A/N: So hey again! As you all know, I'm taking part in this year's NaNoWriMo and many people have asked if they can read it UNEDITED. Can you believe it? So I told them that I'd post it up on here for them to read! If you spot any spelling/grammar issues, please PM me! Give me honest reviews please, because I need to know that it's not all babble!

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Preface

September 2011

I KNOW my mistake now that I've made it. I have been backed into a corner. I never wanted to die in a corner, but there isn't much I can do about it now. Becca is drawing in her shallow breaths by my feet and I can see Elena's face is cut and smeared with violet blood, her perfect hair messed up. Edward is standing in the opposite corner to me, one hand outstretched as if he can stop the stake that is surely coming my way before it reaches my heart. He's alone now again, after all these years. Just him and Elena again. Maybe he'll find a replacement for each of us, the four-soon-to-be-five dead vampires from the Seathwaite Coven. Maybe he will forget about us. Maybe that would be better.

My attention shifts from my once-family to a distraught Freya in front of me. Her black hair is pulled into a messy tangle, held stiff by the blood dried in there. A gash under her right eye is bleeding heavily and she is crying. She doesn't want to do it, but she has to. I understand that now, finally, and I'm afraid. I'm not afraid for myself but for Edward and Elena. Edward is Royal now, but he doesn't know how to do the immense job I've laid before him. Elena has my most prized Powers, but how will she use them? Will she let them consume her like I did all those years ago? Maybe. Maybe not. I hope she learns to use them properly.

"I'm sorry, Anna. I'm so, so sorry. But Alexa's vision, it's... It was all-consuming. I don't want you to die and I don't want to die and I really don't want to kill you but we have to die. You understand that, don't you?" Freya says in a shaky voice. Dark red tears are trekking down her cheeks slowly.

"I understand, Freya. The Prophecy includes us all. Matt, Becca, me, you - we're the ones who have to die." I answer in a calm, level voice that shocks me aswell as the others. I hear Becca take in one, drawn out breath and then the blonde hair that had once been so well cared for shrinks into her skull, her skin clinging to her bones and her blue eyes turning a cloudy dark red; she looks like a skeleton.

"I'm afraid of this, Anna. I don't want to die. I don't want you to die. I didn't want Jasper or Jacob or Allyana or Alexa or Mullen to die either."

"Neither did I, but they're gone now, and so are my parents and your parents and Arutha. And soon, we'll be gone aswell. There's no need to be scared, Freya. We're the good ones, you and I, together facing Becca and her evil minions." She laughs just a little, very shakily, at this term. She then sighs deeply and pulls the intricate stake out of Becca's heart and hands it to me and she pulls out her own. I wipe the violet blood off it with my shirt and hold it ready in my hand; it feels familiar and reminds me of my training with Arutha three years ago. Freya holds her own uncertainly - it has been hundreds of years since she first learned to do this - and I smile at her.

"On the count of-" I begin, but she interrupts.

"Can I go first?" she asks in a small voice. I nod.

"On the count of three, then. One. Two." In the slightest of pause between number two and three, I look down at the stake poised over my heart and think. I think about everything I've gained, everything I've lost and everything that I'm sure as hell going to lose. I have to be strong, but I'm losing my nerve. This needs to be over before I stop and run.

"Three."

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