** Alright, this chapter is in Adrian's pov. I hate him so much because he
is a jerk but this chapter is all about him. It is a point of history in
his past mostly. After I figured this about him I somewhat felt bad for
him. It takes place in the cells of Midnight and I'm not really sure if I
portrayed it right. They don't talk much about them in the book so I did my
best. Oh Goddess, here it is**
I woke up with a splitting headache. Just like the day before that and the day before, I corrected as I sat up painfully. Softly I touched my head and felt the top of my head sticky with my blood. Groaning, I looked around my dirty cell. A pair of children lay huddled against each other in the corner and several older kids, about two or three years older than me, lay curled up in the other corner. I was the only one without someone to cuddle with. I wish I had someone, it was cold. But I had been brought back here only a few hours earlier, and slowly I began to doubt that I had fallen asleep. Passing out made more sense. There was no way that I could have fallen asleep with this much pain.
Besides my head throbbing, my whole body ached only about twice as bad. Usually it hurt more but last night I had been lucky. The only thing I had tasted in the past three days was my own blood after my beatings. I never got back in time to get the ridiculously small ration that they gave us. Not true, I corrected myself as I remembered last week I had gotten some food. But I had given my share to the cute little girl that now lay in the corner with her brother. What was her name again? I really can't remember anymore. Infact just the other day I forgot what my name was.
My name is Adrian Fair, I told myself when I had forgotten, but now I really do hate my name. Although my last name did describe me, with my fair blonde hair, pale ice blue eyes, and fair skin, but my life was anything BUT fair.
As I tried to remember how I gotten into this place the vampires call Midnight, the only thing that I could remember was that my parents were killed in the first culling. To eliminate the weak ones, the one trainer had said. I suppose since they were...older, I can't remember how old exactly, they didn't pass the test. My little sister Adrianna was bought by some a vampire about a year ago, my younger brother Aidan was killed. He had broken his leg during a beating and it never healed right. Ainsley, my twin sister, was gone too. She was out of town with some friends when we were taken. I wonder where she is now.
The little girl stirred in the corner and I tried to brush off some blood that had dried on my face during the night. She sat up slowly and looked at me when I winced. Accidentally I had tried to brush off some blood on my neck but noticed too late that there was a cut there. The trainer had cut me and drank from me last night. That was why my head throbbed. Curse those things!
I slammed my fists against the bars, which was rewarded by a guard coming over and smacking me with a huge metal bar. I flew back, black smothering my vision for a moment. Ow. That had woken up some of my cellmates; including the oldest boy whom I called Flare. His hair was so red that it hurt to look at it, or it had when he came in here. Now it was dirty and matted against his head, just like everyone else's. He glared at me when he realized who had been hit. No one talked in here, not when the guards could hear you. What was there to talk about anyway? Many of the people in here had been in the one cell most of their lives. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them didn't know how to talk at all.
"That one." The voice caught everyone's attention, just as it always did. That voice picked who would go and be bought, or culled, or who would stay there. It happened once a month because there could be one newborn every month. If Jeshickah liked one baby, then someone else had to go. Sometimes whole cells were taken out, like mine had a month ago. All except for me of course. My cellmates had been killed because the lady a few cells down had had triplets, and she and her mate were very beautiful people. Which meant that their children would be stunning as well. My cellmates were only ordinary. I was still at loss at how I wasn't taken as well.
The keys to our door jingled in the lock and the two children huddled farther into the corner. I doubted they would be culled. Both of them had silky black hair and sparkling green eyes. Slowly I pushed myself up into a sitting position, going lightheaded at the movement. Flare and his group got a bit jumpy, but relaxed when they saw who they were going after. I was the one that got jumpy. They were going right to me.
Two guards gripped my shoulders and pulled me up so fast that I became nauseas. When I finally got my stomach under control, they had pulled me out of the cell and slammed the doors. The small girl crawled over to the bars, her small hands gripping them. Her green eyes were filled with tears, but she pulled away when another guard smacked her fingers with the same metal bar that he had smacked my head with.
