A/N: Here is my newest story, Celestial. I'm still working on Cerulean Star, and I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to come back to this story. There are a couple of factors: 1) I want to finish Cerulean Star before taking on a new story, 2) I want to see how many reviews I get for this story. If the reviews aren't there, I probably won't continue it, and 3) I want to use a Beta for this story, but I also don't want to search for one. So I figured I'd post the first chapter of this story in hopes that my Beta is reading this and is somewhat familiar with my writing style. So if anyone of you is interested and is registered as a Beta on fanfiction, please PM me. Thanks, enjoy! (I hope)

Alice POV

There was something really wrong with what I was seeing in this vision. The meadow? I was almost certain of it. I only knew what it looked like from the very vague description that Edward gave to me. But it was all wrong. There were two people standing in the middle. Bella was one of them, of that I was absolutely sure. But she looked terrified. Who was the other person with her? He, I was positive the second person was a man, made a decision to tell Bella the full story.

I let out a choked sob as I realized what the mysterious figure was saying and I immediately knew who he was. I felt Jasper's arms caress and wrap around me. Then almost in a split second the decision to kill Bella was made. "Noooooooo!"

"Where's Edward?" I asked immediately when my vision suddenly was black without any warning.

"Alice, what is it? What did you see?" Jasper was already containing me and Esme rushed over to me as well. Without Edward to immediately see what my vision was from my head, there was no way for anyone to have the ability to know what my visions were as I was having them. And I didn't need to distract my mind with songs and translations or any of my other tricks. There wasn't any time for any of that.

"I have to get to Forks. Bella is in trouble." I wanted to ignore the fact that my gift was still in a state of black when it came to Bella. It had done that a few times in the past but my vision always came back. I was clinging to the hope that this was another fluke. But what was even more disturbing was that the frequency of Bella's black-outs was increasing. And I was a vampire, I don't have flukes.

"Alice. What's wrong?" Jasper's anxiety was magnified with what he was feeling from me, and perhaps Esme. Of course Esme would feel anxious about bad news regarding Bella. She had hoped that Bella was going to join our family too.

I swallowed back the sweet venom that was pooling in my mouth as I recalled my last vision. "Laurent had Bella in the meadow." I realized then what was giving me a bad feeling about my vision. Laurent's eyes were blood red. He didn't stick to the diet with Irina and her sisters. "He made a decision to kill her." I looked straight into Jasper's eyes and whispered, "Instead of handing her over to Victoria to be tortured."

There was a collective hiss from my husband and mother. They loved Bella almost as much as I did. The only one who loved her more than me was my idiot of a brother.

"Alice, you're not going alone. I'm coming with you." Jasper valiantly gestured. He never forgave himself for what happened on Bella's eighteenth birthday. Edward tried convincing Jasper it wasn't his fault. But Jasper knew better than to believe him, because he could feel Edward's feelings. He could feel Edward's guilt and regret and no one could deny that we didn't know the atmosphere between Edward and Bella's relationship was now going to be strained. But no one could have predicted that Edward was going to force us to move away from Bella. Not even me, and I'm the psychic.

"Alice, I'm coming with you as well. There's no getting rid of us." Esme offered me a smile and I could see that she was right. Esme and Jasper were standing in the middle of Bella's house with me in the next vision.

"Fine, Esme leave a note for Carlisle and have him call us when he gets in from his shift. If we leave now we won't be bothered by any cops for a few hours so we can really drive. Jasper, can you try to get a hold of Edward? I want to know just how far away from Edward is from Victoria."

I ran to the car, Edward would be so mad that I'm taking his Aston Martin Vanquish, but it was the only car besides Carlisle's that had the heavy tint. And besides, Edward wasn't here anymore, he had no say to what happened to any of his possessions anymore. The silly boy hardly ever drove it anyway.

It only took a few moments to pass before Esme and Jasper piled into the car. I had no idea when the vision was to take place, or if it already happened. The fact that Bella's future was still a void did not help my anxiety one bit, though Jasper quickly helped me out in that area. No one said a word as we left Ithaca, New York . We all knew there was only one thing that mattered and that was Bella.

It was several hours, more than a few state lines and a pit stop for gas before I spoke. "Esme, your phone." Just seconds later her phone started to ring, but Esme had already opened it before it could finish its first ring. My family was quite used to me doing that and there was no hesitation to pick it up.

"Hello my love. Sorry we couldn't be there when you came home. Alice said it was urgent that we left right away."

"What's wrong? Your note only said you were going to Forks. Is it Bella?" We could hear Carlisle perfectly over the receiver.

"It was a disturbing vision of Alice's. We're just hoping there is something that we can do to try to prevent it." Esme informed him.

"Does Edward know?" Esme looked back at Jasper who only shook his head sadly.

