Forever Yours
Chapter Five: A Weekend With the Cullens
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Bella Swan woke with a start when she realized she didn't wake up where she had fallen asleep at and that Jasper wasn't still holding her in his arms. What she didn't know was that she had woken right as Jasper let her slip out of his grasp to attempt to track down a deer that was nearby but no sooner after her eyelids opened had Jasper returned to her with only a faint smear of blood across his lips.

Apparently he hadn't been as far away from her as she thought as she watched him, transfixed as he walked back into the clearing where the, no their, waterfall was located with a smirk on his face.

"Did you think I would leave you alone out here?" he asked, before crossing the distance at a speed she couldn't see and calming her lips with his in a feather-light kiss his eyes shooting open wide at the pleasing moan that was coming out of his mate's body. When they pulled back from the kiss Bella ran her tongue over her lips, taking in the metallic taste of what she assumed was deer blood that had transferred to her during the kiss.

"I'm sorry Bella, I didn't realize that I…" Bella cut off Jasper with another kiss, this time harder, and deeper. Showing her mate just how much she had previously enjoyed that first kiss.

"I noticed it before; I wouldn't have kissed if you if I hadn't wanted to and ever since my run in with James I've actually craved my steaks a little on the rare side." She said with a wink before wrapping her arms back around Jasper.

"Interesting," he said, once he noticed that she was telling the truth. "That may be something to discuss with Carlisle and Esme. It could be a side effect of having James's venom run through you. Your body would have tried to treat it like a foreign object, or infection, if you will, but that wouldn't explain your response, or craving, rather for rarer steaks. Do you…" Jasper trailed off before seeming to gather his courage again. "Do you ever find yourself craving blood?" he asked, not sure if he truly wanted to know the answer.

"I honestly don't know. I know when I cut myself on my fingers I'll suck on it and the metallic taste doesn't bother me as much. I've also been getting sicker since James attacked me, or rather I get sick more often since the attack." She said, correcting herself on the last part; she was a klutz and had always been prone to being sick but it seemed to have kicked itself into high gear since James had bitten her.

"Do you know if you tend to drink," here Jasper winced, but he couldn't think of a better way to phrase it "more blood the larger the injury?" he asked, hoping the answer was truly a no.

"I haven't really paid that much attention to it before but now that you mention it I do take my steaks a lot rarer after a major injury and will suck on the bone at times to get the last drop of blood off of it." She said, shaking her head at how weird that sounded, even to her own ears.

"We'll have to ask Carlisle about that when we have time but for now it's time to get you home. Rosalie, Esme and Alice want to spend some time with you. I heard something about a shopping trip in your near future." Jasper said, laughing at the look of disgust that crossed her face at the mention of shopping.

"Enjoy it Bella. You're my mate anything you want is within your reach." He said, kissing the side of her hair before allowing her the time to climb onto her back before they disappeared at a speed she was slowly becoming comfortable with back towards the Cullen house.

Once arriving at the Cullen house, if it could be called that, Alice scooped her up before disappearing with her upstairs to the room she now occupied where Esme and Rosalie stood waiting.

"We're going shopping and you've already said yes. Now change into this, this, and this." Alice said, throwing seemingly random articles of clothing at her which Bella managed to catch quicker than she should have. Upon the Cullen girls noticing she just shrugged before simply saying one word.

"James" as she swiftly changed into the dark denim washed jeans, white t-shirt and black vest before jewelry started flying in her direction at a speed at which she knew she shouldn't have been able to catch, let alone see but she caught them all before they hit the ground quickly putting the earrings in her ears and the necklace and ring in their place before turning to the Cullen girls who nodded their approval.

"Jasper, can Bella take your bike?" Alice asked, calling down the hallway as another vision came over her.

Jasper was in the room, handing her the keys before another breathe was out of her mouth which caused Bella to raise an eyebrow at him.

"It's not the Ducati if that's what you're thinking. You're not quite strong enough to hold it up. It's a Kawasaki's Ninja 250R should do well for you. It's sitting at 169 kilograms" He said, as if that was the only reason he had it. A Ninja 250R was practically built for shorter female riders and Bella knew that much which only earned him a chuckle. Knowing Alice, she had convinced Jasper to get it for her long before they ever met her.

"I can't see you driving that for some reason. It weighs 372 pounds if did my math right, that I can manage. My dirt bike's heavier" She said with another chuckle which earned her a right out laugh.

"That's because I don't." he said, allowing a genuine smile cross his face which just confirmed that it had been bought for her, and more than likely recently. "Neon green. Helmet's on top of it." He said as he gave the girl's another smile before exiting the room just as swiftly as he came.

