A/N I know the story is slightly weird but I had a dream about this and just needed to get it on paper. I know where I'm going with the story so regardless if people like it or not, I'm going to continue it for my own entertainment (: I hope some people out there will enjoy it as well.

I opened my eyes slowly, the lights beamed so bright that it hurt my eyes. My head felt heavy; like it was filled up with cement. I couldn't see anything and started to panic, what was happening to me? Then I slowly started seeing figures, black silhouettes against the bright lights, then features started to appear, I slowly recognised that three of the people were males and one was a female. I opened my mouth to try and speak but no words came out, my throat felt like it was on fire.
"Don't try to speak just yet; you're only just waking up. I'll go get you a drink of water," The brown haired female said, I tried to nod but a burning pain ran down my neck and tears sprung to my eyes. The three males followed the brown haired girl out of the room and they started talking in hushed tones. My sight had improved and I finally worked out where I was. I was in a hospital, but I can't remember why. What happened to me? I looked around and I couldn't stop myself staring at the brown haired girl, she was gorgeous. I watched as she argued with the men and walked away from them. One of the men came back into the room and cleared his throat.
"Hello Rachel, I'm Dr. Lopez, my student will be back with a glass of water for you and then I would like to ask you some questions. Just relax and don't try to talk or move just yet." Dr. Lopez said and walked out of the room. Lopez.. I'm sure I know that last name from somewhere.. oh, that's right.. that must be Santana's dad. Who was his student? I closed my eyes, all this thinking was hurting my head, I felt myself slip away to sleep again while thinking about the brown haired girl.

"Rachel, you have to wake up hun, you need to drink some water," I tried to open my eyes but they felt heavy again, I forced them open and my head spun. As my vision improved I found myself staring into beautiful dark blue eyes, I opened my mouth to try and speak; I wanted to know what her name was, she didn't look much older than 18.
"Don't talk just yet," She said and held the water up to my lips. I opened my mouth slightly and she helped me drink; the water felt amazing running down my throat. It was so cool and refreshing and I felt the burning sensation disappear.
"Thank you," I managed to croak out. The brown haired girl smiled at me.
"I'm Alyssa. I'm Dr. Lopez's student for the week. You must be wondering why you're in hospital, or can you remember what happened?" Alyssa asked,
"I can't remember anything. Why am I here?" I paused to take in a deep breath and swallowed, "What happened to me? Why does my whole body hurt?"
"I should be waiting for Dr. Lopez to be here before I tell you but he had an emergency so I got assigned to you, so I'll tell you anyway. You were in an accident, last week, you were….." she paused, "You were beat up, and I was actually the one who found you. We don't know who did it or what exactly happened to you but you were in a really bad state. I brought you to the hospital straight away; I had no time to call an ambulance. I had actually just finished my first day as a nurse in training and was on my way home, and I took a short cut through the park and found you in amongst the bushes. I'm sorry Rachel; I tend to talk a lot." Alyssa told me, I think she didn't take one breath in that whole speech, she reminded me of myself.

I took a few minutes before I replied to her, I was thinking about everything she had said. I don't remember being beat up, all I remember is… I felt my eyes widen and mouth open slightly. I should have never trusted him, the look he had in his eyes that night, I shouldn't have trusted him, and I started internally beating myself up. This was all my fault, why did I agree to it? Why did I actually go? Why did I do it? Why? I started crying and shaking, it was all my fault.
"Hey, it's ok Rachel, you're ok." I hear Alyssa saying and then I felt her hand on my upper arm, squeezing it slightly.
"Nurse Gracewood, you better not have told her what happened!" A loud voice said, it came from the entrance. Alyssa stiffened and I knew she was about to get in trouble, I felt a strong urge to protect her.
"She hasn't told me anything Dr. Lopez, she said she would wait for you to come," I said softly, avoiding his eyes.
"Then why are you crying, Rachel?" He asked sternly. I thought quickly, I then knew what I had to say.
"I just remembered that I had a singing competition tonight at Glee and I won't be able to make it. I was auditioning for a solo against Mercedes and Kurt, I'm sure Kurt got it. But I really wanted it." I smiled internally with my lie and forced more tears to replace the dried up ones, I may be hurt and in hospital but that doesn't mean that my acting skills will deteriorate.

