Nyx POV
I felt Jasper's teeth sink into my neck and the fire he mentioned is set ablaze instantly. Damn he wasn't kidding. The pain is awful but I know Hazel is already worried so I clamp my mouth shut, I won't allow even a whimper to escape. I can hear the panic in their voices even if I can't respond. For a little while everything is quiet because I can't focus on anything but the burn.
Than running and a door banging. Peter? I think I heard him yelling before Hazel said Ow. I focus as hard as I can. Oh I see now, he knocked her down. Well he better apologize I think before I hear him do just that. Good, I'd hate for the first thing I gotta do when I wake up is kick my mates ass.
I'm not sure how much time passes exactly but I can always feel Hazel near me and it comforts me. I'm not afraid. Finally I'll be able to take care of her and she won't have to worry about me. It feels like days when suddenly I don't feel Hazel next to me anymore. I focus in and hear Jasper telling Hazel it's not safe around a newborn. Newborn? What the fuck am I an infant? I'd never hurt my Haze. Suddenly the fire focus solely on my heart. Don't scream. Don't scream. The pain explodes than stops and I sit up so quick that if I was still human I would have whiplash. I grab my chest.
"Mother fuck!"
I hear a chuckle and look to see Peter standing in the corner with his hands in the air. Does he think I'm going to attack him? Maybe I should just to startle him. I smile.
"Oh no you don't. I know that look. No mischief kitten, you just woke up."
I rolls my eyes at him and stand up. "So…. When can I see Hazel?"
"Not for a while. We don't want you bloodlust to cause you to hurt her."
I growl at him and his eyes go wide. That's right be scared. Ain't nobody telling me what to do.
"I want Haze. I want to see her and I want to see her now Peter. I could feel her next to me the whole time."
"I don't think that's a good idea kitten you could…"
"NOW PETER! Or so help I will bite the shit out of you." I growl and start to walk towards him, my eyes glaring at him.
He backs up all the way against the wall before he shouts, "JASPER!"
Then suddenly I smell them. I turn around and spot her right as Jasper puts her on her feet. Before either man can tell what's happening I tackle her to the ground and rub my face against her.
"Oh Hazel sweet, sweet Hazel." I coo and stroke her hair.
"Nyx you scared me half to death. Never do that again." Hazel laughs in my ear.
"Haze this is great! Everything is so damn clear!" I jump up. I can't contain my excitement and start running around. "Hazel! I can see! Like holy crap!" Then I run back over to Hazel and start sniffing her. I don't feel the hunger they mention but she does smell like wildflowers. I hear a growl and notice it's coming from Jasper. I just roll my eyes.
"Down Jasp, I don't want to eat her, not her blood anyways." I wink at Hazel and watch her blush, Peter laughs. Jasper shakes his head. "You do smell damn good though Haze but I'd never hurt you."
"I know Nyxie. I had a feeling you wouldn't try to eat me." She says with such confidence.
"Of course not!" I scoff, while both mean are watching us both with amazement in their eyes.
"Um… kitten." Peter says taking a step toward me. "How are you doing that?" He asks, while tilting his head to the side. Reminding of me a dog but like… a super-hot sexy one.
"Doing what?" I ask while I look at him. "Be a badass vamp bitch with her shit under control?"
Peter nods but smirks. "Yep."
"I dunno." I shrug. Why does he underestimate me. He will learn.
Haze giggles. "They really should have had more faith in you Nyxie. I wasn't worried for a second." She looks at Jasper like I told ya so. I snicker and she walks over to hug me but I don't squeeze very much. I don't want to hurt her and they end up separating us.
"I'm still not sure of my strength though yet so warn me if I start to hurt you Haze." I plead with her.
"No worries Nyxie, I bet you couldn't hurt me. Ever." She has so much faith in me and it makes me determined to never accidently hurt her with my new abilities. I look down but I'm glad I can't blush anymore.
