Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Eight Pt.2

Chapter Eight - Twilight Zone 
Part Two
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Jasper
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And there she was, all bundled up in the back of the wagon; sitting on Emmett’s lap.

My Bella.

I ran down the driveway to meet them, not even paying attention to the car that was just behind them.  I didn’t care.

Bella literally launched herself at me, and damn near took me down when she flew over the side and into my arms.

I let out a shaky breath; finally I could breathe again.

“God, I missed you.”  I told her, peppering her tear streaked face with kisses.

“I missed you, so much.”  She sniffled and hiccupped.

Emmett was beaming at me when I looked up, and I could tell he was happy I was here.  Alice was much the same way.

“What’s a matter, blackbird?”  I asked, picking her up so that her legs were wrapped around me, and she was shivering so hard that I almost went off entire family for even having her out here.

She still hadn’t answered me, so I went with another tactic.

“Migg’s is on his way here,”  I told her.

“Really?”  she asked as her head came up, and it was the first time I could really see her.  I almost went into cardiac arrest on the spot.

She looked horrible.

“Yeah,”  I told her with a sigh.  “He’ll be here tomorrow afternoon, no more tears, huh.”

She nodded into my neck, but she started shaking harder.  And god I was doing everything in my power not to freak out.  My Bella was a pale as a sheet and like Emmett had said, her eyes were rimmed in dark purple bruising, which made no sense.

Emmett said all she’s done is sleep since she got here.

Emmett jumped off the back and headed towards us with a blanket, I thanked him and wrapped my girl up tight.

I asked her if she wanted to go in the house, but she didn’t answer me.

Emmett looked at me with a watery smile,  “She’s asleep again, bro.”

And I almost lost it.

I didn’t say anything else, I couldn’t, anything I would say right now would be nasty and unfair, so I just carried my sleeping girl up the stair to our room and shut the rest of the world out until I could think about what to do next.

I laid her down in that gigantic bed and just held her.

I had no idea what was going on or why she became ill so suddenly.  I couldn’t tell why it seemed that every time this girl entered my life that the world comes crashing down around me.

All I knew was that something was seriously wrong with Bella, and I was gonna do what ever was in my power to make it better again.

I had no choice.

I couldn’t live without her now.

~~

I must have dosed off for a bit cause when I opened my eyes the sun was lower in the sky.

I jerked up, Bella was gone.

I started to panic, throwing on my pants and digging through the sheets for my shirt.

“She’s downstairs with Em,”  Alice’s voice drifted to my ears.
I whirled around to see her sitting daintily on the edge of the chase lounge that was next to the bed.

I must have had the stupidest look on my face, because she laughed at me.

“What a face.”  She stated.

“Well, if Bella’s downstairs what are you doing here?”  And I had to bite my tongue, because even I know I sounded like a dick just then.

She shrugged her shoulders,  “I thought I come check on you, Carlisle on the phone, but then he wants to speak with you.”

“Is Bella alright?”  I asked and Alice hung her head.

“I don’t know Jazz, but she says she’s feeling better,”  she told me with a fake smile,  “she has her color back and just seems lighter.  Maybe she just really missed you.”

I really wished I could believe that.

“Alice, who was in the car earlier?”

Alice’s eyes widened and her face visibly paled at the question.

“I forgot to tell you, um… Garrett invited his cousin’s to come early.  But their not staying with us I promise.”  She rushed out.

I couldn’t understand the fuss, I liked all of Garrett’s boys, they were all really well behaved.

“Oh, yeah, which ones.”  I asked, simply making conversation.

I guess Alice or Emmett had my bags brought up, cause it was sitting in the corner.  I walked over and grabbed a clean shirt to throw on and found my hair-tie that had been thrown off the bed in haste to find Bella.

“Tanya and Kate.”  

Kate Denali


I stopped dead in my tracks, and turned and fixed an angry glare on her.

“Are they here?”  I ground out.

“Yes.”

“Make them not here.”  I told her.

