I second that Emotion

by Omnifarious777

Jasper was turned into a vampire during the civil war. He developed in a bloody world of consumption, power, rage, and thirst. In this new life he brought his own gift to read and manipulate emotions. His creator used him for his abilities but after over a century of feeling all that he did it was time to leave and so he did. Now he's alone, but not for long.(A unique Jasper story)

21. Living for LOVE

DISCLAIMER: Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight not me. I'm just playing around with the characters we all love. :-)

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EMOTIONS -Jasper is reading

EMOTIONS -Jasper is giving off

**- Marks words that are thought (Targeted to Edward to know alone)

Chapter#21: Living for LOVE

JPOV

2 years later...

"What's the word, Bro?" Emmett, for some unknown reason, was deeply interested in the school gossip today. I chuckled from my position across from him. Next to me was Edward, who was studiously ignoring Emmett's request. He was just looking around the cafeteria, like he couldn't hear any of us, despite how obviously untrue that was.

"Why so interested?" I couldn't help but ask. Alice, who was in my lap, was smirking at her two brothers. Emmett wanted completely useless information and Edward was purposely not giving it to him to piss him off. I wasn't sure who was being more juvenile, however I couldn't deny that Emmett was fun to get a rise out of. Emmett shot me a dirty look and I just kept an innocent look on my face. I knew what baiting him could do, and that certainly didn't deter me from doing it. He was a lot of fun to mess with.

"Why aren't you?" A shrug was my immediate response.

"I suppose that the everyday lives of humans I don't know doesn't really interest me." Emmett rolled his eyes.

"When in Rome." He continued to glance around while I shook my head at the generic response. Getting involved with the humans, even in small ways, was risky and not something I took as lightly as the rest of the Cullen's did. Edward and Rosalie probably agreed with me the most of the family and were the best at keeping their distance, next to me of course. Just because we were among the humans didn't mean we were ever really with them. It was stupid and dangerous to think otherwise. Edward shot me a disapproving look but I ignored it. He didn't like my constant concern of exposure, most likely because he could hear it, if I wasn't blocking him. I couldn't help it though, it was what I did. I was essentially security for the family. It was my job to weigh the threats and have back-up plans.

"I'm just as excited as all of them." Alice admitted while she bounced on my lap and I smiled affectionately at her. She would be excited. She had just as much hope now as two years ago. She was utterly fascinated by humans and their day to day lives. Unlike with Emmett, who only cared when he was bored, Alice cared because she genuinely cared about humans. She found everything about them interesting, even small things, like eating. She liked looking around the cafeteria and seeing what different foods different humans would pick, who would eat a lot and who wouldn't. Every little thing like that was interesting to her. She loved seeing what humans would wear for the weather or social events. She loved listening to what they spoke about, what they cared about. It was amazing to see how much she cared about it all. In fact I was pretty sure that no matter how much she loved watching the humans, I thoroughly enjoyed watching HER even more. The way she enjoyed it all was fascinating. I loved watching her with it all. She was the most beautiful person in my world and it was always hard to take my eyes off her.

I pulled her face to me and kissed her. I meant for it to be a quick one but as usual I got caught up with her. I was an empath after all and emotions affected me greatly. Put me in a room full of teenage hormones with my mate present, and the results were more than a few overly heated displays.

"There are children present." Emmett spoke in mock outrage and I pulled away from Alice enough to shoot him a glare. Considering the PDA's he and Rosalie gave at all times of the day, regardless of location, he had NO room to talk. They were a VERY physical pair and they were also shameless about letting the world know it.

"Does that include you?" I couldn't resist asking. He was more childish then any teenage human I knew of, despite his age.

