Ahh! It's the weekend! At last! What a long week I have had and it's just going to get busier so I thought I would post this while I have the first minute to myself in a long time!

I think this chapter may be confusing, so maybe read it slowly just so you don't miss anything.

I hope you enjoy!
I own nothing Twilight...or Ghost whisperer (its not a crossover but it has similar themes)! And sorry if this chapter sounds like something similar to Ghost Whisperer but there is a reason for the thing that happens!

Previously:

Before we reached the bend which Charlie called the "bend of a death" - since so many people ended up being killed there each year - a motorcycle raced towards us. The bike careered out of its way, the breaks screeched in effort to stop, but it was too late. Before I could close my eyes and pray for my life, the rider flew through the windshield, the helmet smashing through as it were made of car lost control and we collided with a tree. The airbag didn't deploy and my head hit the dash I felt wetness pouring down my face but I felt no pain. When I looked up I was almost rider's neck was impaled through the windshield glass, blood dripped out of the helmet. My last thought before everything went black was, helmets should come with neck guards.

Chapter Seventeen

Devastation

When my eyes flew open, I could see only black dots floating in front of me. I felt strangely fine though, and a surge of adrenaline rushed through me. I knew I had to do something – the man was hurt, he needed help - so I fumbled with the seat belt and stumbled outside.

I didn't even stop to listen to what Alice was saying as I tried to make my way around the car to see if the biker was okay. My brain was fuzzy as I stood up straight and faced the car. I took a deep breath and looked up towards the hood. There was nobody there. I looked at the front window and it was still in perfect condition. I started to shake; the shock wasn't as heightened as it was seconds before, and reality was dawning on me as the adrenaline faded.

Alice was by my side. "Bella," she said, touching my arm. "What's wrong?"

I walked around the car. I looked up and down the road but there was no sign of the rider or the deer. I looked under the Porsche - nothing.

"Bella, you scared me half to death – what is wrong? Did you see something?"

I didn't look at Alice. I looked up and down the road again. Everything was normal; there was no deer, no blood, no biker...It had all been in my head.

My lips were trembling. "I thought I saw...it was awful..."

"What did you think you saw?"

"An accident...A deer ran out into the road in front of a biker...he tried to stop but he lost control...he ended up on our car...smashed through the window and his neck..." My body was shaking from head to toe. Alice took my hand and placed me in the car. She crouched to my knee level and rubbed my hand.

"Take deep breaths," she murmured.

It had been so real, I thought to myself. As if I was really in a horrible car accident.

"I'm losing my mind," I whispered. "I am used to seeing things, but that was just too real..."

"You're not losing you mind. I see things that others don't too, so I know how it can be. It's scary, but you are not losing your mind." Alice stood up. "Let's get out of here. You are in shock – you need a sugar rush."

I put my legs in the car and Alice closed the door. When she got in she started the engine and slowly we left the side of the road.

"Sorry about scaring you...is your car okay?"

Alice laughed softly. "It's a piece of metal, it can be replaced...but it's fine. I was more worried about you...you look...well, like a ghost."

"The irony." I tried to smile; Edward said the same last night. "Forks is full of ghosts," I stated. "Powerful ghosts."

Alice gave me a sympathetic smile. "We won't let anything happen to you," she promised me.

-x-

We reached the school and Edward's Volvo was already in the parking lot. When he saw us he smiled, but it faded quickly as he glanced at Alice. He opened the car door before it was parked.

"What happened? Are you okay?" He helped me out of the car. I was still shaking when he took me in his arms. I realised he had read Alice's mind, as he already seemed to know what had happened.

"I'm fine," I whispered, but to my annoyance tears leaked out my eyes. I pressed my face into his chest and suddenly I felt safe. "It was so real." I took a steady breath and exhaled slowly.

"You're okay." Edward rubbed my back soothingly. "You're in no state for class; let's find somewhere quiet to go."

"I'll never graduate this grade at this rate." I wiped my eyes. "I have been at school for a day and a half since coming here."

"I'll tutor you if you fall behind." Edward smiled crookedly as he took my hand and we walked across the parking lot. We entered the library which was very quiet. The small librarian didn't even look up when we passed and we snuck to the back tables out of sight. "What do you think happened?" Edward asked quietly.

My heart was slowing down and I had stopped shaking now I was with Edward. It was warm in the library so I took off my coat.

"I don't know," I answered. "I suppose I was seeing a horrid car accident through the mind of a ghost...but which ghost I have no idea." I rubbed my forehead. "It was just a vision I guess. It wasn't real."

"Do you have visions like these a lot?"

