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Failure

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The sounds of a thunderstorm outside caused my head to throb as I lay on the floor of the room I was in. I'd awoken about twenty minutes ago with a start when I heard a clap of thunder over my head. When I opened my eyes I expected to see a beautiful room with an equally beautiful Edward at my side but that wasn't the case at all.

The room was dark. When my eyes first adjusted to the darkness of it I could make out that the walls were made of stone, absolutely no windows at all. The lump in my stomach grew as I looked around the room and didn't recognize anything whatsoever. I vaguely remembered what had happened the night before. I just knew that I must have hit my head pretty hard to feel the way I did.

I tried to reposition myself on the straw laying on the hard floor but it was no use. My hands were chained together and spread above my head, linked to the wall. I noticed that the cuts on my hands and arms were opened again and the blood was smeared and dried. Looking at the position I was in and my surroundings I felt as if I were in some horror movie and had been kidnapped. But that didn't happen did it? I was just at the fair with Alice, Jasper and Edward...so where was I now?

I pushed my head back to look at my arms chained to the wall and started thinking of the worst. What if a psycho serial killer had me chained down here and was planning on killing me? I didn't want to die, I couldn't die...

The pain in my head got worse the longer I kept my eyes open so I allowed myself to rest. As much as I wanted to know where I was, I was also scared to find out the answer. I knew I wasn't anywhere near Edward or his family or else I wouldn't have been chained to a grimy, dirty wall sleeping on a bunch of straw.

Edward. Just thinking his name in my head caused me to panic. I knew he'd be worried about where I was and would try to look for me. Would he be able to find me in this lonely room? What would he even do if he found me? I knew he'd find who did this to me and tear them limb from limb.

Tears started to fall from my face as I thought about the only thing that I would truly miss if I died. His smiling face kept popping into my mind and just thinking about it made me remember all the things I would regret if I were to die. I'd feel bad for not being strong enough to fight whoever it was doing this to me, to make it back to my Edward. He would be lonely in the world without me, unhappy. I should have never walked away from Alice in the maze...

The maze! That was one of the last things I could remember up until now. I tried hard with all my might to remember exactly what had happened but my head continued pounding, begging me to stop. I lay on my back with my eyes shut letting my mind drift into nothingness so that I wouldn't hurt my head with any more hard thinking. As I tried to urge myself to sleep so I wouldn't have to think of anything anymore I heard a creak from the side of the room, a door opening. Although I noticed a shine of light fall onto my face I ignored it, feeling I was almost dreaming.

"Get up honey," someone said in a singsong voice, almost identical to Edwards.

I shot up quickly as I heard the voice mistaking it for Edward's. My head started throbbing even worse then before and my body forced itself back onto the floor. I now lay with a chained arm rested against my forehead. I could feel bits of dirt and what felt like grass on my face as I rested the cold chain on my forehead trying to soothe my headache.

"I said get up."

I heard light footsteps against the hard stone walking towards my body on the floor. When he reached me I could tell that he was kneeling down close to me, but I didn't dare open my eyes to look at him. I was scared to look into his face. I knew that if I didn't look at him though, I would never have a chance of identifying him if I ever got away.

I couldn't hear any other breathing besides my own, but I knew he was there. I could feel the mere presence of him and I didn't like it one bit.

"Lena..."

It was him. I knew that voice all too well now as it had been haunting my dreams for the past few days. Without even looking up into his deep red eyes, looking at his dark black hair and pale skin, I knew my fate was left in the hands of Tiernan. When I felt his hands under my chin forcing my face to look at him I finally opened my eyes and saw his lustful look. Something about the way he was looking at me creeped me out and I had to turn my head. The events of the night before came spilling back into my mind and I felt a wash of understanding flow over me. I instantly felt bad for doing that to Edward and Jasper and wished I hadn't thought to do such a thing.

"Talk to me..." I heard desperateness in the bastards voice but I wasn't going to listen to him. Not after he knocked me out and kidnapped me.

