By The Spill Canvas. I love this song.


All Over You

JPOV

I could see the horror in her eyes, she was freaking out. "What's going on?"

"I don't know, but I don't like the sound of it. I'm worried. Because back at the beach when I told you I thought I heard something it was true I felt someone's presence but I couldn't smell them. I could feel I wasn't alone."

"Who do you think it is?" I asked.

"I don't know. They should all be dead by now." We pulled up to the familiar white house. I stepped out with Elizabeth and Lacey took Jason out.

"We'll figure it out, I promise." Naturally the door was already open when we came up. Edward came up and took Elizabeth. He took her upstairs and returned.

"What happened?" he asked.

"I don't know." She whispered. She was probably showing Edward everything.

"That's odd."

"It's more than odd. They're supposed to be dead. Not haunting me."

"Let me see the paper." Lace went out and came back in seconds. He looked at the paper. "Look, it says your name."

"Where?"

"At the end it says 'in memory of: Lacey Stevens, Ryan Washington and Rafe McCarthy."

"Rafe." She said thoughtful.

"Who's Rafe?" I asked.

"He was a guy in high school. He disappeared at the beginning of senior year."

"Just a guy, nothing more?" I asked.

"Just a guy." She looked out to the glass wall.

I couldn't help but be jealous, what she said got the best of me. There seemed to be something she didn't want to tell me about him "Hmm."

I could tell she saw the look on my face, she quickly changed the subject. "Edward did you know that Lizzy is starting to develop her abilities."

"No …… That was today right." He said referring to her memory.

"Yeah it was odd, she heard the heartbeat before I did. And then the wind thing."

"It was bound to happen. According to Carlisle she will stop aging in a few years when she's about the age of 22. He did this extensive research. He did mention my 'genes' would start kicking in soon enough." He explained. "But I wonder if she's gifted."

"It wouldn't come as a surprise, both of you are gifted."

My mind took a path of its own. I still wondered about Rafe. Was it really him who'd left that box before? I couldn't let it go, I needed to know. What got me was the note, it wasn't threatening at all, it was …. loving. I would've preferred threatening.

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The next morning I was awakened by Lacey. She jumped beside me. She got out of bed. I looked out the window, it wasn't even morning.

"What happened?"

"Someone was here."

"Who is it?"

She shrugged. "I don't know."

"Who stops by at 3am?" I yawned.

"I don't know." she answered again, like she wasn't quite there.

"Well …. Let me go see who it is."

"They left." She said as I grabbed my shirt.

"Lacey baby what's going on, do you know who it was?"

"No I don't know."

"You didn't catch their scent?"

"There was not scent just a knock, I know someone was there but they knocked and left."

Something was definitely not right. I put my shirt on and went out through the living room and to the front door. I opened it up and I saw a lavender envelope taped to the door. I took it and went back to the room where she waited for me.

Again the envelope read to my Lacey. I gave it to her. "You've got mail." I muttered. This was starting to get to me, not that it wasn't already. She pulled out a card. "What's it say?"

"Clearing south of Forks at dawn. Meet you there." She read.

"You're not going."

"I need to know."

"I'm coming with you."

"Okay."

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We ran to the familiar clearing. I told Rebecca to take care of Jason.

The sky was starting to redden. And the sun was starting to rise.

We stood dead center of the clearing. She clung on to me. My chin above her head. I could tell she was scared.

I heard someone clear their throat. I instantly put her behind me and turned to where I heard the sound. It was definitely odd that I couldn't smell anything at all.

Before us was a man about the same age as me. Clearly a vampire. His eyes were a fiery red and he was pale skinned.

He smiled in my direction. Obviously it was directed to Lace. I felt a growl erupt from my chest. His sick smile widened.

"Believe me I mean no harm." He assured us.

"That's hard to believe." I replied. He came closer, he veered over to Lacey. I put myself in his path.

"Lacey sweetie, don't act like you don't know me." He spoke genuinely not mockingly like I would've expected. I didn't like the way he looked at her, the way he spoke to her.

"Rafe." She whispered behind me.

"I knew I wasn't that easily forgotten."

She breathing started to climb. She sounded like she was hyperventilating. Though I'm sure she didn't need the oxygen.

I turned to her. I took her in my arms and she started to sob. "No no no. Why?" she kept mumbling.

"Hey it's okay calm down." I looked over at him he seemed to have wanted to come over and comforted her himself.

After a short while she pulled away. "Why are you here?"

"I never forgot you. I looked for you."

"What?"

"Who do you think threatened that punk Ryan? I did. I looked for you but you disappeared."

"What happened to you, I mean why are you ….. that?"

He shrugged. "Things happen. I went to Chicago and came across some nomads, 3 of them. The leader stopped the other 2 from killing me because he thought I held a gift."

"Do you?"

"I guess. I kind of have the ability to mask myself. Like invisibility but not the way you'd think. I can hide my scent and blend in. It's not really all interesting it was convenient when I searched for you.….. What happened to you?"

"Ryan. He happened. But you changed him right. He said it was someone who looked for me."

"Ryan, that bastard's still alive?"

"Not anymore." She replied.

"I didn't change him the leader of that 'coven' did. I told him to act like he was the one who searched for him. I have to say he took it a little farther than I expected, I never asked him to kill Ryan's family. I guess he earned him place in hell."

"Rafe what do you want?"

"You of course." I couldn't help but growl.

LPOV

"Guard dog?" he asked with a hint of humor

"Shut up!"

"What is he then?"

"My boyfriend, my fiancé."

"You're serious."

"Why would I be kidding?"

"Can we talk alone?" he asked approaching me again. "Please."

Jacob held on to my waist, he wasn't letting go anytime soon. "I'll be okay I swear." I assured him. He hesitated but let go.

I walked over to Rafe. He walked over to the far side of the clearing. "Who is he?" he demanded.

"I already told you."

"You traded me for him?"

I scoffed. "Hardly. You disappeared. It's been over 50 years. I didn't even know you were alive."

"Regardless I never stopped loving you, even after all that time. I never forgot you." His hand reached up to stroke my cheek.

"Stop."

He let his hand drop. "You're going to marry him. You can't be serious he's our born enemy."

"He may be you enemy, but not mine. Stay away from him."

"Or what, you're going to kill me." He taunted.

I wasn't exactly sure if I would, I remember us being real close in high school, he became my boyfriends. He knew everything about me. He helped me through my issues with everything. I don't think I could bring myself to ….kill him. But I can't take my chances. "How do you think Ryan died." He raised his brow.

"So you've killed for him, sweet. But really all jokes, all threats aside what's left of us?"

Us. It took me back to 1946 when we first met. I remembered how attracted I was to him. But that took me back 4 years from today when I first laid eyes on Jacob. The first time his lips touched mine. The first time I felt his warmth. Those memories were engraved in my memory. They were so livid compared to the memories of Rafe. Maybe it was because with Rafe they were human memories or maybe it's because he's not the one.

"Lace." He pressed.

"I don't know what's left of us. Is there anything left after all this time. Can there be?"

He face look torn. "Answer me this. And when you do this will all be over. Who do you love who have you loved all this time? Is it him or is it me?

For me I can honestly say it's been you from day one. I stuck around with you. I never left you not even when you had the worst of problems with your father with your sister. Did that mean anything to you? It did to me. No matter how many guys you were with before me, I knew the true reason why you did it, I gave you all that love and security you craved I can still give you that. Let me.


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