A/N- Told you guys I would have this chapter done soon! Remember to review please! Let's see if we can get ten reviews! Ten… I'd settle for five though. This one is the longest one yet, enjoy!
Chapter 3- A Shared Hell
Edward's POV again!
Several elk later, everyone was ready to head home.
"Hey! Alex kid! You want to meet the rest of our family?" Emmett called loudly, Alex stood up and wiped some blood off the side of her mouth and snorted,
"There are more of you?" She wondered looking directly at Alice when she spook. Huh, thought that at least she would have told me. Then again, she wanted to go shopping. Ugh… shivers…
"Sure kid," Emmett continued, "You think that Jasper is the only one who found a nice girl to settle down with?" He chuckled,
"Oh stop bragging about your blond girl." Alice called with mock anger from somewhere close by. Something in Alex's mind clicked, and she turned on Emmett,
"Hey, I'm no kid." She said loudly. Emmett gaffed,
"Really kid?" She growled when he said that, "How old is the kid, Nessie?" He asked her, but the question was directed towards anyone. No one said anything, "No one knows?"
She smirked, "I'm one hundred and fourteen years old. How old are you… kid?" Emmett was taken aback, but for less than a second,
"Not the age I meant Alex." Now he was smirking, "How tall are you, five foot one?" He walked around her, trying to put on a show, but it was only annoying her.
"Now," He continued, "someone who is as short as you are, with an attitude like yours and a childish voice like yours is probably around… I'm guessing here, around thirteen?"
Carlisle gasped. And I thought everyone else was too young for this life! Even Esme insisted that it's too lonely for children… seventeen she said was to young, and I agreed after a while, but thirteen… that's awful. I couldn't help but nod in agreement.
Alex glared at Emmett, "I'm not thirteen." She snarled,
"So you're twelve?" He laughed,
"NO!" She yelled, "I… I turned fourteen two days before…" She took a deep breathe, "Before I bumped into someone named Aro Volturi and a couple friends."
"The Volturi?" Alice said anxiously, "You where one of them?" We all looked at her, she did have an accent, but she didn't seem like she was one of them.
"No, I just messed with their gifts without knowing it. I going to the market for my mum when I saw them, and as soon as I looked at them, these weird things started to happen. I don't really remember but one of them called me a mirror." She sighed, "I found out later that that means I can reflect peoples gifts back on themselves, and identify what they are and how they are using them."
"Well then," Jasper said, "two things."
She sighed, "What now?"
"How did you get away from them?" He asked
"Easy, no Chelsea, no bond, without that, they couldn't make me feel like I wanted to be there, so they let me go." She shrugged, it seemed simple enough. They couldn't keep her so rather than killing her, they let her go.
"Hey!" Jasper snapped, "Before we take a walk down memory lane, I still have another question."
"Sorry Jasper," Alex said somewhat sarcastically, "Now, what is it that is so incredibly important that you must ask me right now?" Emmett laughed,
"Nice one kid." She smacked the back of his head,
"I have a highly devolved sense of sarcasm, and I am not a kid!"
Jasper growled loudly.
"Jeez…" Emmett and Alex said at the same time.
"Okay, what is it, before you get mad and try to kill me." She smirked,
"How did you get all those scars?" He said it in almost accusing way.
Up until that point, we had all been trying to ignore the disturbing resemblance of the scars Alex and Jasper had. Jasper was entirely covered in half crescent scars from his time in the south, but…
Honestly, we all knew Alex had never been in the south. I heard her think about America once she was here, how it was weird being on this continent for the first time. This was a problem, either the kid had amnesia… or there was a significant period of vampire history we where missing.
She frowned, "I was hoping you wouldn't ask that." She murmured very quietly.
"I was a soldier in the south, but you weren't." Jasper explained, "I want to know how you got them, where you came from and who the hell you really are." Jasper faced me, glaring; I won't trust her until I know.
"Six days after I left the Volturi, when I was less than a month old, I wandered into a group of newborns territory without knowing it." She paused very briefly, "I was attacked and nearly killed, they could have killed me. They didn't."
"Why?" Carlisle was unable to stop from asking. She was looking down, but I could see the corner of her lip twitch.
"Because, one of them had a very powerful gift, her name was Felicity, and she could control minds. But she couldn't make me do anything."
