This story is for my cat who had to be put to sleep last year.
Tell me what you think!
Warning: Torture/electrocution, confinement, chains...
If anyone thinks I should change the rating, please say! I think it's kinda border line, but I'm not sure. :/
Don't worry if you're confused - you're meant to be. Usually I'm not good at keeping things secret, so I've been more secretive than I probably should've been. I'll reveal everything now, since last chapter was too long and confusing.
The ground beneath me is metal, and I feel chains around my arms and leg.
I struggle and stumble in my new body, but after I'm on my feet, I know what to do. I release a snarl and crash against the side of the cage. I slash my claws against the bars, testing the strength of the chains that hold me. It's dark outside the cage, but I can hear many breathing patterns and very hushed barely-there voices.
Stupid vamps.
Speaking of vamps, one flicks on a light so that a tunnel covers me. Another slowly walks forward, maybe two but my senses are too muffled from unconsciousness to tell the difference correctly.
It's female, average height with straight ginger hair. Her scent burns my more-sensitive nose. She smiles at me, like she thinks she's my friend. She slowly steps forward and wraps a hand around the bar. I slash at her hand, knowing my claws will reach, but she knew it was coming and takes her hand away.
I won't be a chess piece. I won't be a chess piece.
Kicking at the bars, I find my back feet are less restrained than my front.
"Please, we mean not to hurt you."
Yeah, right. I growl at her in response.
The vamp sighs and closes her eyes, like she's thinking something over in her head. When she opens them, it's clear her decision is made. I can almost detect pity in her eyes. "Kate." She whispers.
Another female comes forward, so fast I nearly don't see it. She easily slips through the bars and wraps her arms around me. I would panic about her crushing my ribs, but I feel like I'm tied up to a main electric power supply. My body jerks and wriggles, then thrashes and slashes at everything. But, my claws get no grip.
I try, and try to throw her off, but my strength is failing.
I want to scream, I want to shout. I want to plead, but I can't. They'll have won. I let loose painful howls of agony, I can't stop them. My throat burns, it feels like I've been here, suffering, for years. I hate vamps. I'll never join them. I'll never be their army leader.
I'll never join the packs. I force the thought out to anyone that'll hear it.
'Nessie?!' A voicesounds in my head. I can't even find the energy now to answer, never mind figure out who the speaker is. I let out a final, weak bark before my eyes roll into the back of my head and even my brain is uncontrollable.
I don't know when I eventually became unconscious. But, I'm conscious now, and there's food!
It meat—raw meat—but I'm too hungry to care. There's water too, but only a little.
I keep eating, even when I hear the ginger vampire walking towards me again.
A cold hand touches my head suddenly and I snap at it as quickly as I can. The movement makes my vision blurry and I stumble.
"I apologise, my friend. If you weren't so stubborn, we'd give you whatever you want. We only want cooperation." I growl. Yeah, right.
Nessie?
Sammy?! I recognise his voice now.
Nessie, where are you? I'm coming to get you!
You can't, Sammy, I don't know where I am. I explain.
What do you mean?
I mean, I don't know where I am, idiot!
But, you ran off. He's confused.
Something—or someone—drew me to the Cullen house. They wanted me to phase, because they believe in some rubbish they found about pups, like us. I phased-actually I don't even know how long ago it was when I phased. After I phased, I woke up in this cage. I sense another wolf join us, and I find myself really hoping its Wolfie. How long have I been... gone? I continue.
Whose that? A deep voice asks, I don't recognise it.
Um... Sammy doesn't seem to know who to answer. He almost seems too scared to think.
It's me, Nessie. I answer.
Nessie... Suddenly I see myself, over my ten years of life, through a pair of eyes that always watched me.
Wolfie! I almost bark my excitement, then remember where I am. The images quickly cut out, having been interrupted. I have to go, if I can phase back at all. I'm sorry.
Nessie, no! Is the last thing I hear before I block it all out. I focus on happy memories, memories of Wolfie and I helping out mum. Or just the three of us together. Then, a young childhood image, blurred and slightly distorted. One of my parents, looking down at me with love.
