A/N: Hi people! Told you it would be a faster update than last time didn't I? Well, in this you get to learn a bit more about Lyam's and Anna's history. I've been working on finishing this for like eight hours, so hope you like it. (aka 8 hours spaced intermittently with searching random stuff on the web, listening to music, just lying on my bed thinking, sending emails, talking to my grandma for like twenty minutes, and eating)
Chapter 7: Captured
Okay, you know in those movies where the hero, or heroin is captured, and goes to a creepy door, and a voice from inside says 'Enter!' what do you imagine to see? Well, in my life, I usually think, I'm going into a death trap equipped with multiple vampires.
Turns out, I was right.
As soon as the doors were opened, Anna skipped into the room, her yellow dress over blue jeans flowing out behind her. She stopped right in front of the three head leeches and started chatting animatedly with them.
Alec walked in ahead of me, and Lyam motioned for me to go in before him.
"Lord Aro, may I present you with the shifter you requested!" said Alec.
"I thought they were only boys," muttered the one on the right. I think his name was Cakes no, Cadis, no was it Caius? Yeah, that was right.
When he said this, I got mad. Why is everyone so discriminating against girls? Well, everyone who does something, says something, or does anything remotely like what Caius said, is immediately on my bad list. Of course all vampires – excluding Lyam and Anna – were on my bad list, so, it didn't really matter. Wow, there are a lot of people on my bad list now that I think about it, maybe I should make another list…
Back to the matter at hand. Caius and Aro were looking at me, as if they could see the little gears inside my mind and body that made me work.
"Hello? Um…what are you going to do with me? Not to sound very impatient, but this is very boring; I could be doing something useful right now, like not being in Italy. If you people – excuse me, leeches – aren't going to do anything with me at the moment, then maybe you could take me back to Forks?" I said, "I mean, that's just a suggestion, maybe you could take me back, and we could forget this ever even happened."
Completely ignoring my monologue, the bloodsucker guy, Aro said, "Take it to the place I prepared, you know what to do then."
"Yes, Sir!" said Anna, mock saluting the leeches.
Lyam stepped forward, toward the evil, smelly vampires, "Aro, she's not an 'it'. Leah actually has a name."
I gazed at him, silently admiring his bravery at defending me. He had just talked back to his leader, for me.
"Lyam," said Alec, "It's just a shape shifting human. It doesn't deserve to be thought as of equal to us."
That stupid, idiotic, moronic leech! He didn't care about anything, and the way he had talked to Lyam was unacceptable! I stepped towards him, growling. In my mind, millions of different ways to hurt him consumed me.
And suddenly, as fast as it had happened in the woods, I felt nothing. I couldn't feel the cold marble under my feet, couldn't hear my own heartbeat, couldn't see anything, couldn't even smell the rancid odder of the vampires in front of me!
After what felt like eons, I finally snapped out of it, and saw Alec lying on the floor. On top of him, was Lyam, his arms pinning the bloodsucker to the ground. Hovering in the air above, and around them, were pieces of furniture.
"Leave. Her. Alone." Lyam snarled at Alec. Tearing my gaze from the two on the floor, I saw Anna holding a little girl against the wall. She had the same blond hair as Alec, and had a look of frustration on her face. Anna was smiling at her.
That was when I remembered about the two vampire siblings, one caused you to feel nothing, and the other pain. But if the little girl caused you to feel pain, why didn't I, or Lyam feel any?
As I pondered this, what Anna had said in the forest made sense, "Of course," she had said, "If he hadn't, I would have made him anyway," Anna, and Lyam must be some of the gifted vampires, but what were their gifts?
"STOP!" shouted Aro, "Lyam, Anna. Please release Alec and Jane. Jane, Alec. Do not use your powers without consent from one of us, or without reason."
"She was coming to attack me!" shouted Alec, "What was I supposed to do? Let it shift?"
"Alec, an abnormal human girl seeming to want to attack you is no reason for you to use your powers." said Caius.
I was getting tired of this. The damned vampires were talking about me as if I didn't exist. Lyam and Anna were the only ones here, I thought really cared that I was here.
"Excuse me," I said in my most polite tone, "What the hell do u think you're doing? First, I get kidnapped then, I get taken to this stupid castle. Nobody even acknowledges my existence, except Lyam and Anna. And I'm standing here with you talking about me, as if I was back home in Forks!" my voice had risen over the course of my tirade, and now, I was practically shouting.
