Author's Note: As usual, thanks for the awesome reviews! You guys Rock. Enjoy :)
And just so you know, this chapter was a Bitch to write. It's hard explaining this type of relationship and the feelings it entails. Hope I don't confuse the shit out of you lol.
*Still don't own anything*
JPOV
"Are you going to do anything about it?" Asked Peter.
"Nope. Not going to do a damn thing." I replied nonchalantly.
Peter just chuckled and shook his head. "Your a sadistic bastard, you know that right?"
I gave him a small smile without saying a word. That might be true but Isabella was going to have to find her own way with this. I knew what she needed and it pleased me immensely that she was feeling this way. Sure I didn't like that she had to carry around all that guilt with her but the fact that she would need me in the end to rectify this for her, well that pleased the shit out of me, and might have made me a little bit cocky. Peter just didn't understand why I didn't just put her out of her misery, so to speak, and just punish her and I'm not going to lie, a part of me liked seeing her squirm, but more than that I didn't lie to her before. I really wasn't planning on punishing her for what had happened.
It wasn't that I was going soft or anything- despite what Peter says- more that I believe that once the crime takes place and I find out about it then it is to be dealt with immediately. Not two weeks after the fact. And sure, I could have punished her for the fight, but I was too damn proud of her. That was her first fight and she only came out with a busted lip. From what I had heard from Carlisle, the other girl had multiple cuts and bruises on her face and three bruised ribs. My Mate kicked her ass!
"How long are you going to let this go on before you intervene?" He asked.
"I'm not going to intervene at all," I told him, "If I do that then she will never learn, I need her to come to the conclusion for herself for this to be successful. Plus I trust Charlotte to help her with this."
Peter and I were sitting in my study discussing the recent developments of Isabella when Dustin, one of my newer guards knocked on the door. "Come In." I said.
"Major, I'm sorry to bother you, James sent me, it seems like there has been talk of an uprising from some of the nomadic vampires against you." He said quickly. "We have assembled the rest of the Guard around the property."
I help my hand up to stop him.
"An uprising from the nomadic vampires? Very well," I said calmly, "I will draw up a map of where I want the Guard stationed until we find out more. Tell James to keep me informed as he learns more."
The nomad vampires were hardly a threat but with Isabella here I wasn't going to take any sort of risk. I dismissed Dustin with a wave of my hand and stood up to get a map of my property out.
Peter left shortly after reminding me that the girls would be back soon, and that's where Isabella found me. Even if I had no other vampire traits but the empath thing I would have known it was her from a mile away. The guilt was sky high but I was also pleased to feel determination coming from her. That means that she finally came to some sort of decision.
I was in the middle of finishing up the Guard post though so she was going to have to wait. Finally satisfied with the Post I turned to Isabella.
"Isabella what's going on?" I asked, "I can feel you apprehension and guilt. You need to talk to me so that I can help you. This isn't good for you." As she stood in my arms I could feel her embarrassment and knew that she come to the right decision.
After listening to her explanation and reassuring her that she was not crazy I finally brought her over my knee. Really, I'm surprised it took her this long to see the light, but I guess better late than never. Right? Making sure I had a good judge on her emotions I began. I could still feel the guilt mixed with relief, but she wasn't where I wanted her to be. She still had anger in her and she was fidgeting way too much.
By the time I would usually stop, she had calmed down some, but not enough. She was going to need more than usual this time. As soon as she started fully crying I felt her let go of her anger and her body relaxed. This was where she needed to be.
I rubbed her back and let her finish crying it out before she got up. "Your forgiven Isabella." I said softly and kissed the top of her head.
"Go wait for me in the bedroom darlin," I told her, "I'll be in there shortly."
Once Isabella was out of the room I called in for James. "Take these and put everyone into their designated stations immediately," I said handing him the outline of the property, "I also want to know if you hear anything else."
'Yes Sir." He replied before leaving the room.
Now it was time for me to talk to Isabella. Today just proved that she was more confused than what she had been letting on. Yes, this talk was definitely overdue.
