Two stories updated in one day, woot! I had to watch the movie, before I forgot a lot of what happens- hense all the stalling chapters. :P Anywhoot... Enjoy! XD
Pulling up to the house, Jasper rounds to the back, where we pull into the garage, and I hop out of the car, rounding into the house, Jasper laughs as he follows, my bag in hand as he and I round into the living room. "Lily!" Jennifer rushes me, jumping into my arms, practically bulldozing me over as Garrett roars in laughter behind her, Emmett standing beside him, doing the same as I groan, lifting myself off the floor on my elbows.
"Hi, Jenni." She giggles at me, climbing off to stand, pulling me to my feet beside her.
"I missed you." She wrinkles her nose at me, Garrett comes up behind her, placing a gentle hand around her shoulder, but I notice how she winces, causing me to frown.
"What's wrong with your back?" I ask, causing everyone to go quiet, and my frown deepens, looking at Jasper, who is pointedly look away from me. "Jasper?" He refuses to budge, so I look at Jennifer. "What's wrong with your back?" I demand.
"It's…" Garrett places his hand on my sister's shoulder, and I look at him.
"She was on Emmett's back, when we were going after Victoria. We were on her tail, when she jumped the border, and before any of us could stop him, Emmett crossed. Paul came at him, managed to clip Jennifer across the back, when he sent Emmett flying into a riven." Esme answers, stepping up to Jennifer's side, and I feel anger flood my veins.
"That. Bastard." I hiss, turning towards the front door, when Jennifer grabs my arm, stopping me.
"I'm fine! It's just a little sore- I didn't even bleed." Jennifer says, looking into my eyes, causing me to sigh.
"Has he at least apologized?" I demand, causing everyone to look away again, and I shake my head. "We have school in the morning, I'm going to bed." With that, I stalk up the stairs, entering Jasper and I's room, where I shower, dressing in a blue tanktop, and black sweatpants, before crawling across the king sized bed, and slip under the covers. Jasper is there, a few moments later, one hand carding through my hair, the other is around my waist, and within moments, I am fast asleep.
The next morning, Jasper, Jennifer, and I ride to school in the back of Edward's Volvo, Bella in the passenger seat, we'd talked about her entire trip, to see her mother, which to me, was more dramatic than my trip to meeting Grace, Peter, and Charlotte. We pull up to the school, where Edward parks, looking over at Bella. "Do you regret going?" He asks her.
"No." Bella shakes her head. "It was really great, seeing my mom." She sighs, looking out the windshield. "Just really hard, saying goodbye."
"It doesn't have to be goodbye." With that, Jennifer and I are out of the car, Jasper following to give them privacy, the three of us start up to school, Bella and Edward follow closely. I freeze in place on the sidewalk, seeing Jacob leaning against his motorcycle, Paul is standing closely behind him, causing me to stalk up to him, Jasper and Jennifer closing in on me as I glare up at Paul's face, he nods towards the treelines. The three of us follow him, where we stop just inside the trees, Jasper staying further back as Jennifer links her arm through my own, and Paul stops, a few feet away with his back turned.
"I see you're both feeling better. Still hanging around those bloodsuckers." Paul hisses, turning to us.
"We do live with them." Jennifer states.
"I know. Your mother isn't too thrilled about that." He answers.
"My mother lied to us! Kept secrets from us!" Jennifer hisses, pointing at him, but I pull her back a bit. "I'd rather live with them, than be anywhere near you mutts."
"God, you even sound like this." He laughs snidely, looking over at me. "Is that how you speak, too?"
"Right now, I don't even want to hear your voice, let alone see your face." I snarl, clenching on of my hands into a fist. "I have a reminder of my trust you, on my body, and will for the rest of my life." I point out, causing him to flinch, his eyes narrowing as he stalks towards me, getting less than 2 inches from my face.
"You act like that's my fault! You're the one that got too close!" He hisses, causing me to grind my teeth.
"You went after one of my best friends. You were acting like a arrogant, hot headed, bastard." I growl at him.
"And your friend reacted without thinking. You want someone to blame, blame yourself for not calming her down. You were a pansyass bitch, pining over a bastard, who left you because you weren't good enough." He answers, before I can even think about what I am doing, my fist going flying into his nose, sending him back across the ground, with two sickening snaps, one from his face, and one from my hand. I let out a cry, cradling my hand to my chest, and Jasper is at my side, grabbing my uninjured hand to pull me close.
