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'I make your life interesting.' Jasper smirked again. "I can't argue that." For the most part the two of them were night and day, but somehow they made it work to their advantage. If it wasn't for Emmett, Jasper would probably be a lot less social and well.. normal, than he is, but of course, these are not things we tell Emmett because then he gets a big head. Anyway, the two of them agreed on most things, but there were a few scenarios where they had entirely different outlooks. One of which, you guessed it, was planning. 'Plans are great… when they work. Don’t you think relying on one is slightly dangerous?' "No more dangerous then not relying on one." He wasn't sure what Emmett was getting at there. It could have been a completely valid point, but it was so off from how Jasper did things that he couldn't see it working. A good plan worked in a number of situations, and if it didn't end up working, that was when you came up with another one- or in some cases even 'winged it'.

Either way, not having a plan at all seemed to increase the chance of something going wrong, which Emmett of course didn't think was possible. 'Jasper, nothing’s going to happen. We all work better together than those brainwashed robots anyway. "You don't know that." He hated to be the negative one. Really, he did. (That was Edawrd's job.) But Emmett had no way of knowing. Alice might have been able to say that and get away with it, but even then, everything was entirely subjective. Nobody knew how well trained they were or how well they worked together. Nobody knew how outnumbered they were and most importantly, nobody could predict that one little slip up that was going to cost someone their life. There things happened. Accidents were unavoidable. Jasper had seen older and more capable vampires be taken down by newborns before - he had taken down older and more capable vampires in his first year. Of course that was going to haunt him now and make him doubt them in the long run.

But all things aside, if there was anyone that could the situation seem more hopeful than it was, it was Emmett. 'Awesome, thanks. I’m more amazing than I thought. Or… you’re slightly amazing for being a good teacher.' "We're both amazing." he agreed, though he knew that this round was going to make both of them have to work a lot harder. Emmett was trying- he had to give him that. Jasper was trying to find a way to integrate what he knew with what Emmett was comfortable with. While fighting he paid more attention to Emmett's moves, reacting just by instinct to get out of the way. Eventually Emmett pulled back. 'Okay, you won that one, bro. This is impossible. I could just run up to the newborns and give ‘em all I got.' Jasper shook his head. "You need to be more patient with yourself. You did good. I'm almost sure if it was a newborn you would have won. They're not going to be thinking the way I was and they're not going to know you like I do. You'll have a much better chance at surprising them."

Honestly, Jasper wasn't saying anything he didn't one hundred percent. Really, of all the Cullens, he was probably the least worried about Emmett. And he'd done a lot better than he was giving himself credit for. "I wouldn't be able to fight the way you do if you asked me right now. I'm not giving you a realistic impression of how the newborns are going to do it. It's hard to go against your instincts- I know. We'll figure it out." They had time. Not a lot of it..not nearly as much as Jasper would like.. but enough to be comfortable. They didn't need to figure everything out today.

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No more dangerous than not relying on one. Alright, so maybe Jasper had a point and maybe things could go well with a plan, but Emmett still believed that there was too good of a chance that the plan could go haywire leaving everyone confused, panicked, and not focused. Even so, he knew Jasper was the expert. Guess you'd know better than me. That was enough to comfort Emmett because he wasn't one to dwell. He wasn't going to get all paranoid over it. Jasper knew best. If he didn't, Emmett wouldn't have been outside with him in the first place. Either way, there was a chance that something could happen but it wasn't a good idea to think about that. You don't know that. I sure's hell know that we're gonna be a pain in the ass to beat. Don't freak-- you should really have more confidence in your skill. You'll teach us! Emmett believed they'd be in good shape. Even if their opponents were going to be strong, they'd be able to put up a fight. It wasn't going to be a mercy rule situation.

