A/N-Well, this is my first ever fan fiction story, and I've been working on it for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately for you lot, I did it in random order, so now I have some chapters done, but not others. And to top it all off, they're all handwritten, and need to be typed up before I can get them on here...
This story is set after Eclipse, before Breaking Dawn, and is based on the books, not the movies. I wrote it for my friend at school, who made me continue on with it long after I normally would have moved onto something else-namely, my hunger games story. Anyway, this was all for her, and she thought it was (and I quote here) 'as good as Stephanie Meyer', so I figured I should share her joy with everyone else!
Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Twilight, not the books, not the movies. Get it? Good.
On to the story...
1 – Coming Back
I walked up to the front door, wondering if they knew I was coming. Alice would have seen it, surely, or Edward would read my thoughts. Although, since this had happened, he had made a point to stay away from that sanctuary of mine, claiming it was 'weird and totally confusing', or something to that degree. In any case, he had tried it once, and hadn't been keen to go back.
They didn't disappoint me. Before I could knock, Edward opened the door. Expecting me, or someone at the very least, no doubt.
"Hello Edward," I greeted him confidently. He seemed shocked, and if I didn't know better, I would have said that Edward Cullen was lost for words. If that were possible.
"Alex?" I recognised Alice's shocked voice, though she was nowhere in sight. "Alexandra Cullen?" She was surprised. My sudden decision hadn't given her enough time to see me coming, and she probably hadn't beenfollowing my future with her strange premonitions for years. Most likely, I was just a vague memory to them.
"Alice?" I called, still not able to see her. Carlisle appeared in front of me, just as Edward disappeared, after taking one look at my face. Was I that crazy?
"Hello Alexandra,"he said, once again shocking me with the flow of kindness and caring he had encircled himself with, even though he didn't know it.
"Carlisle, I-" I sarted to explain, but he cut me off.
"I know why you're here," he told me gently, the kindness shocking me again. Not for the first time in my new life, I wished that Carlisle didn't have that effect on me, and that my power was just a little bit more specific. Instead, it worked with distance; the closer I got, the more I knew about a person. Except that it was a little more abstract than just that, alloing ach person to have a different effect on me, mostly having something to do with their powers, or most defining trait, like Carlisle's compassion, or Alice showing me the visions, or Edward sharing his thoughts with me, while receiving the ones I practically shouted at him. It came in handy at times, but for the most part, it was very annoying, not to metion it didn't help with my already-short attention span.
"How?" I asked, confused. I hadn't even had a chance to say anything, and the mind reader wasn't even here!
"Your eyes," he explained simply. "They're red." I understood then. You didn't have to be gifted to work that one out. Dang all that human blood, tainting my eyes until they were red again. They were hadly gold when I left.
"I slipped, Carlisle. I came for help."
Before he could answer, Alice came bouncing into the conversation, obviously delighted at my return, and not trying to hide it.
"Alexandra!" she trilled, too excited to remember that I preferred the shortening of my name. I mean, come on! Alexandra was such a mouthful, and way to formal for my view on life. It made me sound like I was in trouble.
Alice dragged me into the house, and I let her, not caring where we were going. I wasn't planning on staying long anyway. The place was filled with the scents of each of the Cullens, but there was a new, foreign scent, so delicious it had my throat burning in the seconds it took for me to breathe it in. It was like nothing I had ever smelt before, and definitely human. For a moment, I was completely taken over by the delicious smell, before Alice snapped me back into reality.
"I can't see you attacking Bella, or any humans for that matter," she reassured me, but only managing to make me confused again. Luckily, confusion was something I was used to, after watching some of the more strange antics of some of the newborns during my not-so-long life.
"Bella?" I asked, looking at her. "Who's that?" I could have a guess, but it wouldn't have been very accurate.
"Edwards girlfriend," Alice answered simply, rolling her eyes. Apparently, I was supposed to have figured that out already, if I wasn't a lower life form. "She's the human who was just in here." She must be the owner of the sweet scent. Intruiging, the way they all put up with it, because of Edward. Then again, I did have a sort of love-hate relationship with Edward, so my point of view over these matters would probably be seen as clouded by our arguments. Hmm.
I remembered the strange girl I had caught a glimpse of before. I hadn't taken much notice, more focused on the bigger threat to my existence, Edward. I noticed none of the others were here now.
"Where did they go, anyway?" There was not a sign of any of the others, not even Jasper, who was usually where ever Alice was. Strange.
"They took Bella to a safe place." I felt uncomfortable. They expected me to attack her. So much for trust.
"Edward doesn't trust me," I stated. It wasn't a question. I knew this would happen, I just never took any notice.
"Not anymore," she confirmed.
"Why?"
Alice shrugged. She knew about as much as I did, which was not a lot. "I don't know," she said.
I didn't hear Carlisle behind me until he spoke.
"Alexandra," he said softly, and I whipped around to face him, instantly on guard. Years of liing with newborns had taught me not to trust people who sneak up behind you, and it was going against all my instincts to relax. If it was anyone but my 'family', that would have meant the end for me.
"Yes, Carlisle?" I asked politely.
"You shouldn't have left so early," he informed me. No, really? I may be lacking in the 'general knowledge about the world' department, but I wasn't that slow. I'd already figured that one out a long time ago.
"If you'd stayed longer, you could have better control. Then you wouldn't have slipped," Alice chimed in.
"There's an understatement," I said. "Three months was hardly old enough to have control. But things got so tense. I felt like at any moment, I was going to rip somebody's head off. I thought it would be better if I left." It felt surprisingly good to get that off my chest and out into the open.
"But it wasn't," Carlisle comfirmed.
"No. It turned into a complete disaster."
"I missed you, Alex," Alice said. She looked miserable. It was nasty to hurt her like that. But how could I help it?
"Yeah, I missed you too, Alice," I told her. I was just as miserable. "Jasper too. It's been a while since I saw him. Oh well, at least he's not the only one with a problem." That much was true. Along with my short attention span, I had anger issues, which made me uncontrollable. Even worse, there was the burning thirst that never went away for me, after almost 15 years of hardly being fed. But that was the past, and I preffered not to think about that, if I could help it.
"True," she said, smiling.
"You must stay a while," Carlisle insisted. I knew that they would offer, but I wasn't sure about the human. Almost definitely, someone would get hurt because of me.
"I don't know..." I was unsure. Part of me wanted to stay, but I knew I should go. For the good of them, and the humans who lived here.
"Please?" Alice persisted.
"What about the human?" I asked. "And Edward? He wasn't very pleased to see me."
"I'll deal with Edward," Alice promised.
I sighed, giving in. "Fine. I'll stay for a while. I guess that's what I came here to do, anyway." Alice was instantly happy, back to bouncing around with glee.
"Yay!" she cheered. "I'll tell the others!"
She saw me glaring at her, and rolled her eyes.
"And hunt down Edward, of course."
A/N: Well, thats all I have. I think this is going to be my shortest chapter, so the others should be bigger and better.
Pease please please read and review, all reviews gratefully accepted!
Chapter 2 will be here as soon as possible; unfortunately I haven't even started it yet...