I don't own these characters. Just this plot.

Jasper POV

I carried Alice down the stairs, sliding on the couch just as Carlisle opened the door for Charlie to come in. Renesme ran right up to greet him as he walked in, a huge smile plastered on her face, Bella was right behind, as Jake stood in the kitchen doorway, a gentle smile on his lips. Charlie was boldly smiling, probably having missed his only granddaughter. Edward shook his hand, but then quickly looked at Alice and nodded, a motion Charlie missed.

She looked up at me, and then shut her eyes, pretending to be asleep.

"How are you Charlie?" Carlisle asked gently as he led him into the kitchen, Nessie trailing behind.

"I'm good. Good. Glad you guys are all home safe..." He was trying to hint that he was curious about Alice, about why we left home in the first place. He was probably wondering where she was too, since he didn't see me when he walked in.

"Alice..." Bella trailed off from her spot behind Charlie. Edward looked at me from behind her, and I nodded, tell him whatever she's awake, and she'll remember. He nodded, and took easy control of the conversation.

"Jasper and Alice recently went on a small vacation to a very unknown island off of South Africa. Unfortunately Alice contracted something while away. A unknown virus, which had a drastic effect on her immune system. They would not let her back into America. But, there was a way for us to fly her to a top of the art medical facility in Volterra, Italy. They would not let us stay for more than two weeks at a time. So we would go for two weeks, then come home for one. After about our third time coming home, we got a call that something happened, to Alice. She was kidnapped. Taken by a nurse who had just begun working there, and she was not completely healed by the disease. But we got her back, and were given permission to bring her home, since Carlisle would be able to care for her and see how she was progressing to get better." Edward stopped suddenly, and looked over at me, eyes wide, I could feel the fear he was sending my way.

Carlisle glanced at Edward's face then stepped toward Charlie, ready to pick up where Edward left off, as he saw the silent communication that was happeningbetween the three of us

"She has been progressing, but not eating very much, and sleeping a lot. I'm sorry we were so skeptical to invite you over, it was simply because we didn't know how she would handle it."

Charlie nodded, and I was surprised at the fact that he actually believed everything that was being told to him. Edwards head snapped up again, but this time Alice's did too. She clutched my shirt as a distant look filled her eyes. I shook her, trying to be near silent, getting her attention from her vision.

"Alice, Ali, what do you see?" Her panic hit me like a bricks... no harder. Her eyes met mine, for only a second before they were trained on the door. Edward was at our side in a second.

"Get her upstairs." He hissed, and I ran up at a human speed, as not to confuse Charlie. I quickly went into our room, and sat on the bed, rocking her gently as she pulled at my shirt.

"Alice, love, hon? What is it?" I was trying to pull her out of the vision, thankfully Edward came up, and knew just what she was seeing.

"It's not real Alice." He said, loudly, looking at me rocking her. "Fight back. She's trying to hurt you." I looked at him quizzically, but the pain on his face hit me, and suddenly Alice's fear was effecting me. I closed my eyes, trying to pace my breathing.

She yelped, then her eyes opened, and she pushed away from me, falling to the ground. Still terrified. Without thinking I reached to pick her up. She pushed away from me again, before letting out a small whimper. She then threw her arms around me, and fell into me. Restlessly crying into my shirt. I focused on calming her down before I started crying too.

"Alice, honey. What is it?" I asked gently, brushing through her hair with my hands. I was struggling to continue sending the calm her way. I was losing my control over the emotions, and Edward wasn't making it any easier.

"It's not real. She knows how to hurt you." Edwards warning tone filled the room, and Alice squeezed tighter. She was whimpering helplessly into my shirt as she was beat up by the visions that kept coming. Or replaying in her head. I couldn't tell which one.

"Alice. Focus." Edward commanded sternly, looking at her nervously. Her hands loosened their grip on my shirt, and she slowly opened her eyes. She looked at me nervously, before pushing herself into my chest, as if she was trying to disappear inside me.

"Is Charlie still downstairs?" She asked in a small voice, I cracked a smile. Always my worried Alice.

"He's downstairs." I confirmed, looking at her disappointed face

"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that, I pulled you guys away from him." I looked at her. Her eyes were trying to hide what she just saw. She wanted to pretend as if the vision never happened.

