I was in the small clearing in the meadow with Edward and the sun was playing with his skin, throwing rainbows every where, he had his arms around me and I was leaning into him.

I could hear the sweet melody of my lullaby coming from somewhere, but I didn't know where. All of a sudden he let me go, I was forced to my feet and pulled into a tight embrace.

That's when I heard it loud cracking and crunching sounds coming from the trees in the distance.

Edward stiffened.

"Emmett no!" he shouted, I instantly know something bad had happened.

"Go help him." I said pushing him away from me. "I'll stay here, I wont move, I promise."

He looked at me with reluctance in his eyes, he and I both knew they needed him there for what ever reason, and I wasn't going to make him stay when the rest of the family needed him.

"I'll be back as soon as I can, be safe please." he pleaded as he took my face in his hands and kissed me swiftly before vanishing in to the trees in a flash.

I was left on my own standing in the middle of the small circular clearing.

Moments later I heard a scream both male and female then the sound stopped suddenly with a loud snapping.

The trees moved in the wind and a shadowy figure walked towards me. I saw the figure hunch as he walked something hanging in his hand.

As the figure moved closer I could begin to see what or who it was. The same man from my dreams and my window, the same man at school. He was walking to wards me with a sick twisted smile on his face.

"Edward!" I screamed out. The man just smiled wider. "Emmett! Help!" I was screaming louder then I had ever screamed before, but still no one came. I was alone to deal with this. How could this happen?

I looked to the man, his sadistic smile making me dizzy, that's when I noticed it, the thing hanging from his hand was not just a thing, it was a head. Edwards head.

I woke up screaming my blood curdling scream, my eyes watering madly that I couldn't see a thing, my whole body shook with vicious tremors.

I heard my door burst open making me jump. I was engulfed in overly large arms and rocked back and forth. "Shhh, it's okay your safe." I heard Emmett's soft voice trying to sooth me. It didn't work, I was safe but that wasn't what I was scared for or upset about. I cried harder, shaking aggressively.

"Is she all right?" I heard Charlie ask worry evident in his voice.

"She had a nightmare." Emmett replied tightening his hold on me, I sobbed harder and clung to him, I knew I was being silly for crying this much but I was petrified, he was getting me in my sleep one way or another he will get me, I knew this and yet I didn't want to face up to the fact.

"Is there anything I should do?" poor Charlie he had no idea how the handle this, how to react, what to do. He had never seen how I am when I have a bad dream, they are so real it's like reality.

"There's nothing anyone can do, she just needs to calm down, you go back to bed dad I can stay with her."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I used to do it all the time." this was so true, every time I had a bad dream I would end up being comforted but him and it would help, but this time it didn't. Something was different I was still petrified, even surrounded by his huge arms where nothing could get me. He was always so gentle and yet so strong even with his vampire strength.

After forty-five minutes, my sobbing was still aggressive and showing no sign of calming down, Emmett began to get worried, I could feel it in his cold hard arms, I was still shaking violently and gripping so tightly to his chest it would have hurt a normal person, he could feel that but I couldn't hurt him, no chance, he was like a rock, like marble, like a diamond.

He lent over and pulled something from the bedside table, a second later I heard a low mumbling voice but I couldn't catch most of it, just the bits be didn't say in his low fast voice to low and fast or human ears.

"... no... it's been... what to do." Poor Emmett he was running low on idea's, I felt guilty but I was still petrified, "Rose I need help, she wont calm down... will that help, okay send him round the windows open." I felt Emmett shift around me, and then hold me tighter to him.

I was sat on his lap, my legs twisted away from my body and over his, my torso was pressed tightly to his, clinging for dear life. I shivered amongst the shakes in my body, he was cold making me cold as I hung to him.

Moments later I heard the low mummers again and then I was passed to a different pair of arms, I recognised them instantly, they were Edwards. Feeling him close his arms around me rocking me back and forth I started to quieten down.

