Good morning my dears! We're getting closer and closer to the end. But, like I said before, we've still got more drama to come.

Some of that drama starts in this chapter, sooooo, onward!

Little bit of a warning with this chapter. If you don't deal well with being triggered, proceed with caution. I don't want to give it away at the jump, but it's not graphic. It just tells of what happened... I know, vague. But you'll see as the chapter starts going.

Chapter 16

BPOV

We headed out the back door and over the river. Edward carried Olivia on his back as we ran. As we made it to our hunting ground for the afternoon, Edward let Olivia off his back, and she started running around after the rabbits that were close by. It was one of the cutest things. She was pretty fast, but not quite as fast as we were, yet.

We were thinking that she may grow into her speed. Her senses were pretty good. She could hear things everywhere. Her sight was amazing, too. We were just going to have to keep an eye on things with her. Right now, she looks like she's almost three. It was boggling to see her grow so quickly, but Carlisle and Esme always kept track of how much she changed. Even documented everything to see if it would ever slow and at what rate.

Alice and Jasper were off doing their hunt first, and we were staying with Olivia until they were done. Then they would watch her while Edward and I did our own hunting.

I can't shake this feeling of being on total alert. It's not something I usually feel when we hunt. It could be that Olivia's with us, but I feel like someone is close. But as soon as it comes, it leaves me. And I don't like it. At all. I don't have a good feeling about this.

We continue to hunt, and watch Olivia run around after anything that is smaller than her. She chased a squirrel up a tree, and caught it. We hadn't seen her do much of that yet. Mostly because the overprotective mom in me doesn't want her to hurt herself. And I guess, yes, she could be indestructible, but we haven't exactly tested out that theory. I don't plan to either…

"Mommy! Look! I caught it!" Livy exclaimed from the tree branch.

"I see, sweet girl! I'm so proud of you. You'll be able to hunt like the rest of us in no time." I praised my little angel.

Her sweet giggles rang through the air. It was the best sound, EVER.

It was about time for us to head back to the house. Olivia had expressed an interest to Edward that she wanted to at least try some human food, so we were going to do a little experimenting today. Even though she just had blood, we thought it might help if she was already full if she ended up not liking any of it. She just wanted to try and we told her that it would be her choice to do it.

I felt that same feeling from before, again. I looked up and around the trees to see if I could make out anyone being there, but I didn't see anyone.

It made me a little leery, so I made a move to go find out what it was.

"Bella, don't!" Alice stopped me. She ran to stand beside me. "Just don't. It won't end well."

I narrowed my eyes at her then reached my shield out around her and then grabbed her hand, so that I could see what was going on. I saw that I came upon a male vampire that was hunting. He sees me approach and goes to defend his kill, and attacks me. Olivia decided to follow behind me and the man spots her and goes after her. I couldn't look anymore, and pulled my hand away. My breathing was coming in short pants.

Olivia was looking at me and knew something was wrong. She was incredibly intuitive for her age.

Edward was at my side instantly. "Come on. Maybe he'll take off and go the other way."

I picked Olivia up and put her on my hip and we all took off towards the house. We were about fifteen miles away when we came across the scent of another vampire. It had to be the guy that Alice saw.

We all stopped in our tracks and looked around for where he could be. It didn't feel right, so I put my shield around my family members and hoped that this guy didn't have any gifts. Edward's eyes were trained forward, so that's where he had to be.

"You can keep passing through. We don't want any sort of trouble." Edward said to whoever was in the woods. I'm guessing he sensed the guy was near, having heard his thoughts.

Then a man, about in his mid thirties, walked through the trees where the rest of us could see him. He had dark blonde hair that was cut somewhat short, scruff on his face, and red eyes. He had no shoes on his feet, and wore jeans and a long sleeve t-shirt. He was really creeping me out just by looking at him. He seemed… off.

"Well, well. Out for a little Sunday afternoon stroll. How sweet." The man said in a not so nice voice. Damn it, he's going to cause problems. I can just feel it.

