Disclaimer: Don't own them but wish I did.
"Your story is...so...interesting. I can already see the differences between our kinds. We can get to all that later, for now I will tell you my story." Jasper stayed by his spot and I was surprised he was going to go first. "I was born in 1844, in Houston, Texas. I joined the Confederate Army before I turned 17. Back then, as you know, it was normal to be so young and do so much as a man. In the following 2 years, I was promoted to major in the army and became the youngest major in Texas. I was extremely good at my job and had a knack for getting done what no one else could. After evacuating women and children, I rode my way back to Galveston and met Maria, Lucy and Nettie, who had recently lost their respective territories to other covens. Maria changed me into a vampire in hopes of utilizing my military training and experience to create an efficient army.
The newborns and I helped Maria reclaim her territory and later claim dominance over others. Nettie and Lucy gained territories of their own, but when they tried to rebel against Maria, I teamed up with Maria to kill them. Maria and I shared a short romantic relationship while I was her Major. When I became a vampire, I gained the ability to feel and manipulate people's emotions, which was very useful in controlling the younger newborns. I commanded Maria's army that participated in the Southern vampire wars. I would train only the best and if you weren't the best, I would neutralize them and burn the bodies to dispose of them. Also, since Maria wouldn't keep vampires after the first year of their transformations, I disposed of them as well, something I hated because I could feel their pain.
While in the army, I befriended a newborn named Peter, whom I persuaded Maria to keep because of his advanced combat skills and kindred spirit. When Peter ran off with Charlotte, another vampire who we had met during a raid, I allowed them to escape. After this incident, Maria's feelings for me changed. I knew she no longer cared for me and I felt how she wanted to destroy me. So, I began planning on destroying her first, despite my reluctance on destroying the person who mattered to me most.
In 1938, Peter came back and told me about the way vampires could coexist up North. I immediately left Maria and her coven to join Peter and Charlotte. Eventually, I left Charlotte and Peter thinking I could make it on my own and I tried to kill less often, but the thirst always grew overwhelming. I tried to take only what I needed, but the thirst was so great, it made me feel alive.
In 1948, I ran into a diner in Philadelphia and met the love of my life; Alice Cullen. At first, I was puzzled by her happy behavior around me, but nevertheless, her joyful emotions impacted me greatly. As it turned out, she had been waiting for me. When she held out her hand, I took it, and felt an unfamiliar emotion for the first time: hope. My Alice saved me, and I cherish the day she came into my life.
She told me about the ability to survive from animal blood instead of human blood, as well as their future with Carlisle Cullen and his family. I didn't know such a thing could exist, but I followed her. With the help of Alice's 'sight', we searched for the Cullen's and eventually joined them in 1950. Sometime after that, by Carlisle's suggestion, I married Alice. I thought it was a splendid idea since I had already loved her and knew I needed her to stay in my life. She was already my mate and what better way to keep her than to give her my last name.
When I joined the Cullen family, I changed my surname Whitlock to my adoptive sister Rosalie's surname of "Hale" and I pose as her twin due to our physical similarities. Out of the whole coven, I've had the hardest time being around humans, due to my unrestrained upbringing. But if I had Alice by my side, I knew I could get through anything. Throughout the next 50 years, I still could not control my bloodlust, leading me to burden myself with the mentality of feeling weak by not being able to possess the same level of restraint as the rest of his family.
Maria sought me out when we were in Calgary. The encounter prompted the family to move again, and I politely asked Maria to keep her distance, because I had no interest in rejoining her coven and lifestyle. Throughout my time with the Cullen's, I have attended high school and university many times, and earned degrees in history and philosophy. I am currently going out for my degree in phycology.
Sometime in the 1980s, I started doing business with a lawyer who forged illegal documents to help provide my family with new identity certificates. After the lawyer retired, his apprentice, J. Jenks, took over. I've been dealing with him since and when he retires, it will be his apprentice Kyle Lemmings that will be dealing with us. He is a reasonable guy and although he is afraid of us I can feel his desire to please us. The last two years aren't really my story even though the ending is my fault."
I knew what he meant by this, since it was mostly Edward and my story. I smiled at Jasper and he smiled back at me. I felt nothing but forgiveness for him and I hoped he knew my birthday was not his fault. When he nodded at me, I knew he got the message. But how much of it did he believe because I knew asper well and I knew he would never forgive himself once he knew what happened to me after they left.