“But Jazz-”



Tanya Denali
“Alice, I respect that those things are your future husband’s family, but… I don’t want them in this house, and I certainly don’t want them around upsetting Bella.  Understand?”  I tried not to raise my voice, but something about those two bitches of Satan brought out the worst in me.

“Yes,” she said, and I knew she wasn’t looking forward to throwing them out, but I think she knew it was better for her to do it rather than me.

She know how I would handle the situation, and I don’t think she really wanted me to break Garrett’s other arm.  I won’t hit a woman, but I’ll sure as hell hit her closest breathing male relative which happens to be Garrett.

A subtle knocking made my head snap to the door, Carlisle had his head poked in asking if it was okay to enter.

“Come in.”  I told him in a clipped tone, and I needed to calm down before I ended up making my own trip to the doctor for giving myself a stroke.

“I don’t know if Alice told you, but I took the liberty of calling the doctor.”  he informed me.

“She did, what’s the verdict?”

“Well, he can’t know anything for sure until he sees her in person, her symptoms are pretty well pronounce, but he still wants to run a few blood test before he tells us anything.”  he said looking down.

“And..”

“Well, he won’t be able to see her until after the New Year.”  he whispered.

“WHAT?”  I barked.

“Jazz, calm down.”  Alice whispered.  “Bella doesn’t need anymore excitement.”

“She’s right, son.”  Carlisle agreed.

My eyes narrowed on Alice.  “But yet you invite the Devil Twin’s here.”

“Jasper,” Carlisle admonished.

“I said I’d get rid of them, and I will, besides they haven’t been anything but nice since they’ve been here.”

“Yeah, I bet they have.”  I muttered under my breath.

“So, did “Dr. Do Nothing” say anything else, or do we just wait until she drops.”  I snarked changing the subject.  I had to get my mind off the Denali Twins downstairs or I’d go fucking ballistic.

“He said to watch for signs of anemia; pale skin, cold hands and feet, fatigue, headache.”

“So pretty much do nothing since she already has all of those symptoms.”  I confirmed.

“Jasper,”  Carlisle sighed.   “Dr. Grandee said there could be many reasons for her hemoglobin to be low, if that‘s even the case here, but he said not to stress about this just yet, she’s had a rough couple of weeks, and these symptoms could be caused by a great many things.”

“Of course he said not to stress, he didn’t fucking see her this morning!”  I roared. I was fast losing my temper, and I knew it.

“He said if Bella starts show signs of dizziness or has chest pain to bring her back to Dublin and that’s all we can do right now.”  Carlisle said, and I could see that he was trying to not endanger the last little bit that was holding me together.

I didn’t want to hear anymore, I just wanted to see her.

I threw my hair up not giving a shit if it was straight, and headed down the stairs.

I heard her laughter before I saw her, it was the most beautiful sound in the world at the moment.

She was in the living room playing a board game with… Rosalie?

Huh?

I cleared my throat and her head popped up, and the smile she gave me could have blinded the sun.

Bella was up and off the couch in 0-60 and in my arms.

“You’re awake,”  She beamed.

“Yeah, so are you.”  I commented laughing at her enthusiasm and Bella blushed.  “Are you feeling alright, baby?”  I asked again, because I needed to see that she was alright, I needed to hear it.

God I was loosing my mind.

“I’m feeling much better now,”  she told me and snuggled into my neck.

I looked around the room for a moment, and was confused.  There were signs of the Denali Terrors all over the place but no Denali’s, and no Emmett.

What the hell?

“Where’s Em?” 

“Oh, he’s probably picking up what’s left of Slut and Slutier off the kitchen floor.”  Rosalie commented with a large smile.

Bella wore the same smile.

Oh shit.

“What happened?”  I tried to ask without laughing.

“Oh, nothing much,”  Bella said, brushing it off, but the evil grin she gave Rose told me that was a bunch of horseshit.

“Bella..”  I sighed.

“What?  They said something, I said something, they tried to corner me and well, they won’t be doing that again.”

