Alice drifted through the house, lingering mostly in the living room just as she had done before. She still spoke to no one, her gaze returning to space as she fell back into her visions. She half smiled for a second, everyone looking at her curiously. Her smile faded a moment later as everyone looked to Edward for an answer.

"Jasper has got into a fight with Maria, she wanted him to kill a girl and he would not." He muttered softly as Alice closed her eyes.

Bella leaned against his side, her eyes dancing over Alice as she clenched Reneesme against her chest.

After a few more hours of Alice's silence and Edward explanations, Alice suddenly rose to her feet. She looked over everyone as they stared up at her questioningly.

"Finally". Edward said with a sigh of relief as Alice floated toward the front door.

"What"? Esme demanded frantically as Edward shook his head.

"She's going to hunt." He shrugged as Esme fell silent.

"I thought perhaps we had a decision made." She said softly as Carlisle squeezed her shoulder.

"Soon love. It won't be much longer now". He muttered kissing Esme's head as Alice's scent disappeared from the porch and into the trees.

She ran several miles from the house, not looking at anything in particular. She finally stopped near the border, her eyes adjusting to the rain falling rapidly around her.

It was the first time she was truly alone; none of her family members looking over her anxiously, no sinister Maria plaguing her mind, not even her beautiful Jasper. She was truly and utterly alone. She let out a sigh, her eyes turning up to the dark sky.

What was she going to do with herself? He couldn't very well expect her to move on could he? No. She could never move on. And he knew that.

She looked down, her hand brushing across her thigh. She frowned, her hand moving across her pocket once more, there was something in there, solid and familiar to her.

She reached her hand into her pocket, drawing out her cell phone.

No doubt Rosalie must have slid it into her pocket as a way that they could constantly be in contact with her. But why hadn't she'd known of it earlier? That was easy. She wasn't thinking of anything besides him.

She flipped it open, peering thoughtfully at a picture of her and Jasper on the screen. Her heart screeched in protest as she glanced over their smiling faces staring back at her. Unconsciously she pressed down on the green phone button, a list of the last numbers she'd called appearing before her.

The calls she had made were a few days old; Esme, Edward, Carlisle, and Jasper.

Her body froze over as she looked over his name in it's bold, green, lettering.

Without even realizing it, she was pushing down on the call button, her hand bringing the phone receiver to her ear. Her heart fluttered as it rang several times, her knees buckling wildly as she closed her eyes.

We had already returned to our place in the desert, Maria quickly abandoning me for 'more favorable' company. I sat on a rock over looking the desert before me, my eyes dancing lazily over a coyote pawing away at the den of a wild rabbit.

Suddenly something vibrated at my hip, shaking through my bones. My eyes flashed down to my pocket, the source of the vibration inside. Snapping my hand into the pocket I pulled out my cell phone. I hadn't even realized I had it. I always carried it with me but I guess I hadn't even thought to leave it home when I left.

My eyes danced over the glowing screen, to the five letter name staring back at me.

ALICE.

No. This couldn't be happening, she wasn't calling me.

It rang again, shaking in my palm as I stared awestruck at it.

Without even giving the order to move my hand, the phone was already pressed against my ear, silence coming from the other side.

I cleared my throat deeply, my skin beginning to bead with sweat as I tried to speak. "Hello". I said mutely as a whimper echoed through the receiver.

My heart plummeted inside me, suddenly making itself known after so many weeks of absence. It was because of one person, and she was on the other wide.

"Jasper". She choked out, her voice vibrating down my arm and into my core. "Jasper, are you there"? She said again as I nodded.

"Of course." I whispered, the hand holding the phone trembling madly.

Another whimper escaped my lips, tearing through the phone into my chest. "Jaz. Are you alright"?

How like her. To be concerned with someone like me at a time like this. How I loved her for being so selfless.

"Of course love." I closed my eyes, shivers crawling up my spine as I listened to her breathing through the phone.

"Please come home". She said softly, my entire body exploding from the inside out.

I shook my head, my nails digging into the skin of my forehead as I breathed roughly. My shoulder shook and my hand trembled as I tried to keep from flying into the night sky at her request. Finally I found my voice. "I cannot love. I won't risk your safety."

