Chapter 26
I own nothing all for funzies.
Beta'd by the talented ladyluck25
Jasper's POV
The whole way home I couldn't keep my eyes and hands off my mate. She was so damn beautiful. I didn't know what I'd ever done to deserve her. I slid her dress up and traced patterns on her thigh with my free hand as I drove.
I hoped to hell she'd be okay making love in our room at the Cullen house, I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to wait until the next time we had a chance to get back to the cabin. I smiled and wrapped my arms around her kissing her as soon as we pulled into the garage.
I was beyon thrilled she'd agreed to be my wife. I mean, I know we were already mated, but there was a small part of me that still clung to some of my human traditions. My mother had told me that marriage was the greatest honor and commitment you could make. Of course, I'm pretty sure she didn't take into account that I'd be a monster who would find his soul mate and be mated for eternity. But I still held the tradition in my heart because it was something my mother said was important.
"Hey what happened to my truck?" she asked once we parted and got out.
Why couldn't she have asked me this a few days later? "Um, I assume it goes to your momma, when she comes for the memorial."
She looked surprised. "What memorial?"
"Since there was nothin' left in the fire, they're holdin' a memorial instead of a funeral." I hated this. She wouldn't even get to attend her father's memorial service.
"When is it?" she asked quietly.
"Tomorrow afternoon." She looked a little angry and I didn't much feel like having her make me feel like I was on fire today.
"I was gonna tell ya. I swear! I just got distracted." I tried giving her a sexy smile hoping to distract the angry beast inside my mate. Which by the way, I thought was sexy.
I couldn't help it; there must be something sick inside me because when I saw her torturing Edward, I swear I wanted to take her right there on the ground. I pushed the thought away I just chalked it up to left over horrible person residue from when I was with Maria.
She didn't hurt me.
"Can I go?" she asked instead in a small voice.
"Baby even if no one else recognized ya, or just assumed ya were a family member, your momma will definitely know who ya are. She's not gonna not recognize her own daughter." I hated to tell her no. I wanted to give her everything her heart desired.
"I wouldn't have to be seen. I just want to be at Charlie's memorial, and I want to be able to say goodbye. I'd also like to see my mother again. We don't know how long all this mess will take and I don't know when I'll get the chance to see her again." she looked at me with pleading eyes.
"We'll talk to Carlisle and figure somethin' out baby girl I promise." It was impossible to tell her no.
"Now look over there at those boxes." I pointed to the huge stack of boxes stacked up against the wall.
"I'm pretty sure Charlotte got ya everything ya might have wanted."
She bit her lip in that sexy way that I loved and smiled, jumping out of the car and tearing into the boxes. As she pulled things out I saw that Charlotte had done a very good job. It looked like she'd scoured the house and taken every picture, every last thing that looked like it would hold sentimental value for Bella. She even packed two boxes of Charlie's things, clothes, jewelry, and even his badge.
After about thirty minutes Bella's excitement started to seep away. She hadn't found the necklace yet. She'd found a small wooden box that Charlotte had put all of Bella's jewelry in, Emmett's bracelet was there but he necklace was not.
"It's not here!" she cried.
"What's goin' on out here?" Peter came out smiling.
While I watched Bella searching the boxes, I'd heard him in the house sharing his old war stories with the others. They were all riveted. The wolves in particular found Peter fascinating.
"Where's Charlotte?" she grumbled at him.
"Right here honey, what's wrong?" Charlotte came out of the house and put an arm around Bella. She was radiating concern.
"Did you pack a necklace from my night stand?" she looked at Charlotte with hopeful eyes.
"Yes, I put it in the box with the rest of your jewelry." She picked the box up and started going through it herself.
"It's gone!" Bella turned back to me, the hurt look on her face and the sorrow she was feeling broke my heart.
"I'm sure it just fell out in the truck or while Charlotte was unloadin' the boxes baby. We'll find it don't worry." I moved to her side and she buried her face in my chest.
"Oh what have we here?" Rose came out and grabbed Bella's hand looking at the ring. "Esme!"
