Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight.
A/n: Hello people, welcome to my new story, which occurs after my other story Sunset. You should go read that story before reading this one since a lot of stuff is explained there that I might not go fully into detail in this one (such as Characters and places); but I'll try my best to keep in mind that not everyone had read that story. Please enjoy this chapter and review it at the end. WARNING: SHORT CHAPTER!!!!
Chapter Preview: Just read it, goodness- Just Kidding.
Quote of the Chapter: "Love is feeling both happy and sad at the same time: happy to have found someone special, sad that forever seems too short to be together."
Chapter Ten- The Forest
"You…You don't want me?" I asked, tears in eyes.
"No." he answered back, no pity in his eyes. He looked at me, and I stared back, how could this happen to me- not again, I thought he loved me, but he didn't. Jacob stared back at me,
"I'm going now, Bella." he said, then without further words, he disappeared.
'They're all the same.' Someone said to me. I dropped down and cried, 'They're all going to hurt you- its best not to even get infatuated with them. Your heart is already broken- like a broken mirror it's best to leave the pieces alone- then ending up cutting yourself trying to fix it yourself…"
"Jacob." I whispered to myself. "Oh Jacob- I love you…"
The scene switched.
I was walking, quite calmly through a dark wooded forest- no idea where I was going or what I was doing there.
I wandered for the longest time, until I heard a faint howling in the distance. The sound frightened me. But for some reason, I walked towards the sound.
I traveled for what seemed like days- but could have been only a couple of minutes. Until I finally heard the howling just in front of me- where I saw him, slouched over, shaking- Jacob.
I ran to him, kneeling beside him.
"Jacob- what's wrong?" I asked, full of concern. His breathing was uneven, and he clucked his stomach as if it would fall off if he didn't. I saw now, blood surrounding his hands and arms and the place he was holding on to on his torso. His eyes went dazed, and then he fell back onto the forest floor.
It switched Again.
I was walking through the forest, it had to be past midnight by now, and ahead I saw a small figure in the shadows, crying. I ran towards it, when I finally got to it, it had stopped crying. Her face was paper white, with dark black eyes, shivering in the cold of night.
"What's wrong?" I asked the little girl, she looked up at me, and shook her head, "It'll be fine- but what's wrong what's happened to you?" I pressed, but she continued to shake her head.
"He's coming- he'll kill you- just like he killed me and all the others. Your next." she touched a hand to my face, her cold, dead hand.
Once again the scene faded and was replaced with another.
"Who are you?" I asked quietly. The little girl's looking into my eyes, tears falling down them. She shook her head,
"I'm lost…" she whispered, I knelt down beside her, not knowing what to do.
"Stand up, come with me, I'll take you home with me." I said, standing up and holding out my hand for her. She just stared at it,
"Your lost too- They're looking for you too- They'll get all of us, ever last one- until they're not thirsty anymore." she said, in a faint whisper. My eyes open wide in shock.
"Your- You were on the news- I've seen you before. You were one of the girls who were…kidnapped…" I said, thinking out loud. She just looked at me, tears never ceasing to fall. "Wait- what do you mean 'until they're not thirsty anymore'." I asked. My heart was hammering fast, and my breathing was uneven.
The girl looked down at the forest ground, and shook her head.
"Forks is next."
It continued to fade and return as something different- the setting always the same however.
I was walking through the forest again. My head was in complete, excruciating pain. I dropped down to the damp, soft grass under me, clutching my head. I cried out in pain and took a deep breath, and looked up. I felt lost; lost and confused. I stood up and walked to the nearest tree, sitting under it and leaning against its trunk; clutching my head again with my hand- it seemed to relieve the pain just a little bit.
I sat there for gods knows how long, until finally I heard a voice.
"I knew you'd be coming soon."
I was in the familiar forest again, sitting at a tree. I had a horrible headache and everything looked fuzzy and dream- like. I felt alone, and weak and as if I was trapped in a small box. I hugged my knees looking around the dark forest.
