Okay, so Alice and Jasper have been together for a year now, but I skipped out all that stuff. They're very close now and know almost everything about each other, but they haven't got married yet.
Well…happy reading :)
1949
We had been together for a year now. One amazing year. It was the best year of my existence and I didn't even have to know anything about my human life to know that. Jasper was my world and I didn't need anything to survive but him, yet, lately, I'd been feeling like something was missing. I wasn't unhappy, but it felt like there should be someone else there laughing with us when humans saw us and were so amazed they walked into lampposts and walls.
"What are you thinking about?" Jasper said quietly and squeezed my hand.
I looked up at him. I couldn't tell him what I thought could I? What my sub conscience was telling me I wanted – a family. They family I'd seen in a vision just before I'd met Jasper.
The answer was no, I couldn't. Jasper had been part of a family and however violent it might have seemed, it was still a family. And he still hadn't gotten over leaving them and their ways. Sure, he put on a brave smile, but I could see the constant conflict in his eyes and his scared body reminded me that drinking animal blood was not the lifestyle he would choose by himself.
"Nothing." I smiled and squeezed his hand back.
1950
"Carlisle, Emmett and I are going to hunt. We should be back before dusk." Edward said to Carlisle.
"Alright son, be safe."
Edward and Emmett ran excitedly out of the door.
I gasped when realisation hit me. The vision had been familiar, yet new at the same time. I understood what day it was – the day I'd become part of a family.
"Jasper!" I shouted.
He was with me in an instant.
"I haven't told you something that I've been seeing in my visions for the past two years." I rushed.
He didn't look angry or shocked. He smiled gently.
"Well I'm sure you kept it from me for good reason."
I walked up to him and walked into his arms. I inhaled his fragrance – honey, sand and ocean that I'd grown so used to. It calmed me down a little and reminded me that he would never get too angry at me.
"I saw a clan of vampires, only they weren't a clan, they were more like a family. And they were like us too. They have golden eyes."
I paused and looked at his expression, but couldn't detect anything out of place there. I continued, looking into his eyes.
"I saw us join them. We were part of a family Jazz. We were happy."
Although his face remained neutral and unchanged, his eyes betrayed him. A thin layer of panic, stress and uncertainty lingered in his eyes.
"A family? But… But how do we know they can be trusted? And what if they don't understand… we aren't normal vampires Alice, we've been though…more."
I was shaking my head before he finished.
"They'll understand. They can sympathise. They do sympathise."
"I don't want their sympathy. And they won't appreciate having to deal with me and my unyielding bloodlust!"
His breathing increased and anger began to radiate from him.
"They're not perfect either Jazz." Well, some of them are not perfect. I added to myself.
"They've messed up too. And they can help you overcome your problems. Don't you see Jazz? We can have a home instead of being on the move all the time!"
He sighed and calmed down a little. His shouldered slumped and he ran a hand through his hair.
We stood in silence for what seemed like a log time. I was tense. If he refused to go, I couldn't be part of that family because wherever he went, I would follow.
"I guess it would be nice having somewhere to clean up of our own instead of breaking and entering." He chuckled sarcastically. "Ok. Lead the way honey. But if I end up ripping off one of their heads, it won't be my fault."
I giggled. "Oh, don't worry, you won't. Trust me."
I winked, grabbed my bad off the floor and ran forward at lightning speed.
"Hey! Unfair! You got a head start!" I heard him say a few miles back, still in the spot I had left him.
"You'll just have to catch me then wont you?" I challenged and heard him begin to run.
Pushing myself harder, I easily put another mile between us. I knew he was letting me win. I might be mentally stronger than him, but I was nowhere as physically powerful.
My smile only got wider as the temperature began to gradually decrease and I begun to recognise parts of the land that had briefly flashed into my mind over the past 30 years. Jasper had been at my side for the past 32 minutes, in which we have covered over 100 miles. I slowed down and Jasper followed my lead.
He sniffed and his body tightened. Other vampires were near and he was one edge again.
"Relax, Jazz. This is all going to happened smoothly. I've seen it already."
We pushed our way through a wall of tall ferns and emerged in a beautiful garden the size of a field. To say it was well kept would be an understatement. It was magnificent and no doubt reflected upon its owners.
Jaspers thought must have been on a similar level to mine because he started backing away slowly.
"This isn't right Alice. They're not right." He shoved his finger at the well sized house. "I don't belong here.
Please, we've managed these past years on our own. Why don't we just keep it that way? We can get a house of our own if you want. Away from everyone. In a forest like this. Please Alice. Let's just go."
I stood, staring at him. If I could have cried, my eyes would be full of tears by now. I had sought after this moment practically all my vampire life and now it was here, just a footstep away, only I couldn't make myself take that final step, because a step in that direction was a step away from Jasper. And I knew I if I had to chose between the two, it would be him, but I would spend the rest of my existence thinking 'what if'.
"Jasper, please don't do this." I begged. "I've wanted this for so long. Now I have the chance to get what I've always wanted. Don't take that away from me."
His eyes darted between the house and my face. I understood his desperation to be away from here, so I knew it was out of the fear that he might become what he once was again.
"I promise I won't let you become like that again Jazz. I swear. And if you cant handle it, we'll leave. We'll get as far away from here as possible and just keep on running until you want to stop."
"I'd never run." He said.
Even in the most sensitive times, he didn't like to be seen as a coward.
"That's not the point."
I moved closer to him and hugged his body.
"Just try it. For me."
He looked down at my face and after five minutes of deliberation, nodded his head.
"For you then."
I smiled and jumped on him, wrapping my legs around his body and hooking my feet together. We leaned together and pressed our lips together firmly. Our lips and tongues moved in a wave of passion and by the time we broke apart, my head was spinning.
"Thank you." I whispered onto his lips.
So what do you guys think? I don't know whether to make the meeting first meeting between the Cullen's and Alice and Jasper funny or awkward.
Any ideas would be great! :)