In a quick movement, I elbowed the one guard on my left and slammed my foot down on the right guard's foot. As they were in momentary surprise, I pulled their sticks from their pockets, and then hit both of them in the back of the knees with them. As both crumbled to the ground, I ran down the hallway as fast as I could without throwing up or blacking out. I knew I wasn't going to make it out, but I wasn't going without a fight. Life wasn't going to give me the name Fair and then turn it against me that fast.
Running down the hallway, I passed several more guards and many cells. In at least every cell someone gasped or cheered me on. Just as I turned a corner, a young woman walked out casually and smiled. Oh shit. She was a vampire. And no doubt she wasn't very happy with me. With black hair and black eyes, a sadistic smile and stunning attire, I could only guess who this was. Not many vampires could prance around that confidently. And I only knew of one female vampire that could. Jeshickah.
The name made me stop in my tracks instantly. She was the top vampire around here and I felt my stomach twist. Damn. My name had once again turned against me. Hello Adrian, I heard a smooth confident voice slither across my mind. I wondered how she knew my name, but then I wondered how she could be so calm when a human had tried to escape. Sleep. My mind obeyed instantly and I fell to the floor within a split second. But not before I heard a group of guards come behind me and Jeshickah's voice out loud. "I want him cleaned and put into my room. It will be so thrilling to break this one."
~~~~~ I woke up with a splitting headache. The dream has been haunting me ever since I bought that Nada girl. Perhaps it's Karma smacking me in the face. Maybe it was just that human I had for dinner. Who knows.
The little girl that had watched me all those years ago still seemed to look at me now, but now her eyes seemed to be more upset at what I have become rather than what I was. It was as if she knew that that would happen. Paranoia. Sitting up, I looked over at the human girl I had laying next to me in the bed. I had taken my anger out on her, and for once I felt guilty. She, although bloodied up rather badly, reminded me of the girl in my cell.
The blood I drank earlier suddenly left a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. Angrily, I slid out of the bed and went into the bathroom, and splashed some water on my face. As I glanced up at the mirror I could barely see my reflection anymore, but I could tell that I had murdered any thought of Adrian Fair. Cornsilk blue had replaced the pale blond and my black eyes devoured any color that had been there. "My name is Adrian. Nothing more, nothing less." I tried convincing myself, but even as I said it I really couldn't believe myself..
A groan came from my bedroom and I turned quickly to see the girl slowly sitting up. I could tell what she felt. Fear, pain, anger. The three feelings that make blood taste better. Slowly, I walked over to the bed. When she saw me coming, her grey eyes widened and I could tell that she really wanted to run, but her body was frozen in fear. The fear that came off of her in waves made me quiver in anticipation. Fear always made me giddy, even when I was human, even when it was my own fear.
I had her tender neck at my lips within a second, and I stroked her blond hair reassuringly as I drank from her. She fell instantly into my mind trap and I continued drinking. The warm blood that slid over my tongue was strengthened by the fear that was still coiled in her small mortal mind.
After a few minutes, I pulled away and dropped her onto the bed. She wasn't dead, but she would be out for awhile. Good, I didn't want to listen to her anyway. Just the thoughts that always cascaded in her mind made me irritable. What was her name again? I don't remember. I rarely remember human's names.
Even from my room I could sense Nada's mind toiling in repressed memories of her past. No doubt like I had just gone through, but she was awake. Maybe Lucia was making her go over her memories. Maybe better, she could be poisoning Nada's food. Doubtful though, I thought sadly as I sighed and pulled on some jeans over my black silk boxers.
Now, the thing with Nada. I don't really know why she had caught my eye but I had been in town at the time and she did. What was it? Oh, she had been reading one of Ash Night's books, the only one really. No...that had been the first day when I had only been remotely interested. Hmm I don't remember. Great, I pulled on a loose blue t-shirt and a pair of socks, hoping that fashion wasn't a huge thing here. I never really was fond of the whole fashion thing. Now this Nada girl is going to be nagging at me for the rest of the night. This was unfair. But life was never really ever fair to me was it? Guess not.
Growling, I slid on my pair of combat boots before slipping some gel into my hair. Never could get my hair to stay. Glancing back at the room on my way out, I remembered the girl on my bed's name. Yvonne. What a weird name.
