[POV Jasper]

I pushed exhaustion at Bella putting her to sleep, and hoping she would be okay. The family was watching me closely as I took her from Esme. Carefully I wrapped the blanket Alice pulled from her bag around her completely. I could feel the comfort it gave her, and hoped it would help her stay calm if she woke up alone.

"I'll put her in my room. I'm the only one who doesn't use their room for anything." Esme's nod was all the okay I needed to put Bella in my room.

The room was mostly bare. The only thing in the room was a the bed Esme got for me when Alice and I split last week. Rose gave me a sapphire blue bed set for it, and I did like the color, but I didn't have much other than what I kept in my study. Alice had already put all my clothes in the closet, so I didn't even need to move my things. Pulling the covers back I laid Bella in the center of the bed.

"Wait Jasper!" I heard Esme say while rushing up the stairs.

"What is it Esme?"

"I saw this in her bag too. She must have brought it to sleep with." She ran into the room with a stuffed bear. Walking over to Bella she put the toy in the blanket with her. I felt Bella relax in her sleep. Smiling I left the girl with her mother, and made me way back down stairs. The rest of the Cullen's were still sitting around the living room. Carlisle's head was down his eye's were closed pain was coming off of him in crashing waves, but stronger than that was determination. I glanced around the room tasting each member's emotion's. They all matched our coven head's emotional state.

"You said you looked him up after the news. What did you mean, Jasper?" Carlisle's eye's flashed as he glared up at me.

"When Bella and I went out to work on her paper. The café had the news playing in the background. There was a prison break. Bella and I talked about it, but she panicked and we left shortly after the news. She said she need to talk to her friends in the pack. It seemed strange so I looked into it a little more, but it wasn't my place to tell anyone." I kept my head tilted down while I spoke making me seem less threating than I normally was. It didn't stop Carlisle's eye's from growing harder, or his lips pulling back in a snarl.

"You will tell me everything you know." His voice was cold.

"Yes, my coven leader." Without much thought I fell back to my habits from the war. I knelt before him my head down and told him everything I found out while looking into the killer. I didn't have all the information I know he would need. The articles and post I found were vague because it was mostly children involved.

'Jasper? Are you alright?' Major mentally wrapped around me. I shrugged.

'Do you need me to take over and guide the family to safety?'

'Not yet.' I felt him nod fading back. I finished telling Carlisle what I knew and waiting. Esme walked down the stairs and paused to take in the scene. Carlisle stood with a growl and stepped towards me. I flinched but stayed put.

"Carlisle!" Esme yelled rushed between the two of us. "What is going on here!" I closed my eye's and waited for the fall out.

I was never a part of this family. They simply let me stay because Alice asked them to put up with me. Without a relationship with her they were just waiting for me to slip up somehow, so I could toss me out. It seems though that by keeping this information away form Carlisle and putting his youngest in danger the plan had changed. Carlisle wanted blood I could feel it. He would have my head for this I was sure. I could only hope it would be quick.

"He's going to kill our daughter Esme!"

"Yes, but that isn't our son's fault, dear. Jasper hasn't done anything, and there is no reason for you to scare him like this. Look at him, love, he's shaking." Was I?

"What?" Carlisle's emotions switched to guilt. "Jasper?"

I looked up. I kept my eye on the point next to him, so that I wouldn't meet his eye's. I felt his guilt grow along with regret.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to think my feeling were aimed at you. Please stand up, my son." I stood quickly. Esme stayed between us.

"Carlisle I think you should go up to your study." Her voice left no room for an argument. He nodded quickly running up the stairs to his study. Esme held her arms out for me the same way she did for her children. I watched her waiting for something. None of her children stepped up. I glanced back at Rosalie and Alice. Alice waved her hand forward. I thought about stepping into Esme's arms, and Alice smiled and nodded.

She was waiting for me? I looked back at her. I stepped into her arms. I thought she would push me away, but she simply wrapped me in a hug.

"Are you alright?" Her voice was soft a sharp contrast to the hardness of Carlisle's voice. I nodded to answer her question.

"Jazz I know your gift can overwhelm you, and Bella's emotional state isn't good right now. Is it making things harder for you?" Alice spoke slowly and calmly. I thought about what she asked. Bella wasn't doing well, and all I did was hide the feelings not get rid of them. Was that why it was hard to stay in the here and now?

"I think it is, but she needs me here right now." Alice nodded.

"Em can you go stand guard outside Bella's door?" Em jump up running up the stair's to his new post. "There now Bella's safe. How about you go for a run? You can stay near the house so you can hear if she needs anything."

"Or we can go work on one of the cars." Rose spoke up. I nodded moving to Rose's side. She smiled taking my hand and leading me out of the house.