"Yeah...well no. I do normally get visions but they are not so vivid. This was beyond real and I didn't even know that it was a vision until I saw that there was no body on the car...It was so real that it took me a while to work out that it was all in my head." I closed my eyes. "My gift is so distorted right now. Normally the visions I get, which are always related to ghosts, are in my sleep. I have dreams of things that ghosts want me to know, and at the time, in my dream, it feels real, but lately it has being physically real. The slashing of the wrists last night...I don't even remember that dream but it was as real as it could ever get – I actually had my wrists lashed...It wasn't just all in my head, the ghosts are actually going stuff to me that I can't control." I let out a breath of air. "My gift seems to be erratic, all over the place it and it is really messing with my head. I don't know what is what anymore..."

"Do you think it's the shock of learning about us that has made you're gift erratic...heightened in a sense?"

"No." I shook my head firmly. "If anything I think it was losing my mother that has caused me to become more aware of death...but it has also to do with the ghosts themselves. Henry, for example, is quite old despite his five year old physical appearance...I am almost certain that is why he has had such an effect on me... but the woman and the biker ghost? I don't know anything about them so who knows how old they are and how powerful they have become."

I had this awful feeling of dread inside me, but I couldn't work out why. It was like déjà vou but with not knowing what was coming. Despite feeling safe with Edward I still felt on edge. Something was wrong, but not just with my gift.

Alice joined us at the table. She put a bottle of coke in front of me and a bar of chocolate. "Drink," she whispered. "It will help."

I didn't want to argue as I wasn't going to win against those two, so I opened the soda and gulped it down without a fuss. Almost instantly the sugar made me feel stable again, and the shaking in my knees began to wear off. I opened the chocolate without a word and let it melt in my mouth. I was never that fussed on chocolate but it had never tasted so good.

"Your colour is returning already," Edward said with satisfaction. "The stuff doesn't smell that good to me but you humans seem to treat it like Gods!"

I took another bite into the heavenly snack, enjoying the moment while it lasted. "Mmm, well smells good to me." I was fully content, so much that I could have spent all day in the quiet library - only I knew classes were waiting on me now that my ordeal was over. "What did you need to do before school?" I asked Edward. He let Alice pick me up as he said he had something to do before school began.

Edward grinned slyly. He pulled out a sheet of paper and laid it out on front of me. "I told you I didn't want you to be on your own, so I got Ms. Coop to change my timetable to match yours...It wasn't as easy as I expected but all I had to do with smile and she crumbled."

I could see how true that was. All he had to do was breathe and I felt as though I would jump off a bridge if he suggested it. I looked down at the time table which was identical to my own.

"You sound like a possessive stalker, Edward," Alice said bluntly. "You should give the girl some room to breathe. What if you change it so that I am in some of her classes and you in the others?"

There it was again, speaking as if I were not in the room. I didn't mind though as at least they were not communicating silently.

"I don't mind," I said interjecting my opinion. "I don't think it's possessive, quite the opposite. Although I don't need babysat, I think for this semester it could be a good idea...don't want to get sick or have my wrists being slashed open in front of everyone on my own."

Edward gave Alice a "so there" look which made me giggle. "You two are more human than you may think!"

"Why thank you," Alice said taking it as a compliment. "We are quite unique as we live together in a house hold...that doesn't happen often with our kind and we have played human so long that our other side has shut off...Bella?"

I hadn't been listening as I was hearing a strange noise from behind the bookcase in front of us. I stood up, pushed my chair back and walked around the table.

"Do you hear that?" I asked them both without looking back.

"Hear what?" Edward asked by my side. He walked around to the other side of the bookcase then came back. "Nothing there...what do you hear?"

I paused for a second as I was trying to listen. It was music. "Disney song..." I said faintly as I strained my ears. "The song from Aladdin..."

"What on earth are you talking about, Bella?" Alice asked warily.

I ignored her and walked around the bookcase. The lyrics and tune to the Disney song played out and was becoming louder...

The music played over the sound of the purring engine. I was kicking my feet against the seat as I watched the trees blur past the window. "Mommy, are we there yet?" I called, bored.

"Not long sweetie." The woman in the passenger's seat turned to me smiling. Her smile made me feel happy so I smiled back. "Are you excited for Faye's party this weekend?"

I nodded. "Yep," I said enthusiastically. "Will I get cake?"

Both adults in the front laughed. "Well that depends if you have been a good girl," said the figure in the driver's seat. He looked at me through the rear view mirror. "Has my princess been a good girl while I was away?"

