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I am so sorry about how long this update has taken, I honestly didn't realise how long it had been since I had last updated. I know this is quite short but quite a bit is revealed and there will be more explanations later on when Bella is back in Forks.
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Jasper PoV
"Bella as in Rosalie's sister Isabella?" I asked, my eyes locked on my wife.
Alice stood there and dropped her head but I could see she was struggling against my emotional cocktail, she desperately wanted to lie, she wanted to wiggle out of this and lie to my face but my emotions were too strong, after a few moments she slumped and nodded, not looking up.
"The same Bella who is also mated to Paul, one of the La Push shifters?" I questioned her as thoughts whirled around my head, how is Bella mated to two people? How did I not feel the mating bond form with her. What was going on?
"She's not actually mated to him, Carlisle got a friend to use her gift to forge a fake mating bond between the two, Carlisle wants the shifters and our family to unite. He wants the wolves to trust us," Alice blurted out.
"Who created the fake bond? It was only our coven in the field that day, unless he had someone hidden in the forest, the only person I know who has any gift like that is Chelsea Volturi and I can't see her doing that as her and Isabella are close friends," I growled at Alice, glaring at her. When I find out who had done this to Isabella, there were going to be heads rolling.
"Don't you dare say another word Alice, I forbid it," Edward rasped out, I squeezed his throat tighter in frustration, smirking at the pained yelp he let out.
"I can't help it Edward, he's manipulating my emotions," Alice cried out, shaking her head wildly. Edward's eyes turned to mine and I curled my lip in a snarl.
"Stop this at once Jasper, I am ordering you to let me go right this instant, you will pretend that you never came here today, forget what you've seen and heard. Things will go back to how they were, Alice is your wife, you will not tell Isabella what you have learned and you will not persue her as a mate, her and Paul will be together and you will not interefere, I forbid it," Edward told me, I looked at him in disbelief, was this kid delusional, he wanted me to forget who my mate was and go back to playing happy families with him and his pixie whore. I raised my eyebrows at him.
"Oh yeah? and who's going to stop me? You?" I asked him, a smirk playing on my lips, he nodded, fake confidence oozing from him. I rolled my eyes. "I'd like to see you try, try getting free right now, prove how much more of a man you are," I taunted him, Edward struggled against me feebly, "Is that it kid?" I snickered.
"Jasper stop it!" Alice shouted at me, I pinned her with my eyes, fear shot through her.
"You really are idiots, you know that right? You're whole plan had already failed, before you could even get the all rolling with Isabella and Paul," I told him, Major was rattling inside his cage at the thought of Bella and Paul.
"How is that?" Edward asked, rolling his eyes, I narrowed my eyes at the disrespectul little shit.
"Well did you plan for Paul to reject the 'imprint'? Or that he would end his relationship with Leah just to go back to his baby mama and love of his life Rachel Black? In line for position of Alpha of the La Push pack? So you've not only just landed yourself in trouble with myself and Isabella, not to mention Peter and Charlotte, the Volturi but now you will have a pack of angry wolves beating down your door? Well done, you've well and truly fucked yourselves over now," I smirked at Edward as I felt fear course through him.
"Paul rejected the imprint? That's not good, we need Isabella on our side close to hand," Edward muttered under his breath. I stared at him in disgust, like hell would I let my mate anywhere near the Cullen's after this. I growled low in my throat turning back to Alice.
"You never answered my question Alice, who created the fake bond?"
"Rosalie! It was Rosalie," Alice answered, bowing her head again, I stared at Alice in confusion.
"How? Rosalie's power is just that of seeing mating bonds," I told her.
"No, it's not, Carlisle just makes Rosalie say that so noone suspects her of being powerful, they keep it well hidden from others," Alice confessed. Edward's face suddenly changed to a calculating one and I needed to know what what he was thinking so I pumped him full of honesty and trust.
"We can use her gift again Alice," Edward told her, I raised my eyebrows at this.
"On who?" Alice whimpered out, I kept silent, waiting for Edward's response.
"Isabella, we could forge a mating bond to me, she will be broken after believing her mate has rejected her. I will sweep her off her feet and then we can mould her into whatever we like," Edward's voice took a creepy tone and my anger grew to an all time high until a red haze took over my vision.
