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Chapter 34:

"Ed, we should take a small break." Al tries to catch his breath as he and his brother stop in front of the hotel they are staying at. He waves to get his brothers attention but he ignores him; he's worried about Artemis and was frantically searching every part of town to find her. It had already been two hours since she's gone missing.

Ed doesn't even bother to listen to his younger brother. He knew he just had to find Artemis. He runs his hand through his blond locks, not realizing or caring that his hair is hanging loosely in front of his face. He scans the streets, trying to see if anyone looks suspicious to him, but nothing. Then it hit him. He turns around and faces the entrance of the hotel. He knew that they hadn't checked the place they last suspected.

"Come on Al."

Al groans, but still follows along his brother's side. They both feel the cool AC hits their hot sweaty faces and the sweet aroma of pumpkin spice caught Edward's attention. He walks towards the front desk, seeing the middle aged man from the other day standing behind it, looking through some files. He smells the scent growing stronger once he got closer to the desk. He automatically recognizes it. It was Artemis's shampoo. He knew that scent from anywhere and he wouldn't mistake it for anything else.

Ed motions his hand at the desk so Al could see what he is doing. Al raises an eyebrow, thinking Ed was making a small slip-up about the attendant. He shrugs his shoulders, not comprehending with what he was signaling. Ed smacks his forehead. When he did that the attendant shifts his eyes up to see the brothers standing near his desk.

"May I help you sir?"

Ed coughs lightly as he leans on the counter top. "Yes you may, sir. We lost a friend of ours a couple of hours ago and we just can't seem to find her. Has she come by any chance?" he stares into the man's eyes.

The man shakes his head. "No sir. I'm sorry." Is all he says as he continues writing down in his ledger. Ed right away doesn't buy the guy's story. He turns around and pulls Al off to the side.

"I think he's hiding something?"

Al rolls his eyes, "Brother, I don't think anything at the moment. Maybe Artemis just took off somewhere without telling us and will probably come back later. I mean –" he ruffles Ed's hair. "It isn't the first time she's taken off without telling us." Al gives Ed one last pat on the shoulder; walking up the stairs to get some rest in the room.

Ed dusts off his shoulder. He couldn't help but worry. He knew it wasn't like Artemis to just take off and leave. Maybe if she was upset then of course she would leave, but not if they were acting fine with each other. Then he snaps out of his thoughts when he hears a phone ringing by the desk. He checks to see if the attendant was going to answer it and he wasn't around.

Tempted, Ed walks over to the blaring communication device, wanting to answer it. He peaks over his shoulder to make sure no one was in plain sight to see him. He quickly grabs the phone and places it on his ear.

"Hello?"

"If you want to see Artemis again – alive – then you have to follow these guidelines."

Ed's eyes open wide, not believing what he is hearing. His cheeks begin to fluster from frustration, "Who is this? What have you done with Artemis?" he practically raises his voice, not caring if he made a scene and that everyone was staring at him oddly.

The voice chuckles in a deep raspy tone, "Just follow this. There's a piece of paper with directions with where are location is on top of the desk right in front of you."

Edward's eyes shift down and notice a small white sheet with numbers and words on it. He picks the paper up and reads it. 7th St. Ap. 7 Suite B.

"The key will be underneath the mat at the entrance and you are going to walk down the stairs until you see a tunnel with a torch. Take the torch and keep walking until you see a wooden door. That is where you will find what you are looking for." The raspy voice spoke up.

"Yeah but…" Edward is cut off when he hears the dial tone. Who ever was speaking to him hung the phone up before he can say anything. He slams the phone on the receiver and runs his hand through his hair. He digs in his pocket to search for his pocket watch to check the time.

'I don't have time. I have to go now.'

He knew he didn't have time to grab Al, so he just took off with out him; he did not want to risk whatever they were going to do to Artemis to be waited any longer. He called for a cab and headed straight towards the address.

'Dammit Artemis, you better not die.'

Artemis knocked out again but slowly recovered once more to see where she is. Everything is a blur and she can't make out where she is or describe her surroundings, as it was pitch black. She feels a sharp pain penetrate from her right arm. She can't seem to remember what happened to her, but all she knew is if she didn't get it treated right away she would get an infection.

"Who the hell is out there? Show yourself!" Artemis demands, trying to ignore the pain that keeps pulsating from her arm. She grinds her teeth together to control the pain. Then a flicker appears in the distance. A torch forms out of nowhere and she sees it heading towards her.

Panicking a bit in the inside, she tries to keep calm on the outside by keeping an emotionless expression. She really can't remember why she is in the position she is in, but soon remembers when she sees Silva's snarling expression face to face with her.

"I'm gonna get you when I get out of this!" Artemis struggles to reach Silva as the chains stop her from doing so. She snarls at Silva, who was laughing at her attempt.

"Cute, to think that you can actually get back at me." Silva draws her blade from her bootstrap and traces it along Artemis's jawline, trying to intimidate her, but Artemis just smirks.

"Oh don't worry. I will get you again. You just wait and see." Artemis then spits at Silva's face, knowing that a punishment is going to take place.

"UGH!" Silva wipes the saliva away from her face. Infuriated by Artemis she grabs her knife and starts creating a design on the side of her right cheek. Artemis screams in pain as she feels the cold blade cutting through her skin.

"Since you like to play dirty, I can play it twice as bad." Silva draws a crescent moon with the star of Bethlehem in the middle. She knew why she drew that, but not Artemis.

Artemis can't see what is on her face, but the excruciating pain that came from it over shadowed what it is.

"What did you do to me?" she cries out as blood trickles down her face

"You know, you should take more pride in your family curse Artemis. I mean, it is what make you who you are after all isn't it?" Silva wipes the excess blood from her blade with a handkerchief that she retrieved from her pocket.

"What. Did. You. Do. To Me." Artemis growls angrily.

Silva smirks, "All I did was carve the emblem of your family's curse on your face. A crescent moon and the star of Bethlehem. How lovely." Silva gets closer to Artemis's face while placing the tip of the blade on her nose.

"Now it can stay with you for the rest of your life." Silva laughs hysterically as she walks away from Artemis, who was breathing heavily as she tries her hardest to ignore the pain flowing through cheek down to her arm, all the way to her previous wound that's on her side.

"Enjoy your time alone while you still can." Silva stops in her tracks and turns to look at Artemis, as she enjoys seeing her suffer. As she spoke Artemis shifts her eyes up to see what more Silva has to say to her with that smug grin on her face.

"We'll be having company soon and you should catch up on your beauty sleep. Someone close to you will be paying us a little visit, and I'm pretty sure he is worried sick about you."

Artemis's eyes widen in terror. "Edward." Her voice was less than a whisper but somehow Silva knew what she said and grinned maliciously.

"Oh yes. Well, see you in a bit, along with our very important guest." Silva closes the wooden door that shut the light away to what felt like centuries for Artemis, but was probably only an hour or two till that door opened again.

Artemis starts to cry uncontrollably but can't wipe her tears away as her hands with confined behind her. After several minutes passed she screams at the top of her lungs, no matter how sore they were from her crying.

"EDWARD!"