He glanced at his wife who beamed with pride. "Not only has she been good, she has also helped mommy with the house work, isn't that right, Emmy?"

I nodded my head, proud too. "I did the washing up, daddy! And I helped with the dusting! I got five dollars in my piggy bank, too. Is five dollars a lot?"

Mommy giggled. "Yes, it means your super rich sweetie. You can buy anything you like with it."

Excitement flooded through me. My mind raced while I imagined what I could buy with the money I now had.

The song changed from Aladdin to a Pocahontas song and I squealed. "I love this one, can you put it louder?" Mommy turned the dial in the front and the song filled the car. I knew all the words so I sang along to myself. Mommy joined in but daddy didn't.

Mommy turned to me and we sang my favourite part. "...Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn mood? Or asked the grinning bob cat why he grinned..." I giggled as I always did at those words. Daddy looked at me again through the mirror and shook his head smiling. I couldn't hear what he said so I continued to sing. Mommy turned around to the front, then screamed.

The car screeched and mommy yelled. I was squashed into the side of my car seat and I couldn't move.

I started to cry, mommy was screaming at daddy and daddy was yelling back.

I couldn't see what was going on until I saw a flash of red that drove right into the side of the car, making me almost tip out of my car seat and into the door...

"Bella?" Someone shook me a little. I blinked in a daze and turned to see Edward and Alice in front of me, both of them looking worried.

My body shuddered and I felt sick. "Another crash," I whispered.

"What happened to you? You were in a trance like last night when I couldn't wake you up..." Edward guided me back to the table as I was shaking so hard.

"I don't know...I heard music... a kids song, then suddenly I was in a car with people, but I was the person whose eyes I was looking out of...We were going to my...the little girls cousins house. I was excited, we were singing...I couldn't see what was happening but I knew that something smashed into us..." I trailed off remembering the screams from the car, the loud noise of something hitting our...their car. It felt so real again but it wasn't the same accident as I felt I was in earlier. Or at least I didn't think it was.

"Was it a vision like mine?" Alice asked.

I looked at her and shook my head - I had never seen the future before. "It couldn't have been...my gift is different. What are your visions like?"

"Like a television screen. I can see things play out, I can see and hear what people will say. Normally my visions mean something but I can see any random thing that is not really important." She looked at Edward then back at me. "What do you think happened then? Another ghost...?"

I covered my face with my hands and closed my eyes tight trying to work out what was happening. My gift was way off, nothing like that had ever happened to me. I didn't see the future, and my visions had never been that vivid and real before.

"I don't know," I mumbled into my hands. I seemed to be saying that phrase a lot and it was beginning to annoy me. "It was as if I was there...as if I was the little girl. I had her thoughts, her feelings..."

The school bell rang and I began to feel dazed. As I got up the lights in the Library began to flicker.

I turned around and found myself in the middle of a road...

I looked around. Smoke was heavy in the air by the bend in the road. I blinked. I recognised this road. Déjà vu washed over me as I walked towards the smoky ball ahead. There were fire fighters around, water trickled like a stream away from them but they didn't seem in a hurry to put the fire out. I stopped when a sharp blast of siren yelped.

I looked over to see the Chief of Police's cruiser at the side of the road. People where standing around it, some of them I recognised.

Little Mattie Jay, as Charlie called him, was leaning on the hood, writing something in his note pad. He had his hat off; his floppy hair blew in the breeze. I walked towards him and I noticed he was covered in blood. His jacket was stained red, his face was smeared too and my heart began to pound.

The radio on the car crackled and Deputy Mark, who was in the front at the wheel, answered it. I couldn't hear what he was saying but I saw from through the windshield that he looked grave. He nodded once and got out my father's car.

Where was Charlie, I wondered. What had happened here?

I stopped by the car but Little Mattie or Mark hadn't noticed me. "The little girl died on route," Mark told Mattie gravely. "Whole family dead..."

Mattie looked down at his blood stained clothes. "She was just five years old," he said distantly. "Such a waste..." His voice trembled. Mark clapped him hard on the shoulder.

"I know but we have to hold it together," he said as he looked around. "We have to inform the families before the news spreads over town."

Mattie looked up then, his eyes wide in horror. "Bella," he whispered. I stepped forward.

"What happened?" I asked. But Mattie didn't seem to be looking at me, and went on as if I hadn't spoken. "She is going to be heartbroken...she just lost her mom...now Charlie."

My heart skipped a beat and my body froze. I stared at them in disbelief and horror. I turned to look behind me. Just meters from the smoke ball, which the fire fighters were still trying to control, was another car. It was a silver Ford. It was crumpled, a total right off. It had collided with a tree, pieces of metal was spewed all over the place.