"No but it includes the 7 year old you're swapping saliva with." I narrowed my eyes at him. He absolutely LOVED Alice and I's age difference. Never-mind that we were both immortals and adults or the fact that Carlisle and Esme's age difference was even greater, he still only mocked me for it. Part of me wanted to mention that she was closer to 30 then 7, but if she didn't want to count her mysterious human years, I wouldn't disrespect that. Instead I growled lowly and he just smiled in challenge. For some strange reason he loved fighting with me. It almost always led to a physical altercation, which of course resulted in him losing, but he loved to fight. Like I said, he was a physical guy. I did love beating him though, not just to reaffirm my undefeated status but also because it REALLY upset him, to the point of full blown temper tantrums, complete with broken furniture, walls... buildings. Yes he was indeed an overly physical child.

"Don't start something you can never finish Emmett." I smirked as he glared. Both Edward and Alice started laughing, and even Rose was fighting a smirk. She knew I was right but certainly didn't want to upset him.

"I can finish it."

"History would state otherwise." I thought of only this morning when we had a 'minor' disagreement which caused him to yet again loose to me in a small fight.

"There's a first time for everything." He smirked when I shrugged.

"Not for this."

"He's right. You'll loose." I realized now that Alice had been scanning the future, obviously seeing Emmett loose if he challenged me again. I smiled sweetly at her before shooting him a smile while sporting a raised brow, as if to say 'I rest my case'.

"Of course she'll take YOUR side!" He bellowed a little to loud for the human audience surrounding us, causing quite a few to look at us.

"Yes, because only an idiot goes against my Jazzy in a fight." I smiled at Alice as she proudly spoke of my fighting skills.

"Are you calling me an idiot?" DISBELIEF. I had to laugh at that tone. Was he seriously asking that? Even Rosalie called him an idiot just about daily and everyone else, while not actually saying the word out loud, definitely thought it.

"Maybe." She bounced happily as she continued to bait her brother.

"You've fought him too tinkerbell." That was technically true. She had spared with me, wanting to learn how to fight, but it was never serious.

"I wouldn't call that fighting." She smiled coyly and I nuzzled her neck while hiding my smirk. I knew what she was doing. I glanced at Edward and I saw him closing his eyes, probably wishing he could escape all the images going through our heads right now.

**Would you like some brain bleach Edward?** He didn't respond in any way and instead he continued to glance around the cafeteria, pretending to ignore us all while I smirked at his expense.

"What would you call it then?" ANNOYANCE. Emmett stepped right into that little trap she set.

"Foreplay." She spoke the word so simply and I had to chuckle before catching his look of absolute DISGUST. From there it took a great deal of control to stop myself from laughing loudly at his facial expression.

…...

"Here's our chance to get some info." Emmett was clearly happy to get away from our earlier topic as he gestured to the table on the opposite side of the cafeteria. It housed the most 'popular' students as well as our earlier topic of conversation that both Emmett and Alice were interested in.

Suddenly Edward directed his focus to the table which I found a bit odd. I fully expected him to ignore Emmett's request to spy on the students but it seemed I was wrong. He starred at the table with a surprising amount of focus. SHOCK, DISBELEIF, CURIOSITY.

**Is everything alright?** He had me a bit worried with his odd emotions. Edward was never interested in anything having to do with humans and yet now he was. What had he read in their thoughts? The problem with our lifestyle was it left us in a constant state of worry, concerning exposure. It was nice not living the homeless drifter style of life but this had drawbacks as well. Yes we had a home and roots, but we still were QUITE different from our neighboring species and had to keep them at a safe distance from us. This was what had me so worried at the moment. We'd been here for two years now, interacting with these humans. Were they finally suspicious?

After the final confrontation with Maria and Jane 2 years ago, Jane had parted with veiled threats of keeping her eyes on us. It was most likely an empty threat as she was just upset that she'd lost to us, taking quite the hit to her inflated ego. Luckily she knew she really had no grounds to stay there and Maria had attacked my mate unprovoked, giving me the right to end her. Jane had no loyalty to Maria, but had used the information she'd provided to challenge the coven that apparently she disliked for some unknown reason. Or maybe she'd been bored. Jane was sadistic enough to want to wipe out a coven, just because she could.

