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Chapter 25

Slowly

Jasper POV

It had been a week since Alice's almost fatal incident and she was starting to heal. Although she was healing incredibly slowly I would rather take that than her not healing at all. Her healing process had been starting to get more rapid because she is gaining more of her own venom and it is eliminating the unwanted venom inside her. Carlisle said that once the unwanted venom is out of her system she will be healing very fast and will be on her feet soon enough.

The wounds on her body have started to repair themselves. Her arm is starting to look not as mangled as it was before and the gash on her throat is not as long and deep as it used to be. Her stomach is still not mending so we have to give her some time. Also, she is awake most of the time and she is starting to move her body and talk a lot more.

I am now sitting on the bed next to Alice as she plays with the fingers on my hand. I am reading a book on the American Revolution for school. Everyone had gone back to school except for us. Carlisle had resumed his job at the hospital and Esme was downstairs arranging flowers in the living room.

Then I heard Alice giggle and I turned and looked down at her with a questioning look on my face. "What" I asked her as she continued to giggle.

"I was wondering what you would look like with glasses on" she said as she laughed her bell-like chime voice. She ran her hand over my forehead brushing away the hair that dangled in my face.

"I think I would look like a dork" I told her as I squeezed her hand gently and chuckled.

"I don't think so. I think you would look amazing in glassing" she answered in a soft voice.

"Ok love. Anyways, I don't need glasses we have perfect vision" I reminded her.

She giggled and twirled my hair with her fingers. "I guess you're right" she said to me.

It was a week away from Christmas and tomorrow would be the last day of school for the year. That meant that we get a two week break before we go back in January. I had a lot of different options for Alice as a gift but I couldn't choose which one until the last minute. I always did this, trying to surprise her but always seeming to fail because she was so in tuned with me.

Renesmee came into our room with a game in her hand. "I am really bored and Jake had to go home, do you two want to play a game wit me?" she asked in her sweet voice. She walked in more and I saw that she had the game called Sorry in her hand.

Alice and I both nodded and Nessie came to sit on the bed with us. She had the game set up in a matter of seconds and had everything in place. "I want to be red" she said as she looked at us.

Alice chose blue and I chose yellow. Nessie started then Alice then me. Renesmee picked a card and moved forward three spaces.

Alice tried to sit up a little and I stopped her immediately, "Come on, please" she said in an adorable voice that I couldn't say no to. I placed her gently in my lap and I saw the grimace on her face that she was trying to endure and I sighed. I leaned against the bed post and had Alice in my arms to where she was comfortable. Then she pulled a card and moved forward four spaces.

It was my turn and I picked a card as well. It told me to move forward nine and I did so.

Alice put her head in the crook of my neck and played with the collar and buttons to my shirt. I looked down at her and she returned the stared with an innocent smile on her ace. I chuckled lightly and rubbed her back.

After about fifteen minutes Nessie put her last piece in the finish for her pawn stack and jumped up and down excitedly. Alice and I let her win by not moving our last pawns until we had the other three at their finish line.

I moved Alice so she was lying down on the bed once more and then got up to turn the TV on. I put in Hannah Montana the Movie because we had bought it for her but we never watched it yet. Nessie turned on the surround sound speakers in the room and turned off the lights. She then lied down with us on the bed.

After about twenty- four minutes of watching the movie Nessie was asleep. I got up to get the remote so I could pause the movie. When I reached the TV and grabbed the remote I heard a crack coming from the bed and a gasp.

I reached the bed in that moment and leaned over Alice as she had a look of pain on her face. This was how she was healing, her body had to occasionally move and crack so that her body went back to its original form.

In a matter of seconds she was back to normal. She sighed and looked at me. "No need to worry it's over, I am fine now" she whispered.

I nodded and looked at her eyes. They were black again. "I will be right back" I told her calmly.

I went to Carlisle's office and found the cup that he told me would be there for Alice. She could now down blood so we kept it here because it helped her heal when she had it in her.

