Bella drove back to her dad's house once again the next day, after arriving back at the Cullen's house last night and telling Esme about everything, she had decided that Charlie needed to know absolutely everything. She pulled up at his house, a slight smile on her face as she caught sight of Charlie's relieved face looking through the window. Bella stepped out of the car and immediately was hit by a really horrible smell. Bella glided over the ice on Charlie's path and towards the front door, she opened to door and the smell got stronger.
"Dad?" Bella called out as she shut the door behind her.
"In here, Bells." He called back. Bella quickly glided into the lounge where she was surprised to see Billy and Sam sitting with Charlie.
"Uh, hi, Billy," She greeted. "Sam," She finished coldly. She still didn't forgive him for trying to attack her family. Billy smiled warmly at her, Sam's eyes were distressed. Bella stared at him, her head slightly on one side. Charlie smiled and stood up.
"I'm going to get us some drinks, Bella, do you want anything?" Charlie asked, Bella shook her head.
"I'm fine, Dad, thank you." Bella said softly as Billy stared at her, his eyes piercing. As soon as he was sure that Charlie was out of ear shot, Billy looked at Bella sternly.
"There are rumours going around that you've filled Charlie in about you and the Cullen's," Billy said. Bella blinked. Billy sighed and continued.
"Bella, please tell me you have a good reason for doing this to him." Billy begged. Bella nodded, turning her head towards the kitchen, where Charlie was noisily getting drinks.
"The head of the Volturi, who are the…head vampires, sent a letter here for me," Billy listened intently.
"It mentioned Jasper and Seth and Charlie read it and wanted to know what it was about," Catching sight of Sam's shocked face, Bella quickly continued.
"I called Carlisle and asked for his opinion, he told me to tell Charlie but to tell him of the guidelines and what might happen if he tells anyone." Bella said hoarsely. Billy sighed and shook his head.
"Why, Bella?" Bella's eyes flashed to him.
"To keep him safe! He already knows about you, he needed to know this for when Jazz and Seth come home." Bella hissed. Sam gave a small cough and looked behind Bella. Charlie was standing in the doorway, looking slightly peeved.
"So, they knew before I did?" He asked lowly. Bella gave a small, apologetic smile.
"The Quileute's have known for centuries, Charlie, the vampires and the wolves co-exist with the other." Sam said. Charlie looked confused.
"He means that when vampires are present here, the werewolf numbers grow," Bella tried to explain.
"The wolf numbers grow when more vampires appear as a sure way to protect the humans." Billy smiled. Charlie nodded.
"Oh, okay then." Charlie said, with a look of slight confusion still remaining on his face. Sam looked at Bella with tortured eyes.
"Any word on Seth and that emotion-messing, blond leech yet?" He asked, Bella snarled, sending Charlie recoiling.
"His name is Jasper," Bella growled, trying to calm, where was Jasper when you needed him?! Sam rolled his eyes.
"Any word on Seth and Jasper yet?" Sam re-asked. Bella gave a small nod.
"Jasper has a plan but the rest of us aren't so certain if it'll work." Charlie stared at the group in front of him. Billy brow furrowed.
"But we have faith in Jazz, since he has great experience with battle tactics." Bella finished bitterly. Charlie stared at Bella.
"He has military experience?" Charlie asked softly. Bella gave a small laugh.
"Yeah, back in the confederacy days." She laughed. Charlie looked shocked. Billy cracked a small smile.
"He is quite good when it comes to calming down sticky situations, isn't he?" Billy said. Sam snarled.
"What about Seth?!" He howled. Bella turned to him.
"When I saw him, one of his arms had just recovered from being broken a few hours before and his right arm was covered in bites." Bella told them. Billy went pale as Sam went livid.
"Who…bit...him?" Sam snarled slowly. Bella shuddered.
"It was a vampire called Maria, who is now dead courtesy of Aro," Bella said sternly, taking in Sam's expression. Charlie's eyes glazed over at Aro's name. Billy looked at Bella kindly.
"What are you holding back, Bella, what else do you know of her?" Billy asked gently. Bella gave a small shrug.
"Not much, just that she was the one that turned Jasper and she had newborn armies and she got Jazz to control them." Bella murmured. "That's why Aro brought Maria to the Volturi, to break Jasper so he would join them." Bella muttered darkly. Billy gave a thoughtful nod before he turned to Sam.
