Hey guys! So, I just read the Lunar Chronicles and I'm in LOOOOOVVEE WITH THE BOOKS! So, like almost every fangirl, I decided to write a fan fiction. I hope that you guys enjoy it and stick to it, because I have big plans for this story.

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Chapter 1

I've Got a Dream...

She always woke up with the same dream. The same awful dream. It was like a nightmare.

It was about Thorne (because when wasn't it?) it was always based off of that one kiss in Levana's palace with the Lunar girl that Thorne had when Cress and Thorne were on their mission. It was always the same dream and the same lunar girl, just always a different place. Almost every night she had to see Thorne kiss the lunar in her sleep. It got to the point where Cress dreaded going to bed in fear of having that horrifying dream again and again. Honestly, Cress would rather have nightmares every night of Thorne stabbing her instead of this dream.

Thinking of the reoccurring dream brought Cress to relive the real scene.

She and Thorne were under cover in Levana's palace when the group of lunar girls walked up to Thorne. The lunar girl who kissed him, Lusia, commented, "I thought I sensed an earthen boy. And a well-dressed one at that. What a lucky find." Cress could still envision the way she traced his bow tie with her long finger and ran it down his chest before pulling him into a kiss. And Thorne didn't resist. He has kissed her back. It kind of hurt Cress, but she was mostly annoyed that Thorne was just being brainwashed. But it was when Thorne had said, "I think I'm in love with you," that her heart stopped. She felt so hurt, even though Thorne was still being manipulated. But she didn't care. She was hurt.

When Thorne had finally come out of the daze, he had begun to look for her, shouting, "Cress!" a few times. She had replied with "I'm here," in a plain voice. Thorne had looked confused, yet relieved. "Spades," he'd said. "I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. That was-"

"I don't want to know," Cress had interrupted, walking forwards quickly. Thorne followed after her saying, "Whoa, hey, hold on. Are you mad?"

Cress had stopped. She'd closed her eyes and clenched her fists at her side. She was mad. Mad that he flirted with every girl but her, being brainwashed or not. Mad that she was so naïve, falling for a guy who would never like her. But Cress couldn't say that. She didn't have time for drama. She had to finish her mission.

Cress had finally sighed and looked up at Thorne. "No, I'm not mad. It's not your fault she manipulated you."

Thorne had let out a breath of relief and smiled. The smile that Cress loved.

"Thank the stars," he'd said. " I don't want to get on your bad side."

He chuckled and winked at her, but Cress pretended to ignore him (even though her heart was fluttering wildly.) "Come on," she said. "We have a job to do."

Unfortunately, Thorne and Cress did get recognized. Thorne hid Cress and told her, "Be heroic," before he ran off and was taken away by Levana's guards.

Cress woke up from her memory. She didn't even feel the tears running down her face at first. Tears. Tears. Cress remembered when she and Thorne were reunited on Luna. Her eyes had welled up with tears as he cupped her face in his hands. He wiped away her tears with his thumbs. "No crying," she'd said. "It's dehydrating." It was then that he had pulled her into one of his strong, comforting, warm hugs as he'd whispered, "It is you. Thank the stars."

Cress had cried a little harder revisiting that memory, sitting on the edge of her bed, but soon, after a good cry, she wiped her tears away. "Stop," she told herself. "Crying dehydrates you. Stop."

Cress took in a deep breath and looked out her window that was a few feet away from her bed. The sky was still dark and a sliver of the moon was inside. A crescent moon. Crescent Moon Darnel.

Everything that had happened during the last few months finally settled in. Levana was dead. Cinder was now queen. Letumosis now had an antidote. Her friends were all gone and living their lives. Cress had a family. Had. Out of all that happened, that was the one that dawned on her the most and made her think deeply about. She was always told that he family never wanted her because she was a shell, so they threw her out to die. And then her mistress, Sybil, "raised" her. That was the story that Cress was always told. But that story was all a lie. She was really just taken away from her family, and her father, Doctor Erland had been looking for her forever. And when he had found her, when he told her that he was her father, he was dying. Dying of Letumosis. It was such a quick goodbye and quick explanation that Cress didn't have time to think about it. But now she did.

Cress thought about how her life might have been if she wasn't taken away from her family. Maybe she'd a wonderful life. Maybe she would have gone to parties and dances, looking elegant. Maybe she would have been extremely happy. But then...she would have never met Cinder and the crew. She would never know the knowledge of technology to help them with their plans to over throw Levana. She would have never met Captain Thorne.

Cress closed her eyes and saw her father's eyes in her blackened vision. His sad eyes, full of tears.

He loved her. He said he loved her. But Cress didn't say it back. And now she regretted it. Her eyes welled up with tears once more, but this time, unlike the time on the Rampion, Thorne wasn't there to hold her.

Stop thinking about Thorne, she told herself. He's no good for you. It only makes you feel worse thinking about him.

Cress wiped away her tears for the final time and ran her fingers through her hair, pushing it out of her face. She was done crying. She had cried too much in the past few weeks. But she was a sensitive girl, so she couldn't blame herself. She just...wanted to be happy. But happiness wasn't found easily. It wasn't easy like in the fairy tales. Even though Levana was dead, there was no happily ever after. She was more heartbroken than ever.

Cress crawled back underneath her covers, the comfort and warmth of them soothing her.

"I'm done trying," Cress told herself, closing her eyes. "I'm ready to move on and get over everything. I'm ready to start over."

Cress yawned and her eyelids fluttered before falling asleep.

I hope you liked this first chapter! Sorry if there were typos (which in sure there were a few.

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