A/N: Hey guys, I hope that you are enjoying reading this story because I'm really into it right now. I've enjoyed the reviews and keep them coming. I really enjoy getting them. I'm back in school now so I don't know how often I will get chapters up. However this week hasn't had too much time for waiting. Thanks for reading and please review.

The Collector

"Yeah." I stated in a quiet voice. I hadn't seen Sue in a long time and it was nice to see her. She quickly pulled me into a hug. It felt…nice.

"How are you?"

Carlisle backed up into his office for a minute.

"I'm okay, how have you been?"

"Not great."

"What's wrong?"

"Do you want to sit for a moment?"

I led her to the chairs in the corner. I didn't know what to suspect as we sat down.

"What's wrong," I asked her again, putting my hand on her shoulder. I knew that she had been through a lot with her husband passing a few years ago and her children Seth and Leah becoming werewolves. Then losing my dad as a friend. "Did something happen to Seth or Leah?"

"No, they are doing fine. I've just been a little upset lately."

"What's going on?"

"Well before your dad passed we had gotten close. He was there for me after Harry had passed away and then I had to deal with him passing. I feel like there is a black cloud over my head."

"Sue, don't feel like that."

"And then you disappeared and I've been so worried about you. If Charlie's death had this much of an affect on me I could only imagine what it must be doing to you."

"It's been really hard on me but that's most of the reason why I left. I couldn't stand driving by the house or seeing people that knew everything that happened. It just seemed like I had lost almost everything here and I needed to get away from it all."

"I wish that I could do that at times. I just couldn't stand leaving Seth and Leah. They were devastated too and I needed to be there for them."

"I know what you mean. I was the same way with Nessie."

"How is she?"

"Good, she's driving now."

"Oh jes, they grow up fast."

I chuckled a little bit. "Yeah they do."

"I just want you to know that I miss your dad and you. I was really worried about you."

"I kind of knew that and I'm sorry that I never said goodbye to you or to anyone else for that matter. It was wrong of me to just up and leave."

"Yeah but we all understood why you needed to that."

"I figured that but I still felt like I should've stayed a little bit longer. I knew that you and my dad were close and I should have been more considerate of you. I mean you lost Harry and then my dad. And your kids, well they aren't always the safest that they could be, and I have worried about you. Is everything in La Push okay?"

"Yeah everybody is fine. Everyone gets along just fine. Sam and Jake seemed to have reformed a little bit a friendship and that's a great thing."

"Oh yeah. Is anybody getting hitched?"

"Actually yeah."

I was a little shocked. I tried to think of all the possibilities of who could possibly be getting married. I thought of all the pack members.

"Umm, Leah is getting married."

"Really that's great. To who?"

She hesitated a little bit. I instantly knew whom she was talking about. "Oh my God, Jacob and Leah are getting married."

"Yeah they are."

"Oh my God that is great."

"It really is. They seem so happy together."

"I suppose me being invited to the wedding would be a bad thing."

I really wanted to be there for Jacob. He was there for my wedding, as much as he didn't want to be, and I wanted to be there for him. He was my best friend at one point and I really wanted to be there.

"Tell you what, I'll talk to Jake and Leah and see what they think. I think that Jake would be thrilled to see you and Nessie, even Edward."

"Really, you would do that."

"Of course sweetie, anything."

"Here, I'll give you my number and you can give me a call or you could forward it along to Jake. When is it?"

"August 8th."

"Okay, hold on."

I got up and asked the receptionist for a pen and paper. I wrote the number down carefully on a piece of paper and handed it her.

"Thanks Sue, if you need to talk or anything, just call me okay? I'm leaving at the end of summer but you still can call me whenever, whatever time."

"Thanks Bella, I might just take you up on that."

I gave her a hug and smiled. "I'll get Carlisle for you."

I walked down the hall and went into Carlisle's office. He looked at me.

"What," I asked.

"You are actually excited about Jake and Leah?"

"Yeah I truly am. He more than anybody deserves to be happy. I owe him that much at least. I'm glad that he figured it out with Leah, no matter how much she hates me."

"And you want to go to the wedding?"

"I wouldn't mind going, he was there for me you know. Even though I broke his heart."

"I know that."

