This story starts well before Bella meets the Cullen's, with Jasper and Alice, but it is a Bella x Jasper story. It is mostly finished so while I am finishing writing Whitlock I thought I'd finish editing this one and post it. Posts will be up pretty quick as this is almost complete in my archives of ideas. This first chapter was beta'd by Alexandra Belle. Hope you enjoy it.

1948 JPOV

"Finally!" The tiny little vampire bounced up from her place at the counter of the diner and came skipping over to me, "I've been waiting forever for you."

"Excuse me?" I frowned at her, my gift reading through her emotions, finding excitement and affection. Caution filled me but her warm smile and open emotions put me at ease; there was no deception, she was happy to see me.

"I'm Alice...though I think my name was Mary Alice but I don't care for Mary much, I can't imagine I ever did."

"You think?"

She shrugged, "Darkness, burning, pain, loneliness and that name are what I remember from before I woke up, actually that wasn't a memory either. It was on a plastic bracelet I was wearing I think I must have been human before since it only makes sense and I am positive I am a vampire though humans have it really wrong. Then there is you, well you and this family we are going to go to, I've had visions of you since the burning stopped. You were my first one, later came the ones of the Cullen's."

"Visions?" I questioned, my head tilting ever so slightly, almost as if I hadn't heard her correctly in the first place.

The pixie nodded brightly, "I see things." Then she frowned, "It's weird isn't it? Am I a freak? Did you not have a vision of me too?"

I sigh and send out a wave of comfort to her not entirely sure why I care but the swirl of pain, loneliness and self doubt rising in her is just somehow wrong, this little pixie vampire should be happy.

"Some of us are gifted. You aren't a freak; you're special and such gifts are rare."

"Do you have one?"

"I'm an empath." At her frown I chuckle, "I feel and manipulate the emotions of others."

"I didn't see that." She told me.

"What did you see Darlin'?"

"That you would come, if I waited, and I knew if a decision I made would make that future further or closer, sometimes you made one that changed it too but you're finally here."

"So why were you waitin' for me?" We had settled into a booth and were still talking very quietly so as to not attract the attention of the few other patrons. I was fairly certain they would notice if we stood, unmoving, our entire conversation.

"I saw that I was supposed to meet you." She shrugged but then doubt and pain filled her, "You do want me with you, don't you? In all the visions, I was waiting for you, I knew then I wouldn't be alone anymore, and you care about me, you protect me, I saw that we were together."

"I want you here darlin'." I assured her, again not sure why it matters to me.

"I'm going to help you too." She tells me, her smile bright again and her emotions clearing up to happiness and excitement. "Neither of us will ever be alone again, not that I can see, and I can't imagine any reason in the world that will change that."

"I ain't really alone Darlin'."

"You aren't?" She frowns at me. "In all the visions, I am waiting for, it's just you I find and then we go to the Cullen's…" She bounces, "Do you already know them? I didn't see that!"

I chuckle and shake my head, "I've a coven, a brother and sister."

"Are they here?" She asks seeming to lose focus.

"No." I tell her even as the mist seems to clear from her vision.

"We meet them, you bring me to meet them, before we find the Cullen's." She smiles brightly at me, "I'm so glad you've finally come Jasper, I've been waiting for such a long time."

"I'm here now darlin'." I assure her and she blasts me with such a wave of happiness and affection that my whole being fills with a warmth I couldn't ever remember feeling. I swore in that moment that I would protect her and make sure she didn't have a reason to feel anything but those emotions ever again.

It's a week later that I'm sitting in a tree with Peter, having called him to meet me at our place in Texas.

"She's not yer mate." He breaks the silence, his accented voice coming out as worry mingled with his emotions.

I nod, "I know what a mate feels like Pete." I remind him nodding in the distance towards Charlotte.

"Can yeh trust her?"

"Everything about her inside is good, there's pain and sadness but innocence and affection and all these… warm sorta things fill her up, not even a trace of deception, conceit, greed, hate not even fear." I sigh, "She looked at me, right from the moment she saw me and there was no fear, just happiness and affection. Same with you and Char, she's so happy to be with us, to not be alone and the only dark emotion in her is that she doesn't deserve it, that there is something wrong with her and I'd like to kill whoever made her feel any bad about herself."

Peter nods and sighs, "I just, have a feelin, like you need to know and remember is all, Major. I like the Pixie well enough and I don't feel like she's bad news. I just needed to be sure you knew and will remember that she ain't really yours."

"If she meets her mate Peter, I will happily let her go, however painful that might be. She deserves a mate, more than any vampire; she deserves that happiness."

I jump down to find her and his last whispered words only just met my ears, it's something I would never agree with, "You deserve it too."

I knew I didn't. I had lived long before I had made him and I was a terrible creature, I didn't deserve the love and serenity of a mate. I was beyond blessed that I had my brother and his mate; their love and loyalty to me was staggering and now I had found the Pixie, she was a gift far beyond what I deserved and I would do anything for all of my existence to make sure she was happy, loved and protected.

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