Hehe here's another chapter… my mind just wouldn't really focus on my other stories! . hehe dang I suck! :)
Some times I wonder if I'm a vampire 'cause I'm always ice cold . and I know what song is going to play on the raido next, or what item I will get in video games, other weird stuff with me too, and I love the nighttime, yet I long to sleep, but I feel as if I must stay awake! This has been going on for years though… so NO WORRIES PEOPLE! Also I am now on to breaking dawn :P
Alice's POV
The days had set into a regular pattern now, but I wasn't really doing the things any more, I was just going through the motions… it had been about a year? Maybe… I don't really know and it's harder to keep track of days when they're all the same: Get up, get a piece of stale bread, go to 'treatments' which really should have been called 'tortures' because one would go there into that white cold room get doused in water then given electric shocks, after that one would hope for something for dinner, and fall into either a nightmare filled night, or if you happened to be lucky a dreamless sleep. My on solace was Max, he kept me going on telling me that I was like the daughter he never had, I had asked him why he hadn't had a family, he was a nice man, even if he sounded like he was decades older than he was -which was maybe twenty-something- he would sneak me treats some times or tell me of things in the outside world, he told me that like I had seen a war had started, and unfortunately that was the reason Jasper didn't see me any more, he was so busy, because he had already been promoted to a very high spot, also… Max had troubles telling me this one, he and his family had moved, far away, into another state, into Texas, that made me hate that place, for before he would visit me occasionally, and I would always feel so boosted by his visits, he once told me that he wished I could be his girlfriend outside of this hell-hole I longed for that too. Now though with the war and all that, I think he may have forgotten about me, after all who was I but some crazy girl from Mississippi?
I sighed, then out of seemingly nowhere Max was here
"Honey, why are you sighing now? What troubles are pursuing you?"
"Oh Max, I just…" I trailed off. Did I really need to say anything? I didn't Max already knew.
"He'll come back to you one day dear, I just know he will" I stared at him with my now vacant eyes,
"Max, he's never coming back, and I'm just going to be here for the rest of my life"
"Hon, it's not that he wouldn't want to see you, but-" he stopped short scrunching his nose up, he looked back at me; his eyes were widened with fear.
"Ali-dear I, I think there is something I should tell you about." He picked up my hand, holding it in his, I had been so out of it that I hadn't noticed how cold it was, or how hard. It seemed that I had begun to come back to the world.
"Go on" I urged him, before he would change his mind, he wouldn't though, and I wasn't really surprised when he opened his eyes, which had closed without my notice,
"Mary" he began I froze nobody ever called me by my first name unless it was very, very important.
"You see the world out there is a fearful world, why else would they have this place? It's true purpose was to hope that, that monsters would get caught in here" he shook his head as if it was funny, but I was utterly interested.
"Tell me, what monsters?" he was hesitant
"Tell me or, else I'll decide to be a very difficult prisoner today!" he rolled his eyes, and once more he seemed to just appear from one place to another, he was now behind me,
"Don't you see? You couldn't be tough if you wanted to, I am something, else" his breath was cold down my neck, but that wasn't what made me shiver.
"A—are you a…"
"Monster?" he finished, I nodded, a quick wash of fear came over me and my heart sped up, but then, an odd comforting sensation came, he looked at me confused when my heart had stopped speeding up
"Are, you not afraid of me?" he asked
"Well, sort of, I guess, it's just that. Well your Max" he sighed, paused then there was a sharp intake of breath
"What is it with you? You always smell the air, and then freeze what's going on?"
"There's another one" he muttered
"Another what?" I asked; he looked at me with his burning red eyes, oh
"I thought that most of the stories were just that…"
"Hon, you don't know much, trust me. Before today, did you even know who I really was?"
I took a shaky breath "Max, I still am not one hundred percent sure…"
"what's your best guess?" he whispered looking intently at me
"Well, it's kinda silly really, I would be dead by now, if I was right."
"Tell. Me." He asked very serious
"Vampire" I murmured so softly that no human could have heard it, but he nodded
"Why do you think you should be dead?" I gasped, he heard that? Maybe it was true; he sure spoke to me like it was.
"Maybe I should try to wake up now, besides Cynthia will come into my room any minute now" I said hyperventilating, and having a touch of hysterics.
"I won't hurt you, I'm too fond of you for that, but there is another one who would kill you and drain you of blood with no second thought." I shuddered thinking of that
"So… I guess that means I am not dreaming?"
"Yes."
"I guess so, I mean how could one dream a whole year especially one like this." He looked at me quizzically
"Alice, dear, it's only been two months." It was my turn to stare, this time with shock.
