Chapter 14
Luna's POV
I'm absolutely miserable, I would rather be puking my guts out. My head never stops pounding and my ribs hurt so badly. It's been a week and I'm so over it. Right now I'm laying in Jasper and I's room with the lights off trying to get back to sleep while Jasper hunts. I probably need to take more pain meds but it hurts too bad to get up.
"Emmet." I yell making myself wince. He opens the door a split second later letting light in. "Close the door." I groan.
"Sorry...what's up."
"Can you get my pain meds from the bathroom?"
"Yeah. Why did you ask me?"
"Because you and Esme are the only two that I knew were home and Esme has been doing everything for me, I feel bad."
"She says not to." He laughs handing me my medicine.
"Thanks."
"Need anything else?"
"Nope, just going to try going back to sleep."
"Okay."
I curl up under the covers and close my eyes thankful that I can actually get some more sleep now. I wake up to a dip in the bed and I move closer knowing its Jasper.
"What time is it?" I mumble.
"It's four in the morning, go back to sleep."
"Okay..."
When I wake up in the morning I roll over and bump into Jasper who chuckles lightly.
"Ow." I groan.
"Morning."
"What time is it?"
"11..."
"Why did you let me sleep so late."
"Carlisle said not to wake you up. He figured if you were still asleep it's cause you needed it."
"You know what I do need?"
"Food?"
"So smart." I smirk.
"I'll go figure something out." He says getting up.
"Wait, can you help me up first. I'm going to shower."
"Yup."
He slowly helps me sit up before grabbing my hands and pulling me into a standing position. He steadies me before letting go.
"You good?"
"Yeah."
"How's the head?"
"Good for right now."
"Okay...ill be back."
I get in the shower and get myself cleaned up, this is the second shower I've had in the last week. Gross I know but the first few days I was too nauseous and in too much pain to get out of bed, it was lovely. Once I'm done I put on leggings and very carefully get on a T-shirt trying not to aggravate my ribs. Jasper is sitting on the bed when I walk out. A plate of eggs, bacon, and toast in hand.
"Did you cook?"
"Although I would like to take credit no I did not, that would be Esme. I just brought it up."
"Well thank you."I say sitting down and eating. "Okay so I've had a lot of free time to think in the past week…"
"Where is this going?" he ask.
"Just…keep an open mind here. I want to move the wedding up…"
"By how much?"
"Do it in two weeks…"
"You're still recovering."
"I'll be fine."
"Why do you want to move it up?"
"That's a little more complicated…"
"Luna…"
"There is a lot of uncertainty right now and I just…want this one thing to go right. I feel like the longer we wait the more likely it is to get screwed up."
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yes, but if you're not then we can wait."
"No I just wanted to make sure it was what you wanted…two weeks?"
"Two weeks."
"I'll let Alice know when she gets home. I have a question for you now."
"Okay…"
"How would you feel about using your parents wedding rings?"
This question shocks me in a good way. "Are you serious?"
"Yeah." he laughs quietly.
"I mean of course I just…really?"
"Yeah."
"You have no idea how much that means to me."
"I thought it was a good way to honor them."
"Thank you." I smile. "
"Your welcome." he smiles back.
Just then Rosalie walks in and smiles. "First of all you two are incredibly adorable."
"I don't think thats the word but okay…" I smirk.
"Second, I finished the car."
"Like it's back to normal?"
"Yes and I respected your wishes and didn't upgrade anything."
"Thank you Rose."
"You are very welcome." she smiles. "I'm going to go tear apart the Jeep now, I'm sure I can find something on there to work on."
"Have fun explaining that to Emmet." laughs Jasper.
"I have my ways of making it up to him."
Once I finish eating my headache starts to come back so I lay down while Jasper reads, we tend to be doing a lot of this lately. Jasper chuckle when I set his free hand on my forehead but it helps. I'm not sure why but it does, maybe it's just the fact that his hand is so cold. I end up falling back asleep and don't wake up till almost five. Jasper is gone when I wake up so I go downstairs searching for him. I walk past Carlisle's office and there's where I find him. I walk in and they both smile at me.
"I was about to have him go get you, I wanted to check your head."
"Still hurts." I sigh sitting down.
"It may take a little while…Are you still having light and sound sensitivity?"
"Yeah."
"Nauseous?"
"No, that ended two days ago."
"Dizziness?"
"A bit."
"Anything else I should know about?"
"Still really drowsy but that may be because of the pain meds and I still don't remember what happened before I woke up in the hospital."
"Nothing?" ask Jasper.
"No."
"It'll come back just don't force it." Says Carlisle.
"So I'm assuming Jasper told you our plan...?"
"I'm okay with it if you promise to take it easy, this will take longer to heal if you don't."
"Thank you."
"Of course." He smiles.
"Luna." Yells Alice walking in.
"Shit Alice my head." I groan rubbing it.
"I'm sorry but you moved your wedding up by two months, two months Luna."
"Did you explain to her?" I ask Jasper.
"I tried." He says putting his hands up.
"Alice I believe in you." I smile getting up. "I'm going to go get food now."
