Better Than Revenge

ALEC’S POV
Fuck. What the hell was wrong with me? Sure, it was no secret why I was in La Push but the way Andrea had said it really hit hard. She didn’t even seem to care if my sister killed her. And for some reason I did care. As strange as it sounds, I didn’t want to see Andrea dead. I knew that killing her to make Elizabeth suffer was the plan but I didn’t like it anymore.
“You’re back. So how was it?”
“Absolutely boring.”
Jane frowned. “It doesn’t look like you were bored. You’re thinking very hard about something. What is it?”
“Nothing, sister.”
She put her thin hand on my shoulder. “Thank you for doing this to me,” she said. “I’m sorry that you are stuck with them but I promise that it will be over soon.”
I nodded once. She frowned and her scarlet eyes looked me up and down. “You’re getting hungry. Come, brother. Let’s hunt.”
I didn’t have much choice as my sister grabbed my hand and dragged me to Port Angeles. It was a busy Friday night and the smell of blood pumping through people’s bodies was nearly intoxicating. Jane let her long blond hair loose from its tight bun and instantly went to look for her prey. I was more patient than my sister and waited for my meal to come to me.
“Hi,” a small, dark haired girl suddenly said. She was definitely in high school but she was trying to make herself appear older. She was pretty and her scent was delicious. “I’m Brittney.”
I held out my hand to her. “Alec.”
She smiled slightly. “I don’t mean to sound forward or anything but do you maybe want to go to take a walk on the beach with me? I’m new in town and I was hoping someone could show me around a bit.”
Too easy. I slipped my arm around her shoulder and led her to the water. The beach was absolutely deserted. It was all too easy to latch onto her throat so quickly that she didn’t have time to scream. I pulled away when I was done and noticed her eyes. They were frozen wide in horror, the bottomless brown accusing. They were just like Andrea’s except there was no more life in them. No more life because of me.
I didn’t know what else to do. I ran. I didn’t really know where I was going but somehow I ended up on another beach but this time I was in La Push. I stood and stared at the black waves for a minute before I smelled her.

ANDREA’S POV
I couldn’t sleep. My mind was still way too active and I couldn’t stay in the house. I went for a midnight run down to First Beach and let my mind do whatever it wanted. Alec was a mystery that I shouldn’t be trying to solve but here I was thinking of nothing but him. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I really needed to have my head examined.
I sighed and collapsed onto the sand and just listened to the waves crashing around me. It was a warm night and I was honestly debating just sleeping on the beach.
“What the hell are you doing out here?”
My eyes snapped open and I instantly shot to my feet. Alec glared at me from a fallen log that made a perfect bench. The breeze shifted then and I smelled his too-sweet scent. “Well I was trying to get some rest but obviously that’s not the case anymore. You’re turn.”
“You were going to sleep out here?” He was absolutely fuming.
I adjusted my oversized tee-shirt self-consciously as he stared at me. Why should he be so mad about me being on the beach anyway? “Well, yeah. It’s not like it’s your business and why do you even care.”
His jaw clenched. “You’re an idiot, Andrea.”
My jaw dropped. Seriously? I opened my mouth to start hurling insults at him but he was gone before I could come up with one good enough to get back at him for calling me an idiot. Now it was my turn to be mad. It’s not like being called in idiot was really a heartbreaking slur or anything but it was still uncalled for. “Jackass,” I hissed.
I spun around in the sand to start back home and nearly jumped a mile high. The girl standing directly in front of me was beautiful with her luscious blond hair waving behind her oval face. Her mouth was turned down in a frown and her dark lined eyes were red as she looked me up and down. Her scent was exactly like Alec’s which explained why I’d once again been caught off guard.
“So, you’re the little mutt that my brother has been keeping an eye on,” she said in the most bored tone I’d ever heard.
“You must be Jane.” I was proud that my voice didn’t quiver at all.
“What have you done to Alec? He hasn’t been himself since he met you. It’s like you are all he thinks about now.”
I smirked slightly. Okay, maybe my mom has rubbed off on me. “Maybe he was just getting tired of you.”
Her red eyes narrowed a second before it felt like my head was going to explode. Tears instantly sprang into my eyes and I fell to the ground clutching my head. I tried to hold back my cry of pain but it escaped my lips nonetheless. My vision was quickly getting fuzzy and I thought I was going to be sick. Just when I thought I would die from the pounding in my head it stopped.
“At the moment my grudge is against Elizabeth. I am going to eventually kill you but if you stay off my bad side I can make it quick and nearly painless but if you continue to piss me off, well, that was just a preview. You’re falling for my brother and I don’t like it. I don’t like the way that you are messing with his head. Be a good little bitch and stay away.”
I glared up at her. “I’ve been trying to keep away from him since you dropped him into my life. And isn’t it a little hypocritical calling me a bitch?”
He hit me again with her power. As much as I hated to feel so weak against her, I knew that there was absolutely nothing I could do. “Just stop playing with him. Remember that there is still so much more I can do to hurt you,” she muttered as I fell into a pit of unconsciousness.