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A/N: As always, thank you for the reviews! I know, I know, it seemed like I fell off the face of the earth, but as my profile says I've been going through some rough times these past 6 months and I lost the will to do anything I loved anymore. It seemed like all I did was eat, sleep, go to work and when I wasn't working I stayed locked in my room. But I heard a song recently that pulled me out of the dark hole that was sucking everything everyone loved out of me. I don't want anyone's sympathy, I just hope you like the chapter, sorry for the lateness.

*Bri

Chapter 8- Surprises and Shocks

Rosalie

"Demetri? What the fuck are you doing?" I asked, staring at Demetri's naked form on the bed. "I'm just getting comfortable in my room. I'm sorry if it disturbs you." He said, faking sincerity. I rolled my eyes, "You can be comfortable in your own room all you want, thanks for offering to let me stay, but I'm leaving. Goodbye." I grabbed my suitcases up and started following the path we had taken earlier. I was almost to the door to the underground garage when he caught up with me. "Wait, Rosalie, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that. I'm usually not that forthcoming. Please come back, let me show you the castle."

"Fine," I said on a sigh and followed him back to his room, placing my bags inside. "As you might have guessed this is the chamber hall, where most of the guard stays. The masters stay up higher in the main castle, the only exceptions to the guard are Renata, Aro's personal guard, and the twins, Jane and Alec, they all have chambers higher up too." He explained as he led me up a set of stairs. This is the ground level, the first four floors are mainly to keep up a human appearance. This is where all our initial affairs are handled. Through here is the tower, where we have our meals." He said, turning around to wink at me.

I rolled my eyes, "I really wish you would let me just leave. I would much rather be shopping right now." Actually, I'd rather be anywhere away from you. I thought. "Aw, now, there will be plenty of time for that later. I want you to see my home." He said as he led me through the castle, stepping into room after room, I got bored pretty quickly, but I let him lead me all the way to the other side, not saying a word. When we turned around for the return trip, he looked at me, with excitement in his eyes, "So, do you want to stay here now?" He looked so cute acting hopeful, but it was a waste of time, there was no way I was staying here.

"Demetri, this is a nice place, it really is. But I don't think it's suitable for someone like me, I have no intentions of changing my diet. I like who I am." I said, hoping he would understand. "No one would make you change who you are. You would adapt to life here, but you would not have to change your diet," he replied with a smirk. "You are not going to convince me to stay here. I'm leaving tonight, as soon as I gather my things, again." I said with a snarl, and began walking away. He caught up with me, grabbing my arm, "Wait! Where will you go?" "I don't know and I don't think it's any of your business." I jerked my arm out of his grasp and ran, full blast to Demetri's room, packed my things and ran out before he could catch up with me.

"I sincerely hope you weren't planning on leaving without saying goodbye." Demetri stepped out from a nearby alcove and stood in my way, smirking, "That would be incredibly rude." "Get out of my way." I said, trying to duck around him, but he stepped in my way again. "I'm coming with you." He started, linking my arm with his and walking towards the entrance to the garage. "Why would you want to come with me? When you, so obviously, love it here. It doesn't make sense." I watched as he put my bags in the trunk, next to several other bags. "You had this planned?" He looked at me as he shut the lid of the trunk, "Well, of course I did. Don't you remember? I never unloaded my bags when we got here. I'll tell you the reasons behind my decision as soon as we get on the road, away from here."

Alice

"I swear Emmett, you always find a way to screw things up. How do you manage to do that?" I said, jumping into Emmett's jeep, when he pulled up to the school an hour after school. Jasper had left to go hunting with Edward and Carlisle, leaving me to rely on Emmett for a ride. I had stayed after school to do some research on people who have visions. I knew Emmett had went to check on A.J. "I don't know Alice, I don't do it on purpose. So quit looking at me like I'm an irresponsible child that just did something wrong. I didn't expect her to spill her history to me, so it's not my fault." He said, slamming the jeep into drive and punching his foot on the gas, spinning out.

We arrived at the house five minutes later, Emmett stormed out of the jeep, slamming the door so hard he shattered all the windows. "Emmett, just chill out, she'll be back to normal tomorrow." He ignored me and stalked off into the woods. I went into the house and fell onto the couch, pouting. "Alice, what's the matter dear?" Esme asked from the kitchen. "Emmett's sulking about A.J. She left school early and when he went to check on her at home she wasn't there. Which I knew she wasn't but I didn't tell him because I saw how he would react. But the thing is, I didn't see where she went."

