Chapter Seven: Saved

(Still Seth POV)

"Wait, I think I might be able to keep him from rampaging,"

I couldn't believe my ears; someone was going to save me! I tried to turn my head t see which of the vampires had said it, but I couldn't take my eyes off Jake. It was like he had some kind of power over me.

"Jasper, why do you think that?" asked a female vampire. It was the one who had saved me the night I was changed into a vampire. From her voice I could tell that she was worried, not about Bella, but rather for his safety. Maybe she had a thing for him?

"She has more than a 'thing' for him," Edward whispered too low for anyone other than me to hear. "They're technically married."

I gulped what if I went on a rampage anyway and beat Jasper up worse than I did Edward, Emmett, and The Protectors? He was only one vampire to one super-strong newborn vampire. Apparently me being so new made me stronger than the rest.

"Yes, how do you plan on doing that/" Sam asked. I knew he was just humoring Jasper. Sam was not going to risk any lives unless Jasper had any concrete proof that he could keep me from rampaging, which he probably wouldn't be able to do.

"Like this…" he murmured.

At first I didn't notice anything different, but eventually I couldn't stop myself from giggling. Laughter rose up from me like unintentional bile, and I realized how much I sounded like a crazy person. I knew that there was nothing funny, I was about to be killed, but I couldn't stop laughing nonetheless. It kind of felt like I was being tickled by one thousand butterflies flapping their wings against my skin all over. Every time I thought I was getting some of my self control back the wing beats got stronger.

Then it dawned on me; Jasper was doing it to me. He was making me feel all tickly with some kind of vampire super power.

"I can change how people feel," Jasper said simply. "If he were in a murderous rage all I would have to do would be to make him feel like that."

It sounded so simple, but what was the catch? Sam placed his hand on his chin and thought about it for a moment.

"I'll agree if you swear that will you always be with Seth," Sam said. "Once we take down the red haired vampire we'll go from there."

Jasper nodded, and with that I was free to go.

Emmett had hefted me over his shoulder to keep me from running off. It was a smart idea albeit embarrassing in every way, shape or form. I closed my eyes since I knew that in an instant of vampire speed we would be at the Cullen's house in mere seconds.

While m eyes were closed however images flashed before my eyes. There was First beach, completely devoid of color. Also I saw a small, incomplete sandcastle. Finally was a little girl who looked so familiar holding one finger to her lips.

"I can't help you anymore Seth," she whispered, her small voice like bells.

"Help me? Who are you?" I murmured, possibly out loud.

"I told you, I'm Renesmee," she giggled.

"No, are you…" I started to ask.

"Your conscience? No, I thought we went over that," Renesmee sighed. "I guess you're not one for remembering your dreams…"

"Am I dreaming now?"

"No, but that doesn't matter," she explained. "I used all of my power to help mom- I mean Bella stop you from killing her. I won't be able to block Her out of your mind anymore."

I didn't have to ask who she meant; I just instinctively knew that she meant the one who had changed me into a vampire.

"Thanks for the heads up," I said. "So you told me this already?"

Renesmee didn't get to answer because suddenly I was jarred from my position and my eyes opened.

"Done talking to the voices in your head little man?" Emmett chuckled.

Instead of answering my stomach growled. I was hungry, and even though I had been craving them all day, I knew that peanut butter cookies wouldn't do it.

"Whoa, I think he needs to hunt!" Emmett gasped.

"Of course he does," Edward sighed, as if what Emmett had said was painfully obvious. "Newborns can only think about getting their next meal."

"But I just want some peanut butter cookies…" I whispered, noticing that my throat was dry.

(Bella POV)

The drive home all I could think of was how worried I was for Seth.

It was highly unlikely that a conclusion would be reached that would keep Seth alive so long as there was a possibility that Victoria could control him.

But I broke her mind control.

My mind was right; somehow I had shielded Seth from Victoria's control. I hadn't even noticed that I had done it, but it happened nonetheless. I thought about what I had done. I touched him, and then Seth thanked me for making it stop. Maybe the power worked through touch?

That couldn't be it, though. Edward still couldn't head his thoughts until I had stepped a considerable amount of space away.

A new theory popped into my mind. Maybe it started by touch and once he was enveloped in my shield I didn't have to keep physical contact. It was probably like a bubble and once I stepped out of range it popped.

Maybe I can increase the range…

As I pondered how to achieve this as I rolled into my driveway a new thought came to me; how did I have a power lime this in the first place? Was it like the Cullens? Alice had mentioned that she had some limited ability to see the future back way when she was Mary Alice Brandon, but Edward said that he had not even a twinge of mind reading talent when he was human. Was it different for Jasper?

That led me to an even stranger thought: what would happen to my ability if I were to become a vampire? Alice's ability to see the future when she was human, as she said, was very hazy and confusing, but once she changed it became so clear and then she could see the subjective paths. Could something like that happen to me?

I didn't want to become a vampire, but it definitely would clear some things up.

Charlie was on the phone when I walked in.

"She just got in Jake," he smiled, handing me the phone.

I was nervous, "So what happened?"

"Blond leech, I mean Jasper said he could keep Seth under control for the time being," Jake answered. He paused, as if wondering whether it was safe to say whatever he was going to, "Bella I'm so scared that he won't be able to do it."

With Jasper's mood altering powers Rage and Bloodlust could change to Melancholy or Confusion.

"If Seth loses it again, you're so close to them, and then we'd have to…"

I understood what Jake feared without him having to say it.

"Don't worry, Jake," I assured him. "Everything's going to be alright."

Oh my gosh it's the end of the first story arc! Next up will begin our next arc and here's a preview!

"I-I saw…" "Victoria is going to Forks High to kill Bella!"