I'm sure because he's my mate.
I'm sure because he's my mate.
I'm sure because he's my mate.
Those words freeze the Cullens on the spot.
-Alice-
-I have known about him since the moment I first woke up as a vampire, he was actually my first vision, he was the one who gave me my name, not some hospital ID bracelet as I said before.- Alice cut off whatever Edward might have been aiming to say, confessing a truth she's been carrying with her for so long, that vision was one she still treasured deeply.
At the time, she had had doubts about that scarred man with the red eyes, wondering why would he know her name, how would he even know her name, at some point she had even wondered if he had been the one responsible for her vampirism. He knew her name after all.
But with time she had grown to understand how her visions worked, what were the images in her mind to begin with.
And she had also grown to seek the visions with the scarred man she grew to know as Jasper. She went from finding him someone that filled her with uneasiness and doubts to someone she worried deeply about, a broken soul who's suffered way too much in life.
He deserved happiness, good things.
He was hers.
She just had to be patient and wait for him.
But he never came.
She could see the surprise in their faces, confusion, shock.
-He wasn't with the Volturi until 1940, but I never looked for him because I knew it wasn't time, he wasn't ready, because as the Volturi said… he is originally from the South.
And before either of them could make a comment on that fact she spoke.
-His creator… she made him believe that vampires fought everywhere, that that was just how it was, he didn't like that place, he was suppose to leave in 1940, Peter and him were friends, he had previously helped him escape their creator alongside Charlotte, he would've come back for him, but a week before that happened… the Volturi found him.
More like captured him through lies and deception.
-You might not trust him, might not like him, but I do trust him, I know he's good.- Alice defended, she knew Jasper was good, he had a wonderful heart, filled with loneliness and pain, but oh so beautiful, he was so kind, so gentle… he was way better than she ever pictured him to be.
If any of them were to meet him, give themselves the time to truly meet him, she knew they would like him.
-He's a Volturi . There's nothing good about them.- Rosalie refuted, Alice bit her tongue, she knew the Cullens had all the right to think that, hell, even she thought it, but Jasper was different, he wasn't evil, he wasn't bad, he just had been in the wrong place with the wrong people, trapped and with no way out.
But he was free now.
Rosalie had no idea what she spoke of, none of them knew what he had been put through, what he had to suffer in that place, he hadn't been their equal.
He had been the Volturi's secret weapon.
The secret attack dog.
- Was, he's no longer with them.- Alice corrected, feeling a bit irritated over their persistent need to keep calling a Volturi.
-Let's pretend for a moment he is trustworthy, why does he even hang around you? How did that even happen? Who is he to get the Volturi so adamant on finding him?- Edward questioned, throwing the main question in the air, which Volturi was it? Was it one of the ones they knew? A random one from Aro's soldiers?
And most importantly, why would the Volturi go so far as saying there was a rogue vampire around? Were they just desperated to find him so it wouldn't get out he had been a Volturi? Or were there other motives?
-... Believe it or not, he ended up in Forks out of pure coincidence after walking around at the bottom of the ocean, or maybe it was just him subconsciously walking back to the place he was last at.
-Vampires can walk at the bottom of the ocean?- Bella asked utterly fascinated, she was a vampire, but she still found a lot of things fascinating, always discovering new thing about vampires.
-Yes.
-What was he even doing down there? How do you walk from Italy to Washington from the bottom of the ocean?- Emmett questioned mortified, who the hell would have the commitment to walk at the bottom of the ocean from one country to the other? Even more so every single day as he must have done these past months?
-Volterra wasn't a happy place for him, trust me.- Alice told as a statement of fact.- When he came here… he watched the house, yes, our house for a few hours, not to spy for the Volturi, but out of pure personal curiosity, this before deciding to leave, I think he was curious about our diet.
Alice still couldn't decipher what had led him to kill that deer without being told to, curiosity was the only thing she could come up with.
She knew her words caught the attention of them all when surprise seized their expressions.
