Hey guys! sorry it's been so long since i last updated!!! Midterms ended like two weeks ago, but this past two weeks have taken a toll on me and my family :( i'm really sorry that i took so long to update this! alot things happened: my daddy went to the hospital, i had to put my pet to sleep, i'm fighting with one of my friends, and both my brothers have gotten sick! it's been awful!

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Chapter 5: Daffodils of the Divine

Edward felt warmth in his cold hands. He opened his eyes and the light of the room he was in partially blinded his vision. His eyelids blinked repeatedly until they had adjusted to being fully conscious once again. Edward sat up in the bed he was in to see that his girlfriend, Bella, was asleep on his lap holding his hands loosely. The sudden shift in his position stirred Bella awake, and she sleepily looked at Edward and smiled.

"You're back," she said excitedly. Edward could hear her heart-rate start to heighten exponentially, and before he could calm her down, the brunette was already on top of him kissing his neck, jaw-line and eventually Edward's cold, firm lips.

This, however, did not last long for Alice pulled a winded Bella off of her brother and put her down on the stool Bella had been sitting on. Bella huffed dramatically, but she dared not to defy an angry and worried Alice. Edward was confused about how he felt about Bella now. He had been so worried and lovesick over his Jasper that Bella had slipped from his mind. He immediately felt guilty and bad about forgetting Bella; even his own thoughts about Jasper and what he wanted to do to Jasper made him feel guilty. However, this was all set aside as he soon found his sister's small, soft, yet strong hand gripping his face.

"Where is my Jasper, Edward?" Alice said with the utmost ferocity and graininess in her voice that Edward was actually nervous. That did not last long though.

"Your Jasper? Oh, NO. He's mine." Edward thought with his brows furrowing his face personifying absolute dominance, but then his face flashed with guilt for being selfish and unfair again.

"He's stuck in his past, a memory," Edward said slowly feeling his voice crack slightly. He cleared his throat and continued, "The memory I saw was what I assumed to be Jasper's final days as a human…"

"Oh, and what makes you think that?" Alice snarled digging her fingernails into Edward's cheeks, but this did not faze Edward. He had experienced far worse from Alice like the time he had taken Alice's brand new dress from Paris and put it through the drying machine claiming to "finally-be-doing-the-laundry".

"Well, there were several clues," Edward said slowly, "The most prominent clue, however, was when they mentioned a Volturi—"

"WAIT!" Alice interrupted, "Which one?!?"

"Aro?" Edward answered questioningly catching a glimpse of horror in Alice's eyes and prodded, "What difference does it make?"

"Well, it's because—" Alice started but Bella interrupted her by gasping, "JASPER!"

Edward's and Alice's attention immediately flew over to the blonde vampire who was stirring out of his slumber. Alice was by Jasper's side in a flash stroking his hand and whispering words of encouragement to the semi-conscious Jasper. Edward would have done the same, but he mentally restrained himself. Instead, he began to reach out to Jasper's mind in search of Jasper's thoughts and feelings. All he found out was Jasper was feeling: better, light-headed, loved, and above all confused. "Confused about what?"Edward thought his mind pushing further, but once Jasper was fully conscious, he some how blocked out Edward's mind by thinking about the beautiful daffodils that Bella had brought him.

Edward grunted in frustration; he hated how all his siblings just knew that he was in their mind and how they could just so easily block him out of their minds when they wanted to. Edward sat writhing in curiosity and aggravation as he listened in to Alice's conversation with Jasper. Bella's warm hand found his own hands once again, but he did not stir. This confused Bella making her feel worried and slightly hurt, but no one seemed to notice; everyone was too busily attending to the now conscious Jasper.

"Jasper! Oh Jazzy!" Alice wailed and finally threw herself at Jasper like Bella had done to Edward. Edward's eyes lit up with flames of anger, but he quickly dosed them remembering Jasper's unique ability to sense emotions. He replaced the anger with guilt and continued to stare at his overwhelmed blonde brother.

"Alice, really! I'm fine!!" Jasper whispered intending for only Alice to hear, but he knew Edward easily heard him as well, "I missed you too."

"Jasper! Don't do that ever again, please!!!" Alice croaked as she pulled away from him, "You very nearly made me self-combust!"

"I never meant to hurt you, Alice," Jasper said and then looked at Edward. Edward arched his left eyebrow slightly at the sudden attention he was getting. "I'm sorry if I caused you any pain…that was not a pleasant time in my past…" Jasper thought for Edward to hear. At this Edward smiled and just shook his head lovingly because it was alright; Jasper looked embarrassed at this because his eyes shifted down and he bit his lip but quickly blocked his mind and turned back to Alice's distraught face.

