AN: First and foremost let me apologize for the looong wait. RL well is RL and I gotta do that before I get to play.

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Lillie your the fucking best Mistress EVER!Thanks for giving me the ok to play with Jasper for a bit!!!

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We'll begin from the end of last Chapter...

Now on with the story...

Bella finally turned our way and took in a sharp breath. I smiled at her in reassurance, but she started backing away, a low growl forming in her chest.

"Bella? It's ok. I mean, are you ok?" I started walking towards her and I could see that her eyes were growing large with fear and her growling got louder too.

"Bella? Who the hell is Bella? And who the hell are you? Where the fuck am I and where is that sound coming from?"

APOV

I looked at Bella crouched in the corner and took a tentative step towards her. All I knew was that at some point, she was making a break for it; I just had to figure out how long I had before she made her move. I looked behind me and saw twin faces of hurt and confusion so I gave, what I hoped, passed more for a smile than a grimace, and focused my attention back on the newborn in the corner of my living room.

"Your name is Bella. The noise you're hearing is growling."

She looked puzzled and cocked her head to the side. "Uh, okay, so where is it coming from?"

I turned to look at Jasper, not knowing exactly how to tell her that she was a vampire and she was growling because she found us a threat to her. I finally decided the safest course of action would be to just tell her the truth.

"It's coming from you, sweets. You're a little nervous, so…"

"So I'm growling, right. Okay, what's your name?"

"Alice."

"Right. Okay, Alice, so I'm growling because I'm nervous. And why is that? Am I some kind of weird crossbred animal?" She shook her head and started giggling, a sound like tiny bell chimes.

Given the situation, I figured it was best not to laugh and shot Jasper an imploring look. If anyone could explain to her what was going on, it would be my husband. Jasper nodded and took a step forward. Bella stiffened when he moved and backed up against the wall. Immediately, her hand shot up to her throat and the low growling returned.

"Who are you, pretty boy?" Bella asked. Her growls almost ceased when Jasper sent a much-needed wave of calm and serenity over her. He chuckled and shook his head, taking another small step towards her.

"You really can't remember us, darlin'? I'm Jasper, Alice's husband. Uh, Bella, the thing is, and I know how farfetched this is going to sound, but just bear with me, okay?" Jasper held up his hands as if to show her he meant her no harm.

She relaxed and a slow smile spread across her face. She leaned against the wall and crossed her arms over her chest. I chuckled a little as I realized that she was flirting with Jasper. I knew it wasn't very funny right then, but if she got her memory back, it was going to be hilarious.

"Alright, I'm game, so who are you people and what the fuck happened?"

Jasper chuckled, sensing her attraction to him along with her confusion, and sat on the sofa farthest away from her. She took a look around and her eyes fixed on Edward. I heard a sharp intake of air as she stepped forward, never blinking as she saw him.

"Bella?" Edward's voice sounded low and strangled. Although I knew the amount of heartache it would be for Bella to remember my brother, I was hoping with all my might that she would, at the very least, recognize him. I knew I was wrong when she stopped suddenly and turned back to Jasper.

"Geez, you guys are a fine looking bunch. I hope I look as hot as you guys do right now!" She laughed at her own joke as we all looked around at each other. I nodded to Jasper reassuring him that nothing new was going to happen and he took in a deep breath he didn't need before continuing.

"Bella, I realize you don't remember anything right now, but it's very important for you to listen to me carefully, darlin'. Just like you said, Bella, we're a fine group of people… who just happen to be vampires. We don't like it, but we deal with it the best we can."

I think my mouth must've hit the floor and I snapped my head up to glare at Jasper. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that Edward had tensed up as well. Sensing our shock, Jasper just laughed at us.

"Listen, I'm not going to pussyfoot around this, guys. She needs to know what's going on just in case she doesn't get her memory back. Newborns are very unpredictable and…"

"Hold on a sec, pretty boy. Did you just say… vampire? As in, 'I vant to suck your blood,' coffins, angry villagers with fire, stakes through the heart, kind of vampire? You have got to be kidding me!" Bella bent over as her musical laughter filled the air. The rest of us exchanged worried looks. Jasper and Edward locked eyes for a moment and they each nodded.

"No silent exchanges, guys! I need to know exactly what's going on so I can catch it if something changes." I glanced over at Bella who was still laughing and cracking vampire jokes to herself. Jasper took a step towards me and gave me a small hug.

"We're just going to have to show her, darlin'. I'm going to point her to the mirror and let her see the obvious."

