Chapter 24:

You Know How I Killed My Father When I Was a Newborn? Well it Turns Out that that Man Wasn't My Dad

Edward and I opened an unlocked back door of the dance studio. Walking in, we noticed that the lights were off. It was around 2 o'clock P.M. now. So now all we had to do was wait.

Unfortunately, while waiting, Edward suddenly exclaimed. "Someone's here!"

I looked at him. "Who? What is he or she thinking?"

"It's a he," Edward said. "He's a vampire. Not from the Volturi. He has the power to make you remember your worse and painful memories, even if you don't remember them yourself. He gets them by digging through your past. When he's making you remember these painful memories, you can't stop him. Only he can stop himself."

"And he's here?" I asked. "Why?"

"I don't know," Edward said. "He won't think it."

Just then, something came in front of my eyes. It was like a vision but it of wasn't the future; it was of the past. It was me as a newborn baby. I wasn't able to breathe. I felt myself trying to catch my breath but it wasn't working. I didn't know what was going on.

"Alice, it's okay. The man is using his power on you," Edward said. "I'm right here. I won't leave you."

The vision of my being an un-breathing baby changed. I was now a freezing baby. In the present, I fell to the ground and started shaking. My teeth chattered. I noticed that I was able to see my past but in the present, I reenacted it.

My next vision was me being slapped at the age of five. My present-self winced and cried along with my past-self.

The vision changed again. This time I was eleven and I had a broken leg. In both present and past, I clutched my broken leg by the knee. At the same time, I screamed and cried. I started to yell, "MOMMA! DADDY!"

"Alice, shush. Stop screaming. It'll be alright," Edward said.

But as he said before, I couldn't stop on my own will. Only the man doing this to me can stop himself. Unfortunately, he was giving me another memory of the past. This one I had Epilepsy. Epilepsy is when you have seizures that you can't control and you don't remember anything once they're done. So I was quiet for this one but I was jerking drastically. Edward was holding down my body but the jerking didn't stop.

This memory passed and now I was on one of the ones A.C. showed me when I first met her. It was when I first met Edward and he scared me half to death. I was shaking and crying. Edward rubbed my back as an apology.

That was the shortest memory yet. The next one was me giving birth to A.C. Now you all know how this turned out. I screamed when A.C. ripped through my stomach. Back in the present, I was on my back but I kept making tiny arches with it from the pain it gave me. I wasn't able to catch my breath but then I started feeling more pain while the needle went through my skin to put the stitches in.

At first I thought that was the most painful memory the man could give me. But it turns out it wasn't. Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, and A.C. came at this point and made a circle around me.

"What's happening to her?" Esme asked.

Edward explained to them about the man and his power. He told them I was reenacting the pain I was feeling unintentionally. They all bent down next to me while I was finishing up the memory of A.C.'s birth.

"Can't we just get her out of the phase ourselves?" Jasper asked.

"No," Edward said. "Only the man could stop himself."

The memory of A.C.'s birth was ending. Another memory came into view. I was strapped onto a table and I was sickly skinny and my hair was shaved to almost nothing. I didn't understand what was happening. Then someone twisted a dial on a machine and my body started jerking. I screeched as I felt electro shots run up and down my spine. I immediately knew where this memory was taking place. It was when I was in the asylum.

In the present, I felt Esme grab my hand. With her other hand, she twisted my hair around her fingers. I whimpered from the pain and then Esme cradled me on her lap. She rocked me as if I were a tiny, helpless baby (which is exactly the way I felt at the moment).

I thought the memory of being in the asylum was going to be the last memory but of course it wasn't. I couldn't figure out what the next one was about. It was dark and cold. I started shaking a little. Another cold body was next to mine. He was humming songs to calm me down. I thought I saw another person in front of me but I decided it wasn't anything but a shadow. I didn't get the point of this memory. It wasn't painful at all. Well, that is until the body next to me went to me neck.

The man next to me in the memory bit my neck and stayed like that for a while. When he pulled away, in both past and present I winced and then screamed from the top of my lungs. My body started jerking uncontrollably and Esme wasn't able to keep me still. The venom going through my body in the memory hurt me tremendously. I kept screaming and jerking. I started to groan and moan from the pain. I realized that the past me was in a dark spot surrounded by trees and bushes. It as the dark spot where Victoria, James, and Laurent found me.

As the memory still went on, Esme held my jerking body closer to her.

"What's she remembering?" I heard Jasper ask Edward, yelling over my screaming.

"The man is giving her the memory of when she got bit and was turned," Edward explained.

Finally, I gave out one last scream before my heart pumped one last time and the memory ended. I took heavy breaths and tried to refocus on the present. I opened my eyes and found Edward, A.C., Esme, Carlisle, and Jasper still bent down over me. I was also still in Esme's arms. The rest of the family and Kendall started coming. They had the new Chelsea with them.

"We found her snooping around," Emmett said.

