Disclaimer: Don't own any characters, but if I did I would be in a Jasper and Emmett sandwich right now.

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Bella

The night had fucking sucked. Even though I knew I was dreaming it still scared the hell out of me. I also knew that I needed Jasper. I didn't know why at the time, but I knew he would keep me safe.

When he got over to the house and I was able to calm down he explained how I knew the guy. As he talked I realized that it was one memory that I hoped never to get back.

Once my dad left to go do whatever he was going to do and Jasper and I had laid down together I was able to sleep some, but I kept seeing James face swim through my head, but after each time Jasper's face would appear and I would be okay once again.

When I woke up this morning Jasper was still there his arms wrapped around me and I welcomed the warmth that surrounded me. It felt familiar, but it was like I couldn't get to that point that I knew without a shadow of a doubt that it was familiar.

When he told me everything was perfect and had kissed my forehead I couldn't help but sigh.

My dad left the room right after that and Jasper and I continued to lie beside each other.

"I need to know." I said after a few minutes.

"Know what?"

"Everything. I need to know today. I can't have another dream like that and not know where it came from."

"Okay." He said smiling at me. "That was the only bad thing that happened though."

I nodded. That was good news.

"I need to go back to Jacob's, so why don't you call Leah and let her help you get ready and we'll go to breakfast. Then we'll go to your cliff and talk."

"You know about my cliff."

"I do. We went there one night and…"

"Danced under the stars." I finished for him.

"Another dream?" He asked smiling.

"Yes."

He sat up then and I followed suit and grabbed my phone. I sent a quick text to Leah before throwing the covers off. Jasper slid off the bed and stood up.

"I'll be back in a little bit."

"Okay. Be careful."

"I will."

He walked to the door. As he pulled it open I said, "Thank you for last night Jasper."

"Any time Bella." He said before going out into the hall.

Leah showed up about ten minutes later. With the help of my crutches I already had my clothes picked out and was just waiting for help into the shower.

We talked about the shopping trip we were going to be taking in a few days. I really couldn't wait although I was going to have to rent a wheelchair. There was no way I would be able to walk on my crutches all day.

Leah left the house a little while later after helping me with my hair and makeup. Jasper showed up a few minutes later and he helped me down the stairs.

We didn't talk much on the drive to the diner nor did we speak while we ate. I figured he was trying to get his thoughts in order so I didn't press him for information yet.

After we were done Jasper drove us to my cliff. He helped me out of the car and onto the blanket he'd spread out. Once I was settled he went to the trunk and pulled out a bag.

Coming back over he sat down beside me. He stared out over the cliff for a few minutes before turning and giving me a smile.

I smiled back and asked, "What's in the bag?"

Glancing over at it he said, "Things to help you with remembering hopefully. Some of it is yours. I got it from your room before you came home from the hospital."

"You stole my stuff?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"No. I borrowed with every intention of returning it at some point which is today."

"Where do we start then?"

He lifted the bag to put it in between us and unzipped it. Reaching in he pulled out blue material, a deck of cards and a Yatzee game.

He handed me the material and I realized it was a bathing suit.

"Please tell me I didn't wear this."

"Sorry."

"In public?" I asked.

"To a water park."

I groaned.

"If it makes you feel better all the guys were staring at you."

"That doesn't help at all." I said staring at the scrap of fabric. "I can't believe I bought this." Granted it was pretty cute.

"I'm glad you did. You were insanely hot in it."

Rolling my eyes I bit the inside of my lip to keep from smiling. Dropping the suit I picked up the Yatzee game.

"We stayed up late that night playing. It was fun."

"And the cards?" I asked picking them up.

"We played poker with those before Yatzee." Taking them from my hand he pulled them out of the pack and shuffled. Once he'd done that he started dealing.

"What are you doing? I don't know how to play whatever this game is."

"Texas Hold'em and yes you do. I had to teach you, but you kicked my ass. Just see if you remember."

Sighing I picked up the cards that were lying beside me.

As soon as he lay the first card face up between us it came back and I won the hand. He was grinning his ass off and I couldn't help to join in.

"You remembered."

"I did." I said smiling even bigger.

We played a few more hands and I won each time. We then played blackjack and he won those games. While he was putting the cards up I said, "You kicked my ass that night too."

He looked up quickly from the deck and my eyes got huge when I realized what I had said. We stared at each other for a few minutes before I said, "Tell me more Jasper. This seems to be working."

Reaching into the bag again he pulled out a baseball jersey with Devil Rays written across it. "We went to a baseball game where we bet on who would win."

"Yeah I won. You told me the other day with the roller coasters."

"Yeah."

"If you had won what would you have gotten?"

