With Time Comes Power.

(Sequel to Only Time Will Tell.)

Special Thanks to my awesome Beta Tasha (KCLutz4475) you rock girlfriend…hugs

Chapter 10

Going home.

Jasper's P.O.V.

I headed down stairs wondering what was up with Alice… Her emotions were all over the place, but I couldn't decipher what she was up too. One minute she's being sweet the next she's being a complete bitch and then she's all happy… go figure… I knew I should be paying more attention to what was going on with her, but at the moment I just couldn't find it in myself to care… I had enough of fighting and death for one day.

This also brought me to what Carlisle had said about needing to talk to me about something. I wondered if the two discussions, one I had already had with Alice and the one Carlisle needed to have with me, had to do with the same thing. I shook my head clearing my thoughts not wanting to deal with either right now and continued down the stairs.

As I got to the bottom of the stairs noticing that not much had changed since I had went up. Edward and Bella still sat on the sofa, but Isabella sat with her hands in her lap staring down at them. I could feel her sadness and worry and I was sure it was due to what I had told her earlier. I sighed, hating making her feel like that.

I walked over to her and pulled her up, sitting down where she once sat, pulling her back down on my lap and hugged her against me. She cuddled up to me with her head on my shoulders, burying her head into my neck, as I stroked her hair breathing in her sweet scent. I kissed the top of her head letting her feel how much I loved her.

It was then that Peter, Char, Emmett and Rose came in from outside. They all took seats around the room; accept Emmett who sat on the floor clicking on the game system, grabbing the controller as he looked over at me.

"Come on Jasper, play a game with me," he said, as I heard the music for the introduction of the game start.

"Not right now Em," I told him as he looked around the room.

"What about you Peter? You up to a game?" he asked, as Peter shook his head.

"No thanks Emmett, I'm not into those damn things," he said making a disgusting face.

"Oh come on…! Somebody play with me," he whined.

"I'll play a game with you Em," Bella replied as she moved from Edward and sat next to him on the floor. Edward rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"I'm going to practice on my piano love," Edward told Bella as he got up and made his way to the music room.

"Okay Edward," she said not even looking at him as he walked away, as she was completely caught up into the game. Peter chuckled watching the two of them and how involved they had become in the game so quickly.

"Are the wolves gone already?" I asked Peter, as the game roared in the background.

"Yeah, completely filled, eating everything in sight and went on their marry way," he said still chuckling.

"How can they eat so much so fast?" Char asked shaking her head in disgust. I looked at her and smiled.

"Their metabolism burns faster than normal, anything that they digest burns off quickly," I told her, as Jacob entered the front door.

"Hey Jake, how's Rayne doing?" I asked worried.

"She'll be fine; she's resting at the house. I came to check on Quil," he said as he stared around the room.

"He's up stairs with Carlisle," I told him, as he nodded and made his way upstairs. He came down a few minutes later with a smile on his face.

"I take it he's doing well?" I asked, as he nodded again with a chuckle.

"Yeah, he's pissed, because Carlisle wants him to stay here over night and he doesn't want too. I ordered him to stay, telling him I'd pick him up in the morning, he continued chuckling. "Oh yeah, Bella, if you and Isabella want to come over tomorrow and watch a movie with Rayne and myself, your more than welcome too," he said, as the room stopped completely and stared at him. "What?" He said, staring back at us.

"You're allowing vampires to come onto the reservation?" I asked, shocked at his invitation.

"Oh…yeah… well, I talked to the dad and with Rayne kind of sad and all, I felt that if Bella and Isabella or any of you ladies want to come to watch a movie with her, it might cheer her up and dad agreed," he replied nonchalantly shrugging his shoulders. We looked at one another surprised with this adjustment.

"You want to go Isabella, Char, and Rose?" Bella asked excited about the turn of events.

"I'll go with you Bella," Isabella chortled, as I looked down at my angel surprised that she agreed to go.

