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A/N: I really wanted to say thank you to those of you who have reviewed and those of you who have read my story so far! I'm so thankful! I'm sure those of who you write understand how it feels to get such wonderful feedback.

I must say thank you especially to "Mad Mistress of Death" for pointing out the few historical inaccuracies. I understand that there are some and as you said that they aren't too noticeable I'm not going to mess with going through and pinpointing everything, but thank you! I really appreciate it.

I also went and checked out how many hits the fic has received and I am ASTOUNDED at the amount of traffic Finding Family has gotten! OVER 1,000 HITS! Too bad not every one of them has reviewed, I'd love to have their feedback, but oh well. I don't always review either.

Someone suggested that I go through some of Jasper's experiences, I believe it was "Maggie" but I can't be sure as I don't have the review directly in front of me. But I think that's a wonderful idea and I was planning on doing it anyway as a sort of half filler – half getting on with the story chapter.

Anyway, enough of me, enjoy!


Jasper's POV

1863. Unknown location.

My entire body was on fire and had been for what felt like days. My mind had long-since been driven out as my screams carried on around me. I had no idea that dying would be so painful.

I actually had no idea what happened to me other than meeting a beautiful woman named Maria before she pounced upon me.

Pounced, catlike. It was graceful; it was quite terrifying too.

I felt as my body seemed to finally give in to my inevitable death and would have sighed in relief if I weren't still in such terrible pain that seemed to intensify around my heart. As the inferno became more and more intense I became certain that my heart would explode and was incredibly surprised when, suddenly, my pain went away.

My heart had stopped.

I thought it odd that I was aware that I was dead but was still hyper-aware of my surroundings. I groaned as my throat suddenly burst into flame as it burned with thirst.

Thirst? Thirst for what?

I tried to recall what had happened to me, but my mind went wild. I jumped up at a speed I didn't know I had and allowed my eyes to roll back and forth, examining my surroundings.

I stopped when I noticed a woman of unearthly beauty grinning at the far end of the room. I growled loudly.

I growled? Since when do I growl?

My mind recognized her, "Maria." I spat.

Her smile grew wider, "You remember! Wonderful! Come, let us quench your thirst." She flashed her crimson eyes at me. "You are now a vampire, Jasper, I will explain everything in due time, however you must be going positively insane."

I was. My throat was burning and my mind was slowly slipping. I followed her and we hunted.


1890. Charlotte, N.C.

We traveled to Mexico City not long after I had been changed. Maria had explained her plans for me once we realized I had the ability to manipulate the emotions of others. I guess it had something to do with my personality as a human. We had to avoid humans typically due to the color of our eyes, I learned this quickly.

I also learned that I had a purpose in this life for Maria. She recognized that I was high-ranking in the army and therefore already had knowledge on combat and immediately after recognizing my power for what it was, my purpose changed to train newborn vampires and kill them once their newborn strength started to fade. Since I could calm an entire room of extremely volatile newborns I was quite useful to her.

My physically twenty year old body appeared both young and old enough for me to pass as nearly whatever age I pleased, however I'm still deeply disturbed about what I had become nearly thirty years ago.

I was currently sitting under a tree in the warm night air, thinking back to my human life and what I could remember of it. Most vivid in my memories is my little sister, Bella. I've wondered for years what had become of her.

I'm sure she mourned me, but eventually married and I'm almost positive she had children. She would make such a wonderful mother, I think. I tried imagining what my nieces of nephews would look like but I couldn't since I couldn't quite vision a man who would be good enough for her.

She would be getting old and would die sometime in the future. I hope that I never get that news because I'm sure I would be shattered. Yes, I prefer to be kept in the dark about that, even if I can't help but be slightly curious.

I sighed as I stood. I could hear Maria calling for me in the distance. It was time for us to go hunting. My throat burned in anticipation.


1960. Montgomery, AL.

I was growing quite tired of this lifestyle I was leading with Maria. I've been at it for nearly a century and I was showing the many crescent shaped scars to prove it; they weren't very noticeable to the human eye, but to another vampire they could be seen.

