Chapter 26: Am I Missing
This is just freaking great, I sleep with Eric then get captured by Alex.
They were driving for a while. Lilli could tell from the boot of Alex's car. He had gladly stuffed her in there after knocking her out for a few minutes. She tried to untangle the silver wrapped around her neck and wrist but it proved to be too hard and too painful. She also noticed that Alex tied her feet with silver. She couldn't move most of her body.
Freaking Alex! It was all a ploy, his charm, his friendliness, the way he acted, everything was just a lie. Or maybe this was foreplay for him.
Still, what the hell was going on? Couldn't he have told her 'hey so I'm going to kidnap you, stash you in my boot and take you somewhere far away and we can just hang after that no hard feelings', she would have said ok for the hell of it. That wasn't the story. She didn't know anything, where they were going, why they were going there and why she had to be in the boot. So many thoughts ran through her head that she didn't realise that they had stopped. She heard Alex got out of the driver's seat and open up the back of the car where she was.
She felt the weight of the silver chain wrapped around her leg. Alex grasped her arm and pulled her out of the trunk forcefully. Lilli wanted to scream but couldn't. She wanted to run away but was in too much pain. He stood her up, but her legs wobbled from being silvered.
"You're not going anywhere," he whispered into her ear. He said it so coldly it made her insides squirm.
Alex had taken off the blindfold. He had a big smirk on his face when she caught sight of him. He faced her towards a big white mansion.
"This is where you'll be staying for a few days," he said.
She turned to glare at him but he pushed her forward to go up the stairs with one hand still on her arms, keeping her upright. The front door opened into a big hallway the walls painted white with old paintings hanging from them, there was a spiralling staircase to her left side, doorways leading to different parts of the massive house. Alex dragged her to the right side of the house, sat her down in one of the couches and left her behind to get to the room next door. Everything looked so luxurious around her and exactly what you would expect from a mansion this big.
Lilli was such a good hostage. This was the second time it's happened to her in just a few months. No screaming(it's not like she could scream she had a tape over her mouth no one would be able to understand her), no fighting just sitting around looking at pretty artefacts around the room and only one question running through her mind, what the hell was she doing here?
"Have you seen the blonde these past few nights?" she heard a different voice behind the door asked.
"Not since that night, I have the other girl," Alex replied.
"Alright at least that's something, let's go entertain our guest," the other man said.
Alex came out alone behind the door. He walked over to Lilli and crouched down to match her eyes, "I have someone for you to meet," he said touching her face and ripping off the tape over her mouth.
She flinched away from his touch, "you bastard!" she spat.
He smiled at her sweetly. The smile that made her attracted to him in the first place. Now all she wanted is to wipe that smile off his face and rip him into pieces. She lifted off her feet and kicked Alex as far away from her as she could. He hit one of the bookshelves and everything inside it fell on top of his head.
Lilli would have smiled in satisfaction if she weren't in so much pain.
"Well, well what do we have here," someone else had revealed themselves from the other room. It was another vampire, "my, my, you're a strong one. I liked that bookshelf," the brown haired old vampire bleated.
Her mouth hung open, she knew that face. She had seen him all over the news.
"Hello sweetheart, I'm Russell Edlington," he said with a menacing smile on his face.
"Oh Alexander, Franklin had thought you well," Russell praised Alex while he got on his feet, "and your methods are quite the same," he said as he looked at a silvered Lilli.
"Aren't you that vampire that killed that TV presenter live on TV?" she suddenly blurted out.
"I'm still famous Alexander," Russell said with a chuckle placing a hand on his chest, flattered.
"They said you were dead," she spoke again.
"According to your Mr. Northman I presume," Russell answered sitting next to her and patting her knee.
"No why would it come from him?" she asked inquisitively, "it was on the news 'insane vampire Russell Edlington dead. Everyone is safe we promise', that's what they told us," Lilli inquired Russell.
"I would be if a certain vampire had the balls to finish me off."
"You mean Eric?"
"Bingo!"Russell shouted animatedly.
"Is that why I'm here? You want him?" she couldn't believe it. She was captured because of Eric.
"She's already figure it out Alexander," he said and looked up at Alex.
"She ruined the fun," Alex quipped, "oh the mystery."
"Clean that up Alexander while I show our guest to her quarters," Russell said pointing to the pieces of wood and glass scattered across the floor.
