Hey there! I have read such kind of things about Harry Potter characters, and I rather like those. I have been wondering, why no one ever writes those about Twilight. There are so many ideas...
First chapter is about our all favourite fortuneteller. Enjoy!
Ten thing you never knew about Mary Alice Brandon Withlock
1. She is afraid of darkness.
No, not night or dark corridors, her eyesight was good enough to penetrate even the tightest shadows. She looked into the future and nothing was hidden from her. But when she closed her eyes and tried to remember, all she could see was darkness. Overwhelming, absolute darkness without beginning or ending. Only dark and quiet and senseless.
She got the same feeling when she tried to look into shape-shifters future and it terrified her to no end. When someone asked about it, she made a face and told it was 'annoying.'
2. She used to love her sister Cynthia more than anyone else.
She loved to dress her up, play with her dark brown curls. Cyndy was four years younger than her, too young to understand that her parents hated and feared her big sister, to innocent to understand, why they told her ta stay away from her.
When Alice was ten, she was sent away from home for a few weeks. Just a few weeks.
When she came back Cynthia cast her one glance with a newfound disdain and said just one word.
„Freak"
This hurt more than any of her mother slaps or pinches. When Alice was taken away for asylum next morning. Cynthia didn't came to send her of. This was her last word to her.
Alice doesn't realise, but Bella has always reminded her Cynthia. From before.
In Biloxi, Mississipi, old woman went every year to Alice grave, begging for her forgiveness.
3. She went from striving for normality to envying it to despising it.
When she was little girl, her mother told her she was abomination. That normal little girls don't see things. Her sister had called her freak and she hated it. She did everything she could to be normal. She tried to act like any other little girl. She tried to keep visions away, or made a face they doesn't exist.
When she was thrown into asylum, she knew she had lost, that she could never be normal, nor have normal life. Her future was placed in front of her and all she could see was pain, death and strange, red eyes.
By the time she was changed into vampire, she had abandoned any pursuit for normality. She made her 'freakishness' into her strongest weapon, inseparable part of her. In her new life, she was admired for it, liked because of it, not despite of it and now she used word 'normal' as it was insult.
4. She was afraid she will never meet Jasper.
His face was the first memory in her mind and from the very first moment she knew she could never live without him. The thought of never meeting him was more than she was able to bear. And yet, years passed, and all she got from him were occasional glimpses. But she also saw what would happen if she doesn't find him in time, or if he turns him away. They could never survive without each other, they weren't meant to be alone.
But as scary as image of existence withou him was. It didn't even compare with the fear she felt for him, should he be left alone.
She had never been more relieved than the moment he stepped into the diner. In fact, she was so relieved, that for a moment she forgot he doesn't know her and accused him in being late.
She had never been happier, than the moment he took her hand and apologized for his tardiness.
5. She was more than a little afraid when she went to Italy with Bella.
Thousand scenarios played through her head, one more horrible than another. In worst, this would mean death of her whole family, all because of her flawed visions. It would be all her fault.
When she spoke with Jasper by phone, convincing him to go back, lying him, promising she will find a way out, part of her fear disappeared. Jasper was safe.
But she knew that by doing so, she put both Edward's and Bella's lifes in greater risk. And she felt disgusted with herself.
6. She despised her hair.
Not that she had anything against the short hair in general, it was more like what it meant for her. Her beautiful, dark hair, cropped short as a symbol of her imprisonment. Taken away from her with her freedom, her right for a peace inside her mind. She hated how it stuck from every angle, as if reminding her, that they couldn't even bother to cut it properly.
That, too, she never told anyone. She just geled her hair, until they stuck even more wildly and told Bella not to cut Nessie's hair
7. Bella was right, when she thought that Alice plays with her, like little girls play with their dolls.
She found a real joy of dressing her up, doing her hair and makeup. Like a little girl, she tried on different clothes and was proud of the outcome. Like a little girl, she made up for a childhood she had never had.
8. She always rather liked Jacob Black.
Of course there was the fact that he was smelly werewolf whose future was hidden from her. And the fact that she was in love with her little sister. But she had seen how much he worried about Bella. And he had defied houseful of vampires so he could be with Bella, when she needed him. Heck, he even allowed her to stay with him, to help her with her headaches. She knew he was all around good person, but realised he is not yet ready for vampire friends. So she just messed around with him and complained about blinding her schedule.
9. During Bella's pregnancy, she never reached to decision about Nessie.
Not remembering anything from her human life, she didn't have such feelings about children like Esme or Rosalie. She had never imagined herself as mother or even aunt. But she had seen a vision, what loosing a child would do to Bella. She never mentioned it to anyone, because vision was as shortlived, as it was horrid. It was lost in a moment and no matter how far Alice tried to look, Bella's future was always fuzzy. There was no way out, whether Bella lived or died, it was bound with that... fetus.
She wasn't exactly sure, whether or not she liked it.
10. Leaving her family to go searching for Nahuel was hardest thing she had ever done.
She knew they would think she abandoned them. She knew that her plan may not go through and then all of them would die, and she can never say goodbye to them, never explain her departure. She was afraid that should things go to fighting, their presence would still be crucial factor.
But she had to do it. For her love for each of them, she had to do it.
