Alone Together (Jasper Hale)

03: Accepted.

Alone Together 3

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The questions began after I settled a few things in my new room. It was something I didn't think I was going to get this easily but nonetheless grateful for. They were so compassionate. Alice was the most eager to ask them all but she left a few things for them to ask. The basic questions like how old I was; 85.

"So Emmett's age?" Jasper's voice surprised me. He had been the least to speak to me this entire time.

"I'm older than him." I smirked as I knew that would get him upset.

"By two months!" Emmett exclaimed with a look of disbelief. "Two months are nothing."

I told them how Emmett and I had grown up in the same town but we had met when we were teenagers. I said he had been a huge part of my life but left out the part where we were lovers. Edward had stared intently at me when I said this. I was turned in 1934 but the memories of why I turned were still unbeknownst to me. I managed to hit my head in the process of dying. I woke up to blood caked up behind my head. The only thing I had remembered was the pain involved in me becoming what I was. When I had woken up, I was thirsty. And it only took one victim for me to realize what I had become. I ran away after that. Did what I had known from instinct. I mentioned how I gained enough control to get as close as I could for my mother. From there, I had silently watched over her and tried my best to take care of her until her death in 1979.

Then I wandered as I always did with the years to follow. I went across the country and met other vampires along the way. Managed to keep hidden a majority of it. I always made it back to Gatlinburg each year for my mother's birthday and anniversary of her death. Then in 1989 Emmett and I stumbled upon each other. And that's when we spent about a day together. From there, I had checked up on the business that my dad had started. It had still been going all those years later. I always played as the great grand daughter of Connor Bradshaw. It was hard to convince how it traced back to them. Once they had pictures of their only daughter and I had been the striking image of her, they were sold. So once the business ran out two years later, I had been able to inherit the millions. Then after that I bought stock under different names just to have money to provide myself with a house here and there. Then I finally got fed up of being alone.

"Now I'm here." I shrugged my shoulders. It took me a couple hours to get into the specifics of my entire life. But we all obviously had the time. Carlisle asked if I had any special abilities the way Alice, Jasper, and Edward had. If I had blood, it would've ran cold. I felt a surge of panic course threw me. Edward and I stared at each other and I told him not to spill a word about my previous relationship with Emmett. He nodded ever so slightly for only me to see. How could I have been stupid enough to forget he had the ability to read minds. What was Jasper able to do? "Not that I'm aware of. So probably not at all then." Nothing ever really came to me while I existed.

"Jasper is able to feel and manipulate emotions." Edward answered my question from earlier. "But for some reason–"

"For some reason I can't sense any of yours." Jasper completed Edward's sentence. I felt somewhat relieved he hadn't felt everything I had been, especially earlier. All those lovey dovey, interested feelings I had for him, ones I only ever felt for Emmett, happened again but with Jasper. Shit. Edward don't tell. I thought. Edward only smirked at me. "And I don't know what to make of that." I could tell he wasn't used to it. I meekly apologized. "Don't darling." The southern accent drew out and I was shocked. He was from the south too? "It's somewhat refreshing." He called me darling. God if I was human that would've had been red like a tomato.