Was I That Gullible

Acceptance & Vengeance

The rest of the evening was spent talking about plans for the future and swapping email addresses. Promises to keep in touch, that would never happen, but that's what you did when meeting old friends. Jasper was happy to just to bask in the contentment floating around the table.

He was quizzed eventually on his to them, change of name. So he made up a spur of the moment story. How his parents had died tragically in a fire when he was a small child and he was sent to his uncle's to live, he was a Hale being his mother's brother, Rose was actually his cousin not his sister as they had been lead to believe.

The Hale's had thought it easier, when they adopted him. As both were just young toddlers, the same age, actually only one day apart. He fairly recently had found this all out, that he had an older brother called Peter, who'd been sent to another uncle's, who was a Whitlock, being his father's brother.

So when the Hales had died suddenly in a car crash, both Rose and Jasper were fostered by Rose's Aunt, Esme Cullen. Who was not really related to Jasper, except through marriage, being his uncle's, wife's, sister. Everyone was happy that he had finally found out about his real roots and gained a brother into the bargain.

"The strangest part is the Whitlock's have known the Swan's for three generations, so I'd have met Bella away. She knows my brother Peter quite well!" Jasper finished off by saying and everyone was shocked,

"Wow man, small world!" Tyler mused and everyone agreed,

"It was meant to be! You two getting together, I mean. That's karma for you!" Jess expounded and they all nodded in agreement smiling at the couple.

As the night wound down Bella was glad she'd come, this was a unexpected chance that wouldn't come again. It was great to see everyone, before they all got too much older and differences would be noticed. That was something that played on her mind, would she always be like this or would she age imperceptibly over the years? Would she in twenty years look twenty five instead of twenty and so on?

Would she suddenly become a full vampire spontaneously or Could she ever be changed properly? Might she even die due to the venom already in her body? These were the What If's , Wherefore's and Whenever's, that scared Bella the most. A real and actual , as well as scary fear of the unknown plagued her daily!

Jasper could see, but not feel the change in her emotions and squeezed her hand, pulling her body closer to him, as if to protect her, giving her some much needed comfort for the first time. Bella knew they needed to talk about these things, hell she'd never even said anything to Peter and Char about how she felt.

It was cool outside, but not cold yet, so the couple walked hand in hand slowly back to Charlie's house. They talked about nothing in particular and Jasper loved that, listening to her rambling thoughts on a variety of matters. She had no hidden agenda for him, she expected nothing in return for what she'd done tonight and that threw him. In the past he's always had to pay, one way or another.

WITG

In the attic of an old brownstone in Chicago, a angry, belligerent vampire rued the day he ever met his singer, one Isabella Swan, stupid worthless human. Wishing he had gone with his first instinct and drained her there and then,

"No, I had to prove how strong I was, how in control I was! Then I let that blasted dog goad me into making it a competition between us" he spat out loud,

He should never have let things get so far out of hand, then Alice had to get a vision of Bella and Jasper together! Physically together! Over his dead body would that degenerate ever get his hands on any of his possessions!

"How can he, that filthy barbarian do what I, his better, am unable to?" he demanded to the empty room.

Of the few times Edward had tried to bed a human, it had gone only one way, the death of said human and him falling once more off the wagon so to speak. Causing him to have to hide from the family until his eyes were gold again, so they wouldn't know how weak he really was.