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Unattainable Affections	By : DryingVampires Category: Twilight Series > Het > Bella/Jasper Views: 5314 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter List
- 1-Chapter One
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Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight. I am not making any profits from the writing of this fictional story, nor do I make any claims to it or the characters who I’m borrowing. I wouldn’t mind owning me some Carlisle Cullen, though. Wink, wink.

Author: DV’s Kah-chan.

Notes: This is chapter one, albeit a very short chapter one. I will be continuing this. This story takes place about midway through Twilight, fairly close towards the end, but not quite. I am not a Twilight expert. I do not know the inner-workings of every Twilight character’s mind. Please do not eat me alive for my characterization. I’m not perfect. That said, enjoy.

Unattainable Affections

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Jasper wasn’t entirely sure when it’d begun, nor why it had started. He didn’t know if Alice suspected—she must have; she was far too perceptive not to. He also didn’t know if Edward was paying enough attention to hear the madness that was slowly taking him over. And madness it was; creeping like a black shadow through his mind and soul, poisoning all it touched.

And it was all because of one small, insignificant human. Isabella Swan: Fork’s newest heartthrob for the local mortal boys and now—embarrassingly—the resident vampires as well.

It had started slowly, a small enough detail that Jasper had passed it over as being another irritation caused by his insatiable thirst. Whenever he spotted the girl, he couldn’t help but notice color of her skin as she blushed. The way her pale ivory skin was painted over by the dark crimson of her blood. It was such perfection that he had marveled over her, causing Alice to occasionally see something—and perhaps he had done some violence towards the girl, in her eyes, at least.

But, as he was coming to realize, what Alice had assumed and what he had wanted to do, were two very different things.

It had only progressed from there. Suddenly he found himself watching her with Edward at lunch, his eyes following the way her lips moved as she spoke. He often wondered if they were as soft as they appeared. Alice watched him, too. Luckily the entirety of his family seemed to assume he was monitoring Bella to watch for any signs that she was going to give them away to the humans.

He didn’t know why he watched her, honestly. She should have been as boring and uninteresting as the rest of the humans in this town—only good for one thing: the meal they would provide.

She wasn’t, though. She was fascinating. She had adapted to their family as though she met with monsters on a daily basis. No screaming, no fear. It confounded him, pushed him farther into his down-ward spiraling obsession with the girl. He wanted to understand her; he wanted Edward to stop hovering around like she belonged to him.

His emotions were out-of-whack—he hardly knew what to make of himself anymore. He should have been staring at Alice; she was his soul mate. She was perfection, all adoration and tenderness. She loved him more than he deserved and he was still allowing this fascination for the Swan girl to continue. From across the high school lunch room, Jasper narrowed his eyes and glared at Bella’s back, wishing her into oblivion.

“Jasper,” Alice said in a whisper, her voice too low for human ears. He looked over, taking in her lovely face with a deceptively blank gaze. She frowned at him. “You’re staring at Bella again.”

Jasper withdrew from his musings, sparing one more glance towards the table his adopted brother was sharing with the girl. Once again Edward was focused solely on her, allowing Jasper’s wild, errant thoughts to go unnoticed. “I apologize.”

Alice flicked a piece of her roll across the table at Emmett, who dodged in an exaggerated movement that made Rosalie roll her eyes. “She’s not dangerous. Besides, we’re going to be great friends, she and I.”

“I know,” Jasper replied, turning his bright gold eyes to the table. Since Edward had been around the Swan child the whole family had taken to hunting more often to help him out. The frequent trips also made it easier on Jasper, who found he was having less trouble resisting the temptation of the humans around them. It helped that he was almost always focused on Bella, though.

“I still don’t understand why you’re all so fascinated with this girl.” Rosalie looked over at Bella, following the line of the conversation. Her lips were twisted into a nasty frown. It didn’t take away from her impossible good-looks. Jasper barely paid any attention to the waves of indignation and jealousy that passed through her to him. Rosalie’s irritation at being passed over for Bella was nothing new to him by now.

Alice was defensive, “Bella’s a good person, Rose.”

“Oh please.” Rosalie twisted her blonde hair around one of her fingers. She didn’t show it, but Jasper felt the slight shift of her feelings—Alice’s remark had hurt her. Before, it had been Rosalie who Alice spent most of her time with. Now Alice was always with Edward, begging him to be allowed to talk to Bella. And when Edward was gone during the night, she was planning outfits for the girl in her room, positive that Bella was to be a vampire like them.

It made sense that Rosalie was feeling more threatened by the day. She couldn’t even look to Emmett for support; the burly vampire found Bella intensely amusing and enjoyed her company. She was the only family member against Bella—except for Jasper, though his feelings were starting to shift into something far more dangerous than distrust.

“I’m going.” Emmett stood up, taking his tray of untouched food with him. Untouched but for the few missing chunks off his roll where he’d picked away pieces to throw at Alice. Jasper took a moment to focus on Emmett’s emotions and found the vampire was unsettled. Ah, Jasper smiled into his palm, hiding it from his siblings. Emmett was rushing out of the room to avoid the chance of Rosalie getting angry.

Rosalie gathered up all her things as well, hurrying to catch up with him, not once looking at Alice. Jasper breathed out slowly as she left, taking her anger with her. He was not sad to see her go.

“Bella’s going to be a part of our family,” Alice mumbled, feeling guilty now that her initial urge to protect Bella was gone. She had picked up on Rose’s unhappiness. “She should get over her bitterness.”

Jasper let his power flow out, letting it wrap gently around her like a cocoon of warmth. The tense line of her shoulders instantly relaxed. “It will eventually,” he told her soothingly.

“Thanks, Jazz.”

He opened his mouth to respond, but Bella Swan got to her feet, allowing one of the heaters overhead to catch her hair. It blew around her shoulders and made her scent beat against him like a tidal wave. It was a sweet scent; far more pleasant than most humans. He swallowed it like a man gasping for his dying breath, feeling the burn of venom in his throat. Alice clenched one of her tiny hands around his forearm, her face tense.

For a moment, Jasper let it play out in his mind—he could see himself leaning down, trailing his fingers over the fragile skin of her cheeks. It would be soft and thin, as all human skin was. He would push back her thick brown hair and lean in to—

“Jasper,” Alice hissed urgently. Edward was glaring at them dangerously from across the cafeteria. He was also ushering a confused Bella out as quickly as he could. Edward’s furious emotions poured into Jasper as he finally focused on something besides Bella. Immediately he cut off the idea, not wanting the others to see where his mind was about to take the fantasy. Surely not where they thought it would.

It was a ridiculous day dream. Kissing Bella Swan would be disastrous—doubly so with his track record. He’d probably crush her, or end up biting her.

The vampire stood and walked his tray towards the trashcans. His thoughts were in a tangle and he cut them off ruthlessly, focusing on the plotline of a novel Alice had insisted he read recently, wanting to keep Edward from his thoughts. He was going to have to start being far more cautious. Eventually, at the pace he was going, he would slip up and give something away. Somehow he couldn’t see Edward forgiving him for this.

He couldn’t see Alice forgiving him, either. With a heavy un-vampire like sigh, Jasper left the lunchroom and walked towards his Spanish class.
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