Title: One word love, curiosity

Shipper: Jasper/Bella

Type: Short-fic

Rate: M

Gender: Romance

Disclaimer: The characters belong to Stephenie Meyer exclusively. If they belonged to me, Jasper would be my exclusive Major.

A/N: Hi guys! My first fic in english. I would like to say thanks to my beta, the wonderful Bea Mendes (Trixie Ray)for her amazing job in this chapter. Thank you so much darling ^^.


One word love, curiosity

Part I

Jasper

Isabella Swan. The human who was in love with my brother. The human with the smell of the most delicious blood, in love with my brother. Isabella Swan was something intriguing for any vampire. The human more disoriented that I had known. It was impassioned and captivating. She had the incredible capacity to attract the danger, beginning with the family that she was entering. How does one get to be so calm when having seven vampires - that didn't drink human blood for years - next to you? Isabella Swan was calm, and that was her mistake.

Isabella didn't have reasons to fear Edward. My brother was very pure and chaste to try to attack his true love. In my case, well, I didn't insist on controlling myself when the human was around. Alice knew my weakness, but she trusted me fully. And I could never lose her trust. It was that the main reason that it refrained me. I was under control until the day of Isabella Swan's disastrous birthday.

When I saw the small drop of blood leave the thin and delicate finger, when the smell got to my powerful nose, I could not control myself. The asleep animal inside of me for so many years woke up, making the Jasper that nobody knew to appear instantly.

Edward threw me on the piano. His beloved piano. The only thing that I wanted was Isabella's blood in my throat. But when Alice moved closer to me and I felt her smell and her delicate hands catch my face, a piece of Jasper Hale returned to the surface, and I saw what I was doing. Before the animal in me made me advance on the human again, I closed the Jasper Whitlock in me and I let Emmett pull me outside of the house.

Two years and much suffering after. Isabella Swan was at the room above the one I was in, ten meters, exactly. Her smell exhaled in the room. But after letting Alice face the Volturi with her, fighting against newborn vampires and tolerating Edward emanating fault, I think her smell was something I could easily brush off.

Not that I didn't like the human. I just think that Isabella is a problem-magnet. And that involved my family, therefore it involved Alice.

What annoyed me the most right now was not her smell, but her emotions. Hesitation, insecurity, fear and worst of all: anxiety. I put my hands in my hair and let lowered my head when I felt a wave of immense anxiety. Far away I heard Alice and Esme talking about the color of the napkins and I rolled my eyes. Who the hell would care about the color of the napkins if the table was full of food? Humans were like that. Us vampires, ironically, would be surrounded by food but wouldn't be able to eat anything.

Edward and Bella's wedding was arriving and the Cullen family focused its attention on the event. Esme and Alice were preoccupying way too much on the decoration. Rosalie, even though she was reluctant, had shiny eyes every time she got to see the bride's dress. I knew why. Her entire past was the reason. Edward was over concerned with the honey moon. I smiled at that, my brother was extremely pure for a vampire. Carlisle didn't change his routine, he worked almost all day at the hospital. Emmett took turns to hunt and annoy Rosalie when she said that Isabella would look great at the wedding.

Of that I had no doubts. I knew that the human had potential to look beautiful anytime she wanted to. Alice still tried, but Isabella had the huge capacity to be the human that didn't quiet fit the group of vampires. She didn't have vanity, she didn't like clothes too feminine and was always wearing jeans. The tight jeans that showed her curves and that weren't seen by other eyes, but that existed and didn't go unnoticed by my look. My male perception.

I didn't knew if Edward saw his future wife as hot in the flesh sense, and not only in the aroma one. But I knew this, and needed a few days of training to learn how to block my thoughts about Isabella from Edward. He never listened to me, I was free to think about anything.

About how I thought it was foolish this whole wedding for having a transformation. How I thought it was ridiculous that Edward wanted human Isabella. How I thought it was pathetic all the expectation for the event. Didn't they realize that they could have a wedding whenever they wanted?
I got up of the sofa I was sitting in for hours, ran my hand through my hair and walked towards the kitchen where Esme was at the telephone and Alice was swirling like a ballerina putting flowers in a blue flower vase. I rolled my eyes once again when my wife came to me - hopping up and down - and kissed the tip of my nose.

