Chapter Seven: Everything Has A Weak Spot

A/N: [TRIGGER WARNING]

This chapter is rated M because it contains a graphic scene of sexual assault. The scene will be marked with a line of asterisks (*****) at the beginning and end. Please skip this scene if it is something that upsets or bothers you

Every time Audrey came around, it felt like less time had passed since she had been here before. Surely, she had other things she had to do. I never heard any screams besides my own, or Alec's, but I imagined that Aro had more enemies that he kept down here. We couldn't be the only ones.

Strange, though, how relieved I felt when her key clicked in the lock of my own cell door. It swung open, smacking hard against the stone.

"Good evening," She hummed, her painted lips curled into a snakes-grin. "You and I are going to have a little chat, Sarah. Is that alright with you?"

I shivered at that name. "My name is not Sarah."

Audrey raised an eyebrow. I had to think, that if she wasn't one of the most warped creatures I had come across, she could be pretty, but now, any beauty she had was marred with cruelty and haughtiness.

"Isn't it?" She reached forward, stroking a sharp nail down my cheek. "You forgot that Aro knows all of your thoughts, your memories, my dear. Do not thinking that changing your name will make you into a different person. You're still pathetic little Sarah."

I jerked away from her hand, "I am not." I growled, my hands curling into fists. "My name is Saoirse! Saoirse."

Audrey smirked and folded her arms over her chest. "Then tell me, Saoirse, just how are you different from Sarah?"

"I'm pretty. I'm beautiful." I protested. She merely laughed.

"Beautiful? With all of those scars on your face, not to mention that piece missing from your nose."

I scowled. "My nose is f- SHIT!"

Lightning fast, she had taken a knife and struck it across my face. A small piece of my nose came sliced off.

Gritting my teeth, I pressed my hand to my nose. It would grow back, I told myself. It had to. It would put itself right.

Audrey stored the knife away into a small sheath on her hip.

"Well, now that we've settled that nonsense about how "pretty" you are, what else? How else are you different from Sarah?"

"I'm immortal." I responded. "I can live for forever. Sarah would have died somewhere around forty. I have seen so many things that she never could have."

Again, Audrey shook her head. "If you were truly immortal, my darling, it would be impossible to kill you." Her hand came up, pried mine off of my nose, and she stabbed her nail into the wound. I whimpered. "I think we both know that I could rip you limb from limb and nothing could stop me."

She stepped back, satisfied. "Next, my sweetpea?"

"I have a power," I grinned to myself. That was certainly something that I couldn't do when I was a human.

"Yes, you have a power," Audrey sighed. I had finally won at something. "But so did your mother, didn't she? So did Queen Mary, but what did that power get them?"

"That's different." I growled, shaking my head back and forth. "That's political power. I have a supernatural gift."

"It's really not all that different. There power didn't protect them and neither can yours. Do you see the comparison now?"

"I…" I swallowed tightly, "I do."

Audrey clapped, a very odd thing to see her do, and leaned back against a wall, as though we were girlfriends catching up after a few months apart. "What else? Let's see if you really are who you say you are…"

"I'm fast," I answered, the words leaving my mouth faster than I could think them. "I could never run so fast when I was a human."

She tapped her chin, pondering. "You have me there, little one. Do you have any other points? You're three-parts Sarah to one-part Saoirse right now."

"I'm strong." I breathed out, staring down at my hands.

This time, Audrey's laughs rang off of the walls, echoing. "Strong? My darling, if you were strong, you would not be in here."

"I…t-that has nothing to do with this!" I snapped. She pushed herself off of the wall and started to circle around me.

"If you were strong, you would have taken down the Volturi already." She hummed, stalking around me. Vulture, and the rabbit. "If you were strong, you would be able to escape. You would have been able to save both you and him." She nodded to the wall that connected the two cells.

I closed my eyes. "I am strong. I know I am."

"If you were strong, you would have been able to prevent your mother from being attacked." She purred, and she stopped right in front of me again.

"That wasn't my fault."

