It was finally time for us to visit Carlise and his family, to sya the Delilah was nervous was and understatment. She struggled when it came to meating new vampires, she liked feeling in control and they made her feel helpless. On our arrival Esme nearly knocked me over while hugging me, giving Alistair the same treatment and giving Delilah two swift kisses on the cheek. Esme was practically radiating happiness from her cord, well i mean when wasn't she. She sat us down on the large plush sofa and called for everyone to come down. We sat and talked, well most of us, Delilah was practically sat under Alistair, shying away. I knew she would adjust eventually, it would just take time.
After half an hour Delilah had started to come out from behind Alistair a bit. Once she did her and Jasper spotted each other.
"Delilah? Is that you?" Jasper asked in disbelief.
"Jasper? It's so good to see you! After all these years!" She, apparently, was just as shocked to see him.
"I'm glad you made it out." Jaspers eyes sparkled with excitement. "Alice, this is Delilah, you know the one I told you about? She helped Peter, Charlotte and I escape Maria.And was one of the four vampires in the world that have ever beaten me in a fight."
"That was a very brave thing you did for them, thank you for freeing my soul mate." Alice's words were so sincere that every person in the room believed it with all of their being.
"It was nothing, and was? I can still beat you, anyway I had known Maria since she was created and had known her creator for 50 years before that. He had warned me of the power hungry monster he had created but I did not truly listen to him until one day, when I was visiting him, he was not there. It was just Maria stood next to a roaring fire. I could just about make out the silhouette of my old friend within the flames, she had murdered her creator." Delilah's face became tense as she remembered the gory details of her friends death. "I was the first vampire she recruited to be in her army. Then shortly after we picked up Lucy and Nettie and it just grew from then on. Jasper was a friend of mine that I actually trusted unlike Maria and the newborns. I had trusted both Nettie and Lucy but Maria saw their plans to leave the army and disposed of them. So I was left with Jasper. He had come to me one day asking for advice and I had told him that I would help and to leave and not look back when I gave the signal." Jasper's face grew sad suddenly. "He had made me promise that I would come with them, and I did but I knew that for the first time in my existence I was breaking a friends trust. They left and didn't look back just like I told them." She smiled sadly at Jasper.
"It wasn't until we stopped that I realised that she hadn't followed and by then I thought her to surely be dead." His voiced was pained. "But by some miracle she is still her today to tell the tale."
"Hey, you didn't really think that I'd let that she devil rid the world of all of this?" She gestured to her body grinning at him.
H shook his head at her but smiled nonetheless. "And I'm glad that you didn't because that would mean that I had lost a dear friend... a little sister even." I could tell by the shocked faces of the Cullen's that they had not expected Jasper to say something like that. Apparently he wasn't good with trust and fitting in.
Delilah grinned at him again.
"How did you get away from her then?" I think he was dreading the answer but also couldn't bear not to hear it.
"Well it wasn't until about ten years later that I finally rid myself of her insufferable presence. I told her that I was leaving, expecting her to kill me as she had Nettie and Lucy but she didn't bat an eyelid. Just warned me that, should we ever cross paths again she wouldn't be as generous. Like I actually need her generosity." Delilah scoffed crossing her arms crossly.
There was no denying that Delilah was dangerous, she had the same deadly vibe as Jasper and even more bite marks. She was almost a foot smaller than Jasper but infinitely more threatening when she wished to be. They certainly were a pair.
I heard a car pull off the motorway and presumed it was Carlisle; Esme got up to welcome him home, I thought it was cute.
"Hello Children," he said as he came through the door to the living room. "And Alistair! And you must be Delilah, Alistair's mate." He greeted them both with a hand shake and went to take a seat beside Esme. He nodded to me with a smile and I mirrored his gesture. "What have you been talking about in my absence?" Just like Carlisle, ever curious.
"Did you know that Delilah and Jasper used to know each other? She helped him escape." Esme smiled fondly at Delilah, in her eyes she had saved one of her children's lives and made another's infinitely better.
We filled Carlisle in on what had been said while he had been at work. We kind of split off now, Emmett talked to Alistair about sports for a bit and once they started talking about cars Rosalie joined in the conversation. Delilah and Jasper caught up a bit more, talking about their transitions to the animal blood diet seeing as they had both drank human blood before, and for quite a long time might I add. And then Esme, Carlisle, Edward and I talked for a bit. Carlisle and I were both coven leaders and while there really was not pecking order Edward was basically his second in command, his beta if you will. And Esme was his mate which automatically meant that she would be involved in the serious talks we had.
We talked for a bit about Eleazar and the fact that he had not mentioned to Carlisle that he knew me, to which I said: 'Neither did you, Carlisle.' He thought about that for a bit before nodding and sighing. Telling me that the next time they met he would tell him that he knew of my existence and my power.
"So, Carlisle, how would someone go about buying a piece of land such as this?" I thought I'd asked just in case I wanted to buy some.
"Why? Were you thinking of buying a house?" He asked.
"We've got a house, it's nice and the neighbours are friendly but they are also just there. We have no hunting ground and Alistair and Delilah have caused a few... disruptions shall we say."
We talked about this for a while and I had decided that we would move to a more secluded place unless Delilah and Alistair could find the perfect reason for not doing so.
"Edward, why don't you give Bella a tour?" Esme suggested.
He looked at me then "Would you like one?" He left the decision up to me.
"That would be lovely, but don't feel obligated in anyway, I'd hate to inconvenience you."
"Nonsense, it is no trouble at all."
And so he took me on a tour.