AN: Alright. I only got one review each for my last two chapters. i was going to wait for five on each, but why should twilightandharrypotterfreak have to wait when she's the one still rooting this story on? So this chapter if for you (again). Hope you enjoy it!!!!
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Video Camera
(Selene's POV)
The fire sirens blared a few miles behind us as the dance studio went up completely in flames, consuming James, ensuring that he would never come back again. Jasper, Alice, Emmett and I ignored it though. We had a task to complete and we had to move quickly so that any humans didn't catch us.
It was the dead of midnight and everyone in the hotel Alice and Jasper had been going to stay at when Edward took Bella far away was asleep. It was strangely quiet, but the silence was not as odd as watching my tiny sister carrying multiple bags of donor blood. Anyone who walked past us would have grabbed her and thrown her into the loony bin for carrying around bags of blood.
"Selene, you're closest to Bella's size. Would you mind…"
Alice gestured to the stairs that led to a huge window. That was going to hurt, but tripping on the stairs and tumbling out that window definitely would be some tragedy that was possible to befall on Bella.
Man. That was still going to hurt, no matter how indestructible I was. It didn't matter though. It was a necessity to take care of this.
I still had the silver camera I'd picked up in the studio in my hands, so I handed it to Emmett. He raised an eyebrow at me and I just shrugged. I didn't know what had made me pick it up, I just had been morbidly curious. So sue me.
Shrugging out of the jacket Emmett had handed me earlier, due to the fact that I was covered in Bella's dried blood, and dropped it to the floor.
"Sure. Why not? Vampires can't feel anything anyway," I whispered sarcastically, mostly to myself. Emmett and Jasper chuckled while Alice just shrugged. She just didn't want to be the one flinging herself down the stairs and through the window.
Taking a deep breath, I walked slowly down the stairs, and then turn when I reached the landing. Walking back up the steps slowly, I deliberately dug my toe into the lip of the step I was trying to get to. With that foot, I threw myself backwards and winced at the slight smack the wood made when my back slammed into it. I was rolling then. Each step made a thumping sound as I hit it.
After ten steps, I hit the landing for a few feet and then the sound of shattering glass was everywhere, breaking the peaceful night quiet. It took all my might not to throw a hand out to catch myself, took everything I had to let me just tumble from the window and out into the night. Glass was everywhere, falling with me.
I never did hit the ground though. Sometime in those endless seconds of rolling and falling, someone had ended up outside and under the window. My body slammed into what felt like and sounded like stone hitting stone. My neck snapped backward, and then forward. Strong white arms coiled around me, and then we were rolling on the ground, the arms still holding me.
The unmistakable laughter, which emanated from the person holding me, identified him as Emmett. I let out a histeric laugh and then kissed my fiancé, hard.
He continued to laugh as he said, "You didn't I was actually going to let you hit the ground did you?"
I hadn't even considered that at all.
My mind was still reeling from the adrenaline of falling. No matter how many years I've been a vampire and somewhat indestructible, it still didn't take away the fact that I had always been scared to death of heights. Edward use to tease me all the time about that, but after I became capable of dismembering him; he'd never brought it up again.
Trying to calm my breathing after the fall and the kiss, I curled into Emmett and just held onto him. Emmett pulled me tighter to him and stood up with me still in his arms. He stood there for a few seconds until I allowed him to put me down.
"So you do have a weakness," Emmett joked.
I ignored his jab and just kissed him again. Taking his hand, I led him back to the front door, where Alice and Jasper were coming out. He and I stood back, as Alice and Jasper went to work expertly spreading out the blood in believable patterns. I still didn't understand how the humans were going to be so gullible to fall for this, but they always fell for everything we wanted them to.
When they were finished, we left in a hurry. People had heard the commotion and were going to investigate. This was going to be a tricky scheme to keep up.
"Selene, what's that?" Alice asked from a couple of yard behind me. She caught up and snatched a silver object from my hand.
I'd completely forgotten about the camera that had been back in my hands as we made our way to the hospital that Edward's mind was leading us to.
Coming to a stop, Jasper and Emmett almost barreled over me, but Alice had stopped a second before I had. I sprinted back to her side and shrugged. I really didn't know the significance of it, but had a feeling there was something important about it.