"Are we ready to go then?" Esme asked and when all three girls nodded Bella soon found herself being picked up and placed back down in the garage by Esme of all people, who while having an open heart, and never carried her before.

When she saw Esme pulling on the other jacket that was sitting on a peg on the wall before pulling Jasper's spare helmet off his bike she turned to Bella who was looking at her like she was crazy.

"What? It's not like you can kill me. Even if I was decapitated all we'd have to do was stick my head back on with venom." She said, as if this was an everyday conversation, which within the Cullen household it might have been. "The girls are taking Rosalie's car," which more than likely meant the BMW "though we could probably beat them there." Esme said, the challenge clear in her eyes before Jasper's voice was heard coming from somewhere inside.

"Don't encourage her Esme! I want to see how she handles this one without getting herself killed first." He had appeared back in the garage with his own riding gear on, only for appearances sake, raising an eyebrow at Esme who had his helmet underneath her arm.

He quickly threw something in her direction before his helmet was returned to him just as quickly.

"You didn't think I asked Alice who was going to be riding with Bella? I made sure you had a helmet, besides mine doesn't fit you right. On the .0001% chance you get pulled over just want to make sure you're legal. Though that beast you're on could outrace a police car if you had to." He said, nodding to the bike that his mate was now straddling; he knew she could ride but he had yet to see her do it and it had him curious.

"Where are you off to while we're shopping?" Esme asked, asking the question that Bella wasn't quite comfortable with asking yet.

"Bookstore. The order of books I placed came in. This is just for appearances sake. I have every intention of running them back here." There was a bookstore about ten miles from the house which made sense Jasper was the main member of the family, other than Carlisle, who loved to read, although Jasper's focus was mainly on history.

"Have fun. The girls have already taken off we need to go Bella doesn't know the way yet." Esme said, waiting until Jasper leaned in to give Bella a quick kiss on the cheek, and slip her his debit card for his mate's use into his 'mothers' waiting hand, before sliding onto the bike behind her newest daughter as the engine of the motorcycle roared to life before it was out of the garage and following Alice and Rosalie down the winding road and back into the main part of Vancouver before she felt Esme squeeze her side, earning a laugh, before they shot off at a speed she was sure Jasper wouldn't approve of before overtaking the two vampires she considered sisters and pulling into the parking lot of the mall close to ten minutes before they did.

Rosalie got out of the car with the widest grin directed at Bella that the girl had ever seen.

"Didn't know you had it in you, girl. You only beat us because of the traffic we couldn't get around due to the size differences. I challenge you to a race on a clear road one day down the road." She said, her need for speed and to be the best clear in her eyes.

"Sounds good to me; though if I get hurt or his bike for that matter, I'd hate to see what Jasper would do to you." Bella said, throwing a wink in Rosalie's direction before following her adopted family into the mall; the last place on Earth she wanted to be.

As it turned out with both Rosalie and Esme there to reign Alice in the shopping trip was rather fun until they got to Bella's least favorite store. Victoria Secrets; it wasn't that she was against the store itself it was just that she never thought she could pull something off that came from there but with coaxing from all three other women they convinced Bella to enter the store with them.

She soon found herself subjected to being thrown into a changing room and mountains of lingerie being thrown across the door for her to try on. When Alice suddenly squealed with joy everything was taken from the room save the one outfit she hadn't managed to try on.

It had a black base and had dark green trim as well as dark green ribbons for the corset laces with garters that attached to neon green stockings. When Alice finally managed to tighten the last corset string Esme and Rosalie entered the dressing room looking at her with a critical eye until Rosalie finally cracked a smile.

"He'll love it!" Alice squealed the faraway look in her eyes told them that she had at least had a small vision about the outfit and what she said next only confirmed it. "Though if you like the outfit Bella you may want to get a second one." She said, the smile on her face telling Bella that her assumption about the outfit not lasting through their first time to be correct which only caused her to blush. This earned a laugh from Esme, Alice, and Rosalie.

"You're a part of the family now Bella. You'll get used to no privacy though Alice is probably correct. I've never seen Jasper as relaxed or happy as he has been since he went to check on you." Esme said, laughing as Bella blushed even further as Rosalie picked up the same outfit before adding it to the pile. "I'd save that one for later though. I have a feeling Jasper would prefer white at first." She said, winking at the seventeen year old girl that was trying her hardest to fight a blush, and losing the battle horribly.

