Life and Death (J.Whitlock)

Chapter 10- What's wrong with her?

Rose's POV:

Alex lay there deathly still. She wasn't moving and it scared me. I never would of thought that in a million years I would of cared so deeply for anyone outside of this coven. I was meant to hate people. That's what everyone sees and knows. But now looking down at her ice cold body, She was barley breathing. I've never experienced this fear before, I mean I found my mate, dying, scratched up and bleeding to death. Yet this seems to hurt me only more.

I love Emmett, but the feelings I feel towards this person isn't the love I feel for Emmett or the love I feel for the coven. This is something else. I need to tell Carlisle what I'm feeling and maybe he'd understand. What about Charlie, oh god he must be worried sick. Why do I care for her?

"Rose, how is she doing has anything else happened yet?" I looked up my fingers playing with Alex's hair while her head is in my lap. I shook my head at Carlisle and let my eyes wander back down to her sleeping face.

"Carlisle, She's getting worse, I don't understand. Why on earth is she feeling the pain more then I was. Is this a punishment to me. The one time I find someone who is half normal they end up being in pain around me. Is this my fault? What if she wont recover from this? What are we going to tell Charlie, he will be heart broken." My eyes filled up with venom, it pained me even more knowing that I cant even cry for those I care about.

"Rosalie, all we can do for now is wait and hope her current state to improve." Carlisle moved towards the couch and sat on the arm of it behind me and placed his hand on my shoulder and sighed. "The world has no right to punish you Rose. I believe that its testing you, you know that we now have to work even harder for everything that we want. She's not in pain around you. if you realised you are the only one who has been able to calm her down, I believe that the only people who could of saved her from this. From herself. Is you and Jasper. Jasper must have been too worried being able to feel all her pain and everything that it must have been overwhelming him. Good things come with time Rosalie. Don't forget that." Carlisle finished delivering his speech to me and it took me a minute to process It before an idea came into my head.

"Carlisle, you remember the old tales. The one where you have a mate that you love romantically. There was more then one kind of mate wasn't there. There was a third mate which is connected to both mates and completes them all up and they are most protective over the third mate. But that's not Alex because only I feel this type of connection with her and then that means Emmett would also have to feel the same. Which I am 100% positive her doesn't. The coven mate which brings light to the whole coven. It kind of completes the coven. It makes the coven be completed. Makes everyone feel more human. And that one is a potential with Alex but it wouldn't explain why I feel the most protective over her. And then there's the other one.."

"The platonic mate." Carlisle finished my sentence for me. "However Rose there isn't a lot of information on the platonic mate. There has only ever been 2 other platonic mates in the vampire world. I will go to my office and make some quick calls and look through the book about this to see if I can make any other connections." Carlisle gave my shoulder one last comforting squeeze then sped upstairs to his office.

I heard the front door open and then slam shutand two pairs of footsteps. Edward and Jasper have arrived. Jasper was the first into the room and he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the dried blood over her. For a second I thought he was about to loose control so I took her head of my lap and lay it on the sofa and went over to Jasper to grab his arm. "Jasper she's okay. Can you deal with being in here right now? with the blood?" Jasper looked at me and then back over to Alex.

He shook my hand off his arm and started walking towards her. I went to grab his hand again but Edward placed a hand on my shoulder and shook his head. I nodded and stood back just far enough in case I needed to pull Jasper out. I looked towards Edward and he looked sad almost broken. Whatever this girl is she has made a massive impact on all the family and her state is affecting everyone.

Jasper's POV:

The state my beautiful mate is in broke my heart. Dry blood in the corners of her eyes, under her nose and in the corners of her mouth. I walked towards her slowly. I got to her side and knelt by the couch and grabbed her clenched hand in mine. She was in pain and I couldn't take it away from her. I lifted her up of the couch and sat down with her on my lap with her head pressed into my neck. She groaned while I moved her but once I was still she seemed to make herself comfortable and she sighed. Her breath hitting my neck. I looked up to where the others were standing and it appears that Emmett had decided to join us.

"I'm going to see if Carlisle needs my help.Emmett come and make yourself useful and help me as well." Rose spoke as she grabbed Emmets hand and walked out of the room and up the stairs. Edward look concentrated as he tried to read her mind.

"Jasper, obviously Charlie isn't her real father and obviously she has a supernatural father but how much do you know about her father?" Edward came over and sat down next to me placing Alex's feet on his lap.

"Um She told me a little about her father. I believe his name was Niklaus Mikaelson. Original Hybrid and was the strongest supernatural creature. Until this one was born. She's a Tribrid. Witch, Shapeshifter and Vampire. She and her family are different to ours but I'm gathering you know the tales of the Originals. I mean of course you do. They're family is vampire royalty. Even the Volturi are afraid of them. We die to fire and out heads being snapped off. The day walkers die to wood being impaled through the heart or their heart being ripped out. They have blood running through their veins, they can eat, they can cry, they can act like normal human beings. But the Originals are different. Their is one way to kill them but it has been unclear to me what it is. That's not in any book I've managed to get a hold of." I turned towards Edward towards the end of my speech and he looked lost in thought.

"Jasper has she told you anything about her past or and of her family at all." Edward finally answered flicking his eyes back over to me. Of course she hasn't told me anything. I only met her this morning. I get that she's my mate but what if she thinks that I'm taking it too fast.

"Edward I haven't had the chance to talk about family history considering she's been like this for most of the night. However Carlisle might. Remember when he came back from work and he wanted to talk to her about what she's been up to. meaning he knew her from her past. That means-" I got cut off my Edward standing up suddenly.

"That means that Carlisle might be able to help me figure out how to get into her mind and see what's happening. Alright I need to go and see Carlisle and get this sorted out. Are you okay with her by yourself Jasper?" After Edward said the last bit I rolled my eyes and scoffed.

"She's my mate, I'm not going to hurt her." I turned my head towards hers and kissed her on the head and kept there for a while. Edward seemed to get the hint and sped up the stairs.

Finally alone with my mate again. I get that everyone's worried about her but she's my mate and my responsibility. They all have their mates. Emmett has Rose, Enzo has Alice, Carlisle had Esme, Edward and his new found blood bag and mate Bella and now I finally have Alexandria and everyone wants her.

"Jasper, I have some news that might be helpful. Her father is coming into town."