Chapter 13: Dreams
Nessie's POV
After getting off the phone with Joyce I didn't sleep that well that night. Not just because I was attempting to sleep in my car. Though that was certainly a large part of the reason why. No the main reason why I didn't sleep well that night is because my head could not stop replaying the dream I had earlier in my mind. The more that I tried not to think about it the more I failed. It was just a dream but it was a dream that felt so real. Like a memory. I could not be sure that it was a memory or just a really lucid dream. You know the kind of dreams that just feel so real. Liam. Why did the name of that little boy in my dream trigger something in me? Why did the red-eyed pale skin man continue to frighten me so much after all these hours awake?
Besides the uncomfortable position in my car and the dream that kept running through my head there was also the physical pain. The wound on my head didn't lessen in pain a whole lot as the hours wore on. In fact, it felt like it was getting worse at times. I told myself it was nothing but no amount of mind tricks could work on the physical pain. All I could do was hope that by morning the pain will have gone away. Lucky also got pretty antsy being cooped up in the car for so many hours. I ended up letting him out on his own and he slept just outside the car.
At one point during the night it felt as if my face was getting hotter. Which was really odd because I get getting shivers. Really bad shivers. I took some pills and drank some water hoping that would help me feel better. I closed my eyes as if that would somehow block the pain that I was in. I think it must have worked because I fell into an uneasy sleep.
I was back in that room with all the other little girls and boys. I was scared. More terrified than I ever had been in my entire life. Even more scared than when the Volturi had come for me. I think that's because when the Volturi came for me I knew my family and Jakey would be able to protect me. Now I was not so sure. My family didn't even know where I was. How could they protect me if they didn't know where I was?
I started crying again. Liam suddenly got up and walked over to me and gave me a hug.
"Daddy says hugs make everything better," he sounded like he was about to cry to. I liked him. Not just because he was like me but because he seemed like a nice, sweet little boy. He tried to comfort me when he was just as scared as I was.
"My mommy's hugs make me feel better to,"
"Do you think they are going to save us? My daddy and your mommy and daddy?"
"I don't know," I cried. "They don't know where we are at,"
I could see tears forming in Liam's eyes. He started crying. I tried to comfort him.. I hugged him just like he hugged me. Nothing would make us feel better. Only having our families back would make us feel better.
"I miss my daddy," he hiccupped. "Do you think I will ever see him again?"
I stayed quiet. I didn't know what to say because I was scared of the exact same thing. Not ever seeing my mommy or daddy, or any of my family again. I listened to all the other kids crying. Like Liam and I they had been stolen from their mommies and daddies, or grandmas and grandpas, or aunts and uncles. They had all been stolen from somebody just like me.
I scratched my throat when it started to burn. I needed blood but I didn't know where to get it. Liam needed blood to. I didn't want to hurt the other kids though and neither did Liam. It was hard to fight the burn but I did fight it. Neither of us was sure how long it had been since we drank blood.
Liam and I huddled together and fell asleep together that night. We didn't wake up until we heard a loud bang. We jumped when we saw the same red-eyed man from yesterday. We tried to get away from him but since he was so much faster than us he caught us.
"Uh uh. Can't get away from me young hybrids. Today your transformation begins,"
We kicked and screamed but we couldn't get away. We were taken to this room that look like one of grandpa's hospital rooms. We were both strapped to beds. The straps were done so tightly that we could not escape even with our super strength. The man brought out a really big sharp looking needle. I screamed in fear. He smiled evilly.
"This is what'll make you both fully human," he said. My heart started beating faster. "By tomorrow you will both be fully human and than I will be able to sell you two,"
"No!" Liam screamed.
"Oh yes little one," he smiled in a creepy way again. "Once you're both fully human in 24 hours I will be able to erase your memories,"
I squirmed and tried to get free. I could break free. I screamed in intense pain when the needle pierced my skin. It was the most painful thing I have ever felt in my entire life.
"Why are you doing this?" I cried.
"Money kids. That is all that this is about. Money,"
For the next day we writhed in pain there. I could feel my senses dulling. My eyesight, my hearing, my sense of smell. It was all getting worse. I could feel that I was losing my strength. I was losing everything. I was getting weaker and weaker by the moment. The man taunted that there was a cure. Or an antidote as he called it but we would never, in our lives, find out what it was.
By the next morning we were fully human. The pain was gone but I was different. I wasn't as strong as before. I couldn't see, smell, or hear as well as I could before. It was the scariest thing I've ever felt in my life. The fear only increased when we were taken to a place to be "auctioned off," with all the other kids. Whatever that meant.
Each and everyone of us was showed to a crowd of people. I watched in horror as other children were purchased by people in crowd. Several little girls were sold to the same man. Said he planned on using them for child pornography and later for sex trafficking. I didn't understand what either of those things were but I knew they were bad.
That same man tried to buy me as well when it was my turn. But another couple wanted to buy me for more money. I was sold for $450,000. Liam was sold right after me for $430,000. He was sold to another couple.
"Nessie!"
I jumped awake. I could feel my heart pounding out of my chest. My face felt even hotter than it had the night before so I knew that something was wrong. The dream frightened me more than anything. In my dream it was my adoptive mother and father that had purchased me at that auction as a little girl. It was just a dream. It was just a dream. That's what I kept telling myself anyway.
"Nessie!" Jacob pounded on my car door.
"What the-Jacob!" I shouted as I opened the door.
"Nessie what happened to your head?! Why are you sleeping in your car? What happened?!"
"Nothing,"
"Nessie your head-"
"It's nothing. I just tripped that's all," no matter how angry I was at my dad for hitting me I wasn't going to oust him like that.
"It looks-"
"It's fine,"
"Renesmee it is very red and swollen and there is pus and what looks like blisters on your wound. I'm no doctor but I think you need Carlisle to check you out like right now,"
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