"Whats wrong?" Her eyes widened at my question, and she grabbed my shirt again.

"They want to hurt you now." She whispered, laying her head against my shirt. "Can you promise to stay safe?" Edward closed his eyes, and rubbed his head. I imagined her thoughts were all over because that's where her emotions were. Before talking I focused on touching her in the places that relaxed her. I began to rub in gentle circles just below her collar bone, kissing the top of her head lightly.

"Al, stop. Relax." I turned her toward me and planted a kiss on her lips, hoping she would clam more as I did so. It worked. She pulled away, and breathed in a deep sigh, looking and sounding like the old Alice I knew and loved.

"I promise." I said, kissing her again. Then I stood up and slowly began to walk towards the stairs. We were down on the couch again, and Charlie came over to say hi, and when she saw him Alice smiled sheepishly.

"Hi Charlie." She said in a whisper. I pulled her in close to me. Charlie brought a hand down and ruffled her hair, smiling sadly. I sent him a calming wave.

"How ya doing kiddo?" He asked her softly. She let a small smile appear on her lips. She blinked slowly, I felt a little bad doing it, but i was making her tired. Edward nodded from behind Charlie. It was the right thing to do.

"Oh I'm awesome." He laughed quietly at her sarcasm, growing slightly concerned at the way her tired words slurred together. His eyes then travled up to me. "Jasper." He said politely. He was ways wary of me. Especially since he saw my and Alice's wedding photo. Evidently he didn't think we were old enough to be married. Or have a picture from that time period.

"Charlie." I responded sending more waves of peace over him. Alice turned her face into me to stifle a giggle at Charlie's discomfort around me. I sent more exhuastion her way as Charlie made more small talk. She picked her head up off my chest, able to hold it up for only seconds before it would fall back down. She was growing delirious with exhaustion. Charlie looked over at her, still concerned.

"You look like you could use a good resting there Alice." He spoke slowly to her, as if talking to a small child. She tried to hold her head up again before it fell back into my chest.

"Okay baby. No more. Don't move." She giggled, her eyes only half open, unfocused and crossed. Edward gave me a small smile, as Charlie watched our interaction curiosuly.

"Jazz, Alice." She kept saying, tracing her hands over my chest, only half conscious. "Jazz?" She stopped tracing as her hand go too heavy for her to lift.

"Yes Alice?" I knew Charlie was still watching, and I hoped she wasn't going to say anything questionable. I waited, glancing down to make sure she was still awake. Seeing her open eyes I said again. "Yes Alice?"

She looked up at my confused. "Yeah Jazz?" Edward laughed from where he was standing, I imagine her thoughts were very humorous to him, he nodded my way.

"Here. Let me show you what I did the other day." He walked over and scooped her up out of arms, sitting on the couch opposite to us. She was chewing on the tip of her finger looking at him. Glancing at Charlie I noticed there was a smile playing on his lips as well. The rest of the family came in and settled on the couches, probably drawn in by the rarity of the calm atmosphere.

Edward began to trace a straight line from Alice's chin to the base of her throat, She giggled at him, but she was growing noticeably less awake as he did so.

"Goodnight Alice." He whispered to her as she snuggled against him.

" 'night Jazz." she whispered as her eyes fell closed.

I rolled my eyes at Edward, and Charlie looked around. "How is she really doing? She looks a lot smaller than the last time I saw her..." He was so worried for her. And sometimes it was sweet but right now I just wanted him to butt out.

"She's doing as well as she could be dad. We're doing our best here with limited resources. But you saw her. She's happy." Bella came over and sat next to her dad. Trying to calm him down without my help. I offered to take Alice upstairs, just as Esme and Carlisle got Charlie into the kitchen and talking about work.

I laid down with her on our bed, thankful that she convinced me to get a soft mattress, because I was sure she was very comfortable laying the way she was. She pushed closer to me in her sleep filled with a calm I hadn't felt from her since shre returned, and it began to feel like things would be okay.

okay. So I don't know if anyone is reading this, but I plan to still update simply as a chance to better my writing through practice. But I would love it if you reviewed when you read this, so I know.

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