"Cheer up, Jasper! We'll have a wedding in three days!"

I smiled at Alice and her contagious happiness. It was something I could see everyday of my eternity and would never get tired of. Esme hang up on the phone and sighed looking at Alice.

"Everything is done. The cake will arrive at the right moment. Where are Rosalie and Emmett?"

"They're taking care of the dress. Actually, Rose is trying to, Emmett is annoying her."

My wife said and I bit back a laugh, if Isabella's wedding was a week from now, Rosalie would dismember her husband. I turned my attention back to the window and saw the sun setting, or, the project of the sun. It was amazing how Forks was never illuminated directly by the rays of sun. Too convenient for any vampire, but boring at the same time. I liked the feeling of sun entering my cold skin.

I walked towards the balcony seriously thinkins about taking a three day vacation to run away from the wedding. Alice would kill me if I did that. I concluded that I wouldn't be able to run away from the embarrassment that was having a Forks' croud in our house admiring everything that Alice had prepared. I sighed and looked to the woods. How long had I been without a hunt? I would have to hunt if I wanted to endure the diversed human aromas that were going to surround me.

I was crounching down to jump to the woods, deciding to run for a while to clean my head when I heard a private talk between Edward and Bella. I didn't want to actually listen to it, but the curiosity of getting inside their relationship was strong. I trained my ears as Edward was speaking quietly, he knew that any member of the family would be able to hear him if he spoke a little bit louder, he just didn't know that a vampire was located at the varanda.

"Edward, please..."

"Bella, love, you know that I can't...'

"I trust you."

"I could kill you."

"I know you wouldn't, Edward."

Isabella's voice was strangled and Edward sounded nervous due to his self-control. I listened with every attention when a wave of lust hit me and made me stagger on the balcony. It was strong and alive. And I knew where it came from. Edward's desire would never be as intense as Bella's. The human seemed decided to try to consummate her love with a vampire. She seemed desperate because of her chaste soon-to-be husband. I smiled at that. Edward didn't deserve the vampire title, since we were impregnated with lust.

I heard the noise of footsteps in the room above and judged it would be necessary to leave the balcony otherwise Edward would know I listened to their conversation if he saw me there. A wave of disappointment was in the air and I jumped out of the house the same moment that Edward showed up on the stairs. I ran towards the forest, determined to not let myself be influenced by the human's intense emotions. I could take sadness, disappointment, anxiety and even anger. But desire was something I was not used to. I couldn't even keep mine at bay, let alone keep hers.

The trees were a blur as I ran past them. I felt the animals run away from me, their predator, but I wasn't thirsty. The desire wave was still in my body and I stop to catch my unnecessary breath and think about the subject. Why didn't Edward want to spend the night with Isabella? Was his control so weak that he would break in half when he was on top of her? I knew Isabella was fragile, but if a vampire can control his strength to catch a glass of water without breaking it, he could have sex with a human. I think. I've never been through that.

I laid down on the grass of the woods and looked at the sky that was covered with stars and thought about all that the Cullen family had gone through after Isabella entered our lives. Alice was happy just because she liked to play Barbie with the human. Rosalie hated her. Edward worshiped her. Emmett adored her. Carlisle and Esme held her dearly. And me? Well, I, Jasper always saw Isabella as a piece of meat. But after sometime Bella wasn't a glass of blood as I thought she was, Bella was a woman. A woman with curves, pretty mouth, long hair and round breasts.

My pants tightened a little bit and I was scared with my reaction. Isabella could not turn me on. I got up with a jump and ran my hands through my hair. Isabella could turn me on. She was a beautiful woman and desirable. Only Edward didn't see it. And Emmett and Carlisle. At least Jacob felt the same way I did when it came to attraction. She was intriguing, and a litle young, but... God! She was a virgin!

My mouth salivate when I thought of the word and I punched a tree, which opened a hole in the trunk and made a horrible loud sound. I started pacing. What was I thinking? Isabella was human, the soon-to-be wife of my step-brother. And Alice's friend. And Isabella was... Isabella.

