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APOV

Things had been absolutely perfect. I was seeing my brother happy, with his mate and my newest sister. I couldn't explain how happy it made me to see Edward finally complete. He had been alone for so long and it killed me to see that my family's happiness was a burden for him every single day.

As soon as Bella entered our lives, visions would flash that gave me hope. She would be significant to him and she would become my dear friend. No one could have prepared for the accident though—not even me.

It was unquestionable that Edward would save her. She was special and I knew immediately that he had made the right choice. Visions solidified before my eyes of Bella and Edward together, and not just as friends. As gross as romantic and lusty images of my brother and Bella were, I bounced with anticipation. He had finally met his match!

I had to be very careful, though. Edward wouldn't take it very well if he saw this information through me (I could tell, obviously). He was the sort of person who had to figure things out for himself to really, truly believe something so until then, I'd have to recite Uncle Tom's Cabin or practice my Portuguese in my head to block him out. He was going to be much more focused on Bella anyway to even wonder why I was blocking.

As she turned, she became even more beautiful. I could tell Edward wanted to be alone with her but she couldn't wake up looking like she had died…um…literally. So I took a cloth and washed her skin and dressed her in a cute, but practical outfit. She would hunt for the first time, so it had to be useful but it would also be her first time seeing herself as a gorgeous immortal, so it had to be fabulous as well.

I knew Bella wouldn't share my appreciation for fashion when she woke up but I could still sense that this woman would become as close to a sister that I'd ever get. Don't get me wrong—I loved Rosalie—but sometimes we had differing priorities and that made it hard to always see eye to eye with her. And though I had everything I could ever need or want in my mate, Jasper, I still longed for the companionship of a best friend. She would be this for me and I honestly couldn't wait for her to wake up.

When she finally did, my family was bursting with excitement—even Rose. We hadn't had a new addition to the family since Jasper and I had joined. We embraced this new change and were eager to help Bella transition. I could see that our enthusiasm would have to wait as Edward wanted to be alone with her. I kept the family downstairs until the two of them emerged, Bella looking wary and ready to tear the head off a kitten she was so thirsty.

As they left, Bella ripped the handle off our door and I couldn't help but laugh. My best friend was clumsy! I couldn't wait to help her reign in her strength and learn how to act human!

While they were hunting, I checked in on them but they were both dangerously close to acting on some pretty intense sexual impulses and I did NOT want to intrude in that. Instead, I imagined Bella and me at college—maybe as roommates with our hunky boys across the hall! We could have so much fun. I was decorating our dorm room in my mind when suddenly an image of Bella tearing into a human's neck flashed to the forefront of my mind.

I couldn't tell where she was, or why Edward wasn't with her. Jasper was instantly at my side but I was trying desperately to concentrate and gather more details of my vision.

The human was a male and he was wearing hunting attire. Next to them was the base of a tree stand—the towers that human used to wait for their prey while hunting. I could see that Bella was already covered in blood, but the man's was now mingling with what I assumed was her prior meal.

I called Edward immediately. We had to stop this before she even smelled the blood.

"Alice, honey, you have to tell me what is wrong," Jasper urged in my ear.

At this point, the whole family was gathered around me, looking at me with various levels of fear and concern.

"I just saw Bella attacking a human and Edward is nowhere to be seen."

Next I saw Edward running into the space and seeing Bella. The look on his face would break my heart for eternity—I knew.

He was clearly having some sort of internal debate as he called out to Bella to stop her.

As I was being assaulted with these visions I threw my phone at Jasper and told him to keep trying, then I ran from the house towards what I hoped to be the right direction. Humans were only allowed to hunt in certain parts of the forest so I was running there as fast as I could, knowing my family was racing with me to stop the inevitable.

The vision continued to unfold, showing Bella's clarity return. As the haze of the hunt left her, the all-encompassing guilt took over. Bella leaned over the man and whispered silently, shaking her head.

