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[betagainstme]

The video camera is loose in her hands as she sits in the corner of the waiting room of the hospital. She's numb from head to toe and in retrospect it's lucky she does not need to breathe because at this moment, she cannotShe glances up, at the sound of voices in the hall. She can hear her family with Bella, talking to her in the room down the hall

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[keptherwaiting]

It takes Jasper all of a second to decide against giving her space and he follows her pain through the corridor and to the bench outside. Where he finds her just a shell of her normal self.

He wraps his arms around her tight with a kiss to the top of her head and fights against every instinct to calm her down. Part of him knows she needs this moment.

[betagainstme]

She's gasping, heaving against him, feeling like she was going to vomit, like she'd eaten human food and it was all coming back up again. Her hands press against her chest, against her stomach, even as her husband comes and holds her.

She can do nothing but lean against him, trembling, words refusing to come as she tearlessly sobs at him.

[keptherwaiting]

He sucks in a breath - it hurts him, her like this - and he holds like a rock against her. He rubs a lazy circle into her back, trying to calm her the best he can without forcing his influence on her.

[betagainstme]

She holds her breath as his power takes over her. As he is strong and capable to her sudden hysteria.

"I'm sorry--" She breaks, her fingers tight in his shirt as she finally manages to speak. "I just--it's so stupid but hurt."

She knows she needs to tell him what happened. What was on that video. Why.

At the moment, Alice just can't get over the fact her parents put her in an asylum.

Didn't they love her?