I slid Olivia down and she landed lightly on the ground. "Ali, take her."

The man's eyes snapped to Alice and he seemed to be remembering something. "Ah, little Mary Alice. Nice to see you again." He said with a sinister voice.

Edward took a sharp intake of breath, apparently seeing something from the man's mind. And it didn't seem to be anything good either.

"Edward…" Alice tried to ask him.

"No, I'll tell you later." Edward told her without taking his eyes off of the man in front of us.

"What do you want? We're just tryin to get home. So if you'll just run along and leave us be, we won't stop you." Jasper said, calmly.

"Home? Since when do vampires have a permanent home? And why would vampires have different colored eyes?" The man asked. I really don't like his fucking tone.

"Vampires that are able to be around humans and can live peacefully, have permanent homes. And the reason vampires, such as ourselves, can live around human, is because we don't feed off of them. We hunt animals. It allows us to live as humans would. They don't know what we are, unless they get too close, which we never allow." Jasper told the man as he stepped in front of Alice and Olivia in a protective way.

God I love that guy. He's an awesome brother.

The guy looked a little confused and narrowed his eyes. "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Why the hell would you want to live around humans if you don't even drink them? What a fucking waste." The man sneered.

"Watch your language!" I couldn't help but say. The mother in me didn't want Olivia hearing that kind of language if we could avoid it. Emmett and Jasper slipped now and then, so did we, but we also implemented the swear jar.

His eyes finally zeroed in on Olivia and I didn't like it. "Why the kid? I thought you didn't feed off of humans…" he said, still staring at her.

That got me to go into 'mama bear' mode, because I crouched down into a defensive position, ready to protect her. Apparently, Edward was right there with me, because he took up the same position.

"She's none of your concern. Now, move along. We'd like to keep the knowledge of vampires to ourselves around here. Humans that know about us are a danger to all of us. So take your hunting activities elsewhere." Edward said, trying to stay calm. I could feel the tension and unease coming off of him.

The guy arched a brow at us, then backed away slowly. "Fine. I'll see you around. Oh and Alice, always a pleasure." He snickered the last part, and then took off into the trees.

"That son of a-"

"Alice!" Jasper stopped her.

"Come on, let's get Olivia home, then we can talk about this." I said, then picked Olivia back up, kissed her on the cheek, placed her on my hip again, and took off.

We made it home a few minutes later and I took Olivia upstairs to her room so she could play.

Monkey ran in and seemed to know something was amiss and wanted to keep a close eye on Olivia.

"Mama, who was that man? He was scary." Livy asked me from her spot on the floor, where she was playing with her dolls.

"I'm not sure, angel. But I'm gonna go talk to daddy about it. He should know something, and we'll be on the lookout if he tries to come back. You know we'll always protect you, baby girl." I told her. Then I knelt down and kissed her on her forehead.

"What the hell is going on, and why do I always fucking miss the fun?" Emmett asked around as I was coming down the stairs.

"Emmett, this guy wasn't exactly right. Something was weird about him." I said as I came into the living room.

I looked at Edward for information. He hung his head and started talking.

"His name is James, and he's a hunter. He could find any of us, at any given time. It's only easier when he knows the scent of who he's hunting. He had no clue that vampires would live around humans and not feed off of them. He's been a vampire for about a hundred and fifty years and has lived all of it nomadically.

"He's heard of the Volturi, I could tell. But, all he knows is to keep our secret from the humans. He doesn't know all of the stories or histories.

"He hunts without caution or care. He finds a human, he kills. He'll lurk around to find someone who smells the best, but he doesn't leave any area without killing a few people.

"He has a mate. Well, sort of a mate. A red head, and they've been together for a while. But he has no problem going off on his own and finding someone to have sex with, human or vampire." He paused, and I could tell there was more to what he was saying, but he didn't want to tell me. There was a slightly pained look on his face.

