I don't own Twilight.

Chapter 2

Bored…B…O…R…E…D…Bored. It's a sunny day so we are all stuck here inside. Alice of course suggested we go shopping. Nope…Not today. She already got me to wear that pink shirt yesterday. She swore to me it was peach but I know it was pink. Emmett snickered at me all day.

I threw the tennis ball at the wall again.

"You know Esme is going to get mad when she comes back and sees marks on her wall." Edward told me.

Damn he's like the oldest one in this screwed up family. Carlisle changed him first and he still acts like the damn spoiled baby.

"I heard that." Edward said with a growl.

"Well if ya don't like it stay out of my head!" I told him deliberately exaggerating my accent.

"It's not as if I can help it." He said sullenly.

"Sure ya can. You can at least not comment on what ya read. I always feel you're fucked up emotions but I don't go blabbing to anyone when you're feeling a little horny or your feeling blue." I told him making a crying face when I said blue. Edward drove me crazy with all his melodrama.

I smirked at him hoping to push him that little bit more. I was itching for a fight. Emmett was hunting with Rose and it was just Edward, Alice and me. Lord knows I wasn't going to tackle my darlin'. Edward would do nicely but I needed a little extra sass from him before I laid into him.

Edward crossed his arms. He knew exactly what I was thinking and I could tell he really didn't want a dose of my wrestling but he was also itching to have the last word.

"Hey guys." Alice said entering the room with her a bounce in her step and a smile on her face. She looked at me with a twinkle in her eye and I knew she had read the situation and was going to push that last button. Dang I just might have to go shopping with my pixie.

Edward looked at the both of us and I could tell he read our thoughts and knew the situation. He pursed his lips trying not to say anything, I could feel his internal battle. I threw the tennis ball at the wall again. I could feel Edward's aggravation go up a notch and my smirk grew.

His growl deepened and he caught the ball on my third toss. I got up slowly from the couch.

"You're such a child Jas…" That's all he got out before I had him pinned to the floor. The trick to fighting Eddie is to try and keep your mind blank. It wasn't that hard for me, most of my fighting moves had been done so many times they were instinctive.

I had a knee in his back and his arm pinned behind him.

"Dammit Jasper." Eddie growled.

My smile got bigger I was going to enjoy this. I let him read my thoughts and he groaned a low no before I dosed him with hilarity. Few vampires are ticklish and even if Eddie is it isn't manly to tickle another man. So I use my power to make him giggle and squirm like a twelve year old girl.

"Okay now it's time for you to say it." I told him with a huge triumphant grin.

Alice giggled from her place standing by the wall and I gave her a wink.

"N..N..No…" Edward gasped between laughs.

"It's up to you but I got all the time in the world." I told him. One time I had done this for three days. I got a lecture from Carlisle but it had been totally worth it.

"Fine!" Edward yelled and I let up a little.

"Jasper is the greatest vampire in the world. He is better than me in every way and I exist to serve him." Edward said with a pout. I drew back my gift and let him off the floor.

He got up in a huff muttering about wishing Emmett were home as he stomped out the door. I ignored him as I went to hug my pixie.

"You owe me shopping." She told me smugly.

I held back my groan. I knew she had me. She had saw the outcome before she came in the room and had given Edward that little push. Edward had a little crush on my pixie and didn't like to be shown up in front of her. It didn't bother me I knew she loved me. Still the torture of a shopping trip was worth it to torture the boy a little.

"No shopping today though." She said and I barely held back my sigh of relief.

"Charlie is coming over." She said. My mood greatly improved at that piece of news. I really like Chief Swan.

Charles Swan had come knocking on our door a year ago. We had just moved to Forks three months berfore and were a little concerned that the Chief of Police was visiting us.

The man was very intelligent. He was best friends with Billy Black and Harry Clearwater. Two descendants of the original signers of the treaty. Apparently he listened carefully to their legends and stories. He put two and two together and figured out that we were 'cold ones'.

He asked us our business and when he was satisfied we weren't hunting his people he let us be for a month before coming to us again. This time he asked us for help.

His wife had been killed and his daughter kidnapped over ten years ago. He was still looking for her. The way that his wife had been murdered and the fact that he seemed to be stonewalled at every turn lead him to believe that there were supernatural forces involved. He had exhausted all his resources.

He had very little hope we could help him and I sometimes think he was just looking for someone to listen to him. Maybe looking for a friend. The man was one of the loneliest I had ever seen. We agreed to help and we have done everything we could.

I contacted Jenks. He didn't get far before he hit a dead end but he seemed to believe the government was somehow involved. I tended to agree. It would explain why Charlie, a police officer, couldn't get the law to help him.