Emmett wasn't easily frustrated but when Jasper told him to be more patient with himself, it just wasn't happening. Jasper's explanation did help a little however. He was doing a good job with the whole encouragement thing. Emmett grinned when Jasper stated that he wouldn't be able to fight in a different way if he tried. Yeaa, it'd be pretty hard for you to dumb down, eh? Emmett knew that that was not how Jasper had intended it--but he figured if Jasper tried hard enough, he'd eventually be able to get it down. It was easier to demote yourself than it was to obtain new skill. If anyone's gonna be able to show me, it'll be you. Guess I'm gonna be relying on surprising them more than anything else. I can do that-- be spontaneous! Nah, he probably couldn't. He'd try and end up returning to involuntary movements of instinct. But...optimism. Anyway, thanks, but it's time for a break. He jumped into a tree because he's a Tilly character and nearly took a few branches down as he went up. Was it scary at first? How'd you become such an expert? Emmett was pretty intrigued with the guy's skill but he knew that Jasper wasn't all that proud of it.

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”Guess you’d know better than me.” ”Whether or not we have a plan things are going to get very chaotic.” That, Jasper couldn’t pretend to deny. No amount of planning was going to make this fight fair, clean, or by any means simple. What he hoped, however, was that they could be as prepared as possible for the craziness that was going to happen. Emmett didn’t seem to have any doubts that that was possible, and Jasper wished he could be half that convinced. Blah blah blah long quote here. ”I really want you to be right.” Seriously, he’d give Emmett all the gloating privileges in the world if they could just make it through this without something happening. (Which yanno, wasn’t going to happen, poor Emmett) They were getting somewhere.. but not very quickly. ”Yea, it’d be pretty hard for you to dumb down, eh?” Jasper shook his head. He hadn’t meant it that way, and he still stood by his claim. As much as Emmett wasn’t going to be able to fight like him- he wasn’t going to be able to do the opposite. ”Neither way’s better or worse. They’re just different.” Like he’d said, it was heavily based on instinct. You could learn new things, evolve, adapt.. but there were certain aspects of a person which were going to show through in fighting regardless of how hard they tried to do otherwise. Emmett was by nature a very assertive and very optimistic person. Not just in how he fought, but how he thought and how he talked. In contrast, Jasper thought from a defensive standpoint. He looked at the situation in an entirely different way from Emmett. But both of them could be aggressive- which was something they had on most of the other Cullens .. Which was going to make trying to repeat this lesson obviously very fun and productive.

”I can do that- be spontnious!” ”You are spontaneous.” Emmett didn’t need to put any effort into that. I mean, he still managed to surprise Jasper on a regular basis and that was pretty impressive considering how long they’d known each other. It didn’t seem like it would be stopping any time soon either. Emmett suggested they should take a break and Jasper nodded, sitting down on one of the bigger rocks and watching him play Tarzan because that’s what Tilly characters do. Unlike Phips, Jasper was actually able to deal with and be content with a few minutes of silence but Emmett apparently had other ideas for how they were going to spend their break. ”Was it scary at first? How’d you become such an expert?” Jasper was a little thrown off by the questions, but really, he had been pretty surprised it took Emmett as long at his had before he staged some kind of interrogation session on the matter. ”It should have been.. but you never really thought about it that way.” he admitted. Fear was a very human emotion, and if there was anything Maria had been good at, it was making sure they were as inhuman as possible. Killing was the natural instinct for a newborn. Regardless of how moral they were in their lives in the time and place it felt satisfying- or it should have felt satisfying. (Because you had a good fifty newborns bloodlust going into it but then you had that, pain, fear, satisfaction- yeah, Jasper didn’t actually know what he was feeling ninety-five percent of the time) ” I think the scariest part was not knowing what was going on. But I can't imagine that's different for anyone when they're turned. I’d seen fighting before, that didn't bother me much, but this was different." You didn't have a plan, you didn't have anyone on your side, you didn’t even know what you were fighting for. "It was either kill or be killed. There wasn’t really a large margin for errors.” Basically, extremely rapid fire natural selection. That was how you got good.If you couldn’t figure it out on your first try you were dead. And that was preeeeetty good motivation to do whatever you had to do to win.

