Locked up

Chapter 14

AN: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters. SM owns them and I am again just giving them something to do between movies.

Jasper's POV

Bella was awake as I started getting ready for work. She was supposed to go to class today but Charlie thought it would be a better idea for her to stick close to one of us after last night's events, so I was going to drop her off at the police department on my way to work.

"Why can't I come to the newspaper office with you today?" Bella whined playfully.

"Because I am the new boot there and I don't want to get in trouble for bringing you in, plus you will be safer at the PD with Charlie." I tell her again as I kiss her forehead.

"Will you come get me for lunch and as soon as you get off work at least?"

"Yes Darlin, I will come get you for lunch and as soon as I get off work." I tell her laughing.

"Ok, in that case I will get up and get ready to go too then." She saunters off to her closet to get some clothes out and head for the bathroom to take a shower.

She cracks me up and I don't know what I would do without her in my life. I will be glad when we start college next fall and can worry about something besides a serial killer running around.

As soon as she is ready we hop in my car (a midnight blue Dodge Charger) and head to the police department so I can drop Bella off for the day.

When I get to the newspaper office, I see a crowd of people I work with surrounding something or someone over to the side of the room by the water cooler and copier. I go over to see what is going on and see a red headed woman in the middle of the crowd talking and laughing. As I get closer to the group my buddy Ben sees me and grabs my wrist to drag me over faster.

"You got here just in time!" Ben exclaims.

"Did I miss something yesterday after I left?" I ask trying to figure out what is going on.

"This is Heather. She used to work here until a few years ago. She was a HUGE hit here in Forks but got a great job offer in Seattle. She is back in town covering the murder story for her paper in Seattle. Let me introduce you to her." Ben rambled off as he made our way through the crowd of people to get to her.

"Heather, this is Jasper Hale. He is our newest edition to the paper. He just moved here from Arizona."

"Hi Jasper. Nice to meet you." Heather said with a warm smile.

"Nice to meet you too maam." I replied with a shy smile. I hated being known as the newest one here. I had been here for almost a month, but I guess since they don't get new people very often, it would take a little while for the new to wear off.

"There is no need for maam. It makes me sound old." Heather laughed.

I could tell she was only in her early 20's but it was a respect thing.

"Just a respect thing maam." I replied blushing.

"I understand. So how long have you been working here Jasper?"

"About a month and I worked at the newspaper back in Phoenix also before I moved here."

"What brings you from Hot Arizona to Rainy Washington?" She asked curiously.

"My girlfriend moved up here to live with her dad while she finishes her senior year of high school, and since I am already out, I moved too so that I could be with her." I answered with a smile. Talking about Bella always makes me smile.

"You are a good man Jasper. If things don't work out with her, give me a call." Heather said with a wink. "I'll give you my card in case you ever need anything, work wise." She said with a smile and wink.

"Thanks maam but I believe Bella is the one for me. But I will keep you card on file in case I ever have a work question. From what I hear you know your stuff." I replied with a slight blush.

"Ok, just keep me in mind." Heather replied as another reporter called out to her.

She pulled a card out of her wallet and handed it to me just as she was pulled away.

I put the card in my desk drawer. I figured if I ever needed a reference or job I could maybe call in a favor.

Now to get to work for the day.

I sat down at my desk and tried to block out the noise from the crowd of people around Heather. I turned on my computer and opened up my email to see if there was anything new since yesterday.

There was mostly just the normal spam and junk mail, but there was one email that caught my attention. The sender was a "James Doe" and the title was "Jasper, you might wanna open this if you want to save Bella's life."