SM owns everything, I'm just playing with them before I give them back.

JPOV

After playing a couple good hands, not that an empath could ever lose at cards. I can clearly tell whos bluffing and who has a good hand. I decide its time to head out towards home. I've had the worst feeling all night. Ever just felt like you lost something or misplaced it? Thats how I'm feeling at the moment. Like I had it then lost it but can't remember what it was in the first damn place. which that in it self is rediculous. I mean, really, who ever heard of a vampire not remembering something, or losing something. I don't know what it is, but decide whatever it wasn't important any damn way. Cause clearly if a vampire can forget it, it isn't worth remembering in the first place.

I head out after putting on my helmet and gloves. I love riding this bike, still haven't named her, but it'll come to me sooner or later. After a few hours of driving I pull the old beaten path and think I should carry my baby across this pot hole riddled driveway. It clearly is an uninvitation to the beautiful house a couple miles up the road. But its already taken me longer than it should have so I drive my baby slowly and try to bypass all the holes I can.

"Bout time, Fucker." Of course Peter, got something to say about my being a couple days late. But thats okay, cause last time I checked I wasn't on a schedule anyhow.

I pull off my helmet, "Well, Fucker, I spent a few days enjoying my self. Get over it." I look into his red eyes and think the fucker actually seems surprised for once.

I laugh, "Huh, stumped the know-it-all. Now that don't happen ever day."

"Major!" Char squeals and runs into my arms.

"Baby Girl," she wraps her arms around my neck and legs around my waist as she jumps. I sniff her hair below my nose and whisper, "I missed you to baby."

"Mmm, I've missed you too, honey! I am so glad you're back with us. I didn't think you'd ever leave your pixie and come back home to us. Now tell me why you got red eyes," she shot to me.

"I just had a little fun 'fore coming home, Baby Girl. No slips or nothin'. Just a little bit of fuckin and suckin'!" I laugh out her old phrase from my wilder days.

"Well I do believe the Majors coming back to us, Petey! Can you believe it. Oh..Damn it Peter why didn't you tell me."

"Ow, Char, why you keep beatin' on me. If you gotta beat me, beat the little captain!" Peter moans in pain rubbing the back of his head where Char has smacked him.

Whack. "Say it again, Peter. Just one more time. Come on, say it!" Char hollers at Peter.

"No, sorry, Baby! You know I can't help what comes outta my mouth. Its just like drunk humans, its verbal vomit. Ya know it just comes out wether I want it to or not." Peter tries to make up to, Char.

"Well come on honey. I got your room all cleaned up for ya. It has been sa long since ya used it, it had a ton of dust coating everything. But no worries its all ready for ya now. Peter says you're going to be with us for awhile. So go unpa... Don't you got no clothes with ya?" Char says.

"Uh, well, I didn't really, I mean. Damn it Char, No I don't got nothing but whats in my bag. Looks like you will just have to go spend some money." I studder, and then finally laugh out.

"Come on in, we will worry about it later. K, shug."

I went on up to my room to see how much Char had to change out. I was pretty attached to it the way it was. But as I open my door, I realize I should have known Char would only put what I would like in here. There was my dark magony dresser, desk and a california king size bed. The walls were painted a deep blue, and the bed clothes all matched up perfectly. The only thing I could tell was new was the bed and all of the sheets, curtains and such. All my important things were here. My old civil war uniform and gun. My families where abouts, and their finacial information. That about covers it except for a few odds and ends like books and the like. It was perfectly me. I am so glad to have my own space. Not that I didn't at the Cullen's it was just that this room was purely to my liking and no one elses. Alice woulda had a hissy fit if she ever came here. It would 'totally have to be redone'.

I can hear her voice in my head and can't help but roll my eyes. Don't get me wrong. I love Alice till final death. It's just we didn't complete our mating. And that is a dangerous thing to do. But none of the family believed in doing such 'primal things'. I tried to tell them anyone can take your mate if you don't both complete your mating. But I reckon' it was just to 'inhumane' to them. Carlisle didn't believe in it at all, so therefore it mattered little what Esme thought, course her thinking was on the same level as his. Edward is such a drama queen we already know what his decision is. Em and Rose said they were not taking any kind of chance and promptly completed their mating ritual. And although I half way completed Alice and mines mating, she wouldn't comply to do her part. So here I am mated with a woman who will never actually be mine so long as we don't complete the other half.

I'd like to say all rituals were the same, but they are as different as Peter and Carlisle. I don't know of any two mates who did the exact same thing. But I know what Peter and Char's consisted of. As soon as they came back for me. They told me all about how crazy things were on the outside. Not that they were bad things just different than how Maria operated.

Some months after they left me, they ran into a nomad woman. Well actually it was Peter who ran into her and since Peter and Char hadn't had sex within the last 48 hours, she thought Peter was unclaimed. She immediately went for his throat. Biting him on my mark where I had turned him. He quickly dispatched her and it wasn't a minute later she was ash. After getting his meal, he headed home to Char. When he came into the house with another vamp smell on him, she went feral. Totally lost it, Peter said. She drug him out of the house and grabbed the first human they came upon and with Peter on one shoulder, and the human on the other ran into the forest as fast as a thought. She slammed the human down and bit into her throat, released her from her teeth and shoved Peter's face into the thumping blood flow. She then bit into the other side of the womans throat and together they drank her dry. Peter looked at Char and she still had completely black eyes, she slammed him against the closest tree a bit my mark covering all previous traces of another vampires touch to her mate. Once she released her venom inside wound, he said he lost it to and turned Char around and took her from behind while his teeth dug deep into her neck. When he finally released his venom they both released with roars of satisfaction.

After coming out of their 'feral' phase they both licked each other down with the others venom to spread their scent onto the other. When they were finished they both looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders and had a good laugh at their inner vamps. Later they learned through a small coven in New Orleans that, that whole episode was their beasts claiming the other as their mate. Char went crazy because she could smell the other woman on her mate and thats why she lost it first. She made him feed to help get rid of the nomads scent. They also learned that if you don't mate or haven't had sex within 48 hours your completely open to other vamps taking a claim on you.

Herein lies my problem. Alice and I only half way completed our mateing bonds. So are we still both open to others, or since she is still living, are we considered mated. I always felt closer to her than her to me. But since I've been away from her a few days I think we aren't truly mated. I can't feel her like i use to could. I know nothing is wrong with her or she would have called, but I just feel like we aren't ment to be.