Hey everyone here is my new chapter. This is really almost over, so sad. Read away.

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Jasper POV

I could hear my brother gently teasing his girlfriend. This was the happiest I had felt in a while, and the scary thing was that I wasn't feeling it. It was all Edward's, something that could make me smile and cringe at the same time. Smile, because this was good for my brother. Cringe, because I was envious. Alice had been so busy for so long, I hadn't gotten to spend a lot of time with her. I widened the circle of the area that I could feel, starting to pay attention to the rest of the family's emotions after the fight, making sure all of them were calm or happy. They were, and further more, most of them were with their significant other. I could tell from the love or lust or combination that emanated from all of them.

Next I checked out the Flock, knowing that Alice would want to know how they were when she got in. They all felt about the same—remorse, freedom, and a strange sense of togetherness. That last one I always got from them, even though it was weak in Nia and Adrian. The other six had it more strongly, and I wouldn't be surprised if they could sense each other's presence. Nia was slightly impatient, for some reason she wanted to get back here.

About then, Alice came in. "How do you feel?" I didn't answer her question with how I felt, but with how everyone else in the house was feeling at that moment. That was what she really wanted to know, she was just asking it with the usual cryptic air that she loved. As a direct result of her enjoyment of it, I loved it too.

"Happy, relieved, in love, remorse, freedom. Nothing strange."

"Remorse?"

"The Flock, I think they actually became fond of us."

"Of course they did." She came over and sat in my lap, her small body easily fitting on mine. She leaned her head into my chest. "Hmm... I like it here. Do you think that I can stay here for the rest of the day?" She turned that wide smile on me, adding in her bright eyes and a hug to convince me, acting like I might have objections to her presence.

"Of course you can." I felt her simple joy at being exactly where she was, and wrapped my arms around her waist. I felt her happiness spike at the contact.

"I love you."

"I know. I saw that happening before I had even met you." I pulled a bit closer to my body.

I didn't know exactly how long I laid there with my wife, my brothers and sisters in the house all around, sending love and desire through the whole house. I kissed Alice at least three or four times a minute. I heard music coming from the front room, and decided Edward was playing for Bella. It was her lullaby, and he was the only one in the family that could play that particular song.



All of out relaxing ended when Nia came in and Esme and Bella started fussing over her. Adrian slunk in behind her, obviously hoping to avoid the drama. I felt the nerves he had of anyone trying to fix him up and take care of him, he wasn't used to it. I grinned at him comfortingly, taking the edge off his worry.

"Hey guys," Nia called happily, feeling glad to be back and relieved that the house was a little less crowded.

"Are you hungry?" Were, rather predictably, the first words out of Esme's mouth.

"What kind of question is that? We're always hungry." I had noticed it, but I doubted anyone else did. Both of them ate all the time, it would be assumed that they were never hungry when they were here. Esme ran back to get some of the food we had set back for our now common human and part human guests.

"Do you want anything in particular?"

"As long as it's edible." Esme brought them something that smelled disgusting. Nia grinned, "Pomegranates! Dear God, I haven't had one of those in years. Thanks Esme." She quickly ate a few of the seeds, handing off half the fruit to Adrian.

"I'm not even going to ask the vampires, but so you want some Bella?"

"No, you look like you need it more."

Nia shrugged, not even looking up from the food. We all watched, and I could feel the family's wonderings on how she could stomach that stuff. She finished in a couple of minutes, and by that time Adrian had already been done for a few seconds. She looked up when Esme Came to pick up the rinds form the fruit.

"I can get that, just give me one second." She said with another grin. Her relief at a slightly emptier house turned into joking around and being less sarcastic.

"Well, with the Flock gone and current danger avoided, I have something to talk to Bella about. Without any super natural listening in, thanks." Alice was confused.

"But Edward can read your mind, he will hear everything anyways."

"Not if we're more then a mile or two away, right? We're going to Seattle. Adrian is staying here, and if Edward leaves the house then he is calling me, and I'm going somewhere else that I will think of on the spot to take her, and then see what happens."

Edward felt chagrined, as well as the anger and worry everyone else saw. "Why can't you tell her with me around?"

"Welcome to the world of most boyfriends, you've had it easy so far cause Bella's a sucker for anything you do."



I had a slight urge to laugh; it was pretty rare for a girl to tell off my brother like that, or anyone else in my family, really. Emmett did laugh, loudly.

"She got you there, bro."

Edward just scowled at him. Nia and Bella slipped out of the house, and I heard a vehicle starting up. I had a sudden feeling of mischief and satisfaction, and immediately looked over to Emmett. He wasn't behind it. Then I recognized the engine that was by this time pulling down the driveway. Alice's motorcycle. Edward was mad, now he was furious.

"I wonder what she had to do to convince Bella to get on the motorcycle. Since last time she tried that she was grounded." Emmett was curious; he wanted to know how to do that for himself.

"I want to know what possessed her. Bella is always getting not danger without going stupidly fast on a motorcycle."

Alice laughed at Edward's worry from my lap, amused that he would think that Nia's speed was stupid. "Relax, I doubt she will go faster then me, or you, would go with Bella on board."

"But she's not a vampire."

"She's not human either. She had special abilities, they will be fine." Edward grumbled and went back up to his room, no doubt to listen to music and mope until Nia got back with Bella. I didn't doubt that he would also listen to Nia's thoughts until they were out of range. Adrian followed him, silent as he had been since he had arrived. I quickly paid special attention to the emotions coming from him. The standard pessimism that I had grown accustomed to in the last few months and annoyance. I figured that he must not be in the mood to baby sit Bella's boyfriend for the rest of the day. I didn't blame him.

After I solved the puzzle of Adrian's silence, I turned back to my wife.

"Now, I've spent the last few minutes missing what we were doing." Alice shifted around until she was looking up into my face.

"I can sympathize."

With that, we headed up to our room just to enjoy each others company for a few hours.