Title: What's Left Behind
Author: Hieiko
Category: Twilight
Pairing/Characters: Alice/Bella
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, or any of the characters.
Word Count: 145
Notes: Written for the 31_days_exchnge, for rhap_chan's theme # 12, "the walking dead".
Summary: After tragedy, two women must move on.
It hadn't occurred to either of them that this might happen, though of course it hadn't been a complete impossibility.
Edward was gone. So was Jasper. Carlisle and Esme, Rosalie and Emmett were still around, but it just wasn't the same. She and Alice had both been (unwillingly) left behind: each a remaining half of a whole.
And in the beginning, neither of them could accept it. They had both run away from the family, to opposite sides of the world.
Years passed before they saw each other again. Alice had apparently foreseen it happening many times previously, but had always resorted to avoiding her. Until eventually she made the decision to do otherwise.
"We'll move on, Bella," declared Alice. "I know it."
It took decades before they made their way back to the Cullens. But this time they did it together, hand in hand.