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JPV

I brought Lexi to Edwards room. Edward, can we come in?

"Why?" He called from inside.

"Because." I smiled.

He opened the door, "Why?"

"I'm tellin Lexi about everyone's past. I finished with Carlisle now it's your turn."

"Just because your telling her about my past doesn't mean that you need to come in." Edward folded his arms across his chest.

"Well than." I huffed.

Since Edward was being a butt, I took her back to Carlisle's office.

"Story time in here?" She asked with a grin.

"I suppose."

"So what, did Edward find Carlisle?" She guessed.

"No, not exactly. Carlisle was working in a hospital in Chicago treating people who were dying of the Spanish Influenza, that's where he found Edward and his parents. Edward's father, Edward," I chuckled a bit, "had died in the first wave of it. But Edward and his mother had survived, only to be infected in the second wave. Carlisle suspects that Elizabeth, Edward's mom, had known he was a vampire."

"Why? I never would have guessed." She pondered the thought.

"Well, we don't know for sure, but Carlisle says that Elizabeth's last request was to do something that no other doctor could do for Edward, which was change him. Obviously, that's what Carlisle did. Since he couldn't find a companion, and he didn't want to doom someone who had a life, he changed someone who was dying and had no life left."

"Wait? So you have to be dying to become a vampire?" She frowned.

"No, that's just Carlisle. Like I said he didn't want to doom someone who still had their whole life ahead of them."

"Wait, so that's it? That's Edward's past?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Seems so short." She shook her head.

"He was only 17." I pointed out.

"So young," She pretended to cry for a few moments before straightening up. "who's next?"

"Esme." I smiled.

"Was Esme dying?"

"Yes in fact, she was. When Esme was 16 she fell out of a tree and broke her leg,"

"That hardly sounds like dying." She interrupted.

"Well she's not dying yet, she met Carlisle before he changed her."

"Oooo I get it now! Okay going on."

"Alright then. Anyway, Carlisle had been passing by, and being a doctor, he put her leg in a cast and all that doctor crap. Well, of course Esme never saw Carlisle again after that and she continued her life as normal. She even got married. But, she soon found out her new husband was what we call, abusive," Lexi's eyes widened. "after her husband came home from World War I she found out she was pregnant. Knowing she could never bring a child into a home with Charles, her husband, she ran away to stay with a cousin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But Charles soon found out her location and Esme moved up to Ashland, Wisconsin. She posed as a war widow and became a school teacher.

"Esme loved the unborn baby more than her own life. But two days after the baby boy was born, he died of lung fever. After his death, Esme walked to cliff outside of town and jumped. Carlisle found her in the hospital, someone had brought her there, and he recognized her even after ten years. Knowing that Esme couldn't be saved Carlisle changed her." I looked at Lexi's horrified expression.

"She jumped? I-I can't get over that." She finished in a whisper.

"I don't blame her. I'd do the same."

"If you lost your child you'd jump off of a cliff?"

"No, if I lost you I'd jump off a cliff. Well, actually I wouldn't. I'd find a way to kill myself though."

She looked extremely horrified. "WHAT?" She screeched.

"Oh come on Lex. I'm not going to live without you." I said it like it was most obvious thing in the world. It should be.

"Jasper Hale! You are forbidden to hurt yourself no matter what happens to me!" She scolded, the shock was still in her eyes.

"Oh Lex. Think about it this way, what would I ever do without you?"

"Um, how about going back to whatever you were doing before I came along." She suggested.

"But life was so boring and empty." I frowned.

"Well, look at it this way, what if something happened to you? Would you want me to go off and hurt myself?" She argued.

I frowned at the thought of her being hurt in any way.

"No." I admitted.

"There now you see what I mean. Now, who's next on the past list?"

"Rosalie I suppose."

"I can't picture Rosalie being hurt or in danger in some way."

"Well I can assure you that Carlisle didn't change her out of the blue. In fact Rosalie was assaulted and um, raped by her fiance a week before her wedding. The guy, Royce, and his friends thought she was dead so they left her in the street. Carlisle smelt all the blood and changed her. His original intention was for Rose to become a mate for Edward."

"Why are all your pasts surprising? Holy crap! Rosalie? No way." She looked as if she didn't believe me, but something told me she did.

"Royce was drunk, so I suppose he wasn't as top notch as he would've normally been. Although it's absolutely no excuse to do that to a lady."

"She just seems like she would never let that happen. She's so...vocal and well, bitter." Lexi frowned.

"Anything can happen to even the most bitter of people."

"It's still surprising. Poor Rosalie." She whispered.

"It's part of the reason she's so bitter. She hates what's happened to her. She despises being a vampire, but I think Emmett's helped her a lot."

"How?"

"Well, like Emmett always says, nothings ever that bad when you have an angel with you. Emmett I guess helped her see the good or the light in being a vampire."

"He was always like that, finding the good in everything," She smiled at that. "so who's next after Rose?"

"Well, technically me and Cooper but we'll start with Alice because her story is shorter."