Carlisle had even asked the Volturi to have Demetri look, but that had went nowhere. For some reason Demetri couldn't find her. That in its self was very odd. Demetri could find anyone. Alice looked to but she couldn't find the girl. She couldn't even see the girl.

Ever since she first tried to look for the girl her visions of me became less clear. She even claimed she couldn't see farther into my future than a week from today. It worried the family but I wasn't really that concerned. If I was going to die as Alice feared…well then it was my time. I had cheated death way too many times.

I felt sadness from my girl and pulled her tighter to me.

"It'll be okay." I whispered before bending down to kiss her. The doorbell rang before I could comfort her more.

She cheerfully opened the door for Chief Swan. I often envied her mercurial moods. She could go from melancholy to bouncing on her toes with happiness in seconds.

"Hello Charlie." Alice said her voice tinkling like bells.

Charlie blushed lightly. He always did around my Alice. I suppose I should feel jealous, most mates would but I just never felt it. Mates were possessive but I never really felt that emotion.

I had thought before I met Alice that I would be the worst possessive mate in the vampire world. I had watched Peter, who was normally laid back, change into a snarling mess when someone so much as looked at Char. Even Carlisle would growl anytime a man would give Esme the eye.

Alice wasn't concerned though she said she was glad I wasn't snarly for her. She really wasn't possessive of me either. Lauren Mallory often made sly comments to me but Alice just ignored it.

"Any leads?" Charlie asked hopefully.

God I wished just one time we could tell him something.

Alice shook her head sadly. Charlie put his head down and nodded.

"Well I really came to ask your help." The Chief said finally.

"Of course. Come on in Charlie." Alice said her smile causing dimples.

Charlie followed her into our kitchen. We now kept coffee for times like this. Alice started to make him a cup just the way he liked it and Charlie sat in one of the chairs at the table.

I sent him some calm while he sat. The man had too much misery in his life and his sadness hurt me. I was glad to help relieve some of it. He knew all about our gifts and I think he knew that I did this but he never tried to stop me. I think he liked it.

"Thanks." He said accepting Alice's coffee but looking at me.

"We found a dead fisher man it looked like a vampire attack to me. We also found human tracks in the woods. Of course I reported it as an animal attack but I really think there is a rogue vampire in our area." He said while drinking his coffee.

Excitement surged in me. A nomad…maybe a coven. I felt Alice's trepidation and then realized that she couldn't see me past this week. Was one of these vampires powerful enough to take me down? The excitement should have turned to fear but it didn't. I welcomed the challenge even if I was destined to fail.

"We'll get right on it Chief." I told him with a big grin. I wanted to go now but I knew the chief needed this time of calm from me. I wouldn't begrudge the poor man this time. Especially if I wouldn't be here to give it to him again.

We talked some more. I listened with half an ear while I planned how we would handle this nomad. Alice wasn't about to let me go after them alone. She would probably insist on coming too. She would be a liability if she couldn't see clearly but I never denied my pixie anything. Emmett should come, maybe Edward.

"It's three vampires. Laurent, James and Victoria. I can't tell if they have gifts. They plan on passing through. We could just leave them alone and let them go their way." Alice said hopefully. I knew the Chief wasn't going to go for that. He took his job seriously and he wasn't going to let a vamp get away with killing one of his people and then just leaving.

"I don't want us to be a feeding ground. These are my people Alice. I knew the man they killed. I have to be at his funeral with his wife. I can't tell her that the vamps that killed her husband are dead but I would like the satisfaction of knowing they are." Charlie said.

I lowered my head at the Chief's words. How many had I killed, didn't I deserve death? Charlie caught my mood immediately. We were good friends, I had told him my whole story. He had told me that what I did was horribly wrong and to some I did deserve death but he had always believed in redemption and that as long as I was no longer killing he wouldn't think less of me.

"If they want to change and lead a vegetarian life then by all means let them but if not…" Charlie said looking me in the eye. I nodded, getting his message loud and clear. The Chief was a good man and more of a friend than I deserved.

I felt Alice's hand on my shoulder and I smiled at her before kissing her hand lightly. She was more than I deserved too. I definitely deserved the death she was afraid was coming my way and part of me welcomed it.

Charlie stayed another hour. We visited and I told him of our plans to hunt the Nomads tonight. Alice told us that it was pointless that we wouldn't find them tonight. I couldn't tell if she was telling the truth. My pixie knew how to fool my gift. She could be lying, trying to discourage me from looking. It didn't matter I was going to look and I could see by the sudden slump in her shoulders she knew that.

Charlie said his goodbyes and told us he would see us tomorrow and we would talk more then. I pulled Alice to me and hugged her close.

"It'll be okay." I told her while we waited for the rest of our family to get home.