After Time [Twilight Fan Fiction]

12. Depart

12. Depart

Amarillo, TX

December 2010

Peter

I sighed looking over the land outside of the house. Robyn was inside packing and taking a bath before we leave tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

After over a century of thinking he was dead, I just discovered that the man I love is still alive. Robyn has been a blessing since I met her, but she's right. Without Jasper, there's something missing. I've felt since I met her, that something was just hanging over me. I now know it was Jasper's presence. Having just that medal on our date made me feel so much more at ease but it didn't complete it.

I felt bad that Jasper wasn't there to enjoy it.

It was hard to believe that just tomorrow all three of us would be leaving. Robyn was excited but I was nervous.

How was Jasper going to react?

Did he even want us?

While Robyn constantly told me that she would always choose me, I had to think that might not be the case once she was turned. She didn't know Jasper right now so her feelings toward him weren't surfacing. I had to think that once she was turned, that might be a different scenario. I would never stopped them from being together if that's what they chose. I loved them both way too damn much to come between them.

Though in the past few months, I didn't know it was possible to love someone so much. That girl inside the house behind me, owned me, consumed my every thought. She literally was my everything. At least with her, I knew where I stood. She had saved me from not only myself, but a life of loneliness I didn't even realize I was suffering from already.

"Pete?"

I turned to look at Garrett as he approached.

"Yeah?"

Garrett moves to stand next to me.

"Just wanted to know the plan for tomorrow. How are we traveling?"

That was something else I had been thinking about. Yesterday afternoon, I went hunting in preparation for the trip tomorrow. Garrett had planned to hunt tonight so that we're both fully prepared for the trip. Not only that but yesterday, I also went Christmas shopping for Robyn. She won't believe it when she sees it and I also think she'll be a little pissed, but I'd give her the world if I had the chance.

"We're traveling by car. With Robyn, I don't want to travel on foot. If we happen to run across bad territory or something I'd like an easy get away for her that wouldn't put her in danger. It might take a little while, but I'm hoping we're back here by Christmas. I think Robyn would love to be back here for Christmas. The only problem is making sure it's decorated, I've never decorated for the holidays before."

Never really saw the point. Most of the time I spent the holidays elsewhere. I remember one year I spent it in New York hunting and feeling overwhelmed by everything. I just hated spending the holidays alone. If everything goes well, I'll have my two mates here on Christmas and I'll never feel that loneliness again.

"Have you decided how exactly we're going to approach the house? Having nomads on their land, probably will put them on alert."

I shrug. I hadn't really thought about it. Considering this Alice vampire had the gift of sight with visions, she would see us coming a mile away.

"Do you think Jasper ever told her about me?" I risked asking him.

It was a risk because I hated to know that he never did. Then again, he probably was still trying to understand what he felt for me let alone the both of us.