The Major's Goddess
Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyers owns I just play pretend with them
JPOV
My name is Jasper Hale Whitlock. I only use "Hale" as an alias when living with my adopted family, The Cullens. I stay with them for my "girlfriend" I say girlfriend and not mate because I know she is not my true mate. We are what would now be known as fuck buddies or a safe relationship, based solely on companionship. It works for us and our needs. I don't know yet what happens when you find a mate I just know we are not mates.
I digress, I am now out hunting the low life's of the city but seeing as I'm in Las Vegas I have more of a variety which is the whole reason for my little stay out here in the city. I live in Forks with my family for most of the time, but in order for me to keep a handle on my thirst and not be overwhelmed. I, on occasion, take a year to visit my true family Peter and Charlotte they are the reason I'm here now. For 11 months of the year I'm a "vegetarian" then I get a year break that the Cullen's aren't too happy with, but who's going to argue with the God of war.
Charlotte, Pete and I are on the prowl tonight. I prefer to hunt alone, so Char and Pete took to the other side of town because I tend to get very territorial when I'm running on pure instincts. I'm about to make a grab for my dinner, when I feel a strange sensation in my chest. I try ignoring it, but then it turns into a full blown pull now; ignoring the meal I had in mind I turn in the direction of the pull. Suddenly I feel a range of emotions from surprise, giddiness, caution then giddiness again.
Confused, I stop and wonder what in blue blazes that was all about...when I feel a burst of extreme confusion then a sudden burst of fear followed by a sense of pride. Hmm, I wonder who all these perplexing emotions belong to, I guess I'm about to find out. I'm kind of stunned when I'm led to a strip bar that almost looks abandoned 'cept for the fact that you can hear music. The sign outside doesn't work and there are no windows so I continue following the emotions out back.
As my senses are bombarded by the range of emotions, I'm taken back to memories best left in the past. I was a young major in the Confederate Army on a mission to Galveston. War had forced the women and children to be evacuated. Half way to my destination I come across a woman lying in the middle of the road. I jump off my steed approaching her, as I near she's suddenly disappeared. Ice cold hands grip me from behind as she whispers into my ear how I will be her major and greatest ally…
(FLASHBACK)
Instantly I'm on fire, burning from within I feel like I'm in hell, but as I try and open my eyes I find they feel glued shut. Then after what feels like an eternity the burning starts to dissipate then centers to just my chest, then it's gone. Had it not been for my military training I would be weaker, incapable of controlling my emotions. I had kept myself calm waiting for this hell to be over I knew I was still alive I could hear someone speaking to me, "Si mi guerrero, control your emotions" said a woman with a Spanish accent.
Soon after I awoke as a vampire, I found that I had the ability to control people's emotions. That came in handy as I helped Maria win here territories. Flash forward 5 years: We were the most feared coven in the South, which is how I came to know Charlotte and Peter more on them later. Maria was cold and heartless, but I was a man capable of adapting to my surroundings. She would, on occasion reward us with sex and blood when we pleased her or have us mauled by newborns when we disappointed her.
The sex she provided would suffice, but it was the blood she fed us that tormented my thoughts. She would bring children for us to feed off of and because of my ability I would feel their fear and dread. The worst part was listening to them beg and cry for their parents. To persuade me Maria would make mention of the fact that they had no one in the world to care for them because she had slaughtered their families and would tell me that I was doing them a favor because she would only toss them into the desert to die of starvation and dehydration, or until another vampire crueler than even she is would stumble upon them. I would knock them unconscious so I wouldn't feel their pain and then drink from them.
After she started feeding us children I released Char and Pete in secret, but because I had sired them they didn't want to leave me, I promised to meet them and only then did they agree to leave. They had also just become mated to one another. Maria had ordered them killed when it was discovered that they were mated. That is another reason why I had freed them. After 2 years I still remained with Maria when I decided I could just knock out the entire camp and make a run for it, as the camp was unconscious I started running and I caught the scent of two vampires I smiled because I knew it was Charlotte and Peter.
They came running beside me…
Laughing, I punch Peter he's wearing a smirk like he knows some big secret. Although I know he does, he's always claimed to not have a gift; in Peter's words he "just knows shit". They start telling me how I need to go to some diner and wait for a pixie looking woman with spikey black hair and that she will take me where I need to be until the time is right.
Looking at Pete dumbfounded I ask, "What time?" he just smirks and runs the opposite direction then yells "You'll just have to wait and see fucker!"
(END FLASHBACK)
Fast forward 50 years and I'm still waiting, for what… no idea, for who… no fuckin clue….
