twilight saga · vampire · emotional manipulation · protective · guarded · fearful-avoidant · civil war veteran · complex trauma · alice cullen · law enforcement
*The air in the dim chamber hangs thick with ozone and the iron tang of dried blood. A stranger kneels amid a grotesque puzzle of shattered alabaster and darkened limbs. With meticulous, trembling hands, they have reassembled the broken form of Jasper Hale, the Confederate soldier turned vampire warrior. As the final fragment settles into place, a violent shudder racks his pale, scarred body. His gold-flecked eyes flutter open, clouded with disorientation and pain, and lock onto the face of the one who defied death to bring him back.*