"Right then, well, you must be wondering why you're in hospital, am I right?" Dr. Lopez asked. I nodded slightly, it still hurt but my neck was feeling a bit better. I felt Alyssa staring at me but I ignored her. Dr. Lopez went on to explain what happened to me, in a much more detailed way than Alyssa had said. I just stared out the window and hummed in response to him, pretending that I was listening. When all I could actually concentrate on was the weird feelings Alyssa was making me feel just by having her hand on my arm. When Dr. Lopez had finished talking, I looked at him and started crying, of course, I had already cried about what happened but I had to cry again, some of the tears were real though. How could I have been so stupid to trust him? I thought he was my friend, I trusted him. Alyssa and Dr. Lopez started talking and I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep. I was so tired after a few minutes of talking.

It was night when I woke again, I looked around my room and noticed it was empty; it was now I wish my dads were home. They were travelling again, daddy had got a promotion at work and he and dad were celebrating. They were in Australia at the moment and I wasn't allowed to go because of school as it's my senior year. I didn't have my dad's, and I had no friends to turn to. Well, I had Finn, but he was too interested in his Xbox games to worry about my health or what I'm interested in. I started staring out the door, watching the nurses' rush from one spot to another. My eyes started to close again when I heard Alyssa's voice, she was arguing with Dr. Lopez again.
"Uncle, I don't wanna go back home! Please let me stay with you and San! I can't go back home!" Alyssa was saying, she sounded like she was crying. And what the hell? Uncle? Staying with him and Santana Lopez? Was she Santana's cousin? No, she couldn't be, she wasn't mean enough!
"Alyssa, you have to go back home, your dad is forcing you to and if you don't go, he'll take it to court, I can't have that. I'm sorry sweetie but you have to leave tomorrow." Dr. Lopez was saying.
"Please don't let me go back home, I can't go back there. I don't wanna get hurt again, please," Alyssa pleaded.
"I'm sorry but he's my older brother and I have to do what he asks, you don't know what he's capable of. Come on, Lys, we have to go home, our shift is over," Dr. Lopez held her arm and pulled her, as she was getting pulled, she looked over to my room and I saw she had tears running down her cheeks and she had a worried expression on her face. I was so confused with everything I had just heard. What was going on with Alyssa? I was going to ask Santana about her when I saw her next time. I felt a weird connection towards Alyssa, I wanted to protect her from everything bad, I wanted her to always feel safe. I didn't understand why I felt like this but I was too tired to think about it anymore, I closed my eyes and quickly fell asleep.

I was running away from a big, black wolf, it was growling at me and chasing after me, I tripped over my own feet and hit my head on a rock. I cried out in pain and held my head. The wolf had almost reached me when a petite, brown wolf jumped out of the trees and knocked the black wolf to the ground. The brown wolf stood in front of me and growled at the black wolf, the black wolf snapped at the brown wolf and then turned and left. The brown wolfed looked to me and I noticed its eyes were blue. That was weird.

I woke up breathing heavily, my head was spinning. A nurse was walking into my room and changed my drip, and gave me a glass of water. She smiled at me and walked out of the room. I fell back asleep but this time I dreamt of Alyssa.


Three weeks had passed since I was in hospital and everything had returned to normal. I was back at school and recovering well, I still had a bruise on my stomach and inner thighs but they were very faded. I noticed I had scratches on my upper thighs but I couldn't work out why, I thought it had just happened when I was attacked. In the first week back, everyone had kept asking what happened to me but I hadn't been able to tell them because I was worried of what they would say. I knew that the person who had attacked me was wondering the halls of school. As I walked into school this morning, I heard talk of a new girl at the school, apparently she was very beautiful and was Santana's cousin. She was off limits from everyone, Santana was apparently very protective of her and anyone who even looked at her funny would be on the receiving end of Santana's anger. I pushed my way through the crowd of people, getting pushed a few times by the jocks and Cheerios but I ignored them, I was so used to it. As I neared my locker, I got pushed strongly and fell to the ground, I looked up and my heart quickened, it was him. He was smirking at me and laughed, his friends hi fived him. As I was standing up, I felt ice cold liquid collide with me face, dammit, I had forgotten a spare change of clothes today. I slowly walked towards the nearest girls toilet and started the daily routine of washing the slushie out of my hair and trying to get it out of my clothes. As I was in the middle of soaking my shirt, I felt my stomach heave and I rushed to the toilet. I grabbed the toilet seat, not caring that it was full of germs, and threw up my breakfast.

