Could I disappear?
This is totally non-canon and OOC.
I own nothing. Anything recognizable belongs to S. Meyer.
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Bpov
We say our goodbyes to Birgir, Adela, Timothy and Samantha. They promise to send us updates as they have them and we promise to let them know if anything big happens and we're off.
I can't help but hope everything goes smoothly..
Chapter 43:
Peterpov
I drove like a madman and we managed to drop Jake and Embry off on time to make their flight back home. We promised to update them if anything big happens and Jake promised to update us on the Charlie situation. Sam called and let Jake know that Charlie has been giving Billy and Quil Jr hell trying to figure out what's really going on. The man has the right to know, but until the Volturi are handled; we just cannot risk it. I know Bella wants to keep her daddy in her life, but she is gonna have to let him go sooner or later. Rock. Hard-place.
I dread this trip to shit-cago. Yea that's right. Shit-cago and I'll say it again. Sure, I'm a Southern boy through and through, but that's not why. It's just that it seems like the most horrible stuff always happens at and comes out of that place. I wonder if there's somethin in the drinkin water? Who knows. All I know is; whenever I have to go there all I can think is shit.. cago. Ugh...
We kept the mood light on the 20 hour drive. It was important to drive so we wouldn't be spotted. We believe that the airports near Chicago are being monitored because of Edward's disappearance. Aro doesn't want to lose his lapdog after-all.
Enough of that.. I start thinkin about that trick that Fred learned. Dang.. He said that humans do it with tea and it makes the experience more intense for them. For us; well let's just say it drove us wild. Imagine, having the body temperature of the climate around you; then being enveloped in warmth in the most erotic of ways. No wonder Jasper lost his shit. I can't wait to experiment with this in different ways. I'm getting some good ideas in my head when Jasper smacks me in the back of my neck and says, "You better control that shit. We gotta keep our head in the game for this trip. We are going to be knee-deep in the land of informants watching out for signs of any of us. Don't distract us."
I let out a huge sigh and say, "Yea, I know. I was just thinkin about that new trick and all the possibilities." His lip quirks because he is fightin a smile and he responds, "We can explore that later. For now Captain, I'd like you to try to consult with Yoda on this mission. We need to scope out the flat and the family home, but we need to think about which one is being monitored more before we make our move."
On that note I pull off to the shoulder and say, "I'd like you to drive then Major." He nods and gets out. Once we switch places I set my seat to recline, put my arms behind my head, close my eyes and relax listening to the hum of everyone talking quietly.
Jasperpov
We were just past Minneapolis when Peter and I switch spots. There's about 6 hours until we make it to the city. The rooms that I rented are in a Super-8 Motel just outside of the city so we can be as inconspicuous as possible and have a meeting point; just in case anything goes wrong. I'm thinking about back-up plans when Fred asks, "Hey Jasper, do you think we should take care of Edward's home first? This way we can sneak in, drop off the ashes and search the home while we set-up the scene. That way while we are off to the flat any spies will be investigating the home area?"
I nod in understanding and say, "That's just what I was thinking, but wasn't sure if the fire at Edward's home would alert them to our presence and then they could drop more people off at the flat. What do you think Captain?" Peter grins and stretches languidly and says, "I'm thinkin on it Major, Yoda is not cooperatin right now but I got a feelin that Fred may be right on. If Aro is all worked up they are probably gonna be frantic lookin for clues right now. As we speak Dmitri is on his way to Canada to scout out the Cullens so, he could be on his way here within a day if he gets wind of Edwards home. Just gimme a few to think on it Major."
Bella says, "Wow, we are really walking into to craptastic situation aren't we? Fred, I know you'll be masking us, but do you think you can maybe mask us all if we try to go to both places at the same time?" He responds with, "Let's map out the distance between the flat and the home." The idea of splitting up has merit, but we don't want them to catch wind of us being there so I say, "I'm not comfortable splitting up with the tracker so close. What's on your mind darlin?"
She bites her lip and looks down while she responds, "Well.. at first I didn't like the idea, but I've been thinking and if the properties are close enough than maybe Fred can keep us all masked and pull off both jobs at the same time. We can be in and out before they knew what hit them. It makes sense if we can pull it off." I'm about ready to respond when both Peter and Fred try to say something at the same time. I turn my head, cock my eyebrow and grin, "One at a time boys."