My adoptive mother came out and immediately squealed. Everyone was in the garage now. "Does this mean what I think it does?" She asked excitedly.
Bella smiled at her. I could feel that she was still upset about the necklace but she wasn't going to let it ruin her happiness.
"When is this takin' place?" Charlotte asked. The women were giddy. The men were patting me on the back and offering me congratulations. Even Edward was on the edge of the group smiling.
Bella and I both looked at Alice. We hadn't picked a date, but since we'd decided to get married she'd be able to see when it would be. The tiny pixie got a far off blank look on her face for a moment.
"Really? Christmas day?" she asked a little surprised.
"Sounds good to me baby, I couldn't think of a better Christmas present than you. " I said kissing her.
"Just so long as it's before all hell breaks loose, I don't care when it is." She said with a wide, beautiful smile.
I could wait two months for her to be my wife. I did however find it a little uncomfortable that my ex-wife would no doubt be helping with the planning. I didn't really care though I just wanted my mate happy.
Bella's POV
"Oh Bella please let me design your wedding dress?" Alice squealed excitedly.
"Why can't we just go to a bridal shop and buy one or rent one?" The other women looked appalled at my suggestion. "Or maybe not, but I don't want you going overboard got it?" I pointed my finger at Alice knowing it was useless. I didn't want to be getting married in some huge frilly monstrosity.
She smiled a big, slightly maniacal smile.
"You already have the dress don't you?" I asked in a suspicious tone.
"Do you want to see it!" she took my hand and pulled me away from Jasper and the other women followed us.
I could still hear the guys talking in the garage from upstairs. It was slightly muffled through the walls and doors of the house but I could still hear it clearly enough.
"So you're taking the plunge!" Emmett said, "Are you sure you're ready for this?" he laughed at Jasper. Yeah I was going to have to remember to talk to Rose before they went to their room for the night.
"Emmett he has done this before ya know." Peter laughed.
"No I've never done this before." Jasper said in a somewhat dreamy sounding voice. I had to smile. "This time, it's right and it's forever." I loved him so much.
Alice got my attention again when she came out of her design room holding a dress bag. We were all gathered in her room with the door closed so Jasper couldn't see the dress.
It was perfect. It was exactly what I would have chosen if I could have found it in a store, which I know I wouldn't have. Alice had made this special just for me.
"So how long have you had this thing?" I asked admiring it.
"I put the final touches on it the day before your birthday." She smiled. "Do you like it?"
"Yeah it's perfect, but when did you start making it?" I'd only been here a month about a month and a half before my birthday. She couldn't have had time to do all this before she'd left.
"The day after I met you." she said off handedly.
Everyone in the room was a little shocked.
"Alice how long have you known Jasper and I were mates? I thought you couldn't see me clearly." I asked in a slightly irritated tone. I didn't want to be mad at her but if she'd known from the beginning and said nothing I was going to be pissed.
"I couldn't, and I still can't by the way. We should really work on figuring out how to fix that. Any way when I met you my future changed." She put the dress back in the bag as she talked. "I'd been seeing lots of things in my future, and I didn't understand any of them, and none of them were solidified. But when I met you in the parking lot my future shifted and became very clear. I was going to be leaving to find my true mate ."
"Why the hell did ya marry Jasper in the first place knowin' he wasn't your mate?" Charlotte snapped at her before I had a chance to react.
"Don't start with me right now hillbilly!"
Wow they really didn't like each other.
"I was going off what my visions were telling me! And I loved him! I still do, just not the same way! If I didn't marry him, he wouldn't come with me to the Cullens and that's where his future was supposed to be! If he decided to stay with you guys he was going to slip further into depression and do something stupid!"
"Stop fighting now or I'll lock you both in the fucking closet until you kiss and make up!" I yelled at them both, "You're not going to ruin my happy high with this old grudge bullshit! Everybody get over it and Alice finish the story!" I needed her to finish so I could decide whether to be angry or not.
Everyone looked at me shocked for a moment , then laughed.
