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Crazier Than it Seems

A/N: This may or may not be the title of the story, it hasn't been decided yet! This story is written as a collaboration by both Xo Bella Italiana oX (My new pen name) and casey21791. If you have any questions or comments, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note at the bottom of the chapter! We hope that you enjoy the story and look forward to reading your reviews. - B

Previously...
(Jasper's POV)

"Hey, Jazzman, we're here." Emmett announced getting my attention.

"Oh yeah," I shook myself out of the memories. "Sorry about that. I'm coming." I said as I grabbed my bag and flitted in through the front door, following my siblings into the living room only to come to a stand still.

The little girl who I remembered from my favorite memories sat next to Bella Swan and Edward on the couch. Well, she definitely wasn't a little girl anymore, but had transformed into a beautiful young woman, the most stunningly gorgeous woman I had ever seen and she was only a human. However, I did take notice immediately that she did look very similar to the Swan girl and it completely befuddled me.

Her eyes connected to mine and the first words to leave her mouth were, "Do I know you?"

Edward's head immediately whipped towards mine as the memories began to flow while his emotions ranged from shock to confusion.

It was going to be a long night...

Chapter 8
(Edward's POV: Thoughts are in Italics)

The memories that flew through Jasper and Emma's mind had me reeling. The way Jasper had thought about her over the past ten years and somehow managed to keep them from me was astounding.

But as I thought this, a snippet of thought from his head slipped into my mind...

'My mate... my soul mate is finally here... we need to make sure she's safe... there's too many threats here... NEED to make her safe….'

'No Major! This is my family. They won't hurt our mate. She is safe here. We can see her righ there in front of us within our reach. Our beautiful mate and her emotions seem to indicate that she remembers us when we saved her when she was little and somehow knows that we`ll continue to look after her...' Jasper thought to his alter.

'No Jasper, We need to touch our mate, hold her... we need to keep her safe and away from the other males...' A growl came from Jasper, though it was clearly from the Major from within Jasper fighting to push through to the surface.

It was then I quietly asked the family to leave the room so Jasper and Emma could meet properly, not wanting to alert or scare Bella with the thought that we could be in danger if we stayed. "Esme, maybe we should move the family to another room so that Jasper can become acquainted with his mate. Also, we should probably place a call to Carlisle and alert him to what has been happening here." I suggested so quickly that neither Emma nor Bella would ever be able to understand with their frail and weak human hearing.

(Esme's POV)

His mate... Jasper's mate... I couldn't believe it! My precious outcast of a son, Jasper, has finally found his mate, his reason for being! I had always worried about him with his haunting past revolving around that bitch of a warlord, Maria. But, even now, I can see the tension and pain continuously rolling away from him for the time being. I'm so happy that our family is nearly complete. All that's left is our little Alice to go...

When Alice and Jasper divorced eight years ago, we were confused about why that happened. It was then that the two of them revealed to us that they were never mates and that they were only ever companions and that Alice had seen that the two of them would be finding their mates within the next decade. We were happy for them, but we never knew just who their mates would be and where the would end up meeting them.

After we all made our way into the kitchen, I dialed Carlisle's number at the hospital into my iPhone as I heard Jasper and Emma head upstairs most likely into Jasper's room/study. Barely a ring later I hear my darling Carlisle's voice…

"I'm just getting my things together, sweetheart, and then I should be on the road and home shortly." He informed me after our 'hello's'.

"Darling, you will never believe what has happened here!" I gushed. "Edward brought Bella over to the house and I got to meet her! But that's not all... it turns out that Charlie has another daughter a year older than Bella and she has come to stay with them."

"Really? That is rather unexpected. But why all the excitement? Sure, that is some shocking and happy news to hear that you got to meet Bella and that she found out that she has a half sister, but I have a feeling by the tone of your voice that there is more to the story." He challenged, being able to read me like a book.

I couldn't help but to laugh at this as I continued on. "Yes, you're right. It turns out that Jasper has found his mate in the girl. She had just turned up here with Edward and Bella earlier today. The girl seems to have known about vampires, though, I'm not exactly sure how, as of yet. Other than that, we haven't any other information." I told him. "The rest of the kids just got home from school and immediately recognized the girl as his mate. Edward had us leave the room, because Jasper needed to be alone with her."

"That's wonderful news, Esme, but Jasper alone with a human girl? Are we sure that's such a good idea, dear?" He asked uneasily.

I merely chuckled, shaking my head at his constant protective nature. "Don't worry, darling. He won't hurt her. He couldn't even if he wanted to. I'm sure that you remember what it was like for us as a newly mated pair. Even before that, you had known me as a human when I was but a child and broke my ankle after falling out of that tree. Just could home as soon as you can darling, and darling miss you." I finished.

"I miss you too, sweetheart. I'll be home shortly. I look forward to meeting our newest member of the family." He said before bidding me farewell.

I hit the 'end' button, terminating our call and placing it down on the table with a smile, looking up at the ceiling below where Emma and Jasper were becoming acquainted.

(Emma's POV)

I knew the moment that the question left my lips, that I did know exactly who he was, and that he was in fact the angel that had saved me as a young child. He was the one who had scared the other two red eyed vampires away from me in that alley.

