DON'T OWN TWILIGHT, NEVER WANT TO, I JUST WANT TO OWN ALICE LOL.
CPOV
It had been a week since the Cullen's had received the mysterious call to return to their house in Forks. It had been an unusually long 3 years away from Forks. Some of them never wanted to return to the once bright place that had left them all with a shadow on their hearts. In Forks they had met and gained a new daughter but in doing so they, in the end lost her and their son. Edward had been a little unstable before the move to Forks and when he had met Bella they were sure things were going to be better from then on. Only to have things crash and burn almost in the literal sense. After Edward had forced them all to move he had disappeared from the family only to get a notice from the Volturi 6 months later to inform them that an unbalanced Edward had tried to kill the 3 kings, without success, to then try to expose himself to the humans. The Volturi in the end had no choice but to end his existence.
I could not blame my friends, I heard the remorse in Aro's voice when he told me of Edward's demise. It was then I knew he tried everything to reason with Edward. I knew in the end Aro tried as much as he could because he wanted Edward on the guard, but you can't have an unstable vampire on the guard. As I look at the remnants of my Family before we piled into our cars, I realize all of us had been through a lot of changes these last 3 years. To say that vampires never change would be wrong, it just takes a big event to bring about the change.
Alice and Jasper had not lasted for 3 months after our move. Her grief over losing Bella, her closest and only friend, had been too much for Jasper to deal with on top of his self blame and all our grief as well. He had to leave. 6 months after that Alice had gotten divorce papers in the mail with a letter. All she had said to us at the time was that Jasper had decided to join Peter and Charlotte again and that he wished us a good life. Alice had sunk into a depression that day, she had always believed Jasper would return, she didn't shut us out but neither was she her usually bubbly perky self. The shopping trips stopped all together after that. She had thrown herself into shopping after our move to try to keep herself busy, but with Jasper leaving it had ceased instantly.
Everyone thought that Rosalie would have gloated over the fact that we finally got rid of the 'human' but I knew deep down Rosalie loved her as much as we did. She never once thought that it was all Bella's fault. In confidence one day she told me she resented Bella because she could see how Edward wasn't good for her and that she couldn't see how controlling he was. In the end I had to admit Rosalie was right about the relationship between Bella and Edward, I wished I had seen it then, but I was too clouded with happiness that my son was coming back to me and bringing in a new family member.
Emmett had not taken moving away from Forks well at all. He had come to see Bella as the little sister he had lost when he was mauled by that bear. No longer did he go out of his way to be rambunctious anymore or cheery. I hate to say but I miss my loud and brash son who ran literally head first into anything he perceived as a challenge. More often than not you could find him staring off into space while his gaming character would die multiple times before he would shut the console off.
I thank all in this world that Esme is too focused on the rest of the family to dwell in her feelings of loss. I was afraid I was going to lose her. After the way she had been changed plus the loss of more children I wasn't too sure how Esme would come out of this. I am happy that what was left of this family has stuck together. I am not sure we could handle anymore loss and we were all afraid that's what we were facing on our return to Forks. We all feared something had happened to Bella and weren't too sure if we really wanted to know. You know the saying 'Ignorance is bliss' in this case my entire family was sure they wanted to be left in ignorance. We didn't want to face more loss, but we owe it to this girl to face our demons come hell or high water.
None of us had recognized the voice on the other line of the phone call, they had muffled the receiver. Alice had said she couldn't get any visions about Forks, so we were walking into this 100% blind. Nothing new to me or Esme but it brought an extra edge to the air with the others.
The apprehension in the car was thick. As I looked in the rear view mirror at Alice I noticed she was being absolutely still. Not in the sense that she was having a vision, but that the memories here looked to be overwhelming her. The winding driveway to the house seems to be longer than it used to be. As I come out of the treeline I slow down to look at the wild overgrown meadow that had sprung up in our front yard. The place looked eerily abandoned, full of ghosts. Ghosts of memories past more like it. It had this rundown depressing air hanging about making the house look more foreboding than what it was. I was half afraid myself to walk into the house with the lingering scent of Bella, Edward, and Jasper in the air. I was most afraid for Alice though. This would be the toughest on her, the loss of 2 of them was devastating to her but the last one shattered her. I had Esme to fall back on, likewise for Rosalie and Emmett. Alice doesn't show us how much it hurts anymore just hides it behind false smiles and the 'I'm fine' routine.
When I shut off the car an involuntary sigh escaped my lips. Esme and me shared a look then all of us simultaneously got out of the car. I looked back to see Rose and Emmett walking up to us at a human pace. They looked like they wanted to walk into that house a much as we did. I took a deep unnecessary breath and walked up to the door. I think if I was human my hands would be shaking as I unlocked the door. As soon as I walked in though I noticed a quiet muttering upstairs and so did the others. Apparently we had a guest to go along with our mystery call. There was no heart beat so it was safe to say it was another vampire in the house.
As quietly as we could we all ghosted up the stairs to stop on the landing. Alice's head tilted to the side as her eyes became slightly dilated, suddenly she was gone and at her door. The family rushed up behind her as she pushed open the door to her old room. It looked like a tornado came in this room and touched only paper. Sheets and sheets of it was everywhere, covering the walls, ceiling, bed, you name it you couldn't see anything but the paper and undefined shapes underneath. Which of course made the person in the corner muttering and scribbling on said paper stand out more.
It was a female as far as I could tell. She was kind of scrunched up in a ball rocking back and forth as she drew. She had long lanky looking brown hair, of course the pale skin of our kind, and she was wearing blue scrubs. I could faintly make out stamped lettering under her hair. I silently made my way past Alice into the room to get a better view of the back of her scrub. There in bold black printed block lettering was ' Washington State Mental Institution'. My eyes widened in alarm as I glanced back at Alice. My first and immediate thought was of her and how she had learned of her own stay in an asylum.
At that precise moment in time I swear the world stopped as we all sucked in deep unnecessary breaths when said vampire looked up with crimson dazed eyes.
"You," she pointed out Alice "I seen, see?" then she ran over to a stack of papers and began shuffling through them then brought a piece to Alice who was still frozen with shock. I looked over and there was a perfect drawing of Alice and Bella sitting together in Bella's room on her bed laughing about something. The girl pointed to the picture again. "These I know I see before, before Vicky. Then Vicky was there and I seen, but no one else seen, got scared. I seen Vicky all over. Very confusing, very dark then. Time made no sense. No one saw Vicky but me, they took me to the bad place."
She then ran to another stack and plucked the picture that was on top and brought it to Alice. It was Victoria. Alice grasped the paper and began growling and crumpling it up.
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