I heard the bathroom door open and tried to stop heaving, it didn't work as more fluids came up and into the toilet bowl.
"Who's in there? Are you ok?" I heard a voice ask, I didn't reply because 1. I couldn't and 2. I was scared if it was a Cheerio. I desperately tried to stop throwing up whatever else was in my stomach and stayed quiet.
"Whoever is in the toilet, you have left your shirt in the sink, are you ok?" The voice asked again. I looked down and quickly remembered that I was now only in my bra and stained skirt, I blushed.
"I'm fine, just go away!" I managed to call out.
"Rachel?" The voice said, and then it clicked, I knew that voice. I felt my body go warm all of a sudden.
"ummm, yeah, it's Rachel…" I said softly.
"Are you ok? You sound sick, oh gosh! Do you need the hospital, are you hurt again?" She started to panic, I could hear it in her voice so I slowly stood up and wiped my mouth with toilet paper. I opened the door and before it was a few centimetres open, she had pushed it open fully and embraced me in a strong hug.
"I've wanted to hug you since the first time I met you," she said. I was so confused but hugged her back then realised I still had the slushie in my hair.
"Alyssa! Not that I'm not enjoying the hug but I'm still covered in slushie and I'm sweaty," I said, well, tried to say because it felt like Alyssa was cutting off my breathing.
"Oh my gosh! What happened to you?" She asked in a worried tone.
"The usual, I got slushied. That's nothing new, I just forgot to bring a spare change of clothes today so I was soaking my other shirt trying to get the slushy out of it.." I stopped talking when I noticed Alyssa wasn't really listening to me, was she… was she looking at my body? I suddenly got very self-conscious and covered my body up.
"I'm so sorry Rachel, I was listening to you, that's horrible how people do that to you! I can't believe anyone would do that to you. But then I noticed how toned your body is, your stomach is like, perfect! Shit, sorry, I'm rambling on again.." Alyssa said and she blushed. It made her look so pretty.
"I.. umm.. I think I'm going to go home, I don't feel well today. I don't usually skip school but my stomach is so upset and I think I'm going to.." I stopped talking and rushed back to the toilet and threw up again.
"I'm really very sorry," I said after I finished and grabbed my wet shirt out of the sink and squeezed the water out of it, put it on and rushed out of school. I couldn't be in there anymore, and my dad's still weren't home so no one would notice if I wasn't there today.

As I was walking home, I noticed that the same car had been following me since I left school. I quickened my pace, my house was only a few blocks away. When I reached the front porch, I quickly opened the door and locked it behind me. I saw the black car had stopped outside my house, the dark window rolled down and an angry looking man was looking at me, I shut the curtain and sprinted up to my room and lied in my bed. Why had that man followed me home? Who was he? I fell asleep hoping that he wouldn't get me.

I was running around a field full of pretty flowers and long grass, I looked behind me and saw the same dark brown wolf running after me, but it wasn't scary, it was like it was playing with me. I smiled and stopped, the wolf ran to me and stopped right in front of me, it licked my cheek and I giggled. I hugged the wolf around its neck and it nuzzled into my neck. I breathed in its scent and realised it smelt so good.

