FOREVER AND ALWAYS ━━━━ jasper hale.

45-Obduracy

"I'm a bad bitch, you can't kill me!"

-Vine

***

"W-W-What t-t-the m-m-motherfucking-"

"Watch your language!"

I held up one freezing cold middle finger in Edward's general direction. Bella and I were both wrapped in blankets, huddled together like penguins, but the cold kept finding ways to creep into my bones. A storm crept up on us when nobody was looking, and now, I couldn't feel ninety percent of my body.

"Keep your goddamn distance." I aimed to kick at Edward. "Y-Y-Your body t-t-t-temperature isn't g-gonna h-help much."

Edward pouted, but obliged.

'If you w-wanna make yourself useful, go grab a f-f-fucking space heater or something."

"Wh-why do you always s-s-swear when you get cold?"

Before I could answer, the tent unzipped, and human-Jacob entered the tent. Edward immediately growled. Jacob flashed him a sassy-grin. "Courtney requested a space-heater... here I am!"

"Shut up!" I held up a hand before Edward could object, "get over here!"

Jacob didn't hesitate, and Bella and I moved so he could settle in between us. I immediately melted into his side, the heat radiating from the boy drawing me in. I grabbed one of his large hands, and pressed mine against it, the stinging sensation spreading through my limbs as I de-thawed.

I felt my eyes droop as the drowsiness came over me. Before I knew it, the world around me slipped away, and I fell into slumber.

***

I was standing in the middle of an open field, my hands clenched at my sides, and pain seeping up my arms. I shifted, but it only grew hotter, like a fire.

Wait, that is exactly what it was... a fire.

I was tied up on a tree, a short, young girl next to me, holding a torch dangerously close to my skin. But it wasn't my skin. It was cold, white skin, hard as rock. I felt stronger than I ever had, and everything around me seemed hyper-focused. From the flames by my arm, to the tree's surrounding me. i looked down, and almost screamed. I was wearing Sadie's clothes... I knew, I recognized them.

And then I saw Alice.

"I don't understand." She gasped, her eyes wide and reaching out as if she wanted to touch me, but couldn't. "I saw you, you weren't changed."

"Little miss Sadie seems to have a rather... interesting skill." the blonde girl smirked, "vampire, but can change appearance by will... quite interesting, isn't it?"

"Alice." I spoke, although I didn't mean too, and my voice didn't sound like mine. "Alice, I'm sorry, I had too-"

"Shh-" the blonde's cold, red eyes met mine, and a flash of pain so intense rolled over me, pulling a scream from my throat. Alice whimpered, looking like she wanted to cry. She couldn't, of course.

"If you want your mate back." Her lips curled back at the word, like it was venom on her tongue. "Then fetch me Courtney Swan... or else-" A sick, twisted grin came over her delicately beautiful face. "I will."

***

When I woke-up, I didn't speak, I just stood up. My heart was racing, fear clogging my pores and making me feel sick. Sadie turned, the blonde-bitch was gonna kill her.