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Attempting to Covet
A/N: MERRY CHRISTMAS! If you have any questions or comments about the story, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note at the bottom of the next chapter! I hope you enjoy the story!
Chapter 8
(Jasper's POV)
"Dr. Carlisle Cullen speaking, how may I help you?" He answered the phone.
"Carlisle?" I asked.
"Jasper? How are you? How's everything going down there?" He asked seemingly happy to hear from me.
"Things are great. We just arrived yesterday morning. I'm sorry we didn't call. It's just that so much has happened since we arrived." I told him taking a seat back on the couch.
"What do you mean? What's happened?" He questioned sounding worried.
"Well for one, Laurent and another vampire showed up on behalf of Victoria. It seems she wants revenge for James's death and claims killing Bella is the way to do that; A mate for a mate and all that nonsense. But I sent Laurent back with the other vampire's head and a message so she knows whose mate she's really messing with. I told you she would do this, but since Edward claimed that she wasn't a threat, you believed him over me, even though I'm the one who felt her emotional bond with James." I ranted, getting pissed off just thinking about it again.
"What? So, that's where Laurent went." Carlisle said, sounding like he was talking to himself.
"What do you mean?" I sighed, feeling overwhelmed. I wasn't sure how much more information I could ingest without going off the deep end.
"Edward just got back from Denali this afternoon, and I spoke to him for about an hour before I left for work. He said that after the first day he was there, Laurent got a phone call that made him start acting odd and blocking his thoughts by thinking of random things and French poetry or song lyrics. Then, that night he disappeared, telling Irina he was visiting a friend for the weekend, but never came back." He explained.
"Yeah, well, I can already tell you that phone call was from Victoria and the reason he blocked his thoughts is self-explanatory, don't you think?" I mumbled.
"I'm sorry. We should've listened to you when you said Victoria was still a threat, son." He apologized.
"Yeah, well, there's nothing you can do about it now, can ya?" I asked sarcastically. "Anyways, hopefully she will head my warning and leave Bella alone."
"We can only hope." He replied. "Speaking of which, how is Bella doing? Is she still not having any problems with her control?"
I shifted uncomfortably in my seat. This part of the conversation wasn't something I was looking forward to explaining to him.
"Yeah, that's another thing I wanted to talk to you about. But first, do you have a few minutes to talk?" I asked, rubbing the back of my neck nervously.
"Yeah, of course; I'm on my break. Is everything okay?" He asked. I could hear him straighten up in his chair as it squeaked in the background.
"Um, I guess it depends how you look at it." I told him. "You see, after Bella and I mated and marked each other, there were some changes and one of them happened right after our first hunting trip as a mated pair.
"She had consumed her first animal when I noticed she immediately became shaky and weak instead of stronger. Garrett was staying here for the time being and had to go out and get her the bags of human blood.
"It turns out that her powers strengthened because of our mating and animal blood will no longer sustain her. Human blood is the only thing that will do it. She and I are going to partake in Peter and Charlotte's diet of criminals and menaces to society."
There was silence on the other end of the phone and then he took a deep unnecessary breath.
"I understand, son. If that is what she has to do to survive than there is nothing anyone can do." He said as I released the breath I didn't realize I had been holding. "But what about you? Why are you stitching diets after all the effort and struggle you've put forth?"
"Well, there are some things I can't go into depth with until you are here, but not only had my gift always made staying on the animal diet difficult. I had always thought of going on the criminal diet. I just couldn't while we were in Forks because of the treaty with the Wolves and I just wasn't sure what everyone would think. But since Bella...she taught me that it doesn't matter what everyone thinks, as long as I'm happy.
"Also, some things with me altered, as well as the strength of my gift, only making staying on the animal diet that much more difficult.
We both discussed it and decided that we were going to help each other and make sure we don't go after any innocents." I briefly explained him. "Speaking of human blood, I also forgot to mention that when Laurent was here, his eyes were red."
I heard him sigh into the phone. "I'll have to tell Eleazar when he arrives.
Wait. What? "What do you mean 'when he arrives'?" I asked.
"Well, I called him to get more information on the prophecy about Bella and he became very interested and insisted on coming here to help." he explained almost excitedly.
