The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

10. Baseball

   Jasper watched as Mary and Bella closed the door before snapping open his cell phone. He then pressed three on his speed dial.

   "Yeah." Rosalie picked up with a bored voice.

  "Would you mind watching the Swan house tonight with Emmett? I'd like to keep Edward from his peepin' Tom tendencies." He drawled. The logical solution would be for them to watch the redhead at home, but Edward had disappeared after the Port Angeles incident.

   "If I have to, but why can't you?"

"I'm going to get those men that attacked Mary today." He growled.

"Hmm." Rose sounded neutral as she was thinking deeply about the task at hand. "Don't go breaking your diet on those bastards' accounts. But you can consider your little fortune-teller safe with us. She's interesting."

"I'll make it look like a bloodless, tragic accident." He snapped the phone shut and then took off.

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"You want me to watch you guys play baseball today?" I asked curiously. I peered up at Jazz's face through the screen door of our porch.

He smiled. "It'll be fun. You could bring Bella if you want as well."

I spun absently in a circle on my tiptoes as I considered the offer. "It sounds like a good time I guess... BELLA!" I hollered.

"I'm literally right behind you." Bella's droll voice cut in. Her chocolate-molten eyes once again sported tale-tell shadows. "Making you breakfast before we were interrupted by your stupid soul-"

I stopped Bella's sarcastic iteration of the word "soulmate" by clamping my hand over her mouth. She licked it, but I persisted while I looked nervously back at Jasper. "You want us to meet you at your house later? I gotta get ready."

"You look fine to me." His golden eyes went over my form in open appreciation. Bella groaned and shuffled back to the kitchen to continue her cooking. "I'll come get you guys in about an hour if that's all right?"

   "Sure. See ya then!" I shut the door in his face and then spun faster in an excited circle. "Yes!" I pumped my fist in victory.

   "You really think I should go? What if the creepy one that wants to kill us is there?" Bella asked as she flipped a pancake lazily. Her hair was up in high ponytail with plenty of wayward strands spilling out and framing her face.

   I was always so jealous of how long she could get her hair.

"Jasper will be there. And four other friendly vampires so up to you I guess." I shrugged nonchalantly.

"I'll go. My 'visitors' are starting to creep into the day." Bella's eyes focused over me as if there were a ghost right in the kitchen with us. "Some vampires would actually be nice right now. The damn ghosts keep warning me of something and I can't figure it out!"

   I couldn't help but sympathize her. She packed up a plate for Charlie in the fridge since he was on patrol all of today. We ate breakfast quickly and I planned our outfits out accordingly. It was going to be somewhat chilly outside today. Bella laughed when she saw her clothes that I'd laid out. "You're the best."

   It was my least favorite shirt of hers: a tattered Marilyn Manson shirt with a minuscule jelly stain on it. She even got her loosest pair of blue jeans.

   I waved my hand at her. "Don't mention it." It was the least I could do for her coming with me.

Bella squealed once she saw the ruby red, classic Jeep that Jasper rolled up in. Her excitement seemed to amuse the vampire. "You know this is Rose's baby. She probably won't let you lay a single finger on it."