"Poor little Bella- can't find your way home?" a high- mocking voice sent shivers down my spine. "Poor little Bella is now all alone." the voice was obviously a child's voice; it talked lively as if she was singing. "No one's here to save you now." she continued, "No one can save you from what's going on in your mind." I began to cry, my head throbbing, so I placed my head on top of my knees, which were bent up to my chest. "You're going to be here- just like us- trapped forever with no way back." her voice was now gone and replaced by a kinder voice- a whisper- a warning whisper. I lifted my head up and looked around- immediately frightened. All around me where children- from around three years old to seventeen; their faces deadly pale, their eyes black as night, their faces plastered with fear.
"What happened?" I whispered as the children walked around like zombies. A small child walked into view- she was not the mocking child I had heard but the one who warned me- the one I remembered seeing on the news. She sat beside me, like a parent comforting their child- but it didn't feel strange, since she couldn't have been more than ten years old.
"What will happen to you if you don't get out of here." she looked at me with a warning look. I was having a déjà vu feeling; I had been here before but not in the same manner. The times I was here before were brief and dream-like. But I felt like I had been here for days- weeks even and it was much more real now.
I was passing into darkness then I was at the familiar forest that I had dreamt about so many times before. The small child continued to sit with me, her small cold hand on top of mine.
"Are you dead?" I asked, not really caring at this time if that was a rude or insensitive question or not.
"Might as well be." she told me. "We're all trapped here- half between one world and the other. Seamus told us that this only happens to young newborns and when we're able to control ourselves we can leave."I knew she knew what she was talking about, but I didn't have a clue-so I didn't really help my confusion.
"Who's Seamus?" I asked, firstly.
"The vampire that turned us all, he and all the other elders." she told me. The children around us sat down on the grass watching us.
"Vampire elders?" I asked.
"Yes, the first vampires- they're quite old, too old- they need drink blood of younger people to stay strong, most of us he just drained dry- but us in here, we're the ones he chose to be in his army…he and the rest of them are trying to claim territories- it's like a game to them, whoever kills the most and makes the city more terrified wins…" she said disgusted.
"There is a vampire war." said one of the boys, who looked around fifteen, who was watching us when we spoke. "I didn't even believe in vampires and now look where we are in limbo between heaven and hell."
"What are newborns?" I asked, they seemed to know why more than me about this.
"Vampires that are newly created." said a thirteen year old boy I recognized for the news also.
"So then I was attacked too- that's why I'm here…" I told myself- it was better not to deny anything.
"No." said the little girl.
"Then why am I here?" I asked.
"We need you to help us- to get us out of here- you're the only one who has been sent here that can go back." the girl told me softly, "You're not here, exactly- you're just- it's like you're visiting for awhile. Your mind is here, but your body is Forks Hospital." my eyebrows creased.
"Why am I there?" I asked, I tried to rack my brain to remember something- anything that might have happened. But nothing came to mind.
"You had a little brush in with Seamus…" she told me, "You came terribly close to being one of us…" That was me- cutting it close to dying, yet again. Now that my mind was calm and my head hurt a little bit less I was worried about the children around me.
"How do I help you?" I asked, uncertain, perhaps Edward or maybe Carlisle would know something about this and he would be able to help.
"We don't know- but what other reason would you be here if not to help us?" she asked. I felt horrible by not knowing what to tell her, was it even possible for them to get out of here? If they were vampires out in the real world why was their mind in here? Unless of course when you're a newborn you lose yourself until you're able to control it like the Cullens were able to.
"I'll try my best to figure out a way to help you- all of you." I said to the children who were watching me speak.
The little child put her hand on my shoulder, giving me a small smile. The little girl who had seamlessly haunted my dreams with questions and dreadful feelings, but her touch was so cold it was like I had been dropped into the Arctic Ocean when I was half asleep and was suddenly woken up.
I blinked, and looked around. I was lying in a hospital bed- life scanner beeping annoyingly next to my bed, with IV plugged into my arms.
"Edward?" I groaned.
A/n: Just a short little chapter, sorry about it, but don't worry then next chapter should be longer. Please review and tell me what you think! And this is probably the last chapter until July 7th because I'll be very busy until then, I am terribly sorry. But please comment and tell me what you think.