Iz was reaching her first month and by all accounts was doing quite well. It had taken her most of that to get over whatever aversion she had to Garrett and could now be left alone with him without a fight. She still preferred me over him, but in a pinch she would play nice and behave herself, if I said she had too anyways. If it slipped my mind before leaving her alone, she would snip and snap at him but she wasn't out to kill him anymore.

Also over that time I have become like stupid over protective of her. While I would leave her alone with Garrett when I had to go hunt, the moment I was through the door she was at my side and stuck there for a while. After I took her hunting, I kicked Garrett out of the house while she got cleaned up. I flat out couldn't stand the idea of him anywhere near her while she was unclothed. The mere thought actually made me want to kill him my damn self. The more comfortable she got around him the less I seemed to want him around. I had a relatively good idea what was going on, but for now I refused to acknowledge it because things were complicated enough at the moment and that would only add issues that were not needed.

That all started the day that her clothing was found and she was added to the confirmed dead list from the plane crash. The moment I saw that she was no longer being looked for and was now completely and fully mine for as long as she decided she wanted to hang around, I started to feel less like that brother I tried to be and more like a bodyguard. She also started to look less like that little sister and more like a really hot little spunk. The more days that passed the less inclined I was to allow her tiny little ass out of my sight. If I was feeling like this towards her only days after she was officially declared dead, I knew there was no way that I could let her go at the end of her newborn year.

Garrett thought this shit was funnier than hell; me, not so fucking much. I like the guy but his amusement at this was going to get him killed. I did however knock his ass into next fucking week yesterday while Iz was in the shower after eating when he decided to bring up our conversation from the car dealership. He had said something to the effect of if I wasn't going to mate her he would. I didn't take to kindly to that and he had to regrow a couple of teeth by the time I was done with him. It would only be over my fucking ashes that that shit happened. There was a twinkle in his eyes that I narrowed mine at as he reattached a couple of fingers, but he dropped the subject and I let him walk away. When Iz asked what happened to him later that night when she saw the damage, he looked at me and I gave him the finger as I told her that Garrett pissed me off and not to worry about it.

At the first month mark, she was also old enough for me to feel comfortable to begin her defense training. I still only planned on teaching her the basics so she could defend herself and not teach her everything I knew. I didn't want her to be a monster like I was raised to be. She was a sweetie and I didn't want that to change. I would make absolute certain that she would never lose a fight if she got in one, but I didn't want her to grow too big for her britches and go looking for a fight either.

I had her against Garrett while I was on the sidelines calling out orders and telling her how to fix her mistakes as she made them so she would feel the difference between the right and wrong way of doing something. She was a quick study and was actually a fairly decent fighter as well. It was probably subconscious on her part, but I had the feeling that she knew how to fight as a human and that knowledge transferred over to this life as well. We had just fallen into a good rhythm when I was doused from head to toe in an unshakable foreboding feeling. My entire body locked, every muscle coiling and freezing at the sensation. I had no idea what caused it but I knew that shit was about to hit the fucking fan and there was no stopping it.

Iz was so attuned to me that the moment I felt that feeling she was on it, stopping mid-attack and whipping around to look at me, her eyes wide and fearful. She had developed the uncanny ability to just know what went through my mind and while she knew I would never allow her to get hurt, she was still just a baby and the unknown was something that she was terrified of.

I was looking off into the distance where I knew the reason for my discomfort was going to come from, trying to figure out what it was when I spoke to Garrett, "Take her inside. I don't know what's up but I don't want her out here when it shows up."

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Garrett wrap his arm around her waist to pull her in the house making me suppress a growl at the motion. I told him to take her inside not touch her. Iz however was still looking at me, her bottom lip between her teeth and eyes worried. She looked at Garrett when he touched her but quickly looked back at me, "Peter?"

I looked at my Sugar and winked, "Everything is just fine, Little Lady. You g'on in the house now and I'll be along in a minute." She looked at me a little longer before turning her own eyes on where I was looking a second ago before looking back at me. I just smiled at her, "well g'on, git. You know I ain't gonna let nothing happen here so this ain't nothing for you to be concerned about, Sugar. Go on in the house and behave for me. I give you my word ain't shit gonna happen to me."

She didn't look like she wanted to listen but knew that I wasn't playing around. After another moment, she nodded and turned to go inside with Garrett. Last minute she looked over her shoulder at me, "Be careful Peter."

