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Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, or any of the characters. I only own Kara…as sad as that is!
Forks, Washington, 1964
Jasper Whitlock's POV:
"Come faster, Jazzy! I almost see the house!" My overly joyous wife, Alice, exclaimed sporting a wide dazzling smile. She looked happier than I had ever seen her before, and that alone gave me some form of hope. I gave a light chuckle and replied, "I'm coming! Are you sure they won't take our arrival a little hostile?" I asked wary. Alice just shook her head, her small black spikes flipping left and right. She laughed and said, "Jazzy, they are the most un-hostile vampires I have ever seen! Trust me, they will love us, and I am pretty confident we will enjoy their company as well…" She trailed off giggling.
I have never doubted her visions before, and judging from the way her hazel eyes gave off a twinkle with each step we got closer to their house, I knew these vampires would make u feel right at home. I was very thankful for that, I missed home, but most importantly I missed my little sister. Alice thinks I had gotten over her, but little does she know Isabella haunts my every thought. I am still coping, if not still a broken man. Every small brunette girl we run into, every pair of chocolate eyes, every blush or even a small trip made by an innocent human girl, reminds me of my baby sister. Pictures of Isabella would swarm my mind like bees swarming flowers in the summer.
I felt like there was a hole in my heart that could never be fixed. It wouldn't ever be filled and sealed, just a wide gapping black hole of pain and memories. Unlike most vampires, my memories were crystal clear. Every waking day I was in the newborn wars, I would silently pray to god and ask him to watch over my family. I hoped my parents were alright and that the stress of losing another son wasn't too much on them. I hoped Ben found a loving wife and started his own family, and that he kept the promise he made me. I prayed that Isabella got the normal happy human life she should have.
I knew she was a hopeless romantic, after all the boat loads of books she had read, especially William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. She would also volunteer and at any chance she got to babysit our neighbor's children. I always knew Bella had wanted children, even though she never spoke up about them. I would watch the way her eyes would light up when a baby laughed or the way her smile would warm a toddler after they fell down. Hopefully everything worked out and she found a nice man (That Ben should have interrogated for me) and they got married and had a few brown eyes babies running around their house. I sighed thinking of my imaginary brown eyed blushing nieces, maybe one day I would return home to find what became of my family. But for now, I was pretty content with my life.
I was broken from my stupor by the light taps of feet as Alice dragged me by my hand up the porch steps of the huge three story glass mansion. I must have been accidently sending off massive waves of nervousness, so Alice stood on her toes and lightly pecked my cheek. I smiled down at her and instantly felt calmer. She raised her small pale fist to the door and knocked three times. We waited a few seconds until the door opened to reveal a caramel haired woman who appeared to be in her thirties. She looked very friendly and shocked, but mostly curious to see why two other vegetarian vampires were standing on her front steps.
"Hello, I'm Alice, and this is my husband Jasper!" Alice said while skipping inside and hugging the vampire that still held the door. I was worried the other vampire might attack, but she kindly returned the hug with a warm and confused smile of her own. "Hello, my name is Esme. Would you like to come inside?" She asked while directing her question to me and smiling. We both laughed when we saw Alice's small pout and I graciously accepted her offer and stepped inside. I was assaulted with four new emotions, happy, hostile, curious, and the last one made me want to drop to my knees and scream in agony while dry sobbing. I might have looked pained because Alice took my hand while looking at me in concern, I just shook my head.
"Why don't you come and sit down? You can meet the rest of my family!" Esme said happily while I heard movement around the house. I liked the way she referred to her coven as a family, maybe Alice was right. Maybe we would fit in with these vampires after all. Although, I was still wary about the one vampire who seemed to be suicidal. She directed Alice and me into a living room and there stood four new vegetarian vampires. I immediately matched their emotions to their appearances.
A huge man with dark brown hair that looked like he could be the Greek god Atlas was smiling and looking at the 'newcomers' with a silly expression. I knew he was the one radiating happiness. He had his hands around a gorgeous blonde girl who looked like a model but had a permanent scowl on her face; I knew she was the one who was hostile. The vampire in the middle appeared to be the leader. He had platinum blonde hair and wore a small smile, I knew he was the curious one by the looks he was giving Alice and I. The last vampire was the suicide one. He was standing as far away from the rest of us as possible. He looked like a mess, and his bronze hair looked like he had just rolled out of bed. His face was directed towards the floor but I could still see the frown and the slight pout on his lips. I tried not to flinch and looked back to Esme.