BPOV
I walked into the bedroom feeling like a new person, it was like turning over a new leaf. I made my way to the bathroom so that I could wash my face. I'm sure I looked beyond hideous by now. After washing away the remaining tears I made my way to the bed. I kneeled in the middle of the bed with my head bowed and my hands in my lap. Yes this was definitely a new leaf. I didn't even feel resentful for knowing this would be the position Jasper would expect me to be in when he came in. I just felt grateful. I didn't understand.
I don't know how long I was kneeling there for but my bottom was stinging like hell from sitting on my feet. "Very good Isabella, you are definitely improving." Said Jasper from right behind me.
I gasped and jolted up looking behind me. Holy hell! He scared the shit out of me. I was really getting sick of vampires sneaking up on me. "Head down." He commanded. I quickly lowered my head back so that I was looking at my hands in my lap. My bad.
"Isabella, we need to talk" He said, coming back around to the front of the bed, "But you are going to stay in this position and I want you looking up at me." I raised my head to look at him. I was confused though, why would I need to stay like this if we were going to talk?
Jasper continued to pace in front of the bed. "Isabella, why did you ask me for your punishment?"
Oh God, no don't make me say it out loud. Wasn't his ego big enough? Any bigger and the man would have a hard time walking through the door! "Answer me now!" He demanded.
I breathed out through my nose then let the words spill from my mouth. "I couldn't stop feeling guilty for what I did, as I'm sure you know. I just felt like even though you said you weren't going to punish me, that you weren't going to let it go either. I felt like the next mistake I made, you would punish me but that you would also bring up my past mistakes and punish me then for those as well."
I took a deep breath before continuing, it actually felt pretty good to let it all out. "I also felt like maybe you didn't forgive me for the trouble that I got in. You never told me you did anyways until just now. And once you did, it was like it was done and forgotten. I feel like I don't have to worry about it any longer. I-I guess I just needed it, but I can't explain why....I don't even know why myself." I said quietly.
Here I thought that maybe by talking about it and getting it out I would actually start to understand this a little bit better, but if anything I was more confused than ever now.
"Isabella, that is perfect." He said gently.
Crazy, hard hitting, making me cum without touching me vampire say what?
"You figured it out for yourself subconsciously. I did let your mistakes go. You on the other didn't. You realize now that the punishments are actually for your benefit and that when I do punish you it is because you have done something wrong, and not just for the hell of it. Once it's said and done with you forgive yourself for whatever you did as well. It's not just me forgiving you. And your right, afterwards it is forgotten never to be brought up again." He said smiling down at me.
I took a minute to process everything he just said. I never saw it that way, but now it sort of made sense. Did he fucking trick me? "I guess I can see where your coming from." I said slowly.
"Good," he said sliding onto the bed behind me, "Now come here."
I turned around and crawled in between his legs. Did this mean we weren't going to have our hot tub time? Instead of leaning against his chest though I sat sideways and put both of my legs over his right leg and curled my side into his chest.
"I don't understand why I accepted this to be honest." I told him quietly. If he hadn't have had super awesome hearing I doubt he would have heard me.
"What do you mean darlin'?" He asked.
"This whole mating thing," I said, "I've never seen anything like this even while I lived with the Cullens. Things here are just so different."
I felt Jasper kiss the top of my head. "First I want you to stop comparing us to the Cullens," He said, "Second, things ARE different. I'm no ordinary Mate. I don't have much patience and I refuse to let you get away with anything, Peter says I'm too strict but I disagree. I am the God of War and with that comes a certain reputation that I have to uphold. I will treat you like Royalty because that is what you deserve but I also demand your respect in return. I know that you were thrown into this, but I'm here to help you and guide you, and so is Charlotte. But I can't help you if you don't come to me. Like you did today. You had a problem and you came to me and I helped you. You have to learn to trust me."
He had a point. I hadn't been going to him with my problems, I had been going to Charlotte, granted most of my problems were about him but I bet he could have helped me none-the-less.
"Okay, I see your point." I told him honestly.
