Hi Guys,

You made a point there - it's a bat and not a racket. I'm terribly sorry and... well more sorry. It's a swedish thing, in Sweden you call it racket so it just came with the flow just like *snap* and I wrote racket, and I didn't even notice it!. I'm truly sorry! And yes, they are playing baseball! :)

Well here you go, read and enjoy! ;D

CHAPTER NINE

~The Phone Number~

"Corin?" I cried out loudly, but then Jasper's cold hand covered my mouth - preventing any sound I tried to make from coming out.

He gripped my arm harshly and held it in a hard grip, too hard but I kept quiet. "No! Be quiet! Are you insane? Stay behind me, and do not say a word!" Jasper hissed, but loosened his grip the second he understood -looking at my face- it was hurting.

"But he's my friend!" I protested, ignoring the pain in my arm -it would probably turn out to a bruise- and started stepping forwards, trying to pull away from his strong hands.

"He's a vampire - and if you haven't noticed, you are human!" Jasper said and pulled me back again.

Corin could have news about my siblings, or even better; he could leave a message from me to them. "Well, you're a vampire and you are my friend!" I said stubbornly - I was definitly going to talk to him, even if it meant to take twenty years or more! Or threatening Jasper with suicide attempts.

"Yeah, and is there something you find wrong with that sentence?" he asked me.

"Just... let me talk to him!" I begged, trying my puppy-eyes like the last time. "Please?!" I begged, noticing the others were quiet. Just like I, everybody thought he was going to let me go since the last time he couldn't say no to my begging. His eyes were hard to read, he almost looked like he was in pain - that it was a death and death choice. But then his face grew blank and his grip around my arm tightened.

"No." He said and pushed me behind him.

Corin walked closer with eyes on me, smiling. He turned to Carlisle and bowed firmly. "Hello," he said politely, it was meant for all of us. "Aro sends his warm regards, he wishes to see you soon again. He is doing what you asked him to and they will soon be taken care of."

"Yes, thank you." Carlisle glanced quickly at Edward who I suddenly noticed was staring at me.

"Jasper, there is no danger." Edward said and walked to us. "It's just a talk."

"No - you seriously can't be considering this, Edward!" Jasper hissed. "He can trick you - people have done that before," he said, glancing at Alice - who was watching Corin with curiosity.

"Well I would know if he was - it's not like he is translating some Arabic script or anything… Jasper, I think he means well!" Edward blurted.

"You think, yes - that is a little different from knowing," Jasper hissed threw his teeth.

Corin paused for what seemed like an eternity, but really was ten seconds and then took a step closer to us, but backed away when Jasper growled, glaring at him - getting ready to attack. "Jasper, now you are going to stop – this is only stupid and childish, he is a friend of mine and I want you to back away right now!" I said and tried once again, without succeeding, to walk past him. "Jasper. Now!"

"I will not agree to this! I won't let you go, Katie - he can kill you!" Jasper cried out. His eyes showing panic, fear, insecurity and sadness. "Please?" he added, his voice weak.

"Well, why hasn't he already done that? Why hasn't he killed me already?" I asked him, not looking him in the eyes - if I had, then I would have probably agreed to anything he said without any difficulties - "He had his chance in Volterra, why didn't he kill me then?"

Jasper glanced at Corin. "Katie."

"Jasper no! You don't want me to meet my siblings - my own family! Well, this is a way of me getting in contact with them without meeting them - now, this should make you happy and not furious!" I cried out. "Please don't take this away from me!" I whispered. If I had remembered that there actually was ten other people around me, maybe I would have phrased it better.

He turned around and took a step away, walking to Alice. He was angry, I knew that, and sad. Alice mumbled something to him. I really hoped that he would forgive me, it was just... the look on his face. He looked so... terrified and sad, and I just wanted to say sorry and wrap my arms around him comforting him. It hurt knowing that I had caused him pain. But this was something I had to do! - or at least that was what I was trying to convince myself.

I walked to Corin."Hi." I said, embarrassed. "You look..." I paused, what was I going to say? Think, Katie, think! Oh, come on! Brain, please don't freeze now! "... good."

"Um. Well... it's not like I've changed since the last time we met," he said quietly, he grinned looking confused.

"I... know." I said, even more embarrassed. "Are Alec and Jane going to be punished?" I asked him, to change the subject.

He didn't say anything at first, but then nodded slowly. "Yes, they have broken the rules by not doing what they're told..." he told me.

"B-but -but they are his best guards." I stuttered. Would they die? Would he kill them? Because of me?

