Warning: Major Fluff Alert : )
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Jasper stared down at the empty carcass in front of him with a slight grimace. He and Alice had come hunting since they hadn't gone in a few days, and this was his second animal.
"Jasper!" Jasper looked up to see Alice waving him over to where she stood a few feet away. Closing the distance between them, Jasper looked at Alice curiously.
"Yes?"
Alice grinned broadly like a child. "Let's make a snowman!"
Jasper gave her an odd look. "Snowman? How do we make a snowman?"
Alice pretended to gasp and gave Jasper and incredulous look. "You don't know how to make a snowman? Really?"
Jasper nodded calmly. "Haven't we already talked about this? Texan here," he half-joked.
Laughing, Alice gestured for him to follow her. "Well then, I guess you're going to get to make your very first snowman. Come on, I want...clean, white, snow, not red."
Jasper gave her a half-smile, and Alice just rolled her eyes, leading him to a small clearing. "So how do we make snowmen?" he asked her.
Alice grinned. "Okay, first we're going to make a ball out of snow, just...roll it, I guess." Jasper gave her a strange look but did as he was told, first making a snowball and then running it through the snow until it was larger. It was more an oval than a sphere, but Alice nodded at it in approval. "Great. Now we need to do that again, only smaller so we can put it on top of that one."
Shrugging, Jasper did as told and repeated the process. Alice started bouncing in excitement for their snowman, and Jasper looked over at her, pressing too hard on the snow. The big snowball broke under the pressure, and Jasper growled at it in frustration.
"That's alright," Alice reassured him, "we can just redo it."
"So why are we making a snowman?" he asked as he rolled a new snowball.
Alice scoffed as if it was obvious. "Jasper, we have to make a snowman! It's practically a requirement for the snow!"
Jasper rolled his eyes but continued making the snowman, since it seemed to make her so happy.
"Okay that's good!" Alice called to him after a moment or two. "Now...you need to, uh, put it on top of the other one."
Jasper gave a half-laugh, half-sigh and picked up the ball of snow, carefully setting it on top of the other one.
"Great, we just need one more for the head! I'll make this one!"
Jasper sat back and watched Alice as she enthusiastically rolled the snow into a head for their snowman. She gleefully set it on top of the other two and then turned to Jasper. "I have a bag lying around somewhere around here," she told him vaguely. "Would you mind going to get it for me?"
He raised an eyebrow. "You brough a bag while we hunted?"
Alice shrugged, "Well actually I got it after I hunted and then came back, but yeah, basically."
Jasper laughed quietly and went to find the bag for her, sighing in exasperation. That sounded just like Alice. He found the bag rather quickly and headed back to where Alice was waiting for him, not bothering to look in the bag. She would show him when he got back.
As soon as he was close, Alice ran quickly over to him and took the bag out of his hands in excitement.
"So what do you have in the bag?" he asked her warily.
Alice grinned and pulled...a carrot out?
"Why do you have a carrot in your bag, Alice?"
"Why, to give him a nose, silly," she told Jasper, skipping back over to their snowman to give him a nose. "I also brought some stones that I found, and a cowboy hat. Don't worry," she said, seeing the alarmed look he gave her, "it's not yours. Can you get me some branches that look like arms from off a tree?"
Jasper sighed but agreed. It was no use trying to fight Alice once she got going. As Alice continued to decorate the snowman, Jasper wandered through the trees, trying to find anything that looked remotely like arms.
After wandering through the forest for maybe five minutes, Jasper just gave up and broke off two branches on a nearby tree to take back to Alice. When he went back to her, Alice appraised the branches befre taking them out of his hands. "These will work, I guess. We're making a cowboy snowman."
Jasper laughed and glanced over to their snowman. The stones were placed in a semicircle for the mouth, and two more above the carrot nose for eyes, with a cheap cowboy hat placed on top of its head. Alice ran over and stuck the branches in its side and then grabbed her bag, rummaging through it until she pulled out their camera.
Jasper gave her an incredulous look. "You brought the camera?"
"I had a feeling we would want it. Or at least, I would want it. Now go on and pose with the snowman." Jasper laughed, but it went over goodnaturedly and pretended to sling an arm around the snowman. "Say cheese," Alice called to him.
