"Chess is a lot more interesting when I don't know what the other person is going to do." Aunt Alice smiled, moving her bishop. I saw the trap she was setting up.
"Welcome to the normal world of chess Aunt Alice." I smirked, countering her move with one of my own.
"Normal." She snorted, and then laughed her musical laugh.
"There's a huge problem." Carlisle whispered downstairs.
Alice stopped her chess piece mid-air and inclined her head to listen, as did I.
The steady sound of Jacob's heart monitor was easy to block out now that I was so used to it.
"I'll go see what's going on. Why don't you two finish up?" Jasper suggested, disappearing out of the room before we even had a chance to agree.
"I hate being out of the loop." She grumbled, finishing her move.
"Me too." I said back. "No one tells me anything anymore."
Alice smiled. "You don't really want to know everything that's been going on."
"Of course I do." I said. "Being up here and away from everyone and everything all day is maddening. All the drama goes on downstairs. If it weren't for Jacob, I would have gone insane and clawed my way out by now."
"No one's forcing you to stay up here."
"I know that. Mom has already told me a thousand different things I could do elsewhere, but it's...impossible for me to leave him. And that's if I even had the desire to go. I don't want or need anything else outside of this room. What I need is in it." I glanced at Jacob and then moved my queen, cornering her rook.
"Ah, to be young again." Alice sighed with a laugh.
The talking down stairs grew louder. It was as if they were talking in the same room as us.
"The wolves are in absolute chaos now! They have no leaders!" I heard Dad say.
"One leader is still breathing." Grandpa pointed out.
"I can't believe it's even possible for them to kill Sam Uley! How could that even happen?" Jasper argued.
"Vampires rebel. Why can't werewolves?" I heard Emmett argue.
"It's not natural. Werewolves have a much deeper connection than vampires do to their superiors." Grandpa countered.
"I've heard of a wolf clan when I was down South. The tribe lived up somewhere near Alaska. They had the same problems the Quileute's had with two candidates for Alpha. This tribe broke off into two groups, but the orders given to them by 2 different Alphas contradicted each other, causing chaos and the ties to break. Without balance and dictation, young werewolves are just as rebellious as newborn vampires. Who knows what their capable of?" Jasper said.
"Sam's dead?" I whispered. "What about his pack? What happens?"
"I suppose they're all left to Jacob." Alice said softly after awhile, giving a slight shrug. "But who knows what'll happen if Jacob doesn't...We'll have to be even more careful now."
"Poor Emily." I murmured quietly. "I don't want to even imagine what it must be like for her to lose someone of that connection. You'd think it'd be almost physically painful."
Alice nodded. "I would never wish that type of grieving or pain on even the worst of my enemies."
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Hunger
VampireA "Twilight Saga" fanfiction about Renesmee and Jacob's budding relationship as Renesmee tries out a new diet in the human world. There is hurt/pain as well as relationship navigation through her over protective parents. Will there relationship make...
