The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

6. Prey

   Chapter song: heroin by badflower
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"Where's Edward at?" Rose asked in mild irritation. Jasper shrugged as he sat down on the couch next to her. He casually reached for the remote and flicked it to a sports channel that he knew that they both liked. It was three AM, and it was normally around this time that Jasper hung out with his adoptive siblings.

   "I don't know. He was feeling a lot better than he was this morning." They could both hear Emmett cursing above in his and Rose's room. "I can't believe that online gaming is keeping Em so occupied."

Rose laughed. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. His team is losing." She chortled.

They watched silently for a couple hours before Emmett came barreling down the stairs. "If it ain't my heroic angel and the shrink." It was obvious that he was trying to stir trouble. For the past two weeks, Rosalie had been dubbed heroic angel in honor of saving Mary from that fall.

   Jasper's undead heart had sputtered at the thought of the girl falling down those stairs.

Emmett's angel groaned. "Fine, I'll never catch another falling human even if she's going to break her neck! I just thought she smelled too delicious to just let spill on the floor." Her aggravated feelings and apathy reenforced those words.

   "Aw, babe. What's so wrong with being a hero?" Dimples appeared on Emmett's cheeks and Rosalie calmed considerably at the sight.

   "Do you know where Edward is?" Jasper repeated the question from his lazy position on the couch. He needed a distraction from Mary. She had a way of crawling underneath his skin as she had been aggressively creating plots to draw him in.

She was very close to getting what she wanted.

   Edward came in through the side door. His hair was wind-blown as if he'd been running quite a bit. That wasn't, however, what had Jasper springing to his feet. Unfamiliar fear clung to his throat. "You weren't."

  He smelled very familiar to Mary, yet not quite as sweet. Edward's black eyes avoided his guiltily. Within a second, he had his fist around his neck, forcing his brother to look him. The mindreader met his eyes and Jasper was startled to see that his pupils were an endless sea of black. "I'm... sorry. I really wasn't there to eat her."

An unnecessary breath rattled his chest. "Where were you?" He asked through clenched teeth. He heard Esme and Carlisle run down from their room with concern rolling off of them.

   Edward didn't speak for about a minute. Embarrassment rolled off of him. "Come on, you never give anyone else any privacy." Emmett taunted. He was the only relaxed one in the room.

"I... was in Bella Swan's bedroom."

Jasper dropped him in disgust and shoved him away. "What the hell?" Edward stared at him as though he were shell-shocked.

Esme gasped while Rosalie stormed in front of him. Her long sleek sheen of blonde hair tossed before she stood in front of him. "Did the human know you were there?" She asked.

The look on his face was all the rest of the family needed. A groan went through the room.  "Bro, drinking her blood would literally disgust me less." Emmett sounded faintly sick. "Don't stare at an unknowing girl while she's sleeping. Damn."

   Carlisle stepped forward. "Why?" The disappointment in the Cullen leader's voice made Edward take a step back.

"I wanted to try and get used to the scent of her blood." Edward admitted. His slightly embarrassed and nervous feelings hit Jasper like a train.