This is a re-post of my completed Peter/Bella story, The Promise. It won Gold in the 2015 Twilight Non-Canon Awards for best Peter/Bella.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the original plot points and any original characters therein. No copyright infringement intended.
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~ Prologue ~
Forks, WA - Days after Bella arrives from AZ:
Alice sat beside her troubled husband, looking out over the vast Washington landscape that spread for miles beneath the cliff they were perched on. It was a breathtakingly beautiful sight but she could tell that Jasper wasn't seeing any of it. He was lost in the past once again if the tortured look on his face was any indication. Her heart ached as she waited and watched him from the corner of her eye. Eventually, the tension, sadness and guilt she could feel coming from him got to her, and she broke the silence.
"Jasper, please tell me what's wrong? You've been like this for days...well, since the first time you saw the new girl, Bella Swan, in the cafeteria at school. Should I be worried?" She stared down at her lap, her next question nothing more than a frightened whisper, "Do you….do you want her?"
His eyes widened in shock and he quickly drew her into his arms for a hug. "What? No! God no Ali, it's nothing like that. It's just part of my past that's comin' back to haunt me. Truth be told, the guilt of what I did has never left me. But now that I've seen her again…? And yeah, as impossible as it seems, it's her. Her scent's the same and everything. And Ali?" He looked at her with haunted eyes. "I destroyed their lives, their happiness, everything."
"So now, the pain of everything's been renewed, and I don't know what to do about it or how to fix it. I do know one thing though...I owe it to Pete to try, Ali. I owe it to him to finally try to make this right."
She snuggled in to his side, hugging his arm close while kissing his shoulder. "Then tell me the story Jas, and maybe, between the two of us, we can make things right once and for all. No matter how we have to do it."
A vision of Edward with the girl flashed through her mind and she dismissed it. Jasper and his happiness was more important to her than any possible future Edward might have with the girl, but she knew her brother's temporary involvement with Bella Swan was going to be necessary, as disastrous and painful as it would be when she and Jasper guided things to an end.
With that decision made, another, more ominous vision flashed through her mind; one of blood and thirst-blackened eyes, of stoic faces and tearful, heartbroken goodbyes...
Yes, they were all in for some trying times, but she would do this for Jasper and deal with any consequences as they came. Simple as that.
His smile was sad as he took her hand and kissed it, then began his story. "All right Ali." He stared out into the distance, his mind's eye focusing on a warm San Antonio night, long left in the past. "My part in this started one night when I was sent out by Maria to gather more soldiers for her army…"
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