This, instantly, calms me and fills me with happiness. I phase smoothly into my human body, and sit with my knees tucked into my chest.
"I will never cooperate with you. Or any of your kind."
"Vanessa, nice to see your face again." Edward appears from the shadows and covers me in a large blanket. He then chains my wrists and feet to ones I hadn't noticed before, since the others had slipped straight off. I don't know why he bothers, I have no strength to move with.
"You will cooperate. You have no strength left to fight us with. Just join us, and you'll be free." The female's voice is almost soothing, like a cool glass of water on a hot day.
"How..." I shake my head, because my vision is blurry again from a headache. "How can I be free if I'm a servant to you?"
The female sighs. "You will join us eventually. Until then, I'm afraid, you must be given your punishment." She stands straighter and waves a hand at someone in the darkness. I hear a door open and the footsteps of someone leaving. "The others will be joining us in a moment. For now, you'll be wanting to phase. Your friends are anxious and I'm sure you'll want to talk to them. You have ten minutes, then your punishment begins. You may as well remain in your wolf form, your anger at your pain will cause you to phase anyway."
I feel enough anger in me from her arrogant words to phase, but I don't. Not immediately, at least. I give myself two minutes before conjuring images that would anger me. I phase once I begin thinking of mum.
Whose there? Sammy.
It's me again, Nessie. Please though, everyone who is here, phase out.
Why? It's the deep voice in my head again, Wolfie. It makes me want to cry. How long have I been gone?
You've been gone months, Nessie. Actually, now I think about it, I remember feeling your presence for a while. But, you were unconscious. Sammy pauses. Dodo brain here didn't believe me when I suggested the presence being a new pup, or even you. He was so depressed without you, it made him a pessimist.
Anyway, I can see Sammy through Wolfie's eyes and tell how hard his glare is. Why do you want us to phase out?
They're... I pause, looking around me as vampires slowly enter. I don't think my time is up yet though. They're going to torture me, punish me. They want me to join them, which basically means they want me to join the packs with you, Wolfie. Then, they want me to command the packs to do as they wish. Kill vampires, werewolves, shape shifters, hybrids and even humans on their command...
Don't give in! Sammy.
How can they do that? Wolfie.
I'm trying, Sammy, but I'm already weak. They just can, but I can't let them control me. I won't! My breathing is getting harder, and I wonder if my time is out.
Just... Go... My thoughts are slow. My brain feels like it's not in my body anymore. Like it's not anywhere. I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe.
I feel Sammy phase out, but Wolfie doesn't. I feel it immediately, how he can't. His bond with me demands he stays as close to me as possible. To break this small connection, would break him.
"Benjamin. Enough now, she's finished." I leap forward, as if I'd been held in suspension, as I realise I can breathe again. "Benjamin." There's a much colder tone to the ginger females voice now, I can tell my torture is coming. "Fire."
Years, months, weeks, days, hours, seconds. Why do we track time in such ways? Why do people make light of how little time they have? Why don't they live it?
My tears had dried up days - or is it weeks? - ago. Vampire after vampire had come forward with someway of hurting me. None beat the one they called Benjamin. His ability to burn away my fur, but not my skin terrified me. His ability to suck all the air from my body terrified me. His ability to hold me in the air in a ball of water terrified me. His ability to crush my bones one at a time with the earth terrified me. He terrified me.
But what terrified me most, was how kind he really was. Every time he hurt me, he'd apologise either before or afterwards. Every night, or what I thought of as night (which is when the vampires leave the room to let me rest), Benjamin would stay, gently stroke my fur and sometimes, somehow, he'd sneak me a bit of meat.
I was growing horribly weak, and I knew it. I couldn't communicate back to Wolfie anymore, but every time they hurt me, he was there. Growling and wishing he could help. It brought comfort to me, reminded me why I had to be strong. Wolfie knew where I was - the Cullen house - but I was being guarded by the whole Uley pack. There were new members to the Uley pack from Forks (no one knew they were part wolf) who phased from the new vampire numbers, the new vampires coming to hurt me. The Uley pack were just lucky enough to find the pups first.
