THIS WILL BE THE LAST CHAPTER FOR A FEW DAYS. SORRY GUYS, I KNOW I'VE BEEN UPDATING A LLOOOTTTT. (20 something thousand words in a few days, omy.) I'LL BE BACK SOON!
"Hey Alice?" I whispered to her, I had been thinking about getting a puppy lately. I was hoping she hadn't seen anything about it yet and there was a chance for my doggy dreams to be realized.
"Yes?" She glanced at me, looking rather expectant. We were in English class and my new look was welcomed by Mr. De Ronin, his reaction, however, wasn't welcomed by Alice. She gave him the deep voice that scared the crap out of everyone when he was apparently checking out my ass.
"So I've been thinking...about things that are furry an-" I started out looking all around the room.
"No. You're not getting a mutt." Her response told me two things, one that she'd seen it and two, there wasn't any room for argument. I pouted and sighed.
"Why would you even want one, baby?" She used the nickname as she stared at me with her brows furrowed. I looked around for anyone who might be listening and found that no one was all that interested in our conversations. I shrugged and heard her grit her teeth together.
"Are you just bored?" She started to speak faster, we were speaking too quickly for any human hears but luckily we were also speaking low. Alice quickly held my hand under the table and I couldn't figure out why.
"MS SWAN!" I jumped as Mr. De Ronin yelled my name (or is it maiden name now?) out of the middle of nowhere.
"Yes?" I cleared my throat and answered him, I was shifting uncomfortably but I didn't quite know what else to do.
"Perhaps you know why Franz Kafka used the description of a bug in Metamorphosis." He looked quite smug and I glared at him. I thought back to the bug book and realized I had almost no memory of it. As a second ticked by, he began to look even more smug about it.
"No sir." I sighed, bowing my head. I submitted to his little 'higher than thou' bit.
"Then maybe you should be paying more attention to me and less to Ms Cullen. Do I need to move you down to the front, perhaps?" He was dragging this public shaming out and I felt Alice's hand tighten on me when he suggested moving me to the front.
"Thats not necessary sir." I gritted my teeth at this man, something was trying to snap inside me and I was trying to keep a lid on it.
"Are you sure Ms Swan?" He was baiting me with his smug attitude and I almost growled. I shook my head and watched as his eyes drifted down to my chest, I let whatever it was in me snap and watched as he his eyes rolled up to the back of his head as he fell to the ground.
There was a moment of silence while we all processed what just happened, then mass panic broke out. I heard Alice sigh, much more calm that I thought she would be and much more calm than I was. I froze up and spun to look at her in a slight hysteria.
"Oh my god Alice, I killed him." I whispered to her as everyone jumped up from their seats, some yelling to call 911 others running down the hall for another teacher or the nurse. It was hysteria.
"How?" She asked me curiously, looking me over.
"When he was doing his little shaming thing I kept feeling something pushing and I just wanted him to stop and poof! HES DEAD." I spoke quickly motioning to the fallen Mr De Ronin and myself.
"You haven't killed him. I think this is just one of the extra abilities rearing it's head. I saw this happening, I just figured he'd fainted though." She sighed again as she pulled out her phone and turned back to me. My eyes were bugging out, I was freaking out. She had called Carlisle apparently and was speaking quickly as she explained the situation, pausing only for a few seconds to absorb what he was saying.
"He agrees. He also said that you should try to want him to wake up again and see if it changes his current state. So see, you haven't killed anyone, Irene." She said the last part softly, caressing my cheek. I took in a deep breath to try and calm myself down, focusing on wanting this all to be over and have him up and about.
"Holy crap Alice, the medics are here! I've sent him into a coma!" I had almost calmed myself down when two men in blue came through. She sighed and shook her head.
"You haven't, he'll be okay. Lets go, Irene." She said this calmly and got up, pulling me along with her. I was still reeling over what I'd done to him. I wasn't paying attention to anything but Mr De Ronin's body. I made eye contact with the blonde guy who was helping to put him on the stretcher, he winked but I was looking more horrified than responsive. I guess dead people didn't do anything to him.
"Irene. If you'd stop making googly eyes at the EMT, I'd like to go now." Alice's voice barked out at me and I jumped to attention. She started walking faster and I jogging to keep up with her, she wasn't as calm now. She was angry or just jealous, it was hard to tell with my Alice.
