Hey Dreamerwriter15 here,

This will be the last daily update since I start school again tomorrow. I will probably be able to update once or twice a week, or more if I have time. I love how this is going and don't want to stop it. I will update again as soon as I can. Please review, I am always trying to improve my writing. I love you, everyone who reads my imaginative works.

P.S. Anne is based off of me (I seriously look like her, and yes I do have the pale skin and have been called a vampire a few times), and her name comes from my all time favorite novel Persuasion by Jane Austen.

I woke up to Embry brushing my hair with my large oval shaped hairbrush. "How did you sleep?" he asked. He was still in the jeans and long sleeve shirt that he was in last night. He really didn't leave me last night, just like he had promised.

"I slept well. You know, you could have changed. I wouldn't have minded."

"I didn't want you to have another nightmare. It freaks me out when you do. You're so scared and alone, but I can't do anything to help you. "

I held my hand to his face and held it there for a minute. He did the same to me. "I'm sorry that I'm coming between you and your pack." I apologized.

"It's ok Anne."

Jake called Embry as I was in the shower and discussed the Cullens' offer to help. Embry, Tiffany, and I had unanimously agreed. As soon as we were dressed and had finished breakfast, Jake knocked on the door. "I'll get it." Embry said. He opened the door, and more than Jacob walked through.

"Hey Jake." Embry greeted happily. They did one of those man-handshakes that certainly was not a handshake.

A few of the Cullens had come with Jacob to visit, but most of them were probably still at their house. Carlisle, Jasper, Renesmee, and Rosalie sauntered through the door. "Good morning Rose." I told her as we hugged. Her hard, icy skin contrasted sharply with the warmth of mine.

"Hello Anne, we came to help."

We all walked into the dining room. Carlisle, Jasper, Rosalie, Tiffany, Embry, and I sat at the kitchen table. Since it only seated six, Jacob and Renesmee plopped down on the couch and watched a Saturday morning cartoon. I marveled at how Jacob could stand to watch that as if he were a little kid again, but Embry had told me once that another imprinted wolf, Quil, had played peek-a-boo for an hour straight because it made his imprint Claire, Sam's four year old niece, happy.

"Ok Anastasia, tell me what is going on." Carlisle ordered.

"Well, over the past few days, I've been having horrible nightmares. They're always the same. I'm alone in a dark forest, I trip, then the three vampires who killed my family start chasing me, then when they are about to catch me I fall off of a cliff. If I don't wake up then, I fall into a place full of darkness and fear." I explained.

I could imagine Carlisle taking notes, but he didn't have to with his vampire memory. "When did these start?" he asked, his medical training kicking in.

I thought for a minute. "They started a few days after I came here, and I've had them every night since."

"And how long exactly have you had them?"

"For a week. They go away when Embry is with me, but I know that the pack needs him." I answered quickly.

"Ok." Carlisle deliberated. "Anne, would you mind if Jasper, Edward and I stayed with you tonight? We need to see what is happening in your dream."

I nodded in reply. I wanted to be rid of these dreams as soon as possible and I knew that the pack desperately needed Embry.

He looked at Embry. "I'm afraid that for this to work, you can't be with her tonight."

I turned and gazed at Embry beside me. He suddenly looked like a man being burned at the stake. "I'll be ok for one night. The pack needs you." I assured him.

"Ok Anne. But if you need me, just call my name, and I'll be there."

"Thank you."

That night, the Cullens were spread about Anastasia's room. "Are you ready Anastasia?" asked Carlisle.

"Yes." She answered. Embry stood beside Anne's bed, and clearly didn't want to go. "I'll be ok Embry. Go, you need to run." She ordered playfully.

"Ok."

"Embry, come on!" Jacob yelled from outside. Embry stared at Anne. She nodded, and he leapt out the window, shifting into a large gray wolf before he hit the ground. Jacob and the rest of the Black pack phased and followed Embry into the woods beyond.

After about half an hour Anne finally fell asleep. Edward and Jasper watched her protectively. Edward watched her nightmare unfold and no sooner had she started tossing and screaming in her sleep then Jasper tensed and his eyes went wild. He was sensing the fear that surrounded her like an aura and wore her down.

Edward shuddered as he watched her dream in real time. It was just as she had told them, and they woke her up after she had fallen off of the cliff into the sea of fear. Her blue eyes were terrified when they opened. "Did you learn anything?" she asked shakily. Jasper used his power to control emotions on her and calmed her down.

