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Peter

Bella fell asleep almost immediately after we started driving home. Home. It didn't feel weird calling it that for her, my home was hers now. It was always hers, really, I just didn't give the thoughts enough credit. I had always tried to ignore my 'gift', I'd never thought it was anything more than a real annoying timer.

The damn thing never went off when I needed it or wanted it to. Jasper had said from the beginning that it fit me, knowing shit. He told me I always thought I was right about everything, and we went together perfectly.

Yeah I knew shit, shit that I didn't want to most of the time, but if it felt important enough I didn't shrug it off. Hell, I couldn't, it was always nagging my ass, kinda like Charlotte does when I fuck up.

My gift with Bella, though, is different. Somehow that shit got stronger, overwhelming almost, and instantly there was a connection there. I knew it the minute I touched her. She was something to me, a sister, a child, she was special. My instinct to protect her was in place, the need to be near her was unavoidable.

When we were in Walmart I knew I needed to do something to cheer her up. I felt the anger and the sadness and the nothing that was her in there, and I wanted badly to make it better. I got her to laugh and to have a damn good time with me, and you couldn't wipe the shit-eating grin off my face right now if you tried.

Another thing I learned fairly quickly - and had an inkling of before I met her - was that she was going to be even more special to someone else. Jasper. She was his, I couldn't stop it, I didn't really want to but I had a bad feeling that she might try to.

She has dark in her. Almost as much as him, but her light's there too.

Victoria was going to be a problem too. I knew some of what she did to Muffin, no real details but enough to know she was dead the second she stepped in Bella's direction. If we weren't careful she could ruin Muffin for good.

I flipped my phone out then. I needed to call Charlotte before Jasper and the others made it town, and have her get Muffin's truck for me. I knew she didn't want to leave it and I knew I wasn't about to let her drive it herself. I had caught the scent of another vampire when we came into the parking lot, and I wasn't going to take any chances.

"Charlotte." I said into the phone, just as she picked up.

"Hey there handsome, you pick up your Box-O-Condoms?" She asked laughing.

"Even better, you're gonna want to show me some lovin' when I get home sugar, for the surprise I got." I said, as I looked over at Muffin sleepin' curled into my jacket.

"Peter, did you find Bella?" She asked me, and I could hear the excitement in her voice, she was just like me when it came to good news, I would bet anything she was just about jumping up and down.

"Her name is Muffin, hun, and I need a favor." I told her.

"Well you gave her a nickname, must mean you like her. Is everything ok though, she isn't hurt is she?" Char asked, and I could hear the growl coming to the surface.

Any worry I might'a had of her not taking to Bella was washed away then. Bella was about to have one protective-ass family.

"No, she ain't hurt, I just need you to get her truck, it's important to her and I want her to see it when she wakes up." I told her.

I explained everything about it to her and where she could find it. She was already running before I could hang up, letting me know she'd fixed up a room just for Bella, and put everything she'd bought for Muffin into it.

"Can you pick up some pizza or something for her to eat on your way home sugar, she only got snacks and she's looking mighty thin?" I asked my wife, who agreed and then hung up.

When we got back to the house she was still fast asleep, so I picked her up gently, tryin my best not to disturb her, and took her inside and into my room. I know Char made a room for her but I didn't feel like going in there yet, I wanted Muffin to be the first one to see it.

After I laid her down, I sat at the edge of the bed and just watched her.

Not much time went by before I got my ass up and started bringin' in all the shit we'd gotten. She had so much junk that I was actually real proud of myself for asking Char to get her a pizza. Muffin was just way too fuckin' skinny, and I knew for a fact she hadn't been eating. Her damn stomach wouldn't shut the hell up the entire ride home.

I wanted to wake her fiery ass up and make her eat something, but I had two reasons for not doin' just that. One, I knew for a fact I'd get my ass chewed out over it, and two, she needed the rest more than she needed to eat. Hell, knowing Char, she'd probably be cookin' up somethin' for Bella as soon as she got back. It was something she missed, which was why she spent so much time in the kitchen. I was definitely gonna be scorin' points with her for that.

