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This is when Jasper was told he would be assigned to the Cullens.

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"What'd I miss?" I said loudly as I swept into the debriefing room five minutes late. Everyone around the large rectangle table in the middle of the room rolled their eyes and scoffed at me as I flung myself into the chair right to the head of the table. I spun around a few times before I swung my legs up over the arm of the chair, crossing my high-heeled feet.

I looked back over at them and raised my eyes at the commanders around the table. They all looked very aggravated.

I was supposed to be here five minutes ago for a meeting that Arron would tell me nothing about. Now being me I couldn't just get on a plane from Paris and fly over here. Oh no. It got delayed so I had to call in a favor and borrow my friends jet. On the road the traffic was horrible and no matter how fast I drove I couldn't bypass any of it. So I'm late.

Apparently that's a crime now with the way they were looking at me. Wait a minute, Arron isn't even here! So why the hell are they mad at me?

"What?" I demanded, throwing my hands in the air.

"If any one of us had shown up late like that Ricada would have our heads. Yet you just waltz in here like its nothing." Richard, the Angel of Gluttony and the commander of our foreign affairs department, spit out bitterly.

I cocked my brow and retorted, "That's because I'm special."

Jasper scoffed and muttered under his breath, "Yeah, special ed."

Ass hole.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. Where's my brother?" I asked glaring at Jasper.

"We don't know. We thought he was waiting for you." The captain of one of our specialized teams said.

Waiting for me? Arron wouldn't wait for me. He would just go on with whatever he needed done and would leave me to catch up myself.

"Well, I'm here now so where is he?"

"Right here." Arron said from behind me. I leaned my head back and watched him walk in. "You need a watch."

I scowled at him and opened my mouth to retort but he grabbed my wrist and yanked me out of my chair. I yelped and grabbed his arm and tried to steady myself. You can't do that shit. He could have broken my heel.

"I have called for a meeting with the Anglican Council, we need to go." He commanded and everyone immediately got up and started for the door with looks of confusion on their faces. Except Jasper. What does he know? I could look I guess but I promised I wouldn't look into their secrets…

Arron, still holding my wrist, dragged me behind him and out the door. His long legs were making his already face past faster and I was about to fall on my face.

"I can walk by myself!" I complained and tried to wrench my arm free. He let go of my wrist without stopping and the movement was so sudden I lost my balance for a second. I caught myself for the second time that day and glared at his back.

"Hurry up!" Arron barked over his shoulder. Glaring at his back, I begrudgingly picked up my pace. Jasper came to walk beside me and smirked at my annoyance. I flipped him off and walked faster. Not that it would do any good since he was changed into a vamp.

What the hell was so fucking important that we had to cancel a meeting?

I heard talking coming from the great room and when we rounded the corner to go in it stopped the minute we walked in.

This is the part where the badass music in movies tells you the person in charge has fucking arrived.

We went and sat down in front of the various member of the council and once again I am to the right of Arron and Jasper is to his left.

"We have come to a decision that General Ricada and the rest of us have all agreed on." Chakris stated. "Mr. Whitlock, you will be going under cover in one of the Mendel's tracking covens to gain information for us. We do not know how long this will take but we are willing to take as much time as needed."

Shock crossed Jasper's face so fast you couldn't have seen it if you didn't know him before his mask went back into place. Arron refused to meet anyone's eyes and I could feel his guilt through the bond but there was something else. He was hiding something. Something he didn't want me to know. I could easily find out what it was but I will respect his privacy. For now.

Under cover? As in covert operations? That is my fucking job and I sure as hell did not approve of this. It's too risky, too much is at stake. He shouldn't be doing this. But apparently they are spies now! Any stealth operation has to go through me first. Nothing came. It would have taken months to decide this. Which means they have been working behind my back all this fucking time. Arron was in on it too!

"I did not approve of any covert operation." I stated coolly, my posture going rigid and my words becoming professional.

Dad looked at me evenly and said in a no nonsense tone. "You didn't have to. We believe this is the best action to take and no one wanted to have this delayed as you would have no doubly have done."

I clenched my fists under the table. He has no idea what you have to do to make sure something like this goes right. There is months and months of planning and everyone as sure as hell is aware of what is going on that would be involved. How dare he think Im not capable of my job.

"Yes sir." Jasper said stiffly. I can't fucking believe this!

"We will send you details on the debriefing time. As for now, none of you are to look into this until we say so. Are we clear?" Chakris demanded, looking me solely in the eye, daring me to protest.

Various "Yes sirs" came and I just glared at the man in front of me. I was absolutely against this. I was not going to promise shit. We continued our glaring match for another minute and he was literally turning red, he was getting so pissed. Arron grabbed my hand under the table and squeezed it. Hard.

"I said. Are. We. Clear." Chakris hissed out between clenched teeth and rose up from his chair, towering over me.

I stood up too and looked at him with a blank expression. I leaned forward and braced my hands on the table. "Crystal." I said scathingly.

He banged his fist on the table and marched out of the room before he did something stupid. Like attack me.

Everyone was looking at me with looks that said Really? This again?

"Must you make him angry?" Arron said dryly as the rest of the council member minus dad left.

"Of course. It wouldn't be half as fun then. What the hell is up with this? Jasper you cant be okay with this."

"I will go." Jasper said strongly.

"This isn't optional Holly, leave it alone." Arron said looking down at me.

I will. But I wont like it.

"Fine." I muttered and sat back down in my chair crossing my arms over my chest.

He rolled his eyes, "Alright, lets go back to the me-"

Im telling you to loosen up my buttons babe (uh hu)

But you keep fronting (uh)

Saying what you going to do to me (uh hu)

But I ain't seen nothing (uh)

My jaw dropped and everyone gasped when he whipped out his phone and started furiously pressing buttons. It finally stopped and he looked up at me accusingly. And like he wanted to strangle me.

I threw my hands up and started laughing, "It wasn't me this time!"

Jasper POV

I smiled faintly as Arron continued to yell at Holly, who was about to fall over she was laughing so hard. The others finally laughing, as they saw Arron was too busy to stop them. They cared for each other so much, and not just because of the link. It is a strict sibling relationship, nothing more, though others have tried to play it off as more, seeing Arron's fierce protectiveness over her.

It would have been a perfect seen had not the news just be revealed. Truth is I've been watching the Cullen's for a while now. The council and Arron knew but Holly didn't and we planned to keep it that way but things have arisen and I will need to go find that sooner than we thought. By whore I mean Alice. We have our own watcher, a gifted faerie and we saw what needed to happen. I've been stoking the vampire wars in the south for a while now but its going to have to come to an end soon.

As expected Holly's pissed, she is seething actually. This is the first time in a long time that anyone has been able to pull one over on her and I bet Arron will be getting a ear full later.

I know this will be the last time I see them for at least a hundred years. By the time we bust the Cullen's everyone here will be dead or near death and I will have to wait for them to reborn again.

Even though I know it will happen, it hurts the same as I watch everyone around me grow old and die while I stay young. It was a curse that was put on me hundreds of years ago. I age at a fifth of everyone else here. Sometimes I was lucky and Holly and Arron would be born when I was only 10 so they would grow up with me but in 1889 I was bitten and it changed everything.

Enough brooding Jasper! Man the fuck up.

"Arron," I chided. "If it was Holly she would have just said it."

He turned and glared at me, his eyes narrowing into dangerous slits. Holly looked at me from behind him and gave me a shit eating grin.

Everything will work out.