Special thanks to Ed for an idea that was probably supposed to be a joke but actually helped this chapter because I was really stuck. Enjoy!

Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight and Bella and Edward and Jasper and New Moon and Eclipse and Breaking Dawn and even Jake...*sigh* at least I have one original character in here!

Ch. 7

Jasper's POV

Alice walked over to where I was sitting in the dining room. I still didn't get why she was paying so much attention to this Bella girl. She looked at my face and her joyful as usual emotion turned to worried.

"You look stressed." She said. She could read me like a book. "Why?"

"Because I don't get why you brought her home. She's human!" The worried waves coming off of her turned to sympathetic.

"I don't really know either." She shrugged and leaned in to kiss me. I knew everyone in the house wouldn't be happy, but I gave in, feeling my love for her radiate off me.

After a few seconds we heard a loud bang upstairs… on the third floor. Only Edward's room was up there.

"Oops." I mumbled against Alice's lips but continued kissing her anyways. She didn't protest.

We heard crying and I pulled away. I felt mostly confusion, but also love and… sadness. I realized it was probably coming from Bella's crying daughter.

I grabbed Alice's hand and we ran up the stairs at a fast human pace. I stopped at the door trying to make the room behind it fill with waves of calm, but I could feel love and embarrassment still slightly pushing through.

Alice went in the room, hesitantly opening the door only enough to squeeze her tiny body through, but it was enough for me to get a glimpse of the couch, one end pushed against the wall and CDs scattered across the floor…

Bella's POV

Edward turned back around and sat on the rug with his legs crossed. I tried to think of something to say but my mind was drawing a blank, so I just watched Ali sleeping on the couch, next to me instead.

I sighed suddenly filled with longing- and love, but not just for Ali, for Edward too. I looked over and saw his face with a tortured expression before he jumped straight at me. He was extremely fast but I felt no fear only the love and lust.

He was on top of me kissing madly. And I was kissing back. He pushed me against the couch and it banged into the wall. I was only slightly conscious of the fact that there were other people in the house and Ali was in the room. I was just glad she hadn't woken.

Edward was holding me so tight my arms were beginning to hurt. They were probably bruised. Was he really that strong or was it my imagination? I knew something wasn't right here. I had just met Edward. He was gorgeous and generous, but I had never been the type to get so physical with someone the second time I had met him.

His skin was ice cold and rock hard as he pushed himself against me and I pushed back. I felt like the space between us was still too large, but I couldn't get any closer. I pulled away once to breathe and saw his hard, black eyes eagerly looking at me. I finally felt the fear I had been expecting earlier.

He wasn't human.

He pulled me back toward him and began to put his lips to my neck. I tried to scream but no sound came out, just a raspy breath.

Alice squeezed her way into the door and ran over, pulling Edward off me.

I realized Ali had woken and was crying, but I was too shocked and scared myself to comfort her. But it wasn't Edward himself that I feared. It was that I didn't belong here. He would never be able to love me the way I now realized I loved him.

He was making a low guttural noise, something I had never heard from a human being before, but I could see he was beginning to calm down.

"JASPER!" He seemed to yell and growl at the same time. He stalked out of the room and I turned to comfort Ali

"Mommy…" She kept on whispering. I pushed her dark hair behind her ears and said, "Sh. I'm here." Her usually chestnut skin was pale, almost as pale as Edward's. Alice came back into the room and slowly walked toward me with her palms facing upward, probably not to scare me, which she didn't.

"I'm okay, Alice." I whispered breathlessly. She came over and sat on the couch next to me. "I'm sorry, Bella. I think… I think you should know what's happening now."

"NO!" I heard from downstairs. It was Edward.

"Alice… I want to go home. Can you tell me tomorrow?"

She looked down pondering.

"I guess you should go home. It has been a while."

"Thank you, Alice." She stood up and put a few CD's that had been knocked on the floor on the couch. I picked up Ali and followed her downstairs. As we headed for the door I got a glimpse of Edward sitting on the couch with his head in his hands.

I couldn't get the feel and taste of him out of my head as Alice drove us home.


In case anyone is really confused by why Edward just started randomly kissing Bella:

The two pieces here are written in parallel to each other, so while Jasper is kissing Alice, he is emitting love and lust emotions (that's his power). So his little emotion wave things are reaching Bella and Edward upstairs, that's why he randomly jumps on her.