A/N Thanks to my beta twilightaddict71484 for her awesome skills, and to my prereaders Jasper'sAngel, and sinfulroad69. Without them this chapter wouldn't be worth reading. Bella isn't done kicking ass yet, and she will realize some things. Hope you enjoy reading, as much as I enjoyed writing this chapter.

I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.

Jasper's POV

After a few more seconds of feeling Isabella's emotions, it stopped. Not completely but enough for all of us to get up. I noticed though that Renee handed Isabella some blood. She looked straight at me and said, "She needs blood because she's had her physical shield up this whole time. From now on, she'll only put it up when she either doesn't want you to feel her emotions, or when in danger."

I just had to know, "Something happened while her shield was down. I felt something come in and push my gift out so that everyone could feel her emotions. I promise, I did NOT project. So, what the fuck just happened?"

"That will be explained at a later time. I promise to tell everyone before I leave tomorrow." Renee said.

A few minutes later Isabella started in again, she was still crying but not as much, "You know what bothered me the most? The fact that most dogs are treated better than I was. I'm mostly human, and I have feelings just like most people. There are very few people that I truly love. But I love them deeply and would gladly give my life for them if necessary. Even if they make me angry, I still love them and will gladly forgive them for almost any wrongdoing."

She turned looking at the family, "But, I was allowed to be treated worse than a dog. I had hopes, and dreams. You, all of you, took that hope, and bashed it into the ground, then stomped on it, and then burned it to make sure it couldn't return. Then you did the same to any dreams I had of at least being away from the castle for the first time in my life. Right now, I have no hope, so why should I even dream? I'm sure that none of you care, as a matter of fact I know you don't."

"Well, you are all free now. You can just go on with your fucking lives. You don't have to be bothered with me anymore." she said mostly looking at the family.

Then she turned back to me,"Jasper, that was such a pretty little speech that you made. It almost had me believing that you could be nice. How good of you to be a man of honor, when it comes to your word. You'll stay with me and do what you promised, just so you can prove that you are a man that has fucking honor. Well guess what, oh mighty man of honor? I'm a living, being with a heart. A heart that needs love, compassion, understanding, and hope. I don't want a man to be with me because he's fucking honoring his fucking word! You basically said you were attracted to me, and no matter how much I hate you right now, I feel the pull, the attraction, the need to want to comfort you when I see pain in your eyes. But then I remember that you said it's because, you want to keep your word. How about staying with me, because you truly want to know me, maybe even get to like me? How about staying with me, just because of me? How about just fucking doing something nice for me, just because?"

"Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a selfish person. Its just not in my nature to be. But for the first time in my short, very lonely life, I found someone with whom I wanted to get to know better. Someone with whom I thought maybe one day could learn to love. But, its all gone now. The attraction, the pull, its still there, and so is the pain of the one man I could actually see myself being happy with. You took everything that was important to me, my dignity, and my hope, and destroyed it."

"Will I ever forgive you? I can't really say for sure. But it hurts too fucking much right now."

Then she turned to her mother, "Mom, if I choose Demetri can we leave and go back to Italy?"

Something happened when she said that. It was like someone had punched the hole that was already in my chest, and made it bigger, then ripped my heart out. I groaned not realizing that I had done it out loud.

She quickly turned to me, "What the fuck is your fucking problem. You should be glad to get rid of me. Mom, I choose Demetri, can we go now?"

"No, you need to come with me. I need to talk to you, in private. But just so everyone here knows. You have to take a week to think about it, its NOT an option for you. Aro understands that you would be angry with the way you were treated and he wants to make sure that Jasper and his family have a chance to show you that they aren't monsters. Now, lets go." Renee told her.

As they headed to the door Renee past by and whispered for me to get started on the project we had talked about. Then she turned back around and said, "My daughter and I will be gone for at least a couple of hours. Now, the way the week is going to happen is that Jasper will get to go first, he'll get three hours to do whatever he wants to do to show Bella the man he really is, two hours later, Demetri gets his turn for three hours. Neither one will approach her after their time is up, and they will NOT interfere or interrupt the other one's time with her. Another thing, neither Demetri, nor you Jasper will be allowed to touch, hold her hands, kiss her, or even hug her. The only touching allowed will be if its necessary in order to do whatever it is that you are doing. Once I have left which will be tomorrow morning, Bella will have twenty-four hours to herself to do whatever she wants, but everyone is to leave her alone with the exception of making sure she eats. I would suggest that if you have another room, fix it up for her. She won't want to step foot inside of her torture chamber." Then they walked out, and left in the car that they had come in.

Demetri and Felix both came to me and Demetri shook my hand and said, "May the best man win." I felt a smugness coming from him. It was like he was so fucking sure he was going to win.

