- Miracles Happen -

*Prologue*

Wherever You Are

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This story takes off with the current Rafe & Alison storyline, except for the fact that I go back in time a little bit, before Paige, Amy and Casey even arrived in Port Charles. Rafe finally completed his task at putting all the "meant to be" couples back together, and as much as he didn't want to leave Alison, he was sent back to heaven in his role as her guardian angel. Back on earth, Jamal and Alison are still having troubles within their relationship (i.e. Jamal's involvment with Valarie, and Alison's growing feelings for Rafe). Alison thinks, er, believes she loves Jamal with all of her heart, but she finds herself continusly doubting her feelings for her "true love". It's not because she doesn't really love Jamal, because, in fact, she does... but no matter how hard she tries to forget about everything that happened with Rafe, she finds herself falling deeply in love with him. Also, the time period goes up a few months.. so, Rafe would've spent a few months in heaven before coming back, and Alison.. she has spent the last few months of her life living with Jack and Livvie; without Jamal.

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"Those beautiful blue eyes.. long, golden blonde hair.. her deep, pink lucious lips.. mmmm." he murmured in somewhat of a trance. Snapping out of his trance-like state, Rafe's eyes grew wide at his own words, "Why can't I, just for ONCE, get her off of my mind?" was the question Rafe asked himself repeatedly. He let out a groan of disappointment, "Stop this, Rafe.. just stop it! You can forget about her, it's not that hard.. really. Just keep yourself, ...busy, yes.. busy."

Moments of silence passed on in Rafe's room before his head shot up in realization of what he really wanted. Over the last few months since he was sent back to heaven after Christmas Eve; all Rafe could think about as he watched down on Alison, was what possibly could've possessed Jamal to hurt her the way that he had.. and how she was even able to live through the pain on her own. She had begun taking pills.. anti-depressants, and she barely talked to anyone anymore. Of course, she lived with Jack and Livvie.. but she rarely, if ever, said a thing to them.. she refused to talk to anyone about her problems.. probably because of the pain the memories brought back to her.

The more Rafe thought about it, the more he wondered why he didn't make a point to go back down to earth and help Alison through her time of need. In fact, it was all he really wanted, ..was to be with Alison. To hold her, ..to give to her what she gave to him.. love. As he thought about it more, he had came to realize that the love he felt for Alison wasn't only friendship, it was that of a greater power.. the need, the want.. the desire to be with her, he had to have it.. and he'd give absolutely anything to have it!



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For almost more than two and a half months now, Alison had been staying with her best friends, Jack Ramsey and Livvie Locke. Ever since Christmas Eve, since Rafe left.. everything went from bad to worse.. Alison did exactly what Rafe suggested, she went to Chicago to be with Jamal during his dilemma of signing away his rights to his daughter.. but once she got to Chicago, nothing went as planned. First, she was mugged and beaten up pretty badly, thus ending up in the hospital.. and no matter how hard she tried to get a hold of Jamal, he wouldn't take her messages. After her release, she made a visit to the hotel in which Jamal and Valerie were staying, and once there.. she was delivered a hard blow when she found Jamal in Valerie's bed, with her in it as well.

That was the ultimate breaking point for Alison.. just seeing Jamal and Valerie in bed together, it broke her heart, in more ways than one. From there, she took a bus home, and before she realized all that she had seen, she was on Jack and Livvie's doorstep.. in tears. Since then, she's been staying with her best friends.. refusing to talk, or even see Jamal. Not letting him, for one second, explain his actions, or even why he was with Valerie in the first place. Heartbroken, and more alone than ever.. Alison never felt that she need Rafe more than she did at that very moment.

It was eight o'clock in the afternoon. Alison was in her room, laying on her perfectly made bed with a pillow hugged to her chest. Letting the tears run freely. Since Christmas, she had slipped into a deep depression.. she barely, if ever, talked to anybody anymore. She'd wake up at late hours of the night, sit in her bed, and just think about.. her life. How it was, how it had come to be... how it would've been. These days, that was all she ever did.. was think. She'd lay in bed most of the day and analyze the facts.. from Jamal's reasons for being with Valerie, to her unrequited feelings for Rafe. Often, she'd plague her mind with unlimited thoughts.. "Do I love Jamal? Does he even love me? Why can't I stop thinking about Rafe? I wonder what he's doing up in heaven? Is he watching down on me?"

Alison brushed a piece of her hair behind her ear, as she rolled over on her back and looked up at the ceiling. Slowly wipping the wet tears away from her face, she whispered, "I need you now more than ever, Rafe." with that, she cried herself to sleep.. as it was the previous nights since Rafe disappeared from her life.



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