"Yes, but if Aro finds them useless - he won't think twice on removing them." Corin said quietly, looking away from my big panicked eyes. "Trust me, I've been in the Volturi for a long time and there has been people like them in that position before... Katie, if they are not following orders," he paused looking me in the eyes,"- they will die."

"No! No! No!" I sobbed to myself. I put my hands around my head to make the horrible feeling of a breakdown coming closer. They were going to die. They were going to die! All because of me. They were going to die because of me! "Is there anything we can do?" I asked him, feeling a tear running down my cheek. Jasper was standing behind me, pulling me in for a hug. He was there, he was not mad anymore -or maybe he was, but saved it for later. Either way, I was grateful. "Mood swings." I murmured, so low that I could not hear it myself, but Jasper hugged me even more and did even let out a little chuckle.

"Any information may spare them." Corin said after a while.

Alice Cullen

I was proud of him, he stood there and supported his friend, they were so close -touching- and he restrained himself. He could even hug her. I was so proud that if I could; I would have been crying. I knew that it was a bit easier for him now that she was crying, it distracted him.

I knew how hard it was for him. Every time he was near her, he was thinking on killing her. But I also knew how strong he was. 'Cause every time he was near her, he resisted the temptation of her blood. She trusted him fully and I knew that she could, I knew that he would never do anything to hurt her -not on purpose- maybe even one day she would become a part of our family. A sister. A good friend. Though that thought was quite frustrating, 'cause I could not see if there was any chance for it to happen.

"I have a power. Whatever ability that is casted on me, is thrown back at them - like a boomerang or a mirror." Katie said weakly. Yes. A mirror. That was a very good example. When I tried to look at her future it was like looking into a mirror, only seeing myself. It was hard to explain."Tell Aro that - and tell him that I told you only because I want my siblings alive... do you think it would help if I said that I would never join him if he ki..." she was not able to finish the sentence.

Corin nodded shortly. It would help - it would save her siblings. I knew that. He would do anything for me, Jasper, Edward or Bella to join - when he hear about Katie's ability and her "threat", then he will keep them alive, surely. I didn't need my ability to see that.

"Katie, are you ok?" I heard Jasper ask her.

"Yes." She said, but her voice was - clearly to us - shaking, and you could easily hear the sadness. I knew what she was thinking, it was not hard to guess when you could see her face. Poor girl.

"It's not your fault," Jasper whispered. He had just as everybody else known her thoughts, it was as if they were lying out for everybody to see.

She didn't answer, instead another tear ran down her cheek.

Edward... can you please do me a favor? I knew he was listening as soon as I said his name, and after all that I had done for him and Bella - I knew he would do anything I asked. Go after Corin later. Give him our number, ask him to pass it on to Alec and Jane. You know that she needs them... it's for the best. It will make her happy, and if it makes her happy - it will make Jasper happy. Edward swiftly looked up and down, none in the family -not even Bella- understood that it was a nod, they were distracted by the scene.

"I will do what you asked me to," Corin told her. His smile was warm and meant to be comforting her, anyone could understand that they really were friends and that as long as he hunts - there was no danger in him eating her. Either way, he would get in lots of trouble if he did. "I should be going."

"Can you tell them... tell them that I miss than and that I love them, but it's better this way. That I am safe and good where I am!" she said weakly, and I saw her gripping Jasper's hand as to tell him that she was staying for him.

I found it cute - the Jasper and Katie bestfriends thing. Though inside of me, my cold heart alarmed and the thoughts returned - Alice, what if he won't make her one of us... What will happen to Jasper then...? Alice, how will it effect Jasper when she is gone...? Will he be okay with it...? Will he be moping for centuries...? That will be your fault if he does...! You were the one telling him to be around her...! Telling him to bond with a human...! Alice, will you forgive yourself if this turns out badly...? Alice - what were you thinking...? How can you ask a vampire -who lives forever- to be friends with a human -who will die sooner or later-...? Stupid you! Stupid me! My head was hurting, I shouldn't have been thinking those thoughts -I knew that- but it was hard. I didn't know if they were true or not, if what I had done was good or not. I blamed myself, and yet I thought it was a good idea. If this meant that Jasper could be around humans without any trouble, wasn't that a good idea then? I sighed to myself. I didn't know what to think anymore, I had simply thought of it too much.

Edward walked to my side, giving me a hug. "It will be okay, it will be fine!" he whispered so only I could hear it. It was quite comforting actually. I was lucky to have Edward as a brother, to have someone knowing my thoughts and comfort me as they grew negative.

