A/N Huge thanks to my beta twilightaddict71484 for her awesome skills, and my pre-readers Jasper'sAngel, and sinfulroad69. Without them, I couldn't write this story. Nothing major happening in this chapter. Bella spends some time with the whole family and we find out what her first date with Demetri was like. Sorry I was late posting this chapter, I meant to post it yesterday but I was sick. Hope you enjoy.

I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.

Peter's POV

It's times like this that I fuckin' hate havin' to sit on the sidelines and keep out of sight. This mornin' was Demetri's time with Bella, and so of course both Char and I followed close enough to be able to hear what was goin' on. I wanted to rip his fuckin' head off right now.

That bastard was way too fuckin' smug. He was actin' like it didn't matter how he treated the lady, he just knew that he was gonna be chosen. It was more like he knew something that would make her chose him.

Oh, he never said anything that even remotely sounded like a threat. All the asshole did was talk about himself. Seems to be his favorite subject. Yeah, the whole three hours the poor girl was havin' to listen to him talk about his exploits, while walking, in heels.

Yeah, he told her to wear a dress, with low heels. I guess she thought he was taking her out somewhere. He made her walk the whole time. I could see that her legs were getting scratched up, and she fell a couple of times. One of those times, her leg was cut open by a sharp rock.

Not once did the fuckin' asshole try to help her up. He just stood there and watched her struggle to get back up. She begged him to let her rest, but he told her it was his time with her, and she would do what he wanted, and that didn't include restin'.

I knew that he had to have a trick up his sleeve. Surely, not even an asshole like him could be expectin' the girl to choose someone who wouldn't treat her right. Yeah, my knower was tellin' me he was up to no good.

The worst part was I couldn't even tell Jasper. He made me promise that I would only tell him what was said, or what had happened if he put her in danger, touched her in any way, or threatened her.

Poor Jasper, he was not doin' good at all. The whole family had to take him huntin'. He was mopin' around like someone had killed his cat. The family felt that if they all went, they could keep him distracted until the girl was back at the house. Even though he wouldn't be able to approach her, she would still be close, and not with someone else.

The matin' bond was hittin' him hard, especially, since he had been able to spend some time with her. It will only get stronger for him, and I'm guessin' she's feelin' it too. All I know right now is that havin' to watch her walk off with Demetri, well, it hurt him more than he thought it would.

Once the time was up with Demetri, the bastard just left her there in the woods. She was about a mile away from the house, and turned to go in the wrong direction. So, I text-ed her to give her the right way to go. My job was to watch her, not follow Demetri, so I had no way of knowing if he would suddenly come back.

She made it back to the house, and quickly warmed up some blood. I think that part of the reason for making her walk, in heels, for three hours was to make it so she would be too tired to go anywhere with Jasper. Good thing blood heals any wounds, and refreshes her.

The thing is that surely he knows that blood will revive her. Either way, she was now back at the house and I needed to speak with Jasper. Someone needs to go and pick up the horse I had found for her. I knew this was the perfect horse, as he was owned by a vampire.

He had sent me pictures, and I just have to say, I have never seen a more beautiful horse. Apparently, the vampire loved horses, and decided to try to breed some of the most beautiful horses and sold them at extremely high prices. Humans would pay these prices as the horses were worth it.

Finally, I heard the family approach and sent Jasper a text to let him know that someone needed to go and pick up the horse. He sent one back letting me know that Emmett and Rose would go and get him for us. They would leave tonight, and would be back just in time for Demetri to take her out. The horse would be put in the stables out of sight, and then, Jasper could give it to her during his time with her tomorrow.

We were extremely lucky with this as the vampire lived in Oregon. He was about four hours away, but Emmett would have to buy a horse trailer to put him in, so they needed to leave soon.

Now that it was almost time for Jasper's time with Bella it was time to go and watch Demetri. Somethin' was going on with him, and it was somethin' bad. That is all I'm getting right now. I haven't told anyone yet, not even Char. I don't want Jasper's time with his mate to be ruined by somethin' that may not happen for weeks. As soon as I knew more, then I would tell them. Only thing I knew for certain right now, is that whatever it was, it would bring out the Major. And that, scared the fuckin' shit out of me.

