The both of us raced down to Arizona to deliver the tickets. It was actually really nice to have the company, before I had even told him about what I was doing; I had never felt more alone since when I woke up as a vampire. We both had adopted large jackets that covered our skin away from the sun.
"Now I know why we never had lived here before," Jasper laughed. I snickered holding my envelope tightly in my palm bounding down the street.
"So this is their house," I gestured to the pretty blue home. "Only a little smaller than ours right?" He smirked.
"A little." I danced up to the doorway with him close behind.
"Ready for a little ding dong ditch?" I laughed dropping the envelope and ringing the bell twice. Within a second of the ring, Jasper and I were on the roof of the building listening intently to Bella and Renee. The door opened and Bella stepped out quietly in dark jeans and a t-shirt. She stared quizzically at it before picking it up. She turned it over looking over the return address. I nearly burst out laughing right there, you can thank our good friend J. Jenks for forging an envelope from the Arizonan minor league. We had a 'healthy' relationship with J.J. as in Jasper scares the hell out of that guy. I've never met him, and Jasper wants it to stay that way. In other words, if anybody catches J.J. and traces back to him, he doesn't want me to be arrested as well.
"Mom?" Bella called, eyebrows raised as she pulled out the tickets.
"Yes sweetie?" Renee called walking outside as well in pajama bottoms and a ragged T-shirt. "Oh what are these?" she pointed to the tickets.
"Tickets to the minor league game tomorrow," Bella replied. "It said we won them but I don't remember entering in anything."
"Oh and look VIP passes to meet the team!" Renee squealed like a little girl. "I must have entered in a contest during my spare time when I wasn't paying attention." Ah Bella's harebrained mother never stops making my job easier. "Aren't you excited? We get to meet a bunch of handsome baseball players! Enough for both of us!" Bella attempted to fake enthusiasm although it came across more as uncomfortable and awkward. Luckily Renee doesn't pay that good of attention. Jasper chuckled under his breath, now he knows why I always was in a good mood when I got home.
"Of course mom, can't wait…."
Jasper and I stayed in a hotel the night. Of course we didn't sleep; mostly I filled Jasper in about everything that I couldn't go into detail with at home with certain eavesdroppers and mind readers. I told him everything about Bella. He agreed with me, that she and Edward would get along well. She was patient, he was quick-tempered. Both were understanding but stubborn as all heck.
"She will be good for him," he murmured. "Will everything work out for them?"
"Well, I see her as a vampire, as my best friend. Although that doesn't exactly guarantee that everything will go well," I smiled. "Just well enough that everyone will be happy in the end."
"Does Bella have any say in this?" he asked.
"Of course, I'm just getting her to Forks. If she wants someone else, well… we tried, and kept the girl who could've made Edward happy alive; at the very least anyway," I sighed. He had a point that I hadn't really thought about. What if Bella didn't fall for Edward?
"You are worried now, love," he said quietly. "It was a passing thought. You know humans cannot resist our kind, and if they were meant to be together, then she will love him. I didn't mean to make you anxious," he pulled me into his lap. "There is something to be said for destiny isn't there?"
"We would know wouldn't we?" I chuckled leaning my head into his broad shoulder. "I love you, my southern officer."
"I love you my little pixie," he snickered kissing me on the forehead.
The next day…
Jasper and I scaled the fence around the baseball stadium, climbing down into the stands into the second level with a full view of everyone below. Renee was jumping up and down with excitement. Bella wasn't having difficulty containing her mutual excitement, as in she wasn't enjoying herself at all but more putting on a smile for Renee.
Suddenly I had another vision; Renee and Bella were talking to a few of the players but never met Phil. There were too many of the players to talk to and neither of them got to each other. Crap..
"Alice? What's wrong?" Jasper asked. I frowned.
"Renee and Phil never meet despite her meeting the players. There's nothing I can do without exposing my identity." Suddenly a grin stretched across his face.
"Follow me," he murmured grabbing my hand. My mouth formed an 'o' as the vision hit my mind, before breaking into a smile.
"Nice, I approve," I stated happily. We leaped down so quickly, humans wouldn't see us. I stood outside of the locker room (there was some things that I didn't need to see), as Jasper whisked into the room. There was a slight gasp, a groan, and then all was quiet. Seconds later Jasper appeared again, clothed in a baseball uniform.
"Now we have a man on the inside," he winked at me.
"Think you can hit soft enough?" I giggled.
"I think I can manage," he snickered.
"Good luck," I remarked barely not laughing. It was so much like home, although I have to say our uniforms are much better. I unwillingly darted back up into the stands, a few rows above Bella and Renee. I wanted to keep a watch on the future but this would be too great to miss. I could hear through all the crowds, Jasper and the rest of the player's voices.
"Wait who are you?" One of the guys's interrogated. By the sound of it, he was trying to sound intimating. Wow, big bad baseball player versus vampire war veteran; such a fight that would be.
