James landed a strong left hook to the side of Edward's jaw which let out a sickening crack and it felt like something was broken. Jasper watched in horror as the man he loved fought the one man he loathed, while he was pathetically frozen to the spot he was in not having any idea what to do. He knew that he had to snap out of it, he had to help Edward but he just could not will his body to move, he was literally frozen in fear watching the scene unfold before him.
Edward ducked out of the way of James' next hit and managed a punch square to James' gut which made him drop the knife, Edward kicked it out of the way of the them both so that neither of them could use the weapon. He then landed his next punch to the side of James' nose and immediately it was pouring with blood, it had spurted out all over Edward's shirt. James soon recovered and managed to grab hold of Edward's neck with one hand, he started to squeeze as hard as he could. Edward was thrown off balance and both of the boys went tumbling to the ground, Edward tried to move but James kept a tight grip on him. He soon managed to get his other hand around and his hold on Edward became impossible to break. Edward looked up in to the face of his killer, he felt like if these were his last few minutes on earth then Jasper should use them to get himself out of the house. He of course had rang the police the moment that Jasper and James had gone upstairs, he probably should have gotten himself out then and waited for the professionals but he couldn't stand the idea that Jasper would be left alone with James. He felt now that this was inevitable. But just as his sight was becoming blurred and blacking out around the edges James gave out a painful squealing sound and keeled over on top of him. He gasped for breath, desperate to have enough oxygen in his body so that his pained lungs were satisfied. He felt James being pushed off him and he looked up in to the terrified eyes of Jasper, he looked to the side at James who didn't seem to be moving at all. He knew why as soon as he saw him, there was the knife he had pulled out on Edward. The knife was no longer clean and sharp and deadly looking, it was buried deep in to James' back and there was bloody pouring from the wound. Jasper sat down and started to rock himself back and forth, his head in his hands balanced on his knees.
"I'm sorry, i'm so so sorry. I didn't want to hurt anybody, but he was going to kill you and my mom. He said he was going to kill people. I had to stop him, he was going to strangle you to death." Jasper was crying and shaking uncontrollably.
"Hey, baby, shh, it's okay. I've got you." Edward comforted Jasper wrapping his arms around his torso and rocking backwards and forwards with him. "I know you had to, if you hadn't he would have killed me. You saved my life babe."
Jasper's sniffling started to lessen and suddenly they were surrounded by police officers all storming in to the house. They quickly checked James' body for signs of life and a pulse but of course there was none, he was dead. After this they worked quickly, they found Jasper's mom up the stairs tied up on her bed, she had been knocked out with some sort of drug but was taken to the hospital and was fine just simply in a drug induced sleep. She awoke a few hours later. Jasper and Edward were checked over and found that although some of Edward's injuries were painful and needed stitching up they were not life threatening and so they were both allowed to leave the hospital and luckily nothing had been broken though Edward rubbed his jaw in disbelief of this. They rang Edward's parents who came to pick both boys up from the hospital because Jasper's mom had to stay in for the evening, Jasper didn't want to leave her but she eventually talked him round, convincing him that he needed his strength for when he picked her up the next day and took her home to look after. When they got to Edward's parents house, he sat them down and explained all about James. He conveniently left out the fact that Jasper was gay and that this was his ex boyfriend, stating instead that James was an ex friend of Jasper's who just so happened to be obsessed with Jasper, upset that Jasper had ever moved away. His parents bought the story and championed Edward, they thought he had been very brave. His mother was also very comforting to Jasper, making him cocoa and telling him that his mother was going to be okay. Jasper struggled for a little while with killing James but in the end he knew that it had had to happen, he knew that if he hadn't stepped in when he had then there would no longer be an Edward, he could not have allowed that to happen. He would forfeit the life of James for Edward any day of the year.
Both of the boys were exhausted and so quickly made their way up to bed, they fell on to Edward's bed, after they had made up the sofa bed of course, and they quickly fell asleep wrapped in each other's arms. Before he fell asleep Jasper could not help but smile to himself a little, it was finally over, and James was dead. There was no way he would be able to come back again to stalk them and threaten them, he was safe and he was free.
Jasper woke up in the middle of the night clutching his chest, his breathing rough. He had had the most vivid dream that James wasn't gone yet, he was looking in through Edward's window, watching them both sleep. Edward had woken with a start when Jasper sat up and quickly wrapped his arms around Jasper, comforting him while Jasper let out his tears, when he had calmed down enough Edward laid him back down.
"He's not coming back to get you Jasper, you won't have to see him ever again." He wiped the stray tears from Jasper's face and placed a kiss on his lips. Jasper was afraid to sleep again for hours and he stayed up long in to the night and the next morning, he finally fell asleep around 5am. This resulted in both boys waking up late, so when Edward's mother walked in to the room she found them in that position, wrapped around eachother sleeping soundly. She heaved a big sigh, she had had her suspicions about them. She was just worried that now Edward's life would be harder, he would have so much to compete with and so many small minded people giving him trouble. She was happy that he had finally found somebody that made him smile the way he did when he was around Jasper, he deserved somebody to do that. She realised that her and her husband had pushed Edward perhaps a little harder than they should have done, but she only wanted the best for her children. Edward had no idea that going away had been Alice's idea, she felt choked here and thought it was the best thing for her, to meet new people. Of course she had been afraid that if Edward had known this he might ask to move away to, and she could not cope with both of her children leaving her so she told Edward they had sent Alice away to straighten her out a little. She had no idea how her husband would react to Edward being gay, and having a boyfriend. Neither of them were overly religious, they just took the kids to church and such when they were younger because they thought it was the right thing to do. At least if he does do this he won't be going through it alone, she smiled fondly at Jasper. In her eyes, he was such a good boy, he had the right aspirations and she thought the idea of him as a history teacher was a great idea. She realised that she had never even asked Edward what he wanted to do at college, she just assumed he would take after his father and go to study medicine and become a doctor, probably even a surgeon just like dad. Of course now she realised she may not know Edward quite as well as she once thought she had, she decided to give them both a little more time in bed and quietly retreated out of the room leaving them to sleep on, after all they had both had such a traumatic evening perhaps some rest is exactly what they needed.