"Good." He whispered in my ear, causing me to shiver. Before I could blink he rolled us so that I was now laying on top of him and he was flat against the bed. I giggled and leaned down to kiss his ice cold lips. My small, innocent kiss quickly escalated into something much more. I think the intensity of my emotions caught Jasper off guard because before I knew it he had me pinned underneath him not even trying to protect my sore bottom.
"Isabella," He said, "I can't wait any longer. I need you."
"Make me yours." I whispered to him. I closed my eyes and concentrated on everything that I was feeling in this moment. All the love that I had for him and all the want and need and built up lust- then I sent it to him in one big wave. I heard a low growl in his throat and his eyes were shut tight. "Isabella, I'm going to make this as gentle as I can, but I won't be able to control my instincts completely, I will make you see that you belong to me." He said, his voice strained.
I could feel my body flush in excitement but I also felt a twinge of fear. I knew this was going to hurt, I just didn't know how much was going to be from losing my virginity and how much was going to be from Jasper's "Animal".
"I understand Major," I told him quietly, "I trust you." I said right before I crashed my lips to his.
"Okay, it's been a few days, and The Major's mood is perfect. It's time to pay your debt my dear." Said Charlotte. We were outside in the garden while the boys were......doing something, I don't know.
"Aw c'mon Char," I begged, "The peanut butter wasn't that bad."
"Are you fucking kidding me Swan?" She exclaimed, "That would be like me making you drink blood or piss or something."
I snorted at her analogy. Yea fucking right. It was peanut butter! Okay, I admit, maybe I shouldn't have given her the chunky kind, but then where was the fun in that? "Fine," I told her, I'll take him to the hot tub or something and do it there. Do me a favor first though, have Peter Vampire proof the door to his study so that he can't get in, then I can't get in trouble." Why didn't I think of this sooner!
Now it was Charlotte's turn to snort. "Sugar, if he wants in there to bust your ass, he's going to get in there to bust your ass." She said laughing. Evil Bitch. I turned to grab a grape from the bowl next to me and noticed some of the Guard watching us.
"How much longer until Jasper calls off all the extra security?" I asked her confused. This had been going on for awhile now. "I don't know," She replied, "Supposedly some nomad vampires were threatening to try and start something but so far there hasn't been anything, and I really don't think there will be. Nobody is really that dumb to try and take on The God of War. It was probably just all talk."
I relaxed at her calm tone. I knew it was stupid but I was worried about someone hurting Jasper, which of course was laughable. Even Jasper wasn't worried. He wouldn't even have guards posting around the property if it wasn't for me.
I stood up and brushed off my behind with my hand before turning to Charlotte. "Well I'm bored, do you want to go see if we can go to the mall?" I asked her. I really wanted to get out and I knew the boys were going to be busy the rest of the day.
"Yeah sure, we can go to the one in Port Angeles, I'm sure they have some sort of security office or some other kind of holding cell there for you." She teased. Bitch was just not going to let that go.
We walked back to the house and headed towards the study where our men were. I ran the last few steps to the door and knocked.
"Come in you two." The Major called out. I opened the door to see that Jasper was behind the desk with Peter and James sitting in front of him and about five other guards around the room. Now what were they doing? "Yes Isabella?" Asked Jasper.
I turned my eyes back on him. "Master, can Charlotte and I go to the mall in Port Angeles for a few hours?" I asked timidly. I really didn't want to do this in front of an audience. "That's fine," He said, "Joesph will be driving you there and back though." "Yes Sir." I said turning on my heel about to leave. "Isabella," Jasper called to me, I turned back around to face him. "Get your purse and then come back here before you leave." He said.
"Yes Major." I replied before heading to the bedroom. What in the world does he want with my purse? I looked at Charlotte who looked like she was trying not to laugh. "Do you know what he wants with my purse?" I asked her suspiciously. "What makes you think that.....Shrek?" She asked letting out a small giggle. I rolled my eyes at her before grabbing said purse and heading back to Jasper's study.
Once again I knocked on the door, waiting for his permission to enter.
"Come here Isabella." He said pointing to the spot in front of him. For a moment I panicked. I didn't do anything wrong, he wouldn't spank me in front of all these guys would he?! I didn't want anybody to see my toosh!