***
Yeah I know, kinda weird wasn't it? Adrian is a bit of a sadistic sort, but he is cute so I'm like whatever! Anyway, next chapter Nada meets Eric, and that's where the plot finally starts up. O_o the Anticipation is overpowering!! Please review lol
I woke up with a splitting headache. Just like the day before that and the day before, I corrected as I sat up painfully. Softly I touched my head and felt the top of my head sticky with my blood. Groaning, I looked around my dirty cell. A pair of children lay huddled against each other in the corner and several older kids, about two or three years older than me, lay curled up in the other corner. I was the only one without someone to cuddle with. I wish I had someone, it was cold. But I had been brought back here only a few hours earlier, and slowly I began to doubt that I had fallen asleep. Passing out made more sense. There was no way that I could have fallen asleep with this much pain.
Besides my head throbbing, my whole body ached only about twice as bad. Usually it hurt more but last night I had been lucky. The only thing I had tasted in the past three days was my own blood after my beatings. I never got back in time to get the ridiculously small ration that they gave us. Not true, I corrected myself as I remembered last week I had gotten some food. But I had given my share to the cute little girl that now lay in the corner with her brother. What was her name again? I really can't remember anymore. Infact just the other day I forgot what my name was.
My name is Adrian Fair, I told myself when I had forgotten, but now I really do hate my name. Although my last name did describe me, with my fair blonde hair, pale ice blue eyes, and fair skin, but my life was anything BUT fair.
As I tried to remember how I gotten into this place the vampires call Midnight, the only thing that I could remember was that my parents were killed in the first culling. To eliminate the weak ones, the one trainer had said. I suppose since they were...older, I can't remember how old exactly, they didn't pass the test. My little sister Adrianna was bought by some a vampire about a year ago, my younger brother Aidan was killed. He had broken his leg during a beating and it never healed right. Ainsley, my twin sister, was gone too. She was out of town with some friends when we were taken. I wonder where she is now.
The little girl stirred in the corner and I tried to brush off some blood that had dried on my face during the night. She sat up slowly and looked at me when I winced. Accidentally I had tried to brush off some blood on my neck but noticed too late that there was a cut there. The trainer had cut me and drank from me last night. That was why my head throbbed. Curse those things!
I slammed my fists against the bars, which was rewarded by a guard coming over and smacking me with a huge metal bar. I flew back, black smothering my vision for a moment. Ow. That had woken up some of my cellmates; including the oldest boy whom I called Flare. His hair was so red that it hurt to look at it, or it had when he came in here. Now it was dirty and matted against his head, just like everyone else's. He glared at me when he realized who had been hit. No one talked in here, not when the guards could hear you. What was there to talk about anyway? Many of the people in here had been in the one cell most of their lives. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them didn't know how to talk at all.
"That one." The voice caught everyone's attention, just as it always did. That voice picked who would go and be bought, or culled, or who would stay there. It happened once a month because there could be one newborn every month. If Jeshickah liked one baby, then someone else had to go. Sometimes whole cells were taken out, like mine had a month ago. All except for me of course. My cellmates had been killed because the lady a few cells down had had triplets, and she and her mate were very beautiful people. Which meant that their children would be stunning as well. My cellmates were only ordinary. I was still at loss at how I wasn't taken as well.
The keys to our door jingled in the lock and the two children huddled farther into the corner. I doubted they would be culled. Both of them had silky black hair and sparkling green eyes. Slowly I pushed myself up into a sitting position, going lightheaded at the movement. Flare and his group got a bit jumpy, but relaxed when they saw who they were going after. I was the one that got jumpy. They were going right to me.
Two guards gripped my shoulders and pulled me up so fast that I became nauseas. When I finally got my stomach under control, they had pulled me out of the cell and slammed the doors. The small girl crawled over to the bars, her small hands gripping them. Her green eyes were filled with tears, but she pulled away when another guard smacked her fingers with the same metal bar that he had smacked my head with.
In a quick movement, I elbowed the one guard on my left and slammed my foot down on the right guard's foot. As they were in momentary surprise, I pulled their sticks from their pockets, and then hit both of them in the back of the knees with them. As both crumbled to the ground, I ran down the hallway as fast as I could without throwing up or blacking out. I knew I wasn't going to make it out, but I wasn't going without a fight. Life wasn't going to give me the name Fair and then turn it against me that fast.
