Another thing why she says Gods is when she was born they believed in more than one god so therefor she say Oh my Gods not God. I am not going to put religion in my story (No offence to anyone!) I just rather not go that way. I will be using it a lot in this part so I thought I should clear it up. ANYWAY on with the story!
I could not stop thinking about Jasper that night. After I sent everyone to bed- with complaints from everyone- and checked on Laddie and Charlie I nestled down on the couch. I was not willing to go into my room until we settled everything with the Cullen's and got my wall fixed. I should have thought that thru...
Back to Jasper, why in the world did he purr at me? No one has purred at me, ever. And then there was his smell, good Gods his smell! It should be sin to smell that incredible, he smelled of a spring meadow after a light rain, with a wood undertone. It brought forth memories I have not thought about in so long, it brought me peace. I have not felt peace in so long I have really forgotten it.
Do not get me wrong, living with the Boy's is nice, I feel as if I have a purpose again but I am constantly on guard. Yet when I am in the presence of Jasper, his smell wrapping around me, I almost feel as if I can rest. That I do not need to look over my shoulder for threats to me or my family. That he would do it for me, as if he was my ma- I shot up. Sitting on the black leather couch- that still smelled like them (Mostly Jasper)- it hit me like the cold air from the night.
There was a reason I was comfortable, why I felt safe, he was my mate. Oh, how long I have waited for him, how long I have yearned for his touch. No wonder I had to keep myself from grabbing and taking into my room, alone. Gods I felt so stupid! Why in the world- I do not even know what to say-think I am thinking. Someone sitting made me jump a foot into the air and get into a defence position. It was just Paul.
"What are you doing up?" I settled next to him, he laid down putting his head into my lap. I smiled at Paul, while he looked older than Marko, but he was younger. Paul was pulled into this- tricked in a way- yet it was because of his personality, he stayed. He was very easy going, and he loved Marko very much.
"Could you sing me a song?" He looked at me with his puppy brown eyes I could not resist. Lightly running my fingers through his long blonde hair, I started humming a light tune before I starting to sing a song my Mother once sang to get me to sleep when I was young.
(This is MINE please do not steal! It's a low song almost like Misty Mountainslow and slow)
Cold Light
"As light fades and air chills
Wind carries unknown sounds
Water slows and leaves fall
Trees slip into a dreamless sleep
Fire alights the ground
Sunlight fades from the sky
Night crawls upon the ground
Some animals sleep
Others crawl with the night
All await the sun
Starlight covering the ground
Bare branches casting shadows in the night
Chill spreads icy fingers
Wind pushing the starlight along
Moonlight hiding behind clouds
Trees bowing to Wind
Night consuming everything
Starlight weeping in anger
Darkness fades into the trees
Ice groans as the wind passes
The trees awaken
Sunlight dances with the starlight"
As I sang the last verse I heard Paul's light snoring. Marko, who was leaning against the wall, walked over to pick him up smiling at me as he took Paul back to bed. Silently following after them, needing to check on Bella. As the two continued on I stopped on the second floor and headed toward Bella's room.
I opened the dark stained door to see Bella on her bed, her face tear stained, and clutching her pillow close. She looked up, upon seeing me she started crying again.
"Why does it hurt? I thought it would be better!" Bella screamed into the pillow, through the bond I could feel her grief, heartbreak, and a lot of anger.
"My Sweetling, I know you love him. I know he loves you. Remember when he was turned? He was a the peak of teenage hormones, he didn't get a chance for it to settle like you did, well girls mature earlier so we will go with David. Paul was just over the hump while Marko wasn't." That brought her shining brown eyes to me, I had moved from the doorway to her purple bed. Bella moved into my arms, still crying while she understood it still hurt.
"B-but he has been alive for so long you think his brain would understand better!" My green shirt was getting wet, not that I really cared. I more wanted her to be happy not sad.
"Oh my Sweetling! Edward only wants wh-" Before I could finish I stopped myself.
"He wants what?" Bella lifted her head to look at me.
"I was just thinking, if he is your mate why in the world was he willing to let you leave him? Grow old and die." My brain going hundred miles an hour. I could never think of a mated pair- even at the first stage as they were- willing let one die.
