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AN

Warning: this one is going to be intense. You're going to hate me after this, so I apologise in advance. Just so you know, though, I'm probably going to make you wait a week before I publish again just to torture you. I know, I'm evil ;)

I'm putting this at the start so that the end has more impact.

Edward's POV

I knew as soon as this vision came to Alice that it wasn't normal.

It started out in a dark forest, with inky blackness on either side. I heard Alice's confusion and trepidation, which quickly turned to fear as she saw the figure standing in the clearing up ahead. I dove into her mind completely to see more.

He was tall, obviously a vampire, with dark brown hair and glowing scarlet eyes. They were the same shade of a newborn's eyes, though I instinctively knew that he was much, much older. Recently put back together, then. The vampire smiled at me, and my fear spiked when I realised he knew I was here. He laughed, then spoke, his voice almost whispery.
"Alice Cullen, you have proven quite difficult for my allies. Always seeing their next move, yet never joining them." I tried to wake, but I was trapped, frozen. I started to panic—it had never happened like this, I had never been trapped this way. The man flicked out a blade, a long knife as dark as night, with glowing lines of red spread across its surface.
"And I suppose your brother is here, too…hello, Edward."

I hissed as I was suddenly blocked off from Alice's thoughts, blinking in the sudden light. Bella was staring at me, and I realised that she was shielding Alice so I couldn't hear. I heard the others and realised what had happened, with me and Alice so completely trapped that Jasper could barely move, our emotions too strong for him to handle. I had to warn them—we needed to wake her somehow.

"Something's wrong!" I hissed, needing them to understand. "Something dangerous—she can't control it—"
I broke off when Alice's eyes snapped open.
They glowed the exact shade of the eyes of the vampire in the vision.
I hissed again, whirling around.

"She's not in control—there's another vampire there who's not letting her snap out of it!" I was completely freaking out. Alice's body began to shake violently. Maggie, who had been flicking urgently through the papers, looked up with a horrified gasp. I heard her mind, and my body locked down in horror.
"We need to get her out, now!" Maggie shouted, her eyes wide with terror.

"Working on it," Jasper hissed. Maggie shook her head, her eyes trying to convey the urgency of the situation.

"You don't understand! That's no normal vision—we need to wake her up right now, or we're going to lose her!"

Alice's POV

"And I suppose your brother is here, too…hello, Edward."
I felt a wave of terror as he said Edward's name. I knew I was in danger as long as this man held me here, I didn't want my brother to be in danger, too. I formed a thought in my mind.
Edward, stop listening. Edward, tune out. Stop listening, please!
I didn't know if he obeyed or not. I desperately hoped he had.
The strange vampire turned the black blade over in his hands, inspecting it. He looked up, amusement glittering in his red eyes.
"You had a chance, you know. You had a chance to be on the right side of this fight, and you rejected it. You could have survived, and your precious Jasper could have survived as well. Your death and his are both your fault. If you had only listened to my allies, you could both have lived. Maybe even some of the others, too…"
I started to shake, my eyes filling up with venom. The other vampire smirked.
"I won't tell you anything, of course. On the off-chance that you do survive this, we can't have you telling your family about us. So, I guess you'll die now." He raised the black blade.
"If it's any consolation, you will have an afterlife. The stories about vampires having no souls are rubbish, though our afterlife is very different from that awaiting a mortal soul." The man laughed again, his voice cold. He raised the blade, and threw.
The black blade sank deep into my chest. Agony seared through my body as I screamed, falling backwards. I was vaguely aware that blood pooled around me, something that shouldn't be possible. It wasn't human, though. It looked dark red, and to a human it would seem normal. Only supernatural creatures like me could see the silver swirled through my blood.
The edges of my vision turned black, and I could feel myself fading. Before I died, though, I heard a whisper on the wind. A name.
His name.
Aurelius.