I looked down at her and noticed the bruise on her knuckle.  I was instantly pissed off again.

“You’ve been fighting?”  I asked in a low growl.

I couldn’t believe it, here I am thinking she’s at deaths door and she’s brawling with the ugly twins?

“No, she hasn’t,”  Rosalie defended, narrowing her eyes as she approached.  “She did hit Tanya, but she didn’t fight anyone.”

Rosalie walked to us and kissed Bella right on the cheek and waltz outta the room.

What the hell?

Nothing made sense.

Was I dreaming?

Or did I step into the fucking Twilight Zone?

“Jazz?”  Bella called sweetly.

I just gapped at her, still in shock.  “Huh?”

“Close your mouth, I think you just swallowed a bug.”  And then my little bitch giggled.

And I’m still standing here waiting for a little fat man with a camera to jump out and yell ‘You’re on Candid Camera’, cause that’s what today’s been like.

Well, Bella seems to be feeling better, the Hell Twins have already been put in their place, Rose and Bella seem to be getting along now, what the hell else is there.

“Sonny, if ya wanna keep that hand I suggest ya remove it from ma person.”

I just had to fucking jinx myself.

It was faint, but I knew that voice.  I’d know that voice anywhere.

Shit!

“Hoss, I’m warnin’ ya.  Touch that bag again and you’ll be drinkin’ yer meals througha straw.”
Granny True. 

Not ten seconds later you could hear the slapping of her heals against the marble, and the servants cursing under their breath think that Trudy couldn‘t hear them.

She could.

She came to a stop under the large archway that led into the room that Bella and I were standing in, and I didn’t have to even look up to know exactly what expression she was wearing.


“Hi Trudy.”  Bella said shyly, still encased in my arms.

I looked up and my Granny Platt as she stood their in a state of shock that almost made me laugh.

I didn’t.

I’m not stupid and I like my male parts where they were thank you very much.

Granny Platt hadn’t changed at all, not that I was expecting her to.

When I was a child I used to wonder if she drank formaldehyde every night to preserve herself, cause the woman was like a fucking mummy, she was like a thousand, but she just didn’t age.

Esme was the youngest of Granny Platt’s horde of 15 children, and Esme was nearing her mid forties if that tells you anything.

And yes I said 15.

But, she looked exactly how she had the last time I’d seen her.  Big goofy hat, with feathers and flowers as big as my head stuck all over her, and a fur stole.

I don’t care if it was a 160 degrees outside, my Granny Platt always wore a fur, a real one.

She’d call you a squirrel-sucking pussy if you wore a faux around her.

Hey, nobody said anything about her being sane, so don’t look at me like that.

“Girl, you better get yer scrawny little ass over here and give me uh kiss.”  Granny finally said after regaining her senses.

Bella giggled and ran to her.

They embraced telling each other how much they had missed the other.

Auntie Rue
“What in tar nations is all the fuss about,”  I heard the southern drawl of my Auntie Rue.  “Lord in Heaven, is that Bella?”

“Not it’s an impersonator, you twit,”  Granny snarked, rolling her big gray eyes.

Ah, Auntie Rue.  Her mother should have called her “the plague”, I’ve yet to see a man survive her.  Much like her sister in the crazy hat and feathers department, you could stamp a mint on both their asses that read “Confederate Property”, cause when those two old bitches die, the south was gone.

I only know of one other woman who would go hunting in designer clothes, in her back yard while drunk of her ass, and that woman was currently standing 3 feet from  me being squished between my Aunt and my Grandmother.

God help us all.

Bella switched giving Rue a hug and kissing each cheek, just as my granny came over to give me a warm hug.

Yeah, I’m dreaming.

Granny Platt
“You, uh, Jethro,”  waving her pointer finger at me, dismissing the fact that she called me you, and then ‘Jethro’.

“It’s Jasper.”  I told her under my breath.

“Whatever, why don’t you make like a bunny and make yer granny a stiff scotch and water.”  she said waving me off, and pulling Bella by the arm towards the dragons  den, a place I wouldn‘t venture for all the money in the world, and not with all the guns in my arsenal.