I shook my head and shut my eyes closed trying not to think about her body in the jeans and her tight blouses. I took a deep breath.

"Please, Jasper."

Isabella's voice filled with desire entered my mind and I was scared. I knew it was a hallucination. But the voice, singing my name, asking me a delicious favor, made my pants tighten up more. I had no choice. I unbuttoned my jeans and pulled them down some inches. Inches but enough so I could put my hands around myself and do the movements I wanted to, getting some satisfaction from my lust.

[...]

I walked back in human speed with my head down, looking to the ground. A few hours ago I had touched myself thinking about the human that I was going to see in some minutes. What had happened to me? I had always been a vampire with a desire out of ordinary, but I had never thought that I would do what I had done. I washed my hands in the river, trying to get the smell off of them, erasing the evidence. I took a deep breath and when I saw the white house appear in front of me, creating a hole in front of the trees I walked to the door.

When I entered the house, it was empty. For a minute it looked empty, figure of speech. But when I walked a little bit faster - and ironically tired - to the kitchen I saw Esme and Alice, both of them with traveling clothes and bags by the door.

"What's this?"

I asked surprised and Alice walked over to me with her pixie smile and her small body. My arms embraced my wife and she kissed me quickly on my lips.

"We're going to Seattle to do some shopping for the wedding, Jasper."

The info caught me by surprise. What the fuck, wasn't it enough to be on the phone and cellphone ordering things for the ceremony? Alice seemed to read the expression I was showing on my face.

"Somethings aren't found easily, Jasper."

I arched an eyebrow to the two vampires showing how skeptical I was and Esme caught the begs and walked to the door.

"Come on Alice, Carlisle will take us to the airport and then he'll go back to the hospital.

Alice smiled at our adoptive mother and kissed me fully on the mouth, holding my chin.

"See you tomorrow, love."

I gave her a tired smile before I saw her leave with Esme and Carlisle. Airport? Seattle? Wasn't it easier to run? Well, I had nothing to do with that. I didn't want to get involved with this wedding. Endure Isabella's emotions was already being a tough job, help with shopping the decor was asking too much. The name of the human made me remember what had happened earlier. Isabella was still in his room, with him. What were they doing? Fighting? Isabella would be angry? I was too far to feel anything coming from that room. My thoughts were cut when I heard rushed footsteps walking down the stairs. Emmett was carrying Rose in his arms and had a smile on his face.

"We're going out, we'll come back later."

I rolled my eyes. If there was a couple in the world that liked to disappoint for hours and hours, that couple would be Emmett and Rosalie. I didn't know how my brother could tolerate the blond. I had never known a vampire so mean as Rose. I ran my hands through my hair one more time and climbed the stairs wanting to get to my room and shower.

I was walking down the corridor and heard Isabella's voice leave the room to my left. I stop quickly in time to hear Edward's voice.

"I don't want to leave you alone."

I creased my forehead to the sentence that I heard and shook my shoulders, walking back to my room. I started getting naked, throwing my hands on the floor, enjoying the fact that Alice wasn't home to complain about what I just did. I took my underwear and threw on top of the pile of clothes. I walked naked to the bathroom and opened the shower, letting the hot water hit my body, relaxing it. The box was fogged and I was thinking about everything I had thought about Isabella that afternoon when I felt Edward's smell penetrate my nose. I quickly shut my thoughts and mentally thanked myself for my training. I turned of the shower and took the towel to get dried.

I ran the towel through my body and my hair and let it sit on my hips. I took a deep breath to face my brother and I knew he was behind the door, sitting on the left side of the bed. I opened the door and got my confirmation. I smiled to myself. My senses were too heightened.

"I need to talk to you."

Edward's voice was calm and I nodded, walking to the closet to get my clothes.

"OK."

He looked to my bedroom door, giving me unnecessary privacy. I put on a boxer, a dark jeans and a black sweater. I put on some black tennis shoes. Edward didn't question the thought that he couldn't listen to my thoughts anymore. To tell the truth, I think he was thankful to that. It was almost the wedding day and he lived with three women and was always with another one, human on top of that, listening to thoughts must have been driving my brother insane.