"Leah is back at the Cullen's home." Bella interrupted, Billy turned back to her.
"And Jacob?" He asked worriedly. Bella gave him a reassuring smile.
"He is still in Italy with Carlisle, Emmet and Edward, just for when Jasper and Seth get out and might need some help." Bella said softly. Billy nodded slowly and thoughtfully before turning to Sam.
"I think I'm ready to go home, Sam," Billy said, Sam quickly stood up and left to get the car ready.
"Thanks for the drinks, Charlie," He smiled warmly at Charlie who grinned back, at ease with what he had learnt today. Billy turned to Bella.
"Thank you, Bella, I will tell Sue that Leah is home." Billy smiled as Sam came back in and wheeled him outside. Bella and Charlie followed them and waved goodbye as they drove off before walking back inside. Charlie sat down on the sofa and Bella sat down on the armchair opposite. Charlie sighed and smiled at Bella.
"So, Bells, what are you going to tell me today?" He laughed. Bella gave a small smile.
"Remember when I first came to Forks and I came home from that baseball game with Edward's family and I wanted to leave Forks then and there?" Bella asked softly. A spasm of pain flashed across Charlie's face showed he did indeed remember.
"I wasn't angry at Edward, the reason I was yelling that I had to get away from Forks was so the vampire listening would think I was leaving Forks and wouldn't hurt you," Bella's topaz eyes flickered to Charlie's face.
"At the baseball game, Alice had seen three nomadic vampires, the ones who eat humans, appear at our game. The head vampire, or so it seemed at the time, Laurent was talking peacefully to Carlisle and then a gust of wind caught my hair and sent my scent in the direction of a tracker called James. Edward heard James thoughts and went to defend me as did the rest of his family. Laurent, James and Victoria left then but James evaded Jasper and started to track me down." Charlie stared at his daughter, wide eyed. It was hard to believe that she had yelled those things at him just to save his life. Bella watched the emotion flicker across Charlie's face intently.
"Edward, Emmet, Carlisle, Rosalie and Esme stayed here in Forks to try and hunt down James and his mate Victoria and protect you, while Jasper and Alice took me to Phoenix. We stayed in a hotel, anxiously waiting for phone calls," Bella laughed. "Well, I was anxious but Jasper kept calming me down," Bella sighed, she missed his calming influence and Alice was getting worse and much more depressed by the hour.
"James called from my house in Phoenix and told me that he had Renee and that I was to meet him at my old ballet studio or he'd kill her, I sneaked away from Jazz and Alice and went to the ballet studio, he was waiting for me and had a video camera. He told me that he was going to leave a message for Edward so he would hunt James to try and avenge me. He started talking about Alice's past which surprised us all because Alice doesn't remember anything about her human life, anyway James threw me around a bit before breaking my leg." Charlie went pale, Bella gave a small reassuring smile. "Edward arrived and tried to get me out but James caught us, I fell out of Edward's arms and James threw Edward somewhere, I had landed in a pile of broken pieces of mirror and I was bleeding heavily, the scent of my blood had turned him ravenous, James bit me and Edward tried to rip him apart when Carlisle, Jasper, Emmet and Alice arrived. Jasper, Emmet and Alice took care of James, ripping him apart and burning the pieces, that's the only way to kill a vampire," Bella explained catching sight of Charlie's face. "Carlisle tried to stop my leg bleeding and told Edward that James venom was spreading around my body, Edward did something extremely hard and sucked the venom out of my blood before it could turn me, it was hard because once we get a taste for human blood, it's hard for us to stop." Bella finished.
"Then a few months ago, I was hunted by Victoria and her newborns, the werewolves helped us out and Edward, Seth, Jacob and I were away from the real fighting, where the rest of the Cullen's and the wolves were fighting the majority of the newborns, Victoria and one of her newborns found Edward, Seth and me and they started to fight us, Seth killed the newborn and Edward killed Victoria," Bella sighed.
"How did you get turned?" Charlie asked, interested.
