I will be glad to set fire to everyone in this room right now. No one hurts my sister, understand?" I asked the dark haired man, flashing my hybrid face and seeing him back up slightly.
"I haven't seen a visage like that in years…Hope…now I recognize you. You're Niklaus Mikaelson's daughter, it explains why you're a hybrid I suppose. Your fathers' blood is constantly running through your veins so you turn when you die, and when you kill you gain your full werewolf side." He was mumbling as if trying to work it all out for himself, inadvertently giving me answers that I needed. "I'm sure we would love to offer you a spot on the guard, humanity restored of course." He proposed and I shook my head.
"No thanks, I want to graduate and spend some time with my sister. Maybe after…if you tell me who you're speaking of." He looked stunned.
"Niklaus Mikaelson. The original hybrid, one of the original vampires. I haven't heard from him or Elijah in many years, I'm not sure where they are, though I'm sure you could compel a witch to help you right?" I shrugged. "I heard rumors of you, all I know is your family loved you very much and fought very hard to see you born, however what happened after I am unsure."
"Well…thanks. You've been a great help, so I suppose you can live another day." I grinned and he smiled back.
"You're welcome here anytime miss Mikaelson." As he went to sit back on his throne we were led out of the hall, with the promise that Bella would be turned after graduation.
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The plane ride home was frustrating, I was starving but Jasper held me to him tightly to keep me from biting anyone. It seemed his scent calmed me in the same way mine did for him, I wasn't tempted when I was holding onto him.
"I'm glad to see I have the same effect on you that you have on me." He smiled into my neck and I growled.
"Don't think you're off the hook for this mister! You will be making this up to me for a long time." I grumbled and he chuckled.
"I promise, I'll take you to the art store tomorrow and buy you as much as your little heart desires. I will gain your trust again…I promise." We spent the rest of the ride keeping Edward from talking to Bella and trying to not maul other passengers.
Jasper took me back to his house while Bella went home and we spent the night comfortable in each other's arms, knowing tomorrow we had problems to deal with.
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"You all know what I want. I'm not with Edward anymore, however I still need to be turned. Hope is doing it but I still want your opinions, because I still love you all very much. Alice?"
"I already consider you my sister. I don't care if your with Edward or not, you're family now Bella." She explained, hugging the girl.
"Jasper?" He nodded.
"It would be nice to not want to kill you all the time. Whatever makes my mate happy of course." I nodded.
"You don't need to ask me." I stated and she turned to Rose.
"I'm very grateful that you 2 went to save my brothers and I'm sorry for the part I played in this mix up, however I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me, so no." I understood where she was coming from, though how she treated my sister in day to day life irked me beyond belief, some people just weren't cut out for this life. Emmett voted yes, lifting Bella into the air, while Esme and Carlisle joined the 'yes' side.
"Why are you doing this to me?" Edward asked and I snorted.
"No one is doing anything to you, She's not your girlfriend anymore, suck it up. You don't get to control her anymore, she's her own person and makes her own decisions!" Bella grinned at me after my little speech.
"It's true, I lost myself with you Edward and it took Hope hanging herself to snap me back to reality." Everyone in the room gasped, turning to me.
"Yes, I committed suicide, we all need to get over it. I was alone and desperate, how was I supposed to know I'm some mystical hybrids daughter?" Bella went back to ranting to Edward as Jasper pulled me closer to him.
"Promise me you won't do it again? I need you." He begged and I nodded. "Can I have my girlfriend back? The one with a conscience?" I considered this for a moment before shrugging, flipping my switch back on and feeling everything flooding back to me.
"Hope!" Bella shouted as I fell to the floor, my mate catching me and holding me on his lap as Bella took my hand.
"I killed them…all those people…they're all dead because of me!" I sobbed, feeling Jasper pull me in tighter.
"It's okay darlin', you can switch to our diet, no need to feel guilt then, it's going to be okay." He mumbled into my hair as I continued to sob, everyone aware of the fact that I just admitted to murder.
"No it won't, I tried animal blood, I can't digest it, I throw it back up Jazz, I need human blood to live…"
"You can try blood bags right?" Bella asked and I looked at her confused, feeling Jasper wipe my tears away. "You won't be hurting anyone and I remember Carlisle saying he can order them since he's a doctor."
"I would be happy to do that for you Hope. We'll take care of you, we always take care of family. You and Bella are here to stay." He promised and I grinned through the tears, hugging Jasper tighter as he stood us up and ran up to his bedroom, laying me down under the sheets.
"You want us to stay too right? I'm not shoving myself onto you in some way just because I changed?" He looked almost offended by what I was saying.
"I am in love with you Hope Mikaelson, and that will never change. I don't care what you are, traditional, werewolf, cold one…I could even put up with you being a shifter, because I need you and I always will. Like Carlisle said, you and Bella are here to stay, I can hear Esme giving Bella one of the guest rooms now and I will be sure to keep Edward out of it, no one will harm your sister while I'm around, she's growing on me oddly enough, she reminds me of my little sister from when I was human…looks exactly like her, it's almost scary." He seemed to be slightly shocked by this realization but accepted it quickly.
"Not even Rosalie? Because I seriously think I'm going to end up fighting her if she keeps up the death glares at my sister. I put up with it before, wanting her to like me and that was wrong, I won't let anyone hurt her Jasper, I-"
"Rose doesn't hate Bella." He cut me off. "And if I thought she did I would have started keeping them apart a long time ago. Rosalie is jealous because all she's ever wanted was a human life with a husband, kids, grandkids, to grow old and die. Bella can have that and Edward was pulling her in under false pretenses of being his mate."
"I get that, she just needs to learn that it's not her choice, and so help me god Jasper I will help her figure that out if I need to." He chuckled, pulling me closer and kissing my forehead lightly.
"I understand, you do what you feel you need to. Sleep darlin', you need a nap." I nodded, listening to him and closing my eyes before remembering something and I suppose he felt my emotions spike. "What is it?"
"Did I molest you in an elevator yesterday?" I asked and he broke down laughing as I drifted off to sleep.
