I really have no excuses at this point, but I sincerely apologize for my hiatus. My motivation for writing fanfiction has dimmed, most unfortunately, because life has just been too hectic. College is quite demanding, especially for English majors, when it comes to writing. But anyway, I feel terrible leaving you all hanging. I hate it when authors do that, but now I understand. I'm going to try my best to finish this story. I make no promises on how long it might take, but I am going to do my best. I know where I want it to go and end, it's just getting there that is difficult. It might end sooner than I wanted, but that's just how it goes. I'm sorry.

Anyway, I've had most of this chapter done for awhile and it is finally done. It's the first time I've done something in this story outside Bella's POV. So it's basically the last chapter, but from Alice and Edward's POV. I couldve kept going and continued the scene, but I felt like that would take too long and I'd never post so I needed to get this up now. So sorry for more cliffhangers, but at least you get more info from this! Enjoy.

Title: Into the Nothing by Breaking Benjamin

Disclaimer: I claim nothing, it's Stephenie's etc.

APOV

"There will be a small herd to the east and it is mine," I called to the other members of my family hunting with me. Their silence was consent and I took off in a different direction, giving Jasper a quick smile before I dashed off. I inhaled deeply and let my instincts take over. I could smell the blood of the deer near the moving waters of the river. The scent wasn't the most appetizing, but Edward did not want to be very far from Bella so we had no choice but to hunt nearby. This was about as good as it was going to get.

My legs carried me in the direction of the creatures. Out here, I was free of my human façade and could let the feral creature inside me run free. It was a giddy beast today that was in need of satiation. I found my prey exactly where I had foreseen it to be. I crouched low behind a tree and waited until the right moment. Instinct proved true and I pounced with the utmost grace upon a huge stag. I quickly took him down and drained his blood in a matter of minutes.

I went to go after the next deer when a strange sensation rippled through my entire body. I stopped short and waited, expecting a vision to overcome me. It didn't. Nothing happened. I shrugged it off and continued hunting. As I was running to catch up to the deer that had run away from me, the sensation ran through my body again and, like a mist, wrapped itself around my mind.

Suddenly, everything went black.

I was falling into some abyss inside my mind unlike anything I had ever experienced before. I fought to find sight of something, but nothing came. I couldn't panic though. I couldn't even feel my body. I was trapped in my mind, just falling. I wanted to scream, but there was no sound.

And then I could see. I was standing in the pouring rain outside a large rock formation in an unfamiliar forest. I walked toward the rocks and saw a discreet opening among them. I ran toward them and slipped inside. My enhanced vision immediately adjusted to the semi-darkness, but I could see nothing noteworthy. I wandered a bit further into the cave until I finally heard a noise. First, there was the sound of quick footsteps barely touching the ground that seemed to be barely there. Then I heard a noise that went directly to my heart. It was a bloodcurdling scream, followed by panting and whimpering. I knew that scream, heard it in my visions before. I ran as fast as I could toward the noise and heard a male voice say he heard them coming. I ignored him and ran until I found where they were.

In a small room of what seemed to be a network of caves, there was a single lantern casting light from the center, barely illuminating the walls and not even touching the ceiling. My dead heart nearly ripped apart at the scene. Two male vampires were standing toward the back of the cave, looking ready to leave at the next instant. A female with fiery red hair was bending over a small human body, which was making whimpers and breathing heavily, clearly in pain. The female vampire slapped the human and stood upright to reveal her face, but I knew who she was even before that. Her hair told me that it was Victoria. As Victoria stood up, I could see who she had been leaning over, but again, I had already known who it was because I knew that sweet scent of freesias and something else that had no name.

Bella's face was contorted in pain and she was leaning up and clutching her stomach.

Victoria snarled at her companions. "We're not leaving until I finish what I came here to do."

She grabbed Bella's arm and yanked it away from her stomach. The she leaned down and sunk her razor sharp teeth into the soft flesh of Bella's arm, causing her to cry out in even more pain.

I wanted to cry out myself but there was nothing I could do but watch. This felt like so much more than just a normal vision. I truly felt like I was here and this was happening. I didn't know what to do. I was suspended in a horrific nightmare with nowhere to go.

Suddenly, Victoria's henchmen were gone. They'd fled out the back of the cave using an entrance I couldn't see. Victoria looked angry but continued to drink from Bella until she heard the fast-paced footsteps coming toward the cave. She drank for a second longer but pulled away to whisper into Bella's ear.

"If I cannot finish sucking your blood until you are dry, then I'll just have to end your life a bit faster. It may not be the exact ending to my revenge as I had planned it, but it does the job quite nicely. You are dead and your little vampire's heart will be broken just as mine was when he took my James. But don't worry, I'll make it quick and painless for you now."

Victoria poised her mouth to bite off Bella's head when she was overtaken by a blurred figure.

Before I could see who it was, my vision started to blur. I could hear a combination of screams coming from Bella and Victoria and an unnamed person but I couldn't see them. I felt like I was falling away into a black abyss. The screaming went away and all my senses were numb.

"Alice, love, please answer me. Can you hear me?"

I would know the voice of my beloved anywhere. I followed it out of the darkness.

EPOV

Hunting was typically an uneventful activity and I liked it that way. I could break away from my family and have time alone to think and to just give in to my primal senses. Today I did more of the thinking. My mind was swirling with possibilities and worries about Bella and her child. I didn't know what she wanted or what was going to happen. I knew she had decisions to make and that I had to let her make them, but I wasn't sure if I could survive losing her again. But I might have to if that is what she chooses for her daughter.