Edward's thoughts went racing. "Does Jasper know? Does he know how I feel? Duh, of course he must know! He's an empath! I was in his mind! Crap! Crap! Damn, why does this hurt?" Edward thought as he felt his cold, dead heart crack. Quickly, he hid his emotions and thoughts by creating an apathetic, blank stare.

"Thank you for the daffodils, Bella," Jasper said appreciatively, "That was really nice of you."

"No problem! Are you feeling better?" Bella said caught a bit off guard from how Jasper knew that she had brought the flowers, but then again, she was very accustomed to 'weird' or 'unusual' situations by now.

"Much better, actually. Just tired," Jasper said meekly from his bed where he was now sitting up on his propped up pillows.

"Do you know what was happening to you, Jazzy?" Alice asked warmly, her voice filled with concern.

"Not exactly…I just remember everything fading and Edward calling my name," Jasper whispered staring at the flowers, "He was chasing after me, but I was being sucked into the abyss. After that, I don't really remember much."

"What made you wake up?" Alice continued tensing slightly at the thought of Edward being the one chasing after 'her' Jasper. Jasper caught Edward staring at Alice while she asked him the question, and Jasper also saw Edward give a ruthful smile for a moment at the oblivious Alice.

"Well, from what I can remember, I saw Edward drifting away from me," Jasper said slowly, "And I remember that I did not want to be left all alone in the abyss. So, I used all my energy to climb back into the light. Eventually, I was back in the light with Edward, and Edward, you said something…but I can't remember…"

Jasper huffed in some frustration as he scrambled his thoughts to remember what Edward had said. Finally, Jasper sighed and said, "I honestly don't remember what you said because I woke up shortly afterwards and you were whispering it, whatever it was…what did you say Edward? Or was it even you who was saying it?"

"I don't know what you are talking about," Edward cooed dismissively and flawlessly in his smooth, husky voice. Jasper shuddered slightly at the sound of Edward's voice. It went unnoticed by everyone except Edward. If Jasper could blush—

"Oh my goodness! Jazzy!" Alice shrieked pulling Jasper's face closer to hers, "You're cheeks are slightly pink! Are you blushing? Jasper! What's happening to you?"

Instinctively, Jasper reached up to touch his cheeks; they felt warm. His skin felt soft, and warm as well. "What is happening to me? I can't be human! I'm a vampire! I drink blood! HUMAN blood! I can't—can't be…" Jasper thought as his stressed mind raced uncontrollably.

"Jasper, calm yourself," Edward commanded in a loving tone, "And you drink the blood of animals, not humans…"

Jasper looked up at Edward now through Alice's tight embrace and smiled; he smiled for the first time happily with his mind settling. Butterflies erupted in Edward's stomach making him feel light for the first time. Even Bella didn't evoke such feelings inside of himself. This made Edward scared about what would become of his relationship with Bella, and how it would effect his actions towards Jasper. He shuddered visibly at the thought of how Alice would handle it if she ever found out. "If she ever found out about the way I feel…" Edward thought again.

All of a sudden, Edward shot up out of his bed and was standing at the large, floor-to-ceiling window and started walking back and forth along the window's length. Everyone stared at Edward's odd behavior and the tension in the room grew as Edward huffed frantically searching for whatever it was outside the window.

"Edward? What is it? What do you see?" Alice asked worriedly leaving the arms of her lover and approaching Edward's back. She placed a hand on his right shoulder and Bella came over and did the same on his left shoulder. Both of the girls were seriously scared to find out what Edward had seen.

"First, I felt the presence of another mind not far from the house, and it wasn't any one of our family's minds," Edward said through gritted teeth. Jasper could feel Edward's anger pulsing, and Jasper could feel Edward shifting into the "must-protect-the-ones-he-loves" gear. Jasper began to worry. Edward continued to say, "Then, while I was lying on my bed, I saw something bright glittering in the woods, like a fallen star. So, I ran over to the window to see what it was doing, but it ran off into the woods towards La Push."

"You don't think it's one of the wolves, do you?" Alice said in a dangerous voice that sounded like she would kill anything that threatening her loved ones.

"Well, I did at first," Edward said, slowly turning around to face the two girls and Jasper. He focused his eyes on Jasper and said, "But, I heard only one thought from this creature: I finally found you."

Jasper eyes lit up as he made the realization. Suddenly, the memories of his past came back to him at an alarming rate. Edward could see everything Jasper saw: the burning town, the dead bodies, the light in the distance, the cry for help and the angelic boy…

Edward gasped as both the girls rushed over to the squirming and crying Jasper.

"EDWARD! WHAT IS GOING ON??!!" Alice screamed in a frightened manner. That caused every member of the household to rush into the room with concerned looks on their faces. They all looked at Alice and followed her stare to Edward.

All Edward could say was, "It was Michel."

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