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Jasper's POV:

EDWARD! Gather everyone in the living room, Tilda is going to talk! I shouted in my head to Edward who I could see in an upstairs window as Matilda and I approached the house.

I was him nod slightly and then he was gone.

As Tilda and I walked slowly to the house I child feel her emotions becoming more and more agitated and anxious. I sent her calming waves and tried to sooth her emotions.

As we walked up to the porch, I felt a small,warm hand slip itself into my cold, marble one. I looked down in surprise and found Tilda gripping it as tightly as she could whilst grinding her teeth together in nervousness.

"Remember, Tills." I told her, as we walked into the house. "You have nothing to be afraid of in the Cullens."

" Okay. " this was whispered so quietly that even I had to strain my vampire ears to hear it.

"Hello, Tilda, Jasper" Carlisle said and nodded to me as we turned into the living room and saw the whole family seated on the sofas. Well the whole family except Renesmee, who was with Jacob in Forks as everyone was concerned at what Tilda could accidentally to the her if Tilda had a panic attack again. "I hear you would like to talk to us?"

Tilda's eyes shot from Carlisle to me to Edward in the space of a second. "Umm... Yes I would, I can tell you are all curious."

I took a seat on the sofa next to my Alice, who immediately relaxed into me, our arms intertwined and her head on my shoulder. Meanwhile Tilda curried up on the armchair furthest away from anyone. Wordlessly Edward chucked her a blanket and she nodded gratefully. Esme scooted to the end of her sofa, so she was as close to Tilda as possible, her mothering instincts kicking in again. To her dismay, I could tell from my adopted mothers dampened emotions, Tilda edged away from her, looking apprehensive.

The room was silent waiting for Tilda to talk.

The room was silent waiting for Tilda to tell us the cause of her cause of her suffering.

The room was silent waiting for Tilda to tell us where she has been this past decade or so.

Then she began to tell her story. I sent her soothing emotions every few minutes so she could stay calm and tell her story to the full.

"It was just a normal new years day ten or so years ago: I ran, through the northern Canadian forest, and it's hundreds of kilometres from any civilisation. I got to the clearing where I write to Alice and Jasper, so I became invisible and began writing a letter to them, nothing particular, just sending to meet in Northern Russia and we could go to Moscow together, because we can't too anywhere sunny, obviously.

I had just started my letter to them, when four people entered the clearing. I watched them for a moment to see who they are, now they couldn't see me of course because I was invisible. There was a small woman with light-ish hair and a dark robe on, with her was a similar sized man but with dark hair and a boy-ish face. Then the was a thin man with as old looking, dark suit on, finally came a large man with floppy dark hair. He was really big, as big as Emmet even! Bigger maybe! "

Here Emmet snorted in disbelief.

"Anyway. I watched them for a second then realised something. Then all had dark, crimson eyes - vampires. I shoved the letter under a rock and started to run across the clearing, as I did so, bits of conversation drifted too me. 'Now look what you've done!' I woman hissed set the man in the suit thing.'You've lost it, I thought you were the best tracker.' I think he was called something like Dominic, Demetrius...something along those lines anyway. I don't remember any of the names entirely, but the ones I'm going to use are similar.

The man tried to justify himself and it became clear they were taking about me. 'She just disappeared, no smell, heartbeat - anything'

'well now Ara won't be very please.' The young man said.

'Don't worry, brother Alex,' the girl said. 'I'll see if I can find her. I watched her over my shoulder as ran, entering the shelter of the trees. She was spinning in a circle saying something that I heard later. What she was saying I got well acquainted with later. She was saying one word. Pain.

I didn't know at the time what she was doing. But when her spinning was level with me, I suddenly hurt all over. I screamed and fell to the floor, it hurt so bad. So so bad. Because I was in pain, I couldn't hold my invisibility and the strange vamps were on me in a second, the woman gave a high laugh when I swore at her through my cries, but eventually she stopped whatever thing she was doing to me. I looked at my body and there wasn't a single cut, bruise or scratch on me -although it felt as if I had just been ripped in two.

The big man easily picked me up and punched me hard. The last thing I remember before I passed out, was the female vampire, whose name I later learnt was something along the lines of Jena, saying into a small phone, 'Caipus we've got her.'

