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6
"Jasper? Will you let me in already, or do I really have to break the door?" Alice asked. He could hear her slowly pushing on the door, the wood fracturing splinter by splinter in a way that made him shiver.
"Fine, hold on a second." He grumbled, and quickly opened the door before she caused some real damage.
"It is my room too, after all." She said, and dove onto the bed. But when she caught sight of his face, her smile faltered.
"Jazz?" She asked, sitting up.
Should he tell her? He didn't want to. He didn't want anyone to know. He wanted to move back to Forks, or Alaska, or anywhere else for that matter. As far away from THEM as he could. But he knew somehow Alice would figure it out, connect the dots... she would see something coming.
"Uh..." He said, and then glanced out the window. He'd never felt so lost for words in his life.
"Jazz." She said more firmly, and yanked him down onto the bed next to her.
"How do I tell you this...?" He breathed, absent mindedly twirling a strand of her hair around his figner.
Her eyes suddenly widened, her jaw dropping. "Please don't tell me you..." She gasped.
"No!" He burst out, instantly angered. He jolted off the bed and went to the window, glaring outside. Always it was him they feared would snap and kill a human. It wasn't their fault, but he was angry that they watched him, and only him, so closely in public. Even Bella was accustomed to animals already.
"I'm sorry, but your eyes..." She trailed off.
Confused, Jasper went over to the mirror and froze.
His eyes had a red tint to them, very faint in the dark coloring. But he could see it, and that was enough to bother him.
"I didn't...what the hell is going on?" He growled.
"what were you trying to say?" She asked more tenderly, draping her arms around his neck.
"Remember how I didn't like the Fieros? I know why now."
"Why?"
"Alice...they're...my family."
"What? That's ridiculous." Alice said instantly, laughing. But then she saw his face and silenced.
"I thought they were lying too. But I can't deny it now. No one else could know that song, look like my mother, my father...they look like me, if you can picture my hair as black. I can sense it, somehow I just know..."
"How? What on Earth happened?"
And so Jasper told the story, struggling to get the details right. He just couldn't think straight. And every moment he felt sickened. By the time he finished, Alice's jaw had dropped about 5 times, and she was now deep in thought.
"We have to tell Carlisle." She concluded.
"NO!" Jasper snapped so suddenly she jumped.
More quietly he continued, "Alice, I don't want anyone else knowing. It's not important. They're just strangers. I'm just...startled."
She carefully looked over his face, examining his sincerity.
"Then what are we going to do?"
"I don't know... shit."
Jasper's sudden curse caught Alice off guard, and for a moment she giggled. But Jasper had already jumped to his feet and yanked the door open.
"Edward!" He snapped as the back of Edwards' loose shirt snapped around the far corner of the hall. He heard Edward pause, contemplating wether to run or go back. Slowly, like a guilty puppy, he peered back around the corner.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Say a word and you're toast." Jasper growled. Edward's faux innocent face dropped, and he nodded seriously before disappearing.
"Jasper, this isn't good. They could become troublesome." Alice urged.
"Not now, Alice. Let me think." He said, and then went back into the room.
"You've been thinking all day!" Alice burst out, and then stomped down the hall to go complain.
"So... that was eventful." Talin said with a yawn. Her father was sitting at the window, looking out onto the yard with a deep-thought expression on his face.
"Mmm indeed. Unexpected... I guess I owe you an apology."
"Yeah, you do. Calling me crazy all these years and he's been around this whole time."
"Alright, I'm sorry. So what do you suppose we do?"
"No clue. I guess it's up to him. He has another family, and a wife. We shoudn't interfere."
"What? You're just going to let him go like that?"
"Well, I don't WANT to, but it's up to him."
"What about my decision? He's my son."
"Some father you are. Just shut up. Now listen to me. I know what Jasper craves. I know what he wants. If he chooses it, I'll give it to him. Otherwise, he can stay happily with his family. Meanwhile I'm stuck with you bozos."
"E-Excuse me?"
Talin rolled her eyes at him, and shoved past her uncle as he entered the room.
"What's her problem?" He asked.
"Who knows with her?"
Alice continued to sulk even when Jasper finally returned. His face was emotionless, but the air held an easy note of tension. Edward cast him a curious glance, but did not lose his focus on Renesme, who was chasing Jacob around the large living room. The werewolf had decided to stay a few days, and Bella seemed to welcome his familiar goofy face. Rosalie and Emmett had gone off for the day, and Carlise and Esme were busy upstairs. Jasper tried to ease himself into a chair, to relax, but then Renesme had jumped over the chair and right into his lap.
"Uncle Jazz, I'm hungry." She complained.
"I'll get it, silly." Bella teased, and scooping her daughter up by the waist, she went into the kitchen, Jacob following.
Jasper's fingers dug into the arms of the chair. Edward suddenly snapped around to look at him.
"I'm going." Jazz said instantly, and went outside.
He was off into the woods hunting in a second. He was starved and things round Renese and Jacob became extra difficult with this new found stress.
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