*DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING RECOGNIZABLE.*

JPOV

I spent part of the evening sitting still as vampires are wont to do, waiting to pick Bella up for the animal fair.

At about noon, I realized that I looked like a damn hobo. My clothes were dirty, wrinkled, and smelled like human bodily fluids, and my nails were filthy with blood and dirt. Vampires don't have human body odor, but we do get dirty. I can't believe Bella was able to tolerate me like this.

What I needed was a shower and some new clothes.

There wasn't any soap in the house, so what I took was more of a 'rinse off' than an actual shower. Afterward, I went to the closet that I used to share with Alice to pick out an outfit. Alice usually keeps 'spare' clothes for the entire family at every Cullen residence, so it was pretty damn easy to find an abundance of outfits. I picked one that looked the least damn preppy and I called it a job well done. If Bella doesn't like the way I look, then she can piss off. I'm a grown man and have been dressing myself since before even Alice was born.

'No one's goin' to fucking tell me how to dress anymore. No more of that shit.'

To further prove my independence, I left the house and ran to Port Angeles and bought myself a pair of some nice cowboy boots. When I first met my Alice, I had, and always, wore a pair of boots that I had since my human days. Shortly after meeting, Alice declared the boots ugly and unfashionable and got rid of them. I was more than pissed off at first, but I after I thought about it, I realized that my Alice was a woman and knew more about fashion than I did. Besides, her love was worth more than a pair of boots that had sentimental value. How naive I was. She chose a mystery guy over me, her husband of over fifty years.

I also remembered at the last minute to buy some brown colored contacts for my eyes. I could always send obliviousness and forgetfulness to the humans like I did when I bought my boots but it would be too annoying to do it for the entire day. I'd much rather focus on Bella.

It was finally time to pick her up, and a smile came to my face. I really had missed Bella. When we used to live here, everyone kept her away from me because of my trouble with my bloodlust. God forbid I slipped up, again. Although, I do have to admit that Bella's scent is very unique. I have never met a human that smells so, so good. Which is strange because she's supposed to be Edward's singer and yet her scent always induced strong bloodlust from the family, bar Carlisle of course. What makes her scent even better is that she never puts on any artificial scents like perfumes and body sprays to ruin her natural scent.

While I have always liked Alice's scent, it was never really her scent. She would mix and match different scents to find the "perfect" one. She settled on a lemony, citrusy combination. As nice as it smelled, it never truly smelled real. It always smelled somewhat fake.

This time remembering the rules that my ma taught me, I politely knocked once on Bella's front door instead of climbing through her window uninvited. As if she was waiting right by the window, I had just barely finished knocking when she pulled open the door. I let my eyes travel up and down her sexy-.

'Wait sexy! NO. I shouldn't be thinking of her like that. No, FOCUS man!'

As much as I tried, I couldn't really deny that Bella's body was indeed sexy. She was less curvy than Rose, but definitely way more curvy than Alice. She was perfect. I smirked and nodded in approval of her attire, which was the reason why I ogled her in the first place. I had to make sure she was wearing something suitable. She was wearing something that was perfectly appropriate for the animal fair, instead of dressing as if she was going to some fancy parade as Alice would have.

I noticed that she had put on some make up, but was pleasantly surprised that she didn't load it on. Everything was just right.

"Are you ready to go Bella?" I smiled.

She blushed and nodded and stepped outside, locking the door behind her.

I took her hand and we walked to the fair in a comfortable silence for a while before she interrupted it.

"You look nice Jasper. I'm glad that you're wearing something casual for once...I'm sorry, that came out wrong! You look nice, you really do! You always have but you look extra nice looking less stiff-I mean uptight-I'm sorry, I mean-."

I laughed out loud and squeezed her hand while sending her some strong waves of assurance. My poor Bella was so cute when she was flustered.

"It's alright Bella. I know I always had some shitty outfits in the past. Believe it or not, Alice used to dress me. I mean that almost literally. She would pick out an outfit and lay it on our bed and tell me 'that I just had to wear it today'. She even went as far as saying that she had seen me visions of me wearing a particular outfit when I would somewhat protest."