"No. And honey, neither do Rose and Emmett. I don't know how Rose would react to our involvement. You know Bella wasn't always her favorite person. And don't tell Edward. If you do happen to speak with him, only ask him where he is and if he's on Victoria's trail still. Carlisle, this is pretty serious."

Esme filled Carlisle in on what my vision was as I continued driving at insane speeds. When they hung up, we returned to silence. We didn't want to disturb each other's thoughts, though I would have welcomed the distraction. Because of the way Laurent was speaking in my vision, it seemed it was a real time decision, which meant the reason I was still seeing black was because Laurent killed Bella. I even tried seeing Charlie a few times, and I was still coming up blank.

I'd never been so worried about something my vision showed me in my entire existence. But this was completely different. It was Bella, which only further annoyed me when we had to stop for more gas yet again.

The sun was starting to set and the rain was gleaming in the late ray of light. Better that than us. I'd been driving for a straight twenty hours and I was still unable to see anything with Bella. It was like a black hole had swallowed up the entire future of the Swan family. My worst fears were slowly invading my mind while I continued to piece everything together.

My mind went completely blank.

My dead heart sank.

Welcome to Forks: Population 3118.

By the time we reached Bella's house, the silence was beyond deafening.

"Are you coming in or are you two waiting here?" I asked, but didn't wait for an answer. I ran from the car at a human's pace to the front door. Bella and Charlie still kept their key under the eave of the door, I'd have to talk to them about that, anyone could just walk through the door. My nose wrinkled as a draft from the door invited me in, and then Jasper's voice called out to me.

"Alice!" I looked back at him to see what the commotion was but a tumbling sound caught my attention almost too late.

Half expecting someone to be falling down the steps, I quickly composed myself to the danger that I saw before me. Instead of my sweet Bella, there was instead a boy, that one Bella once referred to as Jacob, running full speed and charging towards me. I readied myself ready to attack the shaking kid when I heard the sweetest thing.

"Jacob! Stop!" Jacob came to a standstill as he turned his head behind him. I followed his line of sight and saw Bella at the top of the steps.

"Bella!" I ran towards my friend but Jacob let out an inhumanly possible growl.

"Jacob stop it. You aren't being nice." Bella cautiously walked down the steps, and I couldn't tell if it was because she was so clumsy or if she was scared of me. I wished I knew if it was the former. Jasper and Esme rushed into the now cramped house and stood with me as we watched Bella reach the bottom step.

"Bella don't." Jacob pleaded with her, grabbing her wrist tightly. That did not get a well received response from me. I matched his earlier growl ferociously as Esme restrained me by my shoulder and Jasper wrapped his arm around my waist, pulling me closer to him. I could feel a wave of serenity flow through me but I shook it off. If this little kid thought that he was going to hurt Bella, he had another thing coming to him.

"Jacob, the Cullen's are always welcome here. And since they haven't broken the treaty, there is no reason to attack them." Bella never once took her eyes off of me, even as she spoke to Jacob.

"I can't protect you from bloodsuckers if you invite them into your home."

I scoffed at his remark. "We don't need to be invited in, this isn't Hollywood." But then it hit me he knew what we were. Why else would he make that off base remark. It was unbelievable that Bella told him about our secret.

"Stop it. Jacob, the Cullen's are my guests, and I will invite them into my home whether they need an invitation or not. If you don't like it, then leave." To make her point, Bella pointed out the door past my family.

The scowl on Jacob's face was unremarkable. He looked at us only briefly but then turned towards Bella. "You'd choose them over me? Why don't you just let them bite you, again. You obviously want to be dead like them too." Jacob turned back around, facing my family and stormed out.

We just continued staring at each other for a few seconds after the near fiasco.

Bella POV

"Jacob! Stop!" I called, my voice finally working.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Standing in the foyer of my house was Alice Cullen.

"Bella!" Alice called out to me and started running towards me but Jacob let out a ferocious growl. I saw him visibly shaking and I was worried he was going to change into a wolf right in my house. I wouldn't even know how to begin to explain the damage to Charlie about his living room.

I started walking down the steps, scared that I was putting myself between mortal enemies. A werewolf and a vampire. "Jacob, stop it. You aren't being nice." With each step I noticed that Alice wasn't alone. I caught my breath when I saw Jasper and Esme, and without meaning to I began searching behind her for the rest of the Cullens. For him. But even when I couldn't find him, my eyes went back to Alice.

"Bella, don't." Jacob pleaded with me darkly. My wrist was in pain from the way he was grasping it and I winced from the pain on instinct. I was just aware of the low growl that roared from Alice's chest. The sudden movement from Esme and Jasper, who up until that point stayed in the doorframe, were now grabbing Alice to keep her calm. I only hoped that Jasper was also sending some calming feelings to Jacob.

"Jacob, the Cullen's are always welcome here. And since they haven't broken the treaty, there is no reason to attack them." I tried breaking my wrist from his grip but with his newfound strength, it was going to be nearly impossible. Surprisingly though, Jacob relented and let me go. Instantly, I started rubbing the pained wrist, hoping that Jake didn't sprain anything.

