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Okay, so this story took a turn that I wasn't expecting but it's there now so I'm just going to roll with it. I will probably have to change the rating because it got way darker than I was expecting.
I haven't done that yet so this is your warning.

Abandon all hope ye who enter here

Seriously though, this chapter has some pretty dark stuff going on so I strongly advise reader discretion here. Read on at your own risk, otherwise skip to the next chapter or maybe the one after that, and then play catch up. The following chapter is rated M for Majorly Messed Up. Adult themes, language and violence of a sexual nature follow. Seriously, don't read it if it makes you uncomfortable.

Rose POV

Charles remained at the end of the bed with an impassive look on his face. He regarded the scene before him as if he were a zoologist, filming animals in the wild. It amazed me what humans would do for the promise of eternal life, even though it was usually a lie.
I clamped my lips together as Nathan's hands roamed my body, desperate not scream. He'd use it to fuel his excitement and to hurt Abe and those were two things that I couldn't allow. I tried to be strong, but as he raked his nails across my skin, I let out a pained whimper. He wrapped his fingers around my throat and stood up, bringing me to my feet in front of him.
"Scream for them, Rosie. Scream for your father and your lover." Nathan said.
"Fuck you." I spat.
He laughed and continued his search of my body. "I can see why Belikov chose you to be his. Such a strong body, supple. You're everything that most women wish that they could be. Sex on legs with an attitude to match. I'll enjoying taking you again, Rosie. And again, and again, and again. You'll be my blood whore and I will be your master. Eventually, you're going to beg me to take you to my bed."
"I highly doubt that." I said, but stayed still. Just like in training with Dimitri, I was waiting for the opportune moment to put him on his ass. It would take every ounce of energy that I had and I'd still be left with Charles, but I was pretty sure that I could take him. I was still weak from yesterday but I had to do this. I had to get away, make sure that Abe and Dimitri never got the film and get the hell out of here.
"We shall see." He said and ran his fangs up the side of my neck. "You love the bite, Rosie. All you have to do is ask for it, and I'll give it to."
I kept my mouth shut and tried my best to ignore him; his voice, his fangs, his hands on my body. He spun me around so that my back was against his chest, so that the camera would catch every expression that ran over my face. I closed my eyes, refusing to let Abe and Dimitri see how terrified I was. My hands were shaking as they hung limply by my sides and nausea rolled through my stomach at the thought of them seeing this. I needed to be strong, I needed to get away.
Nathan growled as he ripped the dress of my, baring my chest to the camera. It fell to the floor, pooling around my feet and I was left in just my underwear. His long fingers went to the back of my bra and unhooked it and then that joined the tattered dress on the ground. He was too busy ogling my body to really pay attention, so I took adavantage of the moment and decided that it was now or never.
I threw my head back, connecting it with his nose, knowing that it wouldn't hurt so much as surprise him. I tried a move that usually worked on Dimitri; hooking my foot behind his hand throwing my weight in an attempt to knock him down. It worked and allowed myself a second of triumph before I tried to run. He stood up with his strigoi speed and had me pinned to the bed before I could even take a step. Somehow, in the middle of all of that movement, he'd also been able to get his pants down in the process. He hovered me, completely naked from the waist down and ripped away my underwear. "Oh, Rosie. I've always loved it when you put up a fight." He said and then thrust in to me.
I screamed at the intense pain and couldn't hold back the tears. "Dimitri, please." I whispered, more to myself than anyone else. "Please help me."
Nathan growled and forced himself further in to me. "You will not say his name when you are with me, Rosie."
He didn't like it, so of course, I did it even more. I started screaming, screaming for Dimitri and trying my best to get him off of me. Being so weak and in so much pain, I barely rocked him but it didn't stop me from trying. If Dimitri was going to be forced to watch this, he was going to know that I tried to stop it, that I tried to get out.
Nathan roared and pulled out of me, raising his fist and ramming it in to my face. he caught my cheekbone and little black and white dots danced across my eyes as I groaned. He moved away from me, knowing that I was too dizzy to move and fetched something from his pants. It was his belt, I saw just before he flipped me over so that I was face down on the bed. I could feel his thighs between my own, cold and firm and then there was nothing but agony as the belt met my flesh. There was a stinging pain and I screamed and begged him to stop. Of course, he didn't. He kept on beating me with what felt like the buckle end of his belt until he'd had enough. He ran his finger down my spine.
"Oh, Rosie. I'll never get enough of this." He said and then made a popping noise as if he'd just licked his finger clean.
"Fuck... you." I said through gritted teeth, feeling like I was going to pass out.
I must have because the next thing I knew, Nathan was forcing himself inside me once more. I screamed and kicked but it was no use. He had my arms pinned behind my back at an awkward angle and I could feel them rubbing through something warm and slick but my mind was too busy trying to block out the pain to really pay too much attention to it. He pulled away from me and rested his hands on either side of my face and turned my head so that I was looking straight at Charles, straight at the camera.
"Smile for your loved ones, Rosie." He said in an almost sing-song voice. "Zmey, I will make you a trade. Your life for that of your daughter. Surrender yourself and she will be given back to you. Refuse and she will be mine for the rest of her life. I will feed off of her and ravish her body for the rest of her days until she is broken. Only then will I out the little blood whore out of her misery. You've got twenty four hours from the moment that you see this message. There is a number inside the package, call it and you will be given the instructions for your surrender."
I stared down the camera as best as I could with my face being rammed in to the bed, desperately trying to send a message with my face. A message that said 'don't give yourself up. He's lying', but all I could do was cry. Tears leaked from the corner of my eye, ran across the bridge of my nose and then ran in to my other eye. Nathan lifted me up by my hair and stood me in front of his body, giving whoever would watch the tape a full frontal view of my body. I prayed that it wouldn't be either of them that had to see it, that they'd hand it over to Janene or Liss. Actually, no, I didn't want either of them to see it. I didn't want anyone to see it, but if I had to choose, it would be Alberta. She'd be able to distance herself and she'd know what to do.
Nathan sunk his fangs in to my neck once again, drinking from me as my vision started to darken around the edges. Before I knew it, I was gone again.

