AN- The rest of this story should be in Alice's POV. However, again I think I'll be able to give you a better insight by writing this chapter as Edward

Disclaimer- I do not own twilight

Edward's POV
I relaxed slightly as I heard Carlisle's thoughts slip into my own. He'd been missing over two hours without even a phone call in explanation. It didn't take me long to find out why, as the picture of a tall male vampire formed in his mind. It was soon followed by flashes of the same man curled up in an ally, after he'd fed from a young family, clutching his head in agony.

I walked to the door to greet them, I wanted to get a better read on our visitor.

Finally Carlisle entered the house and the blonde man trailed behind him, close but never within reach. His face and hands were so badly scarred that I unconsciously cringed away from him. He looked around warily as the rest of the family came to the door. I caught Carlisle's eye as he began to explain his meeting with the strange vampire beside him.

As I'd seen before Carlisle had found him curled up in an ally not too far from a murder scene. He'd been asked to confirm the deaths of the family in a car accident. After finding long identical slashes across the necks of the victims, the case had turned into a murder investigation.

What Carlisle thought he saw was the evidence of another vampire, a newborn that didn't know the rules. He followed the scent to find the much older vampire struggling to control whatever gift he possessed. Carlisle still didn't know.

Carlisle had helped him regain control. The nomad had reminded him of Alice, and so Carlisle offered the vampire a place to stay until he'd recovered. The offer had been warily accepted with a simple nod of the head, no words exchanged.

After the initial fussing from Esme, Carlisle had introduced our family to the silent stranger. He had a lot of questions but didn't voice them. He was confused mostly about our eyes, about how we could all be so civil to one another, but he stood silently beside Carlisle. "Where's Alice?" Carlisle asked.

"Upstairs" Esme told him, gazing worriedly towards the girls room. "I'll go and fetch her." I would have offered to go myself, knowing that Alice was still struggling against her visions but I didn't trust this new guest enough to leave.

Carlisle relocated us into the living room, sitting on the sofa. "Take a seat." He offered, but his suggestion was ignored. The nomad stood by the window with his eyes locked on us. He was nervous, never letting his guard down.

I sat down beside Bella. Luckily Renesmee was safe in La Push with Jacob. The nomad's mind was still moving too fast to interoperate. Carlisle looked over to me 'Can you see what's troubling him?' I shrugged my shoulders slightly in answer. He was too focused on the rest of us, where each of us were and the possible escape routes.

A short time later I heard Alice and Esme begin to descend the stairs, Alice's footsteps were sloppy and uncoordinated, all her focus on the throbbing pain in her head that was gradually getting more and more unbearable. It was the worst I'd ever seen it

I heard heard her stumble on the stairs, and got up to see what was going on. "I'm fine" she told Esme, but her voice was hectic. The nomads head swung around to the door as she opened it. Alice took a few uneven steps into the room before she looked up and froze. Her eyes widened as she stared at the nomad.

"Jasper?" The strangled cry was all that she could do before whatever she'd been pushing away broke and we were both thrown into a frantic string of visions. Scene after scene, but they were different, they were in the past. Each and every one featured the blonde nomad.

"Catch her" I called through gritted teeth as Alice's legs buckled. Bella jumped up and pulled Alice into her arms, visions were forcing themselves through her mind, too intense to even allow her to think.

She she struggled in my wife's arms, whimpering helplessly. Her eyes were hooded and dazed.

It began to take it's toll on me, as visions began to overlap and the family grew more and more concerned. The voices in my head got louder. When Bella saw that I was struggling she extended her shield around Alice to block her visions from me. We were all so caught up with Alice that at first none of us noticed the nomad, or Jasper as we now knew, slide down the wall clutching his head.

"What's going on?" Carlisle asked looking between the two of them.

"Whatever he can do, it's not mental, I can't block her from him." Bella said.

I concentrated on Jasper's mind, trying to connect his thoughts. He was trying to push something away from himself and when that didn't work he was trying to figure out a balance. 'Calm' his mind chanted. Finally I found it "He's feeling our emotions."

"An empath?" Carlisle questioned finally knowing the reason for his breakdown in the ally, he felt the emotions of his victims. I nodded.

