Emmett was exceptionally strong both physically and mentally. He was able to control his thirst when he and Edward came upon a group of picnicking humans. Yes, it was hard for him, but Emmett simply gritted his teeth and turned the other way. Extraordinary for a newborn. Edward wondered if Jasper would be as controlled.

Meanwhile, Bella , Alice, and Rosalie cared for Jasper as they had with Emmett. Edward and Emmett were gone hunting for three consecutive days before they came back. Jasper was in the last minutes of the Change and Alice held his hand surely in hers.

"What are we going to do? We were going to be married," Alice said hopelessly, stroking Jasper's face. He was close to waking now.

"You can still be wed, can't you?" Bella asked.

"Yes, she can," Rosalie replied. "Once Jasper learns to control himself you two shall be married."

"But what of me becoming a Vampire?" Alice asked.

"It's your choice, darling. But it would be simplest to choose the life your fiancé has selected. That is what I'm going to do. Emmett and I shall love and live forever."

Suddenly the door was flung open so hard the wood cracked against the wall. Emmett cringed in the doorway, looking slightly embarrassed with Edward behind him.

"Emmett?" Rosalie asked softly, moving towards her husband slowly. His eyes were no longer ruby colored, but they weren't Edward's clear topaz yet. They were a mix of the two.

"Rose, baby," Emmett said softly, touching Rosalie's shoulder through her dress. Although he could feel her pulse as he simply touched her here, he gritted his teeth against his thirst.

"Emmett is incredibly strong for a newborn," Edward said, moving into the room. "He has, thus far, managed to restrain himself against humans. A select few can be so close to a human without tearing them to pieces."

"I wonder if Jasper will be as strong," Alice murmured, leaning down to kiss Jasper's forehead.

"We'll find out soon," Edward said. "Now please, will all the humans leave the room?"

"But I want to be here for Jasper!" Alice cried indignantly.

"Unless you want someone else getting hurt or killed, you should leave. Emmett only bit Jasper, but if Jasper doesn't care enough or can't stop, he will drink you dry! I won't have a dead human on my conscious.

After a moments hesitation, Rosalie, Alice, and Bella left the room. Emmett and Edward stayed, moving closer to Jasper's bedside.

When he began to writhe, they knew he was close to waking. Suddenly his eyes flew open and Edward looked into a newborn's eyes once again.

"Hold him down, Emmett," Edward ordered before Jasper was coherent enough to jump off the bed. "Before he does anything rash." Emmett held Jasper down with arms made of steel. The muscles flexed beneath the strong skin and Jasper glared up at Emmett with ruby eyes.

"Jasper!" Edward hissed, slapping Jasper's face a little. "Jasper, remember who you are. You are Alice's fiancé, you are co-owner of this opera house, and you will behave like the gentleman you have always been!"

Jasper's body relaxed after being reminded, his eyes blinking rapidly. Edward knew it was because of the new sense of vision. It was much clearer, and it had always been a wonderful way to see things that missed the human eye.

"Alice?"

Jasper tried to get up, yelling his love's name, but Edward pushed him down with incredible force. Since Emmett was a newborn, he had as much power as Jasper, if not more since he had drank blood.

"She's fine, come, Jasper, it's time to hunt," Emmett said. Jasper's eyes snapped to his.

"No pulses in this room..." Jasper whispered to himself. It would sound to a normal person that he were going insane, that he was just loosing his mind because of what happened to him.

"Jasper." Edward called, a little reluctant. He didn't know why this whole entire room changed from good, to feeling quite ominous. "Jasper, stop." Edward said, Edward finally realized what was going on. Jasper, was an empath. He could control atmospheres, as well as feel what was in them. He was very anxious, and worried about Alice.

"Am I doing that?" Jasper asked, as if to think he wasn't.

"Yes. You're an empath, clearly." Edward said, his eyes staying on Jasper's bright red eyes. Jasper's eyes were bright red, Emmett's were a rusty red, and Edward's a honey color.