I nodded at her and watched as she vanished inside with Garrett before turning back to the approaching vampires, crossing my arms. This was not really something I was in the mood to deal with, but I suppose that it was better to get this shit out of the way now opposed to later.

Once the footfalls reached my ears, I moved into a better position for what was coming. I knew that it was going to be interesting but I didn't know why. The moment I got to where I wanted to be, my unannounced guests came over the hilltop. I just stood there with my arms crossed as I waited for them to get a little closer to me. Once they were I called out, "Thanks for the fucking heads up, Asshole. I don't hear from you for six fucking years and you cannot even grace me with a fucking call before you get here? What the hell, man?"

Jasper and his little mutant midget slowed to a jog as they closed that last little distance, him with a smirk on his face and her with a scowl. Bitch. I really hated her and he knew it so why he brings her with him when he does visit I will never understand.

Jasper extended his hand and I took it out of habit, "We were in the area and I caught your scent. It was faster to just show up than it would have been to call."

Dropping his hand and recrossing my arms I shrugged, "I don't drop in on you unannounced. I would appreciate the same the same fucking courtesy from now on, if you don't mind."

He blinked but nodded, "sorry, Jesus. What the hell bug crawled up your ass?"

"I got shit going on right now that is a little delicate. People just showing up out of the fucking woodwork is going to end with someone getting killed and it ain't gonna be me." After he nodded again I jumped tracks, "What the hell are you doing out here anyways?" He had focused on my house and I snapped my finger right in front of his nose pulling his attention back to me, "trust me, there ain't shit in my house that concerns you. Now, how 'bout answering my question; what are you doing here, Jasper?"

He glanced at me before looking back at the house, "We were looking into the discovery of someone that was said to be on that plane that crashed last month when I crossed your scent. I wanted to see if you knew anything about it."

I shrugged, "I heard about it but I don't have any information for you. Unlike you, I don't involve myself with humans unless they're my dinner. Even still, from what I heard there wasn't any survivors so what could you possibly be looking into?"

He finally focused fully on me, "Remember the human I told you about before? She was on the plane and they recently found her. For some fucking reason it was decided that more than that was needed for the others to believe that she was killed so we're here to confirm their findings."

I tisked and shrugged a shoulder, "Sorry man, can't help ya. You never told me her name. If you had when she was alive I might have been able to tell you that shit was going to happen before it did. As it stands, all you told me was to keep an eye out for things that affected your coven. I haven't or I would have called as ordered."

I could see clear as day he didn't believe a word I said and I didn't care. I wasn't lying and he couldn't say I was. As far as I was concerned she didn't have anything to do with them anymore. However, I decided to get the answer that my Sugar was unable to answer for me. "What was she doing on that plane without one of you guys anyways?"

Alice glared at Jasper and he looked a little guilty, not a good look for him. He scratched at his eyebrow with his thumb before shrugging, "I tried to eat her on her birthday a few years back, haven't seen her since; none of us have. Edward decided we were too dangerous to be around her, demanded we leave and we did."

It was physically painful not to punch him in the mouth for the offhanded explanation. I couldn't smother the glare no matter how hard I tried, "If you abandoned her, why are you looking for confirmation of her death? Want to make sure leaving a human alive knowing that we exist don't come back and bite you in the ass? What happened there, Major; get forbidden from following the rules?"

He growled at me as his eyes narrowed, "not cute or funny, Captain. I suggest you watch your step."

I rolled my eyes and shook my head, "Not this time. You fucked up Major, and this time I can't help you. I told you I got some shit going on and I ain't putting my neck on the line for someone that fell as far as you did."

"Just what the fuck is that supposed to mean, Peter?"

I locked my eyes on his and cocked a brow, "You were a God once upon a time, Jasper. Now, you take orders instead of give them. You actually allow someone to FORBID you from doing shit." I shook my head, "I don't respect those that don't respect themselves. You have forgotten who you are, Jazz and until you remember, I ain't putting my ass on the line for you again. Look for your own proof your human is dead. I'm already dealing with one person's fuck up. I don't need or want to deal with yours too. Go find your shit then go home. You're not currently welcome here."

His eyes slid back to my house, "Because of the newborn right? Where did you find it?"

I actually did growl at him for that, "Nothing that has to do with HER is any of your concern."

He smirked at me, "She's about a month old isn't she?" I narrowed my eyes as he turned back to the house, "The scent isn't yours so you're not her sire nor is Garrett. Tell ya what, let me see her and THEN we'll leave."

