Author's note: Yet again this will include both points of view- Jasper's for only a very short amount of time just like last! Enjoy.

Bella's POV:

Esme and I exchanged confused looks and picked up our pace to my husband's room. I burst through the door and came face to face with a dark haired Latina. She was sitting next to Jasper's bed and holding his hand and threw a look over her shoulder when I burst in.

"Who are you?" I asked perplexed. I couldn't pull my eyes away from her hand still firmly attached to his "And could you please let go of my husband's hand!" I ordered.

Esme put a hand on my shoulder and I tried to take a deep calming breath.

"I'm Maria," She said and it suddenly all clicked in my head.

Maria was the girl Jasper had been dating when he moved to Denver from Texas. He'd broken up with her because she both cheated on him and had an extreme drinking problem and he just couldn't handle her anymore.

The break up had been very bad and Emmett had told me that she had called continually for the first two months he was in Denver training and only let up when she met someone new.

"What are you doing here?" I seethed over the fact that she still hadn't let go of Jasper's hand.

"I heard mi amour was hurt and I came right away," She said a creepy smile on her face "I would have been here sooner but I needed to find someone to watch my son."

"Jasper is not your love," I spat "Get out and I swear to goodness if you don't I will remove you myself."

She stood and pressed a kiss to Jasper's cheek and I just about launched at her- would have if Esme hadn't gripped my arm tighter.

She held her head high and marched past us purposely pushing me backwards with her shoulder.

"Who on earth was that!" Esme asked anger growing clear on her features.

"That was Jasper's ex girlfriend from Houston." I sighed and took the seat she had just vacated.

"She looks like quite the piece of work," Esme pulled a chair up onto the other side of the bed

"She is," I said reaching up and running my fingers along the side of Jasper's face and twirling a curl around my fingers. "She treated him really awful."

"You and Jasper sure had some frogs before you found each other." Esme said softly and gave me a gentle smile.

I laughed boisterously for the first time since the shooting "We sure did. But he's my prince and I'm so glad I found him. Our pasts are what made us the people we are today and what have made us such a great couple. We were so hurt in the past that we know that we don't want to ruin our relationship with petty arguments or jeers and would never put the other through the same pain we went through before ever again."

She smiled and ran a hand along Jasper's arm gently "He looks so handsome even with all these machines."

I smiled faintly "He does."

We sat quietly for a couple of minutes when one of the police guards walked in, his name was Riley and he was one of the newest to the force having taken Jasper's spot when he was promoted.

"Mrs. Whitlock," He said and I picked out a soft southern twang "I just wanted to say that I'll be here all night."

"Thanks Riley," I smiled and he turned to leave.

"Wait Riley," I suddenly said "If a Latina woman, about five foot six, tries to come in please don't let her."

"Will do," He said "I'll just add her to the list. Did she cause a problem earlier?"

"I just don't want her anywhere near Jasper after the crap she put him through in the past." I explained.

He nodded and parked himself in the chair the hospital had provided for the cops that had been standing guard.

"So, Esme, why did you guys decide to adopt from Ireland?" I asked as I stroked Jasper's arm carefully. "And why didn't you tell any of us!" I teased her.

"Carlisle and I travelled there a couple of years ago and loved it and when we spoke to different international adoption agencies they were one of the first that responded. A young girl chose us from a file of potential prospective couples and we didn't say anything in case she changed her mind."

I turned to my husband and spoke directly to him "We have a new niece. She's beautiful, three weeks old, dark red hair, grey eyes. Her name is Aideen. I can't wait until you wake up so you can meet her."

Esme smiled at me and then spoke to Jasper as well "Carlisle and I are hoping that you and Bella may agree to be Aideen's godparents. We don't know anybody better for the job. You two are doing such an amazing job with your kids."

We sat and chatted with Jasper and between ourselves until visiting hours were over and as Esme got ready to go I leaned down to Jasper and spoke quietly "I'm going to bring Char and Cole in to see you tomorrow. They really miss you and want to see you, I don't want them to see you like this but they do need to see you. I love you so much Jasper. Please come home soon."

I pressed a kiss to the corner of his lips and sighed as I backed away from him. I hated leaving him so much and my heart just ached every single time I was away from him.

Esme put her arm around my shoulders and gave me a reassuring squeeze as we walked down the hallway and into the cool night air.

I dropped Esme off and she wished me a good night and hoped that I would get some rest but instead of driving straight home I headed to a small family restaurant that Jasper and I had found when I was pregnant with Cole and parked in the small lot.

I pulled the keys from the ignition, grabbed my purse off the passenger seat and headed into the restaurant.

