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Chapter 9
Edward POV- 1982
It had been two weeks since we had caught onto the Majors scent near our home. Emmett, Luke and I were again out hunting.
"Luke, do you remember anything about the Major?" I say to my brother as he sits next to me on a fallen tree.
"I avoided him." Luke whispers as his mind takes me back in time.
(Luke's Memory)
The Major had called for all the oldest "newborns" to come to him… I was curious as to why, I snuck quietly to the barn and when I peaked in I was appalled by the scene before me.
I couldn't see his face, only saw his shoes, but I knew it was the Major.
"Kevin you've been useful this past year." The Major praised the younger vampire before him.
The vampires back was to the Major when it happened, seeming almost effortless.
I couldn't exactly see it, but when Kevin's body fell to the ground, his head landing a few feet from it I knew. The Major would kill the newborns that start to lose their strength.
I was only about three weeks old when it happened. That day, I decided to avoid the Major, along with Maria and her pet Alice.
"I'm sorry you had to witness such a thing." I say just as Emmett calls to us.
"It's that scent again! The Majors." The three of us take off following it and when we see that it leads to our home we run faster. I'm full of anger and rage as I plow into the house and right up to The Major. Everything a blur until I stop with the male in my grasp.
Jasper POV-
1982 (Taking off where Ch 7 left)
Last time…
Alice knocks on the door before I could stop her.
It's a vampire looking to be in his late twenties who opens the door, a confused look on his face when he sees us.
"Hello," He says looking at us strangely. "Please come in. I'm Carlisle." I shake his offered hand as I attempt to size him up.
"Jasper, Sir and this is Alice my traveling companion." He doesn't get a chance to greet Alice as she runs in and joins the two women who are sitting on the couch looking at some fashion magazine.
"Hi I'm Alice; it's so nice to finally meet you. I've been seeing glimpses of all of you for so long." As Alice spoke Carlisle looked at me.
"Alice has visions." I explain. "It was the vision of your family that helped us figure out this different life." He just nods knowingly before gesturing me to come into the living room as he shuts the door.
"That is Esme, my wife." He tells me gesturing to the eldest of the women. "The woman next to her is Rosalie our daughter. Our three sons are out hunting right now, but should be back soon." I perk up at this; Alice had told me that my mate was part of this coven, and soon I would finally meet the man she's been telling me about. Though annoyingly she had never been able to see his face.
"Please explain. I'm curious to know why you seeked us out." Esme says just as the back door opens and a bear like man walks in, running towards Rose as if she were in danger. But he wasn't what caught my eye.
It was the blur heading towards me that caught my attention. Anger and hatred flowed off him in huge waves. He was fast, even for a vampire, and being guests in their home I mad not attempt to move as his hand wraps around my throat.
Its only when he stops that I notice the bronze hair, Edwards, bronze hair.
My eyes must be deceiving me. I think as I took in the perfect features of the man who was before me. It was only when our eyes met that his anger and hatred disappears and all that's left of his emotions is wonder.
"Jazz?" The man with bronze hair whispers softly, loosening his grip and stepping back.
"Eddie, how?" I ask as I feel shock come from the other vampires, their emotions running all over the place. No it can't be Edward, he's dead, Edward would be…I let my thoughts fade as he then steps closer to me this time his movements are graceful and slow, almost as if he's unsure about what to do. His hand soon moves to cup my cheek as he traces a scar. My scars. I think as I start to feel disgusted that this beautiful man could see all my imperfections. I could feel my body tense as I begin to wonder how the best way to escape was.
"Jasper Whitlock." I hear him whisper as he leans closer to inhale my scent. "Love how I missed you." He says in my ear.
"Edward, I thought you were dead." I say as he pulls away and looks into my eyes.
"I thought I lost you Jasper. I've never forgotten you." I hear him say just before he kisses me. "I love you jasper. Only ever you Jazz."
I can't help it as my mind goes back to our human days.
"I love you Jazz. I have wished so hard for a way that we could be together. I'll marry and once I am married I can't, Jazzy I love you. Please take me, one more time I need to feel you. I need to feel whole, loved." He begs, soon I am pushing him onto my back, getting lost in his eyes for a short moment.
"I love you Eddie. Only you love, always." I promise as I remove my shirt.
"Jazz, yours always. I love you, forever." He promises me back.
I let my memory of that night fade as we stop kissing, noticing his family staring at us all their emotions curious. The man standing behind Edward was still staring at me, he was so full of fright and after concentrating on him I realize his sent was somewhat familiar to me, almost awakening my past of Maria back.
Alice was suddenly ecstatic as she skips over to the stranger, without hesitation she walks up to the stranger and holds out her hand.
"I'm Alice, nice to finally meet you Luke. You've kept me waiting long enough." She says as she greets him.