They were planning to steal my mate from me, they were delusional, did they honestly think that they could get this to actually happen. I knew that there was no way in hell Isabella would allow Edward to get within ten foot of her let alone think that he was her mate. She was mine and I would protect her until my ashes were blowing in the wind now I knew she was my mate. I wouldn't allow some pyschotic family to take her from me.
Take him out! He is a danger to our mate! The Major roared in my head and for once I fully agreed with what he said, I wouldn't kill him just yet as I would need him as a bargaining chip.
I moved my hands to both sides of his head, gripping his head tightly, Edward's eyes widened in horror as I leant in, his futile struggling doing nothing but infuriating me more. I sunk my teeth into his neck before moving my head to the side swiftly, the Major purred as a metallic shriek rang round the room as I ripped a chunk out of his neck. I spat the offending chunk out of my mouth before twisting my wrist, ripping his head off entirely, I smirked as his twitching body fell to the ground.
Alice let out a piercing shriek at the sight of Edward's twitching body, I smirked. I could tell she was about to attack me but I didnt have time to deal with her right now. My mate needed me more than she'd ever needed me before. She was in warlord territory, which is where some barbaric, sadistic things take place. I know Maria wasn't all sunshine and rainbows but looking back on it, yes she played with my feelings, but she was never sadistic, she was just greedy. I quickly pumped Alice with drownsiness and using a cocktail of other emotions, I knocked her out for a couple of hours. Long enough for me to be far away before the crazy bitch came back around.
I dangled Edward's head by his hair and went to the nearest window, which was facing the same woods that would lead me to Bella's house. I darted out the window and headed towards Bella's home, thoughts thumping through my skull.
How could the Cullen's do this to me? How could Rosalie do this to her sister? Why would Rosalie willingly agree to fuck over me and her blood sister? I still couldn't believe I had found my true mate and I didn't even know it, now I think of it, she was perfect. When she hugged me the other day, her body fit perfectly against mine, I had shrugged the thought off at the time, still thinking she already had found her mate. I stopped thinking about what her body felt like against mine, not wanting this to turn awkward.
As I approached Bella's back yard, I could hear a mixture of snarls, growls and shouting, I frowned before placing Edward's head on the ground, wondering what was going on. I broke through the tree line, stopping short at the sight before me.
The wolves were stood beside Charlotte, Peter, Alistair & Garrett, Sam was in human form whilst the rest of them were in wolf form, all of them crouching, facing the Cullen's and a few more unknown vampires were lined up behind them, I tilted my head to the side, wondering what the fuck was going on.
"What the fuck is going on here Captain?" I ordered, Peter's coal black eyes shot to mine. Standing up straight from his crouch.
"We came here to meet you when a couple of the wolves came out, it seems they've been patrolling around Bella's home whilst she's gone, they smelt our scent and came to find out what we were doing here," Peter reported, I turned to Sam.
"What happened to your attack strange vampires first and ask questions to the pile of ashes later?" I asked, tilting my head to the side again, taking in Sam's small smile.
"Well the other day Isabella and I had a chat and she made me realised that us doing that was going to bring some real shit to La Push eventually," Sam told me with wide eyes, I nodded, smiling at the fact my mate had managed to tame the vampire killing werewolves.
"So what else did I miss?" I asked, gesturing to the Cullen's and the strange vampires.
"Well after we explained what I knew about the situation to Sam here, he offered to lend us a few of his wolves to take to Texas. That's when the Crazy Coven here arrived. Esme here claimed that you weren't goin' anywhere as if you stepped anywhere near the South then you'd be booted out of the Crazy Coven faster than you can say Southern Armies. Then Esme carried on mouthing off when my darlin' wife had had enough and decided to fire some fucks back into her, sayin' that they were the reason that you hadn't visited us and that if Esme kept runnin' her mouth then she'd have to shut her up. Momma Crazy didn't like that one too much.
So she turned to the wolves, tellin' them that we were savages who didn't care who we drank from, men, women and children. That we weren't picky and we didn't care for human life at all, tryin' to rile up the wolves. Luckily the wolves didn't believe them but then Esme decided to drag Bells into our little discussion and said some less than nice things about her. Seems lil sis has made quite an impact on these wolves, they started getting defensive and then these strange vampires showed up backing up the Cullen's and people starting getting all snarly and growly," Peter joked the last bit.
