I don't own Twilight
Like I've said before this just another one shot in the same town. I don't know who I'll write about next.
Jasper stumbled out of the saloon at midnight having been rushed out by Edward Masen. He managed to make his way to his mare, Stella, and mounted her. He rode home too drunk to pay attention to his surrounding lucky for him the horse knew the way. He arrived at the big house where he handed the reins to his butler, who called for the stable boy to put the horse in the barn. Jasper made his way up stairs where his wife Maria Whitlock was sleeping.
He slipped into the dark room where Maria lay sleeping on her side of the bed. He undressed and crawled into bed next to her laying as far away from her as the bed would allow. He lay there in the dark staring at the ceiling. He despised his wife and the life he'd built with her.
Maria had been his wife before the war, the Civil War, where he was a Confederate Soldier. They were from Huston Texas, Jasper joined the army not long after he turned eighteen just after his father forced him to marry Maria. After the war, Jasper wanted a fresh start and decided to head west. Though Maria had threatened to stay if he left to go farther west, when her father discovered Jasper was leaving he forced Maria to go saying a woman's place is with her husband. Jasper caught word of a small logging town in the Washington Territory and knew this would be the best place for a new life away from the past.
At last sleep comes to him and he drifts off. What seems like seconds later Jasper wakes to the sun shining in his eyes. He sets up realizing he is alone, he gets dressed heading down stairs finding Maria at the table eating breakfast, she would be leaving soon for her shop in town, she was the best seamstress in the territory. Without a word, he walks by leaving the room. He finds his horse waiting, his staff knowing him well. He leaves heading to a small cabin on the out skirts of town opposite of the side Carlisle and Esme Cullen live on.
He dismounts his horse and slips into the small cabin finding a pixie like woman sitting at a small table reading tarot cards. She looks up stunned to see him.
"I thought you'd be expecting me," he says.
"You know that's just for show," she replies standing up.
"I meant it's Friday I visit you every Friday." He explains frowning.
Alarm strikes her face, "It's Friday?"
"It doesn't matter," Jasper says pulling her close to his body he kissed her deeply leading her to the bed.
Later as he is leaving the cabin he hears rustling and looks to his left but finds nothing. With a shrug, he mounts his horse and leaves the cabin behind him heading for the saloon. When he reaches town, he passes by Maria's shop noticing her and two of her friends and employs, Nettie and Lucy, whispering by the door before turning and walking inside the shop. They were the ones who had spread the rumor about Edward and Bella having had a shotgun wedding. He continues to the saloon.
He follows his usual pattern of stumbling home drunk and goes on to bed. When morning shines through he goes down stairs, but unlike every other morning Maria is waiting for him. She is standing leaning on the banister at the bottom of the stairs. He hesitates unsure of why she is waiting. She glares up at him anger clear on her face.
"Is there something you need Maria?" he asks as he passes her.
"You're gonna stop with seeing that fake physic whore." Maria say clamly.
Jasper turns around shocked, "What did you say?"
"I said you're going to stop seeing your whore!" she yelled this time.
Instead of denying her accusation he says, "how do you know about Alice?"
"Nettie, saw you kissing that whore behind the saloon the other night, so Nettie, Lucy and I followed you yesterday. Do know what we saw?" She demanded but didn't wait for an answer, "We saw you fucking that fake physic slut."
"What are you going to do?" He demands trying to stay calm.
"Nothing, you however are going to stop seeing her and pretend none of this ever happened and everything is going to back to the way it was." With that she walked way leaving the room.
Weeks later Jasper sat at the bar in the saloon downing shot after shot. Finally, Edward cut him off from the whiskey and sent him on his way. He stumbles out the door running into Alice she falls back almost hitting the ground. She catches herself then stables him helping him walk down the steps. She leads him to her carriage and turns back to tie his mare to the back she climbs up and takes them to her cabin.
When morning comes, Jasper finds himself lost until he looks around. He jumps up unsure of how he got to Alice's cabin. He finds Alice sitting at the small table watching him.
"Good morning." She says.
"What happened?" he asked.
"I hadn't seen you in a week I got worried so I went looking for you, I found you stumbling out of the saloon and I knew I couldn't bring you home your wife would find out if I did so I brought you here." She explains.
"Oh, it wouldn't have mattered," he says he sat down at the small table across from her. "She knows, that's why I haven't come to see you." He says.
"What do we do?" Alice asks.
"I told her I wouldn't see you anymore."
"So that's it then? We're over?" Her lips tremble.
"I don't know, Alice." Jasper places his head in his hand.
Jasper left heading home knowing he'd have to face Maria sooner or later. She was waiting on him in the foray. With sigh, he got ready to face her. She didn't look angry just sad.
"Bella saw you leave the saloon with Alice the rumors are flying." Maria said down hearted. "I am a laughing stock."
"I'm sorry," was all he could think to say. He looked down at his feet before looking at her. "What now?"
"I don't know Jasper I don't know." She walked up the stairs with her head down.