He was safe and alive, he was still with me. He brushed my hair away from my face and held my head under his chin.

He shifted to make a better position for me, he could sit in the most uncomfortable position for hours and not feel a thing, but humans were different. He crossed his legs under him and pulled me to sit in the dip in the centre of them.

I heard my lullaby being hummed to me, calming me further. No matter how many times I heard the tune I never got board of it or got tired of listening to it.

It didn't take him long to calm me down, I stopped sobbing and sniffled every now and then. The shaking didn't stop.

I felt my covers being wrapped around me warming me against Edwards cold body.

"Thanks Em" I heard him say, thanking him for the covers.

"No thank you... I've never seen her like this." Emmett said with obvious worry in his voice.

Edward held me tighter and I hear his chest rumble ever so softly as he talked to Emmett keeping me from hearing. I had tired my self out and now I was feeling the exhaustion pull at me. My eyes closed and I drifted into an over tiredness sleep.

Only a few hours did I manage to stay asleep, even through the exchange of me between Edward and Emmett as Charlie woke up and came to check on me, and having Emmett tell him he should go fishing, that he would be fine looking after me, and there was nothing he could really do anyway. Not to mention that I would most likely be embarrassed about it, he left he would be worried all day about me, and I felt guilty.

I woke feeling awful, my head ached and and my body throbbed with the strain it was under trying to cling to someone harder then a rock.

I opened my eyes and raised my hand to rub the sleep and dried tears away. I was back in Edwards arms by this point and he held me so tenderly.

"How are you feeling?" he asked in his angelic voice.

"Better." my voice was husk and rough, I cleared my throat held onto him breathing in his sweet scent.

He rubbed my back soothingly as I lay my head on his shoulder. "Why don't you take a shower and heave some breakfast." Edward said softly. I nodded knowing that would be the best way.

He carried me to the bathroom and left me. He was stood outside the room in case I needed anything or if he should have to do something, but he hummed my lullaby once more helping me relax as the hot water ran over my tense body.

Once I was done I brushed my teeth and looked at myself in the mirror. My eyes were still red and puffy, I splashed cold water on my face till they went down and looked almost normal before leaving the room.

Edward wrapped his arm around me and pulled me to his chest, hugging me to him. He loosened his grip with out letting go and walked with me to the kitchen. Emmett was frying eggs, I couldn't see his face but his shoulders were tense and hunched, he was angry and upset.

"Morning Little one." he said turning with a plate full of scrambled eggs. I wasn't really hungry but he had made them for me so I sat down and slowly began to eat it.

They were talking fast to each other again, I didn't look up, I didn't want to know. I focused on trying to eat, every so often I would look out the window. No one would be there if there was Edward and Emmett would know.

I looked to Edward, seeing him looking at my brother their mouths moving fast as they talked at their speed, getting all the information that they knew.

I felt someone brush my hair from behind me. I jumped and let out a small scream knocking my plate to the floor as I stood, the chair clattered to the floor and I gasped for breath and clung to the arm that wound around me keeping me from falling.

"Bella it's me... I'm so sorry." Rosalie's stunned voice said, I looked up at her with wide eyes, loosening my grip on Edwards arm I began to control my breathing. His hand gently gripping my shoulder and his arm across my chest, his other arm around my waist holding me to him almost like restraining me gently.

"Bella I'm so so sorry." she said, her beautiful face saddening with guilt.

"It's fine... I... I was just... shocked." I forced myself to say.

Edward sat me down in another seat as Emmett and Rose began to clean up the mess I had made. It wouldn't have taken them that long but they moved with human speed, I felt like they did this not to scare me.

Edward stood behind me, his fingertips tracing my neck and brushing my hair back away from my face, trying to calm me yet again.

"Was it the same dream?" Rose said in a soft voice as she knelt down in front of me taking my hands into her cold ones.

I shook my head I felt Edward stiffen behind me, he had just heard the first story of the dreams in her mind, his fingertips stopped their comforting trace on my neck, Emmett stood statue still looking at me. I didn't look up from Roses face.