"I must go now, it has been a pleasure meeting you." Corin said politely, bowed again. He turned to Katie. "Guess I can't even shake your hand." He said with a glance at Jasper.

"Go! Or do you want me to kill you?" Jasper hissed too low for Katie to hear, and I was surprised that Carlisle said nothing about it.

"Bye my friend." He said - Katie smiled faintly and waved once - he smiled, turned around then walked out into the trees.

Jasper turned around when he was no longer visible. "We should go home."

Edward looked at Jasper, then glanced at me; his eyes warning. I understood at once - Jasper and I would have to go hunting again soon.

Katie Brown

"What happens if I become a vampire?" I asked Jasper as we sat in his room. I was sitting on the bed, eating dinner - French fries and a hamburger. Edward drove to the closest drive-in, and I had no idea of how far away that was with all of The Cullens driving like maniacs. I only knew that he was back within forty minutes.

"You will never become a vampire - so you don't have to think about it." Jasper said, he said softly.

"But... I want to know," I said and took a bite of the hamburger.

"You have beautiful eyes," Jasper snorted bitterly. "They are so green, so charming. They take my breath away -well, it's not like I need to breathe- but, you know what I mean. It's like I have to do what you tell me to when I look at you... it's like I have no free will. I put up rules, but they are to no use because you will only convince me that the rules have no purpose." He was annoyed by it, that was for sure.

I stared at him. My eyes. My eyes, a heritage from my mother, charmed a vampire. Took a vampires breath away. "I'm sorry... it's not my meaning," I apologized and quickly looked away. I would not look at him if he found it annoying.

"Oh, you have misunderstood me. My meaning is that... your eyes. You have either way gotten them from your father or your mother. Katie, they will not be green when you are a vampire, they will be red at first and then turn gold if you don't hunt humans, which will be hard... You will not have the resemblence between you and your parents anymore. You will turn pale, just like me, and you will hunger after blood pretty much all the time for some hundred years - but after a lifetime, everybody you knew will be dead. Your father, your friends."

"I would have you, and the rest of your family, I would have Alec, Jane and Corin," I said quietly.

He nodded. "Yes, but would you be comfortable with killing humans?" he asked, holding his voice steady.

"Maybe I would hunt animals like you do." I answered with the same tone and he nodded one more time. "And I would be beautiful."

"You want to become a vampire because you want to be beautiful?" he blurted, his eyes growing big with anger.

"No." I said at once -to be honest, I was a little scared- but I was speaking the truth. "And I have not said anything about 'wanting to become a vampire'"

"Then why are we talking about this?" he asked, making his voice softer.

"Because I am curious," I said and added without thinking. "Bella became a vampire because she wanted to be with Edward forever."

He looked at me confused. " I don't understand. What do you mean?" he asked. Then suddenly his eyes grew big, his face grew paler -paler than usual- and he hurried forwards gripping my arm at the same place as before and the food flew through the air, all over the room. "Don't... d-don't tell me that you... in Volterra. A vampire? You fell in love with a ... You and a vampire? And you two had... A vampire?" I noticed his eyes had suddenly turned black instead of gold.

"Jasper, you're hurting me." I cried out in pain, and he let go of me.

"I-I... you? A vampire?" he was shocked.

I held my arm, shocked. I was breathing quickly, terrified. "Jasper, of course not! How can you even think such a thing of me? I have never really loved anyone in my whole life!" I cried out, hurt by him thinking so. "I can only dream!" I added and blushed, thinking back.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm down - then his eyes caught my arm. "Oh, Katie! I am so sorry! I-I... there is not words to describe how sorry I am. What if I broke something. Maybe... maybe we should take you to Carlisle!" he said worried, looking helpless. He brushed his hand so softly over the mark taking form that I almost didn't notice it - it felt good, the coldness against the bruise. "Two times on one day..." he sobbed quietly. "I am really not good at this!" he said sadly. "What a good vampire I am!" his tone ironic, and added sadly; "Maybe it's best of you stay with the others and I leave, maybe that would be better!"

"Jasper, I'm fine. You didn't mean it. You just... didn't think properly. It would never had happened if I wouldn't have asked you about it! There. Look! I can move it! There is no problems. I'm just fine! It doesn't hurt at all!" I lied, keeping my poker face, and thanked God for my ability.

"We should take you to Carlise either way," he said and pulled me up into his arms, carrying me carefully.

"Jasper, put me down!"

"But Katie-" he started but I interrupted him.

