Takes place after Burned so if you don't want any spoilers, do NOT read on.

Summary: After Stevie Rae left Rephaim (at the end of the book), Rephaim became sadden and went on the roof to think alone. He never thought of the ghost girl coming in and ruining his alone time, but has she ruined it?

Disclaimer: I don't own the House of Night series or anything created by the authors. This is merely fan based.

Key: "Regular speaking," thinking, "emphasis".

"I'll miss you." Stevie Rae whispered to him before she turned and walked away from him.

Rephaim stood and watched her leave. "I'll miss you too…" He whispered to her as her form receded and then finally vanished. He sighed and placed a hand on his face. It seems like no matter what he does, no matter what he says, she always leaves him. Always. "It is probably because I'm a monster." He silently said to himself. Letting his hand drop to his side Rephaim looked down at the fountain. He mentally cursed at himself. Why did he have to be what he is? Why couldn't he be like the boy in the reflection? Human. Sure he would lose his wings but it would be worth it; to be with Stevie Rae, his Red One. He continued staring at his reflection. He noticed when he looked at the water before that his eyes were not the scarlet red they are now, they almost looked like the eyes of his father, almost. He groaned and spread his wings out wide. He flew upwards, up towards the roof. He flew towards the back of the house and sat on the edge, his legs dangling off the side. "Why do I have to be a monster?" He asked as he dropped his head.

"To me you're pretty cool."

Rephaim groaned and turned his head to see the ghost girl that has been annoying him since the moment he stepped in the house. "Why don't you just leave me alone?" He asked her.

She giggled; an eerie giggle that echoed in the air around them. "Because I've been watching you." She swayed back and forward on her feet, her hands behind her back.

Rephaim didn't say anything for a moment. "Why?" He finally asked.

"Because silly, I've never seen a person like you."

"I'm not a person." He said as he turned his head away. "I'm a monster."

"That pretty girl doesn't think so. I mean if she stays with you she must think greatly of you." The ghost stepped closer to him.

Rephaim scoffed. "She never stays. She always leaves."

The girl placed her hands on her waist in bent forward at the waist just a bit. "That's not what I meant." She stood straight back up and walked closer to him, her hands not leaving her waist. "If she really thought you were a monster she wouldn't even be near you." Rephaim stayed quiet. As much as he hates to admit it, the annoying ghost is right. He came to realize that what the girl just feet away from him is saying is that just because he's a monster on the outside doesn't necessarily mean that he is on the inside. "So, what happened that made you all down in the dumps?" She sat down cross-legged right where she was.

Rephaim looked at the girl then. She sat there, patiently waiting for him to speak. He ran the possible conversations in his head, some ending great, others horrible. Rephaim groaned. "We went outside and we talked. She asked what am I going to do about us and I said that I am going to stay with her."

"Is that the truth?" The girl interrupted.

"Yes." Rephaim said quietly but agitation in his voice. "Anyways, we started to hold hands and the reflection in the fountain changed and I was a human with black hair, no wings or feathers or wings, just human, and then a… disturbance happened. We broke apart and the reflection went back to normal and she said a few things."

"What did she say? What did she say?" The girl hopped on her legs.

Rephaim blinked slowly. What was it about human children that just annoyed him? "Well, I said that we couldn't be together because the disturbance would endanger her—"

"And you." She added.

"… And me." He repeated. "Then she said that it doesn't matter and that it's not what my heart is telling me, then I told her that my heart never mattered and then she said that I should find her again when I believe that my heart does matters but it doesn't. I don't see how it could." He said the last sentence quietly; the girl almost didn't hear it.

"Hmm…" The girl hit her chin with a pale white finger several times. "You know what I think?" She asked him in a serious tone.

"What?" Rephaim's voice came out almost childlike.

She stopped hitting her chin and then she smiled at him. "It's like the Beauty and the Beast!" Rephaim gave her a puzzled look. "It's a fairytale about this prince and he gets changed into this beast thingy and to break the spell he has to learn to love and earn her love in return. So this girl Belle comes into his life and their feeling for each other change and they fall in love but the spell isn't broken because she needs to admit it directly to him. So then this jealous guy who wanted to marry Belle started this fight with the Beast and the Beast won but he got really hurt. Belle came and she was sad because he was dying and then he died but at the last moment Belle admitted her love for him and the spell was broken and he came back to life. Then they got married and they lived happily ever after."

The girl spoke fast. It took a moment for Rephaim to process everything. "What does that have to do with anything?"

She groaned in agitation. "It has everything to do with anything!" It didn't make sense, her words, but it sort of did. Strange. "You are the prince and Belle is the pretty girl."

"Stevie Rae."

Ignoring him she continued. "But this time it's not only love, you have to learn to believe that your heart matters and then you will become the prince, AKA the human in the reflection. Then you could stay with her forever!" Rephaim starred at her. When he didn't answer she spoke again. "I mean, you do love the pretty girl don't ya?"

"I…" He looked out towards the backyard. Does he or is it just the Imprint? No. Rephaim thought. It's not the Imprint. I started to develop feeling the moment she started to take care of me. The Imprint only made that feeling grow. "Yes."

She squealed and clapped. "I knew it!" She giggled. "I think she loves you too."

He looked back at the ghost. "How can you tell?"

"How can you not?!" She yelled at him. When he didn't say anything she shook her head. "Look, if she doesn't want you to leave her, and if she wants you to listen to your heart, then she must love you!"

Rephaim smiled and his voice once again sounded like a child. "Do you really think so?"

"Nu-duh!"

Rephaim blinked and sighed heavily. Seriously. What's with human children that he just hates?! "So what do I do?" He could not believe he's asking a ghost human child for advice.

The ghost girl blinked and smiled sweetly at him. "Just trust your heart and do what it tells you to do."

The answer was so simple that Rephaim could have thought it up. The point being that he didn't. Rephaim felt himself smile. "It's that simple huh?"

"The most difficult obstacles turn out to be the simplest if you think it through."

He turned his body around and crossed his legs like the ghost before him. "So I should learn to trust my heart?"

"And not think that you're a monster. Because the Beast thought he was a monster too but when his love for Belle cleared in his mind, he realized that inside he's still a prince and inside is someone for Belle, the love of his life."

He nodded. "Just like me but this time not a prince."

"Well… it depends. Who are your parents?"

Rephaim blinked. "I can't tell you that. I can tell you that I am the first son of my father."

She gasped. "Then you are a prince!" She stood up quickly and silently. "This is exactly like my fairytale!" She giggled and started to dance around the roof. When she was done she stopped right before Rephaim. She bent forward again at the waist. "Who's your princess?" She asked him, a huge smile on her face.

Rephaim chuckled. "She's the first of her kind, a Red Vampyre."

"She really is your princess." She said immediately, not caring much that he had just said vampyre. "It was like its destiny. The first son of your father and the first of her kind." By that time she was standing up straight again.

Rephaim thought about that for a moment. "Yes." He said. "It is destiny." He stood as quickly as she had before. "I started to love her the moment I met her, and she is the only one who has brought my humanity out. We are meant to be together, and I will do everything in my power to keep her safe and be with her."

The child smiled at him. "Congratulations. You are starting to believe in your heart."

Rephaim smiled at her. "I am aren't I?"

She giggled quickly. "Yes you are! Isn't it so romantic? You're vowing to do anything and everything for her. It's true love."

"It's destiny." He added. He turned his back on her. "And I'm not letting this get away." He turned around and saw that the girl had disappeared. Rephaim smiled into the air. He reran through everything once again, his smile growing. Maybe human children aren't all bad.

This might be a two-part so… Yeah. Anyways, please review.