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HOMECOMING

Jasper

Our time alone together was coming to an end getting shorter with each step forward. I had managed to postpone the 'family reunion' for a month by asking to visit with Peter and Charlotte.

Peter was beside himself with joy at seeing my change in circumstance. He had thought me destroyed long ago. Charlotte could not hide her relief and was able to let go a huge burden of guilt she had been carrying because of my departure. I realized in that visit that I did have a family of sorts. Peter for all intent and purposes was a brother to me, and through him Charlotte was part of that relationship.

Alice was happy to meet them both and was even happier to recount 'our story' or rather a constantly interrupted version. She tended to go into incredible detail and there were certain… intimate things I did not feel we needed to share. She would roll her eyes at me but comply with my wishes. We visited for only a few weeks at which time we parted ways. Peter had made a disastrous attempt to hunt with us but was unable to stomach the taste of animal blood. Privately he shared that he wasn't sure how I could do this, I assured him it was simply an acquired taste though I myself had yet to acquire it.

We were 'moments' away from meeting the Cullens, according to Alice. I was doing my best to contain my mixed bag of emotions for her sake. I was a jumble of jealousy, worry and plain ol' confusion. I understood her need for these strangers and a more rational part of me wanted the support she would get from them, but a selfish part of me wanted her all to myself with no others to influence her. My long life had taught me that nothing ever really is forever not even our lives and as certain as she was now of our love time had a way of corrupting everything.

We walked up what had started as a wild and over grown trail that was quickly turning into a well manicured path leading us to what Alice believed would be our new home. That word alone seemed so foreign to me. Home. What vampire had a home? Headquarters maybe… for a time… but a home? All of my doubts and fears threatened to break the surface of my outward calm every fear of loosing her to this unknown coven. Why couldn't I be enough! Why was I so weak! I felt her little hand taking mine and immediately felt the relief I always found at her touch.

I reminded myself that she already loved these people and that she had been waiting a long time to get to them. I was suddenly grateful that she had sought me out first, that I had been more important for her to find, it gave me the feeling of prior ownership… I shook my head in disgust. I did not own her, I certainly could not control her… But I needed her, without her I would not survive. Therein lay the root of all my misgivings. She loved them too… and if worse came to worse would she choose me over them…

"Every time my love" Alice whispered to me knowing my thoughts as always… I could never keep anything from her. Squeezing her hand gently I resolved to bury my selfish desires and let her have her 'family', however bizarre I found it to be.

The path opened up to what turned into a beautiful garden. Just as suddenly I was bombarded with a cacophony of warring emotions, the strongest was a the need to protect, to destroy and remove any possible threat, these were distinctly feminine emotions. The other two were simply different degrees of curious and they held no hostility towards us. We were now facing a two level home made up almost entirely of glass, I could see three distinct figures beyond the closed front door.

The warrior female wanted to incapacitate us first and ask questions later. This one had to be Rosalie, Alice described her as strong willed and a bit self serving though she had a softer side that would show itself in time. From the tenor of her emotions I wondered if Alice was being entirely too optimistic.

I tensed as I heard movement towards the door, hearing it Alice tried to dance past me practically vibrating in her excitement. I caught her at put her behind me unwilling to have her anywhere near these strangers before I could assess any possible dangers, the female I knew could present a problem. Just as I was about to step forward the door opened slowly and carefully almost at a human speed.

Only since my meeting with Alice have I ever felt something this powerful. Carlisle Cullen! Words dessert me at this first encounter. This vampire was the antithesis of everything I had come to know of our kind. Each and every one of us was at all times tinged with the hunger that came with being one of us. Yet here before me stood a being bathed in a color out of the spectrum of human understanding! There was no underlying hunger anywhere in his aura, it was fresh and clean.

