Chrissy, AWOL basically gone, or missing in military terms :)

Also, another question, what would you people think about a 20'000-30'000 word spin off about Benjamins young life? Because you people know nothing about him, why he is like he is, really or about his family, about the places he had been, what he has seen...

So yeh, it would be like Bree Tanners story, only it would be about Benjamin's past.

What do you think? Good Idea? Bad Idea? How many people would actually be interested in reading the spin off?

Any way, Onto chapter fourteen!

Chapter Fourteen

Life In Your Hands

At first I didn't know if I could trust you, but then I realised it didn't matter. I had nobody and you were the only person that took an interest in my life, so you were the only person I had. That mistrust soon turned into trust, and then friendship and now it is turning into something much more, a beautiful furness that burns on in my heart, each time I see you is like adding more coal to the fire. It only makes it stronger.

-The Tigeress

Mary Cullen

This Leonardo guy was making me remember things, only flashes, but more flashes than usual.

He tended my wounds and fed me, stroked my hair as the pain would flare back before going to get more pain killers. He fed me water and changed my clothes, brushed my hair and washed my face for me, and I couldn't have been more greatful.

We had talked all through the night, about my experience with the Dark witches and how I hadn't turned out like them, and about what could be done about my suspected memory loss. The only problem was that if I thought too hard, pain would burn my temples and feel like I had something large and hard like a boulder thrown directly into my temple. Leo came back with another cup full of fresh water from the stream, he looked down at me and I reached out with my good arm to...

Then I froze. That wasn't my good arm, this was my bad arm, the arm I was moving as if it was totally healed, after only two days.

Leo gasped at the same time I did and almost dropped the water.

"I need to check your wounds, now." He said, he touched the bandage lightly and I then realised I was over due for some morphine, but the pain didn't flare up. It stung, but it was bareable, it didn't make me want to jump away, cringe or vomit at the intense pain.

I let Leo un wrap all the bandages, and underneith, on my arm was skin, normal skin that looked badly sunburned, but it wasn't as it had been before, the skin had been melted and horribly deformed, this was a miricle. I touched the skin and without the bandages it was very tender, but it was just like sun burn.

Slowly he undid the bandages around my leg and they were the same, dark red and only slightly blistered like sunburn.

He then undid the bandages on my back, I expected the worst for this. The skin had been ripped off my bones at the lashings, going deep into my flesh, deep into my soul.

"There gone. There just pink lines... this... this is amazing." Leo whispered.

"There gone?" I gasped, "There just scars?"

"Yes, there just scars, they've gone, you're healing almost miraculously Mary." He reached out to me, and I took his cool hand with my 'bad' arm.

He tugged me to my feet, my foot and leg were still tender from the sunlike burns, but I could limp around without much pain, and I didn't need bandages on for this kind of burn I didn't think.

"Can I have some morphine?" I asked, the pain was bareable but walking was difficult.

"YOu can have some ibuprofen and Paracetamol, the morphine just about knocks you out." Leo chuckled.

I smiled at his laughing, "I like it when you laugh." I said to him.

He stopped laughing, "The old Mary would be embarrased to say that." He said.

"I'm not the old Mary though, I have no memories from before, my life as I can remember it was lifeless, full of anger and torture... I like laughter." I smiled at him, it was true, I did like laughter, and the sound was so familiar yet so unfamiliar at the same time.

The one memory kept coming back, me and Leo and another girl who he identified as Madison were sat on a bench, just laughing, laughing and talking about life.

"You are still Mary though, you'll always be my Mary." He said, I looked at him and smiled with happiness.

"Your Mary?" I laughed, "I remember, I always wanted to be your Mary... all those other girls... they only wanted you because of your beauty..." I muttered, then I realised something, I didn't have a clue what I was talking about.

"What?" Leo asked, his mouth falling open.

"I don't know... I just said that... but I can't..." I touched my painful temple.

"Just carry on, carry on saying what you were saying." Leo prompted.

"I always wanted to be yours, I always wanted to be a vampire like the rest of you too, I remember writing in my diary that I wanted to spend forever in your arms once... because I loved you." I whispered to him, memories flooded back, the doors falling like flood gates been lifted.

"Really?" Leo asked.

"I always loved you Leo." I smiled, and nodded to myself. "I remember... I remember everything."

"Everything?"

"I remember Madison and Mom, Dad, Grandpa and Grandma... My aunts, uncles, cousins... I remember my life Leo, and it was all thanks to you." I said, and somehow, I was changed, internally I was different.

"Explain how you love me, Mary." He said, his eyes sparkling with humor.

"I'm in love with you Leo, I have been for years." I said, and just like that, his lips were on mine, only briefly, a small peck and then he pulled back.

"I've felt the same way for years but I've never had the guts to say anything... I'm... I'm sorry." He said, I smiled at him and held his hand.

"You don't care that I'm not a vampire? That I'm not beautiful? That I'm not scarred? That I'm not perfect?" I whispered.

"No, I don't. And you are beautiful, and perfect and you might be a vampire someday, like you said, it's all you have ever wanted." He smiled down at me.

"And you." I blinked and layed my head against his cool chest.

Leo loved me back! Amazingly and against all comprehension, Leo loved me, and I wouldn't let him go without a fight. Ever.

Seth Clearwater

"Remember what I said Seth, no funny buisness, she's only just turned five, she might look 14, but she's not. Not yet, and she isn't fully grown or ready for a boyfriend, so don't try anything on with her, or I will let Emmett personally kill you." Rosalie smiled sweetly to me as her daughter walked into the room.

