She looked around slowly. No one moved. She saw Jasper standing at the foot of her bed and she could feel a pit in her stomach form.

"Sophie?"

He couldn't even finish asking her what was wrong as she burst into tears and the feeling of guilt spread in her body. She had made a promise and she didn't know how she was going to live with herself because of it.

"I'm so sorry." Sophie managed to get out through her tears.

Slowly her hand moved towards the IV port that had been put in her arm at some point. Her feet were shaky as she tried to get up off the bed she had been placed on. Jasper tried to help her but she shirked his help, she felt too guilty to let him dote on her.

"What's going on?" He asked it quietly but she knew their conversation was far from private.

"I have to go" she whispered finally.

"Where are you going? We have a bunch of tests to run, we need to figure out what's wrong with you." Jasper's words were soft but she could hear the insistence behind them.

"I already know what's wrong, that's why I have to go. I have to protect him." Sophie insisted hoping to convey what needed to be in done without actually having to say the words. "I need to get out if here."

"We shouldn't be here." Edward spoke up finally.

Sophie met his gaze and the look they shared said it all. She was going to do the same thing he had done all of those years ago. His jaw tightened fractionally as he read her thoughts. 'Please don't hate me.' She begged silently to him. Sophie had given so much grief to Edward for what he had done and now she would be doing the same thing. Fresh tears coated her face as she realised what she really needed to be true 'please don't let him hate me.' Edward cocked his head slightly and Sophie could tell that wouldn't be possible.

"We need to leave." Edward repeated and Sophie knew that was the best he could do. He was being her friend in a way she had never been to him.

Jasper and Sophie waited until the door had closed behind Edward and they were alone before either said anything.

"Sophie, what's going on here?" Jasper asked as the door clicked shut.

"Our son isn't safe here." Sophie started. "I need to go someplace that he's going to be safe."

"Okay, where is he going to be safe? I'll get us on the next flight, wherever we need to go we will." Jasper was already pacing around the room as he thought about what needed to be done.

"No, Jasper." Sophie's tears increased as she spoke. "He's not safe around you."

"What?" Jasper looked at her with an intense and confused stare.

"You are the threat to our child. And I need to get as far away from you as I can." If she was talking to a human he wouldn't have been able to understand her as tears took over her voice. "I'm so sorry."

"I don't understand, I would never hurt our child." Jasper looked livid at the idea that he might hurt their baby.

"You don't understand." Sophie sobbed. "I can't stop this if I'm here. I need to leave."

"What? No, Sophie, we can get through this together. Whatever you think is going to hurt our child we can stop it, together. Sophie, I love you." Jasper moved closer to her and tried to pull her into a hug but she backed away from him with her hands raised.

"Don't you get it? I love you too, that's why I have to do this. I'm not going to force you watch your son's death. That's what's going to happen if I stay here, you are going to see him die and I can't let that happen." A mixture of tears and snot covered her face as she spoke.

"No, I'm not letting you go." Jasper declared as his hands wrapped around her shoulders.

"You have to." Sophie whispered. "You told me that if I walked away you would let me go. I need you to do that, I need you to let me go."

"No, you don't want to go just as much as I don't want to lose you. I'm not going to lose you because of some fear of the unknown. It's the future, and I know better than anyone that the future can be changed. We can change it, we can change that future. You don't have to run away."

"You can't change this, Jasper, this is the way it needs to be. Please just let me go. Let me go." Her voice was a whisper as she pleaded with him.

"Only if you tell me you don't love me. If you tell me you don't love me and mean it I'll let you go, forever." Jasper's shoulders lost their tension as he took a step away from her, certain that he had reasoned with her.

"Please don't make me."

"No, you want to leave then I want to know that you don't love me. That all of this was just some mistake, some strange twist of timing. Tell me that this was all fake, that the night we spent in that cabin was a mistake. That the promises we made each other were nothing. Make me believe that and I'll let you walk away from this."

"Jasper." His name was a caress on her lips as she looked at him.

'I can't.' She thought. 'He knows I can't.'

'I can.' A small voice in her mind piped up. It was familiar, she had just felt the past half hour listening to her story.

'Elisabeth.' Sophie frowned, she could feel the hatred Elisabeth held for Jasper, her murderer.

'I can tell him that I don't love him, and I will mean it. If you give me control I can walk away from him and save our boy. I can do what you can't but you have to give me control.'

