Life of A Reluctant Mate

New Moon

Chapter Nineteen: Avery's Long Awaited Reunion

"I'm guessing you didn't rent this car?" Avery groaned as she was tossed around in the back seat once more as Alice swerved to by pass other drivers. Why did all of her best friends have to be crazy drivers?

"I figured you wouldn't be opposed to grand theft auto."

"Not today." Bella turned to look at Alice noticing her sudden ridged posture out of the corner of her eye. "What? What do you see?"

Avery sat up and leaned between the seats to look at Alice as well.

"They refused him."

"Sooo?"

"He's gonna make a scene."

"Don't you all always make a scene?" Avery smiled sarcastically thinking of the great dramatics of the Cullens. Okay mainly Rosalie but still, it was a copping mechanism.

"No, show himself to the humans."

"No! When?" Bella screamed in Avery's ear. She turned around and glared daggers as the head ach began to start but Bella simply gave her an apologetic look before focusing back on Alice.

"He's gonna wait until noon, when the sun's at it's highest."

"God, Alice, you got to hurry up." Bella seemed to groan in pain.

"Look, there's Volterra." Alice smiled slightly.

"Is now really the time for sight seeing, Al?" Avery rolled her eyes. Alice turned and scoffed before gently pushing Avery back in her seat.

"Well aren't we rude today!" Avery grunted as she re adjusted her seatbelt.

They drove quickly and loudly through the paved streets, all almost completely cleared until they got more towards the center of the little village. There they were met with hundreds of people all in red capes.

"Why are they all in red?" Avery looked worriedly at her friend; Bella looked like she was losing her fucking mind.

"San Marco's Day festival. They're commemorating the expulsion of vampires from the city." Avery's attention snapped to Alice. "It's the perfect setting. The Volturi will never let him get far enough to reveal himself."

"Five minutes!" Avery eyes the clock on the dashboard.

"Bella, just breath."

Alice pulled the car to a stop when it was obvious they weren't gonna get any closer.

"Alice!" Bella hollered as police men approached.

"Bella, you're the only one he can't see coming. If I go he'll read my thoughts. He'll think I'm lying. He'll rush into it."

"Where do I go?"

"He'll be under the clock tower. Go!" Avery quickly sprang from the car and followed Bella on a mad dash through the crowd.

Avery gasped as breathing suddenly became harder for her as she pushed through the many red cloaked figures in an effort to keep up. She collapsed against the fountain trying to regain her breath as she watched Bella push Edward back into the castle like building, away from human sight.

"Avery! Come on." Avery let Alice support the majority of her weight as they walked, well more like dragged, into the building and through a few mazes of hallways before finally stopping.

Avery smiled largely at the unmistakable sight of Esme Cullen, in all her Esme glory.

"Esme!"

"Avery! Oh, Darling, it's so good to see you!" Avery let Alice pass her onto Esme before turning and disappearing through the complex system of hallways and corridors.

"I missed you, Esme." Avery told her as she began regaining her strength enough that she was able to stand and stumble into the room with Esme.

"Oh, honey. You're running such a fever; Alice shouldn't have dragged you here when you're ill." Esme tasked as she laid Avery down on the couch, making sure she was resting. Avery glanced around the room, spying the Victorian style dark and rich furniture that littered the room.

"You have no idea how good it is to have you here. Carlisle's been driving me crazy, always talking his medicine and procedures. I think at times he forgets your not there to listen and ask questions." Esme laughed in memory. Avery had been the reason Carlisle had developed a bad habit of going into small rants about medicine, procedures, new ideas, and research. All because Avery wanted to become a doctor and was fascinated by it.

"Rosalie is the worst." Esme gave a small groan of annoyance. "Always picking fights and causing trouble. I'd be nice to have you give it back to her." Esme winked. Avery laughed genuinely amused for a rare moment. Rosalie was probably going from bicker with draw; Avery missed Rosalie's feisty personality too.

