Moving On

by mcangel1976

Things just haven't been the same since Edward came back into her life. Bella is sick of the back and forth and has made some decisions. Alice got a vision and disappeared. No one knows where and Jasper has been left behind. Both Bella and Jasper feel out of sorts but feel a kinship with each other. The friendship will grow, but will other things?

16. Watcher in the Woods

A/N: I know this is a short chapter, but I wanted to let you all know what Alice found in the woods. It is not the greatest chapter, but I felt like it belonged here before I got too far ahead in the story. Thanks everyone.

Chapter 16 – Watcher in the Woods

Alice had been alert when she went on her hunt. She was sure that she had seen something when she was looking out her back window. Something or someone had been watching her house. She reached out with her senses to see if she got any visions, but it was quiet and that frustrated her. She made her way cautiously out the back door and walked at human speed to the woods before she started to move with vampire speed.

As she walked to the woods, she sniffed and tried to smell anything that was off or different from the norm. She smelled a hint of something that was not human and was not animal. It was another vampire, but not one that she recognized. She was instantly on guard and decided to follow the scent.

Alice followed the scent into the woods for a couple of minutes. The smell was getting stronger, but she suddenly stopped as a vision took her over. She peered into her vision and knew immediately that this was a stranger, but someone that seemed to recognize her. He was a human eater and although did not seem dangerous, he could be a threat. She stopped her pursuit. Now was not the time to engage the stranger. That meeting was set for the future. She detoured and went in the opposite direction in order to continue her hunt. She would make sure she stayed watchful though.

Alice took in a deep breath after she had run several miles away from the strange vampire. The scent was no longer surrounding her. She couldn't smell it at all and that was a good thing. She took another deep breathe so that she could locate her prey. She smelled a group of elk less than a half mile away. She moved gracefully and quietly in their direction. Soon she was able to hear their heart beats. Alice crouched low when she got close and looked at the bounty in front of her. Quickly she leapt up and ran grabbing one of the larger elk around the neck and taking it down.

The animal was drained and its captor stood up wiped her mouth with a handkerchief that she had in her pocket. As she stood there and breathing in and deciding where her next kill would be, she suddenly knew that she was being watched. She pretended like she didn't know, but she knew from her visions that he would not come near her just yet. He was just watching her, curious.

The stranger watched the sprite in the meadow. He knew from her scent that she was another vampire, but she was not like him. Her eyes were different than his and her smell was different than most other vampires he had come across during his lifetime, not that it had been that long of one.

Five days, he had been watching her that long and today he ventured closer to the house than he had before. He felt shock and momentarily froze when she turned her eyes upon him. He felt like she was looking right at him. It wasn't possible though, was it? He took off as soon as he knew that she had seen him.

He had been planning on moving on, but he decided to stay where he was when he had caught the scent of another vampire in the area. He was a nomad and normally did not stay in one place too long, but he was intrigued by her scent. When he saw her eyes, he was even more fascinated; and when he realized that she was staying put and lived in the house, he was enthralled by her more than he can ever remember being.

Alice got scent of a mountain lion and took off. She knew that he would not follow her. Part of her wanted to stop and call to him, to find out what he was doing there. She wanted to know who he was and if he was a threat. Her visions said that he wasn't, but that did not mean that things in her visions did not change. Everything was subject to what path he was currently on.

She knew that he was a nomad and would hopefully move on. He was a complication that was not needed right now. She had too much to concentrate on to have to worry about her own safety right now. She needed to stay on guard because strange vampires were very unpredictable.

Alice looked behind her and wondered where her watcher in the woods went.