~*~Oblivion~*~
I woke in a fluffy white bed with a searing pain in the back of my head. I had to be dreaming although the pain kept telling me otherwise. The bed I was laying in was grand, but the only thing in the circular stone room beside myself. I'd never been here before but it had the familiarity of a fairytale prison for a princess. I checked the large wooden door and sure enough I was locked in. My head was throbbing, but it was almost nothing compared to my fear.
It was all so hard to comprehend. It was surreal. None of this made any sense. I'm not pretty, so why me? How could anyone move as fast as she did? Why did it look like I was stuck in some nightmare fairytale? I could deal with it if I knew what I was dealing with, but that was the problem. Things like this don't happen to people. Not just to me, but to anyone. I was pulled out of my mental break down when the room started spinning and I realized that I was hyperventilating. It would do me no good to pass out again. I needed to calm down and come up with a plan.
I slowed myself down and got a hold of my breath. There was a window. The childhood stories about entrapped princesses told me it would be a long way down, but I had to check. It was a lot higher than I thought. I backed away from the window and almost fell onto the bed. So, scratch that option. I couldn't run; I knew that from experience. The only thing left to do was to wait.
I didn't wait long. As soon as I laid my head on the pillow, I heard a knock at the door. They hit me over the head and kidnapped me, and now they were knocking?
"Um…come in," I said in a weak voice. I wasn't even sure who ever it was would be able to hear me through the thick wooden door, but the door opened and ghostly white, gloriously beautiful being glided toward me. He had long black hair, piercing red eyes, and despite the polite smile he wore I knew he wasn't to be trusted.
"Ah, you are awake! I'm sorry about the bump, but you understand we could not have you bringing attention to us." He let out a light chuckle and looked me over taking deep breaths every so often.
I didn't know what to say. Was he serious? If I weren't so scared I would have been furiously annoyed. The silence seemed like it lasted a lifetime but I'm sure it only lasted a few seconds as he walked past me to sit on the bed. I glanced to the door which he had left open and back at him. Would he be as fast as the woman? He chuckled at my expression. I knew that the confusion and the determination were written all over my face. I could never hide what I was thinking.
"You won't get far my dear, and I would hate to damage you again…unnecessarily that is," he smiled his polite smile and I could barely contain my cringe. "You see dear, you hold something so very precious in your veins and will not lose it again." He took another deep breath through his nose and stared intently at me.
"Who are you?" my voice was surprisingly steady.
He smiled wider and spoke in a light voice, "Oh, dear! I seem to have lost all my manners! My Name is Aro, young child, and I am so very pleased to have found you." He walked over to where I was frozen and held out his hand to shake mine, but I couldn't move.
"Don't worry, young one, I won't bite." His smile changed into something darker on the last words he spoke. It chilled me further, but I lifted my hand to his. I set it in his palm, ice cold just like the other one, but he didn't shake it. He just held it there while my eyes were petrified in one place staring at his face. His smile wavered for a second and his brow furrowed, but then he laughed, dropping my hand and clasping his own together.
"My dear! You are extraordinary, aren't you? When Heidi told me of your resistance I thought you only strong willed, but, my, how I was wrong." He was genuinely surprised and I was genuinely confused.
"Of course, that means that we won't get to savor your exquisite flavor for long, but you will make a fine addition to our family once you are turned." His eyes were full of excitement at this prospect and it scared me even more than I already was. What did he mean? What did he have planned for me?
He must have seen the fear in my eyes, because his expression changed into something almost gentle, but I still couldn't trust it. He lifted his icy hand to my face and stroked my cheek.
"Don't be afraid, beautiful child. You will be very comfortable here and once you become one of us, you will have all you could ever dream of." He smiled fully and I gasped at his beautiful, perfect teeth. "You must be so confused. Let me explain."
He led me to the bed and gestured me to sit next to him. I sat as far as the bed would allow, which was far too short a distance seeing as he gently took hold my hand.
"My young child, there is so much you don't know, so much in this world that is kept secret from your kind. We've brought you here to get all we can from you're sweet blood, my dear, but how could we imagine that the sweet nectar that flows through you would be given to us with such a powerful being. Ah, you are more than you know." He seemed in awe of me and I was more confused than before. My blood? He wants my blood and he thinks I'm powerful? He saw the confusion cross my face.
"Blood is our nourishment, young Bella. We are Vampires here." I became still as stone and my face broke with shock. I must have misheard, but I knew I didn't. It made everything that happened make so much sense and yet it made no sense at all. He couldn't be a…I couldn't even bring my mind to think the word. This was impossible, but my mind couldn't come up with another plausible answer.
He sat there silently, amused by my expressions as I tried to work everything out in my mind. Why me? And if he really was what he said he was, then why am I still alive?
"I don't understand," my voice was barely a whisper.
"No, I suppose not. It must be so much for your human brain to take in. We drink blood, young Bella, but yours is too precious to taste only once. You see, while all blood is tantalizing, yours is…" he lifted my wrist to his face and closed his eyes, inhaling the scent of my blood, "spellbinding. You're blood is like a drug to us, Bella. And not knowing when or if I'll come across another like you, I refuse to only relish in your flavor once." He sighed, a little saddened by something, but resumed his joyful disposition almost immediately. He saw the questions in my eyes.
"You see, child, once we found you we were planning to be immersed in your essence for the next few decades, but with the powers I sense in you, I can not waste your gift, either." He lifted his hand to my cheek again. "My dear child, you are so very special to me. You will be so much more than we had originally planned for you. Once you become immortal, you will be part of this family and you will have everything." He continued to gaze at me for a few moments before he swiftly retreated toward the corridor. He turned back to me from the door with another awestruck expression.
"I will give you time to settle into your new life here. Sleep well, my child." He was gone in the time it took me to blink with the door closed securely behind him.
I don't know how long I sat staring at nothing at all, until I realized that the room had gone dark. I turned my head slowly to look out the window and saw the moon the sky. I turned my head slowly back and felt my body shaking and the hot tears burning down my cheeks as I started to sob. This was it, my life was over. I would never see my mother or father again. They would think me dead and I was almost grateful that they wouldn't know the true hell I was going to endure. What I wouldn't give to be in boring, rainy Forks, Washington.
I felt the strength leave my body as I slumped over on the bed and continued to convulse. This was my life now, being the prisoner in the fairytale style castle, locked away by vampires. But I was no princess, and there would be no prince to rescue me from this nightmare. I was damned to live a hopeless existence, being a pet to a monster.
I cried for what seemed like an eternity, until finally, I had no strength left to feel anything at all. I laid there motionless and dead for some time more, and then, after another eternity, my body drifted off into nothingness and I fell into sleep.