After Jane had left, and it was just Maria and her newborn remaining, I had to make a decision. Technically her life was forfeit but I didn't want to kill her. Well actually I did, more then I'd probably ever wanted to kill anyone, but I couldn't do it. I discovered that I liked they way Alice saw me. She didn't see the scarred malicious warrior that Maria had turned me into. She simply saw me as the love of her life, her mate, someone she was proud to call hers. THAT was who I wanted to be, not a killer. I wanted to be Alice's Jasper, not Maria's. I would never be hers again.

It was both the hardest and the easiest thing I'd probably ever done to simply dismiss Maria. I showed her no emotion and told her that if she ever came back or EVER threatened Alice again I would end her, without any mercy. Her emotions were full of RAGE, DISBELEIF, and LOSS but I simply didn't care. She was a wretched creature and I would leave her to her wretched life. She had no power over the peace I'd found. I was whole here, happy, and loved. There was nothing more I could ever want.

"Come on. Give us the gossip." Emmett was growing impatient and his words pulled me back to the present. Edward had yet to take his eyes off the table across the cafeteria. I realized that his eyes hadn't shifted from one spot the whole time. He was looking in one direction alone, or rather at one person. I followed his gaze and was met with the new girl, Isabella Swan. I had passed her at one point through the day but hadn't noticed anything off about her. She had curly brown hair and large brown eyes. She was shockingly pale for a human, without looking sick that is, but she seemed normal enough. I hadn't sensed anything worrisome in her emotions but obviously there was something off with her thoughts, in order to be getting such a reaction from the family telepath.

"Nothing." Edward spoke the word quickly with a large amount of DISBELIEF in his tone.

"So the family of freaks isn't the topic of discussion like usual?" AMUSEMENT. Emmett chuckled while looking around the cafeteria slightly. "I don't know if I find that comforting or offensive." Alice laughed and Rosalie rolled her eyes but I couldn't take my focus off Edward and the new girl.

"I didn't say that. Stanley is giving the dirt on us right now." Edward was still giving off SHOCK, and DISBELEIF in waves, but the curiosity had shifted to DETERMINATION as he continued to stare at the human girl. What the hell was wrong? She was new here, so of all the humans here she was the least likely to be a threat to us. She couldn't have suspicions as apparently she'd only just been made aware of us.

"What does the new girl think about it all?" HOPE Alice was hoping we didn't seem to strange to the girl. She always held the hope of making a human friend, though I was unclear of why exactly.

"Nothing." Edward repeated his earlier word with more DISBELIEF then before.

"So she doesn't care?" CONFUSION. Alice was trying to get clarification of what he meant and I was right there with her. What did he mean?

"I don't know." SHOCK was at the forefront again for him.

"Oookay." Emmett's patience was reaching it's end but he was trying to reign in his annoyance.

"I can't hear her." I felt my brows raise as Edward spoke. I glanced back to the girl and tried to sort through what that meant. He couldn't hear her mind? Just her mind being silent said a lot, but what exactly?

"You can't hear her thoughts?" Rosalie spoke with her own considerable amount of DISBELEIF now and I frowned at her as I also picked up JEALOUSY, SURPRISE, ANNOYANCE, JUDGEMENT and more negative feelings. Rosalie and I had grown more used to each-other over the last couple years but she still was not my favorite person, nor was I hers. How she could feel jealousy over Edward noticing the one person who's mind he can't read was beyond me. If I were him I'd at least be a little curious too.

"Can you pick up anything Tink?" Emmett asked Alice and immediately her eyes glazed over as she scanned the girls future. Edward turned to her in response to whatever she saw.

"Not a lot of decisions have been made yet." Alice glanced at Isabella curiously. "She has Biology next with Edward and I see her in there, sitting next to him. Nothing else." I glanced back to Edward and his brow was furrowed before he looked back at the girl, who I noticed shot him a couple curious glances as well. I wondered if he even noticed that she was looking at him as he openly STARRED at her.