"Well kitten as much as I am enjoying how much control you seem to have how about I take you on your first hunt and show you how it's done?" The smug bastard just smirks and winks at me. I sigh. Why does he have to be sexy…
"Maybe I can teach you a thing or two myself their handsome." I wink at him before I take off out the door. I want to test out this new speed. Peter is right behind me, I knew he would be. Now that I'm a vampire to I can feel where he is. I understand this mating thing a little better. Peter is mine.
As we get closer to town I start to slow down and turn to look at Peter. "What do I do Peter?"
His face softens more than I've ever seen. "Don't worry kitten, I'll show you. We are going to walk around a listen and watch. Then we will find us a couple criminals and have us dinner!"
I can't help but giggle at his enthusiasm. We are walking around a while before we notice a couple men breaking into a store. They reek of alcohol. "What about…" I stop before I can finish my question. Something isn't right… then it dawns on me. "HAZEL!" I shout before I take off running back to the house.
"Kitten what's the matter?" Peter asks while he runs by my side.
"Hazel needs me, I just know it. I can sense her fear."
Peter just nods his head, I knew he would understand. Him and Jasper are family to I bet they know when the other is in trouble as well.
It doesn't take long for me to reach the house again, I barge inside and run to where I can sense Hazel. Jasper is there but he looks panicked. He turns to me, "I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. We were kissing and… I went to touch her and she started freaking out. Did I hurt her? Is she afraid of me?"
"No Jasp she would never be afraid of you, I know how to fix it." I slowly walk up to her, I don't want to startle her. I know what the problem is, after what happened to us we both had nightmares for a while but we've always processed traumatizing things differently. But no matter what we have each other's back. I lean slowly in front of her so that I'm in her line of sight.
"Haze." I say calmly. Her eyes start to soften and clear a little. So I reach for her and hold her close, rocking her. "Ssshhh, it's okay." She finally understands what's going on around her. She looks up at me with her eyes begging and I understand what she wants. It's time to tell our mates what happened to us when we were younger. I look up at our mates.
"Could you boys go downstairs please. I'm going to help her get dresses than we will join you."
They both nod and leave the room. Jasper stops to glance back at Hazel one more time. There's so much love and worry in his eyes. Than he leaves to. I pick up Hazel cuz I'm superwoman now and can do that shit. And carry her to where her clothes are.
"Um Nyxie…" Hazel whispers
"Yea Haze?"
"Why the hell are you carrying me?"
"Because I'm a bad bitch now Haze."
Than she busts out in a fit of giggles. There's my girl, I smile. I can even hear the men downstairs chuckle.
I pick her out some comfy clothes and we walk downstairs holding hands. When we get to the living room both men are sitting in the recliners across from the couch. Haze and I sit next to each other on the couch. "So.." I look over at Hazel. "You sure?"
She nods her head. "Yea Nyxie, but you say it. I… I don't think I can."
How can I deny her anything. "Alright Haze." I turn to face both men, well I look at Peter but quickly look away and turn my attention to Jasper. I see Peter look worried though. I wasn't expecting to ever find a guy a cared about that I would have to tell this to. "You already know that we grew up together and only had each other, we were always alone just the two of us."
Jasper nods and I can see Peter do the same out of the corner of my eye.
"When Hazel was 15 and I was 16, we were home alone as usual and well…." I take a deep breath and I see Hazel tense. I wrap my arm around her and hold her close. "Two men broke into our apartment and….." I look down and Hazel sobbed. "Raped us." I whisper, but I know they heard us because of the growls that leave both of them. It vibrates the whole room. I continue on, might as well get it all out for both of us. I know how I feel and I know how Hazel feels about it when it comes to our mates. "After that day we were never apart. We had nightmares all the time and never felt safe. Haze and I process things differently. She still occasionally has the nightmare and is afraid when a man tries to touch her. She hasn't felt comfortable enough to get close to one until you came alone Jasper." I look at him and even though he still has a quiet growl I see his eyes dart to his mate and soften just slightly.
Peter speaks up through clenched teeth, his growl still loud. "And you?"
