WHERE AM I?

***Reyes POV***

My vision slowly speckled into focus. A raging ache mauled my head as throb after throb pounded against my skull. Well, that as well as Pain roaring in my head.

"Danika," I moaned, my voice raspy, as if I've been screaming, yelling, roaring at the top of my lungs. "Danika," I managed to croak once more.

There was no usual response. Not even a shuffle of recognition next to me. My body lacked the usual warmth that accompanied my woman's body as she rested beside my battle hardened flesh. Groaning, as my stiff muscles acted as if I've already over-exerted them, I turned my head, anticipating to see her nestled beside me in her normal position, but she wasn't there.

In fact, I wasn't even in my bed. My eyes scanned the foreign mattress draped in silk sheets and a brightly colored comforter. There was only one pillow laid haphazardly at the end of the bed, about to tumble off.

The room was alien to me as well. It was a rectangular room with brick walls and a metal door. Only a small square window allowed a liver of light in, the test of the room was illuminated by a hanging bulb that cast a yellow glare in the entire room.

Instinctively, I recognized there was a potential threat, being in such an unknown and exotic environment, and I tried to lunge off the bed and find a refuge, escape, or weapon. All my might, however, was hindered by thick metal chains binding my hands and tied to the headboard.

Violently, I began to shake, trying to free myself from the metal confines, but the chains were not even loosening. Surely, humans couldn't have considered such strong chains.

In the midst of my struggle, I heard heavy footsteps from outside the door. A metal door I failed to recognize. I slowed, quieting my attempts of escape.

The footsteps stopped at the other end of the door. An eerie silence clouded the dim musky room and ever so slowly, the metal door began to creek open.

My body immediately braced itself for the possibility if attack. For the possibility of violence. For the possibility of pain. Pain, the demon housed inside of me, laughed gleefully at the thought and even encouraged it, exclaiming:
Pain, yes, Pain!I shuddered at the sound of the demons voice. He'd been so quiet I almost forgot I housed him as punishment for helping open Pandora's Box.

The intruder- or my capturer- entered the room, except, it was two sets of footsteps I heard, instead of one. My eyes focused to the change in light and the new figures and slowly I easily recognized both of the men.

The first man to enter the room was Lucien, with his dark hair, scarred face, and mismatched eyes. The man behind him was Sabin, with his brown hair and amber eyes. Both were staring at me in concern.

"Where the hell am I?" I growled.

Sabin spoke up first, "You're at one of our allies alternate homes. We're keeping you here for a little while."

Lucien just stared at me and I couldn't help but allow pure are to bubble up from my stomach. They're holding me hostage here?! They can't do that. I have a family. I have a job. I have to protect those I love. And they're preventing me from fulfilling my purpose.

"No," I said, "I have to go back. With a new generation of those hunters on the rise, I need to be there to protect my family."

Our newest enemy. The biggest threat right now. Apparently, after Galen and Dean Stefano were defeated, we didn't take out all the threat because now there is a steady build up of a Hunter army that, just as the Hunters before that, have vowed to wipe us from the face of the earth. There's not to many, yet, but they're make-shift army is steadily growing in numbers, force, and brutality. The worst part is, we haven't been able to identify a leader yet, making a target hard to acquire, besides their sparsely numbered and sparsely populated bases. They're a threat to those I love and care for.

"Don't worry about them," Lucien suggested. "You know we will take care of them. The Hunters are nothing to worry about right now. They're too small in number to cause any significant damage."

Anger boiled and boiled and Pain laughed gleefully in the back of my clouded mind. Pain? Pain? Pain! Pain! Pain! Pa-

Shut up! I commanded the malevolent being harbored inside of myself. He listened. He actually listened! Something must be up.

"Yeah, and my son is too small to defend himself from any danger," I tried to argue. I shook against my confines trying to break free.

"We know that, but you can't go home right now. We will take care of Renier and Danika while you're away. Nothing will happen to them."

Lucien's reassurance did nothing but anger my further. I was Renier's father and I would protect what was mine. "Take me home now! Let me go! I need to see my son. I need to protect him, he needs to-"

"You're not going home!" Lucien and Sabin both shouted over my panicked and frustration.

"It's for your own good," Sabin said.

Lucien added, "And the safely of your family."

A dreaded and painful silence laid over the room as I realized that these men who I viewed as a momentary enemy, was only doing this to help me. They wouldn't have put me in these conditions if otherwise.

"Why can't I go home," I whispered in fear.

Lucien and Sabin gave each other a quick stare until Lucien steadily stepped his forward and cleared his throat.

"Something happened..."