Edward was frozen and I couldn't tell what was wrong. He still had that same look on his face and in a flash he was gone. Bella didn't even look up as he left her alone, slowly coming apart over the body of the man she had now killed.

I panicked.

"Stop!" I yelled. "Edward's left her. He ran from her. I can't tell where he's going, either. He doesn't want us to follow."

Everyone paused. Esme's face fell immediately.

"We will find Bella first—we need to get her under control so she doesn't hurt anyone else and then Esme and I will follow Edward," Carlisle stated with his tone of authority he so rarely used.

My family raced with a new urgency towards Bella, with me leading the way. The vision was expanding and I could now pinpoint her exact location. If we had time, I would've stressed that we be delicate with our approach but with Edward's sudden disappearance and the stress of the situation there was no time to consider caution. I burst into the area with Emmett hot on my tail. Bella didn't move.

As the rest of my family arrived, Carlisle moved around to Bella's side, gently guiding her away from the body. He spoke in a low and warm voice to Bella, and led her to Esme's side where the two of them relinquished her to me. Rosalie rapidly replaced Esme and we held this broken and shaking girl with tattered clothes and blood stains. She looked more like the victim of a vampire rather than a vampire herself and I couldn't see a single thing when it came to Bella's future.

Carlisle turned to me and said, "Esme and I will follow Edward's trail. If you see anything, call me."

The two of them looked at each of us and vanished. Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and I were now in charge of getting this shattered girl back to the house and somehow relay what had happened without further damaging her. This was a nightmare and it could honestly become a whole lot worse. I felt blind and utterly helpless without my sight, but I didn't have time to think about myself—we had to get Bella home before she really became aware of what was happening.

Jasper stayed behind to deal with the body. I gave him a sympathetic look before we left, hating that he had to deal with the grisly task of hiding our mistakes.

As soon as we got Bella inside, we took her back upstairs to the room she woke up in. I hoped that the familiarity of the room would help ease her suffering. Though I couldn't see exactly what was coming, I could feel it was going to be unpleasant. I knew in my gut that the only person who could really help Bella through this was gone.

Rosalie tended to Bella, using the same method I had in washing away the dirt and blood from when she was turning. It felt like déjà vu having Bella here, in this room, catatonic. She held such a vacant, defeated look in her eyes—I wasn't even sure if she was aware of us.

I got her into some different clothes and asked Emmett to join us once Bella was decent.

She couldn't hunt again—that was for sure—until we knew she could handle herself. I thought of a crazy idea to make a corral and keep a couple deer in there so we could just bring her food. It wasn't ideal but it was the only option I could think of. I asked Emmett to do this, and though he gave me a strange look, he complied.

Rosalie was being wonderful, too. She was sitting next to Bella in the chair Edward had occupied during Bella's transition, holding her hand exactly like he had. Bella was shaking less and less as the minutes ticked by and I could sense that she was calming. As she did, her future became less and less murky, bringing me at least some sense of peace.

Jasper was back and I looked to Rose to see if she would be okay with Bella alone.

"Go ahead, I just want to stay with her while she calms," she responded.

As I ran into Jasper's arms, I was ready to have a breakdown myself. How did I not see this coming? I should have seen that Edward and Bella were too close to the hunting grounds. I should've seen that having just Edward there wouldn't be enough. I should've seen that if this terrible event occurred, Edward would take this on as his fault and leave us.

Sensing my needs, Jasper cradled me and whispered into my ear that things would be okay and that it wasn't my fault. My gifts are not fault proof and I had done everything within my power to make this right.

I knew he was right but I still felt terrible. Visions of Carlisle and Esme reaching the sea were hitting me now and I sighed with resignation to the fact that we would not find Edward if he didn't want to be found.

"Edward isn't coming back. Carlisle and Esme followed his trail to the sea and they can't do anything else. He isn't coming back."

"Shh, darling," Jasper cooed, "I promise you, things will be okay. We will get through this, as we always do."

I hoped he was right.