Chapter Twenty-Six

When I awoke, the sun was up and shining brightly. We packed up quickly and were ready to go, but I noticed Liam still wasn't here. My heart started to beat faster. I feared that he went too far and was bitten or died some other way. I ran to find his mom, and found her leaving the house.

"Excuse me, I was wondering if you've seen Liam this morning. Because I saw him leaving last night and I don't see him around?" She sighed and smiled lightly.

"He does that. Liam is...struggling with his addiction to drugs. This is how he's been coping, I suppose. Thank you for telling me-" She was saying, putting a hand on my arm, but was interrupted by Liam who was screaming and running out of the trees.

"Mommy!"

"Liam?!"

"Ma-Mom, I'm sorry, I fucked up." He sobbed.

"What? What are you talking about-?"

"Alright, everyone front and center or we'll start knocking you down." A booming voice said. A group of five men, holding what looked like army grade guns, emerged from the trees, spaced out like they were cornering us. The one who spoke was holding a semi-automatic up. It was huge. Luke and Olivia came from out of the house and walked to us slowly.

"Now, surely we can...come to an agreement?" Luke was trying to stay calm, but his voice wavered.

"I ask the questions." The man said, pointing the gun at Luke. Everyone gasped, and Luke and Olivia held their hands up.

"What did you do?!" Travis growled at Liam. Liam just sobbed in his mother's arms.

"Like a dog, the boy fetched what we wanted in exchange for a 'treat'. And each time we'd ask for more. After last night we knew there was more to have." Semi-auto answered with a grin. My stomach dropped.

"Looks like we scored nice, pretty meat..." A blond one said through his joker-like grin.

"Yeah..." Another practically moaned.

They looked at me, Jordyn, Alice and Rosalie like we were something to eat. Emmett and Jasper came closer and pulled their significant other to their sides. My hand found Edward's. The 'Joker' cackled, rocking back and forth on his heels, his finger on the trigger of a monstrous looking rifle. None of them should have weapons of any kind. My body went cold when I realized they'd take ours and we'd be defenseless. I shifted slightly and fingered the garter that held a hunting knife before deciding to stuff it down the back of my pants and the garter into my pocket.

"How many of you are there." Semi-auto said.

"Eleven." Luke answered. They all craned their necks to count us all.

"Max, pat the guys down. Johnny Boy, the girls. Dyke, check the place." Semi-auto ordered. Max was the one who practically moaned when agreed with 'Joker'. He was extremely muscular; the t-shirt he wore stretched across his frame, defining his pecs and how hard his abs must be. Edward squeezed my hand before moving to the right. Even if the Cullens wanted to do something, they couldn't with the weapons and amount of people there were.

Joker, or Johnny Boy, put on the sling of him gun and jogged to us with a slight hop to his step. They patted us down hard from our ankles to our chest. When Joker got to me, I saw just how much he was enjoying himself.

"I'll be gentle..." He said through his grin. He more gripped than patted my legs and worked his way up while I stood stiffly with my hands in tight fists. I was never touched like this, oh my god-make it stop! I screamed in my head. He squeezed my ass and gripped my hips.

"Well, well. What have we here?" He pulled the knife out, the naked blade making a long scratch. I gasped.

"I'll make you make that sound again." He swore as he patted my torso. He winked at me and walked back to Semi-auto's flank.

"There's a lot. We're gon' have to come back for it." Dyke reported to Semi-auto.

"Alright. Follow Screlli," Semi-auto said to us, and gestured with his gun to a buff guy in a tank top. We hesitated but moved when 'Joker' yelled a loud, odd sound at us, making us jump. We started walking and Joker, Max, Dyke, and Semi-auto fell into position at our sides and the back. What as happening now reminded me so much of what we just escaped from that head jerked back a few times. Edward's trick from then wouldn't work this time.

We walked and walked for what seemed like forty minutes. My stomach had long stopped grumbling and in it's stead was a headache that made me feel dumbed down. Judging from the slight soreness of my calves, we had been walking for nearly a mile deep into the forest.

You could hardly tell we were at their camp because their green tents weren't visible through the branches and shrubs. They seemed nomadic, perhaps on foot or had a vehicle hidden somewhere. Immediately we were separated and pushed towards opposite sides of the camp. Semi-auto pulled Liam out of the bunch.