This was exactly why I had turned things over to Jas. He knew how to handle newborn vampires and would know how to make her see what he was trying to get across. All signs pointed to her bolting at some point, so I was acutely aware of every movement of every muscle in her body. If she ran, I knew that I would be the one that would have to catch her. I had looked at it every way possible and neither of the guys would be able to get her to stop, only me.

Jasper walked towards her slowly, sending small rolls of comfort and friendship. Bella, still giggling, had now started roaming the great room, where a few decorations were still hanging. I had done my best to clean up, but the shock of having to turn my best friend, Edward arriving, and the three days that tore all of our hearts apart, had caused me to overlook a few details. The curtains remained, along with a 13 x 9 glossy photo of Bella, Angela, and me that I had taken before the party and framed.

As Bella walked around, Jasper instructed Edward to start pulling back the curtains and let the sunshine in. His plan was to show the obvious, the physical attributes that set us apart from humans.

Bella finally spotted the picture and stopped. She picked it up and touched the frame, then lifted her eyes to look at me. I stood next to the window closest to her and let the sun shine on my skin. Bella's eyes grew wide as she took in my scintillating exterior. After a moment, Jasper and Edward were by my side, all of us dazzling in the sun. Bella put the picture down and took a few steps forward, gasping.

"So beautiful," was all she said as she came closer. When she reached the area where the sun shown in, the sunbeams started dancing on her skin as well, setting alight the sparkles within her own body.

"So are you," Edward whispered as he pointed to her arm.

She shrunk back from the sun and retreated towards where she had originally started. As she moved gracefully along the wall, she passed by the hanging mirror. She stopped dead when she caught a glance at her reflection and she stared. I couldn't stop the gut wrenching reaction I got when she let out a terrified scream.

"In that picture my eyes are brown! What the hell is this?! All of you have amber eyes! Why the hell are my eyes glowing red?!" Jasper and Edward exchanged panicked looks and I backed away a bit, knowing the time was coming soon. My muscles all began to coil in anticipation of having to run to catch her.

"You people are serious, aren't you? I'm some kind of fantasy creature. I'm the reason the house cats stay inside!" I snorted at her joke, but that must've been the wrong thing to do entirely because when she heard it, she freaked.

"Oh, well it's all fine and dandy for you guys to yuck it up! Try waking up in a place you don't know with people you don't recognize feeding you some cock and bull story about creatures that couldn't possibly exist, your throat is burning, and everything is… is… GAH!!" She threw her hands in the air and then wrapped her arms around herself, breathing heavily.

Very quietly, Jasper said, "Alice did. When she woke up to this life she didn't even have anyone to explain to her what was going on or who she was."

Bella stared back at us in shock, or disbelief, I wasn't sure which. I nodded to confirm Jasper's revelation. She let out a sigh and let her arms drop. For whatever reason, Edward took this as a sign to move forward and rather than moving slowly, he flew to her side. Fucking. Idiot.

"What the- Get away from me!" She pushed Edward – hard. As soon as he hit the wall and we heard the ear-splitting crack, I saw her run through, and I mean right through, the sliding glass door. Before the glass could hit the floor, I was right behind her.

Bella ran through the yard, leapt across the river, and streaked through the forest, never missing a step. She instinctively avoided the obstacles in her path even though she ran at vampire speed. It was something that under different circumstances, she would have found exciting, amazing, and exhilarating. As I chased after her, I grieved for Bella's lost memory. She would have been so thrilled to not trip over every tree root in her path. If her memory never returned, she'd never know how lithe and beautiful she was flying through the forest in her new body.

I knew if I didn't catch her soon I'd lose her.

I pushed myself harder, faster, knowing full well I wasn't as fast as Edward, but what I lacked in speed I made up for in ingenuity. I scaled the side of a tree, bringing it down with me as I used it like a makeshift catapult. I let myself lean with the tree and shot myself through the air. I was flying above her and could see her looking back as she ran. As I began coming down on her she looked up, but I had her. We collided with an ear piercing crash and tumbled. I could hear Edward and Jasper coming up fast and glanced at them, but then something happened I didn't quite understand.

I felt like I was spinning and closed my eyes. When I opened them, the scene that met me blew my mind. I was crouched with Bella, our arms wrapped around each other, but the weird part was that I was also watching myself run towards Charlie's spinning cruiser.

"Wh- what's happening?" Bella whispered, her body shaking with fear. She held on to me tighter and I squeezed her back as I swallowed the lump of fear that had formed in my throat.

"I'm not sure, but this is where the accident started, the one that…" I whispered back to her, trailing off. We held our breath and remained statues as we watched the horror unfold before our eyes. It was almost like we were at the scene of the accident, yet we were still planted firmly on the ground where I had just landed on top of her.