He went to head to the new back door and I flashed in front of him, crossing my arms and glaring at him, "Not gonna happen Jasper. See, I gave my word to that little darlin' and I ain't about to let you go against it. I said go home, now git."

He smirked at me and gave me the most condescending look he could muster, "You really think you can stop me from confirming what I already know?"

I chuckled, "You don't know shit, Jazzy-poo."

I knew he hated that name and I knew what his reaction to it was going to be when I said it. What I didn't know was my little lady's reaction to it. She came out of no fucking where too. I dodged the fist aimed for my face but he wasn't so lucky with the one aimed for his. She was now standing in front of me ready for the fight that was on the horizon because of that, teeth bared and a constant growl rumbling in her chest as she looked down her nose at the Major.

I glanced over my shoulder at Garrett as he stood there looking a little too shocked for it to be believable. I cocked a brow at him, "Really? You couldn't fucking stop her?"

He shrugged a little as I turned back to the show that was getting ready to start. I glanced at Alice as her eyes darted back and forth between Iz and Jasper. When they came to rest on my Sugar, I glared at her before grabbing Iz's arm and pulling her to stand behind me a little. I refocused on Jasper as he jumped to his feet, all kinds of pissed off. I just smirked at him, "well, you saw her."

He gave Iz a once over as he rubbed his jaw. After he was done he looked back at me, "Any reason you didn't just tell me you found her?"

I nodded, "I told you, nothing that has to do with her concerns you or yours. She's mine now, dissolving you of any responsibility. She was in my territory when I found her about to wake up. She doesn't remember any of you and, correct me if I'm wrong, but ya'll didn't want nothing to do with her when ya'll left her to her own devices. Ya'll haven't seen hide nor hare of her in how many years and only want to NOW because you wanted to make sure she was dead? Not the best circumstances for a reunion in my opinion there Jazz. And just so you know, when it comes to her the only opinion that matters here is mine."

He was about to say something but before he could, the little imp gasped and her eyes did that freaky fucking lost thing they do when she gets sucked into the future. Jasper looked over his shoulder at her and just waited for her to come out of the vision that was probably going to change in ten minutes while I turned my attention to the newborn behind me. She was still keyed up from the almost fight and I wanted to calm her down before she went on the attack again.

Dipping my head down to her ear, I whispered to her, "Calm it down there, Sugar. Nothing is gonna happen that I can't handle. You just stand there and let me deal with this."

She looked up at me, her eyes dark and pissed off. It took her a moment but she finally nodded her consent to staying out of it. She grabbed my arm with one hand and laced her fingers through mine with the other as she slid a little further behind me, her face half hidden by my bicep, her one visible eye locked on Jasper since he was the bigger threat in the area.

I smiled at her and squeezed her hand that was holding mine before turning my own attention back to the Major and mutant midget just in time for her to come out of her vision and freak the fuck out.

"We have to go, all of us. Edward decided not to wait for confirmation and is going to Italy. We have to stop him." She looked at Iz, "You're the only one that can stop him."

I glanced back at her as she pulled her face out of my arm and shook her head, speaking for the first time since she came outside, "No."

That one word was soft and quiet but for the reaction it prompted you would think she shouted. The two Cullen coven members looked at her with pure shock on their faces. Alice stuttered a few times before she gained control of her tongue, "You have to. Don't you understand? He'll die if you don't!"

She just shrugged a light shoulder at her, "I understand perfectly. What you seem to fail to understand is just how little I care. What happens to him is not in any way my problem. I don't know him. Hell, I don't know you. You are nothing but a blur and flash that has no name in a time that holds no meaning and that is exactly how it is going to stay. Let the stupid bastard die if that's his choice." She then refocused on me and tugged on my arm she was still holding, "I'm hungry." then she looked back at the once again stunned visitors, "Can we go?"

I smiled at her and nodded, "sure Sugar." Glancing back at Jasper, "have you figured out who her sire is yet? Have a nice trip home. I'll talk to you once you regrow a pair."

Spinning Iz around and jetting my chin out to Garrett telling him he was coming too, the three of us darted away leaving Alice and Jasper to sort out what just happened. Garrett was doing the hunting while I sat with my Sugar. There was no way I was leaving her on her own right now, not with them in the area and most certainly not after she decked Jasper and he hasn't yet retaliated.