A/N: I figured since I got the other story on the way that I would start a new one on the Infernal Devices. I hope you guys like it. I'll try to do the best I can with spelling and grammar. On with it!

The disappearance

Chapter 1 Tessa's P.O.V

All the others were called to a meeting that has to do with the institute. So here I was left alone with nothing to do and no one to talk to. I couldn't even talk to Sophie she was helping Bridget cook. I don't even want to listen to those dreadful tunes anymore. From in my room I heard someone knocking at the door. I ran down to the door to see that it wasn't will, jem, or any of them.

"Miss Gray?" a tall man in dark clothing asked

"Yes that would be me" I said

"You need to come with me now" he said

Before I could say anything someone hit me on the back of the head and I fell into the darkness. When I awoke I was on a bed in a dark room. It only had one window and it had bars on it so there was no escaping that way. I walked to the door and opened it very slowly. The coast was clear so I crept into a hallway. That's when I dashed down the stairs and to the door. Before I could get there the man who grabbed my at the institute stood.

"Now now Miss Gray there is no need to be running away" he said

"Who are you and what do you want with me?" I asked

"Well if you must know I am Arnold. What I want form you is well you'll just have to find that out for yourself"

"You can't just keep me here" I said "once they realize I'm missing my friends come after me"

"They can try but they won't find you. Now will introduce you to the other people in this place."

He grabbed my arm and dragged me to the next room over where there were four people sitting in chairs. "This is Martha" Arnold said pointing to a frail women sitting on the chair closest to the fire. "She is the cook. Then there's Burt" he pointed to a muscular man standing next to Martha's chair. "He is the security guard. Then there's Nathan" he was a tall man with vibrant green eyes. "He is the carriage driver. Last but not least Kimberly. She is the maid. Kimberly could have been a parlor maid and she looked so much like Sophie.

: Now that you've met everyone back to your room. If you try to escape again there will be consequences." Arnold said in a chilling tone as he was dragging me back up stairs. He threw me back into my room.

"I'll send Kim up with dinner shortly" he said slamming the door shut. 'There has to be another way out of here.' I thought to myself. I put the table under the window and stood on it to see outside. I tried to put my hand outside but I couldn't. There was glass blocking the way. There was nothing in here I could break it with.

"Miss what are you doing" I heard a voice from behind me say. "There's no way out of that window the glass is two inches thick and the bars are pure iron."

"Thank you for informing me that there was no way out." I said upsettingly sitting on the bed.

"Well here's dinner" she said "I was able to grab more food than Arnold wanted for you. I don't want anyone to starve."

"Thank you" I said actually meaning it this time "you remind me of the maid back at the institute."

"Really what was her name I may know her I worked many places before I worked here" he said with a smile

"Her name was Sophie and she was a very pleasant person and a wonderful maid."

"Dose she happen to have a scar going down her face?" Kim asked

"Yes she dose how did you know that?" I asked

"The Sophie you're talking about is my sister. When she got hurt on her last job she came to see if she could work for the people I was working for. They didn't want a maid with a scar so they said no and threw her out. I got mad and yelled at them for doing that to my sister and they threw me out to and that's how I ended up working here"

"Oh I'm so sorry this place must be horrible to work in"

It's not as bad as you think" she said "you get used to it" and then she got up and left. 'Looks like I'm going to have at least one friend' I thought and grabbed my angel and pendent that jem gave me. 'What did I ever do to deserve this' I thought 'maybe I should try to get out again it's the dead of night everyone should be asleep.' I crept out the door again, but I ran into something hard.

"Where do you think you're going little one?" a deep voice asked I looked up to see Burt looking down at me.

"I was umm... going to get some water" I lied

"I don't think you were. " he called

Arnold came up in a matter of minutes. "I see you tried to escape again time for your punishment."

He pushed my down what seemed like endless stairs until we got to what looked like a basement. "Sit in that chair there" he pointed to a chair that had metal cuffs. I reluctantly sat down and he put the cuffs on tight. Then went over to something that looked like a switch.

"Now" he said "will you try to run away again?" he pulled down the lever and electricity ran threw me. I could help but scream. When it stopped I could see black at the corners of my eyes.

"Get her on the examination table now" I heard Arnold say right before the darkness over took me.

A/N: well there you have it my first chapter of my new story. I don't think it's the best I can do but I always think that the first chapter gets the ball rolling. I have no idea if they had anything I said that was in there back then. For instance the electric chair but I think it was cool. Oh well hope you guys liked it :-)