A/N: My team got consolation at Provincials! Woot woot! Normally that wouldn't be so hot, but considering the team I played on this year, it's pretty amazing. As promised, here is the chapter in Jasper's POV. I'll have fourteen up as soon as possible. Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Please enjoy:

Thirteen. Pull Down the Blindfold

I watched Bella leave the dungeon before I turned to look at the werewolf. I wrinkled my nose as his scent wafted to me. I could smell the thick scent of his blood, but it caused revulsion rather than hunger.

"You smell terrible," I informed him.

"You don't smell so wonderful yourself," he replied. "Your sister doesn't smell bad, though. I wonder why that is?"

I shrugged. I had stopped trying to figure Bella out a long time ago. It tended to end with headaches on my part.

"Bella's a unique girl," I replied. "Now- how should we go about getting you out of here?"

Andrew shrugged, leaning against the bars of the cell he had previously called home.

"This was your bright idea- I'm just along for the ride."

I briefly contemplated locking him up again- I would love to see the expression on his face- but then the thought of what Bella would do to me made me change my mind. The short-lived victory wouldn't be worth facing Bella's wrath.

"If it weren't for Bella, I would lock you back up," I informed him. "As it is, I could kill you right now and Bella would never know."

"Yes she would- Tia's going to be expecting me, remember?" Andrew smirked. "Who do you think she'll go to if I don't show up?"

"Dammit," I muttered darkly. "I don't get why she wants to save you so bad- you're far too cocky for your own good."

"So what? You think that Aro's way of dealing with me is the way to go?"

I didn't reply- I really didn't like this werewolf. I mean, I don't like werewolves in general- but this one was particularly annoying.

"Let's get going already," I growled instead. I moved silently up the stone steps, Andrew following behind me. Despite being nearly as big as Emmett, the wolf could move surprisingly silently.

"Do you know the way to the exit?" he hissed as I peeked out the door to see if anyone was coming down the halls.

"Uh… we go right," I replied.

"You sound real sure about that."

"I am," I replied. "Now… come on."

I led him down the hall, tip toeing and using my powers to feel for the emotions of anyone who might be coming.

"Keep your eyes and nose open," I told Andrew. "You smell anyone coming, tell me."

"Kay."

The going was slow. There were a lot of vampires in Volterra, and some were less willing to be confused than others. Often it took all my concentration to get anyone coming our way to wander off in another direction- Aro had the guard well trained.

"Now which way?" Andrew asked as we reached a fork in the hallway.

"Now you stay here for a moment. I'm going to go to the lobby," I pointed to the left, "and convince Gianna to leave. Then I'll sneak you down to the entrance to the sewers. From there, it's all you."

Andrew nodded and I moved carefully to the door to the lobby, opening it a crack. Gianna, Aro's human pet, stood there humming to herself and typing away on a computer. I concentrated on her emotions, manipulating them until she left the room, positive she had forgotten to do something. I looked back and Andrew and waved him on. He quickly joined me and we snuck through the lobby and into the stone hall that led to the sewer entrance.

"How did you and Tia happen, anyways?" I asked as we walked down the stone hall.

"She's very beautiful," Andrew replied non-commitedly.

I shot him a baleful glare.

"She is very beautiful," I agreed. I loved Alice- but I wasn't blind. "But beauty isn't enough to drive someone to living in the Volturi dungeon."

Andrew sighed.

"Tia is… she's amazing," he said at last. "She doesn't like killing humans- but she doesn't have any support for not doing it, either. Killing the murderers… that's her way of trying to make up for living on humans. She's somehow kept her conscious, despite being pressured from all sides by Aro, Marcus, and Caius. Do you realize how difficult that is?"

"I can imagine," I replied slowly. It had been difficult for me, even surrounded by a loving support system. For Tiazza to see humans as something more than livestock… that must have taken effort. "We're here."

We stood silently before the entrance for a while, before I finally held out my hand to the werewolf.

"Good luck," I told him. "I hope you and Tia can find happiness."

"Thanks," he replied, grasping my hand for a moment. "Try to keep that sister of yours safe. She has a good heart- and that can be dangerous, especially in Volterra."

"Don't worry, I'll keep her out of-" a wave of pure pain washed over me, driving me to my knees in the middle of my sentence. I managed to turn my head to the side enough to see Jane and Alec standing in the hall behind us.

"Fuck," I heard Andrew groan, a loud thud signalling that he had also become victim to Jane's power.

"Were you going somewhere, gentlemen?" Alec asked, his voice was falsely friendly, and I could hear the steel underlying it. "The Masters won't be happy about this."

"Your masters can go to hell," Andrew bit out darkly. He gave another scream of pain as Jane used her powers once more.

"I would have suspected something like this from Tiazza- mutt lover that she is- but I would have thought you to be smarter, Mr. Hale," Alec walked forward to kneel in front of me. "Perhaps I over-estimated you."

I didn't reply- I knew better than to try and start something. Alec and Jane were too powerful.

"How did you find us?" Andrew asked.

"It wasn't hard," sneered Jane. "All we had to do was follow the stench."

"Master Aro suspected something like this might be occurring," Alec explained. "He had guards on watch. Imagine our surprise when we found them wondering around, confused and certain they were forgetting something."

I bit back a curse, settling for glaring at the vampire siblings.

"What are you going to do with us?" I asked.

"We'll take you to the masters- they'll want the privilege of killing you for themselves."

I felt a wave of despair wash over me. I would never again get to be with Alice- to kiss her, or tell her how much I loved her. I couldn't help but blame Bella, at least partially.

Mostly I blamed myself.

"Run," I told Andrew softly. If I was going to die, I was at least going to make my death worth something.

"What?"

"You heard me- we shouldn't both die, but I won't risk them using Alice to get at me. So run."

I didn't look to see if he had listened to me, instead I leapt at the two small vampires. I fell short, writhing in pain- but my goal had been accomplished.

"Dammit- he got away!" Jane snarled.

"That was very stupid," Alec informed me, hauling me up by my hair. "I doubt your death will be quick now."

"We're just going to let the mutt get away?" demanded Jane.

"We have no choice," replied Alec. "Besides, we have the traitor, here. Who cares about one wolf when this one is so much more durable?"

I kept my face emotionless as I looked into Jane and Alec's gleaming eyes, but inside my heart was breaking.

I'm so sorry Alice.