Parings: Edward and Alice, hint of Alice/Jasper

Disclaimer: I am not Stephanie Meyer and I do not own Twilight or any of its characters.

Alice POV

I've never had such a powerful vision before. One that had me rocking on the chair and staring off into space for more than a minute. My visions had always lasted no more than thirty seconds and I could control my eye movements but I couldn't with this one.

Luckily I was away from prying eyes and was at an abandoned shack in the woods, in the middle of winter, in the middle of no where. No matter what I tried I just couldn't trust myself around people yet. I knew I wouldn't hurt anybody because I wouldn't let myself A-get that close and B-get that thirsty.

That was a major downside to being a vampire, the thirst. The vision over took me and I peered into the crazed haze and saw a small diner. I couldn't tell where it was at but there was a sign that said best cooking in the town written on the one of the windows.

It was nighttime and there wasn't a lot of people in the diner. Then I saw someone sitting alone at the front counter and immediately I was shocked.. This man was as pale as my skin was and had no traces of blood in his system.

He had short bronze uncontrollable hair that I suddenly wanted to run my hands through. I couldn't see his face but I could tell he was beautiful. I so wanted to meet this man in person and find out why I was so strangely attracted to him. In that moment I knew what this vision was for, I had to find this man.

Maybe he was my soul mate? I couldn't think of any other reason to why I was seeing him. He had a plate full of food in front of him but didn't touch it or eat it. He just moved his fork around mashing together everything. Was he a vampire like me? I heard a whimsical laugh coming out of his mouth. The cook had said something funny to him and he was laughing. What a beautiful voice. So deep and sure.

He said something about fishing to him. Then everything was going dark and I started to see the walls of my shack again. Who was that? I wonder if I will have more visions of him? Maybe if I concentrate hard enough I will see something with him again?

The room was still dark so not much time had passed. I laid down on the floor because there was no bed in here, not that I could sleep anyway. There was a patch of the roof missing where I laid so I could stare up at the stars. They are so beautiful, twinkling up there in the sky.

It reminded me of heaven. Somewhere I would never go. I don't know if I believed in god when I was alive but I do believe that there is something out there now. Its so strange to know that I will never go beyond anywhere but this. Never will I believe that we are creatures of hell because its not like I wish to kill people. Its just something in our nature, but never had I killed anyone so far. Well. Just one person.

The wind blew through the holes and kinks of the shack and I raised my arms to hold myself against it. I wasn't in anyway cold its just the simple gesture that pleased me. I could hear every little noise in the woods, and it didn't bother me any. It was actually quite calming, and soothing.

I've been a vampire for almost 20 years now. Funny how it seems like only a year has passed but when your suck in time you don't flow easy with it. I've stayed away from humans and kept my distance from them. Only going near them when I need new clothes, which I stole. I've only meet a couple of my kind and they've told me of this coven who drink only animals blood.

Since then I've only drank that. Often I am tempted to drink humans blood when hikers get close but I sustain and run as far away as I can.

There was a little noise in the corner which alerted me and brought me back from my reverie. It was a little mouse and it scattered around the floor finding little things and shoving them in its mouth. The smell of its blood lured me in and called out to me. It was so cute I didn't want to kill it for just a gulp of its blood. That would be a waste.

I stretched out my muscles from being still for so long, if I could feel pain right now I would. As I moved from my laid position I caught a glimpse of my reflection in a piece of a broken mirror. I've seen myself before but I haven't in a year and couple of months. My eyes were pitch black and I had black bruises underneath my eyes.

Reacting to my shock, I reached up and touched my face to feel the soft but yet hard like marble underneath my fingers. They trailed up to the blackness under my eyes. I stared at my self for god knows how long till I noticed it was starting to get light outside. My thirst was starting to get unbearable and I swiftly got up and ran out the shack.

As I ran I noticed how in my peripheral vision the trees were just dark green blurs mashing together. I upped up my speed a little and then everything blurred. I was unstoppable I loved this feeling as I ran. I suddenly caught scent of a dull but yet tangy smell. It was a flock of deer and they were close.

Deer wasn't my favorite choice but that was all that near and I was incredibly thirsty. The fire burning in my throat needed to be dulled so I quickly but quietly sauntered forward. I was moving fast so they wouldn't see my coming closer. There were maybe three or four of them there. That would do.

