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Chapter 21

Company

Seth's Point of View

I felt a rift in the air, even in my subconscious state and I sprung up from the ground, my movements alerting my brothers and sister in turn and I looked around, frantically for the source. But everything seemed to be normal. The only unusual thing was that everyone was looking at the love of my life. I frowned, deeply, looking her over but she seemed fine.

What's up? Jake asked no one in particular. He seemed to see what I was seeing and came to the same conclusion that I had. Nothing seemed to be wrong.

Can you feel that? Sam asked, worriedly. Jake and a few others nodded and I must admit, I felt something strange in the air. Like...resistance. Something was going on and I didn't like the fact that I was on the opposite end of the room to my imprint. I ran towards her, not expecting anything in my path. Nothing was in my path, or so I thought until I was thrown backwards by something I couldn't see. But damn! That hurt!

Seth! Many of my brothers shouted at the same time, confused and worried. I crashed into the throne, hearing a slight crack of my hind leg but I sprung back up, not loving the barrier from my imprint. At All. I charged forwards again to no avail, ending in the same result.

What the hell? I screamed, mentally, growling. I was starting to panic. I couldn't get to her. What was this?

We have no idea. Leah said, frightened.

We watched as Bella ran too, only ending in the same result. Nessie went to help her up as Ollie frowned.

Look. The bloodsucker seems to know something. Quil noticed as Ollie got to his feet, his arm raised as if to touch something. Right about where I was thrown back, his movements stopped and his hand was flat in mid air as if resting upon something. Then he cursed, loudly, punching the wall before he screamed, "Renata!" which made my heart start pounding in panic and fear. This wasn't good.

I phased back, just as Bella asked, "What?" and felt where he was, frowning when she felt it too. What was this, damn it? I ran forwards, slowing as I approached where they were, standing on the other side of Bella as I felt forwards. It was like a wall! I've never felt anything like it before! Who was this Renata again?

"Renata must be taking advantage of her being separated from us to place her shield so that we couldn't get to her." Ollie explained, irritated as he felt across the 'wall' as if he was trying to find a weak spot. He growled, thumping it again in panic and frustration.

"What does this mean?" I asked him, reluctant and unhappy that I had to speak directly to him but this was a time for desperate measures. My eyes were on Izzie's frightened ones and I couldn't tear the away, not while she was like this. Her arms were subconsciously cradling her stomach, wringing every so often in fright and anxiety and my heart pounded for them all.

"I don't know." he replied, anxiously just as the deadbolt on the door opened and it swung open. Jane, flanked by Kamicharika and Renata, entered the room in a timed power walk, her eyes fixated on my Izzie's, ignoring the others in the room with an evil smirk on her face. Ollie launched himself at Jane but was thrown back by the same shield I had collided with. Getting to his feet, he snarled and glowered which was echoed by me and Bella.

"Well, well, well...unprotected, I see, Izzie. Your entourage aren't doing a very good job, are they?" Kamicharika taunted, darkly. I growled as she said that, knowing that she was right! Damnit! Izzie, I'm so sorry! I cried, mentally. I watched in confusion when they approached Izzie, moving past the boundary that Bella and I were thrown back from. They must have used the shield to manipulate where they could go, keeping us out! Damnit! I watched helplessly, both hands on the 'wall' as they got closer and Izzie fell backward into one of the thrones. My heart bled for her because she was being stalked right before my eyes and I couldn't get to her. I felt like I was failing her. They all chortled, evilly, still advancing until Renata wrapped a strong, long fingered hand around her upper arm, yanking her up, roughly, making er yelp and the noise was like chalk on a blackboard, making me cringe and I snarled, viciously at the sound, knowing that they were hurting her. I'm gonna kill them all! I thought, savagely. She looked straight at me again, her expression mirroring the feelings I felt right at this moment. I hated seeing her like this. I couldn't handle it. I started hitting the barrier, as if I could knock it down just to get to her but it never faltered. Bella and Ollie had the same idea, not deterring when they got nowhere.

"What are you doing?" Izzie cried, grimacing from the force Renata was using on her arm. I growled, venomously as she yelped, looking down at the bruise already forming on her white, beautiful skin.