Peter laughs and says, "All man here. Go a head young one." Fred punches him in the shoulder and says, "Fucker! What'd I tell you about that!" Peter starts laughin his ass off and Bella says, "Do I have to separate you two? Stop messing around!" I send her my gratitude and she smiles at me through the rearview mirror. I send them both my frustration. Fred looks up, then smiles sheepishly and says, "Well.. I put both addresses into my phone map and it says the addresses are 3.9 miles apart. I do believe I can mask us all up to about 5 miles, but have not tested it yet."
Hmm... Peter says, "I was going to say that it would be in our best interests to split-up. I like what Sugar was sayin. Major, Fred and Sugar go to Edward's home, scout and plant the ashes while Garrett, Char and myself go to the flat to scout. If it is just 3.9 miles then it is less than a 5minute run for all of us. We can park the car somewhere in the middle." I'm nodding along pondering this and say, "I will agree to that plan on one condition."
At this everyone is looking at me expectantly so I continue, "I want to find a place to pull over and test the distance of Fred's masking. Since, we can pick-up each other's scents regardless, I'd like to test it out for distance. Fred can collar, mask an animal and let it go. We measure the distance as we separate from it and try to hunt it down by smell alone. It shouldn't take very long and quite honestly, I'm disappointed that we have not spent the time in our training to test this out at home. We take no risks in Chicago when we know Dmitri is comin."
Fred looks down and says, "That won't be a problem. We are still about 6hrs from our destination. You wanna test now?" I look back at him through the mirror and say, "You bet your ass I do. I'll pull off the next exit for a town that has a pet store. Care to look it up on your handy lil gadget there?"
Fpov
Jasper's funny. Handy lil gadget. I almost expected him to say, "Handy dandy smart-phone." Then I'd laugh and call him Steve and he'd be lost. I chuckle to myself and Jasper says, "What's so funny?" I look up from my phone and say, "Ah.. Nothing. Just thinking about an old TV show. Ok, there is a PetSmart in Richfield, MN. That's three exits away."
I look over at Bella. She's watching the scenery so I grab her hand and rub my thumb into her palm. She smiles, squeezes my hand and says, "Can you imagine how things would be if I had never left Forks?" I think before I answer and say, "I can't imagine life without you. I think we would have found each other somehow, but I'm sure that we both would have gone through a lot more shit before then. I'm thankful that you were fed-up and left that day." Bella cuddles into my side, sighs and says, "Yea, that whole glamor thing with Edward though. If I hadn't been spending time with the wolves.. I don't think I would have been able to come out of it on my own."
Jasper looks at us through the rearview and says, "Darlin, I know I had my blinders on back then, but I do believe I would have figured it out sooner or later. I do remember your lack of changing emotions around him." She nods and says, "I know Jasper. I'm just thinking how scary both Edward and Alice were towards the end." I squeeze her shoulders and say, "I know they were and babe, you can't kill yourself with what-ifs in regards to the past. We are here now together. We should cherish it and keep our mind on the what-ifs for the now."
Char hugs Bella on the other side and says, "He's right Sug. We have all overcome a lot to be here now and we are facing so much more. In the end though.. it will all be worth it because we have each other." Bella hugs her back and says, "You know I love you right Char? I love all of you." Garrett stops his side conversation with Peter, winks at me and says, "You know we all love you too sweet cheeks!" Bella laughs and kicks him in the shin. Heavy mood seems to be lifted. Jasper is grinning at me and says, "We're here! Are we all goin in or just Fred? By the way.. what kind of animal are you going to collar?"
I respond quickly without thinking and say, "Deer. I'll go in by myself. We don't have a lot of time. Be right back." With that I hop out and go into the store. I find a medium-sized blue dog collar, buy it and I'm out in 5mins flat. I get in the car, shut the door and say, "Let's do this thing!"
Bpov
We took off for a MN state park to test Fred's masking distance and I was amazed with the results. Fred was able to mask the deer's scent for 12miles. Because Jasper is Jasper. He wanted to try another animal to see if the species had anything to do with the distance and it was about the same. We will be fine to split in the city. Our scents will be masked, but Fred can only repel others from us when we are together. With that, we decided.. or I should say that Peter decided he would go alone. He said that as long as his scent is masked he will not have a problem making himself invisible alone. It would be more difficult with three of them together.
Jasper parked in a parking garage near the mid-point between the two properties. We talked through our back-up meeting spot in case we get separated or if anything goes wrong and Peter is gone in a flash. According to Jasper, Peter was good at individual recon missions from when he was in Maria's army. That make me feel a bit better about it.
