[Disclaimer] Everything Twilight belongs to Mrs. Stephenie Meyer

**Visions of Names**

His voice is hard when he speaks up after taking a deep breath through his parted lips. I know he doesn't like the things he's seeing in my head but I have no power over them. What I know is that I'm going to protect her as long as her heart is beating and maybe even afterwards. I have told the entire coven about Victoria and Edward is beyond furious because I couldn't manage to keep the last part of the vision a secret.

So, she does love me. What are you supposed to do against it? I ask him in my mind.

"You'll stay away from her." Edward growls, the caramel in his eyes turning to black coal.

"Try to make me." I snarl back, opening the front door of our house. Outside the air is filled with the aroma of upcoming rain and somewhere far in the distance I can hear thunder roaring. I will go and see her now, whether Edward likes the thought or not. I have to see her.

"Alice, I want you to stay here. " Jasper stats, placing his arms around my shoulder before he gently blows a kiss on my ear.

"You are so terribly tensed. Let me make you feel better. Let me make you forget your worries."

I turn around and before I can think twice about what I'm doing I slap him right across the face. Anger spreads through me and although it's gone about a heartbeat later, I still know that it's there.

"Don't ever dare to mess with my emotions. You may not like them but they are still mine."

"I'm just trying to help you. Bella is a human, she's not like us and even Edward as her boyfriend is able to grasp this fact. If Victoria is after her we can try to protect her but telling her about what you have seen is stupid. It would make her freak."

"Good bye, Jasper."

"Alice, please…,"

Guilt washes over me but when I run through the forest and bring some distance between me and him it vanishes almost completely.

I climb up the tree in her front yard and with a jump through her opened window I land gracefully in her room.

She doesn't wake up and so I sit down on the edge of her bed, running my fingertip down her forehead and over her nose until she yawns and wrinkles her face a bit.

"Alice?"

"Can you wake up for me, Bella?"

"Why are you here?" she whispers and somehow her voice sounds sadder to me than tired. I wonder what's the reason behind that? Doesn't she want me here?

"I had a vision about Victoria showing up and hurting you. Edward said it's not necessary to tell you because with all six of us protecting you there isn't the slightest bit of a chance she'll get through to you."

"I'm still glad you told me. I'm not as weak as he thinks I am."

"I know." I whisper, taking her hand in mine. It's so warm and I like how her pulse quickens when I circle my thumb over her wrist. I can feel the scars that James teeth have left on her breakable human skin and take a deep breathe.

"There is something else I saw but I don't know if I should tell you about that."

"Please, Alice..,"

"You told me you loved me."

"Oh Alice, you have to forget about that."

"So, is it not true? Because I do love you a lot."

"Like a sister, I know. Please, Alice, just go now and leave me alone."

She starts crying and I stand up from the bed, just to kneel down next to it a moment later. My hands cup her face and gently as if she could break, I wipe the tears from her chin.

"I hate to see you cry. I hate to see you unhappy."

"I told you to leave!"

"Tell me you don't want me here. Tell me that you don't love me and I'm off here."

"Oh Alice, if you knew…if you could just remember…even if it was for one single minute you'd understand."

"Bella, you're not making any sense to me. Nothing makes any sense to me anymore since we returned from Phoenix and my own emotions are starting to irritate me. Tell me what is wrong. I want to understa…"

She leans forward and as light as a feather her mouth brushes gently against mine. I stiffen but her lips on mine feel good. They are so incredibly soft and I run the tip of my tongue over it to feel some more. With a low moan her lips part, giving me the first chance on tasting the sweetness of her mouth. I smell her blood that is racing through her veins and her heart beating frantically against my chest and for the first time ever I get a glimpse on how it must feel like to be alive.

"I love you, Alice and it's not the love of a sister I have for you. I tried so hard to ignore it but I can't."

I caress her hair while she rests her head in my lap and while I move my fingertips through the wisps of brown and mahogany shades the vision enters my mind. It's weird because everything seems blurred somehow but then I see how Bella scrawls down something on a sheet of paper. Her mouth curls into a smile when she hands it to me and I can see myself starring down at it.

"That's who you were." she whispers into my ear while the fingers of her left hand stay wrapped around my waist.

Who I was?

Then I see the three words she has written down on the paper and while I read them my head starts spinning and eventually I tumble into a spiral of darkness while the tiny letters keep flashing up in front of my eyes over and over again.

Mary

Alice

Brandon