Alice Point Of View –

"Jasper, are we ready to go?"

"Of course dear." He was suddenly next to me, holding his bag and taking mine from my petty hand. He was quieter than me and was one of the few people who could actually sneak up on me. I loved that he could still take me by surprise.

"Come on, we'll miss our flight. The others gathered by the door to say goodbye, and to remind us that we had to be careful.

The airport was a two hours drive from where we lived, even going at our speeds.

"Will you be alright, Charlie is probably really upset and you've had enough of that to deal with the rest of our lives." Was I just putting my husband through more pain than necessary? Was this even a good idea? I didn't see our future disappearing, but things could change, I would know that.

"Sweet, I'll be fine. I have dealt with Edward minus Bella for a month; I can deal with a grieving Charlie." He smiled at me, but it was strained. He knew that humans had powerful emotions, not as powerful as vampires for sure, but he knew that other vampires underestimated the power of human emotions, just look at Bella's emotions for Edward. He thought that she didn't feel enough, she emotionally died when he left. The only problem was that humans usually had an array of emotions, instead of just one solid emotion. At least vampire emotions were more arranged, I guess you could say.

"Do you see our future….disappearing?"

"No, we are still there, talking to Charlie, back at out house for a few hours, back to Charlie's, back home."

"So we won't even be there for a day?"

"Probably not, not unless something changes or something drastic happens that I haven't seen yet. Also, I think that we should try and incorporate some of the truth into what we tell him." My husband looked over at me questioningly. "We should tell him what Edward was like, to some degree, and that we think that Edward might try something stupid if he finds out about the death."

"We tell Charlie that Edward wants to kill himself? Seriously."

"I think that that might make him understand that Edward isn't just some jerk that broke Bella's heart." He flinched. "Honey, you know that that wasn't your fault, and you know that Bella doesn't blame you for what happened, nobody does. You shouldn't either." He shrugged. "Jazz…."

"I k now sweetheart, but I can't help that I think what happened was my fault. If I hadn't have attacked, then Edward wouldn't have left – " He drawled in his lazy southern accent, before I cut him off, though I do like the fact that he isn't covering up his voice anymore.

"And Bella might not have been a vampire yet, and Rose wouldn't be nice to Bella, Edward would be more 'I hate myself' and all of us would be suffering from the bloodlust. What happened was really for the best, even if they were horrible when they were apart from each other."

"Well you do present a good point there darlin', the 'I'm not good enough for Bella' Edward can get really annoying." He rolled his eyes.

"She makes a good vampire too, she is going to have pretty good control – I don't quite understand how that one will work, but whatever." I shrugged, leaning over to hold his hand in mine. The rest of the drive was mostly silent, but words weren't needed in our relationship. Because of his gift, we could simply think about each other and he could feel all of my love and adoration for him, and project his own onto me. His gift was even more useful than mine.

"So how long do you think it will be before Bella is ready for either of our gifts, are we going to do yours or mine first?" Jasper asked me as he pulled up at the long term parking garage. Why we were here instead or short term, I have no idea, maybe he thought that something would change, maybe he was used to just parking in long term. But his question still had merit, and this was something that I couldn't tell him at home, where we could be overheard.

"She should be ready for another gift in two weeks, and we're going to do your gift first now."

"Why the change?"

"Because Edward has new plans – well, not new, but he has almost definite plans now, he wanted to do this ages ago but he didn't think that Bella wanted to do that." His face was blank as he looked over at me, before he slowly rose and eyebrow and a hint of a smile played at his lips. "I did it again didn't I?" He nodded. I had a habit of getting ahead of myself, and I had only found out about that after I met him, it explained why I had been given many funny looks when I was around humans. I had thought that it was because of my nature, their natural defenses, but I was wrong – for the most part at least. I would start to talk about things that I saw happening, explain why they were happening even, but I would never say exactly what was happening.

"Edward is going to propose to Bella, he had wanted to do it for ages but he thought that Bella would either say no, or say yes but make him change her. He always knew that if he ever want back and she forgave him that it would be one of the first things that he did. Now that she's a vampire, all that he has to worry about is her saying no – which is freaking him out."

"Ohh, that's why he was all edgy and….well more Edward then usual." He tilted his head to the side and I laughed at him. We were walking hand in hand towards the terminal now, ignoring the stares that we always got. He was carrying both of our bags, his over his shoulder and mine in his left hand. "So Bella can't have your gift yet or she might see what Edward has planned."