She marched us out to the parking lot, the Cullens were standing around their vehicles as usual. This time they were discussing the situation among each other. When we got there she spun around and looked ready to scold me, instead she propped me up on the hood of Emmett's hummer. This was unexpected.
"Ali?" I asked hesitantly, looking down at my mate. She was glaring up at me, very much unhappy.
"Wooo. Coma chick, how'd you do it? We've all been wanting to total that asshole since we got here." Emmett being himself decided to come over right as Alice and I were having a staring contest. He came up and tried to get a high five out of me, I slowly accepted it and high fived him. He grinned and toddled off back to Rose who was shaking her head at him, not waiting for a response out of me. Or he accepted that he wouldn't get one.
Alice growled as a few more minutes of silence passed between us and she pulled me off his truck to hug me to her. She was rubbing her cheek over mine and I paused, was she seriously trying to make me smell like her? I pulled back as I watched Mr De Ronin come out of the building, he was lifeless as he laid on the stretcher and I frowned. I needed him to wake up, if he didn't I'd feel massive amounts of guilt for like forever.
I stared hard at him, willing for it to happen. I saw a hand twitch and got a little excited. There was no snapping feeling going on so I assumed that this was all by himself. I watched for a few more seconds as they got closer to the Ambulance. I was about to look away when I watch as he snapped up from the laying down position and both medics went into a panic themselves. I supposed he wasn't supposed to wake up at all.
Alice shook her head and shared a look with Edward, who nodded his head. They were doing the thought thing, the thing I couldn't do because of a shield which I was honestly glad for sometimes. She pulled me towards the Hummer, opening the passenger door and putting me in it.
I was a little indignant at the fact she hadn't mentioned anything to me and just stuck me in Emmett's car. I didn't even like this car. It was too big for me. She went around and hopped in the front as well, starting up the car and pulling out of the lot. The thought struck me and I spun around quickly to look at Alice's tiny frame, handling a steering wheel that looked almost twice her size.
"Whats going on? And what about Bella? She'll wonder where I am, Ali." I said this as a mixture of grumpiness and panic over my sister's possible panic.
"Theres a friend of Carlisle's, Eleazar, hes in the neighborhood and he has the ability to determine other's talents. Hes going to basically appraise you, if its what I think its going to be, then the Volturi will have to be notified." She shifted gears and floored the gas pedal, she was in a hurry.
"You wanna tell me who they are and why they have to know anything?" I raised a brow and crossed my arms, I was getting defensive.
"They're the government or kings of the vampire world. If its as big as I think it is, you'll be powerful enough to stand out to them with a good reason." She was leaving bits out, I could tell from her tone. She was a little worried about it all and I couldn't blame her, they sounded scary.
"...whats the reason?" I couldn't help myself and had to ask the obvious questions as she wasn't going to give me the answers I wanted easily.
"You'll be dangerous if you don't consciously and continuously control it. Especially if its expanded upon, but I don't think we'll ever do that." She finally cracked, giving me the information I wanted. I sighed as I saw the worry in her face, the only way I could think of alleviating it was through physical contact. So that's what I did, I leaned over and kissed her cheek. I also laid my hand on her thigh, she began to slowly relax under my touch. The fact that I could relax her solely from my touch excited me.
We pulled into the driveway of the Cullen house to see a tall paleish man with dark brown hair and amber eyes standing next to Carlisle. He was watching me as I watched him, I wasn't sure if I liked him all that much.
I hopped out of the truck, landing lightly on my feet. Alice was quickly next to me, her arm wrapped around my waist as she escorted me to this guy. We got within a few feet of each other and the appraisal began. After a few seconds of silence, he bent at the waist and delicately held out a hand to me. I hesiantly put my own in his and he stood back up, bringing my hand to his lips.
"I'll assume you are the Ms Irenta Mae Swan, Carlisle was speaking of. Or is it Ms Irenta Mae Brandon Cullen now?" He asked me with a raised brow, smiling kindly at me. The face of stone had broken and I awkwardly grinned back at him. I wasn't sure which it was to be honest, the second one was a mouthful. He had a slight Spanish accent causing some words to run together.
