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Determined Vision

APOV

"Goodnight, my angel." Edward kissed her forehead and pulled the covers up closer around her. I felt a vision tugging at my consciousness but I knew what it was probably referring to so I tried my hardest to not let it in just yet. I'll wait until I'm sufficiently far enough from Edward, so he won't hear about it.

"Jasper, I'm feeling a bit peckish. Would you like to join me in an evening stroll?" He was by my side in a flash and kissed me full on the lips, eager to get out of the house again.

Trying with all my might to keep the vision at bay I gently tugged at Jasper to run faster. It's only with the more "concrete" visions that they come this strongly. This one, the strongest that I've ever felt thus far in my own existence. I knew I only had moments before it would flood all of my senses.

Jasper, feeling my edginess began to pull my further and further from the mansion, through the forest.

"We're almost there, Alice," he spoke softly, pushing 'control' and 'calm' to me. We went through this occasionally so he, more or less, knew the routine; get out of 'hearing' distance from the family- this included Edward's brain-sharing, as I liked to tease him.

Finally we broke through the border and Jasper sat me down as the vision assaulted me with its clarity and finality.

A great ballroom light up with tiny candle flickers dancing among sets of round tables adorned with embroidered, soft, white, cotton cloths, the walls golden and elegant in the dim light. Tapestries of scenes from a bygone era overlooking a crowd of people gathered around in a circle in the only open area left in the enormous ballroom. Looking beyond the crowd I saw what everyone was watching; a gorgeous couple twirling, swooping and side-stepping, so in-tune to each other, it was definitely a sight to behold. The man looked fairly familiar. Suddenly, I realized with a start, it was Edward. The woman was harder to place, until I really took a close look at her features. Dark, flowing waves of waist length hair, pale skin- nearly as pale as our own- and deep chocolate brown eyes flowing with emotion as she gazed at Edward. My first intuition was that this woman was our sweet baby Bella, all grown up….and…with Edward. There was no way to tell how far into the future the scene played out before me would come to fruition. I could definitely tell though that this particular event would happen no matter what.

The vision faded slowly at first and my own sight burst back in front of my eyes to behold amused Jasper watching my features intently. I smiled at him lovingly to let him know I was back at the present. He quirked up an eyebrow, "Well? What was so important to cause such a fuss about, darlin'?" he asked in the gentlemanly southern fashion he always exudes; a sweet smile creeping up upon his perfect face. I knew he felt the emotional atmosphere from my visions even if I didn't. Venom twinkled in his eyes as a swell of pride and elation flowed from his very presence. He knew without seeing what I did that this was a life-changing kind of vision.

I leaned into him, my hand wrapped around his thick bicep as far as it could manage, "Edward is going to freak. That's all I can tell you for now. It's a long ways off but still… I don't know how he'd react to such a determined vision." I shook my head almost in denial at the thought of Edward running from his future. "It's going to be tough, but we'll just have to keep him out of the loop for a while." I winked at Jasper playfully. We had plenty of thoughts to torment Edward with in the mean time; perhaps that will keep his wandering "ear" out of our range for the time being- or decade and a half- whichever comes first. He only nodded in agreement.

Catching on to my playfulness and sudden emotional swing; he caught on with a short gasp and shocked, wide eyes. "Oh, Alice," he practically purred, bringing his lips down furiously upon mine.

Hey folks! Long time no see. :D

I wanted to make this longer but I decided to split it up as my brain came to an impasse. Sux, but oh well.

I seriously hope ya'll enjoyed this shorty chapter anyways.