Disclaimer: The Twilight Saga is owned by Stephanie Meyer. I don't happen to be her; therefore, I cannot possibly own it.
Rating: Rated 'T' for 'Teen'. May change later.
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Family, Fluff, Friendship, First Time, General, High School, Horror, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Supernatural, Vampires
Warnings: Adult Content, Blood, Discriminatory Language, Violence
Pairings: Jasper/Bella, Emmett/Rosalie, Carlisle/Esme, Peter/Charlotte
Summary: Your typical story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. A baby is quickly made. What happens when the boy's a vampire? What happens when said vampire is killed before the baby's born? Renée doesn't know what's going to happen to her baby, but Nahuel promises to keep it safe from his father. Jasper/ Bella
15. Out of Commission
Emmett's P. O. V.
At this, Senna lost her temper. "If you thought that this," she gestured to daughter's weak and convulsing body, "might be a result of her using my sister's gift so often, why would you ask her to use it as frequently as you do?"
I could tell Bella was trying to eliminate her anger, as she typically bit her lip when she was trying to concentrate, but it was ineffective. It would take her an entire week to fill her body back up with the venom she needed. Possibly longer. Until she was all better, she would be incredibly fragile to our vampire strength.
"I hadn't thought about that." Apparently, I hadn't thought about a lot. "If I had, I wouldn't have done it. None of us would." I couldn't speak for my wife though, seeing as she was so selfish as of late.
As Zafrina picked my little baby up, Bella began mumbling about different visions she saw, delirious in the feverish haze she would be in until at least three quarters of her bonding venom was replaced. Immediately, Senna's anger dissipated as she fretted over my daughter. In the beginning, I hadn't known what the words had been about; I had simply thought them to be nonsensical ramblings due to hallucinations while she was suffering from her condition. As far as this particular sickness session had gone, it wasn't all that bad. I'd hate to see these three mother hens if they had to deal with Bella throwing up for two and a half weeks straight. Rosalie had fled from the house to live in the woods during that time, leaving me to believing our daughter was dying. It had been the first time it had happened and I had been contemplating ending Bella's life as it happened due to the amount of pain she was in.
Hell, she had been begging for death as well. Even if Bella didn't have her shield, I wouldn't have been able to do it. She was my baby, and I couldn't lay a finger on her to hurt her. I definitely would have been able to beat her ass like Rosalie had ordered of me whenever she had gotten too fed up with a 'defect' in Bella. Sometimes I wondered if Rosalie knew Bella thought her mother could barely tolerate her 'strangeness'. Rosie loved our child, but she strove for perfection, and she didn't think Bella was perfect. Not by any means.
I celebrated Bella's 'peculiarities'. So what if she was a little quirky; it was what made her unique… other than being a hybrid. In all honesty, I thought she was amazing.
"Garrett warn Eleazar… eat girl village. Alice no go London… plane crash. Edward die he go New York. Peter need find Jasper. He too alone. He too sad. No Jasper. He go Volturi… ask death. No. Have to save Jasper." God, she was really fixated on The God of War. "Must warn Peter. Must save Jasper. Have to save Jasper. Save Jasper." Alright, so I had some phone calls to make while she was out of commission.
The trio of mother hens put her to bed, one of them in the bed with her too help cool her down, while another tried to get her to eat a little something, and the last stood guard. Even as distant and cynical as Senna was, she treasured my child just as much as her sisters did. Honestly, I didn't know which one of them loved her more, and I definitely knew they adored her more than Nahuel and Huilen. Something I never thought would've been possible.
There were times I almost thought they loved her more than I did. If they were best for her, then I'd make sure little Bella stayed with them, even if it meant I had to leave. Thankfully, that didn't appear to be the case, so I'd get to stay with my little girl for a longer bit of time.
A whimper of pain left Bella and the mother hens went back to fretting over her sick form. At least they weren't arguing about the best way to take care of her. Later, when it wouldn't be a sore subject, I'll make a joke about their worrying. It would take a while, a vampire while, seeing as they were a handful of millenniums old. They prided themselves on their age; it was difficult to live past five hundred because of the territory wars that happened in Central America and the Dacian war that happened somewhere around a couple of thousand years ago against the Volturi.
Again, there were more of the seemingly ludicrous mumbles of her visions. "No, no… Joham and Serena… No. Maria! Army! No! She… Major. Want Major… Maria want Major…" Alright, so that wasn't so illogical like the last bunch had been. I mean, what was I supposed to do about Garrett warning Eleazar about eating a girl in a village. There were billions of those! And was he supposed to eat her or not eat her? That made no sense whatsoever.
"Maria think Alice Jasper mate. Must kill Maria." That wasn't happening without her at her full strength because she could easily be picked off like she is now. Her physical shield barely even responded to us; granted, that could be because it was so used to us around her. But still!