"I'll go by Irene as both of those are an absolute mouthful, don't you think?" I remarked, looking up at this man. His smile turned into a grin and he started to chuckle, nodding.
"They are indeed, but both are just as beautiful as Irene. Don't forget that, my dear." He was definitely a charmer, he didn't have the same effect as Alice on me but he was close.
"I'll try not to." I said this pleasantly, smiling softly at the man.
"Well down to business before we continue to have such fun." His tone began to lose the lightness that it had to it before and I felt Alice's arm almost pull me closer. His eyes drifted down to it and he smirked at the motion.
"So far I've noticed a shield of some sort, perhaps mental more so than anything else. Along with this there is the possibility of something more...developed. Dangerous. The ability to send even vampires into a coma that can last a short time or a while. Your will power has a lot to do with this, its almost absolute and as Carlisle was telling me, you began to resist the change?" He was talking matter-of-factly and I was nodding, slowly taking everything in.
"She did, but it was too late. Only her heart was left to complete the change." Alice responded for me and his eyes snapped to her. He nodded slowly.
"Then as well as that, you're currently about a day or two old and you're living with humans. A new born of your age should be snapping her jaws at anything that moved, including your own mate, and draining anyone you could get your hands on." He made a motion to Alice with his head and I frowned at the idea. There was no way I'd ever hurt her with out having a say about it.
"I'd never hurt her, just like I'd never hurt Bella or Charlie. They're my family. I refuse to hurt them." I said this sounding mildly shocked he'd mention the idea.
"Exactly. You refuse to, my dear. Its your will power that's helping you through all of this. A will as strong as that combined with powerful psychic talents and possibilities, you could very well cause brain damage, memory loss, unconsciousness, a vegetative state or even death purely through mental combat. You may even be able to do this to multiple beings at once if you practiced. I will have to be notify the Volturi, I'm sorry Alice. I know you were trying to avoid this." He continued on and turned to Alice looking very sorry indeed. I swallowed heavily as I thought about it. Brain damage, death, I could turn people into vegetables. I was so not developing this power thing unless I absolutely had to.
"You know Aro's going to want to see her in person now, he'll try to recruit her!" Alice was a little peeved, like she really really didn't want to hear any of this. I frowned and tried to calm her down by putting my hand over hers on my hip.
"Alice, this is for the best. We'd rather she was taught than let it go and have her hurt someone by accident." Carlisle responded looking at his adopted daughter as she almost had a bitch fit. Alice nodded slowly, glaring at the ground. She wasn't happy at all. Carlisle sighed and patted both of us on the shoulder.
"Come in, Eleazar, if you have a minute." Carlisle looked back towards him, smiling softly and motioning back to the house. It was at this moment that the rest of the Cullens pulled up to the driveway. Within a few seconds everyone was around, greeting the vampire. He nodded and hugged everyone, giving them his best as he then followed Carlisle inside. I looked over between Alice and Edward as they had another mental conversation. I thought about the snapping back feeling for a second and thought this time about only stretching what was around to be around Alice too.
I started to concentrate on it, pushing it farther and farther up Alice's connecting arm and soon over her person. I had to concentrate to have it there but I could tell from the look on Edward's face that it worked.
"A-Alice, I can't hear you." He was frowning and looked genuinely confused when his gaze snapped to me. I grinned at the look and he narrowed his eyes even more.
"How are you shielding her too?" He sounded a little mad that I'd defeated his talent and I felt Alice wrap both arms around me in a sideways hug. She kissed me on the cheek and I looked down at her head on my shoulder. She looked at peace, satisfied and happy with her world right now as she stared up at me.
"I just concentrated on it. Its around me all the time, so I stretched it." I replied easily. This was something that I felt was okay to develop, it wouldn't hurt anyone. I hadn't put anyone into another fainting spell or coma or anything, I was doing pretty well. It was getting harder to hold out there and eventually I let it slide back onto me.
"You stopped." He sounded surprised, looking at me, as I'm sure he could hear her thoughts again. I nodded slowly.
"It gets tiring you know." I remarked beginning to grin at him. He rolled his eyes and walked up to the house where Emmett and Rose and the rest of the Cullens were.