"Come, brothers." Edward said, he felt good, saying that. He hadn't felt a sense of security and a sense of family love since he was alive. They traveled into the local park, where Edward had taken Emmett. They hunted for two hours, making Alice, Bella, and Rosalie worried sick.

"Where could they be?" Alice asked, her eyes filled with tears. She missed her baby, her Jasper.

"They'll be home soon, I'm sure of it Ali." Bella said, looking into the fiery depths of the fireplace.

- - Flash Back - -

"What can kill you? Nothing?"

"Fire." Edward said, his eyes trained on the candle which lit the whole room.

"Just set you ablaze and you'll die?"

"Not exactly..."

Bella's eyes wondered to Edward's beautiful eyes. She could have only imagined what his eyes looked like when he were human.

"Then how?" Bella asked, she was getting extremely curious.

"You rip me apart, and burn the pieces of my body. Or else, I can regenerate."

"Do you feel the pain?"

"Yes." Edward said, he wouldn't say any more of it. He didn't like talking about how he could die. He didn't like to think about it. He liked to think he'd never die, that he'd go on forever.

- - End of Flash Back- -

Bella's eyes began to burn for the lack of blinking near an open fire. Blinking made her eyes fill up with tears, and her eyes began to overflow.

"Oh, you're worried too? Honestly, they're fine." Rosalie said. She felt more stressed than ever now that only the three of the girls were eating, and soon it would become Alice being the only one who ate human food unless she'd turn the same time as them.

"I was thinking..." Bella said. Alice's head snapped towards them.

"About?"

"Why not get changed right away? I mean, if Jasper is stable, then we'll have our mates to help us, will we not?" Bella asked. Rosalie looked at Bella, with deep consideration.

"No. You heard Edward. He want's at least a month until I'm changed, and I don't think he's going to change you when he promised." Rosalie said, she sighed and looked at Bella. "It was a very good idea, Bella. But he said that more than one newborn is dangerous and it could go awry. We need to be very careful."

"Then let's move!" Bella bellowed. Alice's wedding was tomorrow!

"We cannot! What about the Opera House. Are you going to leave all of your hopes, your dreams to become a monster?" Rosalie said. She shook her head, "that isn't what I meant."

"Yes it is, mom! You think we're going to be monsters. I think we're going to be extraordinary." Alice countered. Rosalie closed her eyes.

"I didn't mean it... I'm just frustrated, alright?" Rosalie sputtered an excuse for mocking the thing her husband was, the thing she was to become.

"We're back." Emmett said, his voice calm, cool, collected. Jasper walked straight to Alice and hugged her tightly to him, but it was a very soft hug for him.

"Alice, I've missed you." Jasper said. Alice went to kiss him, he stopped her. "I'm sorry, I can't... Not now... I'll try tomorrow." Jasper said holding Alice closer.

"Emmett." Rosalie said as she jumped into his arms, even when he was human she'd jump into his arms, welcoming his warm - now cold - embrace. He was always strong, even as a human. He had to be the strongest, buffets newborn Edward had ever met, or ever heard of.

"Edward." Bella rushed over to him, and he hugged her tightly as her human body could handle.

"I love you." Bella said into his ear, and she couldn't help but have a feeling of sudden passion come over her. Her eyes felt heavy and she felt like jumping on Edward and taking all of the clothing away.

"JASPER!" Edward and Emmett said in unison. Bella, Rosalie, and Alice's heads turned to look at Jasper who's eyes were clouded and he was looking deeply at Alice.

"I'm sorry." He said apologetically.

"For?" Rose asked. He looked up and smiled.

"He's an empath. That feeling of passion and lust you just had, wasn't yours, it was his." Edward explained, "he can manipulate your emotions and he can feel your emotions..." Edward said for him, everyone looked at Jasper with sudden surprise on their faces except for Edward and Emmett they already knew, and already found how very annoying it can be.

Like his first sip of blood, it is often found a Vampire is turned on by drinking blood, so is a normal human. Well, Jasper shared the feeling of intense lust and want with Edward and Emmett. Not that hunting and drinking the blood itself made that effect already.