"No, Jasper. Do what I say! Put me down now!" I said softly, and he did. I sat down on the bed again and watched his face closely. "Please don't tell me that you are going to mope now. Are you?"

"But Katie... I hurt you, I almost broke your arm!" he stuttered, surprised with my calmness.

"And I still trust you - you are my best friend Jasper, I'm just fine!" I said, looking him deeply in the eyes. He looked curiously at me, like he saw something in my face that he found fascinating. I looked swiftly around. "What a mess - you all spilled my food out!" I said, watching the pommes frittes lie all around the room - and I saw the hamburger was lying squashed at the floor. "I... don't think I want to eat... that."

He looked around. "You almost didn't eat anything, should I get you something? I should drive down there..." Jasper said and looked around in his room but trailed off as he looked at me. "Or maybe I can ask Edward to go again."

"I shouldn't have been eating on your bed!" I realized bitterly, looking at the ketchup spots on the beautiful white cover, which was not so beautiful anymore. "This will be so hard to fix! Can you wash this?"

"I'm more worried about getting you some food!" Jasper said and looked at me worried - he didn't want to leave me like this.

"Just go downstairs and take something for me," I said swiftly and leaned over the bed watching the spots closely, as I looked up I noticed he had not left. "Don't tell me you don't even want to leave you to go downstairs - you are incredible! I'm fine! I'm not a baby, I can take care of myself for ten seconds!" I mumbled and started rubbing the cover - which just made it worse."I'm sorry about this."

"I was the one pushing you!" Jasper sighed. "Ok - I'll go!" he said, and was then off. I counted, wondering how long it would take for him. He was back in exactly five seconds. Five more seconds and I would have started a fire!

He handed me a sandwich. "Not the perfect dinner directly."

"I've had worse," the time my siblings disappeared, you think mom or dad was up to making dinner while their two oldest children pephaps didn't get any dinner. I lived on cereals until I was nine, then I started with easy things as noodles, hamburgers, rice and meatballs.

"Come on, eat!" he ordered me, and I took a big bite from the sandwich. "Mmm - delicious, chicken and bacon." I said and enjoyed the sandwich.

"What does it taste?" he asked, curiously. He eyed the sandwich with disgust, but yet curiosity.

"Wonderful!" I said and took another bite.

He laughed. "How describing!"

"Yes." I said and laughed with him. "You have some weird mood swings - you know that!"

"Well, it's not hard to understand why. I have all these feelings around me. Some sad, some painful, some happy, some wonderful and with you around me - I get them from me through you with a double effect. It's quite hard being sane around you then... and it's quite frustrating too, because even if I get to know what hundreds of other random people feel I still don't know what you feel."

"Do you want to know how I feel?" I asked him.

"Ha - of course I want to. Do you know how frustrating it is to know every ones feelings, and then suddenly you meet someone that you can't. A mystery. It's disturbing. Irritating. It makes me crazy!" he chuckled sweetly.

Alice and Rosalie suddenly walked into the room. She noticed the covers of the bed. "What have you done Jasper? I bought that cover in Europe, they were hand-made!" Alice shouted and was suddenly standing next to me, trying to see if there was any chance of saving it.

"We can just buy a new one." Jasper murmured and smiled to her sweetly. "And if you want to, you can always help me pick out some new clothes too - I really need something new, it feels like I'm going around with clothes from the nineteen century."

"Cut it." Rosalie blurted but Alice looked at him with a big smile.

He knew how to get her soft.

"Tomorrow?" she asked exited.

He glanced at me, who nodded quickly. "Tomorrow."

She clapped her hands in joy. "Yay - it will be so fun!" While looking at him, she suddenly froze. She had noticed his black eyes. "Jasper, we really need to go hunting-" she glanced at me wondering if this was something to tell me "-you haven't hunted since last week, and being around Katie all the time while being hungry... it's not like I don't trust you but I really don't think it's good for you!"

"It is not good for you!" Rosalie agreed as she looked at me and raised her eyebrow.

He nodded. "I have to go hunting, I know." And yet he looked at me. "I don't want to..." he didn't end the sentence but I could do it for him. I don't want to leave Katie so she can escape and run away with her siblings to some other place than where I can protect her from all the things in the word (including the things that are not by any chance dangerous)!!! -Probably something like that.

"Jasper, what you shouldn't want is to get her killed." Rosalie said, and even I found that a little unfair.

"Rosalie, would you care staying here with Katie?" Jasper asked and I flinched.

No Way! - I screamed inside my head. Unfortunately Edward wasn't there and even if he would have been, he wouldn't have been able to read my thoughts.

"Why?" Rosalie said and made a face.

