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"Alice, how does it work, your visions of the future?" I asked after about a minute of silence.

She looked back at me and studied me for a moment before answering. ""Some things are more certain than others... like the weather. People are harder. I only see the course they're on while they're on it. Once they change their minds - make a new decision, no matter how small - the whole future shifts."

A snap decision. I was going to have to make the decision to go after James very quickly so she couldn't tell.

"That's interesting," I said. I prayed to Artemis some more on the way to the airport for her help. I wasn't the prey any longer, now I was the hunter.

I spent the rest of the ride to the airport focusing on leading Alice away from what I was doing. I imagined parking at the airport, walking around; getting a donut or some other horrid matter that is called food at the airport, seeing Edward, Carlisle, Esme, and Rosalie and Emmett. I imagined Rosalie's beautiful face made ugly by a frown she always wore around me, but I focused on being at the airport. After a while, I could tell Alice was wound up less tightly. Jasper's talent at calming people down helped as well.

They parked in a garage, and thankfully, the plane everyone was on was landing in terminal four, the busiest one. We all took seats and waited. I waited until it was a half hour until the plane landed. Then suddenly I was out of time because it was landing ten minutes early. I had twenty minutes left.

"I think I'll eat now," I announced. "Percy, are you coming with?"

"Alright," he said.

"I'll go with you," Jasper said quietly. Alice waved goodbye with a tight smile as we walked away.

"Hey guys, sorry to break it to you, but I gotta make a pit stop," I said and jerked my thumb at the ladies room.

Percy rolled his eyes. "We'll wait," Jasper said with a nod.

"Alright," I said. I started to walk away, but I turned around and said, "Hey Jasper thanks for…everything you've done the past couple of days. I really appreciate it."

"You're welcome," he said. I was grateful, I really was. He could tell that, I was sure.

"Shoo," Percy said and pushed me back to the bathroom. I swatted his hand away and walked into the bathroom at an easy walk.

I started running as soon as the door closed. This bathroom had two exits, I found out when we picked up Renée's mom from this airport a few years ago. People gave me strange looks, but as soon as the door closed, I drew the mist around me. Instead of my black hair, green eyes and freckles, someone saw someone with brown hair and eyes, with no freckles and wearing different clothes. It took concentration, but people didn't see me, just another girl.

I ran to the elevators, and there was a full one headed for the first level. I bounced up and down as soon as the doors closed. The elevator was mostly empty by the time it reached the first level, and I was ready to take off again, had stepped out until I heard something behind me.

"Wait, you dropped something!" I hadn't dropped anything, but turned around. Time slowed down around me.

A girl who looked about twelve years old was coming to me, with her hands stretched out in front of her. I opened my hand and she put a silver lighter in my hand, it looked like the one in my dream. I recoiled, but she closed my fingers around it and put her finger to her lips. I put my head down and said, "thank you, Lady Artemis," to the girl.

She smiled, and said, "Best luck on your hunt."

She disappeared and it seemed like time was back to normal. I put the lighter in my pocket and ran outside, but I couldn't see a cab. I was running low on time, it had been two minutes, and no woman takes that long to pee, Jasper was probably onto my scent. A cab came up with a haggard looking businessman in a suit hurrying out.

"Can you go from here?" I asked the cabbie after the businessman left.

"Yeah," he said. I got in the back and closed the door.

"Now where would you need to go, princess?" he asked and turned around. Monster, great. I grabbed a knife out of my shoe and cut his throat. His claws tore my shirt, but I didn't care. It didn't hurt at all. I dusted the residue off of the seat, and just my luck, he'd left the key in the ignition. I adjusted my mirrors, and was off.

It took about an hour to get to Renee's house, and I seriously doubted that the vampires would know Phoenix like I did, which was another advantage I had. I pulled up to the empty house and parked the car in the driveway. I used the mist to have everyone think there was a cabbie waiting for me in the car.

I ran to the phone, and saw the address James left by the phone. I threw it away, his handwriting was terrible. But it was what I expected, the ballet studio. But there was a phone number under the address. The phone was a landline, which sent out less signals than a cell phone. I dialed the number.

"You're very quick, I'm impressed," he said lazily.

"Is my mom alright?" I asked. I put just enough fear in my voice to sound scared.

"I have no quarrel with her," he said. I rolled my eyes and made faces at myself in the mirror. "Unless, of course, you're not alone," he said.

"Yeah, I'm alone." I said.

"Good, good," he said. "The ballet studio is right around the corner from your house, you know."

"I'll be there." I said. I hung up, that way I could have the last word. I left the house and locked the door behind me just in case I didn't make it back before I ran into the good vampires. I went into the cab and drove like crazy to the studio. I parked the cab next to the building, and killed the engine. I left my bag in the car, and took the key for the cab with me in my pocket.

