Chapter 8: Jasper's P.O.V.
"Well darling who might you be." I asked the stranger that had just walked through our front door followed by Rose and Emmett. She has brunette, long hair and chocolate, brown eyes. As a southern man I take pride in my accent and the fact that I can make girls swoon. But I was not prepared for what the brunette woman had said.
"well handsome my name is Marie." Marie said, with a southern accent thicker than mine. And she made me swoon. Once introductions were made, we settled into the living room and asked Marie how she knew Emmett, Rose and Carlisle.
"So Marie how do you know Carlisle? You never told us you knew him." Emmett said. Pulling Rose along to the love set.
"I'll wait till Carlisle comes home, then I will tell ya'll how I know him." She said. I looked into her emotions and for once I couldn't read them. What is she? If she knows Carlisle then she must not be human.
"So Marie how long are you staying in town." Rose said.
"Don't worry girl I'm staying till the wind takes me elsewhere." Marie answered. I didn't know I was holding my breath, that I didn't need, when I exhaled. Is she my mate? I asked myself. Yes you fucker! The Major and Ares both growled in my head.
"So darling how do you know Rose and Emmett." I said her. Trying to get some kind of information out of her.
"Well major, I was their wedding planner in 1935. They could tell I wasn't human, cause of my silent heart and what not. And we have been the best of friends since." How does she Know!? My eyes must have gotten big because she smirked and winked at me.
"But your heart is beating! How is it possible that your still alive? What are you? I can't read your mind!" Edward said with a scowl on his face. Running his hands through his hair. A human trade he said he got from his human father.
"I'm a supernatural being and that's all you need to know for right now." Was all she said. I wonder what she could be? She's our mate does it matter? Major bellowed in my head, shaking his cage.
"Marie would you like a tour of the house, whiling we are waiting for Carlisle to get home." Asked Esme.
"Yes I would like that very much." Marie nodded her head. They get up and Esme turns back to us and says,"would you guys mind going to the store and getting a few things."
"No." all of us said together. Rose and me piled into Emmett's jeep, while Alice and Edward got into the Volvo. As we drove off into town, we heard Esme talking to Marie about the house and such.
"Jasper what do you think of Marie." Amazing! we all said.
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"So where's your friend darling?" I ask Marie. She's the most gorgeous woman I've ever met. She's our mate fucker! The Major screamed in my head. He's been rattling his cage since she walked through the door.
"Jasper, Alabama." Was her reply. All the way across the USA.
"Ok. Well who is this "friend" of yours?" I asked.
"Her name is Amy Rose...Cullen..." whispering her friends last name. Cullen? As in Carlisle Cullen? Whose also a vampire?
"Yes the one and only" she said. Did I say that out loud?
"No I can just read mind and i can have a mind conversation with a person or group." I heard her say in my mind. What an amazing mate I have.
"Thanks sweetheart." Bella said. Out loud this time.
"So you know we are mates?" I ask her. She takes my hand while her other hand is on the steering wheel. She gives me a big smile and nods her head.
"Going back to your questions. Yes, Amy is Carlisle's daughter... and so am I." She said. I looked at her.
Right before my eyes her appearance changes. Her straight, hair turns blond and her eyes turn blue. Wow she looks so gorgeous. She looks at me out of the corner of her eye. That's when I notice her emotions! I can feel them finally. Nervousness.
"Why are you nervous darling?" I ask her.
"I haven't seen my sister in a very long time." She sighed. Looking down at her lap for a moment the back on the road. Not wanting to see her sad anymore I change the subject.
"Darling what's your back story?" She laughed. She has the most adorable laugh I've ever heard.
"What's yours Major?" Bella ask avoiding the question altogether. So i told her my back story. Hopefully she'll tell me her's.
