Out of the Dark & Into the Light

Chapter 8

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Out of the Dark & Into the Light
A/N: This story is written as a collaboration by both oXx Bellisma Italiana xXo and Katara Melody Cullen. If you have any questions, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note at the bottom of the chapter. We hope that you enjoy the story and look forward to reading your reviews. - B
Chapter 8
(Crystal's POV)
I had just woken up and finished taken a shower before I brushed my teeth and had gotten dressed. I had chosen to wear a midnight blue corset, with a black skirt and black and blue high tops. My hair was pulled into high ponytail with curls falling pass my shoulders.
I walked out of my bedroom and down the stairs and into the living room where I knew everyone was waiting.
"Good morning." I said to them cheerfully.
"Good morning." Everyone told me back.
Jasper approached me and wrapped me in his arms, placing a gentle kiss to my forehead. "Did you sleep well, Angel?" He asked in a soft voice.
I pulled back slightly to look into his beautiful amber eyes and nodded. "The best I've ever had and I know that it was because of you. So, thank you." I rose up onto my tip toes and pressed a chaste kiss to his luscious lips that sent a current of electricity into my body and butterflies to erupt in my stomach.
"Are you hungry, dear?" My mother asked me from the arm of Daddy's chair as he said with a medical book in his hands.
I shook my head no, since I wasn't really hungry right now. I looked over the rest of the family and noticed nearly everyone was here except for Edward. He must have gone to go pick up Bella or something. I looked to where Jasper had been sitting near the window at I noticed that he had been reading a book on the Civil War. Knowing all that I had learned about him, he was probably looking for inaccuracies or something since there also was a highlighter and pen sitting on the cushion on the bench that pressed against the large bay window.
Alice was sitting on the couch with a laptop on her lap probably shopping online while Emmett was on the floor against the couch playing a video game, which looked to be Halo, while Rosalie was reading a mechanical magazine that had the picture of a Ferrari on the cover.
My mother was looking at some different colors of painting splotches, while my father was sitting next to her helping her out as he occasionally looked up from his medical book.
I walked over to where Jasper had once been sitting and pulled him down to sit him beside me, but he just pulled me into his lap and kissed me lightly on the lips and picked up his book as he continued his reading over my shoulder.
I looked at Alice when I noticed her eyes glaze over; I presumed she was having one of her visions.
"Hey Alice what did you see?" I asked her. Curiously, tilting my head to the side in intrigue
She just smiled at me and quirked a brow with a sly smile. "I didn't know you could sing, and play the piano."
I looked at her from under my lashes as I bit my lip. "You never asked, but what does that have to do with your vision?" I asked.
"I just saw you playing the grand piano in the music room and you were singing this beautiful song." She told me with a wistful smile on her face.
I just nodded my head at her."Jasper, can you let me go? I wanted to go make myself something to eat." I asked him softly.
He nodded and let me go, but kept my one hand interlaced with his as he followed me off into the kitchen.
"You do know that you didn't have to follow me, right?" I smirked up at him.
"I know, but I wanted to, darlin'." He told me and wrapped an arm around my waist.
I smiled at him and opened the fridge and pulled out some cream cheese and went over to the pantry and pulled out a bagel. I toasted the bagel lightly a put cream cheese on it.
I sat down on the stool, and ate my cream cheese bagel which was delicious by the way.
When I was done, Jasper took my paper plate and threw it in the garbage.
"Thank you, love." I told him and kissed him on the cheek.
"You're welcome, darlin'." Jasper drawled out. "Come on, Angel. I want to show you something." He told me and took my hand into his and pulled me into a room that held a piano in it.
"Wow, now I know why Alice saw me singing and playing the piano." I told him and happily ran my hand over the gorgeous grand piano that was in front of me.
Jasper sat on the bench and pulled me down next to him as I ran my fingers gently over the delicate keys in front of me before I placed my hands over the appropriate keys of the piano and started to play a song I wrote twenty years ago...
'Slow Me Down'
rushing and racing and running in circles
moving so fast I'm forgetting my purpose
blur of the traffic is sending me spinning
getting nowhere
my head and my heart are colliding chaotic
pace of the world I just wish I could stop it
Try to appear like I've got it together
I'm falling apart
save me
somebody take my hand and lead me
slow me down
don't let love pass me by
just show me how
cause I'm ready to fall
slow me down
don't let me live a lie
before my life flies by
I need you to slow me down
sometimes I fear that I might disappear
in the blur of fast forward I falter again
forgetting to breathe
I need to sleep
I'm getting nowhere
all that I've missed I see in the reflection
pass me while I wasn't paying attention
tired of rushing, racing and running
I'm falling apart
tell me
oh won't you take my hand and lead me
slow me down
don't let love pass me by
just show me how
cause I'm ready to fall
slow me down
don't let me live a lie
before my life flies by
i need you to slow me down
just show me
i need you to slow me down
slow me down
slow me down
the noise of the world is getting me caught up
chasing the clock and i wish i could stop it
just need to breathe
somebody please
slow me down
When I was done singing, I noticed that everyone was piled into the room, including Edward and Bella. I saw Rosalie, Alice, Emmett, my mom, and dad smiling at me. I lightly smiled back, and looked up to see Jasper looking down at me lovingly.
