Well, it is something all Jasper and Alice fans must face.
Maria.
She was evil, cruel, smart, and knows what she wants. The question is, this time, will she get it?
New story! My goal this time is different, I want to have longer chapters. SO I'm not sure whether I will have as many chapters as usual. But longer chapters with more events at a time.
Hope you love it! Just a heads up! This is before Bella! I remeber reading Edwards version of Twilight (Midnight Sun) on Stephanie Myer's website and it said when Peter and Charlotte were visiting that Maria had visited the Cullens before. It had been an eventful visit. So I hope you like my version! :)
Enjoy all of you lovely readers! If anything is confusing or too complicated to understand. Leave me a review with your questions or message me and I will answer them! I might go back and revise later if anything really stands out to you that you don't understand.
Sorry for the long A/N! Here you go!
It was quite peaceful at the Cullen household.
Emmett, who has always done the most talking in our family, was gone hunting with Rose. So there was mostly silence this evening. Alice and I were on our bed. She was sitting with her back resting on the frame. My head was on her lap, soaking in all the emotions that were in her. Most were content, loving... and I charished each and every wave of them coming off of her. Her hand was lightly touched my hair and traveled down to my neck, then back up, her eyes never leaving mine.
"Your beautiful." I breathed, looking up at her. Her golden eyes were bright while she grinned. Her hand stopped at the top of my ear and pulled my hair behind it. Her hand met my face with such delicate ease...I closed my eyes and she gently stroked my cheek.
Being relaxed and tired were two different things.
As vampires, we were never tired. But every so often we could do something like this and be completely relaxed. We were like predetors, we never sleep. Or rather, we always keep one eye open.
I wished I could fall asleep in her arms. This was as close as I would get, and it was good enough for me. I had perfect moment I wanted to dominate my memory. I wanted moments like these to cover ever wretched one I had. There were quite a few I would kill to replace.
As if she knew my thoughts, which she probably did in some way. My eyes opened as I felt her lips touch mine. It was soft, nothing complitcated, but hard to decribe..
Beautiful...
She drew back slowly. When I opened my eyes, she had a smile on her face. "Are you looking forward to tomorrow at?" She asked in a humerous tone.
Tomorrow was a very important day for Alice and I. Not only did it remind me of something I thought about everyday anyways. It was simply a human simble that the entire world would never know two immortals shared.
Our anniversary.
Not our wedding, but the day we met. It was so much more important to me, and to Alice. She had waited years for me to show up.
She knew me years before I acknowleged the her existance. Waiting in a diner for monthes, waiting for me to show up. I thank her everyday she did.
"Yes, very. Did you think I would have forgot?" Her petite hand traced one of my scars absent mindedly. The one of a thousand on my neck. I swallowed as she traced one under my chin. I shivered.. They weren't any more sensitive than the little clear skin I had, but her finger's were so softly grazing my skin it gave me the chills.
"Does that mean you got me a gift? What is it?" Her eyes lit up, then glazed over, trying to find out if I would tell her.
"I'm sure you will find out tomorrow. I have no intention of telling you today." I smiled at her. It was hard to keep things from Alice, but I was trying my best. I had eternity to try and get it right. As long as I didn't decide to tell her...
Suddenly she stopped. Feeling the skip of a beat in her feelings. Her eyes looked glazed and she looked hipmotized while tensing. I sat up as she flinched.
For a moment I thought she had seen what I was giving her. I was going to kick myself if she had, then she said,
"Someones coming here. I don't know him. A nomad."
"How long?"
"Ten minutes." Alice and I both got up and went down stairs expecting Edward to be meeting us at the bottom.
He didn't fail us this time either. We walked into the living room as he spoke, "I don't know him either. When Esme comes in here, tell her not to open it. I don't want her to get hurt if he is a threat. I'll open it, see if he's dangerous. I called Emmett and Rose back. There on there way." He said informing us.
We had, over the years, seen many nomads come through here. Most not dangerous, but we were always carful. Alice's saftey was always in my mind, always a priority.
Alice wasn't extremely frazzled. She was simply waiting for what she had seen come true. Just a visit from a nomad passing through. Nothing else...
