And if your heart stops beating
I'll be here wondering
Did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life

And if you get to Heaven
I'll be here waiting babe
Did you get what you deserve?
The end, and if your life won't wait,
Then your heart can't take this

Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway
Oh take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand?
It ain't exactly what you planned
And wouldn't it be great if
We were dead.
Oh dead.
-Dead by My Chemical Romance-

Dead by My Chemical Romance blared through the speakers of a red jeep Cherokee. A pale hand stretched out and turned the music down. Tears ran down red cheeks, hazel eyes strained to see in the dark and through the storm. She felt her jeep swerve as it hit a puddle of water on the road; she quickly jerked the car back over into the right lane.

There was a scream, then a horrible crunching sound. Blood ran down the pale face and the hazel eyes went dull.

The girl was dead.

"Holy fucking God!" Renee' screamed as she hit the floor with a loud smack. She rubbed the spot on her head where she had hit with a grimace. The dreams had started maybe six months ago and hadn't stopped yet.

She slowly picked herself up from the floor and grabbed for the phone.

"It's four o'clock in the morning…why are you calling me?"

She pouted, causing crinkles in her forehead. "I had the dream again."

"Aw, sorry my love…anything I can do?"

"Short of shooting me or paying for serious mental help? No, nothing."

"Yes because we both know you can't pay for your own therapy."

She scrunched her face with a sigh. "Therapy is just another way to make my parents feel like I need their money…"

The girl on the other line laughed. "You're twenty years old…you do need their money."

"Well my dear Amber, they don't need to know that."

"Are you going to be able to go back to sleep?"

Renee' sighed and leaned back against the head board. "Maybe…"

She hung up the phone and threw it on the bedside table. If she told anyone else but Amber about the dreams, they would probably think she was totally nuts.

She wasn't one to believe in reincarnation, but it was making her really think about it. The same dream over and over again of a detailed car crash, that had to mean something right?

(Across Town)

"What do you think she would have been like? You know, if she was still alive?"

He laughed behind her. "A vampire, by now at least. I would have turned her, I know I would have."

Lizzie smiled. "Like you turned me…"

Josef sighed. "Yes well what can I say, you grew on me."

Lizzie laid the flowers on Athena's grave with a sigh. "I miss her, it seems like I miss her more everyday."

"I guess she was wrong…it's been twenty years and she still hasn't come back to us." His words held laughter, but Lizzie knew beneath it was pain.

"Maybe she's just waiting to find us."

He put out his hand to her to help her up from the ground. "Sometimes it's good to be positive, but I find that it can sometimes cause more damage than anything."

He walked her to the car, each year it got harder and harder coming out here. But he would anyway. He wanted to think that Lizzie was right, that Athena was out there somewhere, waiting to come back, just waiting for the perfect time.

But he knew that would never happen, Athena was gone for good, it's better to just accept it.

(The Next Day)

"Can we for once not act like total brats?"

Renee' narrowed her eyes at Amber. "I am not a brat…I told them no tomatoes and they gave me tomatoes. I have a right to complain."

She shook her head. "Of course you do love."

"Hey, your not my mother, so don't act all haughty. Besides, it's my birthday, the big 2.0. today!"

She smiled. "So, do you feel any different?"

Renee' nodded with a smile. "Actually I do…I mean I don't know why or anything, but I know something is different."

Amber shook her head with a smile. "You're completely nuts."

"I know, but you love me anyway…right?"

Amber nodded with a laugh. "Would I be here if I didn't?"

She was about to respond when she felt her phone vibrate in her purse. She sighed and dug through it, noticing the caller I.D. before answering. She gave Amber and exasperated look before answering. "Hello daddy."

"How's my favorite daughter on her birthday?"

She took a deep breath, this can't be good. "Fine daddy, how are things back home?"

"Hot as hell, but you know how humid it is in New Orleans this time of year."

She nodded, growing up in New Orleans was great, but the humidity was a bitch. "Not that I'm totally excited that you called daddy, but I know there is more to it than simply wishing me a happy birthday."

Her father took a deep breath before answering. "I guess you know me better than I thought. I was supposed to be meeting with one of the largest stock holders in my company this weekend. Just to sign a few papers, maybe talk some business. But I'm afraid I won't be able to be there, you, however, can sign the papers for me, you are after all my heir…"

Renee' took a deep breath. "Sure dad, just give me his address…"

"That's my angel, I knew I could count on you…His name is Josef Koston it's in downtown L.A."

She wrote the address down on a napkin. "When is this meeting exactly?"

"This Saturday at 10 PM."

"Kinda late for a business meeting isn't it?"

"Josef's more of a night person…"

When Renee' threw her phone back in her purse Amber gave her a sympathetic look. "Daddy getting you to do his bidding again?"

"I'd say 'fuck you' but you'll take it as an invitation."

She just laughed as she took a long sip of her drink.