It wasn't long before I had almost everything inside. I kept going up to check on Muffin in between loads. Her heartbeat would spike for a minute and scare the shit outta me. By the time I made it up to her, she'd be calmed back down again.

Somehow I wandered if she was doin' it on purpose, getting me back for the shit I pulled with her in Walmart.

When I went out for the last of it, I knew Jasper would be there. That tingling feeling that always seemed to irritate the fuck out of me came and went along with that whisper.

He wasn't happy and he sure as shit wanted to rip me a new ass the minute he smelt her. He wasn't Jasper Cullen then. No, this was the Jasper I was sired by, my true brother, this was Jasper Whitlock and I could feel that part of him he shared with Carlisle and the others break as her scent surrounded us. There wasn't any mistakin' it in that moment, he was on a path to his mate and I wasn't even gonna be able to stop him.

I tried though, I had to. Muffin was my best friend now, something much more than I could even wrap my head around. And damn it if I wasn't gonna at least try and protect her. From what, I had no fuckin' clue but it came outta instinct, not because I was worried 'bout Jasper. Shit, that man had more control than any of those asses ever gave him credit for, and when it comes to your mate, control is never an issue.

It showed too. The way he stroked her face. Jasper never touched humans, not unless it was as a snack. I'm surprised it didn't hit him then. The man never laid a hand on a human and now here he was being gentle, and not one look of shock passed over him, there was nothing but worry and love there.

When Bella said his name I watched another wall break away from him. He might'a been a mystery to everybody else, but he was an open fuckin' empathetic book to me. You can't hide from someone who knows you like I know him. That demon inside of him might be one strong motherfucker, but the man that just looked down at Muffin was much stronger.

If whoever fucked with her wasn't in trouble before, they were in for a world of hurt now.

"We need to let her get some rest, Jasper." I told him hesitantly. He was caught up in her but I knew he heard me.

"I'll be back, Bella." He whispered to her as he kissed her forehead once again, and turned and gave me a cold look.

I shrugged it off, knowin' he wasn't gonna be happy havin' to leave her. It needed to be done anyways, we both had things to say.

We walked downstairs, her heartbeat the only sound made as we looked at each other. I could feel his need to be with her already, and I kinda wanted to gag at him but held back, knowin' he'd take a swipe at me. I'd already had too many body parts threatened today, and I was not tryin' to make a goal out of it.

"What's goin' on Jasper?" I asked him, concerned about the feelings I had been getting from him and the state that Muffin was in.

"I have no idea." He said, and I could see all he really wanted to do was get back up to her.

"She's in trouble. I don't know what kind yet but it's something big, fucker, and if you have something to do with it, I don't care if you are my brother. I'll take you outside myself and kick your ass." I told him.

"Really, you think you can take me?" Jasper asked, raising his brow at me.

"Don't make me put a whoopin' on you and embarrass your ass." I told him playfully.

"Bring it, fucker." Jasper said, standing up and I could see how tense he was and how much he would have really enjoyed a good fight, but I couldn't give it to him, not yet at least.

"Settle down big boy we got other shit to take care of first." I told him.

"Why you callin' her Muffin?" Jasper asked me after a long, uncomfortable silence.

"Inside joke, you should ask her about it sometime, probably get her to smile again." I told him, thinking back to our shopping trip and laughed out.

"You've already corrupted her." He said, and I could see his lips twitch trying to hide a smile.

"Did you expect anything less?" I asked him with a pout.

"Does that shit work on Char." He said, pointing to my face.

"Have you met Char? She knocks the hell outta my ass when I pull that shit on her. Hell, she tried cutting my baby-maker off earlier." I told him, and my hand covered the boys out of instinct.

"Smart woman." He said, as he looked up the stairs.

"She ain't goin' nowhere Jasper, relax." I said, as I sat back and watched him.

I could see the struggle behind his quiet demeanor. That demon of his was tryin' to take over and he was fightin' it just like he always had. If the Cullens hadn't tried so damn hard to keep it at bay, he wouldn't have to try so hard to hide him. Jasper was like a kid with overprotective parents; there was a side of him that needed air, it needed to see daylight, run free even if only for a bit, and those dumbasses had him wound tighter than a rattlesnake.

