Full Summary:

Hate, pain, hurt, kill. Love, hope, help, heal. These are just a few four-letter words, and they are all dangerous to this one nameless girl. She suffers through a terrible accident on her road to escape that makes her forget her entire life. The only thing she remembers is that she must hide. R5 finds this girl when she is barely alive and saves her. They take her in and against her better judgment she stays with them. In an attempt to help and protect her, they only put her and themselves in more danger. Her memories return slowly, but will that be quick enough? Will she find herself and the truth, or will her past catch them before she can? [OC]

A/N: This is mainly a R5 fan fiction, but the Austin and Ally cast will appear later in the story.. (Raura is a must obviously XD) The story focuses on the OC and R5. There will be a relationship with the OC later but I'm not gonna spoil it.. Anyway here's the chapter.

Chapter One:

Save is a Four-Letter Word

(Prologue)

Heart pounding. Hands shaking. Whole body aching.

The world seems fuzzy, in a way. Not like you lack your prescription glasses, but as if you were in a daze. Nothing seemed defined, because there is too much unknown. Nothing seems familiar in this moment.

Water rose up and down in waves closing in on my body. The cold waves seemed to relax my muscles for a moment, but only a moment. After that, I had gone back to the way I was before, ready to run if need be.

Or so I thought, because even though there were unwelcome headlights that shined over me, I still remained frozen. There was now a high possibility of me being in someone's view, which was probably a bigger threat than the wild animals that could run out of the woods behind me and attack at any moment.

For people, whether good or bad, meant my existence would be known. In my state of shock, the water rose too high. The salty liquid filled my mouth.

But I did not dare to swim to the shore. In this moment of terrible judgment, I breathed it in by mistake, and the liquid filled my lungs. My body started sinking to the bottom of the lake. After what seemed like an eternity, my body hit the rocky floor. The lights seemed to go black after that.

Sometimes it feels like the end is near, and you have no chance to avoid the inevitable truth. In that moment, you start to accept it all. At least for me, as I was floating down in the water, I started to think, maybe just maybe, it would be one of the brighter ways to wrap up the story of my life.

But then my body rejected the thought. I started coughing, attempting to drain my lungs of water. I coughed out the lake water in success and could finally open my eyes. I didn't even want to be saved, but for some reason I survived.

I stared in the eyes of a rather hot male who was hovering over me. His straight hair was mainly bleach blonde swept to the side of his face. His hands were on the ground each by one of my shoulders.

My attraction to him soon wore off, and was replaced by fear. I knew he was the one to save my life, in a way. He was also the one who prolonged my pain, which really isn't relevant.

With caring eyes, he looked down on me. "Are you okay?" Three simple words but it was enough to change my mind about him. I now knew he was kind, simply by the tone of his voice and the choice of words.

I nodded barely; energy seemed to be completely drained from my body. He pushed himself up and held out a hand. I was swiftly pulled to my feet, but I didn't stay in that position for long. I fell down to a sitting position, and he looked down at me with an apologetic stare.

He then looked away from me for a second and reached inside his hoodie to grab his phone. He was about to call someone.

Kind people can be dangerous, and in a moment like this, he, though he seemed friendly and had previously restored me to a state of consciousness, was now more dangerous in my case than ever.

I quickly wrapped my thin, pale, shaky fingers around his wrist and looked up at him almost pleading. He stopped typing the three digits that would change my future for the worst. "Please," my voice cracked, and even to me seemed unrecognizable. I hesitated for a minute as his eyes met mine, "Don't call the police. Please."

He knelt down next to me. I suppose he knew I was too weak to do any harm to him, even though the chances of me being a criminal according to that one statement was very high in the eyes of a stranger. He was awaiting an explanation, one I could not give him.

I looked down at my feet for a moment, which were bare and covered in scrapes. I was attempting to mend my thoughts, but they remained scattered around like pieces to a large puzzle that was just dumped out of the box and awaited the presence of a kid to restore it to its correct state.

My memory was like a glass vase that had been dropped; I had no idea what went where and how to restore it. I was trying to put it back together, but everything was the same dark mass.

Nothing appeared through the darkness, no words, no faces, absolutely nothing.

How was I to give him an explanation I couldn't even give myself?

Rain began to pour down on the two of us, and I suppose the male, who was still just a stranger to me, decided it was best to wait on an answer.

My body starts to shake in the cold, and I wrap my arms around myself to attempt to keep in some warmth. The mysteriously nice man, who I had yet to be given a name of, slipped off his hoodie and handed it to me, which I gladly took and slid over my head.

It was an odd moment, because this was the first time that I could remember that I had actually been thankful for anything. He was the first person that was genuinely kind that I have meet in a while.

He sighed and slide his one arm under my knees, and the other behind my back. He swiftly pulled me to his chest and started to walk towards the headlights.

And in this moment, as I breathed in his minty clean scent, I finally felt safe for the first time, and I drifted off to a peaceful sleep.

I do not own Austin and Ally or R5.

A/N: Sorry for the semi-short chapter.

The length of the next chapter depends on how many reviews I get.

Please review and let me know what you think :)

-wordsempowerus