It was so surreal that he was here in front of me and was standing less than ten meters away. I had the urge to reach out and touch him to reaffirm that it wasn't all in my head. It was almost as if he had read my mind, because in the next second, he was standing directly in front of me. He was so close that our noses would of touch if he wasn't almost a head taller than me.

I was so enamored by his presence that I didn't even realize that the rest of his family, along with my sister, had left the room, leaving us alone. He reached down and intertwined our fingers together as he held my left hand in his, bringing it up to his lips and placed a gentle kiss on my knuckles, sending an electric tingling sensation up my arm before settling into my stomach, creating a warm feeling of butterflies. He smirked before stepping away and pulling me along as he made his way towards the marble staircase.

I followed him willingly without any words being spoken from either one of us. It was almost as if I were in a trance of some kind as the entire time, we maintained eye contact.

Once we made it to the top of the next level, I briefly noticed that the stairs continued to another third floor, though we stayed on the second level. He pulled me along the hall way, passing many closed doors until we finally stopped at a pair of double doors about halfway down the long corridor.

The blonde vampire next to me reached up with his free hand and turned the handle on one of the doors, pushing it open only to reveal the most magnificent library or study that I had ever seen. The walls were filled with books and, from what I could tell, there were many different genres, though the majority of them seemed to be history books of some kind and a good chunk of those revolved around some aspect of the American Civil War. I could tell that this was something that this man was definitely into, because there were also Civil War artifacts on display decorating the room.

There was a large 'L' shaped mahogany desk near the far wall – if you could call it a wall, because it was completely made of floor to ceiling glass windows – with a large dark brown leather chair sitting behind it. To the right was a fireplace and sitting area with a fireplace and a flat screen television mounted on the wall above it.

There was another set of double doors not far from the sitting area, though one of the doors was wide open, revealing what looked to be his bedroom. I could tell that it was a little bit smaller than the enormous study and had a large bathroom as well as a walk in closet. A gigantic bed sat as the main focus of the room.

I was broken out of my observations when I was gently escorted over to the sitting area where he gestured to the sectional and sat down next to me and took my free hand in his other free hand.

My Lord, who was this man and why did he have such an enamoring effect over me?

(Bella's POV)

Edward pulled me up to the third story of the mansion up to his room, skipping the tour of the house and saving it for another time. I doubt that I would have been able to pay much attention to it anyway, what with what had just happened downstairs. Not only that, but I wasn't sure about leaving Emma alone with Jasper after what Edward had said about him.

"Edward, what's going on?" I asked immediately after he closed the bedroom door. I knew that it wouldn't stop the other vampires in the house from hearing us, but it gave me the sense of privacy. "I thought that you said that Jasper was dangerous because he didn't have that much control around humans, because of him being the newest vegetarian, and all."

Edward took my hand and let me over to the couch in his room. It was then that I noticed that there was no bed and I looked over at him in confusion, but didn't question him on it. However, he must have read it in my eyes, as he had answered the question anyway.

"We don't sleep." He said, resulting in my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.

"Like...ever?"

He shook his head and smiled my favorite crooked grin. "Nope," He answered.

I brushed off the number of questions that popped up into my brain after learning that fact and turned my body fully in his direction. "What's going on? Is Emma going to be okay?"

He sighed and nodded. "Emma is probably the only human, the only creature period, that will ever be safe around Jasper."

My brow scrunched together in confusion. "Why?"

He pursed his lips together thoughtfully. "It turns out that Emma is Jasper's mate."

"Mate?" I pressed. "Like as in soul mate?"

Edward shrugged. "I guess that's the human name for it. But a mate is someone that a vampire has that completes them in a way that no other being could ever do. It's very rare for a vampire to find their mate and it's almost unheard of to find their mate in a human. If they do, they are almost immediately changed out of instinct. They are held in a very high position in our world, because loosing one's mate destroys the vampire inside. Many end up searching for death immediately afterward as to follow their mate into the afterlife... or whatever comes next for my kind." He murmured at the end.

"Are Carlisle and Esme mates?" I asked.

He nodded. "Yes, they are actually what is known as bonded mates because Carlisle's venom is what had changed Esme into a vampire. Rosalie and Emmett are also mates, but they are just regular mates, because Rosalie did not change Emmett, Carlisle did."

I looked down at my lap, not sure if I could look him in the eye as I asked him this question. "Are we mates?"

A/N: Cliff Hanger! So, what do you think?! What will happen when Carlisle get's home?! What will Edward tell Bella?! Will he lie to her or tell her the truth?! What will happen next with Emma and Jasper?! Any ideas?! Review!

If you have any questions or comments, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note!

.Lupus: LOVE the story so far! Keep it up and please update soon! But, I have a question, when is this based in the books/movies?

Bellisma (Author): Thanks! I'm glad that you're enjoying it so far! The story takes place in the first Twilight book just after Bella comes back from Port Angeles and learns about vampires at the restaurant with Edward. When Edward showed up to pick Bella up for school, it was the first time that he had ever did that, so the school doesn't know that Edward and Bella are together yet. This is the first time that Bella ever went to the Cullen's either and met Esme. So, this is all relatively new to Bella, as well. Keep reading!

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