A.N. Hey, um I hope you all like this chapter. It's a bit short but I think it's good.

"Come on, Jasper. Stop being a wimp; try it."

"It doesn't smell right."

"You're being stubborn! Go get that dear."

"Alice…"

"It's better than human's."

"Nope…no it's not."

"I'm not talking about the taste I'm talking about…ethics."

"I think humans would agree this isn't ethical. It is…not right." Jasper said trying to convince me.

"Jasper…"

"Alice."

"Jasper." I said firmly.

"Fine."

I smiled. "Good. Go get 'em, cowboy."

Jasper ran to go get that dear. He hasn't eaten in days either so that probably helped. I closed my eyes wanting to get more than a dear. Here in the Appellations Mountains of North Carolina I could get more than dear. I was making Jasper start out small. But I could smell a bear. Instinct took over and I ran and attacked.

"That's no fair." Jasper said behind me when I finished. "Why do you get the one that smelled decent?"

I turned, smiling. "Because I'm not being a baby not wanting to drink deer blood and I've been doing this for a longer time."

"Hmph, I still think it's not fair."

I shrugged. "You can get a bear if you want. It's just you were thirsty, the dear was closer…Oh, you smell that another bear. Go get 'em cowboy."

He rolled his eyes, and ran to the bear. He knew how to do it fast and easy. He was graceful, like all vampires but had a ruggedness that was just him.

When he finished he turned to me. "That was easy; you don't need experience to do that."

"To do it; no not really… To do faster so we can get more soon; yeah you do need experience."

He shrugged. "Come on. Let's look for more bears." He said offering his hand.

I smiled, taking his arm. "Jasper?"

"Yes?"

"How is it being human?"

"Well, back then to all of us it's shady. But I remember something's…like my mom and dad. They were scared for me to go into war and wouldn't give me permission to go and since I was too young to sign up my self I signed up as someone else. I wish I didn't but I bet my mom and dad were devastated when they found out. Probably thought I was dead the first week, but it fun met a lot of good men there…" He went on and on about his friends, family childhood. It seemed nice to be human. It was like being innocent of danger; being innocent of vampires.

"I wished I remembered." I said when he was done.

He looked at me and stopped. "Alice, sometimes life as a human isn't that great. I mean, yeah, you don't know what you missed but you can't miss what you don't remember. Your life could have been good and it could have been bad. Just maybe you're lucky that you don't remember."

I bowed my head ageist him. "I just–your right but I could have a big brother that love me; a mom and dad that miss me; a little sister that thinks of me as if I were still with her I don't know if they exist or if existed. That isn't right, Jasper. I don't know if anyone loved me or if anyone loves me. I don't know if I loved anyone."

"I'm sure someone loves you, Alice."

"Thanks Jasper." I hugged him. "Oh, I smell bear."

He smiled. "Go get 'em, Alice."