Russell grabbed her by the arm and led her up the staircase. They passed countless of rooms and took a few turns before they got to a black door with two vampires guarding it. The two men opened the door for them. Russell shoved her to the bed. Lilli groaned as she hit the satin sheets. All she wanted to do was rest to put this whole night behind her and to get ready for the following night. This was just the beginning, there would be more to come.
"Rest my dear, I have big plans for you tomorrow night," Russell spoke before closing the silver door behind him.
Lilli sighed and closed her eyes from the pain and exhaustion.
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She dangled from the ceiling silver wrapped around her wrists. Her foot barely touched the ground.
"Hey Russell," she gasped in pain. After a few hours of torture she was surprised that she could still speak.
"Yes my darling?" he said sweetly.
"Do me a favour and just kill me already," she said.
"Why would I do that? You're such good company," he answered tracing his silver cane horizontally along her bare stomach.
"Eric won't go after me, I'm just his new toy, and he can make another vampire easily," she bit her lip to refrain herself from screaming.
"I beg to differ. Mr. Northman tends to be picky and gets attached easily. Alexander has told me stories about the two of you," he said this time his cane touched just under the material of her bra and traced it down vertically to her belly button, forming a cross on her stomach.
"He's not coming," she breathed out.
"He will, do not worry my dear," he said brushing her hair with his hands and fluffing them up.
"I'm not worried. He doesn't know where I am," she tried to smirk.
"What?" Russell was taken aback. He hadn't expected that.
"I'm not calling him."
"Call him," he commanded.
Lilli kept her mouth shut and didn't answer. Her mouth curved into a smile.
"Call him!" Russell shouted annoyed.
Her smile got bigger.
"Call him!" He shouted louder and slapped her across the face.
She spat out the blood from her mouth and gave Russell a toothy grin, "you call him darlin', cause I ain't doing it," she answered with a fake southern drawl.
"You're a bloody piece of work," Russell laughed, "he'll come for you just you wait."
"I aint waitin' for him."
"Oh just shut up!" Russell muttered and shoved his hand at her silvered covered neck. She hissed in pain but still with a smile on her face.
Lilli let out a laugh once Russell was gone.
This was insane. These things just kept happening to her.
The next night was the same, Russell sliced every part of her body and when he was done they would feed her let her heal. Then the following night Russell would do the same thing again.
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"Gentlemen and Ladies, here we stand again and it has been a while. At this moment I cannot provide you with my own blood."
Everyone in the bar groaned and shouted profanities. Russell raised his hand at them silencing every mouth in the bar. He went behind the curtain grabbed Lilli by the hair and dangled her towards the room full of werewolves. He threw her down the floor and clutched onto the chain wrapped around her neck. She stifled a whimper as the silver chain dug into the skin of her neck. She didn't want to show weakness in front of these ravenous werewolves.
"I do have this new vampire, it has a thousand year old vampire blood running through her veins, and it should be a treat," he presented.
Lilli growled at Russell.
"Now, now my darling we have to please my werewolves," Russell said sweetly stroking her hair.
"Screw you," Lilli spat, finding it hard to get the words out of her mouth due to the searing pain wrapped around her throat.
Russell smiled devilishly at her as he pulled out a silver knife from his pocket.
"Bring out the glasses," he commanded. A few men walked over to the stage with trays of shot glasses. Russell called them over next to Lilli.
She mustered her strength to try and bite one of them.
"Behave I said," Russell said, tugging the chain towards him.
She growled at him again trying to mask the increasing pain.
"You see this one is quite feisty, her blood should satisfy your needs," Russell roared and the crowd cheered anxiously awaiting Lilli's blood. He brought her arms forward as the men placed the tray underneath it. He sliced her left arm from her wrist down to her lower forearm and twisted it to drain more of her blood to dribble into the glasses.
"Goddamn it," she cursed in pain, "oh no you spilled some," she groaned, talking about her blood dropping down to the floor as one of the men retrieved another tray.
"I like this girl," Russell said with a laugh before doing the same thing to her other arm.
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It's a long wait for an answer. Is there any news?
Is there any word? Is there trauma?
Or a struggle? Am I missing? Was the body found?
'Am I Missing' – Dashboard Confessional
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AN: Hey guys thanks for the reviews, alerts and story favourite. Anyway here it is. I actually really like Russell. If only Franklin was still alive he would have been. This is the first time I've written a torture scene.