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Whether or not we have a plan things are going to get very chaotic. Well that was really nice. He may as well have said ‘Whether or not we are prepared one of us is going to die.’ Emmett really didn’t get why Jasper was so convinced that things were going to go wrong. Maybe it was because he didn’t have experience but c’mon how hard could it possibly be? The Cullens had cool powers after all. Well some of them did. Like…two of them did. Edward didn’t count. But that was two more than what the newborns had because it took a while to perfect a skill like that and none of them will have had enough time for that shit. So anyway, advantages. Plus, they had Jasper. Jasper wasn’t just going to switch sides in the middle of the fight so they totally had him. ”Whatever—we can handle chaos.” He shrugged, literally not nervous sounding in the slightest. Emmett knew he didn’t know what was coming but everything had worked out up to that point so he didn’t see a reason why it wasn’t going to this time. It wasn’t very concrete faith in their ability to fight but for some reason his brain didn’t require anything concrete. He was confident just the same. I really want you to be right. Emmett nodded. ”And I always am, so what’s the problem?” Again… why should this time be any different? ”If you’re so freaked out about it, why can’t you do your weird voodoo mood swing thing on yourself? Might make you think a little more clearly.” You didn’t see Emmett running around worrying about shit and Jasper was the one who had control over it. Emmett wasn’t exactly experienced in the ‘being nervous’ realm but he was pretty sure it was an unpleasant thing so why leave it if it was an option to feel something else?

Neither way’s better or worse. They’re just different. Jasper was good at making things sound better than they actually were when they weren’t talking about serious things like fighting newborns. Like, Emmett’s fighting abilities for example. Jasper could make it sound like they weren’t sucky. Granted, they weren’t completely sucky (the suckiness was situational) but Jasper just made them sound better. And the weird thing about it was that he wasn’t kidding around—he meant it. Now if he could have that mentality on everything, they’d be onto something. He’d be totally optimistic and worry-free. ”Well one’s a little better for this occasion but thanks for trying.” That was when he smirked, patted Jasper on the back and jumped into a tree (which was apparently more impressive looking than I had intended for it to be because it was compared to Tarzan in the previous post). ”You could be too if you tried harder…but planning sort of ruins that.” So now in the span of like two minutes Jasper had told Emmett planning was good and also to be spontaneous. See, Jasper was supposedly the strategic and smart one but Emmett just didn’t understand what was going on with that. ”We could try to go for half and half, but that’d be a plan.”

Yea, it was surprising that Emmett had lasted that long but it wasn’t like he was trying to chase the guy away and at the time of their first meeting he’d immediately drawn the conclusion that Jasper wasn’t an open book. It was like trying to lure a cute little squirrel into a trap with acorns. You want the squirrel and you want to make sure it doesn’t get away but you can’t go for it and try to catch it too quickly because if you miss it’ll run further back and you’ll lose progress. You have to wait until the perfect time when the bait is relevant and the squirrel wanted the acorns. The topic was relevant at the moment and Emmett knew Jasper wasn’t going to be able to get out of the questioning at this point because if he tried to he knew Emmett would just annoy it out of him. Anyway, Jasper and Emmett and no squirrels. Or acorns. That was my explanation of Emmett’s self-control. Jasper talked about it more than Emmett expected so I guess this was a first for both of them. …but you never really thought about it that way. Emmett and Jasper were the types of people that were practically polar opposites and despite that they were able to get along. It didn’t matter how much they were able to tolerate each other—they weren’t going to understand the other’s way of thinking. ”How else would you possibly think about it?” Okay, so he went on to answer that question. It made a little more sense after that addition—he had to admit it in his head.