Charlotte gave me a small nudge and I walked to the spot he was pointing at and waited.
"Show me your I.D." He demanded.
I shuffled through my purse before finding my wallet and pulled out my new I.D. Card he had issued for me. I held it out to him but he didn't take it.
"Show me your Credit Card." He said.
Was this a 'let's see what all Bella has in her bag' game? I didn't have to look around the room to know that everyone was watching our exchange.
I put my I.D. back and pulled out the Credit Card for his inspection.
"Show me your cell phone." He demanded next. I put back the credit card and grabbed my phone. This one he did take from me and looked at the front screen before handing it back.
"Very well," He said, "Have fun. Be back by six for dinner."
"Yes Major." I said giving him a light kiss on the mouth before making my way back to Charlotte.
Once we were at the mall I grabbed Charlotte's hand and led her straight over to a music/clothing store. There really wasn't anything in particular I wanted here but I had to get away from the house or I was going to go insane. Especially since Jasper was busy. All I could think about was the first night that he finally claimed me. The way he hovered over me, my body glistening with sweat as he slowly pumped himself into me. I kept picturing his red eyes looking deep into mine while- "Bella!" Charlotte said shaking my arm. I jumped at how close her voice was and shook my head to clear away those thoughts. That's exactly why Jasper made me go outside, because of the lust I kept projecting on him was about to make him snap.
It wasn't my fault he was so god damn sexy though. He had no one to blame but himself.
I heard Charlotte laughing at me and turned to glare at her. "Why don't we go get you a cold drink huh?" She asked innocently....Too innocently. After spending almost two hours walking around a few more stores I saw the one store that I knew I had to go in. I grabbed Charlotte's hand and dragged her to the best store ever made.
"Seriously Bella? The candy store?" She asked.
I looked around quickly before facing her. "Want to try some?" I asked her, then laughed at the disgusted look on her face.
Charlotte walked off to pretend to look at some of the candy while I made my way to the "sand candy" as I liked to call it. It was powder in all the different colors and you could put it in tubes and mix the colors together. It was freaking awesome.
I grabbed a long tube container and made my way to the red colored powder. I pushed down on the lever but nothing happened. Frowning I tried again, with the same result. Instead of moving on like any other smart person would have done I made a fist and hit the lever as hard as I could. That did it. The damn lever broke and all the red powder came rushing out of it's holding place onto the floor.
I tried to stop the on flow of powder only to knock against the powder container next to it causing that one to crash into the one next to that. Before I knew what was happening all the powder candy was spilling onto the floor and the glass containers they were in were crashing into one another shattering. Charlotte was by my side in an instant looking just as horrified as I felt as we watched the last powder container hit the floor. Unfortunately the vibrations from the last crash caused the candy on the shelves in the middle of the store to fall and somehow, and I swear to the mighty powers I don't know how, caused the shelves to fall into one another. The only thing that I can think of is that the store was tilted or crooked or on a slope or something and that was not my fault.
I was so busy looking at the mess all around us that I didn't see the small man standing behind the counter holding a towel with a disbelieving look on his face. The store Owner. "Oh. My. Fuck." Whispered Charlotte, "If you did this shit on purpose just to get out of your dare your going to be sorry, cause I'm still going to make you do it." She threatned. Was she fucking serious? Me do this on purpose? I freaking wanted my candy!
Through all that happened I somehow managed to keep my head. I reached into my purse with a shaky hand and pulled out my credit card. "Do you take American Express?" I asked the owner, my voice shaky. The Owner picked up a phone and said the one word that sealed my fate. "Security."
With a resigned sigh I pulled out my cell phone and pressed speed dial '1' while Charlotte was shaking with silent laughter. I was so going to pin this shit on her. I took the blame for jail last time, this time her ass was going down. He picked up on the first ring.
"Bella?" Asked my Jasper.
"Jasper," I said quietly as a Security officer came to stand behind me, "We have a problem."
A/N: Don't get too mad that I didn't go into detail with Jasper's and Bella's first time together. You will get all the dirty details.....just not yet haha. Hope you liked it :)