She was silent after that revelation, but I knew she was just processing the information based on her emotions.

We finally got to the animal fair and I gagged. The smell of sweaty human bodies, disgusting animal blood, and human food were strong. However, I knew that Bella was looking forward to the outing so I forced myself to adjust.

All of a sudden a pair of arms wrapped around my neck and insistently tugged. I let Bella pull me down and I took greedy gulps of air as soon as my nose hit her hair and neck.

'Such an amazing scent.'

Armed with Bella's scent inside me, I straightened up and smiled gratefully down at her and sent her gratefulness as well. She shrugged in attempt to be nonchalant and tugged at my hand but her blush gave her away. My chest warmed up and constricted in a pleasant way and I let her lead me to the first stall, which had a live bear and an expert that told us everything we would ever want to know about a bear. After the lecture, Bella actually had the gall to ask if she could pet it.

No, it was dangerous, especially because I was near. Everyone else didn't know it, the bear was already fearful and agitated due to my presence. I growled in warning to her.

'She should stay by me. I can protect her.'

'Yes. Protect Mine!'

Even the Major agreed with me. I tightened my hold when Bella tried to pull her hand away and growled a bit louder. She looked up at me, a bit of fear in her eyes and I realized the way I was acting. Shame filled me and I let go of her hand and walked away. I walked at a fast pace so that she couldn't follow. I had to get away. I didn't deserve to be near her. How could I be what all I did was act like a savage?

Bella might not have been able to catch up with me, but she made up for it with her feelings. She threw strong waves of pleading, desperation, longing, worry, and beckoning. I couldn't ignore them and I stopped, but I didn't turn around. I just stood there, waiting. Waiting for what, I really didn't know.

"Jasper!"

She was getting closer. I was tense, desperately wanting to escape but I forced myself to stay.

"Jasper," she whispered when she reached me. She put her hand on my back and I flinched. Slight hurt was added to her emotional soup.

I sighed.

"I'm sorry Bella," I chuckled without humor, "I just want to save you the trouble of leaving a bastard like me."

All of a sudden her emotions changed to extreme fury. She even sent me some waves of it and I fought back a snarl, and settled for a low growl instead.

Her pupils were actually dilated spitting fire, and she had her hands on her hips.

"I'm getting so fucking tired of hearing you beat down on yourself," she said in a low growl that actually impressed me and turned me on a little. Shit.

"If something you do bothers me, then I'll let you know. Now, let's have a good time," with that she grabbed my hand and I allowed myself to be yanked to another booth. I smiled softly and sent her gentle waves of gratefulness and understanding.

We spent the entire day at the fair going to all the booths, riding all the rides, playing all the games where I insisted that I win her at least one prize. I did and ironically enough one of the prizes was a Vampire Bat. Smart ass that she is, Bella picked it. When she got hungry I bought her a salad and a some some small tofu sliders, 'cause really, who would eat any sort of meat at an animal fair? And of course, I bought her some funnel cake. When I did that, Bella decided to open her smart ass mouth and asked me why I hadn't eaten anything when I was surrounded by a buffet? I rolled my eyes and pinched her for that one.

I finally took her back home and when I walked her to her door, she turned to me and gave me the best hug I've received in years and thanked me.

"This is one of the best days that I've had."

I ran back to the house with the biggest motherfuckin' smile on my face I'd ever had.

Of course, Peter the smug bastard had to add his two cents' worth.

You're welcome. Charlotte says hi.

As annoying as he can be, I love the motherfucker.

APOV

No, it can't be. He's mine. Something needed to be done.

I dialed a phone number that I hadn't dialed in months.

"Rosalie, it's Alice."

A/N: DUN DUN DUUUUUUN! THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON IN THIS CHAPTER, HUH? :P NOW, I HAVE TO TELL YOU: INCLUDING WITH THIS CHAPTER, START PAYING ATTENTION TO JASPER AND 'THE MAJOR'. THERE'S GONNA BE SOME FUNKY STUFF GOING ON BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM ;P

R&R :)

-AKEMI