"It's true! She just keeps poking and prodding until someone says something or gives up and moves far away. Jasper nearly took her head and arms off just last week!" Esme begun laughed at her at the memory of Jasper becoming so irritated after seventeen non stop hours of Rosalie that he nearly snapped, instead deciding to destroy a grand piano till it was nothing but small shards of wood glass and wires.

Avery's chuckling slowly stopped at the mention of Jasper. "How is he?" She asked Esme. The vampire smiled sadly before looking behind her.

"Ask him yourself." Esme rose up and moved to reveal a sullen looking Jasper standing in the door way. His mouth opened slightly and his golden eyes seemed to shine. "I'll give you some time alone." Esme's heels clacked on the marble as she left, pausing to gently touch Jasper's face. He made no movement his eyes focusing solely on her. Esme leaned in and whispered something to him, earning only a small nod before she disappeared out the door, latching it with an eerie creak behind her.

"You're…here." His voice was a whisper but Avery heard it. He came toward her with hesitant steps as if he were afraid she's be startled and run off or disappear.

"Yeah. I'm here." Jasper kneeled down in front of her staring at her, eyes wide with wonder.

"I…I…" His mouth opened and closed, unnecessary breaths coming from him as his hand reached out and gently caressed her cheek. Avery leaned into the cold, her own hand covering his as her eyes fluttered close.

"I missed you." The words rolled off her tongue easily, as her free hand gripped the collar of his dress shirt. Her Jasper always the well dressed gentleman.

"I missed you too." Jasper's haunted voice was alight with joy as he leaned in and inhaled her scent. Hugging her close to him he kissed her neck longingly, enjoying the feel of her warm body under him.

"Don't leave me again, I beg of you." Jasper's lips pressed simple and desperately to Avery's and she returned with gusto. She put her whole being into the kiss, her fingers frolicking in the golden locks of his hair, as much as she loved it hanging down, framing his face, she couldn't deny that tugging on the curls made her heart beat faster.

When Avery broke away gasping for air and hoping to relieve some of the lust building inside her. She wasn't looking forward to Esme walking in on her ridding her son for everything she was worth.

Her burning forehead cooled as it rested against Jasper's, his fingers trailing over her face and resting upon her lips, obviously needing desperately to make sure her lips were pressed upon him in some way.

"Well isn't this endearing. I thought I smelt something. I just thought it was the human's garbage." The two brook apart to look towards the voice. Avery smiled brightly at the big bitchy vampire while Jasper glared daggers at his "twin" sister.

"I've missed you, you stuck up bitch." Avery smiled at Rosalie genuinely. Rosalie scoffed and turned on the point of her heels, but not before Avery saw the smile that graced her lips for a fraction of a second before she slammed the door shut behind her.

Jasper flipped through his book as he sat in his seat. He and Edward were currently playing pillows to Avery and Bella. Looking at the back of their little plane he eyes Edward gently speaking to Bella, explaining and apologizing profusely for leaving her.

His own eyes went back to Avery's sleeping form smiling when she sighed in her sleep, burrowing herself against him. She laid across the seats, her head in his lap as she rested peacefully, arms wrapped around his own free one he had resting across her stomach. He told a prying Emmett and Rosalie that it was to keep her from rolling off and injuring herself but in all honestly he simple was not yet ready to release his hold on her.

Where Edward had been ready to take his life, Jasper was ready to flea for his. No longer could he stand looking at Emmett and hearing the faint memory of her tinkering laughter. Nor could he watch Esme begin to cook only to stop once realizing there were no longer any humans to cook for. And his heart ached when Carlisle began his medical rambles, Jasper's mind beginning to wonder toward Avery's curiosity, her passion, her smile, her… everything about her actually.

Jasper smiled down lovingly at her as she whispered his name before embracing his arm tighter, tiny snores escaping her partly open mouth. Although she had changed drastically in health she was still his Avery. HIS, whether she knew it or not…

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New Moon is coming to an end and next chapter is the reunion of JASERY! YAY!

Real Quick: I've betting questions about how I title chapters each having "Avery's...".

Well the reason for this is because I had originally intended to name the story "The Twilight Saga: Avery's Story". So there you go, and know you know hope that helped.