"The dream is filled with fear, but not the kind that you have experienced. Something, or someone, is giving you these dreams." Jasper assessed. Renesmee had tapped into Anne's memories and scanned everything that scared her. Anne hadn't allowed her to see that she wasn't human.

"Is there anything that you can do?" she asked.

"I wonder if Bella can help." Edward mused.

"Does she have a power?"

"She has a very strong mental shield. She is so adept with it that she can shield someone and be completely separate from it." Edward explained.

"Ok, I'll try anything." Anne said.

"I'll stay tonight so you can sleep." Jasper offered.

"Thanks Jasper." She answered.

Embry, meanwhile, couldn't stop worrying about his imprint. He constantly had an ear cocked in the direction of his house in case he heard Anne call his name.

Embry, meet us at the clearing. He heard Sam say in his head. Because of the recent threat of vampires, both the Black pack and the Uely pack had merged for the time being and Jake had abdicated his authority to Sam.

Ok, I'm on my way. Embry answered as he ran faster through the forest. He had traveled along a side trail to think, but when Sam called him he felt an irresistible pull to follow Sam's order. The only thing that could possibly have steered away from the clearing was if he had heard Anne call for him. He didn't, and that made him feel a bit better as he ran to the clearing.

Not hearing her both relieved him and scared him, because he knew she was alright if she didn't call him, but he was also afraid that she was suffering through that nightmare again and was unable to. He could however hear her screams no matter how far away he was, and that caused his heart to break. He couldn't hear Anne in the physical sense as he ran through the forest miles away from her, but he heard her screams in his head.

Jake broke through Embry's personal agony. Embry, I know you're worried, I am too, but we have to keep our heads in the game.

Ok Jake. Embry answered his former Alpha as they met in the clearing with all of the other wolves. They were clearly on high alert, and Embry needed to be informed on the threat. Since he had been with Anne every night since the threat occurred, he was fairly clueless.

Sam initiatedthe meeting with all of the wolves and gave them a heads up. Since a few days after Anastasia Elliott took refuge here in La-Push we have been consistently challenged by a group of three vampires on the border of our territory. Sam brought the memory of the vampires from Paul's head, since he had been the one to get closest to the vampires before they retreated, and displayed it for every wolf to see.

Embry studied the image and soon spoke up. He knew these vampires. They look exactly like the vampires that Anne described. They are the ones who were after her.

Sam started pacing the clearing. This is much bigger than we thought. He said, then went silent.

Jake thought for a minute as he dredged up memories from Embry's mind. Anne was being chased by these vampires when she stumbled into La-push two weeks ago. As we all know, Embry has imprinted on her, and so we are required to protect her with all we have. The coven from the South wants Anne, and they seem determined to get her in any way they can.

Sam watched all of this and took it in stride. He continued pacing the clearing, the subservient wolves, Embry included, spread to the edge of it so Sam had room to think.

How is Anne? Embry heard Quil ask in his head. He had taken an instant liking to Anne, and so had Claire.

These nightmares she's been having are scaring her out of her wits, and it is driving me insane. Edward, Carlisle, and Jasper are seeing what they can do to help her. Embry explained.

We'll do whatever we can to help. Quil answered.

I know.

The vampires that kept trying to break through the border were part of a coven that both the Packs and the Cullens had been keeping an eye on for a while. There had been numerous disappearances over the past six months from all over the state and there had been no doubt in the minds of the Cullens or the Shape-Shifters what was happening to the missing people. The coven was making a new-born army.

The pack and the Cullens mutually decided not to interfere unless the coven drew too much attention or they moved north from southern Washington to the area around Forks and the reservation, then they would stand as one just as they had two summers before.

Sam finally started to plot. The double timbre of the Alpha enveloped Sam's voice as he gave the pack their orders. He hated having to use it since no one in the pack could defy him when he did. Jake could of course, but since he had given up his power temporarily, he would follow Sam's orders without question.

The coven and Anne are connected somehow. We MUST protect her. I want everyone on alert, and I don't want Anne to leave La-Push or Forks until this is resolved. Six wolves must always be on patrol. The pack nodded in unison. Embry, I want you to stay with Anne at all times. No one can do a better job of protecting her than you. Go now! Sam ordered and Embry was all too happy to comply.