Jasper: ….

Chloe: ….

Jessamine: How long have they been glaring at each other?

Alice: Two hours and counting.

Jessamine: How come?

Alice: Chloe thinks Jasper stole her chapter update slot

Jessamine: Oh…Well did he?

Jasper: No! I was on moseying my way to get something to drink and I was approached. It wasn't my fault.

Chloe: Bullshit!

Jessamine: Well Aunt Alice, mind if I start the chapter then?

Alice: Awww! Sure sweetie

Jessamine: let's start the chapter!

The Crimson Eyed Drifter: Distance between Hearts
Chapter Twenty-Four

London, Ontario (Canada) – Nightwalker's Base
Jasper Hale Whitlock

"Well Whitlock, Welcome to the Nightstalkers base, It's not much anymore after our constant battles with Frost's own Vampire army but is something," Eric told me before we stepped out of the tunnel.

The inside of the base fairly small.

The walls were made of fairly thick cement walls with computer and tv monitors attached into them while upstairs, while there was a bed, which Derek was currently laying on, there were also several coffins lined up against the wall which made me roll my eyes. "Coffins? Really Eric?" I asked him.

"The coffins are specially made to nullify our abilities so we can think without hearing the outside world. We may not be able to sleep, but we can get some sort of peace," Eric explained.

"Well I can't fault you for that…It would be nice to turn off my ability to feel everyone's emotions every once in a while," I said with a reluctant nod of understanding.

Felicia came down the stairs and said "Derek is resting. I healed the injuries as best as I could but my abilities don't work well on humans compared to our own kind."

"Very good. Where is Mobius?" Eric asked. "He should have assisted you in helping the human."

"He is currently meditating on the roof Hannibal," Felicia replied.

"Of course they are. What about Rachel and Frank? Where are they?" Eric questioned.

"Where do you think?" Felicia asked cheekily.

"Probably having sex," I said.

Eric groaned and rubbed his face with an annoyed expression and replied "They were supposed to be on watch…I'll need to speak to them again…Alright, where is Quincy then?"

Felicia tilted her head towards the upstairs "He's watching the cameras for other vampires around the area."

Eric nodded and said to Felicia "Good. Jasper and I are going to the meeting room to discuss about Deacon. You are in command."

"Yes sir!" Felicia said with a salute before Eric turned to me and motioned for me to follow him. The two of us walked up the stairs, passed the coffin room and medical room and came across a dingy looking room with a circular table that had several chairs around them.

"Sit anywhere you like," Eric said as he sat down.

I shrugged and sat across the table from him and said "Now onto business."

Just then, my phone began to ring that all too familiar tune. I quickly answered it and said "What's going Alice?"

"Speaker Phone?" Alice merely asked.

I rolled my eyes and placed the phone on speaker and placed it between Eric and I and said "That's Alice. You remember her."

"Oh I certainly do," Eric replied dryly. "Hello Alice."

"Hello to you too Eric. It's been some time. Jazz, I have Carlisle, Rose, Emmett and Esme on here as well. They'll need to hear this. I already told them to save the tearful hellos until later."

"To our annoyance," Esme said dryly, which made me chuckle.

"Sorry mom but this is super serious," Alice responded but I couldn't help but realize something.

She didn't say Edward's name…I wonder why.

"Alright. Now that we are here…Onto business?" I asked Eric.

"Onto business," Eric confirmed. "So I'm sure little crystal ball over there told you guys about the reason I'm even entertaining my venom brother here."

"Not really. She only said that we will need to hear about this for we may come up to help," Rose said, which made Eric frown.

"Cryptic little…" I muttered before saying out loud "Alright. So let me fill you bunch in. Essentially, me and my group came here-"

"You have a group?" Emmett interrupted.

"Rose," I said warningly.

Seconds later, a loud smack echoed from the phone into the dark room.

"Ow!" Emmett yelled.

"Thank you," I said gratefully. "Anyways. My group and I came here to work on Jessamine's training. I will explain who she is later. Anyway, we came here when we caught two men trying to lead her to a grizzly fate."

