A/N: Another little moment. For a juicier read, you check out my multi-chapter Jasper/Alice fic, Run Away With Me. Also check out the J/A fics on my Favorites, they are great. Review if the urge takes you!

2. (EDWARD POV).

It is known amongst our family that Alice and Jasper's relationship is the most private, the most reserved. Even Carlisle and Esme engage in the occasional kissing or hand holding in public.

For a long time everyone assumed their relationship was just about a deep spiritual respectful love, rather than the lust and physical desires that are often the primary factor in a relationship - although if you ask Rose and Emmett that makes for a very satisfying relationship!

Carlisle thought perhaps Alice had never matured to desire a physical relationship, having been shut in the dark on mind altering drugs for most of her life until her transformation. She was the size of a child; tiny, slim, her curves present but subtle, her attitude so simple and optimistic it was almost childlike.

He also speculated that Jasper was a man ruled by discipline and restraint, having spent most of his life in military situations, and being so broken upon finding Alice, that he merely lived to serve her just to be around her beautiful spirit, expecting nothing in return and taking only whatever she offered.

I knew better than this. Unfortunately, my gift prevents things that should be private from staying that way, but I have enough decency that I would never tell the things I know about the two of them, the parts of their relationship that no one else sees. While their relationship is based in a connection that is deeper and more profound than any of ours, with both of them being entirely dependent on the other to exist as they know it, there are so many more things that no one else notices. I wouldn't even notice them if it weren't for my gift, which can at times be unfortunate...

Alice's gift allows her to know exactly when they have a window of opportunity to engage in very loud, rough sex, the kind that would put Emmett and Rosalie to shame. Being skilled at self-restraint, Jasper is able to wait until the coast is clear. No one would know they do it if I didn't get assaulted with mental images of Jasper holding Alice's legs over her head the moment I returned to the house. That was not the way I wanted to find out how flexible my sister is.

Thanks to Jasper's gift, they have worked out a way of talking without words. People are awed whenever they witness them doing it, because all they can see is the intense personal connection. Due to my gift, I can hear the words passing between them as they will each other to feel them. They can only do simple phrases, like I love you, or I missed you, or I'm sorry. But all it takes is for them to make a connection, and with the help of Jasper's gift they speak through specific emotions that pass back and forth between them. For longer things they whisper together, their voices moving so fast that only they can tell what each other is saying, because they're so tuned to each other's voices.

Whenever Emmett does something impressive, Rosalie loves to compliment him. Being proud of him is an extension of showing herself off. When we play sports, she shouts encouragement like a cheerleader, things like "That's my monkey man!" Alice does the same thing, but Jasper and I are the only ones who hear it. Jasper feels it, in her bursts of pride, how she glows for him, as I hear her scream, "That's my cowboy!" in her head, her eyes bright and shining.

People often think Jasper looks like he's in pain. Only I can hear how happy he is inside, just to be near Alice. He got used to constant pain a long time ago and barely even registers it anymore next to the soothing peace and soaring joy he feels around her.

It's true that Jasper is used to being guarded, and Alice likes to keep things simple and straightforward. But these are just the outer layers, the things other people are allowed to see. Most of their relationship happens on levels between them that no one else is privy to.

They are not shy or modest, they just don't feel the need to show off, like Rosalie, and don't overcomplicate things and get lost in words and thoughts the way I tend to. They're part of the same soul, deeply connected so that they don't need to exert extra effort to constantly affirm their love like Carlisle and Esme with their needs to love things, which extends to their need to show affection to each other.

Of course their gifts help. Jasper's intensifies their deep connection, because they never don't know what the other is feeling, and can communicate through their very souls. And Alice's provides unadulterated trust between them, because there's nothing Jasper could do that she wouldn't know about. He doesn't seem to mind the lack of privacy. He seems to like it, in the same way she likes that he could never not know what she was feeling so she would never be able to hide something from him. It does make things a lot simpler, having complete trust as a given and knowing each other as well as they know themselves.

With two different vampires, this combination of gifts might be too intense to work. But they need each other as intensely as their connection lets them be together, so for them it works out just perfectly.

Things between them work so well and easily that they don't need to be anymore than they are.