"This is Major Whitlock speaking." Jasper said in a steely kind of voice that sent shivers down my spine.
"Major so glad to have you back with us you've been gone a while. The vegetarian diet not working out for you then, Major?" Mystery caller said but the voice sounded really familiar to me.
"Oh Maria you really don't waste time when you hear something do you?" Jasper said.
"Is my poor niece with you by any chance?" Maria said.
"Niece, Maria what are you talking about?" Jasper said.
"Isabella Higginbotham is my niece. Now Major, do I get to speak with her or are you going to give me any trouble?" Maria said.
Jasper handed me the phone but giving me a look saying that he wanted an explanation.
"Hello?" I said but it came out sounding like a question.
"Hello Isabella my name is Maria and I am your great, great, great, great Aunt. But you can just call me Aunt Maria or Maria which ever you prefer. Now has Jasper told you his story?" Maria said.
"Yes Maria he has told me a bit of his story are you telling me that you are my great however many times over Aunt and Jasper's sire?" I said looking at the phone in wonder.
"Yes Isabella. I will tell you all about the family when I see you but you will have to be a vampire to see me my dear niece. You can't come anywhere near me still human or my guards will kill you even with the Major as your bodyguard. He would take out some of them for trying to harm you anyway. That's a story for another time. Now you be good and when I see you we will get to know each other." Maria said.
"Of course Maria I can't wait to get to know my family." I said getting excited to know some of my family history.
"Put Jasper back on the phone and I hope to see you soon." Maria said.
Jasper and Maria then finished their conversation in vampire speed.
"Why don't you try and get some sleep Isabella, we will be driving a while and it can get very tiring with two guys on a road trip." Randall said for the first time in a while.
"After we switch cars Isabella can sleep. First we have to get you some food. The next town isn't far from here and that is where we will get our new car and food for all of us." Jasper said.
"I am a little hungry and I need to use a bathroom but we need new clothes before we get out of this car." I said looking at my clothes and Jasper's.
"That's true Isabella. There should be a bag with some clothes if you want to change seats with Randall for a couple of minutes." Jasper said as I climbed in the back. "I'll just put the curtain that I installed a while ago."
I found clothes that I liked in the bag in the back seat and changed into them.
"Isabella I'm going to hand you some wipes so you can clean yourself up a bit so that people aren't shocked when we step out of the car." Jasper said.
It was then I noticed that a hand was peeking through the curtain on the passenger side.
"Thanks Jasper." I said
Once Jasper and I were clean and dressed in new clothes we were almost in town.
We got into town and Jasper told me to go to the store and buy a new phone and some food for the road because it was a long trip ahead of us. He and Randall were going to get something to eat and Jasper told me that he wasn't going to be eating any animals from now on and that it was nothing against the Cullens but he really didn't like the taste of them and he wanted to go back on his natural diet anyway.
So I went into the shopping centre and brought myself a phone at the phone store, went to the supermarket and brought some food, and then went to the bookstore to get some books that I wanted to read because they said it was going to be a long ride and well I wouldn't be asleep for the whole ride so I might get something to pass the time when the guys are quiet.
Once I made it back to the front of the shopping centre I just sat down on the chairs and pulled the smokes out that Jasper handed me before I went in, I lit it up and smoked it. I took one of the books out and started to read it while smoking the smoke. I was just starting to get into when Jasper and Randall came back they both had red eyes.
"Come on Isabella we'll get started on our long drive now. At least you won't get bored." Randall said.
"I see you put my little present to some use, how did you like them?" Jasper asked.
"I can't believe that they wouldn't even let me do that. I don't think I'll do it all the time just when I feel like it." I said lighting another smoke up.
"Just don't tell Maria that I was the one that got you onto them or she will have my balls for it and I value them too much." Jasper said.
Jasper's phone rang right after he said that. He looked a little reluctant to answer it when he saw who was calling.
"You answer it Isabella." Jasper said handing me the phone.
"This is Major Whitlock's phone, Isabella speaking." I said into the phone.
"Oh my dear niece I didn't expect you to answer the phone." Maria said.
"Well my dear Aunt Jasper was just talking about you and he didn't want to say something that might get him into trouble with you so he handed me the phone to answer." I said looking at Jasper who was shaking his head as if to say no don't answer like that.
