"What happened next however… it most certainly wasn't dumb teenage shit." Alan finally spoke after a few moments of silence as he lifted his gaze and looked at Alice, his own eyes were shaking slightly, though he himself didn't know.
"The weed… it really wasn't normal. Thankfully, I didn't smoke any as I didn't even get a turn, not that I would have even tried it after what I saw happening to them. It was as if they had all gone insane, they were no longer the friends that I had made, they were something else, like someone had taken addiction to an extreme, and then they started dropping onto the couches, completely limp almost, which in and of itself was weird considering how they had told me that they had gotten stronger and y'know actually better after smoking it. That… was the first warning." Alan muttered softly, his words were almost a whisper however to Alice with her vampiric senses, they were as loud as if he had shouted them out.
"That… that really doesn't sound normal, if they had been regular smokers then just a small amount of it shouldn't have affected them that quickly. Could it have been some kind of other drug that was mixed with it?" Alice asked as she raised an eyebrow, her eyes still completely focused on Alan's face for any changes, anything that could be a sign that his mental was worsening, that was currently at the top of her mind.
"No… not another drug, so as the effects were worsening, something happened. The girl that was… my friend, she stood up and she was acting… weirdly, it was as if she wasn't herself anymore, like something… or rather someone was controlling a puppet, the movements were still too primitive for it to be her, and it wasn't like drunken or intoxicated walking, no it was almost exactly like a wooden puppet being moved around, stiff, not swaying." Alan finally said as his body shivered slightly as he remembered the scene.
As soon as the words left his mouth, Alice's eyes widened considerably as she finally stood up, she couldn't sit still after what she had just heard.
'That… someone possessing someone else, that's most certainly some kind of supernatural ability, the question is if it was a vampire with their gift or something else.' Alice thought almost instantly as her mind went towards all of the vampires that she knew about, all the ones that she had randomly seen inside her visions in the past and the ones that she had been told about from Carlisle… however no matter how hard she tried, she came out flat, there was no one with the ability to posses someone by giving them some kind of substance.
"Did… did you find out who it was?" Alice asked as she slowly sat back down after calming herself down for a moment, she couldn't act alarmed, that would only worsen Alan's own distress about the memory.
After a moment of silence, Alan nodded as he released a long winded sigh.
"Yeah… I found out who and I even… killed them later. Y'know when I was missing from school for a few days? That was when I was fighting against it. The thing that had possessed them was a sort of skin walker. It was this woman that had crawled inside of another man's body and was using that to spread the drugs that she could use to slowly infect people and then later posses them or use them as puppets to widen her net." Alan said.
The instant that the wo"ds left his mouth, Alice felt her own mouth slightly part in shock for what felt like the hundredth time. In all of her long life, she had never, not even once heard about skin walkers, not once.
'Skin… walker? Something like that, how come I've never once encountered any of them? Is it because I'm a vampire and they don't… try appearing before us because it would likely result in their deaths? Considering that Alan was able to eliminate them, than a fight with one of us would be a death sentence… but still, to just start becoming something else and then instantly have to be faced with that… that must have been terrifying.' Alice thought to herself as her eyes slowly softened ever further as she gazed at Alan who was still sitting on the edge of the bed, his hands had stopped shaking as badly and so had his pupils however it was clear by the simply pallor of his skin that he wasn't exactly fine completely yet.
"My friends however… didn't make it. By the time that I had realised what was happening and confronted the thing… it had already found my apartment, and the three of them were already dead bodies on the floor, the thing had killed them after finding out about me and the fact that I was changing and wasn't exactly human, it wanted my body, likely for its own use or maybe for experiments, I don't know. But yeah, the fight happened inside of my own apartment… and thats where this leads back to the attack by those quileute… could they have smelled it?" Alan asked as he slowly tiled his head to the right, his mind already calming itself down, because right now, he had reached a new thought that was more important to his own life than the emotions that had preceded it.
"Smelled it?" Alice blurted out unconsciously.
"Yeah, the blood, and my friends dead bodies. If they're truly like wolves than they must have a pretty good sense of smell… they could have noticed that I wasn't human somehow and also smelled the blood even though I cleaned it and then thought that I was responsible for the deaths of the three of them." Alan said finally as his expression was slowly but surely changing to one of realisation.
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