-What do you mean?- Carlisle asked, none of the Volturi had ever shown interest towards their diet, some mocked it while others found it abhorrent, unnatural.
The idea of one having shown interest on animal blood on his own volition… general vampires would never even consider it.
-He killed a deer, didn't like it much which I can't blame him for, herbivore blood is nasty for a first drink.
At least for those who have tasted human blood.
-I told him he should go for a mountain lion better, he didn't think it was a good idea. I told him I would be here if he changed his mind, didn't really think he would come back, but he did.
-And he feeds off of animal blood?- Carlisle couldn't imagine Aro liking much the idea of one of his guards mimicking such "unnatural" diet. But if he fed off of animal blood now…
-No, he doesn't hunt much…
His appetite still worried her, she knew it was a side effect of the vervain poisoning the venom in his veins, he did feel hunger, but he couldn't feed much because he felt full quickly, but he wasn't being poisoned anymore, he should be better.
Though it had been nothing but a week, it could take longer for the effects of quitting vervain to start showing.
-So he is still a killer.- Rosalie's words got Alice taking in a deep breath, she loved her sister, but sometimes even Alice wished she could punch her.
-Well, it's not like he can just switch diets over night, that's not how it works.- Alice said.
Did Rosalie seriously expect him to just start feeding off of animal blood out of the blue? He'd been feeding off of human blood for over a century, switching diets wasn't gonna be easy were he to decide to abide by their lifestyle.
Rosalie didn't understand because she's never tasted human blood, she never had to struggle to switch one blood for the other.
It was the same as when humans tried to switch diets, they had to start bit by bit for it to be easier, and even then they struggled, changing habits required effort and time, it wasn't an overnight thing.
Plus, there was the fact that right now human blood was what he needed most, he needed strength, and it wasn't as if he were the only vampire who fed off humans.
The Cullens were friends with vampires who fed off of humans, so what made Jasper so different that Rosalie felt the need to throw so much hate at him?
Meanwhile, Carlisle wasn't sure why, but he was starting to have the feeling Alice knew more than she was giving away, something about her words didn't make sense.
Alice said Volterra hadn't exactly been a happy place for him, what did she mean by that? He could have easily left if he had wanted to, Carlisle left, Eleazar left, anyone who wanted to leave could very much do so, yeah, the Volturi would keep a particularly watchful eye on them, but they wouldn't bother them.
So that begged the question, why was it different for this one? What had he done to get the Volturi to tag him as a rogue vampire who was being hunted down?
-Alice, who is he exactly?- He found himself asking, who was this person that had mobilized the Volturi into hunting him down? Who was this person who apparently held curiosity over their diet?
Alice's sudden avoidance of eye contact told him he wouldn't like the answer.
Meanwhile, Alice took in a deep breath, hoping against hope for them to not explode.
He was good, if they just gave him a chance.
Then she spoke.
-He's the one with the muzzle.
~
The one with the muzzle.
Alice's words froze the atmosphere.
The one with the muzzle.
The Cullens had seen him a total of three times, but enough to know he was bad news.
He was the one who killed Bree.
The empath.
-He's-
-He didn't want to kill Bree.- Alice was quick to cut off whatever Edward might have been aiming to say.
She needed them to understand something.
-You were there, you saw it, he hesitated, that's because he doesn't kill children, that was his condition to join the Volturi, that he would never be asked to kill someone under 18, he hadn't killed a child ever since, until Jane decided to be an ass about it, and he couldn't disobey, not in public, that wouldn't bode well for the Volturi's reputation.
And him .
-But he still killed her, he still went on and killed a child. Feeling bad or being sorry doesn't suddenly exonerate him, that girl is dead and will stay dead, because of him.- Rosalie told as a statement of fact.
Alice scowled at that, she knew Rosalie was entitled to her opinion, didn't mean she liked people bad mouthing Jasper.
It wasn't his fault, he did it to preserve his life, even if he had spoken against Jane Bree would have still died, be it at the hands of Demetri, Alec or Jane herself.
She would have still died.