Lying between the Ford and the smoky ball was red scraps of metal. A wheel laid on its own in the middle of the road. I walked forward in a hurry then stopped dead when my eyes caught site of something that was lying under the Ford. A deer. Lying dead in a pool of blood behind the front wheels.

My world was blurring as tears threatened to spill down my cheeks. "No," I choked, as I hurried forward. I reached the Ford. I couldn't see much but destruction but I noticed that it was blackened, fire damaged.

I turned to the smoky ball which was now clearing. My heart sank as I saw a pink child's car seat ripped apart on the side of the road. As the smoke began to clear, a minivan came into view. Or at last what was left of it.

It was unrecognisable as a car; it was so fire damaged it looked like a bomb had blown through it. To the side of the minivan was an old Beetle which was pretzeled between the van and a tree. It looked like a child's toy that had been crushed so easily, and it too was burnt from a fire.

I began to hyperventilate at the sight of all this destruction and devastation that apparently had killed a whole family.

What had happened? Had I seen the crash before it had even taken place? That was impossible.

So many lives...Charlie.

"No!" I yelled. Wake up Bella, I screamed in my head. Don't let it be true...

"Hey kiddo," a voice whispered gruffly in my ear. I jumped and spun round roughly.

The tears I had held back spilled down my cheeks quickly. I stepped back and put my hands to my face. I shook my head over and over.

Wake up, Bella, I begged of myself.

"It's okay." Charlie's familiar voice sounded comforting. I looked up then to see my father in front of me. He was covered in soot, his face blackened. Behind him were several others, some covered in blood, others burnt and covered in soot like Charlie...

My eyes closed and when I looked up, I was back in the library.

It was warm but I was still shaking violently.

"Bella?" Edward placed his cool hands on my cheeks firmly. "Look at me, Bella, its okay, your safe." He looked into my eyes softly. "What happened?" he added gently.

"Charlie," I muttered, my voice felt sore. "Car crash...several dead..."

I didn't happen, I told myself, I couldn't have...

I paused for a long second. I tried to get understand what was happening but I couldn't process it. All I could see was Charlie's ghost, looking at me sadly.

He isn't dead, I concluded to myself firmly. It was just a vision. I didn't get premonitions, though, but I wasn't going to stop to find out what was wrong with my gift, as I had to do anything I could to stop what I saw.

I backed away from a concerned Edward and darted out the library. I could hear him follow me but I didn't stop to explain.

"Where are you going?" he called by my side, jogging in line with me. I didn't look at him as I headed for the parking lot. Then I remembered I didn't have my truck. I stopped and he ran a head before he came back.

"Bella?" He stood in front of me.

"Take me to the bend about a mile out from here," I said in a hollow voice. "There is going to be an accident and we need to stop it."

"Stop it? How are we going to stop an accident?"

I didn't know so I didn't answer. "We will just do what we can, let's just go before it's too late."

"Bella," he said softly. "If we stop an accident then how are we going to explain it...people will see, we might be exposed."

I narrowed my eyes. I didn't understand his thinking; my brain was focused on saving people, not caring about what it would mean afterward. "Does it matter? People are going to die if we do nothing!" I looked to Alice for support.

"I know it's hard, but stopping things before they happen always have consequences," Alice said. "Are you sure it's not already happened? What did you see? Maybe you saw wrong..."

"I didn't see wrong," I yelled. "Charlie is going to die, I saw his ghost!" Why were we wasting time? Why didn't they want to help? "Look, just give me your keys and I will do it on my own!"

I held my hand out to Edward but he didn't move. "Please, Edward," I begged. "If anyone asks then I will tell them about my gift..."

Edward looked torn. He looked to Alice then back to me.

"How did you see...You said you didn't get psychic visions like Alice...how do you know that this isn't a trick from a ghost..." Edward trailed off.

"I don't know," I whispered, calmer. "I will question it later, but for now I just want to get there, do what I can and make sure Charlie doesn't..." A lump formed in my throat. "Please, Edward, just give me your keys."

Edward pinched the bridge of this nose. "Okay, let's go...Phone Charlie and warn him, have the services on standby..."

He took my hand and led me across the car park. I pulled out my cell and dialled Charlie's number by heart.

"Hello?" Charlie answered. His voice gave me relief, and proved my instincts right – the accident hadn't happened yet.

"Dad? I am going to say something and it's going to sound crazy, but there is going to be an accident on the bend you say is cursed...I..."

"What do you mean there is "going to be"...?"