I didn't mind too much, but they aren't exactly something I'm proud of anymore.

I looked down as I pulled on my right boot and saw the old blue ribbon that my sister had given me to remember her by and a strong wave of sadness overcame me as I realized that she would be dead by now. I didn't resent my life, but I certainly resented not being there for her to see her grow older and be there for her wedding. I'd give anything to have stayed human back then and go home to have her jump in my arms as I arrived back home to Houston.

I shook my head and urged the emotion of calm and serenity to flow from me and push the sadness away. I knew that the volatile newborns around where we currently were residing would pick up on the emotion and go wild. I had to be careful.

As I pulled on my other boot and stood I realized as I looked around the room Maria and I had torn apart in our activities that I wanted out. I wanted to leave this lifestyle.

I had an old colleague named Peter who had a mate named Charlotte that I knew I could travel with. They had offered many years ago that I could join them and told me to find them if ever I wanted to move away from the still-raging newborn wars of the South.

I made my decision; I'm going to leave Maria and leave the newborn training to her once again. I knew she'd find someone else to do her dirty work for her though. We shared no romantic feelings however we did partake in sexual activities to pass some time on occasion, so I knew this wouldn't be much of a problem.

I nodded to myself. I was moving on.


1961. Denver, CO.

I had only been traveling with Peter and Charlotte for about a year but I don't like it one bit. I don't like all of the human sacrifice that I have to endure but I don't know of any other way. I confronted Peter about it and he told me that he wouldn't mind if I left since my depression and unhappiness was starting to affect the two of them. I realized quickly that it was time for me to leave and give being alone for once in my existence. Perhaps I'll make my way East to Philadelphia since the mountains here, as beautiful as they are, were starting to get to me.

So I gathered my few belongings and ran east.


1961. Philadelphia, PA.

It was raining something awful as I made my way into a small, half-empty diner to shelter myself from the rain. I immediately noticed the scent of another vampire and I raised my head to scan the patrons in the foul-smelling diner, water dripping from my hair.

I zeroed in on her tiny, thin figure. Her short black hair was flipped out in careful disarray and she was staring at me with a knowing smile adorning her beautiful pixie-like face. She motioned for me to come to her and I did.

"Hi!" She said brightly. "I'm Alice, you're Jasper, aren't you? Of course you are, I saw it!" She kept her voice down low so the humans that were anywhere near us didn't hear. I tried not to notice when my throat burned, but I did take note that her eyes were a light amber color.

I stared at her in confusion, "What do you mean you saw it? You saw what? How do you know my name?"

She smiled, "My power is seeing the future and I saw you coming in this diner and I saw that we were going to spend forever together. Isn't it wonderful? By the way, hearing your voice in real life is so much better than in my visions. I love the southern twang, it suits you."

I stared at her before a small grin spread across my face, "Thank you," I said. "Why are your eyes different?"

She smiled brightly and I smiled back, her enthusiasm and bright emotions were infectious.

"I don't hunt humans, I hunt animals." She winked. "It's much easier to be around humans that way. Anyway, my visions showed me that we will be traveling together from now on and guess what?" She didn't wait for me to guess anything as she sped on, "We're going to join a coven of others like us that also only hunt strictly animals! Isn't it wonderful? Of course, you'll have a little bit of trouble sticking to the diet for a little while because you've obviously never tried anything other than human blood but that's okay."

I raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure you see the future? Are you sure you aren't just crazy?"

She glared at me suddenly, "Of course I'm sure! I've been having these visions for years and plus, you have a power don't you? Mine just happens to be precognition." She opened her mouth to say something else before her face went blank.

I stared at her for a moment in confusion, "Alice?" I asked, "Are you okay?"

Just as suddenly as she stopped talking she snapped out of her trance, "Vision," she supplied, "We should get out of here, that human over there is about to cut themselves on a knife and we really shouldn't be exposed to that. Come on, I'm going to teach you how to hunt animals!"

With that she threw down a few dollars onto the table in which we had just been sitting and we left the diner and left the city.