"Breath, darlin. Just breath, we need to go get this taken care of." He caresses my face, Jennifer kicks some dirty onto Paul, who is on the ground, holding his nose, which is crooked, and bleeding profusely. Starting towards the building, Jennifer hurries ahead to get the keys from Edward, while Jasper lifts me into his arms, chuckling to himself. "Darlin, let this be a lesson. Stop punchin' people." I let out a mirthless laugh, glaring at him as I cradle my, more than likely, broken hand to my chest. Once back at the house, Carlisle bandages and braces my hand, confirming that it is, in fact, broken, causing Jasper to start roaring in laughter, Jennifer had stayed behind to go to classes, for once, and Carlisle deems it appropriate to stay home if all I'm going to do, is lose my temper, and punch people.
"I have to go to the hospital now, so try not to break, or damage anything else." Carlisle taunts, walking out the door, leave Jasper, myself, and Esme in the living room, Rosalie and Emmett are working in the garage, on some cars- more like Rosalie's working, and Emmett's just hanging around her, I heard Emmett laughing out in the garage. Hopping up from the couch, Jasper follows me as we walk outside, to the garage (which was more like the storage shed, converged into a garage, because Alice and Pandora have the actual garage as their bedroom now), where I hop up on the hood of the yellow porsche, watching Rosalie bend over the hood of Emmett's jeep, working on the engine, while Emmett leans over the side, watching as he hands her tools. Emmett looks up at me, grinning as he eyes the cast around my hand, while Rosalie smirks up at me.
"What'd you do now?" She asks.
"I punched a werewolf. Broke his nose too." I grin, holding up my hand. "My trophy."
"Hell yeah! Now, that is awesome." Emmett laughs, while I shake my head, and look over at Jasper, who leans on the hood beside me, arms crossed over his chest.
"Which one?" Rosalie asks, causing my grin to stretch, and Emmett raises an eyebrow at me.
"Really?" He chuckles.
"Yup." I nod.
"Which one?" Rosalie asks again.
"Say it!" Emmett is practically jumping.
"Paul. I punched Paul." I answer, causing Emmett to hoot, throwing his head back, laughing while Rosalie smiles at me.
"Now that, I have to agree with, was awesome." She shoots me a wink, while Jasper laughs, and I stand, crossing over to the counter, to get a closer look at Rosalie's work, Jasper following. Hopping up on the marble counter, I watch as Rosalie reconnects some wires, or other, slight curiosity filling me.
"Aren't you two supposed to be off, at college?" I suddenly remember, causing Emmett and Rosalie to laugh.
"We've been there, done that so many times now, we're just telling people we're off at college, and hang around here." Emmett explains, causing me to nod, in realization.
"What about you?" Rosalie looks at me. "You have, literally forever now, to go to college. Gonna go, right out of high school?" She asks.
"Well…"I glance over at Jasper, who steps between my legs, and kisses me, wrapping his arms around my waist, while I let out a light laugh. "I believe that Jasper and I are going to rent a house near a campus, and live together. But, that's just one option we've talked about." I explain, looking over Jasper's shoulder, to Rosalie, who smiles brightly at me.
"Yeah! Get get, Jazz!" Emmett catcalls, causing my cheeks to flush, burying my face in Jasper's chest. "Who knows, with her magic, maybe you two can actually have kids." I feel my blood freeze at Emmett's words, stiffening as Jasper tenses in my arms, and silence falls over the four of us.
"Emmett, you idiot." Jasper growls, pulling away to glare at his brother.
"Did I say something wrong?" Emmett wonders aloud.
"No. No, you didn't." I answer quickly, shaking my head, but Jasper just caresses my face, lifting it as tears burn in my eyes, and he presses his lips to my own, tenderly.
"We talked about this, darlin. Sheryl had said it was possible-"
"But, it's not, Jasper. Not with my condition." I cut him off, the two of us speaking quietly, though I know that Rosalie and Emmett can hear us.
"Condition?" Rosalie asks, setting a wrench aside to look at us, causing me to sigh, dipping my head to rest it on Jasper's shoulder.
"Lilith and I would be able to have kids, there's a spell that makes it possible, and not dangerous to her, or the child. But," Jasper strokes my hair, pressing his lips to my forehead.
"I can't have kids." I finish for him, looking over at Rosalie and Emmett. "I have medical condition that makes my uterus hostile, so even if my chosen partner wasn't a vampire, I would still, never be able to have children of my own." I explain, causing Rosalie's eyes to fill with venom, and she smacks Emmett upside the head, before I jump down, and look up at Jasper, who nods before taking me in his arms, and rushes from the house, where we end up at our treehome. Once inside, Jasper pauses, causing me to look up at him in confusion.
"Stay here." He says, disappearing before reappearing a few seconds later. "We're going back, now." He grabs my arm gently, and I follow him out the front door, frowning.
"But, I want to stay in the house. Jasper, what's going on?" I ask as he pauses, looking down at me.