When I woke up, I was face down on the bed again, completely naked but thankfully alone. I tried to get up but I was so sore. Every muscle in my body hurt as if I'd trained for a week straight. I laid as still as I possibly could, trying to minimise the pain but I knew that it was impossible. There was a dull throbbing between my legs and my back hurt just from breathing. Nathan had really done a number on me.
I heard the door open and close, her feet padding over to me on the soft carpet. I turned my head, praying that it wasn't Nathan. It wasn't. Rainbow girl was back, a bowl of water in her hands and a bag swinging at her elbow. She put them both down on the nightstand and then starting taking things out of the little bag. It was like a first aid kid; disinfectant, antiseptic, bandages. Everything that she'd need to patch me up and prepare me for whatever else Nathan had planned.
"I've come to clean you for the master." She wouldn't meet my eyes. In fact, she wouldn't look at me at all. She kept her eyes fixed on the floor as she came closer to me.
"I don't want you to clean me." I said, trying to snap at her but it just came out as exhaustion. I was tired, I was hungry and I was thirsty and I was in pain.
"I'm afraid that you don't have a choice, Rosie. If you don't let me clean you then I've been ordered to go and fetch the master and he will..." She hesitated. "I'll have to fetch the master."
I nodded but didn't say anything to her. There wasn't much point. She wasn't a person that I could reason with, she was a person that had been promised immortality in return for her throwing her morals away. She stepped forward and peeled the duvet away, exposing my naked back. She didn't say anything or make any noises of shock so I assumed that she'd seen something similar before. "Is this what he does to all of his captives?" I asked.
"I've seen worse, Rosie. You should count your blessings." She said and dipped a cloth in to the water and began to wash away the dry blood.
I winced as the cloth touched my sensitive skin. "Count my blessings?" I asked, more to make sure that I'd heard her correctly and wasn't hallucinating.
"Yes. The last girl that he did this to died." She said calmly. "You should think yourself lucky that you're still with us."
Think myself lucky? Ha! I tried to turn my head so that I could glare at her over my shoulder but I couldn't move enough. The truth was, I'd rather be like the other girl. I'd rather be dead than have to live through what that son of a bitch had done to me. I'd rather be dead than have to feel it or remember it. I'd rather be dead than have to think about Dimitri and Abe watching what he'd done.
When Rainbow Girl had finished, I didn't thank her. Why would I thank her for preparing me for him? She covered me back up, the duvet resting on my bandages, and gathered her things before leaving me alone again. The door locked behind her immediately and I was trapped again.

