Chapter 3

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Control

I looked around at the faces of the three vampires in front of me.

"Why is it such a big deal? Surly getting Aro to help us won't be a problem, will it? He won't refuse to help us, he and Carlisle are friends right? Okay why is everybody looking at me?"

"Because Bella, Aro does not, nor any of the Voltorui, know that you are a vampire." Emmett responded. I guessed I must have voiced my thoughts.

"Well why not? Why am I some big secret?" I asked

"Aro already wants Alice and I for his guard, adding your gift into the equation would just make the trio of us all the more desirable." Edward explained.

"So what? It's not like he can just take us. We can say no."

Edward shook his head. "I wish it was that easy Bella. I really do. Once Aro see's something he wants, he does not stop until he gets it."

"Well he just sounds like a spoilt brat." I crossed my arms over my chest as Edward and Emmett laughed.

"I don't really see the humor in this situation. We have one of our own missing. Emmett has come up with a valuable idea, and Bella has a point. He can't just take you. He can't force you to join his guard if you do not wish to do so." Keegan looked hard at all of us, as if he was scolding a child.

I returned his glare. "Not now, or ever will Jasper be 'one of your own.' If it wasn't for you he wouldn't even be missing! I know that you have everyone fooled into thinking of you as some saint, but this is all your fault." If only looks could kill.

"You know what Isabella," He said my name as if it was a curse. "You talk an awful lot of shit. You keep going on about how horrible I am, how I am deceiving all of you, plotting against the lot of you." He began pacing, and I could detect a hint of an unrecognizable accent peeking through at his anger. "No matter how many times I fucking apologize to you, I can't get you to stop talking shit. That's all you ever do is talk shit. You forgave Jasper and Peter awfully quick! And they have done ten times worse than I have!" He was screaming at me by the end.

"That's because Peter and Jasper are ten times the men you could ever hope to be!" I screamed, using his own term against him.

"Fuck that! At least I have never harmed an innocent child! Jesus Bella, don't you know anything! They have both done so much worse than I ever have! You're always going on about how I destroyed your family, but they have destroyed thousands!"

"You don't think I know that! Jasper told me everything, and I forgave him because he didn't have a choice!"

"And you think that I did? You don't know Maria! She is an evil, conniving bitch! Once she gets her hands on you she doesn't let go! You don't think I regret every fucking thing I have done! Every day I live with this shit!"

"Well boo fucking hoo for you! At least you knew of the outside world! Jasper didn't! He didn't know of anything besides war!"

"Oh is that what he told you? You think that he never ventured out? You think that all of his meals were just brought to him on a fucking silver platter? You think that he never went out, hunt and tracked innocent girls for him to rape and feed on? How fucking stupid are you Bella?"

I felt my anger pooling, years of pent up frustration boiling over. I had never actually physically hurt him, because of the watchful eye of my family, and I use that term very loosely, had always been there to squash my attempts, but none of them were here now, save for Emmett.

He had barley gotten his last words out before I lunged at him.

He didn't even see me coming. I landed on top of him, easily pinning him to the ground, remembering my training as I locked my jaws onto the back of his neck, my teeth sinking into his marble like flesh and making him completely immobile.

The growls coming from me were vibrating through my teeth, into his mark, causing him to wince in pain. I couldn't help but smile as I slowly brought us up into a standing position, my hands clasping either side of his face. All it would take was a simple twist of my hands, and I could end him. I felt that all too familiar redness start to creep up on me, but this time I didn't force it down, no this time I welcomed it.

But before the blinding redness completely take me, darkness began to fill me. I could feel it seeping into my flesh from the points of contact I had with Keegan, but I couldn't pull away. I felt his influence slowly overtake me, forcing me to release him from my hold. It spread through me, possessing me, controlling every action I made. My body was not my own.

I felt a slow panic over come me. The object of my hatred now had complete control over my body. He could make me do whatever he wanted. I could tell my muscles were trying to clench, desperate to break free.

"Fight it Bella" I had to be imagining things. That voice, so familiar. Jasper's voice.

Jasper's not here you're imagining things.

"Fight it Bella, you can do it darlin'"

Jasper, where are you?

Something shifted inside of me; it started pushing away Keegan's influence like a brick wall. But he wasn't going down without a fight. No, I could feel his darkness pushing on the walls of my mind, trying to get back inside, trying to control me.

It's too much. Jasper I can't.

"You have to try, common Bella I know you can do this. Just focus."

I'm trying Jasper! I'm trying!

Images of Jasper flooded my mind. I felt my legs become free and I sunk to the ground as the memories hit me.

-Flashback-

"Try and push it outwards Bella." Jasper whispered to me, his hands rubbing my arms soothingly.

I sighed. "It would be a lot easier if I knew what the hell I'm trying to push outwards!" I snapped at him.

I had my eyes squeezed shut in concentration. We had been working on what Jasper called my 'mental shield.' We had already figured out that I could move objects with my power, by creating an 'invisible bubble' around it, and controlling where my 'bubble' went. I could also create a bigger bubble around myself, and a few others to serve as a shield. Now we were trying to make advances on my 'mental shield'. So far all we knew was that it protected my mind, and that I had no control over it. I couldn't project it, or lower it. So needless to say I was having a hard time attempting to move it.

