Everyday Moments Of Perfection
Chapter Fifty-One: Diamonds Among The Rocks
A/N: This is based on an event that took place in Midnight Sun, where it is revealed that Edward orchestrated the beginning of Angela and Ben's relationship as a thank you to Angela for being so nice to Bella and just a selfless person in general. Personally, I found that so sweet, but this is Jasper and Alice's take on Angela and Ben.
And just completely off topic... anyone else so hyped up about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? 'Cause I am. :) :) :)
Alice foresaw what Edward had planned and smiled. It would play out perfectly, providing Emmett stayed on his decision to stick with the script Edward had manufactured.
A simple manipulation of words and emotion was all it would take. Humans were so gullible and easily swayed. Alice sighed.
She wished all couples were as simple. Of course, she was thinking of Edward and his Bella. Only, he still didn't truly realise that she was his Bella. Not yet. The only people who really knew were she and Jasper. He, because he could feel the burning desire and passion flowing between them, and she, because she had already foreseen their life together. It was futile and rather foolish for her brother to keep attempting to deny it any longer.
Alice knew what would happen. They would fall deeper and deeper in love until eventually neither could be without the other. Then the decision would have to be made, and Bella would of course choose an eternal life with her true love.
Still Edward stubbornly refused to acknowledge these facts. Yet he could quite easily see the connection between others. He was quite happy to play Cupid when it came to other people's romances.
No wonder, when it would work so well.
Edward and Emmett's conversation would stir the natural, primal emotion of jealousy and protection in Ben, and his love for Angela would spur him on to ask her on a date. She would say yes. Of course she would. Their attraction was clear as day, if only one would care to look.
Alice often wondered if human emotions differed drastically from vampiric ones. She supposed that they must, for humans to be so easily able to move on to one partner after another, always claiming that they were madly in love each time. Alice could never even contemplate loving anyone other than Jasper.
But Ben and Angela seemed different than other human couples.
Alice looked into their future, past the conversation... past the inevitable, when Ben would ask Angela to dinner and she would accept. They seemed so solid... so compatible. Perfectly attuned. Just like Edward and Bella, if Alice was honest. Just... a little more subtle. Edward and Bella's romance was dramatic, filled with overbearing passion and desire, a knife hanging over their heads. In the spotlight; Romeo and Juliet, played out for all to see.
But what about the side characters? The ones never thrust into that harsh spotlight? Are their romances any less important, their love any less strong?
Alice looked into the future, and saw Ben, walking down a street in Port Angeles with Angela right by his side. Ben turns... and notices that Angela's eyes are a perfect shade of glossy mahogany. But he says nothing. He merely reaches out, and brushes her cheek with his hand. Her gaze is questioning, but he gives a small, secret smile, and shakes his head light-heartedly, before gripping her hand once more. She gives a bemused smile, and caresses Ben's palm with her thumb as together they walk down the moonlit street.
Alice withdrew from the vision, her heart gripped with that beautiful moment, and she felt privileged to witness it.
She had always thought of Angela as being an unusually kind soul. Of course, everyone had their faults, there was no denying that. There was no such thing as perfection, not even among vampires, but Angela was always very caring. She was very perceptive and aware of the emotions of the people around her. Alice suspected that if ever Angela were to become a vampire, her special power — if she had one — would be similar to Jasper's.
Alice dwelled for a minute on Angela's future. She was a bright girl, of that there was no doubt. Alice found that she cared about Angela's future. What would she become? A doctor? An agony aunt? Alice could imagine the kindly girl doing both of those things.
To be sure, she would remember Angela Weber.
And maybe, ten years from now, she would think of her again. She would travel back and look up Angela Weber, who would then, no doubt, be Angela Cheney.
And Alice would smile at this one human's life, and what she made of it.
Because Angela Weber was no ordinary human.
She was special, in her own, little, ordinary way.
Jasper watched as Alice was lost in her own thoughts. He saw the smile on her face and couldn't bring himself to interrupt her thoughts. So he just watched her think.
As she thought, so too did Jasper get caught up in his own ruminations. He had heard Edward speaking with Emmett, and chuckled to himself at their plan. Finally, something was going to be done about Cheney's silent pining. Jasper had felt just about enough of the teenage boy's emotions to last him a lifetime. But he would definitely remember them... simply because they were worth remembering.
It was not the usual flash of teenage infatuation or fleeting lust that he generally felt from the other students when they were thinking of their crushes. To Ben Cheney, Angela Weber was not merely a crush. Of course, he was not deeply in love. Not yet. That would take time. But there was the spark. The beginnings of an emotion so beautiful, so intense and so powerful... love.
Ben clearly adored Angela. His emotions were so open, so simple... yet so strong. Being near him made Jasper just want to run from the classroom into Alice's arms and kiss her.
But still he had not acted upon these feelings. Because while the emotions themselves were so mature, Jasper remembered that Ben Cheney was still a teenage boy, and still suffered from the insecurity and fear of rejection. After all, Ben did not have the knowledge and certainty that Jasper did, which was that Angela completely and utterly returned Ben's affections.
Again, the depth and maturity of not just Angela's emotions, but her bearing, her answers in class, and just her general approach towards life, took Jasper a little by surprise. Angela was a lot like Bella in that respect. Wise beyond her years, perceptive perhaps to the point of foolishness. But whereas Bella was utterly selfless in a very passive way, Angela took a very active role in her selflessness, which was something Jasper admired. Angela consciously attempted to help others, purely for the sake of helping another human being, which was a surprisingly rare quality to find.
Jasper personally thought that fate had designs for Angela... right down to her name. What was the chance that such a pure human being had a name beginning with angel? Jasper had music class with Angela, and coincidentally, Ben was also in that class, so Jasper couldn't help overhearing a lot of their conversations. They were not the shallow, drab murmurings of classmates, nor even the not-so-subtle courtship of teenage crushers towards their crushees, but in-depth conversations from subjects ranging from literature, to home life, to life goals.
Jasper watched as Alice pulled herself out of a vision. She smiled to herself, before looking up at Jasper.
"How long have you been there?" she asked good-naturedly.
"Long enough," replied Jasper softly, smiling. "Your eyes are dark."
"Hunt?" asked Alice, holding out her hand.
Jasper took it, his almost-onyx eyes softening.
"Jasper?" broached Alice, looking over at her husband with thoughtful eyes.
"Yes, baby doll?" Jasper reached down to brush a lock of ebony hair from Alice's forehead and she leaned into his palm.
"Remind me in ten years to find them. Angela and Ben, I mean."
Jasper cocked his head infinitesimally to the side as Alice's eyes took on a faraway look and then refocused a minute later.
"I can't wait. Their children are beautiful."
Jasper smiled. "I don't need to remind you, doll. You won't forget."
Alice laughed quietly. "No, I suppose not. I don't think I could. There's something about them, something special."
"There is, isn't there?" Jasper replied rhetorically. Alice looked up at him, clearly amazed that he too had been contemplating the teenage couple.
"I can't quite name it though," Alice mused.
"I can," Jasper said, looking down at Alice, before leaning down to place a tender kiss to her lips.
Alice looked at him, puzzled.
"True love."
A/N: Well, now. I hope you guys like this. I didn't want it to be too involved, because if you think about it, Angela and Ben are only humans, so the Cullens aren't going to give them too much thought, but just enough to remember them before all the other humans they've seen over the years. And I think that's acceptable, given Bella's connection to Angela as well. So, yeah. Let me know what you thought. Feedback is adored. :)
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