I turned to Esme, glaring at her, she had bad mouthed my mate, tried to put my real, true family/Coven in danger. Plus both her and Carlisle knew and planned all the fuckery that had gone on, they kept my mate from me and got Rosalie to fuck with a sacred bond between two people.
"How could you willingly put my family in danger?" I growled at her.
"Your family? We are your family," Carlisle protested.
"It's true, they are savages, they drink human blood, that automatically makes us better than them," Esme spat out.
"You are not my family, you never will be," I told them firmly, trying to get my anger under control, "be careful how you speak about them, I will only take so much before I snap."
"Jasper, listen to me son, they are a bad influence on you, they are a constant reminder of your past and they are always a temptation to go back to your old way of life, the disgustingly savage life," Esme's voice suddenly took on a hypnotic tone.
For a moment I actually started to believe her, maybe Peter and Char weren't good for me, maybe they were a bad influence on Bella too. The mention of Bella was like a bucket of cold water over me, stopping whatever had happened in it's track. I frowned and shook my head, feeling disorientated for the first time in over a century. I could sense smugness and maliciousness radiating from every pore on Esme, how had I never noticed it before? I sneered at her, shock ran through her at that before panic started to invade her emotions.
"They are the only people that have been there for me when I desperately needed them, they didn't use me as a guard dog, you see I had a little chat with my darling wife earlier," I spat the word wife out, hating how it left a sour taste in my mouth, "She told me everything." All of their faces dropped, shock filling them all, they looked like deers caught in headlights.
"What do you mean?" Carlisle stuttered out.
"I know you know Alice was fucking Edward, I know how you plotted to keep me from my mate, I know that you fucked up my mating bond using Rosalie," I snarled at them, their eyes widened comically and Rosalie stepped back, I could see a faint tremble in her body.
"They prevented you from being with your mate?" Sam asked.
"They used Rosalie here to forge a fake mating bond with someone and used it on me and Alice," I told him, looking him square in the eyes.
"It was Isabella wasn't it?" Sam asked, I raised my eyebrow in shock.
"How did you know that?" I asked him.
"I noticed how close you two had become, and that when you were fighting, it was like you were dancing, I knew you were hurting each other but at times I could tell you were both holding back," Sam stated.
Suddenly one of the grey wolves changed back and a naked Paul was stood there, he looked highly pissed off.
"Are you telling me these fuckers fucked with me and tried to force me to mate with Bella?" Paul said, his limbs trembling from the anger he was trying to retain.
"Yes, I apologise to you for that Paul, it seems that they wanted the wolves and their family united but the biggest reason for them was so that I didn't leave the family defenseless. They used me as a guard dog, they know how far and wide my reputation as the God of War has spread, people fear me and won't fuck with me. I spent alot of my first 60 years in this life fighting and making a reputation for myself. All these bite marks I have on me, only 4 people that have bitten me and survived, they are Bella, Peter, Char and my sire Maria. I have fought thousands, see why they needed to keep me on side?" I explained to him, the wolves looked at me with a mixture of awe and fear.
"How could they do this? Isn't Rosalie supposed to Isabella's sister? I want answers now," Paul told the frightened Cullen's. I stepped forward.
"We all want answers but I have to go save my mate, I have to go now, we'll get answer's when we get back from Texas," I told him, he shook his head.
"No, we need to do it now, what makes you think that they won't run away whilst your away?" He questioned me, I gave him a smirk, he blinked.
"I have insurance against that, whilst I was with Alice, Edward was there too, I found them in bed together. Edward said some things that didn't sit right with him, so I took his head and I will be keeping it with me until I get back, hopefully it won't end up in a pyre by accident," I smirked at the Cullen's as I told them the last part, Carlisle and Esme looked distraught.
"So whoever is coming with me,we're leaving now, no more time wasting," I told them, turning around, ignoring the protests of Carlisle and Esme about Edward's head. I grabbed Edward's head and turned in the direction that I needed to go.
Hold on Bella, I'm coming.