"Great, I'll pick you ladies up in the morning when I come to get Quil," he said. He said his fair wells and walked out the front door. The room looked at Bella and Isabella in wonderment. Even Emmett stared at Bella waiting to start the game again.

"What?" Bella asked looking back at Emmett and then around the room as we all sat with our mouths open.

"Are you two really going on the reservation?" he asked in surprised.

"Well, yeah… Why…? Is there something wrong with that?" she asked sarcastically with her hand on her hip waiting on someone to say there was.

"No…but what if something happens, we won't be there to help you if you need it," Emmett said.

"Isabella!" Edward yelled, as he made his way into the room.

"What? Both Isabella and Bella yelled back, as Edward jumped back from the surprise of hearing both of them answer.

"I was talking to Bella, forgive me Isabella, it's just when I'm upset with Bella, I tend to…," he began and slowly faded as he spoke, embarrassed with himself.

Shaking his head he continued, as he looked at Bella. "Bella, you are not going on the reservation without one of us to protect you," he demanded as Bella rose to her feet clearly upset with the way Edward was acting.

"I know you just didn't tell me I wasn't going to my best friend's house to watch a movie," she said angrily. "I haven't needed a bodyguard since I was human, I can completely take care of myself and besides that Isabella will be with me and no one will mess with her," she yelled with both her hand on her hips shaking her head at Edward.

"You will still need a man there to protect you both and that is the end of that," he yelled. I knew better than to say anything; he had put his foot in his mouth once again, because when he said they would need a man to protect them, Isabella slowly edged off my lap and stood to her feet. I could almost see the smoke coming from her ears, if she had blood circulating in her veins her face would have been beet red with anger.

Now when Isabella first came to me she was all for a man taking care of her for that was the time period she was from, but since she has been here in this time period she has learned that she didn't need a man to make sure she was taken care, especially since she was a vampire and had the gifts that she carry's now. Oh sure, she still felt as though the man should be ahead of the house hold, but for someone to stand in front of her and say she's weak and unable to feign for herself was another story. She walked over to Edward and positioned herself between Bella and Edward, getting in his face.

"Are you serious?" she said calmly. "You are trying to tell me where I can or cannot go without a man in my presence," she continued.

"Well… I…I mean, their wolves and their d…dangerous…I…I'm not telling you, but I…I'm sure Jasper w…wouldn't like for you going there alone," he stumbled. Isabella nodded her head looking over to me.

"Jasper honey, do you have a problem with me going on the reservation with Bella?" she asked, I could see that she dared me to agree with Edward… and there's no way I was getting in the middle of this… I would have a problem with it if it was somewhere I knew nothing about, but I knew the wolves. It was true that Isabella could handle herself and I was sure that Jake would have the situation in control, so I didn't see anything wrong with it.

"No darlin' I'm sure Jake will make sure everything will be safe for the both of you," I told her with a smile. Isabella turned back to Edward with a smirk on her face.

"Well, that's Jasper's point of view, but as for Bella, I don't think it's safe and I refuse to let her go," he chided crossing his arms over his chest and stoned his face to an 'I mean business type of look'.

"I'm going Edward and there nothing you can do about it," Bella said. I always wondered how two stubborn people could ever coexist in one relationship and both Edward and Bella were both as stubborn as they come. My Isabella stood there watching the two of them go at it as we all did and when Edward grabbed Bella telling her he would lock her in their bedroom and began to drag her off. Isabella saw red. She stormed at Edward pulling him off of Bella and at the same time sent a charge of electricity at him throwing him across the room against the wall. He slid down and stared at Isabella with his mouth hanging open.

"If you ever put your hands on my niece again, I'll make putty out of your remains. You got me!" she yelled, as I got up and grabbed Isabella and held her against me incase Edward got up to retaliate, but he didn't. She had shocked him so bad that he stayed there and stared at her like he couldn't believe she had done what she had just done. I picked her up and carried her upstairs to our room to give her time to calm down.

"I'm going tomorrow Edward," I heard Bella say as she stormed out of the room. I could hear Peter and Char chuckling in the background trying their best not to flat out laugh their asses off.

