keikei313: Maaaaabye. Or he's just a close relative. Only time will tell C:
It didn't take long for Jessica Stanley to ask me why I'd slapped my husband in the mouth four days ago on Monday. In fact I could tell she'd wanted to ask sooner but Jasper was around, I think he scared her off a few times. This time though, she'd found me alone at the lockers, I felt like Jasper had a hard time getting out of his class. I'd had a distant relationship with her, Angela Weber, and Ben Cheney, but I tended to keep them at arms length when it came to personal details.
"Yes Jessica?" I raised a brow as I saw her stop and stare at me from the corner of my eye. I was on my way to detention finally. I didn't want it to take place on a Friday so we'd decided on today. I wanted my weekend to be totally free of a certain history teacher.
"Just wanted to check in, see if you had any plans for the spring dance and all that." She shrugged, looking excited.
"Well, I'm totally up for a shopping trip to Los Angeles if you and Alice wanted to go on one." She looked a little distracted but hopeful as she hinted. I nodded with a small smile forming as I closed the locker and turned to face her.
"But anyways I was totally just wondering what happened with you and Mr dark and handsome and Mr Teacher-Hottie?" She queried quickly, waving her hands back towards the classroom. I realised that this was the whole reason she'd been following me around for the last few days with some mirth. Jasper would be a mix of appalled and amused to hear her call him Mr dark and handsome. I could only guess the dark referenced his general outlook on life towards humans.
"A fly was close to landing on his chin. So I smacked it away." I stated plainly, looking her dead in the eye. I waited with bated breath as it seemed to process.
We'd practiced this after asking Carlisle if he could think of a good reason to slap someone in the mouth. Edward was actually the first to suggest it saying that he'd seen girls smacking each other after a bee so we choose a fly because it'd be less noticeable. Jasper hadn't appreciated the slap, giving me a stinging one on my ass in return but I still felt it'd been totally necessary.
"Oh! I guess that makes sense." She looked a little disappointed in my reason but I felt a sense of relief. I saw Jasper coming behind her and nodded to him that it'd worked. She bought it. He had both of his hands behind his back as he walked tall over towards us, he gave me a small smile that quickly faded as he came closer.
"Totally normal reason. I mean I've done the same thing to Lauren when a bee landed in her hair." Jessica looked over her shoulder as I began to smile and nodded quickly. I guess she was one of the girls Edward saw.
"You look good today, Miss Stanley." Jasper complimented. He nodded his head to her as she seemed to almost begin to vibrate on the spot. I almost started to grin at his pleasant tone. He sounded halfway normal right now.
"Oh gosh, you can totally just call me Jessica or Jess or something." She looked incredibly flattered to have gained the compliment from Jazzy, delight streamed from her eyes.
"But yeah, thanks! I did put on some extra mascara and lip gloss today. I thought it was a good shade even though Lauren said it was too pink for my complexion." She added shyly.
"Its a lovely shade." I nodded, looking back at her. She seemed to blush deeper as Jasper nodded as well. I felt like we looked like two bobble head dolls standing there as we talked to her but Jessica seemed entirely giddy like she saw nothing wrong with this scene.
"Miss Hale and Mr Cullen. I expected you two in my classroom two minutes ago." Woods came out of his classroom, his voice echoing around the empty hallway. I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes at this facade. I was 166 years old and I was in a stupid detention. I kind of understood why Jasper sometimes felt like the human facade of a high-schooler was humiliating.
"Well I guess I'll just let you two go then. Bye and text me if you want to hang out." She grinned, turning to leave now. I looked back towards Jasper with a small smile, he glanced at me and squeezed my hand in return before he turned back to glower at Woods.
Jasper never really spoke to her, just sort of glared next to me as I spoke to her so this was a good start. I felt like we really needed to talk to people like a normal couple of teenagers if we ever wanted to blend in, Esme and Carlisle agreed while everyone else except Alice almost laughed. Alice wanted to blend in with me to try and get used to it before Irenta showed.
We'd never fit in according to Rose, she thought we were just too different to ever fit in with humans again. Rose for all her good qualities was vain at times, a lot relied on the sight for her. I was a middle ground in attractiveness which she thought gave me an ability to be accepted more so by the females. Jasper always disagreed, bless him.
"Do you always make a habit of making friends with your prey?" Woods snorted as soon as Jessica was out of ear shot. The heavy front doors slammed shut behind her as we all watched her leave, I didn't respond at first.
"Do you always make a habit of teacher your prey?" I retorted quickly, my head spun around to glare at him. I knew our way of life and our ideology was rare and almost odd in the vampire world. We were really the only large coven that truly preached taking a stand against the bloodshed of humans for us to live. It seemed Wood's was one of the anti types that enjoyed the chase and felt it was silly to do anything else.
"I suppose I do, it pays my bills and fills my gut, Miss Hale." He seemed amused at my righteous outburst as he turned to walk back to his classroom. We turned to follow while Jasper wrapped an arm around my hips, pulling me closer towards him.
"So. What shall we have you do? Perhaps fill out some charts? Timelines of 1860's Civil War? Or better yet, every American president?" He sat back against his desk as we stood in-front of the door. He looked in power, amused and entranced with holding his power as an instructor over us. Sadly he seemed to not know that much about either of us or our original era.