He nodded in confirmation at the one thing he actually understood from his own experiences. ”Not knowing what’s going on is definitely a contributing factor to being nervous.” He smirked—had he known what had happened to him right away Emmett wouldn’t have wasted that much time worrying about it. Even so, he spent a lot less time worrying about it than he imagined Jasper did. It hadn’t been so easy for Jasper. It was either kill or be killed. There wasn’t really a large margin for errors. ”Apparently you work well under pressure. You could lead an army now.” That was sort of weird because he didn’t seemingly deal with pressure very well but that could very well have been Emmett’s own point of view. The same pressure—kill or be killed—evidently didn’t work the same way on everyone. It seriously lacked in effectiveness with people who didn’t register the ‘get killed’ part into their brain as a possibility. ”’Shoulda killed her. She deserved it.” That wasn’t scolding Jasper for killing others, mind you. It was simply what Emmett felt was the most clear solution however if Emmett had been in the situation killing anyone wouldn’t have been a default thought and plan of action. It didn’t matter how much defense he needed.

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”Whatever- we can handle chaos.” He didn’t get it. He seriously didn’t get how Emmett could be so relaxed about the whole thing. There was no trace of doubt in him – Jasper would know. He just.. thought they could do it. The words were predictable but the honesty in it was what he couldn’t believe. ”S’ppose we’ve had enough practice.” he responded tentivly, taking to “Emmett approach” as far as lightening the subject went. No, Jasper had not been convinced in their superiority nor was he any less worried, but there was no point of arguing. Besides, he’d done a good job remaining calm and keeping his emotions to himself but there was only so long he could manage that. ”And I always am.” Right. It wasn’t like Jasper could write a book full of Emmett’s “foolproof ideas” which had ended up causing destruction or some other kind of unforeseen trouble. It wasn’t that Emmett wasn’t smart or couldn’t have been right in this situation, it was just that he was looking at things from one (extremely optimistic albeit very unlikely) angle instead of seeing all the options. ”I am thinking clearly.” he responded. The clear view might have not been the most pleasant one, but that didn’t mean it was right to abandon it for happiness when it could have helped them come up with something. Remember that whole rant about optimism and realism and whatnot from Thorin’s post? Put it here. That was why it was important to take everything into consideration. ”And it doesn’t work like that.” he added in regards to using his powers on himself. Jasper had as much control over his mood as any other person. Yeah, he could theoretically create an atmosphere that would in turn effect how he was feeling but one, Jasper didn’t mass manipulate for selfish reasons and two, Emmett was already in an obnoxiously confident mood and it wasn’t exactly getting them anywhere.

”Well one’s a little better for the occasion but thanks for trying.” Well, Jasper had made about as much progress with Emmett’s confidence in his fighting as Emmett had made in getting him to believe they had a chance at the battle. Again, it was Jasper who didn’t press the subject. It would come up again and by that point maybe he’d have thought of a way to explain things better. He needed to think about it. Planning, yes, because that was how he did things. Though Jasper had been much more conscious of how he worded things when he first joined the Cullen family, he still preferred to be able to think through what he was saying and its effects before coming out with it. ”There’s a difference between having a plan, thinking on your feet, and running in blindly.” The first and last are pretty self-explanatory (planning out everything or planning nothing). Thinking on your feet is basically what Nash and Lee do, coming up with plans in the heat of things and thinking just a few steps ahead. ”I know it sounds contradictory, but there’s benefit to doing both. I guess you could call it a plan to be spontaneous.. but it’s more complicated than just that.”


