So, Alice knows Bella's secret. What will go down? Some superheroics? Or something else entirely? You are about to find out...
I could hardly believe it, Alice was standing there in full costume; I wasn't exactly sure how she managed to track me down, you would think this would concern me a bit but I was just so psyched to see my girlfriend there.
"Alice! This is amazing! Did you make this yourself?"
"What? No, I got some help! Now come on, I'm getting you out of here!"
"Alice, I can't", I said looking around to see if anyone was watching us. "I'm going on patrol."
"You could get hurt again. You could die", she said while holding my shoulders and giving me a shake.
I knew that Alice was scared for me and by the looks of things, was the only person with sound mind. It was a real thrill to have her there in costume, even if it was just a disguise to get me out. Then something came to me, how was Alice here? Did she make a video? What crime could she have stopped?
"Alice, how did they let you in?"
"I don't think anyone knows I'm here. I followed you in my car the whole way. No one has asked me any questions yet."
I started to worry that she would get kicked out or that they would beat her up, she hadn't gone through any initiation. I guess it was probably best to leave. Alice told me that Rosalie was covering for her back home, but couldn't stall the rest of the family for long, they would soon come looking for her. I hated to get her into deep shit. Before we could even break away from the others, that blue guy, Blue Toxin walked out into the middle of the field with a megaphone.
"Thank you all for coming! I am very pleased by this turn out, now we will be going through some pretty mean streets tonight, so I want everyone to be alert! Pink Plus will be handing out papers with your route. I want everyone to meet back here at 2:30am. Remember, when you are out there do not be afraid to use force when necessary. I would like to keep the violence to a minimum. Another thing, the police are still on your side but they don't know that so be aware of any squad cars in the area."
I received a sheet that gave me pretty basic instructions about where I was going and what to expect. It was a pretty rundown neighbourhood known for it's drug dealers and nightly muggings.
"Where did you park?", I asked Alice.
She pointed over to a bunch of bushes where I guessed her car was behind.
"Okay, wait for me there", I said as I was about to take off.
Alice grabbed my arm with a surprisingly tight grip.
"What? No, we're leaving!"
"I just want to check it out, the first sign of trouble I'll come running back here", I said with doe eyes.
Alice's cold stare told me she wasn't buying it.
"I'll come with you."
"What? No, Alice!"
"If I can't convince you to leave then I'm just going to have to come with you to see what the fuss is about!"
I didn't want to argue with her, I decided I was more than capable of protecting her and would get us both home safely.
The street we had to patrol together wasn't even that far away and the neighbourhood didn't even look all that bad other than a few buildings with graffiti. Alice had her arms folded the entire time we walked, she wouldn't really say anything she would just sigh every few minutes and look around shaking her head in disapproval.
"So, have you thought of a name yet?", I asked jokingly.
She ignored me, looking off to the side. She was probably getting bored, I guess this wouldn't really be her thing any way, it was a lot of waiting around, no real different from being a cop or some security guard. The street was pretty quiet and there was no one around but us.
"Satisfied?", she asked.
"Just a little longer",I said almost pleading.
We sat at a bench under one of the only working street lights. Alice took her helmet off.
"Bella, why do you feel you have to do this?"
"Well...I think because I've never been all that happy with what I was doing before. Why would I want to pretend to be happy hanging out with a bunch of douchebags like Mike and Jessica , going to parties and yaking about bullshit?"
"What about me? Don't you like hanging out with me?"
"Yes, of course. It's just that I feel like I need to break free of this teenager shit once in a while. Like I need to feel like I'm wanted somewhere."
Alice took a hold of my hand, I looked at her sparkling eyes.
"I've always wanted you, Bella Swan"
I went in for a kiss, but she stopped me before I could even get an inch closer.
"I haven't told you that much about myself, I've kept it private because I was afraid but I think now I can", she said with a smile. "You already know how everyone in my foster family looks alike even though we are all from different families?"
I nodded, smiling. I began to realize that I still had my mask on so this probably looked ridiculous to have this conversation while doing so.
"I'm not sure if you've realized anything like the golden eyes, why we're so cold, why I say I'm sick a lot. Why I say I can see into the future. I mean I know I haven't lately but that's beside the point. We're vampires, I know that's probably very hard for you to believe."
