《A Witch Thing | Jasper Hale x Reader》Chapter 3
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Jasper asked, "What can you sense about vampires?"
Y/N shrugged as she thought, "As I said, golden eyes, red eyes, Chosen Ones, they all have auras. Red eyes seem to be the darkest of them. Golden eyes are definitely lighter, when the Sun Ch- vampires first fed, the ones who refused to feed on human blood and turned to that of animals instead had golden eyes. It was a symbol of their compassion toward the humans. The red eyes signified the blood lust for human blood. Silver eyes are hard to come by."
Alice questioned, "Silver? I've never heard of that."
Y/N looked at her and explained, "Of course you haven't, they aren't really known to exist anymore."
"How did vampires with silver eyes happen?" Jasper asked.
Y/N shrugged, "The first Su- vampires had silver eyes as a symbol of their purity. When they began feeding on blood, they didn't really exist anymore. If you come across a newborn who hasn't drank blood yet, at all, their eyes will turn silver, depending on how long they had gone. Usually a few hours. Which is why they aren't really a thing anymore."
Y/N trailed off, mostly speaking to herself now. She wasn't used to talking to people and when she talked about something as natural as magic, she tended to lose herself in it, "Come to think of it, Carlisle seemed to have a more pure aura than any vampire I've ever seen. He might have been a silver eyes once."
Alice spoke, "Well, when he was first changed, he fought off the hunger for weeks. When he finally fed, it was never human blood."
Y/N nodded, "That explains it."
"Witches can also sense mates and your coven seems to be full of them...except you two."
Alice spoke awkwardly, "Yea, we never dated. Jazz and I are great friends."
To change the subject, Jasper asked, "You keep saying something. Sun Child?"
She trailed off again, quickly taken away from the subject as she go lost in her magic talk again, "When the vampires were first created, they were known as Sun Children because their skin glittered like diamonds in the sun; another sign of their purity. It's the only thing that seemed to have stayed the same, really. So many things changed over the millenniums."
Through the night, Y/N told Alice and Jasper more about the vampires and the stories behind them, their creation, their history, and the things witches had a hand in.
"How do you know so much about this?" Alice asked.
Y/N spoke, "Well, apart from being one, when they reach the age of fourteen, which is considered the age a witch can truly become independent or officially join a coven, all of witch history, every single tale, story, and fact about witches, is sealed into a witch's mind. I don't know why fourteen is the witch age of independence, given the fact that witches are not very good at keeping themselves safe. It's said so in the lore."
Jasper spoke, "That doesn't make sense. From what you've said, witches should be one of the most powerful creatures in the world. And, lore isn't always true..."
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"Well, we couldn't get rid of vampires when we first tried to after we realized what we had created wasn't...the best. So, I don't really think that's the most powerful thing in the world." Y/N brought up.
Jasper shrugged, "You said it yourself, the spirits told witches to make vampires to protect humans from any kind of harm. Witches included."
Y/N spoke, "Yea. I'm pretty sure we blame the spirits for that. They did hand-pick the Chosens, who were the reason we couldn't defeat them in the first place."
Alice smiled a little, a tiny giggle escaping her lips. Y/N smiled, too, she had never spoken so much in her life. Especially not after she was picked up by her old coven.
When they had to stop for gas, Y/N and Alice traded spots. As they continued driving, Bella eventually woke up, picking her head up from Alice's shoulder where she had fallen asleep.
She sent a message to her mother and was quiet the whole rest of the ride. The car fell into silence, despite a few exchanged words here and there. Throughout the next day of driving, they barely stopped to eat, Bella had not been quite hungry and Y/N really didn't care for food at the moment either.
As nightfall neared, Y/N had fallen asleep, exhausted from her lack of sleep the night before. Her head rested on the window as she slept soundlessly. Jasper's gaze wandered to her every now and then.
He felt himself being drawn in by how calm she'd been while she slept. Even Bella seemed anxious when she dozed off, not quite calm, instead on edge. But Y/N seemed to be in perfect peace when she slept, leaving Jasper with the same feeling.
"Jaz?" Alice asked as she caught Jasper looking toward Y/N again. "Are you okay?"
He nodded, "Yeah. She's just so calm, it draws me in."
Alice nodded and bit her lip a little before saying, "She seems nice. I haven't gotten anything from her, no visions. She's just been trying to help and all she seems scared of the other vampires. I don't think she'd still be on their side. I think we can trust her."
Jasper huffed a little laugh, "I think I could have told you that. This whole time she's been around us, she's only been scared, on edge, or calm. There's nothing that seems out of the ordinary....except..."
Jasper stopped talking then, turning his full attention to the road. Alice looked at him, "Except what, Jasper?"
He shook his head before slowly explaining, "Her emotions are so much more...intense. It's a reason I keep looking over at her. With her being so calm, and it being so much more heightened than any other person, it distracts me."
Alice nodded and looked out her window as she said, "Maybe it's a witch thing."
Jasper nodded, "Yeah...a witch thing."
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Y/N woke up in an unfamiliar place. She was used to it, travelling all the time with vampire nomads, she learned to find it normal.
She looked around and sat up slowly from the bed. She rubbed her eyes and wondered how she'd gotten there. She shrugged when she saw no one.
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She had dreamed it all, she was sure.
Jasper, Alice, all of it.
