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Chapter 35 – Full Disclosure

Alice POV

After I made the phone call to Carlisle, I walked back into the living room to see Michael staring into space. The expression plastered on his handsome face was one that I would imagine seeing a ghost would mimic. It was one that gave me the chills. What had happened in the ten minutes that I was out of the room?

I slowly made my way over to him and gently placed my hand on his bicep. I called out to him to get his attention, "Michael. Michael, its Alice. Are you alright?"

His head turned bit by bit and soon he was looking into my eyes, "Alice?"

I placed both of my hands on either side of his face and stared into his eyes, "Yes, Alice. It is me."

He brought his hand up to my face and cupped one side of it. He brushed his thumb over my cheek and soon my lips sending chills down my spine and tingles all over my body, and until the small show of emotion prior to the phone call, we had never been intimate. I liked this. Closing my eyes, I leaned my face into his hand and turned so that I placed a small kiss in his palm. I looked back up into his eyes and there was confusion there and something else, but I couldn't place it. I whispered, "What's wrong?"

"It's you," he breathed back to me. He was looking at me like he had never seen me before.

"It's me. What's wrong?" I pressed.

Michael shut his eyes and dropped his hand. He took one step away from me. It was enough to put distance, but not enough to completely leave me. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at me again. Whatever he was going through, it was starting to scare me. I searched my mind and visions of something that would give me answers, but I saw nothing except him and me together. He face was contorted in pain and I wished I could take it away from him. "Please just tell me what happened," I begged of him worried.

He dropped his head to his chest and shuddered, "I was there."

"You were where?" He wasn't making sense to me.

"The night you were taken to the institution. The night your parents left you there, I was there. I only ever really saw your profile. I don't know why I didn't put it together until tonight, but I was there. You were afraid, but not overly so. I remember feeling sorry for you as I walked away. It was my last night in that hell hole and you were coming in as I was going out."

"You, you were there? You saw me before?" I was shocked. Michael was a small link to my past and yet it also appeared he was my future, "Do you know anything else?" I had to sit down. I plopped down on a chair that was near me and folded my hands together, wringing them out of my nervousness and surprise. Would this change anything for me? To know someone that knew me, even if it was ever so briefly, before I was changed?

A small nod was the only indication that he had heard me. He was standing as still as a statue, not moving. After a few minutes he said, "I don't know anything else. I left that place and never looked back. I knew that another vampire was around the asylum and he was pure evil. I guess you could say that I ran away before I didn't have the ability to go anywhere any longer."

"I see."

"I'm sorry. That place was hell and I just left you there. If I would have known…"

"You couldn't have known. I got out of there though and I am here now. So are you," I said as I stood up and closed the gap between us. I lifted one of my hands once again to his face and reiterated, "You couldn't have known."

Michael brought his hand up and covered mine. He turned his face like I had done not minutes before and kissed the palm of my hand. "I'm sorry," he whispered to me.

"That is the past. The only thing that matters is now and the future," I whispered back as my own thoughts nagged me. He was being honest, granted it was a memory that had not been triggered until tonight, but it was time for full disclosure from me. I moved away from him and sat on the couch. Patting the seat next to me, I silently asked him to sit down with me. When he sat himself next to me, I grabbed his hand and said, "I think it is time you knew everything about me."

He searched my face and I could tell with just his look, he was questioning me, "What else do I need to know?"

"Well, you know about the Cullen coven and that many of us have gifts, but there is more to my story," I said and taking a breath, I continued on without giving him a chance to respond. "I left the family when I had a vision about my best friend Bella and my husband Jasper; well he is my ex-husband now. I had been having visions of them off and on for a couple of months, but things would change and nothing was set in stone. At least that is what I told myself. The night Bella broke up with Edward, everything changed. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that Bella and Jasper were meant to be together, and I was meant for someone else. I packed and told Jasper that I had to leave because of a vision. He tried to come with me, but I wouldn't let him. He couldn't come with me because he was supposed to be with Bella. They had to help each other through heartache and they would make it together. I left a note for Bella to be there for Jasper. Her blood was once a weakness for him, but I knew that he would become strong for her the way he couldn't with me. He would become what he always wanted to with her and for her because she would give him something I was never able to give him. Together they would fight a barrage of enemies and come out the victor," I laughed at the last part because it reminded me of a knight fighting for a fair maiden, but I guess that is what Jasper became to Bella.

"So he was your mate?" Michael asked me.

"I thought he was for a time. When I woke up from the burning, he face was the first one I remember seeing in my mind. I knew I had to search him out and I did find him. We found the Cullen family and lived with them. We were happy, but I will be lying if I said it was always perfect. There were many times that something seemed to be missing or lacking. I loved him and our life, but there were times I wondered if there was something more out there for both of us. I think we were what each of us needed at the time and what we needed to enter our new life, but ultimately not what we needed for the rest of our lives."

"Ok."

"When I left, I sent him divorce papers and we were done. It was so final when I got the call everything was taken care of. Of course, we didn't really need divorce papers, but he needed to know that it was over completely. I never told him or Bella, or anyone else for that matter, why I was leaving. I just left and did what I had to do. That is why I am here now. One of the reasons that I am worried about the meeting is that when Aro finds out that I am not with the Cullen's any longer, he could search me out. He wants to make me a part of his guard. He wants the same for Edward. Although we follow their rules, their lifestyle is different than ours and we do not want to join. Plus, he uses the powers at his disposal for questionable purposes. I cannot be responsible for the downfall of others and I won't."

Michael POV

She just gave me so much information and I don't know how to process it. I feel jealous towards Jasper that he was with her for so long. I want to mark her and say that she is mine and no one else's. I want to protect her from the Volturi and make sure that they cannot get to her. I want to wipe away the worry and the fear that lingers in her expression right now. Do I have a right to any of this though?

Alice trusts me with all of this, but what do I have to give her? What can I offer her? I can offer her my life if she will take it. I will do anything I can to protect her and make sure no one abuses her ever again. I did not stop and protect her the last time we met. I did not take her out of that awful place, but I can make sure I am there for her now.

Adjusting my hand so that our fingers were now linked, I leaned forward and ran my other hand through her hair. I kissed each of her eyes, then each cheek, her nose, and finally her lips. When she responded to the kiss, I found that I was completely lost to the little nymph in front of me. I pulled back and stared into her eyes, dark with passion and I was sure they matched mine. "I will protect you and I will not let you go," I vowed to her before leaning in and kissing her once again. She was my destiny and this time I was grabbing on to it with both hands.

I let go of her hand and swept her up into my arms, carrying her to the bedroom to solidify our future together. I was not going to lose her again and whatever she needed from me, she would get.