"Okay, so I knew I was going to meet my mate. I didn't know that you two were mates, but I knew you were going to be important to him. And I knew he was in love with you the moment he looked at you. I suspected you were mates though, it didn't solidify that you were until you decided to be one of us. I started making the dress before that just in case though. I wanted it done before I left just in case I wasn't back in time for the wedding."
"Why didn't you tell me then that we were mates?" I was a little upset, if I'd known for certain that we were mates I probably wouldn't have let Edward's words get to me as bad.
"Every time I decided to tell you, I'd see it ending badly. You had to realize you were in love with him , that you were mates on your own. And I thought you had before your party. I'm sorry."
I would hate to have her gift. She had to decide what was and was not safe to tell people constantly. She could see something that could possibly be life changing for one person, and if she decided to tell them it could become life changing for another. That was a heavy burden to have to carry.
"Are you mad at me?" Alice asked looking doleful.
"Nah, you never did anything out of malice. And besides like I told you before, you gave me your husband so I kind of owe you." I couldn't bring myself to be angry at her. she was doing her best to do what she thought was right, no matter what the outcome was.
Everyone laughed.
"So, what colors are you going with Bella?" Rose asked me changing the subject.
"Um, I really don't know. I suppose I should ask Jasper what he'd like." I wanted to get married, but he was the one who wanted the big ceremony.
"Oh please, he won't care. Emmett didn't care about anything in our wedding." She chuckled.
"Carlisle listened and made comments when I showed him my plans for our wedding, but I don't think he actually made one decision." Esme smiled.
"Jasper just told me to tell him where and when to be and he'd show up. Other than that he didn't have anything to do with it." Alice laughed until she realized what she'd just said. "Oh Bella I'm sorry I didn't mean to…"
I laughed and cut her off. "It's fine Alice I know you didn't mean anything by it.' I gave her a hug for reassurance.
"Peter and I aren't married." Charlotte suddenly said surprising everyone in the room.
"Why not?" I asked. I couldn't imagine why they would never have gotten married. I knew they loved each other.
"He ain't ever asked." She sounded a little sad.
"Do you want to be married lil momma?" I decided that since I'd already referred to both her and Esme as momma at some point that Charlotte would be lil momma, since she was so much more petite than Esme. And Esme would be big momma, just because Peter called Carlisle big papa.
"Well yeah, but I'm not goin' ta push it. I'm happy just bein' with him." she smiled but it didn't quite reach her eyes.
I walked to the door and opened it; Alice quickly put the dress back into her design room and smiled at me knowing what I planned to do.
"Hey daddy get your ass up here!" I yelled down.
"Bella!" Esme and Charlotte both scolded me. "The language in my house is getting worse by the second." Esme chuckled.
"Sorry."
"What's all this ruckus about?" Peter and Jasper came into the room first. Peter was smiling his normal big goofy grin. Emmett, Carlisle, and Edward were in the hall looking in through the door. I could hear our four wolves at the foot of the stairs. They probably weren't sure if it was okay for them to come up. Oh well I knew they could hear what was going on just fine.
"Why aren't you married to my momma?" I demanded and he lost his smile and looked extremely shocked and nervous.
All the guys burst into laughter.
"Well I, um, I mean… uh." He was fidgeting nervously. He looked to Charlotte for help but she just gave him a smile.
"Well answer the girl." She told him with a smirk.
"Shut up!" He snapped at the guys as they continued to laugh. He went to Charlotte. "Baby, do ya want ta be married?"
"Of course I do stupid! Why wouldn't I want ta be married ta the man I love?" she crossed her arms across her chest and glared at him.
"Well. how come ya didn't say somethin' before now woman ?" he demanded.
"Why didn't ya ask before now ya redneck fool!" she demanded back. "I shouldn't have ta spell everything out for ya!"
He shoved his hands into his pockets and looked around nervously at everyone. Then he dropped to his knee in front of her and took her hand. "Please marry me baby?"
Jasper came over and wrapped his arm around my waist.
