The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

27. The Volturi

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SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE! I'm living for it, and as always I'm looking forward to writing as much as I possibly can.

I'm updating this fic again this Sunday so look for that ;). From here on out, I'm posting two chapters of my original on Fridays and Sundays, and it would mean the world to me if y'all could share some love over there!

See you on Sunday and thank you so much for your support!

Chapter song- Hypnotize by System of a Down
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"I'll be down in a few days. I'm going to wait for the Volturi visit and just hope that it's a friendly inquiry about Edward's availability to join the Guard. I'm sending Leah your way so that the shifters don't gain too much attention." Jasper's voice echoed on the wooden walls of the humble 'safe house'. The Swan sisters huddled on the dusty floor around the phone that was set to speaker phone. Mary leaned on Bella's shoulder, having managed to be sad enough over the past couple days that her vampiric sister didn't reject the physical contact.

"How did you cut the deal with Edward and Carlisle to go to the Guard and keep their mouths shut?" Bella asked, her voice hard yet curious about the fates of the men who'd been willing to sell them. She'd been getting progressively crankier since hightailing it out of town with Mary, and the thought of seeing Leah again drew a painful yearning in her chest that threatened to end her.

Being a vampire really sucked since it was fairly easy to feel so many shitty things all at once.

"After the others decided to let their miserable hides live," he responded with a fair amount of bitterness, "we made it abundantly clear that any future where Edward walks free from the Volturi is one where I actually do get to light the fire. Carlisle agreed to join him since Esme said, and I quote, 'I can't believe I married such a monster'."

"He deserves that. Wasn't it in his dumb doctor vows to do no harm?" She agreed readily.

Mary stiffened against her sister, but Bella chalked it up to hearing Jasper being so pissed off. Not that she could personally blame him since she also wanted the fuckers spit-roasting over a very hot flame.

   "I gotta go; Rose, Em, and I are taking turns watching over those two until the Guard gets here. Hopefully, it won't be long." The phone clicked off without so much as a goodbye.

Bella ran her fingers through her sister's hair affectionately before standing. "Well, he sounds perfectly pissy about not having bonfire. Why don't we help Char and Peter unpack?"

Her tiny sister got up slowly, her eyes uncharacteristically grim.

"Hey." She stopped her with a gentle hand. "What's wrong?"

The troubled look on her face vanished as though Bella had imagined it. "I'm all right. It's just... I miss him is all."

She chuckled. "I guess not so much has changed then."

"Can he really make all of this okay? The Volturi aren't so easy to fool, are they?"

Chills went down her spine as she looked down at Mary. "How do you know that?"

"It's just a feeling." She shrugged off Bella's hand and stalked out of the beaten down house. It had been surprising to learn that Jasper had kept a property with Peter and Char without the Cullens' knowledge, but then again, paranoia had only served him well. The settlement was far off from prying eyes and was most vampires' nightmare with its constant sunshine and lack of prey, hence its heightened potential as a bug-out house. To add even more icing to the really fucked-up cake, she was almost certain that she'd overheard the couple mention an underground bunker hidden somewhere on the 200-acre strip of land.