Are these notes annoying? Oh well. Sorry if this is a late update, I had a test and an assignment due so my thoughts have been elsewhere. So hopefully this update is a nice surprise to your day.
Bella couldn't understand what came over her, but since when did she know anything when Alice was involved? All she could feel was a burning lust like she'd never felt before. What was worse for the vampire was that her blood lust was stronger than ever, Bella smelled so fucking good, like she was releasing pheromones that were calling her name.
A moment or two passed where Bella thought she had completely lost any common sense or logic, but she still had enough for her conscience to bring back her moral thinking.
"I don't know why Edward brought me here." She huffed.
"Think hard Bella, why would he bring you here?" Her suspicious tone hinted at a hidden message behind her words.
The pixie still looked lethal with her jet black eyes and tightly clenched muscles. Bella lost her train of thought as her eyes once again roamed the vampires flawless body. Her body was a magnet and Bella couldn't help being drawn in constantly.
"Well, you seemed to have figured your answer out."
"W-what?" Bella asked confusedly, snapping out of her daze.
Alice raised a suggestive eyebrow as if to say 'you know what I mean, don't play stupid', and Bella knew very well what she'd meant.
"Do you think I'm gay or something?" Bella shot in a defensive tone with probably a bit too much bitterness.
"No." Alice replied conspicuously.
"Well what are you insinuating?" Bella asked, feeling her nerves creep back into her body, haunting whatever chance she had left of falsely convincing Alice she wasn't attracted to her in the slightest.
"But I've never met a straight girl who checks me out quite as much as you do." She said cheekily.
"I don't!" Alice raised her eyebrow again. "Okay! So what? That doesn't mean anything." She wasn't sure of her statement, and it was almost said as a question for Alice to answer.
Slowly Alice danced her way sensually towards Bella, creating a huge lump in her throat. Bella was mesmerised by even the smallest movements she made.
"Well if that's how we're gonna play it." Alice teased, running her index finger in a painfully slow stroke from Bella's shoulder down her cleavage, over her stomach and breaking contact just above the waistband of her jeans.
Bella had to force herself from whimpering. Her mind was so against the way Alice's touch made her feel, she knew it wasn't 'normal' and that she'd never felt that way before, but a much less resistant part of her decided to pool up in warmth and electrocute her every nerve each time those soft, cold fingers caressed her untouched skin.
In that moment Bella knew why she'd never given thought to being with a woman before. Their destructive, manipulative mind games were oh so alluring that their victim would knowingly take the bait and submit to their game. She knew in the end she would lose, she knew she'd give in. But she was far too interested now to back out.
Unwillingly she gave in and challenged Alice to a battle she knew she would lose. Staring numbly into the black wall in front of her, she attempted to remain completely inconspicuous. It was a fair judgement for Alice to presume that her victim was scared, aroused and a little weary deep down. But she wasn't out to achieve any of those things, she didn't want to be a mysterious Edward or a heartthrob Jacob. She wanted to be Alice, the gentle, intense, sexy, loving, caring, loyal, devoted, compassionate little pixie. No longer would she stand to be a monster, a soulless killer. Bella Swan had to know the truth before she could take even one step into accepting her. The question was, when and how would Alice tell her?
Circling her like delicious prey, Alice thought coolly and then came to a halt inches away from Bella's stony face. She smirked.
"Now do you believe that looks can be deceiving?" She whispered desperately in the humans ear like she so very much enjoyed.
Hairs prickled the inside of Bella's shirt as Alice's cool breath and teasing voice tested her limits.
"Can't say you've fully convinced me yet." She replied in scrutiny.
Alice smirked even more at that. "Good."
"Good?"
"Yes, good." Alice said as if it were the most casual thing she'd ever said.
"You're not scary, pixie. You're a complex soul beneath that dense facade." Bella said knowingly.
Ah, humans. So much ignorance. "I wish you were right. But I'm not what you think I am." Her eyes saddened and looked down to the maroon carpet. Bella's ignorance was touching, but nonetheless misinformed.
"Well.." Bella ushered on, trying to find the right words. But none came. Can you say awkward?
