Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight that privilege belongs to Stephanie Meyer I'm just having fun messing with her characters.
I know this took a while to get out and I do apologise for that, I knew what I wanted to happen but couldn't quite get it to work right. Anyway, after several days of editing and swearing at my computer I have decided to just upload what I've written, because if I read through it once more I'm going to go insane!
I hope you enjoy. xx
Epilogue: All's well that ends better.
Jasper's pov
I took a deep calming breath as I stood at the front of the church. The minister gave me a small smile which I tried to return.
Music started up and my eyes snapped to the door, locking onto Alice as she emerged taking slow measured steps down the aisle, our eyes met and she beamed at me, her gorgeous green eyes sparkled with joy.
I couldn't hold in my own smile as my eyes appraised her. She looked absolutely stunning. As usual.
Carlisle shifted nervously on my left and I patted his shoulder encouragingly.
"It's easy. Trust me." I grinned at him. He nodded stiffly.
My eyes found Alice again remembering the time she'd been walking towards me in a similar setting, wearing white.
Now here she was in a gorgeous deep red dress as bridesmaid for my mum. Whilst I, once again, was best man at one of my parents weddings. This one would hopefully go a little smoother though.
Carlisle took a sharp intake of breath and my eyes left Alice for a second to see my mum step onto the aisle, wearing a knee length, simple ivory dress.
She looked beautiful, of course, but in my eyes she was overshadowed by Alice, not that I'd be telling her that, it was her wedding after all.
My eyes went back to my wife. My wife. Even after three years I couldn't get used to that.
As I'd promised, her last day of college I'd swept her away on a romantic holiday. I had only been able to afford to go as far as New York for two nights, not quite a week in Paris, but Alice hadn't minded and I'd tried to make it special as I'd proposed.
I'd barely got the 'will you marry me?' out before Alice had launched herself at me screaming 'yes' over and over.
Much like mum and Carlisle it had been a small simple affair with family and close friends.
At Alice's request I had sent an invite to my dad, but hadn't had any reply. I hadn't been all that bothered, but I knew Alice felt bad for me.
My eyes were still on her as the ceremony started, remembering the way she'd looked walking towards me on Emmett's arm, wearing white.
Emmett had been strangely accepting of our engagement, I'm not too proud to admit I had been terrified when we'd told him. But, he had simply stared at Alice's beaming face for a few seconds then turned to nod at me, before a cheeky grin had crossed his face and he had wandered off muttering about bachelor parties and strippers.
I was focused on the ceremony just enough to know what was going on, but most of my thoughts still revolved around Alice.
Of course thinking about our wedding got me to thinking about our wedding night, I smirked a little as my mind went to my plans for tonight as well.
What can I say? Just because I'm no longer a teenager doesn't mean I don't still have a one track mind, especially when Alice looked like she did.
I smiled happily clapping loudly with everyone as my mum and Carlisle were pronounced husband and wife.
Mums smile could not have been wider as she flung herself forward to kiss him before he got chance to make a move, causing a round of laughter and a loud wolf whistle from Garret.
My mum broke away her cheeks flushing, obviously having forgotten she was still in public. Carlisle just looked slightly dazed.
I offered Alice my arm and we followed the newlyweds back down the aisle.
"You look beautiful." I murmured softly to her.
I smiled fondly as she did her traditional squirm of embarrassment "Thanks Jazz."
Leaning in I pressed my lips to the top of her head. She was still my Mini.
And always would be, I thought with a smile.
Everything ran smoothly and I was thoroughly enjoying myself at the reception.
"You'd better look after her." I mock glared at Carlisle.
My mum rolled her eyes at me and Alice just giggled.
"Don't worry I will." Carlisle assured, his arm wrapped around her waist, the way it had been pretty much since the wedding and I smiled, he was a good man, and I knew my mum was lucky to have him.
I took a glass of champagne I was offered frowning slightly when Alice refused. She caught my look and smiled.
"You know how much of a lightweight I am, I'm just pacing myself."
We danced a little but I spent most of the reception propping up the bar with Emmett whilst Alice helped a heavily pregnant Rosalie try to wear out her and Emmett's two year old son.
"You know you should be helping." I commented lightly to Emmett. Although I wasn't to insistent as my conscience pointed out I to should probably be lending a hand.
"Well Rose gave me permission to have a drink and enjoy myself, and I don't really want the little man to see me drunk so…" he trailed off smiling.
I rolled my eyes "Nice excuse Emmett."
He looked at me raising an eyebrow "Hey I work with what I'm given."
We stayed by the bar steadily working our way through several glasses of champagne and a couple of shots of something stronger. Until my head was nicely fuzzy.
Emmett was gazing at the dance floor where Alice was dancing with her nephew, he smiled softly and turned to find my eyes on the same scene.
"You know I really did hate you at one point."
I looked back at him "Thanks Emmett."
He chuckled "Yeah, I know. I'm kind of glad you never hurt Alice cause you're a pretty decent guy and it would have been a shame to have to kill you!"