I woke up, but I don't know how long later - it could have been one hour or several months for all I knew. I was on the stone tiled floor of a large, grand hall, with no windows or bright lights. On a stage in front of me, were three guys - clearly vamps - on thrones. In the middle was a guy with a ratty face, papery skin and long dark hair, one with dark curly-ish hair and a nervous face and the last one had bright, blond straight hair.

The middle guy was clearly the leader and said to me, 'we have heard odd things about you child, come here and we shall see if they are true.' I just shook my head and tried to run for the door, but the big guy - Felic, or something - jumped out the shadows and threw me backwards, so hard I hit the opposite wall and fell to the ground, coughing hard. 'If you become invisible it will be worse,' Felic muttered, he sounded scary, but I pretended that I didn't care.

The blond guy, Caipus laughed and congratulated Felic, so I gave him the evil eye look, which he ignored completely. 'let's try this again, should we, ' the middle guy, Ara I think, said to me, a bit firmer this time. 'Come here little girl and this time behave. ' I thought about how he spoke to me so I made myself look as if I was about five or six. I don't know if Alice and Jazz told you, but I can make myself look three or so years older or younger than, I really know why, but I just can. It only works if they person I'm doing it to doesn't properly know me much.

So I walked up to him like as if I were younger, hoping he would have some sympathy and would be nicer to me. God was I wrong in the end! He made me stand in front of him and he placed a hand on my forehead. 'Ahh.' He said, 'So you are the girl we've been informed about.' He kept his hand on my head and was still. Someone informed these strange people of me, I thought, and who did, I wondered? 'I can't tell you who that was,' the man said, reading my thoughts or something. 'listen, everyone.' The vampire said excitedly. 'She knows Alice and Jasper. Ah dearest Alice.'

Weird, I know.

Then he said something, really quietly so I could barely hear him. Something about 'Keeping in case needed for blackmail.' So I tried to run but I could clearly see that Felic would get me if I did, so I became invisible and hid under the throne with the nervous looking vampire on - Matthew I believe.

'I will give you give seconds to get out from wherever you are, girl' Ara said. But I stayed silent and hidden.

'Five.' I curled up into a tighter ball.

'Four. ' I cursed him, knowing he couldn't hear he through my invisibility.

'three.' I wondered what he would do it he found me.

'Two. ' I looked around to see if Jena was in the room with me, but I couldn't see her anywhere. Phew!

'one.' I paused and waited.

'Let this be a lesson to you then.' Ara called, 'Jena darling,' and she came in through the thick wood and iron doors,

'Yes master? ' she simmered

'the girl is under Matthew's chair, you and the rest need to teach her her first lesson I think.' I instantly felt Jena's gift seize me and cried out in pain. I felt Felic grab me me by the back of my dungarees and haul me over his marble hard shoulder.

I gave Ara a confused look at which he laughed and said 'you thought about where you would hide, when I was reading your thoughts.'

I was taken to a small basement room, it had no windows or lights and no bed, table or anything other than an uneven cement floor. Cold puddles of stale water, presumably from a leak somewhere, had congregated in dips in the floor work.

It started as soon as we got there."

Here Tilda's voice cracked and a solitary tear rolled slowly down her pale cheek. Esme crouched next to her chair and put an arm around her thin, shaking shoulders. I could feel the compassion and sadness radiating off Esme and the sorrow and fear off Tilda, while the curiosity and wretchedness attacking me from my other family members around me.

I did my best to try to sooth her emotions, but it was hard to dampen so much fear. I could see and feel Edward struggling too, I can only imagine what horrors he was seeing.

"Felic threw me into the ground, and they ripped my clothes off me, laughing like some sort of mad, rabid hyenas." Tilda managed to resume her story, her voice thick with tears, however, no more tears spilt over. "They all started punching me, kicking me. I don't think it was with vampire strength, or else I wouldn't be here today. They left me bruised, cold and bleeding on the floor, with promises that they would come back often.

And come back often they did. Jena, Felic, Alex and Demetrius were regular visitors. Caipus also 'visited' me a bit. However Matthew never touched me and Ara would only summon me to the great ball room, to be punished if he was in a bad mood, or something. Each time they would hit me, kick me, starve me excetra. Sometimes I would be tied to a pole and whipped, and mostly I was blindfolded so I couldn't see where the punishments, as they called it, were coming from.