Esme walked in gracefully and set down her book on the coffee table. "What's wrong Edward?" She asked gently.
"A nomad is passing through, I can't read his mind yet. Still to far." He said, reading off facts like a book from his mind, a read script..
The doorbell rang.
We all looked around, I stood extremely close to Alice. No harm would come to her, to any of us. I wasn't scared of some nomad. Alice didn't seem to worried. I rolled up my sleeves.
The only time my scars came in handy was to scare people. I thought bitterly.
Edward was now at the door. He opend it in his usual calm manner. When the man, the stranger walked in.
I knew immeadialty that this was not a normal lone vampire.
He walked in steadily. Not even addressing Edward, as if a red carpet was laid out for him. Looking around at his surroundings with sqinted eyes, as if already belittling our home.
Now he's just pissing me off ...
I felt Alice touch my hand, offering her own. I took it without a moments hesitation.
"Hello. I'm sorry for intruding." He said, obviously lieing through his teeth. He looked at me, then his eyes went to all others in the room.
"Thats quite alright." Esme said. Carlisle walked over to her, not one tence bone in his body. Yet I still sensed the protective notion he was giving off as he was walking to his own wife.
"Hello, I'm Carlisle, this is my family."
"Do you live here?" He asked with wide, red crimson eyes that fell over the rest of the room. Not really paying attention to my adopted father's words.
"Yes. We matain a perminate residents here." I heard the fimilair words we told all nomads or any vampire who asked.
"Don't see to many of those do you? I'm Mack. " He raised and eyebrow, glancing at me. I controlled my anger, so I wouldn't rip his head off. The feeling's he was sending were slightly annoyed. Pety exuses for emotion if you asked me.
But that didn't control my insitinct. I knew by the way he was presenting himself something was wrong. He knew something we didn't.
He was acting as if he already knew the answer's to his own questions. He is acting as if he knows what he's doing. Like it's rehearsed.
Edward glanced at me, letting me know he understood it too.
Alice was still, not speaking at all. Never showing any emotion on the outside. She wasn't nervous, but still wary of the dark haired, red eyed stranger.
He got closer to us. I leaned closer to Alice, controlling the urge to growl at him. I wanted him away from Alice. I wanted him out of this house and I wanted him out of-
My thoughts stopped as he brought out his hand for a hand shake. A simple gesture that made me boil. His emotion's fed me automatic impressions of him and it turned into anger inside of me.
Alice took his hand gently. I never took my eyes off of this...Mack. I was making sure he showed not the slightest hint of attacking the only and single definition of importance in my life.
I got Nothing.
"I'm Alice." She finally spoke. He smiled at her gesure with a crocked grin that seem to look unatural and said. "Charmed."
I looked at her, waiting for her response. She looked down at her hand he was holding and back up at him. At first I thought something was wrong, but she smiled as if everything was normal and shook it softly.
You could cut the tention with a knife as he shook my hand. Yeah right, because I was going to tell him my name.
Emmett coughed loudly as he walked, sencing the alkward silence, Rose not far behind. Just in time Emmett. I needed back up. If I didn't scare him off, Emmett would.
Rosalie was looked just about blazing with fury. Probably for not being here when this all started.
What happend next, I will never forget.
I felt all feelings in the room fade. Slowly being led away from my hold I had always had on them. I was loosing control of all it.
Edward's newly found confusion.
Esme's gentle kindness toward the stranger who had yet to found guitly of my new accusation.
Charlisle's understandable warieness.
Emmett's couriosity to our new visitor.
Rose's dowright fury.
And Alice..
I know every emotion Alice has ever had. This time I felt nothing.
I couldn't feel anything. Not one shrivil of emotion coming off of her. I needed to know how she felt and I couldn't.
Gone. All of it.
It was now replaced with my head feeling like it was pounding against the wall. My hands went to my head trying to stop the now waves of as I winced.
"Jasper?" Alice asked me.
Esme and Charlisle and the rest of my family were too busy trying to help Edward off the floor who also fell in pain. He was grabbing his head too. Just like me..
What was happening?
And as soon as Mack left. Saying words that now echo in my ears.
