Rescue Me

Chapter Seven.

One - find Jasper

Two - don't let Jasper get away and/or avoid me

Three - tell Jasper he's an idiot (possibly with a little more compassion/tact)

Four - get him to believe what I tell him (repeat many, many times if necessary)

Five - discretely interrogate him about -

"Alice, you're never discrete about anything," Emmett laughed loudly as he read Alice's neat handwriting over her shoulder. Covering it with her hands quickly she glared at him. "And anyway you forgot the all important first step, spend an hour fantasising about him naked."

"Emmett!" Alice turned and pushed him away from her as roughly as she could considering she was practically half his size. And she was sitting down while he was standing. Her big brother laughed loudly as he went off to find his Rose. Alice huffed in annoyance and turned back to her notebook, picking up the pen.

Five - discretely interrogate him about -

But she could get no further because all she could think about, literally all that was going around and around in her mind was Jasper. Naked. Now that Emmett had put that thought in her head…well apparently her brain had decided that nothing else was needed for the moment. It was quite a nice thought. He looked like he had smooth skin and Alice wondered if it would feel soft under her fingers. Would he be freckled? She didn't think so. Hairy? She didn't mind. A sigh left her lips as her imagination travelled lower. What would his-

"Alice honey, are you alright? You've gone all red," Esme asked worriedly. Alice jumped in her chair, an 'eep' escaping her. What had she been doing?!? Imagining his…his…well! It was all Emmett's fault! He was the one that put those thoughts into her head!

"I'm fine," she said quickly, "It's…just little warm in here…is all."

She flew to her room then, blushing furiously having been caught practically fantasising about Jasper naked. Oh she could kill Emmett for putting that thought in her head! Now the next time she saw him that would be the first thing she thought of instead of the all important plan she'd made to sort out the mistake between them.

To get her mind to think about something more appropriate she put on her latest CD, bought the previous weekend (John Barrowman - Music Music Music), selected her favourite track (10 - I Know Him So Well) and began planning her outfit for the next day. Now Alice wasn't one to over stress about appearance usually, she was no Rosalie. But such an event as righting a wrong required a carefully thought out and precisely planned outfit. Finding the perfect outfit took her mind of Jaspers body, thankfully and she worked on the outfit until tea time and then continued to work on it after she'd eaten, putting the finishing touches to it only just before going to bed.

She'd chosen a black summer dress with white roses on it. There were two layers to it, the top on a see-through gauze material and the bottom a plain black material that kept her decent. Around the bottom of the dress were large ruffles and between her breasts two strips of fabric had been knotted and the tassels hung down the front. It was only knee length so with it she was going to wear her usual grey tights, the ones that cut of just below the knee. On her feet she was going to wear her silver dolly shoes, the sparkly ones, not the plain ones. Over the dress she had picked out a white cardigan to wear that tied up at her waist instead of buttoning up. Choosing her accessories had taken her an hour alone. In the end she'd chosen silver bangles for her left wrist, a set with fake diamonds set in little patterns on them and a swirl-patterned silver wring for her right hand. And of course she would wear the choker like always, she'd made it herself when she was officially adopted by Dr Cullen, finding his family crest and painting it on the little oval of wood she used to hold the choker together at the front. Secretly she was working on making a Cullen crest for her family to wear, or rather she'd convinced someone who was taking metal works at school to make them for her after designing them. Her hair would of course stick out madly as usual, it wouldn't go any other way but she was going to wear her white lace hair band to give a little order to it.

(This is actually a description of a fancy dress outfit that I have created for my friends 21st Birthday Party. It's what I see Alice going to a party in.)

Hopefully the outfit would come across as nice, friendly and maybe a little sexy. What? She wanted him to notice her in that way too! Lying in her bed, dressed in her 'Hello Kitty' pyjama's she looked at the outfit hanging on her wardrobe in the moonlight, before closing her eyes and waiting to fall asleep.

Her clocked ticked loudly as the time went by and eventually she sighed, rolling onto her back and staring at the ceiling. Then she rolled onto her other side and stared at the wall. Then she lay on her front. Then her back again. Then her left side again. Eventually she sighed loudly, sat up and switched her bedside light on, looking at the ticking clock. 2:00am.

Getting up from her bed she went and sat at her desk, looking down at the still unfinished written plan. Something was keeping her from going to sleep, either her worry over what Jasper thought of her, worry over what was happening to Jasper, maybe even this unfinished plan! Whatever it was she couldn't sleep.

"Well I can finish the plan at least. And there won't be anything about fantasising about him naked in it," she grumbled to herself, picking up her pen.

One - find Jasper

Two - don't let Jasper get away and/or avoid me

Three - tell Jasper he's an idiot (possibly with a little more compassion/tact)

Four - get him to believe what I tell him (repeat many, many times if necessary)

Five - discretely interrogate him about his home life

Six - get him to hang out with me and be my friend

Plan finished she found she was still not in the least bit tired and so put her Ipod on, picked up her book and settled on her bed to read until she fell asleep.

