Dangerous Love

Disclaimer: Oh, please, if I owned Twilight, I would make a whole bunch of friends and myself vampires, and one of my friends a werewolf. (It is recommended that you read Eternal Love and Broken Love first.)

Summary: Esme, now a vampire, is reunited with Carlisle, her love. But the short-lived peace is interrupted by werewolves, newborn armies, and danger around every corner.

Rendezvous

Esme POV

As soon as we got back to the Cullens' house, I barged inside. "Jasper!" He was downstairs in an instant.

"Yes, Esme?"

"I need you to teach me how to fight."

"What?" Carlisle stood next to me, shocked. "Why?"

"So I can kill Victoria," I replied simply.

"No, no, Esme, you are not fighting." He shook his head.

"And why not? I'm still a newborn! And I will be for many more months. Are you going to waste my strength?"

"It's not that, it's just that…well, I won't be able to stand you being hurt."

I placed my hand on his cheek. "Carlisle, wouldn't you want me to be able to defend myself, so I wouldn't get myself killed, if not at this battle but another one?"

He sighed. "Yes, but I –"

"Carlisle, she's going to learn. I've seen it," Alice chimed in as she danced downstairs, taking Jasper's hand. "Come on, the rest of us know how. Give Esme a chance!"

"We should call the werewolves, too," Jasper added. "That way both they and Esme can be taught at the same time, and we can spend more time practicing instead of just teaching."

Werewolves. That mean that Zack would be there. I hadn't seen him in a while, but Sam had contacted us and told us that he had tried to come over the line. He was now watched every single moment to make sure he didn't cross it.

But I could live with a short meeting with him, if it meant that I would gain the knowledge and skills to be able to kill Victoria.

Carlisle nodded, though he looked a tad reluctant. "Very well, we shall call the wolves."

A few days later, it was time for the meeting. I waited until Charlie was asleep before I sneaked out the window. Carlisle was waiting for me in his Mercedes.

We drove to where the baseball clearing was. Just for tonight, the wolves would be allowed to cross the treaty line and be on our side.

The others were already there. Now we just had to wait for the wolves. I briefly wondered how Jasper knew so much on the topic of training newborns.

"It's a very complicated story. He can tell you himself if he wants," Edward replied. Jasper turned around and looked at us.

"Are you talking about my story?"

I nodded. He sat down and began. I listened in fascination and slight horror in the right parts as he told me of lying about his age to be in the army, being a major for the Confederates, being changed by Maria, his life training newborns in the south. But he got his happy ending, when he met Alice in a diner in Philadelphia.

"And we came to the Cullens, and we stole Edward's bedroom," he concluded while smirking. Edward scowled.

"I still haven't gotten over that, you know." Then he stiffened. "The wolves are coming."

We stood up in a line and waited, watching as bright eyes stared at us through the darkness in the trees. I jumped back as one of the wolves lunged out of the darkness, aiming right at me.

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