Chapter Five
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The only good thing about Alice's new visions was that Tanya and Kate, now so preoccupied in trying to work out what this all meant, had not time for grief. However, no one had got any closer to figuring out what this was about. And Alice could not keep tabs on this new threat because she didn't know what to keep a tab on.
"So we think that someone could be asked to do this because of the Voltu-" began Jasper, but the look on Alice's face stopped him.
"How many times do I have to tell everyone?" she demanded, looking angry. "I would've seen anything- anything to do with the Volturi."
"So who else?" said Emmett. Emmett had struck the question we all wanted to know the answer to, but had no idea of the answer. We couldn't think of any other vampire who would want to kill us.
"James, Victoria and Laurent are all dead, and we haven't had any other encounters with vampires like that" said Carlisle. "And it wouldn't be like the episode that happened last time with James. Bella isn't human." True. James, Victoria and Laurent...James...Victoria...Laurent...
"Oh!" I gasped suddenly, and everyone turned sharply to look at me. "James, Victoria and Laurent!" I said, looking at them like it should be completely obvious. They all looked stumped. "One of their friends?" I suggested. "Someone we had never met? It could be... that would work." I looked around at the faces of my family and friends. Everyone was still looking stumped. But then Alice's stunned face split into a smile.
"Yes!" she said enthusiastically. "Yes, yes, YES! It all fits. Bella, you're a genius!" I hadn't seen Alice look so happy since we had beaten the Volturi. But I thought she was being too optimistic. We still had to figure out who it was that was plotting against us and what they were doing and when. However, I supposed we all wanted to think positive after all our thinking- negative thinking. Carlisle was the one who voiced my thoughts.
"Who though?" he asked, still looking worried, but he was the only one apart from me who looked like that. Everyone else looked ecstatic.
"Why does that matter?" asked Emmett, never the practical thinker. "At least we know the reason behind what they're doing." He meant 'at least we can start tracking them now so we can destroy them.' It was so Emmett.
"It does matter" said Edward, but he still looked happy. Alice's face was falling as she took in my face. "We need to know so we can track them and whoever they're with. They'll be with somebody."
"We need to know" said Alice and her once-ecstatic face was very grave now. "I can't see them; I don't know what to look for to see them. When I saw those other visions it was completely random. I wasn't even trying to See when I saw the first one and I was thinking about Tanya and Kate when I saw the second one." Really? She had been talking to me. Did we talk about Tanya and Kate in our conservation? Possible. But we hadn't been talking about Tanya and Kate when she had the vision had she? I couldn't remember. Probably not.
"What do they want?" asked Rosalie. Another question we wanted answered but didn't know. Another thing to add to my list of things to find out. That list was much too full.
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"Do you think Alice knows more than she's letting on?" asked Edward suddenly, breaking the silence.
"What?" I said. "She's told us about her visions and has tried to figure out what it means with us."
"Yeah" said Edward slowly, "but she was trying to persuade Tanya and Kate to go with Garrett- who has already gone. And the funny thing is, even though now we all know about her visions and she doesn't have to hide it from us, she was still trying to persuade them to go, and she wouldn't tell me why when I asked."
"She could just think going back home would help them get over Irina" I suggested. That was so obvious I was amazed Edward hadn't guessed.
"That's what I thought too, before I asked her" Edward said. "But if that was the case, why wouldn't she tell me? Also, she keeps blocking me out of her thoughts. Either she' s going over her visions in her mind- her visions and just her visions, no thoughts to go with them, which is unusual for Alice, and when she's not, she's translating things into different languages. I've lived with Alice long enough to know what this means. Alice is hiding something from me. From all of us." My thoughts went back to when I had tried to persuade Alice to tell me what she knew. Now I thought about it, I realised Alice seemed to have overreacted about telling us. She had said something about 'taking the weight off her shoulders', but why would the weight (what weight?) need to be taken off her shoulders about something that- well, not small, but important? It was important to tell us thought. I was sure that if it was only about this person coming after us, she would have told someone straight away. Edward was right. Something was up.
