-"Every Action Has A Reaction"-

-Inspired By A Medley of Songs That Are Noted In Text-

-Sequel to "Thou Must Not Covet" & "Walking The Ghost"-

-Warning: Angst, and not for people who really like Bella. You've been warned. Characters are OOC.-

-For best results, listen to the songs noted in text. For this particular story, I'd suggest listening to only "Yes Please". It's very... suitable for the utter mess of emotions portrayed in this chapter.-

Link To Song (Erase the Spaces in the URL): http : / / www . youtube . com / watch ? v = K10J313yHFk

With the growing disarray in his life, Carlisle felt the need to resort to simplistic measures, and most importantly, to organise his thoughts. So he sat down in his study with a composition notebook and a well-inked pen, and slowly noted anything that seemed viable in this situation.

Patient Description: Innocent demeanour, evil undertone. That is Bella Swan. She is manipulative, and seemingly non-threatening, but I have more than just cause to believe otherwise. Subject has a certain talent for gaining control over those she wants, seduction-like in its quality. She seems though to have some limits to aforementioned power. Some distance range, I believe, and if I'm quite correct, she can only focus on one person at a time. Cause for this theory? Well, she wouldn't have --- logically anyway --- sent away my son to make an attempt upon me if she could handle more than one victim at a time. So thus my thoughts.

Something needs to be done. Two of my children have left, heartbroken, and it pains me that it is this way, that our family is fractured so. And personally, those two are not right together. My poor son is... well he is under her control, and not by any desire on his part. Sometimes when she's not right near him, I almost glimpse the old Jasper in him, and it makes me quite sad. It's at those times that I believe he must understand or at least remember what has happened... and I am absolutely certain he wonders where his wife is.

It's something else I've noticed. He'll look about the room, as if he was expecting her to come strolling in from the hall and his fists unclench, his arm outstretched slightly, as if he was just waiting for her to come closer so he could take her in his arms. It... is just so pitiable. And I feel so useless; I can't even figure out how to even begin to sort all the mess out.

Well, as I've said, Alice and Edward have gone off, and for now, Bella has played the spokesperson, claiming they told her that they were just going to be away for a week or so, just some brother-sister bonding. But I know better. She's obviously stalling for time, and it worries me terribly; she said I would be her next target. She never hesitated, and sometimes it feels like I am going forward towards a death sentence. All I know is...

I don't want to be in my son's position. I cannot, simply will not allow her to ruin me, or the love I have for my Esme. To let such a thing happen would be... a disaster.

He'd waited much too long, hoping that what began as a mere suspicion was just that, an unfounded suspicion. Especially when he knew the whole truth, however horrible it was. He just couldn't let this go on. Sometimes he just began to question himself.

What have you wrought?

"Jump on top of my pleasure pill?...Ha Ha Ha!
YES PLEASE! Ha! Ha!

I cannot keep
The shame that's clawed us out!
I will not keep
Your shut-up, shut-up lies!

Jump on top of my pleasure pill?...Ha Ha Ha!
YES PLEASE! Ha! Ha!"

-"Yes Please" By: Muse.

It's not like he could have helped it. He never wanted this, never wanted her. He was a simple man; he wasn't a huge fan of change. He never wanted to uproot himself or anyone else, and most importantly, he loved her. That was something he wouldn't never toyed with, had he been in his own right mind.

Never.

Ever.

Not for Bella.

Sure she was all right looking, but he wasn't attracted to her. He had always thought of her as a little sister, and that was it. That was all he had wanted from a relationship with her. Apparently she hadn't felt the same... but no. Jasper knew this wasn't about her wanting him. It was about control.

Again with the control issues. How he wished it wasn't. The first was bad enough.

He knew another woman like that, and those years had been hell too, but at least he was able to feel what he wanted to then. Not now. Her talent, somewhat similar to his, only messed with love and the accompanying lust, and yet the power was so intense it drove you crazy about her, made you forget anyone else you had loved before. He had been tricked. Out-foxed.

And the worst thing is, Alice had thought he didn't love her.

Such a LIE!

She was gone. His brother was gone, and though it was only secondary to the loss of his wife, he did miss Edward. They had been very close, good friends. Brothers. It was all HER fault. But things weren't going to continue the way they had. Instead, there would be a new shift in control. Who's the master now, Bella?

Jasper grinned as he began to contemplate his strategy. Now if only he had an ally....

"Your golden lies
Feed my role
In this forgotten space race
Under my control
Who's returned from the dead?
Who remains (Just to spit it in your face)
You know that I don't want you
and I never did
I don't want you
and I never will"

-"Hypermusic" by: Muse.

Author's Note: Eh. Thoughts? Intense? Let me know how you feel/what you think. This is short for a reason, and before you bombard with angry reviews, there is going to be another "chapter", probably more than one, actually. So just know that.

Signing off,
Candy.