It had been days since Nathan had come to visit me, not that I was complaining about it, but it had also been days since I'd eaten anything. The last meal I'd had was the pasta that Nathan's humans had given me, and I'd only managed to have a few forkfulls before it had been launched across the room. As for water, I hadn't had anything since the party. That seemed as if it had been another lifetime ago. A happier time when I was with the people that I loved. I tried to swallow but my throat was as dry as if I'd been left in the desert for a week and eaten nothing but sand. We'd learned about survival at school but I'd forgotten most of it. How long could a person go without food and water? Was it three days for food and three weeks for water? No, that couldn't be right. It had to be only a few days without water before the internal organs started shutting down. I remembered Miss Blockley saying that we'd know when we were about to die because we wouldn't feel it any more – the thirst or the hunger. I had more time yet because I was definitely feeling it.
The second door in my room had been unlocked at some point, I'd found out on one of my escape attempts. I was able to move with slightly more ease and had tried desperately to find a away out of there. The door handle had turned and the door had opened, revealing a small bathroom. A toilet, a sink and small shower cubicle were in there. Obviously Nathan didn't want me to use a bucket as a toilet, which I was slightly grateful for. The bathroom was stocked with essentials; shampoo and conditioner, even tampons - which was handy seeing as my period was due three days after Liss's party. I didn't know how long ago that had been though so I had no idea of tracking it.
I'd tried to shower on my own but hadn't been able to take the bandages off of my back and I was sure that I'd cause myself even more injury if I kept trying. Instead, I showered with them on. They fell off in the shower though; they were the ones that stuck like plasters rather than the kind that wrapped around my body. The water stung when it hit my back as if it were acid coming out of the shower head and not warm water. Cold water didn't help much either, though it did soothe some of the pain. When I was finished, I patted myself dry with a towel and then went to my duffle bag that had filled with my things from home. I through it and couldn't decide whether I should be happy or furious.
Whoever had packed my bag had been thorough. I had everything in there that I'd need for a long stay; jeans, leggings, work out clothes, underwear. They'd even packed my favourite moisturiser. Nathan hadn't been kidding when he said that he'd never let me go. I dressed quickly, pulling on my leggings and a loose T shirt before I laid back down on the bed. I thought of everyone back home, wondering how they were all doing, wishing that I had the bond so that I could check in on Liss and Christian but also glad that I didn't have it. Sooner or later, Liss would have worked out to open her side of the bond so that she could visit me. If she had of done that and come to check on me, she'd been living through the same hell as I was. As much as I didn't want that for myself, I couldn't bare the thought of Liss having to go through it. She was safe, Nathan hadn't even asked about her, and she was with Dimitri and Janene; the two people that I would trust above anyone else to protect her. Christian would be making sure that she keeps her healing charms on and Adrian would be with her to keep her mind busy with stories of his many indiscretions. Liss was safe and if I had anything to do with it, she would stay that way. I knew that there wouldn't be much that I could do from here even if she was in danger, but it made me feel better to think about her being safely guarded and not stuck in this hell hole with me.
It was funny really. The last thing time I'd spoken to Abe, he'd called me a blood whore and here I was, being fed off of and raped. Sure, blood whores were usually willing participants but the irony wasn't lost on me. Of course, after he receives the package he'd probably feel guilty for saying those things to me but there wasn't much that either of us could do about it now.