I was back in the room in seconds and handed the cup to her. She smiled at me and took it into her small hand and took a sip and set it down. That was another thing; it was like she got tired of it or something because normally you don't have that much control to just stop drinking it like she does. Even Carlisle was wondering about that.

"I'm making this so hard for you to forget, I'm sorry" she whispered as she shut her eyes and opened them once again to look at me.

"Alice, I will never forget what they did to you that will always be in my head" I told her. "And stop worrying about me, I am perfectly fine" I added as I assessed her mood.

She sighed and stared into my eyes as I stared back. Everything passed through us and into the other as we did this. We were like two halves of the same whole.

We continued to stare at one another until Renesmee shifted on the bed and lifted her head. I hit play on the remote and the movie resumed from where it had left off.

Soon enough the movie ended and Nessie turned to look at us. "Another movie?" she asked.

I looked at Alice who nodded. "I think I got her High School Musical 3, it should be in that drawer" she said as she pointed to the movie drawer. I opened it and there it was on top. I popped it in the DVD player and went to sit back down with the two of them

An hour into the movie I heard the arrival of Edward, Bella, Emmett, and Rose as their cars came down our long drive. Nessie didn't move an inch and Alice and I both knew that she could hear it.

She had her elbows propped on the bed and she was staring intently at the TV screen as the movie continued to play.

Everyone came through the door and Edward and Bella were in our room in seconds. "Hi Renesmee" Edward said as she had paid no attention to their arrival.

"Hi mommy, hi daddy" she said as she turned to acknowledge them and then turned her attention back to the screen.

"What are you three watching?" Bella asked us.

"High School Musical 3" I answered with a chuckle. They nodded and came into the room even further.

"How are you feeling?" Bella asked Alice.

Alice sighed and turned in their direction. "Great, awesome, ecstatic" she answered with sarcasm.

"Do you want us to get Renesmee out of here for a while" Edward asked.

"No she isn't bothering us" I answered and Alice nodded to them.

"Well, since you two are watching her for now, can you watch her for a little longer?" Bella asked us.

"Sure" I replied with a nod.

Alice snorted beside me. "You two are gross; you should make up your minds when you are not around me. I still see things" she said with a disgusted look on her face.

Then they were gone. I chuckled softly as I felt there moods before I left and I saw Alice roll her eyes beside me.

Nessie continued to watch the last ten minutes of the movie from the end of our bed. Every once in a while she would trill a small giggle at what was on the screen and would be silent once more.

"You should go hunting, your eyes a darker than usual" Alice murmured from beside me.

"I can last a little longer, it's not that big of a deal" I replied to her as I sank myself to her level and brushed a few strands of hair away from her smooth face.

She sighed. "I know that you don't want to leave me and I understand that, I do but you should go. I don't know when Carlisle will ever let me out of the house" she replied to me. "Besides Nessie is here to keep me company for the next five and a half hours and I know you will be back before then" she laughed quietly.

I nodded. "Fine, I will see you later" I whispered as I stood up and then bent down to plant a kiss on her small forehead. Then I left the room and was downstairs in a second. Emmett was headed for the door and then he turned around and smiled at me.

"You coming hunting with me?" he asked with a goofy grin on his face. I nodded and he patted me on the back and we ran quickly into the woods about one-hundred yards away from our house.

We ran for about ten minutes and then stopped to catch scents. In moments we were off in different directions now hunting the prey that we smelt. I soon found a mountain lion stalking a small deer and took my opportunity.

I crouched down into a stance and moved forward without a sound. Soon enough I was close enough and pounced on the large cat. In seconds I had its neck snapped and it was completely drained of blood.

I found a large deer after about ten minutes and then headed back where Emmett and I had split up. I sat down against a tree and started throwing pebbles into the river. I got up to seventeen skips when Emmett got back.

