A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: So I'm really sorry for this short chapter. But to be honest, I can't promise the next one will be much longer. It might, but I don't know for sure. I have a lot going on right now and other things need my attention. I'm not giving up on my stories, I'm just going to shorten the chapters. I just have a lot going on right now and there are other things I really need to focus on. So I'm sorry if this upsets anyone, it's just the way it has to be. With that said on with the story:

A few more weeks passed by and everything remained the same. Only difference is Kimberly and Tommy spent a lot more time with Ashley and Susan. Nessie and Ashley had become close good friends too. Whenever Tommy and Kim would babysit her they'd invite Ashley to come along.

The four of them were currently at the park running around and having fun. Nessie was chasing Ashley, Kimberly was chasing Nessie, and Tommy was chasing Kimberly. They were all laughing.

Ashley tripped and stumbled a bit, causing her to stop running to catch her balance. Nessie caught up with her and tagged her shoulder. "Got you."

Ashley giggled and nodded.

"I saw you trip are you ok?"

"Yes. I didn't fall."

"Good."

Suddenly Nessie was lifted off the ground, making her squeal.

"Got you." Kimberly laughed. Then tickled her stomach, making her laugh. Kimberly set her down on the ground. "You ok, Ashley, I saw you trip?"

Ashley nodded. "Yes."

Tommy caught up with them and lifted Kimberly up into his arms ticking her sides and stomach, and blowing raspberries on her neck. Kimberly laughed and squirmed in his arms, then he set her down.

"Ashley, are you…"

"Yes, I'm ok. I didn't fall." Ashley laughed.

Everyone laughed with her.

"You guys ready for round two?" Kimberly asked.

The two girls nodded.

"Ok, ready, on marks, get set…. GO!"

The two kids took off running. Kimberly just watched them. Suddenly she felt a weird feeling in her stomach.

"You ok, Beautiful?"Tommy asked.

Kimberly nodded, but then groaned softly and leaned back against him. "What is it, Beautiful?" Tommy asked, stroking her hair.

The feeling in her stomach went away and she smiled. "Nothing. I'm ok."

"You sure, the last time I saw you this green was after Kat ha taken your power coin."

Kimberly nodded and smiled. "I'm fine. Come on, bet you can't catch me slow poke." She took off running giggling insanely.

Tommy laughed and shook his head. He ran after her.

It wasn't too much longer after that, that Kimberly dropped to her knees and emptied out everything in her stomach.

Nessie and Ashley heard what was going on and turned to run toward her. Tommy gained speed and ran to her and knelt down by her side. He held her hair back and rubbed her back.

"What's happening?"Nessie asked.

"Is Ms. Kimmie ok?" Ashley asked.

"She'll be ok, girls don't worry." Tommy told them.

Once Kimberly was finished, she fell back limp against Tommy as she panted. Tommy put his hand on her forehead and sighed. She was burning up and sweating, but was that just from running around in the heat?

"Your hands feel good." Kimberly mumbled.

He smiled softly and put his other hand under her hair on the back of her neck. He kissed her forehead and then lifted her up bridal style. "Come on, girls, we need to get Kimberly home." Tommy told them.

They girls nodded and followed Tommy out of the park.

They arrived home in no time. Nessie took Ashley to her room knowing the grown ups needed to be alone.

"Carlisle are you home?" Tommy called out.

"In the kitchen." He answered.

Tommy went into the kitchen carrying a still sick looking Kim.

"We need help, something is wrong with Kim."

Carlisle looked to Kim and gasped. She was almost as white as Tommy was, maybe even more so. She had dark circles under her eyes.

"What happen? He asked, rushing over to her.

"We were just at the park running around having fun and she got sick."

"It's possible it's just heat exhaustion, or she is dehydrated. Let's take her upstairs to her room and cool her down and get her stomach to drink."

Tommy nodded and in a flash was up in his room. He laid Kimberly down on the bed. He sat by her side and stroked her hair.

Carlisle came up a few minutes later with crackers and Ginger Ale. "This stuff is easy on the stomach."

Tommy took some and gave one to Kimberly. She took a few bites of a cracker than a few sips of the Ginger Ale. Suddenly she whimpered and lost the contents of her stomach all over again. Tommy sighed and rubbed her back. He looked to Carlisle helpless.

Carlisle suddenly got this look in his eyes that said he had another idea. But he didn't look happy. "I've got another idea, if this is what I think it is, this will be the only thing to help her." He left in a flash leaving Kimberly and Tommy confused.