"Did you know Jake was getting married?"

"Yeah."

"And you didn't tell me."

"I didn't want to upset you but when you and Sue started talking I knew that she would tell you. I just didn't want you to be mad that he was getting married or that if you aren't invited I didn't want you to get your hopes up."

"I'm fine dad, no worries. Now come on, you don't want to keep your patients waiting any longer."

He followed me out to the waiting room and I gave Sue one more hug on the way out and then went to the parking lot. I look out my phone and needed to call Jasper. I thought for a minute about what I was going to say to him. How could I explain the situation from Alice's point of view without him getting upset at me too? Maybe I would break the ice with talking about the fighting. It seemed like it would be something for us to do and maybe that way I could find him and talk to him in person. Now that was an idea.

I opened up the car door and took out my cell phone. I went through the contacts and found Jasper's number. I called him and he picked up after two rings.

"Bella, is everything okay?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to help me with something."

"Yeah what's that?"

"Can you teach me how to fight?"

"Fight," he questioned. "Now?"

"Yeah. Edward is off with Renesmee right now and I figured that I would get some training in when he wasn't so close to us you know."

"I guess that would be cool."

"Where are you?"

"Just outside of Seattle."

"Where do you want to meet?"

"Wanna drive out here and then we can go from there?"

"Sure, meet me at the ferry on my side and we will go from there."

"No problem."

"I'll be there in around an hour and a half."

"Are you driving?"

"Of course."

"I can't wait to see this. Bye Bella."

"Bye Jazz."

I drove away from the hospital driving faster and faster as I hit the highway. It was easier for me to drive fast on the highway rather than the back roads. I turned the radio and blared whatever was on the radio. I hadn't grabbed any cds so I had to settle on listening to the crappy new music of today. Listening to this type of music was really bothering me. I didn't want to sit in silence so settling was all I could do. It seemed like no time at all before I saw Jasper leaning against his Ducati.

"Hey Jazz," I said getting out of the car and walking over towards him. I gave him a hug and smiled. "How are you doing?"

"Alright I guess."

"Come on and tell me about it."

We walked through the crowds of people and tried talking to each other. Jasper and I had never really been the closest members of the family. I had built a relationship with every other brother and sister except for him and I felt horrible for that. I knew that he was upset when I was first turned because I could resist human blood immediately. He felt like he wasn't good enough and that only made his struggles worse. He had gotten so much better since then. Today was the first time in years that he was on the verge of doing something stupid.

"Well, I'm just a little bit upset is all. I feel like Alice only makes a decision based on the future. And when the future is blurry, she panics and can't make a decision for herself. It really bothers me. I don't know, I just wish that she could make one decision off of herself and not always looking towards other people for her guidance."

"So you aren't fighting about the fact that you disagreed?"

"No I just want her to make a decision on her own, make up her own mind. Nobody is ever going to fully agree with another person, I don't expect that of her. I just want her not to make decisions based on the future but what's going on in the present. I love Alice and I don't want to hurt her. But I also want her to realize where I'm coming from."

"Did you talk about?"

"Kind of. But before we came to a decision she ran off and instead of going to find her I just took off. I figured that she needed time alone."

"You too are never apart."

"I know but maybe that's the issue. Maybe we spend too much time together."

"Jasper, that's ridiculous. You love each other. Sure, you spend a lot of time together but that's what happens when you are married. You share something special that I have never seen before. You have a silent relationship around people that is somehow louder than any other relationship. Your relationship is even better than Carlisle and Esme's in my opinion. Jasper, you two are absolutely amazing together and you belong together. Don't forget that. Edward and I have had a lot of disagreements but we pulled through them. You and Alice will do the same thing."

"Are you sure Bells? How can you be sure?"

"Alice knows where you are coming from. When she knows where you're coming from and maybe she will try to make more decisions without depending so much on being able to see into the future. Talk to her about it Jazz and she'll understand."

"So you think that talking to her will help?"

"It couldn't hurt at all."

"Thanks Bella," he said putting his hand on my shoulder. "I really appreciate this. I can't really talk to anybody about this."

"Anytime. I feel bad that I haven't been there for you more."