Despite being a country away, I could feel Rose's gratitude for saving the victim.

"Of course we intervened, saved her and after meeting with the victim's stepbrother, he spoke to us about another vampire I found out was Victoria. The mate of James. The asshole I killed back in phoenix. Long story short, she is raising a vampire army to kill us."

"Yeah, and there is more," Eric added. "From our investigations, she may be in league with Deacon Frost."

"What! You are dealing with Deacon Frost?!" Carlisle exclaimed.

"Who's Deacon Frost?" Emmett asked.

"He's an extremely dangerous vampire. I had a run in with him once. I barely escaped…" Carlisle said, which shocked both Eric and myself.

"You fought against him and lived?!" I exclaimed.

"That cannot be. Anyone that has fought him was torn apart. Many of my men's limbs and torsos on pikes can attest to that," Eric responded.

Things were quiet for a few moments until Carlisle said "I said that I barely escaped…It doesn't mean I escaped with my life…"

"Oh no…." I said. "Don't tell me he was your Sire."

"He is…" Carlisle admitted. "The last thing I remembered was his name. I even have it etched in the bible I kept from my past…For centuries, I wanted to know if he was alive…"

"Carlisle…" Esme whispered.

"Tell me everything you both know about him. Please…" Carlisle said.

There was an edge to his voice that I had never heard from him before and I wasn't sure if I liked it. He was too good of man to let that sort of edge happen in his voice.

"Well, what we know of him is this. He has the skills of a typical vampire. Speed, strength, agility. The works and for a while, that's all we've known about him…Until recently."

Eric took off his glasses, revealing his amber gold eyes. He looked weary to me.

"No…He has a special ability?" I said, aghast, which caused Carlisle to gasp as well.

"That's can't be…" Carlisle said in alarm.

Eric nodded, a grave look on his face and replied "Yeah…Anyone that he turns into a vampire would develop a doppelgänger."

Oh my god…T-Then that means… "W-With that ability, he could-" I began but I couldn't even finish it.

Luckily, I didn't have to.

"Yeah…he could create an army," Eric finished. "To make matters worse, he has the ability to control the doppelgängers as well. We discovered this during a battle just before you arrived here with your group."

Eric let out an unneeded sigh and finished with "He's become far too powerful and because he is on good terms with the Volturi, they will not allow any harm to come to him. Which leaves us all at his mercy."

"To think he has that much power…" Carlisle said. "That settles it. Rosalie, Emmett and I will be going there to meet you at once."

"Whoa, I don't think that's a good idea Carlisle," I said immediately. "If something happens to you, bad things will happen to us in turn."

Somehow, I could feel his frustration from here.

"I know how dangerous he can be and I cannot allow him to walk around still alive. I have to be there to see it through," Carlisle replied.

"I don't care who comes," Eric said before I could finish speaking.

"That we she sa-OW!" Emmett shouted.

"Thanks Rose," I said immediately.

"We'll need all the help we can get. We have Jasper and his Coven here already as well as the Nightstalkers. Three more vampires won't hurt at all," Eric said.

"Then it is settled," Carlisle said. "The three of us will be there soon. Until then." And with that, Alice was back on the phone.

"Well…Esme is pissed and will be talking to him. I'll touch base with you later Jazz. Until we talk again!" and with that, Alice was gone, leaving Eric and I alone in the room.

"We have a lot on our plate…" I said with a sigh before my phone began to ring again. I grabbed the phone and said "Speak to me."

"Um, we're going to need you back at the Derek's place," Charlotte said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Well let's just say things got a little more complicated," Charlotte replied.

Canada – Venturi Residence
Charlotte Whitlock

"Complicated like how?" Jasper asked.

I looked at Peter, who stood beside Jessamine who was currently growling violently at the three stark naked teens in front of us while Derek's entire family stood on in their backyard, staring at us in shock while the bodies of several of Victoria's vampires laid scattered around us.

