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AN: This chapter is dedicated to Arabella Whitlock, thank you for your review and since I felt that a teaser wouldn't be enough I am posting another chaper! Enjoy the bonus chapter and of course don't forget to review :)
Chapter 20
APOV
No one has heard from Isabella or Edward in weeks and Jasper has barricaded himself in his study without so much as a word to any of us. I haven't seen anything about them in weeks and I haven't been this worried since Isabella had first disappeared all those ears ago.
The family had gone to hunt, more so as a distraction from the emptiness we all feel. I stayed behind determined to get Jasper out of his room.
Even though the door is locked and barricaded it really was no problem for me to slip through.
"Jasper?" I ask tentatively, slowly approaching him
"Go away, Ali" He croaked from his chair.
"Jasper please. I am worried about you. We all are. You need to feed. Please!"
"What's the point?"
"Jasper please!" I plead. "I... I'm sorry for lying all those years ago when we first met. I should have told you the truth, but we were both hurting and needed each other. There was no way for me in our situation then to explain it. We needed the happiness and the family to heal us first. I was going to tell you the truth after Bella's birthday. I had a vision that day of the two of you together and happy and me with my mate.
"But then... everything happened and the way everyone reacted and then I couldn't see her anymore. With my visions being subjective I couldn't trust myself telling you that she is you mate. But I could still see mine and it was going to happen soon." I pause and he is just blankly staring at me I didn't know if he heard a word I said but I kept going.
"Jasper, I have loved you since I first saw you in my vision but I knew you were never going to be mine forever. I hated hurting you with suddenly divorcing you, we should have actually talked about it then. I am so so sorry. please forgive me. Come hunt with me. We always had so much fun hunting together." I had a small smile on my lips with the memories of our hunts.
"Thank you Alice for apologizing. I really appreciate it. But I do not feel like hunting" he said robotically
"Look I know you are bummed that Isabella had to go but she will be back soon. How will she react seeing her mate..." I was cut off by a loud growl and a hand clamping around my neck.
"Do not speak her name as my mate" he sneered. "We are nothing."
"Put me down, please" I whispered as he put more pressure on my neck as he didn't listen.
"She ran off with her mate. I saw them together. She played me as a fool for YEARS. Toying with me!" My neck began to crack from the pressure.
"Jasper... stop... please" He let go finally realizing what he was doing and dropped to his knees and sobbed.
"I loved her Alice, since... I don't know when. Her birthday.. maybe even before that. How could she do this to me? Use me?" He gasped as though he was the one what was being choked.
He kept rambling on and on. I had no clue what he was trying to say. "Jasper what are you talking about?" I ask but he doesn't hear me and continues his lament rambling.
"She used my emotions? Used me? I marked her for fuck sake! And then to hear her say those things to him." He growled at the end.
"Who? What?" I was so confused.
"Edward" he says his name like its poison. "Everything was a lie to get back with Edward. I told her I would go with her and she said no every time." He said through clenched teeth
"No Jasper, you are mated to Isabella I have seen it." I argued
"You said it yourself, your visions are subjected" rubbing my word back at me
"Not when it comes to this!" I flipped
"You didn't see them. Or hear them..." He said in disbelief
"What happened?" I asked. He went on to explain Isabella's distance and constant blocking. How he followed Edward into the woods to a small meadow.
"She said "...I... I can't live without you." "What about Jasper?" Edward asked. And she admitted she had been blocking me to see how she felt without myinfluence, and said she felt nothing for me. I missed some things. But I got the important part "I do still love you."" he paused as the pain etched deeper in his face.
"I missed something but next thing I heard Edward was agreeing to go with her to Italy. And then... They kissed and it was no way innocent"
Vision
"I'm not going back to Amherst Heidi. He knows what I did." Bella rasped her back to Heidi
"You don't know that."
"Then why isn't he answering me?" Her voice thick
"Maybe he went on vacation? Maybe to the Denali coven."
"I doubt it. He had to have found out." Bella finally turned over her gaunt face finally visible.
"Please go hunt. I will come with. We can cause a little naughty trouble." Heidi pleaded wagging her eyebrows
"No, just leave me be" Bella's eyes closed
"But Isabella..."
"I said no and that's final" she roared as best she could in her raspy voice.
"Bella, you did what Aro commanded and brought Edward. You can't do this to yourself, go to Jasper and explain this all to him" Bella said nothing. "You will starve!"
"Then maybe I can die." Bella turned back over
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~change in vision~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Aro did you come to a decision on what we discussed?" Edward was standing in front of the brothers and Bella
"Ah Edward. Yes I have. And I think that is quite satisfactory but I do have one thing I would like to add. Bella dear."
"Yes Aro?" She only slightly turned her attention to him.
"Edward has volunteered to change his diet and relieve you of your duties in exchange for you to be free of our agreement. My only addition is that you still visit for about a month or so every... Oh let's say 50 years and you will help us if any situation ever arises."
"No."
"But Bella love, what about Jasper?" Edward pushed.
"Enough. I do not agree with this. Now leave us." Isabella dismissed him.
End visions
"Alice!" Jasper was shaking me.
"Jasper!" I squealed in excitement. "You need to go to Volterra NOW! She is starving herself in hopes to die because of this. Because she thinks she has lost you."
"She's with Edward now Alice."
"No she's not! She was ordered by Aro to bring him to Volterra. She doesn't love him!"
"Yeah, sure." Jasper dismissed me
"Uhg you are so infuriating! She is dying without you Jasper and if she goes you won't be far behind." Alice cried.
Jasper shook his head trying to make sense of everything I have said against what he saw and heard weeks ago.
"JASPER THEODORE WHITLOCK! YOU GET YOUR ASS UP AND GO GET YOUR GODDAMN MATE RIGHT FUCKING NOW! YOU WERE THE YOUNGEST MAJOR OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. YOU ARE THE GOD OF WAR! NOT SOME PANSY ASS EMO SISSY. GO GET WHAT IS YOURS!" I shrieked
He snapped up, "You better be fucking right about this!"
"I am." I said confidently. "Our tickets are booked" he raised his eyebrow. "Oh you didn't think you I'd let you go alone now did you? We better hurry. Our flight leaves in 2 hours."
We grabbed a few necessities, left a note for the family and we were off.
AN: I couldn't find anything on a middle name for Jasper. Most put his name as Jasper Whitlock Hale, but since he is back to Whitlock I couldn't use that. Mistakes are mine. Don't have a beta and this chapter was reviewed and partially written on the iPad. Need to type up some more but still struggling with a future chapter.