Similar to Bella, except this one can actually take limited control of their gifts. Carlisle thought, probably on purpose so I could hear.
"They said as long as I joined them they wouldn't kill me, and that it would benefit me to join their army. Of course, I had no idea about really anything involving vampires, the Volturi had taught me almost nothing." She pulled a silver chain out of pocket; it had a small charm on the end,
"A cross?" Carlisle asked curiously.
"Yes," She smiled, "My best friend gave it to me, she protected me for the first couple of months." She put it around her neck, "On the third week I was there, we had our first fight. My friend Mariana helped me stay alive, and she said that one day I would do the same for her."
"Well, two months later, an army that was as big as ours attacked Felicity for the land we had, and the human population it provided. I was much better at protecting my own neck then," The light in her eyes faded for a moment, "but not anyone else's. Mariana was killed, she had given me the cross less than an hour before."
No one said anything, then, "I prayed for her," Alex said, "and I fought to get the vengeance which she could not get for herself. I spent over eighty years with Felicity and her army. I was her closest friend, and her most trusted assistant."
Like I was to my creator… Jasper thought, slightly alarmed at how similar Alex might be to him, and that she was over three years younger than he was and had been through the same hell.
"The Volturi became involved after there was a large and noticeable detriment to human life. When they saw me again…" Her lip curled up and she almost growled, "I knew from the second I saw Demitri's face that they would never give up until I was dead."
Jasper sucked in a sharp breath; this is something he had not had to deal with, "Why did they want you dead?"
She shrugged, "I had power, I refused to join them and we had made an army of newborns. They uh… they thought that either I was one of them, or I was a danger and had to be killed."
How familiar… It was definitely Jasper who thought that.
"What about Sara and your mate?" I asked, without considering that she had thought this and never said it, without considering that this may be overstepping her boundaries.
I figured that out a split second to late to defend myself. There was a single flash of pale white and I was pressed up against a tree, help by my collar and my neck. She was growling, and both Emmett and Jasper where very close.
"Don't do anything stupid, Alex." Carlisle said quietly.
"Alex, I… I didn't consider…" I muttered, "I never meant to… to hear what I-"
"Shut up!" She snapped, "You went into my thoughts," She snarled angrily, "and invaded the secrets I hold closest to me." She stared at me, copper eyes shimmering, as if she would be crying if she could.
"Why…" Her voice was broken and faded.
"Alex, put him down, now." Jasper said very calmly, and we all felt the wave of calm, only I wondered if it would work against her gift. It didn't, I could tell that.
She let go, and I dropped to the ground. Jasper and Emmett immediately stepped forward and grabbed her from behind, pulling her back. She didn't meat my eyes,
"I'm sorry…" She said. She took a deep, shaking breath, "It was wrong for you to filter through my life." I nodded, "But it was wrong for me attack you, I just…" She struggled against Emmett and Jazz, but she probably knew she couldn't get out.
"You what?" Alice asked, walking in front of her,
"I just can't get a grip on what happened that day." She breathed.
"And what was it that happened?" Alice asked, Alex trembled like a scared chilled.
Carlisle nodded to Jazz and Emmett, "It's okay, let her go." She sank onto the ground, held her head in her hands and closed her eyes. She cried quietly without tears. Carlisle put a hand on her shoulder,
"What is it Alex, what happened?" He said softly, trying to comfort her.
She took a shaky breath, "They came you know," she looked up at us, "the Volturi."
Oh, oh no. The poor child, what has happened to the world, where children can be put through this? Carlisle thought very sadly, his felt badly for every one who had been forced into this life.
Alex sniffed, "I should have seen it coming," she said bitterly, "but I didn't."
"You couldn't have, only Alice knows the future..." Jasper sad this, it surprised everyone. He would most closely relate to her, but no one could relate to this.
"I should have been smart enough to know that they would come, and because I didn't…" She shivered, "Because I didn't Sara," she clenched her jaw and then looked at Carlisle, "Sara is dead."
"There would have been very little you could have done if the Volturi came for you." Carlisle said, patting her shoulder,
"There where so many of them, and Jane… Sara was screaming and then she was in pieces…" Alex took a choking breath and continued, "Then… then they turned on Ben."
Ben? Alice thought, Is that who her mate was? I nodded.