"Very, very complicated. And if you can, please bring Derek with you," I said with a sheepish tone.

"We'll be there soon then," Jasper said before he hung up.

"Ok…We have a situation here," Peter began. "A powder keg, if you will…One that could explode and cause a ton of damage around us so let's just take it down a notch so we can explain what happened here to all of you…Ok?"

"What is there to explain?" George asked. "I appreciate you and your family saving my daughter but this…This is going to be hard to explain without the police involved."

"Trust me, you do not want to do that," Peter said with a grin on his face. "I don't think the world is ready to know about all of this. At least not in this lifetime."

The naked female turned to look at married couple with an uninterested look. "Look, let's just all calm down," she said as I motioned for Peter to hold Jessamine before she wound up attacking someone.

"Calm down? Girl, you're naked in our backyard with dead bodies around you!" George exclaimed.

"Well, yeah. It's kind of the deal when we do this thing," The youngest male replied with a grin. "But we can change that and get dressed and explain this all away."

"She's right. Besides, the only reason this occurred was to protect you guys from a grizzly fate. All of which will be explained," I added on, adding a bit of dazzling charm into my smile, with Peter following suit with that lazy grin of his.

And in all honesty, it dazzled me as well.

That perfect idiot…

George was quiet for a moment and said to Nora "As a man, I am confused but as a lawyer, I am bound to hear them out. Let's wake up Edwin, Casey and Lizzy and get them down here. We're all going to hear this story."

Nora nodded and quickly rushed back into the house.

"I'm going to go around the block with Jessamine to calm her down. Why don't you explain to them what happened," Peter told me.

I nodded and Peter quickly took Jessamine out, red wisps flowing from her body.

Despite having a good handle on being around humans, she was quick to anger when the battle happened.

I looked around at the groaning vampires that laid in the yard and said "Let's get this all cleaned up before shit gets worse."

Canada – Venturi Residence
Jasper Hale Whitlock

"Thanks for the ride Eric," I said as I helped Derek out of the back seat of Eric's armored car.

"Once this situation is done, you and your team meet me back at the Nightstalkers Base," Eric said before he drove off.

"Such a friendly guy," Derek noted with a dry tone, which made me chuckle in reply.

"Isn't that the truth. It's going to be a pain in the ass to work with him," I replied.

"I just cannot understand something though. Vampires are supposed to hunt down humans, right?" He asked as helped him walk to his front door.

"Yeah," I replied.

"And I am human, right?" Derek added.

"Yeah," I replied again.

"And I'm still alive," Derek finished.

"Well…Eric's group protects humans from other vampires and feeds on animals while I hunt down criminals. Never the innocent. Same with my friends," I told him.

"I get it," Derek said. "I just…This entire night has been confusing man…"

"I know what yo-" I paused as a horrendous smell hit my nose. "Holy hell, what is that smell?" I asked, nearly gagging at it.

"What smell?" Derek asked.

"You don't smell it?" I asked him.

"Not at all," Derek replied.

"It smells horrendous," I said with a grumble before I reached up to knock on the door but the door swung open and there was Charlotte.

"Hey Jasper. Hey Derek," Charlotte said as she popped open the door to let us in. We barely entered the door when I noticed Derek's parents and siblings rising from the couch.

"Derek! Thank god you're ok!" Nora exclaimed as she rushed up to hug him but Derek raised his arm to stop her.

"Ribs are killing me. Bone crushing hugs can wait a spell," Derek said.

Nora turned to me and I felt a suspicion rise within her. "You didn't do anything to him, did you?"

But Derek immediately said "No, he saved my life. I would have died if he hadn't."

"W-What?" Nora said with shock in her voice.

Derek opened his mouth but before he could, another body rushed passed her and took Derek into a hug.

"C-Casey!" Derek stammered out.

I know there was pain due to his ribs but there was a hint of peace flowing from him while worry was coming from her.

"When mom and dad told me you were missing, I feared the worst," Casey said with tears in her eyes. "I thought those men took you too."