"Luna you gave me two weeks." She pouts.
"Yeah and I think you can do it and I really appreciate you. You do understand why I'm doing this right?"
"Yeah..."
"Thank you."
"Your welcome." She mutters.
"Think simple." I say.
"Okay..."
I walk into the kitchen to grab food and I see Edward walk in. I laugh and he looks at me, I'm going to assume he read my mind because he answers.
"You know I don't spend all my time over there."
"95% Edward."
"You know what..." He smirks.
"I'm guessing you were on your way back out?"
"In an hour."
"Mhm." I laugh.
"I saw Rosalie fixed your car."
"Yeah." I smile.
"I'm glad she could do it."
"Me too."
We sit there talking for a few minutes before he leaves. I go to get up to clean my plate off but I get up to quickly and get super dizzy. I grab on to the counter and say Jasper's name loud enough for him to hear and he comes in a few seconds later.
"What's wrong?" He ask trying to steady me.
"I got up too quickly, I got really dizzy."
"How bout now?"
"It feels like the room is spinning."
"I'm going to set you down on the couch."
"Okay..."
He gently picks me up and sets me down on the couch and I lay my head in his lap while he runs his fingers through my hair. It take 30 minutes for me to feel better after that and by the time it's over I'm almost asleep. Jasper carefully picks me up and carries me upstairs to our room and lays me down in bed pulling the covers over me. He then gets and and carefully wraps his arms around me. I hate feeling useless like this but I know that if I want to get better then I have to let them take care of me.
Jasper's POV
A week later I'm sitting in the living room with Luna, Emmet, and Rosalie when Alice comes in the room, Xander close behind her.
"Alice you good?" Ask Luna.
"I had a vision at school about Victoria." She says sitting down.
"What about?" I ask sitting up.
"She'll be here in two days."
"What?" I growl.
"Where?" Ask Emmet.
"The treaty line." Says Xander.
"She knows." Says Rosalie.
"Edwards taking Bella to Florida for the weekend, it's one less thing we have to worry about." Says Alice.
"What about Luna?" I ask.
"I'll be fine." She says. "She probably thinks I'm dead."
"Luna..." I groan.
"Joking..."
"No your not." Says Edward walking in.
"Edward stop reading my thoughts." She says glaring at him.
"Did you tell Carlisle about this?" I ask Alice.
"Yeah, and Bella doesn't know about this."
"And let's keep it that way." Says Edward.
"So what do we do?" I ask.
"We're going to be there waiting." Says Emmet.
"Sounds good."
Two nights later all of us except for the obvious Luna, Bella, and Edward are in the forest waiting for her.
"Are you sure this is where you saw her?" Ask Carlisle.
"She's almost here." We're all quiet a minute before she turns to Emmet. "On your left."
Emmet and Rosalie take off after her and Carlisle and I go wide to try to cut her off. I hear a crash followed by Emmet growling and I assume he missed her. I watch as she jumps over and Emmet, Rosalie, and I go to jump.
"Don't she's in their territory." Says Carlisle.
"She'll get away." Says Esme.
"No she won't." I say running on the edge to try and catch her, I watch some of the wolves emerge and although we hate each other I hope they catch her. Victoria jumps back over and Emmet and I are right on her tail.
"All ours now." Smirks Emmet.
"Less talking more chasing." I say trying to catch up to her.
Emmet reaches for her and she crashes him into another tree. He growls and goes to jump after her to the other side.
"Emmet don't." Yells Rosalie. But it's too late. The black one knocks Emmet into the water and both are growling at each other. Victoria got away.
"Damn it." I mutter.
"Emmet lets go." Says Carlisle.
No answer. "Emmet." Says Rosalie.
He gives one last snarl before jumping back up to join us. "They let her get away." He growls.
"We'll get her." Says Xander.
"Why don't we head back." Says Esme.
We all run back to the house and I head up to check on Luna. When I walk in our room I see her sitting up in bed. "I'm pretty sure you were supposed to be asleep." I say walking in. She keeps getting dizzy spells and Carlisle warned her that if we still want to get married next week she needs to be getting a lot of rest.
"I was...I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep." I can sense her nervousness and I send a wave of calmness over her. "So you didn't get her?"
"How'd you know?" I ask laying down with her.
"It would have been the first thing you told me when you walked in."
"Very perceptive."
"What happened."
"Emmet tried to cross over the line and the wolves got territorial, she got away."
"Great."
"We're going to get her Luna."
"When?"
"I don't know." I sigh. "Do you trust me?"
"Yes."
"Then trust that we will get her." I whisper. "Now go back to sleep."
"Stay." She whispers.
"I will." I say kissing her head.
Two nights later we are all sitting in the living room when Edward comes rushing in with Bella. Once he explains everything to us we send Xander and Emmet to track while the rest of us talk.
"No Alice...it was a stranger." Says Edward pacing around the room. "I didn't recognize the scent." He stops for a minute. "Not helpful Rosalie."
"Can you guys talk out loud?" Ask Bella.