"Fuck." I mumbled under my breath. "What exactly have you told Eleazar and please tell me you haven't spoken to anyone else about Bella. You or the family."
"What's wrong? Is everything ok?" He asked avoiding my question.
"Carlisle," I began in an exasperated tone. "While I understand your almost obsessive thirst for knowledge, I must ask you that you refrain from speaking to anyone about Bella or the prophecy and stop your research until you are here and intend on staying. I can't have you put my mate at risk more than you already have."
"But why? Eleazar is already on his way here, and don't you want to know more about it?" He argued.
I began to feel the Major rattle at the bars on his cage at this. "We have learned enough for now and that is the end of it until you are here and it is needed! You will listen to me on this and call your friend and tell him that if that is all he came for, to leave! I find out you disobeyed me on anything regarding my mate and this prophecy, I will personally see you and anyone else who defies me on this suffer! Bella is MY mate and therefore MY responsibility and so help me Carlisle you put my mate in anymore risk I will personally see if that you pay, and pay dearly you shall!" The Major growled into the phone and relinquished control back into my hands.
There was silence on the other end of the phone before I heard a deep breath followed by a sigh. "I understand Major. I will do as I am told. If it is really that important that I stop researching this for the time being, then I will. I haven't spoken to anyone other than Eleazar on the subject and I will make sure he tells no one anything that I told him at the up most importance. I apologize for questioning your reasoning and will not do so regarding your mate in the future."
"Good." I snarled. "See that it's done. I will be checking back in with you on the topic soon. Make sure you forward my warning to your family as well. Good bye, Dr. Cullen."
I hung up the phone and put my head in my hands. I have a feeling that Carlisle and Eleazar are going to bring trouble with this and who knows about the rest of the family such as Edward and Alice.
Not having any more time to dwell on the subject, I stood up and walked to the bedroom just in time to see my mate slipping a tight black dress on over her head and bit my bottom lip to stifle a moan. I walked forward and slipped my arms around her waist, kissing and nuzzling her neck.
"Do you have any idea how amazing your body is? If I had it my way, we would never leave the bedroom." I whispered in her ear, ending my sentence by lightly biting her earlobe.
She moaned in appreciation as she finished putting on her ear rings. "That would be a world that I would pay greedily to live in." She dropped her hands to cover mine and squeezed. "Do you think Carlisle will listen to you?" She asked on a more serious note.
"If he knows what's good for him." I answered letting her go and watching as she sat on the bed and zipped up her thigh high black boots.
"I hope so. I don't want to see him or any of the family punished, but I understand the need to set an example of those who don't listen to your demands regarding me. I would be the same way, especially with something as important as this." She said, fixing a red belt around her waist to match her earrings and eye shadow. "Are you ready to go?"
"I just have to change my shirt." I answered going into the closet and putting on a red wife beater and a black long sleeved, button up shirt and rolled my sleeves up to my elbows. I double checked to make sure my belt matched my shirt and shoes, then came out of the closet, content with my jeans and not needing to change them. "All set." I said grabbing her hand and pulling her behind me to the front porch where I could smell Peter and Char waiting with Garrett.
When their eyes landed on Bella, it took all of me not to growl at them for ogling my mate's fine ass appearance as their eyes darkened noticeably, Char included. She always had a thing for girls as well as guys and loved spicing up her and Peter's sex life.
"Are we running or driving?" Garrett asked, the first to snap out of his lust filled daze.
"Running," I answered, pulling Bella down the stairs behind me and towards the tree line in the direction of the nearest city.
._.-:'~ Attempting to Covet ~':-._.
We stopped just before the tree line and stood to wait for the rest to catch up. I was an extremely strong and fast vampire before. Faster and stronger than any I met including newborns anyway. Now since our mating has been completed, I am at least 5 times faster than I was.
"That was amazing!" I gushed. "I wasn't even pushing to go my fastest either!"
She smiled adoringly at me and cupped my face. My grin widened and I leaned forward to kiss her beautiful, pink lips. We kissed sweetly for a while and before either one of us could deepen it, we heard the telltale foot falls in the distance of Peter, Char and Garrett.