"You're looking at the youngest Major to have ever made the Texan confederacy. Go ahead and give me all of your crap, Woods." Jasper drawled with confidence, I smirked next to him as we stood in-front of the vampire.
"Right. I forgot you two were around back then." Woods sighed, looking put out with the lack of fun.
"Well tell me about yourselves. Carlisle said you were a doctor, Miss Hale." His eyes drifted towards me. I nodded slowly.
"Yes. I can heal humans so it only made sense to study for that position." I raised a brow as I explained my reasoning for it all with a sour tone.
"Mm. I can tell. You look the type to care. I suppose thats where you come in with a choice like that." He motioned to Jasper with a tilt of his head. I pursed my lips, not responding to his bait.
"I beg your pardon?" Jasper took the bait, setting his own for the teacher. I almost sighed but decided instead to reach out towards my mate and take his hand that rested on my hip.
"Well you're obviously a patron of war. Soldiers break. She's around to put you back together." He smirked, looking back to Jasper.
I felt my mouth fall open with some indigence at my husband's expense when said husband just pulled me closer into a kiss. I wasn't entirely expecting it but I returned it with some extra tongue action without really thinking about the fact that Woods was standing right there. Jasper pulled back after a second with a little bit of a victorious smile going.
"That puts me back together anytime." He muttered in response to Woods but he was looking at me with warm sweet eyes. Now I just wanted to leave and find a place to strip him down and ride him. It was funny how quickly Jasper brought out the brazen lust in my for no good reason other than he just could.
"That looked a little hot and heavy. Are you sure that's really appropriate for siblings?" Woods smirked, looking like he was about to have some fun again.
"Cute." I stated with little humour. I felt my face tighten in a look of pure annoyance as I stared at the other vampire. Jasper's grip tightened around my hand telling me he didn't appreciate the man's idea of funny either.
"I can get a lot cuter if you'd give me and your sisters a kiss like that, honey." Woods winked, sitting back on his desk. It appeared he was flirting but he was also watching me expectantly for some sort of a reaction. I just felt the indignation set in, forcing my mouth into a thin line.
"I don't find that all that amusing." I bit out with some heat behind my words, they were all clear and crisp but I wasn't kind.
I was a little shocked at first that he'd said something like that and laughed. Rose and Alice were my sisters. That just a level icky grossness that I just refused to think about. But the fact he seemed to be thinking about them like that had me angry. Just really, really angry. To the point I was squeezing Jazzy's hand like a stressball.
"Oh come on. Lighten up, unwind your corset for a second. Its just a joke...Plus if I happened to tell the principle about you two kissing in front of a teacher in detention, you guys would have so many more problems, huh?" He shrugged, looking a little put off by my lack of laughter.
It felt like he was almost threatening us at this point, making me want to pull back a little from the man in caution and worry. Jasper seemed to have just snapped at that point, which was fair. Jasper didn't do anything close to a threat. He'd snap someone in half for a threat.
Jazz moved at a faster pace than either of us and before I knew it, Wood's head was pressed between Jasper's bicep and forearm. I was between cheering and telling Jasper to put the man down. It was pretty much my sensibilities versus my anger with the comments earlier. I sure as hell wasn't about to stop him.
"You have quite the sense of humour, Mr Woods." His voice was dark and his eyes were narrowed. I recognized the look from when Jasper yanked Edward's arm off and tossed it across the forest.
"Though some how I find myself lacking laughter." I took a step forward when Jasper held up a hand for me to stop and he tightened his grip on Woods. I pursed my lips with a sigh and allowed him that, stopping where I was.
"Is that...so?" Woods paused to take a deep breath. He put his hands over Jasper's arm to try and pull back enough for a bit of air.
"I think you may find yourself in a better position if you keep jokes about my wife or her sisters to yourself, Mr Woods." Jasper was essentially warning him as he dropped him back to his knees with a bit of distaste. I had a feeling Emmett and Edward would join Jasper in taking apart the guy if he asked them. Emmett seemed to be neutral while Edward found him possibly threatening our peace with the Quileutes and Jasper just found him annoying.
"You're both dismissed. Have a good day, Mr Cullen and Miss hale." He coughed with a small grin forming as he felt his throat. Jasper seemed pleased with that, like he was hoping for that to happen. He took my hand and guided me out of the room gently. I followed without a single glance back at the man because I had a feeling I was about to get my wish from earlier.
Jazz got onto his bike and waited for me to swing my leg over. I got it over and he zipped out of the near empty parking lot with a loud roar from the ducati. We got farther down the road when we pulled off to go back towards the house. He stopped the bike halfway, parking it in the trees and pulling me back into the forest. I'm sure I had a wide grin as I skipped in front of him.
It was quickly wiped off when the waves of lust hit me and I quickly went to kiss Jasper hard on the mouth. He reciprocated pushing me back until we bumped into a tree, it splintered ever so slight as our shoulders went through the side. I was almost giddy for what was coming next as I laid back on the grass, Jasper trailing a line of kisses down my neck.