"Jasper? Jasper, I'm thirsty," I said, as we finished looking at all his memories. He had had them scattered all over the table, and with my expertise, they were now arranged neatly in chronological order.
"Well, it is quite early, though, I do think there would be some humans hiking through the woods behind us now," Jasper suggested, "early morning walks, you know?"
A brief vision entered my mind.
Jasper and I were running through the trees at break-neck speed, making a bee line towards a trio of hunters. Three seconds later, we had them, cold and dead at our feet. And not long after, we had satiated our thirst.
"NO!" I screamed. It was both appealing and disgusting for me to hunt humans. It was against our very nature to not hunt them, but I was intrigued at how the Cullen family had lived their lives, only hunting animals. But then again, the scent of human blood was sweet, strong, and overpowering.
My scream had Jasper on red alert. "What, what is it Alice!" he asked, crouching into a defensive stance. "No there's nothing out there, it's just that, it disgusts me." I said, pulling him back up to his full height.
"What disgusts you?"
"Hunting humans."
"How could that possibly be?" he wondered aloud.
"Well, don't you think that it is rather disgusting to kill something, much less drink its blood, if it was something you were before? We were once human, and we would still be, had there not been a vampire to turn us." I stated. "Besides, animal blood changes your eye color to a pretty shade of golden brown, or topaz."
Jasper stared at me skeptically. I wondered if he was contemplating my insanity level. Finally, he spoke. "Okay, I guess I'll try this just once. Maybe I'll like it. Seeing as you have just made me feel guilty about my entire vampire life."
I grinned at him, and bounded out the door. I made sure Jasper was close, before sprinting off towards the feeding ground I found the other night. He kept pace with me easily, and I could feel his gaze on my face. I was too shy to return it, and tried to focus on reaching our destination.
And then, just as we were closing in on the hunting grounds, I caught the scent of a wild deer. Three, in fact. "What is that?" said a very curious Jasper. "That is the scent of guiltless bounty," I said, smiling.
Jasper, carefully following my lead, ran towards the deer, and as I pounced on them, so did he. He mimicked my moves, being so new to this experience. Finally, when we were done, he smiled at me brightly. "Wow, that was, not half bad little pixie." I made a show of curtsying to him, before laughing along.
As I threw my head back, and lay down on the soft grass, I felt the rush of the air as he came to lie next to me. "Alice, would you tell me more about you?" he whispered. "No."
"Why not?"
"Because now we have to catch the sunrise, silly! Come on, get up, let's go!" I pulled him to his feet, and we were off once again. Just the thrill of a second's sprint, and we were on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea. I sat down near the edge, and he followed suit. "Now?" he asked again. "Shhh, wait, any second now…"
I didn't turn to look at him, and turned my full attention on the sunrise in the horizon. It was breathtaking. I felt an arm around my waist, pulling me closer to his warm body. And slowly, as the sun reached the middle of the sky, he whispered once more, "please, tell me."
I tilted my head back, and saw face to face with the most perfect blonde vampire. His touch was warmest to me, and his smile, his smile was absolutely stunning. "Jasper, I… there's nothing much to my story…" I said.
"That's okay. I'd just like to know." Another smile touched his lips. "Alright…"
"I don't remember much of my human life, because I was mostly in the dark. I remember I celebrated my 15th birthday in a dark room. That was the first of many birthdays alone. Well, I lost count and began to feel miserable. And one day, well, I just woke up like this." I wanted to stop here, but Jasper's gaze was still impenetrable and he seemed to want me to go on.
"Well, so, I was scared. But I realized I could still see my visions. Though they were more frequent now, and appeared when i made a decision. Later on, I realised that it worked too, when people I'm attuned to made a decision as well. So that's the beginning of my search for you. I saw the visions of you, and the Cullens. I decided that I should look for you first, and with each decision, your location, your history became clearer and clearer. My past however still remains a blur, a big black hole…"
"Well then Alice, this will be our future." Jasper said quietly. Another vision.
Jasper and I were living together, we were hunting together, we were living together, and as we stepped into the Cullen home, our hands were intertwined, and we were so madly in love.
"I like that ending."
"Me, too."
AN : I just realised Jasper's original surname is WHITLOCK, and not Hale, so there is a mistake in chapter one.
I do hope you enjoyed this, and thank you to everyone who left reviews. I will try to reply to them, and satisfy your cravings, without compromising my own.
xoxo, Cheska