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Chapter 4: Take Heed
Jasper's POV
"What the hell was that?!" The brawny vampire roared, his golden eyes burning with such anger and intensities. Bella and I watched with a sort of forlorn feeling brewing between us as our brother paced around the living room, watching us with intense eyes.
I had no idea that he would be this angry to have caught Bella and I almost in the act. Then again, he was just as angry this one time Alice and I got into an argument and didn't talk to each other for days.
"I can't believe it!" He shook his head in disapproval, placing his brawny and muscled arms on his hips. "What the fuck! You two are married!" He shouted this time, growling lowly.
I released a much need sigh, looking down at my hands placed in my lap. Emmett was right about it all. He was right. And he had a good reason to be angry at the betrayal Bella and I forced onto our respective mates of Alice and Edward.
I opened my mouth to say something but Bella quickly interjected, "Emmett, I can explain!"
"Damn right you will!" He yelled at the female vampire, his lips curling back into a snarl. "Do you have any idea what could happen if Alice or Edward found out?! The coven would split apart!"
Before our sister-in-law could get another word out or even start explaining what was going on, he turned his death glare to me and raised his hand, slapping me so hard on the cheek. My head whipped back and a blunt cracking noise deafened my ears.
Before I came to, recovering from his blow, Emmett lifted me by the collar of my shirt, holding me with one hand by the neck. "How could cheat on Alice, Jasper?" He painfully groaned, his eyes watering as if he were about to cry. "With Bella? Our sister?!" Anger laced in his tone and became the main emotion fueling him to tighten his grip on my neck, making me squirm under tight hook.
"Em, let him go!" The brunette screamed, colliding her fist into the side of his head. Shocked by her sudden violence, he threw me to the ground, staring at her dumbfounded.
"Bella!" He gasped, curling his lips back into a snarl as a low growl threatened to emit from the back of his throat. He turned his back to me, anger overwhelming his subconscious and a defense-mechanism growing and radiating off of him with each passing second.
Emmett watched with bewildered eyes as our sister crouched down in an utmost defensive stance, her hands stiff at her sides and her slender fingers forming razor-like claws. "Stay away from him." She lowly spoke each and every word slow as if Emmett needed the assistance to be told twice.
It was astonishing. I had never seen Isabella so defensive. Not even when we were on the brink of a sudden battle with the Volturi some years back. She was ready to justify what myself and herself had done. She was ready to tear her own brother apart just for me.
For me.
Jasper Whitlock. Jasper Cullen.
"I don't want to hurt you, baby sis'. Just back down while you stil-"
"I'm not scared of you!" She growled, darkened shade of topaz eyes narrowed into slits. Any further and her eyelids may just rip into two. But hell, I ain't care. Bella would still be beautiful with two pairs of ripped eyelids. Because she was...
"MINE!" I suddenly shouted, leaping in front of her with speed even Emmett could not calculate.
This sudden action shocked not only myself, but Bella and Emmett, as well. When had I ever been so possessive? When had I ever been so quick to claim someone...? Someone who is not Alice? But despite my mind urging me against this daring mood... my dead heart and The Major urged me to go with it.
It was like a magnetic pull finally dragging me towards the brunette. Like someone lost in a maze finally finding their way out. The feeling was subtle over the years... but there. It was present and I often shoved it off, calling it an attraction to her blood or scent. She may have been Edward's singer... but she was mine.
My mate.
"Em," I spoke, my southern accent booming. "This here darlin' is mine and if you have such'a problem with it, then we just gonna' have to duke it out." I crouched down in front of Bella glowering at him to show that I was dead serious and ready to fight.
He was threatening us. He narrowed his eyes, nostrils flaring and fists clenching and unclenching. He was going to attack and we would just have to be ready. I gave Bella a meaningful glance, staring deeply into her darkened eyes.
"Don't you look at her!" Emmett shouted, anger laced on his tone as he let out a war cry, charging for me. In a split second, I grabbed onto Bella's arms, whirling around and throwing her into the charging vampire.