"Edward?" I reached out to him and touched his face, putting my shield over him. "Show me." I said, giving him a pointed look.

And he did. It was what he didn't want anyone to have to know about, especially Alice. Even though she's been dying to find out about her past. All she knew was what Carlisle knew of her right before he changed her.

But this… this was just… fucked up on so many levels.

I saw Alice, in a hospital room, or at least it looked like a hospital. Alice was sitting on a bed, and it looked to be nighttime. Someone, and I'm guessing it was James, looked at her chart. I could see her name, age, where she was from, what she was in there for…

When she was heavily sedated, he went into her room and attacked her…

And he wasn't a vampire then, so…

He was not gentle, and looked like he was hurting her, badly, but the drugs she was on didn't seem to let her have a clear mind to fight him. Not that she could have.

Things were shifting again and then it went blank. Edward was hiding whatever this other part was, from me.

I was breathing heavily from what I had already seen, almost gasping for air. But whatever the next thing was, left a murderous look in Edward's eyes.

"Edward, show me the rest of it." I said, sternly.

"Bella, please don't make me." He whimpered.

This was bad, really bad. "Edward, I want to know what the hell is going on if that asshole comes back."

He pinched his eyes closed, dropped his head, and let the thoughts come at me. Now I wish I hadn't asked.

James was having thoughts of me. More specifically, laying me over a fallen tree in the woods and having sex with me, too. It was a disgusting sight, watching his fantasies like they were real and right in front of you.

I couldn't look anymore, so I let go of Edward, only to find his entire frame shaking with anger. I was shaking my head back and forth to try to get the thoughts out of my head. It was revolting that that man thought he had a right to have sex with someone else's mate.

"No!" Edward whimpered again, and pulled me as close and as tightly as he could.

We stayed that way for a few minutes, until someone cleared their throat.

"Umm, you guys want to fill in the rest of us?" Emmett prodded.

We all sat down in the living room, next to our mates.

"The reason he knows Alice, is because he attacked her before either of them were changed. He stalked her for a bit at the hospital when she found out she was sick." Everyone gasped at that.

"Wait a second! What the hell are you talking about?" Alice asked, trying to understand, but she was quickly losing her composure.

"From what was on your chart, you were twenty-two years old when you were in the hospital. You had been having symptoms and no one knew what to make of it. So they were doing tests on you. They found the cancer, then, but at the time, there wasn't much they could do about it. There was also something on there about you saying that you were having visions of things that were going to happen, and then they did. And you would talk about 'weird' things to them that they didn't understand. It freaked them out and they thought you were crazy and needed help. They sent you to the psych ward of the hospital in Boston, so they could still try and do some sort of treatment for the cancer. They didn't know what else to do, apparently." Edward explained what we saw on the chart from James' thoughts.

"Well I guess we know why I'm always so crazy and bouncing off the walls." Alice said, but I could still see that she was not ok. "There's something else you're not telling me, what is it?"

Edward ran his hand through his hair, a sign of distress or nerves on his part, and I closed my eyes and hung my head.

"Bella, you know. Tell me what happened." Alice pleaded with me.

Aw, fucking hell. Why do I have to be the one to tell her this shit?

I looked over at Edward and his eyes were angered, pissed. He loved Alice like a sister and hated to see anything happen to her. And this shit with James just made him a target on Edward's shit list. Not to mention the things James wanted to do to me. That shot him up to number one on the list.

"He, uhh, came into your room one night at the hospital and… umm… Edward, I can't do this." I said, and then buried my head in Edward's chest.

"Shhh." He soothed me and wrapped his arms tightly around me. "Alice was heavily medicated in the hospital, apparently, and James… raped Alice."

There was sudden chaos in the living room. Jasper had shot up out of the chair he was in, breaking it because of the grip he had on it and screaming at the top of his lungs. Emmett was holding back Jasper from running out of the house after James and Edward had to get up and help him. Carlisle was holding Rose while her head was buried in his chest, after she felt the immense anger, rage, heartbreak, and utter devastation. Esme was trying to hold Alice together on the floor, where she had sunk down to and was now screaming, too.