I chuckled "Yeah that would have sucked!"
He laughed with me giving his glass a pout as though blaming it for being empty.
My eyes caught movement "Busted!" I mumbled as I saw an angry Alice making her way towards us.
"Emmett your son is asleep and Rosalie would like to get him home." she said as she came to stand by the bar.
I kept my mouth shut knowing better to talk back to Alice when she was in this mood.
Also, by this point, I had a little too much champagne in my system and all I cared about was getting Alice up to our hotel room and getting her out of that dress and that wouldn't be happening if she was mad at me.
I just leant back against the bar smirking, my eyes ran up and down her body where she stood with her hands on her hips as she chewed out Emmett.
God she was sexy when she was angry!
Emmett turned and headed over to Rosalie with his shoulders slumped a comical look of defeat on his face.
She turned to glare at me and had I been sober I probably would have cowered a little.
"I don't know what your looking so pleased about." she growled "Getting yourself in this state."
I just smirked more stepping forward so our bodies were touching "I'm not that drunk Mini." I mumbled huskily leaning in to kiss her nose. "See!"
Alice just rolled my eyes "It's your nose you're meant to touch." she reminded me, her voice was losing it's angry edge as I slid a hand to her hip.
"Now why would I want to do that?" I murmured running my lips up to her ear.
She shivered delicately against me.
"If you want me to prove I'm not drunk, I could always try to find other body parts." I whispered. I could feel her heart rate increase where our bodies touched.
"Jasper I needed to talk to you." she whined a little as my fingers began to gently massage her sides.
My lips trailed over her neck "We can talk in the morning." I murmured.
"But this is important." she insisted.
"Ok." Taking hold of her hand I gently led her up to our room. "What did you want to talk about?" I asked placing kisses over her neck and shoulders.
"You're not paying attention." she accused making me smirk.
"Of course I'm paying attention darlin'" I teased nibbling gently on her collar bone making her whimper "See you liked that!"
"Not what I meant." she panted out, still trying to fight against me.
In response I gently moved us so she was lying on the bed beneath me and quickly removed her dress.
"Jasper there is something I have to tell you." her voice was weak and I knew she was giving in because her fingers tangled in my hair pulling me closer to her.
"There's something I have to tell you too." I chuckled, trailing my mouth over her body, worshipping her "You are fucking beautiful." I mumbled against her stomach.
"Jasper!" she reprimanded loudly making me bolt upright in shock. Guess she hadn't surrendered completely.
Her eyes sparkled with mischief as she mock glared at me.
"Language!"
I shook my head leaning back in to kiss her stomach "What? You are fucking beautiful."
"Jazz, you really need to stop swearing, you don't know what sensitive ears may pick up." she said trying to be stern but she was fighting her laughter, probably at the confused look on my face.
"What are you talking about?" I asked wondering what I was missing.
She bit her lip "Well you don't want the baby picking up bad habits."
I rolled my eyes "You worry too much." I growled leaning in to nuzzle her neck.
Alice sighed softly and her words suddenly hit home making me bolt upright again.
"Wait, what?"
Alice giggled as my head whipped from her face to her abdomen several times.
"Are you?…..You're…." my brain was refusing to function.
Alice took my face between her hands and pressed a soft kiss to my lips "I have something important to tell you." she grinned as she repeated her earlier words "You're going to be a daddy." she whispered.
My mouth dropped open. The first thing that hit was the disbelief, I mean this wasn't planned, we'd only been married for three years. That was immediately chased out by the crippling fear, how the fuck was I supposed to take care of a baby? I couldn't even look after myself!
All the negativity faded into nothing as I met Alice's eyes, the fact she was carrying my child overwhelmed everything and a massive smile broke over my face.
My head dropped to her stomach kissing all over it.
"Oh wow." was all I could say. Alice giggled, her fingers playing with my hair "I'm going to be a daddy. Fuck! I mean shit, no shit sorry."
God this no swearing thing was going to be hard!
Alice laughed softly pulling me back up so I was lying beside her.
"How long have you known?" I asked realising she can't have just found out today.
She bit her lip a little guiltily "Well I went to the doctors a couple of days ago, but I knew before that."
"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked running my fingers through her hair, I wasn't angry just curious.
She shrugged avoiding my eye "I didn't want to overshadow Esme and Carlisle. I'm sorry." she added.
I kissed her forehead smiling, typical Alice. "That's ok. I just, can't believe it."
She smiled up at me, her teeth still worrying her bottom lip "I didn't mean to just thrust it on you like that, but I couldn't keep it in anymore." she rolled her eyes "And I was trying to tell you but you weren't listening to me."
I chuckled, still having a little trouble wrapping my head around this, but I couldn't stop smiling.
My arms wrapped around Alice's waist pulling her close and I crushed my lips to hers, she responded greedily.
"You're carrying my baby." I mumbled my lips breaking from hers to shower kisses all over her.
Alice just giggled, I raised my head to look into her eyes they were shining with so much happiness.