They both said that it would be best if they went hunting, and would go to Seattle to do so. They also promised to feed only on scum. Then they were gone. Now, I can put my plan into action. I just hope its not too late.

When I told Carlisle of the plan he quickly agreed to building the stables, and putting up a fence. Peter said that he knew of someone who had sold him a couple of horses a few years back and said that he would get in touch with him. The problem is, finding a horse that she would love, but it would have to be one that was comfortable with us vampires.

Esme, Rose, and Alice all set to redecorating the spare bedroom that was next to my study. They went to make a list to go buy what they would need, and it had to be done by tonight. The room was already painted a light powder blue, with cream colored door and frames. They would also need to go and buy her some clothes. This thought just made it worse for me.

Emmett, Edward, and Carlisle left to go and get the supplies that we would need to build everything. Char had decided to stay with me to help clear the area where we would be building. There were a lot of trees and we needed them gone in order to build.

After we had an area cleared and ready to build on we both sat down on the porch. Peter was still in the house talking to the guy about a horse. They had been going back and forth calling each other. I'm guessing trying to find a horse suitable for Isabella.

I talked to Char about how to be romantic. I have never had to try to get a lady to want to be with me before. This was completely new territory for me, and I had no fucking clue what to do. She did give me a couple of suggestions, and I would think about putting those plans into action, without Demetri knowing about it. I sure as fuck didn't want him to steal my ideas.

It was bad enough that I had hurt this sweet girl. I still couldn't really understand why in the fuck I treated her that badly. She had been right on everything she had said. All I wanted to do was take her in my arms and love her. I'm not sure that I'm in love with her, I just know that there is no fucking way I'll survive without her. I just hope she'll give me a chance.

Bella's POV

I was so glad to finally leave the house of horrors. I asked mom why we couldn't just leave and never come back. She reminded me that she was pregnant, and she and Felix were mates. Besides, they would kill the Cullens for allowing us to leave.

After a long drive, mom found a restaurant and pulled in. She asked if I was hungry. I wasn't really but I figured that I would eat anyway. Once she was gone, no telling how long it would be before I could eat again.

Once we were seated at a table in the back mom started, "Baby, there are some things we need to talk about, and things that you need to know. But first, I need you to tell me if you were to follow your heart, and have to pick right now who would you choose?"

I heard her but decided to not fall into her tricks, "I already told you, I choose Demetri."

"That's NOT what I asked, follow your heart, and tell me if you had to choose right now, who would it be?"

"Based on the pull, the need to be close, I would have to pick Jasper. But mom, he has hurt me so deeply. How can I love a man that treated me like that?"

"Next question, based on the time after he realized that he had been lied to; think back to how it felt when he has touched you for any reason. Tell me how it made you feel. I know you got angry, but I also know that you got angry because of how his touches made you feel. Tell me."

"Well, he had to help me get dressed, and then he looked at my wrist. His touch, fuck, how do I explain this. Oh, his touches were so gentle, and any where he touched it tingled and made my whole body ignite with fire, I guess is the best way to explain it. I know that I have NEVER felt anything like it before."

"Demetri has touched you before, did you feel the gentleness, and tingle with him?"

"No, just Jasper."

"Lets say for argument sake, you go with Demetri. Now, its your first night with him and he will have sex with you, he won't wait because you chose to go with him. Now, imagine his hands all over you, imagine, taking the little that you know of him, taking you whether you are ready or not. He is a very impatient vampire. Imagine his kisses, his caresses that aren't gentle because he doesn't know how to do gentle. He only knows what he wants, he gets. And he has killed some of the humans he has been with, he has no clue how to please a woman. He believes that its a female's duty to please him."

"Mom, how do you know all of this?"

Then it hit me, "Wait, are you fucking telling me that you have had sex with Demetri?"

"Yes, they were trying to do to me what they really wanted, which was get me pregnant by a full vampire. It was so bad that I told them I would kill myself before I let him touch me again. They couldn't really see any reason to continue with Demetri, because Felix had already gone and asked if he could be the one to get me pregnant. Now all of this happened when you became a teenager. Felix was able to talk them into letting me wait until you were grown."

"Now I need you to listen to me baby girl. I won't tell you everything, but I will tell you that you need to choose Jasper. Not just because he is your mate, but because the child you will have with him will be the catalyst in bringing down the Volturi. Without him or her, the Volturi will continue their monstrous acts against humans and vampires."

I was about to let her know that there was no fucking way I could let that creature known as Jasper touch me. But she cut me off, "Baby, I know that you can't forgive him for his actions against you, but please listen to me. Try to remember that you had your own part that you played very well. You kept him from feeling any deceit. Now I know it was to keep me alive, but you need to remember, Jasper is a victim too. Just try to put yourself in his place for just a minute. Sit there right now and do it."

