A/N A huge thanks to my beta twilightaddict71484 for her awesome skills, and to my pre-readers OoJasper'sAngeloO, and sinfulroad69 without them, this story wouldn't be worth reading. Hope you enjoy this chapter, its like the calm before the storm.

Major's POV

After making sure that my mate had eaten everything, I knew she was tired. I could feel that even with the blood, everything that had happened was starting to catch up to her. Since her body is mostly human, it made sense that all of the fear, and trauma would cause her to need extra rest.

I told her she needed to rest, but I couldn't leave her. I asked her if she would be alright with me staying and laying beside her. She seems to have the same need as I do to stay close, so she said that it would help her to sleep. I told her that unless she asked me I wouldn't use my gift on her.

She was fine with that. I just wanted to feel her emotions, and not manipulate them. I needed to know how she felt about me, as well as Jasper. She was easier to read than anyone I had ever met and I have a feeling that it was because she is my mate. I also knew that it would help to calm me down.

I was so fucking pissed off at Peter. I couldn't understand why in the fuck he left, especially without telling me, or should I say Jasper. If he had stayed, then Demetri would have never gotten as far as he did. Char wouldn't have gotten hurt trying to stop him. The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. I wanted to go and fucking rip his ass apart.

But, I couldn't. My mate needed me and she would always come first. I was grateful to the family who understood that it would help to calm me down faster if there was no one else around. This way I wouldn't feel anyone else's emotions, and there would be no threat to my mate. I could reassure myself that she is safe, and loved.

Yes, I love her. How could I not? She is perfect for me. I had spent the last hour trying to make her feel pampered and loved. After all of her human needs had been taken care of, I had her lay down. She curled her body around mine and asked if this was alright. Then, something strange happened, something that had never happened before, I started to purr.

My mate was surprised at this. Yet, she was happy about it. I could sense that it was bringing comfort to her. She relaxed even more into my embrace. Without even thinking about it, I found myself nuzzling into her hair. Her scent was both bringing me comfort, and driving me fucking crazy with the need to claim her.

Her body was warm and soft, and I held her close to my own. I think right now, I'm jealous of Jasper. He gets to claim her first. Yeah, we are technically the same person, but I don't think I could be as gentle with her as she needs. And, I would rather rip my own arms and legs off and jump into the fire than to ever harm my mate in any way.

She did surprise me by asking that I remove my shirt before laying down with her. Of course I did as she asked. I would do anything she asked of me, even if it was to leave her alone. It would kill me to leave her, but if it was what she wanted, I would.

My heart aches for her love, but I don't deserve it. Yet, I will never deny her. I hope that she can feel my love for her. My body aches for her touch, my fingers long to touch her and bring her pleasure that she has never known before.

What she doesn't know, and I will never tell her, is that as long as she is around me, or Jasper, my cock is hard. It is becoming painful. I have tried to relieve some of the pressure of needing to claim my mate but its only temporary. As soon as she comes around me, I'm fucking hard again. I know that neither Jasper, nor myself will ever do anything until she is ready. She will have to come to us and tell us that she is ready.

Shortly after she had fallen asleep, my cell phone goes off. I growled because it was an intrusion in the time that I'm spending with my mate. It was Peter. Asshole, is more stupid than I thought him to be. I did want an update on Char, she had done her best to defend my mate, and for that I owe her more than I could ever repay her. I also needed an update on where the fuck Demetri is.

I answered the fucking phone and growled out, "Report Captain, and it better be fucking good!"

"Sir, Char is healed and is feelin' like her old self. She has hunted, but only on our way back from the airport. I felt it best if I made sure that Demetri was gone. And about me leavin'. . ."

I cut him off, "I will deal with that, and you later. You left my mate to almost be raped. I just can't figure out why in the fuck, you would leave her especially when she was with the asshole. I can't even talk to you without getting pissed off. Right now, my mate needs me to be calm for her."

I was growling now and my mate started to stir. I told Peter I would speak with him later and hung up. I quickly settled back down and started purring for her. She stopped her movements and seemed to calm down once again.

I knew that before she woke up, I would have to go back and let Jasper take over. The threat was gone, and my mate was now safe, and able to live her life as she wanted to. With the exception of being forced to get pregnant, that is. I just wish that I could eliminate those that have threatened to harm and kill just so they could get their kicks.