It was hard for me to believe, I didn't believe in people coming back from the dead or monsters for that matter. What I did believe in was cults and scary religious people.
"Alice, could it be possible that you're just part of some cult? I don't want to offend you or anything but it seems like they have you brainwashed or something."
She didn't say anything at first, I was hoping I didn't hurt her. I couldn't tell by the face she was giving me what her emotion was. Then almost out of nowhere she started laughing uncontrollably.
"Seriously? You think I'm part of a cult? Bella, what would you call what you're doing?", she said between laughs and gasps for air.
I guess I hadn't really thought about it, I guess I was kind of brainwashed by these people in some way. But how could Alice be a vampire? There was no possible way this could be true. She went into great detail telling me about being saved when being at near death, she was brought in by the Cullens nearly 100 years ago.
"So, what you're saying is, I've been dating an old lady?", I said.
She shook her head, she wanted me to try to take her serious. She went into this whole rant about the guy I killed and that he had red glowing eyes, which meant he drank human blood, gold means you drink animal blood , and black means you're hungry and could go for anything.
"I have to admit that you did a good job saving Angela, but next time you might kill an innocent person."
"Would you ever drink my blood?", I asked her seriously.
"Heavens, no!", she said in fear.
"Why? If you really are a vampire, wouldn't you want me to be one too?"
"I drink blood from rabbits and squirrels, Bella, it's not really all that glamourous."
"You still can't see the future. You can't even see tomato sauce being dumped on you."
"I was good at dodging it before you came along. I had visions of you before I even came to Forks, that's what's been messing me up. The other night I concentrated really hard and I saw you here and well..."
This made sense. But it felt stalkerish.
"I have trouble seeing mortals' futures but I have no trouble seeing my own or others of my kind."
There was a smash, like something crashing into some garbage cans, I looked in the direction of a dark alleyway. Probably nothing.
"I saw something else, something that made me sick. I saw a lot of blood. Something very bad will happen if you continue doing this."
I believed her, even if the whole vampire thing wasn't true, I knew in my heart that she could see that something was going to put a sad ending to this little fantasy of mine.
I heard another smash and this time a voice.
"Please, somebody help me!"
I looked to see a man running in our direction, there was someone or something chasing after him. I stood up immediately, ready to help this guy. Alice was at my side, we ran together to find out what the trouble was.
There were two guys chasing this scared looking dude, the only impulse I had was to save him; he could have been some gang banger for all I knew but at the time, that didn't matter. The two guys chasing him were huge, I think they were Latino from the way they spoke. They cornered him against a building, I made sure Alice was behind me as I walked up to them.
I held my bow in hand and was reaching for an arrow before Alice intervened.
"No!", she shouted.
I let go of the arrow. One of the guys spun around and got a laugh.
"What the fuck! Get a load of this, man!", he said to his partner in crime.
I tried to shield Alice but she wasn't being very cooperative. The two scary Latinos walked over to us, leaving the other dude, who at the time was on the ground moaning in agony.
"What the fuck is this?", one asked with a shit eating grin.
I lunged at him, but he backed up, dodging my punch. He laughed a little before brass knuckling the side of my face. Alice sprung into action, giving him a shove before I could object. It didn't take long for the other guy to join us in the scuffle. I had one of them down on his back eventually, I started laying down the law on him with some jabs. He wasn't getting up, I looked over to the other guy who was about to go for Alice; big mistake.
Then it happened, Alice, this small being, with all of her might lifted this dude; he had to be at least 230lbs with all of that muscle and here this 98 lbs, maybe less, girl was picking him up like he was nothing. She threw him against a light post. I stumbled over to her, she was still looking at the guy, who was now in a heap, knocked unconscious.
"Where the hell did that come from?", I asked.
"We should call an ambulance for that other guy", she said still looking at her amazing work.
I hugged her tightly.
"Don't", she said. "I didn't want to do that."
We walked over to the injured guy, the only thing I could think of at the time was the fact that Alice was an awesome sidekick. That awesome moment was shattered though, someone was watching us from a distance, all I could see was his red glowing eyes.
"We have to go now", said Alice, grabbing my hand.
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