Okayz, this is kinda a filler chapter, so I'm sorry if it isn't as good as some of the others. Hope you like it anyway!

Alice,

I'm alright... until I'm alone. And lately that's all the time. Jacob's gone. He's hunting Victoria. And Charlie's hunting Jacob. And you're gone. And so is Edward. And there's just nothing now.

I haven't seen Edward in a long time. Too long. I need to see him. Like a junkie whose waited to long for a hit, I'll do anything to get it. They don't make a rehab for people like me. Just the asylum.

Love is so much like a disease. You loose yourself in it, change because of it. It makes you a different person. For some, it can make them stronger. Others, weakens them to the core. And, most of all, love has the power to break you. I've been broken beyond repair.

I will see him again.

I miss you, I love you,

Bella

Tanya dropped the rest of the Cullens things off later that day. She and Carlisle continually apologised to each other throughout the visit, and Tanya insisted that no fault was laid on the them for Laurents' death.

Throughout the two weeks that followed, there was no letter from Bella. Alice began to fret. Could Bella love her werewolf more than them? Maybe the wolves had turned Bella against Vampires? Would she stop writing? Did she hate them all now? Did she love Jacob? These questions and many more flew round and round in her mind like a vulture waiting for it's next meal. She wasn't a happy person in those two weeks.

"Maybe," said Carlisle one day, "some of us should go back? You know, a kind of peace offering to Irina? I feel awful in the way we left her..."

"I'll go," volunteered Alice, rubbing her temple. She had been having headaches for the past few days, which had never happened before. "Me and Jasper. I really could use the break." Alice knew Jasper would have no objections, and he nodded his head and agreed.

Carlisle frowned sympathetically. "I had noticed you didn't look your best."

"Yeh I haven't-" Alice broke off. "She's writing!"

Jasper brought her a pen and some paper and she began writing, her eyes blank.

Alice, she read when she was done.

I'm alright... until I'm alone. And lately that's all the time. Jacob's gone. He's hunting Victoria.

"Is she really there?" Esme asked Jasper. "Or is it a fake trail."

He thought for a moment. "Well, she's not stupid. She would be able to smell the wolves, and when Laurent never came back she will know that they killed him. Actually, that's probably why she sent him in the first place, to see if the wolves would attack. She will have fled there long ago."

And Charlie's hunting Jacob. And you're gone. And so is Edward. And there's just nothing now.

I haven't seen Edward in a long time. Too long. I need to see him. Like a junkie whose waited to long for a hit, I'll do anything to get it.

"The anything bit is worrying," said Emmett, his eyebrows creasing together. He and Rosalie had arrived back from Romania the other day. Rosalie was in a much better mood now, and didn't leave the room whenever Bella was mentioned.

They don't make a rehab for people like me. Just the asylum.

"Let's hope it doesn't go that far," Alice said.

Love is so much like a disease. You loose yourself in it, change because of it. It makes you a different person. For some, it can make them stronger. Others, weakens them to the core. And, most of all, love has the power to break you. I've been broken beyond repair.

I will see him again.

I miss you, I love you,

Bella

Alice shivered. She couldn't quite put her finger on it, but she had a nagging suspicion something was wrong. She ignored it.

With no one willing to comment on the last part of Bella's letter, Alice folded it and put it in her pocket. "Well," she said, "I guess Jazz and I should go pack."

***

The bad feeling stayed with her, and it frustrated her to know she couldn't think of what it was, or what it meant.

Jasper and Alice drove back to Alaska the next day, using Carlisles' car as it had the most gas. Though Jasper knew his wife felt uneasy, he kept quiet. She would tell him in her own time.

They were met with a mostly warm welcome. Irina refused to come downstairs and greet them, instead preferring to remain locked up in her room, answering to no one.

The pair offered to leave immediately, but the offer was dismissed. "Don't be silly!" laughed Tanya. "At least wait until tomorrow."

"I do need to feed..." Jasper said, mostly to himself.

"Me too," Kate agreed.

"I'll go with you," Tanya smiled. She hated that Laurents death might cause a rift between the two families. While Irina loved him deeply, there was something about him that just made him seem... untrustworthy. "Will you join us Alice?" she offered.

"No thank you," Alice replied kindly. "I've been feeling a little... foggy lately. I might just rest for a while."

The three left. Half an hour later they still hadn't returned. They must have gone far, she thought.

That was when she had the most frighting vision of her life.