"He told me he would die once I did." That brought all thoughts to a stop. He would kill himself once she died, but was not willing to kill her to spend the rest of time together.
"My Sweetling go to sleep. We will see them tomorrow and I have some questions that need to be answered." Moving her so she was laying down, I looked to her face. Red eyes, running nose, blotched face all from crying, but there was a questing look into her eyes.
"I want to know why he wants to die? Being so willing to let a mate die, just want to know my Sweetling." Kissing her forehead, I made my way out, David was on the wall next to her door. Once I turned the light out and shut her door, he motioned for to follow him.
We made our way back to the first floor and out the hole in my wall. I was thinking of changing the walls color when David spoke.
"So, you have the same idea I had." I look to my oldest Great-Grandchild. David was turned during a time when one had to grow up early, and he did. He was playful but when I needed him he was the first one at my side.
"Yes, I think that when he left her, when they first meet. It makes my think he ever re-connected the bond, he kept himself at a distance. I think that, that is why Edward won't change her, while he loves her the bond to keep her by his side and safe never was there. So the bond thinks she is dead already..." David nodded along looking at me while I trailed off thinking about my own mate.
"That's what I thought, should we bring it up tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"Are you going to talk to your mate?" I sputtered when he said that. "Oh please, he never took his eyes off you, and once you saw him neither did you." Crap, he had to be the oldest and the one to noticed.
"Yeah, we need to talk to him!" Dwayne popped out of nowhere making me almost attack him, if popped far enough away fro my brain to register who it was. I both love and hate his power. Love when he does it to someone else and hate when he does it to me.
"I swear to the Gods Dwayne stop! I may hurt you one day!"
"Only if I pop close to you!" His deep voice sang to me as he walked back into the house, David laughed as he followed his best friend. Growling low I followed the two boy inside.
"You both need to go to sleep." I almost spat at them, they chuckled and walked to their rooms. Knowing I would not be able to sleep, I sat on my couch and mediated.
The morning came faster than I thought it would. I was broken out of my calm state to Charlie and Laddie coming down the stairs, they both must have thought I was in my room seeing as they were surprised to see me smiling at them once they hit ground floor.
"What would you two like for breakfast? You are the first ones up so you get to pick." Laddie knew the rule, while Charlie looked confused as he followed us into the kitchen.
"I want eggs and bacon!" Laddie looked to Charlie.
"That sounds good." It was not long before everyone in the house was up, we caught Charlie up on the Cullen's and he wanted to be here when they came back, but he had to go and work. Charlie left after telling Bella not to worry about the Cullen's, if it was such a big deal for him to know he would change. We left them to have a moment in the kitchen together while we set up the living room to fit all the vampires that would soon be in my home, again.
It was getting close to the time they would be coming by, the construction crew was almost done- they were waiting on the paint to dry. Joe was a vampire like the Cullen's, he and a few others work as contractors for mostly other vampires, seeing as they could do construction without hiding their speed. Joe was also a family friend, I use him to introduce my newborns to other vampires and their fighting styles. Bella took to fight like a dog to a bone, I could not teach her fast enough. Back to Joe, he had his two 'brothers' John and Jack- yes all their names start with 'j' hence the brothers theme.
"Vlatka they are coming! Joe, Jack, be nice." Marko bellowed as he walked into the living room, pulling a gaming Paul into his lap.
"ME why should I be nice?" Joe was offended, he was never mean to anyone, without a reason that is. Everyone gave him blank looks, his brothers just smiled.
"Hey now be nice. We don't need them to think of us any crazier that we already seem." Everyone gave a low chuckle, before there was a knock on our door, they learned a new trick.
"Please come in, let us have a nice talk." I showed the way back into the living room. While they settled themselves down, I took a deep breath.
"We got off on the wrong foot, and for that I do give my sincerest apologies." Sighing at the end from the dark look Edward sent me, before he pouted like a child. "You know I may have changed her, but she is still the same Bella she had always been. And I'll have you know that she ask so many questions before she even became a half."