"I mean I saw it happen but I..." I sighed. There was no time to explain; besides I didn't know myself. "Look dad, just trust me. There is going to be an accident there and..." I closed my eyes. "Please dad you need to get everyone there just in case...but be careful..."

"Bells, you make no sense!" Charlie sounded dismissive.

"Dad," I shouted down the phone. "I am being serious. There is going to be an accident and many people might die. Just trust me okay?"

There was a long silence. "Okay, Bella, I believe you. I will gather everyone up."

"Thank you...and dad?"

"Yeah kiddo?"

"Please don't be a hero today..." I hung up before I burst into tears.

Edward opened the door to his Volvo and I got in. Alice slid in the back and when Edward closed his door, we tore off.

"I'm sorry," I whispered, half turning to Alice while facing Edward. "I didn't mean to yell and I don't mean to put you in a position that could expose you. You don't have to get involved, and if it comes to it then I will expose my own gift. Your secret is bigger than mine."

"That's kind of you, but let's hope it doesn't come to..." Alice trailed off. Edward stiffened at the wheel.

"Deer...I saw a deer and a red motorbike...screaming, cars smashing..." She looked at me. "You really did see it coming..."

Edward pushed on the gas and I flew back in my seat. "Get your belt on," he said to me quickly but there was no point. We were there but it was too late.

The car screeched to a halt as the motorbike rider went flying through the air hitting the silver Ford and smashing through the windshield. The glass shattering made my skin crawl, the breaks trying to stop the Ford were screaming in protest and then BANG!

The car collided with the tree and crumpled, just as I knew it would. There was more screaming behind them, the red bike was the path of a dark blue minivan. It was like watching a re-run of the accident only from a different point of view and it made me feel guilty and utterly useless. It was happening so fast, but I knew it was real this time.

"Oh my god..." I whispered just as the motorbike skidded under the minivan making it swerve to the right but the wheels got tangled up and the van skidded back to the left lane, shattering the oncoming red Beetle.

There was a yelp of pain and we all looked over to see the deer, which had caused this whole thing, dying under the Ford.

There was an eerie silence. I stared in shocked then Edward and Alice raced forward. I was shaking as I walked after them in a daze. I could hear screaming from two cars. The Ford was right in front of me now so I approached slowly. I could hear "the colours of the wind" playing from the minivan and my stomach churned. The little girl was in there. I looked over and Edward was there trying to help. I stood frozen watching him. He was stronger than I was so I wouldn't have been much help.

Screaming from inside the Ford shocked me out of my frozen trance and I hurried forward. I went to the passenger's side quickly and peered through the open window.

The bike rider was there as he was in my first vision: his neck was impaled on the windshield, blood seeping all over the dash. I closed my eyes and tried to breathe slowly. This was no time for fainting at the sight of blood. When I opened my eyes I didn't feel light headed at all and looked to the driver's side.

The driver, a man, was covered in blood and not moving. The woman in the passengers' seat was also covered in blood but her eyes were wide and fearful. They averted to the side and she saw me.

"Help," she whispered. "I can't move..." Then she looked to the rider then the man beside her. "John? Is John okay?"

"I...I don't know..." I hurried to the other side of the car and placed my Johns neck. There was blood everywhere but I tried not to think about it. I pressed harder on his neck but I couldn't feel anything. The woman looked at me, waiting.

"I am not sure," I lied. "What's your name?"

"Vicky," she replied before she started choking. I nodded to myself then turned to see where Edward and Alice were. They were in the minivan, but I couldn't see what they were trying to do.

When I heard sirens race towards us, I breathed mercifully. "You hear that, Vicky? Help is coming, you will be okay."

"What about John?" she called. I saw her trying to unbuckle her seat belt, so I ran to stop her.

"Don't," I said. "Try not to move, just wait for help." She whimpered, mumbling stuff about John. I felt useless. Her eyes fell on the rider again.

"Is he...?" She looked green as she stared at him.

I gulped. "I...I don't..." I closed my eyes for a brief second. I wanted to help but I felt so useless now I was there. I was about to get on the hood to check his pulse but something grabbed my arm.

"He's gone," Edward whispered. I turned so see Edward just inches from me. "The fire service has taken over, they won't let us help...The parents in the minivan are still stuck...the little girl is out though."

I looked over to see two fire trucks and two police cars, including Charlie's cruiser. Ambulances were not far behind and they parked in the middle between the two scenes.

Edward and I stayed with Vicky until help came. She mumbled the whole time, she made no sense and I knew she was fading quickly. All I could do to help was talk to her; keep her wake so she didn't lose consciousness.

