Mind Reader

Chapter 36

Isla leans agaisnt Emmett in the living room off the foyer. Jasper and Carlisle are sitting on antiheroes couch while Emmett and Isla steak the other. They're all watching the news, Jasper and Carlisle are concerned. The news reporter is speaking as Edward and Bella come in.

"Theories range from a vicious new gang of a wildly active serial killer..."

Emmett drapes an arm around Isla casually and looks at Bella. "Look who survived the dog park," he comments and Isla snorts out some laughter.

"Need something for those flea bites?" Isla jokes and Emmett chuckles from behind her.

"I'm good," Bella replies, "thanks."

Edward looks at the tv screen. "Seattle?"

"It's getting worse," Carlisle claims. "We're going to have to do something."

"Alice still hasn't had any visions about who's done this," Edward claims.

"So we track him down amd lick his bloodthirsty ass," Isla comments, making Emmett smirk proudly. "I'm bored as hell."

"Isla!" Rosalie scolds from upstairs somewhere.

Emmett smirks. "Sheesh such a pessimist."

Edward and Isla look at Jasper, both reading his thoughts.

Newborns, Jasper thinks to the two telepaths.

"I didn't think of that," Isla murmurs. "And I technically still am."

"But yes," Edward adds, "it makes sense."

"Guys..." Bella groans, making Isla smirk.

"Tell us, Jasper," Carlisle instructs.

"It takes more than one of our kind to cause the damage they're reporting," Jasper explains. "They're undisciplined..."

"Rude!" Isla scoffs.

"Not what I mean, darlin'," Jasper says. "Conspicuous..."

"Newborns," Isla finishes.

"New vampires?" Bella muses, puzzled.

"In the first months of after the change," Isla says slowly as Emmett tightens his grip.

"That's when we're at our most vicious, uncontrollable, insane with thirst..." Jasper cuts himself off. "No offense, Isla."

"Eh," she shrugs. "Non taken."

"Something to look forward to," Emmett grins at Bella.

"No one has trained these newborns," Jasper adds, "this isn't random..."

Isla reads his thought and she grimaces. "Someone's creating an army." Jasper nods at his wife.

Emmett rises enthusiastically and he lets go of Isla in the process. "Oh, now we definitely gotta go."

"Wait, an army?" Bella asks. "Of vampires?"

"There hasn't been any newbirn armies in over a centuries that I know of," Carlisle claims.

"There is now," Jasper says as he takes a seat beside Isla and holds her hand. "And they've been created to fight someone."

"We're the only clan even close to Seattle," Edward chimes in.

"Regardless, if we don't put a stop to it, the Volturi will," Carlisle says; everyone knows Isla will be lesbian soon, but no one knows when but Jasper. "I'm surprised they've let it go on this long."

"Maybe they're purposely ignoring it," Edward assumes and Isla arches an eyebrow at the thought. "When we were in Italy... Isla and I read it in Aro's mind. He didn't want me to see but it was there. He wants Isla and Alice to join him. Their gifts while shore up their power and Alice is a mate to one of theirs."

"Which one?" Jasper asks curiously.

"Marcus," Edward replies but he continues. "But he knows alice would never choose him as long as our family is alive."

"But knows Isla needs a break from the constant Bella drama," Rosalie sneers from upstairs.

"An army could solve that for him," Edward adds, ignoring Rosalie with ease.

"We can't wait two weeks for graduation;" Bella suddenly says, "you have to change me now..."

"You'd be a liability as a new, newbirn," Jasper says, adding one more new to make it a point that Isla is ready for this kind of action. "Unable to control your instincts. An easy target. Isla has been training with me and Emmett, plus the Volturi guard. She's ready."

Carlisle places an empathetic hand on Bella's shoulder. "There's also your father to consider. And your mother. How terrible it would be for them if you suddenly disappeared.?"

"What about Isla?"

"My family's dead, and wolves," Isla says. "They don't care." She looks at Carlisle. "We are going to kick somebody's ass, right?"

Emmett throws his arms up. "What she said!"
........

Isla returns home after a casual stroll through town with a flier in her hand saying, Have You Seen Me? It's of a missing teen from Seattle named Riley Biers. A woman, possibly his mother, handed it to her and asked her to please call with info. Isla said she would.

She placed the flier on the coffee table in the upstairs living room. She sits beside Alice.

"How are you handling having a vampire king as your mate?" Isla asks.

"It's scary but exciting," Alice admits. "Carlisle wants to talk to me when he gets back from his hunt. I'm scared. What if he hates me?"

"Carlisle would never hate you, Alice," Isla coos as Carlisle quietly climbs the stairs. "That man loves you so much, you're his daughter. You can't help who your mate is."

"She's right," Carlisle says, making them both gasp. "I don't hate you. Alice, dear, lets go talk in my study."

Isla goes to her room and she climbs up and straddles Jasper in bed, she eyes his shirtless body and she kisses him deeply. The empath growls at her aroused emotion and he flips to where he's hovering over her and he rips her shirt off.

"Woohoo! Go Jas... Ow!" Emmett suddenly yelps.

Jasper chuckles a little before quickly removing his and Isla's pants, and he dives right in.