A/N: Guess what guys?! I'm so excited. For the past like six or seven chapters, I've been playing off of the relationship between Jasper, Bella, and Alice, unsure of how to make the story a little more exciting and give it a good ending. And guess what?! I've figured it out on tonight. I'm so thrillwd. I can't wait until you guys read the rest.

ALICE

Jasper and I spoke to Carlisle the minute we got home, after he called to tell us that Bella was awake. We told him we wanted a divorce and why. We laid everything out on the table for him. Telling him everything from my vision right down to the reasons behind what happened with Bella tonight.

While he was upset by our sudden decision, he understood Bella and Jasper's feelings for each other. He too could see that it was the only way for Bella to ever be truly happy. It was really the only way for her to truly get over Edward. He regretted that it had to be this way, but said he'd do what needed to be done to get started on a divorce. The whole conversation lasted only about a half hour or so, then Carlisle had to go up and check on Bella.

Jasper and I barely spoke a word after the meeting, save for deciding that it would be best for us to see Bella seperately. We agreed that it would be less stressful for her. Secretly though, I knew that it would be hard for them to refrain from doing the couply stuff that came with the relief of situation like this. I knew they would try for my sake, but I didn't want them to feel like they couldn't be a normal couple. I figured I'd make myself scarce during their together moments, until we all got used to the new idea.

I knew the silence on my end was due to nervousness. I wasn't sure about Jasper's though. I couldn't exactly pinpoint what was making so nervous, though.

I mean the whole family had either been told or figured it out on their own at this point. Bella was the last hurdle to jump before we could all completely move on from this whole thing. The last piece before the Jasper/Bella puzzle could be complete. Nothing to be nervous about, right?

On the other hand, Bella was extremely stubborn. Once she decided that she wanted or didn't want something, she wouldn't budge until she got her way. What if she officially decided that she didn't want to hurt me for her own happiness? She would balantly refuse to take him and we probably end up fighting about it. And who knew what would happen if we got into a fight. What if we said the wrong things and ended up hating each other.

I could lose my best friend forever. I didn't want that. I loved Bella and didn't want to hurt her. That was why I was doing this after all. I hoped that she could just except it without any complaints.

Carlisle and Esme were with her for about forty five minutes before they finally came down and told me that it was my turn. I took a deep, unecessary, yet calming breath and headed upstairs to finally face my best friend.

BELLA

I only had to wait about five minutes for Alice to appear after Carlisle and Esme left. I could tell the minute that she step through the door that she wasn't her usual happy and bouncy stufff. In fact, she looked scared and timid, like she was visiting me on my deathbed as opposed to coming to see me after finding out that I was going to live.

I felt extremely ashamed to know that I was the one who caused this change in her. She was, no doubt, scared to death about having this conversation with me. I doubted that she actually wanted to have it with me. I was pretty sure that she was only do it to be kind to me. Those thoughts made me feel even more ashamed and I found that I couldn't even look at her as she approached my bed. Instead, I looked at my hands that were knotting themselves into the sheets.

I didn't look up again until I felt her sit beside me. When I did, I regretted it instantly. My eyes met a set of golden ones that held an infinite amount of sadness and worry. I was surprised to see that there was no anger. She should be furious with me and yelling about what a terrible friend I was. Instead, she just sat that looking sad and scared.

This fact made me feel even worse about the situation. She was about to try to be completely understanding and caring just like a best friend should. And how was I going to repay her? By taking her husband away. Definitely not something a best friend would or should do. Yet, I couldn't help how I felt. Which just made me feel ten times worse then I already had.

We stared at each other in silence for a very long time. I knew I should be the one one to break it. To offer some sort of apology, but words failed me at the moment. I mean, what do you say to your best friend after you essentially stole her husband for her.

I held her for a long time as guilt, fear, and pain washed over every part of me. After several long moments, I found myself unable to hold her gaze anymore and looked down at the bed again. The silence stretched on and finally became too much for me. I began to blurt out the first things that came to my mind.

"Alice, I'm so so sorry for all this. I didn't mean to feel this way about him. And I tried not to. We both did. Really hard. For you. But it just didn't work. And I..I..I..."

"Bella, stop." she stated kindly, yet firmly. "I know what the two of you did and went through for my sake. I saw how hard the two of you tried for my sake. I understand. And while it kills me to know how much both of you suffered, I'm grateful fo what you did. It gave me what I needed to give the two of you what you need. I love you both and just wanna see you happy and I know now that you'll only ever be able to be happy together. So go and be together."

"But Alice, I can't take Jasper away from you like that." I protested.

"First of all, you aren't taking Jasper away from. I'm giving him to you. Besides, you're what he wants right now. I love him and could never stand in the way of what he wants. I feel the same way about you. I want you take him, cherish him, and love him with all your heart. Just be happy with him, that's all I want, really."