"Exactly, and I refuse to let him steal your proposal." She smiled, showing off his white teeth. When he asked me to marry him, he had taken me completely by surprise – a great feat. I hadn't seen him saying anything, just him sitting in front of my then me screaming joyously. And that's exactly what he did. He sat in front of me and took my hand, and finally made the direct decision. The vision had been simple enough, just us sitting exactly where we were in just a few seconds time.

"Will you marry me, my Alice?" Vision Jasper asked, his accent so much stronger then he let show these days.

Then real me screamed and tackled him to the ground, peppering his face with kiss's as he laughed joyously and asked 'so you'll marry me?' I screamed 'yes!' again and again as he slipped the ring on my finger, and we proceeded to ravish each other in the forest.

Good times. I though, and he looked at me knowingly; he always knew when I was thinking about him.

"We couldn't have him stealing my proposal – that was a one of a kind."

"Too true."

The woman at the counter practically molested my husband with her eyes, but snapped out f it when I slammed my hand on the counter. Her heart rate speed up and adrenaline spiked her blood system, so I swapped my glare for a too-sweet smile.

"We need two one way tickets to Port Angeles Washington." Jasper said, pulling both of out ID's and his credit card from his pocket. There were the ones that stated that our last names where Whitlock. Whenever we moved, we never used the last name Hale or Cullen for a few months, just in case someone was looking for us – especially whenever we had to leave immediately or we knew that someone was looking for us, like the time that Rose 'died' and we had to break her out of the morgue. That really confused the humans and we had to run immediately.

"Just one way Mr. Whitlock?" At least she had the decency to not look at him anymore, and she kept her gaze firmly fixed on the computer screen in front of her.

"Yes, just one way." He nodded, looking around the airport and taking in his new surroundings. The woman nodded again and typed, her French manicured nails making obnoxious clicking noises against the keys.

"There is a flight about to leave, but they are boarding now so you'll miss that…."

"Could we get on that one?" I could feel the persuasion rolling of him. "We think that something has happened to our sister, we need to make sure that she is alright." And now the sympathy is rolling off of him. She pursed her thin lips as her hazel eyes softened.

"Of course, but you will have to hurry."

"That's no problem, Thankyou miss." I chirped, and she looked up at me seemingly surprised. Couldn't blame her I guess, I did send her a death glare the last time that I even looked at her. She nodded and handed us the freshly printed ticket. Jasper dragged me away from the counter and down a deserted hallway, where we started to ran at vampire speed, so that no humans could see us. When we reached the terminal, we ran to another corridor and stopped, walking back out at a human pace with satisfied smiles on our face. That probably didn't look too good but we were proud of ourselves for getting here on time without arising any suspicion.

"I don't think that that lady liked me vary much." I giggled.

"She was a bit scared of you." He chuckled, handing the tickets to the woman at the new counter, who stared at him with an open mouth as she scanned the tickets

"Meh." I shrugged.

"So, we tell him as much as we can." Jasper conformed with me as we pulled up at Charlie's house.

"Yep, are you sure that you are going to be alright?"

He smirked over at me, but his eyes still held a hint of sadness, the guilty kind that I had seen there far to often lately. At least the emotion was going away, though this wouldn't help. "With the emotions or with the acting?" I tilted my head up and leaned over the center console to kiss him lightly on the lips.

"Both." I giggled as I jumped from the car, knowing fully well that he was one of the best actors in the family; even if his gift helped him a lot.

"Hey!" I heard him call as I shut the door. Skipping up the path and then up the front steps, smiling slightly as my husband materialized by my side and tapped lightly on the wooden front door. "No shape shifter scent?"

"None strong enough for us to be concerned with." I muttered as Charlie opened the door.

The man was a mess, and I was glad that Bella hadn't come to see this. I hoped that she wouldn't (or couldn't) read my mind when we got back up to Ashland. She didn't need to see the man she loved life this. Remotely, a part of me wondered if he had let himself go like this after Renee had left him – and taken my sister / best friend with her. He was wearing suit pants, probably the same ones that he had worn to the funeral, and had a three day growth, plus some. The smell of food was strong, and the disgusting stuff had obviously been left there for a while because the scent was worse than usual. I could smell the alcohol everywhere and tried not to show my distaste, my nose only scrunching up slightly so that eh probably would not see.