Three EMT's rushed over. "Are you two hurt?" Daniel Bridges, whom I recognised from when I was younger, asked.

Edward and I shook our heads. "We were just passing by," I said quickly. "This is Vicky and her husband John...I don't know the riders name but he is..." I didn't need to explain, it was obvious at first sight but an EMT checked anyway. Daniel went to Vicky's side and opened her door. The other EMT went to check John after he checked for life in the rider. I looked away. Edward pulled me back and away from the car.

"There is nothing we can do," he said. "Your father is here, he wondering where you are."

I looked up and Edward pointed to my dad who was crouching down at the side of the cruiser door. On the seat was a little girl with light brown hair. She had a blanket wrapped round her and she was visibly shaking.

"We pulled her out; she was stuck so we ripped the car seat..." He nodded to the pink seat in front of us as we walked down the middle of the road. My body went cold seeing it.

I stopped dead in the middle of the road. Edward pulled on my hand then he realised I had stopped and stopped too. I looked around us. There were people all over the place. It was so noisy, lights were flashing on the fire truck and the ambulance. Men were shouting to each other, co-ordinating to try and help everyone out safely. The firemen were about to cut the minivans doors, the EMT's were working on Vicky, treating her while they waited for more fire crews. Underneath the Ford was the dead deer and a mangled motorbike lay at the side of the minivan. Everything was falling into place accept...

"Dad," I yelled. Charlie stood up abruptly.

"Bella, there you are, you shouldn't be here...Edward, take her..." Charlie stopped when I held up my hand.

"Stop and listen," I instructed mimicking his Chief of Police voice. "Fire, there is going to be a fire...some sort of explosion I think but I don't know...You need to tell the firemen to check for a gas leak for something..." I looked over to the minivan. I saw Alice standing feet away, watching the men as they worked.

"How do you know this Bella? Are you sure? I don't smell anything..." Charlie fired his questions at me quickly.

"I don't know how I know, I can't explain it now, but yes I am sure, just get them to check, please!"

Charlie eyed me for a second then nodded. "Okay, I will tell them to check..." he looked to Edward. "Get her away and take Alice with you." He nodded to Alice who was still as a statue. She turned when she heard her name and walked over to us.

Charlie turned to the little girl in the cruiser. I had forgotten she was even there."I am going to get one my paramedic friends to take you to the hospital where it's safe okay, Emily?" Charlie said gently.

"What about my mommy and daddy?" her small voice squeaked.

Charlie smiled reassuringly. "I will make sure they will follow right behind when they are out."

Emily looked unsure but nodded anyway. Charlie turned and spotted an EMT and called him over. "Daniel, can you take little Emily here to the hospital with you?"

Daniel came over with a medical bag in his hand. "Of course Chief," he said as he approached us. Just then a car screeched up and we all turned to see an exquisite blond hurry out of a blacked out Mercedes.

"My father is here," Edward said, as he looked at Alice then nodded.

"Good, he can help," Charlie said, and he went to greet the doctor. Edward went too, so I stood with Daniel and Emily. Daniel quickly checked her over, murmuring reassurances to her.

"How is Vicky?" I asked. Daniel looked up and met me with sad eyes.

"She is still stuck in the car," he replied. "She is hanging in there...just. We have a limited emergency service here in Forks...Accidents like this can take double the time to deal with which means..."

"More people die," I finished faintly.

I looked to Charlie who was walking with Carlisle to the minivan. He still had not told the firemen about the gas leak or whatever it was that was going to cause a huge fire.

I looked around for Edward and Alice but they were nowhere to be seen. I began to panic.

"Can we get some help over here?" Someone yelled urgently. I looked over to see people swarming the minivan. Daniel got up from Emily's side and looked at me.

"I will be back," he said then ran off.

Something pulled at my hand. I turned to see Emily pointing to something. "Look," she said. "Look at the man!"

I looked over to see what she meant and saw a man yelling at an EMT who was in the back of the silver Ford behind Vicky.

I looked from the man to Emily and back again. "You can see him?" I asked. Emily nodded.

"Of course," she replied as if I were being silly. "What's wrong with him? Is he hurt?"

"I...yeah but he will be fine," I lied. Vicky's husband, John, was waving his arms in front of car to get someone's attention. He walked around to the open door, yelling things at the EMT, trying to get his attention. He was confused, he wasn't aware he was dead, but he knew his wife was injured and he wanted attention as he was getting ignored.

I knew I should help him but I didn't want to leave Emily.

"Do you want to help him?" I asked her. She looked up at me and nodded.