-You saw him with Renesmee, he was nice to her. He even told Aro about Caius' secret visit to Forks, he worried Caius might end up doing something drastic and killing a child who had done no wrong.
-Pretty sure that's called loyalty, not something he did from the kindness of his heart.- Rosalie refuted, crossing her arms over her chest, it didn't matter what Alice said, it wouldn't change the fact that the guy was a bastard, he killed a child.
A child!
And he tried to kill Alice! Why couldn't she see he was definitely bad news? That a man who lifted his hand at her was not worth it? He killed a child and hurt her, how could she trust him? Because he was her soulmate? Please, the world wouldn't be that twisted so as to give her, her, some psycho for a mate.
It wasn't possible, it couldn't be.
-No, that couldn't be further from the truth, he was the one who would end up losing the most by telling Aro, not Caius, him.- Alice was quick to defend, Rosalie gave her an skeptical look.
-How so?
Silence.
And then.
-He wasn't allowed to go outside without Aro's permission, he couldn't go out in general, he couldn't leave with others, be it Caius or Marcus or just about anyone from the Volturi, he couldn't leave Volterra, not without Aro's direct permission.
The more Alice spoke about him the more things stopped making sense. Who was he exactly?
-No one was to be allowed to see him unless strictly necessary, if he went outside without permission he was risking being seen and potentially recognized, Aro didn't want that, he didn't want to lose his ace under the sleeve nor did he want for people to find out he's been keeping him alive.
Alice's words…
Who exactly was that guy? Why would Aro go through so much trouble to keep him hidden? An empath was his ace under the sleeve? People could recognize him? Was that why he wore a muzzle? To hide his face? Who was the guy? Why were the Volturi after him and so adamant on hiding him?
-Alice… who is he exactly?
-... The Major.
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.
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The Major.
The Major.
The Major. She says. The Major.
He had been the personification of sheer brutality and bloodlust. Insatiable in battle and with a desire for destruction and chaos that could make the South tremble.
Had been the most feared and ruthless individual in the vampire world, the most lethal of their species. He had been a dangerous and feral vampire who had never, not even once, lost a fight; he trained and led armies of newborns that he slaughtered himself when he saw it fit. He fought in the Southern Wars for territory, slaughtering thousands of humans and vampires alike in his wake. He was well known for his strange ability to subdue an entire army without lifting a finger.
The death and destruction that he had caused in his wake was still, to this day, one of the worst things to ever be recorded in vampire history. And while the Volturi had tried to put an end to those wars and him, The Major was known for having annihilated one of Aro's armies, on his own, having come close to slaughtering Aro himself.
Some vampires referred to him as "The God Of War" due his terrifying presence in the battlefield, his control over newborns, and his perfect record of victories. He was a monstrous being who existed to leave nothing but death and destruction behind him. His bloodlust bled over the battlefield like a cloak of nightmares that sent armies scattering in terror.
He was the personification of what an actual vampire was meant to be and so much worse. He was the one thing all vampires wished to never come across in their lives.
A demon who's soul had long been lost, who's insatiable bloodlust drove him to lose his humanity, one of the most dangerous creatures to ever walk the Earth.
The perfect killer; Aro had called him once.
But then he disappeared, lots of people thought him dead, and because of it the Volturi had finally seized the South, it took years, but at the end, the vampire wars over territories had come to an end.
And now Alice came and said that the Volturi had managed to get him to join them? Same vampire who almost killed Aro himself? Who's destruction almost exposed vampires more than once? Creating and training newborn armies.
Aro kept him? Alive? An empath, was that related to how he could subdue entire armies without lifting a finger? God, if the fight had broken out none of them would have stood a chance against him.
The Major and the muzzled Volturi were the same, same vampire that Alice has been meeting for over five months now.
Alone.
Carlisle felt like he was about to have a panic attack over the idea of his daughter and The Major being in the same place, he knew what that man could do, he knew the temper he could wield, he had a bloodlust that could not be quelled, a knack for killing. He tried to kill Alice.
