The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

25. Tracked

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I wrote this chapter fast and it was so much fun! I've got only a week and a half of school left and I'm soo excited!
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Chapter song- Enter Sandman by Metallica
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"You're going to run past Border Security with me on your back?" Mary asked incredulously. The moon cast shadows on through the windshield, giving the sisters a clear view of the busy, industrial road that led to the Canadian border.

   Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' played softly, but it did little to abate Bella's irritation. Mary had convinced her to let her ride in the passenger seat so she wouldn't be 'so lonely' and now was asking entirely too many questions.

As a result, she was now hungry and had been navigating interstate traffic with the damned mask on for the past hour. You love her. She reminded herself even as she patiently explained that she was in fact faster than any car and quite capable of carrying Mary and any needed supplies over the border.

Her emerald eyes went wide at that. "Wooow. Dad told me you were a real klutz, so I guess whatever killed you made you some superhero, huh? Like Cat-woman!"

Bella stopped herself from braining herself on the dashboard as her sister's words sank in. "Wait," she moaned in exasperation, "you remember the Tim Burton Batman movies I made you watch, but you can't remember what our mother looks like!"

Mary blushed. "It's not like I can control it." She muttered.

"I know." She pinched her nose in an Edward-inspired pose. "I need to do something before we take off on foot; stay here and don't let anyone into the car."

She got out of the van and locked it before walking inconspicuously behind the gas station. Thankfully, there seemed to be just enough shrubbery to hunt, but it was getting more and more difficult to find animal blood that wasn't just a bunny.

Killing 10 bunnies for a single meal was not at the top of Bella's list of things she liked to do.

Just as she was about complete with the grim task, the hair on the back of her neck rose and she dropped her query, which scampered off into the bushes to hop another day. What the... A sweet scent, not at all appetizing but lethal in its message, crept over her. A vampire's scent.

Panic gripped her as she forewent all precautions; she crashed through the woods at full-tilt and back into the gas station parking lot. She hadn't even had time to wipe the blood off of her mouth or to right her clothes from the Peter Cottontail murders.

   "Hello there, darlin'." The familiar accent belonged to a male vampire with silver blonde hair and ruby eyes a few shades darker than Bella's own. He leaned against the van's door, and Mary's small face peaked out of the window at her sister.

   She looked scared.

Bella curtailed the newborn instinct to rip through the car door and tear into her throat; she hadn't had the time to recover from the bloodlust of hunting and the look of fear on a human face was a definitive trigger. She growled at the stranger, both frustrated and frightened.

He laughed at her. "Have no fear, I'm not going to hurt her. The Major would tear me into a million pieces." His gaze went over her and she suddenly felt as though she were being analyzed from head to foot. "Good thing I got the tug to find you before Jasper even knew to call, I don't really know how much longer someone as young as you could've lasted before glutting."