BPOV

I felt like I was going to be sick. I had the, 'I've been spun around too many times,' feeling going on and I was clinging on to this girl, this… Alice, as though she were my last great hope. Oddly enough, her presence comforted me and I started to calm down. Well, until I saw her run right past me even though she was very much hanging on to me like I was her last hope, too.

I saw the other Alice running at some kind of warp speed, screaming. She was running towards a police cruiser that appeared to be spinning out of control. The driver was trying to control the car, but then I saw a woman flying through the windshield. The other Alice caught the woman mid-air and rolled into the woods as the car impacted a small grouping of trees. I watched her hesitate and put the woman down as she stared back at the car with sheer horror all over her face. A determined look came over her as she propped the woman against a tree and looked like she was ready to run back to the car, but with an earth-shaking explosion, the car erupted into flames before the other Alice could make her move.

I looked over to the Alice clutching onto my side and she looked as though she might have been crying, but no tears were coming out. My stomach sank as I realized what I might have been witnessing, but I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I looked back at the accident, and it sickened me that I was so entranced by what was going on.

The woman lay on her side as the other Alice screamed. The woman appeared to be dying and the other Alice grabbed a small satchel that was attached to what once must have been a beautiful dress, and pulled out a sliver of silver. She opened it and began talking. I could just make out the conversation, both sides of it, although I was well hidden and a good distance away.

"Jasper! Jasper! I can't! I can't do it!" she shouted into the silver thing that must have been a phone as she rocked back and forth. The woman on the ground groaned and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.

"Alice, it's okay. Calm down, it's okay. What happened? Who's moaning? And… do I hear… fire?"

"It's Bella and Charlie! They were in an accident. Charlie's dead, Jas, and Bella's barely hanging on!"

I started at the other Alice's words.

"Bella? The woman dying on the ground is… me? Who's Charlie?" I thought to myself.

I looked at the remains of the burning police cruiser while listening to Jasper's reply, trying to remember if anything looked familiar to me. I had the strangest case of déjà vu going on and felt as though I should know what was happening, but oddly, I also felt like a stranger looking in from the outside.

"Alice, you have to calm down or you're not going to be able to help her at all. Damnit! I wish I were already there so I could help. Is she breathing? Moving at all?"

"Her breathing is really shallow and her heart is beating really fast. Jas, she's going to die and I can't do anything about it! I don't know what to do… I mean… how to… Jas, help me!"

"Alice, you can do this, darlin'. Listen to me. You have to make a decision and you have to make it now. You know you can save her. Under any other circumstance, you know this is what she wanted. There's only a small window of opportunity before it's too late."

The other Alice took a deep breath and appeared to be calming herself. She was looking down at… me, the me lying on the ground next to her in the vision anyway… and asked Jasper what to do. "Talk me through this, Jas. I can't do it by myself. I can't even remember what to… how to…"

"Find her pulse points, Alice. I'm sure her heart is weak and they won't be as easy to find as they normally would, but you can find them. Concentrate. Her wrists, her neck, her ankles… anywhere there's a pulse. Just bite enough to inject some venom. Don't suck the blood out, Alice. You have to do this quickly before her heart dies. The venom has to travel to her heart before it stops to keep her from dying so it can work."

I watched as the other Alice looked around quickly and pulled the woman… me… further into the forest. The smell of smoke and gas was hanging heavily around the area and the car remained partially on fire despite the heavy rain. I knew there was someone else still inside the car… Charlie… and I felt horrible for whoever he was. He was obviously dead.

I wondered if he had a family… how they would learn of the accident… wondered if he had children… what would become of them…

Alice was still holding on to me, her breaths coming in erratic pants. I felt the need to comfort her so I rubbed her back and held on tighter. I couldn't deny that I was terrified as well.

"I've never seen a vision like this. Ever. My visions have always been of the future, never the past. It happens all the time, but not like this," she whispered to me.

I looked at her in shock. She's seen visions… before? "What do you mean this happens to you all the time? Is this part of being a … vampire?"

She shook her head. "No, I mean, well, with me it's something I brought over from being human. Certain traits seem to follow you from your human life into your vampire life, only they're more intense. I've learned that I had moments of precognition as a human. I have it now, too, in the form of visions of the future, but it isn't infallible, and they damn sure have never been like this. I've never seen backwards or even had a vision where it feels like I'm there. Jasper could explain better."

She stared back at the scene and so did I. We seemed to have followed the other Alice, even though neither of us had moved, and could see her shaking, holding the woman in her arms. The woman's hair fell back and when I looked closer, what I had feared was confirmed. I really was watching my own death. I saw myself, bloodied in a way that looked like I should've been dead. Flying out of the windshield had really done a number on my body and blood stained the beautiful dress I was wearing. The dress had torn around the middle, exposing my lacerated and bleeding torso.