I was thinking of all of the fucking ways I could cause Aro, and his brothers pain when I heard my mates phone ringing. I knew it was probably her mother wanting to know if she was alright. Unfortunately, it meant having to get up to answer it.

I got up and grabbed it off of her dresser and quickly laid back down next to my mate. I answered, and Renee who had been informed of everything asked how her daughter was. I told her everything and then let her know that Bella was resting now.

They were still waiting for the plane with Demetri's body parts to land. She told me that Aro was more than a little angry. Seems that he had high hopes of being able to create another tracker through Demetri, and now, it wasn't gonna happen. While Renee was safe from anyone connected to Demetri, he had plans to kill not only the family but Renee as well if we didn't do as expected.

As soon as Bella was pregnant, we would have to go to Italy and stay there until the birth. We already knew this, but Renee said that they had been able to find out who would stand with us, and who would stand with Aro.

It seems that our lives are not the only ones the brothers enjoy ruining. Even though for me, my life has just gotten better. There are many other vampires that have been forced to become one of their experiments.

Renee had realized right away that it wasn't Jasper she was speaking to. She wanted to know if I had claimed her daughter. I think that she understood that I'm the one that takes what he wants, usually. I told her the truth. I could hear the relief in her voice.

I told her that I planned on letting Jasper back out and that it would be him that our mate would wake up to. She thanked me several times for saving Bella, which I told her that she didn't need to thank me, in fact, I needed to thank her for creating such a beautiful creature that is my mate.

Bella was starting to stir again as I had stopped the purring. She had only been asleep for an hour so I knew she wasn't rested yet. I got off the phone, and nuzzled into her hair, and started the purr once more. She settled right back down again.

I knew that I needed to calm down, and let Jasper back out, but I was going to enjoy a couple more hours of being the one to hold our mate while she slept. I was in a shit load of pain, and I really needed to claim her, even Jasper would have the same need. I just hope she hurries the fuck up, and lets us claim her soon!

Bella's POV

I woke up to the most wonderful smell. It was the smell of citrus and spices. It made me feel so good that I just pushed my nose closer. I was so into the smell that I failed to realize that I had just gotten closer to someone's bare chest. Once it registered, I shot up like I had just been struck by lightening!

I took one look at the man who had been holding me while I slept, and as soon as I saw his face, I knew Jasper was back. I told him "thank you" for everything really. I was so grateful that he had made it in time. I also realized that I was also very lucky that he was my mate.

I told him that I needed to have a human moment and gave him a light kiss before making my way to the bathroom. I took care of my needs and then brushed my hair, and teeth. While doing all of that I was suddenly hit with the realization that I was home, that this house, and this family were now my own.

I was so happy. I got excited just thinking about all of the things I could do without having shit hanging over my head. Well, with the exception of getting pregnant. Yet, even that didn't seem to be a bad thing now. The man that would get me pregnant was my mate, how could that ever be a bad thing?

I went back into the bedroom to find Jasper laying on his side facing away from me. He was kind of curled up. I went to go to the bed to find out if something was wrong. He stopped me by telling me that Esme had my breakfast ready and he needed a few minutes alone. That hurt.

I felt like I had done something wrong. Maybe since another man had seen me naked, and laid on top of me, I was now damaged and he didn't want me any more. That was it, he had decided that I was too messed up, and didn't want me.

I just stood there not knowing what to do. I'm guessing that now they'll make me go away and just tell Aro that I ran away. I felt the tears on my face before realizing that I was crying.

The next second Jasper was up and in front of me, "Darlin' please stop those emotions. I don't know what the fuck you're thinkin' but stop it. I'm feelin' a shitload of rejection comin' from you, now what's going on in that pretty lil' head of yours?"

I looked down at the floor and said, "Yo. .You don't want me any more. That's why you had your back to me and told me to leave you alone."

What he did shocked me, "No, darlin', that's not the reason I had my back to you. I just didn't want to scare you, or make you uncomfortable. I wanted to be alone to try to calm the fuck down and get myself under control."

