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Alles caught her arm and made her hold still. "Not this time, you're going to get killed out here."

"Then I die, I'd rather stare death in the face then run away."

"At least let me walk you back to your apartment."

"I'm never setting foot in that apartment again."

"Then come back with us."

"No."

"Dammit!" Alles yelled, spinning Emily around.

"How can you be so selfish! How vcan you just decide that you can die! It's not your choice! If you were meant to do something you should do it!

"You're a spoiled little Brat!" Emily had backed against a wall. The others had been standing behind him, wide eyed and frightened. "forget it, do what you want. go home, get killed. Hope there's a nice view from where ever yo go."

Alles stalked off before leaping to the top of the nearest building.

Emily stood against the wall, fighting off the tears that would soon come. She couldn't stand looking at any of them when she cried.

She took off running around the corner trying to blink the tears away. Everything was happening so fast she needed to catch up.

She had no choice, she had to go somewhere to sleep. But everytime she sleeped she dreamed of him, whoever he was. She needed another glass of wine.

When she realized that she was only a block from her apartment she decided that would be the best place to go.

"To hell with him, to hell with them all, I can protect myself." She started to reason with herself, "maybe he was just a prankster, a prankster who was taking things way too far, but a prankster." When she walked into her apartment she saw that she had messages.

she pushed the button, Hello again Emily, it is almost sunrise, I just called to tell you that leaving them was a very bad idea, today is the day you die, and the day all hope for the future ends.

Hope I'm not too late!!!
Name: Ileria
Race: Elf
Gender: Female
Power: Red Magic (power over fire)
Extra: Knew Alles before the destruction of the elves; he doesn't realize that she's still alive

"Alles, is that you?" her voice was soft, hardly audible over hte sounds of the city. She reached out and gently touched his shoulder.
"What do you want?" he snapped, turning around and glaring at the intruder. (Technically, he was standing on top of a building, so she wasn't intruding). He gasped as his memory came back to him. "Ileria...is that you?"
"The one and only!"
"But you died, with the others. They were all destroyed..."
"I'm quite obviously still alive."
"God, I've missed you!" he hugged her tightly and pulled away, looking her over. "You look good; different, but good."
"You look good too...but pretty pissed off. What's wrong?"

Emily deleted the message and laid down on her couch. She poured herself another glass of wine. Alles was right she was a spoiled brat.

In that realization she took the glass and chucked it at the wall, and did the same with the bottle. Unable to bear it anymore she curled up into the fedal position and cried.

"It's this girl, I met her last night with a bunch of other...well, I guess magical misfits. A gnome some shapeshifters. A witch."

Ileria seemed so happy to see Alles he almost didn't want to tell her. He couldn't deny how excited he was to know he wasn't the only on alive.

"What about this girl?"

"I think...I know she has the power to resotre the elves."

Ileria glared at Alles. "Are you mad? How can you make such a joke at me?!"

"It's not a joke. Someone has been threatening to kill her, but i dont know who. She refuses to accept who she is. I'm afraid our people will be gone forever if she doesn't help us." Alles sighed and sat at the edge of the building.

"Take me to her."

"I wonder if sleeping pills would stop me from dreaming," she wondered out loud. She got up and wandered to the medicine cabnet. Inside she found sleeping pills, "do not take with alchohol. Eh what do they know." she opened the bottle and swallowed three, two more than what she was supposed to take.

Back in the living room she grabbed the unbroken bottle of wine off the floor and poured herself a glass. After downing it she laid down on the couch and pulled a small blanket over her. She fell asleep faster than what the bottle said.

*Knock*knock*knock*

"Emily, please open the door," Alles sighed, trying to stay calm. Thre was no response, and Alles slammed his fist against the door angrily.
"I told you it was pointless," he said to Ileria. "She won't open the cursed door." He looked into her eyes, the firey auburn ones, the ones that had put him into a trance-like state all teh time when they were kids, and were doing it again now.

"It's not pointless, it'll just take some more trying. My turn," she walked over to the door and said in her light, sing-songy voice. "Emily, please open the door. I'd really like to speak to you." Still no response.

"Wow, that was brilliant Ileria," Alles snickered. She smacked him playfully on the shoulder, like old times...only different.

"Emily, please! If you don't open the door I'll force my way in." There was no answer, and Illeria looked over at Alles, shrugging helplessly.

"Go ahead, she won't need a door at this rate."

Alles pulled at the last remnents of life the old oak door had and it splintered. with a final pull it burst open, allowing entry to Emily's apartment.

Alles ran over to Emily, "She's asleep." He say the whine bottle and the bottle of sleeping pills. "Damn..."

"What is it?"

"Who ever is trying to kill her tryed ytwice while she slept. He can attack her in dreams."

"Twice? Oh crud. What do we do?" Ileria asked.

"Take her to my place. It's got to be safer there. At least there I can keep a better watch on her." Ileria nodded and reached down to pick Emily up. "ARe you sure you can lift her?"

"WHy wouldn't I be able to?" Ileria questioned, picking up Emily's limp body with great ease.

"WEll...I...you..."

"Yes, last time you saw me I ws a skinny little wimp. Times have changed, hun, deal with it."

"You jsut called me hun," Alles noted as they walked towards the woods.

"Stop feelign so special about it; I call everyone hun. It's a human thing that I've picked up."

"oh..." Alles sounded somewhat dissappointed and Ileria resisted the urge to laugh at him.

Alles opened the cave door. I wonder if the others are okay, I sorta left them out there.

Ileria laid Emily on the floor as Alles rest the protection crystals.

"Been a while since I saw a true protection crystal barrier," said Ileria.

"Yeah, been a while since I've seen another elf. What have you been doing these long years?"

Cheri wandered through the streets, whistling a jaunty tune. She was confused by all the events, but determined not to show it. Maybe she should go back to the cave...
She shrugged, and wandered around waiting for something to happen to her.

"Not much really," Ileria sat down on the ground next to Emily. "I've been doing my best to move on. I couldn't get back to the other realm, so I had to make do. I started acting like a human, I got a job even. But even that got dull after a while. Then I rmembered why I had been in the human world during that attack."

"Why?" Alles acted, sitting next to Ileria.

"I had come to find you. You had left two days before; just disappeared. When I remembered that I realized that you had to be alive, that I wasn't the only one left."

"So then you tried to find me," Alles finished for her.

"Yeah, and now that i've found you I have a question."

"What?"

"Why'd you leave?"

Emily dreamed of the guy three times, the third time he inflicted more pain than ever before. She screamed and shot up straight, staring at her hands and up her arms. Her breathing heavy.

"What is it Emily?" Alles asked as he walked over to her.

Emily stared at him for a second and quickly hugged him, "I'm sorry for leaving like that. I was just.. upset." She didn't hear his reply, she was staring open mouthed at the cave door, it was ajar and a large figure was standing in it. The same large figure that haunted her dreams.

Alles jumped to his feet, followed by Ileria.

"What the hell," said Cheri, "Leave me in the city like that. You know how much attention I draw?"

Emily sighed before she laughed. It wasn't really funny but she was just so tired.

"Try and get some sleep Emily, we'll be here." Alles watched her close her eyes and drift back to sleep.