The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

24. Exiled

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Chapter song- Moana by G-Eazy
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   "You lost her?" Carlisle thinly veiled his rage as concern while Emmett and Esme looked perfectly distraught in front of the family. Poor Esme had been crying from distress until Rosalie had finally soothed her enough to speak.

   "I-I was just trying to give them privacy." She stared at her feet as Emmett towered protectively over her.

   He looked at Carlisle with an uncharacteristically straight expression. "Didn't really seem right to eavesdrop." He shrugged his massive shoulders in a hopeless gesture.

Edward primly lifted his eyebrows. "She's a newborn," he said patronizingly slow, "it is clearly vital you watch over her when new elements are introduced to her."

"Oh can it, Eddie, it's not like you were helping look after her." Rose snapped back promptly. Her blonde hair glinted as she flipped it in agitation. "It can't possibly be that hard to track down one girl. All of us need to calm down; it's hardly like she's helpless."

Esme moaned suddenly and then put her head in her hands. "Lord, I hope she sticks to her diet. If it's someone she knows..."

"It'll be all right, Esme." The blonde beauty rubbed her back. "Someone needs to call Jasper and make sure that he's got eyes on Mary."

   "Oh for the love of-" Carlisle's mask of calm broke completely as the realization of possibly both Swan sisters disappearing hit. A tic in his face betrayed his agitation as Edward sagged against the wall and stared at the ceiling with black, dead eyes.

   Emmett was already on the phone. It rang obnoxiously four times before going to voicemail. "Huh, he didn't answer."

"We could all hear it, you imbecile." Edward hissed.

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   Sam carried the despondent girl to the office building that housed many, of not all, of the administrative tasks of LaPush, kicking open the door with an impatient foot before apathetically dropping his load onto the carpeted floor once he reached the appropriate conference room.

   Leah landed on her knees, dehydrated from a day on the forest floor and thoroughly miserable.

The Council members, her father included, stared at her with disappointment tattooed on their faces.

"Explain," Chief Black's face was thunderous. "why Sam has reported you to the Tribal Council for high treason."

   Funny that they believe him straight away. Leah stared at them with desolate eyes, not really giving a single fuck about what was happening since the worst possible punishment had already been meted out; she had rejected her.

   Big fingers gripped her face and Sam forced her to look up at him. "Tell them, Leah." His huge body began to shake as though he was about to go wolf any second. "You abused your position of alpha by ordering me to stay silent, but you're so damn weak right now," he lifted her up off her knees by her face. "that I finally broke it."

   Leah just kept staring past him indifferently.

   "Hands off my daughter, Uley." Harry Clearwater spoke quietly, his fury a silent thing.

   Sam released her, his body heaving from the effort of not shifting. With noticeable effort, he straightened and addressed the Council. "Our worst fears have come to pass; Bella Swan is a newborn vampire and our treaty with the Cold Ones is null and void." He stopped speaking long enough for gasps to envelope the room. "Leah alpha-ordered me to remain silent and aided in their plot to steal a human life, and worse yet, I smelled vampire stench past our borders today."