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Chapter Ten: All I Know So Far
APOV

"So is your goal to piss Carlisle off until he admits defeat?" I didn't turn around as Edward approached, moving across the snow calmly. I smirked to myself.

"If I thought that would work, maybe," I replied cheerfully. "But you and I both know that until he agrees to change his mind, that won't work." He propped himself on a rock while I refocused on Seeing into the future. Images flew at me, faster than I could catch them all.

"I think you are overestimating my control," he muttered.

"He loves her, Edward. I love her. Would you really hurt the woman who will complete him? Finally fulfill him? You've seen what she is to him, to our family. Don't tell me that that doesn't strengthen your resolve?" He stared at me, watching the visions through my mind. Most were of Bella and Carlisle, living their immortality together with the rest of us.

But there were a few of Bella, broken or old.

This only pushed my determination to change Carlisle's mind. Bella belonged with us and Carlisle's strange reluctance to make that happen was just a setback in my ultimate plan.

"Ultimate plan? What are you, a comic book villain," Edward teased and I shoved him.

"I wouldn't have to take such drastic measures if he wasn't so pigheaded," I complained. Edward barked out a laugh.

"Need I remind you, Alice, that you are speaking of the vampire who was too stubborn to drink human blood for months before he finally succumbed to his thirst. The man treats humans that are actively bleeding without a hint of temptation. Even if I take your side in all this and try to convince him to change his mind, you're forgetting that society prohibits their relationship. Not to mention the treaty, which I hardly need to remind you, states that we aren't allowed to bite a human. Then there is the matter of Bella's feelings. What if she doesn't want to be like us? Not that we'd be able to ask her because if she said no, we would have revealed our secret and put her life in danger."

"What would you do if it were Esme," I asked fiercely. "How far would you go for your soulmate?" He stayed silent but I knew that he finally understood. "It's not just that she's Carlisle's soulmate, Edward. She's exactly what our family is missing. There's something special about her. She'll be important to all of us." I focused on one of the first visions I had about her. She was surrounded by all of us, arguing with Emmett, comforting Rose, having a lively discussion with Jasper, gardening with Esme, shopping with me and listening to Edward play the piano before she shoved his head into the keys with a laugh. It was one of a hundred different variations of this future that I had seen. "She's going to be as dear to you as Carlisle is," I pressed and he sighed.

"Her blood," he began, "is the sweetest thing I've ever come across. It is the most fragrant, mouthwatering, delectable treat I have ever been privy to. I'm not like you, Alice: I've tasted human blood. I've given in to those cravings. I don't know if I could be around her without… it's like shoving a starving man into a room with all of his favorite foods laid out, ripe for the picking." I didn't need Jasper's gift to feel his self-reproach as he stared into the glistening snow.

"You might be a lot of things, Edward. But you aren't a cold blooded killer." He barked out a humorless laugh.

"Am I not? I killed those men, Alice. I plotted their deaths, stalked them and then sucked the life out of them. I was judge, jury and executioner. That is the definition of a cold blooded killer."

"You and I both know that the men you did that to were irredeemable. They were the lowest forms of life and you saved countless people from the cruelty and brutality they would have inflicted effortlessly." He rolled his eyes at me. "But," I said, grabbing his hand and forcing him to look at me, "you won't hurt Bella." He stared into my face and I tried to force the conviction to shine in every facet of my face and thoughts. "You will love her. She will be as important to you as Carlisle and the rest of us."

"Your visions aren't set in stone," he whispered sadly.

"I'm not saying that because of my visions. I'm saying that because it's only been a few days and I love her that much. Emmett and Rose have been with her one day and they have already accepted her." He scoffed.

"Rosalie Hale accepted a human. I'll believe that when I see it."

"There's something about Bella, Edward. Rose liked her from the beginning but she showed vulnerabilities to Bella that only Emmett and maybe Jasper have been privileged with. I don't know if it's a latent gift manifesting in her mortal life or she's just incredibly disarming and approachable, but Bella has already rooted herself in the hearts of this family." He looked away from me again, tracing patterns in the snow with his fingers. "I'm not saying it won't be hard," I said, wrapping my arms around his shoulders. "I have no doubt that being near her will require commitment and will undoubtedly be painful." He snorted. "But isn't it worth it for Carlisle? He's been alone for so long, sacrificed so much of his own happiness for us. He doesn't begrudge you and Esme but we both know that he had hopes for who she might be. Hopes that he would never voice. Now we've found her, the woman who will complete him. I need your help talking him out of these ridiculous ideas he has that she'll be better off without him. Because she won't be."