Alice didn't notice I was there though. Her eyes had lost focus and her fingers trembled as she opened the viewing frame. I went to stand behind her and looked over her shoulder as her tiny finger pressed play…
~Biloxi, Mississippi, Early 1900s~
(Alice's POV)
Something that smelled kind of floral was being pressed to my mouth. No matter how good it smelled though, I was scared to death. My eyes were opened wide as I was thrown into something that was beyond what was happening to me right then. It was the future, that of which I was peg as a freak.
The images were frightening. But it wasn't because I was being tortured, or that there were monsters everywhere. All there was was darkness. Darkness everywhere. I didn't even know where I was, or if I was even a part of that vision. Lack of light had never seemed so hideous, but there was just something frightening about the dark…
I came back to the present and glanced around, still thoroughly frightened. There were people in black suits all around, but the thing that scared me most was my family.
My mother was standing in the doorway, my little sister peeking around her skirts. My father was the one that was holding the cloth to the face. He wasn't smothering me, but I was getting tired. I struggled and struggled, but there were people holding my limbs to the table. I yelped for my father to stop, but he didn't remove his hand or the cloth. My struggles slowed and my eyelids began to become weighted down. The room was blurring. A wave of darkness sent me under, and I didn't resurface every again.
Feral growls echoed off of the stonewalls that surrounded me. I didn't understand it or why I had been moved from to room to room over the endless eternity of the past few days.
"Mary!"
The man who'd been my only friend for what seemed like forever yelled. He was right next to me and his icy cold hand shot out to grab my arm. He pulled me behind him as another man stepped from the chilling shadows.
This man was just as pale as my friend, but instead of silvery short hair, he had dirty blond, long hair pulled back in a ponytail. His face had a snarl, that of which I'd never seen before. His eyes glinted onyx, and the evil was written in the planes of his face and in every movement as he stepped closer.
He'd only taken three steps when I was swept from the ground and the wind was slapping me in the face.
I could now see where I was for the first time in weeks, or even years. The wind was so strong because we were at the top of a huge tower. The moon was blinding and full and…really close.
Silver-hair looked at me with a sad look and pulled me close.
"Mary. I'm so sorry. This is going to be painful, but I can't think of another answer," he whispered into my ear.
"What…hhhhh!" I gasped as a sharp pain sunk into my neck, and then another one in my arm.
My body dropped to the ground and I started writhing in pain. Fire flew through every pore of my body and I let out an ear-piercing scream.
"You! You changed her! You stole my dinner! Now you're done!"
A snarl broke through my screams but then another yell joined mine. Someone picked me up and carried me through my yelps for hours. Then, when the fire began to diminish, I was place on something soggy and squishy. One slight whooshingsound announced that I was then alone.
The moment my heart stopped, I was thrown into one of my visions again. I hadn't had one for the whole time I was enduring the fire but one engulfed me now that it was gone.
I was walking into a diner, the smell of blood pushing in on me. I didn't care though. I had a mission. I had a reason for being there and nobody was going to interrupt it. The blond man at the bar table turned around when the bell rang and my dead heart soared…
~Phoenix, Arizona, 2005~
(Selene's POV)
…It was quite a shock to see her again… My mouth hung open at James' words. He knew Alice. And he knew where she'd come from before she was a vampire. There was just no way.
My sister gasped and dropped the camera. It clattered to the ground and the screen broke. Her whole body was shaking. Emmett and Jasper had come up behind us and had been watching as well. Jasper's arms snaked around Alice and Emmett pulled me over to the side.
"So what does this mean?"
He was confused. He got the gist of it, but honestly, that's all I got as well. We had just destroyed the only person who knew anything about the conditions of Alice's transformation. So what did that mean?
At that moment, Alice rushed past us with Jasper in close pursuit.
Where are you going?
Bella needs our attention.
Emmett and I took off running after them, catching up quickly.
What about what you just saw?
I'll deal with it later. Bella is what's important now.
Shrugging, I filled Emmett in on what our sister had said. That only confused him more. This was really going to shift life a little once we got home.