Love Bite

Chapter 15

I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR TWILIGHT

Bella honestly thought she was about to die and could only stare in horror with wide open eyes as Jasper lurched at her in a blur, hands outstretched into claws that seemed intent on ripping into her throat.

She wasn't sure who screamed first; her, or Alice.

In any other circumstance, it might have been embarrassing how high her voice got, but as it was.

"Jasper, NO!" Alice cried, and as Bella's brain registered the impending doom, she reacted without thinking, doing the only thing her panicking mind could manage to make her body do.

Bella dropped like a fucking rock.

She ducked at the last second, and Alice slammed into Jasper with a crack louder than any other thunderclap the storm above could produce as his hands swiped an inch above her head.

Holy shit! Bella gasped as she hit the pavement, jarring her hands against the driveway, and Alice tackled Jasper so hard that they went flying. On her hands and knees, she looked up in horror as the sound of furious snarling.

Alice was fighting Jasper. They were fighting like two wild beasts, hissing and baring their fangs and going at it.

No, no, no, this was not how this was supposed to go!

Hysterical concern for Alice's safety overrode anything else in Bella's brain as she watched them whirling together, clashing in a flurry, Jasper's face twisted up into animalistic violence as he lost himself to his instincts and Alice's screwed up with desperation and a fierce protectiveness...

And fear.

Jasper was the best fighter out of all the Cullens. He had gone to battle with more than his fair share of crazy newborn vampires in his own newborn days, and at heart he was a soldier. The marks littering his body from the scarring of vampire venom were proof of that, and now he was going at Alice as if she were not his wife of fifty years, as if he didn't even know her at all.

And by the way he moved, it was clear that right then, he didn't. He knew nothing more than what his instincts were screaming inside him.

He was really going to hurt her.

"Oh no," Bella whimpered, her heart giving a horrified spasm as she stayed frozen to the concrete.

She watched in terror as Jasper landed flat on his back when Alice shoved him with all her might, yelling at him something that sounded like his name, and stop. To Bella, he had not even hit the ground before he was back up and swinging his hand at her face, unhearing and bellowing in rage. Alice jerked her face back just in time to avoid losing it, but Jasper closed with her too fast for her to get out of the way.

"Alice!" Bella cried as the blonde man vaulted into her, sending dirt flying up beneath the force of his heels as they went sailing through the air again. They crashed through the front porch banister and into the living room window with the sound of crunching wood and shattering glass.

There was a brief moment of silence where all Bella could hear was the rain falling around her, and then the sound of something seeming to explode within the house, and the sound of Alice letting out a high pitched cry rang out.

No, Bella thought desperately. I have to get up. I have to help! I have to do something! For Alice!

But there was nothing she could do as her stomach jumped into her throat when a moment later, Jasper leapt back out of the hole they had left in the window and crouched, hissing like an agitated cobra with eyes blacker than midnight, lost to the monster inside.