"Aro wishes to speak with you. You see, he wants you to go willingly. The fool can't bare to force you so I suggested we do something about it and this came up. Kammy also mentioned something about punishment for the fight Bella started with me and of course, I'm all for that." Jane answered, angelically. Izzie gulped and my heart stopped for a whole second before picking up twice as fast. They're taking her! NOO! They can't! No, please? "So you're coming with me. To Aro and there's nothing they can do about it. We have you now."

"No! Please, take me!" Bella exclaimed, desperately before I could get it out past the lump in my throat that seemed to block my whole windpipe. I could hardly breathe. I felt like I was being suffocated. "I started the fight, not her. You should be punishing me!"

"Punishing you? You won't feel anything that we have in mind for Izzie and it's either her or your daughter." she growled back, making Jake growl and hold Nessie tighter to him. "She, foolishly on your part, is the only human in here and the only one who will feel the most of what we have to offer, therefore, she comes with us. Perhaps you'd think twice about attacking me next time because it won't be you who pays for it."

And with that, I watched as she dragged her from the room, roughly, as she cried and pleaded, struggling and fighting but their hold was too tight and she was just hurting myself more.

I ran, but thrown back. I ran, but thrown back again. Right at the door, it swung closed but not before she slipped from my sight and I screamed, "NOOO!" Falling to my knees as I punched the door, repeatedly, shouting and and pleading. I felt someone beside me but I pushed them back, continuing my onslaught on the door.

"Seth..." Leah's voice sounded to my right but I ignored her.

"Seth...Th-there's nothing you can do. Just...Just to wait..." Jake said from my right and I cried out, punching the door once more as I bowed my head and cried into my lap.

"I failed her..." I cried, deeply.

"She'll be okay, Seth. They won't kill her." Leah assured me. I glared at her.

"That's not saying much, Lee! They could do anything to her! THE BABIES!" I screamed and she sighed, pulling me closer just as the first scream sounded out and I cried along with her, my body going limp in Leah's hold as my heart bled and the pain in my chest intensified with every ounce of pain they gave my Izzie...Everything she felt...I felt...

Izzie's Point of View

He slowly circled around me. His movements never made a sound, not a whisper. Every time I blinked, he seemed to be getting closer and closer until, eventually he was right above me, sneering down triumphantly. My heart was vigorous, beating hard against my chest as it competed with the kicks from inside me and the torture outside. Every time my chest expanded as I took a ragged breath, it stung, sharply, my lungs exhausted past working order. If the need for oxygen wasn't an issue, I would have stopped breathing ages ago to save me some more pain. I started to breath heavier, hurting my chest in the process as I prepared for the pain to continue.

A high, shrill scream escaped my lips when the tight leather whipped my back, causing excruciating pain to surge throughout my whole body. I could feel the warm liquid cascade down my backbone, pouring out of the newly delivered gash stretching from my left shoulder, diagonally down to my right hip. How did I know this? I knew because as the noxious air seethed though the cracks in the walls, it stung. Every inch of the wound stung like a sting of a thousand angry bees. The only thing I could hear apart from the almost silent laughter coming from my spectators behind me, was the weak, shallow gasps escaping my fragile lungs. I was winded, I could hardly breathe.

"Join us!" Aro ordered after the ninth useless time. He stood behind me, protected by his guard. I don't know what he possibly needed protection from.

"No!" I declined, feebly.

"Felix." He ordered, obviously a signal so I tensed for the next blow.

It still didn't prepare me because as the thick strap of leather struck my back, another screeching shriek exploded from my lips, filling the air with echoes and pain. The liquid became molten as the gash deepened and cascaded down my back. I became numb - my nerves were failing me with every blow to my spine.

Sobs, pleading sobs spluttered out my mouth as he struck me again and again and again. My head pounded with pain as if there was a hammer hitting it, ordering it to surrender. But, I could not, I wouldn't allow it. My body arched with my agony.

"We can stop all this. We can stop all this pain, all this agony. You simply have to say yes." Aro informed me calmly. The vampires around him snickered. He held his hand up for silence. He turned back to me. "Just say it. You know what to say. Spare yourself."

"I will…" His eyes lit up in hopefulness. Everyone else smiled, triumphantly. He circled around to me and got right up into my face. I was terrified. "…Will rather go to hell that join you!"

He growled loudly, springing back up from his crouch and it was echoed twenty time over. He stood for a minute, simply in thought while the guard watched in anticipation. After a few more seconds, he turned to me, getting right up into my face again.

"You have no idea what you're rejecting!" He whispered, nastily. I smiled.

