After Time [Twilight Fan Fiction]

Preface

Preface

Peter

My life forever changed when I was around twenty two. It had been a long day then and I was walking back home in the blistering heat of Texas. My fiance, Charlotte, was at home waiting on me. I had just sold a few things in town so I could get us some feed for the horses. Unfortunately, Charlotte was sick. A lot of people were back then. Medicine was not working for her, but she had been stranger lately than before. I was sure she had made it through the worst of it but I could never tell with that brand of sickness.

When I did make it home, it was not something I expected to find. I barely remember those memories after my transformation. It was a good thing I didn't remember much because I had enough to deal with just a few short months later. I was changed into a vampire by none other than Major Jasper Whitlock. Despite being a royal hard ass most of the time, we began a friendship. Though, I didn't realize it was deeper than that until Jasper allowed me to escape. I eventually went back to the compound hoping to find Jasper because I realized too late what he was to me.

In that time period, being gay was not a good thing. Maybe because of the way I grew up, I suppressed my feelings for him, I'm not sure. All I know is I thought Charlotte had been the one for me. I just didn't know that Jasper was my true soul mate in every sense of the word. When I went back, the compound had been destroyed and he was nowhere to be found. I tried searching for him in the neighboring states, but I figured he had been killed in a battle and someone else had taken over Maria's compound.

I eventually cut my losses with Jasper hoping that I might be able to find some kind of peace if Jasper was dead. Being a nomad was boring most of the time and very lonely. Humans were good companionship, but only during a time of feeding. I never changed anyone the entire time I was alone, I didn't see the point. There had been enough newborns in the that army to show me that anyone would hate me for changing them. I suppose getting bored and lonely forced me into New York City with a few contacts that I managed to steal that I dabbed in the stock market. I don't know if it was just luck or if I knew what I was doing, being drawn a certain way. All I know is that in the three years I was there, I became a millionaire. Hard to believe an uneducated vampire could become a millionaire just by messing with the stock exchange. Can't say I wasn't surprised because I was.

I decided to live in Texas; it had been my home as a human might as well live whatever existence I had left. I bought a decent place and called it home, decent being a huge property with horses and land that stretched further than the eye could see. Despite the money at my disposal, I never travled out of the country before in my life. I stayed right in Texas, taking only a few trips a year into New York to check on the stock.

Lubbock, TX

August 2010

It had been a boring day at home. Books didn't appeal to me so I decided that a hunting trip was due early. Most of the time, I just hunted when I felt the need, but occasionally, I got bored. Hunting was a decent excuse to venture into town when I knew it was highly problematic. It didn't help that I was thinking of Jasper at the time. His beautiful blonde hair and those sickening red eyes were always in the forefront of my mind. I might have noticed her if it wasn't for Jasper's face clouding my vision.

For whatever reason, I had been walking around with shades on my face and stopped by an apartment building. I had been thinking that perhaps college might be in my future, at least online where I could actually learn something. The apartments in the district I was walking were mostly for college students and the occasional young adult that couldn't afford the higher priced rent of another apartment. I went inside one that called to me thankful I had put in fresh contacts just before I turned the corner.

I was coming out of the building when I caught a flash of brown hair in my life of sight. I heard her voice and it was the only thing that shoved Jasper's face from behind my eyes.

"Asshole." She muttered.

Her voice cut me like a knife slicing right through all the pain and hurt I ever felt. I must have forgotten myself a long time ago when I resigned to the fact that Charlotte was dead as well as Jasper, but now it was like truely seeing for the first time. I sucked in a deep breath in the same second turning around and staring through my shades. The clouds had released the record rainfall in that moment but I stared at the girl as she stood for the elevator. Leaning against the door, I watched her brown hair pulled back in a ponytail. My eyes followed her every move and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

My Mate.

I just knew despite her being human, she was mine, one hundred percent. Part of me fought that idea because of the pain of Jasper was still very present. Something told me that she was Jasper's mate as well. She was ours now. I didn't understand that logic at all. I never heard of someone having more than one mate at a time. Perhaps it was something that always happened. Maybe it was rare and this was one of those crazy times that it was happening.

With Jasper being gone from this world, this girl was my light in a dark world. I had to know her, find out more about her at any cost. Though I'd learned a long time ago not to force this life on anyone. If I met her, fell in love with her and she with me, and only if this was what she wanted, would I think about changing her. She'd probably be a gorgeous vampire, I could picture it inside my head. When she disappeared into the elevator, I went back inside the building and stood at the elevator discovering she was on the third floor.

With a smirk, I talked to the manager of the building, and by the time I walked out, I was clutching a key to an apartment next to her on the third floor. I ran back to the house with every intention of getting started on the moving process and looking up my contacts about information on three mates. Something told me this was more like a finalization that Jasper was dead but for some reason it didn't feel that way. I had to know more and I know what this meant for not only myself, but for her as well.