For all lovely readers and reviewers: I have been notified to the fact that my time line is really really REALLY screwed up. I know this, I love history as much as the next person and would never accidently screw it up. I am very much aware of when the civil war took place but for my fan fiction to progress with time as I needed it to so that it would make a little more sense for why they had been together so long I needed to shove the war back a hundred odd years. This is my only story like that, so…
"Cassie!" Jasper screamed, it was pouring down and she was running off. He saw her duck into a door and he never waited or hesitated to follow her. He heard the ding of a bell telling them that someone had come in. He made sure to wrap his arm around her waist to keep her close.
"Cassie darlin', why did you run off like that? Did you smell something?"
She shook her head, she couldn't explain it what so ever. She knew they were supposed to be here. Something was waiting for them, something that was meant to happen and change everything for. They had been having a hard time feeding from humans especially when she was getting closer to her bearing age for born vampires. It was making her hungrier and that leads to issues in the hunting grounds. These feelings reminded her of the war, reminded her of the instincts that lead her to win against Voldemort, of course woman weren't supposed to be in any war at that time but the wizarding world didn't care who ended the war as long as someone did it for them.
"Darling, what is it?" Jasper was a little worried about his wife; she never acted like this before.
Cassie searched the room trying to find it, find what was causing her to feel this way. Then she saw her, she saw the golden red color of her eyes, this was another of them. Cassie knew Jasper would see what she saw, especially when he froze up. She loved her husband she truly did but he was a little introvert when it came to new people.
"It's alright love, look at her eyes; you can smell the venom in her. She won't hurt us." Cassie calmed him down. Jasper's shoulders dropped a little bit in relaxation knowing that Cassie was right but it didn't stop him from wanting to rip apart anyone that was a possible threat to his wife. Despite with how short this vampire was, Jasper always knew not to underestimate an unknown.
Walking over to the girl, they only stared at each other for a minute or two. Cassie tilted her head to the side, her hair falling to cover Jasper's hand which was resting on her shoulder,
"You were the one calling me here."
A smile, a slightly deranged smile, broke across the girl's face, "yes. I was."
"Why?" Jasper wasn't comfortable talking to this vampire so just let his mate take care of the diplomatic portion, he had been a soldier for a reason.
"There's a family. They're in Denali at the moment but they plan on moving very soon. I saw us all being there." Her voice was very matter of fact. As if she was so sure that she would be able to get them to go with her to this family. But the thing was, Jasper thought, they did need a steady place to go. Especially with the high chance of his mate getting pregnant at any point in their journeys as time gets closer and closer to her vampire maturity.
Cassie caressed her lower abdomen as if she knew what her mate was thinking, looking over at him their eyes connected. Jasper reluctantly nodded his head, Cassie smiled reassuringly even though he could feel the unease in their bond. They both knew that there was a higher risk of her actually being pregnant before they reach this coven and then what? They needed to get a reliable source of food for Cassie's rising appetite and then there was his appetite as well.
The girl in front of them started beaming and Jasper wondered if he was going to be able to handle traveling with her as her emotions were beating on. She was ecstatic, Jasper also caught a knowing gleam in her eyes.
"My names Alice by the way." The girl, Alice, introduced finally as they took a seat. To anyone who was watching them, they would think they were waiting for the rain to clear up.
"Cassiopeia and Jasper Whitlock, a pleasure to meet you." Cassie's voice was melodically once again.
They stared at each other for several moments before moving to sit in a booth, giving off the impression that they were old friends meeting up to talk about their lives so far.
Jasper would have been panting had he been human. With Alice's method of feeding from animals instead of humans have helped them much over the past two years that they had been traveling. It wasn't much of a shock to them that two years had passed by now, vampires didn't notice time as humans did. Alice was a little extreme and jasper could only handle so much of her exuberant emotions and now his darling little wife was two months along with their new little one it was only a little harder on the empath.
The diet of animal blood made it easier for his Cassie to feed and it was all around easier on them than if she was still on human blood. Jasper would spend his time just running his hand over her slim, still, stomach and just think about what their little one would look like. They had little trouble actually finding the Cullens. They had moved all over the place from Quebec in Canada to Askay in Russia, but it was lucky for them that the Cullens were in Portland Oregon at the moment. It seemed to them that this strange coven lived among humans for as long as possible and then move on.
Running up to the house in front of them, they were surprised by how open it truly was. An easily three story building that had many windows. It was an earthy brown and had complimentary tans and creams interior from what they could see. Jasper could smell four other vampires in the house…mansion…whatever you wanted to call this place. He could tell that two of them was male and the other two female, which poised a threat to his wife and unborn child. He was rigid as Alice bound off towards the door and immediately opened it, inviting herself in. She stood there grinning like a Cheshire cat.
One of the man had a woman standing behind him, 'she must not be much of a fighter,' jasper thought as he examined them. The one with the woman behind him had bronze brown hair and a hard jaw, his eyes were a burning amber but there was a hint of red in them, 'so this one has tried human blood.' That made Jasper curious. The other male had curly brown hair and a face that didn't seem like it was meant to be serious. But even when he wasn't smiling, Jasper thought his face had a boyish look like a cherub. Then there was the blonde with curly hair. Jasper would have fidgeted if he was human by just how…uncomfortable he felt with the resemblance between himself and this girl. And then the woman that was at the back of the other three, she had chocolate brown hair and a loving face which was set in a confused frown. She seems to have been more adapt and acting human as she gave a sound of being startled by them.
"Who the hell are you?" the bronze haired one growled out.
It seemed that they were going to let Alice handle this one, "I'm Alice. This is Jasper and Cassie Whitlock. Hello," she waved child-like.