"You're such a little trouble maker." He chuckled.
"Hell no!" Charlotte said with a big smile. "You get up off this floor, get a ring and do it proper!"
"So very much a trouble maker!" Peter grumbled as he stood up and kissed charlotte. "If I ask ya again and ya say no, I ain't askin' again!" he warned her.
I saw Alice behind Charlotte mouthing the words, she'll say yes, and giving him a little thumbs up. "I know what you're doin' back there and ya better quit!" Charlotte snapped at Alice.
"So Bella, did ya break the cabin, or was it too vanilla?' Emmett asked out of nowhere.
I ignored him. Jasper did not.
"It was the best damn sex you'll never get ta try bubba." They shared a laugh, but cut it off quickly as Rose and I glared at them.
Once everything was calmed down, I asked Rose to go to the green house with me. I wanted to get the Emmett project under way quickly.
"I want to do something mean to Emmett." I informed her.
"I want to do mean things to him all the time." She laughed, "But what did you have in mind?"
"I seemed to have developed a new ability." I grinned wickedly at her.
"What?" She looked a little nervous now.
I thought about it, then asked permission to use it on her instead of telling her about it. She agreed after I promised it wouldn't hurt.
I imagined the little glowing ball and pushed it into her. Rose hit her knees with a loud moan and a look of ecstasy on her face. She smiled up at me when I pulled it back.
"And you want to do that to Em? How is that going to be mean?"
"You're going to take him up stairs, get him all hot and bothered, and I'm going to do that. He'll think he's premature." I giggled.
She giggled with me.
"You're an evil little bitch Bella." She laughed again. "I love it!"
We made our plan. We would wait for Carlisle and Esme to go into town in a little bit and we'd do it then. Jasper and I were waiting until after we had our fun to tell the others what I could do. Rose promised she'd keep the secret as well. She was just a little too into torturing her own husband, but I loved it.
Esme and Carlisle left looking very nice. They were on their way to a charity auction. Esme helped organize many charities. They were always going off to grand parties full of rich people and donating thousands of dollars. I like that she was so into helping people. I wondered when I would be able to start helping her with things. Probably not until after we'd left Forks.
Jasper talked to Carlisle while I was in the green house with Rose. He said that if I wore a wig and sunglasses, and stayed out of sight, I could go. They would all be going with me to make sure I didn't try to eat anyone.
I was in our room reading when I heard Rose put things in motion. "Mmm, Emmy, come up stairs with me please?" She purred at him from the living room.
"Hey, Peter, Charlotte come here." I heard Jasper call and then the three of them came in.
Jasper was practically jumping around like an excited little kid.
"What the hell is goin' on?" Charlotte asked.
Jasper put his finger to his lips to tell her to be quiet, and mouthed, 'Just watch.' They both stayed quiet and still waiting to see what would happen. I sort of felt pervy purposely listening to Rose and Emmett get frisky. But the fun would be worth it I was pretty sure.
I waited until things were about to get extremely heated and I stood up on the bed and pushed my imaginary ball of pleasure up through my ceiling and into Emmett. I accidently got Rose again also, but I was pretty sure she wouldn't mind.
I heard Emmett moan in pleasure and then, "What the fuck!"
"Uh, Em, honey, what happened?" Rose was a good actress. "We haven't even started yet!"
"I don't know!" He yelled back at her. He sounded embarrassed and a little angry.
"Aw Em, it's okay it happens to a lot of guys." She told him sweetly.
I heard Alice start to cackle in her room. Charlotte and Jasper both burst into laughter. I even heard Edward give a little chuckle.
I focused on him and pushed a little flicker of my fire into him. I heard him yelp.
"Rude!" he yelled at me.
"Suck it up bitch!" I snapped at him and he went back to being quiet and brooding. I would eventually have to stop torturing him, or he may do something drastic. A few more days of torture, or maybe a few more weeks, I'd get Jasper to watch his emotions to make sure he wasn't getting to depressed.
When I looked down at the others smiling, I noticed Peter staring at me with his mouth hanging open.
