Bella Blind 4 Author Note: Sorry for having this take so long. Made some PoV notes by request. I have been trying to make the PoVs more evident in the writing rather than bluntly saying who's viewpoint it is. Meh author practice in progress.

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He did not respond for a few moments, seemingly lost in thought, or fighting some urge. "The only thing we can do." She sounded resigned, sad almost. She sounded distracted again, her answers delayed. "Go about our lives, and it is time to go to class." I could hear her clothes rustle as she moved about. "I know you are really confused right now, and probably have a lot of questions I can't answer yet." she chimed. "I cannot promise things will be easy, but I will promise you this." The tone of seriousness was back. It almost made her next words seem less like a promise and more like an oath. "I will do my best to make our lives happy." As we left the restroom with me hanging off her arm again, I could not help but to question my sanity. Futilely I wished for my mother's advice on what to do today. There we a few things I knew as I walked off with Alice to go get my revised schedule from Mrs. Cope. Life here would be nothing like I had ever experienced before. I would actually have a friend here and maybe life would not be as dreary as I feared. Next, Alice was very different... Meeting her was like finding your own Unicorn. I had that instinctual gut feeling that if I let her out of my sight, metaphorically speaking, for just a moment she would disappear forever. For some reason the thought of that made my stomach twist painfully. She informed me that while we had blown 20 minutes in the restroom my schedule had been changed to reflect hers. For some reason she was planning on keeping me close.

That scared me a little. Finding a mythical creature had a sense of finality to it, like it was the end of a story and not the beginning. I had the craziest feeling that my time was nearly up, my leap from the cliff of life was nearly complete with the rocks below waiting to embrace me. The day was not yet over, and I had already traced the outline of death several times. They say when you are about to die you see angels or your life flash before your eyes. Today I had seen the face of something I did not know how to recognize and all I was certain of was that my life would never be the same.

In a classroom not so far a way a pair of golden half lidded eyes closed once. They opened onyx.

EPOV

Onyx. Deepest black. Eyes that hungered, eyes that craved. A lone syllable of thought passed my lips, "Mine."

Twenty seven students littered the classroom attentively listening at their desks as Mrs. King rambled on about our newest literary study piece, "Huckleberry Finn." Innocent and entirely unaware of the monster that had suddenly broken free of it's chain now held only by a thin cage. Their collective reasoning encouraged them to ignore the hair standing up on the backs of their necks and to write off goosebumps as a chill draft. Ignorant and foolish sheep. A mountain lion was in their corral and they would rather just not see it than acknowledge the threat to their existence. Minutes ago they had been completely safe from me. But now I hungered and my thirst would not be ignored.

It had been at least a week since I had last hunted as my family does. I had planned to go this weekend with Jasper hunting a mountain lion or grizzly, but the real time experience of a scent hit me abruptly as Alice's mental voice trailed off its fascination with foreign language translations and focused on the present demanded my inner monster's immediate attention. I could feel the ever constant trickle of venom surge against my lips as her inhalation drove me to a never before experienced state of distraction. I had to taste that scent first hand.

I made to stand up and leave the classroom, pretenses of humanity left to the wayside, only to find Jasper's iron clad hand grasping me roughly along my shoulder and pulling me roughly back into the seat. The chair groaned with my impact and not a few classmates eyebrows raised at our behavior.

I felt him attempt to overwhelm my growing blood-lust with a wave of lethargy. I could feel his subtle energy making its way through my veins of granite, my diamond hard skin relaxing even as the demon within me roared in indignation and thrashed against its fragile cage of paper mache. Eyes widened to their fullest, I sat paralyzed begging the gods that be for rescue.

Where was my strength? Where was my painfully crafted cage for the monster which eternally raged within the hollow of my soul? My eyes tracked the humans in the room. Venom leaked from the corners of my mouth. I wanted to gorge on them all.

Jasper PoV

The rush of newborn blood lust came out of no where. Edward, normally the most adapted one of us to this life style choice had his emotions suddenly upheave as if he had been reborn only yesterday instead of a century ago. I was struck by the contradiction he posed. His eyes pleading for redemption while his body thirsted and thrashed for damnation. My first attempt to calm him was brushed off. Clearly giving control back to my brother would require more significant measures. I needed to act quickly, I struggle the most with this vegetarian life and just as I influence others around me, so too am I affected. The students in the room were looking a way too tasty for my liking and their continued health.

It was for both Edward's and my own benefit that I used my ability to its maximum capacity and smashed the consciousness of everyone within a football field of me with a herculean battering ram of lethargy. Human minds not accustomed to such things quickly collapsed, most falling asleep under the strain. A few of their heads made loud thumping noises as they crashed into their desks, and the lecturing Mrs Steward fell mid-sentence to the floor, her book thumping as it lay discarded. Edward was merely slightly stunned.

I quickly grabbed Edward by the scruff of the neck and marched him outside. I had no idea what caused him to turn into a rabid dog today but one thing was certain, we were going home before our classmates became lunch.
"That's enough Edward. We're getting out of here." I spared one quick look for the napping teacher before securing my brother in a headlock and dragging him forcefully to the door. He did not struggle much physically but he was so emotionally in turmoil alternating between the lust of the hunt and self hate that I would not be surprised if my passive projections of his emotions caused a few students to have suicidal thoughts or horrifying dreams that night.

As I pulled him out of the door an ominous rain started to fall. The weight of Edward's hunger was really getting to me and choosing the woods or the car as a destination quickly became a non issue as his blood lust was on the edge of sparking my own. I just had to get us both past the far side of the Gym and into the forest, then we would be home free. At least that is what I thought... Until I saw Alice and her companion.

