Yeah,sorry it took this long. I've been sick (still am actually) and haven't felt up to anything lately. Despite that, I probably would have had this up yesterday if I had not spent the day competing in the county science fair, looking through the library, going out with my family, and getting dragged through wall-mart.

By no means did I want to leave Daniel behind. I wanted to go back, and search desperately through that building for at least some sign of him. I wanted to go back. But, my survival instinct had kicked in. My own safely had won out over Daniel's. So, I high tailed it out of there.

I didn't look back. I didn't even listen to see if they were following me. I put all of my focus on running, trying push everything else from my head. Unfortunately for me, I could think of more than one thing at a time. I could focus on running, but I could also worry about other things. Such as Daniel.

I didn't want to think of him. I kept telling myself that. But I knew it wasn't true. I couldn't help but worry about him. Daniel may not have been the one who made me- truthfully, I didn't know who made me, I only got a glimpse of him as a human, and was too mad as a vampire to take anything in about him- but he had taken me in. He taught me everything I know. He loved me. I owed him.

I stopped suddenly, felling winded even though I knew it wasn't possible for me. I was breathing heavily, and leaned against a nearby tree for support. I felt horrible. After all that he had done for me, I had just left Daniel there without even trying to save him. I left him there to most certainly face his death.

I stayed where I was for a couple minutes, sagging against the tree. Finally, I started to take in details around me. It was completely dark, the sun having set the rest of the way, leaving the stars to shine brightly above me. The tree I was leaning against was big, and dark. The leaves hung low, and the roots stuck up out of the ground a bit. I looked around, realizing that there were several of these trees behind it. Small plants covered my feet, and the air I breathed in was thick and wet. The only reason I hadn't noticed before was that I hadn't been breathing as I ran to keep quieter.

I knew that I wasn't in Texas anymore. I figured that I had run east, right into Louisiana. I took another deep breath of the air, and instantly wished I hadn't. It was too think, and wet for me. I wanted to get out of there as soon as I could.

I took my weight off the tree, and stood up straight. Figuring that I was correct in my assumption of where I was, then the way I had come from was west, and I didn't want to go back that way. The trees lead east, which was also not an option because it would only take me farther into what was left of the Louisiana swamps. South lead back to the south, and I figured I might get caught if I went back that way, so north was the only way for me.

Using the way I had come from, I figured out which way was north. I started running that way, again holding by breath in hopes to keep quieter in case I was still being followed. I also didn't want to catch the scent of any humans I might come across because I knew I would distract, even if I had just hunted the night before. But, since I was holding my breath, I wouldn't be able to catch the scent of any others of my kind. I was willing to take the risk though.

I ran throughout the night, not knowing where I was or where I was going. I tried to keep my thoughts clear, but just as before, Daniel drifted to the front of my mind. I tried not to think as I did before, and I succeeded. Instead of wallowing in grief over not saving him, I thought about what Daniel would do if he were in my situation.

I knew that he would be doing exactly the opposite of me. He wouldn't have run north, trying to get away from it all. He would have stayed in the shadows, lurking and watching them. And if got near him alone, he might even go after it. Daniel wouldn't have run. He would have stayed.

But would he have tried to save you?

I quickly pushed the thought from my mind. Despite the fact that I was so close to Daniel, I had no idea if he would try to save me.

Hours passed as I ran, the sky slowly darkening, then the lightening as dawn approached. It became harder for me to find thickly wooded areas to travel through so that I would be seen. I was close to civilization.

I started away from the trees, and towards the direction that I could hear the normal sounds of the city coming from. The leaves on the trees were flipped, signaling that rain was coming, so I knew that I should be safe once the sun rose.

It only took me a couple minutes moving at a speed slightly faster than human to reach the town. It wasn't a small town, but it wasn't a huge bustling city either. Just a normal suburb of another bigger city, settled on top of a big hill.

Just as the sun slipped past the horizon, and into view, a light rain started falling from the clouds overhead. I looked up, letting the rain splatter across my face. The sun gave a strange glow to the clouds overhead. Darker clouds were moving in, though; this was just the edge of the storm.

I made my way into the town, and started walking through the center, hoping for some clue of where I was. The town was quiet, only a few people out in their cars, probably either going to work, or coming home. Other than that, and a garbage truck making it's way though the next street over, nobody was up in this part of the suburb.

In the downtown part, where all the businesses, and stores were, people were up and moving. People walked the streets, in long pants, and wrapped in heavy jackets, probably hoping to get a good early morning deal in one of the stores, or just hoping to get wherever they were going before the storm hit. They cast weird looks at me, the strange girl walking through town barefoot ,and wearing black knee length shorts and a black tank top. Deciding from all the looks I was attracting, I decided to just figure out where I was and get out of here.

