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A/N: I loved the new Twilight movie; I saw it at midnight for the first showing. For those of you who have not seen it yet, there is a surprise for everyone during the final Volturi confrontation! I knew what was happening the entire time, but still…the entire theater was gasping and yelling! It was hilarious, but so upsetting at the same time. Enjoy the upcoming chapter! I'd love to hear your thoughts! – B

Chapter 10
(Natalie's POV)

When I opened my eyes in the morning, something was different. It was the light. It was still the gray-green light of a cloudy day in the forest, but it was clearer somehow. I realized that there was no fog veiling my window. I jumped up, knocking Bella nearly out of my bed waking her up to look outside and a wide grin spread across my face.

"What is it?" Bella murmured groggily as she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes on the way to my window. She had snuck into my bed again last night and had been there ever since.

As soon as she made it to the window she groaned in horror. A fine layer of snow covered the yard, dusted the top of our truck and whitened the road. It was beautiful and outlined everything in a sparkly white powder. Not to mention, all of the rain from yesterday had frozen solid – coating the needles on the trees in fantastic, gorgeous patterns lighting everything up.

"Great, the rain made the driveway a deadly ice trap. It's not like I don't have enough trouble walking when the ground is dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now." She grumbled.

"Oh, come on Miss Grumpy," I chuckled as I pushed her towards my bedroom door and toward the bathroom. "We need to get to school. We have that Spanish test today, remember?"

She moaned in annoyance before taking the paste coated toothbrush I was handing her and stuffing it in her mouth.

._.-:~ Unimaginable Outcomes ~:-._.

Charlie had left for work before we got downstairs. In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having our own place and we sometimes found ourselves reveling in having the house to ourselves.

We threw down a quick bowl of cereal and some orange juice from the carton that we placed between us on the table. I could tell that Bella was as anxious to get to school as I immediately knew that it had to do with a certain brother of Jasper's.

I could tell though that she was suspicious of the whole family and if I was honest with myself, I knew that there was something going on there between whatever was happening between the two of us and the little quirks that they seemed to have. She had also mentioned to me that yesterday Edward had lied about his eyes and it made me worry because Jasper had those very same eyes even though none of them were biologically related.

I stood by the truck laughing my ass off as I leaned against the door watching Bella using every ounce of her concentration in order to make it down the icy brick driveway alive. I almost lost it when she almost lost her balance when she finally got to the passenger side, but managed to cling to the side mirror and save herself causing me to snort loudly before laughing. I would have helped her if she was within reach, but I was all the way on the other side of the truck getting into the driver's seat.

The truck seemed to have no problem with the black ice that covered the roads and I silently thanked Charlie for the chains that he had wrapped the tires in. It was so thoughtful of him that he would get up who knows how early to do that for us and I had to remember to thank him later. Bella and I weren't used to being taken care of and Charlie's unspoken concern was very touching. Regardless, I drove very slowly, not wanting to carve a path of destruction through Main Street.

When we got out of the truck, I noticed that Bella immediately noticed the tires as she looked down at them while holding the side of the truck for support. The chains were thin and crisscrossed in diamond shapes around them. She then stood up and leaned on the back fender of the truck with her hand over her heart and it almost looked like she was holding back tears as she felt the same emotions that I had earlier on the way to school, so I walked over to her and wrapped my arm around my sister's shoulder and leaned my head against hers affectionately.

It was then that we heard an odd sound, affectively bringing us out of our thoughts. It was a high-pitched screech, and it was fast becoming painfully loud. We both looked up started to try to spot the source of the noice when we saw several things simultaneously.

Nothing was moving in slow motion the way it does in the movies. Instead, the adrenaline rush seemed to make my brain work much faster and I was able to absorb in clear detail several things at once.

Jasper was standing four cars down from us with the rest of his siblings as he stared at us in horror. His face stood out to me from the sea of faces, all frozen in the same mask of shock. But of more immediate importance was the dark blue van that was skidding, tires locked and squealing against the brakes, spinning wildly across the ice of the parking lot. It was going to his the back corner of our truck as we were standing between them. I didn't even have time to close my eyes.

