Alice, Jasper, Edward and Bella drove the Volvo Porche back from Seatlle after one of Alice's famous indulgent shopping adventures. Edward and Bella sat in the back seat cluttered with packages of every color.
"Restocking our closet again Alice?" Edward grumbled as Bella smiled up at him.
"Well, clothes make us look presentable. Cannot be running around in something worn countless times". She said smiling to Jasper as he nodded.
Alice turned back to the road, her eyes flashing over the trees and the aspahlt beneath them. She frowned, her eyes narrowing and widening as she squeezed the steering wheel. Her head fell back against the chair as she gaped at the ceiling, a long gasp tearing out her mouth.
Jasper clenched his teeth as he leaped at the wheel, he hands catching it as Alice's hands fell away.
She stared blankly as the rear view mirror as the car spun and skidded off the road.
~~~Alice:
I was thrust back into a small village, following the dark haired girl as she moved in between the brick houses. The moon hung high in the sky, casting a blue glow of the dirt road. The girl shivered as she hugged her coat tightly around her, her eyes flashing to the shadows between the houses.
Her feet swept across the dirt, bare and bloody. She turned into an alley, her eyes growing wide as she came upon a brick wall. She turned on her heel, stopping as a man stood in the entranceway of the alley.
He was a thin man -about thirty by the looks of his scruffy blond beard- with long gangly limbs and a sunken face. His hands hung down at his side as he breathed heavily. His red eyes focused on the young girl as she trembled and pawed at the brick wall for an escape. The man sped forward, closing the space between them with his hand wrapping around her neck.
The girl struggled and gasped, kicking into his gut as he smiled darkly at her. He turned to the side, slamming her small body into the bricks. The girl screamed as his teeth plunged into her neck, spraying blood into the air.
I shook my head as I was thrown backward into the small car.
Jasper was leaning over Alice, his hand clenched around the wheel in a vice grip as Edward and Bella gaped at them. Alice's eyes rolled to Jasper, her brows furrowing.
"What are you doing"? She said looking around at the tree branches that pressed against the side of the car.
"You had a vision, you almost wrecked the car". Edward said from the back seat as Jasper nodded in agreement.
Jasper slid across the arm rest, his hand pulling Alice from the seat. She slid over him into passenger seat as he settled behind the wheel.
"What did you see"? Bella said leaning forward as Alice turned to her.
"I saw who killed her". Alice whispered as Jasper led the car back onto the road.
"The girl? Who was it"? Bella said glancing at Edward.
"I don't know. He was different. There was something uncivilized about him." Alice frowned, her eyes turning out to the forest. "He was animalistic in a way." She muttered to the glass.
"What does this all mean"? Bella said looking to Edward quickly.
"Carlisile said for a while at the very beginning, our kind were crazed for blood. They stalked graveyards, churches, towns, anywhere where people were sure to be found. They did not act like the humans, so they were recognized for what the people saw them as. Demons. That was the only explaination for a glowing creature gliding out of the cemetery." Edward shook his head slowly. "I suppose some of us who live in less civilized places act accordingly."
"How is that possible? This isn't the 1600s". Bella said looking between Alice and Jasper.
"That is true. Yet some of us do act like we live in the 1600's". He muttered as Alice sighed.
Leaning her head against the window, she stared out silently as Jasper clenched her hand.