"Maybe, just maybe, I do know what I'm rejecting." He growled again.

"Felix, give her five, no…ten and then take her back in the condition she ends up in." Aro commanded. Felix bowed his head in obedience. Aro left the room after mumbling something about entertaining guests.

There was more and more sniggering from behind me but it was suddenly muted as the pain throbbing in my head strengthened, making it all but impossible to hear anything.

Scream after scream raged from my mouth as Felix pelted me with the whipping leather. Cry after cry brought them more and more satisfaction in my pain. I kept feeling them. In my head I counted down the ten whips. One…two…three…four…five…six. That was it. That was all I felt. I couldn't feel any more, not the last four. I was so numb and I couldn't feel a thing, not even the ropes that bound me.

Ropes that suddenly released me. My arms crashed to the floor, feebly trying to break my fall as my body followed it. The circulation in my hands had been drained and I soon got quite painful pins and needles. The ropes were off and I lay there, beaten and battered like an abused child, with my children carrying their work on inside me.

"Come on!" Felix ordered, roughly dragging me towards the door until I found my feet. He continued to drag me as I towed my feet behind me. He dropped me to the floor again, without care and I heard locks unbolting.

I felt a sudden rush of relief as I came into view when he opened the door from all the shouts for me. In the same second, my heart filled with pain and grief as their shouts turned to horrified gasps as a result of my condition, confirming my fears of how I looked.

"You b*****d! What have you done to her?" I heard Bella bellow from across the room. Her ranting became louder and closer as she advanced upon me.

"Simply persuasion techniques, nothing compared to what I could have done." Felix boasted, smirking.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU, FELIX!" Ollie and Emmett yelled together. They grinned at each other, despite themselves and the current situation.

If I had to compare Ollie to anybody in this room, it would be Emmett. Neither can take a situation seriously where every body else would, not even one like this.

I felt more and more hands on me as I heard the door slam, echoing the loud, indulgent, devilish laughter of Felix across the cavernous room. I heard voices but too many and too fast to comprehend anything. The three voices that were the most distinct to me were Seth's, Bella's and Carlisle's, meaning they were the closest to me.

"Izzie, what did they do to you?" Bella asked, desperately. I didn't answer but I swayed where I sat. Seth steadied me.

"Come on, sweet. Let's get you to the bed." Seth suggested, heart broken. His eyes were red and puffy and I knew that it must have been torture to listen to that. Oh, Seth... I shook my head at him. He frowned.

Bella gasped, "Seth, look at her back!" She cried. Her cold temperature soothed my wounds but the pressure she applied made me recoil from her hands with a tiny wail.

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She apologised, soothing my face. "I'm gonna kill them, very, very, very, very, very slowly."

"No…I'm, I'm fine, really." I tried to assure them, weakly. Seth and Edward snorted along with everyone else's method of disbelief.

"No way in hell we're gonna fall for that one, Izzie. We heard the screams!" Edward snapped, I sighed.

"Alice, my bag." Carlisle requested, quietly. His eyes still on my wounds, frowning.

"Where did you get medical supplies?" I asked, keeping my mind off the seething pain. He smiled and then frowned.

"They gave them to me. I wondered why." He replied. I wasn't really paying attention then because my full undivided attention was focused, foolishly, on the aching, scrapping pain surging down my spine.

My breathing spiked and my heart accelerated. They heard it and Seth scooped me up in his arms, walking over to the bed. Within a few seconds, after realising where he was going, I started to struggle in his arms.

"Izzie, stop struggling!" Seth complained. He pleaded me. "Your gonna hurt yourself more, please stop?"

"Don't take me to the bed, Seth! Not the bed!" I screeched, struggling more.

"Izzie, there's no where else." Ollie told me. He was beside Seth, who rolled his eyes at him.

"Cheers for pointing that out, idiot!" Seth snapped.

"Shut up, you prick! I wasn't talking to you!" He retorted. They glared at each other for a few minutes and then froze, just as I was about to tell them to stop it.

The once bolted door started to open and the still tensed vampires in the room sprang, defensively, to my side.

We watched as half the Volturi guard entered, sluggishly through the door but something was off. They seemed guilty, like they had been caught.

"WHERE IS SHE?" A beautiful female being asked shrilly, charging past Jane, barging her out of the way. Her face was horrified and worried. She looked like Death!

