"I know. I know that" Bella mumbled "I love you too"

"You must be tired though" I replied.

First remembering that she was indeed a human whose body survived on sleep and second, she had been fast asleep before I had my vision

"I'm a little tired" Bella admitted with a shrug "But I'm fine"

"Would you have any objections to laying with me in bed then?" I asked quietly

"You just want me to go to sleep" Bella said

I couldn't see it but I could hear in her voice that she was smiling

"Maybe, is that so bad?" I mumbled "So?"

"Okay" Bella shrugged "Any excuse to be in a bed with you is a good excuse"

I chuckled quietly and stood from her lap. I grabbed her hand behind me and tugged her over to the bed. We got under the covers and I felt Bella curl herself up against me. I sighed quietly as I listened to her heartbeat and I watched her chest rise and fall slowly.

"See, you're tired" I whispered softly into her ear

"I'm not tired" She protested "I just need to rest my eyes"

"Then rest your eyes" I replied, kissing her on the top of the head "I'll be here when you wake"

"You better be" Bella mumbled

She was more tired than she thought she was, which I knew. She drifted off to sleep quickly, soft murmurs escaping from her lips as she talked quietly in her slumber.

After an hour or so lying with my Bella, I gently detangled myself from her body, tucking her in as I left her alone in bed. The last thing that I wanted to do was leave her but I had a few things to take care of first.

Walking downstairs I noticed that my entire family was sitting in silence in the living room.

Respective couples sat with each other, silent in their own thoughts

"Why are you all brooding?" I asked coming down the last stair "That's Edward's thing"

"Alice we need to talk about what happened" Carlisle said "I know you probably don't want too but you're going to have too"

"I already told you what happened" I said folding my arms "I don't understand what else I have to talk to you about"

"We have to talk about what's going to happen next" Carlisle said "What we're going to do about this situation"

"We're going to find him and we're going to kill him before he can even gets close to Bella" I replied as if it was a simple answer

"I'm thinking more along the lines of protection for Bella" Carlisle replied "Yes we are going to try and get the nomad but first of all we need to make sure that Bella is well protected"

"Like security detail?" I asked raising my eyebrow

"We just think that maybe if we take turns of watching over her for a little while, it could make the nomad think twice about trying to get to her" Esme said

"If that is actually his plan" Jazz said calmly

"Which it is" I replied "He point blank asked me whether she wanted to be like us. Edward said that the nomad wanted to turn this into a game because he felt like I owed him"

"For now, her safety comes first" Carlisle said simply "Then we can figure out what we are going to do with the nomad"

"Well that's easy, I'll watch over her all the time. You won't have too" I replied

"It would be best if there is two of us at least with her at time" Jazz replied looking around the room "If there are 2 of them than we need at least two of us. Alice you can stay with her for as long as she likes but we should have someone standing by as well"

"So we have to baby sit constantly until he decides to attack?" Rosalie asked

"We will only watch over her at night. At her house in order to protect Charlie as well" Carlisle said "Alice is usually there with her anyway so whether it be two of us or just one watching around the house than it will work"

"And I volunteer to take most of the time out of the house" Jazz said and she looked up at me "You'd do the same for me and I really like Bella. I don't mind doing this for you two"

"Thanks" I mumbled

"As far as the nomad goes, Alice will keep searching for him" Carlisle said looking at me "And a few of us will go out to the woods every few days to check around the area. Whatever he plans to do, we will know and we'll be able to stop him"

"Alice I love you, I do and I'm glad Bella has made you happy but honestly I don't want to have to baby sit her constantly" Rosalie said shaking her head

"I'm not asking you too, you don't have too if you're that opposed to her" I hissed "Though you could be a little less selfish every once and a while"

"I'm saying this because what kind of a life is this for her if she can't even have privacy in her own home because she has vampires watching her every move?" Rosalie asked

"It's a life where she is kept alive" Jazz interrupted "It won't be for long, Just until we figure out what we are going to do next"

"Alice, do you still have the old journals that you found from the doctor?" Carlisle asked

"Yes"

"Have you read all of them?" Carlisle asked

"Most, I never really wanted to read about the nomad besides the fact of what he did to me because I never wanted to come in contact with him. I guess I don't have a choice now though" I sighed "I'll go upstairs now and see what I can dig up"

"Anything you can find out would be excellent. A name even" Carlisle said "You are good at doing the research so I know you'll find something"

"If you need any help Ali" Jazz nodded

"Thanks" I replied quietly "I'm going to go upstairs and start that research. Did you need to talk to me about anything else?"