The shock on his face when he was me and Jasper would have made me laugh if we were here on any other circumstances.

"Hey Charlie!" I chirped, throwing my arms around him and hugging him tightly for a few seconds, before letting go and stepping back to Jasper.

"Alice?" The shock on his face quickly melted into sadness and sympathy.

"Who else? As if you could ever forget me." Why was he offering me sympathy? I just got my best friend turned into a vampire, but he lost his daughter.

"Hello sir." My southern gentleman introduced himself to the Chief and I just remembered that they had never met. I really wished that they had met before – when he was happy.

"Jasper right?" Charlie asked, looking him directly in the eyes. "Nice to meet you finally." He said after Jasper nodded his approval.

"It's a shame that we never really got to know each other before, your daughter is like a sister to me." And he wasn't lying, Jasper wished that he had gotten to know Bella better as a human. He didn't avoid her because he had any aversion to her, he just didn't want to hurt her. She was his little sister the moment he realized the threat that James, Victoria and Laurent presented not only to me, but to her as well that day that we played baseball. When we left, he took the whole thing hard. Not just from the guilt or everybody else's emotions, but because he left his family behind, he left one of his own. That was the ultimate betrayal to him. Growing up, Jasper had belonged to a big southern family. He was the oldest and spent his time helping his little sisters and brothers, when he wasn't helping the men of his family with the farm. Then after that, he went to the army – where he was a firm believer of the concept that had always been bread into him, that he stood by no matter what. No man gets left behind. That was another reason why the southern wars had been so hard on him, but most defiantly not the biggest reason for his discomfort.

"Is Bella here? I haven't seen her for ages and I miss her soo much!" I was playing my part perfectly, if I didn't mind saying so myself. Charlie shook his head, whether he meant to or not, I wasn't too sure, but what did that matter? We already knew the answer, and why she wasn't here.

"Oh is she working? " Jasper asked curiously, not letting his emotions show. I wasn't sure if he was helping with his emotions, but maybe it was best if Jasper didn't affect him any way, things would just come crashing on Charlie when we left.

"No, you missed her by a few weeks?" I let the smile fade away.

"Where did she go, is she back with Renee?"

"No sweetheart," His voice was quiet. "Bella died." I stood stock still. Knowing that the words weren't true but they were still hard to hear. The very thought of our Bella dying was still hurtful, even if she was alright. The vision that I saw that day came swimming before my eyes before I had a chance to react and I shook the feeling off, hoping to make things easier on my husband.

"No." I paused. You know that she's alright Alice, you know that. A vision came over me, Bella and Edward kissing, Edward slamming her against the wall and then Emmett walking in on them. "No, you are lying, she couldn't – Bella, but….no." My eyes stung thinking about loosing my best friend again, about the things that Charlie must be going through.

"You two want to come in?" We nodded and he led us to the living room, sitting on his old recliner as me and Jazz sat on the couch.

"She isn't really…."

"Yer sweetheart, she is."

"When?" Jasper asked.

"Not even two weeks ago. The funeral was four days ago, I don't know if Renee is still here."

"What happened to her? Was there an accident or..?" I didn't finish. I picked my legs up off of the floor and wrapped my arms around them. To help ease my tension, and hopefully Jaspers too, I let myself search the future, looking for something, anything, happy that could keep my sane for the next few minutes.

Me and Jasper, sitting on the bad at the Forks house, soon.

Esme and Carlisle looking at a paint chart, Esme frowning and Carlisle pressing his lips together to refrain from laughing.

"You are so cute when your concentrating this hard." He whispered in her ear, while the frown lifted from her face and she turned her torso around, putting her hand on his cheek and pecking him lightly.

"She jumped off of a cliff, over at La Push." Mine and Jaspers head shot up to look at him. At least we knew what they thought had happened to her, what would have happened if Edward hadn't gotten there in time.

"Jumped off a cliff?" Jasper asked. "On purpose?" He continued, his voice tense. This was hard on him too, he as imagining this being real too, trying to stop the thoughts.

"No." My voice was weak.

"Apparently she wasn't trying to die, she was cliff diving but the current was too strong for her, or so we think."

I stood up, straight faced and walked from the room to the front porch and went to the car silently. I could hear Jasper talking to Charlie a the door, telling him that we would be back soon, after we spoke to the family.

"You alright sweetheart?" Jasper put a calming hand on top of my own once he was in the car. I nodded.