"Damn you guys are fast!" Garrett praised, clearly amazed at out speed and stealth.
"It's just one of the perks to being mated to this beautiful creäture." I smirked as I wrapped my arms around Bella's slim waist. Everyone watched still clearly amazed as Bella blushed her embarrassment at my compliment, but smiled none the less.
"Can we please go feed now? I'm hungry." Bella complained, obviously trying to get the attention off of herself.
"Of course. I'm sorry, baby, let's go." I said dragging her through the tree line as everyone followed us in our wake.
We walked through the town, heading to a local bar that I knew had a lot of scum.
"Do you guys feel like going to Club Grace after this and get a few drinks?" Char asked as we entered through the front doors to the bar. All eyes were on us and I had to bite back a growl as the lust in the room substantially rose as a few guys in leather eyed Bella hungrily as we made our way to the bar.
"That sounds great to me, what about you guys?" Garrett asked, obviously familiar with the club.
"Hell yeah! I hear it's lady's night!" Peter boasted as Char smacked him in the back of the head and gave him a look to which he smiled sheepishly at her.
"What about you? Jasper? Bella?" Garrett asked after chuckling at Peter and Charlotte's antics.
I looked down at Bella silently asking her what she thought to which she nodded her head yes.
"Sure. We're in." I answered for us.
"Awesome!" Char smiled triumphantly as we all took seats at the bar.
"What'll it be sweet cheeks?" The bar tender asked Bella, trying to gain her attention. I felt her disgust as she eyed the bar tender. She looked to me for help, obviously not an avid drinker, so I leaned in towards her and into the bar tender's eye sight and tucked her hair around her ear, giving me access to her neck as a placed a light kiss and whispered so the bar tender couldn't hear.
"Alcohol affects us a lot stronger than it does a human, so order a shot and a wine cooler or something to hold you over until we hit the club."
"Um, I guess I'll have a shot of Jack and a Mike's." She told him.
He winked in her direction, then gave me the evil eye but proceeded to take my order as well as the rest of our groups.
As soon as our drinks were in front of us, we turned to check out what was on the menu tonight. I pulled Bella from her bar stool to stand in between my legs as I wrapped my arms around her and put my lips next to her ear and spoke.
"Use your extra senses including any gifts you need to find out who would be a probable meal. For example, do you see that guy there sitting at the table at your two o'clock in the green jacket?" She nodded her head, eyes discretely on the prize. "That would be a good fish for you to catch. He is feeling quite a bit of lust and anger and I heard him trying to pick up that girl playing pool over there when we walked in and she turned him down. As soon as she leaves, he will follow her and most likely attack her on her way home. When he gets up to follow her, you follow him out and get his attention before he has a chance to get to her. Seduce him if you have to and get him into the alley. After that, let your instincts take over. He hasn't had more than a beer from what I feel from his emotions, so his blood won't be too tainted."
She took a breath in through her nose and I watched as her light blue eyes darkened to a navy blue almost black in hunger and smiled and nodded at me.
"Who are you looking at for yourself?" She asked me.
"Why don't you pick out my meal for me, babygirl?" I asked her, giving her a chance to feel out what it's like to hunt humans. If you are looking for something specific, it is always harder than hunting animals. She smiled her ok and I watched her scan the crowd of people and her eyes stopped on a woman in a skimpy purple outfit; An obvious prostitute with an addiction. Her emotions confirmed it with her desperation and edginess.
"The blonde in the purple left her five and three year old home alone so she could bar hop and feed her coke addiction. From her memories, I see her hitting her little boy and shaking her baby girl. She never should have been a parent. Her memories where so sick Jasper. So horrible." She ended her sentence in almost a whisper as she walked out of my arms and asked the bar tender for another shot as she finished her Mikes and slamming it on the bar, but not so it would break. I then saw her eyeing her meal as he got up to follow the girl out. I noticed Garrett start to get up, but I put a hand on his shoulder and shook my head and nodded in Bella's direction as she slammed her now empty shot glass down next to her empty Mike's bottle and began to follow the guy out the door. He sat back down and nodded his understanding and instead, followed a group of girls out the door. I could tell he wasn't half as picky as the rest of us are. But I wasn't worried about him as I walked up to the woman in purple and discretely flashed her a $50. Her clouded eyes lit up and she motioned to the door as I followed her out, leaving Peter and Char still at the bar, obviously waiting for their pimp they were eyeing with a gun in his pants to go out for a smoke.