Smiling thinking of all the questions she had, Bella blushing as she watch her brothers play COD on the big TV.
"Vlatka, maybe I should say my peace so they understand where I am coming from." Bella stood from her place by Jasper, she switched places with her maker. Bella stood for a minute, looking at every member of the family before her. The one she wished to join and the one she was apart of.
"You know when I first learned of your family I was not scared, I was excited. I thought I would finally have a family that wouldn't leave, wouldn't look to me for everything, wouldn't treat me like a stranger. I would finally see how a family was supposed to be, loving parents, siblings. I would see what's it's like to have older brothers, older sisters." Bella stopped here, closing her eyes taking a deep breath.
"Then Edward, the boy who I love so much I was willing to go through what he thought hell was just to be with him. I was willing to leave my family behind because even though I love my mother and Father...They were never there for me like you all were. Edward," The deep sadness though the bond made me grab Jasper's arm, himself tensing at the feelings in the room.
"Edward, you left me alone in the woods after telling me that I was nothing to your family. I was a toy! That what I felt was nothing! That it was one sided! You treated me like a child, you acted like my father not my boyfriend. I get that you were just trying to protect me but I never truly felt like an equal in our time together. You made me feel that you felt nothing for me, even though I could see in your eyes just how truly hurt you were. How you didn't want to leave me, how much you really loved me." Bella smiled sweetly at him, making me loosen my grip on Jasper but not letting go.
"When Vlatka first approached me I thought it was a test. To see if I would truly leave everything. That I was really committed to being a vampire... Till I meet the brothers. If it wasn't for this family I would have went down a path that I think would have ended with my death." Que the Cullen's sharp breath. "For a while I was thinking of ending it, but because of the bond I now shared with this family. They could feel it. They locked me in the house and made me talk. They listen to everything, and never once made me feel like a child. They showed me what a family is like. It is a give and take." We all stood and hugged Bella, well my boy's and I did.
"Bella..." Edward croaked out, standing and taking a few steps toward us. Moving out of the way as Bella walked over to him.
"You know that Paul and Marko here are a mated pair." The two waved. "They told me all about a mate bond. From what I know you never made the fist step, you kept me at arm's length, and that's why you could leave me." Before he could say anything Bella pulled him down and into a very heated kiss. My boys and Emmet cat-calling the two, and Bella taking the first step into the life of one Edward Cullen.
(I could stop here but I have not updated in a while.)
After a minute the two stopped and everyone began bonding over stories. I stood in the door jam. The three J's getting into the mix with their training stories of the boys and Bella, making them yell and tackle them off the couch. I smiled, I could feel the dark cloud that was over Bella lift as her and her Mate touched and just sat next to one another.
Ring!Ring!Ring!
Not even to see who was calling I answered the phone, the person on the other side gave me a report without saying hello. I crushed my phone.
"Vlatka..." David looked to me feeling the anger I was letting loose, I could feel Jasper trying to make me calm but he could quite make it to me.
"That fucking-bitch! I will-" I stopped for a second, my children quickly moving everyone out of the home. Not a second later, I let go for once for the third time in my life. I allow my instincts to rule me, I allow the anger I felt from the report to level the once beautiful home.
"She is not going to stop for a while...Sooooo shall we go back to your house and talk?" David said breaking the spell over the families as they watched the petite woman level the concrete and steel house, yelling in languages they knew and didn't. From what they could gather it was not very nice, or proper for that matter.
"We will go get everything together to clean and fix this mess, I'll see you next week boys." John said as they left talking about what would be need, waving at the others before running away.
"Please follow us." Carlisle motioned for them to follow, before Laddy tugged on Dwayne's sleeve and motioned to the garage, it had yet to be damaged. Key word yet.
"First we have to save our babies one sec." The vampires flitted away to the garage and came out on their bikes. Laddie driving the only car, Vlatka's El Camino, before Jasper took over. They led them to their home, everyone settled down none knew what to say.
"May I ask how you are different, other than diet, than us?" Carlisle had been dying to ask since he first heard they were different yet the same. The others in the family also wondering. David sent a wicked smirk to his family before telling them.
