Title: Paint Your Shadows
Rating: PG
Summary: Jasper wants to tell her.
Author's Note: This was written for switzerland_100, a drabble contest on livejournal. I will be posting more drabbles from there, though I do not gaurantee all of them will be Alice/Jasper. I like to dabble in other pairings and this "story" will be a spot on for me to put all of them. As I post the drabbles the pairing the story is under will change.
Word Count: 100
...On The Breath That We Share
For many years Alice wouldn't let him say it. She didn't deliberately stop him, but with her abilities she often replied before he'd even spoke. It made the act of speaking superfluous. She didn't understand, without her human past, that sometimes it needs to be said.
For several decades Jasper was relieved. He could manipulate emotions but he was rather uncomfortable with expressing his own. Eventually, though, he wanted to say the words. He watched Esme and Carlisle show their love through simple gestures and words. He watched Rosalie and Emmett demonstrate with alarming apathy for witnesses.
"I love you."
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