"Oh Isabella tell him that his punishment is waiting for him when he gets here." Maria said laughing. "Now I had a reason for calling it seems someone's looking for Jasper and they have started with all his old friends and that includes yours truly. From what Alice told me is that Jasper ran off with you after they got into a disagreement on what they were going to do with you now
I told her that there was no way on this earth that Jasper would bring you to me still being human but she said that this is the first place he will come because he has reverted back to his original diet. Now I know he has gone back to his original diet but he isn't coming back here because Mexico and Texas aren't safe for someone like you what with you being the last of my bloodline and all.
You and your mother Renee are the only survivors of my bloodline left although your mother won't be on this earth much longer. No I am not having her killed Major. Isabella you mother is dying but didn't want you to worry and hearing the news that you have been killed will lead to her death. Your father will be fine because I have a source that tells me he doesn't just go down to La Push is it? Yes that's it, for fishing he goes down there to see a certain lady friend of his."
"My mum is going to die is there any way that we can stop her dying please she shouldn't have to die." I said hyperventilating.
"No Isabella there isn't anything that anyone can do because it's too late even if a vampire where to inject enough venom into right this second." Maria said sounding sad.
"Maria if you hear any more rumours about me or Isabella squish them before people start believing them please." Jasper said.
"Don't worry Major I put a rumour out a few days ago that the Major was coming back in a big way and he would want a while before he comes back to reclaim what was once his." Maria said.
"Good thinking but how did you know Maria?" Jasper asked.
"Your brother can be a pain in the ass when he wants to be." Maria said grumbling. "He came up to my camp about a week ago and said to start that rumour and if it comes from me it would be more believable than anything else there was out about you. You wouldn't believe half the stuff there is going around about you. The only one that was even true was that you were drinking from animals but then again they will believe what you spread yourself.
Would you believe there was a rumour about you going to high school and college multiply times that I had to tell people that I had sent you for research proposes to find out what was what these days. I just got laughed out of there when I told them that one. Another rumour was that you had falling in love with one of the animal drinkers but that one got squished about twenty years ago."
"Maria you are going to laugh when you hear this he actually did go to school with me." I said chuckling to myself.
"Jasper Whitlock actually went to school. Did you ever learn about yourself?" Maria asked laughing.
"Yes I did learn about myself a few times but not much. I didn't actually go by Whitlock when I went to school so no one will ever believe that unless they saw me with their own eyes. I was with Alice till twenty years ago as well so both of them are true just know that are null now because it will never happen again. Unless something ever happens that makes me go back." Jasper said to Maria.
"I can't believe that you actually went to school does anyone have any proof that you actually went to school because if they do I so want to see it." Maria said still laughing.
"Laugh it up Maria and I'll make lunch out of your niece." Jasper said winking at me so that I knew that he was joking but my heart rate still went up anyway.
"Jasper Whitlock don't you dare threaten to eat her again or I will come and find you and destroy you myself." Maria growled into the phone.
"Yes ma'am." Jasper said.
"Don't you try and sweet talk me either you are going to cop it when I see you next." Maria said. "Now my niece better not have a mark on her when I see her on camera later tonight."
"Umm Maria has Jasper ever told you that I've been bitten by a vampire before?" I said looking at Jasper.
"Jasper Andrew Whitlock that vampire had better be dead because if they are not it will mean a month without your legs." Maria roared into the phone.
"Yes the vampire that bit her is dead as is the one that sucked the venom back out of her. Unfortunately I was not the one that killed him. But I did kill the one that killed him." Jasper said into the phone but was looking at me when he said that.
"Jasper you killed Victoria for me?" I asked him.
"Yes I did sweetheart." Jasper said.
"Jasper did Isabella say Victoria? As in Victoria, James and Laurent terrorise of the South?" Maria asked.
"Why yes I did Maria why you knew them?" Jasper asked.
"I have been trying to get rid of them for years since James started playing his games. Please tell me he wasn't the one to bit her?" Maria said pleading the last bit.
"Okay I won't say anything then." Jasper said. "Let me tell you this he felt a lot of pain right before he died because I was the one to kill him along with two others. I know I could have done it myself but I was on animals at the time.
So me, my ex-wife, shut up Maria, and my other brother from another mother killed him. He was in so much pain right as he died I surprised you didn't hear him scream from where you are he was killed in a ballet studio in Phoenix. "
"I thought I smelt you around there after I heard rumours that a vampire was killed there." Maria said. "I'm also guessing that the sweet scent that was in the air around there as well was my niece?"