Taking her adoptive mother's suggestion Bella found a white negligée that had black trim at the bust and seam that was made of silk; once the other girls saw it the grins on their faces told her she would have no choice but to get it.

When they went to check out, Esme waived off Bella's feeble attempts to say she could pay for it herself, before sliding her own debit card through the machine. She knew Bella wasn't used to having copious amounts of money and one hundred and fifty dollars for only three outfits seemed kind of excessive to the young girl.

"You'll get used to it Bella. It's helps being able to accurately predict the Stock Market however." Alice said, winking in Bella's direction before she continued. "On that note remind me I need to tell Jasper he needs to move some of his stocks around tonight. A lot of what he has is going to crash overnight." Alice said it so off-handily that Bella let it slide but when you were going to live forever, you had to have some way of making sure you had enough money to last you a while.

Bella just shook her head at the antics of the vampires she was with before they went into Alice's next favorite store. A shoe store that was larger than Bella's house. Alice quickly flitted around coming back to Bella with seven pairs of shoes, none of which were heels which the young girl was thankful for.

The ride back to the house was peaceful since Esme had decided to ride back with Rosalie and Alice which left Bella with time to connect more with the motorcycle she was riding. It was something she had picked up after Edward had left her and it helped ease the ache that was constantly within her chest until Jasper had shown back up in her life.

When they finally returned to the Cullen Mansion, she refused to call it a house, she found Jasper waiting for leaning up against his motorcycle with a self-satisfied smile on his face when she immediately walked back into his arms.

"Missed you, girl." He said, his southern accent deepening as she snuggled deeper into his arms as she returned the sentiment before quickly nuzzling his neck as Esme beckoned them into the kitchen where she laid out a soup and salad for Bella that she had made the previous day before. As Bella went to take a sip of the soup however her stomach rebelled as she darted for the nearest bathroom before losing what little food she had within her stomach.

When she felt cold hands pull back her hair as she dry heaved she was glad Jasper cared enough for her to stay by her side while she got sick.

"Sorry. Sometimes human food doesn't agree with me. I haven't truly feed in a few days." Bella said this so off-handily that she failed to recognize the confused look on her mate's face.

"I brought a small cooler with me would you mind running up to get it. I think I set it down in your room next to my other bag."

Jasper was up the stairs and back so quickly that Bella hardly had time to draw in two breathes as she pulled the cooler to her, noticing that the entirety of the Cullen clan had gathered in the living room, as if they were watching a television show which unnerved her just a bit, causing Jasper to raise an eyebrow in her direction before sending her a wave of calming emotions.

"Stop that Jasper. If I'm doing this then the rest of them might as well know about it; they'd figure out sooner or later." She said, as the calming wave stopped immediately upon her request before she opened the small cooler and moved around the few water bottles that where in there before pulling up the false bottom and coming up with two liters of blood, AB Positive if the Cullen's where to guess.

"I can do this here or I can go somewhere else it's up to you guys but it has to be done either way." She said, finally turning to face her adoptive family as she pulled a metal thermos out of the false bottom as well before fully looking at her adoptive family.

"How long have you needed this?" Carlisle asked, motioning to the bags of human blood in her hands.

"Since the attack from James, I'm not totally positive that Edward got all the venom out but as for how long since I've been here? I haven't had any in almost four days and it's about to drive me up a wall." She said this so nonchalantly that it seemed as if she had come to accept that this was going to be a part of her life. "I need this now it's why the regular food made me sick; so either I do this here or I go for a walk take your pick but make up your minds." The finality in her tone and the desperation that had crept in relayed to them the urgency of which she needed the blood.

Before anyone could say anything else Jasper had swept her into his arms and taken off in a full blown run before she found herself at their waterfall, as he quickly pulled out the blanket they had hidden there before laying her down on it, never letting go of his hold on her.

"Drink my love." He whispered in her ear, nibbling on it before pulling back and allowing his mate to concentrate on the two packets of blood that where in front of her. He watched mesmerized as she tore into the first packet with her teeth, which a human shouldn't have been able to do, before beginning the process of guzzling it down; by the time she was on the second packet Jasper had lost the ability to focus enough to keep his emotions in check as he projected the love and lust that was pouring off of him onto the beautiful Swan that was sitting in his lap.

Her emotions and mood seemed to shift almost instantly after the first packet of blood had been digested into her system and by the time the second one hit her system his mate seemed like her old self again and finally keyed into the amounts of lust that he was pouring out onto her.

"Is that why we ran?" she asked, letting her hand run a course from the top of his chest to his abs as he started softly purring in content.

