JPOV
Bella's emotions hit Jasper like a brick wall.
He was sitting in the forest with the rest of the family trying to give the two a bit of privacy. Alice sat perfectly calm, probably already knowing the outcome of all of this. Rosalie and Emmett had driven off to some hotel, wanting nothing to do with what was going on. Edward was trying to calm Esme who wouldn't stop pacing and worrying about Bella.
"I know it's best for me not to be there but how is she going to feel when she finds out? Did you see the way she was looking at him? I trust Carlisle and his judgment but what if he hurts her unintentionally? I know there's no easy way to say it but. . . Oh, I hope she doesn't take it too hard, that poor girl!"
Esme's capacity to love had always amazed Jasper. He'd been turned by an ambitious vampire who'd wanted him only to use his abilities, so when he'd first met Esme he was slightly suspicious of her true intentions. Eventually, however, he began to relax around her and see her as a true mother.
She'd only just met Bella and already she was thinking of her as a daughter.
It was when they'd begun walking back to the house that Jasper had felt her emotions. They were some of the strongest he'd ever felt. Earlier, he'd only felt traces of her emotions but now. . . Despair, disbelief, and waves of fury made him grit his teeth at their intensity. When they reached the back door they could hear her low and dangerous whisper.
"I've been looking for you for years, not even knowing or sometimes even believing I would ever find you, and this is all you have to say to me?"
They heard footsteps, and then the backdoor opened.
BPOV
"I guess that's over with," Bella said before running out into the forest.
She had to feed. She had to do something to get all of this frustration out of her. She wanted to run back and kill him. She wanted to run back and beg him to take her back. She wanted to forget all of this. In other words, she was as volatile as a newborn vampire.
And that was when she smelled them: It was a group of hunters. Bella immediately changed course and began to-
A large weight hit her from her side. It was Jasper.
They rolled around on the forest floor for a little while until finally they came to a stop with Jasper ending up on top of her. They didn't speak for a while, just gazed into each other's eyes in a silent battle for dominance. Jasper sent her feelings of tranquility in an attempt to calm her. She tried to resist but eventually settled down.
Jasper reluctantly moved from on top of her to her side before finally asking, "So, mind telling me what happened back there?"
"What do you think happened? He told me he was married, I had a tiny breakdown, and now I'm laying here with you," Bella shrugged. "So, what do you think happened in the cafeteria earlier between us?"
"Whoa, wait a minute, are you really trying to tell me you're over him that quick? After what you were feeling back there?"
He caught me, Bella thought. She sighed. "It's not like I just got over him. I've been over him for the last century or so. I knew he was married, I just wanted to see him again to tell him that I still loved him, just not in the same way. But when he told me he was married. . . It felt like I didn't know him anymore. He's changed so much even though vampires are supposed to stay the same. It feels almost like we're miles apart from one another and there's no way to overcome the distance. We're just so different from who we were in the 1600's. I was angry because it was like he was rubbing it in my face."
Jasper was silent for a while, simply looking up at the darkening clouds. Bella examined him as he did this. She examined his strong jaw, his thick eyelashes, his curly, dark blond curls that brushed the collar of his shirt. Bella couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like to run her fingers through it or tug gently on it as she nibbled his neck. . .
She snapped out of her fantasies when he turned to watch her with an amused look on his handsome face. "You do know my ability don't you?"
"Yes," Bella said, slightly embarrassed.
"Then I suggest you control yourself before I attack you."
Bella couldn't help but think that she wouldn't mind that. "So, no comment on what I was just saying?"
"Nope."
"Well then, back to my earlier question. What happened in the cafeteria earlier?"
"Well to tell the truth I'm not entirely sure," Jasper admitted. "What do you think happened?"
"Well, I'm not too sure either. I've never felt anything like that before, have you?"
"No."
"Do you still feel it?" Bella asked, curious.
"Yeah, and I can tell you do, too."
If Bella had still been a human she would have blushed intensely but since she was, in fact, a vampire, she simply looked away from him, embarrassed. "What do you think we should do about it?"
What he did next shocked her.
He rolled himself back on top of her and leaned down until their lips were barely an inch apart and then he moved his mouth over to her ear and whispered, "I want you now."
Bella took an unnecessary breath before softly whispering back to him, "Please. I want you too."
And he took her lips in a hungry kiss.
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