"Carlisle, these are my friends, Alice and Jasper" Esme introduced us to the curious man with blonde hair. "Ah, welcome. My name is Carlisle; it is a pleasure to meet you two. I see you have already met my wife, Esme. These are our children, Rosalie-"the hostile blonde-, "Emmett-"the big happy guy,-"and Edward." The suicide guy with the bronze hair. As soon as I had thought that, Edward's head slowly moved upwards to reveal his pitch black eyes with dark purple shades underneath. He still had the emotions of depression mixed with a hint of self-loathing, but now he was curious. "Yes I am" he replied looking at me curiously. I was shocked, what had just happened. Even his voice sounded dead. I felt the shock coming from his family mixed in with curiously. Apparently Edward doesn't speak much. "No I don't" he replied again and my eyes went wide. "You can read my mind?" I asked wary while I tried to not sound frightened. He gave me a small sad smile and nodded his head. "Apparently you can manipulate emotions." He said instead of asking. I smiled and nodded my head while looking at the rest of his family.
"You can manipulate emotions? That is one awesome power!" The big guy- Emmett exclaimed while looking excited. "And I can see the future!" Alice decided to pip up beside me. Emmett's eyes widened and he looked almost comical when he replied, "No way!" Carlisle took an interest in us and directed us over to the sofas so we could all talk. The Cullen's told us about their past and I felt sympathy for all of them. I still couldn't tell why Edward was so overly depressed, maybe he just felt lonely? When I thought that I saw him wince so I sent a quick sorry through my mind and saw him nod sadly.
Now that I thought of it, the entire family seemed a little depressed. I knew they weren't like Edward, but they all had a great sadness buried deep within them. I didn't want to be a pest and ask why, so I just remained silent. My thought began to trail off to my sister and how depressed I was, but I stopped myself. I didn't want to send off my depression to this already hurt coven. From now on, I would try my best to stop thinking about her.
A few hours later and Carlisle looked at the rest of his family with questioning radiating off of him. I saw Emmett smile widely, Rose give a small nod with a weak smile, and Edward just nod. Esme was practically radiating and Carlisle looked happier. "Alice, Jasper…how would you like to join us?" Carlisle asked with a smile on his lips. I was shocked meanwhile Alice was expectant. "I knew it!" She said which caused everyone to laugh and I thought I saw Edward crack a small smile. That was the day we officially became a part of the Cullen family.
A few months later, I was sitting in mine and Alice's room alone while reading over one of my many journals. Everyone else was hunting but I had already gone yesterday so I decided to stay home. I heard a small knock on the door and to my surprise; it was none other than Rosalie. I placed my book down on the night stand and sat up on the bed to look at her questioningly. She smiled at me and hesitantly said, "Hi…um…can we talk?" It was strange seeing her like this. Normally she was cold towards Alice and I. She did however love to go shopping with Alice, and I could tell she was happy to have a sister. "Aren't we already talking?" I asked while she smiled at me and looked at the ground while replying in a small voice, "yeah I guess we are." I stood up and walked towards her to place my hand on her shoulder. She looked up shocked and I sent her a few waves of understanding. She felt it and calmed down while giving me a warm friendly smile- a very rare look on her face. "Thank you Jasper. I know I haven't been the nicest of people towards you, but you have to understand, I am just concerned for my family's safety. We have been through so much already" she said while her voice broke a bit towards the end. I nodded in sympathy; I really did feel her protectiveness towards her family.
I took her hand and walked over to the bed, we both sat down facing each other. After a few moments of silence, she looked up but then decided against it and glanced out the window. "You don't have to say anything if you don't want to" I told her with a concerned voice. Seeing Rosalie looking this…fragile…it reminded me of my little sister. No Jasper, don't go there! I reminded myself while looking back at her. She smiled sadly and shook her head. "No, it's fine. You and Alice and a part of this family now, and I want you to know everything. It is difficult for me to talk about, but I feel that I owe you this one thing. The reason we are all upset, and that Edward is practically suicidal, and that I am always protective…we once had another member of our family…and we lost her. She was so…radiant. Everything about her screamed friendly and kind. She was my best friend, Esme and Carlisle's daughter, Emmett's baby sister, and more importantly, Edward's mate." I looked at her in shock and horror.
This family was suffering so much, I was angry with myself that I hadn't realized why earlier. They had lost one of their main pieces to the puzzle. They were still scared, and forever will be…just like me. I didn't ask any more questions after that, just simply nodded my head in understanding. Because deep down, I understood more than I let on.
Houston, Texas, 1984
Isabella Marie Whitlock Mason Cullen's POV:
It has been twenty one years since I had last seen my family, since I had last played in the garage with Rose, picked a fight with Emmett, helped Esme decorate the house, read with Carlisle in his study,…kissed Edward. Instead of giving in like I had last time I was in Texas, every day I fought to get my freedom, but it was useless. While I was gone, Kara had gone on a wild rampage and created over three hundred newborns. Instead of fighting with Maria's army the next day, she made an alliance with her. Maria and Kara were now the co-leaders and combined their armies to be unstoppable. It was a horrific site. Over six hundred newborns, all in one small town living in an abandoned desert cave like wild animals. Each one a blood thirsty demon, each one wanting to kill every second of every day.