"I just can't talk to anybody else. Sure Esme would listen but I really don't want to talk to my mom about my love problems. Emmett would just make a joke out of it and so would Edward. Rosalie too. She really doesn't care about anybody else but herself and Emmett. I trust you Bella and you give really good advice."

"Thanks Jasper, I appreciate you saying that. I feel like you hate me sometimes."

He smiled a little bit. "Why would you think that?"

"Well I figured that when I was turned you were upset at me because I could resist human blood so well and you still hadn't been able to be as resistant blood like I could. I felt so horrible because it came so easily for me and you were struggling with it."

"I was upset because of that but it wasn't to the point where I absolutely hated you. I could never hate you. I was more upset at myself than I was at you. I was upset that I could live up to everything that you did."

"Really? You shouldn't feel like that."

"I don't anymore. I realized that it was something that you were born with. I assume that because you were so faint to the smell of blood as a human that's how you were able to resist. I don't feel like you are better than me anymore. I feel like we are on the same level now and that's where I want to be."

"Me too but I can't be at your level until you teach me how to fight."

"Well let's get on with it. I took the liberty of finding a place to fight off in the woods while you took forever to get here."

"Oh really," I said disappointed. "I thought I got here pretty fast."

"Yeah for you you did but for any of us you were still slow."

He led me into the forest and he took off. I followed close on his heels trying to follow his every move. I realized how agile he was as he weaved in and out of the trees. He was very graceful compared to Emmett and Edward. More like a dancer or a football player, something to that extent. After around 5 minutes we came to a clearing. It was a little bit smaller than the baseball field that we had traditionally used for training. I started to slow down as Jasper quickly moved to face me.

"Okay," he said as we came to a stop. "We are going to start with something basic. I want you to come up from behind me and take my legs out from under me. Then get into position to beat my face in."

"Alright."

He turned around and I backed up a little bit. I wanted to work on my every movement, making it a surprise even though he knew that it was coming. I crouched down and lunged forward in one swift motion. I swept my arms right at his knees and overshot the speed a little bit before turning around to pounce on him. He was already up.

"Too slow Bella, do it again."

I tried it 3 more times. Every time he was up before I could get to him. I was getting angry with myself for not being able to do anything.

"Okay Bella, watch me do it."

"You want me to sit still so that you can attack me."

"Would you rather run around like a chicken with your head cut off?"

I huffed. "Just don't hurt me."

"No problem."

He pounced into my legs knocking me to the ground and within a second he was on top of me.

"How the hell did you do that?"

"Just watch. While you're knocking the legs out jam your elbow into the ground and use your speed to throw yourself around quickly. It's basic enough where you can dig your teeth into their necks in an instant."

"Alright let me try."

Jasper set up again and I used all of my strength and speed to take him out. I did exactly as he said and I ended up doing it faster than he did. I had my mouth at his neck quickly and breathed heavily. A smile crept across my face as I got up quickly.

"Okay what's next?"

"Some vampires my want to tease you with speed. They'll make you run around all over the place and then pounce on you before you even have a chance to speak. Now I want you to chase me."

"Jasper I saw this trick with Emmett, remember?"

"Well try to stop me from doing that."

Jasper took off around the field. I watched him for a second realizing that he was just taking the same line. I knew that I was faster than he was but I wouldn't always know that about an opponent. I took off after Jasper in a second. I tried to catch up to him but I couldn't with normal pace. I took a huge leap into the air. Before I knew it I had tackled him to the ground. My jumping ability was something that I didn't show many people. Jasper and I lay on the ground for a moment.

"How did you do that," he asked looking over towards me.

"I just jumped."

"Really? I can't believe how well you did with that."

"I know I can't either. I was going to try to catch you because I know that I'm faster than you. But I won't always be faster than an opponent."

"And you did that so gracefully."

"That's something that I still don't understand."

I listened and heard something in the woods coming from the east. I shot up with a spring and Jasper was right behind me. We looked at each other confused.

"Now what do we have here," the tall lanky character said as they stepped through the forest covered land. He was very skinny, with bleach blonde hair and red bloodshot eyes.

"It seems like we've got some stray vamps Camden." He was more muscular than the other, more athletic. Like he could crush anybody with his legs alone. He chuckled a little bit. "Now what are we going to do about them?"