Then Jasper boomed into the room, unannounced and without knocking. Bella was startled, but Alice didn't budge, she'd obviously seen it coming. The blonde haired boy wore a stern, but unreadable expression as he seemed to be whispering something to his girlfriend.
"Are you sure?" Alice whispered too fast and too quietly for human ears.
"Yes." Jasper nodded seriously.
"Bella." Alice said at human level again. Jasper stood possessively at her side, clutching her waist firmly in a dominating way that caused Bella to feel a tinge of anger along with her confusion.
"You have to get home." Have to? Well that was a strange and unsafe thing to say.
"Why?" She asked defensively, taken aback by the harshness in Alice's tone.
Jasper and Alice caught a worried glance with each other for a split second before Jasper felt it was his turn to take charge with his power.
"Bella." He said, manipulating her as best as he could. "You must go home. Don't keep Charlie waiting." She felt a sudden compulsion to agree with anything he said. Like she was in a trance, she nodded in agreement and began to turn towards the door, walking like a ghost had possessed her body.
Once Bella had finally left, Edward had to be the one to drive her home as fast as he could before she realised what was going on and that she didn't want to leave at all. He kept checking to his right wearily to see any actions indicating her realisation, but she kept in the trance for the two minutes it took to get her home.
"Now Bella, don't try to come back, stay home okay?" He asked while she began to unbuckle her seatbelt.
With a lazy, emotionless look she nodded up at him before he zapped over to help her out of the car. They walked to the door together as Bella started to shake off Jaspers strong trance and blink into reality.
Edward impatiently opened the door for her and almost pushed her in before she stood alone in the doorway, confused and lost.
All Edward could do was hope that it was enough for her to accept staying at home before he sped back to his own house to an awaiting, anxious family.
Once the Cullens were congregated all together in the downstairs living room, Carlisle was the first to speak among the dead silence.
"As you all know, I've gathered you all here to talk about this problem."
"I say kill them!" Emmett boomed ignorantly.
"How very tactful." Alice said sarcastically but still keeping a serious demeanour.
"Now, now, the last thing I want is for this to turn into an irrational argument." Carlisle interjected, Esme nodded in agreement at his side.
"Well they've already killed. A life for a life? Maybe." Rosalie pointed out as if it were a casual suggestion to kill.
"Even if we wanted to, they are far more dangerous than us-"
"There's only three of them! There's seven of us!" Emmett shouted against his father.
"Still, we can't just ambush them like savages." Edward stated wisely.
"Just out of curiosity, who did they kill?" Alice asked.
The room went silent, as if she would probably rather not know.
"A girl." Rosalie said finally. "I saw one feeding on her as I was hunting. I didn't see her face, but she looked young. Not wanting to be seen I fled straight away and returned here."
"Why are they here?" Alice asked in frustration.
"That's the question, isn't it?" Carlisle asked rhetorically. Knitting his eyebrows together as he began to pace. That meant he was on the brink of figuring something out, but this time he knew the only way to find out was to track them and ask them themselves. He didn't see that as an option though, his first priority was safety for his family.
"What if they kill again?" Jasper asked him.
Alice immediately thought of Bella. An undeniable, sickening fear crashed on her like a ton of bricks. Never before had she felt such an obligation and need to protect someone. She just knew she couldn't let anything happen to her, the thought of it almost drove her to the point of becoming mentally unstable.
Jasper sensed her feelings and gave her a quizzical, worried look before continuing listening on with the conversation.
"Well we'd best hope they leave soon. Or we'll have the wolves on our backs in no time." Almost everyone in the room cringed at the mention of wolves.
"No offence Carlisle. But I think we're all pretty ready and confident enough to face three vampires." Emmett said, everyone else nodded besides Esme. Not that she didn't think they'd be fine, but the very thought of the smallest thing going wrong sickened her almost as much as Alice was by the thought of Bella being hurt. Alice felt a burning need to avenge the poor dead human, putting the image of Bella lying there helpless and dead instead. That sure got her angry.
"I agree." Alice proclaimed jumping to her feet, fists clenched and ready for action.
Carlisle looked at her with concern. She shook off everyones glares and sat back down stubbornly with the help of Jaspers mind control shit.