"A favor to be asked at anytime and I may have lost it that night, but I got it a few days later."

"When?"

"I'll tell you in a minute. Can you remember anything from that day?"

Closing my eyes I thought hard. After a few minutes I shook my head and let out a sigh. "Nothing."

"It's okay." He said reaching over and rubbing my hand.

I gave him a small smile and looked toward the bag. The next thing that came out was two pictures.

"We got these done at Six Flags," He said handing them over. The first one was me in a dress and Jasper in what I think was a Civil War outfit. I looked pretty good if I do say so myself, but Jasper looked hot as hell. Swallowing the drool I moved the other one to the front.

I took everything in the picture in. Me in my whore costume and Jasper in his long jacket with a gun. His hand was on the back of my leg and my arm was around his shoulders. We were both smiling.

"I dreamed about this picture," I whispered as I traced a finger across it.

"That one is yours. You chose the costumes and everything."

"I'm glad. It's my favorite of the two."

"Mine too."

I looked up at him and his eyes bore into mine. I don't know how long we stared at each other until I had to look away. There was so much emotion in his face that I just couldn't take it any longer.

"What else?" I whispered.

He reached over and slid the pictures from my hand. Replacing them with a glass swan and hummingbird.

Before I could say anything he started talking. "We went to Helen one day. It's this little town that looks like a German village. They have all of these shops and things to do. One of the stores had glass blown items in it. You liked it a lot, but didn't buy anything because you were afraid it would get broken on the plane. The swan and hummingbird are from there. I went online and ordered them."

When I looked up at him tears were falling from my eyes. "Thank you."

He smiled and continued, "We did a lot that day. Played putt putt and I won the favor. We fed some bears. We got tattoos. We went on a carriage ride."

"Hold up. We got tattoos?" I asked.

"Yeah." He said nodding.

"Whose idea was it?"

"Mine, but you went right along with it."

"What did I…a butterfly." I said answering the question before I even asked it.

"Yep. On the back of your neck."

"Where is yours?" I asked.

He rolled his sleeve up and showed me his tattoo. I started to reach my hand up, but dropped it before I made it to his arm. Instead I asked, "Was it your first one?"

"Yeah, but I've gotten another since then and so have you and our friends, and your dad."

"What?" I asked my eyes going wide.

He laughed and reached into his bag pulling out Polaroid pictures.

"I had everyone take pictures of theirs when I decided to go about helping you remember."

"When did we all get the second one?"

"The night before graduation."

"So it was kind of a day for all of us."

"Yeah. We'll start with your dad." He handed me two pictures. The first one I laughed at because I really couldn't believe my dad had that one. "He got it one night while on a fishing trip with Billy. They were in Alaska."

"I was in high school."

"Yep. Of course Billy got a goldfish so I think your dad faired better."

"I would say so." I said looking toward the other picture. "This one has my name and birth date on it."

"Yeah, your dad said it was the best day of his life."

"My dad is awesome."

"Yes he is."

Before I started crying again I moved onto the next two pictures. They were of the same thing.

"Those are called trinity tattoos. Rose, Alice, and you all got one. Yours is under your cast."

"Cool." I said.

He laughed and spread out the others beside me. Pointing to each one he named them off.

"Jacob…Seth…Emmett…Edward."

"Where's yours?"

"I can just show you mine." He said rising up on his knees. Pulling the side of his shirt up I saw his tattoo and I seriously had to keep myself from reaching over and tracing the design with my fingers. Closing my eyes I let out a breath. When I opened them I saw he was staring down at me and had already lowered his shirt.

"You okay?"

"Yeah." I said looking down at the pictures again.

"You ready for the next part?"

"Sure."

"Our last day in Atlanta we went to Stone Mountain. It was cool. You made this on the train tracks." He said pulling a flattened coin out of his pocket.

"That is so cool looking," I said flipping it over.

"You burnt your finger on it when you picked it up the first time."

"Figures."

"What else was there?"

"We watched a laser show and some fireworks. Then we ended up getting drenched when it started to rain while we were going to the car."

"Nice."

"Yeah and then we ended up more wet when we got to the hotel, you were shaking so much because you were so cold…" He said trailing off.

"What is it?"

"Um…that was the night we first…"

"Oh." I said not letting him finish.

We both fell silent then. After a few minutes I said, "We went home the next day didn't we."

"Yeah, we were both wanting and not wanting too. If that makes sense."

"Not really."

"We'd had fun and were together then, but you were afraid that everything would go back to the way it was before. We got close so fast and you were worried it would come crumbling down when we got back to the real world of school."

"But it didn't."

"No, it got better. Once we got home everything just kind of fell into place. We had one fight a few weeks later, but then everything was good until August."

