POTW chappie 4

ALICE POV

I wordlessly ran after Carlisle, although I already knew what would happen here. Haley was going to take on James alone. We swerved our course when she screamed again, and the sound of it made me cringe. It sounded like a transformation scream. As the whole family burst into the clearing, we watched in shock as Haley picked him up and threw him clear into the woods. She halted, then after a spilt second, crumpled to the ground, and I could see the harsh bite mark on her neck. James ran out of the woods. Carlisle shouted and ran forward to head James off from Haley.

But faster then possible for a human, her hands flew up, her eyes closed, and wrenched sideways across his neck. Torso and head went flying into the surrounding wood. Carlisle was there in less than a second, lifting her head into his lap to examine the long gash along the back of it. Emmett and Jasper ran after the torso and head to burn them. I ran over to Carlisle, looking to help.

"Apply pressure to her neck!" he called as I approached. I held my breath from the strangely seductive scent of her blood, and used both hands to push gently on her neck. But I pulled back in surprise. Her wound was not bleeding anymore, same in that clearing, and her neck was hard. Like mine. Granite.

"Carlisle, her neck has stopped bleeding already and her neck is as hard as mine." I tried to say it calmly, but this was impossible! He raised his eyebrows and came to join me at her side, examining the now fading scar on her neck. "How is she doing that?" I wondered out loud as the scar began to fade. I craned my neck to see the back of her head. The gash was gone, and hair was re-growing.

"Follow the scent…use the bracken…track…blood…" Haley said almost inaudibly, whispering.

"Haley?" Carlisle and I said in unison.

"It's all a game…use your strengths, advantages…don't let the prey escape…" Haley's lips barely moved.

"She sounds just like James!" whispered Rosalie behind me. Carlisle and I turned slowly to look at her. And Rosalie disappeared as a vision came to me.

CARLISLE POV

My eyes flashed to Alice's face as she had a vision. When it was done, I called over the entire family. "Alice, explain everything please." I said vampire speed. She flashed me a brief but worried smile.

"She keeps reciting stuff that James would say about tracking. She looks like a vampire when she feels a strong enough emotion. Vampires bounce off of her, and she just healed potentially fatal wounds. For a human." She gave an apologetic smile to Bella. "I just had a vision that everything is explained in her father's "will box." She pointed to her backpack.

"Did you see anything else?" Jasper asked, hands on her shoulders.

"Just her reading it to us…I think we have to wait for her to do it."

HALEY POV

I was dead, I knew it. Strange images were flashing across my brain. Footprints, blood, maps, airports…I felt the need to recite some of it, like it was important Then I was lost again, until I slowly felt like, me becoming me again. It was weird, like I had been a different person.

"Just her reading it to us…I think we have to wait for her to do it." I heard Alice say.

"Do what?" I asked sitting up. If vampires could get scared, they all did, because everyone flinched. Ignoring their blank stares, I turned to Carlisle. "I'm sorry that I accused you," I stiffened, swallowed, then continued, "my father's death." He made no indication that he even heard me, he just watched me. "Is something wrong?" I asked. Everyone just kept on staring.

"Alright, let me get this straight. I haven't been hallucinating, vampires really do exist, one murdered my father, and I just beheaded him. He bit me, but I'm not all vampire-y like you all are, so what the hell is going on?" I burst out, frustrated.

"Well…" Emmett started, clearing his throat a few times.

"He bit you." Bella blurted, eyes wide. I raised an eyebrow. Didn't I just cover that?

"And you're not a vampire, even though the venom from his bite should have changed you." Edward added.

"And you kept blurting out all this random stuff about tracking…you sounded just like James, the man who attacked you. That was his 'gift', he was a gifted tracker." Esme finished.

"Plus, I had a vision of you reading the contents of the box you took from your father's room out-loud. I'm pretty sure the answers are in there." Alice voiced.

"Oh," I breathed, mind catching up to what I had done. Jasper handed me the little box. I flipped it open and pulled out the first thing on top, a letter. Sitting cross-legged, I tucked the box into the little open space in my legs, and slit the envelope with my nail. It was old paper, and it was musty. I unfolded a piece of modern new paper from around the old one, and opened it.

Dear Haley,

I'm sorry I kept this from you. But it was only for your safety. This may come as a bit of a shock, but you are not my child, and your mother did not die from a accident at the Hospital, in fact, she wasn't even a doctor. When I was 23, I was walking in the woods, the very woods on our property. I ran into your mother. But she was doing something very non-human. Now, promise me that you will not assume that I am crazy and burn this after you read the next sentence. Just think about it first. You're mother is a vampire. She was hunting animals in our woods when I found her. She ran away, but day after day, I went back, and she was there. When she saw I wasn't afraid, we got to talking, and…well…we fell in love, and soon we wanted children. When we figured out that it was impossible, we went to an adoption agency and adopted you when you were a baby.

But one day, you're mother lost control, and bit you. She was able to suck out about half of the venom. Even though you still remained mostly human, your mother was horrified at what she had done, so I watched you grow up without her. She left, distraught, because you weren't mostly human after all. You got a gift as half of a vampire. You can absorb other powers when you are bitten. You absorbed her power to heal without pain instantly. She didn't want to cause you anymore pain, so she left.

I love you Haley. I always will. Please, please be careful. I hope you can understand, I hope you can believe me. Vampires are real; everything you are reading happened and is true. I fell in love with a vampire. If you can find her, her name was Sarah, Sarah Denali.

You also "absorbed" other vampire traits as well. When you accept it, you will be restricted by all things vampires are, but you will be able to enjoy the things they can. If you fell ready, please accept it, for me and your mother. It will keep you safe. But when you do, stay out of sunlight, and please, like your mother, feed off of animals only. Please, for me. I love you so very much, and I hope you can forgive me for my selfishness.

With Love,

You're Father.

The letter slipped through my fingers and landed in the grass.