I broke off to take an unnecessary breath and Esme took that moment to intervene in my ramblings. "Honey, you've just been extremely stressed. We all have, because of Rosalie's choice to leave and then Edward running off the same day. It's perfectly logical to be missing something in your visions, honey." She said, rubbing my back in soothing circles. "I guess that is it. But I just feel like it's something different. But everything will be back to semi-normal tomorrow, A.J. will come over like she had planned and Emmett will be happy once again." I sighed, shaking my head.

"Honey, I'm home." Carlisle called coming in the back door, followed by Jasper and Edward. I ran into Jasper's arms and held on for dear life. He looked down at me in surprise and wound his arms around my waist and hugging me tightly to him, "What's wrong, Ali girl?" "Just a rough time is all, I guess Rose being gone is finally catching up with me." I said, not really wanting to get into it, but letting the images of the day flow freely through my head. I peeked around Jasper's shoulder and looked straight at Edward, You see why I'm feeling this way? I don't want Jazzy to know that my visions are leaving things out, blanking them out. It's bad enough Esme knows. I don't need Jazzy worrying about me too. Edward nodded discreetly and drifted silently upstairs.

"Where's Emmett?" Carlisle asked. "He ran to go check on A.J. She got sick at school today and left early." I said, trying to drain my voice of the sadness I was feeling. "Oh, I hope she feels better tomorrow. I enjoyed her company the other night. Even though I was still in shock from Rosalie and Edward leaving." He said, smiling. It was the first time I'd seen him smile since Rose left and it actually reached his eyes. I guess he was accepting that Rose was never coming back and A.J. was going to be a part of our family. "She'll be here tomorrow. So, no working late tomorrow Carlisle." I said, faking a playful giggle.

"I wasn't planning on it," he grinned, then looked over at Esme, "Let's go upstairs." She looked at me, winked, grabbed Carlisle hand and ran upstairs with him, giggling like a little girl. Jasper looked down at me, "Are you sure that's all it is? It seems like more. You were faking your airy mood a minute ago, I could tell." I sighed, "Yes, Jazzy, that's all it is. I promise. Now, can we go have some fun outside?" I asked, placing a quick kiss on his lips and turn running away.

I could hear him following me but then his footsteps disappeared. I stopped and turned around to see where he was, which was no where in sight. "Jasper?" I called. Then I jumped up into the trees and followed the path my vision showed me. "What are you doing up here?" I asked, looking at him with my head cocked sideways. He was at the top of the tallest tree, looking towards Forks. "Babe? What's up?" I asked. He shook his head, as if coming out of a trance, "It's nothing. Just caught a weird mood from some human that's hiking I guess." I sniffed at the air, "That's not a human, that's Emmett and he's coming in fast."

I jumped to the ground, landing as light as a feather. Jasper landed beside me with a dull thud, "What do you think is wrong?" "I don't know, I didn't get a vision. We'll just have to find out the old fashioned way I guess. Let's go." I took off in the direction Emmett was coming from, with Jasper following. It took a matter of seconds to get to where Emmett was, "Emmy, what's wrong?" I asked, as I skidded to a halt in front of him. "She's still not home, Alice!" he yelled, pulling at his hair.

"Emmett, she's fine. She'll be at school all day tomorrow, she'll come over after, everything will be okay." I said, trying to reassure him, just as I felt a wave of calm roll by. "Why should I trust you Alice? You didn't even know Rosalie was leaving until five minutes before it happened!" He bellowed, Jasper's attempt at calm, clearly not working on our distraught brother. I bowed my head and took a deep breath, that was a low blow and it stung. I felt an enormous hand on my arm, "I'm sorry, Ali, I'm just worried about her is all."

I looked up to see regret in Emmett's eyes, "I know you are Emmett, but she just told you a very tough part of her history, can't you see why she's upset and wants to get away?" He punched a small tree and sent it crashing to the forest floor. "Yes, I get it, it's just she almost got eaten by a bear yesterday. What if she's wondering around in the woods again?" I reached in my pocket and pulled out my phone, "Hang on and I can find out." I opened a new text message, A.J. where did you go when you left school? I hit send and waited for her reply. When my phone beeped, Emmett was standing at my shoulder looking down. I went to an old friends house in La Push. She replied. OK, I was just worried about you. I sent back.

Don't worry about me. I'm OK. Really. I'll be back to normal tomorrow. She quickly replied. See you tomorrow then. I typed out and hit send, then looked over my shoulder at Emmett, "See? She's fine. Now, will you quit worrying?" Emmett heaved a sigh and said, "Yeah, I guess I'll try. But no promises. I'm gonna go take a shower, then stay in my room. I'll see you guys in the morning." He leaned down and kissed my forehead, then walked dejectedly back to the house.