"Jane kill child." That probably happened on a daily basis. "Immortal Child Army." That… not so much. "Army come Alaska. Jane kill." Nothing to worry about there. Jane would kill them before they even reached the Denalis.
"Everyone dead." Could you elaborate a little? "Volturi Alice. Volturi Tanya.
"Kill Maria!" Was this Maria's army of Immortal Children? "Joham… no." Back to Nahuel's father.
"Daddy town. Daddy Garrett." She was already seeing the visions of me warning the Revolutionary War man. "Mama gone." And Rosalie ditching us. "Mama stay." And staying. With how my wife tended to be, the debate over whether or not she'd be remaining in the Amazon would be happening for quite some time. So, I left to warn the Denalis since Bella obviously couldn't. I didn't plan on staying for a lengthy period of time, just however long it took me to get Garrett to listen to reason.
I ran straight to the tourist trap city, thankful for the coverage of the night. It took a while, seeing as the Panamal Wetlands wasn't exactly one of the highways leading to Las Vegas.
Speaking of which, that was a place we seriously needed to visit, but every time we started making plans, Bella would continually nip them in the bud. How else were we going to test the theory of 'Drunk Human plus Vampire equals Drunk Vampire'? If it was true, I'd have to get a grizzly to drink a bottle of whiskey. Or five. Or possibly some moonshine. That would probably be a lot more effective. Make sure it's the bear's only water source marinate meat in it for hours while scaring off all of the other possible food. It would be good and tipsy that way.
Or, I could always ask Garrett before I got to the serious subjects. Start with a little light hearted banter. Good idea Emmett. Yes, yes it was.
I really shouldn't talk to myself.
Sneaking into the house with a couple of bobby pins, I quickly disarmed the security system before locking the door back. It wouldn't keep out another one of my kind, but it would keep the human burglars out. Immediately, I located the phone and dialed up Kate's mate.
The voice was curt, short and to the point with a great deal of irritation. Who pissed her off? "Denali residence, Tanya speaking." Don't offer me any help, why don't you.
"Is that anyways to treat a friend, Tanya?"
Like I thought she would, she immediately changed her tone to one of welcoming and general happiness. "Emmett! It's wonderful to hear from you, especially considering I hadn't heard anything from you in years! All anyone hears from concerning the McCartys is from a seer leader you have and it's only ever directed at Garrett."
"Yes, her. Well, she thinks we should lie low since the Volturi's scouring different covens that are known for collecting different gifted vampires. Aro's desperately seeking out a seer. Thank you for not mentioning ours." I knew we could count on our Alaskan cousins.
She giggled. A long change from the gloomy coven leader I used to know. "You must thank that girl for warning us. Alice left a few days earlier than suggested so that she might see the fashions in Europe. Oh, she was so happy. When Demetri left, I joined her. We've been trying to keep Edward from finding out about your seer's abilities, but mind reading is a difficult talent to block. Any time he questions Kate about anything, she screams at him in her head and shocks the living hell out of him. He's only visited once since Jasper originally left."
Yes, the main reason behind my call. "Right now, my seer is… lost in her visions. She's unable to make any calls."
The strawberry blonde interrupted before I could further explain. "Oh, oh no. What happened?"
"That's not important right now. What is important is that I talk to Garrett."
"Yes, of course. I'll go get him." I could hear her set the phone down and call out for her newest coven member.
It took some time before he finally arrived, already sounding alert. "Garrett here."
"Do you have Peter's number?"
"Yeah, why?"
"You're friends with Jasper right?"
"Yeah…"
I ran my fingers through my short hair, missing my curly locks. "Jasper's going to go to the Volturi and ask for death. He's too depressed."
"Fuck. He was just here a couple of months ago too. Last time, he was fucking everything. Kate before I got here; Irena up the walls. Now, it just seems like he doesn't give a fuck about a goddamn thing." He groaned, most likely jerking on his beard. "Look, can you call back in about ten minutes? I gotta call Pete."
"No problem." I hung up, half-heartedly counting the passing seconds to the ten minute goal.
Somewhere past the three minute mark, the phone began ringing. "Hello?" Had Bella been expecting a call?
"I'm sorry," I heard my wife say. "You're right. God, you're fucking right. I've never been there for her when she's hurting. I'm sorry." I wouldn't even ask how she found out where I was.
Right away, I growled. "I'm not the one you should be apologizing to. You've always run away from your problems Rosalie. Everything except for Royce; you took care of that. Bella isn't a problem. She's a child and children have their complications. Either you help me take care of her right, or you get the fuck out of the way and strip the title 'mother' away too. You can't be a good mom like you think you are when you've never actually tried mothering her. She's hurtin' right now, and she's got three women who ain't even her mother or want to be her mother taking care of her. You haven't once taken care of her when she needed it. You ran away."