Just before I heard the shattering crunch of the van folding around the truck bed, something smacked right in to me, hard, but not from the direction that I was expecting. I was taken off of my feet and into the bed of the truck. My head cracked against the tailgate and I felt something solid and cold pinning me to the bed. I didn't have a chance to notice anything else, because the sound and vibrations of the van colliding with the truck along with the loud noises jerked me slightly.

When I finally was able to register what was happening and that I was out of the path of the van only served to remind me that I wasn't the only one that was in danger, but Bella was as well. I shot up causing the blood to rush from my head giving me a head rush and making me feel slightly dizzy, but that didn't change what I saw.

Jasper was in the bed of the truck with me with a protective arm wrapped around my waist while Bella was underneath Edward while one hand was gripping under the body of the van and he was dragging her, swinging her legs around like a rag doll's till they hit the tire of the tan car that was parked next to us. A groaning metallic thud hurt my ears and the van settled, glass popping onto the asphalt – exactly where, a second ago, her legs had been. Thankfully though, she seemed alright.

It was absolutely silent for one long second; the only sound was our loud panting before the screaming began. In the abrupt bedlam, I could hear more than one person shouting mine and Bella's names. But more clearly than all the yelling, I could hear Jasper's low, frantic voice in my ear as he turned me to him and began running his hands over my body, almost as if he was looking/feeling for injuries?

"Natalie? Are you all right?" He asked me as he cupped my face in both of his hands and looked at me with wide frantic eyes.

"I'm fine." My voice sounded strange. I tried to move and realized that he had pulled me back against his body in an iron grasp.

"Be careful," he warned as I struggled to get to my sister. "I think you hit your head pretty hard.

I became aware of a throbbing ache centered above my left ear.

"Ouch," I said surprised.

"That's what I thought." He said in concern as he turned my head carefully to the side in order to inspect my injury. "Well, it's not bleeding, but you will have a bit of a knot," he sighed as I turned my attention back on his face.

"How in the…" I trailed off searching his eyes in confusion and shock. "How did you get over here so fast?"

He let out a sigh and looked down toward his knees. "I didn't think that this would happen so soon," he mumbled before bringing his focus back up to me. "We will talk about this later, I promise. But for now, just please go with the flow of things. People need to think that my brother and I were standing right next to the two of you. Can you just please go along with it for now?" He pleaded urgently.

I searched his eyes hesitantly before I slowly nodded. "Okay, but you owe me an explanation."

"I promise," He murmured as the swarm of people found the four of us with tears streaming down their faces, shouting at each other, shouting at us.

"Don't move," someone instructed.

"Get Tyler out of the van!" Someone else shouted.

There was a flurry of activity around us. I saw Bella try to get up, but Edward's hand pushed her shoulder down as he told her to 'just stay put for now' and chuckled.

"You were over there," she accused him in somewhat of a haze cutting his chuckle short. "You were by your car."

I watched as his expression turned hard as he denied her allegations and she continued to argue with him. Jasper looked down at me with pleading eyes as he held me tighter against his front. I sighed and nodded, telling him that I wouldn't say anything nor would I tell my sister.

It took six EMT's and two teachers – Mr. Varner and Coach Clapp – to shift the van far enough away from Bella and Edward to bring the stretchers in. Luckily Jasper and I were able to just hop down out of the bed. We waved off the stretchers, though I did agree to let his father take a look at my head while we were at the hospital for Bella and Edward. Edward also vehemently refused his stretcher, but when Bella tried to do the same, but Edward told them she'd hit her head and probably had a concussion resulting in her giving him an evil look. Her face was as red as a tomato as they put the neck brace on. It looked like the whole school was there, watching soberly as they loaded her in the back of the ambulance while Edward sat up front before passing his keys to Jasper to take his car to the hospital with us.

"Bella! Natalie!" I heard Charlie suddenly calling for us the second that he recognized Bella on the stretcher.

"I'm completely fine, Char – Dad," she sighed.