Then without another word he took my hand and placed it on his very large erection. He then took his finger and placing it under my chin made me look up at him, "Now darlin', does that feel like I don't want you? Remember, Rose told you that I may have to leave suddenly at times. Since I was in your bed, I couldn't just leave because everyone is here and I didn't really want to walk out with this showing. Now, Esme has just told me that your breakfast is getting cold so why don't you go on and eat. I'll calm down and then after breakfast we'll decide what you want to do today. This will be the first day I'll get to have you all day, and I intend to show you some fun! So hurry your pretty lil' ass up and go eat so we can do just that."

I started to ask him about what he was going to do about his problem but he cut me off with a quick kiss. Then he turned me around and lightly pushed me towards the door. Just as I took a step he slapped me lightly on the ass. I turned around and gave him one of my famous glares. I was teasing of course, but I really did try to make it look threatening.

The next few days were a whirlwind of doing things and just enjoying each others company. I don't think that I have ever laughed as much as I have in the last few days. I have also had a few embarrassing moments, like what happened the first time I was cooking my own breakfast.

When I was still with mom I loved to cook. The thing is that I have always loved to dance and would have the music up loud and dance while I was cooking. Silly, I know but it was the only form of entertainment that I had with the exception of horseback riding and swimming.

Well, this particular morning everyone had gone to hunt. Of course Jasper didn't want to leave but I told him that I would only be awake for a short time before they would be back. They planned on leaving in the night while I slept, and be back in the morning.

I was excited because I could finally do something else that was familiar to me, cooking. So, I did as I usually do and took the iPod that Jasper had given me, and started my playlist. He had also given me speakers to use with it and so I turned it up loud.

As I was getting everything ready and started to cook I of course was dancing. Since I knew I was alone I just let go. I was moving around to the beat of the music and even finding myself beating the eggs to the beat of the music.

Then a really good song came on, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. I really let go then. I was doing the same dance that I had seen the zombies dancing to when I watched the video with Emmett. I was enjoying myself, and just really letting go of all of my inhibitions. I was "getting down" as Emmett had said of Michael Jackson.

I had just finished up the cooking and was waiting on the toast, and when I turned around to continue the dancing, there in the doorway stood the Cullens. Every. Single. One. Of. Them! They were all smiling or laughing. I just about jumped out of my fucking skin. I was so fucking embarrassed.

They all told me that it was heartwarming to see me finally in "my element" and letting go. They were excited that I was happy. Jasper came up and picking me up, started to swing me around, while laughing. He put me down, and then kissed me. I was then "ordered" to go eat.

Jasper and I had been kissing occasionally. While we haven't had what Rose calls a "heavy make out session" we did kiss but they were always the quick peck on the lips. That disappointed me, until Jasper had Rose explain to me that just being around me caused Jasper to be hard and it was painful for him. A deeper kiss would only be more painful for him.

I knew that I needed to let him claim me. It wasn't that I didn't want him, I just wanted to make sure I was ready. He also told me that he didn't want to just claim me like most vampires do when meeting their mates. They usually claim and fall in love later. He wanted me to actually be in love with him before he would touch me.

I wasn't really sure of what my feelings were for him. I was strongly attracted to him. I needed to be around him and when he wasn't I usually tried to distract myself by doing other things, like cooking. In reality though, the only time he was away from me was usually at night while I slept.

I also knew he was hurting, badly. I had seen him curled up when he didn't think I could see him. I tried to make sure that during the day we did things that would distract both of us like horseback riding. He never rode with me, just ran beside Snow King. I also found out that the horse was extremely smart and was strongly attached to not only myself, but Jasper as well.

I actually caught him one day talking to Snow King. He was telling him how much pain he was in, and he was getting scared that he might end up hurting me. He also said something that made me realize something else. He told him, "King, I know you probably have no clue as to what I'm sayin' but I need to tell someone. I know for a fact that I have fallen in love with Bella. She is so pure, strong, and compassionate. She loves with everything within her. I can see that every time she's around you. The way she looks at you, I wish she would look at me like that. Its the look of a young woman very much in love."

When I heard him say that I realized that I was in love with him. Now, I just had to let him know that from now on I would look at him with love in my eyes as well.

I would make tonight special for him. But first I would need to get the family out. I wasn't sure I wanted my first time to be overheard by them. If only I had been able to see what would happen before the night got here, I would have just jumped him right there, right then.

Instead, of a night of pleasure, it turned out to be the night I wanted to die,and almost did. . .

A/N Please let me know what you think might be going on. Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Even if I didn't reply to your review, it still meant a lot to me. I love you guys.