Was I That Gullible

If I Ruled The World!

Alice was raging mad, those idiots not only let Alistair go but had the chance to take Jasper down and didn't! Why were they all telling her he was dangerous, he was 'The God of War', she knew he was no one, he was weak, pathetic and broken! She knew this because she had done that to him, she refused to believe Edward's tales about Jasper and Bella being together, physically.

She conveniently forgot seeing them together in Volterra, forgot they held the Volturi to ransom. She refused to believe he was whole once again, it had taken her sixty years to break him and that bitch fixed him in just under three! Impossible! Unbelievable! No, it was all lies as far as Alice was concerned, just scare tactics, probably that fool Peter's doing.

In all this Alice forgot several key points,

1, She could see neither Jasper or Bella!

2, How had Alistair gotten so close, then disappeared from her visions again?

3, That her men were not trustworthy and could have given away her plans.

Alice like all megalomaniacs was arrogant! She thought herself all-powerful, had not the Romanians fallen and soon the Volturi brothers would join them. No, she was sure that it was just a rouse and of no importance to her plans. She would deal with them after she killed Marcus at Los, after all, they were here and not in Greece helping him!

WITG

Things were good between Jasper and Bella, he wanted it to stay that way. She had informed him she would not be taking charge of their relationship, but they would do it together! Like normal couple do, humans and vampires alike. Compromise Bella had told him, that's what it all came down to, finding that choice between them, not her way or his, but theirs.

This was all new to him and he had never been so happy, no orders, no demands, but plenty of 'What do you think?'. The only fly in the ointment was Charlotte, he had mentioned it to Bella. They agreed to text Peter and tell him to get her off the island before they returned. Where they didn't care, but not there, neither was ready for that shit at the moment!

Peter knew something more had happened, his gift was working overtime now and whenever his thoughts turned to Jasper, Charlotte's face swam into view! What had she done? What was so bad that they wanted her gone? He set off in search of his mate and some answers,

"Char? Your packin'! Why suga'? What's goin' on?" he pleaded,

Charlotte looked scared he had thought, just like she did when we first left Maria, what was scaring her now, this badly?

"I have to go, they will be returnin' soon, won't they? I can't be here, I did ..., I was scared ..., I should have told you! I made a huge mistake! I still am, the more I've tried to cover it up, the worse it's become. I've ruined everythin'!" she said sobbing and throwing stuff into a case,

"Stop! Tell me everythin' Now Charlotte!" Peter demanded and wished he had not,

As the whole story poured forth and he stood looking at his mate in horror. Why? Was he not enough protection for her? Had she thought him inadequate? The events of that day and all the days after flew through his mind. He knew it was not sexual, there was never anything like that between them, but he saw now, why the placement of her bite was so important.

To others, that showed he belonged to her. Before he left them, they were always together, Char walked between them all the time and gave off the appearance of having two mates, two protectors! How had they not seen it? Well, because they never thought to look closer! Alice probably assumed the bite was Maria's or didn't care.

But when Bella heard Jasper say, Charlotte could have taken his head that day, she saw it right away and Peter knew all Jasper's problems with Bella had been compounded by Charlotte. He knew they were meant to leave, but let her sway him, by saying that Jasper and Bella's relationship was different. They had already formed a bond and didn't need to reaffirm it again as vampires. She was afraid, afraid that Bella would ask Jasper whose mark that was, where hers was meant to be?