I'm brought out of my memories by the sound of someone speaking; I know it's a man and wonder why he would be having these feelings when I suddenly hear the second heartbeat. I realize the emotions must be coming from the second individual. So I step closer and I see her on the ground looking like a beautiful downed goddess about to beg forgiveness.
Anger sets in and my inner major starts ranting that she should not be begging anyone, but others should bow before her and beg the honor of looking upon her face. I sense the cretin as I watch the woman with chestnut colored hair so full and sultry, the depths of that deep chestnut brown reflecting all the radiance of the light with soft curls that looked like silk cascading down her back to her waist, I continued ogling.
She looked up, and I was all but lost in those Chocolate brown, soulful eyes that made her look sweet and sexy all at the same time. I was lost in her allure when the scent of her blood hits me and I start drooling not from thirst, but the desire to want to taste every delicious inch of her body. She smells of the finest strawberries and chocolate not appetizing to me now, but I was human once. Her smell is divine, fear suddenly slams into me and I'm brought back to why I was here in the first place.
I hear the disgusting vile things this vermin is saying to my Goddess. Instinct takes over I snatch up the man who would dare defile my Goddess with his vulgar words and even dream of laying his hands on her. Before I realize it I snap his neck, breaking his arms and legs in the process. Just for good measure I snap him in two with a sickening crunch I drop his body, all without getting a drop of blood on me. I don't want him defiling me with his filthy blood which is why I didn't drain him. I rush to my Goddess when I see her about to slam into the concrete.
I cradle her in my arms as she whispers something about me being an angel, if I didn't have super hearing I probably would have missed it. I smirk and tell her I'm no angel and I think to myself if she only knew what I really was she probably wouldn't let me hold her like this. I start scanning her body with my eyes checking for injuries when I see her right arm has a gash in it that's a pretty good size. I think to myself that can't be good for humans, my inner major starts rattling his chains begging to fix her. My instinct takes over and I realize I've ripped her sleeve off.
I hear her mutter something about it being her favorite shirt, "I'll get you another" I reply smirking and I wonder how she could be thinking about a shirt when she's close to bleeding to death. I start licking up her arm to seal the wound and I'll admit I wasn't having gentlemanly thoughts at the time, and that maybe I took a little extra blood not enough to damage her. I couldn't resist, when I'm in major mode it's hard to keep a handle on him, he's use to taking what he wants. Who can blame him when she tastes and smells as good as she does. It was like taking the best drug in the world, it made you feel powerful as if she held the power of heaven in her blood and then she starts moaning and what sounds like purring. It was getting hard to keep a handle on the major he was aching for his Goddess.
Suddenly I'm seeing pictures of a middle aged woman smiling warmly, dressed very modest standing in a kitchen cleaning with the smell of fresh baked cookies in the air. She was hugging another woman in a very familial way. As I looked closer I notice that they both have the same chestnut hair as my Goddess, without warning the picture changes. I see the same woman only now she looks worn like she is on the verge of death.
She's drinking liquor straight from the bottle has a mirror laid on the dresser with four lines of cocaine which she immediately snorts. Then she's suddenly on stage tripping over her 6in heels trying to be seductive and failing dancing topless in front of sweaty old men, dripping with lust and she looks lost. Almost as if she has no idea where she is, immediately I'm hit with shame disgust and pity. I look around and see my Goddess in a corner behind a DJ Booth her head hung in defeat.
Then just as suddenly as the visions hit they are gone and I realize that they must have been dreams or memories I look down at my sleeping Goddess. I become aware of the fact that I need to get her inside. I look around and notice the back door to the shady club is half open and wonder if maybe she works there, she doesn't look like the type so I carry her inside.
Loud music assaults my ears and the smell is enough to make my eyes water if they could, as I look around I notice it's the same club from my vision, a glance toward the stage tells me I'm right when I see the same middle aged woman grinding on some old guy nearly to lose her balance.
The bartender, a female notices me and is suddenly running towards me, "oh my god what happened?" she asks me, "I don't really know" I lie, "I just found her outside passed out." She has me carry her to the back dressing room after asking another bartender to keep up her side, we get to the back and I lay her down, Tanya I found out her name was goes to grab a blanket for my Goddess or Bella which Tanya called the beauty in my arms. I started telling Tanya some partial true story leaving out the part where I tore the guy to pieces. She instantly starts gasping for air saying, "That was the same guy that kept watching her and me all night" she started softly crying, repeating it could've been her, it should've been her. I stopped her there and told her that she couldn't have known what would happen to her she nodded then said she would get Bella's mother.
