A/N: Things start to get interesting now.

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Chapter 4

I sit here on my couch, looking at my emails from work. Problem is, I'm just seeing them, but not actually looking at them. I can't when my mind is elsewhere. One would think that I was so tired and so full from Thanksgiving dinner that I'd get a wonderful night's sleep next to my sexy girlfriend. I should have known better.

I dreamt in flashes of images, like an outside viewer watching a slideshow of vines and gifs. It's like the out-of-body experience and watching your life flash before your eyes, only fewer images held longer and only some of them being memories. A haunting song on a cello plays throughout.

Bella's mother, hooded in black with black wings, her arms around the little boy in front of her.

A backlit man standing in the middle of the street, his shadow casting him with wings onto the pavement.

A bloody, white rose lying on the ground in front of a freestanding door in the midst of trees.

The black wolf from before with a single crow standing by its side in the clearing.

Bella laughing. Bella's face with the look of adoration. Bella, Bella, Bella.

A crow standing on top a skull.

The music stops and Renee speaks. "If you can't save her, no one can."

I came to then. I wasn't panting or sweating and I didn't get startled into sitting up. My eyes opened on their own and automatically focused on her. Bella, still in my bed, was sound asleep, completely oblivious. With her mouth parted slightly, her head lay on one hand with the other resting beside it on the pillow. She looked so peaceful in her slumbered world. I envy it, but I refuse to take it away.

I hadn't had a different dream since the one I had at her house when I found out it was Renee talking to me. If anything, I've had the same dream a few more times. I've tried looking for any changes, but found nothing. Everything was exactly the same each time.

Bella went home for a little bit to take care of a few house things. It's Black Friday, but my family didn't make her come with to the sales. She was so very happy at that and so was I. I got to share her enough yesterday and wanted to keep her to myself a little longer. Our normal days have started up again, despite it being the day after a big holiday, and both Bella and I have to work. I'm thankful that I don't need to go in and I'm even more thankful that Bella only works six hours tonight starting at 4 o'clock. No closing shift for her, but she will on Saturday. She has agreed to stay over again tonight.

Perhaps I can get my mind off the dream and have both of us get off, too. Maybe that will give me bonerific dreams instead. I'm sure she'd be up for it.

A/N: Hmm.

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