"I never said it was your fault." She turned away, and pressed a hand to the wall that the door sat upon. "But you couldn't stop a rape when you were Sarah, and you most certainly can't stop anything as Saoirse."

I thought of my mother, and it made me sick. It had only been a few months before I'd been changed. I hated to say that it was one of my strongest human memories.

But at her last words, a wave of panic mingled with the nausea swarming in the pit of my stomach.

"What are you talking about?"

She drew a finger to her lips. I went silent.

I heard his door click open. Feet shuffled in. Three different patterns of footsteps.

"Don't you dare…" I snarled.

Alec scrambled to his feet. I had come to know every sound he made. "Get the fuck away from me."

No answer. Nothing.

Just a zipper.

"Please…" I begged. I was all but ready to fall to my knees at her feet. "Leave him alone."

"I don't think I can do anything," Audrey hummed, tapping on her chin as though she would actually consider it. "Seeing as I'm in here, and he's in there."

I gritted my teeth, but I couldn't push past the sound that came from his cell. I counted three voices that weren't Alec.

"Get him on his knees." A growling voice said. I felt sick to my stomach. I knew that even if I cried, no tears would come out.

"Fuck off," Alec snarled. His demands were met with laughter…

And the sound of ripping clothes.

"Fuck is exactly what we're going to do," The second voice purred. "We're going to have some fun."

"G-get… Get o-off… NO. Ge-get…"

Stop. Stop. STOP!

"Awww, I don't think he likes it." The last voice hummed. "He is pretty though, almost as pretty as his sister."

"Don't fucking touch her!" He snarled.

More laughter. "I think we might pay her a visit when we finish here." The leader chuckled.

"Leave. Her. Alone." He panted, but the fight had started to fade from his voice.

"Sounds like a challenge. What do you think, gentlemen? Shall we give both twins a visit tonight?"

My stomach twisted. Jane had nothing to do with this, and she didn't deserve to be tormented any more than he did.

Audrey stood in the corner of my cell, her eyes closed and her lips curled into a perfectly delighted smile.

"Make them stop." I pleaded, though I knew that she wouldn't do anything. She got off on his pain and panic just as much as they did.

The second voice spoke again. "Fuck, get his pants off."

"No…" Alec said, and I recognized the complete horror in his voice immediately.

But like mine, his pleas fell on deaf ears.

Everything ran together. There were three of them, and he was strong, but not compared to three fully grown vampires.

"Shit… we need him on the floor."

"Chain him up."

"G-get…don't…p-pleas-"

Then he screamed. And I knew exactly why.

"He's tight. Fuck, fuck…"

I sobbed. I shouldn't have, for what right did I have to pity myself when he was the one being tormented so severely. My mind came up with a picture of exactly what they were doing to him. Some of me wished that I could see. I felt certain that the images in my head were worse than the reality.

"Alec…" I breathed out. I had no idea if he could hear me. I needed him to be alright. "It's going to be okay. I promise. I promise…"

I crept over to the wall. He had gone silent after that initial scream.

"Just listen to my voice, okay?" I implored. I needed him to focus on something, anything but the agony he was forced to endure. "I swear, we're going to get out of here. Then we'll go everywhere you want. We'll get Jane. We'll take her with us."

Could he hear me at all? Over the foul things that leaked from the mouths of everyone else around.

"Please…" I whispered as close to the wall as I could manage. If he could hear me, maybe it would help him to hold on for just a little while longer. "I'm right here with you. I'm not going to let anything hurt you, not ever….not again."

Audrey snickered. I'd half forgotten that she was here. "Aren't you sweet. Hopeful little Sarah."

I growled. "That is not my name, for the last time!"

"Someone hold him the fuck down!"

"'Bout ready to cut a hole in this fucker's throat."

My head dropped against the wall. They would kill him. I knew it.

"Are you going to stay here the whole time?" I demanded, looking over my shoulder at the red-haired demon in the corner.

Audrey nodded, smiling to herself as though she had just accomplished something to be proud of.