"Yeah this whole thing is giving me a headache." Says Luna.
"Sorry." Says Edward.
"A nomad passing through?" Ask Esme.
"A passer by wouldn't have left Bella's father alive." Says Rosalie.
"His scent disappeared five miles south of Bella's house." Says Xander as he and Emmet walk in.
"Someone orchestrated this." Growls Edward.
"Victoria?" Ask Carlisle.
"It could be the Volturi." I offer.
"Seeing if you've changed me yet." Says Bella.
"No I've been watching Aro, it's not them." Says Alice.
"Well we need to figure it out." I argue.
"We should take shifts at Bella's house." Suggest Carlisle.
"Another protection detail." Says Rosalie annoyed, we all know her feelings on Bella.
"Rosalie..." Warns Esme.
"No she's right." Says Bella. "You guys can't protect me and my dad, search for the intruder and Victoria, watch over Luna, and keep yourselves fed. It's not possible."
"I'm not about to let you fend for yourself." Argues Edward.
"You don't have to I have..." Starts Bella.
"Bella..." Warns Luna.
"It could work." She argues.
"Bella no." Says Edward.
"What's the idea?" I ask.
"Involve the wolves." Growls Edward.
"It could work." Argues Xander. "As long as they agree. If Bella ask I'm sure they would."
"No." Says Edward.
"Edward we need all the help we can get right now." I say.
"...Fine..." He groans.
"Thank you." Says Bella.
"Aren't you glad we decided to get married on the craziest week ever?" Smiles Luna.
"We have great timing." I laugh. "That's going to go off without a problem."
"I'm glad Atlas is flying into all this madness."
"Oh boy." I sigh.
A few days later Luna and I go to pick Atlas up at the airport and Luna is the happiest I've seen her in a while. Last time he was here was for her parents funeral so I think she is glad to have him here for a happy occasion. I laugh as she sees him and runs to hug him. The two of them walk back over and I give him a quick hug.
"How's it going?" I ask.
"Going well." He smiles. "How about you two?"
"Crazy." Says Luna smirking.
"I'm sure, you did move your wedding up two months, which you never explained." He says looking to Luna as we walk to the car.
"I'll explain that later." She laughs.
"You better." He says as we get in the car. "Still not cleared to drive yet?" He ask her.
"Nope, the first time I watched tv was yesterday and that only lasted about an hour."
"Well maybe if you took Carlisle's advice." I teased.
"Let me guess, she's pushing herself?"
"Oh yeah." I laugh.
"Not that much..." She mutters.
"Mhm." I smirk grabbing her hand.
"Denali's just got to the house." Says Luna.
"Good."
"Who?" Ask Atlas.
"Old family friends." I answer.
"Ah."
Once we get back to the house we go introduce Atlas to the Denali's and we all talk for a while. I walk into Luna's studio after a little while and smile as I watch her draw. Atlas walks in a little while later and the two of us watch her.
"Atlas I need to tell you something." She says while still working.
"Okay..."
"And please don't freak out. The reason we moved the wedding up is because I have a vampire trying to kill me as revenge."
I laugh at her way of telling him and the fact that Atlas thinks this is a joke. "Funny Luna."
"No Atlas I'm serious. Jasper and his family, all vampires. The Denali's...all vampires."
"Jasper what is she talking about?"
"She is telling the truth." I say. "She wanted you to know."
"But I don't understand...what?"
"Okay so you know last year when you can out for graduation and I was acting weird?"
"Yeah..."
"I was kidnapped by a vampire named James. The Cullen's killed him after he tried to...do stuff to me and tried to kill Bella. Victoria was his mate. She hates me and when I say hates me I mean she killed my parents and was the reason for my car accident."
"But that doesn't explain why you're not dead yet...you live in a house of vampires."
"We are vegetarian, we only drink animal blood." I say.
"This is...wow...um...you're marrying a vampire...does that mean you're becoming one?"
"Yeah..."
"When?" He sighs.
"The deal is before my 20th birthday."
"Luna..."
"I've thought about this Atlas, a lot."
"You're sure?"
"More than sure."
"Wow."
"You took this better than I thought you would." I say.
"Honestly nothing surprises me with her anymore."
"You do know you can't tell anyone this right?" She ask.
"Yeah, I'm assuming I'll end of dead otherwise."
"Not by us but yes." I say.
"Great... Nothing weird about my best friend marrying a vampire."
"Nothing weird at all." She smirks.
"So when you guys left...not a family emergency?"
"Kind of was..." I say.
"We don't need to dive into that." Says Luna.
"Okay...wait a minute this vampire killed your parents?"
"Yeah..."she whispers.
"We're working on catching her." I say.
"Is she crazy?"
"Yes." Says Luna.
"Geez."
"Yeah."
"Well on that note I'm going to head to bed." Laughs Atlas.
"Night." We both say.
After a few minutes Luna cleans up and comes to sit in my lap. "Thank you for letting me tell him."
"I'm glad you did." I say kissing her head."
"One more day." she smiles.
"One more day and you're all mine."
"Forever."
"Forever." I smile.