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I have returned
My absence was medical-related, and now I'm back - and optimistic that things will get better now! So if you've been waiting for an email, DM, or ask response, I've actually got enough spoons to write! We have two new chapters on the way this month, so I cannot wait to get those finished.
Until then, have this weird fun little snippet from something I never really did anything with.
He’s sitting at his desk, working on the family financials when he hears their conversation - Bella and Alice. “You never fell in love?” Bella is curious, and the question - or at least, the ones that will follow - has been waiting to burst forth. It makes sense that she’d be curious. Alice is the last person anyone would expect to be alone. “I did once, but it didn’t work out,” Alice’s response is light and unexpected, and he immediately freezes. She doesn’t talk much about her life before she met him, and she’s certainly never mentioned any love affairs or a broken heart. “They weren’t interested.” “Oh, Alice,” the pity in Bella’s voice is cloying, and he can feel the embarrassment drift over Alice. “It was a long time ago, Bella. It’s not something that I think about very often. I know that they are safe and happy, and that’s all that really matters in the end.” There is definitely sadness in her voice now, and he wonders who it was. Who turned their back on her and left her alone and unprotected. “But didn’t you see that it wouldn’t work out?” He wants to ask Bella to stop talking, to leave Alice alone, but he is transfixed by this secret side of Alice, this secret history that not even he knew. “I saw us together and happy. And I got impatient, and decided to go to them early. I just wanted to skip to the good part, I guess. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out.”
#admin nonsense#my fic: snippets of stuff#no thoughts only heartbreaking misunderstandings#jasper ready to *fight* anyone who rejects alice#alice is deeply uncomfortable about talking about this#for obvious reasons#jasper is a perpetual bachelor#she's kept this quiet since 1946 and she doesn't want to talk about it now#bella's there asking questions 'don't vampires pine and die without their mates?' and jasper is losing his goddamn mind#that alice is going to up and kill herself out of longing for the asshole who turned her down#alice is trying desperately to explain that her mate isn't dead so she has no suicidal urges as the entire family have a meeting#just to offer her their support so that she doesn't turn into marcus#alice is oddly fascinated that jasper has so clearly forgotten their first meeting
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❛ 。 ❄️ ゚ 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗶 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆 the steam that rolls off of a half - drunk cup of earl grey, knitted sweaters and a perpetual air of neatness & order, an abandoned manuscript that haunts the backburner of a tired mind, honeyed curls and glances alike, & the gentle crackling of a fire behind you ? then you must be talking about canterbury, i’d recognise them anywhere. i’ve heard that the twenty - nine year old bestselling author is an aquarius and honestly, i see it. they’re known for being defeatist and monastic, but their demiurgic and clement tendencies make up for it. they’ve been staying at du lac for one week and i think that their real name is 𝗷𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲, but don’t spill.
jasper simon hesse is born to a small but loving family in canterbury, england on a particularly cold, blustery evening ; ominous thunder cracks overhead the minute he takes his first discordant, screamed breath and given the way his life unfolds, it all feels very poetic and fitting. born to an english teacher who writes terrible articles for cheap magazines and a french teacher, language flows in his blood the minute he’s born. by the age of six, his mother’s taught him to speak french and english side - by - side and he’s reading whatever he can get his grubby little hands on. his parents don’t tend to believe in censorship in the home, so jasper grows up watching and reading whatever takes his interest --- children’s movies don’t do it quite the same as creature features do. it’s in his early childhood that a lifelong affair with horror and the supernatural is born, and his parents are all too willing to facilitate it.
he’s a quiet kid, polite and charming and too bright for his own good. he’s the kid that sits in the corner of the classroom with a book that he’s entirely too young for whilst the rest of his classmates are fooling around on the playground. school reports often wax poetic about his creativity, his endless kindness, his chivalry ; they also warn that he errs on antisocial and should be skinning his knees and chasing peers around rather than poring over a paperback he stole from his mother’s collection. once again, his parents don’t really mind --- their nonchalance becomes a recurring thread when he unravels his childhood like needlework he’s not pleased with.
( his parents’ complete lack of regard stems from their own issues --- his mother has been suffering with postnatal depression since jasper’s birth, has slumped into a shell of the vivacious human she once was and now that he’s growing up she cannot continue to try for him anymore. his parents get a divorce shortly after jasper’s tenth birthday, and his father packs him off to go live in london with him. he writes to his mother occasionally within the times he doesn’t see her, but his letters go mostly unanswered. )
london is, quite possibly, the best thing that could happen to jasper. his father works long hours but slips endless pocket money under jasper’s pillow, a note attached that tells him to go blow it on museum tickets. he spends countless hours wandering around the british museum, the v&a, wide-eyed and rosy-cheeked and in love with the world around him. it’s in the cafe at the v&a that he scratches out his first short story at twelve. it’s rough, and it’s hardly his best work, but he’s pleased enough with it to show his father. his father ( and really, i can’t talk enough about how good of a dad daniel hesse is but more on that later ) crows praise for two days, reads it out to his classroom, acts like jasper’s written a new york times bestseller instead of a monster story with too many adjectives on cheap paper he stole from his dad’s office. ��
he catches the writing bug hard. all throughout what remains of high school he puts everything he has into developing his writing, and by the time he graduates he’s gotten himself published in a handful of moderately - respected magazines. shortly after graduation he applies for a bachelor of english language and literature at oxford university and gets in. it’s here that magic truly happens ; between attending classes and acing them like it’s absolutely nothing, jasper starts working on his first manuscript. halfway through his second year, he finishes it and submits it for publishing, and --- he’s not expecting the response that it gets.
practically overnight, jasper hesse becomes one of the hottest new horror authors on the market. reviews of his first novel are glowing, praising just about everything and fuck, if the whole thing isn’t infectious. he’s twenty years old, with a bestselling novel and more money than he knows what do with, and it’s glorious. work starts immediately on his follow-up, and the rest, they say, is history.
fast forward about nine years, and he’s one of the most well - respected authors within the horror genre. with a bibliography that spans magazines, scholarly journals, novels and a film adaptation that he’s still moonstruck about, he’s a success story that most dream of. he buys his mother a house in barcelona, and his father one in the alps -- he visits them both regularly, and tries not to wince when they ask when he’s going to bring a nice girl home and start a family. he’s working on something new, but nine years’ worth of churning out bestsellers has taken a toll
his agent, a middle - aged woman who constantly looks concerned about the state of unruly curls and bags under eyes, suggests a holiday and books him in for a few months at the du lac, and he’s too tired to argue with her.
so, that’s how he’s ended up at du lac ! he’s trying to work on a new novel, trying to relax, etc etc etc
this is too long anyways i’m gna shut up now but i LOVE him
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