"I should have known you'd all be like this." Carlisle chuckled softly to himself and Esme grinned weakly but with pride towards her children. It wasn't the fact that they were so intent on killing another being, but that they were moral and compassionate enough to want to stop them from doing more evil. Inwardly she agreed, and she knew Carlisle did too.
"As it is already getting dark I think it best that we rest tonight and begin a hunt tomorrow. If we find them at first I must urge you all to be civil, leave the talking to me. If it goes bad then we've got numbers on our side. I can only ask nicely for them to leave, but they are obviously here for a reason, this is where we need to use our powers."
Jasper, Alice and Edward looked from one another in agreement. Rosalie couldn't exactly see need for her gift coming in handy but nevertheless she listened on.
"Alice, it's worrying that you didn't see this coming, but from now on please do try to keep them in mind and it will certainly help us find them." She nodded, feeling disappointed in herself for not foreseeing it in the first place. "Jasper, if we find them your powers will come in very handy, you must make sure to keep their emotions at bay, we don't need lives endangered." He nodded too, taking it on as a very serious task, a trait of being a soldier. "Edward, dissect anything you can from their minds. What their mission is, why they are here, what they want and anything that could be helpful to the situation." He agreed as well, but was more reluctant than the others. He didn't enjoy being violent for the sake of it, but when he thought about it, he certainly didn't want to be putting Bella in danger.
"And once again I'm useless." Rosalie added in annoyance.
"Well not unless you plan on screwing the enemy." Emmett teased. Although her amusement stayed minimal as she scoffed and rolled her eyes at her foolish boyfriend.
"Well it's true." Alice joined in, suppressing her laughter like everyone else was. Rosalie's expression was priceless and so hard not to laugh at, even Esme had a little chuckle before regaining her composure.
"Yes Rosalie, I apologise for not having a place for you, but in more subtle words your power would be unnecessary for this task." Carlisle said sympathetically to his daughter.
"We should all go hunting beforehand I think." Esme inputted, everyone silently agreed.
Rosalie and Emmett were usually the first to go, so they stood up together and were soon just a blur into the distance of the forest. Jasper left minutes later, followed by Alice and Edward.
When they returned Esme and Carlisle were the last to leave, as per usual and returned twenty minutes later to a refreshed, much more calm family environment. Rosalie and Emmett were curled up together watching TV, Edward was in his room, Carlisle had to go to work until midnight so he and Esme kissed goodbye in a parental manner and Esme went off into her study. That only left Alice and Jasper.
Alice had purposely arrived back before him so that she could hide off in her/their room. But it was basically their only rule that if you're in there alone with the door closed it meant that no one else could enter. Alone time was important to a large coven of vampires, but Jasper was just too oblivious lately.
This time he opened the door much more slowly, but still without knocking before letting himself in. Alice thought to protest but it wouldn't achieve anything, she didn't even have an excuse for being so distant from him anyway.
"Alice.." He whispered softly. "Talk to me." He sounded hurt, and she just couldn't stand to see him like that. She sat up from the bed and met his saddened gaze. She gestured for him to come sit with her so he complied. Just happy for once that she wasn't ignoring or avoiding him.
"I'd ask you what's wrong, but that'd be pretty stupid because everybody already knows." How come she was the only one who couldn't see this?
"I'm so over people saying that. What do you all know that I don't?" She asked, facing Jasper now.
His warm honey eyes connected with hers and he smiled sadly as he took her hand in his and lightly caressed it with his thumb.
"It's for us to keep to ourselves, and for you to figure out." She groaned.
"Enough of this crap, can you please just say it?" She pleaded with him. He first looked reluctant, but decided to do the right thing.
"Okay, but when I do you'll know why I wanted you to figure it out on your own." Whatever, she didn't care, she just wanted to know. Did it have something to do with Bella? Like what Rosalie said earlier? If so she'd probably go off her nut and tell Jasper to fuck off.
"I know you probably don't want to hear it, but it's pretty obvious how you and Bella feel abou-"
"Really Jasper? Really?" She got to her feet to gain whatever confidence she could. "I think I know how I'd feel."
"Yes. But sometimes others see and feel what you can't" She glared at him.
"Feel? So you've been tracking my emotions now? You're all so paranoid!"