I paused and started thinking of how I could take them all out in just a couple of moves. Until the buck who was chewing on whatever grass he was finding, raised his head and noticed me. But I reacted before a second went by and zipped to them and snapped his neck. I hated hearing that snap as the neck disconnected from the body.

The others ran and I ran after them killing the other two but I let the other one get away. Three was enough for me. I knelt down and raised the doe's head to slink my teeth into its neck and sighed when I felt the rush of blood pool around my mouth. I drank and sucked until it was empty, then I finished the other two.

My body felt all slushy as I cleaned up the area making it look like a bear mauled them. Pretty nasty I know, but hey.

I didn't want to go back to that shack so I took my chances and started running south. The sun was starting to appear, its rim was poking its head over the woods. I had a small vision of an abandoned house not to far from here and I decided to stop there because before long I would be in the sun.

Don't know how long it took me but I reached the house and examined it all over. It was small and white and rundown. In the inside it had two mounted deer heads in the living room and a bear skin in the bedroom. Whoever lived here had a major hunting addiction.

I went into the bedroom and closed the door. In the center it had a quaint little bed and I laid down upon it and stared out the window. The sunlight had etched its way into the room filling it. Thank goodness the person had invested in dark window curtains. I shut them and went quietly back to the bed. I sighed when I saw another mirror. I looked into it and saw that my black bruise went to being a light purple and my black eyes were a light gold.

I wonder if all vampire's eyes were gold? Well the ones I had met before were a dark red so I suppose that was from feeding on humans, which I did not. I much prefer the gold eyes to the ugly red. I remember they asked me if I wanted to join them and I said no because I wanted to journey on my own for a bit. But sometimes it got very lonely. Like now.

I don't remember much from when I was a human. I have no memory's, nothing. All that I can seem to think of was darkness. Its like I was born a vampire because that's all that I know. I just remember waking up in the woods somewhere in Mississippi. When I woke up there was a person around me and not knowing what to do next I went on my instincts and killed him. I felt extremely sick afterwards. Not physically sick but emotionally. I can remember him screaming and I never wanted that to happen again. The feeling of the thirst scared me but I learned to cope with it, and learn my limits. Then came the visions. They freaked me out as well but I learned how to trigger them and use them to my advantage. Like where I could stop in the daytime without me being discovered.

Then occasionally I had visions of the vegetarian clan. I guess I was just focused on them so much that I triggered things about them. Their leader was a tall blonde haired man who was very kind and calming. His wife was a very beautiful lady with long brown hair and was very motherly. The third and final member was their 'son'. He had honey blonde hair and was very handsome. He had a power, and it manipulated others emotions. I envied them all for their restraint.

They seemed so close and connected. The leader, Carlisle was a very welcoming man and I knew if I searched for them they would take me in. But I wanted to find that mystery man in my vision. He was my main focus now. Ironically, my body shook with another powerful vision.

It was him again. The beautiful stranger.

Unfortunately I couldn't see his face again but he was wearing sunglasses and talking to this girl about going to see one of those moving pictures movie. She seemed to agree with anything he said because she was allured by our inhuman beauty. It was so easy to attract people in. After their conversation he left her smiling and dazzled by his beauty and walked past a sign that read Logan Square. Then it faded.

Logan Square.

Logan Square.

I knew where that was. It was a district in Philadelphia and I wasn't far from there. I was somewhere in New, York now. It would take me maybe three days, no exactly three days to meet him. That's if he doesn't change his mind on where he lives at the moment.

I was so ecstatic! I knew where he was and the only thing standing in the way of him was the sunlight. I have no clue why I was so fascinated by him I just needed to meet him and talk to him. I closed my eyes and counted the minutes until the late afternoon.

It was dark before long, just really staying still helps the time move quickly before you even know it. The moon was a full moon tonight and it looked so beautiful up there in the night sky. It was like a beacon calling me in its beautiful bright orbs. That was such a pretty sight to see. That's one of the things I love about the nighttime.

I was close to the boarder of New, York, and Pennsylvania. I had to reach Logan's Square before the third night because in one of my recent visions he had planned to leave for Washington for the cloud covers.