"Vanessa?"
I'm in human form, trying to rest when the voice reaches my ears. I struggle picking myself up, and don't bother rubbing the sleep from my eyes. One is badly bruised and before it was, it was closed up from dried tears.
"Vanessa."
"Father." My voice, even I can tell, is weak. I wait for my father to speak, but he doesn't. "If you have something to say, please say it. I don't want to be weaker than necessary because of you." There's more venom—maybe that's the wrong word—in my voice than I've ever heard before. Maybe I am starting to grow up.
Father sighs and rubs his head. "I have nothing to say. I wanted to see for myself that you were alive, that's all." He turns to leave, but I don't want him to.
What do I say? What do I say?
"Why did you leave mum?" The words tumble out my mouth without thought. I think they've been on the tip of my tongue for years.
"What?" Father's suddenly angry. He turns and lurches for the cage, but he's too big to slip through the wide bars.
"Why did you leave mother?" Suddenly, I want to say it again, so I do. I say it over and over, chanting and chanting. Until I'm shouting.
"Enough!" Father shouts. "I will not tolerate such behaviour, Vanessa."
"You don't have to, if you give me the truth."
"I will not take demands from you."
"And I won't take orders from you! I'm here because I refuse to be their lapdog, but one day they will release me and on that day and everyday forward I will rule both packs with my mate and you will do as I command."
Both of us are shaking. Father leaves, slamming the door loudly behind him.
"Well?" Asks the ginger haired female, Mori.
"She has the anger to phase even through all that suffering. She has passion too, she won't agree to rule under you. But she has the hate to rule as a controlling alpha." Paul answers. She has my anger, he thought.
"Very good." Mori swiftly turned to report to the leaders, leaving the wolf behind. The doors opened without her having to push. "Carlisle, Esme, we've made good progress so far. I believe she can be broken."
A look of pain crossed the male leaders face, before it disappeared. "Very well, begin part two of your plan. Jane is in the dungeons, two along from our guest."
"Master, I've found that our guest is very weak, too weak to talk to her friends. I think the help from the dog she calls a father was an excellent idea."
"Yes, indeed, we'll have to praise Edward for his idea later." The female leader said quickly. She wasn't likely to do what she said she would, she was growing to tired of the guest in the dungeons. "Anything else to report, Mori?"
"Yes, I've also found that the girl and wolf have started to like, or at least appreciate, the kindness showed to her by that gutless Benjamin."
"Mori, remember your place. Kindness is no weaknesses. And Benjamin is the most talented vampire alive. It's a wonder that he is still a part of us and not in charge of us." Carlisle says.
"Yes master, I did not mean to offend. That is all I have to report." Mori bowed and strode out of the room swiftly.
"Must we continue hurting the girl? She'll have no strength left to live soon, and then what will we do." Esme says.
"If I recall correctly, it was your idea to hurt the girl." Carlisle replies.
Esme sighs. "Yes. Yes, I know." In truth, Esme missed how everything used to be, before they were the ones who lead the vampire world. But, that could never be so again. She was just ashamed of all the power-crazy ideas she had while the greed was settling into her.
But this, the torment of a young girl, was her worst decision to date.
AN:
Just like to say that I've never been electrocuted, starved of air, burned alive or even suffered a broken bone so I had to skip out stuff and also make stuff up with the electricity. I tried to base it on book and movie reactions and see in other films how actors act out being electrocuted.
Also, sorry for being several days late with this. Some stuff happened after I posted last chapter which meant the posting of this had to be delayed. Sorry.
Finally (I think) Paul and Nessie interaction! :) Just please don't kill me because of how short it was and how it turned out.
Oh, if anyone was confused about the end, it's meant to be third person.
I think that's it, other that I think this is the longest chapter (so far) so yay! XD
Anyway, sorry for hella long AN, I'm gonna go nap now! xD