Author's Note: Tell me if you like it. Tell me if you hate it. Tell me if it bores you to tears…
I was completely unaware of the bathroom door opening, so one might say I was taken aback when Jasper pounced on me.
"Jasper!" I breathed wide-eyed. He looked confused.
"You're surprised…" He reached over and touched my forehead in exaggerated human gesture. "Feeling a tad under the weather, Alice?"
"Oh, yes darling. I fear I won't be with you much longer." I replied in a faux accent. "Malaria has ravaged my body. It has deprived me of my once youthful state of mind and left me a wizened old crone. I cannot bear for you to witness my ungraceful decline into nothingness. Go! Go before you succumb to its depraved rule as well!"
He stood up and placed one palm over his heart while flinging the other limb towards me.
"My love, I shall never leave you. May the gods strike me down and inflict me with the disease that eats your soul! I will sacrifice my life so you will not die alone." With that last sentence he flung himself on top of me and covered my face in random kisses.
"No! Save yourself." I replied with a rasping cough.
All of a sudden, I was stolen from the water and flung into the bedroom. Jasper sauntered toward me slowly, leaving a trail of water in his wake. I closed my eyes.
He was beautiful. His skin was as pale as that of an albino but with hair the color of melted chocolate this theory was shown to be impossible. His eyes were tinged with crimson and were so mesmerizing the elfin girl forgot the reason for her visit. In a moment she would come to know him as her therapist. Sadly he specialized in treatments of a physical nature. If only she hadn't broken the nose of the man who sheared her hair. Her claims of self defense were all in vain. The institution did a thorough background check so it was impossible one of their employees would attempt to force themselves onto a patient.
Not all of them were hoarded beneath the asylum as she was. This special ward was reserved for those special cases that were deemed too dangerous to be housed with the others or simply weren't visited by relatives anymore. It wasn't that horrible of a practice. The alternative put up by the board was euthanizing them and not informing their family. Admittedly this option was far less expensive, but as luck would have it, only 3 out of the 7 members found it favorable. The institution had been losing money over the last few years and needed to save every penny it could get. But this small fact is of little consequence to our poor child.
I opened my eyes to see Jasper hovering three inches from my face.
"Hello. Fancy seeing you here."
"Jesus Christ, Alice! What happened?" He sounded as if he just ran to Florida.
"Jasper love, it was just a vision." I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him. "A strange one I'll admit, but a vision nonetheless."
"Strange that's an understatement. I sensed absolutely no emotions emanating from you. Usually your feelings match what you are seeing. And then when I tried to talk to you, you didn't answer."
"Jasper! Did you think I was dead?" I pushed him off of me and snorted. "You, my lovely insecure husband, have been spending far, far too much time around EdwardLook what all his worrying about Bella had done to your brain."
He crossed his arms and glared at me.
"I don't know about these things." He mumbled. "What if you got sucked in and trapped or something. Then you would just lie here like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty for all eternity. Don't know what I'd do…"
"That's not possible."
"Isn't it! If you can see visions in the first place, who's to say your mind can't get stuck in one. Turn you into a vegetable."
I shook my head and placed my hands on his shoulders.
"Love, first of all I am a Vampire, not a vegetable and I will continue to be a Vampire for the entire duration of my existence." I grinned and shoved him beneath me. "And second of all, I'd like to finish what you started a minute ago."
I attempted to kiss him but he stopped me.
"How long have you been having visions like this?"
I rolled off him and sighed.
"This is only the second one. Must we talk about this now?"
"Yes, Alice, we must." His alabaster brow furrowed. "What are they about? I'm assuming they're related."
"A girl stuck in an Asylum." I replied flatly. "One of the men who worked there attempted to rape her, so she broke his nose. The staff didn't believe her claims of self-defense, so they shoved her into a special underground ward. There. Happy now?"
"Why did you say they were strange?"
Jasper clearly wasn't in the right frame of mind to continue our play. Damn vision. I groaned. This was going to take all night.
"To start with, it's like I'm watching a film. The entire vision is being narrated to me, giving me background information on what's being shown."
"Is it a man or woman narrating it?"
I paused.
"Perhaps, narrating was the wrong verb. The information sort of pops into my head like I already knew it. It helps me understand what I am seeing."
There was a knock at the door.
"Come in, Emmett." I yelled unnecessarily. I didn't feel like discussing this at the moment.
"Alice, you have to help me since it's your fault." He sounded desperate. "She's really mad at me this time."
"Emmett." Jasper sighed. "We were in the middle of a conversation."
I laughed. "You know the rule. I'm not allowed to help you."
Emmett dropped to his knees. "Please Alice? She manipulated my mind and forced me to say I liked Bella's personality more than hers. Which is insane. I love how shallow she is.Then she twisted my words and made it seem like I said I want Bella instead of her. She knows it's not true, she just won't admit it."
I sniggered. "It sucks to be you, Emmett."
"Alice! It's not fair. You started it when you tried to make her invite Bella to our wedding."
Jasper smiled and shook his head "You two are getting married again?"
"Shit. There's another thing for Rosalie to be pissed about. She wanted it to be a surprise." He flopped over. "Alice please, just a hint?"
I felt bad. "Fine." I whispered. I bent down to his ear. "Just this once. Try taking her out for a picnic around midnight."
"Thank you." He mouthed. "Alice. It's not fair. Even when it's your fault, you still won't help me."He said that last part for Rosalie's benefit and left the room.
I glanced over at Jasper to find him staring at me with an impish smile on his face.
"I'm glad we don't have that problem. We would never have any time for fun."
Suddenly, he seemed to remember our previous plans and sprung forward biting me playfully. All talk of visions would have to wait.