She was prepared and with her newborn strength, she landed on top of his shoulders, grabbing a handful of his dark hair, slamming her fist into the back of her head. There was a bit of a struggle and at the moment, I dashed over to the two, kneeing Emmett in the lower abdomen. He groaned, grabbing hold of Bella's thighs, flinging her into one of the glass windows of the house, shattering it immediately.
Suddenly angered by that action, I kept on with the low blows and the punches to his brawny chest. He managed to uppercut me, knocking my head back but I rebounded his punch, landing into him, bringing us both to the ground.
"You're the worst!" He screeched in a growl, attempting to punch me. "She's Edward's!"
I flipped us over so that I had the upper hand, driving my fist onto his nose, which was followed by a blunt cracking nose. "She's mine!" I found myself yelling back. We tumbled back and forth, landing a punch here and there, continuing the action until all of a sudden, a sickingly sweet smell wafted in the air. Human blood; sweet and pure human blood.
I could feel the thirst pulsating from Emmett and the dull ache in my throat. Even though I had just fed, it smelled so lovely that I couldn't resist in snapping my head along with Emmett's to the direction of where the smell was perfuming from.
"I told Carlisle that saving my blood from when I was a human would come in handy one day." Bella shook her head, toting a cooler in one hand and a small vile of the sweet-smelling red substance.
Letting out a sigh, the brunette vampire set the cooler on the floor, before pulling a small wooden cork from inside of her pants pocket. Closing the small vile, it obscured the smell of her rare human blood and stopped it from permeating throughout the room.
She stored it back inside of the cooler, walking a human pace over to Emmett and I, still entangled from beating each other.
Bella crouched down to my level, unlatching my hand from Emmett's now ripped and tattered shirt. Her full lips curved into a warm smile as she helped me to my feet.
Bella dusted herself off, then proceeded to straighten my shirt collar and fluff my honey-blonde hair. The solemn picture of appreciation and fondness; nurturing concern and care. As soon as she turned around to face Emmett, her beautiful marbled face twisted in emotions of anger, annoyance and bossiness.
With hands on her curvy hips, Bella hissed, "Get your ass up. Right now."
Like he would obey his mother, or Esme for that matter, the brawny vampire complied with a loud groaned, standing to his feet.
Even with the colossus physique and the fact that he towered over the slender brunette, she still kept the same expression glued to her face and the same bossiness laced in her melodic tone. "If you hadn't been so damn quick to fucking charge at us then maybe we could explain!"
"But, Bella-"
"But my ass!"
He snickered at her words, but was silence just as quick when she narrowed her eyes further.
"Look at this place! It's a fucking wreck!" She yelled, pointing to the broken window, various pieces of furniture we both just noticed ended up being destroyed in our childish fight. The Cullen household was like a demolished lot. One of the walls even had a gaping hole through it.
"What the hell is everyone going to say when they return, huh?" Bella pinched the bridge of her nose, sighing in a frustrated manner to herself.
"But Bella..." Emmett cut in, glaring this time.
"What, Emmett? What?!"
His eyes flickered to me and then back to her. "Forget the house. You need to be worried about explaining to me and the others what the hell that was back in the clearing."
And just like that she bit her bottom lip, anxious and nervous again. Her topaz eyes shut and her head hung down. "... I..."
"You what?" Emmett crossed his arms over his chest.
"I led her on." Lie. "It's my fault and I induced her emotions to lust for me." Why did I lie? Because I could not stand feeling her guilt-ridden emotions. It was eating her core and now it had started to eat mine. This astonished her, and mixed guilt with anger.
She did not want me to lie. But perhaps it was the best for everyone...
"I knew it!" Emmett roared, crouching down in an offensive pose. "Jasper, how could you do that to Alice?! Huh?"
Feel the attraction of another vampire? Not feel from her for a long time? I don't know. That was a question I had to ask myself. With Bella... things were different. And I had to admit that to myself because these feelings were around for a long time.
"I don't know..." I answered, my voice cracking a bit. "... I'm sorry."
Emmett let out a furious growl. "You should be! You should be ashamed-"
"He's lying, Emmett." Bella sighed. She gave me a death glare before grasping my hand and giving it a tight squeeze. "Jasper... is my true mate." I felt Bella brushing her finger tips across my cheek, and it immediately got my attention as I turned to look down at her, gasping at how our faces were so close to each other. Was it possible to feel a dead heart flutter? She stared so deeply into my eyes.
