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This story is just a little something that keeps me up at night. Hope you enjoy.

Chapter One

JPOV

Jasper inhaled and blew the air out slowly as he walked down the long corridor, it was a silly human trait that he learned awhile ago. Jasper was excited, more excited that he had thought he would be. His first day as a practicing psychiatrist. All those years of pretending to be a high school student were behind him. Like Edward and Carlisle, Jasper too had been to medical school many times. However, with his empathic abilities Jasper's natural progression took him into psychology it was a subject he mastered several times.

However, due to the fact that He didn't particularly like being around humans, he still felt fear, at times it still made his dead body run cold. He still struggled with his blood lust and working in a place where they didn't have Alice to depend on to calm him down terrified him. Jasper needed to do this. Jasper needed to prove to himself and the family that he was an asset to the family and not a liability. There was so much to learn, and he had to start. When the ad came out for this posting, he immediately talked to Carlisle, who told him to apply. The family would move there from New York, Seattle was far enough from Forks and big enough that they would fly under the radar for many years. If they had a chance encounter with someone from Forks it truly would not be the end of the world for them. They would just use the excuse that Los Angeles was not to their liking. The hospital in Seattle was a smaller, older Hospital; but it would serve Jasper well for his first outing on his own. All of the Cullen family was excited to be moving back to the area, with the exception of Edward. He felt it was just too close to Forks. However, to please Esme and Carlisle he promised he would try for a few months anyway.

Jasper's phone buzzed in his pocket. Pulling it out he quickly looked at the message. "Good luck son on your first day, we're proud of you" Smiling a surge of pride ran through him. Running his hand through his long blond curly hair, Jasper smiled to himself at the progress he made. Since the horrible incident, those three years ago, Jasper felt he made a remarkable recovery. He still managed to relive that night over and over. The look on Edward's face still haunted him to this day. Jasper vowed to Edward and to the family after that he would make the family proud of him, and show that he was not a lost cause. Jasper felt horrible for attacking Bella the night of her birthday party. He didn't want to attack her, but the smell of her blood, combined with the feelings of lust that constantly came off of Edward made it impossible for him to stop. Of course Alice was always beside him, at every step of the way. Alice was proud that her husband was helping people when they were their most vulnerable.

For the first two years after the "Bella incident" Edward stayed away from the family. However, in the last year he found himself returning home more often. If nothing else it seemed to make Esme happy. Edward had accepted Jasper's apology. The family had grown since that incident.

After the "Incident" the family didn't intrude with Edward's life. From what they had told (of course from Edward) it wasn't Edward's choice but Bella's. Alice was heart broken that her best friend didn't even say so much as a good by. Edward didn't allow anyone to address that horrible night while he was around. I knew that the family had a lot of underlying feelings about losing Bella. Emmett lost his baby sister, he of course didn't say anything - living with Rose was hard enough at the best of times, and Rose simply hated Bella for her involvement with her life. Carlisle and Esma were hurt by Bella's decision to leave the family, they had considered her a member and the joy that Bella had brought to Edward was amazing. Alice was devastated and kept insisting to me that Bella would become a vampire some day. I just felt horrible for being the catalyst for all this family drama. To hurt my wife the way I did is something that I struggle daily with.

Jasper rounded the corner and opened the door. Dr. West was sitting behind an unorganised desk. Jasper wondered how he found anything with a desk that dirty. Dr. West stood up and dragged his hand across his pants in a failed attempted to clean it, reaching out to great the newly appointed Doctor.

"Dr. Hale, I'm Dr. West. Please, please take a seat" Dr. West moved some papers over so that the desk had a small clear spot.

"I can't tell you how excited we are to have you on staff. We're a smaller hospital, and we don't attract many new staff members - not to mention the weather doesn't attract too many younger people either." Dr. West begun to laugh which was cut off quickly by coughs. "Sorry about that, I've been trying to stop that nasty habit for a while now." Reaching into the drawer, he pulled out a mint. "Helps with those bloody cravings"

Dr. West reached over and pulled several files and placed them in front of Jasper.

Jasper moved closer and straighten up in his seat. There were several folders from the very thickest of folders to folders that appeared to have barely any papers.

"Now, from what your residence records indicated you have a special gift at making people talk." Dr. West looked over the top of his glasses. "Some of these patients, I hate to say are - simply not going to get any better." Raising his hand to stop Jasper from saying anything. "I know, I know, you're young and there is something that you need to find out very quickly. Some of these patients are worth fighting for, some just don't want to be helped."

Dr. West opened the first file, and begun to rattle off the patients' history. Jasper could feel Dr. West's excitement about having a new staff member. Jasper could feel all the staff excitement about him being there; especially all the younger nurses. Dr. West spoke for several minutes opening all the smaller files, finally the last of the files was the biggest one. Jasper didn't pay too much attention to the assessments that were coming from Dr. West. Not having to sleep had its benefits. Besides, he wanted to read and make his own assessments about his patients. His patients, it had a nice sound to it.

"Now Dr. Hale. This one, well- let's just say this one is one that will be in our hospital for an awful long time." Jasper looked at Dr. West more closely, he felt the sudden sadness that came off of Dr. West Jasper was suddenly very interested in this patient.

"This is a female, she just turned 21 and has been a patient in this hospital for only the last year, however she at no time has made any progress. None, nothing. In all my years of therapy I have never seen a case like this. I'm at my wits end and I know that I shouldn't be shouldering you with a case like this, however, I thinking - or I should say. I'm hoping that you have learned some new theories in that fancy Medial school you attended."

Jasper lifted his eyes. "What's the history?"

Clearing his throat, Dr. West popped another mint in his mouth.