But Alice was fine, in fact, she had looked happier than she's ever done since she met him, she brought sea glass and sea shells from her prolonged disappearances, not as much now, but she still did, The Major had walked the bottom of the ocean, meant he brought them to her.
And Alice said he was curious about animal blood.
He had seemed to hesitate when Jane had asked him to kill Bree, Carlisle had never seen someone not show immediate obedience towards an order from the Volturi.
But Jane had had to push him with her words.
He had seen the empty eyes.
Had seen the dangerous glare he had sent Jane, how Alec was the one who had to talk to him for him to listen, in all the time Carlisle spent in Volterra he never heard Alec speak, a word at most, Jane was the one who did the talking, she was the one who gave the orders.
Never Alec.
Something didn't make sense here.
Meanwhile, Esme… while she knew she should be horrified over the idea of her daughter interacting with someone as dangerous as The Major, she couldn't bring herself to.
Alice said so herself, he meant no harm, if she said that then Esme trusted her, because as stated before, Esme knew her daughter to be smart, if she trusted this man then she didn't have to worry, plus, Alice could protect herself very well.
And for someone so supposedly dangerous, The Major wasn't all bad, he did bring sea shells and sea glass to Alice, even golden filigree bangles, he had walked the bottom of the ocean every single day to get to her, if he had been truly doing that for the Volturi he wouldn't have walked the bottom of the ocean, he could have easily gotten himself an airplane.
Bree's death did pain her, but he wasn't at fault, Alice said so herself, he didn't want to kill her, he had just followed orders.
There were also Renesmee's words.
He looks sad.
What kind of life did he even had in Volterra? To not be allowed outside as if he were some kind of prisoner, wasn't he an empath? Didn't that mean killing people might actually cause him pain? How could he stand something so terrible?
And Alice said they should have met in 1948, two years before she came to them, didn't that mean he would have ended up with them too? The Major and an empath in their family…
Esme could care less about who he was, Alice had been happier these past months, it was clear he made her happy, she had known about him for decades, Esme couldn't imagine how that must have felt for her, to watch your soulmate but never be able to reach for them.
It didn't matter who he was, what he had done, if he made Alice happy that's all that mattered, plus, she also remembers when she saw him at the library with Alice.
He had sounded so young, had looked so relaxed, she hadn't been able to see his face, but how was she suppose to see the monster everyone spoke of him as when all she could remember was a young man looking as if he were in his happy place by just laying there with Alice?
Edward on the other hand… he didn't like this, Alice had to be out of her mind to be with a Volturi, ex-Volturi(?), The Major, he had killed thousands, not dozens, not hundreds, thousands, to a point where people believed he had lost his soul.
How could she trust him? So what if he had been expected to meet her? He didn't. He joined the Volturi, whatever she saw of her and him didn't happen, she shouldn't trust him, what if he was using her? What if Marcus saw her attachment to him and the Volturi were exploiting it? Using it to get her to let her guard down, want to go with him back to Volterra? What if all this search for the rogue vampire was a big fat lie?
Wasn't he an empath? Didn't The Major bring armies down without lifting a finger? What if he could somehow manipulate people into doing what he wanted? What if he was manipulating Alice into thinking he didn't mean her harm?
Of course Edward would give the world for Alice to find that special someone, she deserved all the happiness in the world, but this was The Major they were talking about, he tried to kill her! Misunderstanding or not. Edward couldn't trust him, much less when he was/had been(?) with the Volturi.
The Volturi who craved to get their hands on Alice's gift.
He couldn't help but doubt this, he couldn't even read the mind of the man with the muzzle, Edward still had trouble deciphering the reason, it wasn't blank like Bella's nor distorted like Charlie's.
His was like attempting to read a smudged book with the occasional glitch.
He had seen him standing in the back at Volterra, saw him staring at Alice after the newborn fight, saw him again staring at Alice after the near fight with the Volturi, and again when Caius came with him.