I felt his eternal hope, I could see the sincerity of his soul ringing through the spiraling blades of color that hugged his entire being. He would never try to take my Alice, this man was all that was good in this world. His essence was faith, elation it was wisdom beyond any understanding. It eased my fears and rage at having to share my precious Alice. As soon as I began to relax I was pummeled with the warrior woman's absolute fear and her need to protect, I could almost taste it. I reacted without thought crouching before my love ready to defend her against any attack.

Just as I moved I heard a hiss from within, a female voice saying how she told them, that they were too trusting, too naive. Then in less time than the thought could form she stood before us crouched and ready for attack. Rosalie! It could have been no other, her beauty all that Alice had said it would be, though it did not touch me. She had moved instantly out the door and placed herself between Alice, myself and Carlisle.

"I will rip you apart before you lay a hand on him" she snarled at me. Her eyes showing the truth of her conviction. My mind had already found more than a dozen ways of incapacitating her before she got within a yard of my Alice.

"Stop it! Jasper! Rosalie!" Alice chirped from behind me finally visible to the two startled vampires before us. "We mean you no harm, I promise… Jasper's just… very protective, you'll get used to it I promise." She finished her voice brimming with her joy at finally coming home. She quickly danced to my side hands clasped before her a blinding smile shining from her face.

"Carlisle! Oh Carlise! ..and Esme…" she tried to see past the two knowing her surrogate mother was somewhere within. She couldn't seem to contain herself as she jumped up and down squealing with excitement her utter bliss at seeing them overwhelming almost every one of my senses, I looked at her in awe, she had been holding back, I had sensed her need to come here but not this depth. There was no turning back now. As I glanced back up to Carlisle I saw the incredulous smile on his face.

"Well, it seems we have quite a bit to talk about?" Carlisle smiled as he motioned us inside.

"Alice!" Alice responded "and Jasper. It's Alice and Jasper." She took my hand and pulled up the front steps of the wrap around porch. We moved past the seething beauty who did not allow us to displace her from protecting her leader. It was an interesting procession to my mind. As we all made our way through the threshold, we finally saw Esme, her light was tinged in mellow pinks and blues with deep dark currents of white light that strengthened and expanded as she looked upon the members of her coven.

"Where are Emmet and Edward" Alice asked innocently. Rosalie bristled at their names and made a move to intimidate her. But I growled low, warning her to keep her distance. In that instance she took a better look at me and involuntarily stepped back, a gasp escaping her lips. She had finally noticed, it was unusual not to have my battle scars be the first thing anyone saw of me, my kind had learned long ago there was much to fear from me. Still, she had been in her red haze, prepared for battle and ignoring anything else. She was foolish in not assessing a danger before reacting and I smirked at her thoughtlessness.

"What…" Rosalie spoke in a softer tone seeming to understand just what stood in her midst. "Who… What do you want with us?" Her determination to protect had not lessened, yet she now seemed to understand that she was not enough and her frustration was clear in the nervous glances she kept darting to all in the room as if now trying to see who she could protect best and finding the answer unsatisfactory.

Alice who had finally had enough made a move towards Esme wanting desperately to embrace her. Rosalie's reaction was swift and beyond my expectation. I was caught completely off guard. As Alice stepped in Esme's direction Rosalie moved in between them pushing Alice away straight into my arms with a strength that almost staggered me.

"Do not touch my mother!" she roared. Her face was a beautiful picture of fury and fear. Esme had come forward as soon as she had seen the tearful expression on Alice's face, instinctively knowing she needed some sort of comfort.

"Rosalie! Enough! Please! Let's all be seated… we should sort out what we have before you decide to treat them as the enemy." Carlisle's voice was firm and ringing with absolute authority. That is all it took, Rosalie moved quickly to Esme's side and put her arms around the smaller female unwilling to leave her unprotected. She kept sending worried glances towards her maker as he took a seat near us.

So it began, we all sat tense and expectant as Alice took the lead. She explained what she could of her beginning, of her visions telling them of times that she had seen them. Of her preparation to be one of them. She left all but our inimate moments out, recounting every single part of her journey to me and then our journey to them. She threw longing glances at Esme and Carlisle as she told them that they basically helped raise her in this new life through her visions. Esme sat forward as if now needing to take Alice into her arms, her love already growing right before my yees.