"Can you please just forgive me again?"

Again...what was this idiot talking about? I met him at the mall for about ten seconds for gods sake! How could there possibly be anything that I needed to forgive him again for? It's not like he's ever knocked me out or kidnapped me...stupid bastard.

"It was much easier the last time." His voice sounded pained, like he was remembering something he regretted.

I was scared, sitting on the floor and having someone I barely knew whispering things so close to me. Things that didn't make sense to me at all. I still lay with my head turned away from him and my eyes shut tightly. I tried to stay as still as I could, I heard sudden movements always made a predator alert of their prey, and I definitely was Tiernan's prey.

I felt a cool finger sweep across my cheek as Edwards usually did and I winced as it came into contact with tender flesh. "Here, drink up."

I made no move to take what he was offering but when I felt a bit of cold liquid splash on my face, I couldn't ignore it. I turned my head slowly―keeping my eyes closed―and tilted my head up a bit, allowing him to raise the cup to my mouth. My mouth was so dry with thirst that I didn't even think of how he could have poisoned me and get rid of me quickly, but I knew he wouldn't do that. My purpose here was more then for the mere pleasure of killing me.

His cool hand rested on my forehead as the water moistened my mouth and made it's way down my crackly throat. When the last drip of water touched my tongue he lifted the cup away from my mouth gently, keeping his hand on my head.

"You're burning up."

The moment his hand left my head, I wanted it back. The coolness of his touch was soothing to my hot head and it began throbbing again as he took it away. I could hear the sound of running water from somewhere in the distance and just lay there, waiting for something to happen next. When I heard the squeaking of an old tap turning off and the sounds of Tiernan's feet against the floor I knew he was back in the room. I felt the coldness from his body next to my heated one as he sat down next to me again.

Again, I felt something cold against my forehead but this time I recognized it as a wet cloth. As he moved the cloth over my face and down my neck I felt my body begin to cool down. He dipped the cloth in water again and wiped it across my forehead once more before returning it for good. I felt his hand slip under the back of my neck and lift it gently, a cup was raised to my mouth again. I drained the contents again thankfully, realizing it didn't taste as it had before.

"This will help you sleep easily sweetheart, just rest your head and relax."

Although I didn't like the pet names he'd taken to calling me I decided to listen to him and rested my head back down against the ground. I felt him leave my side again and instantly wanted him back, knowing it was his body that was keeping my body temperature regulated. I lay on my side with my arms still outstretched above me trying to make myself comfortable enough to sleep. My eyes became surprisingly heavy and my breathing slowed down. I let my whole body relax, and before I drifted off into a deep sleep I felt the cuffs around my wrists loosen and I was lifted into strong arms.

EPOV (yay my first time doing it!)

My mind raced as I ran through the maze looking for my sweet Bella. A million thoughts were flying through my head as I searched others' minds looking for something related to Bella, but nothing came. Alice had jumped out at Jasper and I after leaving us worried for almost half an hour. When she didn't see Bella with us she got worried and took off looking for her. The whole time we were tearing up the maze to look for her I couldn't help but tell Alice how stupid she was for letting her out of her sight, with a few low growls on Jasper's part. I decided to split up from them, knowing I could find Bella way faster without them at my side.

When I reached the middle of the maze I froze in my tracks. Someone's mind was now playing the sounds of screaming and a struggling person through my head, so I thought the worse. What happened to Bella? I took off at an inhuman speed in search of the mind that kept playing through my head. The thoughts got louder and louder and as I turned the last corner, a man came into view.

"Excuse me?" I walked up to him, being sure not to frighten him in the darkness.

He turned around slowly and seemed almost frightened. I tried to smile at him reassuringly as to calm his nerves and to slow down the million thoughts racing through his brain. When I got closer to him and knew he was listening I asked him my question.

"Did you just hear a girl screaming?" It should have been a simple question, easy to answer.