"Nah, I was busy chasing being chased by a crazy woman," Derek responded with a grin. "Nothing I couldn't handle. Besides, this guy helped me out with that."

Casey's blue eyes locked with my own as she said "Thank you so much for helping him. And for saving me. Mom gave me the low down on that. I really appreciate it."

"Anytime," I said with a grin.

Casey turned back to Derek and I could feel the concern coming from her and was that…affection? I turned to Derek, who looked to be fighting back a blush and his own affectionate emotions and smirked before I heard a voice say "Alright, we are all dressed and ready to get the full story."

I turned my head and saw three strangers standing at the back patio doors.

I had seen these three around Forks every so often but what where th…wait…The tattoo on their right shoulders…

"You're from the Quileute Tribe, aren't you?" I asked.

"That's right. You would not believe the hoops we had to go through to find you Jasper Cullen," The female said.

"Whitlock. I no longer go by the Cullen name," I told her immediately before asked "Wait, how did you know my name?"

"Alice told me," she said, which made me blink in surprise.

"You know her?" I asked.

I brief burst of embarrassment as well as longing come from her at the question. "I know her well enough," She said bashfully while the two teens beside her glanced at her curiously. "Anyways, we were tasked to find you due to your actions in Vegas."

"What happened in Vegas?" Derek asked, now being supported by Casey.

"A lot," I replied.

I was really starting to regret going there.

"Great. So they sent you guys to follow me here? I didn't think you protected the world from us. Just Forks," I said to her as I leaned against the wall.

"Blame my leader for that," she replied. "We got word of what happened was told to follow you guys here. Your scent was all over the place so we were able to find you guys easily. So, what the hell is going on that have you guys in Canada?"

"And that is something we want to know as well," George asked.

I turned to Charlotte and asked "How much do they know?"

"They don't know much," Charlotte replied.

I nodded and asked "Peter and Jessamine?"

"Went to get some air," Charlotte replied.

"Alright…" I whispered to her before I said out loud "Alright guys. Take a seat because this is going to be a long one."

Forks – Cullen Residence
Bella Swan

"I don't want you to go," I heard Esme's say as I walked out of Alice's room drowsily. I decided to stay over the night at the Cullen's place after Rosalie began to train me only to be woken up by Esme and Carlisle talking past the room.

I peered out the room and heard Carlisle reply "I know Esme but I must. Deacon Frost is a dangerous threat and Eric and Jasper cannot face him alone."

Deacon Frost…Jasper?!

"But he's very powerful and like Eric said, he is very much friends with the Volturi. Things could get really bad from here on out," Esme told him.

"I thought of that but I need to go there. He may have left the family but Jasper is my son," Carlisle said. "And he is going to need all the help he can get. I would order us all to go there but we can't leave Bella behind."

"Honey…I don't want to lose you…" Esme said softly. "But at the same time, Jasper is our son and if you going there will help him…Then it's best for you three to go."

"Thank you honey. I have to go to the office. Can you get my plane ticket to Ontario, Canada in order for me? We leave tomorrow morning," He asked her but I then went into my own thoughts.

Jasper was in Canada and facing something dangerous…I can't allow him to face it along.

Not again.

Just then I received two texts.

I pulled out my phone and it read "Hey there Bells. I know what you are going to do and while I don't condone it due to the risks, I know you are hard headed and will do it anyway. Buy your ticket but keep it a secret from the three vampries. – Alice."

I smiled before I looked at the second one which read "Bella, you daredevil you. Ticket prices are $350 for a round trip to good old Canada. If you buy it now, there is a discount that'll take it down to $295 – Peter."

Aww, you guys…

I texted them both back "Thanks. I love you so much!" before I quickly went back into the room.

I'm coming Jasper.

Chloe: Look at Brave Bella over here!

Bella: I let him go before and he wound up in a Vampire War. I'm not going to let him be alone in that again. No matter what happens!

Chloe: How badical lady. This is going to be a fun show to watch!

Bella: Until the next chapter!