"What can we do?" Asked Esme, stroking Alice's back. I thought back to what little I'd seen of her visions, the ones she'd pushed away all these years. They all contained Jasper. Her reaction was exactly the same during her surprise appearance in 1937 when she stumbled through our door scared and upset. It was all connected

"There's nothing we can do for Alice, this is what she's been blocking, visions of him. She's seeing everyone of them starting from 1937" the rest of the family looked over to Jasper wondering how the two individuals were linked. He was still clutching his head and I started to feel pluses of fear and panic that weren't my own.

'Is he doing that?' Carlisle thought,

I nodded. "I think so, but he's not conscious of it." I told him. I turned to Esme and Bella "Take Alice upstairs until she calms down. You might be up there a while" I added. They nodded and finally ran her upstairs.

The effect on Jasper was almost instant, his body slumped. "Who the hell is she?" He snapped.

"You don't know her?" I checked. He shook his head. "She certainly knows a lot about you." He pushed his hair back from his face.

Now that he couldn't pick up her emotions he began to calm down. "What can she do?"

I looked over at Carlisle to make sure It was ok to tell him. Carlisle nodded. "She can see the future." His eyes widened "She been blocking some of her visions for decades and we never knew why... I think they were about you."

Jasper stood shakily. Eying us all with caution. Especially Emmett. He felt vulnerable, surrounded by so many. "I should leave, she's not pleased to see me."

I put a hand out to stop him but he cringed away from it. "I don't think that's it." I watched him for a few seconds taking in the ragged scars that could be seen covering his neck and hands. "Did something happen to you in 1937."

He tensed backing away from me. "A lot can happen in a year" he said off handedly but his reaction had told me other wise.

"November" I told him.

"What does it matter." He snapped, but his thoughts were elsewhere, full of fierce red eyes and vicious newborns. He was from the south.

"Edward what are you doing." Carlisle spoke as Jasper backed away to the door.

"Can't you see Carlisle!" I said exasperated "Alice comes to us traumatised, refusing to tell us why, and has been going though headache after headache since, trying to block him out." Carlisle remained silent.

"I didn't do anything to her!" Jasper shouted. He was getting work up and it was starting to influence the rest of us. I tried to calm myself down for his benefit.

"I know you didn't, but something happened to you and she saw it, what ever it was it really upset her, she cares a great deal for you."

"Why didn't she tell us?" Asked Carlisle.

"I don't know, she stopped herself thinking about him... Like I did when I left Bella" The last part came as a whisper, but both me and Carlisle reached the same conclusion. 'Mates' his thoughts echoed my own.

"My creator..." Jasper started. Her face flashed in his memory, and I recognised it as the one I'd seen in Alice's mind the day she'd arrived. "She was angry at me, I'd let one of her newborns escape with her mate... She pulled me apart." He rubbed at his shoulder as horrific images of the attack flooded his mind. He'd been torn limb from limb, and simply left where he fell.

The pieces were finally coming together, I remembered, that when she came here, Alice had minimal knowledge on our kind, we'd had to teach everything she should have been taught as a newborn. There was no way she'd have known we could reassemble ourselves.

"Alice thought you'd been destroyed."

I remembered the crushing grief I'd felt when I'd thought Bella was dead. I didn't know how Alice had coped.

Carlisle spoke quietly to Jasper about his gift and explained our diet. Jasper was eager to try, and agreed to stay with us for a while as we helped him

"Can I go and see her?" Jasper asked, He was concerned for Alice, without fully understanding why.

"I'm not sure if her emotions are stable" I warned. "Bella's still blocking her from me" I felt the confusion he was projecting "I can read minds and Bella's a mental shield." Jasper looked over to Carlisle.

He was wondering how he'd managed to keep us all, wether he had some kind of power that made us obey him. I sniggered quietly when all he said was "You have a very talented family, sir." Carlisle smiled.

"I know" Jasper looked up the stairs where Alice had disappeared. "You can go up if you'd like." He told him.

"I might be able to help her, calm her down." He looked over for permission. He was still extremely anxious around us all, unsure where he stood.

"I thought I could feel something from you, you manipulate emotions also"

Jasper nodded. "I usually have better control over it."

"I'd be grateful if you could help her" Carlisle assured and Jasper made his way upstairs

AN- A long chapter, and not very good but I wanted to get all the explanations out of the way so I could get onto the fun part.

Thank you for reviewing, following and favouriting this story. This is the first story I've published, and I was really unsure wether I'd be any good, so any positive feedback gives me the confidence to carry on.

-B x