The man just pointed in the direction to his left and I had to stop myself from taking off. "You alright?"

The man just shook his head lightly. "Which ways out?"

I pointed back in the direction I came and saw the man scamper across the ground fleeing quickly. Before he became out of sight a thought came through my head from him that startled me. He looked like the other.

Surely Jasper and Alice must have seen him and asked him something. He was probably relating the resemblance to Jasper. Snapping out of the thought I quickly ran in the direction the man had pointed me to. It was when I was halfway down the row when I smelt it. Bella. The smell was clear as day and her scent was still in the night air around me. I slowed down my pace, scared to as what I may find, and then stopped and the thought hit me.

That was the scent of Bella's blood...

I awoke feeling refreshed and glad that the pounding had subsided in my head. I noticed that the hardness of the floor I had fallen asleep on was no long supporting my body and my arms were curled next to me rather then chained above my head. I moved to run my hands through my hair but noticed it had been pulled up into a ponytail. A much shorter ponytail.

As I pulled my hand through the ends of my hair I noticed that at least five inches had been cut off of it. I felt anger rise as I thought of someone messing with my hair, especially while I was asleep. Soft silk met my skin as I turned over in the sheets and I realized that my bare skin was against it. I was tightly slipped into the covers in just my bra and underwear. I was angered at the thought of someone also removing my clothes without my consent, this was horrible.

I finally opened my eyes to observe the room I was in. Like the other one, this one had absolutely no windows and the walls were made out of some sort of stone. This room however had a huge bed which I now resided on, a dark mahogany dresser in the corner, and one single door that I imagined led to the rest of the house.

Without having a window in the room I had absolutely no way of even guessing as to what time it might be let alone what day. I could have been sleeping for weeks for all I knew, I just knew the sleep was good. When I couldn't take the silence that filled my head any longer I lifted my self off of the bed, covering myself with my arms although I was alone. I walked over to the dresser in the corner and pulled open one of the drawers. Inside I found a bunch of folded t-shirts and pulled out a plain black one and threw it on. It reached halfway down my knee but I searched through the other drawers for bottoms, not comfortable walking through this unknown house without them.

When I had found a pair of basketball shorts and had thrown them on I made my way to the only door and noticed light protruding from underneath it. I could tell it was natural sunlight; I couldn't wait. I pulled the door open quickly and stepped into the hallway. There were doors on either side leading to other rooms and straight ahead of me was a huge viewing window. Beyond that was trees and hills that seemed to go on forever. I walked down the hall squinting my eyes against the shining sun, keeping my steps light. Trailing my fingers against the cold stone walls I finally made it to the end of the hallway seeing the rest of the house.

Everything was on the one floor. To my right was a sitting room with red leather couches and a simple T.V and book shelf. To the left was a small dining room table and huge chairs, with a door leading outside sitting behind it. As I turned past the table I noticed a simple kitchen decorated in green and yellow in the last corner of the house. My stomach growled slightly and I felt that I mustn't have eaten in days. I walked to the humming fridge in the kitchen and as my hand was directly over the handle, a floor board creaked.

"So you've awoken?" A musical voice from behind me spoke with a slightly amused tone.

I turned around and came face to face with Tiernan...the enemy. As I still refused to speak to him I ignored his words and proceeded to open the refrigerator. I was thankful that Tiernan had taken me off the stone floor, but as to why he had me there in the first place I had no clue. I decided that I wouldn't talk to him until I'd found a way to make it back to Edward, or until Tiernan had decided to bring me back.

When I opened the fridge I found that it was bare except for a bag of apples, potatoes, orange juice and milk. I scowled at the emptiness of it; but after all he was a vampire. I withdrew a rosy red apple from the bag and placed it on the counter, slamming the door shut. I walked over to the cupboards and pulled them open simultaneously searching for more food. The last one I threw open revealed canned soups and at least five different boxes of cereal. I pulled a box down that I noticed I could eat dry and then shut the cupboard again. After picking up my apple I turned around with the box of cereal under my arm, ready to leave the kitchen.

