Jasper sighed and glanced down at his little Alice standing next to him. "Are you sure about this?" His tone questioned how smart it was for him to be in closed quarters with humans for an extended amount of time.

"Don't worry, you'll do great. I see nothing bad happening." Alice told him smoothly. Jasper nodded and took in a deep breath before knocking on the door.

The sound of someone rushing to the door was heard before it was swung open. John and his wife stood there, with their son in John's arms. "Alice, Jasper, please come in." Katherine greeted them, holding the door wider for the two to enter. Alice smiled and led the way in. Katherine guided Alice to the kitchen, while Jasper stayed behind with John and his son, Tommy.

"So are you sure you and Alice can't stay for dinner tonight? Thanksgiving is always fun with our family, and someone is always bringing a friend that doesn't have family or something."

"Thank you for the invitation, but we'll be heading out to Alice's family's house later on." Jasper followed John to the living room, and hesitated only for a fraction of a minute before sitting down after John. "So what did you think of the game the other day? You do watch baseball, don't you?"

"Oh yes, a lot. I was surprised, didn't think that they were going to get a home run." Jasper was simultaneously talking with John, and listening to the other two women in the kitchen as Alice helped Katherine make dinner.

"So how's your hand? I noticed it was in a bandage the last time we came to visit, but I forgot to ask." Alice said as she chopped up carrots.

"Oh, that. A couple weeks ago, last month though, I think, I cut myself horribly. Gash in my finger, I was bleeding everywhere, it's almost healed now." Jasper froze; so that was who had gotten hurt on Halloween.

Alice seemed to realize this too. "On Halloween?"

"Yes, how did you know?"

"I think I heard you. The floorboards are very thin." Alice lied easily.

"Oh." Katherine was embarrassed now.

"...So what do you think?" Jasper angled his body to watch Tommy as he recalled what he and John had been talking about.

"Well, I suppose so, but maybe you should think about it a little more." Jasper told John.

"You think?" Jasper nodded, and while John continued to talk, Jasper turned his mind back to the girls' conversation.

"How long have you and Jasper been married?" Katherine asked.

"We've been together since January." Alice told her.

"Oh, so short? From the way you two were...connected, I thought you would have been together longer."

"And you? What about you and John?"

"We've been married for five years." Katherine said happily.

A gust of wind from the open window blew Tommy's sent at Jasper full force unexpectedly, and Jasper suddenly found himself very aware of the vein running through the toddler's neck as he played with blocks on the floor. Jasper imagined the hot sweet blood running down his throat, quenching his thirst finally, and it registered that the child was playing not five feet away from him.

Alice had stood mid-making desert, struck with a vision. "Oh my," She murmured.

Those two words brought Jasper back to reality, and he swallowed the venom the had been pooling in his mouth. He ceased breathing, and turned away from the boy. "Jasper are you alright? You look a little sick." John asked, slightly concerned for his friend. Jasper nodded, not trusting himself to say anything. Alice came out of the kitchen and smiled at the two men, but she silently sent Jasper a message with her eyes.

Can you handle it, or do you want to leave?

Jasper gave her a slight nod, while John went oblivious to their silent conversation. Alice nodded back, and turned back to the kitchen. "I'll leave you two alone then." She obviously didn't see anything concrete, so Jasper tried to suffer through the pain he felt in the back of his throat.

He kept the monster that was craving Tommy's blood back, and instead tried to convince himself that doing this would help his self-restraint. Jasper leaned back an inch more into the couch as John continued to ramble on. Jasper was now unaware of what the human was even talking about.

"So how 'bout it?"

Jasper's gaze snapped up to John from where he had been observing the child. Using what little oxygen he had left in his lungs Jasper said. "I'll think about it."

"Great."

He would just have to ask Alice what John had said after this entire ordeal, Jasper decided. The wind shifted, and Tommy's scent was no longer hitting him in the face. Jasper hesitated slightly before taking in a deep breath. It was no where near as strong as it had been before, and Jasper marveled at how the wind could change his resolve to not drink human blood so much harder.

