So this is a continuation from Ch3 – I know I said that they were snapshots but I couldn't resist.

Just to confirm, he does not actually tell Bella what we see in his memory.

When Alice had said I should ask Jasper about how he came to be spanked by her I had been fairly certain I would never find out the answer. I mean Jasper and I were close but our relationship was never as open as my relationship with Alice was. So I was rather surprised when Jasper himself broached the topic with me.

I had been sitting on the bed when he invited me to go hunting. We had been running for quite a while before he stopped and asked without preamble "Are you still curious about how it came to be that I let Alice spank me?"

I nodded "Yes, but you don't have to tell me if you'd rather not." I assured him – I was not about to push for an answer.

"To be honest she didn't give me much choice." he admitted.

"Alice does tend to do that." I agreed

"Well we were travelling with Peter and Charlotte at the time. Alice and Charlotte had gone to gather some supplies and new clothes while Peter and I hunted. We came across the scent of two vampires in the nearby vicinity. We decided to try to find them and exchange news – it's a vampire custom that if you discover you're in someone else territory you find them and introduce yourself to avoid causing offence by trespassing. We didn't want to wait for Alice and Charlotte to be with us in case these vampires were hostile."

I murmured to show I was following, trying to quell my amazement at his uncharacteristic confession.

"The meeting went fairly well and we were making our way back to our mates when they intercepted us, Alice had had a vision of what we had done and they were furious."

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"You could at least try to look a little guilty." she demanded of me as we returned to the flat we were staying in for a few days, Charlotte and Peter had gone elsewhere to sort things out between themselves. Alice flung her bags into a corner before rounding on me. I even flinched slightly – I had never seen Alice this riled before. "What were you thinking? You complain if I put myself in danger of a paper cut but feel it's alright for you to go confront an unknown coven, with unknown strengths, by yourself and not even consult me???"

I would have pointed out that it was impossible for a vampire to get a paper cut but decided now was not the time.

She was pacing up and down the room, using hand gestures for emphasis. Not that they were needed – I could literally feel her anger, and beneath that the hurt.

I resisted the urge to calm her – I had made her a promise that I would never change her emotions without her consent and I was not willing to break that promise.

"Alice, I was just trying to –"

"Don't you dare say you were trying to protect me! You could have at least waited, met up with us and explained before you went to meet them so we would know what was going on."

"You had a vision." I pointed out sullenly. I knew I sounded like a child from the way I said that but she was making me feel like one. It was as if I was five years old again and my mother was scolding me for going and playing by the lake without telling her.

"You didn't know I would when you decided to go." She had a point there "My visions are erratic and I don't have full control over what comes to me and what doesn't – a fact that you are not ignorant of."

She paused for a moment and I could feel herself willing her emotions to calm.

She sighed and finally stopped pacing. She looked up at me and said in a much more gentle voice "You don't understand, I worry about you when you do things without telling me. If I hadn't seen where you were and something had happened to you…" she trailed off before speaking again in a slightly firmer tone "We're a mated pair, we cannot do things without telling each other first. Promise me Jasper – you won't do something like that again."

Judging it safe, I moved towards her and wrapped my arms around her small frame. "I promise." I murmured, kissing the top of her head and I really did feel guilty about causing her to worry.

We stood like that for a while before I felt her shift impatiently and pull away slightly.

"Alight, so bend over the bed." She said in her chipper attitude, as if she were suggesting we go shopping.

"Why?" I asked, drawing out the word in trepidation.

"Well if I got spanked for putting myself in danger there is no way you're going to get off scot-free. This is a partnership – fifty/fifty in everything" She told me brightly

"You already yelled at me!" I protested.

She gave me a 'do-you-really-want-to go-there' look and even folded her arms. It was almost endearing.

I sighed and went to take the position over the end of the bed – she was right; it was only fair that I got punished in the same way she did. Plus she always said a spanking helped with her remorse, so maybe it'd help with mine.