"I didn't have quite the same bringing as my adopted siblings. I was born in 1844, in Houston, Texas" I said, "I joined the Confederate Army before he turned 17. I was promoted to major in the army and became the youngest major in Texas. I was evacuating women and children, when I met Maria, Lucy and Nettie. Maria knew That I would make an exquisite vampire. Maria and me seemingly shared a short romantic relationship, but she never got over her deceased mate. I gained the ability to feel and manipulate people's emotions which was very useful in controlling the younger newborns. So I was too commanded the newborn army that participated in the Southern vampire wars. Since she wouldn't keep vampires after the first year of their transformations, I was responsible for disposing of them, something I felt remorseful, because I could feel their pain when I was to kill them just as much as I could feel the pain of my human victims. Overtime, the pain and cruelty of such existence depressed me to no end. That's when I first noticed I had two other personalities: the Major and Ares. While in the army, I befriended a newborn named Peter. I persuaded Maria to keep because of his advanced combat skills and kindred spirit and he became my second in command." I looked over and expected to see fearfulness in my mates eyes. Instead I felt so much love. So much so, that if I was not sitting down in a car it would bring me to my knees.
I continued my story, "It was one night that changed everything in my undead life. It all started when Peter and me where killing off the newborns who had lived up to the one year mark. It was then when I called a newborn named Charlotte up, that Peter told her to run. I let them escape. It was on then that I realized why the acted that way towards the the newborn. They were mates. I had felt Peter's love, determination, and protectiveness. After this incident, Maria's feelings for changed. I could sense how fearful - and somewhat mistrustful - she was toward me, and knew that she would plot a way to destroy me. So I began planning ways to destroy her first." As I was telling my mate my story she kept nodding her head or kissing my knuckles.
"In 1938, Peter came back and said there are other ways vampires could live. Immediately, I left Maria and join Peter and Charlotte. However, I could still feel the emotions of my human victims, which deeply depressed me. Eventually, I left Charlotte and Peter. Killing less often didn't help, and the thirst always grew overwhelming. In 1948, I ran into a diner in Philadelphia and met Alice Cullen. I was puzzled by her happy behavior. As it turned out, she had been waiting for me. When she held out her hand, I took it, and felt an unfamiliar emotion for the first time: hope. Alice told me about the ability to survive off of animal blood instead of human blood, as well as our future with Carlisle Cullen and his family." I gave a small laugh, "She talked a lot about her mate named Edward and how I would meet my mate, but it would be a long time for her to find me. I didn't know if I could trust her, but I followed her. With the help of Alice's gift, we searched for the Cullens, and in the meantime, learned to adjust to 'vegetarianism'. Finally, we located the Cullen's in 1950 and quickly joined them. Sometime after that, Edward and Alice married. I changed my surname to Hale; Rosalie's last name, and pose as her twin, since we looked so much alike. I have had the hardest time being around humans. I was not taught to control or how to regulate my blood lust, leading me to feel weak." I said finishing my story. (A/N: wiki/Jasper_Hale)
"Will I get to meet your other personalities?" She asked. Yes! The Major said in my head. Mate...Mine...Mine... Ares said. He's only capable of one worded sentences.
"I don't see why you can't talk to Major. However, there's no talking to Ares. He's only focused on his mate's well being." I answered.
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Welcome to Jasper, Alabama! Said the sign. We've been driving for 38 hour. Only stopping to stretch our legs, for only a minute or two. Not that I needed it. The town was smaller than Forks! (A/N: Don't know if it's true or not) We checked into a hotel and since it was 10:00 at night Bella went straight to bed.
"Goodnight sugar." Bella said pulling back the blanket on her bed.
"Night darling." I said.
The next morning after both Bella and me had a shower, and she had something to eat. She was telling me her childhood with her sister and Carlisle.
"She sounds amazing darling. You must have had a great childhood." She smiled as she was eating her pancake with strawberry jelly on top.
...I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, but though you're still with me. I've been alone all along... We heard her phone go off.
"Hey, Amy i'm in town and i need your-I'm not in town...What?...I'm in Forks! I had a vision so I rushed over here. It was a last minute decision...Oh! why didn't you call and tell me?... Because I didn't have time to call you and that's not what I saw. So I have to stay low till you and everyone else get's here...who is everyone else? The only person who came with me is Jasper, but you already saw that didn't you?..yeah! I need you to go to the high school and get my friends: Michael, Jen and Jamie...ok, ok..." (A/N: the italic is what Jasper heard. So basically he heard the whole conversation between Amy and Bella. Just thought I tell you guys in case someone was confused.)