He had given Renesmee such a strange sticker, he had knelt for her, hadn't reacted as volatile as Edward had expected him to when Renesmee touched the scars on his hand.
Even if he wanted to be against this with his whole being even he could see something didn't quite fit here.
But what was it?
Bella for her side… she was thrilled for Alice, a bit worried that the guy might be lying to her all things considered, but Alice was smart, and she had her gift, she would certainly know if he was lying to her.
She didn't see the issue about him having been a Volturi, just because he had been with those people it didn't mean he had to share their morals.
And The Major… she had read about him at some point in one of Carlisle's old books, he sounded terrifying, but if he was with Alice then maybe he wasn't that terrible, Renesmee had said he had looked sad, and he had even given her a sticker.
Maybe he wasn't really that bad, hadn't Eleazar and Carlisle been with the Volturi at some point in the past? Why were they making a big deal out of it with this one? Though, if she gave it thought she couldn't really blame them, the Volturi were after Alice's gift, Edward's and hers.
It would make sense for them to be a bit paranoid towards the Volturi and question their actions no matter how harmless they might seem.
It was like having the enemy suddenly giving you a gift, you wouldn't know whether to trust it to be an actual gift or a bomb in disguise.
But she had seen them in the forest, that love had been real, those gazes, he had looked at Alice as if there was nothing more important in the world but her.
Bella couldn't see how that would be a deception, no one could fake something that intense.
Emmett… he wasn't sure how to feel about this, on one side he was happy that Alice was happy, but on the other hand… well, he wasn't gonna lie, he was both uneasy and fascinated with the idea of The Major being alive, the fact that he had had him infront of him.
The one with the muzzle.
The one who killed Bree within seconds.
Glared murder at Jane.
He who stared at Alice even as the other Volturi left, Emmett had warned him off, pretty sure the guy could flick him like a flea.
The one with the muzzle.
He gave Renesmee that sticker with the Tea-Rex. The Major had a sense of humor.
And he even fixed his Triple-Chess instructions.
If Emmett were to be able to see for himself if he truly meant no harm, he guessed he wouldn't mind befriending him, he needed more friends with better sense of humor that weren't Renesmee and Bella or some of the wolves.
Could he wrestle him? Wrestle an ex-Volturi? The Major? That sounded surreal and like such an amazing feat. He wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, Alice did trust him, so Emmett wanted to be believe she was right, God knows she deserved some happiness, or well, the kind of happiness only a partner could give.
But weren't the Volturi after him? Wouldn't that make him a fugitive?
Rosalie on the other hand… she was fumming, how could Alice trust the friggin Major? An empath? What could assure her he wasn't manipulating her? Reading her emotions so he could know which buttons to push? Couldn't she see how trusting a Volturi or anyone related to those psychos now days could end up coming to bite her in the ass?
Feeding off of animals, bringing her gifts, Rosalie had no idea what else he must he doing to wrap her around his finger, to have her trusting him so blindly, so what if she has been watching him for decades? She didn't knew him personally, she shouldn't trust someone she just met so blindly just because she thought they were soulmates.
What if that man was taking advantage of her? What if he ended up hurting her? The sole idea of it made her venom boil. If he broke her heart she would hunt him down and kill him, she didn't care if he was a Volturi, The Major or friggin God, no one who hurt her family was allowed to live.
No one.
~
Alice couldn't understand what had them all so quiet, though she guessed she couldn't blame them, but she had expected more shouting and hysteria if she was being honest.
-Are you sure he can be trusted?- Carlisle asked, he looked troubled.
-Yes.- Alice assured firmly.
-You do realize this could end bad, right? If the Volturi find out you have been watching them… or if they find out you have been meeting with him even before he left them, you said so yourself, they don't want anyone to know about him.- Carlisle didn't even want to imagine what would the Volturi do if they were to find out Alice had been practically spying on them, or well, not them directly, but the point still stood.
Or that she had been interacting with their "secret weapon", he didn't knew how he felt about that term, nor the fact that the vampire Alice had been seeing and was so head over heels for was The Major, but he trusted his daughter, if she said it was alright then it was alright.
