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At the end of the day, I walked toward the school parking lot, heading for Edward's silver Volvo. Jasper was already there, I leaned beside him. Neither one of us said a word; I was fine with that. Well maybe not fine, I was worried about him. But I was also worried for Bella and Edward. Pretty soon, Rosalie showed up, her mood not since improved.

As Edward and Emmett walked up together, we all remained silent. I was thinking about Jasper, watching through my visions what he was planning on doing. One thing was certain; he would go after Bella. Another thing the wasn't changing, was the fact that no matter what Jasper did, Edward would be protecting Bella from him, always there to block him.

As I continued to study my vision, I noticed that Edward was stopping Jasper further and further away from Bella's house.

Stop that, Edward! I directed my thoughts at him. It can't happen this way. I won't let it. He didn't reply.

I meant what I said, though. I would not allow fighting within our family. We were better than that. That's what made us different from other covens.

I tried to focus on how this would all turn out, but I kept turning up with blurs and infinite possibilities. Not at all useful.

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When we got home, we all instinctually headed for the dining room. There were some things that needed to be decided and discussed.

I hopped out of the car, focusing on what would happen if we simply did nothing. But things were so undecided, it was futile. I continued trying to see clearly, entering the dining room last. I sat beside Esme, knowing neither of us wanted a fight or any separation. I rubbed my temples in concentration.

As Edward spoke, I dropped my hand, ready to listen.

"I'm sorry," Edward started. He looked at Rose, Jazz and Emmett. "I didn't mean to put any of you at risk. It was thoughtless, and I take full responsibility for my hasty action."

Rosalie wasn't buying it. "What do you mean, 'take full responsibility'? Are you going to fix it?"

"Not the way you mean," he replied evenly. "I'm willing to leave now, if that makes things better."

Esme looked deeply disappointed. "No. No, Edward."

Edward patted her on the hand, "It's just a few years."

"Esme's right, though," Emmett commented. "You can't go anywhere now. That would be the opposite of helpful. We have to know what people are thinking, now more than ever."

"Alice will catch anything major," Edward replied.

Groan. Please don't drag me into this! How many times must I remind my family how subjective my visions are?

Carlisle disagreed, shaking his head. "I think Emmett is right. The girl will be more likely to talk if you disappear. It's all of us, or none of us."

"She won't say anything," Edward was confident. He trusted Bella not to say a thing. She didn't say anything when she first encountered Edward, so maybe she wouldn't say anything now.

"You don't know her mind."

"I know this much," He didn't give up. "Alice, back me up."

I really wished I could help. "I can't see what will happen if we just ignore this." I glared over at Jazz and Rose.

Rosalie threw her hand flat against the table. "We can't allow the human a chance to say anything. Carlisle, you must see that. Even if we decide to all disappear, it's not safe to leave stories behind us. We live so differently from the rest of our kind – you know there are those who would love an excuse to point fingers. We have to be more careful than anyone else!"

Edward wasn't swayed. "We've left rumors behind us before."

"Just rumors and suspicions, Edward. Not eyewitnesses and evidence!"

"Evidence!" He jeered.

The room was set up in section : those who wanted to do nothing and those who wanted to retaliate, even though there was nothing to retaliate against.

I was sitting beside Esme, we both didn't want to get too involved, though I knew where I stood. We were sitting next to Carlisle at the head of the table. Rosalie sat at the other end of the table, Jasper leaning against the wall behind her and Emmett sitting beside her. Edward sat on the other side of Carlisle. You could see the lines being drawn.

Jasper nodded with every word Rosalie spoke, clearly embracing the one other person on his side.

"Rose-" Carlisle started.

"Let me finish, Carlisle." Rosalie interrupted. "It doesn't have to be any big production. The girl hit her head today. So maybe that injury turns out to be more serious than it looked." She shrugged. "Every mortal goes to sleep with the chance of never waking up. The others would expect us to clean up after ourselves. Technically, that would make it Edward's job, but this is obviously beyond him. You know I'm capable of control. I would leave no evidence behind me."

"Yes, Rosalie," he growled. "We all know how proficient an assassin you are."

Rosalie furiously snarled back.

"Edward, please," Carlisle interceded. He turned back to Rose. "Rosalie, I looked the other way in Rochester because I felt that you were owed your justice. The men you killed had wronged you monstrously. This is not the same situation. The Swan girl is innocent."

"It's not personal, Carlisle. It's to protect us all." Rosalie gritted her teeth together.