"What happened?" she asked, her eyes showed she didn't want to know for my sake, she didn't want me to relive it, but it was important.

"I was in the meadow with Edward," I began, taking a deep breath I prepared my self to block the images and just tell it mindlessly. "We heard screams and loud snapping." I saw them all cringe slightly as I said it. "Edward went to see what it was... I thought it was him that was returning, but it wasn't... the other one stepped out... I shouted for help but no one came... he was carrying Edward's head." I finished with a whisper unable to keep the volume.

They froze instantly looking at Edward behind me, I didn't want to see his face, I couldn't bring myself to. After a few minuets I felt his fingers move once again, they curled around my chin pulling it gently to look at him.

His eyes full of emotion, "I will never leave you... never." he promised.

"No one will leave you, little one... I swear." Emmett said in a soft voice.

I knew that but what about when I sleep, my dreams aren't protected, I will be alone in them. One way or another I will be left alone in them. Sleep is a dangerous place for me, they will always find me there.

"Alice is here." Edward said, brushing my hair off my face. His eyes still on mine trying to remove all traces of doubt left in them.

I tried to cover my inner feelings and not worry him. He wasn't fooled but he didn't voice it.

Alice walked in and smiled her brilliant smile at me, I noticed how it didn't touch her eyes, they were sad and guilty. I couldn't understand why, why should they feel guilty.

"Carlisle's on his way, he left the hospital a few minuets ago." she said still looking at me, once again Edward stiffened.

"Why?"

"He wants to check you out."

"Why?" what was going on?

"Esme told him about the night you dreamed you were being strangled and you actually stopped breathing, and he wants to see if you dreams might be something else." she said, her brow pulling down further.

"Something else?" I asked looking at her begging her to explain to me.

"He will explain in more detail when he gets here but, well, he thinks that because it's the same vampire that keeps popping up in your dreams, from what you've told us, he thinks the no mad might have the ability to control dreams."

my mouth opened, I thought of something like that, is it possible that I was right. "And if it is?"

"We need to find a way of stopping it." she said, "And we will."

+V+

When Carlisle arrived he looked calm but his eyes like everyone else were worried. I couldn't believe that I could possible heave been right in saying he can get me in my dreams and there is no one there to help me.

He asked many question on how I felt in these dreams, what it looked like, what happened, what it felt like.

Once I told him the no mad didn't touch me, he was happy that no harm had come to me this time around, but he was still unhappy at the idea that there was a no mad out there that wasn't 'vegetarian', wanted me and could control or be in the dreams of it's victim.

"When you sleep it puts down your defences, your mind isn't secure enough in sleep to keep him out." he said after all the questions.

"But how come Edward can't hear me then when I'm asleep?" I asked, unless it was just Edward that I was immune to.

"I cannot say, I will do some research on the matter, but I suggest that someone stay with you as you sleep and wake her if she starts to act differently." he stood to leave he took my hand and smiled a reassuring smile at me, "We wont let anything happen to you."

I smiled back, he left and I couldn't help but notice that every one said that, 'we wont let anything happen to you' or something along them lines. Something was going on, and they weren't telling me.

I let it drop though, they will tell me in their own time.

Jasper arrived bringing more calm with him, I really appreciated it, but felt bad that I had failed to keep myself calm and let him do the work. Who knows what he was feeling with everyone else in the room as well.

+V+

The day went by so slowly, we stayed in the house all day, Rose took Emmett out just after lunch, they returned not long after with a large tub of vanilla ice cream, I smiled and accepted it after a warning from Emmett, 'I will tie you to a chair and force feed it to you, and you will enjoy it.'

This lightened the mood, I ate it willingly, and shivered with the coldness of the desert and the coldness of Edward's body wrapped around me. He pulled the throw off the back of the sofa and wrapped it around me trying to keep me warm.

We watched movies and I ended up falling asleep in his arms.