"Yes. It's a very intimate thing to watch a mate feed. It brings out the primal need in all vampires to defend, protect, and love their mates, with every ounce of our being." He said, nuzzling her hair before pulling her down into a kiss deeper than any they had shared before. Every ounce of his love, desire, and longing was poured through that kiss in his emotions as he consciously projected everything he was feeling towards her.

The first thing he registered coming off of her was shock, the second, was unconditional love, trust, faith and hope which only intensified his emotions. Jasper took an unneeded breathe before pulling back from her slightly and bringing her to sit cross-legged in front of him as he copied the position before getting himself lost into her brown eyes.

"Do you trust me?" he asked, knowing it was a useless question, he could feel how much trust she had for him flowing through his veins. When he got the expected nod of her head, as her brown hair engulfed her scent around him, he took her hands in his before he began projecting straight lust at her smirking at her when her eyes darkened and a gasp escaped her lips, which he leaned in to claim for a kiss.

"I said I'd wait to make love to you. I never said we couldn't play." Jasper's voice had gotten deeper as he poured even more lust into her as Bella leaned back and arched her back, trying to find the friction she so desperately wanted from him. When his mate tried to reach for him, Jasper only shook his head before ramping up the lust and added love into the mix as she lost her hold on him and started withering on the ground.

Bella seemed to only come back to her senses once when she felt Jasper's hands making quick work of her jeans, swiftly pulling them down to her ankles, raising an eyebrow at the lack of undergarments before pouring every last ounce of desire he could into her as her body started to shake. Bella was almost too far gone to notice that she had achieved the ever elusive female orgasm until she came down from her high and felt Jasper diligently cleaning her thighs with a wet towel, never once going near her mound or center, before pulling back and pulling her up with him.

"That is what watching you feed did to me, woman. From now on, if you're here and need to feed, only in front of me please." He said, kissing the top of her head before giving her a shove in the direction he had thrown her jeans in. "Get dressed before I do something I shouldn't to you." He said, chuckling as he tried to play the part of a gentleman.

"It wouldn't be wrong if I wanted it too you know." She said, smiling in his direction as it was his turn for his eyes to darken before he shacked his head, almost violently, to stop it from going down the track it wanted to; before her jeans where back in place Jasper had disappeared and returned with a set of towels from who knows where before motioning to the waterfall.

"They'll be able to smell it. Not that it smells bad but I didn't think you'd want them to know just yet." He said, as he watched her slid over to the water fall, tying her shirt so it wouldn't get wet, before slipping her lower body into the lukewarm water with a content sigh.

That sigh deepened as Jasper came up behind her and began working on braiding her hair, as she allowed her body to soak in the water.

"Since when do you know how to braid?" she asked, laughing at the look on his face through the reflection of the water.

"I had a little sister before I was turned named Liza, it was practically a requirement. Liza is one of the few things I remember about my human life and I'm glad for it." He said, pressing a kiss into her hair before helping her out of the water and diligently drying her off. When Bella shoved him off he raised an eyebrow in her direction and smiled as she let out a bell like laugh.

"The whole point of the bath was to get your scent, and my scent, off of me. That will only add to it." She said, smiling at him softly when he saw the reasoning behind her logic and allowed his mate to dry herself off before slipping back into the pair of jeans that she was previously wearing.

The run back to the house was more of a leisurely stroll considering how fast Jasper could have run before Bella found herself wrapped back in Jasper's arms on the giant couch in the living room as the rest of the family slowly made their appearances again; all curious about what had transpired before they left.

Carlisle was the first to speak once everyone was back in the living room.

"When did you first notice your desire for blood?" he asked, as he jotted down questions on a yellow legal pad to compare with other notes later.

"I was out with Jake, riding my dirt bike and wiped out; tearing a gash into my arm. Managed to convince Charlie it was just a scrape but after a few weeks I just started feeling weaker and weaker and it hadn't healed at all and he was getting suspicious of the long sleeves I was wearing. I thought it was a long shot but I managed to get some deer blood from the butcher's without any questions being raised and tried it. Within minutes the scrape was completely healed with no scar. A few days later I started getting weaker and started getting sick every time I tried to eat normal foods and once again I tried it on a whim and it stated the hunger. Ever since then I have to have blood at least every other day but it's slowly working its way up to every day and more blood than before. I started out with only needing half a pint, then it went up to a pint and now it's up to two pints a day." She said, realizing how weird a conversation this would sound with any other family but this one.

"How'd you manage to get human blood?" This came from Jasper and the curiosity leaking from him as infecting the whole family.

