A/N: No one guessed my age right; I'm shocked! (Well one did, Zack, but I know him so he already knew that. Don't worry, I beat him with a stick for cheating! :D) I turned 14 on October 19th! Most of you guessed I would be 15 or 16, but I did get a few 18s and a 17 and I'm pleasantly surprised XD

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Sirens sounded in the distance, getting louder as they got closer.

BPOV

Carlisle put his phone away and looked at the rest of us with grave eyes. "Charlie, we need to get to Seattle, now."

Charlie stood up straighter "We'll give you a police escort." He and his officers went out the front door to their cars.

"I'll explain on the drive, let's go." Carlisle led the way out to his Mercedes as Alice, Rose, and I exchanged questioning looks.

A minute later, we were screaming down the road to Seattle with two cop cars in front of us. "What happened?!" Rosalie finally burst out.

Carlisle looked at Esme, sitting next to him, and us in the rear view mirror. "They got Riley." My breath hitched. He was gone! They got Riley and now I was free to live my life.

"Yes!" Rose hissed under her breath and Alice got a very… devious look on her face.

"I'm not done." The skin around his eyes tightened as well as his grip on the steering wheel. "Jasper was… hurt." Alice and Rose turned white, even whiter than I usually was.

"How bad?" Rose sounded strangled and tears welled up in Alice's eyes. I wondered how bad I looked because I already felt like my left arm was gone… When Carlisle didn't answer, Rose lost it. "How badly?!" She yelled at him and it sounded like the loudest thing I'd ever heard in the confines of the car. Alice was crying now and tears were forming in both mine and Rosalie's eyes.

Carlisle stepped harder on the gas pedal, going over thirty miles per hour over the speed limit. "He was… shot… twice." He finally ground out. I'd never seen Carlisle look so mad and sad and totally overwhelmed. Melancholy smothered me and everyone in the car.

Alice's silent tears turned into sobs and Rose had tears cutting paths down her pale cheeks like razor blades. I felt hot tears splatter down my cheeks but I ignored them and wrapped my arms around Alice, who was closest to me, and put a hand on Rose's shoulder. She tried to shrug it off but I wouldn't let her and she immediately gave up as she looked out the window with practically empty eyes. "He lied."Alice sobbed "He lied, he said he'd be fine! He's never lied to me before." She whimpered into my hair and I held her tighter.

"He didn't know, he couldn't know, Alice." I murmured in her ear. I looked up and saw the tears in Esme's eyes, but they didn't spill over; she was being strong for the rest of us.

Jasper wasn't the only one who was wrong, so was Edward. He said it would be fine, no one would get hurt. Jasper had always been strong, he had to be. He was stronger than Emmett in some ways, stronger emotionally and mentally. And that's what I told Alice and Rose. He had to make it because he'd always been our rock; he held us together when there was contention and brought us all closer when we were already close.

Suddenly, the car screeched to a halt. We all got out and were bombarded by flashing lights from the, now five, cop cars and the ambulance. Alice cried out in a strangled voice when she saw Jasper being loaded into the ambulance, unconscious. I cringed at the sight of all the blood and bandages, now I was in tears as well as Rose. Before anyone could stop her, Alice jumped in the back of the ambulance and the EMTs slammed the doors shut and soon it was screaming down the street.

Almost all the neighbors were standing on their porches watching us and some were talking to the Seattle police who were arrived here before us.

I saw Edward and Emmett also talking to some police officers, but they didn't see us because they were facing the opposite direction from us. "Bella?" Charlie stopped in front of me. He hugged me tightly and wiped away some of my tears, I wasn't totally comfortable with the contact but I'd survive.

"Yeah, Dad?"

"They've got Riley in custody and they're putting him in their 24 hour holding cell now." He pulled away and held me at arm's length as I nodded. "I also got in a good punch when he was walking by with Officers Smith and Richards." He almost smiled at that.

"24 hours?! They're only holding him for one day?! What?" Rose exclaimed incredulously, she had still been next to us.

"They can't take away his right of Habeas Corpus."I explained, except it didn't really work.

She froze for a second and her eyebrows pulled together. "Can't take away his right of what? He still has rights after what he did to Bella?!"

"His right of Habeas Corpus, his right to know what he's being charged with without being held by officials for a long time. If we don't tell him within the 24 hours, we have to let him go." I told her.

"Oh… Well, if he gets out, I'm going to kill him and whoever is responsible for him leaving." She glared at some point behind Charlie and he nodded.

"I'll speak with Seattle's department." He patted us both on the shoulders and walked away.

