So this is about a week later. Its kinda a snapshot worked into the stories original framework.

BPOV

I was really pleased Alice and I had the house to ourselves – there was something I had been wanting to ask her but I could never manage to get her alone so I was pleased but also nervous as the opportunity presented itself.

I knew if I asked her my question I would be blatantly prying into her and Jaspers relationship but I was burning with curiosity.

I went downstairs to find Alice sitting on the couch half-heartedly paging through a magazine. I went to sit down beside her "Alice?" I asked tentatively, although I knew she knew I was there.

She looked at me with her classic, understanding I-know-what-you're-about-to-say look.

"I don't mind you asking." she said seriously, surveying me unblinkingly.

I plucked up my courage and asked what had been eating away at me since I had learned of a certain facet of her and Jaspers relationship.

"Alice, you don't have to answer this – I know how private you and Jasper are about your relationship but I'm honestly curious as to how you and Jasper came to your… arrangement?" I blurted out quickly.

She smiled reassuringly. "By which you mean our spanking arrangement?"

I nodded

"You're right in that Jazz and I prefer to keep certain things to ourselves." she began and I felt disappointment stir – she was going to say it was to clandestine to share "and our spankings are one of the most personal parts of our relationship, which I doubt we would even have ever told the family about if we could have avoided it. Telling you how it came about would involve revealing certain intimate details. That said, I saw you would ask me about this the moment the boys decided to go hunting, leaving us alone tgether, and I discussed it with Jazz. He said as long as I didn't mind he was comfortable to share this with you."

I looked at her in surprise, Jasper not only knew but was okay with my asking / finding out? I hadn't missed her qualification though "Do you mind telling me?" I asked

She stared at me for a couple of seconds, as though mentally reconfirming her decision.

"Yes."

I felt a nervous twinge in my stomach – what was she about to tell me?

"Jasper and I had been together for little over a year when we made the decision." she began her narrative "Jasper and I were near a small town when we came across three vampire scents which were fresh. Jasper had left me in the woods to scope out the town and see what her could learn of these other vampires. I waited for a while but got bored. My visions were not as honed as they are now and I could not search for specific future events so I did not know what was happening between Jasper and the others. I did however know we would be fine in the end because I was still having visions of both Jazz and I with this family. I started to become impatient and decided to go find him. it was not long before I heard his voice in the distance and so I crept towards his voice.

I positioned myself behind Jasper and a bush. I could see he was chatting to two other vampires, one of whom spotted me and let out a hiss. Jasper already sensed I was tere so he invited me out and introduced me as his mate – it was the first time he had called me that." She recalled

"When we finally parted ways with the others I could tell Jazz was pissed even though I explained how I'd known the outcome would be alright.

He leant against a tree before looking at me. "Alice, what were you thinking?" he whispered softly, betrayal and anger evident in every feature. He then began walking. I followed and for a good few days neither of us spoke. I became more and more worried and the guilt ate away at me for hurting Jazz. Finally I stopped our trek and stood before him, demanding we discussed things. "Alice, when I asked you to stay behind it was for your own protection. How can I protect you when you refuse to listen to me?" he had asked. It was then that I suddenly knew what the problem was – he didn't know how to forgive me for putting myself in danger, even though I had felt it to be safe. "What will help you forgive me?" I asked him softly, he took my hands and I could see what it would take, even if he didn't want to admit it.

"Punish me." I asked him and he was as shocked as I expected him to be. Naturally, he protested but I wouldn't back down – I needed his forgiveness and if this was the only way he could bring himself to do it then I was willing to accept that."

I observed Alice in shock – she had been the one to convince Jasper? I had always pictured it the other way round.

"I dragged him to a nearby secluded area and had him sit down – he still protested as I knelt beside him. Eventually I gave up coaxing that he needed to do it for himself and instead told him that I needed him to do it in order for me to heal. Jasper could never deny me anything when I asked like that." She said with a fond smile.

"So I slipped off my underwear, positioned myself over his outstretched legs, flipped up my skirt and moved his hand over my ass. He was tentative at first but eventually got into the swing of it." Her pun not lost on me "After he got over trying to be gentle it really started to hurt. Eventually I felt all my emotions well up inside of me. We cannot cry but I began to shudder and gasp instead. He stopped immediately.

When it was over I think we were both surprised as to how well it worked out – Jasper found he no longer felt angry at me and the feeling of betrayal was gone while I had let go of all the remorse and tension that I had been carrying around with me. We cuddled for a long time and afterwards everything went back to normal. From then on we just knew what had to be done in certain situations."

I nodded but something still bothered me "What about how it came to be that you spank Jasper?" I asked

"Now that is something to ask him – I am comfortable telling you about my chastisement but its up to him to tell you about his." She said firmly

I nodded in acceptance – she had already told me much more than I expected. After a while of just sitting in companionable silence, as I processed what I'd learnt, I turned back to her. "Alice, just one last thing."

"Mmm" she muttered not looking up from the magazine she had gone back to reading.

"Why a spanking and not something else?"

Her eyes flickered to mine "Jaspers father used to spank his mother so I knew he would not be as reluctant to the idea as he would have been to something else."

I absorbed this and looked to the door upon hearing Edwards rapidly approaching footsteps.

So there you go – another chapter! When I started this chapter I planned for it to turn out completely different but Alice pushing Jasper to do it just seemed to fit.

Let me know what you think!