"Just you tonight?" a young girl asked as she grabbed a menu.

"Just me," I nodded she showed me to my table and I said "I'll be right back to order I'm just going to wash up first."

She smiled broadly and nodded and I brushed past her to go to the rest room.

I stood in front of the mirror and gazed at myself. I hardly recognized the woman staring back at me with such hollow eyes. I had large dark circles and my hair looked limp and just hung around my face in an unflattering manner.

At least when Charlotte had her surgeries I had Jasper to support me, I had his shoulder to cry on and while I loved my family dearly and knew they'd be there for me if I just asked it just wasn't the same. He always knew what to say to make me feel better, to feel safe and now he wasn't around to do that.

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I went home that night and took Charlotte's sleeping form into my bed. She snuggled close to me and snored softly in her sleep.

I ran my fingers through her fine hair and just watched her sleep for a little while before I finally nodded off myself.

I groaned as the sun hit my eyes only hours later and Charlotte buried her face into my shoulder and muttered crankily, "Mommy turns the sun off!"

I chuckled and kissed the top of her head "Morning baby girl."

She grumbled unintelligibly and I couldn't help but imagine that this was what it would be like when she was a teenager.

"Come on let's go have breakfast and see everybody." I suggested as I sat up and pulled my toddler into my lap "And then we'll get dressed and I was thinking maybe I'd take you to see daddy if you wanted?"

She looked up at me her beautiful eyes shining with excited "See daddy!" She shrieked happily.

"But Charlotte there's a couple of rules you have to follow to see daddy," I said softly and kissed her head.

She nodded furiously and said "Otay mommy."

"Do you remember when you were in the hospital and you were really sick?" I said and waited until she nodded "Well daddy is really sick and he's in the hospital and the doctor's who looked after you are looking after him."

She nodded again but looked concerned "Daddy otay?"

"Daddy will be okay," I nodded "But when you see him he's going to be asleep and there's going to be beeping machines. You can give him a kiss but you can't jump on him or be too loud. Do you think you can do that?"

"Pwomise," She said quietly "Beakfast now?"

"Ya let's go and get some breakfast beautiful." I laughed and she crawled off the bed carefully and I followed behind her.

I walked into the kitchen just in time to hear my daughter telling Rose that she was going to see her daddy today.

Rose gave me a smile and helped Charlotte into a kitchen chair and talked with her happily.

I poured myself a cup of coffee and leaned against the counter and watched my family talk. Cole was sitting on the floor banging plastic cups and plates together and on the floor and laughing happily.

"Morning daddy," I said as he walked in and scooped my son off the ground and hugged him tightly.

"Morning Bells." He said his voice gruff with sleep. "I heard Char saying you're taking her to see Jasper. Do you think that's a good idea?"

I sighed "I don't know honestly but I think she should see him and I think he should hear her voice. Coma patients do still hear people around them."

"Sue and I are going to drop by this evening and see how he's doing," He said "That police chief called last night and said they're releasing your house this morning so Sue, Emmett, Rose and I are going to go and tidy up, make sure everything is alright for you and the kids to go home."

"Thanks dad," I smiled at him.

"Come on guys omelettes and toast is ready," Emmett called out from by the stove and everyone sat down at the table.

We ate in near silence save for the scratching of forks on plates.

"Mommy!" Charlotte called holding her plate up triumphantly "I done! See daddy now?"

"Ya run upstairs and I'll meet you there to get dressed." I smiled at my excited child and she raced off as fast as her little legs would carry her.

I carried both our plates to the sink and turned to Rose "Would it be okay if I left Cole with you guys today? I think he's still too young to come into the hospital, I don't want him throwing a fit when we're there."

"Of course," She smiled "Just go and get yourself and Charlotte ready and we'll see you when you get home."

We got dressed quickly and I could tell how excited she was to see Jasper and it made the ache in my heart ease slightly.

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Jasper's POV:

I couldn't figure out where I was. I just knew I needed to get out of here, wherever the hell it was.

I couldn't remember anything about who the hell I was or what was going on.

"Hello?" I shouted into the surrounding blackness "Help!"

Nobody responded and everything went silent again until I heard a tiny voice "Daddy wake up peas! Daddy I wuv you!"

I didn't know who was speaking but I knew I needed to get closer to the voice and I dug deep inside of myself and concentrated on the voice.

A flash of a blonde haired child came into my mind and I pushed forward until it felt like that tonne of bricks that had been weighing me down was lifted and I could move again.

I fluttered my eyes and saw that little girl the voice that led me out of the darkness belonged to and a dark haired beauty with wide expressive brown eyes staring at me in amazement.

"Maria?" I asked my voice coming out like a croak.