Several minutes later in stumbles this woman looking like death incarnate I internally groan "ugh" she introduces herself as Renee its slurred but I ignore it, what I can't ignore is that she never once glances at Bella and she keeps sending me a shit ton of lust I snap at her, "Is this your daughter?" She barely glances down and grunts, "yea" then suddenly laughs, "what happen she drink too much...I knew she liked the liquid fire" and she starts cackling I'm on the verge of growling and decapitating this woman, but I hold it in. It wouldn't be in good manners to tear her apart and my momma raised a gentleman, I still try and hold on to that human part of my life even if I am a vampire.
Tanya on the other hand couldn't and slaps Renee in the face yelling, "YOU STUPID, FUCKIN, BITCH! How dare you speak about Bella like that you know how sweet and innocent she is, she was attacked in the back of the building if you care at all!"
Renee suddenly stills and I feel nothing at first then regret and sorrow, worthlessness and self-hate pour off her and slam into me, she suddenly turns around grabbing her phone and starts dialing...it rings 3 times then suddenly a gruff voice answers "Chief Swan here"... "Charlie, its Renee"
...silence…
Then a sigh, "Yes, Renee what did you need ...I'm not giving you any more money. I've already sent Bella her child support and you know I put it in her personal bank account so you can't get it and I'm not supporting your habits so is everything OK...how's bells?"
Renee is silent...
Charlie starts panicking, "Hello, Renee did something happen is Bella OK? Where is she? How bad is it?" he starts firing off questions. Renee sighs then proceeds to tell Charlie how Bella was nearly assaulted and how a stranger found her laying in the parking lot...
…Charlie is silent…
He takes it all in then sighs sounding almost defeated, "I told you Renee, she would get hurt going to those places, but you wouldn't listen I begged you to let her move with me, but you wouldn't now this happens, do you want her to go through what you did? Getting raped and beat or worse getting gang banged like the night I found you on your eighteenth birthday, you were in the street naked, bleeding and disoriented? And you didn't remember anything up until a few years ago when you started your "bad habits"?"
...silence…
Renee whispers, "Take her Charlie, take care of her I'm wasting away and there are no re-writes for me or do-overs...I'm done Charlie"...he sighs, "I'll be there tomorrow morning have her things ready"
...**click**…
He hangs up on her. Renee hangs her head in shame, "Tanya can Bells stay the night with you I gotta go finish working then I'll go pack her things." "Sure" Tanya replies with that Renee walks back on stage. Tanya grabs Bella and she starts thanking me I simply nod my head and slip out the back while Tanya takes Bella to her home...I start running back to Chars and Pete's thinking just…"wow."
My thoughts drift back to my Goddess and how peaceful she looked sleeping and I can't help, but smile I reach the cabin on the outskirts of town that Pete and Char bought. I see Pete sitting on the front porch with that shit eating grin of his, that knowing asshole he never tells me anything, I think to myself...walking up to Pete I sigh, "You knew?"
He chuckles, "Yup"...I move to punch him but the asshole moves and he just smirks, "So how'd she taste" he asks...I sigh, "Like heaven"... "pussy" he mutters then takes off upstairs to Char where I hear her smack him and tell him he's not getting any lovin' for being so insensitive.
I laugh pleased and go to my room to read an old civil war book I picked up a couple of years ago as I'm reading I hear my cell phone beep. I remember I left it so I wouldn't get disturbed while hunting sighing I grab it cause it could only be the Cullen's. "Yes" I answer, its Alice. "Oh, Jazzy thank goodness you're ok" confused I reply, "Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" after calming down she replies, "Well I couldn't see you anymore and I got worried…Come home Jazzy I miss you" she whines then she just has to throw in extra bullshit. "I can't see you anymore it's just black and when I do its just flashes it's safer to be home with us." With that my vacations over and time to head back to Forks and the she-devil also known as my girlfriend…
Sighing I remind myself I only have to stay awhile longer until my true destiny is revealed…I just hope Peter's knower wasn't wrong and whatever or whoever I'm waitin' on gets here already. I don't know how much more I can take of the shopping-pixie from hell.
A/N: Okay guys hope you enjoyed this chappie. I'm trying to get them out in a decent amount of time 'cause I know how much it sucks to have to wait like a month for a chappie to a story you add to alerts, so let me know your thoughts constructive criticism is always welcome and tell me where you'd like to see this story go or where you think its already heading thanks! ENJOY! ~~PLEASE REVIEW~~