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AN: Here we go, the official epilogue of Dark Salvation as we originally intended. We've enjoyed taking you on this ride and we hope that you don't hate us. From our pervy hearts to yours, thank you for your love, support, and messages. I'm an impatient kitty and well, it really isn't fair to those of you not playing on the boards with me, umm- I mean the story, to not have this today also.

Alice POV

I was wringing my hands with worry. Charlie, Jasper's boss, had assured me the last time I'd called that Jasper had missed check-in but that he would be checking in soon.

I rubbed my belly again. Jasper didn't know about the baby, his son. It had happened the night before he left. It had been so wonderful…right up until he had told me he wasn't coming right back…that he was going on an undercover assignment. He's a profiler! They are not supposed to go undercover! Why? Why did this happen to him? To my Jasper?

I knew something bad had happened. I wasn't stupid. I knew. People think I'm full of it about this psychic stuff, but it was true. I could catch glimpses of the future. It was normally very fleeting, but hey, it was something.

Unfortunately, I didn't like where my dreams had taken me last night. I saw Jasper, sick looking, gaunt, falling off a balcony, and I was terrified.

A knock sounded at the door and I ran to open it. "Oh! Edward!" I hugged him.

"Shhh, sis, what's going on?"

I pulled away and looked at him. Edward and I hadn't spent a lot of time together lately and I really missed him. We were both brought up in the same foster home. But there was something different about him…it was almost as if we were real family. There was this connection. But life happens. He was some big hot-shot doctor now and I was working with one of the top fashion designers, running their Seattle shop. We saw one another once a month now, talked every two weeks, but I missed him. And now, when I needed him, he dropped everything to be here with me.

His bottle-green eyes looked down at me in concern. "Have you been eating enough? You don't look like you've gained enough weight. Is the baby okay?"

I couldn't quite help the smile. Edward worried about me. I liked that. "I'm…okay. The baby is fine. I just…"

"Had one of your feelings?" He asked.

"Am I that transparent?" I asked, trying to laugh.

He shook his head. "Your love for this Jasper guy is all-encompassing, Ali. I just hate I haven't had the chance to meet him. When he gets back from his work assignment, he's going to have one hell of a surprise to come home to. He'd better put a ring on that finger, Ali-cat, or I'm going to kill him."

I wanted to laugh at his big brotherly ways…but thoughts of someone trying to kill my Jasper assaulted me again. I kept seeing this woman, a Spanish demon with black, curly hair and evil eyes…I shivered. "Edward…"

His arms came around me again. "Come on, let's get you to the couch, we'll talk."

He sat me down, and then got me a cup of decaffeinated tea. I could hardly drink it. That was Jasper's favorite. He preferred sun tea, so I always kept some, just in case he came home to me. I had just switched it to decaf for the baby. Jazzy wouldn't mind drinking it decaffeinated. He loved me that much.

Edward and I just sat and talked. I asked him about his latest string of girls, he hemmed and hawed his way through the conversation. He needed a woman that could be there for him. I had seen a vision of a girl, beautiful, brown hair, brown eyes, sweetheart face, and I knew she was it for him. He just had to be at the right place and at the right time to meet her. I could only hope.

I could tell Edward was confused as to why he was here, but I knew. Today…today would be the day. Jasper would come home. One way or the other.

So when the knock came at the door, I didn't jump from the sound, just stood and made my way to the door with dread pitting in my stomach. I knew. Jasper would have barged in, larger than life, had it been him. I sucked in a breath and rubbed my belly. It's okay, sweetheart, I thought to my baby. Your Daddy…was the bravest man I've ever known.

I made it to the door, feeling slightly light-headed now, and opened it. Charles Swan was standing there. "Charlie…" I started.

"Alice, dear, sweet, Alice…" He was close to tears also. Jasper was a good man; he exuded trust and a sense of kinsmanship everywhere he went. He was trusted and revered and his son would never know him…

That was when I snapped. Even knowing it was coming… "No…" I said, shaking my head and backing away.

"Alice…? What…?" Edward asked.

I was still shaking my head. "NO! Jasper! NO!" I sank to the floor with my sobs. "Fuck you, Charlie Swan. Fuck you to oblivion!"

Charlie was sobbing now too. "I thought he could get her out…I thought he would be the one to save her…"

Edward's arms were around me, holding me. But he looked up at Charlie. "Who?"