"You tell your stupid goon, Alec, that I'm not a threat to him, do you even know what I'm capable of?" I asked, "No, you don't. Thats why you want to study me like a lab rat, why else woud you even bothered capturing me in the first place?"
The three vampire rulers looked at each other, then back at me. Aro said, "Take her away."
Lyam and Anna walked towards me. "Come on," whispered Lyam.
They took me down corridors, up and down stairways, and through large rooms.
Now, I have no idea what you think of when an evil vampire, that belongs in the pits of hell, tells someone to take you away, to a room they've prepared for you. But I didn't think it would be a room, with one of those chairs that is just a square cushion thing, and a table.
"Are your leaders idiots, or do they honestly think I have no need of sleep?" I asked. "Oh, wait, scratch that. They are idiots. Only a complete idiot would think that a girl who has just been kidnapped, from the west coast of America, and taken to Italy wouldn't have a need to sleep."
Besides me, Anna cracked up, "You've got that right, they are idiots." she said, "They're minds are so easy to manipulate!"
"What do you mean?" I asked, turning to Lyam. Staring at his eyes, I thought I could never look away!
"Well, you know, you live with some gifted vampires, right?"
"I wouldn't say that I lived with them exactly," I said, "tolerate is a better word." He smiled at that, and my heart skipped a beat.
"Anna and I are gifted vampires too." he said, I had guessed correctly.
Anna jumped in front of him, "I can manipulate people's thoughts, and Lyam can move objects with his mind!"
"Anna!" he said, glaring at her, "You know Aro doesn't want us telling Leah things."
"But she'd figure out anyway, I mean its not that hard to miss when people start doing whatever I tell them to, and one of your books flies right towards you."
They glared at each other for a minute, and then what tey did surprised me. Lyam and Anna started laughing. Lyam's laugh was like...i really have no clue how to explain it. It was just so perfect, and right. And it sounded like...there are just no words to describe it.
My stomach rumbled, catching the two vampires off guard. "Oh! That's right!" said Anna, "You have to eat right? What do you want, animal blood, human blood?"
"GROSS!" I shouted, "I don't drink blood. I eat normal human food. And lots of it as a matter of fact."
"Oh." she said, "I don't think we have that here." Anna looked at Lyam, "Does that mean I have to go all the way down and talk to Rayanne about getting her some food?"
"Who's Rayanne?" I asked. Although I already had a pretty good idea.
"She's this mortal girl we use as our secretary. Among other things..." said Anna, trying to sound mysterious.
I felt sorry for the girl, although, she was pretty stupid. Odds were, the vampires would probably eat her. She must really want to be one of them. Idiot girl.
When Anna left to get me some human food, I decided the silly cushion; poof thingy was better than nothing. I sat down, and Lyam sat down next to me. The two of us sat there in silence for a few minutes, but strangely, it wasn't uncomfortable.
"So," I started, unsure of what to say, "What's living in the Volturi like?"
"Ah, It's okay," he said. I looked up at him as he spoke, taking in every word he said, like it was air. "It's just, I wish I was back out there in the real world, you know?" he asked. I nodded.
Something he had said puzzled me though, "Back?" I asked, "Weren't you and your sister bitten by them?"
"No, Anna and I were born in London around 1873. I was changed at the age of twenty-three, and Anna at seventeen."
I started laughing. Lyam looked at me quizzically, and I said, "We have a similarity. I have a younger sibling too, his names Seth, and he's eighteen." He chuckled at that, and again, I loved his laugh.
"Is he as annoying as Anna?" he asked.
"Pretty much." I answered. We sat there for a few moments. Neither of us knew what to talk about. Finally I said, "So, continue with your story."
"Well, I don't see how this could help you to escape, or give you something to tell the other vampires you live with -- excuse me, tolerate -- I'll tell you the rest." He took a breath, although he really didn't need to, "I'd help my dad, Lars Garrison, in his work. He was a carpenter, and when I was a little kid, he made this wooden board thing, and he made wheels, and it looked sort of like a skateboard, and I would ride it to school." When he said this, I smiled, picturing a young boy with Lyam's golden brown locks, his face filled with joy and excitement as he raced along on a rickety wooden board.
"So, Anna would help our mom with all the things women did back then. Now don't call me sexist," he said at my look, "if it was me handing out the jobs, I would have let them choose, but it was how people thought back then.
"As I was saying, Anna helped our mom with sewing and cooking. One day, I needed to go into town to buy a certain wood for my father, and Anna accompanied me, because she needed some thread for her embroidery.