"Now you can join us kid! What do you say?" Semi-auto said, slapping Liam hard on the back.

"N-no, I don't want to!" He cried, pushing away from him.

"Too bad." He fire multiple rounds at him.

"No!"

"Kelly-!" His mom ran to him and when Liam's body fell, the other shots fired went into her.

"-Anne!" I stared horrified, hearing nothing but ringing in my ears. Their bright red blood saturated their shirts in seconds.

"Whoo!" Joker howled.

"Nobody move or you're all next!" Semi-auto yelled. The Cullens had their hands covering their mouths and noses, not unlike the rest of us who were in shock.

"Haven't they killed a human yet..." Max grumbled. They continued to push us and used a bungee cord to strap the girls to a tree which was worse than rope because it was stretched, cutting into our abdomens, making the nausea worse.

"Max, Dyke, Screlli, follow me back to move the loot. The sooner we do it, the sooner we can celebrate..." Semi-auto said. I wasn't looking forward to finding out what the 'celebration' entailed.

They took their time moving everything here, pulling a tarp with our things pile on it by the cuts on the sides. It took a few trips, several hours to move it all to the camp. Olivia had stopped crying by then, and Jordyn was still holding up. Esme though, was with the others.

"We're set!" Joker cried.

"We're set alright..." Screlli said looking towards us. He barely showed emotion so it was hard to judge what level of crazy for us. But if a human could snap another in half like a tooth pick, he could.

"Later," Semi-auto said, and started opening the bundles we had packed when we were going to head out.

Despite having more than enough to last them a month easily, they didn't waste any food when opening cans for a quick meal as they looked through our things and talked about taking over the Engineer's group's camp. Not like they'd actually get to keep it all. We would get our things back, and get to Denail. If we made it past what we have, we'll make it past this.

But seeing them eat was torture. I squeezed my eyes shut, and willed myself not to lose to my body's hunger.

"Would you ladies care for some?" Semi-auto said. I stared with my eyes casted downwards. I heard him step to where we were, the grass blades crunched under him. He looked to either side of me (Jordyn was on my right and Alice on my left) before settling on me. A spoon full of cold, canned beans appeared in my sight. I looked up to see his smirk and looked back down, debating whether or not I should oblige. I didn't want my mouth where his has been; I'd rather starve. But if I didn't, I might offend him and someone could die. I captured it into my mouth and looked up, then slowly pulled away from his stare.

"Good girl." I swallowed hard.

With their hunger somewhat satisfied, and inventory taken, they began preparing the dinner for their celebration.

"You're gonna love this girls..." They talked to us like that every now and then. I was surprised to see them warming things up over their fire. I thought they were uncivilized.

When dinner was nearly done, Joker and Max came, with masses of red fabric in their clutches, to untie us.

"Proper ladies have to be dressed properly right?" Joker said with his deranged smile. Apparently those red masses were dresses, one for each of us.

"Hurry up and get changed." Max said, sounding as if he were about to burst.

"Here?" I asked.

"Yeah," Joker responded.

"Um, proper ladies don't undress in front of men." I said with a bashful quality in my voice.

"This is good enough." Joker said seriously.

"W-we'll just behind those bushes. We would be in your view the whole time."

"Mmrgh...fine. Go." He said.

"Let's go." I said to them, and guided Jordyn and Olivia in front of me.

Jordyn's dress had a tight bodice with a full, tulle skirt whereas Rosalie and Olivia were given long, form fitting dresses with a plunging neckline. Rosalie's ample chest stressed the strips that were tied in knot behind her neck. Alice's and mine were short and had spaghetti straps, but her's had a layered chiffon skirt and mine was like a slip with a slit on the side.

"Hurry it up!" Joker yelled.

"We're coming, we finished." I yelled back.

"Now what do we do," Rosalie growled.

"I only see a lot of fire, not really what happens." Alice said.

"Just be quick on your toes, we'll figure something out." I told Olivia and Jordyn, and stepped out of the bushes with Alice and Rosalie in front.

Thanks for reading! Thanks Rosalinex5 for following. I actually have loads of ideas for twifics and so little time XD. I'll slowly but surely write them all, I think. Oh, and I forgot to say: Hello Jordyn! Hope you don't mind the character so far.