"That's all" Carlisle nodded

"Alice, I'll make breakfast in the morning for Bella" Esme said with a warm smile "That will give me something to distract myself"

"Thanks Esme, I'm sure she'll love it" I said as I headed up the stairs

My room was filled with sounds of a slow heartbeat and soft breathing. I smiled to myself as I reached my room to find Bella curled up into a ball where I had been laying with her just moments ago. I walked over to my book shelf to have a look at some of the old journals that I had found of the doctors.

I kept a few of them there but I also kept a few that I didn't want to be read under my bed. It really wasn't a safe place to put anything but it seemed that humans had a habit of doing it so I thought I would give it a try. I sat down at my desk to look down at the piece of paper that Bella had been scribbling on while I was in the shower.

I smiled warmly as I saw the love hearts on the page and crooked smiley faces. She wasn't the best drawer but it was adorable anyway.

I sat at the desk until it was about 10am, I knew Bella would wake soon and I had gone through all of the journals I had read before, I didn't really find any new information.

There was nothing about the nomad having someone else with him nor was there any additional information about the nomad himself. I sighed quietly, looking over to my Bella as she slept soundly, peacefully with a small smile on her lips.

I returned the books to my bookshelf before I quickly ducked under my bed to pull out a box of a couple of journals that I had only skimmed over when I had first found them. I had never really wanted to know about the nomad that had been after me; I had only wanted to find out as much as I possibly could about my past.

"Hmm Alice?" Bella mumbled sleepily from my bed

"Yes Bella?" I asked as I quickly popped my head above the mattress

She practically jumped out of her skin, her heart rate skyrocketed as I imagined her stress levels did too

"Jeeze Alice!" Bella yelped in surprise

"I'm sorry" I said with a sheepish smile "I didn't mean to scare you baby"

"What are you doing under the bed?" Bella asked running a hand through her face, her heart was still beating at a solid pace

"I'm making sure there are no monsters" I replied jokingly. I noticed a small frown on Bella's lips which only made me giggle lightly "I'm just pulling a box out"

"Why do you have a box under the bed?" Bella asked

I pushed the box to the floor beside me and I sat up on my knees, leaning my elbows on the mattress to be in full view of my human

"Well it seems to work for humans to keep things under their beds" I shrugged "Out of sight out of mind right?"

"I guess" Bella furrowed her eyebrows "Everything okay?"

"Everything is as good as can be in this situation" I said with a small smile

"You just seem to be in a complete different mood this morning, that's all" Bella replied

"How can I not be in a good mood when my adorable girl just woke up?" I replied quietly "Did you sleep well?"

"I always do when you're around" Bella replied

"Which is probably good considering what I need to talk to you about" I said offering her an apologetic smile "I may have left you in here by yourself for a few minutes while I talked with everyone downstairs"

"For a good reason, I'll forgive you" Bella replied rubbing her eyes, trying to move on from the slumber she had just been in

"I went downstairs to speak to my family to decide what exactly we're going to do about everything. Carlisle decided that it would be a good idea if we did a little security detail from now on outside your house" I said, watching Bella with uneasy eyes

"Security detail?" She asked with a furrowed brow

"Yes, so we'll all take turns at watching your house when you and Charlie are there. At night you'll always have at least 2 of us standing by the house just incase the nomad tries something" I said "We're going to patrol the woods every couple of days as well to make sure that if he tries to come back, we'll know about it"

"Are you still going to stay over though?" Bella asked "I mean, when you can that is"