Bella's POV

I fucking hate Demetri even more now than I did. He made me walk in the woods, in a fucking dress, and heels. He refused to let me rest, and refused to help me up when I fell, twice. And plus the fact that all he did was fucking talk about himself.

The only thing that was helping at this point is that I'm about to spend time with Jasper. The anger that I feel towards him because of the way he treated me is starting to be replaced by other feelings. I saw his face earlier when I walked out with Demetri.

There was such deep pain in his eyes. Even though I was with Demetri, my focus was on Jasper and what he was feeling. The pain was becoming worse, but I think I was able to keep Demetri from knowing about it. Right now, I'm more angry at the fucking asshole who seems to think that he is God's gift to women.

Yeah, I'm starting to feel more of the pain in my chest now. I think part of it was because not once did Jasper mention anything about what happened in town to anyone. At least that I know of. I did over hear him tell the family that I had enjoyed my time out. But he kept the embarrassing things to himself. That made me feel better towards him, and there was just a tiny hint of respect for him. Its not much, but it is a start.

I was brought out of my thoughts by the knock on my door. I knew it was Jasper and I found myself excited, and nervous at the same time. Today, he was taking me to a place he called a park. He had told me yesterday that we could just walk around so I could observe the other humans. Since Demetri made me walk all morning, I was hoping that maybe we could do something else. I was going to ask him.

I opened my door and there he stood, handsome, sexy, and nervous. I had never seen a vampire nervous before, and it made me realize that maybe I had more power over this one vampire than anyone else had ever had. I had heard that he was the most feared vampire in the south, yet, here he was nervous in front of me.

He asked if I was ready to go, and I told him yes. When we got to his truck, he again opened the door for me. After he climbed in I knew that I needed to try to get him to take me somewhere so we could talk. I wanted to hear his story.

"Jasper, I know that you said yesterday that you wanted to take me to the park, so we could walk around but is there somewhere we could go, and maybe just sit and talk? I would really like to hear your story. I already know that it was a dark time for you but I really would like to understand you better. Would that be possible?"

"We can, but first I need you to tell me what Demetri made you do. Peter said that you wouldn't want to walk much, and to ask you to tell me. So, I'm asking."

I sighed, I really didn't want to tell him but he did need to know why I wasn't interested in walking around, it wasn't that I was tired, I just wanted to do something different, "Well, you saw how I was dressed when I left with him. All we did was walk, the whole fucking three hours. He talked about himself, and well, I fell twice. He watched me as I struggled to get back up and refused to let me rest. I'm not really tired as I drank some blood, but, I really just want to sit and hear your story, that is if your ready to tell me?"

He was growling by the time I was done speaking. When I looked at his face I knew that Jasper wasn't in control. Shit! I shouldn't have told him. Then I noticed that he was doing a u-turn and I asked him where we were going. I was starting to become frightened. He finally spoke up and said he was going to rip Demetri's fucking head off.

I should have known better but I really didn't know Jasper well enough to have been able to gauge his reactions. I needed to calm him down or Aro just might have the family killed for killing Demetri, even though personally, I didn't give a flying fucking rat's ass about him, I really didn't want the family to be punished for it.

I put my hand on his arm, and asked him to please pull over. He looked at me and I pleaded with him. He did as I had asked and I asked him the one question I was hoping would get through to him, "Jasper, we have less than three hours to spend together. Do you really want to waste it by killing Demetri? I would rather spend the time getting to know you, than to have to worry about explaining to Aro why one of his best guards, and tracker is dead. At least he didn't touch me."

It worked. But he didn't turn around. I asked him where we were going and he explained that since I didn't want to go to the park and walk around then he would take me to his special place where he goes to be alone.