"I don't get how she ended up here of all places. She could'a gone anywhere." He said, more to himself than me.

"Why question it at all, she's here, ain't that what matters. I know it's what matters to me." I told him honestly.

"She looks different." He said, his eyes never leaving the direction she was in.

"She's been through hell Jasper." I told him, and his head whipped around to me.

"What the hell are you talkin' 'bout?" He asked me as his eyes narrowed.

"Somethin' happened to her, I don't really know what, but she's about to break and there ain't shit you or I may be able to do about it." I told him as I watched the battle within him stir even more. His eyes went from a golden to a pitch-black the minute I spoke. He was a very unhappy Major and that beast inside him was pushin' even further.

"I knew he left for a Goddamn reason." Jasper said, as he threw the chair he'd been sittin' in across the room. The crash echoed around the house. Bella never even stirred.

"Oh Charlotte is not gonna be happy with your ass." I said, as I looked at the hole in my wall. I expected it. He was a volatile ass when he got in Major mode. It needed to be done though.

I watched as he paced my floor back and forth, his boots scuffin' it as he sped up. I knew he needed a minute to think and I let him have it, but I would stop him if he went for Bella. I didn't need him tryin' to be a damn hero by takin' her away right now, it would do nothing but cause more trouble and I'll be damned if I was gonna let him risk her.

"You in there Major?" I asked him, seriously.

There was a time you fucked off around Jasper, and when that shit didn't fly, and since his eyes never returned to gold I figured this was a time I didn't need to fuck around.

"You know something." He accused me, as he turned and stopped abruptly facing me.

"I know some, not enough to give you any answers." I told him.

I guess that was good enough cause he went right back to makin' scuffs in my damn floor.

Charlotte is gonna kick my ass for that.

Charlotte. Somethin' didn't feel right all of a sudden. She wasn't hurt. No, it was something else.

"What's wrong?" Jasper asked, as he came up to me before I could even register what I'd felt.

"I don't know, somethin's not right." I said to him, and my phone started ringing.

Yo VIP let's kick it
Ice ice baby Ice ice baby
All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom

"Char?" I asked, as I brought the phone up to my ear.

Jasper looked at me eyes wide with surprise at my ringtone choices. I could see the snicker forming and I just shrugged him off knowing damn well it'd be used against me later.

"Peter get Jasper outside, I'll be there in ten minutes." She said to me, and I could tell by her voice that something was wrong. She sounded worried, almost frantic.

"Baby, tell me what's going on." I told her calmly.

"Peter trust me, get him outside, it's important. It's Muffin." She said as she hung up the phone.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck! Muffin was still upstairs, I could hear her heart beating. What the hell would she need Jasper out of the house for if Bella was in here and ok? Fuck! Something else is going on, I can feel it. Shit, somethin' ain't right.

Her truck!

"Peter." Jasper said, pullin' my out of my thoughts.

"We need to get outside to meet Char and the others, they're gonna be here in a minute." I told him, as I started walkin' towards the door.

"I don't think so, what the hell's wrong with you?" He asked me, as he grabbed my arm and made me face him.

"Charlotte said to go outside and wait for her, and you damn well know I ain't about to go against her. It's nothing I'm sure but her wanting to see us without disturbin' Muffin up there." I told him, trying to convince him nothing was going on. I knew how to work around his gift, it was part of mine. I shut down immediately and just started feelin' the love I had for my mate then, the need to see her.

I could see he didn't believe me anyways, but I would'a lied through my teeth again if it meant Muffin was gonna be safe from whatever Char needed us for.

"This has to do with Bella, doesn't it?" Jasper asked me, as he watched my movements. His demon was starin' at me right in the eyes, but I didn't flinch under his stare, he wanted my fear right now for answers but I only had one for him.

"It ain't good." I told him turning back to my wife.

"If I find out somethin's going on that could damage that girl further, I will personally rip you into shreds and burn you. Do you understand me, Peter? I can't afford for her to get lost again. Not her, not now." Jasper bit at me. The Major inside him was shining through and smiling.

I love being right.

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