"I will stay over as many nights that you want me too Bells" I replied with a small nod "Nothing is going to change in regards to us. I'll still stay over and hang out in your room with you but there will be someone else outside just keeping a lookout as well. I volunteered to be on permanent Bella duty and Jazz said she would be able to keep a look out for most the time as well"

"It's too much of an inconvenience" She said shaking her head "No, you guys can't do that"

"Its fine Bella, we want to protect you so we will do whatever we can" I said with a small smile "Plus, now I have an excuse to spend even more of my time with you. If that's even possible"

"I just don't want everyone to hate me for making them have to watch over the house" Bella said

"No one is going to hate you. If they have a problem with it than they can bring it up with me. I'll make sure they never mention it again" I replied with a little venom

"So what are you keeping out of mind by hiding it under your bed?" Bella asked as she moved over to the edge of the bed, her face just inches from mine

"Well" I said moving a stray piece of hair behind her ear "I'm actually going to protest that question because I don't think it's my bed, I think it's our bed"

"And how did you get that?" Bella asked with a smile

"Well I only really lay on it when you're here...or when I'm pretending to be human but mostly when you're here" I grinned stupidly "I had a couple of journals under the bed that I've just wanted to keep out of my mind for a long time. I have only read the first couple of pages of these one's because there is so much in here about the nomad which I never really wanted to learn. I didn't want to know who was hunting me and I didn't want to know about him once I found out but now I have too in order to see if I can learn anything about him"

"Can I help you somehow?" Bella asked, concern sweeping over her features

"You can help me have a look through them if you'd like?" I asked "It won't be much fun and it certainly isn't the way that I pictured the weekend with you but I have to do it"

"I would love to help" Bella replied quickly

"Thank you honey" I grinned "Are you hungry?"

"Come to think of it" Bella nodded, raising her hand to rub sleep from her eyes "Your bed is so comfortable though"

"Whose bed is it?" I asked raising my eyebrow

"Yours" Bella repeated with a smirk "As much as I would like it to be ours, I just don't think it is. I mean, if it were our bed than it wouldn't be so...you"

"You don't like my taste in beds?" I asked playfully

"Oh I love your taste in beds, especially seeing as you seem to like mine but I just think that if it were ours and if I had input, the bed wouldn't be so over the top and huge" Bella shrugged

"Well excuse me for just wanting the best for you" I replied as a joke but I added a sad pout, pretending to be sad

"But that's why I love you and that's why I love your bed" Bella replied before a smirk inched to her lips "I'll have to spend a lot more time in it to make it ours"

"Agreed" I smiled brightly "Esme is making you some breakfast now, did you want to have breakfast in bed or did you want to come down to the kitchen?"

"As much as I would love to just stay in bed, I should go down and not make you so antisocial to your family"

"They've all been antisocial to me over the years with their mates" I whispered "So I think I should be owed some time to be antisocial, but if you want to go down then we will"

"Let's make an appearance" Bella replied "But I haven't really said good morning to you properly yet"

She propped herself up on her elbows to press her lips to mine softly. I smiled against her lips slightly before I reciprocated the kiss, breaking away a few moments later

"Every morning should start like that" Bella mumbled, her lips ghosting over mine before her stomach grumbled

"I believe that means the human is hungry" I said standing, offering my hand to her "Come on sweetie, let's get some food into that adorable stomach of yours"

Bella chuckled before placing her hand in mine and standing. We walked out of my room, my siblings were all downstairs in the living room. Bella paused for a moment and looked to me

"Is that awesome smell Esme making me breakfast?" Bella asked

"Unlike me, Esme can actually make breakfast" I said nodding

"Good morning Bella" Esme greeted warmly as she placed various dishes of breakfast foods on the table "I wasn't too sure what you were feeling like for breakfast so I just made a few different things. Will you eat any of this? If not I can make something else"

"Esme, this is amazing" Bella said in awe as she looked over the table "Thank you so much for this"