We all sat quietly as Carlisle deliberated. I doubted Carlisle would ever consider allowing someone to be intentionally injured, not to mention killed. He was a doctor after all. I waited for him to speak, rather than look ahead into the future. It wouldn't take that long.

He nodded thoughtfully, then gave his verdict. "I know you mean well Rosalie, but…I'd like very much for our family to be worth protecting. The occasional…accident or lapse in control is a regrettable part of who we are. To murder a blameless child in cold blood is another thing entirely. I believe the risk she presents, whether she speaks her suspicions or not, is nothing to the greater risk. If we make exceptions to protect ourselves, we risk something much more important. We risk losing the essence of who we are."

Rosalie glowered. "It's just being responsible."

"It's being callous," Carlisle commented. "Every life is precious."

Rosalie sighed loudly. Emmett comforted her, patting her on the shoulder. "It'll be fine, Rose."

Carlisle proceeded, "The question is whether we should move on?"

"No, we just got settled." Rosalie complained. "I don't want to start on my sophomore year in high school again!"

"You could keep your present age, of course," Carlisle reminded her.

"And have to move again that much sooner?"

It was impossible to win with Rosalie. If you gave her one thing, she wanted another. You give her that, she changes her mind.

Carlisle shrugged in response.

"I like it here!" She continued. "There's so little sun, we get to be almost normal." Oh yes, because killing people at will is so normal.

"Well, we certainly don't have to decide now." Carlisle said. "We can wait and see if it becomes necessary. Edward seems certain of the Swan girl's silence."

Rosalie let out a snort.

Both Jasper and I had barely said a thing. It didn't matter, his mind was made up.

"Jasper," Edward said.

I looked up at the sound of his name. I had previously been drawing circles on the table with my finger. Jasper glanced over at Edward.

"She won't pay for my mistake. I won't allow that."

"She benefits from it, then?" Jasper retorted. "She should have dies today, Edward. I would only set that right."

"I will not allow it," Edward staccato each word.

Jasper looked surprised, not really expecting a confrontation. He shook his head, "I won't let Alice live in danger, even a slight danger. You don't feel about anyone the way I feel about her, Edward, and you haven't lived through what I've lived through, whether you've seen my memories or not. You don't understand."

It always came back to me, didn't it?

"I'm not disputing that, Jasper," Edward said. "But I'm telling you now, I won't allow you to hurt Isabella Swan."

They took a moment to examine each other.

Oh geez. "Jazz," I said.

He turned to look at me. "Don't bother telling me you can protect yourself, Alice. I already know that. I've still got to – "

"That's not what I'm going to say," I interrupted. "I was going to ask you for a favor."

Edward gasped, obviously reading my thoughts. He stared at me, everyone else staring at him.

"I know you love me," I began. "Thanks. But I would really appreciate it if you didn't try to kill Bella. First of all, Edward's serious and I don't want you two fighting. Secondly, she's my friend. At least, she's going to be." I had checked, numerous times, and Bella Swan and I would be great friends. I saw me with my arm around Bella's shoulders, her arm around my waist. The vision was not vague; it was extremely precise.

"But…Alice," Jasper struggled with a response.

"I'm going to love her someday, Jazz," I said. "I'll be very put out if you don't let her be."

I focused back on what would happen if we simply ignored this. Much better.

"Ah," I sighed. "See? Bella's not going to say anything. There's nothing to worry about."

"Alice, what…does this…?" Edward couldn't process it all.

"I told you there was a change coming," I focused on keeping my mind off of exactly what that change was. What else to think about but Jasper? "I don't know, Edward," I lied.

"What Alice?" Edward demanded. "What are you hiding?"

I vigorously shook my head, as if that would keep the thought away. I grit my teeth, fierce with concentration.

"Is it about the girl? Is it about Bella?"

The second he spoke her name, I lost it. The image flooded my mind before I could contain it. I drew it back in as quickly as possible, but it was too little too late.

"NO!" Edward shot up, throwing his chair to the ground.

"Edward!" Carlisle rushed behind Edward, placing an arm on his shoulder.

"It's solidifying. Every moment you're more decided," I whispered, almost to myself. "It's one or the other, Edward."

Isabella Swan would either end up as one of us, or under a tombstone.

"No." He repeated.

"Will somebody please let the rest of us in on the mystery?" Emmett asked annoyed.

"I have to leave," Edward quietly told me.