"That was beautiful." My mother told me.
"Thank you." I said to her humbled by everyone's praise.
"Hi Bella, it's nice to see you again."I told her nicely.
She just smiled at me and waved her hand as to say 'hello'.
I noticed Edward standing awkwardly beside her and was doing his best to look anywhere besides at me. I could tell that he was slightly embarrassed about what had happened during our 'mock fighting' yesterday and I could tell that there was an underlying emotion hiding behind his outward emotions.
"Hey Edward?" I managed to get his attention. "Can we step outside and talk for a moment?"
His eyes widened slightly and he looked over at Jasper in anxiety with a sense of alarm, anxiety and urgency. Jasper clutched me tighter to him causing me to look up into his anxious eyes filled with worry, concern and anger, though the later was obviously more towards Edward.
I placed a soothing hand on his forearm, rubbing calming circles over the fabric of his long sleeved shirt as I pushed all of the calm and adoration that I felt for him in through my fingers.
"It will be okay, Jas." I coaxed him. "Edward and I just need to clear the air. You will know if something goes amiss, though, I don't think it will, and I promise that we will not go too far."
A pained look crossed his face. "But Angel-"
"I can take care of myself, Major." I interrupted him with a stern look in my eyes. "I know that I'm your mate and you only want me to be safe and always in your care, but you need to remember that I was fated to be your mate for a reason and that I am your perfect match in every way, even though since you are the male, you could easily defeat me if you actually gave it your all." I gave him an accusatory look as I recalled yesterday's mock fight between the two of us. "Anyway, this is what I do. I kill bad, unruly vampires for a living. Edward is my brother and I want things to be OK between us. This has to be done. Please, Jay?" I looked up into his beautiful golden eyes and gave him a pleading look.
He sighed and pursed his lips and his eyes flickered towards Alice. "Do ya see anythin' happenin' if she goes to speak with em?"
Alice got that blank look in her eyes as she quickly scanned her future. Finally, she shook her head. "I don't see any problems. They will only be out on the back deck."
His shoulders dropped in defeat and he nodded before looking up into my eyes. "I'll be monitorin' yer emotions, but I will give you two the privacy of not listening in on yer conversations." He stood from his spot next tome and leaned down and pressed a kiss to my temple. "I'll see ya shortly, Angel."
I smiled up at him and ran my fingertips over a particular crescent shaped vampire bite over her left brow and placed a kiss under his jaw before I watched him along with the rest of the family leave the room, aside from Edward and Bella, who was reluctant to leave his side without the guidance from Alice and the insistence from Edward.
Jasper stopped directly next to Edward with his back still towards me as he leaned in to Edward, who was still facing me as he stood in the archway to the music room. "You harm one hair on her head an' you're done for. Got it?" Jasper growled at him.
Edward swallowed thickly and nodded once as Jasper shoulder checked him - not as hard as he could, but just enough to make him rub his shoulder slightly.
I stood from the piano bench and motioned to the two glass french doors that led outside onto the back deck that wrapped around to the front of the house.
He looked back once, as if worried.
"Bella will be fine, Edward. You should be able to trust your family by now to know that they won't hurt her." I reminded him.
He snorted. "Obviously your loving parents hadn't told you about how Jasper nearly drained her dry at her eighteenth birthday party."
I narrowed my eyes. "Edward, that wasn't his fault, and yes, I did hear about it. My loving parents - as you so nicely put it - told me everything and even I was able to realize that that wasn't Jasper's fault. It was a result of his amazing gift, which can sometimes be a curse. And if you are going to play the blame game, then you might as well blame yourself for that one. After all, blood lust is an emotion and my mate just happens to be an empath. So, not only was he feeling his blood lust along with six other vampires and one of those six just happens to be the vampire that that particular human's blood sings to. You only made it worse when you pushed her back into a glass table tilled with plates and fancy glass ware. So there shouldn't be any fingers being pointed in any directions, because remember, when you point a finger at someone, there are only three being pointed back at yourself." I quipped, not liking the way that he was pushing the blame off on Jasper for something that he wasn't the complete cause of.
Edward bowed his head in defeat and I could tell that I had gotten through to him. He sighed and nodded, hearing this in my thoughts and confirming that I was right.
"Anyway, I didn't call you out here to rehash past mistakes that happened before I had even come back to join my family." I reminded him as I sat down at the top wooden step that traveled down to the large backyard.
"Something happened yesterday during training and I'm not talking about what happened with us during our mock fight. There is something deeper that caused that I wanted to talk to you about that and see if we can work it out. You are my brother, are you not? And whether you know it or not, I've loved you as if you were my own blood brother ever since I was a baby and my father told me about you. Even if it was during your rebellious period. I was over the moon just as much as any little sister would be when I learned of your return to my mom and dad, but I have a feeling that you don't feel the same." I admitted sadly.
He sighed dejectedly and took the few steps to the wooden deck staircase and took a seat next to me. "No, you're wrong. It's not that at all and I think I owe you an explanation more than anyone." He conceded. "So, here it goes..."
A/N: And so her talk with Edward begins... Anyway, how did you guys like the chapter? All credit for the lyrics to the song that Crystal sang goes to Emmy Rossum! Any ideas on what will happen with the next chapter? Will everything really go as smoothly as Alice thinks? Review!