I was startled to find Tiernan still standing behind me, watching my every move. I scowled at his gorgeous figure as I pushed pass him, en route to the room I had woken up in. As I made my way down the short hallway I had failed to notice that Tiernan had been following me. I pushed open the bedroom door that I had left slightly open and as I turned to close it I saw Tiernan's red eyes looking at me. I really wanted to get rid of this guy.

"Leave me alone! You creep..."

I slammed the door in his expressionless face and flicked on the light switch I had noticed on the wall. I childishly stomped over to the bed against the wall and sat upon it, opening the box of cereal. I noticed that the box was already open, and nearly half the box of cereal was gone. That must mean someone else had eaten it, vampires don't eat food.

As I pushed the food past the growing lump in my throat I began thinking of the million questions that I wanted answered. I needed to find Edward as soon as I could and get away from the weird vampire that haunted my dreams...this was almost like James all over again...

No, I told myself. I wouldn't let something like that happen again. When I forced down all the food I could I decided I needed some answers. Whether he wanted to or not, Tiernan was explaining all of this too me; a good explanation too. I left the cereal box and uneaten apple on my bed as I walked lightly to the door. As I pulled it open I almost half expected to see Tiernan still standing there, the same expression on his face. When I noticed he was no where to be seen I began walking down the hallway once again, beginning my search for him. As I walked aimlessly through the house questions began formulating in my head, preparing myself to ask him. After walking down the hallway and into the sitting room―still failing to find him―I decided to just sit on one of the red sofas and wait.

Five minutes had gone past and I was growing impatient. Why was it that when I didn't want him around he was there, and now that I want to talk to him he's no where to be found? When I started fidgeting I knew I had to get him to come to me quickly before I died of anxiousness. I did the only thing I could think of, having done it at the Cullen's countless of times before.

"TIERNAN!" My voice echoed against the stone walls and rang throughout the house. It had taken a lot of clearing of my throat to be able to shout so loud.

Within seconds I heard the rustling sound of a running vampire coming from the hallway. When my vision focused on him as he came into view I immediately regretted calling his name. The stale, bitter smell of blood hit my nose within moments of him entering the room. A red spot sat on his chin and I knew it was blood. Unlike the day in the hotel with Edward, this grossed me out. I saw the look of worry in Tiernan's red eyes and was instantly reminded of the worried looks Edward always god.

"Lena, what is it?"

What was up with this guy? Didn't he know that wasn't my name? I grew agitated with the scent of blood in such close proximity and him calling me that retched name.

"Okay, listen here buddy," I rose from the couch, ready to speak my mind, "I have no idea who you are or what you want with me but lets get a few things straight. One," I held up my index finger, "My name is not Lena. Two," I held up another, "You better answer all the questions I have. And three," I held up on more finger, "Take that blood off your chin and go brush your damn teeth!"

I sank back into the couch with a disgusted look on my face and a heavy sigh. Tiernan looked slightly taken aback as he drew the back of his hand across his mouth and slowly made his way to the other couch, confused.

"I see you're talking now."

Is that seriously all he had to say? I sat with my arms crossed and my breathing jagged in frustration. He was looking deep into my eyes, almost seeing into my soul. I guess he noticed my glare because he quickly looked away and down to the floor.

"I see that you're frustrated."

It didn't take a genius to know that. I began tapping my bare foot against the cold stone floor, clearly annoyed. He kept his eyes on the floor, sighing heavily.

"I had a feeling this would happen."

I twisted my eyebrows in confusion as I looked at him as if he were stupid. "Either explain what you're talking about or don't talk to me at all."

"There's no use in explaining if you don't remember." He let his head hang and he stared down into his lap.

I felt bad for him. I had no idea why seeing as he was the one the hit me over the head and dragged me away from the people I loved, but I could tell by the hurt in his voice in that one second that something was hurting him; more then any pain I'd ever felt before. For a split second he lifted his head to look into my eyes, I almost missed it he did it so quickly, then he was looking into his folded hands again.