She was in a new, stolen motel room and Laurent, James, and Victoria had went out to hunt.
When she stretched her limbs, she sighed and stood. As she stood from the bed, it was then she saw the brunette haired girl lying passed out on the covers.
Y/N shook her head, it was a dream. She should wake up.
But it wasn't. Laurent had left her, James and Victoria were hunting this girl, and Y/N was helping her.
She didn't know whether to cry or just go with everything. She swallowed whatever tears she expected to start to pour, and went into the living room. When she saw Alice sitting at the table, staring blankly at the TV, she greeted in a small, sleepy voice, "Hi, Alice."
Alice looked at her then and smiled, "Hi. How did you sleep?" She was clearly happy to have someone else to talk to.
Y/N shrugged, "Where's Jasper?"
Alice said, "He went out to get something to eat."
Y/N looked away and Alice caught herself, picking up what Y/N had falsely suspected, "Food, not a person." Y/N nodded, embarrassed. Her cheeks flushed and she said, "Ah."
She sat on the other couch, not really wanting to speak anymore. They must be tired of her by now.
Alice picked up on her sudden change and asked, "Are you okay?"
Y/N shrugged, "Fine." Alice pursed her lips and looked back at the TV.
A few minutes later, the door opened to the hotel room and Jasper walked through the door holding a bag of food. "Hi." Y/N greeted in a small voice.
He set the food on the table and gave her a small smirk, "Hello."
He picked up on her emotions quickly, feeling them pull him in by how intense they were. He asked her, "Are you alright, Y/N?"
Y/N looked at him then and gave him a small smile before dropping it as she looked away, "Yeah."
He stepped closer and asked her, "Are you sure? I can feel what you fell and it isn't exactly happiness."
Y/N shrugged and rubbed her arm, "I just...you guys don't have to keep me around if you don't want to. I'm sure I can, find somewhere to go..."
Alice and Jasper exchanged a look as Alice said, "Y/N, you don't have to go. And we don't mind you sticking around, honestly. Actually, we enjoy having you around."
Y/N smiled and said, "Thanks. I really appreciate that."
Jasper felt the lift in your mood and smiled, "Glad to be of service to you." He motioned to the food, "You should eat."
Y/N looked at the food on the table and agreed, finally coming to terms that she was hungry and eating was the best thing to do at the moment.
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Bella was awake in the living room as she wandered around, worried about her family. Y/N, Alice, and Jasper stared blankly at the TV as she pulled the blinds. Y/N and Alice looked up at her as she looked at her phone.
"I wish he'd call.." Bella trailed.
Alice told her plainly, "You should eat."
Bella ignored the food, sitting down heavily. She shook her head, "They could get hurt. It's not worth it."
"Yes, it is." Jasper insisted. Bella was taken aback by Jasper's words. He told her, "Edward's changed since he found you. And none of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you." Jasper looked away again as he finished, "It's worth it."
Suddenly, Alice reeled. Jasper went to her, followed by Bella and Y/N. "What do you see?" Jasper asked her.
Y/N took a seat next to her, placing a hand on her shoulder and gasping suddenly. Alice hadn't caught it, but Bella and Jasper definitely did.
Images flashed behind Y/N's eyelids. Alice's mind, her visions. She could see James, Victoria, the Cullens. Alice spoke, "The tracker. He just changed course..."
Jasper set a pad of paper and a pen in front of Alice but Y/N put her hand up in front of her, the magic in her stirring at the images. The vision was displayed before the two, playing just as it was in Alice's mind.
Jasper and Bella watched in shock of what they were seeing. As Bella stared at the images, Jasper's gaze turned to Y/N in awe. Alice spoke, "Mirrors. It's a room of mirrors."
"How do the visions work? Edward said they weren't always certain. And...how did you do that?" Bella asked.
Jasper shook his head and looked at Bella, answering the question, "She sees the course people are on, while they're on it. If they change their minds, the visions change. As for Y/N...I don't know."
Bella looked at the images again and spoke, "So the course James is on now will lead him to...a ballet studio?"
The images stopped as Y/N's hand fell. The three began talking as Y/N sat at the edge of her seat, leaning her hand on the table as she got a grip of herself and her breathing. They all talked and Y/N stood to get a drink.
As Bella's phone rang, Jasper stood and went to Y/N. She was pouring a glass of water, downing it as she took another breath. "Hey, are you alright?" Jasper asked as he walked up beside her.
Y/N nodded and turned to him, noticing he was a little close. She took a small step back and said, "Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine."
Jasper noticed the step and took one himself, putting a little more distance between them, "Sorry. I didn't mean to step so close. You just...you have this aura around you. It's like a...magnet."
Y/N nodded, shyly. She sighed a little and Jasper changed the subject, "What just happened?" She shrugged at the question, rubbing her hands together nervously as she tried to explain, "I don't know. I just felt something stirring in me. My magic usually works on impulse. Anything new happened in the heat of the moment, unless I'm using a spoken spell... But I don't know enough to study."
Jasper nodded, somehow understand what she was saying as he spoke, "Well, are you sure you're alright?"
Again, Y/N nodded and gave a small smile, "I'm fine." Jasper nodded and rejoined Alice's side. She rubbed his shoulder a little and they both turned their attention back to the TV, staring at it as they attempted to watch it.
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