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Chapter 7

Carlisle POV

I can't believe Isabella was here and I didn't know! She really was devious...

I told Edward about the Volturi and their rules. I told him the back stories of each guard and the rulers. When I told him about Marcus and how Didyme died protecting a human child – because I wanted a companion who knew everything about me – I told him about my precious Isabella. I told him about her abilities and that she was here while he was burning. Her told me that he would hear her, that he was determined to find her if she comes again. I just shook my head and said that she was sneakier than that and probably already had a defence against him.

I then took him on his first hunt; he needed to learn the way of being a vegetarian.

Bella POV

When I reached Biloxi – I decided to take the scenic route and run/walk – it was January 1919.

I didn't want to be noticed, so I gave myself the ability of illusions and created one on myself. If anyone looked at me, they would see a thirty year old woman with blonde hair. I decided to help out in the asylum, or as otherwise known, mental institution.

When I got a job there, I was assigned to a specific girl. She was going to be eighteen in March, on the nineteenth, but because she had been there since she was eight, stunted growth had affected her and she looked more like a pixie, maybe sixteen. Her hair was black and cut short into spikes, she had brown, doe-like eyes, and she was here for claiming to have visions, which usually came true. They were giving her electric shocks as "treatment to cure her." If she became a vampire, her latent ability would certainly be seeing the future. Her name was Mary Alice Brandon.

Mary, or Alice as she preferred, had a doctor who was kind to her, only giving her the electric shocks when ordered to by his boss. He was unlike all the other doctors, for he was like me, a vampire, called Charles, who slowly became my friend.

The three of us played happily for many months, and because Alice knew what we were and Charles knew who I secretly was, on her eighteenth birthday I teleported a cake to celebrate. But then a vampire came along, attracted by Charles and mine's scents. He was a tracker, and also from the coven that killed my mother, Didyme. He liked to play games with his prey too. Alice was unfortunately his 'La tua Cantante', or his singer, meaning her blood called to him more strongly than anyone else's.

There was only one thing to do. "Isabella," Charles said, "take Alice somewhere safe, you must bite her, it's the only way to stop him." "What about you?" "I will distract him long enough for you to get away, cover your scent, princess. I haven't hunted so there is a chance I will die, I'm weak, but if that is what it takes to save Alice, then so be it." My first friend outside the Volturi, excluding Carlisle, and he was about to give his life for me. I turned to Alice, who was hiding in the corner, her doe-like eyes wide. "Alice, say goodbye to Charles." She immediately scrambled up and hugged him. "I'll miss you, Charles." She'd had a vision like me, she knew he would die. "I'll miss you too, Mary Alice." I could sense James coming, this time he was going to take her, thinking the only vampire here was Charles as that was the only scent he could smell. I quickly formed back to my ten year old self, taking the illusion away, and made sure mine and Alice's scents weren't there. I picked Alice up bridal style, we looked one final time at Charles, then I turned us invisible and jumped out the window, and as soon as my feet touched the ground, I set off running.

I took us to a meadow, deep in the forest. I spread a shield over the whole meadow, preventing Alice from running off and preventing anyone from getting in.

I sat down and checked my visions to see what was needed to do. I saw myself explaining everything to Alice, and then biting her to start the transformation. I saw myself making her forget her human life, it would be too traumatic to remember, and only I would be able to unlock the memories if I wanted to. I saw myself then leaving before coming back roughly a day into the burning hell.

So I started to tell Alice about everything to do with vampires. I thought that if I was giving her memories back one day then she would know who I am, so I told her everything about my history and the Volturi. I told her about the laws as well, though she would know by the time she remembered. I told her about my abilities and hers, and how it would become powerful enough to see the past and present in time.

"Alice, someday we will meet again, I've seen it. Now, are you ready to become a vampire?" I asked after I finished explaining. She nodded her head and turned it so her neck was showing. I took it as an invitation. I leapt up, grabbed her, and in one swift moment, I was transferring venom.