With the wind no longer in his face, Jasper tried to breathe as easily as possible. In...Out...In...Out...Jasper swallowed again, and closed his eyes.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

Alice danced in then, Katherine trailed behind her. "We finished the pumpkin pie!" She chimed, and Jasper looked to her gratefully. "It's almost three o'clock, we have to leave by 3:30, but I think we have enough time to make some mashed potatoes, too." She smiled brightly at their neighbors, and Jasper sensed Katherine giving off relief.

"Thank you, Alice. None of John's family wants to help, and both my sister is going to her husband's parents for Thanksgiving, but John here's got a big family, so I'm stuck doing all the cooking." Jasper smiled as Alice laughed her light, soprano laugh.

"Don't worry. I'm glad to help. I know how hard it's got to be to cook for the entire family." It was an easy lie that would be hard to detect.

"Have you had to cook for your entire family?"

"Normally we don't do Thanksgiving together, actually. This will be one of the first since I moved out of the house." They had migrated to the kitchen now, and Jasper chuckled to himself at the story Alice was weaving of her unknown past. He had a feeling the family she was talking about was the Cullens.

"Katherine is always complaining about me and my family being lazy." John grumbled, but Jasper knew that beneath the slight annoyance was the love that the two of them had for each other, after all, he could feel it as well as any emotion that he had himself.

Jasper had now all but completely forgotten about the scent of little Tommy's blood, which had, of course, been Alice's plan all along.

The thirty minutes had passed, and now Alice and Jasper were leaving on the pretense of going up to Alice's parents' house. She waved and grinned at John and his family, while Jasper nodded in good bye as they hurried to the stairwell.

When they got the end of the hall, Alice and Jasper her Katherine say to John, "Well that certainly was nice, although Jasper looked a little sick. Did he look a little sick to you, John?"

"He did, actually. I thought he looked a little hungry, though."

Alice laughed at John's comment as she raced up the stairs, while Jasper followed more slowly, chuckling at what had been said.

"You know," Alice started from one flight up, whispering because she knew Jasper would hear her anyway, "We could always have our own Turkey dinner."

Jasper shook his head in amusement. "First we would need to find a live turkey, Alice. I don't think too many of them are roaming around here in abundance." He teased Alice lightly.

Alice pretended to pout before sighing sadly, even though the emotions she was giving off said otherwise. "I suppose we'll just have to live with Caribou."

"I don't think there are too many of those, either."

"Ooh, I wanna try I flamingo!" Jasper stared at her...and stared...and stared... "Okay gosh, I was just kidding. I'm sure some deer will be fine. Too bad almost all the bears are hibernating right now. I had a vision of Emmett hunting a grizzly a while back." She grinned mischievously. "He's right, they do look more fun when they're irritable."

Jasper found himself noticing how small and tiny and...fragile little Alice seemed right then, even with the feral snarl on her lips, her expression ferocious as she thought of irritable grizzlies to eat. He knew she would be able to take one down no problem, but he had a hard time imagining how she would do it, even if he had seen her hunt before.

"It's not like I'm human." Alice told him like she was reading his mind.

"I know. It's just so hard to imagine...you fighting such a large animal. I know you could take it down, but I still worry. Unreasonably, stupidly, pointlessly, but I worry."

In less than a second, Alice was on his back, her lips pressed against a scar on his neck softly. "Rawr." She joked.

"Aren't you one frightening little monster." Jasper teased, twirling her around so that she was now looking him in the face.

"Aren't you one overprotective fool." She was whispering, and serious now. They stared into each others faces, and time seemed to just lose its meaning to them. "We need to go hunt." Alice finally said after a while.

"I need to hunt." Jasper corrected her.

"But I'll be going with you. You can never hunt too much," Alice unwrapped herself from Jasper and added thoughtfully, "Well, I suppose you could, but it'd be pretty hard. Can vampires get full, do you think? Not satiated, because I know they can with...well, you know, but could they ever get full? Like a human after Thanksgiving dinner?"

"I don't know, Alice." Jasper told her truthfully, and Alice shrugged.

"Oh well, I suppose we never will." She sighed dramatically, but obviously joking. "I wonder what time it is." On the right floor now, they two of them left the stairwell and entered the hallway, where their room was a few doors down. Alice danced to their door and pulled the key out of her purse, unlocking the door and quickly entering. "Wow! It's 4:15. Well that took us a while to get back up here."

