JPOV

After my realisation, I took Bella hunting. She was glorious at it. Quick and lethal. She snapped the neck so that the victim felt as little pain as possible which only proved to me that she didn't deserve to be a monster like everyone else on the Camp of Death, as it was named by newborns a few decades ago. Once she was satisfied, I ran her home, all the way telling her about what being in the army entitles, what she would have to endure, the rules, the punishments and the feeding habits. The only question she asked was if, when she was not training, what she was supposed to do.

'well, we train most of the day, we don't sleep. We get the nights to ourselves and some of the day. At night, the mated couples and some of the non mated have other ways to relieve stress. You will hear a lot of noises so try and block it out. The ones who don't participate in that though, find a hobby' she nodded and I could tell that she wanted to ask another question.

'yes Bella?' she looked up and into my eyes, searching for something. She must have found it because she answered.

'would it be possible for me to get some books? I love to read, but if I'm not allowed that's okay. I don't want to be a bother' was I hearing her right? she didn't want to be a bother?

'bella, the people at the camp killed you. They took your life away. Because of them, you'll never have kids, you'll never grow old with the man or woman that you love, you'll never get to have a normal life, to have dinner with your grandparents on a Sunday or get a job without wanting to drink your co-workers. you'll never be sweet Isabella again. Your now soldier bella and that's all the people here will ever see you as. you'll never be you again' I had to try and get the point across that we were monsters. She had to understand, she couldn't trust them. They would order me to destroy … NO. I couldn't finish that thought without it hurting me too much.

'Jasper, I was never normal anyway. When I was in high school I dated the one boy at our school that everyone wanted and only I got. That boy, was a vampire Jasper. I dated a vampire in high school. Do you see where I'm going with this. The world is different now jasper. Everything you said, having dinner with your grandparents and such. That time when people did that is over. Its over. Now, people hang out with their friends over their family and get into all sorts of trouble because they drink or do drugs. that's my world Jasper. Not yours. I'm happy its over' when she said it like that, I could sort of understand why she wasn't mad. The world wasn't that great anymore. She could have been murdered, or raped or anything any day of her life. MINE! NO, NO TOUCH! MINE! I thought. Why was I thinking like that lately? And why did I keep referring to her as mine? My instincts were telling, screaming at me to keep bella by my side at all times and to claim her so no one else could. But, she wasn't mine. Was she? Could bella be my mate? No, that's stupid, of course she's not my mate. I mean ive only just met her. I was still reeling that I was in love with her, but she couldn't be my mate. She's supposed to mate with one of the soldiers. NO! NO! MY MATE, MINE! However, the God of War inside of me screamed that she was my mate, he wanted her and was going to keep screaming at me until he got his goddess, his mate, his soul mate.

-Maria's Army-

Back at camp, everyone was turning in for the night. I started towards my tent when I noticed bella was standing there not knowing where to go. Damn. She doesn't have a tent of her own and she doesn't have a mate to share a tent with. Maybe I should explain something. At this camp only the males have their own tents. If they then mate, then the female shares with him. But all the unmated females are shoved in the one tent, like animals. When the unmated males wanted a release, they would walk into the females tent, grab one and take her away until he was finished with her. If I put bella in there, that would happen a lot to her. She was the most gorgeous female in the camp, no, the world. She'll have to share a tent with me. YES, THEN NO ONE TOUCHES HER BUT ME. I really had to find a way to stop him thinking these things.

'bella, come' she nodded and started following me. I took some of the books I had in the corner of the tent and put them on the spare cot in the tent, before going to mine and laying on it. I saw her walk in and look at me before going to her cot. She began reading while I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep as I did every night.

'jasper?' I opened one eye and looked at her to see her half way through one of the books.

'yes bella?' she bit her bottom lip. God, that was sexy!

'thank you' wait, for what? What have I done to deserve a thank you?

'well, from the way people were thinking when you defended me earlier, I take it that you don't usually do things like that, so, thank you. And jasper? Ill try my hardest to fight good. But I was a clumsy human, so it wouldn't surprise me if I fall on my face'

'it's okay bella. You're the only one who's asked for books, so you may as well read them. No one else will' it was the truth. Bella was the only newborn who seemed capable of remembering how to read. The rest only wanted to fight or to 'relieve stress'. it seemed bella was more special than we originally thought.

AN: SORRY, BUT I WANTED OPINIONS, TO TRY OTHER POV'S OR CONTINUE IN JASPERS. REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.