I couldn't believe how beautiful it was here. It turns out that this is where him and mom would come to talk. It was peaceful here. Jasper helped me up on the boulder and then told me his story. Mom had been right. He had been brought into darkness when Maria turned him.

I wanted to see the scars he told me about but it was time to go back. He said that he would show them to me, and promised that it would be before I made my decision. He also told me that the next day, he was hoping that the surprise he had been working on would be ready to be revealed.

When we got back to the house, my dinner was ready. I had been spending a lot of my time in my room, but they had replaced the thing I had broken, and Emmett was wanting to give me my first real experience with what they called TV. He also was wanting to teach me how to play video games.

Jasper and Demetri would both be there but of course neither one could sit next to me, touch me, or really talk to me one on one. This was going to be an opportunity for me to get to know the family a little better. As well as learn about what they called entertainment.

Esme warned Emmett to be on his best behavior or else. I had gotten to know him a little as he was the one that would come in when I ate and would sit with me. Esme and Carlisle would also sit and talk to me. And Edward and Alice had also sat with me one time.

Rose was the only one that didn't act like she was walking on egg-shells. While she wasn't overly friendly, she wasn't a bitch either. I think that she was worried that her family could still be in danger, and she was also worried about her brother, Jasper.

I could tell that they were close. They had both been through hell and back, and I had been able to watch them when they were working on their project outside. Jasper would stare at me, and she would stare at Jasper with concern written all over her face.

She did share with me that the reason she had helped Carlisle pull Jasper off of me when he was about to rape me was because she knew what Jasper would have gone through afterwards. At the time, I was an evil, vicious, female, an enemy, but there was no way she was going to let Jasper do something that would have crushed his spirit with guilt.

I felt grateful to her as I knew that Jasper carried more guilt around than he should. I could hear the guilt, and anguish, in his voice, over the things he had done while he was with Maria, when he was telling me his story. Even if I hadn't gotten to know at least a little of the real man he is beneath, I still wouldn't have wished all that he's been through on him. No one, human or vampire deserves the kind of horrors he has done or lived through. But, he knew no other way.

He also told me about the Major. I was curious about this other person that lived within Jasper. He had been created, because Jasper just couldn't handle the killings, and punishments that Maria had put him through. At least now I think I understood him better.

I did ask him if I would ever get to actually meet the Major. His reply was, "No, not if I can help it. He is cold, merciless, ruthless, and calculating. He hasn't come out since I locked him away after leaving Maria. I'm not saying that he won't ever come out, but since I have met you, I have a feeling that he may show himself. Especially, if you are ever put in danger. Because we are mates, he would never harm you, at least I don't think he would. But that doesn't mean that he wouldn't try to claim you. He is the one that most vampires fear."

I was brought out of my memories when Emmett bellowed out it was time to entertain the human. I went in the living room and Emmett turned on the TV. He explained exactly what it was, and the fact that people were paid a lot of money to play on the shows and movies. Carlisle said that it was probably best if I just watched, and I could ask questions at any time.

Emmett turned on what he called a game show. It was called Wheel of Fortune, and they had to guess the word, or words. I found myself getting into the show, and when I yelled at the person trying to guess, what the answer was, everyone laughed. When I saw that the person didn't use my advice, I was so disappointed, until Edward explained that while I could see and hear them, they couldn't hear or see me.

After that show was over Emmett turned on a show called "Vampire Diaries". We watched maybe five minutes of it before I was mad that they weren't showing the truth when it came to vampires. How dare they try to do a show about vampires, that had little truth to it.

Emmett, once again changed the channel. This time it was a sports channel, and they were playing baseball. I had no clue as to what they were doing, so my interest flew out the window. Everyone picked up on it and then suggested that maybe Emmett bring out the video games.

I just watched as Emmett, Jasper, Edward, and Demetri all played against each other. I could tell that they really got into the games, as they were yelling at each other. Me, I was getting tired. Rose, must have picked up on it because she asked if I was ready to go to sleep.