"I might go and watch after a little while." She said idly, pushing herself off of the opposite wall. "These boys always run out of creativity after a while. Though, I think cutting a few more holes into him could be fun."

"You're a monster." I said, stupidly. As if she didn't already know this.

"I am the mother of monsters, my love." She hummed. Striding across the room, she took my face before I could pull away. "I breed monsters. I am the goddess of monsters, pet. And when you leave here…you will be a nothing."

"Nothing…" I breathed out. The way she said it, though, it gave me hope that we would be set free.

Did I want to be a someone in here, or a nothing out there?

Without warning, Alec screamed again. It mingled with a desperate sob.

"What about him?" I asked. I knew now, asking her to stop would only make it go on longer. I had to make it out to seem like I didn't care what happened to him.

"Oh, he'll be something," She answered. "He'll be exactly what Aro wants him to be."

"That's not going to happen."

She raised a brow. "Isn't it? You'll find that anyone is easy to break. Once you find their weakest points… its only a matter of time."

I refused to believe it. That isn't to say I didn't believe it, though.

And I couldn't blame him, if he did break. No one should be forced to stay strong when they're minds and bodies are shattered.

"Let me get at his ass," The second man snarled without warning.

A feral hiss came from the first. "You had his ass five minutes ago. Back off. Cut a hole in his throat like you said if you're so eager for a fuck."

"Fine. Oi! Hand me a knife." He demanded. The last of them snorted.

"At least his pretty sister will come with three holes already provided."

Jane hadn't done anything. I knew nothing of her past, or her tendencies in the Volturi, but I knew that she did not deserve to be brutalized.

Just as he did not. I didn't think, truly, that anyone deserved to suffer in such a wretched way. It made me sick to my stomach.

Alec didn't scream anymore after the second time. For the most part, the only sounds that came from his cell were vague rustles of movement as they switched positions, or groans as they took their pleasure.

Audrey seemed to be disappointed, now that they weren't verbalizing every single thing that they did to him.

I sank to the ground next to the wall, my knees drawn up to my chest. I couldn't do anything, but wait.

Maybe I was still Sarah. Just as Audrey had said.

I couldn't stop my mother from being raped. I couldn't stop them from assaulting Alec, either.

I wouldn't be able to stop them if they decided to go through with their plans to attack Jane. Could I do anything at all?

I was just a sack of bones and flesh now. Bloodless, lifeless by technicality. If I could do nothing.

Was I nothing?

"Alec…" I breathed, mostly to myself. I couldn't break, though. That would be selfish. I had not endured enough to break yet. "I'm so sorry. I'm so, so…I'm sorry."

"Do you see if now, sweet Sarah?" Audrey asked. Her voice feigned concern, and she was a good actress. If you didn't truly know her, you might not be able to detect the snide tone that had snuck into her words. "You haven't changed at all. You're still just as useless as you were back then."

I nodded. She was right. What could I do?

"Are they going to stop soon?" I asked, raising my head to meet her eyes for a moment. "Are you going to do anything to me?"

She smirked. "You didn't realize? This is your torture, darling. You get to hear everything that they do to him. I have to compliment them. This time, they've been quite creative."

I heard the sounds that meant they were done with him, for now. One of them grunted, and said that they should just leave him on the ground like that. Another suggested asking Aro to put him on display, as an example to the rest of the Volturi.

But they left. They left and I felt my heart fill with relief. He wasn't in a good position, but….at least they were gone.

Things were nothing close to good, but they were better, with them gone.

Bored, Audrey exited soon after they had. I pushed myself upon onto my knees.

"Alec?"

It was a long time before I received an answer. Truth be told, I didn't expect that he would be able to talk.

"D-D-dam-ammit…"

He sounded like glass, so close to shattering.

I swallowed roughly. I wanted to tell him that it would be okay, that we would get out of here, that I wouldn't let him get hurt anymore, just as I had told him before.

But I didn't want any more promises to risk being broken. So, I told him the one thing I could keep true.

"I'm right here, with you."