I DREAM OF RAINBOWS

Disclaimer: The Cullen's, the Swans, and most of the characters mentioned in the story that are known from Stephanie Meyer's beloved Twilight Saga, are all hers and hers alone. I neither have nor wish to pass them off as mine. I do appreciate the fact that she did bring them to life and allows us to play with them in our imaginations. The only thing I will claim is the current storyline.

The awesome and talented dowlingnana searched out my errors and corrected them.

"I'll deal with it and we'll all be waiting to hear further from you, Jasper." And, with that said Mark also shook hands with the other two men and then he left with Carson leaving Jasper to stand alone watching with a bit of a questioning look which slowly turned to a smile that seemed to grow larger as some stray thought passed through his mind. I think Edward and Emmett have met their match. Was his thought as he left the restaurant where they all had met to hash the terms of the contract out.

CHAPTER 6: DEMANDS MADE

After the three men representing one Isabella Swan's interest had left Jasper went to the front desk to let them know that he would be checking out immediately and required a cab to take him to the airport as he settled his bill. It didn't take him long to get back to his room, pack and return to the lobby to find his cab waiting for him.

During the trip to the airport and in fact, most of the way back to L. A. Jasper carried a slight smile upon his face every time he considered how he was going to tell his brothers of the stipulations Ms. Swan required to be entered into the contract. It seemed the lady had some knowledge of their business and contracts to be able to be definite about such demands.

Of course, he had to agree that the one concerning final approval of actors that would be playing the lead characters were a bit unusual, but, not unheard of.

But, the one concerning the financial end of things was one to raise the eyebrows. It seems Ms. Swan had a very astute financial advisor working for her. And, the fact that she was refusing to give up the copyrights to her book had surprised him. He wasn't sure how Edward was going to deal with that, or, his brother, Emmett, would be dealing with having Ms. Swan having the final say about who he hired or fired for this project. But, Jasper admitted to himself that life was about to take a turn towards the interesting and it was those thoughts that kept the smile on his face.

After his plane landed at LAX, he quickly collected his luggage and headed home. He wanted to take the time to get his thoughts together before facing his two brothers to bring them up to date on the new developments. And, at the same time Jasper considered inviting his mom and dad to the meeting. He thought they would find it quite amusing as he knew it was going to be to watch his brothers' behavior about what he had to say.

So, after a little more thought he made his decision to call his parents to let them know that their presence was going to be necessary at the up and coming meeting at the office. But, first he was going to take a long hot shower to relax his cramped muscles from the flight and all the tension that he had refused, up to that moment, to acknowledge as existing. He realized that he really did need a bit of space to breathe and think about something else other than business.

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Bella had been busy getting all of the ideas she wanted to incorporate into the new book written down. The ideas and the situations were coming into her thoughts in a fast and furious rate. They weren't slowing down in the least and time was passing without her even be aware of it. She never stopped to realize that she hadn't heard a thing back from Mark, Carson or Henry. In fact, a conversation with them was the last thing on her mind since she was into making all of her notes in preparation for starting the new novel.

Even, the name for the book seemed to make itself known, "The Realization of an Unknown Dream", to her without her giving it much thought as to what to call it. It was the title that explained the total adventures of her writer character in the book and the experiences she would encounter along the way of having her book made into a movie.

As Bella was making her notes, deciding on what her main character would and wouldn't want in a contract that would be offered to make her book into a movie a thought came to Bella suddenly of what else needed to be included in her real life contract to make it solid on her side and that would safeguard the story her book was telling. So, she quickly glanced at the clock for the first time that day and realized how much time had passed. She knew that she had to get a hold of Mark immediately so he could relay the information to Carson and then they would have to get the new demand over to this Jasper Cullen. They all had to realize that she would refuse to sign the contract otherwise.

Bella was wanting included in the contract that she would have the right of approval over how the script was written and of any changes that were made during the actual filming; to be able to offer suggestions, even, if they might or might not be used, or, at least, used only in part. By asking for this additional requirement it would insure that her story was presented as it was meant to be told and not as some Hollywood imagined story that was a chopped up mess with some of the scenes rearranged or dropped for whatever reason.

As the phone continued to ring as she was waiting to get an answer from Mark she realized that her spirits had been uplifted because of the starting of her new story, but, also, because she finally felt completely comfortable with the contract with this new stipulation being added. All that needed to be done now for her to want to sign it was for her three requirements to be included in a way that would pass the final once over Carson would give it before her signature.

Bella hadn't realized that she had been so involved with her thoughts that she didn't hear the phone being answered by a harassed sounding Mark who was repeatedly saying hello. Once that percolated through to capture her attention she answered his hello and quickly told him why she was calling.