Another like herself, just as beautiful, definitely sisters, charged in after her. Her hair swished in her urgency, magnificent blonde waves. She had cropped hair to her shoulders. The other had pitch black hair that you could get lost in, that flowed around her body, all the way down to her lower back. She looked like she looked like she should be on the front of a fashion or beauty magazine, in fact both of them looked like they were super models. Their long, slim bodies were hosting lavish, long flowing dresses. Their silhouette was insatiable.

"Hayley! You're gonna freak her out! Calm down!" The blonde beauty ordered, placing her hand on Hayley's shoulder. "Handle it with care!"

"They've told us total bullshit, Rhiannon! I mean come on! Enforcing rules? What sort of enforcing is this?" Hayley screamed.

She advanced forwards and the defensive circle tightened as she did. The funny thing is, if Rhiannon had done that, I wouldn't be half as scared as I am now. She, unlike Hayley, had a kind, nurturing aura around her. I got a vibe that she wanted to help. Hayley was plain scary! She calmed herself, slowly when Rhiannon warned her that she was scaring me, pacing back and forth in her agitation, her slender dress swished every time she changed to the opposite direction. She was rubbing her temples in a calming motion.

"This is not important, dear Hayley. They are simply here on one off business." Aro lied, Edward snorted. Hayley raised her eyebrows, glancing between Aro and me.

"Business? BUSINESS? What sort of business entails screams, torture and poisonous water?"

My eyes bulged at the water glass near the bed. I couldn't remember whether or not I took a sip or not. I couldn't remember - perhaps that's a side effect?

"Speechless? The great and mighty Aro speechless? That is an unexpected surprise. You always have something to say!" She shouted. "What could this helpless human done to deserve such torture? What is the reasons why her back gushes blood?"

Again, Aro was speechless. Even the vampires around me seemed surprised at this. He simply stared, his eyes had a tint of black irritation. Minutes passed before he decided to respond to her fair questions.

"Rhiannon dear…" Aro started, his eyes still locked on Hayley's, glaring. She turned to him, regardless. "I've invited you and your sister here out of courtesy…purely out of hospitable intentions…I would appreciate it if you could control your sister's anger and that she stop questioning me and my guard. This is simply a misunderstanding. A one off."

"Yes Aro." Rhiannon said, obediently. Aro had such a subjugating aura around him. Rhiannon obeyed him like he was her master, perhaps he was.

"Rhaz, he doesn't control you! Since when did you answer to anyone in the first place?"

"I'm trying not to get us locked up, or worse - killed. I would love a little help, sister!" Rhiannon snapped back.

"Well in the worst case scenario, it would be you that got killed not me. Come on I am Death!" Hayley boasted, Rhiannon rolled her eyes. Hayley turned to Aro, all signs of boasting or amusement vacant from her face. Purely a face of anger and defiance stared back into Aro's blank face. "Aro…you say they are here on business? Then let them go now." Hayley ordered.

This was her tested, I knew it. She was challenging him and the others knew this too. I felt Seth and Bella tense against me. Bella's eyes were on Edward but I could tell from his face that he wasn't getting anything.

"Hayley, might I remind you that YOU do not order ME around! My business with them is not FINISHED!"

"It sounds to me, unlike us, they aren't here due to hospitable intensions." Rhiannon mused, breaking her protective oblivious barrier to the conversation.

"She states fair points, Aro. Izzie hasn't done anything!" Bella shouted.

"You need to shut up, at least for your sister's sake, Bella!" Jane threatened, darkly.

"Sisters?" Hayley asked, interestedly, spinning around to see me in Bella's arms. "Most sacred of connections, most sacred of all relationships? AND TORTURING ONE HALF? YOU B*****D!"

"HAYLEY, WATCH IT!" Rhiannon warned, all to late as female vampire pounced with a snarl.

Hayley charged. As she did, the guard seemed to slow, to recoil in her advance. Hayley proceeded. Leaning over the guard, a sinister, pitch black aura projected from her. The atmosphere was cold and piercing. Her darkness engulfed the guard's whole anatomy, no light remained only darkness. Slower and slower that dreary darkness spread, absorbing the light as if it was its fuel, its one reason to spread until it was all gone. Little by little, the light evaporated from my vision, leaving only dim shadows of the people around me. Bit by bit, those shadows began to disappear right before my eyes. It was like my vision was being impaired, I thought I would never get it back. I had to blink, just to see if I could salvage any of the remaining light but there was none. I saw nothing and it scared me silly. It scared me because I had no idea whether anything was happening to the people I loved. Regardless of her intimidating nature, I feared for Hayley. And most of all, I could hear nothing. It was like that darkness deprived me of my whole being, my whole soul. I found it hard to breath and judging by Seth's heaving chest, I guessed that he did too. Through the darkness, though, I heard nothing.

