Ali: Epilogue(don't own Twilight)
Raven/Jasabella's Pov:
I sit in a tree, looking at the stars when another breath came. She turned and saw, not any Cullen, but herself with white eyes. I opened my mouth to say something when I paused. I never got my color. She smiled and reached out her hand.I stayed put and finally looking into her soft, loving eyes and reached out to grab her hand. Suddenly a snake was biting me, sending poison into my system. I cried out and ripped the snake from my hand and looked at it. White eyes like the other me. I felt to poison rapidly go through my system, my heart beating rapidly, trying to get adrenaline through me but instead quickened it's own demise.
The snake hissed something I barely heard," Trust me."
I sat up quickly on my bed and gasped in horror. Jasper was laying next to me and he held me hand. "What's wrong?"
I looked at the worry in his eyes. I shook my head. "Nothing"
I knew he didn't believe me because the dream shook me up so much. I haven't had that dream in so many years. I was shivering slightly. Jasper lead me towards the kitchen.
"You need something warm. Milk?"
"Please?" I begged, my voice weak.
I never felt as sad, angry and sad as that moment in the time I've reunited with my family since I killed my father, Macavity. I felt skin brush against my arm. I looked up at my younger brother Carlisle.
"What is it?"
I shook my head. "Bad dream."
He gave me a hard gaze and Leo glared at me. A bad dream usually meant a bad omen, and the dream always revealed what it is. Finally everything clicked. I knew was was going to happen. I buried my face into my hands. My personal demons have risen to take me down once more. I wanted to cry but I couldn't in front of my family.
"What's the matter?" Alice asked.
I shook my head. "Tired."
It wasn't a complete lie. I was tired of all the bull in my life and physically exhausted. I heard Jasper opening the microwave and quickly stuck out my hand, so grateful for the glass of milk. I gulped it down and washed it, not liking others doing everything.
"What dream was it?"
"Falling off a cliff," I said. Leo knew I was lying, but I have had that dream in the past because of my Mal Tin Yeynta. I groaned and rubbed my eyes. "Now I can't go back to sleep."
Emmett smiled. I growled at him and shifted into a great tiger and prowled towards him. "Hey, hey! I thought you loved me?"
I tossed my head and padded to Leo and gave a low growl before going outside. I heard him groan.
"Haven't I had enough training?"
I roared, automatically making the answer no. I heard him clambered after me. I kept my ears pricked. I turned to him and shifted. He glared at me and whispered, "What Raven?"
"Nothing," I whispered.
"I know you... it's not nothing."
"Just don't say or think anything."
"Don't Raven," he said, clutching my shoulders. "Anything but that."
"It's the only way that I can think... I don't want to jump to conclusions."
"I can help, the Cullen's will if you tell them. You don't have to go through this sign alone."
"No. That's final."
He stalked off. I looked into the night. I didn't want to just to something that might not happen. I walked back in and went to my bed and fell asleep.
I opened my eyes, the smells I'd grown accoustome to gone. The smells were weaker and my room was bare... no this wasn't the mansion... this was the house I had when I was a human. I jumped from bed, suddenly paniced, my mind filled with finding my brother. I lifted my skirts and walked to my father's room.
"Father?"
He looked up from his book. "Yes?"
"Have you seem Carlisle?"
He shook his head. I nodded and walked out, the panic in me rising. I was a reck. I ran into the woods to the one place I was praying he wouldn't go. The Trench. The Trench sucked out happiness and replaced it with misery. Men were drawn there by a woman's spirit because her fiance betrayed her heart and she killed him in blind rage. After she woke upshe killed herself, distraut with what she had done... Many did not live because they killed themselves due to the dispair. If they made it out they spent the rest of their lives in dispair.
THat was what I was hoping Carlisle wouldn't go through. I tore through the forest, losing my shoes and ripping my clothes on branches. I blinked hard to keep the tears at bay and suddenly Carlisle was in veiw. He stepped into the Trench. I pumped faster and when I was near him, pulled him out and tumbled in, my way of stopping after the hard run.
I looked at him, his blue eyes grayer and the flush in his cheeks gone. I felt all my joy sap out of me as I stepped out of the trench.
"Are you alright?"
He shook his head. "Are you?"
I shook my head and looked back to see a woman in her wedding dress. She flew towards Carlisle. I jumped in front of him and felt terrible emotional pain that I screamed.
I gasped and sat straight in my bed. I felt my ehad pounding and my heart breaking... sadly that was a true event, the worst deed I did as a big sister for my brother as a human. I couldn't stop him in time. I shakily walked downstairs and drunk a little bit more warm milk. Edward Emmett Rose Leo and Alice were out hunting.
"Darlin'?"
I looked at Jasper and forced myself to put on a smile and project happy emotions. I was too shaken to make it seem real. He hugged me close to him and I hugged him, breathing in his comforting scent. I shook physically. That woman haunted my dreams, I dealt with it, but this one hadn't shown up since my last human night and my first Jagged night.
"Are you alright?" he asked, his texan accent reared its head.
"A nightmare," I whispered.
"That's the fifth one this week."
Carlisle came downstairs from his sound proof office with Esme and took one look at me before rushing over and running a hand through my hair.
"Are you alright? Did Emmett take Leo again?" Yes Emmett did take Leo one time and I paniced at the thought of losing my only connection to my sister when Emmett walked in with him.
"It was another nightmare," Jasper said worriedly.
Carlisle Esme and Jasper tried to comfort me, but it didn't work. Why did this one dream shake me up so badly? My nightmares have gotten worse, I've hardly had any sleep, and I've never felt so weak. I'm supposed to be the one protecting everyone, instead everyone's protecting me. That's not how it's supposed to work when I'm the oldest.
"I'm going for a walk," I said, getting up and walking out the door. Jasper moved to come with me. "Alone."
He projected sadness and rejection. I kissed him and walked out, needing to be alone. I stopped in a clearing and listened to the wind's whispers. I noticed they were frantic and paid attention.
"The fights will be soon, the light and dark will face one another. One will bring peace, one destruction. Raven and Crow. Raven and H-"
The wind suddenly quieted, changing to a different topic. The wind was talking about my. I had to fight two people, Crow and someone with H beginning their name, but that could be anyone. I growled in frustration and walked back. I entered the house and saw worried faces.
"I just need rest."
That rest ended up with my worst nightmares, worst thoughts and fears. I refused to go back to sleep, afraid of the next dream... no nightmare. DAymares plagued me and I looked for my mothers black pearl ring to sooth my frayed nerves. I found it and put it one, datmares vanishing. I curled into a ball and fell into a peaceful sleep.