Hearing that it was his client and then the reason for her called stunned him into silence for a few seconds, and only for a few seconds, before he demanded, "And you couldn't think of this sooner for why?" He snarked back at her. "Do you realize that the man has left and is getting ready to get final approval before getting the contract ready as we all discussed?"

"I'm not worried about all of that. That's what your percentage of my labor is paying you to handle. The fact remains that I did think of this addition and you do have the opportunity to get a hold of him before he can act on what has already been discussed with him. This way he would be able to have everything without any delays and we should be able to wind everything up with no problems." Was her simple reply to Mark's questions.

"May I ask why or how you managed to come up with this last request?"

"Sure. I'm working on a new book idea that came to me and as I was making my notes to organize my material that is when I thought of it." She explains.

"You're starting a new book? That's great. What's it all about?"

"Look, I would love to go over everything with you, but, not at the moment. I want to get a good start before talking to anyone about it. But, since you feel that time is short, don't you think you should stop worrying about my new book idea and make an effort to get a hold of Mr. Cullen?"

"Okay, but, I want to know what is going on with the new book. I need to have enough time to start getting publishers interested and then to pitch the idea to them. Not that I think we'll have any problems, but, I'm not sure if you want to stay with the same publisher or to try a new one." Mark was getting carried away with his enthusiasm about the news Bella had just given him. He was about to continue with his ideas of what might need to be done or what she might want done until Bella stopped him short with a reminder that he still needed to get in touch with Mr. Cullen before it was too late and everyone would be annoyed because of the delay.

"I'll talk to you again once I've gotten a hold of him then Carson because he also needs to be kept in the loop due to this new development." He said just before adding an absentmindedly sounding goodbye to Bella. Mark immediately started making the phones calls that he needed to get done while Bella returned to her notes for the new book.

Mark wasn't so worried about Carson's reaction to what Bella wanted; he was used to her doing things like that. The problem was how was he going to explain this last minute addition to Jasper Cullen and get it to be received in the right frame of mind without having a huge blowup.

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Jasper was talking with his mother on the phone when he got the signal that another call was coming in. He told his mother that he would be calling her right back, but, he needed to take the incoming call since caller ID was showing that the call was coming from a Mark Strollman and he recognized the name as being Ms. Swan's agent.

"Hello, Mr. Strollman, what can I do for you?" Jasper asked in a bit of curious voice as he was wondering what could have prompted Ms. Swan's agent to be calling him this quickly since their departure from one another earlier in the day. He listened as the man on the other end of the line relayed Bella's additional demand with his emotions going from curious to astonishment which turned quickly to absolute amazement at what he was hearing. "You have got to be kidding me, right?"

"No, I'm sorry, Mr. Cullen, but, she definitely isn't joking about this stipulation being included. But, I can assure you of this fact, this is the final one; there's nothing else she wants." Mark hastily told Jasper as a way to reassure him that Bella had made all of the demands that she was going to do.

"Very well. It's a good thing you called me when you did. It'll give me time to get that change incorporated into the contract before I have to face my brothers in the morning to go over the changes and to get them to sign off on everything so I can get the final contract back to you and Mr. Darwell for the final approval from your end.

"When that's done then Ms. Swan can sign the contract and everyone can begin to move ahead with the project." Jasper told Mark, but, made sure that his voice conveyed the finality of his patience by the tone of his words in the last of his statements.

"Thanks, Jasper. Be assured that I do realize that this does put something of a rushed hardship upon you, but, we all want this deal to work out, and to work out in the favor of all parties concerned.

"Make no mistake, I do realize that this is very short notice and that it is a bit upsetting for all concerned, but, just like you have to look out after the interest of your company, so, must I take care of the interest, the best I can, of my client. We both understand that concept.

"But, also, be assured that I did contact you just as quickly as I could once I was told by Bella of the additional requirement she wanted. So, I guess the best thing to do is to wish you a good evening so you can go get everything in readiness for the final approval from your company." And with that Mark did hang up leaving a slightly stunned Jasper because of the firmness that radiated through Mark's handling of Jasper's admonishment because of the unexpected change that Ms. Swan is wanting.

It didn't take him long to pull himself back together as he did call his mother back. They didn't talk for very long as Jasper had already explained in his earlier call to her about both parents needing to be present at the meeting tomorrow morning. And as he got off the phone, took a deep breath, walked over to pick up his briefcase to withdraw the contract and his notes so he could get to work on all of the changes decided upon he did realize that tomorrow was going to be the beginning of the unexpected and that battle lines were going to be drawn.

A/N: Bella has made another demand to have included into the contract. Of course, Mark and Jasper are a little put out about the extra addition, but, at least, it was done before too much work was put into the new contract to have it ready for the meeting. Jasper is expecting some kind of reaction from his brothers enough to think that their parents need to be there for it. He really feels like Edward is about to meet his match in one Isabella Swan. How well do you think Edward and Emmett are going to take Bella's demands?

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