new chapter! yay! im really excited about the rest of the story and since im on spring break, well chapters are flying out of my head. i dont own anything. i hope you like it!

Sharp intense pain shot through Allie's torso. Running wasn't exactly the best thing to do when you had three broken ribs but she didn't care. This pain was comforting. The hole she felt in her heart was another story. Cedric. Was. Dead.

No, she couldn't believe it, she wouldn't. Allie kept running, she didn't have a destination in mind but she would know when she got there. She ran on, not planning to stop anytime soon. She was moving on autopilot. Lost in her memories of Cedric and lost in few memories she had of her parents. Cedric had joined the ranks of her dead parents, he was just memories now. Allie's feet led her into the Forbidden Forest. She kept going further and further into the deep vegetation. She broke through a clearing and realized where she was. She had followed the sounds of the Thestrals. Their skeleton like bodies only made the tears that had built up behind eyes flow.

Allie had an on going flirtation with death, but now things were getting personal. Dropping to the forest floor she put her head between her knees and sobbed. I'll always be there for you. 's words flooded into her brain. She pounded the ground, hoping the sound of his voice would float away from her and never dare to come back.

She counted, trying to relax herself. She could feel the vampire in her gnawing to be released and she couldn't let it happen.

One...

Two...

Three...

Allie didn't even make it to four. Unconsciousness took over as her eyes fluttered closed and she fell into a deep sleep.

~*~

"Allie, honey. Open your eyes." A sweet female voice floated through the air. Allie didn't want to open her eyes, she didn't want to obey. If she did the pain would come back. She was safe in sleep. A gentle hand stroked her hair. She felt cold finger tips touch her temple, it was strange feeling. Jake's hands were way too warm to ever be that cold, even in the lowest of temperatures. Harry's hands couldn't be that cold either, these hands were like ice, maybe colder.

"Allie." A velvety smooth voice called to her. This one was different than the first. It sounded familiar to her but she hadn't heard it in years, possible ever, it might have been only in her dreams that this voice came to her. "Please open your eyes." Allie slowly opened her eye lids. The two most beautiful people she had ever seen in her life were kneeling next to her. The woman had dark brown hair and the man's was the color of bronze. Both of them had a set of golden brown eyes and pale porcelain-like skin . Allie snapped her eyes closed and open them again. The figures were still there.

"Mom? Dad?" She smiled. The two nodded their heads gracefully. Allie looked around her, she was sitting in an exact replica of the meadow that Jacob had showed her back in Forks that had once been her father's 'place'. She returned her gaze to her parents. "Am I... dead?" She asked skeptically

"No, sweetie." Her mother answered. Allie just stared at them with guarded eyes.

"Are you alive?" She questioned. She already knew that answer but maybe, just maybe she was wrong.

Edward shook his head. "I'm afraid not." Allie looked at them, shock written all over her face.

"Then I must have finally lost it." Allie breathed out. She rubbed the back of her head, she did not wince in pain when her fingers brushed the place where her injury was supposed to be.

Edward and Bella both let out musical laughs. "You're dreaming, Allie," her father answered. Allie nodded her head solemnly. At least she wasn't crazy.

Bella swept her up in a hug. Allie assumed that she wouldn't be able to feel her mother's arms around her but she found she could. Since she was a vampire, Allie remembered every event that happened to her in her life, but she chose to block out most of them. The memories of the first few months of her life broke down the wall she had formed around that part of her memory and took over her mind. Everything came back to her.

She remembered her mother reading to her and her dad playing the piano while singing her lullabies. She remembered the small cottage they had lived in right behind the Cullen's house and her quaint room. A smile appeared across her face, she had memories of her family. From her Uncle Emmett trying to teach her how to throw a ball when she was only three months old to her Grandpa Carlisle explaining that humans were friends, not food.

Allie returned the embrace her mother was giving her. She felt Edward engulf them both in his arms to join in the hug. They stayed like that for a while before Allie let go. "What are you doing in my dream?" She asked as she wiped away tears from her eyes. Her parents looked at each other before looking back to Allie.

"Because you needed us." Bella stated simply. She gave Allie a gorgeous smile, the woman was breathtaking. Allie's smile faded as Cedric's death came back to her. She looked to her dad and saw some of the similar features that she envied in Cedric.

"It was my fault." She whispered. "He's dead because of me." Tears began to flow down her cheeks once more. She didn't have to explain who she was talking about. They knew already, that's why they were here.

Edward's face was so gentle it almost looked more like flesh than the usual marble like skin of a vampire. "Don't say that." He told her. He scouted over to sit next to her and placed his arm around her shoulders. Allie couldn't help but cry into his shirt. Bella came up close in front of her and placed a comforting motherly hand on her knee. "You couldn't have stopped it."

"Yes, I could have! If I wasn't there... if I didn't go into that maze...." She couldn't finish the sentence.

"It was his time, you couldn't control that." Bella soothed. Allie shook her head.