'I don't know.'

'I feel nothing for him. It will be easy for me, you can take a back seat for this one and you won't have to feel this pain.'

'Okay.' Sophie slowly felt her consciousness slip to the background as she let Elisabeth have the control she craved.

Immediately her posture changed. Instead of hunching over herself as her body wracked with tears and guilt she stood ramrod straight and a look of disgust filled her features. Her head held high and anger swept through her.

"I don't love you, I could never love you. How could you think I would ever love a murderer like you? You slaughtered people for pleasure, how could you justify that I could be with you? Sleep with you in a bed haunted by the women and children you've killed?" Elisabeth sneered. "You're a monster, no one will ever love you."

Sophie heard the words but it was as if they were happening very far away from her, it was easy to just turn away from the hate and allow herself to go comatose.

"You will let me leave." Elisabeth ripped the port out of her arm and side stepped him as she made her way out of the room.

Jasper stood there as if he couldn't move, it was as if her words and emotions had paralysed him. With Elisabeth speaking the words were all said with the right emotions to back them up, Jasper believed that Sophie really felt that way and she let him, knowing that she needed to save her son more than she needed to preserve Jasper's feelings.

As she made her way down the stairs Elisabeth saw Bella come rushing towards her.

"How could you?" Bella almost looked as betrayed as Jasper did. "I thought you were better-"

Elisabeth cut her off by gripping at Bella's forearm.

"You're not safe here. Come with me, don't stay here."

"Sophie? Are you out of your mind?" Bella grabbed her arm back.

"You have to listen to me, staying here with them, you'll die. It will kill you to stay here. Please." Elisabeth repeated as she tried to grasp at Bella's arm again.

"What's wrong with your voice?"

"Nothing." Elisabeth corrected suddenly as she realised her Jersey accent had made an appearance. "I warned you. Your death is in your own hands now."

She turned away from her friend and continued out the door. Bella followed after her for a minute but didn't say anything until Elisabeth had one foot in the car.

"He's not the monster, Sophie, you are."

Elisabeth said nothing but looked at her friend with understanding as she continued climbing into her car. Just before she was able to close the door there was a crash of glass from above them. She looked up and saw Jasper standing near what used to be a large pane window on the second floor. He looked wild but Elisabeth kept her emotions in check as she fixed him with a steely glare.

Elisabeth was all business as she walked into her father's house. She meticulously packed Sophie's largest suitcase with more sense that Sophie had ever used while packing. She packed warm and knew that wherever her destination was it would be north and north meant cold. She grabbed a metal lockbox from under Sophie's bed and emptied it of several large stacks of hundred dollar bills her father had warned her to keep under her bed in case shit hit the fan. She knew this wasn't what he had in mind when he warned her of the coming apocalypse but if this wasn't an emergency she didn't know what was. The box also held her unused passport, social security card, and a map with three places marked in a heavy felt tipped pen, they were places her dad was sure would still be around in case of some natural disaster. Only one was far enough north for her liking, far enough away from the mess she knew she could never go back to.

Elisabeth left a neat note on the kitchen counter explaining that she would be traveling for a little bit and if there were any emergencies with her father her aunt should be called. She explained where all the medical papers were organised and left without waiting for them to get home. The faster she got away the better.

It wasn't until she boarded the evening plane to New Haven, Connecticut that Elizabeth finally let go of her control. She had done her job.

But Sophie wasn't ready yet. Even the hint of alertness she got was enough to make her crumble with guilt. She knew eventually she would be strong enough to deal with the reality of her life But she wasn't there yet.

"Wait, please come back!" She pleaded silently.

"I can't live your life for you." Elisabeth admonished. "You are carrying the child of the man that killed me. You can't ask me to live that life for you."

"I can." It was a soft voice that Sophie hadn't heard much of. "I didn't know Jasper in the real world, but I knew of him. I loved him without ever meeting him. I wasn't the best wife to the man I married but I was a good mother. I would be a good mother to your child and I would speak of his father with kindness."

"Who are you?" Sophie asked although she felt as though she already knew the answer.

"I am Sophia Lopez."

"The one that went crazy?"

"I didn't go crazy. I knew the truth and I made the mistake of talking about it. It doesn't make me a bad mother, it makes me passionate."

"Okay." Sophie agreed again and once again she let herself become numb to the outside world.

This time instead of feeling hatred towards Jasper she felt a sort of detached peace towards him.