It was so unreal. Even as I watched myself, I couldn't, for the life of me, see how it was possible. I tried to remember but couldn't. Alice sucked in a deep breath and stilled, so I followed her gaze.

The other Alice brushed the hair from… the other me… and buried her face in my neck. At first, I thought she was just crying, but as she quickly traveled down my body, I could see that she was leaving little glistening silver bite marks all over me. Two on my neck, one on each wrist, the tops of my thighs, and at my ankles.

I heard frantic breathing and realized it as coming from me. The other me let out a shrill scream that broke the silence around us. I let go of Alice for the briefest moment to cover my ears and I closed my eyes. When I opened them, I saw Jasper shaking Alice, whose eyes were open, but glazed over and obviously seeing nothing.

The other man, the one that made my stomach tighten every time I looked at him, had a concerned look on his face as he crouched in front of the both of us. Alice and I were still on the ground right where she had fallen on top of me and as I looked at her, she had started blinking and shaking her head from side to side.

"Alice, please, please say something. Edward is scared out of his mind from whatever you saw, and both of your emotions are all over the place. Please, baby, just talk to me." His eyes bore into hers and she let out the smallest whimper.

"Jas, I never saw this coming," she whispered, eyes wide with fear.

"Never saw what coming, baby? Was it a vision? What's wrong?"

"Yes, it was a vision, but it wasn't mine and it wasn't what's going to happen. It was… what already did."

"Wait, what? Darlin', what do you mean it wasn't yours? And if it wasn't yours, how did you have it?"

The corners of Alice's lips turned up very slightly as she looked my way. Jasper still looked very confused as he looked between the two of us.

A voice spoke that sent shivers down my spine, but in a good way, a really good way. "It wasn't Alice's vision because it was Bella's and somehow, she shared it with Alice."

"We're going to have to look this up, Edward. I think it's called retrocognition, if I remember right," Alice said excitedly.

I looked up at the beautiful stranger wishing I could remember how he fit into my life, or I guess what was my life before all of, whatever this was. He stared at me openly and I unabashedly stared back. I itched to run my hand through the mop of bronze and copper that was his hair and I saw my hand reaching forward as he seemed to lean in. As my hand grazed the side of his face, I felt the spinning sensation again and saw him kissing me. I gasped and yanked my hand back. Alice stood and brushed herself off, smiling, as she looked my way.

"I think we should go back to the house, Bella. Well, after you hunt, because if I'm thirsty you must be parched."

"Hunt?"

Jasper stood and offered me his hand. I declined and then, wouldn't you know it, I was already standing.

"I'm good, pretty boy. I don't want any more hocus pocus moments 'till I can wrap myself around this whole mess."

"Bella, I promise I'm going to do everything I can to help you remember. I know this is all very confusing and overwhelming, but I'll help you sort it out," Alice beamed at me.

All I could think was that I definitely could have been in a worse situation, all things considered. Jasper had said that when Alice awakened, she didn't have anyone to explain to her what was going on. I shuddered to think what that would be like. I couldn't help but to feel safe, although I wished I knew how everything fit together.

"Edward, will you be joining us, brother?" Alice broke my thoughts as she stank-eyed the man my body was very hyper-aware of. He stood in one fluid movement and looked at me.

I quickly ducked my head down, hiding my face behind my hair, suddenly shy when I heard my name escape his lips. My head snapped up upon hearing his voice breathe my name in velvet and I locked eyes with him.

"Edward." I let his name fall from my mouth as well, feeling myself move closer. His eyes widened and he swallowed taking a very obvious step back.

"I think we should hunt now and get back to the house. It's getting dark and I don't think we want everyone seeing a ghost all of a sudden. Wouldn't you agree, Jasper?"

Pretty boy nodded and Alice looked at Edward through the slits that were her eyes now.

"Alice, are you going to explain to me what it is we saw?" My voice came out barely above a whisper. I was scared not really knowing who I was while everyone talked around me about things I didn't understand. It was making me nervous. I took some deeps breaths trying to settle myself and swallowed an ache in the back of my throat. Alice walked toward me and pointed at my throat.

"Let's take care of that first and I'll explain everything when we get back to the house and get cleaned up." Jasper chuckled at the joke I didn't catch and started looking towards the deeper part of the forest. Alice closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened them, she pointed to her right.

"Ok, guys, this way." She started running and I followed, hoping that my questions would be answered soon.