Deceitful

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JPOV

"Bella?" Alice asked.

"She's good, Alice. Give her a minute." Bella responded. She was knelt beside Rose watching and waiting.

I stepped around Edward and made my way across the room. I reached out and found Rosalie's emotions soft and calm. I looked at Bella amazed that Zafrina's intrusion no longer had the control it did. I hoped that I would find a completely different Rose than I had previously known.

Rose began to stir. I continued to probed her emotions waiting for an sign that I needed to step in. Emmett was immediately by her side. I was proud of the big guy. Through thick and thin he was there for her. Rosalie's abuse and demanding attitude never phased his resolve that he loved her and would be there for her.

Rose's eyes opened. They were pitch black. She would definitely need to feed no matter what. She looked slowly around the room and when her eyes fell on Emmett, she threw herself into his arms and dry sobbed.

I could feel the remorse, the hurt, the loss. She didn't deserve to be here surrounded by all these memories. She had been an ugly person towards her family but that was jumping over a line that no one deserved.

I moved beside Alice. I was in a loving hell in one second. Her scent, her aura jump started my dead body. I leaned in and whispered. I tortured myself but it was a nice thing to do so Emmett and Rose could continue their moment uninterrupted. "Angel, we need to take Rosalie out of here if we expect to make any progress.

Alice spun around and faced me. God, those eyes. She was full of her own personal "make Jasper suffer" moment. She pushed herself up, being sure not to touch me, and whispered sweetly in my face, pushing all the air out of her lungs with her words.

"Sounds good to me, why don't you take the lead..." She dropped back down and took a step backwards. She took a deep breath and blew a kiss in my direction.

I watched as she winked, turned and walked towards Edward. She leaned against the wall as Bella moved to stand with her. All I could do was watch. Her scent lingered and penetrated every pore of my body. I could feel the sexual need rising within me.

I needed to tip the scales. I had had my moment in the woods, she had paid me back with this stunt. So it was a tie game. I thought for a moment well I looked at Edward. How would you feel if your sister found her frustration level thrown over the edge? She might get a little angry too?

Edward raised an eyeball and looked quickly between me and Alice. He nodded slightly, just enough to let me know he was okay with the revenge. I pushed all the thoughts out of my mind for a moment and focused back on the task at hand.

Rose had pushed herself away from Emmett. He still held her in his arms but she was looking around the room at everyone. Her eyes fell on Bella. I took a step backwards from the atom bomb that had mushroomed into the room. I grabbed the wall for support.

Rose had always been an angry woman but this was different. The remorse and pity was undeniable. But there was more. There was a touch of anger mixed with anguish and compassion. It made no sense not coming from someone like Rosalie Hale.

"There's no reason for you to forgive me. I have been denying the reasons that 'they' are gone and that I am to blame. I won't make excuses because anything I say is going to make things worse. I don't want your forgiveness, your pity or anything else.

I have been dead far to long. That bitch will pay for what she did. And when I finish with her, I'll leave. I am the reason that you weren't allowed to have the life you should have. I am truly sorry for that. Whether you were vampire or human, you should have had the right to chose."

Rose looked away from Bella and to Alice and Edward. My instinctive protectiveness went into overdrive in that moment. I could sense the anger a little stronger but the regret and shame overshadowed it.

"You are my family. I am the reason that our family was torn apart. I can't do anything to bring them back, I wish I could. I will make him pay for it. No matter how it was suppose to be in theory, his greed made it something else. I will make him suffer for that.

I will help anyway you want. Tell me and I'll do it. When it's over I'll go and let the family heal. It's the way it needs to be."

Rose looked away and done at her lap. She pulled her head back up and looked into Emmett's face. "You were everything I wanted. I was the type of person who wanted and took. You shouldn't have been given this life. I shouldn't have been given the privilege to have you in my life. You are honest, caring, understanding. You are everything I'm not. When it's over, I want you to stay with them. You don't deserve my fate."

I couldn't take it. The feelings in this room were getting a little thick. "Rose, fuck off. There will be no self-pity. I've seen this game before and it won't fucking work."

"I'm not playing a game, Jazz. You know me. You know how I'm feeling. Of everyone in this room you know me the best. You've been there through those times that her control wavered. I know you felt them. My true feelings filtering through. Could you feel the blanket wrapping me back up in a cocoon? I don't want to go back in there. It was worse than facing the reality of what I've done."

I was shocked. She truly believed what she was saying. What the hell had Zafrina done to her. Is it possible that she's been under the control for longer than anyone thought.

"Bella now is the time to practice." I broke eye contact with Rosalie and turned my head sharply towards Alice.

She was staring directly at Rose with a look that no feelings could tell me any better. I was afraid of her for the first time. The amount of fury that I could feel building was going to hurt. It was in that moment I had the sensation of having walked through a perfect waterfall. The physical feeling was cool and refreshing. The emotional feeling was disturbing.

For the first time since my abilities had formed after my change, I was numb. I felt nothing. I looked at Bella who simply smiled at me and turned her attention back to the showdown that was about to happen.

"You're willing to do whatever it takes to make it right? Did I hear you correctly?"

Emmett's face was immediately tight and enraged. Rose's was anything but that. She looked distressed and saddened. She nodded her head not removing her dull eyes off of Alice.

"Then when this is all done and said with, you will stay…you will stay and make things right to this family, you will make things right to Carlisle and Esme and you will beg for our forgiveness for every day that I let you live. You will not abandon Emmett because that is not your decision to make and you will not run from this like a coward; you will be grateful to have your family and you will learn to respect Bella because to be completely frank with you I am sick and tired of your pity party, I refuse to participate and I refuse to let you leave again."

The hissing that accompanied Alice's words and the outrage in her voice was sinister. What made everything worse was that I seeing and hearing everything that was happening with not emotions involved. I had to rely on senses that I had really used in a long time.

There was one of thing that bothered me. My abilities were being neutralized by Bella the same as Edward's but what if I could use them the other way. What if she could truly be a counter to me? How would that allow a chance to put a dent in stopping this war if I am no good to be any help while under her shield?

"I'll prove to you that I am not the person you think I am, Alice. I want you to understand and believe. I'll show you anyway I have to that I have the family's best interest as my only interest."

I watched as the act folded out. I could see Emmett's twitches and eye movements. Something was up. He was agitated. He was worried about Rose and how everyone was gaining up on Rose. I knew the man well enough to know that this needed to end soon.

"How can you have our best interest when you are talking about walking away from your problems? How can I trust you Rose…do I have to bring Maggie in?"

I looked around. I knew who Maggie was, at least from the paperwork. She wasn't someone you wanted to fuck with. Her abilities were another the Hunters and Volturi both wanted to capture. Interrogation was something that wouldn't be really be necessary if she was on their side.

"She's still around. You're angry and distrustful of me and you have welcomed her into the fold. Bring her in, Alice. I have a few questions for her that I think you would be interested in hearing answers too. Edward can read her thoughts and know if she's being truthful or not."

I watched, somewhat detached from the scene playing around me. Alice rolled her eyes as if Rose was bluffing. She pulled her cellphone from one of her pockets and brought it up to her ear.

"Maggie, meet me in a half hour by the rail road tracks. Come alone and tell no one you are leaving." She closed the phone and slid it back into her back pocket. "Tanya, care to take a quick run?"