I Know You (On Hold)

Chapter 7: Whitlock

Annella slowly opened her eyes and tried to focus her blurred vision. A bright light shone through a window to her right side, causing some of the blurring. She groaned as a dull pain ripped through her head; almost like she had a long night of drinking.

" Ah good, your awake." A muffled barely audible voice called to her. Annella's eyes turned to look at a blurred blond hair figure standing over her.

" W-Where am I? What happened?" Annella asked finding her throat like sandpaper. Her hand went to her head in pain.

" You are in my surgery. You were caught out in the blizzard. You had severe hypothermia so you will have a headache for at least two days and your muscles will feel stiff. I have given you painkiller to help with the headache." His voice sounded in an English accent. Annella sighed as relaxed against the pillow that was very comfortable under her head and neck. Annella sighed as she gently closed her eyes with the sun light falling onto her face, warming her up. The blankets of blue and white wrapped around her keeping her in a much loved warmth.

" Do you want the blinds closed?" Carlisle asked her, Annella groaned while shaking her head telling him a silent no. Carlisle nodded and wrote a few things onto a clip board.

" Well, I should be getting back to work. I will be back to check on you later." He smiled and turned to walk out the room. He reached the door and opened it before he was stopped by Annella.

" Whats your name?" She asked in a low sleepy voice.

" Doctor Cullen, but you can call me Carlisle." He said before leaving the room. Annella lay on the bed allowing the warmth of what felt like the morning sun warm her cheeks softly. She heard the door open and close again but did not bother to turn and look. The sounds of boots with a solid heel hitting the ground sounded walking closer to him. They stopped just at the edge of her bed causing Annella to turn her head over and opening her eyes. Her vision was blurred but she knew how it was standing over her. She gave a soft smile and chuckled closing her eyes tiredly.

" You really do know how to give me a fright, Jasper." She spoke lazily to him with a side smile. She heard Jasper chuckled and his cold hand take her left hand gently, rubbing his thumb over her knuckles in a soothing motion.

" I should be saying that to you. You gave us quite the scare, Annella." Jasper said as he lifted her hand and sat down on the bed just next to her.

" Who are you?" Annella asked his with a slight slurr in her words. She looked to him through barely open eyes.

" Jasper Hale." Jasper told her with a smirk thinking that it was just the painkillers causing her weird words.

" No, there is something about you. You look so familiar. I feel like I have known you my whole life. Yet you lived halfway around the world until a few days ago." Annella said quietly with a sigh. Jasper's smirk fell at this new found knowledge. So she felt this strange felling of knowing as well.

" Who knows." Jasper said to her with a smile while he thought internally about her words.

" Your something else Jasper Whitlock." Annella muttered as she drifted into a sleep. Jasper took in a breath. He jumped up and rushed out the room towards the one Carlisle was currently using. Swinging the door open Carlisle looked to him with a confused expression.

" Jasper?" Carlisle asked hoping nothing had happened to Annella. Jasper closed the door behind him as he walked over to Carlisle's desk.

" What drugs did you give her?" Jasper asked him urgently.

" A small dose of morphine why?" Carlisle asked severally confused.

" Can the amount you gave her cause illusions?" Jasper asked with the same urgency straight after Carlisle had finished talking.

"No. Jasper what happened?" Carlisle asked standing up.

" She asked me who I was. Saying she felt like she has known me her whole life." Jasper said as he sank into a chair.

" That could be anything. She may have saw you somewhere and not fully registered it." Carlisle answered back with a plausible answer but Jasper shook his head.

" But thats not the weird part. She called me Jasper Whitlock." Jasper told him fear evident on his eyes.

" You must have told her that name then?" Carlisle said sitting down as well.

" No, I never once told her that name. I introduce myself as Hale." Jasper told him and silence fell into the room.

" Your sure?" Carlisle asked him as Jasper looked to him and nodded.

" Completely." Was all he said. Carlisle knew that Jasper had no lie in his words. The old vampire sank into his chair and placed a pale hand over his mouth.

" Okay, I will have a look into this. We have to keep an eye on her." Carlisle said as Jasper nodded before standing up and leaving his office. Jasper walked around and back into the room where Annella lay.

Annella was allowed home later that day and was told to rest for two days. Carlisle had began to research into Annella's family history in hopes of finding something out about her. He was joined by the family as they searched through books and the internet.

" Maybe it was just a slip of the tongue." Bella said as she pulled her eyes away from the book she was ready.

" No, the way she said it. It was like she knew it all along." Jasper said as he looked at the computer screen. There was still nothing that would be of any use to their searching for answers.

" Maybe we are looking at this from the wrong angle." Carlisle said loudly with his chin between his thumb and finger.

" You could be on to something." Edward said listening to his thoughts.

" What?" Emmett asked looking to Carlisle then Edward.

" Why are we looking at her history. It would be quickly too look into Jasper's history." Carlisle told them as Jasper nodded.

" Are you alright with that?" Esme asked Jasper with a slight hint of worry. Knowing he had a bad past that he may not want them digging into. Jasper smiled to her reassuringly.

" You are all family. You know everything horrible about my past. I have no problem with it." Jasper said as they all nodded.

" Right, lets get started then." Emmett grinned and closed the book he was reading and walked over to the book case. He then pulled out a book about the Civil War in America.