Her fingers reached his temple, playing with the soft hair there. All the tenderness in the world would fit into that simple, careful gesture. She wanted to take the sadness out of his smile.
"You're doing good," Alice promised, and gave him a chaste peck on the lips. She had to do a bit of climbing to reach, since even standing on her toes didn't help much, but Jasper would just have to accept being used as leverage. It wasn't like he wasn't used to it by now.
She frowned still at his explanation, and quickly scanned the immediate future. Yes, the vision of Bella was still there, her skin marble pale, her eyes glowing red. Still cemented and absolute. Alice couldn't tell when, but it would happen, so the engagement would happen too. Edward would want to marry her before allowing Carlisle to change her.
And then there was the strange blind spot, too, the one she'd noticed while talking to Maia (http://community.livejournal.com/hogwarts_hocus/1771303.html?thread=96984103#t96984103). Hogwarts was full of blind spots, though, for Alice. It was full of people she couldn't see. This one was strange though, because it concerned a vampire and a human she was used to seeing, and now the future was hiding things from her about them. It was as if she couldn't see, because this whole castle was getting in the way.
"It's a good thing I hadn't ordered the flowers yet, I suppose," she muttered. "They wouldn't last. How annoying. Now I'll have to convince Bella to let me do the wedding all over again." And she had been so reluctant the first time! Alice sighed. "I'll come to the library with you. I have some research of my own to do."
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"You're doing good," Alice promised, and gave him a chaste peck on the lips. She had to do a bit of climbing to reach, since even standing on her toes didn't help much, but Jasper would just have to accept being used as leverage. It wasn't like he wasn't used to it by now.
She frowned still at his explanation, and quickly scanned the immediate future. Yes, the vision of Bella was still there, her skin marble pale, her eyes glowing red. Still cemented and absolute. Alice couldn't tell when, but it would happen, so the engagement would happen too. Edward would want to marry her before allowing Carlisle to change her.
And then there was the strange blind spot, too, the one she'd noticed while talking to Maia (http://community.livejournal.com/hogwarts_hocus/1771303.html?thread=96984103#t96984103). Hogwarts was full of blind spots, though, for Alice. It was full of people she couldn't see. This one was strange though, because it concerned a vampire and a human she was used to seeing, and now the future was hiding things from her about them. It was as if she couldn't see, because this whole castle was getting in the way.
"It's a good thing I hadn't ordered the flowers yet, I suppose," she muttered. "They wouldn't last. How annoying. Now I'll have to convince Bella to let me do the wedding all over again." And she had been so reluctant the first time! Alice sighed. "I'll come to the library with you. I have some research of my own to do."