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The midnight glow pulses in rapture of the feathers falling, lost in a haze of delusion and porcelain hearts. Enjoy the silence, for the last mourning song lost to the wind is the scent of the trapped and forgotten. The morphine never set in, the pain never dulled, and here I lay, screaming in silent voice drowned out by the venom that has become the tragic truth of me.
In the hand of the ominous dark I reside, bound by the crumbling chains that still imprison my body that was never quite whole anyways. The poison mercury tears that will always be shed remain on the hushed beats of my heart, making it hard to breathe the air mixed with grief and terrible beauty.
Beyond salvation, in memory of the tainted innocence of spring, the nighttime masquerade is forever, along with the bleeding elixir that feeds off of my stony memories. If shadows wrote diaries, in treason we'd trust, isolating the cool, gray waters of the damned. The ripple of you, the scent of your soul, is precisely wound to block the cascading light that was once my life.
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"Jasper!" I screamed, throwing myself over him, taking his face in my hands and searching his unnervingly silent face with sheer dread. "Jasper! JASPER!!"
Tears welled up in my eyes, seeped over and landing on Jaspers chest, little drops of silver contrasting with his white shirt. How amazing it was that a few minutes ago I would not have been overcome with such emotion for the man I had wrongly judged for a long time. But now, I had been so close to knowing the real truth.
Edward was sitting in stony silence opposite me, his dark eyes icy and tortured, though I was past able to comfort him, much less myself. He had just potentially killed his brother; I couldn't even imagine how much pain he could be in, no matter that he had been ready to kill him earlier. He knew nothing about Jasper; we had both judged him wrong.
I sat back slowly, removing my arms from his chest, trailing them softly, letting a few more tears fall. I studied his face- angular and leonine, with honey blonde hair. But something had changed; he was now silent, guard down, and now strangely childish. His face, before full of emotion, was wiped blank and looked rather like a child dreaming. So vulnerability started the flow of tears again, and I chose not to stop them, letting a small sob escape my lips. Edward tore his gaze away from Jasper, and slowly pulled out of his thoughts.
"Bella…" he trailed off, reaching up a cold hand to touch my equally cool cheek, dragging his fingers to catch my tears. "Shhh, Bella," he soothed me in his musical voice, as I let another whimper escape my throat, and the tears came still. Edward moved fluidly across Jasper, over to my side, pulling me on his lap and cradling me like a child. Rubbing my back in an attempt to quiet me only made me more depressed; this was so messed up.
"E-Edward," I said, my voice trembling, "I…I…we were w-wrong about him. Jasper, I m-mean. He shouldn't have died, he was carrying information I needed…" I broke off, and buried my face in Edward's shoulder blade. Edward had stiffened a bit, taking in my words.
"Bella? What…" he trailed off, pulling on my shoulders so he could get a good look at me. "What are you talking abo-?"
"Bella."
That familiar voice. I had wanted to hear it so bad, and I feared it had been too late.
"Jasper!" I cried in elation, relief coursing through me. Of course, I had been stupid. Vampires couldn't die unless they were burned.
I wrenched myself from Edward's arms, and instantly was at Jasper's side, casting my arms around his neck gently, making care not to hurt him. His eyes had fluttered open, and it seemed to be costing him much effort. Edward had also appeared at his side, though he did not seem surprised at all. Damn him, he had known all along that he hadn't been dead. He wanted him to die.
"Edward, do you have a heart?" I hissed from Jasper's chest, my eyes piercing his. "I told you, he's not like we thought he was. Your own brother, show some emotion! He's injured!" I glared at him wordlessly, and Edward seemed surprised by my outburst. He hadn't seen the full extent of my vampire temper yet. I turned back to Jasper, my long hair trailing across his face.
"Jasper?" I asked softly, watching him, monitoring him with care. "What hurts, Jasper? Where did you hurt yourself?"
Jasper's eyes fluttered delicately, and he smiled weakly. "Did you happen to see how I hit that boulder?" he asked quietly. I frowned, and lifted my head to look around.
"There's no boulder." I stated, confused. My eye caught a shard on the ground, and with closer examination I realized that it was a shaving of stone. My eyes swept the ground- there were many, many more. "Ah. I see," I said acidly, "Edward gotcha pretty good, didn't he?" I head a small noise of indignation behind me, but I chose to ignore it. Jasper smiled, and managed a weak laugh.
"Yeah, well, it's not his fault, is it?" Jasper commented quietly. His eyes traveled to Edward, and his smile slowly faded. "I came off pretty criminal, didn't I?" he finally said, and coughed slightly. I stroked his hair away from his face, and loosened my arms to give him some breathing space. He cleared his throat, and continued. "I'm sorry. I had my reasons, and none of them were my own." Edward's eyes narrowed, and he eyed his brother with suspicion.
"Why, though? What motive could you possibly have had to take Bella away from me?" He snarled quietly in between words. "Away from a happy life? And you're trying to say it was not in benefit of yourself?" Jasper sighed, and coughed a rattling cough. I watched him with concern, and yet curiosity to where this conversation would go.
"I know, but what else could I have done? I'm sure, if you listen to me, you'd figure it out. We all knew that you were planning to change Bella yourself." I thought I saw Edward's jaw tighten, but I might have been imagining it.
"Yes, that's obvious, and that's what she wanted anyways. I'm not the one to break a bargain." He kept his voice even, strained polite and controlled but anxious for the point of the conversation. "What are you trying to say?"
"I think you can see the flaw in your plan. What were you thinking?" An edge, however feeble, entered Jasper's voice. "Did you have some ultimate plan to worm your way out? Or were you just planning to change her into someone like yourself?" Edward's jaw this time had tightened, his teeth coming together audibly, and his eyes flashing in surprise. Jasper had obviously hit a well-covered secret. If Jasper hadn't warned me before, I would have just assumed that he meant Edward changing me into a vampire. But now, it dawned on me, Jasper had warned me about Ewdard's 'special condition'. I leaned forward involuntarily, processing the tense atmosphere with concentration.
"How…?" Edward asked, disbelieving. His eyes flickered over to me, careful not to reveal too much. I narrowed my eyes, immediately suspicious. What else was he keeping from me now?
"Edward?" I asked, keeping my voice level, getting straight to the point. "What are you?"
Edward's brow furrowed. "Jasper, I don't know how you figured out, and how much you figured out, but I wasn't planning on turning her into…my condition, if you will. I'm not that bad, even if I am contaminated, unlike any other vampire that I've known. And I can't imagine Carlisle told you, he's the only one that knows. Not even Esme. Did Alice see something?"
Jasper frowned. "Well, yes. She saw what you just denied, though I'm not sure what to trust now, her visions or you're word."
Edward snarled quietly. "Well, Jasper," he spat, enunciating deliberately. "You make me out to be a total delinquent. You notice that I carry none of the characteristics, and though I may have my moments, I am only half, but it's enough to make it clear that I am half werewolf."
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