Recently I also had a vision of this great depression that was going to befall our nation. Oh well, humans are so predictable.

I had to regroup before I was going to go near humans. I wanted to make sure I had my thirst under check and I looked presentable. Right now I had on layers of different things. I was barefoot and had on the tightest fitting pair of a man's jeans I could find that could fit my size because I am very petite. And I had on a white ruffle blouse top that went under my cute black jacket. Over all I think I looked nice enough I just needed shoes. I didn't have to worry about my hair because it never got dirty unless I tried to take down a bear or a mountain lion because then it would get muddy or have bits of leaves and grass. Plus it was very short and spiky and had different layers all throughout.

What was I going to say to him when I met him? "Hi how you are? I've seen you in my visions and I just had to meet you." Ugh this wasn't easy. I wish I had a vision of when I meet him for the first time so I can see what I say.

Oh he was going to think I was crazy. Maybe he would give me a chance to talk because I was a vampire too? You know what, I just say whatever comes to my mind the second I see him. I wasn't about to drive myself crazy just to know what I was going to say to him I don't even know him. Yet.

I really don't know why I was going this far to see him. Just something about that vision made me realize something. After almost ten long years of being myself, I realize I want a companion. Someone to talk to and bounce ideas off of inside of myself. Even though I am always right I would still like to hear other opinions besides my own.

That's exactly it. I understand now. I see him as a companion for me. Hopefully that would be true in a matter of hours.

I had reached Bradford, then speed right through Sullivan and Columbia. Right now I was in the middle of Schuylkill. Time for the regrouping. The pants that I had been wearing had its bottom edges all scraped up from non stop running. I would need to find new ones. My throat was burning like hell, what a way to put it. I guess I need to feed now till I was so full that the burning was turned to lighted ash. I would be in there in no time now and the sun wouldn't be shinning today because it had decided to snow. I had maybe an hour before it would be morning so I decided to hunt. I knew this was the best place for hunting bears and it would be so entirely easy because they were all hibernating.

There was a cave not to far from here and it held one cuddly bear all snoozed up. That would be good enough for me plus maybe one deer afterwards.

It didn't take me long to take down the bear and I found a pack of deer maybe a mile away from the cave. I felt all slushy and squishy again and the burning was almost completely numb, never would it be gone though. That was a good sign I was full and sedated. Now I was finally ready to face humans again. Just as soon as I found new pants.

For the past twenty years I've been living like a hermit, withdrawing myself from the world and people. But I have traveled around the world, saw the sights, and did whatever I wanted at one point. I've walked through crowds before and it never affected me as much as it did earlier on. But I'm afraid how it will be now that the Alice-hermit has come to join the living. So to say.

The woods I was in now were beautiful it was like I was in my own perfect heaven. A heaven without that perfect stranger. It was a covered with a blanket of trees going on like a vast ocean. I knew to keep heading south and that I would soon reach some forms of life. When I stumbled upon buildings I knew that I had. Finally I was closer. All the signs on the stores read, 'Pottsville' so I was only two counties away from my perfect stranger.

The snowing had died down and the clouds had darkened, thank god. No one wanted to see a sparkling vampire, let alone have their nightmares come true. I walked around aimlessly taking everything in. They had a ma' and pa' restaurant I would definitely eat there if I was human, it looked so homely. Most of the houses had tricycles and toys thrown around in the yards. There was a little fountain by the church and I could picture small kids running around it in the summer playing while the adults looked on adoringly at them and a cute elderly couple were sitting at the edge of the fountain holding each other in their arms while they looked into each others eyes.

I amazed myself with how sentimental I was being.

I found a vintage clothing store a couple blocks away from the Kroger. I broke in through the side entryway and took a look around. I don't know why I never took time before to see the fashion state. I loved clothes. If I could I would wear a different outfit everyday but with running around all the time it becomes a little hard keeping them clean and nice.

There was a lot to choose from. All different types of dresses and stockings were available for me. Last time I changed my clothes was in nine years and they really have more of a selection now than they did before.