"That is..." Alice paused for a second, "extraordinary." Alice smiled, and her whole face turned pink with delight. She held Jasper closer, her eyes were filled with tears, and nothing was going to make things better than having her Jasper in her arms.

"Come, come, I've something to share." Rosalie said as they walked into the parlor.

"What is it, Rosie?" Emmett asked, he had a very excited look of anticipation.

"Alice's wedding dress..."

"MOM! Jasper can't see it!"

"The hell I can't." Jasper said, his southern accent sticking out as he walked at lightening speed to open the wardrobe which held Alice's wedding dress... Jasper looked at it, in all it's beauty. "What day is it?" Jasper finally became aware of how soon the Wedding may be.

"Friday." Rosalie whispered.

"Two days? We've two days 'til the wedding?" Jasper asked, Bella stayed glued to Edward, but Edward pried himself away from Bella. He was so worried that Jasper was about to have a newborn fit.

"Yes... Jasper, calm down." Edward approached Jasper cautiously, and Jasper walked to the fire place, the gown still in his hands. The artwork was so wonderful.

It was a traditional white gown, it had sequins and white mother of pearl beads on the V-neck collar, sure enough it would bring out her naturally snow-white skin. Alice's dress was small, and petite just like her. The bottom of the dress was flaired out in a puff, like a Cinderella dress, a dream come true. The sleeves ended with a point, like a V, it would cover most of her hands, except her fingers. The ends of the sleeves were decorated with the same sequences and the same mother of pearl beads.

"Here, Ali." Jasper held the silk gown out for Alice to take, she took it gingerly, and looked at him, her expression worried, and she couldn't hold it in any longer.

"We don't have to get married..." Alice stumbled upon the words. Jasper's eyes snapped to her - he looked angry.

"We will. I'm just worried about how... how different I am, if they'll notice." Jasper said. His eyes were very red, and they hadn't dulled like Emmett's had in the last few days, Emmett's eyes weren't ruby red any more, they were a rusty red color, and no eyes could compare to Edward's, who's were a butterscotch color, an awfully beautiful color.

"Can you do it?" Edward asked. Jasper looked over at him, and he didn't know what Edward was asking. If he could face the people noticing his differences, surely he couldn't. Or was he talking about being able to kiss Alice.

"Yes." Jasper answered, he was ready for both, he was sure of it.

"It took me a long time to get up the courage to kiss Bella, you know." Edward said looking at Jasper, so that is what he met.

'I'm going to at least try! This is for Alice, Edward. I want to give her the world, and this is what she wants, this is what she'll get.' Jasper thought loudly for Edward to hear, Edward nodded his head.

"Hey... Why is it, that you both have special powers, but I don't?" Emmett asked, a voice that had a teasing sense in it, but it was an actual question.

"Not a clue." Edward said, "there are just some of us who have special powers." Edward said looking down to his Bella.

"I'd like to see what you'll get Rosie!" Emmett said nuzzling Rosalie's neck very carefully, not to get tempted by her blood.

"Alice will have the gift of vision." Edward said, playing with Bella's hair lazily.

"How do you know?" Alice asked looking at him with an astonished look.

"You can see the future in your dreams, when you're a Vampire, you can't sleep, you'll have regular premonitions, just like any other dream, only clearer, you'll be able to remember them, tell us more about them, possibly even revisit them." Edward said. Bella looked at Edward and smiled, then she smiled and Alice.

"And me?" Bella asked in a small voice.

"Not a clue, love. I'm not sure you and Rosalie will get special gifts, but I'm sure of Alice." Edward said, stroking her head comfortingly, trying to be kind. He didn't want to upset her if she didn't get one, and the same for Rosalie.

"Girls, are you hungry?" Jasper asked. He heard Alice's stomach rumble, and Alice smiled and nodded her head.

"I've got the ham and bean soup in the pot." Rosalie said. All the girls got bowls and they filled up, eating what they wanted. It was unusual that they'd eat ham and bean soup, they ate it when they were sad, when they needed comfort.

"Why so blue, Rose?" Edward asked. Rosalie looked over, looking up from her soup which she was barely eating.