He looked at me in concern and I nodded my head. "I don't think that there's anything wrong with her. Neither of us was hit, but they insisted on taking her in because she had hit her head. He turned to the closest EMT for another opinion as they lifted Bella away from the car. I saw her looking at something and I felt my eyes widen as I saw what it was. It was a deep dent in the tan car's bumper – a very distinct dent that fit the contours of Edward's shoulders…as if he had braced himself against the car with enough force to damage the metal frame.

Jasper noticed me staring at the car and when he followed my gaze, he very discretely walked up to it, acting like he was bending down to tie his shoe as he stuck his hand under the bumper and popped it back out with ease. My eyes widened in shock as I saw this and continued to stay that way as he walked up to me and put his arm around my shoulders before guiding me towards Edward's silver Volvo.

"Later?" I pressed. He nodded grimly and opened the passenger door for me and helped me inside. I could see his family looking on at the scene from a distance with expressions that ranged from disapproval to fury to concern though I had a distinct feeling that it wasn't for either of their brothers' safety.

"Are you sure that you're okay?" He asked me as we started the car preparing to follow the ambulance.

"I'm fine," I lied. "One of my headaches was on the verge of returning with a vengeance, so I snuck into my purse and grabbed one of my prescriptions to help with the pain that would no doubt be arriving within the next half hour.

Obviously he wasn't buying it as he narrowed his eyes at me while watching me from his peripheral vision before reaching over and placing his hand on my thigh. I let him think that I was none the wiser just as he was, though I knew that if he ever caught me taking this medicine again I would be facing the Spanish Inquisition.

._.-:~ Unimaginable Outcomes ~:-._.

Naturally, the ambulance got a police escort to the county hospital while we followed closely behind. Upon arriving, we watched as they unloaded Bella out of the back while she ground her teeth and glared at Edward as he waltz through the hospital doors under his own power with Jasper and I following not too far behind.

"She's really aggravated at you for selling her out to the EMT's." I warned him as he slowed slightly waiting for Jasper and I to catch up.

He smirked down at me trying to hold back a grin. "Oh, I know. I could hear her grumbling to herself and the other EMT's from all the way up front the entire ride. Don't think that I've missed the glares that she's sent me as well."

I bit my lip to keep from smiling because honestly, it wasn't the time nor place for it, though Jasper looked down at me with a wide grin only serving to make me lose it with a fit of giggles.

Edward began to turn down a separate corridor than where the stretcher was taking Bella. He paused when he noticed that no one was following him and turned to look back towards Jasper and I and quirked a brow. "Are you coming?" He asked.

"I'm going with Bella; I'll get checked over later." I said.

Jasper looked anxiously between Edward and I as he pulled me tighter against his side. It was almost as if he was afraid to let me go.

"It's alright, Jasper," Edward sighed. "Go."

Jasper let out a long sigh of relief and nodded before we began chasing after Bella's stretcher once again.

I followed the nurses as they wheeled Bella's stretcher into the emergency room with Jasper's arm firmly wrapped around my waist. That was one thing that I did notice was that since the almost accident he has not stopped touching me in any way and if he couldn't touch me for some reason, I was always within his grasp and his line of sight. I couldn't understand why that was, but I could tell that it was something that he needed to do.

The emergency room was a long line of beds separated by pastel-patterned curtains. We entered the area that Bella was resting in just as a nurse put a pressure cuff on her arm and then put a thermometer under her tongue. I couldn't help but giggle when the nurse walked away and Bella quickly unfastened the Velcro and threw it under the hospital gurney.

"Laugh it up, twin," she grumbled under her breath.

I smiled at her as I shook my head in amusement while approaching the side of the gurney near her head, Jasper mimicking my every step. She raised a brow when she noticed that causing me to shrug before bending down and placing a kiss on her forehead.

"Just be glad that we're both safe," I murmured in her ear affectionately before pulling back into Jasper's arms. She sighed and nodded just as another flurry of hospital personnel brought another stretcher to the bed next to her.

I recognized Tyler Crowley from my Government class beneath the bloodstained bandages wrapped tightly around his head. Tyler looked one hundred times worse than Bella and I put together since neither of the Cullen boys had so much as a single scratch on them, but he was staring anxiously between the two of us.