Jasper laughed, and Alice quickly snapped a shot. "Great! Now you come take a picture of me."
Jasper smiled and came over to her, taking the camera out of her hands and holding it up. "Alright, now you can pose with our wonderful snowman."
Alice danced over to the snowman and quickly leaned over to give the snowman a peck on the cheek, looking at Jasper as she did so. Jasper laughed and took the picture of her. Alice grinned and came back over to him again, grabbing the bag up and putting the camera away in it.
"You know, I rather like our snowman." she told him
"I would hope so, it probably took us an hour to make." Jasper lamented.
"Thrity minutes," Alice challenged.
"No!" Out of the corner of his eye, Jasper watched Alice inch away from him, but he shrugged it off and went to fix the hat on their snowman, which was starting to fall off.
Thwack!
His head shot up from where he had been fixing the hat, before he turned around to look at Alice suspiciously, who was facing the other way, attempting to whistle and failing miserably as she fell over into the snow laughing. Jasper touched his back lightly and felt the snow where she had pelted him with a snowball. Pretending to glare at Alice, Jasper carefully bent down to scoop up a handful of snow, rolling it into a snowball.
Alice gasped suddenly, and Jasper knew she had just seen what he was going to do.
Acting quickly, Jasper launched the snowball at her, grinning broadly as it hit its intended mark. Alice's mouth fell open as she stared at him in shock. "You didn't..." she trailed off.
Jasper grinned broadly, clasping his hands behind his back. "I did."
"You really shouldn't have done that," she warned him. Quick as a flash, Alice made another snowball and threw it at him before turning and running away from Jasper, laughing as he tossed another snowball at her only to miss.
She dodged around a tree and scooped up more snow. Glancing around the trunk quickly, she tossed the snowball at him, hitting Jasper in the face.
"I'm going to get you, Alice!" Jasper growled out to her only half playing now.
Alice giggled and turned lithely to run farther into the forest.
Keeping her mind open to visions of Jasper, Alice hid behind a huge tree and began to make snowball after snowball.
It had just snowed again last night, creating yet another layer of snow. She sunk a couple inches, but otherwise stayed stable as she crouched in the snow.
She saw him creeping up behind her in a vision, but before she could fully pull out again, she felt the barrage of snowballs hitting her. Alice shrieked and turned to throw all her snowballs at Jasper now.
Jasper threw his arms up in defense and turned partially away from Alice as she tossed snowballs at him. Alice used this as a distraction and ran out and away from the tree.
"That wasn't fair!" Alice called to Jasper, "Using my visions against me!" Alice started to run away from him, turning slightly to see him facing her again, laughing openly at her.
"Did you see me sneaking up on you?" Alice stayed silent. "Well there you go," Jasper said, laughing again.
He threw a snowball at her, but Alice dodged behind another tree.
Alice carefully packed a snowball tight and spun around the tree...only to find that Jasper wasn't there anymore.
She spun back around in shock to find Jasper standing behind her now. He wrapped his arms around her and smiled down at Alice
"Hey," he whispered.
Alice grinned up at him, carefully keeping the snowball in her grasp behind her back. "Hi," she greeted back unnecessarily.
"I got you. Told you I would, too."
Alice nodded in silent agreement.
"Why are you suddenly feeling mischievous?" Jasper asked suspiciously.
Alice just smiled up at him innocently. Slowly, she reached up and jammed the snow down his shirt, smirking triumphantly. Even wearing a sweater, the snow would take a little while to melt because of how cold his body was. "Looks like I got you," she told him happily.
Jasper looked at her stoically before slowly bending down to the ground to grab a handful of snow.
"Oh no," she warned him off, trying to back up only to collide with the tree. "No, no, no, no, no," she had a feeling she knew where that snow was going.
Alice saw what he was planning on doing seconds before he did.
"No!" she shrieked as Jasper mashed the snow into her hair, where it then dripped down her neck. As he pulled back, Alice ran her hands through her hair, putting it all on end. She shook her hair out like a dog to get the majority of the snow out, but some still stayed in.
Alice glared at him for a few seconds before sighing and giving up. She held her hands up in surrender. "I give," she told him, "truce?"