"It seems my work here is done. She will be pleased." He left, zooming through the door leaving half of us with nothing short of an epidemic.
Who is 'She'?
I realized it was too late, and I would have to ask Alice something. My head started to clear up just enough for me to form words.
It was one of the first time's I had ever asked this, I had never had to before.
"Alice." I paused. "What are you feeling?"
Her head snapped up, her eyes already creased in puzzlement. I couldn't feel the confusion that I knew she had.. it made me worry even more.
"What? What do you mean? Are you alright?"
"I mean I can't feel your emotion's Alice. Theres a block. I-I can't feel anything coming from you."
"You can't feel anything?" She repeated my statement. Still bewieldered.
I shook my head slowly, never taking my eyes off her. My head was now clearing up. Edward was now up on his feet. It seems his pain had been worse than mine.
"But why? Maybe I'm just feeling the same way everyone else is and-"
"No. I can't feel any emotions Alice. It's like there is a wall. Everyone feels things differently. And I feel nothing. It hurts to try and calm the room down or change anyone's feelings."
She walked up to me, still not knowing what to say. Nothing like this had ever happend before. I had never not been able to understand or have been blocked from her.
The stranger had taken away our powers. Probably by the handshake. Touching us gave him the link he needed to take them away.
"Alice, have you seen anything in the past few minutes?"
Her eyes went wide. They immdeadiatly glazed over, the fimiliar look when she was trying to see something. Then she blinked and grabbed her head as if she had hit it on something."Alice?"
"It hurts to try and look to see anything! I can't see anything! My head is...throbbing." She gasped at the pain surging through her head. She winced.
I got closer to her, she didn't move for a moment. My hand lightly grazed her hair and she slowly looked up. Fear struck her face. The realization hit her.
"I can't see the future."
"I can't read minds. I can't here any thoughts but my own." Edward said softly.
We stood there in dead silence.
"So..what? Our powers just vanished after a massive headache?" Alicestood in front of me with her arms crossed.
"Somethings wrong."
"Your telling me." Rose said bitterly, looking in between all of us.
"Mack. He shook all of our hands, but only affected us who had powers."
"Now I really feel left out." Emmett pouted. As if loosing our powers made us more special than him.
"Where did he go?"
Rose then spoke up,"Emmett and I will go look. Our sent is already fresh outside from hunting. If were quiet he won't know were there."
Esme looked at Carlisle who said. "Be careful. We don't have a connection to you now so if something goes wrong-
"Nothing is going to go wrong." Emmett's voice boomed truimphantly. "Well find him."
"If you need anything-
"Yeah, yeah I know. I'll call." He waved his hand dismisavlly and gave a wink.
"Only Emmett." Rose said under her breath. I knew what she ment. Only Emmett would be happy to go off in the forest to find a nomad who had taken away three of our powers. Only Emmet could look that confident.
As they walked outside from the back door. I looked at each and every person in a new light. I now didn't see them with the connection of empathy. All I saw were people, my family. Not one emotion I could trace coming off of them. I felt almost human, without my powers. I only felt my own emotions. Worry. Protective insticts. Confusion. All of them mine.
"Why does it feel so quiet with only my own thoughts?" Edward asked, probably to himself, aloud.
"I'm getting the same feeling." I told him sourly. "I hate sitting, waiting like this. We should have gone with Rose an Emmett."
"No." Alice said shaking her head. "It's better we stay here. He can't hurt Emmett or Rose. Who knows what he could do with his powers. Our powers. Emmett and Rose can take him down if things get heated. I just wish.." She stopped herself and plopped down on the couch and shook her head frustratedly. "I just wish I could see it."
I felt stranded. For the first time in my life, I had no control over anyone in the room. I had no control over my own feelings. I had no control over the events that would follow.
OKAY! Well...not as long as I would like it to be, but it will just have to do.. tell me what you think okay! Chaper 2 already underway. I might not update until I get finished with some more chapters on some of my other stories. I feel like I'm letting everyone down who has my other stories on my alert list and favorites. I havent updated them in a long time.. :( I have had a serious writers block on many of them for a while. But I know I can do it! I little encouragement wouldnt hurt either!
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