Hey, I'm back! I've decided to keep up with the jasper povs since I do really want to include his point of view on all the situations.
Still debating on whether I was to switch between them during chapters or make them with their own chapters.
I'm also gonna start spacing it out when people talk since I can see how it might get confusing.
Hope and enjoy!
(Actually, quick side note. I'm not gonna do chapter 7 in Jasper's pov, just because most of the chapter he was trying to eat people and spent the other half confused. I can imagegin you know how that went down. He calmed down, confused on how Bella saved him from going crazy, sat outside waiting for her with a very confused family. Begged her to come over, felt she was sad and hugged her. It obviously felt good for him to and then they parted ways. When they got home they explained it to a very confused Carlisle and Esme.)
Warning: Mention of rape, sexual assault, abuse, coarse language and may be triggering to some people
(Jasper's pov)
After the events that went down today, we had convinced Bella to meet us at our home. I was slightly confused and alarmed by how scared she was at the idea of not going back to her home. But I brushed it off and we parted ways, once we all got home we needed to explain everything that had happened and Carlisle was nervous but very curious. Esme was thankful that someone had looked out for me and that I was safe, I couldn't help but feel ashamed at my behavior because, what if Bella hadn't been there.
I pushed the horrid thought of what if out of my head and went to my study, where I could be alone with my thoughts and impatiently wait for Bella. The only thoughts that were going through my mind were bad, what if she didn't come. What if she decided she hated us. What if- my thoughts were interrupted by a knock at the door.
"Come in Esme"
"Hello dear, how are you doing?" She was very worried about me, but only showed sympathy in her voice as she took a seat in one of the black leather chairs I had in the corner of the room.
"Im fine, Esme. Really, just a bit ashamed."
"There's nothing to be ashamed of dear, every one slips sometimes. From what you told me you weren't even attacking, you were still holding restraint."
"Yes but It wouldn't have worked for long, Bella needed to fight with me until we were a half a mile away from the school."
She frowned at me and continued, "I don't think you would have killed anybody. You're a good boy Jasper Whitlock, you just need to believe in yourself. And there is no need to feel nervous about Bella hating you, I'm sure you'll make her plenty happy."
And with that she left. I was surprised, how did she know? Was it that obvious we were mates, gee, I need to get my act together before she gets here. As soon as I decided I would read I heard her truck pull up. Immediately I stood up and went for the door, I held back from opening it when her smell filled the air. The sweet smell of flowers and honey, it brought so much ease to me I'm sure I would have fallen asleep. And that's saying a lot since it is impossible for us to do so.
I heard Bella and Esme talking about the living room and soon Carlisle greeted her as well. I hurried down the stairs like a little boy waking up on Christmas morning to a tree full of presents. God what is this woman doing to me?
There she was, the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. I couldn't help but let my smile widen as she turned around to look at me. I felt her emotions go from amazement and nervousness to pure joy and lust as we made eye contact. Before I could even think she flew into my arms at a rather abnormal speed that matched ours. I quickly let the confusion slip away as I held her like if I let go I would lose her forever.
As I was bathing in the sweet smell and emotions coming off of her, a wall came between me and her. Not physically but I couldn't read her, I had no Idea what she was feeling and that was the most depressing and confusing feeling ever. How could that even be possible. I looked over to Edward quickly who just shrugged, signifying he couldn't explain.
She eventually pulled away, which was not something I enjoyed. At all. She turned to see the entire family looking at us and she lightly blushed, she didn't like being the center of attention, but today was definitely not the day to be nervous about that, seeing as she is the only reason this is happening.
Emmett decided to open his mouth and try to crack a "joke". "Are Mrs. and Mr. Whitlock finished with their little reunion" he asked with a smug smile on his face. I sent him a glare, but couldn't help feeling a little pleased at the thought of me and Bella sharing my last name.
"Whitlock?" Bella asked, confused.
"Oh shut up Emmett. You'll make her uncomfortable and we're trying to talk, not scare her away." Alice chimed in sending Emmett a small glare.
"Whitlock?" Bella asked once again, her voice becoming a bit frustrated.
