AN: This is Alice's Story but Jasper will be telling it.

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Jasper was driving Esme to pick up her latest drug rehab patient, she had given him a brief run down. He was mulling over the details as they approached the gated drive of the large white house.

Alice Mary Brandon was a 19 year old self-referral. She was heiress to some British title and a small fortune. She was staying in town with cousins. She had looked up the website and called Esme.

Esme had chatted to the girl briefly on the phone then taking into consideration the desperateness of her plea, had agreed to come get her straight away.

Edward or Carlisle usual did pick up's but they were both out so he had agreed to help.

He parked at the front doors waited in the car whilst Esme approached and rung the bell. It was quite a while before a petite girl with pixie cut black hair and cute face opened the door. Waves of relief washed from her, Jasper was surprised when he realised she was the druggy! She looked far younger than 19. She also didn't look the usual unkempt desperate type.

He watched as she bent to pick up a small bag and shut the door behind her. He now wished Edward was here, he wanted to know everything about, what she was thinking, what had driven her to this, where had she come from? Oh well soon enough, back at the unit it would all come out.

Jasper went to get out of the car to help her in but Esme shook her head softly to discourage, he assumed so she didn't feel threatened. So he stayed in the driving seat facing forward as the two women got into the back.

He pulled away unsure what was happening to him, he felt drawn to the dark pixie perched on the rear seat. Nervousness was flowing from her and that was understandable, but so much more than that. He couldn't separate the emotions. He didn't understand how he was getting them all at once!

Jasper wondered how Esme would deal with this patient. Usually they were high when a family doctor, partner or parent called them in. Then she would administer a light sedative if required in transit, carry them into the unit, place them into rebirth and wait. Edward meanwhile would be gaining what insight he could into their drive, craving and personality.

Alice did not look like she was high, in fact she looked positively healthy. He wondered what Esme would plan. When they pulled up at the side of the unit Esme said "Thank you Jasper I will take Alice from here, if you could unlock and let the rest of the staff know she is with us that would be great"

Now out of the car with the tiny pixie looking up into his face he just nodded unable to say anything else and entered the unit by the side door. He rushed through to the control room and released the locks on the front doors for Esme and Alice to enter. He watched on the camera as Esme led Alice to room one, so he released the lock on that door.

Jasper controlled the cctv to flick to the next camera, Esme was asking Alice to take a seat on the only chair in the room, it looked too big for her, her frame was tiny, her legs short and didn't let her feet touch the floor.

"If you wouldn't mind waiting here for me, I just need to collect some things" Esme told her then she arrived in control next to him.

"Is Edward not back yet?" she asked

"No they probably won't be back for a couple more hours. What's your plan" he asked

Esme was withdrawing papers from the filling drawer, she outlined the plan, hoping that she could progress slowly with questions and preparations with Alice before Edward and Carlisle got back as their skills were paramount to the success of the next stage.

Taking a chair with her Esme returned to sit beside Alice at the small table. Esme laid out our business papers on the table, she smiled at Alice and started to talk to her gently

"Here are our papers, you should understand that everything you share with us is confidential, we will use it only to plan your therapy here. I will of course share the necessary details with my associates here to assist them in your care but only what I feel they need to know. I am not making any notes, nor am I recording this. You can speak freely and I have all night if you need it so just relax and start at the beginning"

Alice smiled, a feeling of relief waved off of her. Jasper relaxed a bit, her emotions were like a roller coaster and almost too much for him.

Alice smiled at Esme saying "It's ok I know what you need to know"

She took a drink from the glass of water on the table and started to tell Esme about herself.

"I was born in the UK just outside London, my parents were quite wealthy. They had wanted me so much, I was the result of their fifth attempt at IVF, so I am an only child. I was diagnosed with Leukaemia when I was 4, they tried everything, every treatment every private hospital in 4 countries." She took a shuddering breath and sobbed lightly.

Jasper rested his chin on his hands, unable to take his eyes from the monitor, watching the pixie tell her story, listening to her and wishing he could take it all away. The wave of pain and suffering had floored him.

She continued "By the time I was 12 I had spent more of my life in hospital wards than at home, I only saw my family home if I was let out for Christmas. My bones were so weak I was in a wheelchair, my stomach couldn't process food so I had a tube to my stomach. Still my parents searched for a cure, not believing that they couldn't buy a cure anywhere, not willing to believe what their eyes showed them. I was more dead than alive"

Eventually they moved me to a hospice in the Swiss mountains. It was a beautiful place, nestled in between the snow topped mountain slopes. Everyone in there was older than me and all looked more dead than alive" her eyes glazed over with a faraway look.

"I knew I had been placed there to die" she rested quietly for a moment. "I found my youth and my light heartedness bought happiness to many of the sad souls. I could read, so I spent hours reading aloud to anyone who asked me. I watched as each soul gave up the fight and let the body die. I marvelled at the patience of the nurses and staff, how they coped day after day with a smile on their faces and cheer in their voices even when their hearts were breaking watching people they had cared for, sometimes for years, pass away." Jasper smiled he was just getting compassion, sympathy and admiration. He admired Alice for her ability to cope with what she had seen.

