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Title: I Wept Not
Fandom: Twilight
Pairing: Jasper/Edward
Warnings: language, sexuality, graphic violence
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~172,000
Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for?. AU, slash.
Author's Note: Special thanks to my wonderful friend and beta, otta_ff, for all her time, support, encouragement, assistance, and general awesomeness. Thank you to black.orchid78 for my gorgeous banner.


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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 22 | Masterpost


"Night is the shadow of my father's hands
setting the clock for resurrection.
Or is it the clock unraveled, the numbers flown?
There's nothing that hasn't found home there:
discarded wings, lost shoes, a broken alphabet.
Everything but sleep. And night begins
with the first beheading
of the jasmine."

-Li-Young Lee, "Pillow", l. 15-22

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Chapter 23 - The First Beheading of the Jasmine

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 20 | Masterpost


"to be a discoverer you hold close whatever
you find, and after a while you decide
what it is. Then, secure in where you have been,
you turn to the open sea and let go."

- William Stafford, "Security," l. 12-15

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Chapter 21 – Turn to the Open Sea

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 18 | Masterpost


"But when I hold you I hold everything that is—
sand, time, the tree of rain"

- Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet VIII," l. 10-11

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Chapter 19 – Everything That Is

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 16 | Masterpost


"I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
I have no other star. You are my replica
of the multiplying universe."

- Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet XVI," l. 1-4

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Chapter 17 – The Multiplying Universe

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 14 | Masterpost


"Indelicate is he who loathes
The aspect of his fleshy clothes, -
The flying fabric stitched on bone,
The vesture of the skeleton,
The garment neither fur nor hair,
The cloak of evil and despair,
The veil long violated by
Caresses of the hand and eye.
Yet such is my unseemliness:
I hate my epidermal dress,
The savage blood's obscenity,
The rags of my anatomy,
And willingly would I dispense
With false accouterments of sense,
To sleep immodestly, a most
Incarnadine and carnal ghost."

- Theodore Roethke, "Epidermal Macabre"

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Chapter 15 - The Savage Blood's Obscenity

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 12, part 2 | Masterpost


"In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood—
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den."

- Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time," l. 1-6

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Chapter 13 – The Deepening Shade

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 11 | Masterpost


"Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you."

- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," 24, l. 47

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Chapter 12 – It Shall Be You

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 9 | Masterpost


"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.."

- William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence," l. 1-4

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Chapter 10 – Eternity in an Hour

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Summary: Jasper is a war weary soldier burdened by the weight of eternity. Edward is an uncomplicated high school student content to hide his sexuality. Together can Jasper find something to live for and Edward discover some things are worth dying for? AU, slash.

Chapter 7 | Masterpost


"I will give you a poem when you wake tomorrow.
It will be a peaceful poem.
It won't make you sad.
It won't make you miserable.
It will simply be a poem to give you
When you wake tomorrow.

It was not written by myself alone.
I cannot lay claim to it.
I found it in your body.
In your smile I found it."

- Brian Patten, "When You Wake Tomorrow," l. 1-10

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Chapter 8 – When You Wake Tomorrow

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