"Do not pity me please, you know nothing of what I'm talking about and I probably frightened you half to death taking you here."

He sure had that right. The tone of his voice startled me and was nothing like I expected it to be. He was starting to scare me with the way he was acting, and this conversation wasn't going the way I wanted it to. The next time his eyes flicked up to me the dark red and clouded over with a lustful black. His frown had turned into a toothy smirk and he was looking at me in a way that made me uneasy.

"I'll give you a ten second head start..."

A ten second head start? What in the name of Jesus was he talking about?

"One..."

I stayed sitting on the couch with a confused look on my face staring at the idiot vampire in front of me.

"Two..."

His eyes seemed to be seeing through me again and I seemed to stay planted on the couch, not being able to pull away from his gaze.

"Three..."

When he licked his lips, it dawned on me. He wanted to eat me...

I shot up from my position as fast as I could with what I imagined to be a bewildered look on my face. I panicked as I looked around thinking of a way to get out of this house. I heard Tiernan cackle a laugh as he paused in his counting...he was mocking me. Then, as if it were a miracle, my brain started working and I remembered the door behind the dining room table. I noticed Tiernan hadn't resumed his counting yet but as soon as my fingertips touched the door handle his deep drawled out.

"Four..."

I was now well into the garden, his deep voice still echoed inside of my head. I pumped my clumsy legs as fast as they would go which was surprisingly fast. I felt the adrenaline pump through me as I realized just how much danger I was in. Random thoughts began pounding through my head uncontrollably. Edward's beautiful face and his soft touch lingered through my mind as one of the last thoughts. I now noticed the tears spilling down my face and into my mouth. A slight sweat was beginning to form on my forehead as I ran into a brush of trees. I knew Tiernan must have been pretty close to ten now but I kept running without looking back. I'd never been this scared before.

As I pushed my slender body further the scene seemed oddly familiar. The string had fell from my now shoulder length hair and it was whipping into my face a slight wind blew past me.

In the tenth of a second it took for my to realize why this scene seemed so familiar it happened, just like it did every night in my recurring dreams. The tree root caught onto my foot, twisting it painfully as I fell into the ground beneath me. And right on cue as it'd happened the many times before, he laughed. Although I knew how this was happening, it was different then the dream. Instead of him racing towards me with the ever heart-retching pained look in his eyes, he had a smug smile across his lips.

He was now planted at my feet as I lay on my back awaiting his approach. The look of longing that I'd seen in his eyes so many times before in my sleep came next. His black eyes stared down at me hungrily and lustfully. His hand swooped down to catch my wrist. I pulled away from him so he couldn't grab me and spit at his feet. I looked up at him disgustedly but he attempted to scoop me up again. This time his hand made contact with my skin.

I felt as if a million pins were sticking into me when his cold flesh touched mine. I don't know what it was about this moment or why it pained so much for him to touch me now, but it killed. The second he made contact with me I felt my body immediately shoot back from him and a two particular memories came pouring into my mind.

A tall girl with long, flowing blond hair appeared in front of me in Tiernan's arms. They seemed to be happy together, enjoying each other's presence as me and Edward did all the time. Then in the flash of a second the vampire flung to her neck and began sucking her dry. She fell into a lifeless heap at his feet and the memory became unfocused, filling in with another.

The same girl was sitting on the same sofa I had just ran from, looking Tiernan in the eyes. Although I couldn't hear the words his mouth was forming I knew he'd said 'I'll give you the count to ten.' The young blond girl immediately shot up from the couch, looking as frightened as I had, and the exact dream that I'd been having for days played out right in front of me. How was it possible that the same girl was being killed twice? I paid close attention as to how the girl still managed―despite her scared looks and the unusual situation―to whisper an 'I love you' before Tiernan stole her of her last breath.