"Alright General, the other two are letting me down here. Tell me you have at least something." Emmett turned to me expectantly and I sighed before focusing on the girls emotions. NERVOUSNESS, CURIOSITY, ATTRACTION, ANNOYANCE, HUMOR, AFFECTION. She felt an array of things so I decided to tune into her conversation a bit more to piece it all together. It wasn't the easiest thing to do as emotions certainly weren't as clear as thoughts, but it was possible to piece things together with the right amount of observation and deduction. Apparently she didn't find the foster children dating cover to be strange as I didn't sense disgust or anything else similar from her. In fact her AFFECTION seemed to be aimed towards Carlisle and Esme for 'taking all of us in'. Her ANNOYANCE seemed to be directed at the Jessica girl and her disrespectful gossip, not that anyone could blame Isabella for that. The HUMOR was also directed at the girl, probably because of the girl alluding to Edwards disinterest in herself. She was CURIOUS about us but not judgmental in any way, like many humans were. Her NERVOUSNESS was everywhere, understandable considering it was her first day of school.

My eyebrows raised slightly as I picked up her ATTRACTION for my brother. It was a normal thing for me to sense from the humans when they saw us but hers was different, there was a softness to it. It wasn't just a raw physical feeling, it was more innocent then what I was used to sensing from a stranger. Sure we were attractive to humans but most found our predatory strangeness enough of a deterrent to fight that off on any real level. I wasn't getting that from her though. What I was picking up was that there was no hesitation, fear, or other normal human responses to seeing vampires. She didn't feel any of it, just curiosity and attraction.

I relayed to them all that I read, leaving out the attraction of course. I didn't want to embarrass the poor thing, or Edward for that matter. He had a peculiar amount of interest in the girl, and I was quite shocked by it. "So Edward, you can't read anything but the other two are having no problems at all. What do you have to say for yourself?" Emmett scolded mockingly.

"I'm not sure..." It was plainly obvious that Edward was only half listening to Emmett yet he managed to respond. "Why don't you use your power and see if it works on her?" Edward eyed Emmett briefly before returning his focus to the girl, and I laughed. Emmett just starred menacingly. "Oh that's right, you don't have one." Edward went back to ignoring him as he starred at Isabella again.

The rest of the table continued on like Isabella had never been a topic, everyone but Edward anyway. His focus was only on her and it wasn't exactly veiled. FRUSTRATION, DETERMINATION, CURIOSITY, CONCERN, INTRIGUE. So much was racing through him. For a split second I had worried when I picked up the concern from him, thinking he had heard something dangerous for us, but I realized almost immediately that this was a more personal concern. Edward's emotions had shifted from observer to something else entirely as he watched her. I tried to be discreet as I watched them both, feeling like in some strange way, I was intruding. On what I had no idea, but I couldn't shake the feeling. I kept an ear on the conversations happening at her table and it was clear that she wasn't really interested in what was being said and that she was, if anything, a bit uncomfortable by all the attention on her. Is that why Edward was concerned? I knew he was listening to the conversations at her table as much as he was the thoughts, so was that the reason for his growing emotions? Was he worried about her?

…...

A little before lunch ended Alice and I walked hand in hand towards her class. The bell would ring soon and the science building was far from the cafeteria so I knew Edward and the girl wouldn't interact for awhile yet. I casually asked Alice if Edward was alright and she immediately scanned his future. When she came out of it she displayed CONFUSION. I stopped walking as I pulled her face to me so I could watch her expression.

"What did you see darlin?"

"I saw Edward talking to Bella." I must have looked confused by the name, so Alice explained that 'Bella' was what the girl preferred to be called. I nodded and Alice continued to look confused. "It's not like him to talk to humans, but I see HIM asking the questions not her." I nodded in agreement. Of all of us, Rose and him were the least likely to converse with humans, and myself of course. Me because I was still uncomfortable around human blood and Rose because she was both annoyed with humans and horribly jealous of them. Edward on the other hand kept his distance out of concern and guilt. It was clear that he would always carry burdens on his shoulders for things he can't ever change. He was a deep man and I sincerely hoped that someday he could find peace over his past.

"Perhaps she's more special then we think." I didn't want to bluntly speak my suspicions and I was hoping Alice would form her own conclusions. Her eyes glazed over and I imagined she was looking at the girls immediate future now. I brought my hand to her hair and stroked softly as she came out of the vision.