We are all dressed in dark inconspicuous clothing. Fred has us all masked and we automatically find two unrecognized vampire scents and with some more work we find six cameras around the property. As a group we stick to the shadows and make our way inside. I have the urn and drop the ashes in the master bedroom then put the urn back in my bag. We are scouting the house for computers, phones, journals. Anything he may have kept a record of what was going on or what he was thinking at the time..
I found a set of old journals and some letters in the master bedroom closet and grabbed them on my way into the office where Jasper was putting a couple things into a duffle bag. I dropped the books and letters off and asked, "Find much here?" He shakes his head and says, "Naa, if y'all are finished we should head over to the flat to see if Peter needs any help." Everyone meets up in the office. Char hands Jasper a handful of mail and said, "That's all I could find. Let's go help my baby."
Jasper zips the bag, throws it over his shoulder and says, "Light this bitch up! Start the fire in the master bedroom and let's fly!" Fred took off and started a fire near the bed and the drapes. We were in and out within ten minutes so, we all hoofed it to the flat on foot.
Even though Peter went first we did the same scouting of the area. We found the scents of those same two unrecognized vampire scents and yet another group of cameras. The flat was the end unit of a town-home building. It has three floors and more rooms than the home did. I guess modern homes are a lot bigger nowadays. Once we got inside; the group found Peter in the 2nd floor office. He was checking out a computer and looked up at us grinning. He said, "Took you guys long enough! I was getting bored."
Jasper smirked at him and said, "There wasn't much at the other place. What rooms have you checked here?" Peter walked over to Char, gave her a hug and answered, "I finished the 1st and 2nd floor. I saved this office for last. So all that's left is the upstairs and I do not know if there is a basement or attic to check out." Garrett spoke up, "This place is fairly new. I'll go check for a basement." Jasper said, "I'll go with him." I said, "Alright then. Char, Fred and myself can hit the 3rd floor and see if there's an attic. Meet you back here in ten."
We all split-up and went to check our different areas. There were two bedrooms on the 3rd floor. And another room that I didn't know what it was. Entertainment room maybe? Fred took the 1st bedroom. I took the mystery room. The curiosity got me. It had a big flat screen on the wall, a large.. bar with alcohol? What the hell was he doing here? I was looking around the shelf unit when I hit something. I stood up on my toes to peak and sure enough there was a small control panel there. I hit the button and the flat-screen wall slid open to show a hidden room. Of course the freakish asshole who lost his mind had a mystery room. I walk-in. What I see scares the ever loving shit out of me and I yell quietly for the others.
Jasperpov
Garret and I were on our way to the 3rd floor because there was no basement when we heard Bella's panicked cries. We ran the rest of the way and found her curled up on the floor sobbing next to a huge TV. She looked up with fear filled eyes and pointed to what looked like a hidden room. What I saw there blew my fuckin mind. What the hell was wrong with him? I call the others to come up and ask Char to comfort Bella.
In this room there is a huge control panel with 10 monitors. Each one has surveillance of a different area. The one that mattered most was monitor number 6. It was split live-feed from Bella's old bedroom and bathroom back at Charlies place. On the other side of the room was a hospital bed set-up with tubes and restraints. He had a surgical tray with instruments on the other side of the bed. Below the surgical tray there were drawers filled with sex toys and gags. What the fuck? Fred is shaking with anger and I try to send out waves of calm. We can't lose it here. "Fred, get the fuck out of here. Go check on Bella. She's fallin apart out there." He nods and goes to her. I send out more waves of calm.
I tell the rest, "Okay, let's photograph the room and take everything that we think will be useful and let's get the fuck out of here. We can react when we are on neutral grounds." I can feel the waves of anger coming off of everyone and I ask, "Peter, did you finish in that office? We need to leave."
He nods, "Yes, Major. All wrapped up. We need to leave the live feed alone. If Aro's men show up here they will know who did it." I grit my teeth and say, "I agree however, we will tell the wolves to sniff out any cameras and destroy them. The live feed will go untouched." Peter is quiet for a moment while he thinks and says, "Yes Major. That will work."
We grab everything, close-up the secret room. Who knows.. maybe Aro's men don't know about it? Then we take off for the Super-8 to check out what we've found and regroup before we head on home and find out about some more crazy..
AN: It has been a little over a week since my last update. I was feeling a bit down and decided to spend some time on my photography. I appreciate everyone who reads & reviews and will finish. Honestly, there isn't much left to go.. What the hell was up with Edward anyway? No surprise there I guess. Edward was one twisted dude.. All mistakes are mine.