"Alright." She smiled focused completely on me.

"Alice remembers nothing from her past. Hence, why her story is so short. All we know is that she was in an asylum and a vampire who worked there changed her to save her from getting killed by a vampire that was chasing her."

"Wow. That is a short story. But that's alright! Now it's your turn." She smiled wider, if even possible.

"Unfortunately. But to be totally honest, it's Cooper and I's turn. Our story's go together. Cooper and I were brothers. We wrestled and fought, climbed trees, we did everything as kids, which was surprising considering he was older than me. You know how younger siblings aren't cool, even though I was only a year younger. We grew up and we both fell in love, but I was the first to get married. Cooper was engaged, and was supposed to get married in the next few years. My wife, Lillian, and I had decided that we wanted a child. And a child we had. We had a beautiful little girl on June 4th we named her Michelle," Lexi's eyes widened. "she was perfect, she was my world. But the Confederates were looking for help and they were paying well, so I joined them. Little Michelle was two years old when I got recruited. I hated to leave her, but I had to. After just 6 months in the army I was promoted to Major getting picked over older and much more experienced men, I was what you would call charismatic. But the day I got promoted I got a letter from my wife. She told me that Michelle had been sick and had died. Minutes after reading that, I was promoted," Lex held my hand and comforted me.

"I was out evacuating the women and children from the towns, we were expecting an attack from the north, this was a few weeks after my promotion. I had been circling around, making sure I didn't miss anyone when I saw them. Three women just walking along. I knew that I hadn't ever seen them before, I would've remembered them. I stopped to give them my aid, thinking they needed help. The three girls were clearly of Mexican heritage, it was obvious in their face and skin tone. They were talking about how I was an officer and how I would be good for something. The middle one told the other two to go and hunt. I found that strange that a couple of women would be hunting, but I thought they were animal hunting. The one that was left leaned in as if she was going to kiss me, my instincts were telling me to run but I'd been taught not to fear women, but to protect them, and God knew that if I was ever impolite or unprotective in any way my father would've had my rear end. Anyway, I was wrong, she wasn't going to kiss me, she was going to change me.

"After three days of terrible pain, I was introduced to my new life. Their names were Lucy, Nettie, and Maria and they were my leaders. Maria was creating an army, in the south there are many battles for territory among the vampires. Maria wanted the land she had lost back, Lucy and Nettie felt the same. The three had a plan. Most people with armies just created a whole bunch of newborns and let them run loose, but Maria, Lucy, and Nettie were being more cautious. They only selected officers or men that looked strong and useful. They also did something other vampires wouldn't dream of doing, they trained us. When we did well we were rewarded, with blood. And it's not the blood that I drink now. Remember when I was telling you about the humans I killed? This is how I killed so many, I fed on them."

Lex shivered at the thought of me and killing humans.

"But wait? How does Cooper come into this?"

"Well, Maria, me, and some other people in the army were hunting. I had finished my hunt and I'd sent the other vampires back to camp. I was waiting for Maria. I noticed that she had two humans, she was finishing off one but I strangely remembered the other, Cooper. I panicked, he was my brother I had to do something. Before she bit him I stopped her. I told her that I thought he would be useful in the army. I was her second in command, and I was in charge of dealing with the newborns. So she trusted me and changed him. After the change was complete I took Cooper our for his first hunt and showed him how things worked in the vampire world. I also asked if he remembered me. He honestly shocked me and told me he did, I never thought he would. I told him that he would have to fight hard and prove himself if he wanted to stay alive. I knew I could only cover for him for so long before Maria would force me to destroy him if he slipped up. Surprisingly, he did well.

"Cooper survived his first year, which is when most newborns get disposed of. We had finished getting rid of the old vampires and Maria had brought in more of them for us to train. In that new batch is where I found someone I actually talked to. His name was Peter. It's not good to get attached to newborns, and I was now attached to two of them, Peter and Cooper. I feared that Maria would make me destroy them. Luckily she didn't. But she was mad at me for not destroying a vampire that I should have. Her name was Charlotte. Peter and I were getting rid of vampires and he'd tried to convince me that some were still good. I'd asked Maria about it and she said she wanted them all gone. With every vampire destroyed Peter grew more and more anxious and worried. I called for Charlotte to come in, he yelled for her to run and took off after her. I could've easily caught them, but I chose not too. She was mad I didn't destroy them."

"Why didn't you destroy them like you were suppose too?" Lexi asked in a whisper.

"I don't know. When Charlotte came in Peter's emotions changed dramaticly. There was an emotion he felt that I'd only felt for my wife before then. I felt love. I liked Peter and thought of him as a friend, I didn't want to destroy his mate." I shrugged.

"Aw, Jazzy." She cuddled against me.

"I couldn't do that to him. He was my best friend other than Cooper." I held her in my arms.

"So how did you find the Cullen's?"