Instead of gesturing for me to get up so we could go home, he sat down beside me. He started to throw pebbles into the river as well

"Man, you are so lucky, you don't have to go back to school for a while" he said playfully. This was how he was, when he tried to say things that meant something it would start out like this.

"You only have one more day before break you can handle it. Anyways, I am only out because Alice is hurt. I don't call that lucky" I told him.

"You know she is getting better, we all do. You need to stop worrying about her so much" he replied.

"I can't help it. I worry about her, I don't want her to be in pain" I said quietly.

"I know you don't and neither do any of us, but things happen and sometimes you have to let it go" he replied as he turned to stare at me.

"That will always haunt me, I will always remember that I wasn't there for her when she needed me most and I was unable to help her. I feel that she got hurt because of me, which is true because if I wasn't with Maria she would not be hurt" I shot back as I looked down.

"Jasper, you can't protect her from everything. None of us can protect everyone from everything. Anyways, you probably wouldn't have met her if Maria had never bit you" he went on.

I didn't like remembering what had happened so I just nodded and looked up at the covered sky. Emmett acknowledged what I meant and stood up. I stood up as well and we went back home.

I walked through the door and saw Esme sitting with Carlisle on the couch. Carlisle turned as did Esme. "Hi, Jasper, Emmett, how was hunting?" Esme asked with a bright smile on her face.

"Great" I answered as Emmett just nodded and went to Rosalie who was sitting on the chair to the left of the two.

"I checked on Alice earlier. She is healing a lot faster" Carlisle murmured from where he sat.

I nodded and was up the stairs and in our room in a second. The lights were off and the menu screen for the movie they were watching was on the TV. Renesmee was under the covers asleep next to Alice who was lying there motionlessly with her eyes shut.

"Alice, my love, I am back" I murmured as I walked in the room and shut the door behind me like it had been. She was still so I walked over to her side and sat down to stroke her cheek.

Then I felt her hand glide down my arm. "Jazz" she whispered as her eyes popped open and a smile was planted on her face. I bent down and kissed her softly on the lips and she wrapped her arm around my neck to keep me there for a moment. She pressed her lips to mine and then let go and sighed quietly.

I sat down next to her and ran my fingers through her hair. Alice took my hand in hers and brought it up to her mouth. She kissed it softly and held it close to her chest.

I looked at her and her eyes were once again golden and when she smiled it reached her eyes. I looked over her small petite body and relaxed a little. Carlisle was right, she was healing quickly. Her arm and legs were almost normal again with a little dent or two still placed on them. The gash on her neck had grown to half of its size and was no longer deep. Her shoulder had locked back into place with her body. When I looked at her stomach there wasn't much of a difference. The gashes were slowly going away but the marks and dents were still clearly there. They had healed a little but not enough for someone to say a noticeable change. I looked back up at her and into her eyes.

"Do you feel any better?" I asked and slowly waited for her reaction.

"I am doing a lot better, I don't feel as much pain anymore" she murmured. I assessed her emotions as she said this to make sure she wasn't trying to make me feel better. She was being honest and it made some of my pain drift off at seeing her getting better.

"Can we walk around, or maybe go outside and just sit?" she asked as she looked at me with the most gorgeous eyes. She was silently begging for me to let her do this.

I bit my lip and looked down at her. "Alice, you are making this so much harder for me" I murmured as I bent down and kissed her forehead.

"Please" she whispered as she pouted.

"Come on, Alice" I said back to her.

"Don't you love me?" she asked. She looked as if she was hiding a smile.

"Of course I do, you know that" I spoke quietly as I kissed her hand.

"How much do you love me?" she asked as the smile started to show. I knew where she was going now. She had used this on Bella so she could get what she wanted for their wedding.

I chuckled and trailed a few kisses down the side of her neck being careful not to touch her scar. "Very much" I murmured.

"Then, please, please, please" she begged quietly. That is when I caved in. I stood up and took her hand.

She smiled and giggled quietly.

That was another thing about her, she always got what she wanted.

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