I took her hand and we walked over to the crushed car. I was relieved to see that the rider's body had been covered up but John's wasn't. I got Emily to stop by the trunk of the car and got John's attention.

He looked relieved that I gave him eye contact. "Finally someone that isn't ignoring me," he said. I walked back behind the car and stood by Emily. He followed. His clothes were bloody and his face was a mess.

"They aren't ignoring you," I told him gently. "They just can't see you."

His eyes narrowed. "See me?" He laughed. "What are they blind?"

I shook my head. "No," I replied. "Have a look in the driver's seat, you will understand then."

The man disappeared out of view. I heard him cry in shock. He stood back in front of us. "No," he whispered. "I can't be..."

I nodded. "I am so sorry..."

"But you can see me," he said incredulity. "If I am...dead...then why can you see me?" He looked at Emily who was looking at him too. "She can see me, too, so I can't be dead."

"I have a gift that helps me see spirits, and sometimes children can see them too but they grow out of it after a certain age," I replied. "I can help you move if you are ready?" I knew the answer before he said it. "No, I want to make sure my wife is okay first." He turned his back from us and moved to the passenger's door beside Vicky.

I pulled Emily away but when we were walking back to the cruiser, Emily tugged on my hand again. "Look," she said again, pointing. I looked over to the side of the road where all the activity was going on and I saw an older couple looking at us. I recognised them from my vision earlier. They were covered in blood, too, and they were holding hands. They looked away from us to their smashed car and the minivan. The woman said something to the man then they disappeared.

"Where did they go?" Emily asked her eyes widened.

"I am not sure," I said. "Let's go back to wait for Daniel."

As we walked back I kept my eyes peeled for Edward or Alice. I couldn't see them anywhere and I began to worry. I looked for Charlie but he was missing too. What was going on?

Emily sat back in the cruiser and wrapped the blanket around her. I took out my cell to call Edward. He put a few numbers in my phone the other day and he was on speed dial. The phone rang out but there was no answer. It went to voicemail so I hung up. I wanted to look for him but I had a bad feeling.

To my immediate relief Edward appeared in my eye line. I watched as he approached Carlisle and they had a brief conversation. Carlisle looked around, watching the men work around him. He nodded then yelled to everyone to stop.

"I smell gas," he shouted. "Get them out now!" He motioned towards the front of the minivan to Emily's parents.

Everyone stopped for a second, processing what he was saying, then everything was a blur as everyone frantically tried to get Emily's mom and dad out.

Alice appeared by my side. "There is a gas leak from the Beetle, we are going to help. Take the girl and stand back."

"Charlie," I whispered, as I tried to find him with my eyes.

"He is around the back of the van, he's fine." She was gone before I could say anything else.

"Let's go and stand over by that ambulance," I told Emily. I took her by the hand again and we walked towards the ambulance that was parked nearer the Ford.

Everything seemed to be in slow motion as we walked forward. The ambulance seemed to be getting further and further away, the noise in the background was blurring and I felt strange.

"It's not a gas leak," someone said. I looked up to see Ryan in front of me. "They were on their way to a barbecue...they have lighter fluid in the back..."

I stared at Ryan, horror struck, then turned back towards the minivan. Firemen were working hard to get the couple out. They were using an old fashioned circular Jaws of Life tool to cut the door open on the mom's side.

"No," I whispered, as I watched the sparks fly off the blade against the door. One the other side they were hosing down the gas that was apparently leaking from the Beetle. I spotted Charlie and Edward standing together by the hood of the car, watching as they tried to get rid of what would have been the source of the fire. Only they were wrong.

"No," I yelled. "It's not the gas!"

I didn't have time to see if Edward heard me or got my meaning, as Emily let go of my hand and began running toward the minivan. Her mom's door was almost off now, the sparks off the saw flying all over the place.

"No, Emily, come back!" I screamed as I ran after her. "Edward, get them all away, it's going to blow!"

Carlisle looked up swiftly from inside the car. He met my eyes as I ran after Emily. "There is lighter fluid in the car, stop the sawing!"

Emily was almost at the van but I kept running after her. "Somebody stop her," I yelled. But there was no one paying attention. Edward was gone, Carlisle was out of the van and the fireman was still sawing.

Finally music to my ears; the saw stopped. Carlisle was by the fire truck, pulling out a lead to stop the saw. There was yelling and people moving away from the van at Edwards' instructions.

It was quiet now, but something wasn't right. I reached Emily and pulled her away.

"No," she cried as she looked on at her unconscious mom still in the van.

