Chapter Three
Making Up
Alice

I was sitting at the window when Edward entered our room looking very nervous and apologetic. He was the absolute picture of a broken man.

"Alice, I'm so sorry." He sighed, standing right in front of the closed door.

"I know." I nodded, standing to my feet, our bed separating the distance between us.

"You know how much I love you, I have never once regretted our relationship. Well, that's not entirely true, the only thing I regret is being such a fool and wasting precious time I should've spent with you. Alice, I worship you, and please believe me when I say that I am so so sorry to have upset you so deeply." He pleaded me, even though I had long forgiven him.

"I know, it's okay, you've already been forgiven." I sent him a small smile.

His responding smile was brilliant as he kicked off his shoes and shredded his coat as he got onto our bed and pulled me up to sit in his lap. He wound his fingers through my hair and attacked my lips, face, and neck with his mouth and teeth, making me squeal and giggle.

"I love you so much." He spoke huskily into my neck, making me shiver.

"I love you too." I promised him, attacking him back passionately.

Edward has always had this way of knowing exactly what I like and what I need, most of it is due to his mind reading of course, but he still knows me better than he knows himself.

He quickly pulled my sweater over my head and I shed his button up off of him just as fast. I felt absolutely weak as he loved me gently.

He suddenly pulled his mouth away from my neck, making me whimper from the loss before I noticed his deeply pained expression.

"I don't deserve you." He sighed, golden eyes troubled and haunted by some past event of ours.

"Yes, you do." I told him, kissing him quickly before he could say anything else.

"No, Alice." He pushed me away slightly causing me to sigh heavily.

Can't he see that all I want to do is love him? I don't want him to dwell on something that we can't change, especially something I don't even remember.

"Edward." I groaned. "Just let me-"

"No, Alice. I thought that this time everything would be different, but nothing has changed. We're still the same chaos we were. I'm still not the person you deserve. You are everything that is good in this world Alice and I am everything that is evil." He sighed, refusing to meet my eyes.

"Edward, you aren't evil-"

"Yes I am, so much so that it's carved into my flesh." He laughed darkly. "I'm scarred forever, which I deserve, but you don't. You shouldn't get pitied because you're my mate."

"I'm not pitied." I huffed.

"Yes you are, I see the way other vampires look at you. They see your beauty and your grace, then they look at me and only see these scars and are afraid of me. They become afraid for you, thinking about all of the terrible things I must do to you that you can't escape from because you're my mate. You can't deny that Alice." He told me.

I leant down and kissed one of the worst of his scars. It's long and jagged and runs along his jaw, I love it, but he hates it the most.

"I'm not going to deny that people treat you differently because of your scars and I'm also not going to deny that while you do do unspeakable things to me they are completely consensual." I giggled and kissed him roughly just to prove my point. "I love you Edward Anthony Cullen, and no matter what anyone else says, and no matter what happened in our past, I will always love you." I promised him.

All he could do was nod, I left him so speechless, and so he resumed his loving me. He pulled at my hair, bit at my neck, and gripped my hips like I love.

"I love you, more then anything else in this world Alice. I don't know who I would be without you." He told me as he pulled me tighter against him.

"Shh, you shouldn't think about that ever again." I told him, wrapping my arms around him tightly and grabbing at his back needingly.

"Don't ever let me get that out of line again." He told me.

"Yes sir." I giggled and he chuckled, his laugh sending strange and wonderful vibrations through my entire body.

"Seriously Alice, against popular belief , I don't like to dwell on such dark things. Rosalie and Jasper antagonizing me and criticizing you  just...made me snap. I need you to keep me, me." He told me lovingly.

"I will." I promised. "Take it from me when I say that your past doesn't define you. You've been through so much, a rebellion and fighting in the vampire wars is enough to drive anyone into darkness." I sighed. "On top of all of that you fell in love with a crazy future seeing human girl half your size with far much more energy then she needs." I laughed.

"Hey, don't knock yourself down Alice, you've been through a lot as well." He smiled softly at me in wonder.

"You know I don't want to hear about any of that." I shook my head.

"Even in your vampire existence, you've still been through a lot in your decade." He told me softly.

"Like what?" I laughed lightly as his teeth nipped at my jaw.

"Well, waking up alone and having no idea of who you are for one is very jarring. Then you were a nomad, adjusting to the animal blood diet all by yourself as a newborn, before you hunted down Esme to make sure she and Carlisle met properly. You've been the glue of this family. Always a gentle, sometimes stressed, guide for those you love. Plus, you've put up with me for nine years now so that in itself is very trying and impressive." He chuckled.

"That's hardly impressive." I giggled and he flipped me over so I was laying down on our bed, his body weight pushing into me delightfully.

"It's very impressive, my future seeing little mate." He chuckled and attacked my lips again.

"Alice? Can I talk to you for a minuet?" Jasper suddenly knocked at our bedroom door.

Edward growled, causing vibrations to rumble and vibrate throughout my body, and I giggled as I untangled myself from him and quickly put on clothes.

"I'll be out in a minuet!" I told Jasper.

"But we were busy." Edward smirked, grabbing my hand and pulling me back over to the side of the bed. "I thought we had a rule about not letting ourselves be interrupted?"

"Jasper really needs me right now Edward. You must remember what it was like to be falling in love with someone you thought you shouldn't be with?" I asked.

"Yeah." He sighed deeply. "Yeah, I remember."

"Everything will be okay." I smiled at him. "I'll see you in 1 hour, ten minuets, and twenty eight seconds." I giggled and kissed him quickly before bounding out of our room and going down the hall to Jasper's.