Isabella paced the length of our room for what seemed like hours as she mumbled about Edward. I had picked up a book and was reading it as I waited for my mate to calm down. I lowered it when she finally stopped and looked at me.

"Jasper, I think Bella made a mistake letting him turn her… She should have stayed human and found someone to live out her life with," she said with a sigh.

"Darlin' if Edward didn't change her when he did Bella would have been dead. Remember the motorbike accident," I reminded her. She squinted one of her eyes and nodded.

"Oh yeah…I had forgotten," she said, as she started pacing again, I watched for a few minutes before picking up my book again only to put it back down again when she stopped and looked at me once again. "Jasper, if Bella decided to leave Edward, would you mind if she comes to stay with us for awhile?" she asked.

"Of course not darlin', but I don't think that's gonna happen," I told her.

"What do you mean? How could you possibly know that?" she said sarcastically.

"Well darlin' I don't know that for sure, but Edward and Bella have been this way since they've met. He's constantly trying to stop her from doing things for what he says is her own good, they argue and even with Edward trying his hardest to stop her, she pretty much does what she wants, which is presumably why she's a vampire. She wanted to go bike riding with Jake and wreaked her bike. Bella pretty much does what she wants no matter what," I told her. She sighed, nodding. "She'll always be welcome at our house though darlin'," I told her. She smiled as she stared off into space.

After a few minutes I got up and walked over to her, I could feel how upset she was. "What's wrong darlin'?" I asked holding her in my arms.

"I kind of feel sorry for them," she said.

"You feel sorry for them. Why?" I asked.

"Because… They'll never be as happy as we are. I just wish…" she said as I cut her off with a passionate kiss. I knew she wanted Bella and Edward to be happy, but they are who they are and she was right we were happy, I love my Isabella more than anything and I was damn sure I wasn't going to let her be sad any longer than she had to. I grabbed her and carried her off to our special place where we spent the rest of the night making love and Isabella completely forgot all that went down with Bella and Edward last night.

We had been here a few days since the war with Lazarus. Bella and Isabella had spent a lot of time with Rayne and Jacob on the rez as well as here at the house. Quil went home the next day, but not before eating us out of house and home, not that we needed the food in the house, but it sure didn't go to waste while he was here.

I did get to talk to Carlisle, he took me to his office, as I sat and listened to what he was telling me… He didn't tell me anything other than what I was well aware of, that with Isabella's powers growing that we had more of a chance making ourselves known to the Volturi. I assured him we would be careful, as long as we didn't have to face too many more wars like the one we had just taken care of. That we were mostly quite, laid back.

I told him when we left here that we were traveling to our house in Denver, it sat back into the mountains and with it being summer, the tourist were pretty much extinct, from there we'll head off to Canada to our home there for the winter.

I asked him about Alice, telling him our conversation in the hall after the fight with the newborns. He shook his head, telling me that she had gotten better, but every now and again she would stray off into something completely off the wall, but assured me that I had nothing to worry about. Of course, I still worried about what was going on in her mind, I knew that she would seem fine some days, but other days I saw how she looked at Isabella, I could feel the hate, the jealousy stirring inside her. I prayed that she didn't do something that would cause harm to come to my family especially Isabella, because ex or not, I would end her existence.

Two weeks later we were saying our good-byes and on our way to our home in Denver. Isabella and Bella hugged promising to come for a visit soon as well, as Jake and Rayne promised the same. They thanked us for all our help in taking care of the problem that Bella once again was in. She truly was danger magnet even as a vampire. As we drove down the road, we saw the wolves lined up at the edge of the woods. They howled as we passed. I smiled wondering if it was a good-bye or a thank god their gone. I chuckled with the thought.

A few hours and a hunt later we drove up in front of the house in Denver. After folding the sheets that covered the furniture and some cleaning we piled up on the sofa cuddling up with our significant other while watching a movie, glad to me alone with just our family once again.