"Then you'll have to leave Forks. Permanently. Likely for the rest of your life. We can manage to get you somewhere safe for a while, Alice will come with you and help you settle somewhere else." Carlisle said as his voice remained completely even without a slight change in his tone, it was clear that this wasn't a joke, it was completely serious.
As Carlisle saw it, these were the only two options that were currently available to Alan to act upon without him having to enter danger that could put him at lifes risk.
Alan froze as he looked at Carlisle, the words doing their rounds through his mind as they seemed to almost be playing on a constant loop inside of his mind.
'Leave Forks, forever… I knew that someday… I'd leave but to… to be forced out of my own childhood city… because of a misunderstanding, because of someone else, because someone is putting my life at risk and I can't do anything about it… This… I…. how do I even feel about this.' Alan thought to himself, his mind was almost completely overwhelmed with different kinds of emotions, there was even a slight bit of excitement at the fact that he would get to leave Forks but at the same time, that excitement was the least prevalent emotion that was currently exploding inside of his mind.
"Leave… forever. Is there, really no other choice? Can't we…" Alan said slowly as he almost mentioned fighting the quileute before he stopped himself, Carlisle had already given his help in a way, had agreed to talk with the Quileute aswell and help him plead his case and then even agreed to help get him settled somewhere else if the talks didn't go through as planned.
'I can't ask him to start a war over me staying in Forks, that's just dumb in the first place. The danger to myself and even to the Cullens and their secret just isn't worth it when I could simply leave.' Alan thought to himself as soon as he stopped his words as he had been speaking them and then shook his head.
"You're right, those two really seem to be the only options left." Alan muttered as he gave a nod of his head, his eyes slightly downcast as he gazed down at the expensive flooring of the room, polished wood that looked like it had just been manufactured, without a single scratch or speck of dust on it as if it had been meticulously cleaned every single day.
Carlisle and Alice stood silent for a moment as they gazed at eachother and then Carlisle's gaze turned towards Alan once more before he released what could only be called the softest sigh possible and gave a nod of his own head.
"You're taking this better than I expected. I'm glad. And thank you for understanding that this is as far as we can go to help you." Carlisle said softly before turning his gaze to look out of the windows once more at the now darkened sky.
"I'll get Esme to prepare a room for you, should be the room right next to this one or you can even use this considering Alice doesn't need to sleep. An attribute of vampires. Whichever you choose, It'll be ready. Do try to get sleep Alan, tomorrow is going to be a long day." Carlisle said once more before turning around and heading out of the room, the sound of his shoes clicking on the hard wooden floor being heard as he walked farther and farther away, leaving the room and leaving behind only the echo of that clacking sound on the flooring.
Alice hadn't spoken yet, not a single word, not until the echo faded and she walked carefully to the door and then slowly closed it before turning around to face Alan once more.
"You look… do you need anything?" Alice said softly, stopping herself before she could voice out the thought that Alan currently looked worse than she had ever seen him, like a cloud of dark depression was swirling right over his face. Blocking out every other emotion on his pale face.
Alan didn't reply for a few moments before shaking his head.
"No, I'm fine. I'm just processing the information." Alan said slowly, almost like he was talking to himself rather than the woman standing before him, like he was trying to convince himself of the new reality that he had once more found himself in.
'First the system took over my world, forcibly changing everything… and then came Joanna who killed Jeannie, Adrian and John… that was another forcible change and now these these damned wolves are doing this shit… just how much longer do I have to keep swaying to the whims of other people, how much longer until I can actually decide for myself. How much longer until I don't have to fear for my life, how much longer until I'm strong enough to actually do something.' Alan thought to himself, a slight edge of despair creeping inside of his mind as he thought about it, the more he did, the more he thought about it, the more the despair grew inside him.
'I've had the system, it's made me stronger… but even now, im nowhere near close to where I need to be. Nowhere close to actually matter against anything like Alice and likely even those damned wolves if Carlisle is taking them that seriously.' Alan thought before slowly releasing a long winded sigh of pure exhaustion and laying his back onto the bed, his feet still on the floor.
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