Jasper shrugged. "We were otherwise preoccupied."

"You make it sound inappropriate."

"Fine then, we took our time walking up here. Better?"

Alice gave a sharp nod. "Very." She burst into giggles, and Jasper smiled softly at her antics. Alice stopped giggling immediately as a vision sprung upon her. She immersed herself in its images before blinking and turning back to face Jasper. "It's going to be sunny tomorrow." She pouted.

"Looks like we're stuck out of the public eye." Personally, Jasper didn't mind all that much. that night was fine and all, but he had come from Texas, and sometimes he longed to be able to go out into the sun more often. Not that he couldn't, but never around humans.

"You miss the sun, don't you?" Alice questioned.

Jasper just shrugged. "I can go out into it when I want, but not very often, you never know when you'll run into a stray hunter." He sighed. "But yes, I suppose sometimes I do. I miss the blistering feeling that the sun would give you if you stayed out to long back in Texas."

"One day, we'll go somewhere so remote but sunny, that everyday we can go out and enjoy the sun." Alice declared.

"Did you see this?"

"No. Just a feeling. One day we will, promise." Alice looked straight up into his eyes and smiled, her eyes dancing brightly.

"Thank you, Alice." A smile graced his lips then, and it made Alice's smile widen.

"I love it when you smile." She stated happily.

"You are the cause for most of them. You make me happy." Jasper said softly.

Jasper felt an acute pang of sadness coming from Alice. "You didn't have a lot of happiness or love in your life. Not before now."

"Now is all that matters to me. Now, with you." He sent a small dose of happiness to her. Not enough to alert her, but certainly enough to get rid of the sadness she had, so that the main emotion emanating from her was happiness.

Alice grinned widely and giggled, a side effect from being completely happy. She grabbed Jasper's hands and held them in her own smaller ones as she leaned forward and stood on tip-toes to make herself a bit taller. "Well then let's keep it that way! From here on out, the past doesn't matter, it made us who we are, even if I can't remember mine, but it won't effect our lives from now on. And if I ever find out about my life before being a vampire, I won't let it change anything."

"What if you discover that you already had somebody else...before?" Jasper asked, hardly wanting to face the chance that maybe she already had a husband she loved deeply.

"I'd stay with you even if we found that out. You out of anyone should know how I feel about you." Alice said softly, her happiness 'level' (because there were levels to any person's emotions, Jasper knew) dropping.

Realizing that they were still standing in the entryway, Jasper lightly pulled on Alice's hand and led her to the bedroom. "I know you don't like wearing designer clothes when we hunt." He said by way of explanation.

Alice nodded and started to dig around in their closet as Jasper sat on the (unused) bed and watched her silently. When she finally pulled out an old dress that she had used to hunt in before, Jasper stood up and left the room. "I'll leave you to get dressed." He said politely.

Alice shook her head, but waited for him to close the door anyway. "So proper," She muttered under her breath. "Honestly."

As soon as she was ready, the two left to go hunt together a couple cities over where wolves had been spotted recently. The spent the rest of the night hunting, even though they had just been out two days before. Finally, the night was spent, and the sun slowly came up over head as Alice and Jasper just entered their apartment.

Light filtered in through the open window, and Alice quickly closed it before sighing in relief. "That was close." She joked weakly.

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Ugh, I hate how I ended this, but I couldn't come up with anything else. I think I'm running out of ideas. I've got ideas for the next two chapters (Christmas themed) but then I'm coming up short. Maybe something about New Years, and then since I had them meet in January, I'll have them celebrate an anniversary of sorts, but then we have a whole rest of the year before they meet the Cullens. Any ideas?

So far, more people want them to get married before they meet the Cullens, if you want them to get married after, then review and leave your vote. Also, just so you know, next chapter is going to be short compared to normal, because it's broken in to two parts with the chapter after it, then they will be longer again, I swear.

I can't believe how quickly I've been getting these chapters out, compared to normal. I just hate making everybody wait!

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

~Tally