"Well, Maria had been feeling strange and anxious, the same emotions that had given me a heads up that Lucy and Nettie were going to turn on us. I was worried that I would have to destroy my only companion. I knew I would win, but I didn't want to destroy her. But her feelings had opened my eyes, I thought what Maria and I had was love, but in truth I was her puppet and she pulled the strings. But Peter came back for me. He told me about the life he had in the north, how he had lived all this time without a single fight. In one conversation, he had me convinced. I left with him that night. When you live for the blood, for the fight, bonds are easily broken I never looked back for Maria. But I was worried about Cooper. I feared that since I left, Maria would get rid of him. But I didn't know how to go get him. How to make him leave. So I left him.

"I stayed with Peter and Charlotte for a few years, but I left. I was still depressed. Peter noticed that I was always worse after I fed, since I could feel the emotions of my prey. I tried to feed less often, but it would overwhelm me and I'd give in. I found self discipline difficult. I'd moved into Philadelphia it was a rainy day and I hadn't fed in a while. I ducked into a small diner to get out of the rain. Alice saw me coming and greeted me like an old friend. She held out her hand and I took it. And for the first time in a century, I felt hope.

"Alice took me to her house, and told me everything. She told me about the Cullen's and we practiced our vegetarian lifestyle while we moved all over the country looking for them. We scared them to death when we arrived. My scars and Alice greeting them all by name didn't help either," Lexi laughed. "Once I found the Cullen's I worried even more about Cooper. I knew I was safe and happy but I didn't know about Cooper. I kept picturing him in my head dead or hurt, finally Edward asked me about him. I told Edward my story, who went against my wishes and told the family. We had a big meeting about it, and it was decided, I would try and get Cooper from Maria.

"We went down there just two weeks after the meeting. Alice saw that Maria was away hunting and I located Cooper easily. It took a bit to convince him. I begged him to just come and meet the family. We rented a house for a bit and we explained everything. He really liked Alice, the lust was rolling off of them both. I still believe that it was Alice who convinced him to come with us. He is her soul mate after all." I smiled.

"What do you mean by that? How do you really know if their your soul mate?" She looked up at me.

"Well, it's-it's hard to explain. I suppose you wouldn't be able to describe how you would feel with them. It's like that they are the only person you see in the world, mate wise anyway. They would always be on your mind whether your with them or not. And when you are with them it's like your whole world is complete and there's nothing you could ever want or need more than that person." I grinned having one person in my mind the whole time.

"Have you ever met your soul mate Jasper?" She cuddled against me.

"Of course I have. Have you?" I smiled at her.

"Yup, Emmett." She grinned.

I sat there dumbfounded. I was confused.

"Oh come on Jazzy I love you! You know I was kidding!" She touched my cheek.

"I love you too." Was all I could muster. I was slow and a little confused still.

"Jasper." She kissed me.

"Alexis." I kissed her back.

"Jazzy." She kissed again.

"Lexi." I kissed her once more.

"Jazz." She kissed me.

"Lex." I kissed her for a final time.

We laughed at our new found game. I carried her downstairs and into the living room.

"Story time over?" Emmett asked when we sat down on the middle couch.

"Yup. Why?" We cuddled together.

"Are you scared of us yet?" Cooper grinned.

"No." Lexi rolled her eyes and pointed at him.

Cooper snapped his teeth at her hand. She pulled back just in time.

"Cooper." I warned him about his close call.

"Jasper." Cooper mimicked me.

"Are you two gunna kiss now?" Lexi teased.

"EW! NO!" Cooper yelled.

"Why would they do that?" Emmett asked looking creeped out.

"It's a game." I smiled in remembrance.

"I've never heard of that game." Cooper's eyes were wide as he stared at me.

"That's because Jasper and I just made it up!" Lexi squeezed me tightly.

"Sick game." Emmett mumbled.

"Your just jealous you don't get to kiss my girlfriend." I mumbled back.

"I have my own to kiss." Emmett glared at me.

Edward and Bella entered the living room. Bella looked upset about something.

"What's wrong Bella?" Lexi asked sitting up.

"Nothing." Bella replied quickly.

"I don't see what the deal is!" Edward rose his voice, chuckling.

"Oh a deal huh?" Emmett joked.

"The deal is that it's a grim day that I don't want to remember!" Bella's voice rose as well.

"What's a grim day?" Lexi questioned.

"Bella your birthday is something to celebrate not something to forget!" Edward put his arms around her.

"Your birthday? When?" Lexi jumped up and down.

"Never!" Bella snapped.

"Next Monday." Edward answered.

"We're SO having a party!" Lexi voice rose with every word.

"Noooo," Bella whined. "seriously I don't want anything, not even attention for my birthday! And NONE of you are to buy me presents!"

"I'm going to buy you all the presents in the world!" Emmett cheered.

Bella groaned.

"So next Monday we're having a party!" Alice cheered coming down the stairs.

Bella covered her eyes and slumped on the left couch.

Sorry I know it's short and not entertaining at all. :(( But I promise the next chapter will be better for we will begin New Moon! :)) Again sorry for the bad chapter but I wanted to get something up! Let me know if you have ideas for chapters! IDEAS are ALWAYS WELCOME! :))