"Natalie, Bella, I'm so sorry!"

"We're fine, Tyler – you look awful, are you all right?" Bella reassured him and I nodded my agreement. As we spoke, nurses began unwinding his soiled bandages, exposing a myriad of shallow slices all over his forehead and left cheek.

He ignored us. "I thought I was going to kill you guys! I was going so fast and I hit the ice wrong…" He winced as one nurse started dabbing at his face.

"Don't worry about it," I smiled, "you missed us."

"How did you both get out of the way so fast? You were there and then you were just…gone…"

"Jasper was sitting in the bed of the truck and saw you coming." I told him gesturing towards Jasper behind me. "He pulled me up in to the bed with him when he saw your truck coming."

He nodded and turned his focus to my sister. "And you Bella?"

"Umm… Edward pulled me out of the way."

He looked confused. "Who?"

"Edward Cullen," I clarified for her.

She nodded. "He was standing next to me." She had always been a terrible liar; she didn't sound convincing at all.

"Cullen? I didn't see him, but then again I didn't see you either Jasper… wow, it was all so fast, I guess. Is he okay as well?"

"I think so. He's here somewhere, but they didn't make him use a stretcher." She answered in what seemed like a monotone. It was obvious that she was thinking hard about something.

They wheeled her away then, to X-ray her head. She kept trying to tell them that there was nothing wrong the entire way down the hall until she was out of hearing distance.

Jasper and I stood there with Tyler for a moment before he was wheeled out of the room as well leaving just Jasper and I alone. His head was tucked into my neck and he was breathing deeply.

I immediately grew concerned for him and I turned around in his arms, but he kept his head buried in my neck.

"Jasper, honey?" I asked him in concern. "What's wrong?"

He didn't answer, only continued to breathe me in with deep, shaky breaths.

A/N: Uh oh! What do you think is wrong? I'd love to hear your thoughts, so read and review!

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Take a look at a few of my Twilight stories posted on my FF page! (Xo BellaItalia oX)

This is a new collaboration that I am working on with dramaqueen1917. Check it out! It's called 'The Chronicles of the Fallen':

When Isabella becomes one of the Fallen, she becomes separated from her mate. She searches the world for him only to find out that he has been bitten by a vampire working for Lucifer. He no longer remembers her or who he is & she has to integrate herself into his life to remind him of his true purpose & who they were together. But that is only the beginning...Jasper/Bella

Another story is called 'Never What It Seems'

What Jasper Whitlock remembers from his time in the Southern Wars isn't what happened at all. After unknowingly leaving his mate, Marie, to the hands of her power hungry sisters, he continues on with his immortal life. After 90 yrs with no word about what happened to her Major, Marie is rescued & reunited with him only to find that what he remembers of her is nothing but brutality. Jasper/Maria Peter/Charlotte Bella/Edward

The other has been adopted from I-Have-A-Dark-Side called 'You Promised Me Forever

Edward left resolving in Bella falling into Jakes arms. However, he broke his promise of forever when he imprinted. A certain southern gentleman suddenly reappears in her life causing her to be thrust back into another love story within the supernatural world where both the past and present threaten everything they've built! Jasper/Bella

And this last one is called 'Other Worldly Beauty'

After the Cullen's left, Bella is at the height of her depression. Jayden comes to town and turns Bella's world upside down bringing her back into the world of the supernatural where she learns that vampires aren't the only mythical creatures out there. Jayden has to face her past in ways that she hadn't imagined while finding the love of her life. Jasper/Jayden Bella/Edward

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'Attempting to Covet'
'Dhampir' COMPLETED!
'Far Fetched Realities'
'Mirror Image'
'Other Worldly Beauty'
'Dhampir: Broken Moonlight' (SEQUEL)
'Perplexing Revelations'
'Unimaginable Outcomes'
'Pretexting'
'You Promised Me Forever
'The Heart's Desire'
'Intricate Beauty'
'Never What It Seems' NEW!
'The Major'
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'Flashbacks'
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