Authors Note: This is my first shot at writing fanfiction, so please bare with me. Hopefully I will be updating with new chapters once a week, unless i feel inspired. I dont know how long this story is going to get yet, but I hope you like it!

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BPOV

My eyes saw the flames burning before me and my ears heard the cries of anguish from all around me, but my mind, or the small part of my mind that still clung desperately to the last shreds of sanity, refused to believe the truth my senses presented me with. It was better this way, safe inside my mind, there was no pain here; reality couldn't touch me here I was numb, but I was safe and I could pretend that my eyes were deceiving me, because I didn't want to believe them, I didn't want to believe that my Edward was dead, because I didn't want to live in a world that didn't have him in it.

JPOV

Something had gone terribly wrong, this wasn't how it was supposed to go; Alice had said that we would be ok, that none of us would be hurt. Did she know? Had she seen? Had she hidden this from us to spare us the pain? Surely there was another way, something we could have done differently to prevent this from happening. I shouldn't have left her side, she had told me that Bella needed me, she had begged me to help her and I couldn't refuse her. I should have seen it in her eyes, in her touch, the way it had lingered as if she was saying goodbye. So here I sat on the ground, crippled by the waves of sorrow and loss that were coming from my family. We had lost so much today and I didn't know how we would ever be able to get over it, and as I watched the faces of my family gathered around the fire that had claimed my beloved Alice and Edward, I felt each of their pain. As I thought of my brother, my eyes sought out Bella, she would not be handling this well I knew, I almost didn't want to think of the amount of pain that would be emanating from her, but I had to know that she was ok. When my eyes found her I prepared myself for the pain, but felt nothing, and that sacred me more, it was like she empty, the girl that had always been full of life and warmth was now devoid of any emotion. I started moving towards her then, I had to know that she was ok, I could not fail in this, it was the only thing that Alice had left me with, and I vowed that I would save this girl from whatever torment she was suffering, I vowed that I would see her smile again if it was the last thing I ever did. I realised then that I needed Bella to be happy, I needed to see her smile, because in some way, if I could do this then my loss would not seem so heavy, because I knew that this is what my Alice would have wanted.

When I reached her and stood before her, my fear from earlier returned tenfold, as I stood in front of her looking into her eyes, she didn't even see me though I was only inches away it was like I didn't exist to her. And her eyes usually so deep and full of life, were empty. I had to get her back; I had to know that she was still there, so I grabbed her shoulders and shook her gently.

Bella?... Bella can you hear me?

When she didn't respond, I shook her harder. I needed to hear her voice, even if it was only to cry, anything would be better than the emptiness I felt now. I started screaming her name as I shook her and the rest of the family must have noticed by now, as the next thing I felt was Emmet's arms around me as he dragged me away from Bella.

What do you think you are doing? You could have killed her! I know you are hurting man, we all are, but do you really think that hurting Bella will make you feel any better? She's lost someone too Jasper, if anything she is the only one who will know how you are feeling!...

But she's not!...

Just because she's human doesn't mean that she doesn't feel!

No... I mean she's not feeling anything! I can't feel anything off of her, it like she empty!

As I finished I saw Carlisle quickly move to take the spot I had just been dragged from, as Emmet released me.

Sorry man, I didn't know... I just saw you shaking her like that and thought that maybe you snapped from the grief, it can't be easy for you, feeling your own loss and then having to feel all of ours on top of that.

It's ok, it's hard but I can deal. Right now I'm only concerned with helping Bella; I need her to be ok.

That last one slipped out, I hadn't meant to reveal that my reasons for wanting to help Bella stemmed from anything other than brotherly concern, But Emmet picked up on my choice of words and gave me a questioning look, but thankfully kept quiet as we moved closer to Bella.

Carlisle, is she going to be ok?

I don't know son, I think she may be in denial, I think her brain has shut down to protect itself from the pain.

But how is she still standing there with her eyes open? Shouldn't she be unconscious?

I don't know son, generally yes, when the brain shuts down to protect itself after mass trauma the body shuts down as well. I fear that in this case she may have entered into a catatonic state.

But what do we do? This can't be good for her? We have to get her out of it!

Yes, I agree, remaining in this state for too long could prove detrimental to her health, and I do have an idea of how we can get her out of it, but it won't be pleasant and I don't know for certain that it will help, it could make her worse.

What is it? We have to try; we can't just leave her like this!

It's something you have to do son, her mind is rejecting the pain, so in order to bring her back she needs to feel that pain.

I don't understand what do you want me to do?

I need you to project all the pain you are feeling onto her and hopefully the shock of it will bring her back.

No! I can't do that, it's too much, she couldn't handle her own pain, how will she be able to deal with all of our combined pain thrust onto her? I won't do it! It's too much!

There's no other way son, she has to feel the pain if she has any hope of ever overcoming it, and if her mind won't allow that, then we will have to make her feel it, it's the only way.

Ok.

I sighed in defeat as I drew in everyone's pain and moved closer putting my hand on the bare skin of Bella's arm and pushed it all onto her, all the pain and anguish and loss that we felt. As soon as I let my power loose Bella screamed and dropped to her knees, I immediately ceased using my power on her and dropped to the ground next to her and gathered her in my arms as she continued to scream. I whispered reassurances in her ear as I held her, until finally the screaming stopped, only to be replaced by her heartbreaking sobs as she allowed herself to feel her own loss. Now that she was crying in my arms and I could feel her pain, it was too much, it was so much more than I had expected from any human, it rivalled my own pain, and that along with everyone else's made me breakdown in my own tearless sobs.

We stayed that way for what seemed like hours until I was finally able to rain in my grief enough to pick us up of the ground as we slowly made our way back to the house. Bella had fallen asleep in my arms as we had sat holding onto each other in the clearing, and for that I was grateful as it presented me with a brief break from the onslaught of her emotions. When we reached the house, I took her up to one of the guest bedrooms, I wasn't ready to go into mine and Alice's room yet, and I knew that Bella would not want to wake up in Edwards's room only to be reminded that he wouldn't be there to greet her as she awoke. As I went to lay her on the bed to let her sleep and my arms let go of her, she whimpered and began crying out, she was still asleep, but as soon as I pulled her into my arms once more she quieted down and fell back into a deep sleep. So I stayed and held this fragile human girl in my arms as she slept, and not once throughout this time did my control waver, the thought of hurting her was too much to bare so my thirst was not an issue, I knew that I could never and would never do anything that would cause her pain. I would shelter and protect her from anything that sought to harm her, for she was my life now, she was my reason for continuing on in this existence and I would not fail her.

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