I waited a little while for her to answer but, she never did. When I looked down at her face I realized I was a little late with asking, she had fallen asleep just before I said it. I guess it was time for me to get a few hours of sleep. I closed my eyes and slowly drifted to sleep.

I watched Erica fall to the ground, her face and body had deep cuts with blood pouring out at a fast rate, I got to her as fast as I could but I could hear her breathing slowly fading as she laid there. She looked up at my face, smiling as best she could while trying to breathe.

"Erica! Erica! You have to stay with me alright, you're going to be okay." I said frantically.

"Elijah.." She gasped.

"I'm right here, I'm not going anywhere." I said pulling her into my chest.

"I'm sorry for everything." she said slowly.

"You have nothing do be sorry about." I told her.

"I didn't tell you.." she said as her eyelids started to fall.

"Stay awake Erica." I said to her giving her a slight shake.

"I love you.. We love you." she said as her eyes closed.

My eyes flew open and I looked over at Erica sleeping beside me, she looked so beautiful, I pulled myself up in a sitting position and moved her slowly so she was right next to me with her head on my lap. Something bad was going to happen to her and I didn't know how to stop it. When she would wake up I was going to have to tell her about my dream and how she wouldn't live. I had to find a way to save her and I had to do it fast.

I went to go find James to tell him about what was going to happen and try to find away to make sure that didn't happen. I followed his scent and like always I lead me to the study. I knocked on the door and heard papers shuffling and James say come in. I walked in and sat down in a chair and started to tell him about my dream. By the time I finished I could tell he was scared.

"Are you sure?" he asked for the fifth time.

"Erica is going to die." I said to him.

"is there anyway you could be wrong about this?" he asked.

"No." I told him.

"Does she know?" he asked me.

"No, she's sleeping now but, I'm going to tell her when she wake up." I said.

We were silent after that, so I told him, I'm going to go and stay with her but, I saw Jacob standing in the door way when I turned around, he was crying so I knew he heard the whole thing. I walked up to him and pulled him a for a hug. He sobbed hysterically and I did too. We stood there for a few minutes before I said I had to talk to Erica. So I went back up stairs and calmed myself down a little so she wouldn't catch on to something before I could tell her.

"Where did you go?" She asked as I walked into the door way.

"I was talking to James." I said trying to keep calm.

"What about?" she asked.

"About another dream I had." I told her.

"Is April alright?" she asked scared.

"She's fine but, it wasn't about her." I said.

"Then who?" she asked curiously.

"You." I said.

She sat there staring at me for a long time she didn't say anything I could see tears forming in her eyes as she tried to think of something to say but, she knew something bad was going to happen to her she got out of bed and started walking over to me but, she ran as fast as she could out our bedroom door. I didn't go after her because I knew she needed space to think things through. So sat on the floor with my back against our bed waiting.

I sat there for 2 hours and a half waiting, when I heard someone coming this way down the hall but, it was Jacob that appeared in the door way. I could see how sad he was so I patted the floor next to me so he could come sit. He was right beside me sitting exactly how I was looking down at his hands so I pulled him in for a hug. I felt someone staring at us and it was Erica standing in the door way.

"Hi." I said.

"I'm sorry." she said.

"You don't have anything to be sorry about." I told her.

"He knows?" she asked me looking at Jacob.

"I heard him and father talking." Jacob said.

"I'll come see you later alright but, I need to talk to Elijah." she said to Jacob.

He nodded and walked up to his sister giving her a hug, then left the room so we could talk. I was still sitting on the floor so Erica came to sit down with me. She was scared and sad, she wanted to know what was going to happen but, she knew it wasn't going to be good. So I started to speak.

"Erica, you aren't going to like this." I said to her.

"Just tell me everything." she said.

"Erica, you are going to die." I told her.

She was shocked but, told me to go on and I did. I told her everything that happened in my dream and she cried but got confused at the part where she said "I love you.. We love you" but, she asked about who would do this to her and I didn't have an answer but, it hard to be Caroline that would kill her. She didn't say anything she just sat there thinking.

Awhile later, Erica went to tell Angela about the dream I had. I was listening in on what she was saying and I could hear something glass dropping and shattering across the floor. After that I just broke down and cried. I was going to lose the love of my life before our life could ever begin. I felt all this anger and rage fill up inside me and I punched holes in the wall, shattered the mirror and threw the dresser across the room breaking a large hole in the wall. As broken pieces of wood and glass covered the hardwood floors I looked up and saw James. Angela Jacob and Erica standing in the door way. I caught my reflection in a broken piece of mirror and saw blood all over my face, my eyes bright red and fangs sticking out of my slightly open mouth as I panted.

Erica helped me clean up some of the mess in our room but we didn't talk at all. I was still angry and was having trouble getting my face to go back to my normal green eyes and human teeth. She watched me carefully as she picked up pieces of glass. When she got this strange look on her face but, brushing it off. Jacob would come and look in the room now and then to check on how I was doing. After a little while, I saw green eyes in the mirror pieces I picked up and threw in a box.

"Are you alright?" Erica asked me.

"Yes, I'm fine." I said looking up at her.

"Looks like I'm going to have to go shopping." Erica said

"Yeah, and I have to fix the walls." I said.

"Yes you do." Erica laughed.

"I'm guessing we will be sleeping in the room next door?" I asked Erica.

"Yes, until this one is fixed." she said.

"How much did you see?" I asked her.

"Well, we saw your fist through the mirror and the dresser thing." she told me.

"I'm sorry." I said to her.

She was about to say something we she got that strange look on her face once again. Erica said she would be right back so finished up cleaning. It was past sunset when I finished, I totally forgot about April. So I went to go find Angela. She was downstairs talking to Erica but, I only heard the end of the conversation.

"Please mother, don't say anything." Erica said.

"Don't worry everything will be fine." she said to Erica.

"It's past sunset, so I'm going to go watch over my house." I said.

"No, you are staying here, James and I are going." Angela said.

You don't have too." I said.

"Yes we do." James said from behind me.

After they left, I though about what I asked Erica and since she didn't answer, I was going to ask again. I asked her if she wanted to go outside to our tree and she agreed. Once we were outside, I felt a little better about everything. We both sat on the bench that was on the other side of the tree when I finally got up the courage to ask again.

"Do you remember what I asked you before you fell asleep this morning?" I asked her.

"Not really, all I remember is you telling me to stay awake." she said.

"Well, I guess ill just have to ask again." I said.

So I stood up and grabbed a little black box out of my pocket getting down on one knee. She gasped and looked at me with those wide pale blue eyes. As I opened the ring box she looked at the ring then back at me and back to the ring. She stared at the white gold 14k engagement ring and smiled.

"Erica, will you marry me?" I asked.

"Yes." she said quietly.