-I know, but Aro won't know, I'm great at warping my thoughts, even with his gift, he won't be able to see anything I don't want him to. And Jasper does great at hiding his scent so as to avoid the potential of Demetri finding him.
-Jasper? I thought his name was Jor?- Emmett wondered out loud.
-No, Jor is a nickname pulled from "The Major" that the Volturi gave him, his actual name is Jasper Whitlock.- Alice wasn't surprised when Bella's head snapped to attention at the name, she was a history nerd after all, Alice was pretty sure Jasper and her would get along just fine, history nerds.
Emmett wasn't far behind, that one was just as obsessed with anything remotely civil war related.
-Jasper Whitlock? As in the Jasper Whitlock?- Bella's excitement got her more than one confused look.
-Holy shit.
-Why does that name sounds familiar?- Edward wonders out loud, a frown plastered on his face, where had he heard that name before?
-He's that Major the history teacher made us write an essay about once, you know, the Texan's cavalry Major?- Emmett supplied, feeling like he was about to explode, because holy shit, the Major who mysteriously disappeared in 1863 was up to this day quite the hot topic among history researchers, and he was alive.
As a friggin' vampire.
A vampire from the Civil War.
-Major Jasper Whitlock; Youngest Major of the Texas' cavalry. Joined at the age of 18 and got promoted to Major two years later. Rumors say he wasn't actually of age when he first joined. He was well liked by his men for his charisma and bravery.
Bella read out loud as she turned her phone's screen to Edward to show him, having wasted no time to look the name up and read it out loud for everyone, she was really excited over this turn of events, he had been a real soldier, how cool was that?
-He disappeared in 1863 while helping evacuate civilians. It was believed that he was on his way to the battle of Galveston when this happened. He was so well liked by his men everyone refused to believe he deserted, that he must have been killed, but his body was never retrieved, and no one ever saw him or heard about him again.- Emmett added like a narrator on a documentary.
-Is this him?- Bella asked, showing Alice the black and white picture on the screen with an expectant look.
-Yes, though his hair is longer now.- Alice conceded, she didn't mention the fact that he also had a dozen scars on his face now and that his gaze was no longer that determined nor proud, but more guarded and haunted.
-Alice's found a cowboy Captain America, or Bucky Barnes.- Emmett whispers, grinning over his own joke, a vampire was frozen in time, and he was an actual soldier from the Civil War, with super strength and super speed.
Captain America, Bucky Barnes.
-This is him?- Esme finds herself saying even though Alice's already confirmed it for Bella, but to be fair she never expected him to look like this, so young, this was the so acclaimed demon without a soul The Major was regarded as?
A handsome young man who couldn't have been older than her own children?
But again, age has never stopped a vampire from being vile, the twins were more than proof of it.
Even now Esme still had a hard time looking at Jane and Alec without feeling a pit in her stomach, wondering how did they end up like that.
But she couldn't picture the muzzled Volturi being this young man , the young man in this picture… his eyes were lively, bright, no evil whatsoever in them, his smirk quite the charming one.
How could this person be The Major? She couldn't see it.
-Alice, was it him the one who asked about the vervain?- Carlisle's question caught Alice's attention.
-No, but it was for him.- At the looks she got she sighed.- They were poisoning him to keep him compliant, not enough for him to notice, but enough to weaken him considerably. They didn't really trust him much.
-Is that why he left? Why they are looking for him?- Esme asks, feeling horrified over what she was hearing, they had been poisoning him? She knew the Volturi had doubtful morals, but she could have never expected them to be so cruel.
-In part, but he also left because he was tired of it all. I think the Volturi are looking for him to eliminate the evidence of their own transgressions. Jane claims that the Volturi don't give seconds chances, he broke several laws.
Something the Volturi took very seriously, because laws were what kept them alive, away from the possibility of humans finding out.
-People wouldn't react well if it got out that the Volturi gave him a second chance. And there's also the fact that he's The Major. You know his reputation, that won't bode well for the Volturi's reputation which has suffered quite the blow after the incident with Renesmee.
