CPOV

It didn't take an empath to feel the tension in the room.

Rosalie was screaming at Alice. I wasn't surprised at this. They had been doing that since the day Alice had arrived. My son, Edward, stood at Rosalie's side, yelling at Emmett who looked ready to punch his lights out if it were possible. Jasper sat on the couch, his leg twitching and his brow deep in thought. And my Esme, ever the peace keeper, was running between the battle fronts and keeping a firm hand on Jasper's shoulder. She looked at me. The worry was evident in her eyes.

"Carlisle." She whimpered. "Look at them."

Rosalie screamed. "There is no way I'm allowing that thing anywhere near me."

"You don't have a choice!" Alice yelled back. "She's staying. I've seen it!"

"No!" Edward shouted. He would've turned red if blood still ran in his veins. "The girl's damaged enough without having to deal with us. I say we get rid of him," he pointed to Jasper, "and deal with it that way."

"You are not getting rid of my brother, Eddie." Emmett's booming voice rattled the furniture. "And she is fun! Something you sorely lack."

"ENOUGH!" I commanded. Everyone stopped but the anger still remained. Rosalie was growling at her mate in disgust. Jasper was the only one who kept moving. The steady tap of his boot on the floor reminding me of that infernal clock in the hospital. "Now what seems to be the matter?"

"He," Rosalie growled, pointing at Jasper. "has found his mate."

I was confused. Finding a mate was a joyful thing. It was such a rare thing, even among those as ancient as we. It was even rarer for more than one mated couple per coven. Ours was basically unheard of with everyone but… scratch that… all of my family to be mated.

Edward frowned at my thoughts. "She's human, Carlisle."

"We were all human once or don't you remember? Hell, I was human when Rosalie was mated to me."

Rosalie scoffed. "I don't think you can call her human, Emmett. Or did you forget about class today?"

Esme's ears picked up. "What happened?"

Emmett threw himself on the couch by my mate. The force was so strong it caused Esme and Jasper to jump slightly out of their seat. Esme was shocked. Jasper barely noticed. His leg still twitched and his foot still tapped.

"We were doing these experiments in class. It came to Harmony's, ("Hermione's." Alice said.) turn and something strange happened. She did it correctly but the experiment didn't exactly turn out like it was meant to."

"What do you mean?"

'There was smoke coming from the beaker and it smelt different too, something salty." Rosalie admitted.

"That's not all." Edward spoke up. "She's got no thoughts. None at all. It's like she's brain dead or something. Jasper can't read her and Alice can't see her clearly."

Alice tugged on my sleeve. "Hermione, I can't smell her either."

"Smell?"

Emmett laughed. "No scent. If you couldn't see her you would think she wasn't there."

"That's not all."

I turned to Edward. He stood facing Alice, his eyes looking like daggers. She, in turn, looked sheepishly at the ground. Despite the shortness of her hair, it covered the majority of her face. Slowly, she pulled a folded piece of white paper out of her jacket and gave it to me. I unfolded it and I was shocked. Three figures stood, bruised and bloody from war. The youthful nature of their being only broken by the aged look in their eyes.

"She's a soldier." I said carefully, watching the others nod. "Well then it's perfect. A warrior vampire mated to a warrior human."

"Hermione is dangerous." Rosalie said. "There's just something about her that scares me."

Everyone stared at me wondering what to do. Well almost everyone. Jasper still sat on the couch, tapping his foot away. The only time I had seen him like this was near 50 years ago a few years after he joined the coven. I prayed to God he was not struggling with the blood lust again. It was kill him if his mate was harmed. I walked to him to comfort him with my wife. Her golden eyes were worried about our son. Bless her. Esme had embraced our children as her own blood. Even Jasper, a vampire over twice her age.

"Jasper," Esme whispered. "Are you alright, son?"

Jasper kept on tapping his foot upon our hard floors. Tap. Tap. Tap. But at least now he was taking deep breaths of air. It was more for comfort than survival.

I placed my hand on his leg and he stilled. His head shot upwards, his black eyes glared into my own gold. "Do you feel the bond?" I gently said to him

He took a moment to respond. "Yes. When I'm with her, I don't. I don't need to. I can see she's fine even though I can't feel her. But now… now that Hermione's not near me I can. I still can't feel her but I know she's safe and unharmed. My heart hurts." Jasper pressed his hand to his chest. "It hurts not seeing her. But it hurts to see her too."