Bella POV
The haze that I had been trapped under had finally started to lift, I opened my eyes and blinked several times when I felt able to. At first all I could make out was a brick wall with one window present and a solid door. I tried to move my body when pain crashed over me, centering on my throat, I came to a frightening realisation. My head was higher in the building than I originally thought, it looked like I had been placed on a shelf. I glanced down and my mouth opened in horror at what I saw below. My body had been covered in bite marks, hundreds of new scars littered my body. My clothing had been torn but luckily it seemed to be all in tact.
Then I noticed another female body a couple of meters away from me, it was completely nude and covered in all sorts of horrific things, I had to blink back venom tears at the sight of the body. I glanced around the room frantically for the sight of who this other female was. I spotted another shelf directly ahead of me and blanched when I saw what was on it.
It was a female's head, her hair was completely matted, covered in dust and god knows what else, her eyes stared straight at me, they looked completely feral but they still had a spark, she still had a chance. I suddenly realised who it was, Maria, Jasper's sire. It made sense why she hadn't been seen in years, I felt sick to think that's how long she had been stuck in this hell.
I didn't know how I was going to escape this predicament. I needed my head to be attatched back to my body and I needed to get it reattatched soon before I started to get weak from venom loss, I didn't know how long I had been here so time was essential. I thought about how I could get out of here, smelling how many males had been in this room and how recent they'd been in here, I wouldn't have to wait long. They would probably underestimate how much of a fighter I am.
Whilst I had the time on my hands, I thought back over what had happened lately, without being interrupted. I was so happy that my little sister was alive and seemed to be okay, after all this time of mourning for my family but I felt so awkward around Rosalie and her family for some reason. She had changed so much since our human days, yes she was still beautiful and vain but she had grown colder, she had a nasty streak in her. Maybe it all stemmed from that night in the alley but I was so sure that there was more to it. I hoped she could one day open up to me but I had a gut feeling it was either going to be extremely difficult for her to open up to me or she never would and she would continue to get more bitter and twisted. I would just have to give it time and patience, hopefully her jewellery box would give her a bit of humanity back, remind her of a happier time.
The next thing I had playing on my mind was the imprint with Paul, something in my gut didn't feel right. I didn't even feel the seperation pull to Paul, even though he had rejected me, I should still feel pain through the mating bond. All I felt was hurt and anger, I had so much anger towards Leah. What she had done was despicable, she had a nerve to say I was a slut and that I couldn't 'steal' her man when she had done the exact same thing to Rachel. It was even worse because their was a child involved, Leah and Paul had split up a family. If I saw Leah again I don't think it would go too well, there could be a lot of violence to ensue.
I was more than happy to stand to the side for Rachel and Paul, they had a child together, I couldn't be the one to seperate a family more than it already had, I would have to move regularly to keep up appearances, which meant if Paul and I had started something he would have to move with me, which meant he was far from his daughter, I would not do that to the poor child or Rachel, she would have to rely on friends or family or have to do it alone. No, I was more than happy to let this little family have a chance to flourish.
I believe I had found a kindred soul in Jasper, we were so similar, our inner beasts were named after Gods of War but he outmatched me when it came to a physical fight. I know he was holding back slightly in our fight, I respected him for his skills as a warrior. The way Alice was with him made anger boil in my venom. I never saw a female disrespect her 'mate' like that, it was unbelievable.
My mind went back to the room briefly as I heard the unmistakable sounds of Newborns, the snarling and hissing, the sounds of newborns being torn apart, the dripping noise of something far away and then the unmistakable sound of sex. That's all most newborns focused on, the three f's, fighting, feeding & fucking. It was hard to snap them out of it, most of the newborns were kept segregated and keep them hungry. Newborn wars were brutal, most of them were either culled or would end up dying in fights. It was horrific, some of the things I had witnessed when clearing out the aftermath of a fight. The warlords weren't picky about who they picked either, it could be women, men or even children as young as 13. Most didn't go any younger as they were too volatile and temperamental. They didn't know any better. Sometimes I wished I didn't have vampiric memory so I wouldn't have the perfect image of the things I had seen.
I don't know how long had passed but suddenly I heard footsteps coming towards the door, my eyes snapped to the door and waited with bated breath, the door swung open with a squeak, my eyes making out the unfamiliar features of a male.
I hoped that I could make this out of here alive and kicking. I hope Peter had had a feeling and was on his way.
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