Chapter Eighty

Bella

Like my vampire husband I no longer needed any sleep but it was still nice to close my eyes and empty my mind for a little while. To allow Jaspers love to fill my thoughts and bring me peace. We sat together on the plane and I noticed one of the Cabin Crew eyeing Peter up much to Charlotte's amusement then her eyes switched to Jasper and I felt myself getting angry. I wanted to poke her eyes out, she could see he was with someone and she'd know from the flight manifest if not my ring that we were Husband and Wife. Jazz squeezed my hand,

"Ignore it Bella, like I do."

"Well it's probably easier for you to have a beautiful blonde making cows eyes at you than it is me"

He laughed,

"I was referring to the Male Attendant who hasn't taken his eyes off you since we took off"

I looked round to see the guy in question and he winked at me. I lifted a hand and indicated my wedding ring but he just smiled. Did it mean nothing to people these days?

"You get used to it Bella, don't forget its part of our hunting plan, to draw unsuspecting humans in."

"Yeah but I may well have killed a few by then"

"I'll watch out for you, in the mean time have you decided what you're going to tell Charlie?"

"About what?"

"Alice. Jake will already have told him all about the wedding."

"No idea but enough to make him wary of her. I just hope she hasn't already got her claws into him."

"If she has we'll have to find a way of getting them back out."

"I guess I was wrong to suggest her for the vacant Volturi seat, it's just given her more opportunities to influence everyone to her way of thinking. I thought once she got power she would be happy"

"Bella let me tell you something about Alice Cullen. Whatever you think of her she is clever and she will keep the Volturi on the straight and narrow. Her biggest problem is that she needs to be the biggest fish in the sea, not one among equals. You did what you thought was right at the time and I thought it might keep her in check too but it seems she's looking for more. I think Alice is going to have to die, she's a danger to us, she almost got you killed by Maria."

"And you remember. Alice stands no chance against me and she knows it and if she thinks she can influence me by starting some kind of relationship with my Dad she's very much mistaken. I can protect my Father from her and she should know that."

"What if she takes him to Volterra?"

Then we follow"

"And?"

"If necessary I'll pull the place down stone by stone but I will get him away from her."

Peter looked over and winked,

"I almost wish she had taken him just to see that"

I glared over,

"This isn't funny Peter. It's my Dad were talking about and he's been through enough shit already."

Peter sat back with a grimace but it wasn't funny and he should be able to see that. Jazz took my hands in his,

"Bella you are going to explode if you don't calm down. This is almost like new-born rage and its very destructive so take some deep breaths"

I looked into his face, he was right of course, my anger was way out of proportion, especially to Peter's words so I apologised and sat back closing my eyes again. I didn't like this feeling of being on the edge all the time. It came on suddenly and only Jazz could sense it and talk me down so I continued to clutch his hands like a lifeline.

Jasper

I was glad when the flight was over, Bella needed space and to use up some of her excess energy so we decided to go hunt before driving to Forks. She was gone, way ahead of us, swinging through the trees and Peter watched her warily,

"That girl is going to flip out if you aren't careful. What the fuck is her problem?."

"I think its like a newborn stage, there are so many emotions churning around in her head and they take over."

"Yeah well you better override them Major, before she does something she's going to regret later, don't forget Charlie is human"

"She'd never hurt Charlie"

"Not intentionally but if she lashes out in anger that's it, game over."

"I'll keep an eye on her."

We followed in her wake but she seemed to be running just for the sake of it, passing plenty of prey on the way.

"We'll try to get ahead of her and slow or stop her, you keep following and hopefully we'll stop her between us crazy girl."

We were half way to Forks before we finally persuaded Bella to stop and feed, by which time my own throat was burning fiercely. She seemed to sense this because she stopped dead and came to me, murmuring apologies and wrapping me in her arms.

"I just needed to run off the anger, I didn't mean to make you suffer"

"It's OK Bella but next time can we just talk about it first."

"Yeah that'll work, a good chat round the old camp fire, never fails when there's blood lust burning through your body"

"Shut up Peter"

Peter

"Well I'm right, Bella you need to calm down before someone gets hurt. Now can it."

Her eyes flashed dangerously and her teeth bared with a snarl,

"Oh right, you want a fight? I'll give you a fight girl, no cheating though, no using your wacky shield."

Bella smiled and pushed The Major away, beckoning me forward. Char tried to hold me back but Bella snarled at her too. The girl needed to burn off this aggression before we met up with Charlie and Jake. The Major looked at me but didn't say anything and I knew he wanted to stop us but he knew I was right and she'd never fight him.