"A couple of members of the Volturi were sent to see if I was still human, a few months after Edward and me got married, and I still was human, there was one female member that recognized Edward because he had killed her mate years ago, so she thought it would be fair if she took me from him, a mate for a mate, so there was a fight between Edward, Jasper, Alice and Carlisle because Esme, Emmet and Rose were hunting, and I ended up being seriously hurt, I think I was thrown against a tree and it collapsed on top of me, I think. Jasper, Alice and Carlisle finished off the members of the Volturi and Edward tried to help me, Carlisle ran over and inspected my injuries and told Edward that they were too severe and if I wasn't helped soon, I was going to die, so Edward did the hardest thing and bit me. Three days it felt like I was on fire, that I burning but afterwards," Bella let out a small laugh. "But afterwards if was excellent, I was born again." Bella looked at Charlie who was smiling.
"Well, I never liked Edward before this but now I can see he is a great guy for you, Bells, he saved you and I never had to lose you." He said softly. Bella smiled and hugged her dad.
"Promise me that when you leave you'll say goodbye, promise that you won't just leave without telling me," Charlie said into Bella's hair.
"I promise, Dad." Bella murmured. Bella's phone rang and she quickly ducked out of the hug, Charlie wiped his eyes. Bella flipped her phone opened.
"Hey, Carlisle," She greeted happily. Bella's face fell immediately as she listened intently.
"What? Are they okay? And Aro?" Bella asked worriedly, Charlie's head quickly turned to where Bella was pacing.
"How bad?" She asked quietly. Bella let out a small snarl when she heard the reply. She nodded in response to something being said.
"Sure, I'll see you soon." Bella closed her phone with a snap, her face troubled.
"Bells, what's happened?" Charlie asked concerned, walking to his daughter's side.
"It's Jasper and Seth." Bella murmured, her eyes flicking from one side of the room to the other. She turned to her dad.
"I've got to go, bye, Dad." She said before quickly walking out the door. Charlie stared after her for a few minutes before grabbing the keys to his cruiser, running down the path and into his car, driving towards the Cullen's.
Seth was waiting anxiously in his wolf form as Jasper listened by the door. Jasper gave a small smile and crouched down, expectantly. Sure enough a few seconds later there was the sound of a key in a lock. The door opened and Jasper lunged, grabbing the key and shoving the vampire inside. Seth bolted out the door and Jasper sent a high level of calm to the vampire as he pushed him inside, causing the small vampire to crumple to the floor, fast asleep. Jasper shut the door and locked it tightly. He put the key in his pocket and quickly zipped up his jacket. He turned to the wolf and smiled.
"Let's go." He smiled, Jasper ran down the hallway and towards the exit, he reached the end and turned around, seeing Seth a bit away. Jasper sighed and when Seth stopped at his feet, Jasper quickly scooped Seth up into his arms.
"Sorry, we're just getting out of here." Jasper apologized as he slung the complaining Seth over his shoulder.
"Don't feel so embarrassed." Jasper said as he ran towards the exit, stopping once as a group of lower Volturi members past.
"Sheesh, the whole place is beginning to smell like that wolf." One of them complained. Jasper let out a sigh when they left and quickly bolted towards the exit.
Jasper sighed happily as the first breeze of fresh air hit him. Jasper walked towards the plaza slowly, it was almost dark, Jasper quickly changed Seth around so that his head was right next to his own.
Jasper tensed as he heard members of the Volturi walking around, Jasper quickly ran through the plaza until he was far enough away so they couldn't smell Seth. Jasper gave a small chuckle as he turned around, watching the dark alley entrance of the Volturi get further away. Jasper didn't notice that he bumped into someone. He quickly turned around, apologizing. The girl got up, pushing her red girls out of her face.
"Oh, no, don't worry about it." She said, staring weirdly at the sight of Seth slung over Jasper's shoulder, whining miserably. Jasper set Seth down on the ground.
"I'm sorry to ask but can I borrow your mobile?" Jasper asked, mentally cursing the Volturi for taking his away. The girl nodded and handed her phone over. Seth whined loudly.
"Yeah, Seth, I'm calling Carlisle now." Jasper murmured. Jasper quickly dialled Carlisle's number.
"Hello?" Carlisle's voice floated over, warily. Jasper sighed in relief.
"Carlisle, it's me." Jasper laughed. There was some weird noises on the other side of the phone.
"Jazz, you're on loud speaker, are you okay? Is Seth with you?" Carlisle's voice floated over concerned.
