The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

1. The Major

Hey everybody!

So this story intends to take Jasper's badass story in twilight and focus on Jasper and Alice meeting! Hopefully you'll like it :)

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Chapter song- Truth Hurts by Lizzo

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Texas, June 1938

Moonlight filtered onto the sparse, green grasses. Ruddishly red earth, brittle from a constant lack of moisture, cracked under bare white feet. At the same time, it also gave way to a simple pair of black boots. Peggy always noticed those boots. They had, after all, been the last thing she'd seen before she'd been reborn in this new life.

Her head was laid carefully on the concrete and the beautiful man took a step back. A hand smoothed her hair off her face as she gurgled on her own blood. All she could see were those boots.

"Shush, darling. It'll be alright..." His accent, so similar to her own Texan twang yet somehow fundamentally different, cascaded over her. It sounded like the way her grandpa used to talk...

Peggy's crystalline eyes widened when she realized how much she was thinking about accents while she was dying. Fire burned her throat while she gripped onto it desperately.

Fear, no matter how much she tried to feel it, never came.

"Where are we going?" This time, Peggy did not fight the wave of calm. It was just the Major's method of fortifying the troops. If the boss bothered to make her feel anything other than hunger and pain, she'd take it.

Peggy hated being a vampire. Every sharp, twisting emotion that came with the desire to rip a throat out repulsed the little humanity she had managed to cling to.

She remembered what life had felt like before the change. Her little siblings, her parents... this existence was not anything close to that.

But the Major seemed cognizant of Peggy's feelings. He never ordered her into one of the sparring matches when she felt scared or made fun of her when she fought her hunger. He just somehow used that odd ability to give Peggy a shred of her humanity back.

He still hadn't answered her. Peggy stiffened. He always answered her questions.

The Major looked at her then with an expression that she knew too well. "Maria asked me to train everyone individually tonight. Rumors have been spreading of a new army building west of here."

Peggy felt dismay at the thought of another battle. She instinctively drew her arms around herself. "Do you think we will win?" They hadn't lost since she'd join them, but the last battle had been hard. Mae and Tommy had died.

Those vampires had been so strong and Peggy couldn't figure out why. She had never felt weak against another vampire before that night.

The Major smiled. "No, we will be fine. Now get ready, girl." He tensed in a familiar battle stance and Peggy followed suit. This was the only constant in her life.

Peggy charged at him, trying a trick he'd shown her in the first few weeks when she had been new. She had adapted it to her smaller size. The Major, after all, was a tall, lean man that all the others whispered was handsome.

The newborn gasped in surprise when he pinned her. His rough hands gripped either side of her head. And pulled. "I'm sorry."

Not even the Major could stop the potent fear that tingled down Peggy's entire body in those last moments. Her nails dug poison into his skin in a primal response.