We rounded the corner and into the alley way and behind the dumpster. She began rattling off prices that I could get for her services, but I ignored her as I looked around, making sure that there were no witnesses.
Faster than she could comprehend, I had her by her throat, sending her enough fear to blend with her own to make her blood all the sweeter. My mouth filled with venom from the sweet smell and I threw my new shield up over me to protect myself from the onslaught of emotions I knew would arise as I covered her mouth and bit into her jugular. Some people snap their neck first, but having the experience I did, I knew that if I kept them alive as I drained them, the blood would only sweeten as they realized what I was doing.
I finally finished the last drop of delicious red liquid and hoisted the body on my back, then proceeded to follow the mating pull to my mate who was only a couple blocks away.
The streets were deserted so I had no problem running at my natural speed, appearing behind Bella as she was draining the last drops of blood from her meal. I waited patiently until she finished as to not scare her or trigger her protective instincts, then proceeded to dump the hooker's body into the recycling bin near the mouth of the alley.
Bella proceeded to follow my actions in dumping her meal's remains and I lit a match and threw it in. It didn't take long for fire to spread and begin to burn the bodies with all the paper inside the bin to help it along.
Once we saw that the fire would not go out on its own, we disappeared to the entrance of the club we promised to meet at once we were done disposing our leftovers.
It didn't take long for the rest of our group to join us. We then proceeded to walk to the front of the line where the bouncer only had to take one look at my Bella and he let us right in.
Inside the club was dark with flashing lights and loud music. The dance floor was filled with men and women bumping and grinding against each other, making the level of lust in the room almost stifling. The bar was packed and the bar tenders seemed to be keeping up with their orders quite well as they did tricks with the bottles as they poured to earn more tips. There were also several cages with women in bikini's dancing against the bars while working up a sweat. All the booths along the walls were flowing with people laughing and having fun.
Suddenly, a man with neon clothing spotted us and then approached us with purpose. He stopped in front of us and looked each one of us over. I took a breath through my nose and as the light hit his face I realized that he was indeed a vampire.
"Follow me to the VIP section." He said motioning us to follow him. His emotions didn't show any deceit or malice, so when the rest of the group looked at me for conformation to follow, I nodded my head putting my hand on Bella's back to guide her as we followed this unknown vampire.
He led us up to the second story behind closed doors and was shocked to find that the rest of the room was filled with other vampires along with a few humans that were most likely future meals to those vampires who brought them along.
There was a bar along the far wall and small tables and circular booths along the outside of the dance floor where the occupants there were dancing far more riskay than downstairs, biting or groping each other while grinding to the music.
"Wow...who knew?" Garrett said in awe.
"I think I may have found my home away from home. Come 'on guys, we'll go and get the drinks while the ladies find a table." Peter smirked, rubbing his hands together in anticipation.
I kissed Bella chastely on the lips, and then sent her off with Char to find a table, while I followed and Peter to the bar.
"What'll it be gents?" A male vampire with blonde hair and green neon highlights in his short hair.
"One bottle of whisky, 5 shot glasses, 5 lemon drops, 3 slippery nipples, 2 sex on the beaches, and a bottle of Red Ambrosia." Peter rattled off.
"A, B, O Neg or positive or doubled?" He asked.
"Positive doubled." Peter answered. The bar tender just nodded and got to work with our order at vampire speed.
We looked at Peter in question for what the last drink was, but he just gave us a cocky smirk and told us that we would see.
I turned to check on the girls and almost saw red as I saw a small group of three males standing next to our table, lust and determination pouring off the fuckers.
Leaving the drinks to Garrett and Peter, I strode across the club with purpose until I was standing behind Bella and pulled her against me.
I pulled her long hair behind her, showing off my mating mark to the other males and began kissing and nipping her neck.
"Why hello again Major." Bella purred, placing her hands over my arms. "This is here is Matthew, Luke and Javier."