+V+

I was woken up a few hours later with a soft kiss on the corner of my mouth. When I opened my eyes he smiled at me. His angelic face lighting the darkness in my body. His eyes tender and affectionate.

"Dinner love." he whispered to me as he brushed his nose up mine. I smiled back letting all the love I had for him show in my face. He lifted me slowly of his lap and into his chest and carried me to the kitchen where I saw Emmett and Rose fussing over how much food was to go on it.

"Emmett she's not a pig... like you were." I laughed as I watched them, so much like a married couple.

Edward sat close to me his hand still wrapped around my waist, his thumb brushing up and down my side. Alice and Jasper left whilst I was asleep most likely to tell Esme, Carlisle had returned to the hospital after seeing me.

I ate my dinner listening to Emmett and Rosalie bicker about everything, I had a feeling they were only doing it to amuse me and keep my mind of the things that had happened today. I was grateful for this. After I had finished my plate was taken away and washed quickly moving at their speed once they were sure I was all right and wouldn't get scared.

We sat in front of the telly again for the rest of the night. Charlie walked through the front door and shouted his greetings in a hesitant way.

He entered the front room, he looked around and he seemed to relax once he saw all of us, Rose sat in Emmett's lap, Alice sat next to me holding Jaspers hand and me sat with Edwards arm around me.

"All right kids?" he said as he made his way into the kitchen.

"Dinners in the oven dad." Emmett called out to him with out taking is eyes of the telly.

"Thanks Em."

"We should be heading back now." Edward said loud enough for Charlie to hear, instantly I gripped his hand. I didn't want him to go. He made me feel safe hole. "I will be in your room, don't worry." he whispered in my ear.

I sighed and let go of his hand he kissed the top of my head and made to stand. I stood with him as Alice and Jasper got up.

"See you later Kids." Charlie said standing in the door way holding his plate in one hand and the fork in the other.

"Bye Charlie... night Bella." Alice said hugging me and giving me an encouraging look, Jasper just smiled and messed my hair with his hand. Rose kissed Charlie and then hugged me tightly.

"Night Bella." she whispered in my ear.

Edward turned to me at the front door and hugged me, "I'll be up stairs." with that he kissed my cheek tenderly, no doubt Charlie was watching and thinking something that Edward didn't want to go against.

I watched him walk to his car and jump in the front with Alice, they drove away with a quick wave, keeping up the pretence. Rosalie and Jasper next in her red convertible.

I closed the door and walked back to the front room, Charlie eyed me and smiled. I returned it and sat back down.

"So anything interesting happen today?" he asked.

"Na we just sat, did home work and watch some TV." Emmett shrugged, "You?"

"They were biting today, lot of them in the freezer... were going to be sick of fish soon." he chuckled making Emmett laugh his booming laugh and me to smile widely.

"I'm going to bed, night." I said getting back up and making my way to the stairs.

"Bit early it's only nine o'clock." Charlie said.

"School tomorrow, and I'm really tired." which was true, but I wanted to see Edward.

"All right Bells, good night." I kissed him on the cheek and patted Emmett's head on the way out.

I made my way slowly up the stairs trying to show I was tired so Charlie wouldn't check on me during the night.

Closing my door behind me I turned to see Edward sat casually on my bed smiling a soft smile at me, "Just give me a human minuet." I said grabbing my pyjama sweat pants and vest top from the rocking chair I had left them on.

Rushing to the bathroom I quickly got changed and rushed back to my room, he wrapped his arms around me as soon as the door was closed, and carried me back to the bed were he laid me down and tucked the covers around me before laying next to me.

Before I could say anything he started to hum my lullaby, trying to get me to sleep, so my body could rest and be ready for the next day, his arm around me I turned my head searching. He chucked and leant down pressing his glass smooth lips to mine.

He deepened the kiss slightly before pulling away and return to humming my lullaby. I was asleep in minutes wrapped in his arms and angelic voice.