Endless seconds, minutes, hours in fact could have passed until the light began to filter through the darkness, like it was fighting back against its dominance of the room. Faster and faster, the light returned and the first person I saw was Seth. He grasped me tighter, scared for the both of us. The light was beginning to be too much, I blinked but it only made it worse. My eyes watered, I've never peered into something this bright. Perhaps it wasn't bright at all. Perhaps it was at its normal contrast and I was just in the darkness for too long. Regardless of the reason, I was just as blinded as I was in the darkness, the only difference was that it hurt more this time. I kept my eyes closed. Through my eyelids, I could see the light fading. I risked a peek and it wasn't too bad. At least, it didn't hurt anymore.

Suddenly, the darkness began to swirl in the air, like a flip and the next thing I knew, Hayley was black eyed, trapping the dark spirit thing back inside her. It took her a while to regain control of herself but she did it. She didn't look fatigued or shaken but simply hungry, as if she wanted to do it again; like she craved it every time it ended. Rhiannon grasped both of her cheeks and she snapped out of it immediately, her eyes instantly locking on the motionless body of the female guard, crippled and twisted around herself in the middle of the stone floor with a spectrum of light shining down to her ghostlike body down from the spindly window slits above.

Every one remained motionless. I could tell by their faces that they hadn't seen anything like it, even though it was in the dark. Aro stood motionless, staring at the mangled body in front of him, total mesmerised by her power and what it can do.

I could remember Bella telling me that only burning the individual pieces of a vampires dismembered body could kill them. As far as I was aware, there was no fire involved in this killing so why wasn't she getting up? Her darkness must have the same impact - death of the undead, or anything she wanted to kill.

An ear-splitting growl stunned me out of my reverie as Felix launched himself towards Hayley, bellowing, "OLIVERA! NOOOOO!" He charged like a raging bull, and Hayley was the only one wearing red.

Out of thin air, bright orange flames ignited. Blazing hot, I could even feel them on the other side of the room. They were tranquil flames until they danced viciously towards Felix, twisted and swirling upon themselves. It was quite fascinating, or it would have been if they weren't going to kill someone, regardless of who it was.

I glanced around the room, frantically searching for the source of the flames but my vision was captured by Hayley. She was dancing. Her movements could challenge Alice's and the longer I looked the more and more it became clearer. Her movements were replicated, copied by the blazing fire. Closer and closer the flames edged until they abruptly disappeared. I frowned in confusion, surely they didn't mean to do that. Not unless they didn't mean to kill him from the get go. Simultaneously, Felix halted, bolted to the spot terrified of the vanishing flames. He was utterly surprised as well as the others in the room. How could this one person hold so much power? According to Eleazar, a vampire only have one gift, anymore and they'll overload with their power. Become uncontrollable.

Aro began to smile, to smirk evilly. Hayley and Rhiannon simply stared at the point in which the flames vanished as if that wasn't their intensions after all. They frowned at each other.

"What did you do?" Rhiannon asked, perplexed.

"Oh, that? That was the fine, fine work of Kamicharika. You see, it is similar to young Bella's power only, unfortunately, it is limited to one power at a time. Currently, it is blocking out the flames…Edward you should find that you can read our minds now…Dear ones, keep your minds diverted please?"

They nodded to him, obediently once again. I saw a flicker of frustration on Edward's face but he tried to compose it. Unfortunately, Aro saw it and smirked to himself.

"I think…people in this room need a time out. Hayley on the other hand has killed Felix's mate." - Felix growled - "Therefore, you shall be joining the Cullens. Not as my guest…"

The guard advanced upon her like a snake before its strike. Aro beckoned Rhiannon towards him. She seemed not to know what was going on. She complied, taking note of his sinister expression.

"…But as my prisoner! Just like them!"

On that last dark note, Aro grabbed Rhiannon by the gruff of her neck and dragged her backwards out the room, despite her objections, "NO! HAYLEY!" He voice faded down the corridor.