"Whitlock is my real last name" I finally responded looking down at her. Her face quickly went from a light pink colour to a darker red. I chuckled a bit to myself until Rose decided to join the conversation.
"Oh Emmett, look what you've done. The human's uncomfortable." She had an edge to her voice that made her sound like a typical mean girl.
"Rosalie! That will be enough. You do not treat Bella with disrespect." Carlisle replied with authority in his voice.
"Bella darling, come sit, and we'll begin" Esme said with a warm smile motioning over to the chair.
Bella made her way over to the chair while the rest of us followed and sat in front of her. I positioned myself against one of the beams in the living room instead of sitting, and smiled at her. Even though I was somehow blocked from feeling her emotions, I could still tell she was nervous.
She started telling us about how a long time ago there was a vampire who seduced her grandmother and magically got her pregnant. I would be lying if I said I wasn't shocked, I had no idea that was even possible. I could tell I was not the only one in the room who was shocked, in fact everybody was. And to my surprise it seemed Carlisle didn't even know about this.
She continued to tell us about her grandmother only being pregnant for a few months and dying during birth, her grandfather raised her mother until she was capable to control and care for herself and left because of the volturi. We were all stunned at the information she was giving us. I mean last time I checked none of this was even possible. Carlisle was swimming in curiosity at this point.
She went on telling us about her birth and childhood up to the point of her mother taking her away and falling in love again, she even met her grandfather who she spoke very dearly of. I could tell she missed him very much.
Bella teared up a few times and cried, Esme had comforted her as she continued to finish telling us. She eventually got to telling us about her mothers death, that had been caused by an attack from a werewolf and after that she said goodbye to Phil and moved in with Charlie 3 years ago. It was very hard for her to speak of her mother, and her life in Arizona. You could tell she missed it all, we all looked at her with very sympathetic smiles.
She told us about her being half vampire and half human. All the traits she poses as a vampire and all the human traits she has.
She even shared with us about some powers that she had to. She could normally tell what special ability another held and she was a mental and physical shield. We all let out small gasps at that piece of information, seeing as shields were very rare to come across. But it would explain a lot, why sometimes I couldn't read her and Edward couldn't read her thoughts.
"That's why I can't read your mind." Edward said finally not being so frustrated with the fact of it.
"And that's why sometimes I can feel your emotions and other times I can't, You're blocking me out." I said after Edward. I was hurt, why wouldn't she want me to feel her emotions. Did she not trust me? It kills me to think she didn't trust me.
"Exactly, It's automatic on certain things, for example Edwards power. But I can bring it down if i want. But for other powers if I want to block them out I need to do it myself. Like Jasper for example." She explained.
With that the entire family looked at each other trying to figure out what to say next. But before anyone could say anything her phone began to ring, suddenly she dropped the shield she had on me when she looked at her phone. Probably the strongest feeling of fear I had ever felt took her her entire body as she got up and excused herself from the room. Which in retrospect wouldn't change anything since we could all still hear.
I don't think she realized that, she seemed very disconnected as soon as she realized who was calling. We still had no idea.
We all greedily listened, even though it probably would have been more polite if we didn't But we couldn't help it. "BELLA!" It was chief swan, he sounded angry. We all looked at each other a bit confused at how Bella reacted when she saw her phone, it was only her father after all.
"Bella, where the hell are you. I told you after school straight home. How dare you disobey me!" That was odd, Bella's emotions were getting more intense by the second. "Mike is here waiting and by the looks of it you haven't even been home! If you don't get your ass her now I will come and find you. Now tell me, where are you." Charlie's voice was low with anger and frustration. I'm not sure why Mike would be waiting there, it didn't seem like Bella liked Mike very much.
"I- I- I went to the bookstore because I was missing something for a class." Bella finally responded, I heard her gasp for air as the levels of anxiety were starting to raise more and more. "I'm so sorry sir I didn't mean to be this late. I'll be home straight away, apologize to Mike for me. I wouldn't want to disappoint a customer." A customer? What was she talking about, and why did she call him sir? I could feel that everyone in the room with me was wondering the exact same thing. I was beginning to get angry. Bella was obviously scared of Charlie and Mike, I had no clue why but it wasn't normal. You don't call your father sir and having 'customers' isn't normal either. Or at least in this situation, I also had reason to believe all the bruises and scars she had were because of this situation as well.