"Why?"

"Her eyes." He whispered. It was so low that even with my heightened senses struggled with the noise. "Her eyes are so broken."

A smile graced my face causing Edward to groan. Obviously he had read my mind. "Then you need to fix that, don't you?"

Rosalie gasped behind me as Emmett stood up and high fived Alice. "You don't mean that thing will be near us. She's human and a freak! I can't…"

She rattled on, complaining to anyone who listened. (Not that they were anyway.) But for once I didn't care about the happiness of my eldest daughter. She would find comfort in the arms of her mate. As would I or Edward. My only concern was that Jasper would have the chance to have his.

And, as I saw his face, I knew I had chosen correctly.

Jasper's face lit up like he was standing in the sun. There was a wide smile on his face, one I had I never seen before. New life sprung into him like a bolt of lightning and instantly he sent an euphoric wave at us. It crashed down around us and cloaked us in its warmth. But it was his eyes, his eyes that really made me smile. For the first time since I had met him there was life in them. A spark that only a mate could provide.

Esme pulled him into a hug and mouthed a thank-you towards me. I chuckled. Seeing Jasper's face in that split moment was all the thanks I needed.

Emmett grabbed Rosalie around the middle and kissed her. And Alice jumped on Edward, wrapping her legs around his waist. Esme let go of our son and kissed me tenderly on the lips. My mate. My beautiful mate. I only hoped that Jasper could feel half as happy as she made me. He would be a lucky man if he did. But, seeing the faces of my wife and my children sobered me us dramatically.

I grasped Jasper by the wrist and he did the same. "You will need to careful." I nodded to him. "She is human and could be harmed. You cannot tell her about vampires. It is a crime and could bring unwanted attention to the family, Volturi attention."

"Of course."

"But no matter what drama she may be in or what role she plays in this so called war; we will help in whatever way we can. Hermione is now family whether she knows about it or not."

Jasper let go of my arm and hugged me. His arms caged me in. My mate smiled and smoothed his hair. "Now," she said softly. "before you go hunting, tell me all about this Hermione."

Jasper smiled and told her everything he had found out about her. It wouldn't be much, she was new after all, but Jasper would most likely get his contact to do some digging soon if he hadn't already.

Alice let go of her mate and came to me, her tiny hand nestled in my own. "You did the right thing, Carlisle. They will be happy."

"I know they will."

Her smile fell as she looked to me. "Life is going to change." Alice said soberly. "Hermione's life is going to change."

"She's mated to a real life vampire. Of course it will."

Alice let go of my hand and walked slowly to the stairs. "Not because of us." She clarified before she wisped away leaving nothing but her scent behind.

Edward frowned behind me. His mate had seen something that I knew. But what? What danger was this girl in?

Yet my family celebrated our newest member and I smiled. It didn't matter right now. What mattered was Jasper's happiness with his mate. I took a seat and sighed with contentment. Soon, our family will be complete.

AN: Hey my Calender kids!

AHHHHHH. So excited for this update. I know it's shorter (just 1.5 K words) but unless I included the next scene it'll be almost double this. Gotta spread out the goodness you guys. Also, I can honestly say that the total story I have typed up so far without the AN's is over 41 pages long. GAH! So long! But every time I open that document I just get these little tingles. Love it.

Some of you guys PM'd me about what I meant by a base for the potion. Well I always had this idea that each potion would have a base. After all... how can you get this liquid based potion by adding flowers, eyes and other such solid things. Perhaps if they had a base liquid it would help with melting everything down. That or something that would absorb the magical properties of the ingredients before they were strained out after the sitting periods. You would then have to have different basis as different potions have different things and ... well whatever.

No question this week... but I will do my shout out to meldz. She was the one who pointed out my mistake in Alastor in chapter 1 (should be fixed now) and actually called my work sexy. Ooooooo. Never been called that before. Mainly my work is classified under thrills and shivers. Love that I'm moving into a new category now. Although, (changing topics) I must say... I'm impressed with you're favourite story list. Might need to add some to mine. :D

Like always; read and review everyone. If you shout me a PM or a review this time... I'll pick one of you to read my next chapter before I post it. Warning though, it'll be a while until Jasper and Hermione get together and fanfiction kids will combine with the main page kids.

Until next time...

April May out!