First new chapter in the new year. Sorry it took so long. Thank you to those of you that left me a review and messages, I greatly appreciate it! Without further adieu...


Edward's POV

There was pain. Tremendous pain. I couldn't seem to do anything to get rid of it, but I noticed that if I opened my eyes, I could see a light. The light seemed to be really bright, but that wasn't the only thing I noticed. I noticed voices and I managed to open my eyes and see a couple of blurs that I took to be people. Who exactly were they? At that point it didn't matter, I gasped out from the pain and tried to grab onto something, anything.

"Edward? Sweetheart? What's wrong?" I heard.

I couldn't answer due to the pain. I tried to. Honestly I did, but it was just so much pain. Soon after there was a cooling sensation and I was tired. The pain was bearable at this point and my eyelids just closed. Time seemed to pass because I awoke to a body pressing itself into me. I frowned in confusion, but heard a gently voice. Then felt the body stopped moving and curled up into me. I managed to move my arm around it, pulling it in close, and fell asleep once more.

"Sweetheart, you're probably not ok to sleep here. Come on." A voice said.

Not long after, I felt the body, the warmth, leaving me and I couldn't wake myself up enough to fight for it to stay. I could only curl into where the warmth had once been and fell deeper into sleep once more.

"Get your sorry ass up. What are you going to sleep until you die? Would you like me to arrange that for you?" My inner self said.

"I thought you were gone. I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up." I said.

I slowly opened my eyes once more and winced at the pain the motion brought. I managed to look up at the ceiling and blinked. I quickly remembered where I was and frowned.

"Oh! You're awake. How are you feeling?" A voice said to me.

I turned my eyes to see that it was a female nurse and merely blinked at her.

"Can you hear me?" She asked.

I continued to just look at her a moment, but then I started to take in a breath and my side chose that moment to spasm in pain and I choked. What little air I managed to get in my lungs came out in force and I curled up as the pain continued to move within my body.

"Oh! I'll be right back." Then she left me.

I reached out a hand as if trying to stop her, but it did nothing but add to the pain more and I was only able to curl over and feel a tear fall out the corner of my eye. She returned quickly with a doctor and he came up to the bed.

"Edward? Can you hear me?" He asked before turning to the nurse to request some medicine to get me.

He tried to roll me out of my ball and I let him. Another female nurse came up on the other side of me and wiped at the sweat that had formed on my forehead. The previous nurse returned with a syringe of medicine and administered it into my IV. I blinked a few times, trying to gauge what the doctor was doing besides watching the monitors, but I guess the medicine had reached my system because the next thing I know, I passed out.

Upon awaking again, I noted there wasn't much pain this time. I slowly allowed myself a little hope carefully opened an eye. There was a bright light and I closed my eye quickly. Giving myself a quick countdown, I opened my eye again and allowed it to adjust to the lighting. My other eye followed and I blinked a couple times.

"Where am I?" I asked.

There wasn't a response and I sat up. My eyes grew large as I noted a large headstone stood beside me. Taking a longer look, I noted several headstones surrounded me.

"What is this?" I asked again expecting no response.

"You're in between." A voice responded.

I jumped and turned trying to find the source of the voice.

"W-What? What do you mean?" I asked.

I didn't hear anything and moved towards where I hoped was an exit.

"You'd better not go that way." The voice spoke once more.

I quickly stopped in my tracks and turned around.

"What's going on? Who are you? Where are you?" I asked.

When there was no response yet again, I grew angry. I didn't understand what was happening, this whole, answer when you felt like it voice was getting on my nerves and I had to admit… I was pretty scared.

"Hello?" I called.

Nothing.

"Damnit!" I yelled and started off in yet another direction.

I had to assume this way was safe as the voice hasn't said anything for a while, or it was gone. I didn't really care at this point. For all I knew, it could've been a figment of my imagination in the first place.

"I guess you could believe that." There it was again, the voice.

I growled lowly, but continued to walk, ignoring it.

"That's not very nice. Especially when I'm trying to help you." It said.

"You want to help? Go away!" I yelled turning to where I thought it was coming from.

Not paying attention, I tripped over a headstone and fell face first in front of another. I roughly pushed myself up, but took note of the name on the stone.

Here lies

Elizabeth Rose Cullen

Beloved Mother, Grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend.

I frowned while reading the birth date and death date before realizing who it was.

"Grandma?" I asked no one in particular.

"Hello dear." The voice said and a body appeared in front of me.

"Holy shit."


Sorry it's so short. Hopefully the next chapter won't take so long to get posted. Thanks for reading!