She sat me next to Em's jeep then moved around gathering all of her tools and sitting them next to me. She pulled out her rarely use car jack. Jacking up the car she got under and asked for the tool she needed. I passed her the tool and relaxed. I worked with Rose without thought as I tried to work though everything I could feel. The emotions of my coven were overwhelming me, but given time I could deal with it.

My coven mates emotions were the easiest to push to the side. Rose was upset, but thanks to the space she kept from Bella it was muted in comparison to the other's. Mostly she was worried about me, but she trusted me so that too she pushed aside. I could handle her muted emotions. Her mate however was different.

He felt everything so strongly. His emotions were a raging sea waiting to pull me under the surface. The rage that his little sister was in danger once again. The sorrow while he thought about what she must have been though. The sliver of fear when his normally calm father growled. The guilt that he felt for his lack of ability to help anyone. There was nothing I could do to help him, but one by one I felt his emotions and let them flow over and away from me. Once I felt them each it was easier to separate them for my own.

Alice, as always, was working to keep her emotions low and muted so as not to overwhelm me. She would either let me help her later when everyone had calmed down, or would go off on a hunt alone to deal with it all later. I only felt her if I tried and right now I didn't reach out.

Next I moved on to my coven leaders, Carlisle and Esme. Esme felt things deeply a bottomless ocean, but the waters were always calm. Never once had her waves pulled at me, but the currents were strong and without warning would pull me away from her safe shore. She was a mother before she was a coven leader, and the pain in Bella's voice as she spoke of her little brother broke Esme's heart. Yet the strongest emotion from her now was ferris protectiveness. One of her children was in danger, and she wouldn't rest until they were safe. Separating our emotions were easy.

Lastly was Carlisle. He was normally a steady rock, yet right now he was an earthquake. Pain. Rage. Guilt. Bloodlust. Each emotion shaking his very core. He'd never had to worry about his children after he found them. They were strong enough to take care of themselves, but his youngest wasn't. At the root of it all was fear. Fear for his little girl and what this all meant for her. I felt it all and then mentally took a step back. All that was left was Bella.

Sweet Bella. Heart on her sleeve for the world to see, but she never asked for help. Her emotions were a glass case hanging over a bottomless abyss. The case filling with water always threating to drown her. Yet she never stopped loving. She felt just as strongly as Emmett, but was to scared to show it. I blocked the rising water levels pushing the fear, pain, and worry away from her. I wrapped her in the love her family felt for her. I couldn't let go of her emotions without leaving her to drown in them, so I stayed with her wrapped in love.

Taking a deep breath I refocused on what was happening. Rose was still under the jeep working. I stood up moving a little closer.

"Feeling better?"

"Yes, thank you."

She pushed out from under the jeep with a smile. Standing up she put a hand on my shoulder.

"It'll be alright, brother. Are you okay to go back to the house?"

I nodded and we made are way back inside. Esme and Alice were still in the living room. They were half-heartedly planning the shopping trip. Alice thought it would be best to keep Bella busy, so she didn't worry too much. Esme just wanted to make sure her youngest was safe. Both women looked over when we walked in. Esme rush over to hug me.

"Jasper." Carlisle called from his study. Esme's waters grew dark. There was a storm coming.

"You don't have to speak to him right now. Your father crossed a line and if you aren't ready to speak to him yet that's fine." I looked between the women around me. All of them were glaring towards his office.

"I can go with J-man to talk with Carlisle. If need be I can stop anything that happens." Em offered while running down stair's. They all turned to me.

"I can talk to him alone. I'll be alright. It was mostly the negative emotional state that pushed me into old habits." They nodded and I went up to speak with my coven head. Carlisle's door was open waiting for me. Steeling myself I walked into the room.

His head was in his hands and though I had worked though his emotions they were still stronger than I was use to from him this close. He lifted his head just enough to look at me. He was waiting for something. His eye's flickered to the chair in front of his desk, and I moved to sit there. His emotional state grew worse with my actions.

"Jasper. I am sorry. I never should have spoken to you the way I did."

"You're our coven head, Carlisle. I understand when you need to set aside our feelings in order to handle things."

"That's just it Jasper. I am not your coven head..," my eye's widened was he going to send me away? "I am your family head. It's my job to look after you all and make sure you are safe. Both physically and emotionally. I saw how you reacted just now and before. You don't see yourself as part of this family, so I have failed you." He stood walking around the desk. He knelt in front of me his hands on my knee's and his eye's soft.

"Jasper you are my son. Your relationship with Alice doesn't change that. I am not going to send you away, and I am sorry I ever made you think I would. You don't need to be useful to be a part of this family." He held his arms out, and I fell into them. I cried in his arms.

"It's alright, my son, it's alright."