"Whilst all the other patients got worse and passed on, my condition didn't worsen. I remained sick, frail even but it didn't kill me. I had been in the hospice for 3 years when my parents arrived to visit with a doctor from USA they had bought in. He was a kind man, he ran some tests, reviewed my notes and looked me over. Then told my parents that the staff were right it appeared that the cancer was not getting worse and that I was fighting the illness. He suggested moving me to New York to his hospital, that he wanted to work me through a physio course to strengthen my body and start to introduce food again to fuel it. I wasn't happy, I had become valued there, I was more than a patient, I was needed there. We fought, eventually he and my parents left saying that they would put of moving me for a month but would start the planning." Alice took a moment to compose herself now sadness was waving off of her, Jasper was drawn to comfort her, he gripped his hands together to resist the pull.

She heaved a sob and started to talk but much more quietly "My parents and the doctor left next morning, as they drove away down the mountain pass, I saw the lorry driver make and error judgement and pull too wide on the bend. The doctor wasn't experienced on those types of roads and swung too wide, the car containing him and my parents careened off of the cliff and they plummeted to their deaths." she shuddered to a halt seemingly exhausted from the story.

Esme let her sit for a while, then she rested a hand on her shoulder in comfort. Alice took a deep breath and continued "They told me that the doctor had lost control, that perhaps a mountain goat had been on the road, I tried to tell them about the lorry driver but they wouldn't listen. They wanted to sedate me, saying I was distraught. I was nearly 16 years old, my uncle became my guardian, with enough money in trust for me to choose to do what I liked. I talked with the hospice managers and agreed to stay with them for sixth months or so, but change my treatment plan. They brought in an amazing physio, who worked with me for hours every day. I regained my strength, I started to eat food again and I started to walk again. I extended my stay but after a year they talked me into going to visit my aunt and uncle in U.S . Going to college and building a life for myself."

Alice had a drink of water and rested her head on her folded arms on the table. Esme thought she was finished, but didn't know how to progress her treatment, Edward was necessary to the next stage. She hadn't heard him return.

Suddenly Alice raised her head, looked at Esme and whispered "And that is when everything went wrong" Esme was dumb struck, how could Alice's story get any worse.

"Don't get me wrong, I love my Aunt and Uncle, my cousins are my only friends, so living with them is great. I decided to go to college to study fashion. I had never been in an education building surrounded by people. I struggled with feeling claustrophobic. I would rush out of lectures and head out of the building trying not to talk to people. Then once i had meet people in lectures and practical sessions, I started to SEE more!" she paused Jasper notices the wave of despair. He turned to look up at Edward as he and Carlisle returned to the unit.

"I saw things about to happen, I wanted to warn people, but the only times I did they thought I was mad. One time someone I told asked me what I was high on, so I just smiled and agreed that it was something good. The more people I came into contact with the more things I saw, they were disturbing my sleeping hours as well as awake. I started to take sedatives to help me sleep and they dulled the visions so I would take them regularly."

Her shoulders shrugged and she bowed her head, defeat and despair radiated from her again.

Esme took a moment "Alice I do not think you are mad, I am sure that what you are telling me is the truth. Alice you searched us out, what are you looking to achieve here? What made you call us?"

Alice looked straight into Esme's eyes "A lady who works in the library at college has decided to call you, I don't know if she has had the courage to make the call yet, but she will. I went onto the internet to look up what ReBirth was, once I decided to call you myself I could see it was the right thing to do, I will meet people here who will be good for me" she finished.

"Alice I wish to take a moment to sort some things out with our staff here, and arrange your treatment is that ok?"

Alice smiled and nodded.

Esme left the room and returned to control. Jasper had tears streaming down his face. "So much despair, so much sadness" he croaked.

Edward was sitting across from him studying the table, his mind busy.

"What she says is the truth but her head is so busy, memories of things that happen but don't contain her either actively or spectator. I really am finding it hard to read her. She feels she and Jasper who she hasn't even spoken to will become an item"

Jasper spluttered out "Like that could ever happen!"

"She has memories of them kissing! How strange. Esme what she has told you since I returned has all been the truth. She does believe she sees things happen to people she knows it has meet when they make decisions."

Carlisle, who had been getting the Birth room ready, appeared at the door. "She is a seer, I have seen them before, many years ago. Over the years those blessed with the gift have been persecuted in many ways." Turning to Esme he smiled at her "So plan of action same as usual?"

Esme returned the smile "Yes I believe she will benefit from ReBirth, I think she may be looking for somewhere that she is accepted, somewhere she can be herself, somewhere that her income and title mean nothing" she looked questioningly at Edward.

"Yes" he nodded "I think she trusts you already, I think she will try anything. I am not sure she is looking to be cured of the seeing, more to be cured of her need to take drugs to cope with the seeing"

They all nodded their agreement when Edward growled "Wait" his face drifted as he was watching the Alice on the camera screen. Her face was blank and she had a faraway look in her eyes, then she shouted out "No No No" Jasper was on his feet and out the door, he held her to his chest cradling her and soothing as only he could.

Edward wad heading out the other door shouting for Carlisle to come with him. Explaining that she had just seen a student decide to take a gun and go visit one of the lecturers that he didn't get one with. Edward hoped they could find him and stop it happening.

AN So now we understand about Alice and a little about Jasper and Edward. Shall we hear how her sessions progress or shall we return to Edward and Bella now we understand more about the history before Bella arrived?