Okay, since I'm getting such good review (albeit not many yet) I decided to get another chapter written tonight cause I'm just such a sweet person. Well, sometimes anyway.

Chapter 3 – Alice's Surprise

APOV

My poor brain was spinning a mile a minute. I couldn't seem to form a coherent thought to save my life. Abigail seemed to notice.

"Alice, are you alright?" she asked.

All I could manage to get out was, "You're…you're…you're…"

"Ab-i-gail Ma-sen," she said sounding out each syllable like I hadn't understood what she was saying or I was a three year old.

Finally my brain seemed to stop its mad dash around the crazy people's merry-go-round. "I got your name. I'm just having a hard time believing it."

"Why?" she asked scrunching her eyebrows together. "I figured since you were thinking that you had a vision of me that you would have known my name. What's the big deal?"

I suddenly found myself sidetracked. "I thought you could read minds?"

"It comes and goes," she explained. "I'm not very good at it. I somehow got two special abilities and reading minds I guess is more like my secondary one. That's why it's so weak. I could read yours a minute ago. I did it when you were taking your glasses off, but now I can't."

"What's your primary one then?"

"Pyrokenesis."

"A fire starter!" I exclaimed. "How cool is that!"

"I wouldn't put it up there with predicting the future, but it comes in handy when I can't get my fireplace to light."

"How did you get two abilities? I've never heard of anyone with more than one."

She shrugged her shoulders. "Your guess is as good as mine."

"So can you read my mind now?" I asked.

"No, I just said I couldn't. Once I use it, it usually takes a while to get it back. Sometimes days even. It's like it was intended for some particular purpose and it doesn't like being used outside of that, so it sort of short-circuits."

If she was Edward's sister and Edward could read minds, then maybe it was only intended to be used to communicate with him, I mused. Edward had said a few weeks ago that she always seemed to know just what to say to him when he needed it most. Oh crap! She doesn't know about Edward! How should I approach this one?

"Abigail, do you have any family?" It was the best I could come up with besides just blurting it out and probably shocking the hell out of her. It didn't seem like such a good idea because, frankly, even with her angelic appearance, she was intimidating as all hell and I wasn't feeling particularly masochistic.

Her eyes fell to the ground and her shoulders rolled slightly forward as if she were carrying something on her back that just got too heavy.

"No, not anymore," she said as one dry sob seemed to rack her body. "I failed them. Even the one person I promised to keep safe and happy. I couldn't, I failed and he died."

"Maybe not as dead as you think."

She looked up at me like I had spouted five extra heads. "Huh?"

"Abigail, you were asking me why I was so shocked by your name."

"Yeah…and?"

"I was shocked because I know you. Not in the, I have met you before sense, but in the, I know someone who has told me a lot about you. I have an adopted brother so to speak, well, I actually have two, but that irrelevant. What is relevant is that one of my adopted brothers is your real brother…Edward."

AbPOV

Edward!

But Edward died back in 1918 of Spanish Influenza. Didn't he? I had already been a vampire for two years by then so it wasn't as if I could go back and claim the body. I didn't even know he had been sick until I received word that he was dead.

Edward. He was still alive. Well, maybe not in the strictest sense of the word, but just as alive as I was. Dare I hope that this small pixie-like woman before me was correct? She could be mistaken. I couldn't take the chance of getting my hopes up like this. I couldn't be crushed by losing him again, I wouldn't survive it.

I looked Alice dead in the eye. "Are you absolutely, positively, without a doubt in you mind, sure that your Edward and my Edward are one in the same?"

"Completely."

"All right. I need to see him."

"Of course," Alice said, nodding her head. "The boys are somewhere over on Bourbon right now. We could go find them, or call them and have them meet us somewhere."

"Go find them." I dug in my pocket for paper and I pen and quickly wrote down my address. "It's in the Garden District. Bring your whole family; I want to meet them as well. It's nice to know Edward has had someone to look after him all these years."

"Actually he more looked after us. I could have never asked for a better brother." The love on the girl's face was obvious, and for that reason I would give my life for her.

"He has mate you know," she continued. "And a daughter too. Not one he converted but actually fathered with his mate. She gave birth to her while she was still human. He and Bella have the kind of love that could transcend anything."

A wave of joy washed over me. While my dreams for myself had been put on hold, my ones for Edward had come true.

"Bring them, please."

"I will. I'll be there soon."

With that the girl took off back down Pirate Alley while dialing her phone.

I walked to my car that was parked over by Café du Monde. The glossy black paint of my Aston Martin Vantage gleamed under the street lights.

For the last few years the only thing I truly gave me pleasure had been this car. Now, I might just have a whole family. I hoped they welcomed me into their hearts as I already had for them, even without knowing most of their names. It didn't matter. If they loved Edward then I loved them regardless.

I spun the car around and sped home feeling lighter than I had in almost a hundred years.

EPOV

"Alice, what are we doing here?" First Emmett drags me to strip clubs and then Alice drags me to some mysterious mansion in the middle of the night while singing "Love Shack" in Japanese in her head.

"Okay," Alice said. She was so giddy she was literally hopping. "Everyone else stay here in the driveway. Edward, go up to the door."

"Why?" I asked. "What is going on?"

"It's a surprise! Just go!" She actually gave me a shove towards the house.

Apparently she wasn't going to let me out of this one. I made my way across the perfectly manicured lawn toward the porch. As I started up the steps the door open and I picked up on the scent of a vampire. I stopped at the top of the steps. I was shocked that Alice brought us to the home of another vampire. But not as shocked as I was once I saw who had opened the door.

For a moment both of us just stood there staring at each other. From my peripheral vision I could see that my family could see me but not into the house at the woman who stood there.

I could hardly believe my eyes. It couldn't be. Abigail.

She took a hesitant step forward. I took one too. I wasn't sure who closed the gap between us, but for the first time since she left that night in January of 1916 I was holding my sister.

Both of us were dry sobbing like crazy. At some point my family had followed me on to the porch but I hardly noticed. I was afraid to let go. Afraid that if I did, she would disappear from my life again.