"What he said wasn't real, we know that, the fact of the matter is that he still thinks that all of that is real and there is nothing that we can do."

"And that everything that he said still felt real." Jasper said quietly, like he could read my thoughts as well as my emotions.

"Yer Jazzy, that too."

The drive to the house was short and uneventful as we basked in each others presence.

"What do you want to do now?"

"How long do we have?"

"Four hours."

"Bedroom." He responded quickly, walking up the steps and then jumping up to the window that we kept open on the top story, opened it, slid inside before running back and opening the door for me.

"My lady, welcome home." He bowed and I giggled at his formality, but stopped short when the flashes of what he was deciding ran though my head.

"Bedroom, definitely."

Four hours, a shower and a necessary new set of clothes later we were walking back up the porch steps to Charlie's house.

We nodded at each other and the atmosphere was tense, but the usually quiet man was about to break the silence.

"Did you tell your family?" We nodded together. "How are they?"

"Esme is falling apart, Carlisle is upset but holding himself together for her. Emmett is miserable but trying more angry. Rose is trying to calm him, but she feels guilty for how she always acted around her, and we can't get a hold of Edward." I said in one breath, and that was mostly the truth about what happened when I told them that we had a near death accident on our hands.

"You can't get a hold of him?"

"No we think that he is in South America, but we don't know yet. He won't pick up his phone either, but we decided to wait until we can get him home before we tell him. Carlisle is going to take some time off work and go to find him."

"You don't know where he is, your parents don't know where their son is?"

"He was depressed after we left, he didn't do anything for a month – he wouldn't even leave his room. Esme was so concerned, his depression was wearing off on the rest of us. When he ran away we were all out, and he would only even call every few weeks, but he wouldn't tell us what was going on, or where he was."

"So he just….left.

"He couldn't be around ' the happy couples ' yet, he couldn't do anything. He dropped out of school and everything. He saw how he was affecting us, and he left before we could do anything." Jasper defended his brother and our parents.

"Is there anything that we can do?" I muttered after a short pause.

"Call me after you find him, tell me what he did."

"We already know what he's going to do."

"And that is?" The two looked at each other.

"He already said long ago that he wasn't going to live without her, but then we had to leave, and in the state that he is already in….we think that he might try to, erm, join her." If only he knew how true that was, that was Edwards plan. He hadn't planned on being in a world without Bella for very long.

"Join her?"

"We're afraid that he might try to kill himself, he over thinks everything and we already know that he blames himself for hurting her. He will blame himself for her death and he won't want to be without her. That's why we want him home first, we need to watch him."

"If he loves her so much, then why did her leave her like that. Couldn't they just….try

long distance or anything?" I exchanged a look with Jasper that clearly said 'what do we say now?'

"Edward thought that he was bad for Bella. After what happened in Phoenix, he blamed himself for that. She hurt herself at her birthday party and he blamed himself for that. Edward fails to see the good parts of himself, he didn't want to hold her back by making her stay committed to him because he was going to live so far away, even if they did go to the same college and would only have to wait a few months. He thought that she would be happier without him, without any of us in her life. The decision to leave was so sudden, and even though it was Carlisle's career, the decision if we left had a lot to do with Edward. He thought that this was what was best for Carlisle, and so he decided to go."

"So there isn't anything that we can do to help, there has to be something?"

"No honey, there isn't anything that you can do now." I nodded, sighed, and stood up.

"Well, Dad wants us home soon, we were only meant to stay for a day or two but if Edward is coming home, we need to be there. "

"Alright then kids, have a safe trip home." I gave him a parting hug and Jasper shook his hand. "Oh wait!" Me and Jasper turned back to him, already back to the door. "Give these back to your brother, and remember to call me." I took the pictures and bit my lip (a habit that I had picked up from Bella) and nodding her head before turning back to the car and sitting in the passenger seat.

"It was good to see you again Chief Swan, we will keep you updated." Jasper said again, before closing my door for me and driving away.

"What are we going to tell him when we call?"

"No idea, we can talk about that with the others when we get home, maybe arrange some visits so that he doesn't completely hate us all." I cringed.

"He doesn't hate us all, but he does get pissed and bitter whenever Edward is mentioned. He was shocked and short of sympathetic when we told him about our brother though, he didn't like the fact that we thought that he might try to take his life though, so that's a good thing right??"

"Right." I nodded.

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