Chapter 4/16 Smörgåsbord

Jasper was not kidding. It was a pretty good run, I was sure we were not in the United States any more but somewhere in Canada. Bella and Alice skipped over to me and Tanya hand in hand. Those too were just too cute sometimes, they were as excited as I was about the situation. Alice said, "well John, what do you smell?" I looked at Tanya and said "Wow, there is a lot, I do not know all of the smells, but let's see" I reached out with my powers and touched what I was smelling to feel what it was. It was weird, I don't know how this came to me so easily but it was like I had been doing this forever. I said, "OK, there is Deer, Mountain Lion, Bobcat, Elk, Moose, and Buffalo." Tanya said "Super sense of smell?" guessing at my power. I said, "Nope, here let me demonstrate I gave you the menu, what would you like?" She said suspiciously "I fed on the way here so let's keep it light go get me the bobcat?"

I pulled, and in seconds she spun around to see a bobcat floating in front of her. "WOW! That is some power! You can move things with your mind?!?" I said "yes, but it is more than that, I can sense things too like I am reaching out with my hand and touching them."

She clapped her hands and said "Let it go!" I released it and she grabbed it and quickly and neatly drained it and placed the carcass under a bush to be fed on by other animals. I had not thought it possible but here was someone who was a neater eater than Edward. After a few seconds the others placed their orders and I pulled the various animals to us, and I could tell Tanya was impressed. She then spoke "I cannot believe my luck. After all these years to not only find someone who I like as much as I like you but he is also the most powerful vampire in the world and he likes me too!"

I pulled her into my arms with my power as if to demonstrate and said "You are mistaken, I do not merely like you, that is like saying a sunset is OK, I love you with such intensity that I cannot use words to describe my feelings, I cannot demonstrate with any simple act. It is a good thing that we are immortal because it is going to take me forever to demonstrate the depth of my feelings for you"

I had kind of blocked out the rest of my family but as I held Tanya I became aware of the others embracing too and seconding my sentiment.

We all stood like that for a long time and as the sun began to rise over the forest Alice said "Well, let's get back Jacob has to get home to give his father a ride somewhere so we will need to be there when Nessie wakes up.

With that we all raced home. I was really tempted to make Edward and Jaspers feet weigh a ton each, so I could beat them but as I thought of it Emmett stepped on one end of a log causing the other end to spring up in front of me and Tanya. We were moving too fast to stop in time, so I pushed off the ground with my power surrounding tanya at the same time, and we sprung up into the air. It was then that I realized I did not have to touch the ground I could hold us up here and by pushing off the ground propel us forward faster than we could run, faster than Edward could run, so I did, Tanya grabbed onto me and was giggling as we flew home in the early dawn.

As we got close to home well ahead of the others I set us down the far side of the river where the others would cross. I said to Tanya "Now is where you get to see the wet part of my power..." Emmett was going to pay for trying to smack us with a log, I know that was not an accident. Bet he thought that was pretty funny too... OK, so I thought it was funny too, after all it is not like we can be hurt by something like that it would have just been embarrassing to run into a log. I would have laughed after I brushed myself off, but Emmett was going to have to learn to respect his elders even if only elder in human years.

I could hear them now running toward the river, Edward still in the lead they Edward sprang gracefully over the river, looking right at the bush we were hiding behind, and a smile broke out on his face as he turned and pointed at where Emmett was going to break through the brush, they were all approaching the river and one by one jumped with Emmett taking up the rear, and they saw Edward stopped facing the river they figured it out and turned to look. Emmett just a second to late realized he was being watched but it was too late he was already airborne on his way over the river but it was not to be.....

I stopped him just like last time slowly lowering him this time. Everyone started chanting "DUNK DUNK DUNK!" Emmett began pleading "Aww, c'mon, I was just playing, it would not have hurt you none, I just got these boots, they were a gift from Rosie!" With that I turned him upside down and dunked him upside down to the ankles into the river.

Everyone applauded as I pulled him out and dropped him on his butt on the near shore. Good old Emmett, he could really take a prank. He laughed, and swore he would figure a way to get me one of these days......