My mind was swimming with all the great possibilities of outfits. I couldn't make a decision because when I did I found something else great and had a battle with myself on choosing between them. I finally did decide to choose two outfits one to meet my perfect stranger in and the other to play around in. Some of the dresses were so dull in color, I wanted something that would spark my interest. Then I came across this pretty blue dress, and lifted it off the rack and read the tag, Calypso Christine Celle blue sick wrap dress. Hmmm definitely sparked my interest. It was perfect.

All I needed now was shoes. I was thinking of black high heels. But then I saw these gorgeous silver heels that had straps and I knew which ones I was going to wear.

I went over to the counter and grabbed the one of the boxes they used to put them in and lightly folded my dress and neatly put it in the box. I grabbed a cover and placed it over and wrapped it up in a black ribbon bow. I heard the tenets stirring above and knew it was time to get the heck out of there before I was caught. The smell of their blood wasn't too powerful yet I guess I was to intent on getting my clothes.

I reached for my dress and ran out the side door. I looked around before I did because I didn't want anyone seeing me walk out of the store before it was open. While I was in there I changed into a dark fur coat that covered my chest and thighs and black wool leggings. Underneath the fur coat was the box.

People were coming outside to open their wares and the men did double takes as they saw me. A younger gentleman ran out of the store was coming to talk to me. He had to be around eighteen or nineteen.

"Uh miss!"

If he wanted to live to see his next birthday he probably shouldn't come near me. But I stopped anyway to not be rude. I chanted to my self that my thirst was under control. I pressed down hard on my lips and closed my eyes before I turned around.

He was average looking and had dark brown hair. He came close to me and I had to take one step back to regain my control. This boy had a huge grin on his face and his eyes twinkled as he stared at me. If I could have blushed I would be right now.

"Yes?"

After hearing my voice his eyes widened and I heard his heart beat increase.

"Uhh, y-you shouldn't be walking around in this weather you know? You might catch a cold. You should come inside my dad's store to warm up." He looked so proud of himself for coming and talking to me. It was a shame I had to turn him down.

"Well, I don't feel cold and I need to get my exercise in, but thanks for the offer." I smiled at him and that probably made his day.

"You sure? You know the first signs of Hypothermia is not feeling cold." No it isn't. He was trying so hard to keep me talking to him.

"Don't worry I'm fine. If I come around this way again and I feel cold I might come in. But thanks." He looked so crestfallen that I hadn't taken him up on his offer but his heart increased again at my offer.

"Your just so beautiful." Now that was random.

I didn't say to that but laughed silently.

"Um, I don't know why I just said that. I mean you are! B-but I'm not usually t-that forward!"

I smiled and shook my head. He was sweet but I had to go.

"Thank you, but I really have to get to my boyfriends. He's probably really worried that I'm not there yet." He winced when I mention the fake boyfriend.

"Oh. You have a boyfriend, well I shouldn't keep you waiting."

"See you."

When I walked away he still stood there for a minute and whispered silently under his breath something no human could hear. "I know I wouldn't keep you out of my sight."

As soon as I was out of the woods I threw off my coat and it held suspended in the air as I ran. I held the box securely in my left arm and took off at an unnatural speed. At the end of the day I was out of Pottsville and in Berks now.

I immediately stopped and was took over by a vision.

I saw him again and he was talking to a couple named Peter and Charlotte. He must have been in a coven with them and he was talking to them about leaving. They asked why and seemed upset but he told them he was upset with killing humans because he could read their minds before they died and that terrified him. They told him there was no other way and he said that he would find one. When he turned around I finally saw his face.

He was beautiful. No he was like a Greek god in the flesh. He had high cheek bones and strong jaw line. His face was perfectly angular and had full lips that I wanted so much to kiss right now. He was so attractive I never wanted to take my eyes off him. His hair was short and messy but had a beautiful bronze shade to it. He looked so conflicted with himself right now. I just wanted to hold him and tell him everything would be okay.

He told them that he was leaving and didn't know where he was going but he had a strong feeling about it. I knew he needed me as much I needed him.

Finally I reached the diner where I knew I would meet him and slipped into my dress and shoes and walked in. The cook saw me and smiled and nodded. I nodded back and sat at the front counter waiting.

Sooo what do you guys think? Love it? Hate it? Hopefully there will be another chapter sometime this week but I have some MAJOR testing going on in school so maybe the weekend. Review Review Review now please :)