"You're an empath. They tell you about this girl, and she's evil according to what you are told. She's dangerous to not only you, because she'll crush you if she can; but she'll try to destroy the family just so she can have fun. She has plenty of tricks up her sleeves, and even others tell of her evil deeds. How would you react? Now, think, long and hard before you answer."

I did just that. We had, had our food for a few minutes now so I decided to think as I ate. I did put myself in Jasper's place. It took me a few more minutes to realize my answer.

"Mom, to be honest, I have no clue. I have a feeling that I might treat the person the same way I was treated. Being an empath, I guess there was no reason for him to think he had been lied to. But I still can't just forgive. I'm sorry mom, but I just can't do it."

"I understand and I'm not asking you to forgive them. What I am asking is that you go along with this one week getting to know the real Jasper. I'll even tell you how to get a little payback, if you want me to. Now, you know that he's your mate, he truly does want to be with you. To be away from you will hurt him, and the times that you are with Demetri, well, if you can let him think that any positive feelings you are having are for Demetri. Well, you catch my drift. Its killing him that he believes that you don't want him, or won't give him a chance."

"You don't have to forgive to give them a chance, and get a little payback. Just make sure that its not harsh enough to drive Jasper into believing that he's lost completely, that would make you the same monster as he thinks he is."

"Now, that the truth is laid out, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the Jasper that I know. Everything I know is either from Peter and Char, or from my seeing things that will happen."

"Major Jasper Whitlock is one of the strongest vampires I know of. His first century as a vampire was made up of nightmares; death, blood, destruction, and more death. I won't tell you about the things he did, that's his story to tell. But I will tell you that if you look into his eyes you will see that he is haunted. He is strong because he walked away from that lifestyle on his own. But the monster he was, still haunts him."

"Baby, he's a good man, with a good heart. Because he's an empath, he feels things deeper than anyone else. That also means that when he loves, its deeper than most others even vampires. When he hurts, he truly believes that he deserves what pain he feels, and he doesn't believe that he deserves to be loved. That is who Jasper Whitlock is."

"Wow, where was that man while I've been here?"

"He was there, but he thought he was protecting his family from a monster."

"And you said that without the child he and I will have; that the Volturi will continue their experiments?"

She smiled and nodded, "Fine, I guess I'll go with Jasper and pray that he will be a good man, and be gentle with me. But if he reverts back to being a monster, I'll leave and be with Demetri. If I'm honest, I would rather die, than be with anyone else." Oh fuck, did I just say that I wanted Jasper?

An hour later we had just gotten back to the house. The ladies were all upstairs, and the men were doing something outside. From the looks of things they were building something. Felix met mom and I and told us that the girls were redoing a bedroom for me to stay in, and the men were fixing a surprise for me.

I couldn't go up yet as they were doing the finishing touches, so, I decided to go outside and just sit on the porch. I wanted to watch this family interact with each other, and I wanted to watch Jasper as well. Demetri was helping them with whatever they were doing so I could observe him as well. Even though I already knew who I was picking, I sure as fuck wasn't going to let them know that.

Mom came out and then went to speak to Carlisle for a minute. She was going to need more human blood before leaving in the morning, and hoped that he had enough for her to have some without leaving the pantry empty so to speak. With the baby growing she needed more than usual.

A minute later she came and sat down. I saw Jasper smile at me and then headed in my direction. Mom turned to me and said that they needed to know when Jasper would have his turn, since he would go first. I knew what mom was doing, she wanted me to really look into Jasper's eyes which I had never really done before.

When he got to us mom told him that the day after tomorrow would be my first time. Then mom was talking to him and I looked at Jasper's eyes. I almost gasped out loud. Mom was right, there is a haunted look. Demetri's eyes have always had a smug look, like he's so sure of himself.

Then he said that he needed to get back to work. Before leaving though he took his shirt off. I couldn't stop staring. Of course it was Jasper that I was staring at, but I made sure to look somewhere else or at least make it look like I was. Mom had told me about Jasper's scars, and I could see them, but that wasn't what I was staring at. Oh, fuck no, I was staring at the muscles, that were flexing in his arms, chest, stomach, and back.

I had seen him earlier completely naked, but I didn't take the time to really look at him. Now that I was, I could imagine his body, pressed up against mine, both of us naked. Oh, great, now I'm wanting his body. How in the fuck am I going to be able to do this? Part of me wants him, the other part wants him, roasting over hot coals. What in the fuck am I going to do?

A/N Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks to everyone who added this story to their favorites, and alerts. Love you guys. The next chapter, we'll get more answers. And Bella will realize a few things about the family.