I heard my phone ringing and I growled, I was enjoying that dream, it was weird but comforting at the same time. I grabbed my phone from under my pillow and looked at the caller ID, I didn't recognise the number but I answered it anyway.
"Hello?" I asked, I was slightly worried about who it was, no one ever calls me.
"Rachel, it's Alyssa, I'm outside your house, please let me in!" She said, she sounded frightened. I jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs.
"One second, I'm nearly at the door." I said and hung up. I reached the door and swung it open, and there stood Alyssa, she had a black eye and was shaking.
"Oh thank god!" Alyssa said quickly and she embraced me in a hug, "I thought he had got to you!"
"Thought who had got to me?" I asked but Alyssa was crying and was hugging me tightly. I hugged her back but as I was looking behind me, I saw the same black car from earlier pull up in front of my house. Alyssa looked behind her and let go of me so fast I nearly fell over and she pulled me inside and locked the door.
"Is there anywhere we can hide Rach?" She asked in a hurried tone, I was s damn confused it wasn't even funny anymore!
"Yeah, follow me, and then you're explaining what is happening!" I said and took her hand, ignoring the warm feeling it gave me, and led her towards my basement.

"Ok Alyssa, explain what is happening!" I demanded once we were in a secret room underneath my basement. My dad's had made it for an emergency, even though that idea was impossible, but my daddy, Leroy, had a dramatic imagination (that's where I get it from) and demanded we needed a safe hole. Alyssa and I were now sitting on my couch under a blanket.
"It's gonna sound weird and crazy but I'm begging you to believe me! Please Rach!" Alyssa pleaded, I was even more confused now, I just wish she'd tell me what's going on!
"Ok ok, just tell me, I'm worried and confused…"
"'shouse!" Alyssa said in one damn long sentence, not taking one breath, and I didn't even understand her!
"What Alyssa? I barely understood you!" I asked because all I had heard from her speech was shape shifters, drinking alcohol, kill and Santana. Alyssa opened her mouth to start talking again when we heard someone banging against the basement door and when they got it open, Alyssa grabbed onto me like her life depended on it. We heard to person walking around and we didn't breath, hopefully they didn't notice the small door in the ground in front of the stage. I heard them stop above the door and the floorboards creaked as they knelt down. They pulled the door open and Alyssa and I screamed!

"Gosh Alyssa and Manhands! It's just me! Jesus!" Santana called from the opened door, "Calm down!"
"What the hell San? Don't ever scare us like that again!" Alyssa screamed at her while I shouted at the same time "Santana, how did you manage to get in my house?"
"First of all, Lys, I didn't mean to scare you, I'm so sorry, I didn't know I'd scare you that much. And second of all, Hobbit, you had your spare key in the most obvious place!" Santana said and with that, she climbed down the ladder, closing the door behind her and jumped from the 3rd last step.
"How did you find us here?" I asked, slightly worried.
"I saw the door when we had your so called party; I tripped on it when I was dancing." Santana said as if it was no big deal. But it was, if someone like Santana can find it, what happens when a murderer is after me and he finds it! I might have to talk to daddy about making the door more hidden. I felt Alyssa intertwine our fingers together under the blanket. It made me get butterflies in my stomach, I felt myself blush and Alyssa giggled and smiled. Santana was staring at us like she was trying to figure something out, I could feel Alyssa looking at me, more like staring, and I was staring at the blanket where our hands were together underneath it.

"Holy fucking shit!" Santana screamed, "No fucking way Lys! No fucking way.." Santana looked angry.
"What's your problem San! It's not like I chose this! Although I wouldn't swap it for the world!" Alyssa started saying and then she giggled again.
"What's going on?" I asked, I was so confused, what in the world were they on about!
"What the actual fuck! Lys, anyone but her! Seriously! Look at her!" Santana said, while gesturing towards me.
"What the fuck is going on!" I screamed, I didn't like swearing but I was seriously so darn confused!
"Holy fuck, Berry just swore! Congrats Berry, knew you had it in you." Santana said, smirking.
"Shut up Santana," I said angrily, I just wanted to know what was going on and crap.. is Alyssa crying. I turned my body towards her and saw she was full on crying silently, she was shaking slightly as well.
"Alyssa, are you ok? What's wrong?" I asked, had I done something wrong?
"Just hug me please," Alyssa barely said and I was shocked by her request but I shuffled closer to her and hugged her side on. She turned her body and leant on my shoulder, hugging me tightly. Gosh, she gives better hugs than Finn! Shit.. Finn! My boyfriend.. I hadn't talked to him at all today, he isn't going to be impressed! But what the hey, I was enjoying hugging Alyssa, even though she was wetting my shirt with her tears.