"Edward, we've already been over that," Emmett loudly interjected. "That's the best way to start the girl talking. Besides, if you take off, we won't know for sure if she'd talking or not. You have to stay and deal with this."

"I don't see you going anywhere, Edward," I told him. "I don't know if you can leave anymore." Think about it,I thought. Think about leaving. I knew my brother. I knew that he wouldn't, couldn't, just leave willy-nilly.

I'm not entirely sure of Jasper, Edward, I added. If you leave, if he thinks she's a danger to us…bye bye Bella.

"I don't hear that," Edward disagreed.

Not right this moment, I threatened. Will you risk her life, leave her undefended?

"Why are you doing this to me?" He moaned, placing his head in his hands.

I wasn't doing anything. This was nothing in comparison to the pain he would feel if anything happened to her if he left.

I love her, too. Or I will, I amended. It's not the same, but I want her around for that.

"Love her, too?" Edward asked.

Sigh. You are so blind, Edward. Can't you see where you're headed? Can't you see where you already are? It's more inevitable than the sun rising in the east. See what I see…

I refocused on Bella's future, her future with us. Pale, ice cold, but definitely content with that sentence.

"No." He shook his head, refusing to see what I knew would become of Bella Swan. "I don't have to follow that course. I'll leave. I will change the future."

"You can try," I said unreassuringly.

"Oh, come on!" Emmett complained.

"Pay attention," Rose instructed. "Alice sees him falling for a human! How classically Edward!" She pretended to throw up.

"What?" Emmett laughed incredulously. "Is that what's been going on? Though break, Edward."

Emmett placed his hand on Edward's shoulder, but he shrugged it off.

"Fall for a human?" Esme asked. "For the girl he saved today? Fall in love with her?"

"What do you see, Alice?" Jasper asked me. "Exactly."

I looked over at him. "It all depends on whether he is strong enough or not. Either he'll kill her himself," I turned to glare at Edward. "Which would really irritate me, Edward, not to mention what it would do to you." I looked back over at Jasper. "Or she'll be one of us someday."

Esme gasped, covering her mouth with one hand.

"That's not going to happen!" Edward yelled. "Either one!"

I ignored him. "It all depends. He may be just strong enough not to kill her – but it will be close. It will take an amazing amount of control," I noted. "More even than Carlisle has. He may be just strong enough…The only thing he's not strong enough to do is stay away from her. That's a lost cause."

Nobody responded. They let it all soak in. I sat silently, patient for the conversation to pick back up.

Edward stared at me horrified, everyone else staring at him. This was how it usual played out.

Carlisle sighed after awhile. "Well, this…complicates things."
"I'll say," Emmett smiled.

"I suppose the plans remain the same, though," Carlisle decided. "We'll stay, and watch. Obviously, no one will…hurt the girl."

"No, I can agree to that." Jasper spoke. "If Alice sees only two ways – "

"No!" Edward disagreed in a conflicting tone. "No!"

Edward left the room. Esme tried to comfort him as he walked past us, placing a hand on his arm. He merely ignored the gesture.

She sighed. I placed a hand on her shoulder. "He just needs to cool down." I assured her.

She nodded, staring down at the table.

I wouldn't let Edward tear this family apart at the seams. We had been through so much, to be fighting about something like this was just inexcusable. Although this life isn't what any of us wanted, I had a good feeling about Bella. This lifestyle would fit her like a glove.

I just knew it would.

Author's Note! xoxoxo

Soooo...this took 4ever....Yea, I was really lazy. Sorry :) I hope u liked it, least. It's uhm 11 pgs long on word. Well, there's one sentence on pg 11...but u know what, it counts! Thx once again 4 reading this ammature stuffs. Alice is awesome! Thank goodness, that's what's making me continue this. And also all u guys on story alert, added me 2 fav author (nice rarity and makes me beam w/happiness!) or fav story and u guys that took the time to review!

I friggin luv u guys! Hopefully I'll finish this over the summer, but I really wanna wait 4 Midnight Sun 2 come out, bc I really pride myself on the accuracy. Even some class details, like how in Midnight Sun it says that Emmett and Alice have the same class after lunch :) Thanx (again, i like 2 thank ppl, it's becoming an issue) 4 readin and stay tuned!

If that makes sense...4 this is not a TV show, but wouldn't it be awesome if it was? Dude, I call Bella. I know, I know, I should be Alice, I'm deff short enuff...but uhm I luv Bella :)

alsoooo, if there r typos, plz be gentle.

That's what she said..

hah, sorry, I'm an immature teenager

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