A/N Sorry for the long wait. Here's a short chapter. It could have been longer, but meh. It's spring break. Okay, probably two more chapters left.

"Jasper NOOOO!" I heard a familiar voice echo from downstairs.

My whole body felt lighter and I could only barely focus on what was going on around me. It felt like I was submerged under water and everything else was far away...insignificant.

The pain was still there. A flicker. Jasper was making me like him. He was saving me. The process wasn't instantaneous. It was slow and I could feel the weight in my chest lessen gradually.

I kept watching the flicker inside me. If there was anything left for me to feel, it was scared. I wanted Jasper to hurry. I was worried that he might lose control and let the tiny flicker spread again, engulfing my entirety.

I never let my focus slip away from the flicker. It was getting smaller and smaller. Almost...almost...

"Bella! Bella!"

I saw the flame pulsate. It got slightly larger, then shrunk back down again. I heard my own heart beat quicken. 'No!' I regained my focus and blocked out everything else. 'Hurry Jasper! Let it die!'

"Bella! Don't leave me please!"

I was being shaken and coldness engulfed me. I shivered. Although my temperature dropped, the flame seemed to have grown larger.

The darkness around me faded and my senses began to return slowly. I was in someone's arms. Edward's. His face was beside mine and I noticed how tight his hold was on me. It wasn't painful, but it was more than what he was usually comfortable with.

He pulled away to look at me. His face was torn and he stared into my eyes. It didn't seem right. The look on his face made me feel like it wasn't supposed to be there. It confused me.

I placed my hand on his cheek trying to see what bothered me so much about his expression. He felt cold under my palm. 'So that's where the coldness came from.' He closed his eyes and inhaled deeply under my touch.

"Why so sad?" I asked.

He gave me no response, but just kept peering into my eyes. He was studying them.

"Bella," he said urgently. "Do you love me?"

The flicker inside me expanded greatly. I cursed myself for leaving it unattended. I held back a cough at the surge I felt.

I looked at Edward briefly and his eyes grew as he saw mine. He must have seen what he was looking for. I desperately went back to ignoring the world around me. I guarded the flicker and watched it shrink back again slowly as Jasper continued to heal me.

"Bella! Come back to me!"

I was being shaken again, harder this time and the vertigo snapped me back to my senses and away from the shrinking flame.

"No, stop it!" I yelled. I was doing my best to contain the flicker.

"Bella don't do this! Don't run away!"

The look of fear and anguish on his face only made my control on my emotions falter.

"Please! Don't do this!" I pleaded. "Don't make me go back!" I wished for him to let Jasper finish it. To let the flicker die off.

"Bella, I can't live without you. I love you. Don't leave me alone," he cried out to me pulling me closer to him, refusing to loosen his hold on my by even a little bit.

The flicker pulsated and fanned out wildly. I knew Jasper was having difficulty, but the flicker always began shrinking again after a while.

"Jasper is helping to make me better Edward. He's taking away the pain," I tried to explain.

"No Bella. He's taking away more than that! Jasper always manipulates our emotions, he never takes them away, Bella. What your doing- when he's done, there'll be nothing left! Please stop this!"

I already knew what Jasper was doing, but Edward's words had given a new weight to my decision.

I let my focus fall back to Edward. Every time it did, the flicker fluttered. Edward looked at me with such intensity, I couldn't help but rethink my position.

"Edward...Do you really still love me?" I asked unsure.

"Always Bella. Always. You are everything to me. Please come back to me."

I looked away from him. I had to think quick before the flicker became too small again. I kept my gaze to the floor.

"Edward...I-I'm scared."

"Bella," he grabbed my hands in his. "Look at me." I raised my head slowly to look at his. His smoldering eyes glistened. "Isabella Swan, I promise you that I will never give you a reason to be scared of being with me. I will devote myself to you and do all that is possible to make you happy. I love you."

Every word he spoke rang with truth and I decided that whatever might happen to me, he was worth the risk. I nodded my head and looked at Edward assuredly.

"Jasper, please stop." I said quietly knowing he would hear me. I waited.

Nothing happen. The flicker was still shrinking.

"Jasper, you can stop it now." I said louder.

The flicker still shrunk, even faster now that Edward wasn't speaking to me. I looked up at him before the darkness surrounded me and I was plunged back into deep water.

"I'm sorry Edward. He won't stop," I said, not as hysterical as I should have been. The numbness was already beginning to take over.

"No Bella! Fight it! Don't leave me!"

"I'm so sorry Edward," I said blankly, almost insincerely.

I watched flicker shrink down smaller than it had ever gone before. I felt a tinge of sadness, but I knew that it would die out along with the flicker. It was too late now. I looked up to see Edwards facial expression become more and more contorted in pain.

I watched how his face worsened in relation to how small the flicker was. He placed his hands on either side of my face and I could barely feel the cold anymore. It was a small glint and I knew it was going to die off anytime now.

3...

It was what I wanted...right?

2...

I couldn't see the flicker anymore. I could feel it barely, but Jasper was almost done.

1...

I felt lips on my own as Edward kissed me one final time. I opened my eyes and saw that his were closed. It felt just like the goodbye kiss he had given me the first time he left. I didn't want it to be goodbye. I didn't want him to leave me again.

Just then, the flicker, an infinitesimal size by now, rose up and engulfed my entire being. It shot up and out everywhere. Color exploded all around me and my body tingled with a fire that didn't burn.

I wrapped my hands in Edward's bronze hair and deepened our kiss. Neither of us pulled away until I had to let out for air. I gasped out heavily like I had just been saved from drowning.

Edward stared at me skeptically.

"Bella?" he asked whispering.

I merely took him back in my arms in response. He gripped me hard and I shook as his body shuddered. His face was buried in the crook of my neck as I felt him dry sob into me. I rubbed his back, moving my hand up and down trying to comfort him. Just touching him comforted me enough.

I pulled back from Edward to face him.

"I'm sorry," was all I could say.

"I thought you left me. I thought I lost you," he said sadly.

"You stayed with me. You didn't leave." I smiled slightly at him.

"I'm never leaving you again, Bella." I simply nodded. "I love you," he declared once again before leaning in to kiss me. I didn't pull away.

JPOV

I let my power douse out Bella's fire. I was surrounded by darkness, and now Bella would be too. Her fire was difficult to extinguish. It kept fluctuating, but I kept a constant hold on it as I eventually began to whittle it away. I was engrossed in Bella's heart. It took all of my attention to just fight back the resistance I felt.

I dove deeper and deeper into Bella's pain, her core. It was only a matter of time before it died out. I was going to finish it. I let the fire die down and it became lost in the darkness. I was almost done with my task.

Before I cold react, her fire sprang up beyond my control. It burst out uncontrollably and engulfed Bella. I was caught in the fire in the process. It burned and scorched me, but I felt no pain.

My darkness faded and the light from the explosion filled my world. My thoughts swirled around inside me until only one coherent thought remained.

"ALICE!"

A/N Just squeezed in the Jasper bit in there so as not to leave out any loose ends. Okay the next chapter will be their resolution and the last chapter will be Jake's resolution. Notice how Bella still didn't say she loved Edward? I will post sequel details on the last chapter.