Disclaimer: *sigh* I do not own Twilight or any of its characters.
The Whole World
Alice x Jasper
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To Jasper, the World is actually quite small.
It isn't particularly a special place—no amazing features or appearances. Not to most people, that is.
He personally knew a handful of people who properly appreciated the World. And even then, it wasn't the appreciation that the World deserved.
Yet it is this World that allows him to live: to breathe the air he does not need, to drink the blood that keeps him sane, to be a part of a family that makes him content.
The World grants him happiness, wholeness, and acceptance.
Jasper's World is Alice.
Similarly, Alice's World is Jasper.
Without Alice, her World would never exist. And without Jasper, his World would never exist. They found existence, wholeness, and completion in each other.
Alice's percepton of her World is that it is much larger and, although most people found this World to be cold and uncaring, Alice knew better.
Alice's World is actually quite warm, caring, accepting, and loving. For everything Alice gives to the World, she gets back ten times as much. Yet for everything Alice takes from the World, it expects nothing in return.
Secretly, Alice is afraid that her World will one day no longer have anything to give—that she will be too greedy and drain the World as she gallivants around in the life she lives.
Secretly, Jasper fears that his World will one day realize that he has nothing to give back to it and it will cease to exist for him entirely—leaving him without an existence as well.
In this shared secrecy, the two thought-to-be-lost souls find solace and love, for in this Whole World that they share there are no insecurities and no doubts—there is only Jasper's World and Alice's World, coming together to coexist and blend into a beautifully completed and maintained essence of utter perfection and utopia.
When Esme and Carlisle regard this worldly union they know that they too are a part of this world; them and their family—however small and shoved into a corner their part may be.
Edward and Bella know that when the worlds are truly separated, the life begins to seep out of the two souls—leaving them to become what Edward was once sure they were meant to be.
Rosalie and Emmett can see that, although it does not suite their personal tastes, this quiet and humble World seems to be a little more Whole than theirs is—and they're actually okay with that.
Because, really, the World is only at its best when it is Whole; what use is an incomplete world to anyone—especially Alice and Jasper?
And so, as Alice looks up at Jasper and Jasper looks down at Alice and flight schedules buzz in their ears while people are reunited all around them, they revel in the maintained state of their Whole World—knowing that they'll never risk having it any other way again.