And then there was some obnoxious stuff about squirrels that I’m not going to even both replying to. Though he didn’t mind answering Emmett’s questions, it was still a difficult subject for him. ”How else would you possibly think about it?” Jasper shook his head, knowing how horrible this all sounded. ”You didn’t.. You didn’t think.” It had taken him years to figure out how to do that again. ”Nothing made enough sense to think about it. They told you what they wanted you to know. The rest didn’t matter.” ”Apparently you work well under pressure. You could lead an army now.” Despite the fact that that had been a goal of his in his human life, Jasper couldn’t quite see the glory in it anymore. For the record, Jasper would have made an awesome leader too, but the stigma of it had been turned bad for him and there wasn’t any changing that. ”Fighting in an army and leading one are very different.” Jasper did well under pressure in situations where he was fighting for his life. He didn’t do well in situations in which he was responsible for the lives of five seven people he cared about. Emmett mentioned that he should have killed Maria and Jasper nodded, saying nothing for a moment. There was no good reason why he hadn't. Remember that metaphor I said I’d be getting back to? Yeah, well obviously, the squirrel was starting to get pretty antsy in the trap. ”If I could do it again I would have.” he acknowledged. At the time, he’d been.. confused. Maria had been using him but he’d also felt indebted to her. That life was the only thing he’d known and though he felt that it wasn’t right, he didn’t know for a fact what the alternative was. He had no idea what kind of chain reaction would have been set off. Even now, he could hardly imagine it.


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Jasper wasn’t the only one who had no understanding of the other’s behavior or mentality. What Jasper was feeling was foreign to Emmett. Emmett, like everyone, had fears however it took a lot to get them expressed and he generally carried with him a sense of optimism that Jasper seemed to find useless. He didn’t get it either. It was almost a good thing that they were done practicing because Emmett was approaching the borderline as far as getting aggravated was concerned. Yea, that’s right, his previous comments had been him almost being annoyed. Could you tell? There was a difference between being optimistic and seeing that things were going to work out and even as positive as Emmett was, there were only so many times that you could put his own failure right in front of his face and he could still manage to ignore it. Unfortunately when it came to fighting newborns they didn’t exactly have the time to let Emmett have a trial and error process he needed in order to take everything a little more seriously. I am thinking clearly. ”No, you’re thinking about the worst outcome possible and refusing to accept anything else. That’s not clear, it’s exclusive.” Granted it could be argued that Emmett was doing the same thing—choosing to remain blind to other options so if the two of them could just put their minds together they’d have a better time seeing more clearly. But…they weren’t Edward so their minds were going to have to be kept to themselves unless they could finally get another point of view into the other’s thick skull. And it doesn’t work like that. ”C’mon, no cheating? You can’t, or you choose not to?” Emmett was legitimately curious—it wasn’t often that he had the chance to interrogate, and Jasper was one of the more interesting people to interrogate if you asked him.

Neither of them was actually getting anywhere because they were both extremely stubborn, for lack of a better term. They knew how they did things and enjoyed their comfort zones and being around each other sort of forced them to push the boundaries of that comfort. Though not easily phased, Emmett was still competitive by nature and so he didn’t take losing very lightly. Losing multiple times in a row…well, that was a good way to frustrate him. It would require a lot on Jasper’s part to get him to believe he could figure out such a style of fighting. It was hard to get through to him because he could take certain things very seriously, and then for everything else he just didn’t take them seriously at all. There was no medium. There’s a difference between having a plan, thinking on your feet, and running in blindly. That was something Emmett had a hard time seeing as well. To him, it was black and white; go in with a plan, or wing it. Winging it, needless to say, seemed like a better idea in his eyes for many reasons, some including the fact that planning risked a lot of focus (if the plan goes wrong, everyone becomes a chicken without a head) and that planning would make them seem predictable. Jasper did explain how you could sort of blend the two and make the tactic successful. This explanation did spark interest though he didn’t quite understand. ”Look, I know you know what you’re doing. There’s no one I’d trust in this subject more than I trust you. If you come up with something, you give me instruction and I’ll follow…no hesitation.” he didn’t know what kind of plan would be best but if Jasper came up with it Emmett would follow through with all his will.