"I want you to be with Bella for a while."

I almost choked on the air I was breathing when Edward said what he wanted. But I kept my body in the same place and listened closely to him. I nodded and he walked to the door. I knew he wasn't there just to ask me this.

"Jasper, I trust you. I know you won't harm Bella, but, could you stay on the first floor?"

I was caught by surprise with his question. Of course I would stay away. Isabella's smell was great, but her emotions drove me insane. And after the little woods incident, I think I don't want to see Isabella so soon. I nodded at Edward a little upset for his total lack of trust in me.

"I'll tell her I'm going to hunt."

Edward left my room and I followed him. I saw him go inside the bedroom and I went to the living room, turning on the TV and getting the remote control. I ran through the channels trying to find something that I had never seen in my almost one hundred and fifty years. Thinking about it, now I understood the conversation I overheard coming from the room. Isabella must had been insisting that Edward went hunting. My brother's insistence in staying with the human was annoying. Who would take so long to feed? Edward Cullen. Of course. It was dangerous to stay so close to a person with so much blood on the body. And Isabella must have seen the dark circles around his eyes.

The sound of Edward's footsteps came to my ears and I turned towards my brother.

"I'll not be away for long, for two hours max."

"Don't rush. You need to hunt, Edward. You're too hungry."

He nodded and looked to the ground.

"Then I'll be back in three hours. Four max."

I smiled, encouraging him. Edward went out by the window, running to the woods. I knew he would go far away. His preference for mountain lions was the reason that Edward took so long to eat. I let the air leave my body and crashed at the sofa, looking at the ceiling. There I was, alone. Actually, I was with Isabella... alone.

A curiosity rose in my chest and I walked towards Edward's room, walking so quietly that the human didn't hear me. The door was cracked open and I heard Isabella's heavy breath and accelerated heart. That was an unusual combination. I pushed the door a little bit more just so that I could see the human lying on the bed, hugging her legs and crying.

Thick tears ran down Isabella's face and she was shaking slightly. Her sobs filled the room and I had to refrain myself from entering the room and comfort her when a wave of sadness, deception and rejection hit me. What the fuck did Edward do now?

I almost closed the door and left Isabella alone to think and let go. I went back downstairs and to the sofa, sitting in it and looking at the TV, now there was a vampire movie going on. I closed my eyes. It would be a long night. Her emotions were weak now and I was thankful to that, Her blood was still bugging me, but nothing to worry about.

Long endless minutes went by until I heard movement in the room above. Isabella couldn't stop moving on the bed, restless. I let my senses rule me to discover exactly what she was trying to do when a wave of lust - stronger than the first - hit me. Shit. Didn't this human know what she was doing? I bit my lip when the wave intensified and my pants tightened again.

No. Not again. I put a pillow in front of the obvious bulge and squeezed it, trying to create some sort of pain so that I'd get turned off. If Isabella didn't stop this I would get insane.

Her footsteps were now loud and I heard her coming down the stairs. I was still. The light was on and the room was illuminated well enough for the human to see me. Isabella walked over to the glass door and looked outside the house, to the woods. The wave of desire was stronger with her presence in the room. She was pacing around the room and for the first time noticed that the TV was on. Her eyes searched in vain for the remote control on the table. She wouldn't find it. It was with me.

She didn't see me. Isabella ran her hand through her hair and I thought it would be better not to say a thing, or it could scare her. Her delicate hands ran hands on her waist and I saw Isabella reluctantly to touch her own breast. Shit. Isabella was going to touch herself in front of me? I had to stop her somehow.

I increased the TV sound and changed the channel. Her eyes looked scared to the TV and landed on me for the first time on the couch. She saw me. And she got scared. Her heart accelerated, bombing blood to all her body. She didn't knew I was at the house? Judging by her scared expression and the confusion emanating her body along with desire, she didn't.

"Jasper?"

Yes, my darling. Jasper.

[To be continued...]