Here we go guys. Another chapter.
The house was quiet, even though we were all gathered together. When Edward and I reached the mansion, I was the object of mockery, from Emmett of course. But Alice sat in the corner, her head in her hands, muttering under her breath.
We all tried to speak to her about ideas pertaining to Jaspers rescue, but it was no use. She just shushed us in the end. And so it was, for weeks after the fire, Alice never saying a word since Jasper, Edward and I enjoying each other's company since my new found Vampirism, everyone else still trying to do something productive.
Eventually though, I had it with the isolation. We hadn't found any solutions and Alice's situation was getting worse. So I rose from Edward's arms in bed and made for the door.
"Bella?" Edward asked. It was unusual for me to just up and leave and my abilities haven't developed yet, so Edward was keeping watch.
"I'm worried about Alice, Edward. I do not want her to stay that way in her room. She's been in there for the past two weeks, and she hasn't been out even to hunt. I want to go talk to her." I replied the worry and concern laced in my voice. He nodded and rose to join me.
"We'll come too." Emmet said when I opened the door. We made our way down to the second floor, and knocked on Alice's door.
No answer.
"Alice? We'd like to speak to you darling." Esme crooned through the door, only to receive silence on the other end.
"Open the door, she's inside, she won't open because she's having a vision." Edward piped up and pushed through the door, making us all spill inside, to where Alice sat, still as a marble statue.
"Alice?" I inched my way toward her, so as not startle her out of her stupor. Everyone else stood back watching the scene unfold.
Alice latched onto me quick as lighting, too fast for even me to see, and brought me down to her level. The minute our eyes caught, I knew, I knew like as if I'd know it all my life. I saw into her vision and straight into the characters minds. Characters being the objects of what Alice was foreseeing about.
Jasper bit into the newborns neck, paralyzing her. The setting seemed to be in a ballroom of sorts, like that you would see in an ancient mansion. Maria stood behind him, doing the same to another new born. What they did was not clear at all, nothing I've ever heard about or seen before. Suddenly, thoughts pushed their way into my mind, allowing me to hear nothing else.
'I'm sorry, Alice. I'm sorry.' Jasper's thoughts whispered as if a wind were to blow them away.
'My new discovery shall have all bent to me…' Maria's thoughts turned into gruesome pictures of horror, torture and famine. I pulled out of their minds just before the vision ended, when Alice's grip tightened around me and kept me in. The vision changed of one with Jasper in shackles. He was in a uniform, an old one it seemed, similar to the confederates of the civil war. There was a bayonet at his back, pushing him forward, into what looked like a clearing with a hang man's stand in the middle. To the left hung a boy of about fourteen, dead, and to the right hung Maria, a knife in her back, also dead.
"What about my Alice? What will happen to her?!" His thoughts bombarded me again, overlapping those of the man behind him.
The vision suddenly fuzzed and blurred until I could see nothing but Alice's stricken face in my eyes. She let go of me and shrunk into a ball, sobbing sobs more heart-wrenching than ever.
"Oh My God." I murmured. I looked up and saw the Cullen's confused faces.
"I think I just found my power." I mentioned stupidly. They gathered around.
"What do you mean?" asked Edward
"What is it?" Carlisle inquired.
They waited for me to answer and just as I opened my mouth to speak, Alice broke in and explained.
"Her power is intuition and invasion. Her mind was so strong when she was a human that now it has the ability to invade people's mind at will, to probe and seek everything she needs. Her intuition tells her the inner most thoughts. Just like reading Jasper's thoughts in my vision."
I didn't know that, so I looked as dumbstruck as the rest of them.
"That would make her the strongest of us. Mind wise of course." Carlisle spoke, we all turned to him. "What did you see, sweetheart?" He asked Alice, encouraging her to speak. She only shook her head and turned to me, asking me to say instead.
"Uh, well, when Alice pulled me into the vision, I saw Maria and Jasper feeding or biting a pair of newborns, I don't why, and before I could figure it out, the thing changed to show Jasper on his way to being hanged."
"Hanged, you say?" Esme gasped.
I nodded. "He was wearing his confederate uniform and was in shackles. Maria was already dead, and there was a boy beside her, fourteen years old I'm guessing, he was dead as well. Both hanged."
"But Jasper is a vampire, I'm sure it's not possible for him to be restrained by metal. And nobody kills by hanging, not anymore. It wouldn't hurt Jasper." Edward argued, moving to sit between Alice and me.
"Unless…" Emmett started but didn't finish.
"Unless what Emmett?" Rosalie prodded, looking worse for wear, and wracked with worry for the family.
"Unless, or course, it was the Volturi." He said.
And just like that, I knew. Again.
