Hello everyone! Sorry it took me so long to update! Short chapter I know, I just thought yall deserved a little something! :)
"Its okay Jasper, you don't have to explain anything to me. I know you did the things you did for a reason, and that's all I need to know." I told him as we walked through the hallway to our room.
He ran his fingers through his hair, a sign I recognized well that he was stressed. Jasper got overwelmed easily, with all that happened just in the past day and a half, I knew he needed help more than ever.
He leaned against the wall and tilted his head back. "We don't know anything about why she's here. I don't even have my powers. We can't tell if she's angry or still has the understandable chip on her shoulder I'm responsible for. I'm the reason she's here, disrupting our lives. I worked so hard trying to stay away from her, to escape that entire life completely. To force it into my past, to never let it become my future again. When I finally do..." He sighed deeply. "She finds me all over again."
"I don't know if I can do this Alice. I can't...handle any of it. She was with me for eighty years, but I walked away without looking back and now she is my enemy. She is capable of so many things. Terrible things, you know that, Alice."
I walked closer to him. I put my hands on his face before he could say anything more.
"Jasper?" I asked. Waiting for him to open his eyes and look at me. I ran my thumb across his cheeks, doing my best to sooth his nerves.
He swallowed, and his eyelids opened smoothly, almost with no emotion. His face was expressionless as I started talking him down.
"Please stop Jasper. Yes, she's here, which is definitely not very ideal." I said as he scoffed at my choice of words. "But I'm not afraid of her. She may be powerful, but she came here for a certain reason. If she did something to me, do you think that would make her offer to you an more persuasive? She is smart enough to know that it wouldn't work, isn't she?"
He now looked at me with a steady, hard expression. His hands now rested on my waist. Something about saying, even considering, the idea of Maria hurting me, made him angry already. I felt his protective instincts in the way he held me. Jasper had always thought of me as fragile, as if I couldn't defend myself. Jasper had taught me long ago how to fight, and knew I could hold my own. Yet something in his mind told him I needed protection, it probably always would be that way. His protectiveness was something I accepted a long time ago.
"Nothing is going to happen to you. I swear it." His eyebrows creased with determination to fulfill his promise.
It took me awhile to say anything back, because I knew without any doubt that I would be fine. But at the same time I felt as if Jasper was going to snap at any moment. I felt like he was so vulnerable and it wasn't just because Maria was here. Her presence, her being in the room alone seem to make him doubt his own judgements and calls.
"It's you I'm worried about, Jasper." I said, feeling I wished in that moment Jasper could feel my emotions. I relied on him knowing how felt and so did he, it was just another way we communicated. I felt disconnected to him in a way.
"I'll be fine as long as your okay. That's all I need Alice, is for all of us to end up safe. I couldn't even imagine something happening-"
"Then don't." I said firmly, cutting him off. Jasper looked up at me and looked so stiff and couldn't seem to understand that we could get through everything as long as we were together.
"Who knows, it couldn't hurt to ask Maria for them back." He said shrugging. "If she says no we can't be any worse off than we are now." I answered him with small nod.
We stared at each to other for awhile, I absent-mindedly I traced a scar on his chin with my thumb. My finger traveled up his cheek all the way to his temple when his eyes caught mine.
With a soft smile, I leaned in and kissed him gently. His lips captured mine sweetly, I felt him relax, even if it was just a little. We moved so well together, we were meant to be together and I had always, always known that. Nothing, even Maria, couldn't do anything to stop what we had.
When I let the kiss slow down, I put my feet back on the ground. Since he was so much taller than me, I could never kiss him without being on my toes. Jasper had always found that amusing, and took great joy in making fun of my height, as if he had a humorous, useless, advantage over me.
"Then I guess we have nothing to worry about, right?" I said, cocking my head to the side slightly, trying to make him smile.
He looked down at the floor and chuckled. Nodding a little, he said, "When you put it like that darlin', I guess your right."
"I know." I said smiling, putting my arms around his neck. "Now are you ready to go down stairs? I'm sure there worried about us."
He looked at me with an eyebrow raised, a devious look glinted in his eye.
The one thing about not having my powers, is everything I used to expect, I didn't at all anymore.
He kissed me without warning. His fingers grazed my cheek softly, as he learned his head to the side, trying to get closer to me. For that split second, everything was simple. Everything else seem to fade away as he held me tighter.
When he let go, I was still in a daze."I would consider that an accoplishment."
"Why is that?"
"I finally surprised you for once." He said and kissed my forehead.
I giggled in spite of myself. "So your telling me that Maria is outside with an army of over twenty and we have no powers. Not even mentioning that our lives may be at stake, and we are going to walk out of this room laughing?"
He chuckled at the irony. "Yes, I guess we are a little crazy aren't we?"
We walked out hand in hand smiling at each other. And for just that one moment, everything was okay. Everything seemed to rewind to two days ago when all we were thinking about each other and anniversary plans.
But by the time we got down-stairs, all those warm feelings disappeared. Fast.
Because nothing was simple anymore.
Nothing was the way it was supposed to be...
and nothing prepared us for what we saw next.
Chapter done! :) YAY! I feel sort of bad because that was a little bit of a cliffy. Would it make you feel any better if I told you I was almost done with the next chapter?
What did you think? Hit or miss?
Wild as the Wind
