ROSALIE
Thunder rumbled as we carried Sam to the operation table. She'd been shot… and raped. This was so painful. It brought back memories of the last minutes of my human life. Royce King and his band of drunks…
I had been moved out of the room by Carlisle and a team of surgeons from Forks hospital, and was pacing back and forth, anxious. I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around. There was a goth girl, about fifteen, with spiky black hair and those same electric blue eyes as Sam had. I smiled. "Hi, can I help you?" she said, "I'm looking for Sam." I thought about the same odd eyes Sam and this girl shared. I wondered if they were sisters. "Well, she's in surgery… but you need to- woah, come back here!"
Thalia went into the operating room, and I was on her tail. When I was about to take her out of the room, she spoke to Carlisle. "I'm Thalia. This is my sister, Sam. I need to take her with me; Now." I lunged forward, and hissed, "Get out, now." She smiled, ha! When faced with a threat of vampires, she smiles.
I gave her the best evil eye I could. "Do you want to leave the easy or the hard way?" She rolled her eyes. In a flash, everything had changed- literally. There was a flash of bright blue, and when I could see again Thalia had left.
With Sam.
SAM
Flashes of the previous events went before my eyes. The gun; those… men… smiling as they violated me.
Flashes of my life also came. I was raised as the perfect child; in Rose's image. Speak only when spoken to, wear pretty dresses, politeness. All came down to that. I was homeschooled because I had severe dyslexia. It was all just too hard to process at the rate Esme and Rose co-taught my curriculum. Rose was a control freak. I couldn't even leave the house without her smothering me. "Where are you going? I'll come with you. For how long? No, it's too dangerous." Ha! She hasn't seen dangerous until she's seen the weird three headed dog thing I saw at the pet store. Nobody would believe me, though. Just like the time I saw the evil bird lady attack me. Somehow, they'd all get hit by some kind of lightning before they could touch me, like I had a force field… The flashes became rapider, worse as the seconds passed by. In the distance, I heard,
"Do you want to do this the easy way, or the hard way?" Crrrack!
I saw Carlos' face smiling as he pulled the trigger, their laughter as they… I couldn't take it. I opened my eyes.
SAM
Before me was a strange woman. She had brown hair, and some kind or silver headband, and was staring at me intently.
"She's awake."
Footsteps. Another person, a man, kneels before me, watching me anxiously.
"Samantha, do you know where you are?"
Flash. The gun being fired. I sat up. Or jerked up was the right way to put it… I got up and backed away.
Flash, the monsters laughing.
"Who are you, where did you come from, are you gonna shoot me again, why are you here? Where am I?" I asked in the same three seconds.
They looked more concerned now. The woman said,"Sam, honey I think you should lie down again."
"No, I'm okay, by the way, where am I?" I asked, fast again. The woman came forward and attempted to look at me up close, but I said, "No, no touching, I don't want to be touched. Where am I? Who are you? Why am I here? Where's Rose? What happened?"
The weird woman sighed. "Honey, you're a little shaken up, I think. You should lie down. I'm going to take you to a guest room. I won't touch I promise. Just follow me. I followed her, wondering if Rose would be in there. Instead there was a big room with a bed in it. The strange lady made sure I laid down on the bed and said a really weird word like hypnos or something and then I fell asleep.
Hera strode back to the throne room, worried.
"Any luck, Hera?" Zeus asked. This was their first godling in the past millennia or so. They couldn't lose her now.
"No. She's got some kind of amnesia."
"Well should we dip her in the lethe?"
Hera hesitated. She wasn't sure that the lethe would do anything to help now. They just had to… she got it! All they needed to do was extract her memories.
"No. I have an idea. Zeus, summon Janus." She said, a twinge of hope coming to her.
