I own nothing of Twilight, just my little plot line, and any changes to recognizable canon, and non-canon characters. I do not get nor do I seek any recompense for this work. I thank S Meyer for her benevolent generosity to her fandom in allowing us latitude to play with her universe.

Summary: Alice's visions of Jasper ended not long before the meeting in the Philly diner. What happens when Jasper eventually meets the Cullens? What actually happened to change his destiny? Some non-canon couples, OOC behavior. Jasper/Bella pairing.


Duty and Honor- Chapter One

A breeze freshened as I perched high in the trees. I carefully rocked to make the movement of my perch match its mates. As the breeze died, I crossed my arms and returned to contemplating the magnificent house before me. Though caution dictated that I continue my surveillance well back in the trees, my eyesight was more than capable of compensating for the intervening treetops.

The house isn't actually my assignment. I rerun the details of my orders in my mind, carefully layered beneath a layer of innocuous surface thoughts about camping and the wistful anticipation of the human comforts of a campfire. My orders are simple; the assignment, on the surface at least, a routine one. What is unusual is the fact that I am the person assigned. Generally, I would be considered far too skilled and far too high in rank to be delegated the task. Unfortunately, though the task is a common one, the group of people I'm to meet make it decidedly uncommon, and thus I find myself here, in Forks, Washington, USA, in a tree, watching a house.

Who am I? Most in my world regard me with equal amounts of fear and revulsion. Few know my true name, most recognize the name time and fate have gifted me. All of them recognize the name of my employers. I am Jasper Whitlock, Maj., 8th Regiment, Texas Cavalry, CSA (ret.), and for a time, the Demon of the South. Though all of that defines me, the most important and germane of my identities today is this: I am Volturi.


AN/ I offer apologies and reassurances to any who's honored family member may have been a member of the 8th Regiment, Texas Cavalry, CSA. I picked this regiment after a very brief and cursory google search because it was formed in Houston in 1861 and was assigned, as I understand it, to the Galveston area in 1862 and thus answers the demand of Twilight canon. I mean no disrespect to the men of the 8th Regiment, only all honor to them. I preferred it to the 2nd Regiment which was disbanded after mutiny in 1863 and I felt that Jasper would have been dishonored in absentia by this, and no longer honor his service. You'll find my Jasper to be very proud of his service, proud of the CSA, and unashamed of the war. I always felt it to be a bit wrong that Jasper's history was so vague as to say he served in the Texas Cavalry without any effort to actually define the regiment or unit. So, I took a few liberties.

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