I looked up at their wide eyes and smirked as I felt my red eyes quickly glow and dim. They all gasped and I felt Bella's amusement shine through her emotions at their reactions.
"Major, as in Major Jasper Whitlock of the South?" The one named Javier asked amazed. I could feel the other two's fear rise as they heard my name.
"The one and only!" Said Peter as he appeared next to us with Garrett and our trays of drinks.
"Well, it was nice to meet you gentlemen, but my mate and I are going to join the rest of our group." I bid them, pulling my mate towards our booth, leaving the three stuttering idiots sanding in our wake.
I slid in to the center of the booth with Bella and Peter as my flanks and Charlotte next to her mate and Garrett next to Bella.
Peter began pouring shots of whiskey for everyone, and then held up his shot to make a toast.
"To the Major and his mate returning to the South." He said, then threw back his shot and slammed it down on the table. We all toasted and followed his lead and slammed it down as well.
"Now, what's this Red Ambrosia that we got here?" Garrett asked as he picked up the bottle and uncorked it. I could see the smirk on Peter's face as I watched Garrett take a whiff of it. "Holy fuck, it's blood!"
"Yes sir, it is!" Peter chuckled, holding out his glass in request for Garrett to pour.
"So, when they asked you A, B or O positive or negative or doubled, they meant blood types." I laughed as Peter nodded his head in confirmation.
"We are after all in the vampire's only part of the club. I heard of this place through the grape vine before. The only humans who get in here are human mates who are soon to be turned or unsuspecting meals. A vampire named Nathaniel owns the place." He explained as we all slammed shots, sipped our drinks or glasses or AB Positive.
"Well, I'm going to go find myself a nice little playmate for the night. I'll be out on the dance floor." Garrett said eyeing a certain curly haired blonde and slid out of the booth.
Peter and Char soon followed afterwards as I turned to my mate.
"Would you like to dance?" I asked her, holding out my hand for her to take.
"I thought you'd never ask." She winked as she placed her hand in mine and followed me out of the booth and on to the center of the dance floor.
I turned her to face me and pulled her waist until she was flush against me, then started swaying us to the beat. She was a sexy little dancer as she gyrated her hips against mine and I felt myself getting hard against her core. I moaned as she brushed up against me just right and could feel my eyes turning black in desire.
She arched her back to bend in a circle as I leaned forward to help her bend further, then snapped her back straight up as she wrapped her right leg around my hip and put her arms around my neck as we continued to dirty dance.
About an hour later, we were both panting with unnecessary breath on the dance floor with a buzz on the border of being drunk. I was so turned on by my mate, and the lust in the room that it was becoming painful.
Sensing my discomfort, my little minx reached her hand down and grabbed my crotch and leaned forward to whisper in my ear as I moaned at the contact.
"Want to get out of here?"
"Definitely," I groaned as she rubbed me slightly before releasing me and pulling me towards the door.
"Should we let everyone know we are leaving?" I asked her right before we left through the doorway to the VIP area.
"No need. I've already handled it." She smirked tapping the side of her temple. She must have sent a message to everyone through their minds. I nodded in understanding and continued to follow her towards the entrance of the club, then out the door into the warm Texas night.
A/N: So what did you guys think? If you have any questions or comments, be sure to review and I will answer them on my author's notes. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I apologize for how short this one is compared to my other ones, but this seemed like a good place to stop.
If you have any questions or comments, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note!
Questions and Answers:
Will Esme go all Mother like on Bella? She will try, but by then Bella will have a handle on her life and self and will put Esme in her place without being too harsh.
Why does Bella have blue eyes? Bella is a special vampire that is the main part of the prophecy. Her eyes are blue because of her power. Like when she extends her shield, it is a shimmering BLUE bubble. Just like regardless of Jasper being a human or animal drinker, his eyes will now always be red now that he is mated fully to Bella. Jasper's shield is a shimmering RED bubble. It has to do with their power and being as powerful as they are. I thought it would make them different and signify their power in the vampire world. Just like their crescent moon marks. The reasons for why it is a crescent moon will come into play later in the story.
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'Unimaginable Outcomes'
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