The first day I was dragged back here, Kara had Bree and Nick tie me up in the basement of her mansion. The ropes she used to tie me with were coated with venom and impossibly strong. Even if I wanted to break free from them, I was too weak to even pick up my head. Maria and Kara tortured me each day. They either drank innocent humans in front of me or taunted me with their blood. Other days they would get newborns to bite me and see who could leave the deepest mark. Vampires couldn't die from starvation, but that was exactly what was happening to me. I was being starved and the last time I had fed was over twenty years ago. Yeah, I wasn't a pretty site to look at anymore. My eyes were entirely black, and the purple shadows under my eyes were like giant bruises. My already pale skin was snow white and extremely thin. My hair gun limp next to me and clung to my body in knots. I was a zombie.
After fifteen years of being taunted and bitten, they stopped coming down the steps to see me. I hadn't seen sunlight or any form of light in the last five six years. It was all dark, motionless, and soundless. Sort of like my heart. Being away from Edward was taking an even larger toll on me than the beatings and teasing. My heart was shriveled up and crippled. I don't even think it was inside of me anymore, it probably just died and turned to dust. I was alone in the world and wouldn't ever see anyone ever again. That was until two days ago.
The doors were thrown open and immediately turned to splinters from the force. I squinted my eyes from the harsh sunlight that entered the small cellar. I looked up slowly, trying my best not to drop my head from the weight. I saw Maria and Kara walking down the stairs with equal expressions of glee and evil smiles on their victorious faces. I smelt, rather than saw, the bleeding elk that Maria was holding behind her. My head shot up and I began to hiss and snarl at the animal. I tried to break free from the ropes, even though I knew I couldn't. It was as if I had lost myself and surrendered to the monster inside of me. The monster was hungry; it hadn't fed in twenty one years. I thrashed around and even let a blood curdling scream loose when I could break free. I saw Kara laugh and Maria smirk as they came closer to me.
"See…if you acted like this when you were with me, maybe we wouldn't be taking this so drastically. I love this side of you" Kara purred while stroking some limp hair away from my face. I snapped at her and she slapped me. It stung like crazy from the force, but my vision was once again blurred when Maria walked closer to me with the dead animal. She brought it to my lips and as I opened my mouth, she tore it away from me. I growled loudly at her and glared, but she just shook her head this time serious. Kara turned my head to face her and I saw the serious expression in her eyes as well. "Isabella, you can get this elk, and we will let you feed off of animals, as long as you join the army and help us on our next mission." I contemplated this in my head. Unlike last time, she would let me eat animals. This might be my only chance at escaping, so I nodded my head weakly, not even bothering to ask about the next mission. I knew as well as they did that they needed me to shield their precious newborns for their next challenge. "I swear, I will help…please…." I trailed off while eyeing the mouthwateringly delicious elk in front of me. Kara and Maria glanced and each other and smile. Maria brought the elk to my face and this time left it there. Without a moment's hesitation, I sunk my teeth into its broken neck and sucked loudly on the animal. I felt my strength awakening and the monster inside of me dying down as I regained my sanity. Kara untied me from the roped and I collapsed to the ground in extreme exhaustion, never once letting go of my meal. I drained it dry and stood up, feeling refreshed but still weak. One elk wasn't going to satisfy twenty one years of starvation. Kara noticed and told Maria to get a few newborns to escort me to the woods.
To my great displeasure, Nick and Bree walked down the stairs wearing their stupid malicious twin smirks. I glared at them and they took each of my shoulders and hoisted me up while dragging me off to the woods. "Great to see you again Bella" Nick said sounding cocky and confident that I wouldn't attack him. They both knew I was in no condition to attack, so they continued to taunt me until I growled and screamed, "SHUT THE HELL UP!" They snickered and dropped me to the floor of the forest while backing up and letting my senses take over my body. I smelt a heard of coyote and flew over to them. Fourteen drained animals later, and I was starting to feel sloshy with all the blood inside of me. I had regained most of my strength, but wasn't at my fullest yet. That would just take some time.
We returned back to the camp and I got right to it. I started to practice with all the new vampires and regained most of my battle strategize and strength while practicing. I also began to play around with my shield, extending it and even pulling it back inside of me so I was vulnerable. I could stretch it as far as 50 miles now, and after twenty one years of being locked in a dungeon…that was pretty franking impressive. Maria and Kara thought so as well, and I soon became their second in command…again. Finally when I got around to asking them where we were attacking, I was shocked to silence. Tomorrow, we were heading to Italy to annihilate the Volturi. I knew Maria and Kara were power hungry- but they really didn't stand a chance. Most of the newborns would kill each other off before they even stepped foot into Europe. Even thought we had around six hundred newborns, the Volturi had around the same amount (if not more vampires) and had been around for more than a thousand years.
Maria thinks they have just been around because of their mental ability which is the main reason Kara had set me free. So I could shield the newborns. Even if I did, the Volturi were stronger and more experienced than any of us combined. They were practically sending themselves to their death. I needed to escape and fast, or else the Volturi would kill me as well.
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