"Please? Just stay here until I come back, I will be like five minutes away!" Jasper said and added; "Then I owe you one - you can ask me anything!"

"Anything?" she asked with a smug smile and I couldn't keep from wondering what she had in mind.

"Anything." Jasper confirmed.

"I'll do it!" Rosalie said and turned to me.

"You are leaving me with her?" I asked him, making a face - then, terrified, I knew it could be taken the wrong way.

"What's wrong with me?" she asked me, now offended.

"Both of you, stop it!" Jasper said, wise to end it because I had no idea how to tell Rosalie that I feared being in the same room as her, feared getting her anger pointed on me. "Katie, I'll be back soon and if you need to get me sooner you can just call me - I'll have my phone on. Everything will be fine." He mumbled but then said weakly; "I'll stay if you want me too! We can go as soon as you fall asleep."

I shook my head quickly. I wanted him to be there when I slept, I would only have nightmares if he wasn't - it felt more safe to have him there. "No, go. You're hungry so you should eat. I'll be fine here with... Rosalie." I heard myself say and I was amazed by how I could hold my voice steady. I didn't want him to leave. I trusted Jasper more than the other Cullens. Even though everybody said Jasper was unsafe and that the others in the family were more stable I trusted Jasper more and I had absolutely no idea why, maybe it was insane but I did what my nature told me to.

"Are you sure? I could stay. Just say it and I'll stay!" he said but I shook my head once again.

"Jasper, just go! Please? The last thing I want you to do is eat me!" I said and laughed - but this time, my voice was actually shaking. How did I become so dependent? "Will I have to kick you out of this house?" I asked him.

"I will have to buy you a mobile phone!" Jasper said and then turned around. "I'll be back soon, ok?"

"Ok," I said sadly. He took my hand, pressed it once. Then left the room with a smile that made the butterflies in my stomach spin lots and lots of turns. Rosalie turned to me, .

"So what do you want, human?" she asked me. Like I could answer on that question. Well it would probably sound like 'Well, I would like to meet my siblings, meet Corin again, I would like my mom to be alive, be with my dad again, talk to my friends and still have this vampire life with you guys... and I would like a soda, I'm kind of thirsty. Oh and yes, I've got this urge to be with Jasper and... hug him?'. "Eat? Sleep? Play with Renesmee and Jacob?"

Edward came walking into the room. "It's the telephone for you." Edward said and held the phone out for me.

I took it and pressed it to my ear, a bit irritated - he can't even leave me in five minutes without calling? He must really think I'm incapable of doing anything on my own! "Yes?"

You think? A cliffhanger on the end. Is it called that? Cliffhanger. Ah, who cares? Now it's called cliffhanger.

What do you think? I got this writing flow just now, in the middle of the night on a Sunday. So I like wrote the half chapter just now, it stands - 01:42. - in the corner and it's school tomorrow. Yay (not funny)! -want to kill myself!-

Ok, it's like this - I was writing and then got this big thought WHY DOES JASPER HAVE A BED? So I thought about it and then made this list;

1. To do what all people do (except Bella and Edward for like three years -or something-) with the person they really truly love. You know "make love". Maybe that's why Edward doesn't have a bed, so maybe the others really do in real Twilight. Because Edward has never loved anyone before - and the rest have each other. Then again, you don't need a bed to "do" it!
2. Alice thought it would look more normal if anyone would come visit (Alice since she was the one decorating his room)
3. Who knows, he might think it's comfortable to lie and think of... well whatever a vampire is thinking on -life or death, whatever- (I know; this one was stupid!)

And here did my ideas end. Ok - the two first ones were actually okay, but the last one was only pathetic!

For the first time Jasper is showing that he has trouble with the - being around humans- thing. He's hurting her :o Don't worry, I just thought there had to be something like that, showing that he had a hard time.

Did you notice that - Alice told Edward to go and leave the number to Corin, who was to give it to Alec and Jane. And then Jasper was gone for forty minutes (to get her food and give Corin the number, without Jasper knowing). See! I actually have a brain! ;D nice to know. I'm proud.

And I wanted you to see some from Alice POV because I wanted you to understand that Alice is onlyproud of Jasper to be that close to Katie... without wripping her throat off and drinking her blood.

Yes, there is a reason to why I made Katie Eleazar's singer, you will see soon and there will be something in quite many chapters away.

Ok - please review and tell me what you think of the story so far 'cause I don't know. I'm totally in love with Jasper (I've gotten him on my mind!)

And my normal quot ; Review or I'll bite :D