There was a sigh. "I know. Fuck… It was just so much easier to let you deal with it instead of taking care of her myself."
"It always will be. Running away from the difficult times will always be easier than dealing with them head on, but the reward is so much better if you stay." I wouldn't mention to her about Bella looking to Kachiri as more of a parental figure than her; it would be too low a blow.
"I'm going to go. Get a head start on all of that 'dealing with it'." She paused and I could almost see her twirling her hair in nervousness. "What if I can't do it?"
"It's going to take time, Rosie. I've had years of experience in dealing with this; you haven't. You've got to learn how to ease her worries, her stresses. It takes time and effort. I'll be there through it, helping you. But, right now, you've got a daughter to look after and love. She needs that more than anything else."
"Okay… Alright, I'm going to try."
"That's all she really wants, you honestly trying to be there for her. If you succeed, that's even better."
"I love you, Emmett."
"I love you too, Rosie," I said as I heard the phone click as she hung up. I still had another four minutes until I needed to call Garrett back.
I went back to counting the seconds to wait for my ten minutes of waiting to pass. The very moment it struck, I hit redial. "Emmett?"
"Yeah."
"Peter thanks you, or well, thanks her. Thank you for letting us know. How hasn't Alice been seeing all of this?"
At first, I shrugged, but quickly realized they couldn't see my actions like Bella could. "She sees decisions. Jasper hasn't been deciding to become depressed. I don't think he's been making many decisions at all. Going to the Volturi wouldn't have been a decision if he was suicidal; it would've been a necessity. Alice would've seen it at the last minute when Aro decided his fate or how he was planning on asking for death. My seer sees differently than yours does.
"She sees what's going to happen, regardless of decisions. Also, from what I understand, there's a portion of her mind that's constantly seeing the lives of the vampires she's generally come across. She doesn't have to meet these people and spend a few hours around them to where she can see their future. She has to come across a six mile radius of them. Six miles Garrett."
I heard a low whistle crackle over the phone line. "Fuck. I wouldn't want that gift. She sees my life, right? I'm mated to a succubus, so she's been seeing a shit load of sex. She's been seeing Jasper's too, so there's the initial fuck-ton of years of sex he had once he came here." Knowing she had a constant stream of porn going on in her head wasn't a thought I wanted.
"Well, Jasper wasn't the only reason I called." This, this wouldn't go well.
"Yeah? What the Hell else could go wrong?"
I gave chuckle, but it sounded hollow even to my own ears. "You know of Jasper's sire, Maria, right?"
"Yeah. What's going on now? She lookin' for her major?"
"Somethin' like that… She thinks Alice is Jasper's mate. She's creating an army of Immortal Children to storm up to Alaska."
Instantly, I heard the sound of five sets of heels come crashing down the staircase I knew was near the phone. "Jesus fuck. An army of… motherfucker."
"That's not all. The Volturi is going to kill them."
"Well, that's not so bad, we'll just have to hide Alice."
"You stupid fuck. If there are Immortal Children or Maria coming, Aro's going to come too! He'll bring the whole guard. He'll know," I heard Tanya hiss at him in anger.
"Right now, our seer isn't exactly lucid, so piecing together her sentences isn't the easiest job since she doesn't use any prepositions; however, that's mostly what we can get out of her. Jasper and Maria."
There was a rumbling noise as the phone changed holders. "Is there anything else we need to know? I'm sure you want to get back to taking care of the girl."
"Yeah, Alice can't go to London whenever it is she's been planning on going because some plane's going to crash. Edward'll die if he goes to New York. And something about Garrett warning Eleazar about eating a girl in a village or eating a village full of girls. I have no clue what the fuck that was about. I don't know if some girl has to die or if he needs to stay out of human territory. Sorry, I might get more as she calms down."
Worried was the main thing I heard as she continued speaking. "Has this happened before?" Was it for my seer or hers?
"Yeah, but she'll be fine. It happens every so often. When she comes across new people." New people with new gifts.
"Is that why you haven't introduced her to us? After all, we already know she's a seer."
"One of the reasons… look, I gotta go. Vomiting seer to look after." That, and- "Oh, Garrett! You drank from drunk humans, did you get drunk?"
There was much laughter. "Fuck, man, really? You aren't switching up your diet are ya?"
"No, nothing' like that. Just want to know if its possible so I can know if it'll be worth it to get a grizzly drunk."
"I'm going to say yes just to watch that. If you do it, have someone tape it so we can watch it later. Fuck." Asshole. Eh, I would've done it even if it wasn't possible. Might add some flavor.
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