"Ewwwww gross! I'm throwing up over here! Keep the PDA to a minimum!" Santana said, but I could hear some humour in her voice.
"Shut up San!" Alyssa whispered, she was still crying and hugging me like her life depended on it.
"Look Lys, I'm sorry, it was just a shock, I mean, it could be anyone in the world but it had to be Berry!" Santana said softly, moving closer to Alyssa.
"What about me?" I asked,
"Lyssy here has chosen you…" Santana started saying but before she could finish, Alyssa had stood up and was out of the room in seconds. I had never seen anyone move so fast.
"Chose me for what Santana?" I asked, truly confused.
"She'll tell you when she's ready," Santana said quietly and with that, she left as well. I was left there, half sitting half lying on my couch, confused. I found Alyssa's number and saved it. I pulled the blanket up to my chin and lied down and fell asleep. I didn't dream of anything.

I woke later that night with horrible stomach cramping so I grabbed my stomach and held it. I couldn't get back to sleep and not long after I woke, I needed to throw up, I rushed to the nearest bin in the room and threw up. I hadn't eaten all day because I wasn't hungry, the thought of eating made me want to throw up. I was throwing up whatever stomach contents were there and it tasted horrible. When I finished throwing up, I turned around to get a glass of water from the water fountain we had but screamed when I saw Alyssa standing behind me, holding a cup of water for me.
"I thought you might have needed this," She whispered, holding the cup of water out for me.
"Thanks," I replied and I took a sip of water and swished it around my mouth and then spat it into the bin. "I don't know why I keep throwing up, I have barely thrown up in my entire life, and today I've thrown up two times! I don't know what wrong with me!" I stated, and then started crying.
"Shhhhh," Alyssa soothed, she put her arm around my waist and led me back to the couch, she sat down and pulled me on top of her. I hugged her waist and snuggled into her neck and quickly fell asleep.

Floorboards started creaking and that woke me up, as I became more awake, I felt a pair of strong arms wrapped around me, last night's event caught up with me, but I had honestly thought that was all a dream! I breathed in Alyssa's unique scent and smiled, I felt so safe wrapped in her arms. I felt like falling asleep again since it was Saturday and I was so tired when I felt my stomach heave. I quickly unwrapped myself from Alyssa's embrace and rushed to the bin again, I barely noticed it was empty from last night and then I threw up again, pouring the empty contents from my stomach into the bin. I felt a hand on my back, holding my hair out of my face. I started dry heaving when my stomach had nothing else to bring up. I started choking and Alyssa rubbed my back. When I finished my choking fit, I smiled and faced Alyssa.
"Good morning Alyssa, I'm sorry that you had to wake up like this," I said and then wiped my mouth with a towel.
"It's ok Rach, waking up….." She started mumbling something,
"Sorry? I didn't hear," I asked,
"Don't worry, let's go to your room and get you dressed, I'm taking you out today, I want you to show me around! Santana wouldn't take me," Alyssa started to ramble on so I put my hand over her mouth. I felt her stop talking and smile and then to my disgust, she licked my hand!
"Ewwww! Gross!" I squealed and ran away from her, I climbed up the ladder as fast as I could and pushed the door open. I made a run for the basement door and as I burst into the lounge room, my actions stopped short. On the ground, there was blood and a dead bird. I was horrified and screamed as loud as I could.

