~Jasper~

Six months ago, Edward had forced us all to leave Forks. The family, minus Bella, were all in Europe. Edward had done nothing but sit in his room and not move since we'd arrived. Rosalie couldn't have been happier.

"Now she'll finally get that shot at a normal life!"

Alice had been… standoffish. She was hiding something, that much I knew for sure. She never really talked to me anymore, and we hadn't had sex since we'd left Forks. It sucked.

I was sitting in the living room with Emmett playing battle ship when she walked in.

"Jasper? Can we go for a run? I really want to talk to you."

I stood, catching a quick glimpse of Emmett's board.

"C3."

"C'mon man, hit and sunk!"

I followed Alice out of the door, and she took off into the wet woods near the house. I ran after her, my hair blowing back off of my forehead, the light mist coating my skin.

She came to an abrupt stop at the edge of a cliff, and I stopped next to her.

"Jasper… I had a vision. I needed to take you out here so I could tell you about it, Edward can't hear us this far out."

She sat, her feet dangling into the nothingness, and I joined her. "Is it someone in our family? What's happening?"

She turned to me. "Jasper, do you remember the first words I said to you?"

I looked back at her and placed my hand on the side of her face. "Of course I do. 'You've kept me waiting a long time.'"

She cringed away from my hand slightly, and then covered it up by swiping a hand through her hair. "And you ducked your head like a good southern gentleman and said, 'I'm sorry, ma'am.' But Jasper, I haven't been entirely truthful to you."

I could feel my eyes widen and I looked at her. "What are you saying?"

She took a deep breath shuddering slightly. "For the first 20 or so years we were together, I could see nothing but a single, solitary future for us. The two of us, together. Forever. But then… it changed."

I turned away from her and looked down at the chasm below us. "What made it change?"

She sighed and adjusted her shirt. "Marie Welch met Richard Swan when she decided to stop and ask for directions instead of believing her sister's directions to their mother's new home."

"I don't understand, Alice. What are you trying to say?" But I did understand what she was saying. But I needed to hear her say it.

She looked at me forlornly. "Marie and Richard had Charles Swan, who met Renee Mills and had Isabella Swan. And because Bella exists, we're not meant to be together."

I grabbed her shoulders and shook her. "So you're saying this is over? Close to 80 years at this point that I've spent with you, for nothing? Let me guess, we'll be happier this way."

She blew out the air in her lungs and shouted at me. "Yes! Exactly! Jasper, I've seen Bella become one of us, but it wasn't Edward who did it. I thought that the vision would change or disappear after he made us leave, but it didn't. You're going to change her, Jasper. You're going to change her, and marry her, and have the life you deserve. I've always loved you, I always will. But this is what is right for you."

I let go of her arms and she dropped down a bit back onto the rock. "If you love me so much, why couldn't you just tell me this? I love you, and the feelings that I have for Bella are no where near that!"

She looked deep into my eyes, and placed a hand on my chest. "Your power allows you to feel emotion, but can it tell you the reason for feeling something? No. I think the love you have for me is more platonic, and the feelings you have for Bella are the kind that you were destined to have. Remember that day we all went and showed Bella how to play baseball? That day she was there, you were showing off more than usual. You were running faster, doing tricks with the bat, and throwing the ball harder. That's how our kind are, Jasper. We attract potential mates using strength and power."

I suddenly realized what she was saying. "So, what does this mean for me?"

She moved her hand from my chest and grabbed my hands in hers. "We tell the family, then you go to Forks."

I thought back to the memories I had of Bella. When we were running from James, I had this fierce urge to protect her. When we'd been in the hotel room, I had automatically searched out escape routes in case I had to get her out of there, and I'd done my best to make her feel okay. I then remembered how scared I'd been when I realized she's run away. The thoughts that I wouldn't see her again. I'd assumed it was because she completed our family, but could it be that she was what I needed? And then, the immense guilt after what had happened at her party. I'd been working so hard, spending more time around humans, hunting more often, I'd even been to the hospital to see Carlisle, and nothing had happened. But that night, with my power amplifying everyone else's bloodlust, I'd been sent back 10 steps. And they all had assumed that it was my weakness that had caused it, not their own. Edward knew the truth, but he wouldn't tell, he was saving his own ass. Her blood was so potent to him, and he would have snapped. But I did for him.

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"No! I forbid you to see her!" Edward roared, throwing the chair back and punching the table. "You almost killed her once. We left so she could live, if you go back that will all be undone."

Carlisle stood and gestured for him to sit. "Edward, I don't believe that's your choice. Alice, what happens when he goes to Forks?"

Alice's eyes became unfocused for a moment before going back to normal. "I can't see. Edward keeps changing his mind about what to do. Can you please just focus on letting him go?"

Edward nodded stiffly, and Alice concentrated again. "He spends time with Bella. Helps her heal from what Edward did. They fall in love."

Edward roared and lunged for me. Carlisle and Emmett grabbed his arms, pulling him back. "Don't touch her! Don't you fucking touch her! Bella Swan is mine, she was made for me!"

Rosalie, of all people, got in his face, yelling. "Oh! You have some nerve! If Jasper is meant for her, then I'd rather see him with her than you! Sure, she's human, but she's her own person. You made all of her choices for her, so now, how about you let her make her own? If she doesn't want him, he can come back. If she does, then it's the two of them, and they deserve to be happy."

Edward fell back, and Emmett pushed him into the chair. "If you go, Jasper, I won't accept you as a brother again."

I looked over at Edward, and his face crumpled as he read my mind.

You never accepted me in the first place.

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Alice and I laid on the bed, talking. She'd just helped me pack my things, but there were still some things that needed to be said.

"Alice… what are you going to do?"

She sighed, and scratched my scalp with her fingernails like she did countless times before.

"Probably go to Paris, or another big city. I'll try to find someone. I know that if you're happy, that I'll be too. Promise me that you'll find her, and help her."

I placed a kiss on her forehead. "I promise."

I set my boxes out to be mailed to the house in Forks, then grabbed my one suitcase. I put it in the back of my car, and ran out to the woods to hunt one last time. Then, I drove to the airport.

I was going home.

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