Devotion. Hope.
This made the burly vampire pause. He stood up straight, furrowing his perfectly arched eyebrows. "... What?"
I watched with bewildered eyes as she gazed into my eyes once more and let her lips curve into a smile. She turned back to our ever-confused brother, nodding her head with each word. "Jasper is my mate." The way she said my name sent chills my through stone body.
"B-But how?" He wiped his face, shaking his head in disbelief. "How the hell is it even possible? You've known each other for years!"
She nodded her head in agreement to that. "I know, Em'. I know, but... I just... this is right. It's always been there. The pull... it's just been, we never-" she was flustered with her words and I could sense panic, so I calmed her down empathically, enjoying the way she sighed heavily in relief, as she gave my hand a tight squeeze.
We stared at each other lovingly as I pulled her body closer to mine and she rested her head on my chest.
But of course, this did not please our brother. "Okay, you two, stop it now. Stop acting all lovey-dovey-couple-like... holy shit, you might just be right."
"It's always been there, Em'." I say. "At the party, once we left... it's been there. I've watched over her not because Alice told me to, but because I felt like it was my obligation... I felt like I could not stand to be apart from her. And once we came back and she ran right to Edward... I shoved those feelings away."
"And I wish you wouldn't have." She whispered, kissing my cheek.
I was about to kiss her until Emmett interrupted us. "Well that's great you think you are true mates and all, but Eddie-boy and Alice will be back today." He announced with a huff.
"Today?"
We both gasped at the same time. This was sooner than expected. Not just Bella's emotions were in a wreck, but mine were as well. I couldn't face either of them... Alice probably saw it all by now. And no doubt Edward would be reading her thoughts and mine. This would not bode well.
"Today." Em' confirmed with a shake over his head. How unfortunate the circumstances were about to be...
Hope. Sudden hope beginning to build up in Bella's inner-core. Her lips curved into a broad smile and she bounced with excite like a child on Christmas day.
"Well, then let's just go!"
She wanted to run away? "Go?" I quirked an eyebrow up, turning her to face me.
"Yeah, go where?" Emmett backed up, stepping closer to us.
"I don't know!" The brunette whined. "Anywhere but here!" - "Tell them we uh, went for a hunt!"
"Alice could just see where you two actually went, Bella."
"Emmett's right..." I sigh, feeling the hope she had radiating from her body diminish completely in myself.
"Then we'll go by the wolves!" She piped in, acting like Emmett at the moment with her faltering sense of positivity in our situation.
"She learned to see past them, remember?" Our brother reminded her.
And then it happened. Bella let go of me and dashed with vampiric speed, slamming her fist into the wall, causing another gaping hole. She was so angry that she went into a newborn fit, breaking anything in her path. And we let her. I for one, could understand her frustrations and Emmett... well, he didn't want to lose an arm due to her seething anger and newborn ways.
"Got any bright ideas, Jazz?" He shouted over Bella's screeches of anger and frustration.
I shrugged my shoulders, probably going to regret the decision if this was nothing but something-unexplainable going on between my sister-in-law and I. "To hell with it, let's just go. If anything, Alice will keep Edward out of her head and she'll buy us some time." Even though my wife would probably be sad or angry at the fact that I am running away with her sister.
Bella paused smashing the glass end table with her foot. She breezed over to my side, hugging me.
"Well, I hope this is the right decision you two are making..." Our brother murmured, concern laced in his tone. He playfully slapped my back and ruffled the brunette's hair.
"You two kids have fun... and... I mean, I don't know. ... Be safe and do the right thing. We don't need this coven splitting apart, you know. Hopefully, they will understand in the end." He said, huffing and scratching the nape of his neck.
I grasped Bella's hand, heading for the door now knocked off of it's hedges. We gave a back glance to Emmett.
He stuck up his middle finger with a toothy grin plastered on his face. "Fuck off. Look at this mess you two left me to clean up."
A/N:
Decided to end it right there. Thanks to everyone who favorited, alerted and the few reviewers.
So as you can see, things are heating up. Next chapter will contain the first of many lemons (smut) so be prepared!
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