A/N: I just want to say thanks to those people reading my story… this is the first time I've ever published something I have written online. Most of the things I write stay hidden away in a journal somewhere so it mean a lot to me that you are taking time out to read my story.
As I took her hand things seemed to fall into place. My life was complete now. I had felt for so long, that I was searching for something, I had no idea what that was… I now knew. I had been searching for someone to share this existence with and I had found her. This exquisite creature in front of me was the reason for my existence. She would be my life now, I would do everything for her and with her. She seemed to know me before I even entered the room, how she knew who I was or where to find me, I didn't know or care… just as long as she was here.
After what seemed like ages she spoke
again. When she did her voice was just as startlingly beautiful as
the first time.
"Would you like to go to a place where we can
speak more privately?" she asked.
I simple nodded my head and
let her lead me out of the diner back into the rain. We ran in
silence until we reached a small house just outside of town. She
dropped my hand for the first time since she had offered it to me and
entered the house. I stood outside for a moment wondering if I was to
follow her inside; before I really realized I was doing it I walked
into the house. The inside was small, there was very little in the
way of furniture, however, the walls were covered in drawings and
paintings I didn't recognize. I was looking more closely at one of
a large, white house tucked away in a sea of ferns when I heard her
enter the room again. I turned around to see her in new, dry clothes
holding a dry shirt and trousers for me. I took the clothes and went
to change. The rest of the house was as small as the living room had
been. I saw a small kitchen, one bedroom and a tiny closet for a
bathroom, all of which she obviously had no use for. I changed
quickly, in a hurry to get back to my beauty.
When I entered the living room, she was seated on one of the only pieces of furniture in the room beckoning me to join her. I went and sat next to her, unsure of what to say next. I didn't have to wonder for too long because she spoke before I could get a complete thought together. Her voice startled me again.
"I'm sure you have a lot of questions for me... I know I have a few for you."
"Yes… I was mostly wondering how you seemed to know who I was."
"Well, I'm like you in more ways than just the fact that we are both vampires. Like you, I have an extra ability. I can see the future, it's rather objective though, it changes quite frequently. The one thing that has never changed in my future though is you." She explained.
I was stunned at first, she saw me? She knew that we would be together? She wanted me despite all of the things that I had done? She was more wonderful than I could have ever imagined.
"You saw me?" I asked.
"You were the first thing I saw when I woke up to this life. I didn't know who or what I was, but I knew that someday we would be together."
I listened to her tell me about her journey to find me, about how when she woke to this life she had no recollection of who she had been, who had done this to her, or what was to become of her. She talked about her visions of me and the things that I was going through. She knew before I did that I would leave Maria. She watched me wander across the country in search of her; of course, I had always been searching for her. Finally, she got to her visions of our future.
"I watched you for many years knowing that someday you would find me and that we would continue our life together. I saw that we would someday find our family."
A family? I would have a family?
"I knew from the first time I saw them that we would someday be a part of their family. They are the reason I am the way I am… they are the reason I have never tasted human blood."
That stopped my thought process in its tracks, which is hard for a vampire.
"You have never tasted human blood?" I asked.
"Nope, that's the reason my eyes are so different from yours." She explained.
We sat for a moment in silence while I processed this. If she had never tasted human blood before then how did she survive? Is there another choice out there? Was it possible for me to never have to feed on a human again; to never have feel the depression that followed after feeding? I had to know.
"How do you survive without blood?"
"I don't. I never said I didn't feed, I just said I didn't feed on humans."
She must have been able to tell by the look on my face that I didn't understand what she was saying so she continued.
"You see, we don't need human blood to survive, there are other options…"
I sat and listened in amazement as she explained that we could survive on animal blood just as easily as on humans. I listened to her explain about Carlisle and the rest of the Cullen coven, the family that she saw us a part of someday.
I didn't know if it was possible but I wanted to believe. I would embark on this new life with Alice, we would be a family and we would find our family together. Even though I couldn't see the future in the way that Alice could I knew that we would be together for the rest of our existences. I couldn't wait for her to show me this new life. Though I knew it would be hard, the love and confidence radiating from her made me feel as though I would be able to do this. I had complete faith in her despite the fact that I hadn't even known her for 24 hours yet. This would be even more difficult, in some ways, than the decades I spent fighting or the decades I spent wondering alone. However, in others I knew that this new life would be happier and better than anything I had known in my over 100 years of existence.