"I couldn't stop them, we got away for a split second, and we ran to the water. He told me to go. He said he would be fine, that he would catch up…"
"I told him I wouldn't leave without him, but said we would both die if we stayed and that we both might live if I left… He said he would find a… a way." Her voice broke on the last words.
Alice knelt next to her and wrapped her arms around her shoulders. "It's okay Alex, its okay."
"But it's not," She choked, "you don't understand." Jasper shifted uncomfortably, the emotional climate here was probably awful for him. It must be so much worse for her, I thought.
"I looked back once," Alex said, "Just once. I saw… I saw Demitri and Felix take him down. There was no way… no way he could live. The rest of the guard was right behind them."
"There was nothing Aro wanted more than to kill me, but if he couldn't do that he thought the next best thing would be to kill my family."
"Alex, that's terrible… I'm sorry." Alice muttered. No one expected it, but Alex suddenly wrapped her arms around Alice in a hug. Jasper shifted nervously.
"Thank you…"
Someone cleared their throat. It was Rose, wrong place wrong time… again. "Are we interrupting something?" She said, but she wasn't being hostile, she was being careful.
Alex snapped up to her feet, nearly knocking over Alice in the process. Esme and Bella where two steps behind Rose, and they gasped in shock when they saw her.
"Who is this Carlisle?" Esme asked trying to seem polite.
"This is Alex; we rescued her from the wolves after she swam here from Europe." Carlisle said, taking Esme's hand.
"You missed the whole story." I said quietly.
"No," Bella answered, taking my hands and kissing my cheek, "we heard the last part, about her family."
Alex hung her head, fought back sobs, and kept her breathing steady.
Oh, Esme thought how horrible… so much loss, such a young girl. "Alex, none of it was your fault and you know that."
She glared, and no one had expected that, "I've heard that from three people today." She said angrily, "None of them even remotely know what it's like to have lost the person they love."
"The only reason I didn't turn back and let the Volturi kill me the second I knew he was gone is because he made me promise that I wouldn't go off myself if he died." Esme was taken aback.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think about what I said." She said quickly, Alex groaned,
"Look, I didn't mean to make anyone upset, I'm just having a rotten month." She looked apologetically at Esme, "Sorry."
"I understand, I mean, I don't understand what you feel but I understand why you're upset." Esme said calmly.
Rose had been getting on my nerves this entire time…
This is stupid, she's just a liability, and uncontrollable, crazy at the scent of blood kid! It doesn't matter what stupid sop story she lived, she's not staying! Rose was just as shallow as ever…
"Rose," I hissed angrily. Her eyes widened in anger and embarrassment.
"So," Emmett said loudly, "who wants to play baseball today? It's supposed to rain pretty soon."
Alex snorted, "Have fun."
"Aw, kid can't play ball?" Emmett teased,
"I so can!" She said, she was being just as childish as Emmett was… but that was because she is a child. "I just don't really play baseball…" She coughed self-consciously.
"Ha! Just like Bella!" Emmett snorted, "Fine kid, you can sit out." She narrowed her eyes at him,
"I didn't say I don't play sports. You up for a little bet Emmett?" She asked,
"Hell yeah!"
"One on one soccer, fifty bucks I'll win." She smirked.
"You are so on kid." Emmett smiled, "And when I win, you bet find a way to make fifty bucks!"
"When I win, you can't call me a kid anymore because then you'll be saying that a kid can kick your ass at soccer."
"This won't end well." Bella said, looking at how much stronger Emmett was than the tiny, short kid he was standing next to.
"Nope." I agreed
Esme looked over at me from behind Alex,
She shares a hell with Jasper, and one with you. She felt the depression of fighting all the time, and she lost her mate, like when you left Bella and thought she was dead.
I nodded solemnly, it was true, we had a shared hell. Except, she was still living hers.
A/N- So… I need feedback! Who should win the soccer match? Emmett or Alex? I have an idea, but it's not final yet! I personally think Emmett needs a lesson, but that doesn't mean Alex has to win, she could tie or even loose… but anyways. I tried really hard to make the whole part with Alex's memories seem real, was it? Anything I did wrong? Please review! Updates will happen once I get five reviews, but I would love to get more!
- Akari (that kid from that place)