"Yeah, we're both fine," Jasper said calmly, "We're in front of a small café, can you come get us quickly," Jasper said, quickly pulling Seth behind a stone pillar. Several black cars with dark tinted windows had just pulled up in front of the Volturi entrance.
"Jasper, what's wrong?" Carlisle noted the change in his voice.
"Uh, Aro's back," Jasper said worriedly. There was the sound of a car engine revving in the background.
"We're two minutes away," Carlisle said. There was a booming laugh.
"Better make that thirty seconds, Carlisle, at the way Edward here is driving." Emmet's voice floated over. And true to his word, in thirty seconds a silver sedan pulled up. Edward, Emmet, Carlisle and Jacob all jumped out of the car. Carlisle rushed over to Jasper, grabbing his arm worriedly.
"Jasper, are you okay?" He asked concerned. Jasper smiled.
"Fine, Carlisle, where's Alice?" He asked the question he had wanted to ask for ages. Edward smiled.
"She's back in Forks with the rest of the girls." Edward said, clapping his brother on the arm. Jasper let out a small hiss of pain. Jacob was kneeling down next to Seth, scratching behind his ear, looking into his eyes worriedly. Jasper turned to give the phone back to the girl.
"Uh, thanks for that…" Jasper said gratefully.
"It's Jessie," The girl said, glaring at Edward's back. Edward flinched and turned around.
"Hi, Jessie." He said. Jasper cleared his throat.
"Can we go now?" He asked worriedly, with a quick glance to the Volturi. Carlisle nodded, hugging Jasper, looking relieved.
"It's good to have you back, son." He said. Jessie stared at them weirdly.
"So, I take it you're leaving for good now?" She asked Edward coldly. Edward nodded.
"It's better if we do, we have to get Jazz back to Alice." Edward chuckled, throwing a punch to Jasper's side. They quickly climbed back into the car, with Carlisle and Jasper in the front and Emmet, Edward, Jacob in the back seat, with Seth still in his wolf form laying across Edward's and Jacob's laps. Edward was scratching Seth behind the ears absentmindedly and Jacob was running his hand across Seth's back. Edward glanced back towards the Volturi, where a loud yell of anger was echoing across the plaza.
"I think Aro has found out about Jazz and Seth." He said. Carlisle nodded stiffly. Jasper gave a small shudder.
Hours later the plane touched down in Forks. Jacob was walking close to Seth, who was rubbing his bite scars. Jasper was nervous on the ride back but relieved. The car pulled up in front of their house, Jasper climbed out of the car and sighed. Something hard barrelled into his arms, dry sobbing heavily, Jasper wrapped his arms around Alice, rubbing her back comfortingly and also sent out waves of calm. Jasper looked around to see his family there, and Charlie as well, Charlie was smiling as he saw Alice and Jasper and Leah and Seth hugging.
"It's good to see you're back, Jasper." Charlie smiled. Jasper stared at Edward, confused.
"He knows, Aro sent a letter to Bella through Charlie's house." Jasper nodded. Bella wrapped Edward into a hug as Carlisle hugged Esme. They were back in the house with Alice fussing over Jasper. Edward was playing with a strand of Bella's hair absentmindedly. Alice flitted around happily around the house and kept throwing looks back to Jasper, grinning to see him there. Leah, Seth and Jacob had gone to go see Sue. Everyone was fussing over Jasper and he didn't like it, he didn't like being the centre of attention, it made him feel really uncomfortable. Jasper stood up and quickly glided up the stairs to his and Alice's room with everyone watching him leave. He sat down on the edge of his and Alice's bed. His mind filled with memories from the Volturi, Jasper shuddered. He ran a hand through his hair as memories continued to flash back. Soothing hands were suddenly holding him as Jasper tried to control his emotions. He turned towards Alice who was gazing at him with concern.
"Edward told me what you were thinking about." She said softly. Jasper sighed.
"I can't stop thinking about it…" Jasper turned to Alice and hugged her, holding her tightly. Alice sighed and smoothed his hair.
"Edward told me about what Maria said to you before Aro ripped her apart." Alice murmured. Jasper moved back, his hands moving to hold Alice's small ones. Jasper stared at Alice, love and pride for him seeped out of her. Jasper calmed down and held back onto her.
"I missed you so much, my love." He murmured softly into her hair.
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