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

"She doesn't scare me". She said stubbornly as I opened my eyes. So like Alice to argue with me.

"It's not that. I want you to be safe. And as long as I'm there, you and the others and all of Forks will be in danger." I whispered staring out over the skyline once more.

"I don't care." She said sternly. "I won't be away from you".

I buried my face in my hands, agony ripping through my body. "It won't be for long. I will pacify her, and when she has all the territories she desires I will return to you. I swear".

She fell silent, and for a second I thought she had hung up. But I knew better than that. Her voice came again, soft yet certain. "It won't be just this once Jasper. You know that. She will never let you go now that she has you again".

The truth terrified me, yet I knew she was right. Of course she was, who would doubt a psychic? But the optimist in me wanted to believe I had satisfied Maria in coming here, and when she had what she wanted she would allow me to leave.

"I know Alice. But I will be with you again. I swear it."

"What if it is not for a hundred years"? She whimpered as I shook my head.

"I would surely have slain her in just a few months. I would never let myself be away from you for longer than that". I said loudly as she fell silent again.

Finally she spoke. "I love you Jasper. I will come for you. I don't care if she has a thousand newborns. I'd rather die at your feet than live a day without you." She said with certainty and conviction.

"No! No you will not Alice"! I screamed into the phone, my hands shaking out of anger rather than weakness.

And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet

How dare she disregard her life -the thing I hold closest to my heart- as nothing. I would never allow her to do such a stupid thing, yet knew I could do nothing to stop her. She was like me, and I would die at Maria's hands than live a second without Alice. I would embrace a beautiful death, and finally sleep for the first time in almost two centuries as I burned in the pyre. It would matter not. My soul would be complete, with her.

"You won't win this time Jasper. I love you far too much to give you up". She said softly as I shook my head.

"If you love me you will stay where you are." I said sternly as I pictured her shaking her head.

"I will not make such a promise, because I will not lose you".

"I am not lost, you always have my heart, you know that"! I snapped into the phone.

"It doesn't matter unless you're with me. You are dead right now, and for that I must die as well". She said strongly as I shook my head, jumping to my feet.

"You will not come here Alice! You promise me right now"! I screamed, seeing her smirking on the other side.

"No Jasper. I won't promise you that.. I love you, and I won't let a future without you come to pass". She said before the line went dead.

I stared at the phone in disbelief, my eyes wide and burning. Shutting it carefully, I slid it back into my pocket as my heart disappeared from my chest once more.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.

Alice. Sweet Alice. Sweet, lovely, stubborn, headstrong, Alice. She couldn't come here. That was exactly what I was trying to avoid. She couldn't just simply throw herself at death's feet over someone like me. She deserved to live, even if she found another she deserved to go on. This was my destiny not hers.

But perhaps I was wrong all along. Just as I had been wrong when I thought I'd never find happiness.

Maybe this was her destiny. From the very first moment we were to meet in the diner, to now. Maybe she and I were made to die with one another. Perhaps we were created only to exist with one another, and to live alone was not a part of the cosmic plan. Maybe the only way we could live is with one another, and to even attempt not to would result in the death of us both.

I was content with that. If anyone there were anyone in the world I'd die with it'd be her. She was my destiny, through and through.


You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I glanced over the hill toward our self made camp, I felt nothing. I knew my destiny, and as long as it took me to finally learn of it, I was all too accepting. This was my destiny. I was to live with Alice or die beside her. Either way it was unavoidable.

I slowly trekked up the hillside, every fiber in my body ready to embrace my death. I would keep Maria oblivious of Alice's arrival until just the right moment. And when she became aware of it, I would put myself between my greatest demon and my salvation.

As I saw Maria in the distance, every emotion and thought poured out of me. I was truly hollow. Nothing but a shell striding to meet my death. My chest held nothing, completely hollow from the moment my body passed out of Forks. My mind was blank, with the exception of one thought. Embracing my sweet Alice as death claimed us.

No death could have been a more beautiful death than that.


I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.

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