"I'm new, name's Aaron," he replied easily. "I'm a replacement for Greg." Huh, guess Greg was the name of the guy he stole the uniform from.
"Wait Greg is out? Aw man and they sent you?!" Wow, talk about rude. "Have you even played before?!"
"I've played with my family before," Jasper snickered at his own inside joke probably knowing I would hear everything they said. There was a lot of cussing and swearing after that, mixed in with Jasper's quiet chuckling. Minutes later the game began and the other team was batting. Ah the joys of baseball; although I really prefer playing it to watching it. If I didn't have common sense, I would've ran down there and taught that pitcher proper form. Sheesh! Could he have worst form?
Finally after the other team scoring five runs, they managed to get three outs and switched batting. Phil batted first, hitting it decently far, getting two bases. The next guy I recognized yelling at my Jasper. He wasn't quite as good as Phil and only managed a single base by bunting after two strikes. Serves him right for yelling at my Jazzy! Another two got two bases, making them loaded. Then my Jazzy took the plate.
I could hear several groans from the other players, ah thou of little faith. First strike and second strike Jazzy hustled the other team, (and his own team for that matter). He used the nervousness around him to appear truly nervous as the pitcher threw a curve ball. With a resounding boom, (not as loud as at home but still loud enough for most humans to cover their ears,) he made the ball fly out of the stadium. All the guys on the field stared after the ball in awe before turning back and seeing Jasper doing his little trick with the bat. I snickered shaking my head.
The game ended with Jasper having scored several home runs. Funny how one game can change a team's entire opinion of a guy. I pulled my baseball cap over my eyes going into vision mode. Jasper was being congratulated by the entire team along with the coach who didn't feel like mentioning he didn't hire him for replacement. When a guy gets you a ton of home runs, those details feel unimportant.
Bella and Renee appeared in their common room along with a few much richer looking people. Renee bounded right up to Jasper smiling happily as he held his cap down as far as he could so she couldn't see his face.
"Wow, you're amazing! I'm Renee," she chirped. Woah back up from my man. "Is your name Greg?"
"No," he laughed. "I'm just a replacement for him after he felt a little sick."
"Well, forgive me for being so blunt… but are you single?" WOAH WOAH WOAH!! I meant to set Bella's mom up, but NOT with MY man. BACK UP GIRL!!!
Jasper chuckled, half from her frankness and half from the fact I could see and hear everything going on. "I'm sorry, I have a girlfriend." Her face dropped.
"Oh please, I'm really sorry," she mumbled. Bella began blushing trying to take her mother's hand to drag her out of there.
"Wait!" Jasper called laughing. "You know, one of my teammates here, I think would be great for you. Hey Phil!" Phil turned jogging over. Good grief, one little show of homeruns and the guys act like he is their God or something. "I would like you to meet this little lady, Renee. Renee, Phil. Phil, Renee."
"Hi," Renee giggled slightly. Jasper grinned moving out of the way as Renee and Phil began exchanging phone numbers. Bella beamed, turning to Jasper and mouthing 'thank you'. Jasper grinned nodding.
"No problem little sister," he murmured quiet enough that Bella couldn't hear. I smiled to myself as I pulled myself out of my vision. Jasper quickly changed back into his normal clothes, and ran back to me. "Do I please you my mistress?" he bowed theatrically.
"Hhmm yes, I'm thoroughly pleased but Renee better back off my man though," I teased.
"My heart belongs to my one and only mistress," he kissed my hand gently. "Nobody has ever held a fraction of the hold on my heart as you do." Corny yes, do I love him for it? Well duh.
"Shall we go then?" I whispered. "Our work here is done, thank you. I couldn't have pulled this off without you here to help me." Hand in hand we ran back to our family in Forks. I danced quietly into the room with Jasper trailing into the great white mansion.
"NOW where have you two been?" Rosalie cried as soon as we walked into the room. I was officially out of ideas… My imagination for life had been used up for saving Bella. Luckily Jasper was there to save me… again.
"Do you really want us to answer that question?" That was when I realized on the way he had disheveled his hair slightly and unbuttoned a few buttons on his shirt. Wow, you would think he was the psychic around here.
"Umm… No thanks…" Rosalie stammered while Emmett's booming laugh echoed throughout the house. Edward started massaging his temples. Oh wow, that's great. I love my man! Everything weirdly worked out well… Renee has her man, Bella is coming to Forks, Edward will get his girl, and most importantly, I get my little sister! Yep, all in a day's work; now all I have to do is make sure Bella doesn't get killed by anything… or anyone here in Forks. How hard could that be? Right I should know the answer to that from the last over a decade or so, nothing is easy around here I swear…
AN: Ah don't you love Jazz? Okay so the poll has changed to most people wanting it going all series to it going on forever. Well… I don't think I'm going to be writing this for the rest of my life, but I'll keep it going for a while if you like.