I was just getting ready to cross the street when I car came flying past, just barely missing me. I watched as the speeder drove away, staring at the back of the car. Suddenly, I realized what I was looking at, and how I could use it. My eyes moved to the license plate of that car, and several others around it.

"Good Lord," I whispered, "I'm in West Virginia."

I was amazed by exactly how far I had made it in one night. I had gone all the way from Texas to West Virginia in one night. Surely they hadn't gone through the trouble to follow me. I let out a laugh of relief, realizing my mistake too late.

The human scent flooded in through my nose and mouth, filling my mind with it's aroma. I stopped breathing again, but the animal instinct to feed was taking me over. The instincts screamed at me to take down the closest human, and drain them tell there wasn't a drop of human blood left in them. It didn't matter that I had just fed. I t was blood. I always had room for more.

I turned, and fled down a less busy street as fast as I could. I didn't care that people had seen me there one second, and a blur fleeing a moment later. They probably just though that their minds were playing a trick on them, that I had crossed the street when they weren't looking, that I was never really there. It was better than what could have happened to them.

I didn't stop running until I was a good distance away from the town, standing on a tree line by one of the main roads leading out of the town. Nobody y was on the road, thankfully, probably still asleep or hiding from the oncoming storm. The rain hadn't managed to keep up with me ,but it was closing in fast, still the light rain on the edge as before. Wind wiped my hair around my face, and I could hear thunder in the distance. I didn't care though. It's not like it could hurt me.

I started running, suddenly wanting to get away from this place. I had gotten the feeling that I was being watched, and didn't dare to look around in case I was. I just started running.

This time, I didn't stick to the trees, choosing rather to run along side them so that I didn't have to keep weaving through them, saving me more time. I didn't even slow, or try to move out of sight when the rare car would pass me on the road; I was going to fast to be anything but a blur to them, and they were probably focusing on driving, not the tree line.

After only a couple of minutes, I reached the larger city. Instead of going through it as I had with the town, I chose to go around it. It would take more time, but it's not like I had a time limit anyways. And, it was safer for me and the humans.

I continued running throughout the day, just as I had the night before. I had no idea of when I would feel safe enough to stop, I just knew it wasn't then. As I went farther north, however, the feeling of being watched that I had been feeling since I had left the town in West Virginia had begun to fade, eventually disappearing completely. It made me feel much better to know that however had been following me was gone.

Around midday, I had reached an area where there was only a few clouds in the sky to hide sun, leaving me in risk of drawing attention to myself. I entered the closest woods, the trees in it standing tall and lean. Light filtered in the gaps between their leaves, and through some of their thin leaves, giving the place a greenish glow when a loud didn't pass overhead, momentarily darkening the woods.

I slowed, and smiled, enjoying the beauty and peacefulness of these woods. It was unnaturally quiet. No birds were chirping, no animals calls. The only thing I could hear was an animal moving in my general direction. I figured that the animals had sensed my presence as a danger, their instincts telling them to hide and be quiet. Knowing that they had much better instincts than the foolish humans, I figured this was the case.

All the green tugged at something, a memory buried in the back of my mind. Green everywhere. Small house. Small town, People staring at me as I passed in a cop car. Forks. One of my few human memories that I can remember clearly. Green. Small bugs on all of the green. Mud. A horrible stench drifting to me. A dark face, and a pair of red eyes looking into my own. My last memory of Forks. My first memory as a vampire.

I sighed. I never did see the one who created me again. I knew I was an accident; he had been feeding off of me, and another one had found us, and tried to take me from him. They started fighting, and only stopped when I started screaming in pain from the venom. The one who originally bit me stayed until I awoke to this life, but when I attempted to kill him in my anger, he fled, leaving me alone. I wondered south, and was found by Daniel who took me in.

I pulled myself from my memories, and back into the currently beauty of the woods. It was quieter than before, whatever I had heard before having stopped moving. I smiled again, running my hand over the moss covering one of the giant trees. Deciding that it was safe enough here for me to breath, I took a deep breath in, letting the scents of the forest fill my nose. I froze instantly. My instincts picked up on it as soon as my nose had.

There was another vampire here.

Okay, so I don't know whats up with fan fiction, but if this comes up all weirdly spaced, its not my fault. No, I didn't proof read this simply because looking at the words for too long makes my head spin, and makes me wanna vomit. Ahhh, but please, REVIEW! they really made me smile last time ,and would love some more!