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To all those reading the Modern Mage storyline, this happens over chapters 17 & 18 and may take up part of 19 as well. I’ll know more about that once the inspiration for 19 comes to me. I wanted to let everyone see a different perspective than Andrew’s as well as cover something that wouldn’t have fit in the rest of the story based on the face that Modern Mage is being writer as though Andrew is explaining his past to the reader. I used bother third person narrative and some first person in the chapter here to differentiate what he...

When the Cullens brought him into their home, eight-year-old Jasper thought it too big. He was so terrified of the high ceilings and echoing spaces in their elegant foyer, so bright and sterile. He thought to himself, There are so many things to break. Vases and little figurines littered shelves and tabletops, and Jasper was well aware that he'd never been very graceful. So he pressed his arms flat to his sides and watched the toes of his old sneakers as they led him through the house, up to his new bedroom. He threw himself into it with much relief. His...

My body began to stir, piece by piece, my brain was throwing back on all the switches, though it was my ears that came on first, and this is what I heard: “...ook I'm sorry, but we can’t keep him on life support for ever ma’am, I'm sorry but if we don’t see any recovery in the next 48 hours, we have to switch it off and accept he died. I'm sorry, truly I am.” Said someone to my left. “What he has only been in for 2 days, and your already counting him out!?” someone shouted. “No sir, your son...