I snapped out of the flashbacks that weren't even my own, to see Tiernan towering above my head. He swept down this time, actually taking my hand into his own without anything weird happening and he pulled me close to him. We were now in a tight embrace, looking at each other. He was staring down at me with a wanting, almost a needing look that I didn't quite understand, but after what he'd been saying to me and the memories I just saw I began piecing things together. Well, at least I knew what to say so he wouldn't kill me.

As his head swept down to the crook of my neck, almost making contact with my skin I shrieked.

"Stop!"

He hesitated, long enough for me to get a word in. "I love you."

He pulled back from me, looking deep into my eyes once again as he had the times before. His look of longing immediately turned to a look of hate and before I knew what was happening his hand found it's way across my face.

"You are one selfish bitch."

EPOV (Again)

As I paced back and forth across the floor beside the bed at the hotel I tried to piece together what had happened to Bella. After finding small specks of her blood on a few rocks around the area I'd been in I ran to find Alice and Jasper. After we'd been sure she wasn't anywhere near us we decided to drive back to the hotel and do all we could. So we called Carlisle.

I now sat on the bed trying to organize all my scattered thoughts. I tried hard not to blame Alice or myself for not seeing this coming but the guilt kept coming back to me. The thought of Bella lying somewhere bleeding and crying filled my mind as it raced with thoughts of her, longing to be with her. I felt the need to cry.

I jumped with a start as the tiny cell phone beside me buzzed to life. I immediately picked it up after the first ring with an obvious distressed voice.

"Edward?" It was Carlisle's calm voice.

"Yes, Carlisle?"

"I want you staying in the hotel room until I get there, Alice just called me and she's seen something. I'll be there in a few hours."

"Carlisle but a few hours might be too―"

He cut me off. "Edward, you're staying in the hotel."

Although Carlisle wasn't my real father, he still had the authoritative affect over me and I felt I had to listen.

"Yes Carlisle."

"Now good, go check up on Alice and see if you can find in her mind what she saw. It will be better if we have two people who've seen it rather then just one."

Carlisle hung up the phone in my ear and it clicked and buzzed. I snapped the phone shut and quickly got to my feet, shooting out the suite door and into the room across the hall. How could Alice have not told me that she had a vision? I was only across the hall, it was the least she could do after seeing me worried sick about Bella. The only reason I could think of for her not telling me would be because it was something bad...

I forced Alice and Jasper's room door open and halted in front of Alice's spot sitting on the edge of the bed. I tried hard to pry into her mind but I could tell she was putting up to blocking force she had mastered over the summer.

"Dammit, Alice let me in!"

I struggled harder, determined to see what she saw. After a few more feeble attempts, I collapsed to the floor unable to struggle with her. The thought of Bella being hurt and scared was over taking my mind and I just couldn't handle it any more. I wanted to break down and sob but I knew I couldn't. I'd let my Bella down, I told her nothing would ever hurt her again...and I failed.

A/N: Hey folks! So I changed the name of this chapter about a bazillion times. Ha-ha I hope it's okay with what it is now. I know this chapter was heaps confusing and most of you are probably thinking that I'm a crack head or something, but trust me...it'll make sense in the next few chapters. At least it should. Tell me what you think about it being in Edward's POV. I don't know if that was such a good idea but I had to do it to explain what was happening outside of where Bella was. A chapter should be coming up very soon that will have pretty much every vampire that you've seen in this story's' POV. Ha-ha it should be pretty intense. So tell me if you thought this chapter was complete shit or not. Oh and just to clarify a few things that I thought you might find confusing...the reason Bella had half eaten cereal was because another human was in the house. But you're obviously not going to see her as Tiernan had drank from her before Bella had called his name (note the blood on his chin and the smell of blood) Also, the link between Bella and the blond girl in her dreams will be clarified in the next chapter, but feel free to let your imaginations run wild. He-he. So, please review, I'll love you tons! Oh yeah and sorry for spelling mistakes!

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