"An unfamiliar scent. I'm going to get you back to the house, and then I'm going to take Emmett, and we're going to track it." With that, he lifts me into his arms, running back to the Cullen's, where he drops me off in the livingroom, pressing a quick kiss to my lips, before disappearing. A few hours later, Bella is sitting beside me, Edward having been brought her here, due to an unfamiliar scent in her house, Alice sitting on the other side of her, Pandora on my other side, Jennifer is standing a few feet from us, Garrett's arms around her waist, her back pressed to his chest. The door opens with Jasper and Emmett entering the house, Jasper walks over to me as I stand, he pulls me into his lap as he sits where I previously had, and Emmett walks over to where Rosalie is standing, wrapping his arm around her waist.
"It's the same scent, as the one from Lilith and I's house." A thrill shoots down my spine, as he says the words Lilith and I's house, dread quickly following it at the words, the same scent, meaning that someone is checking up on us.
"Who is it? Someone we know?" Carlisle asks Edward.
"This stranger, neither Jasper nor I recognized his scent." Edward answers.
"A nomad passing through? Esme offers, worry in her eyes.
"A passerby wouldn't have left Bella's father alive." Rosalie says, looking down, deep in thought.
"The scent, it disappeared about 5 miles south of Bella's house." Jasper states.
"Same as our house." I murmur, biting my bottom lip as everyone glances at me. "This was more than chance, and definitely not coincidence."
"Someone's orchestrating this." Carlisle states.
"Victoria?" Bella asks, the name causes dread in my stomach.
"I would've seen her decide." Alice shakes her head, glancing at us both.
"Unless she's using a front, letting someone else decide." I state, causing the others to look at me.
"I would've seen that too." Alice answers.
"Has to be the Volturi." Edward says, at this, Bella's head snaps up, worry clear in her gaze.
"I don't think it's the Volturi either. I've been watching Aro's decisions too." Alice provides, causing me to frown. She's stretching herself, it's going to cause holes in her visions. I think towards Edward, who looks at me, frowning as he nods.
"So, we keep looking." Emmett reasons.
"We'll also take shifts, guarding Bella at her house." Carlisle states.
"Another protection detail?" Rosalie demands.
"I'll stay with Bella at her house." I state. "They're also after me, so this way, you all don't have to be spread so thin."
"No, she's right." Bella says. "You can't protect me, watch my dad, and Lilith, and search for the intruder."
"And for Victoria." Rosalie states.
"And keep yourselves fed. It's too much." Bella adds.
"What would you have us do?" Edward asks, causing Bella and I to share a glance, before I swallow thickly. "No." Edward growls.
"What?" Esme asks, her voice is soft, full of worry.
"No." Edward snarls at me.
"What about,"I ignore Edward's warning snarl. "the wolves?" A few hours later, I'm standing beside Jasper and Edward, while Bella and Jacob walk out of her house, Charlie having left earlier, for work.
"Who ever it was, left he stink behind. We'll know it if we cross it again." Jacob states, shrugging a bit. "We'll handle it from here."
"We don't need you to handle it." Edward answer, monotoned.
"I could care less what you need. I'm in this for Bella, and for Lilith." Jacob growls back.
"All right," Edward shakes his head. "we're done here."
"No, you're done here." Jacob answers.
"Stop!" Bella calls, getting in between them, I grab Jasper's hand as he goes to defend Edward. "I'm tired of this. From now on, I'm Switzerland, okay?!"
"Thank god, I was about to smack them both." I groan.
"SHUT UP!" All three yell, look at me, causing me to shrink back a bit in Jasper's arms. Of course, Edward hated the idea, and Jasper wasn't too thrilled, but it wasn't about rivalry anymore, it was about what was best for Bella, about Charlie's safety, and what was good for myself. In the days that followed, Paul, Jennifer, and myself got acquainted, on an… uneven ground of trust, plus Bella and I got them to at least try to work together. The wolves took over, so the Cullens could hunt, there was no way it was an easy alliance, but it got a bit easier, when my brothers and sisters started to join, having heard about the danger that I, and possible Jenni, were in. Sheryl hadn't tried to contact either Jenni or myself again, which was good, that's what we wanted, but we didn't get to talk to our siblings much because of it. Jason had gotten his powers, so had Angel and Ricky, leaving Winnie, and Sam to be the last of the coven members to get their powers, and Melody had found her mate, a Faerie named Patrick, but Mary was stick holding out for her one. They had all grown since I'd last saw them, making me a bit lonely, but it was for the best, they had their mom, and they had their pleasant life, they didn't need to know about what Sheryl kept from them. Hopefully, everything would end, just as smooth.
What do you think? I'm keeping you up to date with her family members, aren't I? ^-^ Anyway, I felt like punching Paul. Well, two reviews for a new chapter, that will probably be out soon. Hehe!