I feel pain form in Alice as the male Luke takes a step back, fear again spiking in him.
"No." He says, over and over again. Everyone's silent as they watch him.
"Luke, please." Edward says moving from my side to his in a second. "Maybe it's not what we thought. Please, Luke its Jasper. Maybe we should let them explain?"
"But he's the Major." I hear Luke whisper, and I swear my world turned upside-down. Alice had been talking about this family and her mate for so long, and now we were about to lose them because of who I use to be. Who I had hated being. I hadn't been the Major since Alice and I escaped, and I never wanted to be that again.
The silence was becoming too much, fueling my own fear of being sent away; a fear of Edward wanting nothing to do with me, because of what I have been forced to do.
"Jasper, will you please explain?" Edward asks, slight fear in his emotions. Almost as if he wasn't sure what to believe anymore.
"The Major is what I was called by my creator; she had territory in the south that she had me help control. For the most part it was my job to watch over the newborns…" I go on to explain about how Maria would tell me to do something and I would do it. I kept my eyes locked on Edwards as I spoke. "Alice was the one that got us out of there. By the time she approached me about leaving I was so tired of the fighting."
As I stop speaking I am glad to notice Luke's emotions had calmed, though still weary of me.
I about to bolt leave the peaceful family and run until I can't run anymore, when Edward wraps me in his arms.
"I won't lose you again." He says, holding me tighter.
"Edward would you like to explain this to us?" Carlisle asks as he points from Edward and me. "Who is he?"
"This is Jasper Whitlock. We grew up together, before…" He's not able to finish his sentence as I feel sadness overtake him and it takes all my control to not take his pain away.
"You two knew each other as humans?" Esme asks and Edward nods.
"We were best friends and once we grew older, lovers." As he speaks I can feel his uncertainty as the last part falls from his lips and he grows quiet, waiting for his coven to say something. "We're mates." He adds. Mates, I had thought it, when I first looked into his eyes. But I never dreamed he would feel the same. I hardly notice Alice pulling Luke upstairs, saying something about needing to see the bedroom.
Time seemed to stand still as the leader stared at us. I concentrated on the leaders emotions while I waited for him to speak, his happiness confused me as he smiled.
"Jasper welcome to the family," He says as he holds out his hand for me to shake. "That is if you want to stay." I don't have time to say anything as we hear Alice upstairs taking about how everything was wrong and that their room had to change. I was curious about this Luke, how did he know me?
" Luke; is like a brother to me. He showed up hear a while ago, looking for shelter." Edward says causing me to stare at him.
"How did you know what I was…" He interrupts me as she gives me one of his signature smiles he always had when we were younger.
"I can," He stumbles over his words as he talks and I can feel his hesitation to tell me. "Jasper I can read minds." His voice is so low that I barely hear him.
"You can hear my thoughts?" I question as I think of how much I dislike the idea that someone could know what I was thinking.
"It's not something I can control, I can't block out the thoughts of those around me." He seemed ashamed to admit this to me. Like he hated the fact that there wasn't a way for him to stop hearing the voices, like I couldn't stop feeling the emotions around me.
"I understand," I say as I look into his eyes. "I can feel the emotions of everyone around me; they weigh on me at all times." I could feel his concern as I admit this and my mind wonders automatically to Maria and the pain I can still remember from being there and I thought about how James was still out there.
A few more minutes past as we discuss everything. Soon I am finding myself being pulled out of the house and into the forest.
"Jasper I have missed you so much." Edward says as we come to a small clearing willed with wildflowers.
"Edward, I don't understand how this happened." I say as I motion towards him as I sit on a nearby rock. "How did you change?"
"Love, I never wanted to leave you. I was sick for a while and my time was coming fast, just before my Mother passed she asked our doctor Carlisle Cullen to save me. Carlisle was lonely, he had been alone for so long that he changed me wanting someone to understand his way of life." Edward went on to tell me about his life after being changed and how the rest of the family came to be, I couldn't believe that they all went to high school. "Jasper, please tell me what happened to you."
I wanted to refuse him, not wanting to admit to him how bad of a vampire I had been.
"Edward, I don't want you to hate me…" I say just before I am cut off as his lips meet mine.
"I could never hate you Jasper, love."
"You promise?" I ask him as we kiss again.
"I promise you." With that I took an unneeded breath and began.
"After we received word of your death, I was so lost and then I lost my momma…." My story would be a tough one but I knew I had to tell it to Edward, I just hope that he won't hate me when I tell him about my "relationship" I had with Maria and Peter… Praying after it was all over, that he would still be there with me.
AN: SO… What do you think? I hope the POV change was easy enough to follow… I felt like you needed to see why Edward was so angry at first.
