PART V
I lounge on the branch, staring at the beads of water droplets on the grass below. I have a double-job this time, and it will bode well for me to stay out of sight. As previously predicted, I am in Forks again. Well, in the forests that surround Forks anyway.
On cue, the scene I'm waiting for begins below. A small herd of unsuspecting deer weave through the trees gracefully and seemingly in synchronisation. The predators; that have been flanking them for the past quarter-mile finally strike and take down the two healthiest doe's from the small herd. Their necks are snapped on impact and the life drained out of them in a hasty the corpses of the doe where they lie, the predators take off after the rest of the herd to sate their never-ending thirst. I slide off the branch and hover over the deer, soothing them both.
"You're both okay, come on." The rise from their corpses and look about timidly, "lets go home." I walk with them to their new home where many of their kin reside, where they may frolick in a never-ending luscious forest, much like this one.
"Mehh," one of the doe bleats in response.
Before I disappear with the doe, the herd has come full circle and now surge back over their previous track, trying fruilessly to out-run their pursuers.
I curse audibly and summon my destination to the forefront of my mind, silently begging the place to appear as fast as possible. The scenery overlaps, one forest replacing the other, but not before I am visibly spotted by the predators, seemingly flabergasted by what they see.
"Tsk! Tsk! Isabella," Alec scalds from behind me.
"Yeah... I didn't expect them to come back. Have you ever been spotted?"
"Yeah, I have. By Jane of all people," he chuckles. "She tried to use her power on me, thought I was some sort of imoster or something."
"Did you talk to her? or just leave?"
"I left... then visited myself." He sigh's audibly and comes to stand by me. "I told myself what was in store... what waits him after his death... he took it well."
"You didn't flip him out or anything?"
"No, he just accepted his fate and went on with his day. I think he was more relieved than anything... to have the question finally answered... whether there is life after death. What the price of being immortal is... it was closure for him... for me. You know... I didn't have the memory until I did it."
I tilt my head to the side, my brow furrowed. "You mean, we can still alter the course our human selves are on?"
"I believe so... change our circumsances. It's too late for me... but you aren't ye changed. Are you?"
"No... I'm not. I suppose the question now, is if I regret the choices that led me here?"
"Indeed." He leans in and kisses my cheek, "take care of yourself Bella... and think about what I said."
"Thank you Alec. I will."
He disappears from beside me, no doubt to bring home his next job. I sigh heavily and watch the doe prance and frolick merrily all about me for a further tewnty-seven seconds, a small smile on my lips. Time to go to Belgium.