I felt her approach behind me and gently reach around to unbuckle my pants, I lifted my hips to help and she had quickly pulled my pants and underwear down to around my knees.

I tensed as she lightly ran her fingers over my ass, SLAP, she had pulled her hand back and snapped it forward so quickly I had not realised her fingers had left my skin. She spanked quickly, rapidly raising quite a sting.

I began to wriggle as it became uncomfortably painful but she didn't relent. Finally the smacking changed to rubbing as she alleviated some of the burn.

BPOV – Present

"So one thing led to another and I agreed that since Alice was spanked for putting herself in danger it was only fair that I was spanked when I did the same thing."

"So it wasn't this whole emotional, we needed to do it to get past the issue thing?" I asked before I could stop myself – I thought that was the reason they even used spankings in their relationship.

"Not that time, no." he said with a small smile, "normally, that is one of the main reasons we give each other spankings, but for my first time it was different – Alice had forgiven me before I even bent over and I knew that, I think she spanked me then to establish that she would be willing to do so when needed and just to enforce how important it was to her that I didn't do things without discussing it with her first, I assented to show her that I was willing to accept chastisement from her and to acknowledge that I had hurt her – it's hard to explain, I didn't really put that much thought into it at the time, it just happened and seemed the right thing to do."

"Do you know what's odd about this?" I asked.

"That we can't sort things out by just talking?" he guessed

"No, although you probably could if you had no other choice. It's odd that you both agree to be spanked because the other needed to give the spanking, not because you needed to receive it."

He considered that "Mmm, for both Alice's first spanking, and my own, you are right, but that's not always the case – it just depends on the situation at the time."

I nodded, like when he had slipped, which led to me finding out about their practice in the first place – he had needed to receive the spanking in that instance.

"Thank you for sharing this." I said sincerely. Their relationship was certainly an interesting one.

3rd Person POV

Later that day Alice and Jasper were relaxing together on their bed. Alice was lying against his chest, flicking through a magazine while he just watched and twirled the tips of her spiky hair, thinking over his earlier conversation with Bella

"You know, Bella now knows more about our personal relationship than anyone else in the family." He said conversationally

"Mmm, Edward." She muttered, only half focusing

"He doesn't count, he cheats."

Alice gave him a reproachful look before returning to the magazine. He sighed, knowing it wasn't Edwards fault he could hear their thoughts.

"Bella made some interesting observations." He continued on his earlier train of thought.

"Like?"

"You didn't See?" Jasper asked, confused – he was used to Alice knowing everything that happened to him, not in a controlling way, she just found it natural to check up on him.

"No, I wanted to give you two some privacy."

He snorted in disbelief – they never worried about privacy between the two of them, but she didn't explain further. He let it go; she'd tell him in her own time.

"She noticed that we both accepted our first spanking because one of us needed to spank the other, not because we needed to receive it."

"So?" She asked, closing her magazine and twisting to face him – clearly Jasper needed to talk

"So I don't know, it's just interesting."

"That's not always the case though."

"No" he agreed. She was not sure where he was leading with this and most annoyingly neither did he so she could not look into the future to find out.

"Bella also said she thought we could probably sort through things without resorting to spanking."

"Resorting to?" she repeated, bothered by his choice of words "I'm sure we could get through anything and we don't have to spank to do so. It's not like its spank or split up."

He absorbed that in silence before finally asking "Then why do we do it? Why not just talk, or shout, like most couples?"

Understanding dawned on her face but it was tinged with confusion "Do you want to change things?"

"That's not what I'm saying " he said impatiently

"Then what are you saying?"

He didn't reply, unsure himself of what he was trying to say.

"Look Jazz, the reasons we started this are not necessarily the reasons we continue. Other couples may do things differently but there are thousands of different ways to kill a bear, what does it matter what method is used, as long as the bear is ultimately dead? Our marriage is strong, we love each other, and spankings work for us, do we need to think further than that?"

He smiled a little and pecked her lips – maybe she was right, why question what works?

So, there you go. Reviews are always appreciated!!!