Running down the hallway, I passed several more guards and many cells. In at least every cell someone gasped or cheered me on. Just as I turned a corner, a young woman walked out casually and smiled. Oh shit. She was a vampire. And no doubt she wasn't very happy with me. With black hair and black eyes, a sadistic smile and stunning attire, I could only guess who this was. Not many vampires could prance around that confidently. And I only knew of one female vampire that could. Jeshickah.
The name made me stop in my tracks instantly. She was the top vampire around here and I felt my stomach twist. Damn. My name had once again turned against me. Hello Adrian, I heard a smooth confident voice slither across my mind. I wondered how she knew my name, but then I wondered how she could be so calm when a human had tried to escape. Sleep. My mind obeyed instantly and I fell to the floor within a split second. But not before I heard a group of guards come behind me and Jeshickah's voice out loud. "I want him cleaned and put into my room. It will be so thrilling to break this one."
~~~~~ I woke up with a splitting headache. The dream has been haunting me ever since I bought that Nada girl. Perhaps it's Karma smacking me in the face. Maybe it was just that human I had for dinner. Who knows.
The little girl that had watched me all those years ago still seemed to look at me now, but now her eyes seemed to be more upset at what I have become rather than what I was. It was as if she knew that that would happen. Paranoia. Sitting up, I looked over at the human girl I had laying next to me in the bed. I had taken my anger out on her, and for once I felt guilty. She, although bloodied up rather badly, reminded me of the girl in my cell.
The blood I drank earlier suddenly left a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. Angrily, I slid out of the bed and went into the bathroom, and splashed some water on my face. As I glanced up at the mirror I could barely see my reflection anymore, but I could tell that I had murdered any thought of Adrian Fair. Cornsilk blue had replaced the pale blond and my black eyes devoured any color that had been there. "My name is Adrian. Nothing more, nothing less." I tried convincing myself, but even as I said it I really couldn't believe myself..
A groan came from my bedroom and I turned quickly to see the girl slowly sitting up. I could tell what she felt. Fear, pain, anger. The three feelings that make blood taste better. Slowly, I walked over to the bed. When she saw me coming, her grey eyes widened and I could tell that she really wanted to run, but her body was frozen in fear. The fear that came off of her in waves made me quiver in anticipation. Fear always made me giddy, even when I was human, even when it was my own fear.
I had her tender neck at my lips within a second, and I stroked her blond hair reassuringly as I drank from her. She fell instantly into my mind trap and I continued drinking. The warm blood that slid over my tongue was strengthened by the fear that was still coiled in her small mortal mind.
After a few minutes, I pulled away and dropped her onto the bed. She wasn't dead, but she would be out for awhile. Good, I didn't want to listen to her anyway. Just the thoughts that always cascaded in her mind made me irritable. What was her name again? I don't remember. I rarely remember human's names.
Even from my room I could sense Nada's mind toiling in repressed memories of her past. No doubt like I had just gone through, but she was awake. Maybe Lucia was making her go over her memories. Maybe better, she could be poisoning Nada's food. Doubtful though, I thought sadly as I sighed and pulled on some jeans over my black silk boxers.
Now, the thing with Nada. I don't really know why she had caught my eye but I had been in town at the time and she did. What was it? Oh, she had been reading one of Ash Night's books, the only one really. No...that had been the first day when I had only been remotely interested. Hmm I don't remember. Great, I pulled on a loose blue t-shirt and a pair of socks, hoping that fashion wasn't a huge thing here. I never really was fond of the whole fashion thing. Now this Nada girl is going to be nagging at me for the rest of the night. This was unfair. But life was never really ever fair to me was it? Guess not.
Growling, I slid on my pair of combat boots before slipping some gel into my hair. Never could get my hair to stay. Glancing back at the room on my way out, I remembered the girl on my bed's name. Yvonne. What a weird name.
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Yeah I know, kinda weird wasn't it? Adrian is a bit of a sadistic sort, but he is cute so I'm like whatever! Anyway, next chapter Nada meets Eric, and that's where the plot finally starts up. O_o the Anticipation is overpowering!! Please review lol