He stood there motionless, his eyes closed with his head tilted slightly up. Small white flakes were dotting his already ashen face and his lips were contrasted completely being blood red and small blotches of scarlet outlined his jaw. Then suddenly his head snapped straight to his left, and sure enough three vampires were gracefully jumping at their prey. One by one the trio leaped, lunged, and bit their elk that this area was notorious of. Curiously Jasper eyed them, two of them had crimson eyes but the last, oddly enough, had deep bullion gold orbs. She finished first and looked up slowly to see him, and then what she did shocked him, she smiled and bounded over to him.

He should of run, and he would of, if he smile wouldn't have been so true. Her emotions were excited and pleasant; she made him feel something that he hadn't felt in a long time, wanted.

Through his daze he hadn't known that she was right in front of him, "Hello my name is Lillie, what's yours?" It almost startled him but all those years with Maria had shown him to never show fear in the eyes of anyone, even your lover. But, the way she asked the question it almost seemed as though they were in kindergarten and he was the shy new boy and she was the adorable girl that loved to make friends.

"Jasper," his one word statement had improved the 'shy boy' theory but his body was tense and eyes rigid, neither of the other vampires had noticed Jasper yet and he was glad for that.

"Well, Happy Christmas Eve Jasper," Her voice wasn't really high-pitched like the way she acted but, more so, lower soprano.

"Christmas Eve?" He realized that he had left his family, his home, his life, a week before his long-dead mother's birthday. She looked upon him with a sad look, no longer smiling, with gentle eyes and open heart. It was as that his change in attitude had caused a change in hers', like she knew that he had done something that he would regret in the future.

"My family would enjoy it if you would come and stay with us for Christmas, and even a little later after the holidays. My sister adores company almost as much as likes Christmas, having the both together would be like the greatest party ever; in her opinion anyway." The cheerful reassuring smile was embedded into her face like the stripes were on a zebra. Jasper glanced towards the two men that now were watching intently. Lillie looked them over and shook he head lightly to bring them over.

"Little Lillie who is your friend? Mama told you to stay away from strangers." He mocked a fatherly tone and a hearty tone escaped his bloody lips. "Didn't you Mama?" he asked the man next to him.

"Why, yes I did, Little Lillie you should be ashamed of yourself co hooting with an interloper, a man no less, dear it's not wise to get pregnant at your age." His high-pitched scolding action caused Lillie to laugh brightly which in turn made Jasper chuckle.

She placed her hand to her heart and spoke convincingly, "But Mama, I already am," the two gasped and placed fake scowls on their white faces.

"Anyway," the mother impersonator had spoken in a deep baritone, "I'm Gabe," His look was very tired and in pain even though a smile grazed is blood stained face. "And this is Garrison," He motioned to his look-alike. Both had army style black hair, which could be a very dark brown in the sun. The same build existed on them both, the same facial features, and the exact same short pudgy fingers. They could have been twins if Jasper wouldn't have known better.

"Will you have Christmas with us Jasper?" Lillie asked without a smile on her lips but certainly a grin in her eyes, but not one of mischief.

"I suppose so, I have no where else to spend the holiday…" He frowned at his own statement, it revealed too much of him. Lillie gave an order to the two boys to got tell 'Mama' that they were having company. Then she looked back to Jasper.

"There is something that you must know about my family," Her look was serious, and her mood turned from gleeful and carefree to solemn and disapproving, "We all are brothers and sisters and of course our parents are really our parents. Gabe and Garrison are twins, the first of the family to be turned when they were nineteen, and then on my sister, Talia, request they turned her when she was nineteen, two years after the had turned. After her then my other brother turned nineteen and Talia turned him. Then Luke turned me when I was fifteen, by accident he couldn't stand the smell of my blood but stopped before I died. Now my oldest brother Jared had a boy named Daniel, that reaching nineteen and is about to be turned, only because he wants to. Then of course there is baby Annabelle my Mama's last child, or so she says, that just turned six months. I know that you are a vegetarian but please don't harm the human members of my family." The way she told the story to him held him in wonder, a true vampiric / human family.

He nodded a few times and she smiled, God he was becoming addicted to her smile, it never ceased to amaze him. But this shocked the both of them; Jasper slipped his hand into Lillie's. After the initial silence, she lowered her head and smiled shyly. Alice would never be so with him physically, or mentally.

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