Family Matter drabbles. Thanks to Naelany for the prompts, I swear she was trying to kill me with the last two lol.

Disclaimer: Ms Meyers owns Twilight and all its characters. I just play.

Thanks to my beta Beate for looking over this, and apparently a tissue warning is needed here :D

Alice's POV

Guilt

I looked around for Bella but couldn't find her, so I went looking. As I made my way to the edge of the forest I heard her scream. My feet carried me faster than I knew I was capable of going.

What I saw had me frozen in place, until another one of her screams brought me out of my haze. That man, a man we trusted, was thrusting in to her, raping her. I jumped onto his back, clawing at his face, screaming at him to leave her alone.

But I was too late, the damage was already done.

Strength

Looking at my best friend, I didn't think she could get anymore broken than she was. Until she started to get sick. Charlie took her to the hospital, with me in tow, and my dad ran some tests.

She was pregnant.

I held her tight as she broke down completely in my arms. Memories flashing through my mind.

"What am I going to do?" Her voice was a mere whisper in my ear as her tears trickled down my neck.

In that moment I knew, I would be by her side through it all.

I would be her strength.

Reach

She sat in her chair, starring out the window, the baby's cries going unanswered by her. Nothing could penetrate the bubble she surrounded herself in. She was dying a little more inside each day.

Everything was automatic, done without cause or thought. She wouldn't even move if I didn't make her.

I would talk to her about mundane stuff, telling her about what was going on in the world around us. It wasn't until I mentioned that Edward and Jasper were talking about having a baby that I finally reached her.

"Do you think they would take the baby?"

Flight

We had to get away, I had to take her from this place. It had been a year since she gave up Jacob, but she wasn't getting much better. The purple marks under her eyes, a sign she was still reliving the worst night of her life in her dreams.

I made the arrangements and packed our bags, after talking it over with Charlie and my parents. I was going to take her away.

As Esme drove us to the airport and walked us to the desk, grabbing our boarding passes Bella looked at me with her first real smile.

Last

College was set, we made our plans. Housing arrange and majors picked. Bella had come back to life after our trip away, and we breezed through our senior year.

Her memories would still haunt her, and she couldn't see Jake yet, but she was working through it all in therapy. I was a constant by her side, if there was Bella, there was me.

We talked about trying to date once we got settled, I had abstained from boys, for her, but Bella thought she was finally ready to face that hurdle.

So this was our last day in Forks.