Chapter 42: Surreal

Nessie's POV

Nobody but my father seemed to care that I was dying in the middle of the hallway. His cold arms grabbed my limp body. Behind him I could see the rest of my family. Even in my current state of mind I couldn't figure out how they had gotten here. Last I knew they were still in America.

I decided that I was just hallucinating. I was so oxygen starved that my brain was conjuring up images of my family. My dad rushed me out of the hotel. Away from prying eyes. Even as I was dying I couldn't help but wonder how my father had gotten there. Last I knew he was still in America with the rest of my family.

Maybe it was just a hallucination brought upon me by my oxygen deprived brain. That would make the most sense. It was all a hallucination. My dad wasn't really here. I was still lying on the floor in the lobby dying.

"You are not going to die Renesmee! Don't you even think about that!" my hallucination yelled at me. "You're going to be okay. You're going to be okay,"

But even as my hallucination told me that I was going to be okay I slipped into the reprieve that was unconsciousness. When I opened my eyes again there was nothing. There was no more pain. I didn't even realize that anything was wrong until I heard screaming.

My head whipped around instantly and what I saw next scared the hell out of me. I saw my own limp body in the middle of the sidewalk. My dad working furiously to revive me via CPR. It was all so surreal.

"Come on Nessie! Wake up! Wake up! Don't you dare leave me!" he yelled hysterically. Then I saw the rest of my family running toward me. Only they didn't ran right through me. Literally. My grandfather took over for my dad.

"What happened?" I heard my grandfather ask.

"I don't know," my dad cried. "I had just found her at the hotel when she suddenly collapsed. She couldn't breathe. I don't know what happened,"

My mother was in hysterics. Crying nonstop. Along with my brothers. I was having a hard time understanding what happened when suddenly a bright light appeared. The brightest, most beautiful light that I had ever seen in my life.

Realization hit me like a ton of bricks. I was dead. I had died. Instinctually I knew that I was supposed to follow the light. I turned to look back at my family. I wasn't ready to die. I wasn't ready for this to be the end of my life.

What about my family? What about Alec? What about Lucy? Oh God poor Lucy was now at the hotel by herself. I needed someone to get to her before anything happened to her. I looked back at my family and then toward the light.

"She has a lot of fluid in her lungs," Grandpa said. "I think it might be blood. I can smell it,"

"So can't we drain it?" Mom asked. Tears flowing down her face.

"Bella she doesn't have a heartbeat. Sh-she's gone," grandpa's voice cracked with emotion. My parents wailing would forever haunt me. Everyone was sobbing uncontrollably. I was numb. I couldn't be dead. I just couldn't be dead. The second I started walking toward my family the light disappeared. I didn't know what that meant. All I did know was that I was still dead. I was a ghost. My family would never know.

My mind was reeling from the sudden turn of events. I ran back to the hotel as fast as my body, my spirit, would allow me to. I had to go check up on Lucy, if anything else. I had to make sure that little girl was okay.

When I got back to the hotel she was sitting alone by the wall. Crying. I didn't know what I was going to do. I didn't know how I could help her when I was just a ghost now. "Oh Lucy I'm so sorry,"

She suddenly looked up and saw me. Her tears stopped flowing temporarily. "Nessie!" she ran right through me with her arms wide open. At first I was really confused. She looked even more confused than I was. How could she see me and hear me when no one else could?

"You're dead," she whimpered. "Just like momma and daddy," I was amazed at how this little girl could comprehend understand everything that was happening to me. "You're going to go with God to. Just like momma and daddy," she said. "When they went into the light,"

"I'm not going anywhere Lucy," the little girl's words shook me to my very core. She was gifted. Exceptionally gifted. She could see dead people. Dead people who hadn't crossed over yet. She was a necromancer. An idea suddenly hit me fast and hard. I could help her. I could bring her to my family.

"Lucy you to come with me,"

"Where?" she sounded and looked very scared.

"I'm going to take you somewhere where you will be safe,"

Nobody even noticed, or cared, that a little girl, was apparently on her own at the hotel. How could people be so clueless? I wished that Alec was at least there. He could've looked after her. Even though he had lied to me I still trusted him. He was a good person, vampire, whatever that was just tied down to the Volturi.

Alec had risked his life for me. He left behind his sister who he had never once seperated from in all the years they had been together. I wanted to tell Alec that I forgave him for lying to me. Now I never would have the chance. It was too late.

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