"Just focus Bella. Try and stop the emotions I am sending to Peter." We had figured out that Jasper's power played on the mental side, but we weren't sure why I could still be affected by his power. I had suggested it was just because he was my mate, and he agreed with that, stating that though he could, it was harder and he had to really concentrate in order to manipulate my emotions now that I was a vampire. "Imagine that I am sending out a wave to Peter, and you're power is like a net in the water. Right now some of my power is flowing through the holes in your net, try to concentrate on closing those holes."

"Well if she did that major, it wouldn't be a net anymore, now would it? It'd be more like a bag." Peter said with a smirk.

"Shut the fuck up Peter nobody asked you." Jasper snapped. I could tell that this practicing was wearing on him as well. He was trying to keep calm and instruct me. But it was frustrating for all of us.

I couldn't help the small giggle that escaped my lips at their sibling-like fighting. No matter the situation, Peter could always find a way to incorporate his two sense in.

"Don't encourage him Bella, he'll never stop." Jasper sounded serious, but I looked up at him and could see the small smile playing at his lips.

"I don't need no encouraging' I can make anything funny on my own." Peter crossed his arms over his chest and tilted his head up as would a small child trying to prove they were right. Suddenly his body went stiff, his now golden colored eyes widened as he stared at Jasper with a look of shock and anger… with a hint of something else that was starting to show more and more in his eyes.

Lust?

I stood there confused for a second before Jasper's chest, which was now pressed right up against my back, start to rumble with laughter.

"Not so funny now are ya Captain?" Jasper managed out between fits of laughter at Peter's expression.

Peter's lips tightened into a look of determination. "Well Major if you wanted to sleep with me all you had to do was ask."

I couldn't help it as I buckled over in laughter. All the stress of the previous hours seemed to be lifting right off my shoulders.

"Now, we can either do your room or mine, but you'll have to stop the lust vibes if you wanna make it to the house." He added with a smirk.

"Oh yeah, try making a joke about this." I felt the change of pressure in my 'net' as Jasper sent out a different emotion, and at almost the same time Peter crumbled to the ground, screaming in pain.

I swung my body around to face Jasper, who had a satisfactory smirk on his face. "Jasper! Stop you're hurting him!" I couldn't believe what he was doing to one of his best friends.

Jasper just rolled his eyes. "Relax Bella, I'm not really hurting him. He just thinks he's experiencing pain." I could feel my anger rising at his 'explanation.'

"Look at him Jasper! He's on the fucking ground! Stop!"

"If you want me to stop then do something about it."

I let out an angry growl as I spun back to face Peter. Closing my eyes once again I put all of my concentration in filling in 'the holes.' I could 'see' them if I concentrated hard enough. I worked on pulling each side of the hole together, like a cloth. But as soon as I got one done and started working on another, the other one ripped back open.

I growled in frustration, and Jasper put his hand on my shoulder. An electric spark shot through my venom filled veins from where his skin met mine. Without even trying the holes closed in on themselves, effectively stopping Jasper's gift from reaching Peter.

Opening my eyes, I could see Peter taking unnecessary deep breaths trying to recover from Jasper's onslaught. "I did it!" I cheered, as Jasper picked me up and swung me around in his arms.

"Great Job Bella! I'm so proud of you!" My mate set me down, before covering my mouth with his own in a steamy kiss.

I pulled back and whispered across his lips "I love you."

"Well that makes one of us." I shook my head at Peter's joking before pulling my mate back down in another kiss.

-End of Flashback-

"Keep fighting it darlin' you're doing so good."

I love you Jasper. Was my last though before I felt power surge through me, the holes filling in and pushing all of Keegan's influence out of me.

I opened my eyes to see Keegan looking exhausted, right before a wave of light headedness hit me and I fell to my knees, everything going dark.

o.O.o.*JD2*o.O.o

The first thing that came back to me was my sense of smell.

Sun.

Sandal wood.

Forest.

Axe cologne.

Jasper?

My eyes shot open at the familiar smell of my mate. But instead of seeing the beautiful golden eyes I was so used to seeing, I was looking into a pair of bright red ones.

"Oh. Peter, I thought you were…." I let myself trail off as I took a minuet to take in my surroundings. I was in a strange house, lying on a bed. In Peter's arms.

I felt the blonde vampire tighten his grip around me and pull me even closer to his chest, and I welcomed the contact. "Bella, I'm so sorry…" His voice cracked.

I knew immediately what he was talking about. "Peter, it wasn't your fault. You have nothing to be sorry for. If anyone is to blame it is Keegan." I couldn't help the small shudder that rolled off of me at speaking his name.

I saw his eyes fill up with venom at my words. "But it is Bella; I should have been there for him. For you."

I cut him off. "Peter, stop. It wasn't your fault. There is no sense dwelling in the past, when we have to work on our future to get him back. He nodded in agreement. "Okay, so what's our next move captain?" I gave him a smile.

"Well, it looks like we are going to pay Aro a visit."

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