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My Chemical Romance- I Don't Love You
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the words. Stephanie Meyer owns the Twilight series, and the songs belong to their respective people.
I Don't Love You
Alice's world narrowed, until everything was fuzzy, except Kaedra's form. Somehow, Alice felt herself falling into Kaedra's gaze, seeing the world from her perspective. Scenes flashed past Alice's vision, never fully formed, but more than enough to damn Bella's regent and friend:
Shanarra grew up in the ancient tribal times that Alice had learned about from the reading. Alice was a silent watcher as Shanarra united the Fae, becoming the first Queen with her proud lover by her side. Her lover never fully stepped into the frame of Alice's Sight, remaining a shadowy, foreboding form dancing at the edge of her vision.
Centuries passed through Alice's Sight like sand through an hourglass, faint impressions that never showed the whole story. Alice saw when Shanarra's lover began to twist, his face turning ugly and cold, the shadows consuming him greedily. She saw a field littered with bodies and heard a shattering scream, before darkness and death consumed her field of vision, blackness exploding behind Alice's fixed eyelids.
Suddenly, Alice was looking at Bella, but not any Bella she wanted to know. Bella's face was covered in dark make-up, dressed in leather pants and a sheer top, with a small glowing-blue vial in her hand. Unnatural ecstasy raged on Bella's young face; her sister completely lost to the reality around her. Alice felt her hand move, reaching out without her permission to uncover Bella's back, where on her shoulder a barely healed brand in a complex pattern was covered in deep red scratches. Forgotten nausea rolled in Alice's gut.
The scene flashed again, Bella still too-young as she screamed at Marcos, also younger and rougher-looking. A frenzied Bella struggled in her arms, fighting to do Marcos harm. There was respect here, and abiding protectiveness.
This time, a frazzled Lizzie stood before her, preventing her from entering the attic where Bella and those- those vampyr stayed, preventing her from stopping her friend from making a dangerous mistake-
A flash, and Bella's body was still in her arms, growing cold as death consumed her sister's empty shell. The shadowy form of Shanarra's lover was back, and Alice unwillingly handed him Bella's body, impossible tears flowing down her cheeks. Edward was aflame in the background, screaming as he burned to ash, but the rest of Alice's family was nowhere to be seen.
The vision broke, and Alice gasped for unneeded air hard, focusing on the weight of Jasper's arm around her waist and Edward's steady, penetrating gaze on hers. She and her mind-reading brother turned as one to Bella's regent and friend, their faces becoming vampiric and predatory as they met the eyes of the first Queen of the Fae. Kaedra, no - Shannara looked back at them with wide, fearful eyes.