Hayley instantly reacted. She charged at Felix, the darkness already returning. However, they retreated backwards towards the door, retreating from the darkness that now paraded against them.

The door slammed in Hayley's face. She growled and screamed and kicked the door and all the while, every single person watched on with wary eyes.

"RHIANNON!" She screeched in a voice that made me watch to comfort her but it hurt to move. I grimaced and winced. Seth chaffed my arms in comfort.

Hayley fell to the floor in sadness and despair, she moaned slightly. We simply stared on, not knowing what to do about the weeping girl at the door and could accidentally overload if we startled her. Well, everyone watched apart from Alice.

"Alice!" Jasper objected, grabbing her arm to prevent her approach upon Hayley. Hayley seemed oblivious. Alice simply looked back at Jasper with assuring eyes. I was sure he sensed her tranquil atmosphere too. That was probably why he sighed and let go of her, giving her permission to continue. "Be careful, please?" She nodded once and continued her advance.

"Hayley?" Alice called, kindly. "Your sister is going to be fine, trust me."

Hayley didn't move for a moment, she didn't even look like she had comprehended anything she just said. She still held her knelt position at the door, with her head bowed down. I prepared myself for something unexpected. She was too quiet to assure me away from this thought.

Alice got closer and knelt beside her, all the while Jasper was on edge. I bet he was replaying the unexpected, sudden demise of Olivera in his head. Hayley's head inclined towards Alice, slowly. I didn't know if she was looking at her but Alice didn't seem spooked by her actions.

"You ask me to trust you? Me?" Hayley asked, surprised. "That's unusual. People usually just condemn me as weird or different or…Death! Regardless…the only person I've ever really trusted is my sister, who is out there with that lying son of a gun. I can feel everything she feels, I know everything she's thinking and I don't like topic of her thoughts - pain. I need to get out of here so the only way I'm gonna trust you…is if you help me."

Alice nodded, "We could help each other."

Hayley chuckled once, "Deal…You realise you've just made a deal with the devil herself…don't mind that last bit, it's a figure of speech. I'm…I'm not really the devil." She added, seeing the cautious look Alice occupied after her statement. Alice chuckled and then offered Hayley her hands, gesturing for Hayley's.

Jasper had been on edge when they were in close proximity but it wasn't just him that tensed when their skin came into contact with each other. In fact, Jasper almost jumped right to her but when the darkness hadn't returned to swallow Alice up, we relaxed with confused faces. Alice lead her back to us and Hayley smiled at me, then at the others.

"I'm sorry if I startled you earlier. I…Let's just say I have anger issues and just leave it at that." Hayley justified herself. We simply stared on at her and every time she would shift her weight, Seth would tighten his grip around my waist. Several times she noticed but didn't comment. Then it got monotonous. "You are very protective…Seth, isn't it?"

He nodded, guardedly. She smiled. Her gaze shifted then to me and Bella with a happy look on her face. It was almost awed and worshipping.

"I love sisterhood. There's no connection like it, or that is my opinion anyway. You may know stronger. However, I can see that the connection between you two is extremely strong." Hayley informed us, smiling. Bella and I glanced at each other and smiled too. She spoke to only me now. "I can tell you are younger, too. I can tell by the way she protects you. It can get quite annoying sometimes, I would know. Although, I am only 10 seconds younger than Rhiannon."

"So…you two are twins? I figured as much." I asked, weakly. She nodded, smiling proudly.

It was only then that Carlisle remembered my condition and ordered me to lean against Seth (seen as though I still refused to sit on the bed) so that he could attend to my whipped wounds. I noticed Hayley's expression changed to that of anger and she frowned deeply.

"Aro has gone too far. This is inexcusable, unacceptable!" She almost growled it. "It is bad enough that you are young and fragile but to be with child, or children should I say! It's unprecedented!"

"How…How did you know I was carrying twins?" I asked, confused. She smiled at me.

"I can feel their heartbeats and their auras. One of my specialities." She boasted. I was about to ask her another question but Edward beat me to it.

"Speaking about heartbeats…Why do you have one?" he asked, interestedly. He side glanced towards Nessie, who was sleeping on the bed. How she slept through what just happened was beyond me. I wished I could sleep but the simple throbbing in my back was enough to keep me awake with every surge. She simply looked at him. "Well?"