"Yes that was Isabella's scent in the air around there. There was only two scents missing and that was Rosalie Hale's and Esme Cullen but they had the task of watching over Isabella's father." Jasper said. "If she never got away we never would have had this problem. She was a little self-sacrificing back then. I never found out until the rest of the family showed up"
"How did a seventeen year old girl get away from the most feared vampire in the world ever and the most observant vampire as well?" Maria asked.
"Two sided bathroom at the airport." Jasper grumbled into the phone.
"I can't wait to spread this around but how can I spin it so that it works in a good way instead of a bad way?" Maria said.
"Well you can say that you had your most important man do the riskiest mission that you could ever come up with. Keeping your distant relative alive until it was time to collect her and bring her home." I started saying. "You can tell them that your niece is so accident prone that she falls over air and you only trusted one person to ever look out for her, Jasper."
"I think that's the best that you come up with Isabella." Jasper said.
"Well it was my idea to go to Phoenix but not my idea to almost get killed." I said. "Most of my ideas are fool proof."
"Did the Major just get up staged by a girl/my niece?" Maria and Randall said together.
"Shut up all of you I'm trying to think if that would work." Jasper said.
As he said that I got a text on my phone.
*B*
Tell him it will work.
*P*
"Umm how in the hell did Peter get my number when I just got it not that long ago?" I said after I told Jasper what it said.
"Nobody knows how he gets his information from Isabella we have just learned to trust it over the years." Maria said.
"But if Peter has the number then won't Alice?" I asked.
"No Alice won't have that number because you didn't set it up in your old name in fact you didn't even register the sim card did you?" Randall said.
"Hey no, I didn't not yet anyway. This is the phone I got but not the sim card because that's right here." I said holding up the sim card.
"Peter had them fix it at the store and it already got everything you want on it and you can call whoever you want except your father any number for him is blocked." Randall said leaning over to tell me. "At least that's what he told me before I found you guys."
"Can I strangle Peter when I'm a newborn?" I asked looking at Jasper, Randall and that phone.
"YES" came three answers.
"Isabella you can strangle or even kill any vampire you want when you are a newborn." Maria said.
*B*
Not looking forward to the ass
Kicking that I have coming
*P*
"I know this is a stupid question but how does he know what we are talking about?" I asked.
"Don't know he's always been like that." Maria said.
"I'll leave you guys to get on with your journey and I can't wait to see you Isabella." Maria said.
"I can't wait either Maria the way that Jasper talked you up it's a wonder that your ears didn't burn off." I said.
"Oh he always was such a flirt it's a wonder he's gotten away with it after all these years." Maria said.
"It's called Southern Charm ladies and it will come out more and more Isabella so just watch out." Jasper said as I lit another smoke.
"Talk later Maria." Randall said as Jasper hung up the phone.
About five hours later we crossed into a different state but I wouldn't be able to tell you which one. I was starting to get bored.
"Hey Jasper I have a question for you." I said.
"You want to know how we are evading Alice don't you." Jasper said.
"Yeah how are we doing that? Won't she be able to see us or track us somehow? I know there is a tracker in Volterra, Demetri if I remember correctly, she could use him to find us wont she? The Volturi would be interested to know that I'm not going to be a vampire within their time limit. The Cullens' would have informed them that I have been kidnapped or that you've taken me." I said all in a rush.
"Don't worry about Demetri coming after us he and I are friends, have been for a long time. To answer your question about the Volturi finding out you are still human well when Maria started the rumour that I was going back to the south the Volturi would have heard it as well. I'm the most feared vampire in the last nearly one hundred and fifty years.
They will put two and two together and work out that I have you but not your purpose is with me. You will be safe from just about everything that you can think of. No vampire would be stupid enough to get through me to get to you. There is only one vampire that has ever taken me down and lived to tell the tale and well I was punished good for that. Your Aunt is a cold hard bitch when she wants to be. She knows it as well.
Any other vampire that came close to killing me or seriously hurting me is now dead or is missing a few limbs because of what they did. The ones left to live are doing so because they are reminders to anyone else who thinks they can take me. Not many vampires out there missing a few limbs now days so I might have to scare a few newbies to hell if they want to pick fights with me.
My name is infamous around the south newborns are taught to avoid me at all costs well they were when I was last down here about fifty years ago. I can't wait to see looks on faces when I come strolling back into town it's going to be a bloodbath."
"Wow Jasper don't hold back what you really want to say." I said laying the sarcasm on thick.
"Isabella, do you really want to feel in the next few days then I wouldn't make fun of me. I made a promise to Maria that you will not be harm and I'm not going to be the one to break that promise because you couldn't keep your smart mouth shut." Jasper snarled at me.