"What was the fight about?"

"We were at a club and Maria, the girl who you spilt your drink on the first night we met, was all over me. You saw and didn't wait to see me push her away. You said that you felt like we were just friends with benefits and I got mad and kind of threw you out of the apartment, but you didn't go home. When I found you in the hallway three hours later you were so upset and we talked. I made sure you knew how I felt. That night even though we'd fought earlier was the first night we said I love you to each other."

"Two weeks," I whispered to myself.

"What?"

"It took me all of two weeks to fall in love with you. It's just surreal."

"Yeah, but it happened. I wouldn't change it for anything." I started crying again. "What is it Bella?"

"I wish I could remember. I don't like this Jasper. I don't like not knowing anything. I don't like not knowing how I felt. I want to remember so bad it hurts. I want to remember you."

He didn't say a word, but slid forward and pulled me into his lap. Wrapping his arms around me he let me cry into his shirt, all the while running his hands up and down my back.

"Bella, you'll get there."

"When?"

"I don't know, but it'll happen."

"What if it's too late?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean what if it takes so long that you get tired of waiting."

"Hey," He said moving his hands to my face and staring in my eyes. "I'm not going anywhere. I've told you that already. I am here always. Until you tell me to go."

"But…"

"No." He said sliding me back to the ground and reaching for the bag again. "This was your graduation present." He said turning my hand over and placing a necklace in it. "This is the key to my heart and you have it always. Nothing will change that."

I looked between him and the necklace a few times before stopping on his face. I saw all the love he had for me in his eyes and it caused my breath to catch. I gave him the only thing I could at the moment.

"Will you help me put it on?"

He smiled and nodded. Taking it from my hand he lifted it up around my neck. Lifting my hair to help him out I closed my eyes as he leaned forward. His breath washed across the side of my neck as he clasped it. His fingers lingering a little longer than necessary.

When he pulled back I said, "Thank you."

"Bella your welcome, but you don't have to thank me."

I gave him a small smile.

"I think maybe we should call it a day with the stories." He said.

"Yeah."

"You ready to go or do you want to stay for a little longer."

"Can we stay? It's quiet here."

"We can stay as long as you want."

For the next few hours we just sat in silence. I was going over everything he'd told me and trying to remember anything. At one point I ended up stretching out on my side and he did the same. We lay there for a little while just watching each other.

Finally my stomach wouldn't let me neglect it anymore and growled drawing our gaze away from each other.

Smiling he said, "Let's go get you some food."

I nodded and pushed myself up to a sitting position.

He picked up all the stuff sitting around and put the bag back in his trunk before helping me up and into the car.

When he got in on the driver's side I said, "When I get my cast off can we come back here?"

"Yeah, but you don't have to wait until then. I'll bring you back anytime you want."

"I know, but I really want to come back then."

"Why?"

"So we can dance." I said looking over at him.

"I'd like that."

I smiled and he started the car.

We drove back to the house and ordered a pizza. My dad came in from work a few minutes before it arrived and as he leaned down to kiss my head I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and squeezed.

"Not that I mind, but what is this for?" He said into my hair.

"The tattoo." I whispered.

He didn't say anything, but squeezed me a little and kissed my head again. A knock came at the door then.

Pulling back he went to pay for it waving Jasper off as he started to complain.

While we ate I told my dad all about what we talked about today. Once we were finished Jasper helped me upstairs. It was still early, but I was tired. Jasper stepped out while I changed into my pajamas. When I was done he came back in and sat on the foot of the bed.

"Today was nice." I said.

"Yeah."

"What are we doing tomorrow?"

"We can finish up with the rest. Plus I need to tell you about my job."

"You can tell me now." I said coving my mouth when I yawned.

"No, you're tired. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Okay."

He stood and made sure the covers were over me. Kissing my forehead he said, "I'll see you tomorrow."

As he started for the door I didn't want him to go. "Wait."

He came back and crouched down. "What?"

"Will you stay?" I whispered.

"If you want me too."

"I do. You make me feel safe."

"Okay. Let me tell Charlie."

I smiled as he stood and went out the door. He came back a few minutes later and toed off his shoes.

"Where do you want me?"

I nodded my head behind me.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

He crawled in the bed and lay down. Reaching my hand back I took his and put it over my waist. Nothing was said as I turned the light off. At first there was a good foot between us which is hard to do in my little bed, but eventually we ended up with no space.

"Goodnight Jasper."

"Goodnight Bella."

Snuggling more into his chest I felt his arm tighten around my waist as his other snaked his way under my neck.

As I drifted off to sleep I once again reveled in the warmth that surrounded me.

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