Jaspers POV
Time seemed slowed. No one breathed not even Charlie. I felt Maria's dark emotions. Her hate towards Alice. Her lust towards me. Her thirst for Charlie. It all made me sick and made the reason why I left all that much clearer. The rest of the family moved into defense around Charlie while I guarded Alice. Maria took one look at all of us and changed from her hunched position. She stood up straight and tall. She held out her hand to Carlisle while she smiled a sickeningly sweet smile. "I'm Maria," she said her voice almost dripped with acid. Carlisle straightened up and shook her hand. "Carlisle. And this is my wife Esme. My son Emmett and his wife Rosalie," as Carlisle said this Maria eyed Rosalie and I felt her disgust roll off of her. It was so strong it gave me a headache then she added envy to it I started to tremble.
"Pleasure," Maria said shaking each of their hands while glaring at Rosalie. By this point I was done with her fake charade and so was Edward. He was disgusted with her thoughts. This added to my pain. Alice grabbed my hand and I realized I had almost collapsed. She stood on her toes and whispered silently in my ear, "Focus on my emotions Jazz." I took a deep breath and tried. Carlisle continued, "My other son Edward and his wife Bella. My daughter Alice and you know Jasper." Maria suddenly found Alice behind me and I saw a flutter of that evil glare across her frozen smile. "My soldier boy. It's been quite a while," she shook my hand. "Yes it has Maria and for good reason." I pushed Alice towards Edward with enough strength her small frame couldn't resist. Emmett and Edward stood in front of her.
Maria laughed, "A little protective are we? Now Jasper I'm not here to hurt anyone." While she still held my left hand she kept speaking. Her index finger started shifting my wedding ring. She continued, "I just want to get rid of this!" With that the charade was over. She yanked off my ring and threw it out the open door. That threw Alice over the edge she launched herself over Emmett and Edward and dove at Maria. Knowing Maria's fighting skills it was no surprise to me that she sensed the attack and knocked Alice to the ground without looking away from me. Emmett tried to grab Alice but she dodged him and hit Maria knocking her down.
I grabbed Alice before Maria could return the fire and threw her into Emmett's arms. I stood in front of them. "STOP!!!" Alice stopped struggling. Maria froze inches from my face. Everyone's eyes fell on me. "Bella, Edward, get Charlie home and give him my apologies. Emmett get Alice to our room and don't let go till I come get her. Carlisle and Esme I can handle this. Rose go get you know who but wait till I call you to bring it home. And have Jacob tell the wolves if they see Maria on their Res they have my permission to kill her." Everyone scattered while Emmett struggled with a kicking and screaming Alice. Finally our bedroom door closed.
For a while neither I nor Maria spoke. Then it happened.
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Alice's POV
I sat there for what felt like days. Not breathing trying to listen. I had heard a piercing scream earlier that was it. Finally Jasper came in. Emmett released me and I sat on our bed. Jasper made his way slowly over to me as Emmett left and closed the door. Jasper sat on the bed next to me he looked dark. I put my hand on his shoulder, "Jazz?"
"I'm terrible, Alice." His body started to shake with tears he couldn't release. "I…I killed her Alice," his voice trembled slightly. "She said shed never leave you alone. Shed kill u if I didn't come with her. My instincts came back and I attacked." His head fell in my lap and he cried. His whole body shook. His emotions hit me full on and I started crying to. For him and cause his emotions were so strong. He was losing control and I knew it was scaring him.
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How long we stayed like that I have no idea. I felt us both crying and Jasper's emotions were painful to me. I knew he wasn't sad over losing Maria. He was upset that he'd killed again. He thought it made him a monster. We both needed a brake from all the drama. Edwards's anger at Jacob and Renesme was tearing at Jasper day and night. Bella's anger at Jacob. Jacob and Renesme's raging hormones as Renesme grew older. We just needed a brake. "Jazz…" His breathing staggered at the sound of his nick name. "Why don't we go somewhere for a while?" He looked up from my lap towards my face. "Where?" he asked though he still sounded distant. "Anywhere. Vegas, New York, or Paris." Jasper let out a chuckle. "How bout somewhere where I won't spend most of the time waiting outside of dressing rooms?" That made us both laugh. It felt great to feel his happiness. "So how bout Vegas?" I offered while still chuckling. "There's more there than just clothes'." He nodded while his smile pressed against my lips. He kissed me and the stopped and muttered I'm sorry in my hair.
Before I could respond he got up and began to pack. Then my fear kicked in about Jasper's fashion sense and I hopped up to help.
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Rosalie's POV
"It's not fair!" I screamed at Emmett. "That stupid little physic freak gets so spoiled by Jasper!"
"Rose…" Emmet said grabbing my wrist. "If you want to go somewhere just ask." I blew the hair out of my face. "Hun… You promised you'd work on your anger." I sighed at Emmett's reminder. I'd made a lot of promises that night. Including and to make sure me and Emmett balanced our sex life with our romance life. I blamed Alice for him making all these stupid rules. "Fine." I took a deep breath. "Emmett can we please go somewhere just the two of us?" Emmett let out a deep booming laugh and smiled at me. "Yes my love."
"Where would you like to go?" I sat there thinking for a while and decided on the one place I was sure I wouldn't see Alice or Jasper. Since no one knew officially where they went I assumed they had gone to Paris for Alice's shopping and fashion needs. "Emmett let's go to Vegas!"
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Bella's POV
The house was quiet with practically everyone gone. Rosalie and Emmett had gone to Vegas. Alice and Jasper had jetted off to somewhere. Probably Paris knowing Alice. Esme and Carlisle were leaving somewhere today. This left my little family. Except that Renesme kept running off with Jacob to La Push. She was almost fifteen now. A year younger than when Jacob had stopped growing. I decided then that we needed to give them both space and that wasn't gonna happen with Edward hovering. "Edward!" A second later there he stood still as unbelievably gorgeous as when I first saw him. He looked worried, "Is something wrong my love he asked?"
"Let's go to Vegas." Edward Laughed. "Since the rest of the family's there we might as well," he said. I looked at him questioningly. He laughed more, "The whole family is trying to get away from the family by going to the one place they think the rest of the family won't be at." He scooped me up in his arms. "Sounds fun love. Let's leave a note for Renesme and get out of here."
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Renesme's POV
Jacob rode me home on the back of his motorcycle. I had my arms around his waist and my head on his back. He was so warm unlike my cold-skinned vampire family. We pulled up in front of the house. I half expected my dad to be there waiting for us. So I showed Jacob this image with a question mark as to why he wasn't there. He shrugged and turned off the bike. I hopped off and ran to the door. It was locked so I pulled out my key and then went inside. The house was empty, completely deserted. I found a note from my dad.
Jacob caught up with me and grabbed my hand worriedly. By that time though I had read my dads note and realized I was left alone with Jacob for a month. And thoughts were flying through my head of all we could do. When he touched my hand I showed him these thoughts and I know they took him by shock. He had no idea how I felt about him but I knew how he felt about me. I was going to use this month to show him how I felt.