Their was one punishment I hated, more than anything else they ever did to me. Jena wouldn't do it, she would only use her terrible gift on me which was bad enough, but at least I understood afterwards what had happened to me - ish. The others might sometimes blindfold me and hurt me. I don't know what it was, but they would laugh and cackle. But it hurt. So. So. So. Much. "

Matilda had curled up into a little ball and was rocking backwards and forwards with her small hands hard over her ears, as if to block out the noise of this last punishment inflicted on her.

"You all promise not to ever do that to me? Don't you? Don't you?" Tilda spoke with a fast, torrent of words. Her rocking got faster, her eyes squeezed tightly shut, her heart beats increased and she began to breathe in a ragged, uneven, quick way.

Edward and I both stood up, because it looked as if she was beginning to have a panic attack like the one where she threw Esme out the window. Carlisle heard us and motioned for us to sit back down. We did so reluctantly and we both leaned forwards, ready and able to react in an instant.

"Tilda, we promise, okay." Carlisle spoke in his calm doctor's voice. "Breathe slowly Matilda, can you do that for me? " Her breathing sort of returned to a gentle, rhythmic pattern, however her eyes remained tightly shut and her hands grasped her knees tightly. "Good girl, Tilda. Do you want to open your eyes now? " Carlisle said a bit firmer.

"No!" They girl said adamantly. "They're out there, in front out me. I can tell."

" There is no one out here but us, " Carlisle tried to persuade her. "You have nothing to worry about with us."

" Sure? " She timidly whispered.

"Sure. " Carlisle said gently.

"You sure-sure-sure?" She asked again.

" Completely sure. " Esme said and hugged her close, much to my surprise Tilda didn't even flinch at the touch. Slowly, very slowly, Tilda's eye lids unfurled and she quickly looked around, checking for her enemies.

"Thank you." She whisper softly, then seemed to remember why she was her with us all. "I suppose I would continue tale... So I stayed there, in that single room for years, I was never alone because a woman, sometimes a girl called Heidi or a girl called Renata, always stood watching me because I was required to keep one of my feet invisible at all times so Alice couldn't see me. Otherwise they -" Here she paused and took a deep breath.

Once, within the first month out being there, I made it visible but never again...I was thrown through a wall by Caipus and was barely alive.. I...I...I was only allowed to live because 'Ara needed me for black mail.'

I did not get any food or water for at least the first few weeks of me being taken there, so I was forced to suck to dirty water off the floor to survive. Finally I managed to raise my need for food to Ara and he gave me a huge can can of fresh (well at least I hope it was) water, and asked what I could eat, as a half and half hybrid. I said animals and human food.

The next day I woke up at the smell of fresh blood, fresh human blood. Are was staring over me, the first time he had entered my chamber since I came. He was holding a half dead human, he said to me as he threw the man next to me, 'This is your food, so drink him up. Quick then child , I'm interested in how you kill and eat.' Ara kept chivying me so..

I didn't want to, honestly, I hadn't killed a human for blood since Alice and Jazz taught me not to YEARS ago! But I had to, so I bit the poor man once and then watched as my poisoned, venomous saliva killed him. I did drink him after that but since then I pleaded for normal food or animal, a wish that was sometimes granted

I felt so bad after that, I'm sorry, I let all of you down, I know that I shouldn't have done it so I have let you all down you all down, because you all day animals only and I -I didn't. "

Tilda looked so broken and ashamed of herself that I felt really sorry for her, and said to her that we've all made worse mistakes and Esme whispered comforting words in her ear so she began to pull herself together to talk again.

"Then within the last two years, I had a whole week of no punishments, a whole WEEK! It was great! You see the only way I could tell the time of day, was when the two guard women swapped. Apparently there was some trouble out since sort in Washington state, but I don't know what happened, but it must have been bad for my captors, because they came back furious!

After that I started to be allowed to go onto yours with Heidi and Jena to ours school kids and tourists to become the vampires food because the lead vamps got all stressed and pressured about the 'accident in Washington' as they called it. I still feel ashamed of it, leading innocent humans to their deaths, but I had no choice! I was always watched like a hawk by Jena, once I tried to run, but she saw me and used her painful gift on me and when kind people tried to help me she just told them I had an epileptic fit and that was that.

I only managed to escape when I was required to lead a bunch of school kids into the scary people's tunnels in Heidi's care, but I pretended to be all meek and weak and Heidi took her eyes off me for a second, so I ran, ran and just kept in going until I got to an airport and hid on the first plane to the states.

Then after a while I managed to be here with you! "