In the year 2020, Vampires took control of society and ordered all humans placed in vampire custody. The people who were not captured formed a Resistance movement, headed by the Human Council, who began to plan the Insurgence.
I am indebted to Stephenie Meyers for this world we all play in, and these characters we all adore. Additionally, I am indebted to hitntr01, who has graciously allowed me to use certain concepts from her wonderful story "In Need of Rescue", which constitute much of the background of my own story. These include: the language Vampiri, the Rules, the machines used to draw blood from humans, Manners Training, and the plot theme of Edward working as a guard at a facility holding humans. Thank you, hitntr01.
The Insurgency, Chapter 1
Day 1 – July 1, 2020
(Carlisle's POV)
To my horror, on July 1st, 2020, Aro Volturi declares that Vampires are the true Master Race. As humans are food, they are to be taken into Vampire custody. All humans are ordered to be rounded up and placed in Human Containment Facilities. In the days following the Event, key elements of his new order emerge. Volterra decided that the existing human leaders and any potential leaders should be exterminated, and the remaining humans would be handled in accordance with new Rules drawn up by the Police. I immediately understood that these Rules were put in place to enforce social and cultural separation between humans and vampires. Chief among the Rules were the creation of a separate language, Vampiri, to be used by vampires, and Rules regarding the dress and deportment of humans in vampire custody.
The Volturi made it clear that if a human was taken to live with a vampire or vampire couple, they were to be used strictly for food, not companionship. Humans were not allowed to speak the same language as vampires and were to wear clothes and attire that underscored their subordinate status. This included wearing a collar at all times, and a leash on the collar if outside of the vampire home. During my decades of existence, I had seen human slavery practiced by various societies, but I never saw a leash used on a human. This was one of the more degrading Rules put in place to help break any lingering links between a vampire and their immediate past as human.
Inside the vampire household, the human slaves were not to read, to sit on the furniture, or allowed to call any vampire by name. These Rules were enforced by the police and violations would lead to the death of the human and possibly the vampire.
One of the worst atrocities committed by Aro in July 2020, in my mind, was when the people in universities were slaughtered, both the students and staff. This had been done to prevent help prevent the humans from organizing a Resistance. After all, universities were home to many people capable of organizing a resistance, as well as those who understood how resistance movements had operated in the past. But the schools also held the future of the human race, the arts and sciences, and contained major research centers. The Volturi had always been connoisseurs of the arts, yet they were willing to wipe out these major training centers for artists, as well as the centers for medical research and science. Who was supposed to look after the surviving humans' health? How were the technologies that vampires so adored, the electronic gadgets, fast cars, and communication systems, to be maintained?
Human heads of state and their families were either killed or sent to premier auction houses. At these places they could be bid on by private parties, just like movie starlets or other celebrities. There had been black market auction houses operating for decades before the Event, and some had been taken over by vampires. These had already begun raising human children and training them for eventual auction at age sixteen. The best known of the premier auction house was Belial's, where girls (and occasional boys) were groomed and trained from an early age to be submissives, and were sold to both human and immortal buyers at auction.
In the days following the Event, most people were taken to Human Containment Facilities. Any human in a containment facility could be bid on, but over time, the containment facilities began dividing the human population into breeders and future pets. The breeders were initially plain-looking girls or women pregnant at the time of the Event. These were kept in dormitory style barracks with their children. Their lives were strictly regimented. They had no access to books or anything else from their former human world. They spent their days in concrete cell block rooms with lighting suited to Vampire vision, living in a state of permanent twilight to human eyes. They had twice daily access to general sanitation facilities which included community showers and toilets. They were constantly in the presence of vampire guards. Twice a month they were taken to a separate room where blood was drawn using exsanguination machines designed for this purpose. The blood drawn was pooled and sent for cleaning to a centralized facility before being bottled and sold to the vampire population in stores.
I initially found my place in the new society by becoming a doctor at these facilities. I vowed to use my skills to help humans wherever I could. I would help them survive until they could be returned to freedom. In the facilities, however, I was primarily scheduled to work with pregnant woman and their young children. There was no intention on the part of the human containment facility owners to keep the elderly alive, as their blood was not as sweet as the blood of the young.
All members of the breeding population were required to have children for as long as they could reproduce. This generally meant until a woman's body collapsed from repeated pregnancies and poor diet. Three months after each successful live birth, the women were returned to the breeding rooms, where they had sex with up to five human males each night in front of two-way mirrors. The couplings were watched through the mirrors by the guards to make sure intercourse was taking place. The women were checked before being allowed to leave the room, to make sure there was semen in the vagina, and no Evasionary Tactics (human birth control) were being used. They were not allowed to bathe for up to two days after each breeding activity.
My heart ached for each of my patients, as I considered them. The women who had been free, and had experienced love or even marriage, were fully aware of the atrocity being committed by the forced sex for the purpose of reproduction. But the young girls, those growing up in the facilities, were never to have a chance at love or choice. These girls were only to meet human males during fleeting encounters in the breeding rooms and were never allowed a chance to form any lasting connection with them.
If a woman or girl showed any reluctance to the breeding program, she was shackled to the floor or wall for several days, while successive groups of men were brought to the room to impregnate her. Any male unwilling to participate in the forced sex was usually torn to pieces in front of both the woman and the other men, as an incentive to willing participation. Men were more considered expendable as sex partners, so they were often killed to enforce compliance.
The male humans were frequently used in some of the agricultural and landscaping work, generally in chain gangs, as manual labor was beneath vampires. They did have access to the outside world, to sunshine and exercise for this reason, so their plight was generally not as horrific as the enslaved women's lives.
A second section of the Human Containment Facility was devoted to future pets, another form of captivity. Initially the pet sections of the Facility were used to hold children ages eight and older at the time of the event, for grooming to live with an individual vampire as a private food source. They were trained, minimally, in the behaviors expected within a vampire household. These behaviors usually included house cleaning, conformance with the Rules, proper slave manners, and the general submissive behavior required around vampires so as not to trigger attacks. These individuals were eventually culled from the breeding population. This form of captivity could be harsher than living on a Human Containment Facility barrack. Although the pets lived in houses, with the comforts of a bedroom and some minimal privacy, they were isolated, as the Rules of vampire society dictated that vampires were not to use human language with their pets. My children began to acquire humans as pets, and once they did so, Esme and I refused to visit them in their homes. I could not accept that my own family would keep human slaves for the purpose of food.
A third form of captivity was the brothels. These sex workers, called Brothel Girls, were generally pulled from the breeding facility populations. They cost less than pets, since they hadn't had the expensive training in preparation for living in Vampire household. These unfortunate young women, once selected, lived only about 4-6 weeks. Their short lives were marked by terror and pain, dying of the injuries resulting from rough handling and exposure to venom in oral, anal, and vaginal cavities, as well as the tears to all these organs.
These were the three roles for humans allowed by Volterra in their new order: breeder, pet, or brothel worker. Any human in captivity found violating the Rules was put to death, and any humans found in the Wild were sent to a Human Confinement Facility for assignment to one of these roles. What had Aro done? What was being done to the heart and foundation of our race, those fragile beings with the ability to reach heaven? I had committed my existence to the aid of people. As a human, I had followed my father's path and become a preacher. After my change, I had become a doctor. But now I felt lost and betrayed in this world. As time went on, though, I became increasingly isolated in my outrage, as the human race's status as slaves became more accepted over the following two decades.
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