2006. Olympia, WA.

Alice was right, since I had never been taught control or how to regulate my blood lust, I did have trouble adjusting to living on animals rather than humans, but I was slowly learning thanks to her. My eyes had turned slowly to the same golden as her own, and I had gotten used to her completely random visions. She explained to me that the trick to them is that a decision must be made before any sort of vision could be concrete.

After not very long we met up with the coven she had spoken of nonstop. She already knew all of their names and as a result, so did I. I just finally had faces to place to the names, for which I was grateful. Carlisle was the leader or father figure; Esme was the mother figure and his mate. Then there was Emmett who was quite muscular and Rosalie who was the most beautiful vampire I had ever set my eyes upon as his mate. Edward was alone but usually spent his time playing and composing music.

By this time I had recognized that Alice (who had through her visions gathered years ago that the surname of most of the coven we would be joining was Cullen, had adopted that last name as her own as she couldn't remember her own from when she was a human) was my soul mate. We grew to love one another and were married.

My only regret about that was that my little sister wasn't there to see it.

Over the years we moved and I pretended to be Rosalie Hale's twin brother whenever we were around humans, so I adopted the surname Hale as my own, leaving Whitlock for other times. We all went to many high schools and colleges and had each gained an immense wealth over the years, however, my new family had already accumulated much even before Alice and I joined.

I still have the hardest time out of our entire family being around humans, however I've gotten much better about it. Now I only barely struggle in school, but I still have to hunt frequently to keep it that way.

We have school starting soon, less than fifteen minutes judging by the clock on the mantle. Emmett and I were currently in the middle of a very heated battle, playing Halo on our X-box.

"No! Dude that is so cheating!" Emmett's big booming voice carried through the house.

I laughed, "No it's not Emmett! I didn't cheat! Face it, I'm just better than you are. Now pay up, you owe me a thousand." I held out my palm and Emmett grudgingly counted out ten one hundred dollar bills and placed them in my hand. I grinned, "Thank you."

"Shut up. I want a rematch after school you cheat." Emmett grumbled.

We both looked up at the entrance of our adoptive mother, Esme, to the room. "Boys," she smiled, "I hope you're ready to go, you need to leave soon."

"We know," we said in unison just as Alice, Rosalie, and Edward bolted down the stairs. Alice seemed slightly sour as she frowned slightly.

"What's wrong Alice?" I asked.

"We'll see I suppose. There's a new girl today. I think she's a Vegetarian vampire like we are. I'm not sure how I feel about her yet."

I tensed slightly, "Another vampire? In Forks? What are the odds…?" I trailed off, shrugging.

We picked up our school bags and made our way out to Edward's silver Volvo as Esme stood out on the porch to see us off.

"Have a good day!" She said quietly, knowing we would be able to hear her, "Please, please don't do anything stupid today you all."

We looked to Emmett, "What?" He said. We laughed and once Edward started the car we were off towards Forks High School.

We were right on time as we pulled into our usual spot and got out and, after giving Alice a kiss, separated to go to our classes.

Throughout the day I caught bits of the scent of the new vampire Alice spoke of and I tried to catch glimpses of her throughout the first few periods of the day. I never saw her.

As lunch arrived we sat at our usual table with our props of human food as we stared out in random directions. My arm was around Alice's shoulders and I happened to be looking at the cafeteria doors when they breezed open to reveal the female vampire.

I froze just as my eyes locked onto hers and I suddenly recognized her scent. She too froze as she obviously recognized me as well and I saw as she let out a breath and whispered my name.

"Jasper," she whispered before turning and bolting from the room.

"No," I whispered, "No. It can't be." I stood suddenly, fully intent on following her.

"What? Jasper, who was that? How do you know her?" Alice demanded. I felt confusion and jealousy coming from her. The voices of my family flowed at the same time as her questions as they too asked who this girl was.

I was already walking swiftly across the cafeteria and didn't answer them as I left and followed her scent outside.

My Bella was here! She was a vampire! Oh, no, how could this have happened?!

I knew Edward could hear those thoughts and I knew that the rest of my family was following me as I ran full out through the woods in search of Bella.

She's alive!


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