"I coped a little differently. I… every time I closed my eyes a saw his hands on me. They took our virginity, we couldn't save it for the soul mates we didn't even yet know we had. So what was the point in waiting anymore. I just wanted to forget his hands on me so I had sex. A lot of it, with a lot of people til I drowned out the memory with so many others that I couldn't remember whose touch was whose. It's just how I coped. It's messed up yea but it worked for me." I shrug. "The nightmares stopped for me. I was okay with being labeled a slut. I've never cared what people think of me. Only Hazel and she loved me no matter what."
Hazel glanced up at me, tears still in her eyes and smiled slightly. "You're my slut though."
I laughed. Peter's growl stopped but he still looked pissed. Jasper was still tense and looking at the ground but I know he heard and understood. "I need… a moment." He says before he runs out the door. His growl roaring.
"He wouldn't even look at me…" Hazel whispers.
"Don't even go there Haze. It's not because of you. You didn't make any eye contact with him either. There was so much love in his eyes for you. I bet he went outside to release some anger so he wouldn't scare you is all." I say and look up at Peter.
He still looks pissed as well like he wants to hunt the men down but he steps up to Hazel and kneels down in front of her. "She's right lil lady. Jasper loves you. It's in out nature though to be protective and kill anyone who hurts or has hurt our mates. He has to go outside to release his anger because these men aren't here for us to kill. I promise you that he adores you and is not upset with you at all. Do you understand?"
Hazel nods her head, her shoulders relaxing a little. Peter looks satisfied that she understood and he turns to me but I'm still not looking him in the eye. "Kitten please look at me." He begs while he grabs me by the chin to face him. I glance at him and relax. He looks so pained for me. "I will always want you and only you kitten. Don't you worry either. You are mine. But I'm going to go join Jasper for a few minutes so we can release some of our anger. You sit with Hazel and when I get back we will continue our hunt."
I can't help but smile at him, he wants me and he trusts me enough to leave me with Hazel even though I'm a newborn. "Thank you Peter."
He smiles back and runs out the door. I squeeze Hazel again lightly and we lean back into the couch. "We sure got some amazing mates didn't we Nyxie?" She whispers. I know she's still upset but I can hear some joy returning to her voice.
I smirk, "Yea we did. I love him."
Hazel shoots up off the couch and stares at me with her mouth agape. "Did.. did you just admit you LOVE him?"
I stand up and shrug but smirk at her. "Yep well… it's true. And not so loud would ya! He might hear you." I walk pass her and into the kitchen to make her a sandwich.
She runs in after me giggling. "I can't believe it!"
"Hush Haze, you never know when they will be back." I wink at her and place her sandwich on the table. She sits down and begins eating. We chat a little and when she's finished I wash her plate. As I'm drying it, both men come walking into the kitchen covered in tree bark with leaves in their hair. I lean against the kitchen counter and ogle Peter. "Sexy." He flashes me that panty dropping smirk I've come to love and runs to me. He wraps his arms around me and nuzzles my neck purring. I see Jasper lift Hazel than sit and place her into his lap and do the same thing. Nuzzling and purring. Hazel blushes but just squeezes his arms around her waist tighter.
"Peter, my throat burns." He lifts up real quick.
"Sorry Kitten. Let's get you fed, we didn't get the chance earlier."
"Yea plus I want to give Haze and Jasper some time alone again. They need it even more now."
He looks back to see them basically cuddling. "Yea lets go kitten."
"Hey Haze, Jasp. I didn't get to eat earlier so we are going to go finish hunting now."
Haze looks at me, "Of course Nyxie, go eat. We will be fine don't worry." She smiles and blushes. She is so gonna kiss the hell out of him once we are gone. I snicker but not quietly enough apparently with the glare she sends my way. Only makes me snicker louder. I grab Peter's hand.
"Come on mate." I bite my lips and look up at him. His eyes go dark. I give him a quick peck on the lips than take off running towards town. It doesn't take long for him to catch up. He runs up to me and sweeps me off my feet and carries me to town.