"I'm just thinking." Rosalie countered, not wanting to put gloom around for everyone. She was happy she'd be with Emmett forever, even more so that Alice will be with Jasper, and Bella will be with Edward. But then again, she thought back to the wonderful babies that Alice and Bella could have.

"About?" Alice asked looking away from her magnificently beautiful Jasper.

"Children." Rosalie said. Her mind was lazy and barely trailing along with her.

"None of us can have children." Bella said coldly as she returned to her meal.

"We could, if we were all normal." Rosalie said looking into the dark pools that were Bella's eyes.

"Well we're not, and I'm over that." Bella said quietly, "Are you, Ali?"

"I don't want children, mother." Alice said, nodding her head in agreement with Bella. Rosalie sighed and she looked down, not really accepting the fact that they didn't want children as much as she wanted another, but couldn't have one, for some odd reason.

"The wedding will take place in the Opera House."

"I'll have to wear the mask?" Edward asked Alice, and Alice nodded her head.

"Unfortunately." Alice paused, "unless you would like to be hidden."

"I wouldn't miss my niece's wedding." Edward argued.

"You wouldn't miss it, I promise." Alice argued, Edward shook his head no.

"No, I'll wear my mask." Edward said. He felt so free with out wearing his mask; he felt so much better that he could properly show his face, that he wasn't bothered by how beautiful his appearance was. This was family, and Alice was in love with Jasper, and Rosalie was in love with Emmett.

"I haven't seen that thing, where is it?" Bella asked as she put a spoon full of the soup in her mouth.

"My home." Edward said, he used to call it 'Bella's Palace' but in company he'd call it his home.

"Are you going to take Bella away from us, so you can have her in your home?" Emmett asked, with no trace of laughing.

"I was planning on it." Edward said looking down at the table.

"What about her house she's inherited?"

"I was planning on giving it to Alice and Jasper. It's just a few blocks away." Bella said, she looked over at Alice and Jasper. "That is, if you want it. It's very big, and he's got at least four bedrooms, a piano, and of course, you know, Alice, a dance studio." Bella said looking at her friends.

"Bella, thank you." Alice gushed, her face vibrant and very happy.

"That is very kind, Bella." Jasper said nodding a thanks.

"Is Jacob coming to the wedding?" Edward asked, he didn't have anything against Jacob now that he was with Leah, whom he was set to marry soon, if not, he's already married with all the excitement going on in this house, they've no clue what's going on at the Opera House.

"Not a clue. Bella and I are going to decorate tomorrow, would you two men help?" Rosalie asked looking at Emmett and Edward who both nodded.

"Jasper, what of Charlotte and Peter?" Alice asked.

"They'll be coming. They're other Vampires, I told them they'd be welcome?" Jasper asked looking at Edward, as if he were the leader.

"I don't see why not." Edward said smiling slightly, Jasper nodded his head and smiled.

"An extra hand hopefully." Rosalie said smiling, "Charlotte, what a lovely name."

The whole night went on regularly except for the fact the men ate nothing, and seemed a little uncomfortable around their other half's. Blood, Bella kept thinking, it's just because of the blood. She had hoped that was the problem. And Bella knew if anything was really bothering Edward, that he'd just say it, that he'd speak his mind; she knew she could trust him to tell the truth, always.

They were laying in bed, and Edward was singing to her, trying to get her to sleep since she had such a long day in the morning.

"Edward?" Bella asked, Edward looked down at Bella, who's head was on his chest.

"Yes?"

"What's bothering you?" Bella asked, her eyes were looking at the fabric of his shirt.

"Nothing."

"Liar."

"Fine, its just... Jasper and Emmett are really good newborns, and I'm worried that they'll snap soon, is all." Edward confessed with a sigh.

"Are newborns usually unstable?" Bella asked. Edward nodded his head yes.

"Very." Edward hummed again, "now sleep." Edward commanded. Bella closed her eyes, and dreamt of meeting Peter and Charlotte, how beautiful they'd be, since they were Vampires.

~ForbiddenWords & Ori~