"She's been through some sort of trauma, her family has no idea what happened. There was a bad break up, from a boy friend the family informed us that she seemed to be 'functioning' for several months - than she just slipped deeper into a depression. She was sent to an institute in Phoenix, it was close to her-her" Shuffling the papers "Yes, there it is, her mother lives in Phoenix. Apparently her father is the Chief of Police in the small City of Forks and they didn't want a lot of people to know that his daughter was in an institution." Dr. West's cleared his throat again, "Where some less than ethical treatment was used on her." Opening the file up again, Dr. West began to list the medications that she was prescribed. "these all have been given to her at one time or another, and - I'll add, that there were several firings of staff members at this hospital during the time that this poor girl was getting treated there, it seems that her mother was on the road travelling a lot back then and well- Dr. Hale you know what can happen at times in some institutions when a patient is left alone with no other family members to watch over their loved ones. Lets get one thing straight here we have the strictest of policies against any involvement with staff and patients.

If Jasper could throw up he would have. To know what has happened to Bella made him physically sick.

Dr. West was still talking, Jasper shook his head slightly and begun to pay attention to the Dr. again. "She - Miss Swan is going to be one of these long term patience. In my personal opinion - she's not going to get any better. She's going to be a lost cause."

Jasper wanted to jump up and grab the file from the old man. Bella was in here, Bella was going to be in his care. What the hell happened? Broken hearted, cationic, long term care? What the hell was this old man talking about? Jasper's vampire brain was working overtime. Bella, their Bella was here?

Lifting his wrist, he looked at his watch. "Oh, it's time for rounds. I'll have you follow me, we'll introduce you to each of your new patients." Putting Bella's file back on the pile, Jasper wanted to push the old man out of the way and start reading it.

Jasper stood up quickly and followed the short round man out of the door. Jasper's ears picked up the sound of some patient's mummers, soft humming sounds came from some rooms. The smells were in these institutions were almost always the same. Jasper wondered what they cleaned the floors with? The smell of strong disinfectant mingled with food, and human waste burned Jasper's sensitive nose. It was a smell he had to get accustomed to.

Jasper found himself again not paying attention to the others in his care, there would be plenty of time for him to meet and work with all of them. He wanted to get to Bella's room. Dr. West and Jasper slowly make their way down a poorly lite hall. Jasper noticed the age of the building had changed. This must be the older part of the building. The hall changed from white painted gyp-rock to white painted bricks.

Rounding the corner, they came to another set of doors, pulling his keys out Dr. West opened the large steel door. The scent almost made Jasper drop to his knees. Bella's scent was strong, but it was off. Moans of patients' bounced off the cold, hard walls.

"Dr. Hale, this is where the long term patients are housed. This is where Bella Swan has been lodged. We need to keep her here, where there is more control. I'll make sure you are issued a set of keys for this section of the hospital. Again, I apologize for our lack of technology for this section. It's coming - slowly, ah here we are. Miss Swan." Dr. West pulled out his keys again and pushed it into the large painted lock on the door.

"Miss Swan, it's Dr. West I'm here to introduce you to your new Dr. His name is Dr. Hale."

Jasper stood in the doorway almost incapable of moving, the site that lay before him was one he had never imaged on his worst days. A small figure was curled along the wall, leaning against the white brick wall. The long brown hair that Bella wore was cut short almost making her look like a tiny boy. Bella's sweet smell was combined with a sour stench. Jasper knew that Bella hadn't been washed in a few days. He slowly made his way towards her, kneeling in front of her he reached his hand to lift her chin up towards his face. Bella slowly rocked back and forth moaning.

"How long has she been like this?" Jasper whispered.

Dr. West cleared his throat, almost making Jasper jump with the sudden noise. "Since she was admitted. She hasn't said two words, since she's been here. Her father calls often but no longer visits and from what I can remember her mother is now living in Japan with her new husband. He's into baseball or some sort of sports. There was a rather large Native boy that visited for awhile. But like a lot of these patients', they give up rather quickly when they don't see results. It's sad really. "

Jasper leaned down, closer to her face. "Why did you cut her hair? All the other patients have long hair? Why is she sitting on the cold floor, not to mention this cold wall." Jasper's spoke quietly.

"All the other patients can function Dr. Hale, Miss Swan - well, she just does what she's doing now. Nothing. And as for the cold, that is one thing that you will note immediately once you read her file. If you want to keep Miss Swan calm, you must have cold hands and we're not sure, but her sitting on the floor curled up against the cold wall does calm her a lot." Dr. West's voice became quite.

"How long? Cold…. I'm not..Happy…" Jasper couldn't finish his sentence. His eyes not once left Bella.

"Dr Hale," Dr. West's voice became strong. "We do the best we can, we can't cope with certain patients in this facility. We have requested that her family move her to a facility that is more apt to care for her conditions, but her family wants her close. For what ever reason." Looking at the watch on his arm again, I have to leave shortly. Nurse Louise at the front desk will give you keys to this area. I'm sure you have a lot of reading to do, and along with the files, I have made sure that you have my personal number. I have a golf game that's calling. Living in Seattle, doesn't give one too much of a chance to get the game in." The round man made his way out of the door. "The door locks when you close it Dr. Hale. Good luck."

Jasper stared at Bella, he eyes never left the tiny window. "Bella?" Jasper leaned closer to Bella's face. "It's me Jasper. I'm hear to help you. Bella?"

"Bella, can you look at me please?" Jasper closed his eyes and begun to feel what Bella was feeling. A rush of darkness, despair, sadness, anger and hopelessness rushed through him. Jasper reached for Bella's hand. "We're going to get you better Bella, I don't know what happened to you, but we're going to get you out of here."

Bella's eyes pulled away from the Window. The pools of dark brown locked with Jaspers golden eyes. "Go away" She croaked out.