One-shots/Short Stories

Jasper Whitlock

Reunited
"Again!" Jasper yelled. He watched as the tall tough newborn easily defeated the smaller newborn man, holding him to the ground over three seconds. The newborn winner moved away from the loser with a smug smirk, hissing at the other newborns threateningly. But Jasper stood still, not at all intimidated by the newborn.
After the other newborn moved back into the crowd, Jasper stepped forward. "Who's next against him?" he called out. "Y'all need to know to defeat a newborn like him in battle."
"I'll try." a meek voice came up. The crowd parted ways to reveal a small woman. She had raven dark hair that shined against the moonlight, her skin as pale as snow, her eyes a bright red. Jasper thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen - and he thought what Maria and he had was love. Was this his actual soulmate?
Snapping out of his thoughts, Jasper nodded reluctantly. "You can try." Jasper told her lowly. He moved away from the fighting area and stood beside a pillar in the barn that made him have a good view of the fight.
They circled around each other, the man smiling down at her mockingly. "I can defeat you easily!" he hissed at her. "I can kill you with just one hand!" It took everything in Jasper to refrain from killing the newborn at his words.
"We'll see." she said mysteriously, before lashing out at him. She had surprising speed that they didn't know she had, running around dodging him from his sloppy attacks. The man roared out in rage, trying to grab her but her speed and calculation was just too perfect. The next thing everyone knew, the man was on his back on the ground, the woman on top with her arm at his neck. The man cowered underneath her, crying mercy. Jasper smiled in relief at her safety.
"She's a smart one, isn't she." a voice said from beside him. Jasper turned his head and saw Maria staring at the woman with intrigue. "I have a feeling she's going to be staying a while."
"Indeed." Jasper agreed. "She has great potential." An' no way in hell am I allowing you to kill my mate, he thought.
"You know what to do with the other. . .ones." Maria stared at the weak newborns with disgust, the ones that were almost a year old. She turned to Jasper and gave him a kiss, though Jasper knew for the first time that what they had was not love.
***
"You need to leave." Jasper told her in a rush, grabbing her hand. "Maria suspects our relationship. She plans to kill both of us."
"Then why aren't you leavin' with me?" she protested. "I am not leaving you."
"We have no other choice -"
"What do you mean we have no other choice!" she exclaimed. "We can run away together! Like Peter and Charlotte!"
"You know well we barely got out of trouble to keep them safe." he told her. "We can't risk it. Maria will just grab some newborns to track us down."
"We can fight them -"
"We can't defeat all of them." he shook his head. "There's only two of us and lots of them. We can't defeat them."
"But Jasper," she whispered, pain laced in her voice, "I don't want to leave you."
"And I don't want to leave you either, darlin'." Jasper cooed, bringing her into a hug. "But I promise you, I will find you again, and we will be together again. Forever."
"You promise?"
"I promise."

***

"We need someone to help us plan a fight if it happens." Emmett told the covens. "You know the Volturi, they want to fight us if they get the chance."
"Jasper had the knowledge of battles with vampires." Edward shook his head. "But he's with Alice somewhere. We need his knowledge for in case we do get into a fight."
"Or do we. . ." Garret said mysteriously. They all turned to him.
"You have knowledge for this kind of battle?" Bella asked him hopefully. He shook his head.
"I have been in human battles mostly, I don't have much knowledge for our kind. But I know who does."
"No way." Edward chuckled in disbelief. "You know her?"
"What? Who?" Carlisle asked him.
"The person Garret is suggesting. . .is Jasper's mate."