He returned a few minutes later with a white foam cup. Tommy could smell it and knew what it was.

"She'll never drink that Carlisle." Tommy said. "It's from a human."

"I know it's not ideal, but it might be the only choice we have. "

"No." Kimberly whimpered. "No humans, no!"

"Just take a sip. Just one sip is all I ask." Carlisle said.

"No!" Kimberly cried. She rolled onto her stomach and buried her face in Tommy's lap. "No, no, no, no, no." To be honest, she was hungry and her throat was on fire, but she was never going to drink human blood again.

In a flash, Tommy was gone, and in another flash he was back with a bottle filled with animal blood from their secret stash. "Here, Beautiful." He cooed gently. "Animal blood." Kimberly took it without question and drank the entire bottle.

"See, no need for the human stuff. All better." Tommy told her gently.

Seconds later, Kimberly was throwing up again, only this time she threw up the animal blood. "Tommy." She whimpered.

"Shhh, it's ok, Beautiful. I'm right here." He rubbed her back and looked to Carlisle. "What's going on?"

Carlisle opened his mouth to speak, but was cut off by Kimberly. "Ow!" she cried out. She wrapped her arms around her stomach. "Ow! It hurts." She said as tears filled her eyes. "Ow, ow, it hurts, Tommy!"

"It's ok, Angel, It's ok. I'm right here." Tommy said, holding her close in his arms.

"Tommy, have you and Kimberly been sexually active at all?"

Tommy nodded as Kimberly blushed and hid her face in his chest.

"Oh no." Carlisle sighed. "This is what I was afraid of."

"What is it?" Tommy asked. "What's wrong with Kimberly?"

Carlisle ignored him."Kimberly I know you are 100% against this, but I need you to drink this blood."

"NO!" Kimberly screamed on top of her long. "Go away! Get away!" she screamed.

"Kimberly, Honey, this is safe human blood to drink. You can have as much as you want and nobody gets hurt."Carlisle said.

"No!" Kimberly screamed again.

"Carlisle why are you pushing this, it makes everything worse." Tommy said.

"I'm sorry, Tommy. I wouldn't normally do this, but I've seen this sickness before in our kind and it's not pretty. The only way to control it so it doesn't et worse is to drink human blood. Tommy I need you to trust him. Drinking this human blood is the only thing to keep Kimberly alive."

"She's dying? Tommy choked out.

"Please help me, Tommy. You need to get her to drink this."

Tommy sighed and squeezed his eyes shut. He knew what would help, but it wasn't going to be easy. He looked to Carlisle and nodded. "Bring me a second cup, then give us some time alone."

Carlisle did as he asked and soon Tommy was holding two cups in his hand. Kimberly was in front of him, crying and shaking.

"I know, Baby, I know. I know this is scary and you don't want to, but I'm going to do it with you. We will take it one sip at a time. We will do this together, as husband and wife should."

"No." she whimpered. "I can't, Tommy."

"Yes, you can. I have faith in you. "

He handed her one of the cups. She took it and looked at him in fear."OK, on the count of three we take a sip. 1…2..3!"

Both Kimberly and Tommy took a large sip from their cups and pulled them. Tommy was happy to see some of the color return o Kimberly's face. He just hated hat he was still so upset by this.

"Good girl." he cooed, "Good girl, let's do this again ok, ready, 1…2…3!"

Again, they took a large sip and pulled the cup away. With each sip Kimberly got more color back in her face, but her eyes also became more red her face became tear stained. It broke his heart, but this had to be done.

"One more, Beautiful, just one more sip and we just stop ok. Ready, 1…2…3!"

They both took another large sip of blood and pulled back with their cups empty. Kimberly saw her empty cup and just cried harder.

"Oh, Baby, Sweetie, No, please don't cry. That's good. This is going to make you all better." He told her.

"I just killed someone! I'm a monster."

"Nobody was killed. Carlisle wouldn't give it to us if it wasn't safe."

"Why did you make me do that?" she cried.

"Oh my Sweet, Precious, Angel, this is going to make you all better, that's why. If it wasn't going to help you I wouldn't have made you do it."

"I'm never doing that again. I hated it, Tommy! I hated it." Kimberly cried.

Tommy sighed and hugged her to his chest. She cried into him making him feel even worse. He knew this wasn't going to be the last cup of human blood she had to drink, he just hoped she would do it with less tears next time around. But he was also scared to death, what was wrong with Kimberly?

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