"It's okay," I soothed. I didn't see her or her husband about so they were still alive. I picked her up to take her away. My eye caught Edward's through the window at the back side. He was on the other side of the van, by the Beetle. I smiled gratefully and he smiled back. He wiped his brow and feigned exhaustion. He was with Charlie so he couldn't say anything.

Charlie was instructing men and he was safe. I was beginning to feel a little better but when Edward froze up, so did I. I clutched Emily on my hip and walked slowly around the van towards Edward.

It was almost silent, or at least to my ears. Ryan stepped in front of me, panic in his eyes. Before either of us could say anything, something hard gripped me. I didn't get a chance to process what was happening when there was a huge explosion of a bang. The wind was knocked out of me as I was hurtled off my feet, the wind rippled through my hair as I was hugged tight by several hands.

When I looked up I realsied I was on the ground. Emily was whimpering in my arms and two bodies had made an enclosure around us. They let up and Edward picked me up with Emily still clung to me.

"Are you okay?" he asked me but his voice was distant. I looked over a couple of yards away to see flames licking high in the air, smoke gray and thick in the sky.

"Oh my God..." my lip trembled. "Charlie!" I looked at Edward with wide eyes, tears making him look blurry.

He turned to the side. "Fine," he whispered looking into the forest. "Carlisle is with him." In the distance I could see a hint of blond hair, walking with someone towards the road. My heart slowed down knowing my father was okay.

I was shaking head to toe, lost for words. Emily was quivering, too, as we watched the flames expand up wards. "Is...did..." I looked at Edward and he shook his head, his eyes averted to Emily. I gulped back the tears and nodded. "What about the rest of the men...?"

Edward shook his head. "There is so much going on...I don't know..."

"We should go to Charlie," I said. "We can help until more emergency services come..." I wanted to do what I could, but the truth was, there was nothing we could do. We could see that anyone who was nearby didn't have much chance. But there was always hope.

"Wait," Alice's voice came. "Don't move." Edward pulled me back and stood in front of me.

I tried to see what was going on but he pulled me backward.

"Don't, Bella," he said as he forced me further back. He hugged Emily and I together to shield us, but over his shoulder I saw what he was shielding us from.

There was another huge bang, which made Emily and I jump together. Edward pulled us from the road toward the trees but there was no hiding the ball of flames that engulfed the sky.

I then realised that Charlie was not as far away as we were when the second explosion accrued. My mind went back to the vision, back to when I saw Charlie covered in soot.

"Charlie," I yelled as I put Emily on the ground. I ran out of the tress and onto the road. "Charlie!" I ran towards the flames, ducking under Edward who tried to stop me.

"Hey kiddo." Someone stop in front of me.

My blood ran cold as I stood in the middle of the road. I closed my eyes and pretended I didn't hear anything. I could smell the fire from where I stood, but I didn't open my eyes to see.

"It's okay," my father said softly. He didn't sound like him, more of a hollow projection. I reluctantly opened my eyes. I bit back the tears, determined that this was just another vision. "This feels weird...but oddly peaceful," Charlie went on when I didn't speak. I took in his state, he was blackened from the fire, and soot was over him, as it was in the vision. He had a bloody face and his hair was specked with pieces of ash.
"I didn't feel a thing...better than I expected." He sounded so clam, it made me mad.

"Shut up," I yelled. "Stop being so happy, you're not dead! I will make sure of it, you are not leaving me!"

I ran from my shocked father, heading towards where I last saw him. I didn't get far into the trees when I skidded to a halt. My legs trembled violently, threatening to clasp. Blood drained from my face and I felt sick. "No," I screeched. "Please..." My weight gave way and I crumpled to a heap, but something caught me before I hit the ground.

Edward's cool body pressed against mine while I sobbed hysterically. Over his shoulder I watched on as Carlisle hovered over my father's lifeless body, trying to bring him back to life.

Someone stepped out in front of my view. When I looked up, I met shinning brown eyes. "Daddy, please don't leave me, fight," I begged, tears making me sound hoarse. "Just don't leave me!"

For the first time in my life I saw my father look so vulnerable. "I love you, Bells, with all my heart..."

Sorry for yet another cliff hanger! And sorry if it's getting confusing but I hope you followed that okay. Read it twice if you are confused lol. I had this chapter waiting for ages but I have never gotten round to posting it until now. I have started the next chapter but I am SO busy at the moment, and I mean seriously busy! So I have no idea when the next chapter will be up, but when I get more than a minute to myself I will sit down and finish the next chapter! Hopefully, if it goes the way it is in my head, things will get clearer and some people might even guess what is going on...but maybe not! ;)