I soon found myself trembling with anger unable to calm myself down. Nobody in the room was stopping me, I assumed they were all too focused on Bella.
As soon as she had hung up and come back into the living room, she was feeling very regretful as she looked at each one of us.
"Bella, what was that phone call about?" Carlisle asked with a soft toned voice, trying not to sound too worried.
"Oh nothing, I just forgot to tell him where I was. He was worried, I really should be making my way home" She lied, she was lying. Luckily I caught that before she put her shield back up and started for the door. Not even thinking twice about it, she rushed to her arm and turned to face me. There was barely any space between us as I made eye contact with her. Normally such close proximity to her would make me feel amazing, but right now I was too distracted by the fact that something was not right and I was determined to make my Bella feel better.
She gulped nervously as I began to speak, "I know for a fact that the phone call wasn't just a worried father. You are not leaving until you tell me what's going on." My expression became softer with shame and sadness at the fact that Bella was hurting and I wasn't helping her. She wasn't letting me help her. "I have so many questions, Bella I know somethings going on. I know for a fact one tiny little person wouldn't be able to cause all those bruises and scars herself." Now I was completely worried, I was going to get answers if it was the last thing I would do.
Even though she had her shield up I could see she was starting to become scared, scared?. Why was she scared, did she fear me, I couldn't have that. But no, why would she fear me, I decided to continue ignoring these thoughts. "I know for a fact somebody shouldn't be that nervous to put their hair up or take off a huge hoodie during gym. And I know for a fact nobody should have hand printed bruises around their wrists." The tears started forming in her eyes as I spoke. "So Bella, I'm sorry but you're not leaving this house until I get the real answer I want."
Her knees buckled and she started falling to the floor out of grasp, before she could hit the floor and caught her and held her close to me as she started sobbing into my chest. I lifted her back on her feet, Bella was looking back at the family who were very worried but also confused. I didn't blame them, I myself was confused. I knew something was going on but had no clue what. "Bella, what bruises are Jasper talking about?" Esme spoke out of full concern.
"I- I- I can't- talk about it" Bella managed to stutter out. "Seriously, I need to get home. Please." I took my hands and cupped her face and brought her eyes to meet mine once again. At this point I was practically begging "please" Was all I said. She knew she couldn't say no, even if I did, we wouldn't let her leave without an answer. She slowly nodded my head and began to explain, "I guess you could say Charlie runs a business. And I guess you could call me and my adopted sisters-" "There's more than just you and Angela?" Alice cut Bella off. "Yes there's four of us. Charlie only allowed me and Angela to attend school this year. Anyways, I guess you could call his 'his girls'. He practically rents us out to people for money and their pleasure, and sometimes he uses us for his own pleasure."
Loud gasps sounded from around the room, I instantly started shaking, barely being able to contain my anger. I wanted to rip him to shreds, he touched MY Bella and he was going to pay, one way or another. "Is that all he does?" I asked, trying to keep the anger out of my voice. "No, he hits us, treats us like animals." She added, with her voice cracking a few times. Quickly she dropped her head to look at the ground, I angrily mumbled, "I'm gonna kill him." "Jasper," Carlisle warned.
A few moments of silence, the room very tense from a lack of people knowing what to say passed until it was interrupted by the sound of Bella's phone ringing again. "It's Charlie," she said, her voice being barely above a whisper. Before she could think twice about answering it I felt a rush of adrenalin rush through Carlisle, He ran up and took the phone and answered it. "BEL-" Carlisle cut Charlie off before he could continue.
"Hello chief swan".
Hey y'all! Sorry this took so long to get out, and I know, You aren't even finding out what happens next. But I Might have it out by tomorrow, maybe. And if not I wont have it out till after the weekend. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, thank you all for the love and see you next the
Sincerely
The girl in the back with the bright green eyes