"I guess that means I didn't miss my 18th birthday then" I said happily, I loved birthdays
"Actually, Alice, there is something you should know, the other one who wants you, he has been here several times now, and I am afraid he will attack tonight." He touched his utterly cold hand to my face, then two things happened at once, my fear and hysteria kicked in, and I was in another vision.
"James!" a voice snarled
"ahh, max, is it as it seems, have you then become caring of this human?" a voice replied, I was surprised at the normalcy of the voice compared to my care taker Max, who's voice sounded like some sort of melodic instrument
"What is she to you anyways? There is much easier prey elsewhere!" the other v-vampire considered this, but…
"Her blood is attractive, do you not smell it?" I sniffed my arm, I sure didn't smell anything. But Max nodded in agreement
"Yes her blood smells very, good" he seemed to pick his words carefully,
"Even to you it is then? Because I'm sure that my attraction to her blood is far greater than yours."
"I won't let you have her James." The other one- James bared his teeth and braced himself to attack I looked on shocked, but instead of battling Max took me aside, and spoke in hushed whispers, it was hard to catch things, but I got the gist of it, he wanted to change me for my protection, but he wouldn't do it if I disagreed.
The vision ended there, I had not yet made my choice for that kind of thing yet. Max looked at me carefully inspecting my face, I looked away
"I had another vision…" he sighed
"Is it about?..."
"Yes, the other one that you mentioned, his name is James-" did I mistake it or did Max gasp?
"- he wants my blood, he said that it was attractive smelling, and then you took me aside, and asked me if… if I wanted… if I wanted to be a vampire, for safety."
"I was going to ask you eventually, but I might as well do it now before James comes" he spat James' name out like it was venomous
"What do you have against James?" I asked, not really sure if I wanted to hear the answer
"James, was once part of my coven, which is like a family in this world, but he betrayed me, going after his prey was all that he cared about, he had little morals, I am actually surprised that the Volturi hasn't taken care of him, maybe then he has cleaned up his act? I don't know but I do know that he is too eccentric and is predictable, he goes after his hunt, and he has never, lost his quarry." I felt frozen, I was his next quarry, his next thrill hunt, and he had never lost his prey yet?
"Max" the urgency in my voice was enough
"It will be painful child, and do no forget that whatever you do, don't get found out about by humans, and don't always let your thirst over power you." I nodded and closed my eyes, I stuck out my hand timidly, I waited for the deep pain to come but it didn't, so I opened my eyes, he stood there waiting too, I looked down at my hand, and sure enough, there was a red wound, I looked at it, I was feeling kinda crazed, I laughed manically. Then quieted as I heard a distinctive thud, of shoes hitting the floor,
"Max? Max! Isn't there supposed to be pain? Didn't it work? Am I dead?" as I fired off these questions I knew already that they were silly, and that my body was just reacting strangely to the poison in my veins, then I heard James come, and Max's hand which was in mine stiffened and let go, I hadn't realized it till now, but my vision was completely gone, there was naught but black. I blinked a few times there they were, but it did not happen as my vision had suggested, I guess the future had changed.
But I was horrified at what was happening, James was tearing at max, my Max. I leapt for him snarling like some sort of beast, James looked up and smirked, but I soon wiped that smirk off of his face as I hit him, hard, he glared at me and left, but not before he set fire to Max. I ran to him trying uselessly to get rid of what was eating away at my caretaker.
But it was too late. I buried his ashes, then pain finally overtook me, it was worse than anything I had ever felt, like liquid fire in my veins, it lasted only seconds though, not the long, long time that max had suggested, after though, I felt parched with a new kind of fire, terrible thoughts came to my mind, I wasn't exactly doing the right thing, but I couldn't really help myself either… besides, no one would miss a few 'demon' people prisoners, would they? I mean nobody would care about me. After all who was I?
During the time I tore the building apart searching for sources to quench that fire in my throat, I thought of all of those in my human life, I believed I was still slightly human, for now, and as my vision began to fade once more, as I was probably becoming my new self, I was thinking of my little sister Cynthia, how would she cope? How and where would she live? Who would take care of her? But the soft blackness claimed me in sleep. For the last time.
Da da da daaaaa! I finished chapie number two! With a record length for within the past two months! (all other stories had suffered a blow, with chapters being but 2-5 pages long, this one was six pages!)
I watched eclipse the movie, it was good, I noticed how they used some bits from 'the short second life of Bree Tanner' in it, I loved that book, it was/is my fav. Vampire book… it was just soo good. Sorry for those who disagree but, you can't change my mind! Anywho see you next chapter!