"Pick it up off the floor daddy or it'll get stepped on."
The conversation in the kitchen with Charlie the first time Jasper had taken me to the cabin came back to me with a pang of sadness.
Jasper helped me off the bed and kissed me. "
It's okay baby." I hadn't been aware that he'd heard my entire conversation with Charlie before he'd knocked on the door that day, but he obviously had and knew exactly what had triggered the sadness.
"Don't think of it like that, hold the memory in you heard as a good one. Don't let it get you down." I smiled up at him
"What's going on?" Jacob came in yawning and rubbing his eyes. He'd crashed in the spare bedroom, just before Esme and Carlisle had left. The other wolves headed home.
"Bella got a new ability today." Jasper whispered to him. He looked confused and waited for us to explain.
Peter and Charlotte hadn't commented on my sudden mood swing. He went a different route, not wanting me to dwell on whatever had caused it.
"When did ya learn ta do that ya little hellion?" he whispered to me with a smile.
"It's not okay! It doesn't happen to vampires! And it damn sure doesn't happen to me!" Emmett yelled above us and we all burst out laughing again. He was too preoccupied to be listening to us.
"What the hell?" Jacob looked up at the ceiling. "What the hell did you learn to do Bells?" he whispered.
"At the cabin today. This is the only use I could think of for it other than for personal use." I told Peter and winked at Jasper.
"Come on Rose let's just try again." I heard Emmett say quieter.
I quickly jumped up on the bed and waited a few moments. "Watch Jake." He was getting that irritated look on his face at being ignored. I waited just a few a moment, just long enough for Rose to start touching him again.
"Jesus Christ! What the hell is going on?" We all burst out laughing harder.
"Shut up!" Emmett yelled at us.
Then Edward decided to do something stupid.
"Bella is doing it Emmett!" Edward called from his room.
"You little snitch! I'm going to kick your ass!" I yelled at Edward and sent a quick burst of pain his way. He yelled.
I head Emmett moving fast. I squealed and ran out of the house giggling.
"Get back here you evil little witch!" "Em, come on it was just a joke!" Rose was laughing from the front door of the house. Peter, Charlotte, Alice, and Jacob were there laughing as well.
Jasper was on Emmett's tail.
"Don't hurt her ya big bully!" he grabbed for Emmett who dodged him.
"I'm the bully? She's screwing with my mojo!" Emmett grumbled.
I laughed and leaped up onto a high tree branch just as Emmett was making a grab for me. "Aw come on Em, it happens to a lot of guys sometimes." I egged him on.
"When I get a hold of you, I'm going to make you pay!" he leaped up into the tree as I leaped for another tree. This was fun.
"If ya touch her I'll rip your arm off and hide it for a week!" Jasper was still on his tail, but Emmett was pretty agile for a big guy. He kept managing to stay just out of Jasper's grasp.
We continue for a long time, Emmett chasing me, Jasper chasing Emmett. Emmett even started laughing. I was having a good time.
I leaped out of a tree and landed in the yard. Emmett got his arms around me and tackled me to the ground. He didn't stay on top long. I was strong for the time being and flipped us over and pinned him to the ground.
Jacob was laughing hard with everyone else now. Someone had clued him in on all the specifics finally.
"That's what you get for painting my nails pink!" I laughed at him as he continued struggling to get up but I was too strong for him.
"Dude you're getting your ass kicked by a girl!" Jacob laughed at him.
"Shut your trap! You try getting away from her, she's freaking strong!" Emmett grumbled at him. I finally let him up.
"It's just Bella, how strong can she be?" Jacob chuckled again.
I arched an eyebrow at him. I could wrestle with Jacob in human form I would chance hurting him.
Jasper handed me a rock just small enough for me to get my fingers around. "Show him how strong you are baby."
I walked over to him and held the rock in my palm showing it to me. He just smiled at it smugly. I closed my fingers around the rock and squeezed. When I opened my hand again I leaned forward and blew the dusty remains of the rock at him.