Then she asked if she could come and talk to me privately after I was ready for bed. I told her yeah, and that I would let her know when I was ready. I quickly got undressed, and ready for bed. Once I was done, I called for her and she was at my door in a second. Good thing I'm used to vampire speed.

I motioned for her to sit on the bed and she did. I waited for her as she seemed to be thinking of how to start. After a few more seconds she asked me if my shield was sound proof. It was, and I told her this. She asked if I could put it around us so that no one else could hear our conversation.

I let her know it was up and she started, "Bella, I need to say something to you, and I hope you don't get upset with me for saying what I'm about to say, but, I love my brother way too much to NOT talk to you. Before you ask, yes, I'm going to try to convince you to choose my brother."

She paused for a few seconds before going on, "I know that your mom told you all about vampire mating, so I hope you understand that I'm really worried about Jasper right now. He's not in a good place. He is your mate, and he is so fucking terrified that mostly because of his treatment of you at the beginning, you won't choose him. I just wish you could have seen him when you left with Demetri this morning. We had to take him hunting to try to distract him. He was hurting, so badly."

"Bella, I'll do anything for him because he deserves to be loved. He's been so lost, and lonely for so fucking long. While he did love Maria, he has never truly had the love of a woman. Maria never loved him, she only used him.

Then, when he finally finds his mate, he doesn't realize it, is told she's evil, and then treats her like shit, even to the point of almost raping her. There are no words to describe how badly he feels for that, for all of it really. If you ask if he loves you, not yet, but he's getting there quickly."

She stopped again, thinking before resuming, "I watch him as it gets close to time to pick you up. He is happier than I have ever seen him. Please, I'll beg you if that's what it will take for you to choose him. But, if you can't love him then just go back to the Volturi. Please don't lead him on. Well, that's all I really wanted to say."

I had to decide how much to tell her and quickly. I finally spoke up, "Listen Rose, I need to ask you a question. Can you block Edward from reading your mind?"

"Oh, yeah. I'm an expert at that. I just think about Emmett and I in our bedroom and he stays out of my head." she laughed, and then winked.

"Great, because what I'm about to tell you has to stay between us. I can't tell you why, so don't even ask. But, well, I have already chosen who I'll be with. I made the decision before my mom left. I will be choosing Jasper. I can't tell you the whole reason why, but I can tell you that from the little that I have been with him, and watching him interact with all of you, it won't be just because of the reason that I can't tell you. Does that even make any sense to you?"

I waited a few seconds before going on, "I can't say that I love him, but I can say that there is something in me that wants to show him love, compassion, and hope. I need him Rose, and while a part of me hates that, because of his treatment of me, I can't deny that I do. When I think of everything that fucking bitch Maria put him through, I want to fucking rip her ass apart. At the same time, I wish I could remove the scars, and all of the pain he has suffered, and replace it with love, and compassion. Does that make any sense to you as a mated vampire?"

She was beaming when I looked at her. She grabbed me and hugged me like I was her best friend, and sister. I hugged her back, and made sure that she understood that no one could know what I had told her. She promised that it would go no further, and for some reason, I found that I trusted her. Maybe it had to do with the fact that she would go this far to help and protect Jasper.

After she left, I laid down and sleep found me quickly. Tonight though, instead of a peaceful rest, I had a nightmare. Unfortunately, most of my dreams are prophetic and usually come to pass. Maybe not exactly as I see it happening in the dreams, but something along the same lines do happen.

In this dream, it was about Demetri. It was one of the most terrifying dreams that I can remember ever having. I felt a fear that I have never known before, and the worst part. I couldn't stop it from happening. . .

A/N Please let me know what you think. Now, before anyone asks. Yes, she did ask to see his scars, and yes she has seen him without his shirt. She has human eye sight and therefore cannot see his scars until he gets up close to her. He hasn't been close enough for her to see them. Hope that helps everyone to understand that she hasn't seen them yet. Next chapter, we'll hear from Demetri, and we'll find out some interesting things. We'll also meet the horse. Thanks to everyone who reviewed as a guest, and added this story to their favorites, and alerts. I love you guys.