I sighed and shook my head, "This is going to be so hard on him, I don't like seeing him so, so, I don't even know how to put it. If A.J. doesn't come to her senses soon, he's going to make himself crazy." Jasper wrapped his arms around me from behind and rested his chin on the top of my head, "I know, Ali girl. You'll figure something out. You always do." I relaxed back into his arms and had an idea. "I know what I have to do. I'll be back later. I love you." I said, extracting myself from his embrace, turning to kiss him gently on his lips and running towards the Swan house.

When I arrived at the plain looking white house I listened for a split second and heard three heartbeats inside. I walked up the front steps and knocked on the door. Bella answered the door, with her hair up in a bun and flour on her nose, from the smell wafting outside she had been baking. "You're Alice Cullen right?" she asked, though she clearly knew who I was. "Yeah, nice to meet you. Is your sister home?" I asked, holding my hand out to shake hers, it was pretty cool outside so she wouldn't really notice the chill of my skin.

"Yeah, she is, she just got home actually, come on in. A.J.! Alice is here!" she yelled into the house. A.J. came out of the living room with surprise in her eyes, "Alice, hey. What are you doing here?" "Just wanted to check on you." I said, trying to convey with my eyes that I had something else to tell her. She must have realized that, because she said, "Let's go up to my room. I still need your help with that paper." "Sure," I said, following her towards the stairs. "A.J.?" Charlie called from the living room, "Who is that?"

I walked into the room and stood in front of his chair, "I'm Alice Cullen. It's nice to meet you Chief Swan." I said, holding my hand out again, the Chief took it briefly, looking me over once and then releasing and said sweetly, "Excuse me darlin' but you're blocking the game. It's nice to meet you. Your father is a wonderful doctor, feel free to come and go as you please." I smiled and mumbled a "Thank you, excuse me." and followed A.J. up the stairs. When we got in her room, I perched on her desk chair while she shut the door.

She turned to face me, "I told you I was fine, Alice." I smiled, "I know you did. But Emmett's not, which is why I came. Sit down, I have some stuff to tell you and I may be here for a while." I watched as she gave me a look of confusion and walked over to her bed, crawling to the middle, and cross her legs, Indian style. "Spill."

I took a deep breath, trying to decide where to start, I chose, "Well, first off, I can see the future." I paused, looking her in the eyes, they went wide as she tried to decide if I was telling the truth or not. "When you and Emmett played dodge ball, I had a vision and I saw you win, so I told Emmett so, but he's just too competitive and too hard headed to believe me. I saw him kiss you, I saw you and Bella talking about Zac, I saw you telling Emmett about Zac this morning. Do you believe me now?" I asked, desperately hoping she did.

I watched as she took in a shaky breath, "Yes, I do. I'm just having a hard time taking it all in." "Well," I said, just about to get into the good stuff, "Fasten your seat belt, I'm about to take you on a wild ride. I have also seen a vision, 50 years into the future to be exact. Although it can change with the decisions we all make. But it was a vision of Emmett complaining about losing to you, yet again. You still looked like you do now, except you had a small pattern of stars tattooed around your eyes. Bella was also in the vision, both of you never aging a day over 18." I paused, watching the information sink in.

"You mean, my sister and I both become v-va- like you?" She asked, so shocked she wasn't even able to say 'vampires'. I nodded my head, then said, "Yes. You and Emmett are together forever, literally, in that vision. I know you wanted your space and everything, but don't you understand that you and Emmett are two halves of a whole? He needs you like you need oxygen. You are the air he breathes. Like when you pulled that disappearing act today, he totally and completely freaked out. Especially when he ran over here after school to check on you and you weren't here. Which by the way, are you going to tell me where you went?"

She stared at me open-mouthed, "I thought you could see the future?" I ducked my head, "For some reason I couldn't see where you went. I think the stress from Rosalie leaving and Edward disappearing the same day is affecting my visions." "Oh, I, um, called my old friend that I met here when I was eight, he came and got me and we went to La Push." "What's his name?" I asked, I sincerely hoped it wasn't one of the- "Paul." My stomach dropped into my ass, as I gasped in shock at the name she had given.

A/N: So? Love it? Hate it? Please review. I have some good news, I guess, I have an idea for a new fic. I'll let you know more about it later, when I have it more mapped out. But I will tell you that it does have the list of characters that have appeared in this story so far, plus a few more.

*Bri