The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

18. Ties to Reality

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Chapter song: Cherry Wine by Hozier
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Jasper stared at Mary, his mind frozen in fear. "Mary?" His voice, impossible though it seemed, seemed to be hoarse.

   She had collapsed in his arms, a tiny motionless doll who wasn't so much as moving her eyes under her eyelids. Carlisle had been concerned enough by her symptoms that he'd quickly moved to create a small hospital ward in his office. If she didn't get better soon, he'd move her to the hospital and let Charlie know.

   The thought of having to give the police chief more bad news complemented the internal grief that howled and consumed inside.

It's her gift. She knows the future, was being tormented by it, and I ignored it. And now it consumed her. He didn't deserve her if he couldn't even protect her from herself.

   "Son." Carlisle gripped his shoulders and it seared through his focus on Mary in a painful burst.

"I'm not your son." He jerked the other vampire's hand off his shoulder in a rough gesture. But as he lashed out, he simultaneously broke. "Please fix her." It was all that he could say without saying something worse.

   A pale hand graced over Mary's forehead fleetingly. She again seemed oblivious to the chill of the touch, an uncommon behavior for an unconscious human. Her heart was utterly slow and calm and so unlike her that it grated in the otherwise silent room.

   "In all my years is existence, I've never seen a human hurt under a supernatural gift."

   "Had you even seen a human with a supernatural gift before this?" Rosalie entered the room, having gone off Bella-guarding duty at the hospital. Her topaz eyes locked onto Mary's tiny body and her fists clenched.

   Carlisle's gaze went thoughtful. "I've had my suspicions with a couple of nurses that I've worked with in the past, but none confirmed as with Bella and Mary."

   "Edward being here right now would be valuable." Jasper felt the frustration that came with all the weird shit that'd been happening over the last few months. First Edward's disappearance, his scent by the crime scene, and now the strange vampire Leah has seen by the Swan's house.

A dark, angry expression crossed the she-wolf's face. "If I hadn't been so distracted by your stinky ass in Bella's house, I would've been able to catch the bitch."

Bitch? Confusion went through Jasper and he exchanged a glance with Emmett. "It wasn't Edward?"

   A derisive snort. "If Edward doesn't have double Ds, then I'd be inclined to say no."

   "Anything else about her?"

   "She was carrying a stinky-ass sack over her shoulder."

   This ordeal wasn't about the girls. It was about getting to their coven and sending a message. It made him want to question Carlisle, the one vampire old enough in the clan to have any serious enemies, so that he could get rid of the threat.

But Jasper Whitlock wasn't naive enough to believe that this was about Carlisle.

It was him who'd battled for decades in a vampiric war, he who had murdered hundreds of newborns. He was the one who'd abandoned Maria and foresworn all he'd ever known. He was the reason that the girl he loved was locked in her own mind and her sister was near death.