A/N: chapter 17! I love this chapter! After this one we only have 1 more with casey as nine then we move on to 11! In my head before started typing this was in Casey's POV, but the last chapte was in her POV too, so I just decided to make it Jasper's! I love the surprise ending to this chapter! Cliffhanger! If I don't get chapter 18 up today then it will most likely have to wait for Monday, becasue I have a busy weekend with Easter and everything so I won't have time to write!

Loving an Angel

Chapter 17: Treetops

Jasper POV

It had been one month since I attacked Casey hurting her and putting her in the hospital. Emmett's excuse worked, even though I thought it was completely idiotic, and Casey went back to school.

For one month now she had been waiting impatiently for the surprise I told her about. Everyday multiple times she would ask "Jasper when do I get my surprise?" and I would laugh and respond with one simple word that absolutely drove her insane. "Soon."

It was Saturday morning and Emmett, Edward, and Alice were hunting. I decided that today would be the perfect day for Casey's surprise. It actually wasn't raining and the sun was beginning to peek through the unusually thin clouds. Rosalie was cleaning the kitchen and Casey was sitting on the couch reading her book. I walked over to her and sat down sighing.

"Have any plans for today?" I asked.

"Nothing out of the ordinary," She responded not looking up from the book in her hands.

"So how about you and I go out and I'll show you your surprise?"

"Really? You're seriously not joking this time?"

"Yes come on go get dressed in warm clothes and we'll leave right now." I said laughing at her expression. She was shocked. I guess she thought I had been kidding about her surprise. How could you almost kill a tiny little nine year old girl and then promise to give her s surprise and then never deliver?

Casey bounced gracefully down the stairs. She had jeans under armor and a warm sweatshirt on along with her sneakers.

"I'm all ready to go!" She said as she took the backpack Rosalie had ready for her.

"Have fun! Be careful!" Rosalie called after us as we walked out the door and toward the garage.

"We will" I called back to her. As we neared the garage Casey began to walk toward it.

"Where are you going kid?" I asked laughing.

"Aren't we taking a car?" She asked puzzled as I kept walking closer to the woods.

"Nope just follow me," I said.

We walked into the woods into the meadow where Edward always enjoyed going.

"So Casey you trust me right?" I asked snickering.

"Yeah, why do you ask?" She was really confused now.

"Okay, so if you trust me climb in my back."
"Alright," she said as she slowly climbed to sit on my back.

"I really do hope you trust me," I laughed and took off as fast as possible.

She gasped when I began to move the pace so fast and unfamiliar to her. I looked back and she closed her eyes tightly. I hope she doesn't get motion sickness. Then her eyes slowly began to open a smile dancing on the face, we all adored. I turned my attention to my running and I slowed as I saw the tree.

"Are you ready for this?" I asked.

"Ready for what?" She responded the smile disappearing.

I shot up the tree as fast as possible. I could hear her little laugh and felt the exhilaration and joy radiating off of her in waves. I knew that the bravery we had witnessed over the years was not fake, but in fact real. She was really truly brave. I wished I could only be that strong and brave.

The tree was quite large, but we soon reached the top. I slowed and stood on a thick branch near the top that over looked scenery and the town where we lived. I lifted her off of my back and set her on the branch. It was thick so I didn't worry very much about her falling off.

"Jasper this is amazing! I can see everything there's the house and look there's the barn right down the street!" She cried moving away from me to get a better view.

"I thought you might like this." I said kneeling beside her so I could be at her level.

"Oh Jazzy I love it!" She said and hugged me tightly around the neck. "It's so beautiful and we are so high!"

"So what did you think of vampire transportation?" I asked laughing slightly at the smile that spread across her face from ear to ear.

"That was so cool! It was like nothing I've ever experienced, maybe like flying?"

"Well do you want to try flying?" I asked my little and favorite sister.

"Vampires can fly to!"

"No, but we can jump pretty far!" I said grabbing her and throwing her swiftly across my back again and leaping into the air. We flew quickly slashing through the air and wind. We landed on a different tree and she had the biggest smile I had ever seen on her face.

We sat down there. Rosalie had packed Casey a picnic lunch when she heard about my plans to take her to the treetops and Casey was sitting on the wide branch up against the trunk enjoying it. We talked about her school and her friends there. She liked being in the upper school and had made many friends there. She said that people treated her differently when she first got there, but that was to be expected when you were the sister of the most beautiful people in town and they drove expensive cars.

She was telling me about an art project they were doing in school, when I suddenly became aware of an unfamiliar scent. It was one of my kind, a vampire, but it wasn't anyone I knew. Not anyone in my family or anyone in the Denali coven that I was sure.

"Casey we have to go now!" I said and panic spread rapidly along her face as I grabbed everything and began throwing it in the backpack. She stood at my side quietly not asking any questions.

"Jaspaa…" she whispered and I turned she pointed to the tree where we originally started. I looked and saw her. She was a female with deep long black hair. I could see every detail. She had red eyes and was smiling fiercely at me. I was glad that Casey's human eyes couldn't see her as clear. The wild vampire leapt into the air and landed on the exact branch where I stood with my little human sister. I pushed Casey behind me and I could see she understood everything. Her eyes were glued to the vampires crimson irises.

"Well what do we have here, a vampire, oh but what's this? A little human child! She barley counts as a snack love, she's so tiny!" The vampire said and I growled at her.

"She is not a snack she's with me!" I snarled fighting the urge to attack the woman who wanted to kill my Casey!

"Then what is she? She's a human for goodness sake!"

"She is my sister a member of my family and coven!"

"But darling that's against the rules! Do you really want the Volturi to get into this?" She said smiling. She knew about how I felt about Casey that I loved my sister. She was threatening me.

"No I don't, now if you excuse me we were just leaving!"

"You refuse to kill her, I won't kill her, but the Volturi will! I hope you can out smart them!" She said leaping away and running. I grabbed Casey in my arms and hugged her. The Volturi would come, we were going to have to act fast!