Chapter 10: Jasper Whitlock
"I was born Jasper Whitlock in the summer of 1844, in Houston, Texas. I joined the Confederate Army before I turned 17, using my way of persuasion. In the following 2 years, I was promoted to major in the army and became the youngest Major in Texas. After evacuating women and children, I rode on my way back to Galveston and met the vampires, Maria, Lucy, and Nettie,who had recently lost their respective territories to other covens. Maria knew from my suit that I was in the military and changed me into a vampire in hopes of utilizing my training and experience to create an efficient army. Other newborns and I helped Maria reclaim her territory and later claim dominance over others. Nettie and Lucy gained territories of their own, but when they tried to rebel against Maria, I sensed their malevolent emotions and teamed up with Maria to kill them. Maria and I had seemingly shared a short romantic relationship but she never got over her deceased mate. When I became a vampire, I gained the ability to feel and manipulate people's emotions which was very useful in controlling the younger newborns. I commanded Maria's newborn army that participated in the Southern vampire wars. Since Maria wouldn't keep vampires after the first year of their transformations, I was responsible for disposing of them, something I felt remorseful of because I could feel their pain when I killed them just as much as I could feel the pain of my human victims. Overtime, the pain and cruelty of such existence depressed me to no end. While in the army, befriended a newborn named Peter, whom I persuaded Maria to keep because of his advanced combat skills and kindred spirit. When Peter ran off with Charlotte a newborn that they were supposed to kill, I allowed them to escape. After this incident, Maria's feelings for me changed: I could sense how fearful and somewhat mistrustful - she was toward me, and knew that she would plot a way to destroy me. I began planning how to destroy her first, despite my reluctance to the idea of destroying the one person who mattered to me, but my years in the coven had affected me so deeply that I almost became a savage. In 1938, Peter came back and told me about the way vampires could coexist up North. I immediately left Maria and her coven to join Peter and Charlotte. However, I did not find peace, since I could still feel the emotions of my human victims, which deeply depressed me. Eventually, I left Charlotte and Peter. I tried to kill less often, but the thirst always grew overwhelming. In 1948, I ran into a diner in Philadelphia and met Alice Cullen. At first, I was puzzled by her happy behavior around me, but nevertheless, her joyful emotions impacted me greatly. As it turned out, she had been waiting for me. When she held out her hand, I took it, and felt an unfamiliar emotion for the first time: hope. She also told me about the ability to survive off of animal blood instead of human blood, as well as our future with Carlisle Cullen and his family. I didn't know such a thing could exist but I followed her. With the help of Alice's 'sight', we searched for the Cullens, and in the meantime, learned to adjust to 'vegetarianism'. Finally, we located the family in 1950 and quickly joined them. I changed my surname to that of my adoptive sister Rosalie's, and occasionally poses as her twin. Out of the whole coven, I had the hardest time being around humans, due to my unrestrained upbringing as a young vampire in a violent army environment. I was not taught to control or how to regulate my blood lust, and this imperfection continues throughout the next 50 years, leading me to burden myself with the mentality of feeling weak by not being able to possess the same level of restraint as the rest of my family." Jasper said, I rubbed his back and smiled sweetly at him when he looked at me.
"Jasper you are not weak, you are an empath, meaning you can feel everyone's emotions, bloodlust is an emotion. Darling you were feeling everyone's bloodlust not just yours. You have nothing to be ashamed of. You are one of the strongest men I know." I said hugging him, he hugged me tightly to his chest.
"She's right son. You are a strong man, one I'll be proud to call son in law one day." dad said making both of us to look at him in shock then smiled.