I went over to where Alice and Esme were, and held onto Alice as tight as I could. She needed the support right now.

There was nothing but rage and sadness in the house.

After somehow calming Jasper down to where he could comfort Alice, and promises that if we ever came across James again that he was a dead man, we were all able to focus on things again.

"All I know about what happened to me was what Carlisle told me from when I found him in the hospital. Things weren't so clear to me about my past, because of all the visions I was having when I was still human. Nothing made sense. I had no idea what was real, but as time went on, I learned to deal with it. But the first thing I remember when I first woke up, was a split second snapshot of Jasper's face. I saw Jasper before I ever knew we were supposed to be together. But several years later, I had the vision of him in the river, and I just knew I had to go find him." She told us, in a very subdued voice, then looked into Jasper's eyes.

He sweetly ran his fingers down her face, then kissed each of her eyes, then her lips. I've noticed he does that a lot, kind of like he's kissing her gifted sight as a 'thank you'.

"I thought we were the sickeningly sweet ones. Jeez Jasper." Edward joked, and we all laughed.

"Oh you are, Edward. But remembering how she was the one thing that changed my entire life, makes it ok." Jasper said with a wink while Alice stayed unusually quiet.

"Aww, Jasper, you're incredibly cheesy." I cooed at him, and then chuckled.

"Shut it. I don't make fun of you and Edward when you're bein all mushy." He said, smiling.

I raised an eyebrow at him. That was total bullshit and he knew it.

"Ok, not as much as Emmett does." Jasper conceded.

"Hey!" Emmett defended.

We all had to laugh at that. Emmett knew he was a pain in the ass when we wanted to show our affections to our mates when we're around the rest of the family. And he had no problem teasing us about it, either.

Edward's head was nestled into my back, between my shoulder blades, and I knew he was wallowing from the thoughts of James wanting me. I knew he hated it with a fiery passion.

"Come on. No more of this." I told him quietly and grabbed his hand and headed upstairs.

Once we were in our room and the door was locked, the clothes were flying everywhere. When I landed on the bed, he was right on top of me. He attacked my neck, nipping, sucking and biting. This wasn't sweet and slow, it was hard and rough.

Afterwards, when we were lying in bed together, I kept thinking about the future.

"I can't wait to marry you." I said as I laid my head against his chest.

"Me either." He said quietly. But I could tell something was still bothering him.

"What is it? I know that look. Is it James that's still bothering you?" I asked, looking up into his face.

He sighed and looked at me.

"Yeah. I don't have a good feeling about him. He was heading north, but I've got this feeling that he's going to come back here. I don't trust that we've seen the last of that asshole. And if I see him again, I'll kill him myself. I know Jasper wants a shot at him, but he will pay for what he did and what he thought he could do." He said with an unimaginable amount of hatred in his voice.

"Trust me, if he shows his face here again, I'll rip his balls off and shove them down his throat before I let you and Jasper rip him apart. Then let Alice set fire to his ass. That sounds like a good plan to me." I said with such venom, I'm sure I looked like a rabid dog.

"Me too, baby. Me too. Alice and Jasper won't have any objections to it, I'm sure."

A/N: Sooooo, yes I gave Alice's backstory a little tweak. Kinda like the other's, but hers was a little more tragic than what we originally saw from SM's Alice.

No, it's not the last we'll see of James.

And, before anyone fusses about having something like rape in my stories, no I don't take it lightly. I've been very close to being raped when i was a teenager, and it scared the shit out of me. I fought the guy off. I still have lingering issues from that time twenty-two years later. I've also been molested. So, things like this are very close to home. The new story that I've been working on does deal with rape as well. I know I've referenced it in a previous chapter, but I just want people to understand that these things do happen, and the effects last for a long time.

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