"And what about you guys? Huh? You're saying that it wasn't my fault that you died? That it was your time to die even when you were immortal? If I wasn't there you could have fought with Dumbledore and then Voldemort would never-"

"Stop right there, young lady. You're starting to sound like your mother." He wasn't teasing. It was just the truth. "You cannot blame yourself for that. We would rather have had you for a few months than to never have had you at all." He kissed her on the top of the head.

"You cannot control everything, Allie. As much as you want to somethings just happen." Bella said. Allie wiped fiercely at the tears, she just wanted them to go away, she'd cried enough to last a lifetime. What she wouldn't have given to have just died that day with her parents, she had no purpose here.

"Allie Rose Cullen, if you think that way again, I'm going to haunt your dreams for the rest of your life." Edward sternly told her, he sounded like he was joking but Allie was certain he wasn't. It was pretty intimidating actually. She looked up at him, not used to someone else around her being able to hear thoughts.

"What? It's true!"

"I know your hurting, honey but you can't think that way." Bella tried to explain. Allie stared at her mother. She wished she had her growing up.

"Why not? What have I ever done that was remotely useful in my life?" Allie was angry, she knew that she sounded like a depressed, insane, crazy girl who needed to get some serious help but word vomit got to her along to her sorrow. Every doubt she ever had in her life was hitting her like a head on collision.

"You take care of Jacob. You know he wouldn't have been able to get passed what happened without you. You keep him as sane as he keeps you." Bella said. Allie looked up at her still not convinced. "What about us?" She questioned. "You are the best thing that ever happened to me and your father." Edward nodded his agreement. Allie gave her mother a small smile.

"You have a long life ahead of you. Your purpose will be revealed in time." Edward told her. Allie gave her parents another smile.

"Thanks." She sniffled. The tears were gone for the moment being, and she loved the feeling. Allie looked around the meadow. "Where is everyone else?" By everyone else she meant the rest of the Cullens, her family.

"They couldn't come, sweets. But Emmett told me to tell you he will be in your dream tomorrow. He is still determined to teach you to play catch." Bella said. Allie laughed.

"Jake taught me when I was like four, mom." It felt so weird to say the word 'mom' but it was growing on her.

Her parents let out a chuckle. "Don't tell Emmett that. Just go along with it." Edward said.

Allie's parents were amazing. She beamed and thought about how lucky she was to be their daughter. The sun began to sink below the sky line of the meadow. Her parents looked to the setting sun and gave her a sad look. "Time's almost up." Edward said.

"What? No, you can't go I... I" Allie stammered.

"It's alright." Bella said while smoothing out Allie's hair. "We're never far."

Allie felt her eyes to start to droop closed. She was suddenly exhausted. Edward released her from his comforting fatherly arms and laid her on the grass. Allie fought the need to go to sleep, she was determined to see her parents for a bit longer.

"Just remember one thing." Edward started. Allie yawned but kept her eyes open.

"What's that?" Allie yawned but kept her eyes open.

"Let people in. You're so guarded, more than I ever was. Just don't build up walls around yourself, ok?" Allie nodded. She yawned once more. Her eye lids felt like they weighed a thousand pounds each, she couldn't keep them open any longer. She gave in and felt sleep take over. "We love you" was the last thing she heard her mother say before once again returning to unconsciousness.

~*~

"Allie!?" Once again she heard someone calling her. It was not the beautiful voices of her parents though, she thought it was probably Jake, the voice was deep and husky just like his. She kept her eyes closed, trying hard to keep the misty dream of her parents close in her mind. She wanted to get back to them.

Reality sucked. She was in immense pain from her injuries (she noticed that her stomach was bleeding but she really didn't care) and from falling asleep on the forest floor. She realized it was raining, too. Above all that the thing she wanted to escape the most was the intense, empty hole she felt in the pit of her stomach.

"Allie!?" Jake called again. She curled up in a ball and ignored him. He'd find her eventually, he always did. Sure enough, Jake came running through a bit of brush and into her little haven. He rushed over to her and knelt down. He looked at her stomach.

"Great, kid, just great. Your cracked rib just pierced through your skin." Allie just looked at him with an expressionless face. "Which means you're kinda bleeding." He finished not sure if she really understood the situation. Still Allie's face held no emotion. She gave him no response.

Jacob sighed and picked her up. She winced slightly, but that was it, she made no other sound. He walked quickly out of the Forbidden Forest and headed toward the castle. Allie looked up at the rain.

The cold water droplets hit her face and soothed her. The cold rain and the warm arms of Jake calmed her, she welcomed the refreshing comfort they brought. She switched her gaze to Jake. His face was hard and concerned.

"Hey, Jake?" Allie asked weakly.

"Hmm?'" He grunted, she could tell he was still kind of ticked at her for running off. She pressed her lips together.

"Thanks." He looked down at her with questioning eyes.

"For what?"

"Keeping me sane." Allie gave him a small smile that quickly disappeared. Jacob let out a small chuckle.

"Right back at ya, squirt."

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