Hello guys. I have finally decided to start writing this story as I have been wanting to for a while. I have read many stories of Jasper somehow getting dangerously ill but not many of them have been completed so I have decided to write my own one and this will be completed. I don't intend to make this a long story but then again, my stories never go the way I plan them.

Disclaimer: I do not own twilight.

Carlisle's POV

We used to be one big happy family but now…'happy' disappeared.

It hit the year mark today; one whole year without Jasper. We all missed him so much and now I feel like I have failed my family; like there was something I could have done to prevent this. He had vanished into thin air one day and never came home. I shouldn't have let him go out by himself. He was either taken or he decided to leave without telling us but I doubt it was the second option. He would never go anywhere without Alice. We hoped and prayed that he was still alive and if he was, that he was coping without his mate by his side.

Alice wasn't as perky as she used to be; she is a completely different person and I hardly ever get to see her either. She spends almost all of her time out looking for her mate. She is certain that he is still alive and claims that she could 'feel' it. Alice isn't the only one looking though, we all are. We are all still trying to find clues and think about all the possibilities of what could have happened to him. We had considered Maria or the Volturi or perhaps another shape shifter in a different area.

Jasper always found it difficult to keep his thirst under control around humans so perhaps he attacked one while hunting one day and another pack of shape shifters found out before he had the chance to return to us. Or maybe Maria had taken him back to fight with her in the Southern wars or the Volturi had taken him hostage as a way to force Alice to be a part of them but it couldn't have been otherwise we would have heard about it by now.

"Alice, wait!" I heard Edward shout.

"No, I'm getting sick of doing nothing. We are not looking in the obvious places!" Alice yelled back at him.

I rushed out of my study to the fighting siblings to see what all the commotion was about. Arguing was another thing that had increased ever since Jasper's disappearance; both reasons having involved Jasper. He wasn't hear to calm down an argument plus his disappearance had brought stress upon the whole family.

"It's too dangerous, Alice!" Edward shouted.

"How do you think Jasper feels? You do remember him, right?" Alice replied spitefully.

Edward looked hurt at her comment. He was trying to block Alice away from the door although I don't know why he bothered. She could have just turned around and escaped out of the window without getting hurt.

"She's right, man. We're not gonna find him if we don't search the dangerous places" Emmett agreed.

Edward ignored Emmett; hating that he was being outnumbered and turned to me.

"She wants to go South. She's convinced that Maria has some part of this but I don't think she has. We have already searched around and we never did pick up a scent so it's not possible for Jasper to be there. It's too dangerous to get close to Southern newborns; they'll kill you on sight" Edward explained.

Now I understood his worry. I have already lost Jasper and I don't want anybody else to get hurt or killed but I was desperate to bring my son back home. We all needed him.

"He may not be there but she might know something" I quietly agreed with Alice.

That didn't mean that I was going to risk my family's safety. I will have to think of a way to approach one of the Southern vampires without appearing as a threat and ask if we could speak with Maria. If we didn't do this, then what other chance do we have of finding Jasper?

3rd Person

Jasper's body lays lifeless in wet mud. He couldn't hear, couldn't see neither could he think. He could only feel the pain of his fatal wounds. He didn't have an ounce of energy in his body so until somebody finds him to put him out of his misery, he was left to suffer. It had already been that way for a long time anyway.

So what do you think guys? Do you like the new story so far? I would just like to point out though that this story is going to be rather different compared to all the other Jasper ill story's