"Kill her," Carlisle replied.

Emmett started making a fire while Rosalie and Bella held the struggling new Chelsea. Kendall added wood to make the fire bigger. Renesmee, Jalice, and Carly came over to me.

"A.C., go help them finish off Chelsea," Carlisle said.

A.C. nodded. I saw her run up to the new Chelsea. She jumped up onto Chelsea's knees and grabbed her head. Then she pulled it off of her body and threw it in the fire.

I winced when I saw that. I had no clue why though. I mean, I've seen it a million times before so why did it bother me now?

"What memories did the man give you?" Jasper asked, moving my bangs away from my eyes.

I looked at him. When I tried to sit up in Esme's arms, I realized that I was too weak. I sighed and rested my head on Esme's shoulder. She leaned her head on mine. I tried to talk. Ugh. Too weak. Everything that happened was said through mind and Edward told everyone.

"I paid close attention to her thoughts," Edward said. "The man gave her the most painful memories she had as a human. The first one was when she was born. She couldn't breathe. Also, the next memory showed her always being cold as a baby."

Edward went on with explaining my memories. I was too tired to listen. I've already seen them and I didn't need to relive them again. A.C. came up to us and sat down. She took Jasper's place of moving my bangs. I closed my eyes and listened to the footsteps of the rest of my family and Kendall coming towards us.

I thought over the memories I received. Then, a question popped into mind.

My eyes shot wide open as I sat up in Esme's lap. She began to rub my back. "Wait a minute," I said, "how does the man know about memories not even you remember?"

Everyone stared at me. Edward and A.C. had the look on their face that clearly stated they were reading a mind.

"Like I said Alice, the man can search through minds," Edward said.

"But the only thing he sees are the bad memories," A.C. added. "He decides which ones to give you and… you know the rest."

"I still don't understand how he can search for memories that aren't there," I said.

Everyone was silent. We stared at each other in confusion.

Edward stood up. "Whoever you are, show yourself."

Nothing happened at first. Finally, footsteps crept closer and a man was standing ten feet away from us. Of course he had pale skin since he's a vampire and all. He also had red eyes. I noticed he was wearing black glasses but he was wearing them to hide his eyes. His hair was ink-black and was spikey here and there.

"Who are you?" I asked.

The man stayed quiet. He was actually pretty tall. The top of my head would probably only reach up to his mid-chest.

"She asked you a question," Jasper said sternly.

"I'm-" the man started but then stopped. His voice wasn't really deep but it was deep enough to know he was a grown man.

I looked more closely at the man. I actually looked similar to him. My head turned to A.C. I looked at her and compared her to the man. They looked similar to each other too.

"Who are you?" Emmett asked.

The man looked at me. "I'm Mary's father."

"Who's Mary?" Carly asked.

I was about to asked the same thing but what the man said finally sunk in completely. My mouth dropped and my eyes widened slowly. The whole family, remembering what I told them about my past, looked at me.

"Alice, your dad's a vampire?" Bella asked.

"No," I said and tried standing up. Edward held onto me. "You can't be my dad. I killed him when I was a newborn vampire. I killed my stepmother too."

"The 'father' you killed was your stepdad," the man told me. "The Three vampires you were with thought he was your father. I left your mother when you were only a year old."

"Why?" I asked.

"I was bitten," the man said. "I was getting wood for your fireplace. When I was in the forest, it happened. I couldn't go back to the house. Your mother would've thought I was insane. I decided not to go back. Soon, many thought I was murdered and the killer burned my body."

"But how do you know about all of the bad times in my life if you were never there?" I asked.

"I spied on you. I tried making sure your stepfather wouldn't hurt you but I obviously didn't do a very good job," the man explained (Reminder: my, fa – er – stepdad would always hurt me since I was able to see the future).

"So you technically didn't leave me?"

"Correct," the man said. "I was also there for my granddaughter's birth." He looked at A.C. and she smiled.

"What color were your eyes when you were human?" I asked.

"Dark gray," the man answered. "Yours were too."

I nodded and smiled. "I know."

The man – er – my dad, walked closer. When he was close enough, I hugged him. I was right about his height. The top of my head did only reach to his mid-chest. My shortness probably takes after my mother.

My dad hugged me back. Emmett snickered and A.C. slapped him. Then my dad's head perked up.

"What's wrong?" I asked while looking up at him, neck craned all the way.

"Someone's coming," my dad said. He went silent.

"The Volturi's coming," Kendall said. "I would recognize those footsteps anywhere."

I loosened my grip of the hug. We were all silent as the Volturi walked in the room. Aro saw me hugging my dad.

"Oh, how sweet!" he said with a smile. He also clapped his hands together.

Not knowing that the man was my father, Aro grabbed his hand and searched through his thoughts.

Aro looked at us. "Father and daughter reunited."

Oh, great. There's more drama coming my way. Just what I needed.