Summary: She was supposed to be dead. He witnessed her death.

He was supposed to be dead. She witnessed his death.

So how are both of them alive if the other one sawthem die?

Why does their creator want them back?

Bella gets off my lap and sits next to me, our hands intertwined. I really don't want her telling my family her vampire story, but I can't lie when I say I'm curious to know how she got away from Maria that night we 'saw' each other 'die' at Maria's hand.

Bella starts talking.

"It was 1864, December, I was walking out late with my big brother, when we heard a noise from the alleyway. I wanted you to investigate the bobut my brother steered me away and we went home but as we approached home, we heard the familiar screams of Mother, you see Father was a drunkard, he abused Mother and my brother, although he wouldn't dare to touch his little girl, he always said that he'll let my husband hurt me rather than he do it himself. My brother had put his hands over my ears so I wouldn't hear the screams from Mother.

All of a sudden my brother was ripped off me by my father and I heard his body crack as he collided with a tree, thanks to my father. I ran to him, pulling him onto my lap. I knew he was dying so I held him as died. My father pulled me up by my dress and slapped me in the face, screaming that it was my fault that his son was dead. He carried me to an alleyway where I was abused and raped by him, he stepped on my throat so hard, I almost lost the ability to speak, but once he heard a noise, he ran, leaving me dying just like my brother.

A short time later, when the temperature dropped rapidly, I felt a presence and heard a southern voice and a jacket being draped over my naked body.

'Hey, Darlin', just hold on tight for mah, okay? I'm gonna get ya better, okay?' I just about nodded before the pain got to me. I drifted in and out of conscious, I was semi conscious as we entered a camp then a tent, I heard voices then I was on a bed with my rescuer hovering over me, his mouth at my ear. 'I'm sorry for what she's about ta do, Darlin'.' Then someone's teeth grazed over my throat and they bit me.

It wasn't long before the fire came and started burning me. I was screaming as much as I could. My rescuer never left my side as I was burning.

Three days of burning, the fire was extinguished and I open my eyes and thought I was in heaven, only to be told I was a vampire, I was immortal, I was ageless, my creator had turned me into a vampire and had recruited me to be in her army, an army that had harsh rules and even harsher consequences if the rules were broken in any way.

I soon learned that my rescuer was Major Jasper Whitlock, he was Maria's, our creator, pawn whom she used for her dirty work, his job was to train us newborn vampires to fight and if we weren't useful after our first year, he had the task of despising of us, luckily, my gift is a shield which means no powers work on me and I can protect anyone who's under my shield. I was also a gifted fighter so she didn't kill me after my newborn year was up.

I knew that Jasper was my mate the minute I saw him after I woke up. We started a secret relationship because he was meant to be with Maria and relationships were forbidden, punishable by death.

The night we saw each other 'die', we were in his tent, kissing and laughing when Maria and her dogs walked in while we were having sex, she 'kindly' allowed us to have our organisms before we were ripped off each other, we fought Maria's newborns when suddenly I was seeing Jaspers head being ripped from his shoulders and being thrown into the fire that they had burning. As punishment for being in a relationship, it was the most torturous thing I'd ever been through, it was having to live the rest of eternity without my mate. I was whipped, beaten, starved, ripped apart and chained up to a pole for decades but that wasn't the worst pain, that was living without my mate.

While I was chained up, a friend of mine and Jaspers, Peter, came to rescue me and get me away from Maria, and told me that Jasper was in fact alive, for a while I argued with Peter, denying it, telling him that I had saw Jasper burn in the fire decades ago, it was only when Charlotte, Peters mate, showed me a picture of you with your family that I believed you to be alive so I tracked you down for years until I found you here."

Bella finishes telling her story and I can tell my family wants to rip Maria apart. Alice looks at me. "What happened to you, Jasper." Of course Alice would ask about me. Sighing, I start talking about that awful night.

"Maria has just entered my tent and caught me a Bella having sex….

Our organisms finished and me and Bella were ripped apart from each other, each of us destroying Maria's dogs. Then all sudden I saw Maria ripping Bella's head off and throwing it in the fire before watching me scream for hours about Bella. I ran to Peter and Charlotte, a mated couple I let run away. They welcomed me and I stayed with them until 1948 when I met Alice in a diner in Philadelphia, she told me about her and her visions of her mate in the Cullen Clan, a coven of vampires who drank from animals. She led me here to them in 1950 where we literally turned upon their doorstep."

Bella snuggles closer to me. "I love you, Jasper."

I kiss her temple. "I love you more, Bella."

My phone rings and it's Peter.

Phone call

Jasper: Fucker, what are you doing calling me?

Peter: Hey Major, so how's Little tiger?

Jasper: Amazing but what's going on?

Peter: You or Tiger aren't gonna be happy with this but Maria knows you and Tiger are alive and she's coming for ya's.