They told you what they wanted you know. The rest didn’t matter. ”Sounds like you were brainwashed.” The very idea brought anger to Emmett’s being, though he did his best to suppress it. No wonder Jasper was always so cautious—he’d been used as a weapon. The guy was very powerful and had the potential to be very controlling and manipulative. He was a good person on his own, but Emmett didn’t have much trouble imagining why someone like Maria would use him for her benefit. Fighting in an army and leading one are very different. ”Yea, man, and you’re kickass at both.” He was better than anyone in the coven and there was no questioning it for anyone other than Jasper. If I could do it again I would have. Emmett grinned slightly. He knew Jasper had regrets but he’d failed to see where he made good choices. ”But you can’t, and it’s no biggie. If you hadn’t pushed yourself through that we’d be screwed now. Some good came out of it.”
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Well, apparently the two of them were having a kind of Leo/Danny situation where they both realized the same problem in the other person but completely missed they fact that they were doing it too. ”You’re thinking about the worst outcome possible and refusing to accept anything else. That’s not clear, that’s exclusive.” ”And you’re thinking about the best outcome possible and refusing to accept anything else. What do you call that?” Knowing Emmett, it was probably something illogically better than “exclusive”. Which, by the way, was not what Jasper was being. ”I’m not saying the worst will happen. I’m just saying it’s better to be prepared.” You prepared for the worst and hoped for the best. That was how it worked. Not the other way around. There was really no point of having this deiscussion because both of them needed to come to the realization they were being ridiculous in their own way on their own terms and it didn’t seem like to was going to happen any time soon.

”C’mon, no cheating? You can’t or you choose not to?” ”I thought you’d be the first one to speak out against cheating.” Jasper commented. He hardly imagined Emmett being the one to persuade him to use his power for self-gain (unless of course it involved messing with Edward because that was the exception to most of Jasper’s morals). ”Its a little of both.” Per usual Jasper was doing his best to answer Emmett’s questions without actually talking too much or going into details. For the sake of thread progression and writing shorter posts I’m not going to rant for a paragraph about how Jasper and Emmett saw things differently and how there was a gray area between their minds and they really needed to get their shit together and find it so they could have this conversation. Rather than asking more questions or disagreeing though, Emmett simply told Jasper that he’d follow whatever plan he had without hesitating. You’d think that kind of support would be comforting, but it’s effect was kind of the opposite. See, that was the problem here. Everyone trusted Jasper to come up with some brilliant plan to get them through this. Everyone, that is, except him. The way Jasper saw it they were all overestimating him. And he’d seen the consequences of being overestimated already. Numerous times. All ending with blood. Still, he planned on doing whatever he could to prepare them in the time they had, and they were doing everything they could.. He got that. He nodded at Emmett. ”Thanks.. I’ll let you know as soon as I have something.”

And it really was just pointless for him to try and focus on anything right now that implied being in a half decent mood because the conversation kept taking unpleasant turns and reversing and progress he’d made. ”Sound’s like you were brainwashed.” Emmett got angry all of a sudden and Jasper looked at him in confusion (this was Emmett- anger wasn’t a normal thing for him), concerned he’d said something he shouldn’t have. It didn’t take him too long to realize that it wasn’t him Emmett was mad at but what he’d been implying but yeah, that had been his first thought. He looked back at the ground. ”That’s.. a good way to describe it.” Emmett said a few things which were clearly intended to make Jasper feel better about himself and he smiled appreciatively. “If you hadn’t pushed yourself through that we’d be screwed now. Some good came out of it.” ”If I hadn’t you might never have ended up in Forks. You never would have met Bella. You wouldn’t even be in this mess.” he pointed out, not in a broody way or anything (he didn’t blame himself for this one at all- the whole thing was Edward’s fault) but Emmett had been doing the serious thing for an almost concering amount of time now and yanno, our characters have an obligation to argue over pointless illogical things like ruling Finland. It was obviously a good opportunity for Jasper because you didn’t play the variable game against someone who overthought everything and expect to win. Smirking slightly he added ”Then again you’d also be stuck hanging out with Edward.”


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