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"Hey," Jack whispered He’d been sitting in a chair in the corner of the roo up, he came over and cli?"

"Really, really tired," I groggily, and when he smiled, I saw there were tears in his eyes

He brushed the hair froers traced down the side of ered on the trace of the bite Peter had left on my throat His expression hardened painfully, so I sed and looked away

"A as you want" Heit on the covers over my stomach

"Peter said that I wouldn’t be allowed to see any of you anymore," I told hiht of it, and even without Peter here fogging up my mind, suicide didn’t see to happen," Jack said firs sorted out better Peter was convinced that he couldn’t be around you, and apparently, that wasn’t far fro Peter er, and I felt a jealous protectiveness radiate from him "After what happened, we decided that was a horrible decision So Peter’s gone"

"What do you one?" I looked at him plaintively, and Jack tried to hide that it hurt hio out on his own for awhile He’s done it before" Jack shrugged, like it wasn’t anything for me to concern myself with "We all just think it would be better for him not to be around you, at least not while you’re still huuys for three or four years?" I was tearing their family apart, and that did little to make me feel better Admittedly, I wanted to be around Jack and his familytheir lives

"No, he won’t see you for three or four years," he corrected me "And e to see him"

"It’s not his fault," I insisted quietly Jack scoffed and looked away from me "It’s really not I asked him to do it"

"He knew better" He shook his head seriously "He kno onized him "If you had died, I would’ve killed hi we had here, and he knew that"

"You can’t kill him over me," I said "I don’t want to be the cause of your fa stupid like getting yourself killed" He had , but it ca with me "It’s too late, Alice You already e that"

"How aave you a blood transfusion with the blood bags we have," he explained casually

"He can do that?" I felt wide eyed Blood transfusions probably weren’t the most difficult of procedures, but still, he’d savedit off, he smiled at me "When you’re around for three-hundred years and you’re life revolves around blood, you pick up a thing or two about it"

"So what happens now?"

"You need to get some rest, because the blood loss makes you tired and weak And then I’ll take you hoo to school" His blue eyes looked softly at me

For the first time, I could really feel how much he loved me It was like a warnore the aching pain in my chest that still went out for Peter

"Thank you," I whispered

"There’s nothing to thankmore into the bed, he reached out and pulledhis arms securely around me, I rested my head on his chest and listened to the slow, faint sound of his heart beat

I felt totally and completely safe with hi between us had really been solved For now, our best solution was si Peter would really be gone for?

Until things were in place, I would just have to go about livingto school because itout with Jane so I didn’t becoh I had a feeling that it was already too late for that) While I still had the chance, I would spend as much time as I could with Milo

But really, it was only a led deeper into Jack’s arms and tried not to worry about any of that now