"My daughter, Bella. She's trapped where Jasper…was."

Edward POV

I watched, somewhat detached, my arm around Alice's shoulders, as the coffin was moved into place. I didn't know the man in it, but he was the love of Alice's life. He'd left her, gone to do something noble, to attempt to save someone's life. I respected him even as I hated him.

How could one do that? How could you leave the one you love? He had been ordered…I understood that. But you could buck authority. You could tell your boss to fuck off and not look back…he could have been…they could have been so happy.

Alice was always buzzing around, talking about how happy she would be when she met her Mr. Right back when we were kids. It was the one thing that kept her going. Even when she was taken from her first foster home, because she and another girl were raped by their foster father, she hadn't lost hope. She had always held out for the love of her existence, as she said.

I couldn't believe it when she told me that, when I found her cowering in terror in her room that first night. So I had done what any 'big brother' would have done. I sang her to sleep. That night, and every night, until I turned eighteen and left for college, and then every Friday and Saturday night when I could be home.

Alice was my best friend. One, that I admit, I hadn't been here for much lately. But now, now I could and would. I would be that kid's father if I had to. It was a big deal, a very big deal, especially to a bachelor such as me, but I would do it. Alice meant the world to me. I would go to the ends of the earth to protect her.

I heard the pastor drone on and on about how good of a man Jasper was, how loyal, how faithful, how we should look past this and see God's great plan…fuck that shit. I see a thirty three year old man dead because he was trying to do something for someone else instead of looking after the woman he claimed he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

The pastor finished his speech, and I stood transfixed as the coffin was lowered into the ground. Alice couldn't take watching it and her face turned into me. I held her tightly, all the while cursing Jasper.

I fucking hate you, Jasper Whitlock. You and your stupid fucking nobility have ruined her. I wish you were still alive so I could kill you again for doing this to her. I sighed. But I'll look after her. No matter what I have to do, I'll look after her. Rest in peace with that knowledge…

Aro POV

I would have thought them a beautiful couple, her swollen with child, had I not known their relationship. My own Carlisle's adopted son, Edward, and his foster sister. She would have been a spit-fire to have in my ranks.

"Felix, what do you know about Alice Brandon's monetary status?"

I watched my son flip through some sheets in a folder before shaking his head. "She has Slave Whitlock's house thanks to Misters Swan and Dwyer. Otherwise, she has enough money to get along day by day. When their child arrives, it will be difficult."

I was a hard man, but even I had a soft spot for a child. "I want an entire nursery set sent to her home tomorrow, something outstanding, Italian made, of course. Also, have her bank write off the rest of the mortgage. If there is any cost to us, take it from Maria's account. She owes Jasper that much. He would have been the greatest sub we ever created. I could have molded him into the greatest dom."

"Yes, Father."

We were standing under a shade tree some hundred feet from the family and friends. I watched Dwyer, Swan, and Stevens all sit together, remorse plainly visible. The three of them had conspired to get Jasper to take the job. Senator Stevens wanted his lovely little daughter back as did Swan. Jasper never knew that his supervisor, Phil Dwyer, was married to Charlie's ex-wife. Then, Charlie didn't know that his pal Phil had sold me Bella for the promise that I would stop taking any American citizens under the age of eighteen into my program. Bella... such a lovely girl. She put up quite the fight when we brought her in. It took Demetri and Felix weeks to even touch her without being bitten or scratched. Now she's as mild as a lamb, still a virgin too. I cannot wait to take her to Italy. I have yet to decide if I want the honor of deflowering her or if I should just raise the cost.

Alice's brother wrapped his arm around her tightly, her face turning into Edward's chest as the coffin was lowered into the ground. I watched him bend to kiss the top of her head. Poor, beautiful girl.

I moved up to toss in the dark red rose and saw the young man in full for the first time. Edward Masen was tall, auburn-haired, green eyes, clear not muddy, with porcelain skin that hadn't seen the sun in ages. I knew from our paperwork that he was a surgeon and had taken over Carlisle's place. His build was thin yet muscled, his shoulders broad and straight. His nose was a clean line as if he was from royal blood.

I touched Alice on the shoulder, nodding to Edward. They both thought of me as one of Jasper's coworkers. Edward's eyes met mine with a fury I'd never seen before. This young man would be my crowned jewel.

Heading to my car, Felix opened the door and slid in before me.

"Felix, I want him."

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