They moved in closer to us and I could tell that the athletic vampire had blood red eyes and dark brown spiky hair, going out into all sorts of directions. He was stronger than most vampires looked with his muscles bulgy almost out of his clothes.

"I don't know Aedan, I think maybe we need to do something about that. We can't just let them go free."

They didn't move from their position. I was in panic mode. Was this all part of Jasper's plan to help me. I looked towards him quickly and he shook his head. He seemed to breathe in deeply and an instant calm came over me. I knew what was going on but I didn't think that it would work.

"Can we talk boys?" Jasper said in a low soothing voice. "I don't want to fight."

"And what will you do about it," Aedan said drawing a line of fire around us. I was surprised. I had never seen anything like that before. After a minute I focused my shield and threw the fire off of the ground and towards the unknown vampires. They stood still for a moment not knowing what to do.

"Now can we talk," I said looking at them. I needed to speak up. "I want to tell you what we are doing here."

"Speak then," Aedan said with a hiss shaking off the fact that I had destroyed the fire that seemed to come out of his fingertips. These two were one of a kind that I had never seen before. They were unique with their accents and there looks and if Aedan's power was any indication of that, I was wondering what Camden's power would be.

"We are out here training. We have discovered some disturbing news so our family has to take care of it."

"What news? Of the Volturi going insane in Italy?" Aedan seemed to know what he was talking about and seemed to be more intoned to the conversation than Camden. Camden seemed to be off in his own little world and Aedan was the leader of their little coven. I thought of it then. What if there were more out there? And these two had been just sent as a greeting party.

"Yes. We are a part of the Olympic Coven here in Washington. Our family resides about 100 miles away. We are trying to prepare for the potential repercussions that may come from the Volturi going insane. My name is Bella Cullen and this is my brother in law Jasper Hale."

They nodded towards each other.

"My name is Aedan and this is my brother for all intensive purposes. This is Camden. We are traveling around here, checking out the surroundings. Then we heard about the problems going on and we were actually hoping to find some other vampires."

"Well," a small squeaky voice answered from behind us. Alice and Rosalie were by our sides in no time. "My name is Alice Cullen and this is Rosalie. We are also part of the Olympic Coven or the Cullen's. Whatever you may decide to call us."

"How many of you are there," Aedan asked curiously.

"There are a grand total of 9 of us at the moment."

"And you all live together? In a permanent residence."

"Yes we do."

"You guys are the Cullens? Oh wow, I was wondering if you guys really did exist."

"What do you mean," Rosalie asked impatiently.

"Is it true that you guys don't feed on humans?"

"Yes."

"And you maintain a normal existence with humans?"

"Yes."

"I can't believe that all the stories are real. Is there really a half vampire…"

Before he could finish I said, "Yes. That would be my daughter."

"So you are the amazing human. I've heard about you. So that was you that lifted the fire and flung it back at me?"

"Yes. I have a shielding power that can be useful in many ways. However, until just a few minutes ago I wasn't sure that I could do that. So what about you? Obviously you have pyrokinesis."

Jasper then chimed in. "Would you guys like to help us out if it comes to stopping the Volturi."

"I'd have to talk it over with Camden." He turned around to look at Camden. He nodded his head and Aedan turned back around. "I think that if it came to that we wouldn't mind helping you guys out. But only if you give us something in return."

"What would that be," Alice chimed in.

"Could you guys maybe help us with controlling our cravings? I've been trying ever since I heard that you existed but I haven't been able to do it on my own."

"Come home with us," Rosalie said. "Our father would love to talk to you about anything you could ever want."

"Shall we follow you," Camden said. I was a little skeptical about allowing these two vampires into our home but I had a feeling that they were genuinely interested in helping us and they just seemed like big fans of ours, which was weird.

"You can ride with Bella and I," Jasper stated. "We've got a car a few miles away."

"What about your cycle," Alice asked.

"You take it home and Rosalie can take the car. You know that she won't want to mess up her hair."

Rosalie playfully pushed Jasper and the four of us led the two new possible recruits to the car. Jasper put his arms around Alice as they walked and they both smiled. I was happy to see at least one issue with my family resolved.