That… did make sense.
Of course the Volturi would attempt to hide their own transgressions from the public, that would affect the trust people had in them, the veracity of their verdicts.
The Major being with the Volturi as a secret weapon sounded like the kind of thing that could cause quite the disastrous uproar.
It could destroy the Volturi's reputation beyond repair and by extension destroy their rule over the vampires.
He wasn't a menace to people.
He was a menace to the Volturi.
And neither of the Cullens knew what to think of that, because that made him a new kind of dangerous.
Because he was someone the Volturi would kill for without hesitation.
-I know it's a lot to take in, and I know a lot of trouble might arise, but I won't leave him, I've failed him for far too long, this time around I won't stand back and watch them hurt him. If you don't want to get involved that's fine, I won't hang you for it, I understand, but don't ask me to give him up, because I won't. If it comes to it, I'll just leave with him.
Her words got her more than one alarmed look.
-No!
-Dude, sis, let's not go there, you don't have to leave, there's literally no need for that, I mean, yeah, we would technically be hiding a fugitive, but he isn't exactly Indra 2.0. Right? Those Italian overglorified pricks can go fuck themselves.- Emmett said as a statement of fact.
He didn't want Alice to leave because some overglorified jerks were desperated to get rid of their own crimes to keep up their perfect facade.
-Would you really be alright with him wandering around? Like, would you really be fine with that? The Volturi might not come back, but if they did, would you seriously be willing to stand up for him?- Alice questioned, needing them to solve this once and for all.
To give her an answer on whether she should leave or not.
-I saw you at the library the other day.- Esme's words surprised more than just Alice.- I could tell he truly feels for you, that's enough for me, and if it's true that the Volturi want to get him because of their desire to hide their wrongdoings rather than because he's dangerous then that's all the more reason for me to stand by your side.
Because Esme refused to let an innocent boy get killed or whatever the Volturi intended to do with him because of their own transgressions.
-Like I said, those overglorified jerks can go fuck themselves.- Emmett told as a statement of fact, he refused to let those assholes go anywhere near Alice's happiness, and Emmett's future brother.
Because Emmett would be damned if he weren't to snatch that dude and befriend him.
He would be his friend.
-You said so yourself, he helped Renesmee, in his own way, the least I can do is help him back, plus, I saw you at the forest when it was raining, he didn't seem half bad.- Bella said, she also wanted to help him because it wasn't fair.
That the Volturi had used him, had intended to use him even more, but now where getting rid of him because his sole existence threatened them, not others, them and their corrupted government.
He didn't deserve that.
-You sure about him?- Carlisle asked, one last time despite the fact that he could see just how much Alice felt for this person. Carlisle wanted nothing more but to see his children happy, for them to find the one.
He could have never expected Alice would find hers in one of the most dangerous vampires to ever walk the Earth.
-Yes.
-Then you have my support.- Carlisle says, because Alice was his daughter, and anyone she decided on would also be part of this family.
And he protected his family.
Meanwhile, Alice looked at Edward and Rosalie, both scowling.
-This is madness, but fine, I want to leave it clear though, I'm not doing it for him, I could care less about him, but I won't let you leave with him to God knows where so you can get yourself killed.- Rosalie conceded.
She hated this, she didn't want to risk her life for a killer.
But she could also see Alice was serious about this, she would leave, and that wasn't something Rosalie could allow, she wouldn't have her sister running off with some creep she just met so she can get herself killed.
She was not going to let her sister get killed.
Or worse.
Kidnapped.
With them completely ignorant of her wellbeing.
So if she had to be alright with hiding a friggin' fugitive to keep her sister alive then so be it.
-I'm with Rosalie.- Edward found himself actually agreeing to Rosalie's words for once in his life, because she was right, this was madness, but he couldn't just let Alice go to get herself potentially killed or kidnapped by the Volturi.
He would never forgive himself if something like that happened because he wasn't there to support her.