Jasper's POV

This was the fastest I had ever run. The most anger that I had ever felt boil inside me until I was continuously hissing it out from between my fiercely gritted teeth. It felt like my eyes were burning through the woods I front of me, searching for Alice. I should never have let her go alone.

I inhaled, drawing in every scent. I had faith that Alice could evade any attacker at her speed, but what if Victoria was just a fast? I was an idiot. And I wasn't going to let Alice die for my mistake.

I breathed in again.

The scent of moss and oak wood was beginning to subside and the most alluring scent flew into my nostrils. It was sweet and intoxicating. I stopped breathing and gritted my teeth harder. I'd found Bella an enough of her blood had been split for me smell it a mile away. My throat burnt raw and I stifled a growl. It wouldn't help either of them, or the rest of my family, if I finished off Bella. Leaping to clutch onto the nearest tree trunk, I scrambled agilely up it onto the highest branch. I could see all the way across the forest to the clearing where a white house stood. With perfected vision the details were clearer. I could make out two struggling figures and a red truck. One was winning. I flew to the next tree and the next, continuing across the forest in the same manner until I was ten trees away.

"Alice, I'm sorry"

The pitiful, cracking voice I recognised as Bella's, sobbed out an apology and I seethed with anger. I could see the red head with her arm around Alice's neck and hear the slow crack of her skin. Victoria was laughing. My body coiled and a roaring snarl ripped from the pit of my stomach. The evil witch wasn't going to get Alice. Victoria was going to die.

I leapt from the trees landing on the grass, uncontrollable rage controlling me, joined with my ferocious instincts. I snarled. Victoria turned to look at me with horror and I growled threateningly again.

Victoria's POV

The vampire opposite me was the picture of rage. The definition of feral and was the most frightening vampire I had ever seen. He was scarred all the way up his jaw, his teeth bared at me and growls erupting from him. His eyes were set on the Cullen, broken in my arms. Self-preservation screamed at me. His eyes bore into mine and I snarled back at him, my retaliation fierce. He wasn't getting away with the pixie and Bella. My feet felt like they were detached, trying to drag me away but failing as desire counteracted it. My eyes flew to lifeless Bella and back to the pixie then to the lion of a vampire.

"Victoria" His voice was almost a roar in itself, raw with threat and anger.

He approached me slowly and I felt myself backing away. NO! I wasn't done with either of these two yet!

As he drew closer I could see the topaz eyes. He was another Cullen.

"Jasper" He answered the question in my head.

Jasper was the most terrifying opponent I had ever faced. And yet it didn't make sense because he was a 'veggie'.

Jasper crouched and a growl roared from the pit of his stomach.

I gritted my teeth and snarled.

I most likely wasn't going to survive this second fight.

Then I dropped the pixie and turned tail. I'd be back. They could count on that. I would end Bella Swan and all the Cullens…

Jasper POV

I hadn't managed to destroy Victoria but I'd driven her off before it was too late. Bella was still breathing. I could hear her lungs wheeze with the effort. She really wasn't that strongest of humans. But she hadn't lost all that much blood. I could still see the jugular constrict and expand in her neck as it forced the blood around. I didn't breath and turned away, reluctantly, my throat burning like an inferno as I almost lost control. Then I saw Alice.

Her pixie like face was disturbed by vicious cracks that spread from her neck up her jaw, zigzagging over her porcelain cheeks. My hands balled into impossibly tight fists and within half a second, I had her in my arms. My eyes pricked uncomfortably and I knew, if I was human, I'd have been fighting back tears. She was still as stone in my arms (if you'll pardon the pun) and her eyes were daintily shut. I noticed then that I had missed the large chunk missing from the left of her neck. That was why she wasn't healing. Gently, I lay her down on the grass. Then, I violently tore through the grass and earth, searching for the missing piece of Alice. My chest was tight with the pain of knowing that if I couldn't find that little chunk, I would have to bring Alice back to the family dead. I'd been too late. It was too unbearable to imagine and it only made me more vicious as I tore through the soil. Then my fingers felt something smooth and slender. It twitched in my grasp. I felt my hopes leap as I pulled the chunk of white from the earth. It was soft to my touch and a detectable vanilla like scent came from it. Vampire skin. I put it to the hole in Alice's neck and I smiled widely. It was a perfect match. Quickly, I ran my tongue across the rough side, layering it with venom then slotted into the gash like a puzzle piece. The cracks began to fade and crawl back down her skin. Her eyes fluttered and her caramel eyes met mine with gratitude, love and worry gelled into the colour. I smiled crookedly at her.

"Jazz" She whispered, stroking my cheek.

Then she crushed her lips against mine. Electric sparks shot through us as her relief met mine and she wound her arms around my neck. I couldn't help myself as I returned her affections. I couldn't live without Alice. I could've lost her forever if I'd just left her to go find Bella.

"You really do need some combat training" I grinned at her.

"Shut up" She kissed me again quickly.

Then her expression turned serious.

"We need to get Bella to Carlisle"