"I love cooking dear; it is a nice distraction for me" Esme replied

Bella's hand left mine and she walked to the table and sat down. She began to dish out her food when I heard her gasp as she ate her food

"Esme this is so good" Bella replied "It sucks that no one in the family eats food because this is awesome"

"Well you eat food" Esme said happily "You're an important part of this family now Bella"

"Looks like you might have some competition there Ali" Jazz said as she stood from the couch "I think our mom is trying to steal your girl"

I laughed quietly before I walked over to stand beside Esme in the kitchen

"I don't know what you did Bella but Alice is a lot more like Alice ever since you woke" Jazz said

"I'm glad" Bella replied, looking fondly towards me "Happy Alice is what I like to see"

"Well hopefully after this is all over I can be happy Alice all of the time" I said nodding

"So Alice told me about what you guys are doing for me. Watching over the house and Charlie" Bella said quietly as she looked over at my siblings "Thank you"

"You shouldn't say thank you, if it weren't for me you wouldn't be in this situation" I said voicing my guilt "It's my fault that he's even considered coming after you"

"Bella, you don't have to say thank you and Ali it isn't your fault" Jazz said shaking her head "We're going to start our first round of duty tonight as well"

"Well I'll be staying with Bella at all times" I said and I looked to my girl who was chewing her food but listening to us intently "So I only need one of you"

"Emmett and Rose are going tonight" Jazz said "They volunteered"

"I want to get my turns out of the way" Rosalie mumbled

"Thank you" I nodded to my sister

"I really hope he tries to show up" Emmett said with a smirk "That would be sweet"

"Bella is trying to enjoy her breakfast; can we speak about something else?" Esme chimed in sweetly

"I don't mind" Bella replied

"What time do you intend on going home today, Bella?" Edward asked

"Whenever Alice and I finish looking through her journals I guess" Bella shrugged looking to me, I offered her a small smile and a nod

Bella and I spent a good few hours looking through the two journals that I had left relatively untouched. When I read them, I realized why exactly I had such a bad feeling about them.

Anything that the doctor knew about the nomad, he had written in there. From what he had done to me, how he had scared me, hurt me, patronized me while I was in the asylum.

Bella and I had to take a few breaks to distract ourselves from what we were reading, it was harder on Bella though because she couldn't imagine what I had gone through and the loneliness I had felt.

The only thing that made it easy for me was that I remembered none of it.

The next week and a half flew past and it hadn't been too much fun for anyone involved.

We were continuously looking through the woods to make sure there were no signs of the vampire.

In reading the doctors journals, Bella had discovered that the nomad's name was James and he was a very excellent tracker. It didn't mean much to Bella but it terrified me, it made it worse knowing that he was a tracker.

He was nowhere to be seen since he broke into Bella's house and I knew there was something wrong, trackers don't give up and they certainly don't lose.

I continued to stay at Bella's house every night and we agreed that when I needed to go hunting, Jazz would take over for me. Constant security detail wasn't too fun for my family but at least I could spend time with Bella.

It was midnight at Bella's house and we were up watching a movie in her living room. Charlie had long gone to sleep so we had the T.V to ourselves, which was nice seeing as if we were at my house Emmett would have probably taken control of it. Though I didn't think it would matter seeing as Bella was on the verge of sleep and I wasn't paying attention to what was happening on screen anymore.

"Alice?" Bella asked tiredly as she looked up at me

She had her head on my lap as I very gently ran my hands through her tangled, long hair

"Mmhmm?" I asked raising my eyebrows

"Where do you think James went?" Bella mumbled

"I don't know sweetie and as long as he isn't here I don't care" I shrugged "I know that he will come back though and when he does, we'll deal with him. I'm just a little bit worried because I haven't been able to see him since he left here"

"When you say deal with him, you mean kill him right?" Bella asked

"Yeah" I nodded "I'm not going to sugar coat it or anything. He's a tracker Bells, once he has you in his sights it won't end until either you're dead or he's dead. I can guarantee that it will be the latter"

"Are you scared to fight him?" Bella paused "I mean if you have too. Would you be scared to do it?"