Authors note:

This is my first ever fanfic, so please be gentle. This is also the first ever story I've ever let anyone read.

The idea of this story came from nluvwithemmettecullen, so half of the credit goes to her.

"Jasper this isn't right!" Anna yelled to her brother as he started his way down the porch of his home. He was starting the army, something he said he just had to be a part of. The army was no place for a boy, and as many times he tried to deny it, that's just what he was.

Anna was jasper's sister. She and jasper lived with their parents, on their ranch, the only home they had ever had. It was where the two had spent their childhood together. Being as close as jasper and Anna were it was merely impossible for them to be seen separated. Their grandmother when she was alive would say they were supposed to be joined at the hip. They were special siblings. Not just because of their closeness towards each other, it was a different kind of special-ness.

As most brothers and sister's, they both looked alike, both had blonde curly hair, although, Anna's long locks reached the middle of her back unlike jasper's messy style. The only difference between the two was Anna's piercing blue eyes. She had the most beautiful eyes anyone had ever seen. Many of which were the young men of the town. Being as beautiful as Anna was, she attracted a lot of attention from the local men, looking for young brides. Jasper being her protective big brother was always there to protect her though. He was like her own personal protector.

Jasper turned to wave to his mother from the bottom of the steps he was standing on. His parents had been waiting for this to arrive for a long time. Jasper wasn't like Anna. Where he was willing to fight for a cause for his home, his country, Anna was at home worrying about things most girls her age thought about. She was young, 15 years old, old enough to start thinking about settling down with a family of her own, like most girls her age did. She wasn't aware of the war and conflict the world had come to create just yet, and if it was up to jasper, she never would.

Anna put her hands on her hips in annoyance.

"Jasper Whitlock, are you even listening to me?" Anna hissed through her teeth at her brother.

Jasper laughed. Anna always used his full name when she was angry with him, even if he found it adorable that she would stand on the next step to reach his eye level. Her face was red with a frustrated pout.

"Anna, calm down, everything is going to be fine. I promise, when if this war, no, when this war ends, I'm going to come home and we're going to go on as if nothing has ever happened!" he replied.

Jasper looked into the face of his pouting sister and quickly pulled her into a hug.

"it won't be that long Anna, you'll see I'll be home before you know it!" he whispered into her ear.

Anna snuggled into her brother's embrace and sighed.

"i don't want you to go jasper, I know something bad will happen, I can't lose my big brother jasper, i just can't!" she sighed wrapping her small arms around his slender figure.

Jasper pulled back from her grip and pushed a piece of hair that had fallen from her messy bun she had pulled her hair in that morning, behind her ear as he looked into her eyes.

"I promise nothing bad is going to happen. Anna, I need to do this, please let me do this, after the war I swear, we will do anything you wish!" he said trying to raise her spirits.

Anna smiled a smile that reached her beautiful eyes and sighed.

"Ok jasper, if that's what you need to do, then go. But please be safe, I don't want to go all the way over there to drag your sorry behind back home!" Anna replied making jasper laugh.

"I'll miss you little sister!" he said, placing a soft kiss on her forehead. With a back glance to his mother and a nod to his father, jasper picked up his forgotten duffle bag lying by his feet and gave Anna one quick wink before turning to start his walk.

Watching her big brother walk out of sight, Anna kept her tears at bay, not wanting to upset her mother more than she already was. She couldn't help but feel something bad was about to happen. Like that was the last time she would ever see her big brother jasper Whitlock. War changed people, and although jasper did make out he was different that the war wouldn't change him, Anna knew that it would. She wasn't as naive as everyone thought she was. She knew.

But for the life of her, Anna couldn't shake the feeling of something bad on the horizon. Maybe she would lose the brother she always loved and looked up to, maybe he would return as a bitter shell of a man he used to be, or maybe he wouldn't come back at all. Anna quickly shook that idea from her thoughts. Of course he would come back, and even if he did change, she'd still love him all the same, wouldn't she?!

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