Jasper pretended to think about it for a moment. "Alright," he finally agreed before scooping her up in his arms bridal style, effectively ending their snowball fight.
"I'll kiss you," Jasper declared, "even covered in snow." He kissed her lightly on the lips, and Alice smiled slightly.
"And I'll kiss you even with blood on your lips," Alice proceeded to do as promised, kissing him back before pulling away slightly. "No," she decided, "Especially then."
Jasper smiled softly at her before setting Alice back down carefully. He opened his mouth to tell her something, but Alice cut him off.
"Love you too, Jazz," she told him, taking his hand in her own. He wrapped his fingers around her entire hand, so much smaller than her own.
Jasper opted then to instead just wrap his arm around her shoulders and pull her closer, smiling. "Glad to know it, Ali," he murmured.
They went back to grab the bag with their camera before they started to head back home slowly, oblivious to the rest of the world.
As they finally reached town again, they both ignored all of the premature Christmas decorations, and even the occasional Thanksgiving decoration that was still out, silently enjoying each other instead.
The walk up the stairs was slow, and they finally released one another and were simply holding hands instead. Once they were back in the apartment, Jasper stopped Alice in the living room and turned around to face her, formally taking a silent bow.
"What say you to a night of dancing, just the two of us? You'll put on that pretty little red number you just bought, and I'll wear my tux and supply the music."
Alice smiled brilliantly at Jasper, her emotions giving way how excited she was. "Where?" was all she asked.
Jasper smiled and pointed up. "The roof," he said by way of explanation.
Alice smiled again. "I'll see you up there then, soldier."
He grinned and pretended to touch the brim of an imaginary hat. "Much obliged, ma'am," he murmured to her in his southern drawl.
And Alice turned to go into their bedroom to get ready.
She sifted through her closet, trying to find the red dress Jasper was talking about. Finally finding it, Alice gave a cry of, "Ah-hah!" and pulled it out happily to lay on the bed.
Turning back to the closet, she fished around on the floor until she found the silver heels that she was looking for, and pulled those out to. She just needed to bathe to get the snow out of her hair and any dirt that she had happened to get on her, and then do her hair and make-up.
It would take maybe a couple hours.
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Alice made her way up the stairwell to where Jasper was already waiting on the roof. She had done her hair (though there wasn't much to be done) and fixed her make-up, and had gotten all dressed up.
It was a full moon tonight, but that didn't make much of a difference since it would be cloudy either way.
Almost silently, Alice got to the top and pushed open the door to the scene that laid before her peacefully.
She skipped outside and spun around like a child as the snow came down on her quietly, while her high heels clicked against the ground.
It was snowing again, but of course that didn't mean much to a vampire.
She heard the click of a lock and stopped her spinning to see Jasper standing there, beautiful as ever.
"So nobody will disturb us," he explained quietly.
Alice nodded, still slightly shocked at everything he had done for her.
Music played softly in the background, and Jasper stepped closer to her, taking a hand and spinning her around slowly. Alice just watched him silently as he spun her again just as slowly.
"May I have this dance?" he asked her quietly.
Alice nodded and Jasper proceeded to pull her closer and into a slow dance.
They danced slowly at first, but as a more upbeat song came on, they switched to a quicker dance smoothly. Alice's heels clacked away happily as she and Jasper completed the different intricate dance moves.
Snow swiled around them quietly as they danced away in their own winter wonderland, not paying attention to anything besides each other.
An 'I love you' wasn't necessary. Not for them. Jasper could feel her emotions just as well as his own, and Alice could see the love in his eyes plain as day.
A familiar melody came on, and Alice looked up at Jasper from where her head had been resting against his chest. "It's our song," she whispered.
"Yes," he agreed softly, "It is." And he whirled her into another loving dance.
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*Edit I wanted to get this out a while ago, but for some reason wouldn't let me. Grr.
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So, I have been planning fluff for, well, a long time, and every time I started to write it, the scene would change, or suddenly everything would get all dramatic, so I give you...the fluff chapter. It's almost completely fluff. I think it might've been the cotton candy I ate at our school carnival Thursday (kidding!) Sorry for the shortness.
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