"Mom, stop threatening Seth. We're friends, I know imprints usually turn into more, but you're safe for now." Charlotte said, I thought she had never looked more beautiful in her life. She stood there in a pale blue dress with a cream knitted sweater over the top. Her hair was in a french braid over her left sholder and her eyes were lightly covered in make up.

"Hello, Lottie." I smiled at her.

"Hey, Seth!" She ran over to me and gave me a hug, then pulled away slowly.

"Well, you two love birds have fun." Emmett boomed from the door way, I watched as Charlotte went a deep shade of Red.

"Daddy, where only going to Port Angeles for a meal and the cinema and to do some shopping, were just two friends going out." She said to her dad desperately.

"Sounds like a date to me." Emmett laughed again.

"Dad. Shut up." Charlotte went an even deeper shade of red.

"Let me take a photo anyway!" Rosalie said to us, I put my arm over Charlotte's sholders and she layed her head on my chest.

The flash just about blinded me, but when Rose showed me the photo, I had to admit it was a beautiful photo.

"Can we go now?" Charlotte ushered me out of the door, and walked towards my car, which she was supprised to see was different today. "You changed your car?" She smiled.

"Yeh, I bought it yesterday, what d'you think? too much?" I asked her.

"No, I think its nice." She smiled at the car, stroking the dark leather interior.

"Good." I nodded and set off to Port Angeles.

As we took our seats in the cinema, Charlotte sat there, munching on her popcorn and large Cola, the kid could eat almost as much as me sometimes.

The movie was a little boring, but Charlotte seemed to enjoy it, Ice Age was definately not my favorite movie of all time, but I enjoyed the theatrical exaggeration of the friendships between the wierd animals of the main herd and the humerous interactions of Scrat and some of the other characters.

Charlotte was in stiches at some of the comedy sketches done by Scrat, and she seemed to get really into the film, she was on the edge of her seat and almost crying when the characters had death defying moments.

As we left the Cinema, Charlotte was in a hyper mood, "I can't wait for our meal, where are me going?" she held my hand as I took her to the large posh diner on the edge of the coast, right on the sea front.

I walked into the extravigant hotel diner and asked for a table for two, they gave us a small table besides another couple who were older, and looked down their noses at me and Charlotte. I pulled Charlottes chair out quietly, been careful not to disturbe the peace and tranquility in the restraunt.

"It's so beautiful here." Charlotte smiled as she touched one of the lillies in the large crystal vase on our table, and fingered the far on the two large candles, she looked up and the chandelere and her mouth turned into a little 'o' shape as the kilidoscope of colours reflected in the dim room from the lighting of the crystal chandeleres.

A young waitress came and recited, "Hello Mister and Miss..." She smiled

"Clearwater," I pointed to myself and then Charlotte, "Cullen."

"Ah, yes, Mr. Clearwater and Miss Cullen, I will be your waitress tonight, what would you like to order?" She smiled at me and Charlotte, genuinly.

"Can I have spageti bolognaise with a basket of garlic bread please?" She asked the waitress.

"I'll have the stake and salad." I smiled at the waitress as she walked off to get our food.

"She was nice." Charlotte commented and then reached for a breadstick.

"Yes, she was." I smiled at Charlotte.

"Thanks for doing this Seth... It's been nice so far, I've enjoyed myself. For the first time in a while I have felt I can actually smile." She sighed and took another bite of the breadstick.

"Well, thank you for allowing me the oppertunity to take you out, I was supprised you dad agreed... and as for your mom, that had to be just about a miricle." I laughed as Charlotte grimiced.

"The adults had a talk about it the other day, about me and Ness, about the imprints. They told us we are to do as we please, it's only fair. They know it would hurt me and Ness not to see you guys, hurt me not to see you, and that's why they allow it. They allow it because they couldn't stand to see me in pain." She smiled sadly.

"Well good, because that way I can see you naytime I like." I said, reaching for her hand across the table. She let me enclose her hand in mine and stare into her eyes across the table. She was so beautiful, inside and out.

"Your parents kept calling this a date though, so they expect us to... get together?" I asked her, seriously.

"I guess, but I can't... I don't want that yet Seth. This what I feel for you is too new and fresh, and..." She trailed off unable to find the right words.

"I wasn't asking you to be with me in that way, I was just asking if your parents would accept that, if we ever did get together. I understand that Charlotte, it's only recently that I've began to see you differently." I said to her, she smiled and squeezed my hand.

"I think one day, just not yet, Seth." She smiled at me.

"Well we have forever." I grinned as the waitress trotted to out table with one lot of Spagetti bolognase and a basket of garlic bread.

Alice Cullen

I froze, another vision coming to me:

MAry and Leo sat on the bank of a stream, holding eachother, Mary was free of bandages and her skin was only reddened like she had stayed out in the sun for too long a period of time, her back was covered but the top she had on was tight lycra and I could see she had no bandages on. A small cave sat behind them, then all of a sudden something moved in the treetops, dark shadows encased the area, then figgures dressed in dark cloaks came closer to Leo and Mary, they were not the witches.

I watched as Aro took his hood down, laughing patronizingly as Leo sprung up defensively infront of Mary.

"Get away from us. I'm warning you." Leo hissed.

Aro laughed again as the rest of the guards took their hoods down, I saw Jane and Alec, Demetri and Felix, Chelsea and a few new members of the guards who were all mature vampires by the dark burgandy of their irises.

I watched as one liked his lips, staring intently at Mary.

"Peace brother, we only want to offer you a simple choice." Aro said, smiling viciously.

"What?" Leo demanded.

"Life or Death. Chose now." Aro chuckled as the vampires decended upon Leo and Mary.

I came back to the present.

"JASPER! GET CARLILSE ON THE PHONE NOW!" I yelled desperately.