Once she started to writhe in pain, I let go, knowing there was enough venom and that my eyes would be red from her blood in my body. I realised that she would hate her second life if she knew about her first life in the asylum, so I decided to take away all knowledge she will have up till when she opens her eyes. It was the same power I used in 1666 to erase the memories of the people of London that vampire's started the fire. I was just locking away these memories though. I had a feeling, intuition humans called it, that one day I would give them back. But I was the only one who could unlock Alice's human life.

I then sensed James and Charles were fighting, and Charles was losing fast.

I teleported to the field where James had dismembered Charles and held the lit lighter above him. "No!" I screamed, and tried to lunge for the lighter, after all, it wouldn't hurt me, but he put it out of reach and I fell to the other side. As soon as I looked back, James dropped the lighter onto the pile that used to be my friend. I screamed in anguish at the billowing purple cloud of smoke. "Till we meet again, Princess Isabella," James said, backing away.

I stayed until the flames went out and all was left was Charles's ashes. I teleported two small leather bags with long string so they could go around my neck. I scooped the ash up and put them evenly between the two. The one was for me and the other for Alice, once I give her memories back to her. Until then I will carry both around my neck.

It was the next day, dawn, by the time I got back to Alice, and the venom was changing and charging through her body, for she was screaming constantly.

On the last day, I took the label of her asylum dress and unstitched the 'Mary' and 'Brandon' letters, knowing she liked Alice best. I also knew this was the last day I ever saw Alice's brown eyes, which made me feel sad, that this was necessary.

And then her heart started to beat furiously, signifying that the transformation was almost complete. I made sure it seemed like she was the only thing here, and turned invisible and cut off my scent and any traces of it from before.

Galump galump. Galump galump. Galump. Galump. And her heartbeat stopped; the transformation complete. Being silent, not moving at all, living stone, I watched as Alice opened her blood red eyes to the her new world.

A/N: really thought about ending it here, but I'm not that cruel ;)

I read her mind, and the first thing that came to her was that she didn't know anything, not even who she was. I watched as she took her clothing off, the same thing she was in for most of her life, and read the label. "Alice. Weird, not even a last name," she said in her wind-chime like voice. I then watched her very first vision as a vampire.

Vision

A honey blond haired man walking into a Philadelphian diner called 'Philly' with plenty of scars all over his body that was uncovered. He walked into the diner where Alice was waiting. "You've kept me waiting a long time." "Sorry, ma'am," he said back. He offered his hand and she took it. "I'm Jasper, and you are?" "I'm Alice. It's all I know, I have no recollection of my human life."

Vision ends

"What was that? And what did it mean, 'human life'? I'm confused..." Alice said. I thought she needed help, so formed into the thirty year old blonde lady I used when I first came here and worked in the asylum. I then stopped my invisibility and Alice saw me and gasped. "Who are you?" she asked. "My name is not important. I'm here to help you find your way. My dear, you are a vampire, and a newborn. You must be thirsty." As I said she was thirsty Alice grabbed her throat in pain. "It hurts!" she said. "I know, it takes some getting used to. Let's go hunt!"

After hunting, messily might I add, we went back to the clearing we were first in. We sat down, and an awkward silence came over us. It seemed neither of us wanted to break the peace.

"Alice, what do you want to know?" I asked. "Well, tell me about vampire life, and these laws you speak highly of," she said, in awe of this new life. So I told her about the Volturi. She learnt well, and I saw that she would love shopping, something I loved. "Really? These 'Volturi', you've met them!" "Yes, and I lived with them too." "You know, your vocabulary and the way you speak... It's like you're from a different time..." "Yeees... Well, you know everything that I have to tell you, and the gift you have, the visions, they will guide you through life. Try not to slip up. It won't help matters. Now, go to Philadelphia, but it will be many years before he turns up there. I must leave you now, you shouldn't see me again." As I finished talking, I turned invisible but stayed to watch Alice.

She looked around confused, wondering where I went, most likely, but then a look of determination came over her, and got up and ran off.

I was now free to sob and grieve for my dead friend.

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