The sign on the front door of the studio said it was closed for spring break. The door was unlocked. It was cool inside, and the air conditioner was running full blast. I took some quick deep breaths to give me energy to fight.

"Meda, Meda are you there?" my mother's panicked voice said when I ran into the building.

The TV screen she was talking from turned blue. He was on the opposite side of the room.

"You didn't have to use the VCR, you know. We have some family movies on DVD. Get with the times," I said as he walked slowly towards me.

"Your mother isn't here," he said triumphantly.

"I could tell, with the TV going blue and all," I said, gesturing to the screen.

He looked at me curiously. "You're different," he said after a short pause. He didn't say anything else.

"You say that like its surprising. But in kindergarten, they teach us that we're all special snowflakes," I said seriously.

He laughed. "I'd like you if we got to know each other some more."

"But that's not going to happen, is it, because you're planning on trying to kill me." I said.

"That's true. Now, what do you think your boyfriends going to do after I do kill you?" he asked.

"Okay, one, we're soooo not dating," I said. "Like, Ew. And two, I don't know, I'm sure Percy will tell him something." I shrugged.

"Your brother, right? He smells lovely," James said. "I'll have to get right to work on him after I finish here."

I curled a lip at him, but kept my mouth shut for this one.

"But do you mind if I tell Edward something?" James asked. He brought up a small video recorder and turned it on. "You're bravado is really something," he said. "It's wonderful, truly."

I crossed my eyes and stuck out my tongue. He circled me, laughing at what he perceived as stupidity. I was facing a mirror, and I could see him watch me. I'm sure he could hear my heart beat faster; my breaths come quicker, and thought it was out of fear. I saw him crouch slowly, and saw in his eyes that he wasn't going to make this fast. He wanted to make me suffer. I turned up the corner of my mouth.

He launched himself at me. I bent my knees to drop to the floor, but wasn't fast enough. I was flung against the mirrors. I flew through the air slowly, and my back hit the wall, I landed on my front and stood up quickly. My shirt and jeans ripped from the mirrors, but nothing else was hurt on me. I crouched just the way he did and my fingers clenched into a fist so I could grab the dagger in my sleeve. James was looking at me with something like fear on his face.

"What are you?" he asked.

"Did you honestly think you're the only non-human out there?" I asked.

"What are you?" he asked again.

I walked up to him and moving faster than I've ever moved before, stabbed him in the shoulder, said "half-blood."

He looked at the knife in his shoulder and yelled "what is this?" as he tried to pull it out of his body, but it looked like it was stuck. He kept tugging and tugging at the blade, never giving up, staggering around in a circle. He howled in pain, something I guessed he wasn't used to experiencing for the past couple hundred years or so.

"You're just full of questions today aren't you?" I asked. I brought my pencils out of my pockets, clicked the buttons and cut off his head. I also sliced his side, and his body fell to the ground. My blades cut him like he was made of butter. It was kind of gross, but I had bigger problems. I pulled the dagger out of his shoulder easily, and went into action. I ran to the cab, grabbed my bag and quickly changed my clothes, hiding evidence. I cut James up into smaller pieces, and set him on fire with the lighter lady Artemis gave me. I gave her my thanks, and promptly ran out of the building. The fire wasn't a normal fire, it grew faster than I ever imagined.

I left the cab parked near the building, I was sure it would burn as well. My feet smacked the pavement as I ran to my mother's house. Edward and his family were on to me, I was sure. What was I going to tell them? I couldn't tell them, not yet. The story came to me in an instant. Tell them another vampire came after James. Shift the suspicion away from me, it would work. It had to. Besides, a guy like him had to have some enemies, right?

In that instant, a blue car with tinted windows screeches to a halt beside me. Percy yanks me inside and Alice revs the engine and the car bolts away from my mother's house, away from the burning building and everyone is wondering what happened.

I tell them that I thought he had my mother, that he told me to come alone or he'd kill her. I'm careful to put just the right amount of fear into my voice so they believe me. I told them about the other vampire coming after James and telling me to run.

"Are you serious?" Emmett asked me.

"You think I'm making this shit up? I make ONE friend here, and boom, he turns into a disco ball when he walks into the sun! His family eats Bambi for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and you're sitting there, asking me if I'm serious?" I asked.

"Dammit Meda, you should have told us!" Edward raises his voice.

"Well I couldn't, because he said he'd kill her, you idiot! Have you been listening to a damn word I've been saying?" I asked. "What?" I said, because half of his entire family was looking at me in shock. "I did what I thought I had to do. I'm fine, get over it." I finished. I stared moodily out of the window and refused to talk the rest of the way.

But I felt good.

I won.