I opened my eyes slowly but I coudln't see anything. The lights had been turned off and I didn't feel like playing hunt the light switch. I heard something, the slightest noise from the other side of the room and tensed involuntarily, waiting for an attack.
"Roza?" I could hear Dimitri's voice but I couldn't see him anywhere. I breathed a sigh of relief even though I didn't know where he was. I couldnt have, I couldn't even see my own hand in front of my face. "Roza?"
"Dimitri? Is it really you?" Barely able to contain my pure joy. Dimitri was here and he was going to take me home.
"Yes. I'm here for you, my Roza." He said, his delicious accent making me feel safer already. "Are you okay?"
"Where are you?" I asked, holding my hands out and hoping that I'd feel him.
"I'm here for you, Roza. Are you all right?"
"I'm..." I was about to tell him that I was fine but we would both know that it was a lie. "No."
"Do you remember what I once said to you, Roza?" He asked.
"No."
"You are brave, you are cunning and you are strong."
"I'm not any of those things, Dimitri."
"Yes, my beautiful Roza, you are. Be brave, be cunning."
"I'm locked in a room with no windows and two doors that's kept locked at all times, Dimitri. How brave and cunning can I be?"
"Enough to find a way out of it." He said on a whisper and I knew that he was gone. I missed the sound of his voice as soon as it was gone. That man had always been a balm for my soul and I needed him, now more than ever.
To be fair, he hadn't been there at all but I was still heart broken. Dimitri was my one chance of getting out of here. I wasn't usually one to give in but this time was different. There was no out. Even if there was, there were more of them than me. Add to the fact that I was weak from my bloodless and my injuries... I didn't stand a chance without Dimitri. As much as I hate it, I had to hand it to Nathan. He'd planned this extremely well.
I felt as if I'd only just closed my eyes again when Adrian appeared. He looked so relieved to see me that he charged at me, bringing me against his body as he held on tightly."I didn't think that I've ever see you again." He whispered against my ear.
"How did you find me?" I asked as I held on to him for dear life.
"I've been searching for you for a week, little dhampir."
"A week? Is that all it's been?" I asked and then frowned. "You're not really here, are you?"
"No. Tell me where you are and I'll come and get you."
"I don't know. In some sort of hotel. I, I don't know where I am." I said, hot tears running down my face.
"Tell me everything, Rose." He said as he led me over to the sofa and sat me down. He perched next to me and held my hand.
"I don't know what happened. I remember being at the party. I remember arguing with Abe and needing to get out of there. I remember walking towards home and then nothing. I woke up in a hotel room."
"Are you sure?"
I nodded, even though I wasn't really sure.
"What did it look like?"
"Cream. Everything was cream."
"Was there a sign on the door? Anything that can help me find you?"
"I can't remember."
"Then show me." He said, handing the control of the dream over to me.
I did my best to remember and once again the scenery changed. I was back in the hotel room with it's cream walls and fluffy carpets. The cream sheets on the king size bed. "This is it."
"I know where you are." He said with a smile and squeezed my hands. "We're coming, little dhampir. We're coming to get you."
"Adrian, wait. You can't come here."
"Why not?"
"It's not safe. You have to keep everyone away from here. My dad, Liss. They can't come here."
"It'll be alright." He promised and then stood up. "I'll see you soon, little dhampir."
"Adrian, wait! How's Dimitri?"
"He thought that you'd left him. Don't worry, I'll tell him what happened."
"He hasn't seen it then?"
"Seen what?"
"There's a, um, there might be a package arriving soon. It's for him and Abe."
"What kind of package?"
"One that you can't let them see. Please, Adrian. Don't let them see it."
"Rose, what..." He wanted to ask me something but had thought better of it. "I'm coming to get you." He said as the hotel room began to fade at the edges.
"They're waking me up, aren't they?"
He nodded but gave me an encouraging smile. "You're going to be okay, Rose. I promise."
I wanted to believe him but as the dream faded away and I woke up, I knew that I absolutely was not going to be okay.