"Well for one we eat, and sleep like humans." Wide eyes. "What else, oh! We can blend better than you, we can also control our strength better... The same, we have to drink blood- we can not only eat human food. Some of us have powers," He made a powerful yet obvious illusion appear in the room. It was a cheap version of what everyone thinks death looks like, he made a grim reaper scythe and billowing cloak.
"Holy crap!" Emmett yelled before toppling over the love seat taking his blonde mate with him. Dwayne disappeared with a small pop before reappearing with a pack of smokes in hand.
"I can somewhat control the weather, just to an extent. No one can truly control mother nature." Paul spoke from his seat on Marko.
"I can make a shield, that defends off both mental and physical attacks." The brunette said from beside her now compainet mate, while it was nice to have him close he would have to do some major asskissing to make what he did up to her.
"Wow amazing. Can I ask about how you all came to be?"
"It was rather boring for us. Three were dying, Paul because he is the mate to Marko and Bella chose to be one." David glossed over it, lighting a cigarette by an opened window, he sported a dark look that made Esme not reprimand him for it.
"David tell them about Max." Bella spoke softly to the blonde male, knowing the story would make him feel better.
"Max?" Edward asked echoing the thoughts of his family.
"Max was the man who made all of us, he did not do it out of love." David motioned to the male members of the family. "Vlatka is our great-grand sire. Her first child, Erica, made Max whom then made us." David took a deep breath of the tobacco filled stick, letting out a cloud before continuing.
"Max tricked Erica into making him. For a few years he was under the radar. Ercia could not find him. Max is not a good guy, and not a good sire. Max wanted to be the Master of North America." David and the others scoff at that. "Max had a better chance of ruling a toothpick, he got cocky Erica found him all because he made Star.
"She did not want to be one of us, but Max thought Laddie here need a mother so turned her anyway, she tried killing us by using a boy she seduced, she was only a half at the time. I tried to get him to our side but Star had him convinced we were evil. Long story short Erica came to us and tried to rid us of Max. She died." David closed his blue eyes, Dwayne moved to smoke beside him.
"Her death alerted Vlatka. She came down on Max so fast and hard he didn't even have time to talk. She tore him into pieces and threw them one by one into a bone fire she made. She killed him while her back was turned Star tried killing her. She put a stake through her chest. Vlatka just turned around and through her and her boy toy into the fire." David and the other's faces held a feral smirk images of the bond fire that held not only Max, but the family of Star's toy family, and the two frog brothers that David tracked down.
"Vlatka refused for any of us to be out of her sight for a very long time, about 20 years. She taught us what it truly meant to be a vampire. To be a Drăculea. Then one day she had this pull, she followed it and found Bella the rest you know." David tossed his second cig out the window.
"I know that she comes off as harsh or may seem to young at times but, she loves us with all of her heart. Erica's death was not only felt by the boys, Vlatka lost her first child. She has been alone for a very long time, she sometimes forget what it's like to be around others, she tends to speak before she thinks. Once you get to know her you will see what she is like behind closed doors." Bella spoke to the cullens, smiling fondly at the thought of her great-grand sire.
"You could feel the death of Erica?"
"Yes our kind holds an emotional bond with one another. I can not feel Vlatka's brother emotion but I could tell you what the others are feeling even if they hide in from Jasper." Paul explain, David hit his nice limit for the day.
"We can block our emotions if we wanted too though. Or else we would have to have sex as often as those two go at it." Dwayne pointed at the two that started making out in the chair. Everyone made small conversion after breaking the two up, learning of the little things that they went though. Most of them were funny, all had happened after Max was gone and Vlatka was in their life.
Jasper could not keep the worry for the small red-head off his face. He was constantly waiting for her to enter his range, he wanted to be beside her. As his family talked he stood to the side, looking out the window watching the sun slowly set.
"You know if you like her so much you should go to her." Laddie said as he walked over to the amber eyed male. Jasper looked down, he smiled at the pre-teen.
"You think so?"
"Yeah, she is going to be a while. She holds her emotions back a lot, when she lets go it can take a while but she tends to hurt herself-" Laddie didn't get to finish as Jasper ran out the door and into the surrounding forest.