"No. We're not, but clearly this is why I couldn't tell you." He said, standing up literally and for himself. "You're lucky I'm actually accepting it Al, you're my girlfriend and have been for 6 years now." Remind me AGAIN why don't you?
"So obviously I'm not gay!" She spat, like it was a disease.
Jasper stepped back. "No one has even mentioned that. Do you really think sexual preference matters to any of us?"
"Well it matters to me." Alice sighed, looking out her window into the sunset. She refused to ask why everyone 'knew' what was going on because deep down she knew it would be true. It scared her to think that she could be attracted to another girl, it wasn't normal to her.
Sensing her internal battle, Jasper closed his eyes for a moment in frustration to calm himself and walked over to place a hand on his girlfriends shoulder. She twitched defensively at the touch, but then let it be.
"Alice." He sighed in a melancholy tone. "I have to leave for a while." Ignoring her protests he went on. "It's not because of you, it's not for you, it's for myself."
"This is insane Jasper!" She protested in amazement, now turning to face him with a pleading glare. "I love you. Please stay." She said softly, boring her eyes into his pained ones.
"And I love you too, more than you could ever know. So please just let me go, I'll only be a month or two."
He must have decided this purposely at the last minute so that she didn't see it coming, so that she didn't have time to plan stopping him. She wasn't completely oblivious though, she knew why he was leaving and even that was a little extreme.
"You're being so dramatic Jazz." She teased and then averted her sad eyes downwards.
"Now, now." He said in a mock tone as he lifted her chin up carefully. "You'll benefit from me gone, trust me. We haven't been very good for a while now and we need this break, don't ever think I don't love you." Her mouth twitched into a forced smile and then she fell glum again.
"I just don't see how it's necessary." She sighed in a defeated tone. He was going to go and there was nothing she could say or do to stop him. Slowly she came to accept it.
"Come here." He said, pulling her into a loving hug. He couldn't bare to see her so sad, it was even worse knowing it was because of himself. "You'll be fine, and so will I. It won't be long." He whispered into her ear, nervously reminding her of Bella.
"Fine." She huffed, being the first to stubbornly pull away even though she regretted it when she missed the touch, although admitting hugging Bella was so much more satisfying. From the beating of her heart, to the comfort of her warmth, Alice now knew there was nothing like being close to a human.
Jasper wrongly assessed her contempt, he was satisfied with her reaction and chose to exit the room after placing a sloppy kiss on her forehead, leaving Alice confused about when he'd left, because her thoughts were so deeply on Bella, but then she realised it turned into a shocking vision.
Bella crying hopelessly on her bed, her hands were clenched painfully into her hair, almost drawing blood from her scalp with her nails. She continued to sob and sob until she could cry no more, leaping from her bed she walked over to her mirror and wiped the tears disgustedly from her face, unable to look at her puffy red eyes. It was clear to Alice that she wasn't one to ever let her emotions out that way. Bella's breathing was shaky and uneven as she sunk to the floor in defeat. "W-why?" She stuttered helplessly, slamming her fists onto her floor.
Alice's vision unusually turned fuzzy as Bella stopped immediately to look at something outside her window.
"What?" Alice yelled as it faded out at such an inconvenient time. It was maddening. What did she see? Better yet why was she so distraught? Alice had never felt her heart break so suddenly and painfully at the image of a human being acting so vulnerable. One last time she had to see Bella that day, and without thinking she sneaked out of the house before anyone could question her and bolted off into the darkness.
Pulling down the last leaf cautiously, Alice peaked through the tree across the road from Bella's house to see that there were no cars besides her truck in the driveway and that her dad must have been working late. Worry struck her at the thought of Bella so depressed and alone, she might drink, she might cut herself, which Alice prayed she didn't for obvious reasons and Alice knew she had to do something.
Targeting the wide open window, Alice was just a flash of white as she ran and stood under the opening. Door or window? She asked herself. Either way there was no hope for Bella to react happily, so once again she stupidly chose the window.
With one swift jump Alice landed gracefully on a branch of a tree adjacent to Bella's room, being careful not to make a noise as she tilted sideways from behind the tree to scan for where she was. As her eyes found the bed, there Bella was, fast asleep. At that sight Alice felt a weight off her shoulders and her stomach knots untangle, she's okay, she thought in relief.
