Powerless

Summary: Alice's just wanted her sister. NM-Breakup

Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns the Twilight series. I just play with the characters.

Notes: I think Alice would have come back to fight Edward on breaking up with Bella, and this is how I think she would take it. I also had Bleeding Love blaring to get the ideas out.

Throwing clothes into a bag, Alice didn't care about how they would look. She didn't care if they were wrinkled, ripped or destroyed. She didn't care about stupid things like clothes. She just didn't care

How could she when this nightmare was happening?

Her beloved brother was pulling the most idiotic stunt in his 100+ years of existence that would rip her family part. Tear them so far apart that the family's bonds could not be salvaged if he went through with this. He would destroy every attachment that they had to this fragile human and never ever would they be the same.

And she was going to go along with it.

Alice didn't know why. She could already see that it would tear Bella apart and destroy her soul until she trying to repair her broken heart with duck-tape. And that wouldn't work. She would have this hole gaping open in her chest until she died.

Alice couldn't see when or how that would be, but she couldn't help the foreboding feeling that it would be sooner than later. And she knew when Bella died; Edward would make his death official.

Collapsing to the floor, Alice shook, wishing she could cry. Jasper was gone, destroyed with what he had almost done to Bella. Edward was making the worst mistake of his life. Bella was about to fall apart, destroyed by the man she loved. Her family broken and quiet, trying to figure out what to do. And doing the wrong thing by following Edward's ideas after hours upon hours of endless fighting.

And Alice was powerless to stop it.

It was terrifying, knowing what she did, and that she couldn't do anything. Knowing that every second she would be watching them suffer, whether in person or through her sight. She couldn't control it, not matter what Edward thought. She would watch day in and day out as they mourned each other, wishing they had the other part of their soul near them. Knowing that Jasper would blame himself for eternity. Knowing that a small part of her would blame him too, and he would know that, damning himself further.

When did it all become so complicated, that two people who loved each other couldn't be together?

That they both had to be hurt, broken to pieces, to protect each other. One lies to the other for her protection.

All Alice wanted to do was hold Bella in her arms and hear her twinkling laugher as Emmett did something stupid, catch her before she fell, watch her blush so red that it looked like her body was on fire.

All Alice wanted was her best friend – her sister.

The almost-sister who she couldn't even say goodbye. The sister that would think Alice didn't even care about her. That thought Alice had only liked Bella because she was Edward's plaything and wanted Edward to be happy. The almost-sister who would be crushed by the loss of her second family.

Alice didn't care how much Edward would hate her; she didn't care about the consequences. All she cared about was having her family whole and living like they had become since Bella had entered their lives.

And she wasn't giving that up. Not because of her moronic brother who has a super-hero complex.

Carefully hiding her thoughts, Alice grimly smiled, firm in her decision as she stood up, and finished packing. She wouldn't stop watching Bella, she would hide it, but she wouldn't stop watching. She couldn't. Her gift didn't have an on and off switch; it was just there.

Edward had a year to deal with this ridiculous idea that by leaving her and breaking her, Bella would be safe. Alice would make sure that she was safe. Any sign of the contrary, she would be at Bella's side in an instant.

Edward had a year, and then Alice would come back to Forks. Bella wouldn't get over Edward, Alice knew that much. And in a year, Bella would have a choice.

And in little over a year, two vampires would return to the current Cullen family residence. It would be probably in Vermont, and the family would be going by another name, but they would be together again.

Edward had a year.

And Bella would be home – forever.

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