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Chapter Fourteen

Explanation

APOV

When the vision had came to me in the moments before Jasper and I would go down to meet the others, panic set in immediately. Before I could even decide how to proceed with my family, another vision. The first vision was set in the cafeteria, I saw a girl bleeding on the floor, Jasper feeding. It had been many years for Jasper but he still had trouble dealing with the scent and the instinct. He had fed for so long on human blood, I had reconciled that he would always want it, but my visions would keep him away from it. Jasper had not reconciled those thoughts, I was sure, but I had never spoke to him about it. I chose to keep my reconciliations to myself.

The second vision came quickly after the first. It was the immortal I had seen before when Bella and Jasper had been hunting. Like the first, I could not see her face. But the vision I had, it was of this immortal defeating Bella, sneaking upon here quickly, Edward was distraught, Emmett trying to keep him sane for Masen and Renesmee. I had to stall and figure out what to do with these visions. Conflicting. I had known the moment I had the vision of Jasper that he and I would spend the day in the forest, hunting. He would need to stay well satiated. If I had told everyone of my vision, they would have came with us. But I couldn't have Bella, my sister, in the forest today. Not today.

I had managed to keep all of this to myself until it was nearing the lunch hour. I left with Jasper and then sent a warning to Edward. I knew he would get them out of there, but I was almost too late with my warning. I had caused my sister great temptation. I was so use to Bella being one of us that I had forgotten that she would be going through her first true exposure in the cafeteria.

I stood there as Rosalie yelled at me. I deserved it all. I felt so terrible for having put my family in harms way, but I had kept them from the greatest pain that would have happened. I finally told Jasper of both my visions as he and I went toward the forest at lunch. He needed to know that we would be coming upon the woman and we needed to be prepared. Together, we would be much stronger than her. I wanted he and I to destroy her. My vision changed shortly after Jasper crossed her smell. We bounded trying to find her, but she had disappeared. Now I knew the scent. We would take the others back to the trail we found so that they could remember it too. We had barely lost her scent when my vision came of Bella having to be held by Emmett and Rose from attacking the bleeding girl at school. I saw her hurting nobody but I knew that my siblings, especially Edward, was going to be quite upset with me. I foresaw even Carlisle and Esme being disappointed. I would have to explain myself. I would offer my explanation and I am sure they would see my point. I knew they would see my point. I saw it.

"Please, Please, everyone," I said calmly. Jasper sent calmness around the room. I could feel everyone relaxing. "I have to speak and you must listen. I had two visions this morning. Conflicting visions. I had to do what was best for everyone. I know you believe I was protecting Jazz, but I was protecting our family. Our entirety. I was truly protecting Bella."

Murmurs went across the room as soon as I spoke. Emmett and Rosalie were still giving me death stares and even Esme was looking at the floor. I freely thought of my visions. "Edward, please, hear what I saw, please?" I pleaded with my brother. He and I were closer than all of our siblings. Surely he would look into my mind as he had so many times.

I watched Edward's face as he listened to all that I saw. His face changed and became angry. He looked to Bella and he looked to me. I knew he was upset for what pain I had caused Bella but I saw that she would be okay. She perhaps needed a good dose of reality to what our instincts are. She would need our instincts if she crossed paths with the woman. "Alice, is being truthful," Edward said. "She saw the vision of the cafeteria…and a vision as if we all left school to avoid it…and what she saw, I cannot speak. It hurts me too much."

Our family turned to stare at Edward. Bella looked at me, "Alice, what did you see? Don't hide anything. What did you see?"

I had to be honest. If I wasn't, then none of my family would understand what I had done. They would feel as though I betrayed them for Jasper. "My first vision was the cafeteria, the blood. The second was that we all had left school together…and the woman had snuck up on Bella."I didn't need to say more, my family knew by my words and Edward's expression what that meant. I heard Esme gasp and I saw Carlisle turn his head. He didn't want and couldn't think of that. Bella had belonged with us the moment Edward first saw her. I had from that moment thought of her as a sister. I had known that Edward loved her before he knew he loved her and I truly loved her from that moment. I went to Bella. "Bella, please, don't be angry," I apologized. "I was protecting you. I saw it and I knew you would be okay. I knew we would all be okay."

Bella looked up at me, "Alice, I'm not upset with you." I was so relieved to hear that. "I'm upset with myself. I should have been able to handle that better. If Rose and Em hadn't been there, that poor girl would have died. I would have drank every bit of the blood I could have gotten. I…I never smelled fresh, pure human blood. I wanted it and I am repulsed with myself."

Carlisle and Esme both gave Bella looks of sadness and reassured her we had all been there. Carlisle assured her it had been less than a century since he was able to be around blood in the manner that he was. Jasper knelt beside Bella and said something the rest of us could not hear. Whatever it was, Bella found relief. She smiled and began talking like the Bella I knew.

A/N

I apologize that this chapter isn't as long as the rest, but I wanted to make sure that Alice's view on things and the reason why she behaved in such a manner was explained. I promise the next one will be a lot longer!