Let You Down
I will let you down
When do you finally trust me
Finally believe in me
I came to just when I was being carried out of a car.
I supposed that it was a car I was being dragged out of as I was too terrified to open my eyes and check.
'Where was Adam?' I mentally cried, 'I know he'll save me from these monsters'.
These comforting thoughts of him seemed to calm my rapidly beating heart down, which was a good thing as I did not want these vampires to be alerted to the fact that I had awoken.
'Where am I?' I was so confused. The thoughts were milling around frantically in my brain.
Who are these people? What was I doing here? When will Adam come and rescue me?
"I know you're awake poppet," a voice murmured next to me.
I opened my eyes wide to stare into those of scar-face. He and his friend were both smiling down at me, with the hint of their fangs peaking through.
I think that this sent me over the edge. I resisted my control and began to struggle and cry out for help. Both of the men... – vampires were cruelly chuckling and grinning.
As I sucked in a breath I smelled that we were by the harbour, especially as the decaying stench of rotting fish and sewage from the city assaulted my senses. I barely noticed when I was being dragged onto an expensive yacht.
'Please', I thought praying to a God I hadn't previously believed in, 'let Adam find me and take me away from here'. I had absolute faith that he would fight for me and rescue me. There must have been some huge mistake. I was Adam's girl. No other vampires should be touching me. Please Adam, save me.
"Once Adam hears about this he will tear your throats out with his teeth", I said tightly through clenched teeth to my captors.
They paused a moment to look at each other before bursting into laughter.
I was outraged.
"How dare you!" I screeched, "let me go now!"
I was being dragged further and further into this massive boat, hardly realising that we had come to a complete stop as I was struggling so much.
"LET ME GO!" I screamed again.
"Abby, shush."
That voice was like a slap in the face.
"Adam?" I could not believe it. He was here. Right in front of me. His face was solemn and he was formally dressed in a sharp three-piece suit. Why wasn't he back-handing the men next to me?
He must have seen the disbelief in my expression because he then said, "Abby, you're going to have to go with these men and be quiet."
I was shell-shocked. He looked so impassive, so blank, so emotionless, so cold. A vampire. A vampire in every sense of the word.
I was so shocked to make another noise so I let the men on either side of me drag me away to one of the rooms. I felt so numb. What was happening?
I was placed in a room with five women around me.
I was told again to be quiet, as if I was shouting. I wish I was but the numbness was sweeping over me.
The women were like practical nurses. They stripped me of my jeans and top and began to examine me. It would have been the most humiliating experience of my life except that I could not seem to think of anything other than Adam's betrayal. Was this a joke? Was I being sold to white slavery? Was I the joke?
The women, whom I gathered were actually vampires as they moved abnormally fast for humans, were muttering stuff to each other like "in good health" and "she's a non-smoker", obviously talking about me. What I was being examined for I was not sure, and did not want to think about for fear of blacking out again.
Afterwards I was placed in a different room with a maid-like lady there to put me in a white cotton dress that came down past my knees and had sleeve to cover most of my arms. In any other circumstances, I would have been embarrassed to be caught wearing something that resembled a nightgown. But this wasn't like any other normal circumstance.
I hardly noticed that I was being led down a hallway with two of the vampire nurses on either side of me.
Time became disjointed. Dislocated. I felt out of step with what was happening to me. One second I was walking down a corridor, the next I was in a large circular room. How big was this boat? The room was all sterile white and polished mahogany wood. Panes of wood tiles under my feet and white leather sofas were situated around the room's edges. From my perpetual vision, I noticed that there were all sorts of men and women surrounding me. Correction: vampires were surrounding me. They were all dressed in formal attire; black tuxedos and long sweeping elegant dresses in a variety of colours contrasting with their hard pale skin.
I didn't hear anything until,
"Abigail Harriet Ward, you are called forward."