I honestly never thought I could love Alice more than I did, but in that moment my heart swelled with so much love for her I couldn't contain it. My lips met hers again.
"Little baby had better close their eyes and ears." I mumbled "Because I have to make love to your mummy right now."
Life was never going to get better than this!
Alice's pov
I awoke suddenly, my hand shot to my right trying to find Jasper and a slight sense of panic descended when I couldn't.
Taking a deep breath I sat up to look around the room, calming down when I saw him hunched over the small table in the room. I reached down to grab his dress shirt and pull it on, before making my way over to him.
I felt kind of bad for how I'd told him about the baby, I hadn't meant to just blurt it out like that.
I had wanted to tell him tonight, I couldn't keep it in any longer, but thanks to him distracting me it hadn't gone quite to plan.
He had seemed happy and excited about it, but I knew Jasper too well, and now it had sunk in he was going into panic mode.
I started as I stepped on something and looked around.
Several scrunched up balls of paper were overflowing the small trash can and dotted around the table. Bending down I carefully picked up the one I'd stepped on and smoothed it out to read what he'd written.
Dad,
I know you ignored the wedding invite I sent and I'm pretty sure you'll ignore this but I thought you should know you're going to be a grandfather
That was the point he'd given up on that particular letter.
Again my eyes took in the amount of attempts he'd made and my heart went out to him.
"Jazz?" I called softly.
He sat up a little and I moved closer wrapping my arms around his neck from behind.
His forehead held deep lines of concern from whatever was on his mind and one of his hands came up to absentmindedly stroke my arm but he didn't say anything.
I placed soft kisses down the side of his head.
"What's going on in there?" I asked quietly.
He sighed heavily, I didn't think he was going to answer me but suddenly he spoke up.
"I don't know how to be a father." his voice was soft "I mean I didn't exactly have the best role model. What if I fuck this up somehow?"
Sighing softly I moved around so I could perch on his lap, my arms still around his neck.
"Jasper do you love me?" I asked.
He gave me a look that clearly said 'duh!' "Of course I do."
Taking one of his hands I placed it palm down on my abdomen. "Do you love our baby?"
His eyes were on his hand and he smiled softly "Yes."
Leaning in I kissed his cheek "Well that's all you need. The rest we can figure out as we go."
If anything that made his frown lines more pronounced. I chewed my lip for a bit "Do you think I'm not scared about this?" I looked up to meet his eyes "I'm terrified Jasper, but I know we'll be ok. I have you, and we have Emmett and Rose, and Esme and Carlisle. We're gonna be fine."
I needed to reassure him, because I knew if there was one thing Jasper Whitlock could do it was worry, especially about me.
He winced slightly "You think Emmett's going to take the news I impregnated his sister well?"
I wrinkled my nose "Well if you tell him you 'impregnated' me he may not like that, but if we phrased it a little differently." I shrugged "He'll be fine Jazz, he knew we were planning it at some point."
Jasper sighed heavily leaning in to rest his head against mine. I had a sneaking suspicion what his next concern would be.
"What are you going to do about work?"
Yep there it is!
I had finally found my calling as a therapist working with children who had suffered trauma. It was hard, demanding work and I knew Jasper didn't like me doing it at the best of times because I often came home in tears both physically and emotionally drained. But I loved it, it made me feel useful, like I was making a difference, and because of that he'd never ask me to quit. Until now maybe.
"I'll tell them on Monday, they probably wont give me any new cases and we can start weaning my regulars onto other people." I frowned worrying about that, abandonment was a big issue with a lot of my kids, would they think that's what I was doing to them? "It will be a long process, but I have seven months before I'll start maturity leave." I mused.
"Ok." Jasper sighed knowing that was the best I could give him "No unnecessary stress though. Please." he begged a little.
There's my worrier. I smiled stretching up to kiss him. I really loved that he was so protective of me "I promise Jazz, I will take care of myself and our baby."
"Speaking of which, shouldn't you try and get some more sleep?" he asked.
I looked down "You know I can't sleep in a new bed if you're not there." I mumbled. I had a hard enough time of it at home.
"Very well." he chuckled lifting me up in his arms and carrying me back to the bed.
I snuggled up close to him, one of his arms wrapped around me keeping me close.
"Now sleep." he demanded making me giggle.
I placed a kiss on his chest like I always did. "I love you Jasper Whitlock." I murmured.
"I love you too Alice Whitlock." he chuckled "Now sleep."
I smiled closing my eyes. Jasper's free hand slid to my abdomen again making my smile bigger.
Me and Jasper were entering the next stage of our life together.
Together, that was the important thing. I knew we could handle anything as long as we were together.
I pressed closer to him. He was humming softly and the vibration through his body soothed me sending me slowly to sleep.
Sleepily my hand went to rest on Jasper's above where our baby grew.
Together we were stronger, we could face anything, together we were complete.
So that's it. I am still planning on outtakes but they will be written under the title -We just wanna be whole.
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