I felt Alyssa behind me straight away and she covered my eyes, she was shushing me and led me out of the lounge room and to the stair case.
"I'm sorry Rach, I'll clean it up, your stomach seems to be weak at the moment, you go and get changed, and I'll be up soon." Alyssa said and went off the kitchen. I walked up the stairs to my room and gladly took off my clothes from yesterday, which I realised I hadn't taken off, they were all sticky from the slushies. I took my bra and under wear off and walked into my bathroom to have a shower. I washed my hair properly and cleaned my body, I smiled when I saw all the bruises were gone. When I had finished, I got out of the shower and wrapped myself in a towel, I walked back into my bedroom and went over to my walk in wardrobe. I heard a gasp from behind me and I turned around in a hurry. I came face to face with a very flushed looking Alyssa, she took a step forward and then took a step back.
"Oh my gosh Rachel! You're so hot!" She mumbled quickly. Ok, what the hell?
"What was that Alyssa?" I asked,
"Oh, I just said it's so hot in here?" She replied meekly.
"Sure you did," I smirked, I felt happy and flirty today, I wasn't feeling sick after my shower, my bruises had gone and I had a friend who knew my house like it was her own. Wait, holy shit! How the hell does she know her way around my house? And thinking about yesterday, how did she get my mobile number?

"Alyssa, how did you get my mobile number yesterday?" I asked, I knew I should get dressed but I loved seeing her reaction of me in just a towel.
"I asked… what's his name? umm.. that tall guy. Oh yeah, Finn, I asked Finn," She replied happily.
"And how did you know where I live?" I asked her,
"Ummm.. I can't tell you that right now.. I'm sorry," She said, looking at the ground, all her enthusiasm gone. As I was about to reply, I heard my phone ringing, I ran to my phone, totally forgetting that I had a towel on and when I reached for the phone, the towel fell to the ground. I stood, frozen, with my hand on my phone, I was praying that Alyssa hadn't turned around, but when I looked over my shoulder, I saw that she was damn well looking! She was taking in my whole body, her eyes slowing as she looked at my chest. I felt my whole body go hot and tried to cover up when Alyssa walked over to me and held my arms.
"You're beautiful Rachel," Alyssa whispered, "So beautiful…" I gasped and bent down and picked the towel and wrapped it around me.
"Are you gay Alyssa?" I asked, out of nowhere, why else would she be STARING at me the way she was.
"I'm not gay, but I'm not straight, and I'm also not bi. I'm.. I.. You better answer your phone, the person isn't giving up," She muttered. I growled and picked the phone up.
"Hello?" I asked, anger clear in my voice.
"Hey baby, are we still on for today?" A male voice asked, damn, it was Finn.
"Uhhh, sorry Finn, I'm feeling really sick today and just wanna lie down at home. I'll see you on Monday at school. Bye Finn," With my little speech, I hung up.

"I'm sorry Rachel, you must think I'm a crazy person, I promise I'm not, I just have a crazy problem with myself. I'm a shape shifter, I've found my so called soul mate in you, I feel a strong need for you and my dad is a massive homophobe who turned to hate me when he found out I found my ONE in a female, he became an alcoholic and regularly beat me up, hoping he'd beat the love for a female out of me. When it didn't work, he kicked me out and I moved here to live with Uncle Lopez and Santana. And now my dad is after you to try and kill you so I'll have no reason to live and eventually kill myself. And now I'm going to leave you because you're probably freaked out and never want to see me again." Alyssa said in one whole speech, barely breathing and then turned and ran out my room. I stood there, speechless and I just realised I was crying as well. She was a shape shifter? Her dad kicked her out? Her dad was trying to kill me? The main thing that stood out for me though was she loved me? I was her ONE? The one and only person for her, her soul mate. Then it all clicked, I started crying even harder, the dreams, they were of her, the black wolf who always tried to kill me, he must be the man who followed me yesterday. It all made sense, I had watched Twilight, it must be the same thing. That explained all the feelings she gave me. She was wrong, I didn't think she was a freak or anything like that, now everything made sense, just wanted to hug her and let her know I don't care what she is. I ran down the stairs and out of the house and searched the streets for her. I couldn't see her anywhere so I got my phone out and called her, it rang and I could Get It Right playing, it was coming from behind my house. I walked around and saw a light brown tail sticking out from behind a massive bush in my backyard.
"Alyssa?" I called softly. A whine responded.