"Whoa, that's cool." He picked up a larger rock and handed it to me. "Do it again!"
Why were most of the men in my life giant children.
As I used both hands to grind the rock into dust Emmett asked, "Can I please go have sex without you jacking with me again?"
"Sure, go screw your brains out if Rose will let you." I laughed at him.
"Alice," I heard Jasper say and we all turned to see her with that far off blank stare.
Alice's POV
It was clear. She'd decided.
Maria was already in Italy.
"Ah, Maria," Aro stood from his chair next to his brothers' on the raised platform in the throne room. "What brings you for a visit? It's been so long." He put his hand out to and waited for her to take it.
Maria ignored his hand.
"Aro, Marcus, Caius." She greeted each of them with a nod. "I have business to discuss."
Aro dropped his hand when she didn't take it.
"As always, straight to the point sweet Maria." His tone remained pleasant.
"State your purpose!" Caius snapped at her.
"I'm here to ask your assistance and to offer you something in which I think you'll be quite pleased with." She smiled what she thought was a sexy smile but it looked more crazy than sexy.
"And what could trash like you possibly be able to offer us?" Caius was seriously not a fan.
Maria snarled at him.
"Now, now brother, let us hear her out." Aro scolded his brother's rude behavior. "Now first things first, what is it you request from us sweet Maria."
"I want your assistance in taking out the Olympic coven." She said it like she was asking for a cup of sugar.
"And why would we want that? Carlisle Cullen is a dear friend." Aro still looked so pleasant and calm with the conversation.
"Because he has something that you want." She said it with such certainty.
"And what is that?" Caius snapped trying to get her to the point a little quicker.
"He has a telepath and a psychic, both of which I know you covet." She smiled like she knew she had them right where she wanted them.
The vision of the battle was murky. There were scenes of many of us lying dead, there were scenes of Edward, Jasper, Bella and I in the Volturi guard. There were pictures of us on the run, and so many more. They were blurring together and I couldn't make sense of any of it and decide what our best course would be, or where it would take us. I would have to wait for their answer first then I could see what was going to happen.
We were in trouble.
Jasper's POV
"Alice, what did you see?" the fear pouring off her what almost crippling. She didn't say anything. She began staring off again trying to see something else.
Edward came flying out of the house. "Oh my god!"
"Well don't just stand there jack ass, what's she seein'?" Peter yelled at him.
"Maria has decided to go to the Volturi. She's going to ask them for assistance in killing everyone, aside from Jasper, Bella, Alice, and myself. "He told us but never took his eyes off Alice.
If I had blood it would run cold. I wrapped my arms tightly around my mate. She was coming for us, and she was going to have the help of the most dangerous monsters in our world if they said yes. I wanted to take her now and run. I was ashamed of myself, but if I really thought it would keep her safe I would take her, run, and never look back. I would tell the others to do the same to take their mates and scatter. We would be harder to find it we separated. But I knew she would never do it. And I knew I would hate myself for the rest of my existence if one of them died and I wasn't there to try and stop it. Then there was the problem of me being a Whitlock, and Whitlocks don't run.
"Surely Aro won't agree to that!" Rose said, but she wasn't sure. They were all emanating fear, except for Bella. She was just confused.
"He would and ya know it." Peter told her.
"What are we going to do?" Edward sounded like a frightened little brother asking his big brother what to do when the boogeyman comes.
Everyone just stared at each other for a long moment. No one knew what to do.
"Nothin'." I said.
"What? How can we just do nothing?" Edward squawked.
"Because we don't know what Aro will say yet. We won't know what to prepare for until Alice sees it. So we're goin' to go in the house and live our lives like they should be lived. There's no point in getting all riled up until there is somethin' to get riled up about."
Everyone just looked at me trying to decide if I was right. But they all relented and decided I was right. We went back in the house and tried to live our lives.
Chapter 26
I hope you all enjoyed I'm not sure this one turned out quite the way I wanted it to but I didn't want to keep sitting on it. So I'm working on the next chapter and I'll post as soon as I can.