After Time [Twilight Fan Fiction]

30. Visions

30. Visions

Canada

January 2011

Peter

Pushing forward, I raced against Garrett as we left the house behind us. The burn of my thirst pained me in the back of my throat. Robyn might have been on to something when she mentioned that touching us pushed everything to the back of her mind. I had never let my thirst get this bad before. Maybe I should start hunting with them both on the animal diet. I don't like cutting it this close.

I heard Garrett chuckle as he pushed even harder in his speed. The fucker. He knew it was grating on my nerves already. As much as I didn't like Garrett coming along, I understood the overprotective nature of my mates. It felt good to say that. My mates. I never thought I'd get Jasper back let alone another to join us. I was a lucky son of a bitch and I hope they never let me forget it. Even though Robyn didn't know everything we knew, she picked up on the fear in our group. Maybe I could have dealt with one of them separately, but when they both agreed, ganging up on me, I was putty in their hands.

Even Garrett's snickers and Robyn's jab made me giddy. Jasper was right, again, I need to focus on hunting. Try not to get back to them too fast. Shaking myself out of my thoughts, I continue to follow Garrett. We make it to town faster than I ever expected.

Garrett slows down on the edge of town, turning to look back at me. "Think anyone followed us?" He asks, glancing behind me.

While both Jasper and Robyn were worried about me, I was honestly worried about them both in that house. If someone, the Cullens or the Volturi attacked while I was gone, I'd lose them all over again. Now that I had them, I worried anything or anyone could take them from me.

I shake my head. "Don't think so. Though we should be careful." My feelings were silent so far, but something was giving me a bad feeling in my gut. Not always were my feelings silent, sometimes they were just humming about stock changes or something financial. Not usually did I get silence when I tried to find something.

"I'll let you know if I get any strange vibes," I continue looking around. When nothing made a sound nor a feeling sparked, Garrett stepped out into the open. The sun was setting, bringing with it nightfall which was always easier for hunting humans. Night covered our escapades but also our prey. Night was the time in which the human monsters came out to play.

Garrett didn't stick with my diet of only criminals, he stuck to everyone. They were all a food source for him. Yet, when he hunted, he still had to be careful. Take someone important and you've got humans searching for them. An open human investigation, missing person or suspicious killing would alert the Volturi. Sometimes I still worried about Robyn's missing person's report from Texas to Mississippi. During her change, while Jasper was busy fixing up some furniture in the house, I did some digging. While her case was still open, it was no longer active, law enforcement had stopped the search once it had gone cold.

The only person interested in her family was her brother. Her mother was certain she just needed time alone, she wasn't hurt and she'd be back before long. They had their own lives to live and they were living it. Her brother had moved in with his girlfriend while her mother and stepfather were finding their own place. They were all moving on in their own way.

While Garrett went to search for his food source, I sought out my own. It didn't take long to find someone suspicious as they headed down a very dark alley. Venom began to pool in my mouth. I had gotten so thirsty that it was almost hard to see in front of my face for a moment. Sometimes vampires could get so thirsty, hungry, they could blackout hunting on pure instinct. If that ever happened, I could get in extreme trouble for it. There was more of a frenzy since I hunted from humans, had since the moment I became a vampire. Shaking my head, I blinked, but then realized that something wasn't right here.