We all looked at Alice who was now standing with Jasper. She probably needed his support more than anyone here. He held her tight as she began talking, her usual bubbly self not showing. I don't think I've ever seen her this serious before and it made me sad. Although I was mad at her still, I knew telling her story was hurting her and I wanted to comfort her.
"I was born in 1901 as Mary Alice Brandon to a middle-class home in Biloxi, Mississippi. My father was a jeweler and a pearl trader while my mother tended to our home. I was prone to having premonitions of the future since I was a child, though they weren't always correct. They tended to give me headaches and I was deemed a sick child. I rarely spoke of my power for fear of being burned alive as a witch. On two occasions, I tried to warn a friend and a cousin with my predictions, but they refused to listen. When the predictions came true, I was blamed for cursing them, earning me the title of "witch" in the end from the townsfolk.
One night I had a horrifying vision of my mother being murdered and tried to warn her about it. I loved my mother dearly as she was the only one who took my visions to heart. She believed in me the most, while my father did not. After months of precautions with nothing serious happening, my mother put her guard down, and was eventually killed. I tried to explain that it was murder, but it was declared accidental. My mother never went into the woods for fear of getting lost or falling down a hill to her death. And that is exactly what happened, she was found at the bottom of a long hill with a broken neck.
Within six months, my father re-married a blonde Yankee from Illinois whose father was a promising customer. My stepmother treated me coldly while making a pet of my younger sister. I suspected that the marriage and my mother's murder were all planned and carried out by my father. He knew with my mother gone he could do as he pleased.
I had a vision of my father and my mother's killer planning to kill me. I tried to hide in my closest relatives' house, but they drove me away since they still blamed me for the death of their son. I then went to the town's marshal, but my father was already one step ahead of me. He told the townsfolk that I had gone mad and had trapped me in a mental asylum, two counties away.
While in the asylum, my head was shaved during the threat of typhoid outbreak. I also endured electroshock therapy which gave me total amnesia, but it also restored my naturally cheerful and humorous self. A vampire who worked at the asylum befriended me and treated me like a daughter. He took care of me when I had no one left. He also frequently visited me with objects hidden in his hands to test my powers and shielded me from other horrifying treatments as best as he was able too.
One day, I had a vision of a powerful tracker coming after me. He had been hunting me for a while and when I was taken to the asylum, his plans had been foiled. I informed the vampire of this, and he planned to escape with me, but I still saw the tracker catching up to me, and every option he offered me ended the same way. When he decided to change me, I saw that this would be very close, and we might not have enough time. The vampire immediately bit me and took me away. He hid me well and went to distract the tracker, sacrificing himself in the process.
Sadly, he did not hide me well enough because James finally found me. But my blood was already fully turned and decided to let me live a savaged existence to see how I might turn out in the future. When I woke up, the pain of the venom erased all my memories, just like the electric shock treatments did. But my premonitions were also intensified, and my first vision was of Jasper becoming my mate, and of a happy future with the Cullen family.
Unlike most of my adoptive family members, I developed a conscience on my own, which kept me from feeding on humans, though my success was sporadic. Knowing that Jasper and I would join the Cullen family in the future, I started practicing a "vegetarian" lifestyle while waiting for Jasper to show up.
In 1948, I went to meet Jasper and I was very excited when he finally arrived. In 1950, we joined the Cullen's' coven and got married a short time after. I started using the surname 'Cullen' to ease some of the confusion and gossip we caused to the humans around them. But if you were to look at my original certificate you would see that my name is Mrs. Alice Cullen-Whitlock. My second marriage license says Mrs. Alice Cullen-Whitlock Hale, wow that's a mouthful.
I had come to love everyone in my new family, but grew increasingly fond of Edward, who understood the burden of my supernatural talent. I attended several high schools and colleges like the rest of the family and earned degrees in fashion design and international business. I am currently studying to be a small business owner and want to create my own fashion line.
We've been happy ever since. I played a part in the last two years, just like Jasper, but it isn't my story. I can say though that if it wasn't for Bella, I would have never found out about my past. Even though we aren't talking to each other, she is still like a sister to me and I hope she can one day forgive me."
Everyone looked so shocked and sad. I knew Alice's story was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad since I was never given the full details of her past. I just knew the bits and pieces they thought I should know. I wondered how Elena and the rest of them would react when they heard the rest of the stories.