Jasper sits down at a tree branch of a huge tree that he didn't know what the name is. It must be older than him, it's gigantic structure made the other tress look like dwarfs. He leans against it.

He killed a backpacker a while ago. That backpacker has a peaceful climate of emotion-very positive. But Jasper killed him, killed him the way a lion will kill a scared rat. He can feel the guilt anguishing his conscience. He never felt this kind of emotion before, when he's still slaughtering the South.

Humanity. Hope. Jasper doesn't have that. All he has is the shocked face of that backpacker as he sucked his sweet blood.

This is the reason why he part ways with Peter and his mate, Charlotte. They will never understand his dilemma. All they want is to live peacefully, out of Maria's southern war. But Peace isn't enough to mend Jasper's needs.

Suddenly, he saw Peter and Charlotte running like lightning towards him, 20 miles away from the tree. He jumps out of the branch that he has been sitting on.

"What's wrong?" he asked though the couple is 2 miles away. He's sure they can hear him.

The two stopped running, when they reach half a mile away from Jasper. Jasper can see them clearly and he can already sense the clouds of emotion from them.

Anger? Confusion?

He can't sense a direct emotion from them. It is blocked. Block by a dark aura he doesn't know where it came from. Suddenly, he felt tension rising.

"Peter, Charlotte," he addresses them with such formality. "I thought you'll be moving in Canada?"

Peter smiled his usual dimple smile, only his red eyes were blank, "We are here to finish you Jasper Whitlock."

Jasper took a step back. Peter wants to finish him? Impossible! He can still remember the days where they are still in a war spree; they treat each other like brothers.

"What are you saying?" he asked, but he can feel his blood lust arising.

No, he must not kill them. He will not.

"We will kill you, Jasper." Charlotte's voice is in mute phase, no emotion. Like someone is controlling her.

Yes. They were being controlled.

"Look, someone is controlling the two of you. Peter, you must-"

But Peter crouch in a menacing way, then he sprint towards Jasper. Jasper got knocked down at the ground, his arms were restraining Peter's. His opponent keeps on growling, like a dog that has been released from his cage.

Jasper pushes him up then threw him away from his self. A loud bang was heard as peer hits the ground. Jasper was about to stand up again but Charlotte attacked him back to the ground.

~o~o~

"JASPER!"

Alice has seen it all. How the two other vampires attacked the blond man she has been waiting for since she woke up as a vampire. She saw how they break Jasper's body, how they snap his head off.

Then, she saw how they dumped his beheaded body on a bush, and kicks his blond head to the ground like a soccer ball.

"No!" she mouthed. She can feel every person's eyes on her, thinking that she's crazy. Yes, she will be crazy.

She must do something. She will change the future.

Alice walks out from the diner, then run furiously towards the forest. She doesn't care who saw her.

But she stopped dead. They were in a forest, right? But, what forest? Huge disappointment dawned at her. She can't save him. She can't.

No, no, no. She must. She will save Jasper. Thinking about his name fueled her adrenaline, making her run faster than usual.

But someone stopped her. Her feet stop gliding as she saw Damon.

"Where are you going?" his seductive smile is creeping at his perfect face.

"He's in trouble! Jasper is in trouble!" she said in a very frantic way.

She saw Damon's face crumpled as she mentioned Jasper's face. But it vanished as he went, "What kind of trouble?"

"He got killed." She can feel her own sobs.

Damon's smile turned wider, "So what?"

"Excuse me?"

"I said so what?" he looks down at the big rock beside him. "You saw him dead through your little talent, right? That's the future. You can't change it." He looked back at her.

Fury burst in Alice, "Yes I can! You may not know it Damon, but Jasper is the only hope that I have!" she wished she can cry, but she can't. "And so, I will help him." She felt it real. She loved Jasper.

Damon's dark eyes turned into a picture of anger, "You can't save him."

"I will save him." Why is she wasting a second to talk with this stoned man?

But she realizes that Damon can help. She needs his skills, his power to save Jasper.

"Help me!" she said to him. "Help me!"

"Why would I do that?"

She reaches his shoulder, making him tense. "Because, I want you to. Because, you can."

Damon smiled bitterly, "My services are not free."

Alice's feel tension, "I will pay you."

The smile turns to grin, "Deal. But first, go back to our little room, princess."

Damon's words coated Alice's senses. All she can feel is her feet walking away from the forest then moving towards the hotel where she spends last night.

~o~o~

"Peter stop!"

Jasper's head is now slamming the trunk of the huge tree he used to sit down. His granite skin feels a little hurting sensation. But he can't move.

Yes, someone is controlling his former coven members. He can't figure out whose doing this. It looks like the controller is absent

Peter knotted his hair then threw him away to the ground. He slams so badly that the tree above him crashed down to him.

Then, he saw Peter and Charlotte walking like puppets toward him, ready to do the final blow.

But suddenly a huge dark crow landed on the tree that is lying against Jasper's body. The crow looks at Peter then to Charlotte. The couple stops walking.

"Where am I?" Charlotte asked herself.

"Jasper!" peter moves toward his friend. "What are you doing there?"

He didn't answer. He just watch the huge crow fly away from them.

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