"I see her telling Edward about her life..." Her brow furrowed further and I waited for her to explain. "She has had the whole school ask her about her life in Arizona and she's revealed nothing, but she will tell him as soon as he asks." I smiled slightly at that piece of information.

"What do you make of that?" I had to ask. I knew what I was thinking was preposterous, impossible even, and yet emotions never lied.

"I saw him smiling when he spoke to her." She continued to analyze like she hadn't heard me at all. "He never smiles like that, and he never listens that closely, at least to humans." The bell was going to ring so I took Alice's hand and lead her the last bit of a distance to her classroom.

"I love you." I spoke softly as I gave her a very small kiss, still not a fan of PDA's as I preferred to keep our moments between the two of us. She smiled at my attentions before entering her class as I made my way down to my room, which wasn't far.

ATTRACTION is such a strange emotion. It can mean so much or it can mean so little. It can be as simple as seeing someone physically appealing and then just as quickly as the feeling came, the moment passes and you never think of that person or emotion towards them again. Attraction can also be the start of something big. I thought back a little more then two years ago when I met the Cullen's in that forest and they invited me to their home. I had ran with them and as I watched Alice and she watched me, I had felt ATTRACTION, both hers and mine. At the time I had seen it as a reason to be concerned but not much else. Oh what the emotion grew into though.

I didn't really believe in Love at first sight. Yes I was empathic and felt a lot, but initial contact was NOT love. It could be curiosity, like, lust, intrigue, or yes... attraction. It was an emotion that could literally start a chain of events unlike anything else. It had been the link that changed my life. I was attracted to Alice, which was probably the biggest reason I even went to their home to begin with. Then that attraction lead to devotion, even on a small scale, when I agreed to stay simply because she had wanted me to. From there the devotion turned to determination, as I shifted my diet and entire way of life for her and this lifestyle. From there LOVE came through as I realized that Alice was MINE and I was hers.

Yes attraction could mean nothing, or it could mean everything. I smirked as I thought back to the emotions in that cafeteria. ATTRACTION. It was so small and barely noticeable in a room filled with much louder emotions, but somehow I had felt it just the same. It was there and despite what Edward would ever admit, especially to himself, it wasn't just coming from the human girl. I was picking it up from him as well.

The question was now a matter of what it meant. For Edward, for Bella, for us, for the future. Did it mean nothing, and would pass easily, or did it mean the start of everything for both him and her? Who knew? I smirked to myself as I entered my class and sat down at my desk quietly.

A vampire and a human... I suppose stranger things could happen...

THE END

END NOTES:

***PLEASE REVIEW. It's my last real chance to get comments on this story.

***What did everyone think?

***It was always my plan to turn this alternate story into a prequel of sorts and I'm hoping it all came together okay. I obviously made some changes (wolves, characters, etc...) but it's how I would have written it. LOL

***I practically combined the first two cafeteria scenes between Edward and Bella in the original story as it never made much sense to me that he wasn't more curious about the one person who's mind was blank to him. If I was a 100+ old telepath, a quiet mind would certainly have my attention. I like it better for Edward to be intrigued by her without the singer blood playing a role in it right away. Their story is sweeter that way. :-) No I didn't get rid of the singer blood lust between Edward and Bella in the end. Remember that Alice's vision was based on Edward's decision to talk to Bella, not on anything else. He hadn't smelled her blood yet to have his violent reaction we all know well from the book. This was a preliminary vision. 'The future can always change'. *Wink Wink*

Chapter (SONG) Title: "Living for LOVE" by Madonna- This song is all about giving someone or something everything you had and being crushed. The motto of I'm 'LIVING FOR LOVE' is about carrying on to live and love again, not giving your past the chance to destroy everything you can become. I love the line of "Love's gonna lift me up" because it teaches that realizing the harsh realities of the past doesn't mean you have to become a cynic, you can still choose to be a believer, To Believe in Love.

***Fitting Song for the final chapter in more ways then one***

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