The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

29. The After Party

Chapter song- When I Grow Up by NF
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"You better be damn sure this will work." Leah deadpanned as she crossed her toned arms across her lean body. We - us three girls and the body that Peggy had hyjacked - had just landed in Italy under night's cover and with the aid of expertly-forged passports that Charlotte had handed us. Apparently, Jasper also shared a fraudulent lawyer named Mr. Jenks with his friends, and had left enough money that Charlotte had been able to call express orders on all of the documents.

   Thank God for paranoid rednecks.

   "Yeah, she better be." My sister matched the she-wolf's pose as they both glared down at me. Bella was especially irritated with me as her eyes had settled to a slighter darker ruby due to my deception. And, in all fairness, tricking her into killing me had been a bit of a dick move.

I shrugged under their scrutiny. "Relaaax... I can totally pull this off!" I didn't want to mention that I had picked the possibility that exposed the most danger to me and guaranteed that both my sister and Leah would be able to get away.

   As we scurried across the cold, industrial floors of the airport, our carry-ons clanging behind us, I couldn't help but feel grateful for their support. Bella, as loyal as ever, would've knocked my lights out for trying to exclude her, while Leah was destined to be apart of the family. And, if everything went according to plan, we'd be on the run for an eternity as an unstoppable unit.

   Happiness entered my every pore at the future. Sure, it wasn't exactly the future I was seeing at the present, but it was a blurry possibility. We just couldn't get caught or we'd all be the Volturi's slaves for the next century until I could arrange Aro's murder and we performed a coup d'état for the throne. It was rather tempting; Jazz would look sooo hot and right as leader of the Guard.

Not a horrible future, but I just wasn't that patient and I'd rather kiss and hang out with my man now.

   "Pipsqueak." Leah squeezed my shoulder to grab my attention from my scheming. "I'm sniffing a lot of vamps around here, we need to get out of the public eye quick."

   She was right. Itchy eye contacts and heavy concealer was helping us blend in, but it was extremely difficult to slow my movements down to mirror anything remotely human. Not to mention that humans smelled insanely good right now.

   It seemed as though my control was better than Bella's, and that Bella's appetite for human blood was significantly diminished since having chomped down on my neck. Maybe it was because it had scared her so bad.

"Alrighty. Which way next, Peggy?" I asked cheerfully to the extremely tall vampire escorting us.

A feminine Southern accent, masked within a deep timbre, responded. "In Volturra, there are a series of underground passages and rooms that amount to the Volturi's home throughout the entire city. Luca specifically recalls an entrance under a nightclub where we would be particularly inconspicuous. Apparently, the club entrances are where the majority of their...food comes from and so the guards are less wary against unfamiliar faces."

We ducked away into an alleyway absent of security lights while I digested this information. If we were to use a club entrance... Closing my eyes, images flowed over me at supersonic speed while my vampiric mind quickly interpreted them. "It should work as long as we use Peggy as the draw. How can we get the rest of us in though?" More details were needed to make the future crystal clear.

   "Slap a hood on me and then we are dragging Leah and you in through the entrance as our food." Bella supplied helpfully. "Your physique is too abnormal  to pass off as a generic member of the Guard, and Leah is actually human."