Their faces were a mixture of shock and amazement, even Rosalie seemed to finally see that we were not here to harm and relaxed her stance towards Esme.

Carlisle was beaming right alongside Esme, just as she had with me the white light that was Alice brimmed over and enveloped them joining with Esme's own maternal light. Carlisle was exuding a strong wave of accepatance as if officially taking his place as her father his feeling twords me as yet undetermined. It was clear he was delighted to see his small family grow. He already claimed Alice as his own as did Esme, I could see it shining out of the both of them. I offered nothing simply sat sentinel holding Alice's hand waiting for the final verdict.

"Alice, you are a marvel" Carlisle stood abruptly and opened his arms to her. She flew at him and I could hear her dry sobs as she fell into his embrace. "I guess you knew I would say that" he laughed his voice filled with awe. He had accepted her words without doubt. Esme moved to them and gave Alice her own welcoming hug.

I stood alone watching them come together, fearful that her need for me would dim over time before fading away into nothing leaving me to my doom. I stood there knowing I would never let her go and in the end it could destroy her. I tore my gaze away unable witness what I felt was the end of how things were with Alice.

In less time than it took for me to shift my sight Esme stood before me gently taking my hand in hers. I looked down that that small connection, lost to all emotion but my own. Suddenly I felt a warmth seep from her to me, her chaotic emotional light was light but strong, filled with faith and hope. She wanted me to be her son, she wanted to take the role as a mother. As I stood there looking at her small delicate hand, I had the sudden thought that I did not need her care, that I all I needed was Alice. Yet, when she spoke my heart so recently resurrected cried out for yet another link to a life filled with peace rather than war. For a moment I saw a picture clear in my mind of what could be, of what this could be not just for Alice but for me as well.

"Jasper?" She said my name as a question waiting quietly for my response.

"Yes, ma'am?" I replied still unable to look at her. So afraid that despite the utter calm I sensed that by looking at her she would truly see the monster that I was and turn away.

"Jasper? May I hug you to welcome you into our family?" She whispered.

"Yes ma'am!" I whispered back, hope taking root. Here I stood a warrior, feared by all who knew me being welcomed into a family by a wisp of a woman who wanted me to call her mother. How strange this existence. I wasn't quite ready by any stretch, to be her son but I felt my mind open to the possibility. I saw that this life could be possible… with the help of these odd vampires.

I took the small fragile woman into my arms taking in every shred of hope and care she sent to me and began to slowly understand a very real truth. Alice wanted the Cullens she didn't need them. She was strong and in another world where they did not exist she would survive and still be the amazing woman she is. As I took in all that was Carlisle and Esme I finally understood! It was me! I needed them, with all of their help I had a chance at becoming better than what I was. I turned to Alice as I felt her incomparable joy. She took my hand as I continued to hug her mother and I felt her love, stronger than ever brighter than the sun and that, right there gave me the peace I needed to let go of the last of my anger. I could share her with these people and it would be ok. Alice kissed my palm as I let Esme go filling me with her love and joy at my willingness to accept this.

Carlisle clasped my shoulder filling me with his acceptance and patient understanding. "It is an honor Jasper…" Carlise whispered to me looking me straight in the eye "…welcome home, Jasper, welcome home!" And as I met his gaze I could swear he knew how much I wanted to change not just for Alice but for myself as well.

"So…" Alice finaly broke the silence. "Can everyone help me move Edwards stuff to the Garage?" A smile playing across her lips.

"Let me show you the way" Rosalie replied as she jumped up from the couch laughing for the first time. She eyed Alice critically, taking in the designer clothes and shoes. "I think Alice, we are going to get along just fine…. And maybe you can help me with Emse she is thus far a total loss in the world of fashion."

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