The brown haired woman smiled softly at Alice's child demeanor. "Hello dears. How can we help you?"
Alice smiled again, it seemed to be her default from what Jasper could figure. "We're tired of running around and thought your coven would be best. Especially with a doctor as a creator."
"We like to think of it as he is our father, and why would that be a good thing?" the bulky man-child with cherub looks asked with a raised eyebrow.
"because Cassie's pregnant. Of course she won't want anyone to follow her when she goes off to give birth but it would be nice to make sure the babe is fine."
The blonde had a wistful look in her eye before a sneer appeared, "you got a human pregnant? Scum."
Jasper snarled, he would put up a lot but he would not have anyone disrespect his mate. But before he could do anything Cassie spoke, "I am a born vampire. I conceived naturally, I would appreciate it if you don't insult my mate and husband. Thanks."
"A…born vampire?"
Cassie nodded, "of course, we will explain much about ourselves, especially if we are to live together and be a family. But your…father might wish to be here when we do so questions will have to wait until then."
The blonde started forward, "Now wait just one min…"
Jasper was in front of his mate immediately, "don't come any closer to my mate." His voice was gruff and low key. The smooth baritone it was frightening, but his rage seemed to calm as Cassie wrapped an arm around his bicep.
"Jasper dear, they aren't going to hurt us, at least not yet. They just don't wish to wait that's all."
Jasper looked back at his little mate, before breathing in her scent which had a tinge of something that he learned was the scent of their baby it always calmed him down. He nodded his head, but he never stepped away from his mate. Just because he was calmed didn't mean that he would leave his mat open to an attack from these unknown variables surrounding them.
The brown haired one seemed uncomfortable with the tension in the room, "please come sit. My name's Esme, this is Edward" she pointed to the bronze haired one that was still growling softly at them. Then at the cherub looking one, "that's Emmett and then Rosalie." The blonde was the last one for them to be introduced to, but she was still sneering at them.
Cassie nodded her head, "we have already introduced ourselves. I hope that this is profitable for all of us."
Esme showed them to the couches that they had for appearances sake. Jasper pulled her into his lap and kept his hand flat on her stomach as if to protect his child from all those that are in the room with him. Esme looked sad at the fact that her family gave off the impression that the soldier had to be wary of them.
"My husband should be home in a few hours, why do we not talk about why you all decided to join us?" Esme's voice was warm and friendly, it had some sort of pull to it just as Cassie's did when she was using her gift.
Cassie looked over at first Alice and then at Jasper, she simply smiled at the look on her husband's face. It seemed that he was returning to his silent and watchful self, she herself was not up for conversation so she left Alice, their resident chatter box, to talk with all of them. Cassie was a little apprehensive with the stare that the blond woman, Rosalie, was giving her. But she ignored the other vampires and cuddled into her husband's embrace as he rubbed soothing circles on her stomach that was, until the blond asked her a question with skepticism heavy in her voice.
"If you truly are pregnant, how will you give birth? How long is your gestation? Will the child grow?"
"I will ignore your skepticism; my pregnancy will last about double a normal one so it will be about 78-80 weeks (little more than 18 months). Our little one will grow, but with two vampire parents it won't grow as quickly as if I was a regular human or if I had dormant gene the little one will grow slowly, estimation would be about 1 year to 8 months for a human child compared to ours. And when I go into labor I know how I will need to give birth. So don't worry about that"
Esme looked surprised at how long it will take for the pregnancy to develop, "we usually have the ones that look young enough to go to school when we move. You would need to stay home."
"I would have stayed home anyway; I was not going to leave my young child for more than 30 minutes much less for 7 hours." Cassie frowned, why would she go to school when she wanted to stay with her child and husband?
Rosalie's eyes only got darker but she had a small sad smile curving her lips, "your child will be very happy."
"I hope so." Her hand covered and laced fingers with Jasper's.
Jasper looked down at her and smiled before planting a kiss on her forehead. Alice smiled,
"Mmm and they will be so beautiful."
All heads turned to her, "and how do you know this?"
"Because she saw it," the bronze haired one said in an alto toned voice.
Alice nodded her head with her still beaming smile on her face, "and you can read minds." She started to laugh lightly.
"So you do have a gift, Edward is the only one out of use that has a one." Esme beamed, she was always proud of her adopted "son" and now she might have some more "children" to be proud of.
"All of us do." Cassie had no arrogance in his voice, unlike most people who would be proud and arrogant of their gifts. But vampires want to keep their gift secret from everyone else, especially from the Volturi.
Esme looked over at the ebony haired girl, "if you don't mind me asking what are your gifts?"
Cassie and Jasper share another look. All those around them wondered just how long they had been together to show such understanding with a simple look in the eye. She raised an eyebrow, he tilted is head to the left and the left side of her lips quirked upward then he inclined his head slightly.
"I'm an empath, my wife is…influential with her music and voice." Jasper tried to figure out how to tell them that his wife could control all of them if she tried to.
"Music," Edward's interest was piqued.
Cassie looked at him unblinking; causing human emotions to erupt in his chest as he unusually felt the need to squirm under her scrutiny. "Yes, my favorite was Palestrina but I enjoy Da La Rue and Handel. Beethoven and Mozart are very good composers but they are also ordinary whenever someone asks for their favorite. During our 25th year together, I found a piece by Chopin, Nocturnes, it was very lovely."
"good taste in music, what do you think of Debussy?"
"I enjoy his Nocturnes as well and his Children's Corner has a sort of…presence that other music I listen to doesn't have."
Jasper watched on as contentment poured off of his mate while they all spoke about things of interest. They spoke and grew comfortable around with one another, although Rosalie was still stiff and barely any better than when they started talking with them. And then Carlisle appeared in the front door.