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APOV
"Forks Jasper. You need to go back to Forks."
I was sitting here in the woods in Denali, thinking about my last conversation with Jasper. It had, almost literally, killed me to send him on his way, but after the last few visions, I knew I couldn't hold on to him any longer.
I paused in my thoughts hearing someone's soft footsteps coming towards me. I tried to catch their scent, but the wind was blowing the wrong way. So I just tensed and waited for them to approach.
It wasn't but a few seconds later that I saw Rosalie walking through the trees towards me. She was the last person I had expected to come check on me. Carlilse, Esme, or even Emmett sure. But Rosalie? It doesn't really matter though, not like I can tell any of them what all is going through this messed up head of mine.
"What is it Rosalie?" Damn that came out with more attitude than I meant for it too.
She stopped looking wary about coming any closer.
"I am sorry Rose. I just have a lot on my mind right now." I sighed and looked up at the sky.
"Alice, I don't like seeing you like this. But I am confused. You…." She stopped looking at me afraid to say what she wanted.
"What Rose?"
"Alice you sent Jasper away, you told him to leave. I know I don't have the full story behind it, because he wouldn't tell me before he left, and you just won't say anything to anyone." She grimaced at that but kept going. "You are getting almost as bad as Edward was before he took off. You are either holed up in your room or out here by yourself. Hasn't this family gone through enough? First we lose Bella because of Edward and his stupidly moral reasons."
She stopped with the confused look I gave her. She had never liked Bella, always gave her a hard time, as well as the rest of the family for encouraging Edward in his feelings for her. What was going on now? She's mad at him for doing what she wanted from the beginning?
She waited a minute for me to think before finishing.
"Alice, what I am trying to say is that this family, mine and yours, is falling apart. When Edward left Bella, he started this downhill spiral. Then he left, you send Jasper off, and it seems you are about to run too. But even beyond that… Can't you see the changes in the rest of us? No one is smiling much anymore, Esme tries to keep her sobs to herself, but I hear them. Carlilse and Emmett are both like broken men. I am not much better myself, but I am doing what I can. I am trying to hold what little bit of this family together that I can."
She stopped, pausing to collect her thoughts I assume before continuing.
"What I am trying to say Alice, is that I don't want to lose you too. Haven't we lost enough family already?"
I looked at her and saw her pained expression. She was trying, she really was. I had always thought she was too wrapped up in herself to see what was going on. But I haven't given her much credit. She sees more than even I do at times, because it is what is right here in front of me.
"Rose, you aren't going to lose me. I am not going anywhere. I am just having a hard time right now. I did what I felt that I had to do, but it still hurts."
"Alice, I don't understand. Can't you talk to me? Explain some of it. Let me help you through this. We, me, you and the rest of this family need to be there for each other. I know you said that you can't explain it, that you have to let it run its course on its own. But maybe if you give me just a few details I can help you. If in no other way than by being an ear."
I thought about what she said for a minute, trying to sort through it all. She seems to truly want to help, and is at a loss in how to do that right now. Maybe… maybe if I don't give her all the details of my visions… I don't know. Jasper needs to find this path on his own, I don't want anyone going to try and help or hinder for that matter. But it would make me feel a little better to have someone to talk to. Damnit! When did everything get so confusing? That's an easy question for me, the night Edward made the decision to leave Bella.
"I was standing in the woods waiting on Jasper to come back. Edward had already come back from talking to him saying that he wanted a little time to himself. I could see the pain in Edward's eyes. I knew his decision before he said it.
"Alice, we have to leave. I can't put her through this anymore. She will be safer if we leave and let her live her human life. I have to get her home now, but we will discuss it more when I come back. I am not going to change my mind." With that he turned and went to get her from the house.
As soon as he walked off the first vision came to me.
Bella and Jasper sitting on a blanket in a small open field similar to our baseball field but much smaller. They were talking and she was eating. Then the sun came out from behind the clouds. She looked over at him and smiled shyly while he stood and took off his shirt. Showing all the scars he had from his life before me. Bella gasped when she saw them illuminated in the sun, but instead of being scared she… there was no other way to explain it she looked happy.
"Thank you for showing me that Jasper. I know it took a lot of strength. It means a lot to me that you did." She smiled appreciatively at him.
And then it ended. I didn't know what to make of it.
I came back from my memory with Rosalie snapping her fingers in front of my face. She looked really worried now. It is not often that vampires lose themselves in their thoughts. But here lately I have been doing it a lot.
"Alice! Alice! Are you ok?"
"Yeah Rose…" I had decided I am going to tell her what I can. She is right if I don't talk to someone soon I am going to lose it.
"Listen, I will tell you what I can of my visions. But it has to stay between us for now. Ok?" I watched her face to make sure she understood the seriousness of what I was asking her.
She didn't falter. "Ok Alice. Just talk to me let me see if I can help. I won't say anything as long as you say not to. Not even to Emmett."
"Rose, ever since Edward made his decision to leave Bella, for all of us to leave Bella, I have been having these visions." I paused, am I really sure that I can do this? Yes, yes she is my sister and friend, I can do this.
"These visions Rose…. They have been about Jasper and… Bella."
"Wha… What? Jasper and Bella? Why… Why would you be having visions about them?" She was shocked and confused, not that I could blame her. I was too, when I first started getting the visions.
"It took me awhile to realize it, but the reason I was having these visions was fate interceding. The last few visions made me realize that. Mainly the one about the past though."
"Past? You have never had a vision about the past before Alice." She interrupted.
"I know and it blew my mind as well. But what I saw… It is what made me decide to send Jasper away. He needed to go back to Forks Rose, to find his way to Bella. She is his fate that is what all the visions were trying to show me."
I knew that my pain was showing on my face when Rose wrapped her arms around me hugging me. "Are you sure Alice?" She whispered. I pulled back and told her about the vision of the past. The men telling Aro, Caius, and Marcus about what I assumed was a prophecy.
"That's… Wow… But how are you sure that it is Jasper and Bella?"
"We both know that Jasper can control those around him Rose, and in the visions I have had I have seen things that didn't make sense. I didn't think it was Bella, but there was no other explanation, and especially after that vision…. She is going to become a witch. When she sees Jasper again for the first time, he is going to brush his lips across her forehead. It is fate Rose." I whispered the last part, and she hugged tighter than before.
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