"We were walking home, when, from within an alley, a vampire – We of course, being ignorant thought he was a man – attacked us." I was captivated by his story, and when he talked about the vampire attack, it made me want to hunt down that vampire, and kill it.
"For three days, the pain was so bad that if we hadn't been changing, we probably would have died. I'm not so sure why the vampire didn't finish us off, but when we woke up as vampires, there was another one sitting there, waiting for us to get up. His name was Darren or something, and he said he had chased away the vampire that changed us." Lyam paused for a moment, and then continued.
"I never really believed him. Why wouldn't he just finish us off himself?
"Well, Darren wasn't the smartest of vampires, and around 1930, he got himself killed by the Volturi."
"So is that when you and Anna joined?" I asked.
"No, we traveled the countries, but we could never settle down in one place for too long. Then, in 2008, we were in Italy, and someone from the Volturi asked us to join them. We knew what they could do to you, if you didn't join, so we thought it would be best if we kept them on our good side."
"Wow, that is so interesting, I'd like to hear more about it some other time." I said.
Lyam looked at me, and I asked, "What?"
"You're just joking," he said.
"No. Honestly, I think your story is so interesting, way better then some of the other ones I've heard. It's all about 'Oh, I committed suicide by throwing myself off of a cliff, and then Dr. Cullen found me, and he saw that I was special so he changed me!' or 'I was dying of the Spanish Influenza in Chicago, and Carlisle was treating me and my parents when my mom passed, and told him to save me.' All of the Cullen's have to do with them almost dying. It's so boring to hear over and over and over, but yours. I could listen to it for the rest of my life and never get bored." Oh my God. Did I really just say that, out loud? What if Lyam didn't like me? Could he like me like I liked him? Sure, he had stood up for me earlier, and told me the amazing story about him and Anna, but could he have done all of that just because he felt sorry for me?
"Leah," he said, "Thanks, you're so sweet and kind."
I snorted, did he honestly think I was sweet and kind. Once, everyone might have agreed with him, back when Sam and I were dating, when life was good, and my dad was alive, and I wasn't a freaking werewolf!
"What?" he asked.
"Me, and Sweet, we just don't mix. Same with kind."
"You know, for someone I'm supposed to dislike and keep prisoner, you're actually pretty cool." He said, "You even seem pretty okay with the whole 'Oh no, I've been captured by man-eating vampires' concept."
So he'd noticed. Probably half the castle had noticed that I didn't seem like a regular prisoner. I was way to compliant. Besides my outbursts, it seemed like I didn't even give a damn about being here. I just hoped no one found out why.
"Oh, it's just that I'm planning my escape, and being compliant, and quiet is the best way for you guys to trust me." I said sarcastically.
"You're very funny too, you know that?"
"No," I said, sarcastically again – If you people can tell that I'm being sarcastic then fine, this is for the people who don't know – "I had no idea that I was even remotely funny.
We both laughed, until Anna came in. "Dinner time for the shifter!" she called as she walked in. In her arms was one of those cardboard box top things, and inside were about twelve of those white containers that they always give you if you want to take your food home with you.
With my excellent smelling ability, I could smell the distinct scent of Italian food. What else in Italy?
"Yum!" I cried as I grabbed a container and a fork, and started eating the spaghetti within.
"Ugh." Said Anna, "It stinks."
"That means it's good," I said, taking a break from eating. God was I hungry!
"And I heard what you said about me being annoying!" said Anna to Lyam, and then to me, "Oh my god, you have a brother! Is he cute?"
"What the hell!" I cried, "You are not going to date my baby brother!"
"I could always make him…" said Anna, but at a look from Lyam, stopped.
"And you say you aren't annoying." Said Lyam, looking very annoyed.
"I'm not!" Anna said, and they started to bicker about who was the most annoying and everything that has to do with that. Although it was very heated, it was pretty obvious that they weren't serious. Well, I'm sure Lyam was serious about Anna being annoying, but other things they said, were just making fun.
I sat there, pondering all of the things Lyam had told me, while eating – Seth would say 'guzzling' – my food like a starving animal.
A/N: Okay, the reason I have the last line with the "Seth would say guzzling" part is to show (if you read chapter 6 and remember) how Seth said that Leah would say guzzling, it's to show how much alike they are, because they're like brother and sister, they have to be alike in some ways. I would just like to thank everyone's who reviewed for their support for my story you guys are awesome! Thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my stories, or put them and me onto their favorite author/favorite stories! You guys rock too! Now, I'm not sure when I'll have chapter eight, but just keep checking back, or subscribe and get an email whenever I update. Okay pplz, bi!
