Author's Note: So, this is my first attempt at a fanfiction. This is just the first draft of this chapter, and I wrote it really quickly, but I was desperate to put it up, so I did! I haven't checked it all through, and I might edit and change parts of it, but I will let you know if I do. So, to make things clear, Alice is living in Forks, and there is no Jasper (sorry Jasper fans). The other Cullens are somewhere else. It doesn't matter where. Renée and Charlie are still married at the beginning of the story. Sorry for changing the history, and I hope you don't mind too much. Hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Twilight characters or plot lines, or anything Twilight related. I only own my own ideas and imaginings.

Renée POV

"Bye, Alice!" I waved as my best friend walked - or almost danced, she was so graceful in her movements - down the drive. She spun round to return my call. I could never get over how beautiful she was. Her skin was flawlessly smooth, and her hair was always perfectly styled, pointing in every direction. She was short, yet striking. She resembled, as I had thought to myself the first time I had seen a her, a pixie.

"Bye, Renée!" she replied, in her soft, musical voice. She smiled, and it lit up her whole face. I was sure that her cheeks, if it were possible, would have been glowing, had they not always been stuck the same shade of pale white. The smile reached her eyes; their golden caramel colour flashed as she grinned. I noticed the deep, purple circles underneath her eyes, that made her look as if she was suffering from lack of sleep, were less pronounced today, and her irises were a lighter shade than sometimes.

All of these little features; the perfect, smooth, ivory skin, the honey tone of her eyes, which got darker day by day, the purple shadows and her pure, breath-taking beauty, would have meant nothing to any normal person. But to me, they identified her for what she truly was. A vampire.

She wasn't like the sort of vampire you see in horror movies, though. She didn't have fangs, she didn't scare people to death, she didn't live in a huge castle on the top of a hill with coffins and dungeons and cobwebs and skulls piled in the corner. As she had once told me:

"Hollywood gets a lot of things wrong when it comes to mythical creatures – not only vampires!" When I'd asked her what she meant by that, she had just laughed it off. No, Alice wasn't what you might expect from a vampire. It may disappoint some people, if they realised meeting a vampire in the flesh was meeting someone like Alice. But it didn't disappoint me.

She was kind and caring. Considerate, and not at all scary, although she constantly reminded me I should be scared of her. She was a great friend, really easy to talk to and get along with. She had an excellent sense of humour, and an amazing tinkling laugh, which made me feel instantly happy when I heard it. She never let the fact that she wasn't human get in the way of our friendship. In fact, she enjoyed fussing over the fact that I was human. She would beg and plead until I finally gave in for me to let her give me a makeover. We spent hours in her oversized bathroom, as she tried different make-up styles, and hair styles... Then she would spend even longer browsing through her enormous wardrobe collection, that was all incredibly fashionable, before she found something that was 'perfect'. I tried on dress after dress after dress, but I never got bored, because being with Alice was so much fun. It was impossible to feel miserable around her. And, unlike many of her kind she didn't kill humans.

She resisted the thirst for human blood, which came naturally to vampires. Instead, she fed on animals, hunting when she needed, making sure she never got too thirsty around humans. She called herself a 'vegetarian'. That way, she explained to me when I asked her once, she could maintain a permanent residence in one place for a time. She could blend in; or do her best anyway, to pretend to be human, and live alongside them. She couldn't stay in one place forever, though, because she never aged. I didn't know exactly how old Alice was, but she was currently faking 18 years old. Just a year younger than me, though in reality she was so much older. She didn't ever age a single day, though, so every few years she had to move on somewhere else.

Most of Alice's kind lived alone, but never settled anywhere. They just kept moving around, hunting when they needed to. Wandering through the hills and countryside, moving from place to place, never stopping or resting.

"They're like nomads," Alice had told me when I'd asked. "They just keep moving around. They never settle anywhere, never put down roots. Occasionally they travel in twos, with a mate-"

"A... mate?" I'd asked, confused.

"Well, like a partner, a lover, I suppose..." Alice had said, and her eyes had travelled off, somewhere distant; I didn't know if she had been looking into the past or the future.

That was another thing about Alice. She could see the future. Just odd visions, now and then, unless she was deliberately looking for something. They came to her, mostly unconnected, random things, though she was more attuned to people she knew; friends, for example. They were strange, Alice's visions. They could start at any time, and only lasted a few seconds.

Alice POV

Two dark cloaked figures, walking through the woods. No, not walking, running. Two people were running, cloaks draped over their heads so I couldn't see their faces. They were running fast, as if they were running away from something, or... chasing something? They were running so fast, it was hard to believe anything would be able to match their pace, whether they were pursuing, or being pursued. And then I realised. They were running too fast to be people, humans. They were vampires. One of them gave an order, so low and quiet, no human would hear the sound of their voice.

"Stop!" The other obeyed. "I think we're close," the first figure continued, taking off her hood. The girl's face - I was surprised at how young she looked, fourteen, maybe fifteen - was astonishingly beautiful. Her skin was pale white, and she had dark, bruise-like shadows under her eyes. Her eyes. There was something about her eyes that bothered me. Something strange...

The other took off his hood, and I could see it was a boy, about the same age as the girl. Not that it made any difference how old they looked, to how old they really were. He looked similar to the girl, but more than just the astonishing beauty, the smooth white skin and the dark circles under the eyes that all vampires possess. No, it was more than that. It was their features, the size of their noses, the shape of their mouths. Similarities that suggested they were related in some way. Brother and sister? Twins, even? I couldn't tell.

I looked closer at them, trying to work it out. I was staring at their eyes when suddenly, I realised what it was. They were red. Blood red. The colour of evil.

The colour of your average vampire's eyes. A sign that they drank human blood. Unlike me, this pair obviously weren't 'vegetarian'. I had been so preoccupied thinking about their eyes, I hadn't realised they'd been speaking. Suddenly, though, I heard my name.

"... hope Alice will cooperate nicely. It would be a shame to have to kill her. Wouldn't it, Alec?"

"Yes, Jane, it would." Kill me?! What was going on? Then suddenly, I recognised where the two strangers were. The woods, that many people could get lost in, were as familiar to me as the back of my hand. They were the woods by my house. Just the other side of the stream that ran through the garden. And, even though I didn't know who these two were, I was sure they were dangerous. And they were going to be coming here...

Author's Note: So, what did you think? Should I carry on, or not bother? Any feedback/suggestions always welcome! It might be quite a while before I can upload another chapter, but I hope you will come back and carry on reading when I do! Please review!