I sat down on the curb and put my forehead on my knees. All of this had happened so fast and it was all so overwhelming. Edward had found Riley and they got him, but Jasper was… shot. Jasper… when were we going to see him again? Was he going to be okay? That was the million dollar question or questions…. Was he going to live? What… What would happen if he didn't? A sob broke from my throat and I wrapped my arms even tighter around my legs. Alice would become one of the living dead without him and it would be like a cycle, we would all change more than what seemed possible and it would take years to get over, if I ever did. It wouldn't be pretty no mattered what happened. I never knew until now, just how much Jasper mattered to me, I knew I loved him, he was like my brother. It was just amazing how important he was, to all of us.

"Come here." Suddenly, two warm, strong arms pulled me off the curb and into a lap. I lifted my face and locked gazes with Edward, green boreing into brown. New tears formed in my eyes and he pulled me tighter to his chest. He shushed me softly "We'll be fine. Jasper's going to be okay, I promise. Everything and everybody is going to be fine. We'll get through this, Bella, don't worry." His soothing voice was all I heard for the next few minutes as he reassured me. I rested my forehead on his neck and his soft crooning made me forget everything, like the flashing lights and sirens and the voices of Rose and Emmett a couple yards away.

But was he right? The last time he said everything was going to be okay Jasper was shot…

After a while, Edward stood up with me still in his arms, he did it pretty easily though there was a tiny bit of strain. "Come on, we're going to the hospital. Emmett and Rosalie called Mr. and Mrs. Hale, they're on their way and Emmett and Rose just left." He set me down and walked to his car with his arm around my waist. Edward opened my door and closed it gently behind me before going around the front of the car and getting in.

I watched Edward the whole drive to the hospital. I knew he was just as panicked as the rest of us, he just wasn't showing it. His grip on the wheel looked like he was about to snap it and his eyes were troubled, though he had on his poker face, probably trying to make me feel better. Problem was, I wanted him to show he was afraid of what happened and what would happen, I wanted him to show some emotion so I wouldn't feel as alone. I didn't want to see his cold, expressionless mask, if anything, I only felt more afraid because of it. I wrapped my hand around his and he looked down at me, "Are you okay?" I asked softly.

He smiled slightly. "Yes and you?" His eyes searched mine.

"I'll be okay." I murmured and squeezed his hand; he smiled a little and returned the gesture.

He parked the car and we jogged into the hospital, all calm achieved in the car was forgotten. Personal was rushing all over the place, taking care of patients and some almost ran us over. "There's Emmett and Rose." I pointed and Edward pulled me over to the corner of the waiting room where they were. As we got closer, I realized that Emmett had his arms around Alice. Alice, who was cowering in a tiny ball and we could hear her sobs as we got closer. She whimpered Jasper's name every once in a while and I winced every time. Edward sat down beside her and Emmett moved so Edward could pull Alice into his lap like he'd done with me earlier. He rocked her gently for a long time and whispered in her ear words that I couldn't hear. Sometimes she would whisper back and after a long time her sobs turned into silent tears.

Meanwhile, Carlisle and Esme had found us, and when Alice stopped sobbing Esme took her. Rosalie was now crying and Emmett had his arms around her. "It'll all be okay, baby, I promise, it'll be fine." I heard him say to her over and over again.

I laid my head on Edward's chest and he kept a comforting arm around my waist and pressed his face into my hair. For the next while, I went from crying to being fine to crying again repeatedly.

Once, a nurse came up to us and said he would be out of surgery soon but they didn't know what was going to happen. Translated, that meant they had no idea if he would live or not. I wasn't the only one who got that conclusion and Alice and Rose's tears increased.

Edward took me into his lap again, humming my lullaby, until the sun was setting outside the hospital window and everyone's tears were starting to dry at least a little bit. The Hales had also joined us at one point and Mrs. Hale's weeping was unbearable, between her and Alice I'd never seen people so sad.

"Jasper's family?" A new nurse was standing next to us. Some of us nodded or said yes so she continued, "He's stable now, you can go see him."

A/N: Okay, not much happened here, just a filler chapter really. Next chapter, they'll see Jasper and maybe some of the trial/court stuff will happen. Oh, and when I said Jasper was stronger than Emmett emotionally and mentally I was NOT calling Emmett dumb! Jasper is just more sure of himself. Review please, please, pretty please!! :D And remember to check out all-hail-the-jello's stories!! I also want to give a shout out (whatever you want to call it) to .JasperXx, hey Tate!! :D Ok, now review!