"I can't protect you from bloodsuckers if you invite them into your home."

"We don't need to be invited in, this isn't Holly wood." Alice retorted to Jacob's comment. I rolled my eyes, at the both of them. Here were two mythical creatures that by all means of sanity shouldn't exist, arguing over who had a right to stand in my living room.

"Stop it. Jacob, the Cullen's are my guests and I will invite them into my home whether they need an invitation or not. If you don't like it, then leave." I pointed to the front door as he looked back at me with his big eyes. I immediately regretted my words because to him he only heard that I was choosing them over him.

Jacob looked at me, a look of pure injury and scowled. "You'd choose them over me? Why don't you just let them bite you, again? You obviously want to be dead like them too." He glared at my scar and I quickly covered it up with my sleeve before watching him retreat, leaving me alone with Alice, Esme and Jasper.

I watched his figure leaving unsure of just how hurt I was by his words. I was hurt, there was no denying that. He might as well said I was already dead to him, at least that was how he had acted. I backed myself to the wall and I slid down to the bottom stair, now wondering why Alice was standing in my house. My feelings were all over the place, hurt by Jake, confused with the Cullen's, I had love, despair, more hurt, and anxiety entangled with one another and I wasn't even sure Jasper could sort my emotions out for me.

"What are you doing here?" I finally asked since no one seemed to want to speak first.

"I needed to see you. I just didn't expect you to be alive." Alice said, though the cadences of her tone made it seem more like a question.

"You needed to see me but you thought I was dead? Alice you're not making any sense. And please come in, all of you." I got up from the step and moved my company into the kitchen. Charlie was going to be home soon and I needed to start his dinner. I pulled the pork chops that I had marinating in the fridge and started the oven. "So, you wanted to see dead Bella, and is shocked speechless that I'm alive." I looked at all three who, at least Jasper and Esme reserved all looks to Alice.

"I had a very disturbing vision of you Bella and I couldn't just stand by and let it happen, regardless of what my idiot brother told me." Alice started but I interrupted her.

"Edward told you not to look for me? He really said that?"

"He thought a 'clean break' was just what you needed." Alice mocked Edward's voice and manner perfectly and I nearly smirked. "Anyways, I think I watched you die. Sort of, your future just faded to black, I was really scared for you."

"Wait," I held up my hand for her to stop. "You say you sort of watched me die. Alice what was your vision?"

"You were in the middle of the meadow, the one Edward took you to, and Laurent was about to kill you, and that's when the vision went dead, and I assumed you did too."

The plate that I had just taken out of the cabinet slipped from my hands and I waited to hear the smash as it hit the floor, but it never came. I looked down and saw Esme had caught and placed it on the counter.

"L-La-Laurent? That happened yesterday." I couldn't even speak anymore. Esme, being the closest to me helped me sit in a chair to keep from swaying. I closed my eyes as I regained my composure.

"We got here as fast as we could. But what happened Bella?"

"Umm. Laurent was spying, trying to see if I was still under your protection for Victoria. She wants to kill me since James was killed by Edward. But he was currently alone and thought it was a better fate for me if he just killed me, sparing me from Victoria's torture. But just as he was getting ready to attack, these wolves came into the meadow and scared him off. I only figured out this morning that Jacob is a werewolf and he just told me that they killed Laurent but Victoria keeps coming back."

"Wait, Victoria is here?" All three of them perked up with that information and began speaking really fast and low, I couldn't even make out one word that they were saying.

"Yeah, I'm glad you guys aren't being rude or anything like that." I muttered.

"Bella, I'm sorry. It's just-," Esme spoke for the first time since being in the house. "Well it's just, the last time we spoke with Edward he said he had tracked her to South America. And as far as we know he's still there."

"You don't know where Edward is?" Esme shook her head.

"He only checks in every few months or so." Alice informed me. I nodded my head taking the information in.

"Bella you really shouldn't hang out with werewolves. They're extremely volatile." Alice said matter of factly.

"Oh because vampires are so much better? Alice do you even have an idea of what I went through when you just up and left me? On more than one occasion I'm sure Charlie wanted to have me committed and I couldn't tell you how many times he tried convincing me to move to Jacksonville. I broke down. I was empty. I was nothing. That is what vampires can do to someone." I closed my eyes to fight back the tears that were welling up. "Without Jacob, the werewolf that just left my house, I couldn't even begin to describe the horror that you would have walked back to."

Everyone cast their eyes down to the ground and I shook my head pitifully before walking back over to the stove. I checked the pork chops and opened a bag of cut red potatoes and stuck them in a casserole dish. I sprinkled some salt and pepper on them and stuck them in the oven alongside the pork chops. I turned back around and the chairs that were once occupied were empty. They left me again without a word.

"Typical."