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Alice was woken by her 6:00am alarm after only two hours sleep, the light still on, her Ipod still playing in her ear and her book on the floor, dropped over the side of the bed by her hand when she finally nodded off. She rubbed at her eyes before getting up and getting dressed, spinning in front of the mirror once as a sort of final check of the outfit. Yes, it would do perfectly. Acting as bright as ever she skipped down to breakfast.

"Morning!" she sang loudly.

"Morning sweetheart," Esme replied as ever. The rest of the morning was just like always, the boys half asleep still even though they'd gotten more sleep than she had, Rosalie fussing to get her make-up absolutely perfect and Carlisle worrying about a patient he was to see that day.

"Not picking up Bella today Edward?" Esme asked as she put the stack of toast down in the centre of the table and everyone helped themselves to a slice.

"No, she's driving herself in today," Edward answered casually.

So when the time came to leave for school they all piled into Edwards car like they always did on the days he wasn't with Bella, Alice in the front passenger seat so that Rosalie and Emmett could be all couple-like in the back seat. There was chatter in the car but Alice for once didn't join in, worrying about what lay ahead for the day. It could after all be difficult getting him to believe her.

They arrived at school and Alice was immediately on the look out of Jasper. She ignored all of her other friends in favour of searching him out but…he wasn't there. He didn't come to school that day. Or the next day (which she had to choose another outfit for) or the next day (yet another outfit choice) or the next and then it was the weekend.

"I'm worried," Alice confided in Carlisle as she leant against the kitchen counter, watching him make a very thick tomato and salad sandwich. Carlisle was a vegetarian and had been for many years, Esme too had been a vegetarian since she was a teenager. Neither of them had expected their children to become vegetarians when they moved into their house, they'd never insisted that they changed their diet. The four children had all done it by their own choice and now they were a family of vegetarians. Amazingly Edward had also chosen a vegetarian girl to fall for.

"What about Alice?" Carlisle asked, trying not to cut his fingers off as he cut the sandwich in half with an exceedingly sharp knife.

"Jasper."

"What about him?" Carlisle asked, putting the knife in the almost full dishwasher. The plate his sandwich was on would join it once he'd eaten.

"He didn't come to school for the rest of the week so either he's avoiding me…well us on purpose and he really doesn't seem the type of person to do that or…or something's wrong," Alice said, her voice getting quiet with worry at the end. "You don't think his dad's done something really bad to him do you?"

"I'd have been called," Carlisle told her reassuringly.

"But what if he's hurt himself?" Alice asked worriedly, the thought suddenly crashing into her brain, "What if he hasn't come to school because he's killed himself? Oh God…"

"Alice. Calm down. If he'd killed himself Charlie would have been called and he would have called me," Carlisle said, putting his hands on her shoulders and ignoring the rumbling in his stomach. This was far more important. "And I don't think Jasper is the sort of person to take that way out."

"More like you hope he isn't the sort of person…"

"Alice. He hasn't killed himself," Carlisle said sternly.

"But you can't know that!" Alice cried tearfully.

"Wait here and calm down," Carlisle ordered, hurrying up to his office and returning with a file, "I was going to wait until Monday to call him but I can do it now to make you feel better." He picked up the phone from it's stand and checking the file pushed the buttons firmly before bringing it up to his ear. "Hello Jasper? It's Dr Cullen. No don't hang up! I'm calling about scheduling a check up for your wrist. Jasper I just want to help you. No I did not…" he took the phone away, hitting the end call button, "He hung up."

"How did he sound?" Alice asked.

"Angry," Carlisle answered, "But most definitely alive."

"Ok," Alice breathed in relief before giving a huff of annoyance, "So he is avoiding me." Taking one half oh Carlisle's sandwich she bit into it before heading up to her room leaving Carlisle nodding slowly, thankful that she was back to normal. Normal here being stealing half of his lunch.

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Monday morning found a very annoyed and thoroughly determined Alice getting out of Edwards car, dressed in that first outfit she'd chosen and recycled. Jasper would be at school today, she was certain of it. Simply because any more time of school and the school would be calling to get a doctor's note from him and a reason for his absence. Looking around almost confidently she spotted him walking towards one of the buildings across the car park.

"See you later, I've got some serious talking to do," she said to her family before rushing over to Jasper. Giving him no time to argue she grabbed his good arms sleeve and pulled him away from the school, down on the road into town again.

"What are you doing?" Jasper demanded angrily and a little surprised. Alice dragged him a little further and then stopped, keeping hold of his sleeve and face him,

"We need to talk."

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A/N There we go. Sorry this took so long but I've been really ill, throwing my guts up and being really dizzy are not the most helpful things when it comes to writing. Tell me what you think and what you'd like to happen in the future.