"But I can't Alice." I tried again. "It'll hurt you and I couldn't live with myself if I hurt you."

"Bella, listen to me, your happiness means so much to me. So does Jasper's. The only way you could hurt me right now, is if you didn't take this opportunity that I'm giving you and use it to get better and be happy. It hurts me more to see you lying here and knowing you almost died than it would to be without Jasper. That's why I need to do this now. I need to know that you're going to be taken care. And Jasper's the best one to take care of you now. Let him take care of you and that's all I'd need to be happy. I promise. Just don't worry about me and let yourself be happy and I'll be fine." she stated.

I wanted to protest again. However, the sincerity and sadness in her tone and eyes, stopped me. This was the first time I had seen Alice this vulnerable and it was a bit of a scary thing for me.

Her words repeated themselves in my eyes. She was willing to give up her husband for my happiness. Like a true best friend would. It would be pretty shitty of me to continue to fight her on it like an ungrateful bitch. The best thank you I could give to her was to accept what she was giving me and do my best to be happy like she wanted.

"Okay." I replied a little choked up.

"Really?" she smiled. "You're not going to fight me on this?"

"No, if you're willing to give up everything for me, the least I can do is accept it with good graces." I replied with a smile. "I'm just sorry that my happiness has to interfere with yours."

"I'm not." she whispered. "I want you to know, though, that everything I said at Charlie's four months ago, is still true. You are my best friend and sister and I love you. That's never going to change, no matter what happens between you, Jasper, and I. I will always love you and be here for you. I will support both of you in everything that you do. If he does something that makes you happy, I wanna know. If he does something that pisses you off , I wanna know. If he does something that confuses you, I want you to tell me so I can help you figure it out. I don't want you to be afraid to come to me, just because he's my ex. You are my friend and sister and that will always come first. And I'm going to let Jasper know that the same rules apply. We're all friends first, I don't want either of you to forget that."

"Thank you." I choked out.

I was too emotional to say more than that. I didn't trust my voice to get say anything else. Alice simply smiled like a child on her birthday. It appeared that I had said the right thing. I still felt terribly guilty about the whole thing. However, I knew that with Alice, it was mind over matter. When she made up her mind, nothing else mattered. Even if I had wanted to, after her speeches, I couldn't have said no. She would've never let me get away with it.

"No, Bella, thank you for letting me do this." she replied leaning down and pulling me into a gentle hug.

I wrapped my arms carefully around her and squeezed as tightly as I could. I knew she probably couldn't feel it, but that didn't change the emotions behind it.

"I love you, Alice." I stated trying to hold back the tears.

"I love you too, Bella." she whispered back.

And that's when the dam of tension, worry, and sadness was broken down by the flood of relief. The tears that I was holding back seemed to be coming out, nonstop now. I sobbed uncontrollably. For everything lost and everything gained. And for knowing that my best friend would always be my best friend, reagardless of what life threw at us.

Alice just held me close to her and let me cry into her chest. She stroked my hair and whispered comforting things in my ear. I held her tightly, not wanting to let go of the moment just yet.

We stayed like that for several long minutes before Alice gasped and her whole body went rigid above me. I had been around her longe enough to know that these were the tell tale signs of a vision. I was, as of yet, unsure of exactly what to do in this situation. I simply lay there silently and immobilely as I waited for it to pass. Several long minutes later, she let out a choked sob and pulled away from me.

Her eyes were wide with shock and she was ten times paler than normal. Whatever she had seen, had definitely scared the shit out of her. I found myself terrified at what it might have been.

"Alice, what was it?" I asked.

"Nothing, Bella. I just need to talk to Carlisle." she answered pulling her face into a calm and steady mask. I wasn't buying it.

"It wasn't nothing." I answered.

"It's nothing for you to worry about Bella." I promise. "I just need to go talk to Carlisle and everything will be fine. I'll send Jasper up so the two of you can talke, though." she replied rushing out the door.

I was left to ponder exactly what she had seen that had her so scared and shaken. It was weird but the look on her face scared me more than anything I had faced in my time knowing the Cullens.

JASPER

I paced the living room nervously as I waited for Alice to finish talking to Bella. We had agreed that it would be less overwhelming for Bella to talk to us seperately. However, I secretly thought that it was better for Alice this way. I knew I wasn't going to be able to hold back my feelings for Bella, at least not now, after I almost lost her.

If Alice was in the room, I would, of course, do the best I could to hold back. However, I wasn't completely positive that I could. Not with the emotions that would probably be flowing between both Bella and I. They would be way too hard to ignore after what had just happened.

With us seeing her seperate, Bella and I could do what we wanted without worrying about hurting Alice's feelings. I know that sounded horrible, especially after that Alice had just done, but I was a man after all and I had needs. Needs that could only be supplied by the woman I loved.