Her bedroom.

Just… No thank you.

Granny has evil things in that room, I know, Edward and I found that out the hard way when we snuck in there one summer.

We were never right again.

I shuddered at the thought.

Maybe that’s what wrong with Edward, he was mentally fucked in the head from seeing my Granny’s sock drawer.

“Yeah, and hold the water.”  I muttered as I headed past Bella on my way to the study in search of scotch, hell I‘d make myself one while I was at it.

Bella just gave me a remorseful smile and mouthed ‘sorry.’

I blew her a kiss, which earned me the narrowing eyes of my grandmother, but Bella saved me and told Granny Platt that she would fill her in.

~~

Two hours later found us all sitting around the newly decorated Christmas tree, and all was right in the world again.

Alice had sent Tanya and Kate packing back to their hotel.

And the two dragon ladies had enough of a buzz, to head up to their dungon and do what ever it is that they do at night.

Sometimes I wondered if it had something to do with sleeping upside-down or drinking the blood of the innocent.

What?  It could happen.
 
I had Bella snuggled into my side as we enjoyed the easy conversation floating around the room.

Esme and Alice were still flitting around the tree adding things here and there, Carlisle, Garrett and Emmett were in some deep discussion on European football, and shockingly, Rosalie was curled up -  on probably the biggest pillow I had ever seen - leaning against the couch at Bella feet and they were going over some seating arrangement for Alice’s wedding.

I would ask Bella about her and Rose later, I know something big must have happened today for them to form such a tight friendship so suddenly, but right now I was just happy for the peace and quiet.

Around 11 or so we all decided to turn in.

I went up first and decided to draw a bath for my girl, I knew she was feeling better, but I could still see the fatigue written all over her.


Bella came in a few minutes later, probably curious as to what I was doing in here for so long.

She smiled when she saw the tub, filled and bubbly with her favorite - and mine - bath fragrance.


“Care to join me,”  she asked as she stripped her clothes.

She didn’t have to ask me twice.

Bella climbed in, I got in behind her and pulled her back to my chest.

We sighed in unison, it had been to long since I held her like this.

“Baby?”  I asked her.

“Hmm?”  Bella hummed her reply.

“Are you sure your okay?”

She half turned around to look at me.  “Jazz, I told you I’m feeling much better.”

“You sure?”

“Yes,”  she giggled.  “I’m not going to lie and say I feel great but I feel a hell of a lot better, and have been feeling better all night.”

I knew she was lying to me, I could tell she felt like shit, but I let it go… for now.

We played around in the tub for about an hour, washing each other, caressing and touching, but nothing overly sexual.  We just were.

Bella was out like a light as soon as her head hit the pillow. 

I stayed awake researching everything I could find about anemia.  My it had my head spinning.  Carlisle was right, there were so many causes, and so many things her being anemic could mean; most of them meant nothing, other than her craving ice and having cold feet the rest of her life, but some of the things that my research pulled up had me damn near in tears.

I didn’t want to think about it anymore.

I powered down my lap-top and crawled into bed next to my snoring girl.

Tomorrow was a new day, and I was gonna make the most of it.

Bella was a touch woman, but even Bella had an inner-princess, so tomorrow I was going to take Bella to a real castle.

A lazy grin spread across my face.

I started day dreaming, or night dreaming, or whatever - you get it - of our beautiful dream cabin in the mountains, surrounded by the forest, with plenty of dogs and kids running around.

Shit!

I had to pick up that damn dog tomorrow.

And I smiled wider when I realized that damn dog had just cost me well over five g’s to have it flown here, and all it was gonna do was piss off Grandma Cullen and probably become the first dog in history to ever sit in my Grandma Trudy’s lap - that wasn‘t a fur piece, cause if there ever was a dog that could, it would be Bella’s.

And you know what, I’d have paid 10 just to see the smile that Bella’s will be wearing when we pick up that ugly mother fucker.











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