Finding My Place | Jasper Hale

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Beep. Kira felt her eyes snap open. The beeping sound coming from somewhere inside of the room she was in, jolting her into a conscious state. As Kira's eyes began to open further, she glanced around at her surroundings, suddenly aware that she was not in her bedroom.

Kira continued looking around, determining that she was in a hospital room, but was still confused as to how she had ended up here. Kira tried to concentrate on her previous memories, but all she could feel was a fuzzy blanket covering her mind. Kira took a deep breath, hoping to calm her racing heart and make sense of her situation, but was distracted by the beeping that refused to stop.

Glancing in the direction that the beeping was coming from, Kira realized that it was a medical machine, with a tube attached to her arm. Alarmed and without thinking further about her actions, Kira pulled the tube out of her arm, causing the machine to let a high pitched long beep. Kira jumped at the sudden noise, but before she could do anything else, a man in a white coat lab coat rushed in.

As the man glanced at Kira, he seemed to sigh in relief, before walking slowly over to her. "Kira," he said. "You are in the hospital. I have been looking after you here. My name is Dr. Cullen."

Kira, who had been staring at the man as he spoke, suddenly felt her eyes widen and heart begin to beat faster, adrenaline once again rushing through her entire body. She recognized Dr. Cullen as Jasper's adoptive father, and her mishap with Jasper had led to her being suspicious of not just him, but his whole family as well.

Kira felt her body moving her out of the bed that she had previously been laying on, but before she had fully gotten out of the bed, she felt her legs get tangled in the sheets wrapped around her body. Kira felt herself falling towards the ground, and a scream left her body. As Kira landed on the ground, she felt a shooting pain from her leg, causing another scream to leave her mouth.

Kira felt her body struggling against the sheets, trying to free herself, her panicked state unaware that Jasper had also entered the room, and was watching her struggling with a concerned look on his face.

Kira managed to untangle herself from the sheets and balance against the wall. The pain from her leg had not gone away, and when she glanced down at it, she realized that the pain was due to the large cast that covered her whole leg from the knee down. Kira, still cautious of Dr. Cullen, glanced back up, only to be met by the striking eyes of Jasper Hale. Kira was unsure what he was doing here, but the situations that her head was presenting her with caused her heart to race, and an unsteady feeling to course through her body. Kira once again felt frightened due to the man in front of her.

As Jasper took a step towards her, to help her sit back on the bed, Kira felt her body lurch forward, trying to run past Jasper and out of the door. Only, Kira was too slow. Before she had even made it halfway to the door from her corner of the room, she ended up in Jasper's arms. Kira could feel his muscles, even though he was not nearly as bulky as his adoptive brother Emmett, and she could feel him restraining her from getting any further away.

Kira continued to try to escape Jasper's grasp, and her lack of success only seemed to aggravate her more. As Kira got more and more worked up, struggling and hitting at Jasper in order to get free, she suddenly felt the same strong sense of calmness wash over her.

Before Kira could comprehend what she was doing, she turned towards Jasper, screaming, "What are you doing to me? How are you messing with my emotions? Stop it! Stop messing with me!" Kira turned away from him, holding her head, trying to fight off the sense of calm that was threatening to overcome her, but before she could continue fighting, she no longer felt that she had any anger or aggravation to use to fight Jasper.

Kira, somewhat dulled by her lack of ammunition, allowed herself to be carefully led back towards the hospital bed, still quietly muttering to Jasper, "What are you doing? Please stop. Please." Kira could see that her words were having an effect on Jasper, as he loosened his grip on her slightly, but not enough for Kira to escape again.

Jasper sat Kira on the bed next to himself, so he was still able to restrain her. Kira felt him wrapping his arms around her, while also taking her wrists in a firm but comfortable hold, so that she could no longer continue to fight him. Not that Kira wanted to fight him anymore. She had felt all of her fight leave her body once Jasper had held her. It was as if he had drained her of her anger, and instead replaced it with that calm sensation that Kira only received when she was near him.

Kira looked up in time to see Dr. Cullen slowly approaching her and Jasper, cautious of whether or not Kira would freak out again. He looked at her, and said in a calm voice, "Kira. I'm going to examine your leg to see if it received anymore damage."

Kira blushed, knowing that the possible damage he was referring to was due to her stunt when she had first woken up, but nodded regardless.

As Dr. Cullen checked her leg, he talked to Kira. "It seems that you broke your leg. Do you have any recollection of how this happened?" Dr. Cullen asked.

Kira glanced at Jasper, but only received a nod, as if to say that it was okay. Kira felt relieved, and glanced back towards Dr. Cullen. She shook her head, before saying, "I don't remember much." Kira's memories had begun to return since she had been awake, but she still did not have a clear picture as to what had happened. "I remember leaving the school and running into the forest. Then I tripped on a root or something and fell down." she spoke. "That's all I remember before waking up here."

Kira sighed. She was annoyed that she couldn't remember anything more helpful for the doctor, but Dr. Cullen smiled regardless. "Luckily, nothing seems to have changed. You will have to stay here for a few more days, but then you can return home and to school."

Dr. Cullen smiled once more, before turning and leaving Kira in the room alone with Jasper. Kira tried to turn to look at him, but before she could say anything, she felt herself getting increasingly sleepy. She felt her eyes shutting slowly, and fell asleep laying next to Jasper.

Kira spent the next few days in the hospital with Jasper. He had refused to leave her alone, but she assumed that at night when she fell asleep, he had gone out to get something to eat. During the time she spent with Jasper, she had begun to relax around him.

He made sure that she was always eating her meals, no matter how gross the hospital food was, and he kept her entertained. Some days it felt as if they talked for hours, whereas other days they just sat together, enjoying each others company. Kira had begun to open up to Jasper about her life and her problems. Jasper had convinced her to share more of her life with him, but she still didn't feel totally comfortable telling him everything, as it seemed that often times she was the only one sharing.

After a week of staying in the hospital, Dr. Cullen ran some final tests, before telling Kira that she could leave. Jasper drove her home, promising that he would drive her to school again the next day. Kira smiled, before walking inside. It was as if she hadn't even been gone. She walked in, and Charlie was watching baseball, while Bella had gone out with her friends to La Push for dress shopping.

Kira felt aggravated, but reminded herself that she needed to keep a cool head unless she wanted to end up back in the hospital. She walked past Charlie and up to her bedroom, ignoring him as he did to her. Kira could spare no words to him.

She was once again reminded of why she chose to leave Forks to begin with. It wasn't just because Charlie had chosen Bella over Kira to spend summer vacation with, that had just been the cherry on top. Charlie and Renee had often chosen their youngest daughter over their eldest. At the beginning of her life, Kira had not noticed the difference in the way she was treated as opposed to Bella, but as she grew older it became clear. Renee had chosen to leave Forks with Bella, Renee never wanted Kira to visit her in Phoenix, only Bella. Charlie had bought Bella a truck when she moved to Forks with him, Kira had never received a gift even close to the size of that, or the thought he put into that gift.

Kira had been treated like less by both her parents her whole life, but she felt as if there was nothing she could do about it. As soon as she turned eighteen, Kira planned to move far away from both of her parents, hoping that she could stay out of their life, as it seemed that that was what they wanted.

Kira hadn't told anyone this though. Nobody knew how she felt, and she planned to keep it that way.