I wasn't exactly sure why I was nervous. I mean, everything had already been played out. Everyone knew what was going on. Alice had basically given us permission. The only thing left to do was reap the rewards of the pain we'd gone through over the last four months.

If I was being honest, I'd have to say that I was most worried about what was going on between Bella and Alice at this very moment. I mean, I knew that Alice had decided to give me to Bella. However, both girls were stubborn and neither would take no for an answer. If Bella decided that she couldn't hurt Alice like that, even after what Alice had done. Then it could possibly turn into a fight, that could possibly be the end of the friendship. I didn't want to be responsible for that. All I could do, though, was hope that it went well.

Alice finally came down, an hour or so after she had gone up, she was extremely pale, even by our standards, and she had this wild terrified look in her eyes. I had known her long enough to see the apparent signs of a vision still in her eyes as well as on her face.

When I asked her what was wrong, she simply told me that I should go see Bella while she spoke with Carlisle. While I was extremely worried about Alice and her vision, the thought of finally being able to see Bella and confirm that she was alive. I knew she was, of course, however, it was simply on of those things you had to see for yourself.

So pushing Alice and her vision to the back of my mind for later, I headed up to Bella's room.

BELLA

It wasn't even two minutes after Alice left before Jasper walked in the door. Just seeing him standing in the doorway sent waves of relief rolling through my body. I even momentarily forgot about Alice's vision.

Jasper had a smile on his face. One that I was surprised to see reached all the way to his eyes. He was the first person to come in and look simply relieved and happy that I was alive. His feelings weren't marred by any kind of sadness and pain. While I knew he was just putting on a mask for my sake, I couldn't help but feel better about everything seeing the look on his face.

He was the first member of the family that I didn't feel the need to look away from. I wasn't sure if it was the simple fact that it was Jasper and he just had the effect on me. Or if it was the fact that he was the only one who could truly understand how hard this whole ordeal had been on me. Whatever the reason, I couldn't take my eyes off of him as he walked slowly to sit beside me on the bed.

We were silent for a long time. I didn't think either of us really knew what to say at this point. Not after everything that had happened. It was a like we were starting over after a long break. The silence, though not as bad as it was with Alice, got on my nerves after a bit.

"So, she knew all along." I said the first thing that came to mine.

"Pretty much." Jasper stated. He sounded a little unsure of how he felt about that one.

Now that everything had begun to work itself out, I found that I could actually laugh at the irony of it all. And laughing was exactly what I did. I laughed so hard it hurt.

"What?" Jasper asked eyeing me like I was insane.

"I guess that's what we get for trying to pull a fast one on a psychic." I replied through me laughter.

"You've got a point." He answered as he burst into laughter as well.

We laughed about the whole thing for a long time.

"So how are you feeling?" I asked once I managed to stop laughing.

"Better now that I know you're okay." He replied. "How about you?"

"Better, but still a little guilty." I replied biting my lip.

"Honey, you have nothing to feel guilty about." He replied crawling over top of me to lay beside me and stroke my hair. "Alice understands how we feel. That's why she asked for a divorce. She wants us to be happy."

"I know." I sighed. "But she's my best friend. I can't help but feel like I'm taking you away from her or something. I can't stand to see her in pain. Like she's going to be."

"I know. It's going to be hard for all of us. But we have to remember that this is something that she wants for us. Something that she's given us. We have to take it and be happy for her sake. Besides, you've bee through so much over the past year, Bella, you deserve some guilt free happiness. Alice knows this. Which is another reason for her decision. You don't have to feel guilty. Alice let me go so you wouldn't have to."

"I know." I replied. "But how I am supposed to be guilt free about this when I know Alice is probably somewhere moping when I'm with you."

"By letting go of everything you knew before and forgetting that I'm your best friend's almost ex-husband. You have to let go of your worry over hurting Alice's feelings, because it's the only way you're ever going to get over this. Stop worrying about everything and just feel. That's the best you can do, just feel for me how you want to feel and don't worry about the rest. Alice is a big girl, she can handle herself and her own pain. You, however, are only a human and your heart can only take so much before it's broken beyond repair. So let me be the one to heal your heart and love you. Let yourself love me and everything else will fall into place. Can you do that?"

"I can try." I replied.

His words made sense but I knew it was going to be much harder than it seemed.

"That's all I can ask of you." Jasper answered before bringing his lips crashing down on mine.

It was a good as the first time, if not better. I found it fairly simple to let go and forget about everything that happened in the last twenty four hourse, including Alice's apparently terrifying vision, while surrending to the wonderful bliss that was Jasper's kiss.

A/N: Well, what did you guys think? I hope you liked it. I also hoped you liked the set up for things to come. And no, I'm not going to actually show you Alice's vision, but don't worry, in the next chapter, she and Carlisle are going to discuss and analyze it for you. By the time it's over you should all know exactly what she saw. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this one. Please review.