"It will be hard to convince him," he warned after a moment. "We don't talk about Carlisle's father often but the man inflicted his damage on him long enough that his beliefs are core values to Carlisle, even if he doesn't recognize that's where his morals stem from. He still ardently believes in the Christian ideals of heaven and hell and convincing him otherwise…" He trailed off but I knew what he was staying. Carlisle had changed Edward and the behest of his dying mother. Esme was supposed to be dead but he'd been reminded of the young woman who had visited his office years before. Rosalie had been so harshly brutalized. Emmett had been Rosalie's second chance at a happy life in this eternity. But all of them had been dying.

Changing Bella would be asking him to take her human life for himself.

For us.

"What if Bella could make the decision?" He gave me a scathing glare.

"There's no way to tell her all of the information without telling her our secret and should she choose not to join us, she would be a target until old age took her or one of the Volturi takes her life."

"She would never choose to stay human. She loves Carlisle. She wants to be with him."

"Yes but for eternity? Forever hiding our true natures? Attending school in an endless loop? I doubt she could even comprehend the concept."

"You underestimate the connection she and Carlisle have. And there are positives to being with the one you love for eternity," I reminded him pointedly. "What I need to know is if you will come back and help me." He stood up and ran a hand through his hair.

"Of course I will," he finally huffed out in a sigh. "Carlisle is my oldest and dearest friend. Without him, I wouldn't have ever met Esme, wouldn't be able to be with the love of my life. So yes, I will come and return the favor." I squealed and jumped on him, squeezing him.

"Thank you! You won't regret this! You are going to love Bella! I can't wait for you to meet her! I can't wait to find out what she thinks of Carlisle." He pushed me off of him.

"I need a little more time before I come back," he said firmly. "I want to make absolutely sure that I can be around her. For Carlisle." I nodded enthusiastically.

"Take a week and then come back." New visions assaulted me as his decision to come home changed and I tried to catch all of them, mostly seeing him and Bella together, talking and laughing. A vision of him and Carlisle embracing tightly slowed in my mind and I saw the ghost of a smile on his lips as he saw it through my thoughts. "At the very least, Carlisle will be glad to have you back."

"Only until he realizes I'm there to wear him down and change his mind," he teased and I laughed. Esme came flitting across the snow to us. Edward reached out a hand and pulled her into his arms.

"So we're going back," she said with a cheery smile.

"Eavesdropping is a most unbecoming habit, Esme Cullen," Edward teased her, pressing his face to hers. She chuckled.

"Says the man who eavesdrops on people's innermost thoughts." He laughed fully and pressed a kiss to her temple. "Besides, it's impossible to miss Alice when she gets her way," she said with a wink directed at me. I beamed.

"Well, if everyone would just listen to me without question, I wouldn't have to do things like this," I said in exasperation. Edward rolled his eyes at me. "Anyway, now that I've secured my biggest ally, I can head back home. Before Carlisle runs up here to get me himself." I hugged them tightly and headed back to Tanya's to grab my bag and head for the airport. I pulled my phone from my pocket and dialed, pressing it to my ear.

"Let me guess; you talked him into it and we can expect a merry reunion," Jasper drawled in my ear before I could say anything. I giggled.

"Did you expect anything less?"

"Never. I know better than to bet against you, darling. Does this mean you're coming home?"

"I'm on my way as we speak."

"Good. I've got a surprise for you when you get back," he promised in a low voice. My belly tightened and I suddenly wondered if I needed my things or if I should just run home.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't surprise a psychic," I teased breathlessly.

"Come home and find out." I was assaulted with visions of him as he made different decisions about my return.

"You keep changing your mind and I won't be fit to be on a public flight and then you won't see me at all." The visions stopped abruptly and I laughed.

"See you soon, darling. Be safe."