"Why do you think?" She hedged. He took a deep breath but didn't comment. "I think you know why I have a heartbeat, considering the fact that I am one in the same species as your daughter. I was surprised to find that she's your biological but in any case."

There was gasps around the room and they all just stared at her while she smiled back.

"That's right. My sister and I are that of human and vampire blood…"

"A hybrid?" Bella asked, shockingly.

"Is that what you call it? Yes, we're Hybrids." She confirmed, shaking her head on the name with a slight smirk on her face.

"We only know of one other besides Nessie and yourselves, maybe you know him? Nahuel?" Alice asked, unsurely.

She started to chuckle to herself, giving me the impression that she did know him. She started to nod, slowly.

"Yes, yes. We know him. In fact, we're quite close to our half brother. Older. 50 years older in fact. He gets to be a pain in the butt but hey, family's family."

"Your brother?" Bella said, shocked.

"Nahuel did mention that he had half sisters." Esme reminded everyone.

"That's funny. He's mentioned you lot too. When I found you it was you guys in here, I freaked. As you can probably guess by my entrance." She turned to me, chuckling. Then she turned gentle, smiling sadly. It almost made her look less like a monster and more...human. Almost. "How long have you been here?"

I peered at Bella because I actually realised that I didn't know. I didn't know how long I was here before I was asleep. If that makes sense.

"We've been here two days. Izzie slept non-stop for the first day. We're approaching the end of day 2 now." Bella explained, grimly.

"2 DAYS?" Hayley was astonished. "You've been tortured for the last two days?"

"NO! No. Calm down! It's only happened once." I assured her. She seemed to relax but not totally. The last thing I wanted to do was to make her angry and force her to unleash that disturbing, terrifying darkness again. I'd avoid that at all costs.

"It was kinda our fault, actually." Ollie piped up, hesitantly. "We started a fight."

"No. I started a fight. Get it right, Ollie." Bella contradicted, annoyed and angry.

"Yes, that's right. I heard about that. Jane, wasn't it?" Hayley said, indifferently like she didn't mind that it was Jane.

"She was chatting utter bullshit about Nessie. It irked me. That was the last straw. This," - She gestured to my back - "It's just outrageous. She didn't even do anything. It was me. It's like she's gonna get punished for everything we do to them, just because she's the one that feels the most pain out of the lot of us."

"It is very unprecedented. They're breaking their own laws." Eleazar mused. "My apologies, I am Eleazar of the Denali coven. It's a pleasure." He gestured to the rest of the coven, they smiled.

"The pleasure is all mine, Eleazar." She said, humbly, taking his hand. I couldn't help noticing that he took it with caution. She did also and she smiled without comment.

"You are right. Though, without any evidence we cannot convict them of anything, or prove it." She pointed out. There was silence while they thought her words through.

"Regardless of what we can convict them of. We know what they have done. They have to be stopped." Garrett opinionated. There was nods all around the room. I suppressed a sigh.

"But how? I mean, with all the powers they have at their disposal - Jane, Alec, Heidi, Kamicharika." Eleazar said, negatively. "Kamicharika…there's something about her than meets the eye. I can't pinpoint it but there's something."

"What like? Can't you sense anything?" Carlisle asked, just about to use the needle to sew my wounds up.

"STOP!" Hayley and Ollie screeched together, ghosting to Carlisle in a second. Ollie assessed my wounds as she checked the medical equipment. A few seconds passed before they turned to each other. Hayley nodded but Ollie shook his head. I heard her sigh in relief.

"How much of this equipment have you used? I mean the utensils?" Hayley asked, still unsure.

"I haven't not yet, why? What's wrong with them?" He asked, alarmed, throwing the needle back in the bag.

She sighed, "They're soaked with vampire venom." Seth and Ollie snarled.

They were echoed by more growls and snarls and gasps all around the room. Seth kicked the bag of equipment and it collided with one of the thrones. He turned to me horrified and I returned it.

"We need to be extra, extra careful, very, very careful!" Ollie suggested "Don't use anything they give you - no equipment, no food, no water. They'll do anything to change her into a vampire."

They all fell silent. There was a variety of faces in this room, all of which had one common expression among others - fear, anxiety for my safety.

"Do you know what I wanna know?" I said, conversationally. They all waited for me to continue. "How the hell did they get to know about me?" Everyone fell silent once again. I waited for someone to share the knowledge I knew that they knew but everyone kept quiet...

To be continued...

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