"Black market sale. I have to go into Port Angles to pick it up but I've been a steady customer for almost a year now and my seller doesn't ask any questions. Just calls me the first weekend of every month when my order is ready." She said, knowing they wouldn't be too fond of her tactics, even if it meant her survival. "Speaking of which, I do need to call him I'm supposed to pick my order up today but I won't be making it." She said, reaching for the disposable phone she only used for her seller.

"What time do you usually pick up your order?" Emmett asked, looking at the clock that was on the wall before turning back to her.

"Ten pm. I usually tell dad I'm staying with Angela that night and get a room." She said, as she saw the wheels turning in everyone's heads.

"Just how much are you paying for this?" Alice asked, knowing she wouldn't like the answer.

"The running numbers are $3,000 for a 30-day month. $3,100 for a 31-month day. Their $50 a piece but my seller likes me because I'm a regular. He's got me down to $500 no matter how many days are in a month." She threw the number out there as if it was nothing but they knew that Chief Swan didn't make all that much money and Bella's part time job barely brought in enough for gas and insurance for her truck.

"Just where are you getting the money?" That was Esme this time; apparently they all knew that the Chief didn't make too much extra money.

"Someone," she said, cutting her eyes to Jasper with a look that said we'll talk about it later, "broke into my money box and left some money. I've been using that and then Phil and Renee send me some money every month, as well as an anonymous donation from someone that simply stated that they knew I had to have the blood and to not worry about how much they were putting into my account."

Jasper laughed a full bodied laugh before pulling out his cell phone and hitting a speed dial number.

"Peter Whitlock. Why didn't you tell me my mate needed the blood? I could have easily taken over." He said, smiling down at Bella before giving her a wink and a look that said he'd explain later.

"Well thank you brother. I'll let her know." He said before hanging up and turning to her.

"That anonymous donation was coming from my venom brother Peter and his mate Charlotte. Peter's gift kind of works like Alice's but his are always exact, he just knows it. He's also the reason your dollar amount went down from so high to under a grand." He said, pulling her into him into a semi-tight hug before turning her loose and standing.

"If we're going to make Port Angles by ten we need to be on the road it's going to take us three hours to get there even with me driving." He said, turning to pull Bella to her feet to stand next to him. "Go grab you're riding gear and meet me in the garage and call your seller and tell him you want double if he can get it on such short notice."

With that he turned her loose as she pulled out her phone and easily managed to wrangle her seller into providing double if the price was right. Knowing how much was in her bank account Bella simply agreed before turning around to see Jasper standing right behind her.

"I can tell when you walk into a room, Jasper. You won't be able to sneak up on me just yet." She said, leaning in to give him a quick kiss before he picked her up and headed to the garage where he had attached a cooler to the back of his Ducati and sliding on behind the man that was beginning to steal her heart away.

The ride to Port Angles took them right under four and a half hours as Bella directed him to a house that looked relatively normal before pulling the cooler down and leaving Bella to enter alone after handing her another thousand dollars, which caused her to raise his eyebrows.

"Tell him it's for getting it so fast." Was all he said as he watched his mate enter the house, knowing that if something where to happen he would be able to tell based of her emotions and those of the other people in the house.

When Bella came back ten minutes later with a man that was carrying the cooler, Jasper swiftly walked up to him and took the cooler.

"Thank you." Was all Jasper said, giving the man enough reason to fear him from the emotions he was putting out onto the younger man.

"Take care of her, yeah? In the year we've been doing this I've never seen her this happy, or come here with someone. She deserves to be happy." Was all the man said before turning to Bella to give her a handshake and pull her into a half-hug which had Jasper biting down a growl, even as his mate quickly maneuvered out of the hug.

"I'll have your order waiting in two months. Do you want the usual or do you want double like tonight?" he asked, eyeing the young girl who was showing signs of circles under her eyes. Jasper took the decision out of her hands as he walked back up to them after securing the cooler.

"Double. I may come by myself to pick it up it just depends." He said, shaking the man's hand again as the stranger turned back to Bella, throwing a blood bag into her hands, which she caught with grace.

"Drink. You have bags under your eyes." Was all the man said, walking away from them and back into his house where the sounds of several dead bolts where heard locking, which only earned him a laugh from Jasper.

Turning to Jasper, who confirmed the bags, she quickly guzzled down the blood bag before placing it in the cooler to burn at a later date before turning back to Jasper.

"Let's go home. I don't sleep much at night anymore but I do still need to rest." She said, nuzziling into Jasper as he placed her in front of him on the Ducati, still able to drive, which allowed her to fall asleep on the drive back to Vancouver, British Columbia.