BPOV

The walk to our first class was taking a long time. I could not quite decide if the delay was intentional or if my new found friend had simply lost herself in her endless discussion of fashion. While normally the topic would be a way to shut down conversation she had an interesting method of keeping me interested. Instead of describing the colors she emphasized the feel and texture of the different styles along with the way she used her style to express emotion.

The bell signaling the beginning of the next period rang, but I could not find myself bothered enough to mind. She even asked me about my preferences for various types of material for clothing. Her almost casual laugh as I mentioned my preference for worn in denim jeans prompted a quiet laugh. "What? Denim not sheik enough?" I shrugged and couldn't help myself as I let a fair bit of sarcasm leak into my tone.
"No..." She responded pleasantly. "You just have not been exposed to enough sample types. You will have to spend some time over at our house this week so that I can show you my closet."
"Your closet?" "The Disney World of fashion... for adults." I could almost hear her smile on her face. I let out a small giggle. "Any thrill rides in there?"
"I am sure I can find a few blue silk pieces that might give you a good run for..." She broke off unexpectedly. Her chipper tone had faded off and her next words began with an air of seriousness that did not fit well within the context of our fashion conversation.

"I might be able to throw in a roller coaster in a few. Hang on and try not to ask any questions, just figure it out. Like a puzzle kay?" It was clear she was not talking about clothing anymore. Rather she was rearing up, a mustang, no... I corrected, my unicorn. Preparing to shed her skin of normalcy and let the world know her presence. I swallowed my nervousness just as I heard her take a deep breath. She gathered me in a hug which for all of its unexpectedness seemed natural to me. I instinctively returned it and felt her bury her nose against my neck. She continued breathing deeply and my body began to unnaturally shake.

"Just trust me Bella, everything will work out just right." She whispered her promise quietly as if the wind would steal the words. "We just need to wait here for a little bit."

"Huh?" I yawned. Suddenly I felt like I was a candle being snuffed out, my flame flickering a few times as my weight collapsed onto Alice's support. "What is happening?" Was all I managed to murmur before the darkness took me.

"My husband can sure knock em out when he wants to." Gathering Bella's slumped form in my arms was slightly difficult. Not because she was overly heavy for my undead arms, but rather because I was forced to carry her in front of a series of windows in order to get her to the back of the school Gym and it had to look somewhat awkward. The attention of the student population was not our goal and not everyone had fallen asleep. Mike Newton clearly watched us as we walked by but he was somewhat distracted by all of his sleeping classmates and wondering why his desk looked so comfortable. I did briefly wave to Emmet and Rosalie and after assuring their curiosity was piped continued my walk. We all needed to be behind the Gym where the grass meets the woods without delay. I had to get Bella into the proper position for her presentation to my family... and those ugly glasses just had to come off. After pocketing the glasses and making sure we were beyond the view of any curious teenagers I carried her swiftly to the edge of the forest and just under the tree cover. We made it with only a second to spare before the rain began to fall. Any moment now and our futures would be decided, one way or another.

The rain quickly turned into a torrent and two figures appeared from around the corner. Any doubt as to their humanity was quickly dispelled as the same scent which tormented Edward hit him full force. The whiff was just enough to again unleash the monster within and with an inhuman heave Jasper was sent into a tree towards the edge of the forest. The loud crack echoed as the tree reached it's breaking point and exploded in a shower of splinters.

A flash of lightning lit the area illuminating Emmet and Rosalie who silently joined the melee as pearl of thunder echoed. Within two feet of Alice they met. Resounding like boulders they collided. The dice was tossed, and when they landed Edward was on his knees, arms twisted behind his back in a wrenching hold from Emmet, with his head firmly grasped by Rosalie.

Alice smiled as Bella chose that exact moment to wake up. Four vampires frozen inhumanly still as a human made apologies for falling asleep on a fifth vampires arm after having been unknowingly abducted over halfway across the school. Three minutes was all it took before the human knew something was up.

There was a sense of unnatural stillness the permeated the air as my internal alarm started sounding. A thickness that I had to mentally push through. As the clouded feeling slowly faded I started reaching out with my senses trying to ascertain just what was going on. My feet squished slightly as I moved them alerting me to the change in ground, the wind was coming from behind me and somehow I was on the opposite side of Alice. Taken individually I probably would have brushed the experiences off and continued on my day. All together however made my weird shit o'meter start to go off the charts. Needless to say I started to explore my surroundings with my stick. I did not have to explore very far. Just in front of me was an obstruction and I reached out to feel for it. I did not anticipate my outstretched fingers running into human hair. Nothing moved around me, not even Alice as I timidly let my fingers continue their exploratory path. The haircut was masculine and fairly short, the scalp cold. The warmest place on a human body was ice cold. I had another unicorn on my hands. It was with somewhat nervous laughter that I let out, "Alice, please tell me you are not the tallest amongst a family of midget unicorns?"

The deep laughter that boomed out did not belong to Alice nor the head that I held gently in my hands. Neither did the soft giggling that shortly followed. The sounds came from either side of the head in my hands and most certainly originated at a much higher altitude. Soon Alice and another voice chimed in and even the head that I was holding onto felt like it was holding in snickers. I was forced to let go as it seemed to lurch toward me and abruptly was pulled away. The sound of footsteps leaving continued at a slow pace for a short while before the noise abruptly disappeared.

Unbeknownst to her, It was with much effort that Emmett and Rosalie dragged an uncooperative Edward off of the school grounds and into the forest.

"You my midget unicorn friend," Emmet chuckled "are going hunting."