Knowing well enough that she could be quiet enough not to stir the human and quick enough to hide if she might see her, Alice crept through the window sill and quietly leapt onto the carpet standing over the unknowing human, deep in her slumber. Alice didn't dare wake her, she intended of watching her for a while. Not for any particular reason, just because to her watching Bella sleep was the most fascinating thing.
Taking a seat in the rocking chair in the corner of the room, Alice relaxed herself and fixed her eyes on the girl in the bed. After a full hour Alice noticed oddly that Bella hadn't moved once. A gut wrenching pang of terror awoke her realisations.
Jumping to her feet and immediately running over beside her, she overlooked Bella for a prayerful minute before realising her pulse was extremely weak and her breathing was completely non existent. Alice felt the need to cry but all that came was a light fog over her eyes. She curiously searched for injuries but she couldn't find anything at all, which worried her even more.
In a panic she had a terrifying thought. Reluctantly Alice knelt down and looked under Bella's bed to be confronted by a whole empty bottle of vodka that's smell still lingered strongly in the air and now that she knew, on Bella.
She felt like her fears had been realised, and the only thing she knew to do was to call Carlisle, thank God her phone was in her jacket pocket. She hastily fumbled around with the keys to dial his number and the sound of his voice after three dials was the most relieving sound ever. Straight away without a word he had a sense that his daughter was in some kind of trouble.
"Alice, what's wrong?"
"It's Bella, she's not breathing, she's been drinking." Her voice was shaking and the sight of Bella beneath her unconscious was horrifying.
"Firstly, you must stay calm. Don't worry, I'll be there soon after calling her father. Don't try to do anything to help her in the meantime, it could make her worse." Agreeing with him, she hung up the phone and slipped it back into her pocket, resisting any compulsion to check Bella or to force her into consciousness. She hadn't thought it possible to feel as sick as she did and she thought she couldn't possibly look more pale than usual, but her whole body felt numb and she looked even more ghostly that normal.
She fidgeted impatiently until finally Carlisle's car pulled into the driveway, Alice literally resembled a lightning bolt as she rushed to let him through the front door. Thankfully it seemed as though he was going to handle the situation by himself without having to take her to the hospital. He held a kit and looked prepared to tackle the issue straight away which put Alice's mind to ease for a moment until she resumed her stance next to him as he examined Bella thoughtfully.
"Is she going to be okay?" Alice butted in, unable to contain herself. It had only been about 20 seconds since he started checking her.
Broken from his train of thought he released his hands from behind her neck and faced his desperate looking daughter. His hearted reached out to her, he knew what she must be feeling more than anyone else.
"It depends how long she had been like this, from what I can see it hasn't been too long. But what's worrying is that it's prolonged. This could very well be because of her concussion, alcohol is never good for when you have one, especially a large amount such as in this case."
Like God had answered her prayers, in that moment Bella shifted ever so slightly but enough for Alice to leap in joy, in fact she did jump rather embarrassingly but she didn't care. Bella was opening her eyes and realising where she was, who was there and what had happened. Hope of them having no idea what she had done to become unconscious was minimal, especially when she saw Carlisle leaning over her. Great, damn Alice and her visions. Was her first thought before she realised the searing, unbearable pain she felt throughout her whole body. A high, blood curdling scream issued from the human that if she had one, would have caused Alice to have a giant heart attack. Instead every happy feeling inside of her died and she felt as if she'd never smile again. Her emotional pain could have outmatched Bella's physical pain any day.
"Alice, get home. NOW!" Carlisle demanded franticly.
"What? Why! What's happening?" She asked in fright. All she could pay attention to was the screaming noises and writhing of the human on the bed getting worse and worse for Alice to bear by the second.
"If you want her pain to stop you have to leave. Trust me, please." Alice was willing to do anything to help her, and to leave would be a stretch of her trust, but she had no other option at this point.
"Fine, but you better have a good explanation!" Alice yelled as she used the window exit again.
Just as expected, once Alice had left. The screaming stopped. All that could be wondered was how and why? Surely the grim looking vampire now closing the bedroom window tightly, shifting his eyes around wearily like a mad man had some kind of an idea.