I veered away from the rest of my family to find food. I quickly sought out a herd of deer and drained them quickly until I was full. Just as I was finishing off the last of them, there was almost a cry inside my mind. From familiarity, I knew it was Alice being drawn into a vision and I was ready to be attentive to its contents. But no images came. I searched out and found actual darkness radiating from Alice's mind. There were no thoughts or images of a vision that I could find. I immediately panicked, and raced toward the mental voices of my other family members.

Emmett was the first person I found. He was crouched up in a tree looking for prey. "Emmett," I asked, "Where is Alice? Have you seen her?"

He shook his head and called down. "I haven't seen her since we split up. Why? Can't you just read her mind and find her that way?"

"Something's wrong. I can't read her mind or see whatever is going on in her head. Her mind is radiating darkness. We need to find her immediately. Do you know where Carlisle and Jasper are?"

He leapt down from the tree and landed in front of me. "I heard Jasper back that way and Carlisle is not far ahead of me."

I nodded. "I'll go find Carlisle then and you go find Jasper. And look for Alice as well. I know something has gone terribly wrong."

He turned and was gone. I ran the other way, following Carlisle's mental voice and listening for any noises. I barely bothered to watch was in the way and often plowed through branches and bushes, speeding to reach Carlisle. I found him finishing off a large stag. When he heard me, his first reaction was defensive over his food, and turned toward me ready to attack. As soon as he saw it was me, he immediately reverted to his composed self and dropped the carcass.

"What it is, Edward?" he asked.

"It's Alice. Something has happen. I can't read her mind or see her vision. It's only black. I don't know what is going on, but it's not right."

"Then we need to find her," he said worriedly. "I know she was east of here. We can trace her scent."

We started running east, trying to pick up on Alice's trail. Eventually we crossed her scent and follow it quickly.

In my mind, I heard Emmett say, "I've got Jasper and we've picked up on yours and Alice's trails. We're probably not too far behind."

"Have you found her? What's wrong with her Edward?" Jasper was thinking frantically.

I obviously couldn't respond mentally and until I could see them, I did not want to yell across the forest just in case whatever was wrong with Alice was another creature.

Her scent suddenly was very potent and I knew she had to be close by.

"Alice," I said in a low voice. "Alice, can you hear me?"

I had no response, mentally or verbally. I was very scared. What could possibly be wrong with her that I couldn't hear her thoughts? Unless she was…no that was impossible. I could somehow sense her still. She was here, I knew it.

"Alice? Please answer me," I said once more, trying to stay calm.

I inhaled once more to follow her scent and walked forward five feet and three to the left when I saw her. She was sprawled on the ground and was twitching and made a whimpering noise every few seconds. I quickly knelt beside her and took her into my arms.

"Alice, Alice, can you hear me? Please Alice, please hear me."

No response, but the whimpering and twitching continued.

I didn't know what to do. I was starting to panic. I attempted desperately to reach out and read her thoughts but there was nothing, almost as if she was on so completely different wavelength. I shook her gently and touched her face and eyes to try to make her come to, but it was useless. I couldn't think, couldn't move or even breathe. It wasn't until I heard my name being called that I snapped back into focus.

"Edward? Answer us!" came the voices of my family.

"I'm here," I called back. My brain wouldn't form any other words. But it wasn't necessary. They found me instantaneously.

Jasper was there first, taking Alice out of my arms and into his own. He cradled her to his chest and tried to get a response out of her by crooning her name in her ear, but once again to no avail. I watched motionlessly until Carlisle and Emmett appeared moments later.

"Edward, what happened? What's wrong?" Carlisle asked, unable to maintain his perfect calm.

"I don't know, I found her like this. I can't hear her at all." I replied.

"We should get her back to the house immediately," he said, trying to keep the panic from creeping into his voice.

He walked over to Jasper and touched his shoulder. Jasper nodded, and was up and running in less than a second. We followed closely on his heels. The rain that had been drizzling before was now coming down heavily but that did not slow us down. There were few times when we had been so concentrated, running so intently. It was frightening. And this thought only made me run even faster.

In a matter of moments, we were back at the house. I reached the back door first and opened it swiftly. As I entered the living room, I barely took note of Bella and Esme, or even that I was soaking wet. I was desperately trying to break through the darkness in Alice's mind. I closed my eyes and clutched the sides of my head, focusing only on Alice. I saw a whirl of color flash before my eyes, almost as if I had broken through, but it disappeared as quickly as it had come. I concentrated again and saw dark red. But that was all I could get. And then suddenly, the darkness vanished, and Alice's mind was just blank, not dark or dead, just empty of thought.

I blinked and came back to reality. The first thing I noticed was Bella staring intently at me, her brow furrowed, big brown eyes worried and scared. I rushed to her and wrapped my arms around her, hoping she did not mind that I was wet. She didn't seem to, only held me tighter. I kissed her hair, breathing in the smell that both enraptured and tortured me.

Before I could say anything about Alice's mind, her eyes fluttered open.

Her thoughts came rushing out like a waterfall and I could hear her, or, rather, see the images that were sporadically running through her mind.

Jasper said, "Alice, love?"

But all I was focused on was the blood. I saw blood in her thoughts. Blood on a person, on a torso. And that was all I needed to see to know who it was. I tried not to go into shock. It took all self-control I had to not break down and lose myself. I just breathed in Bella's scent to distract me. But the mixing of both the scent of her blood and the image I knew to be her mangled body did not go well together for my tolerance.

"Oh, Bella. Oh no," Alice said as she broke into dry, heaving sobs into Jasper's chest.

"Alice what did you see?" Bella asked frantically. I could hear and feel her heartbeat pick up its pace. It only added to my torture.

She just shook her head. "I'm not entirely sure, but it was bad. She's coming for you, Bella. You're not safe."

"What? Who?" Bella asked. I already knew the answer.

"Victoria."