Sweet Serendipity
Chapter Twenty-Eight : Lying Lonesome
A. Brandon
It was cold, and dark, and damp. And Alice fucking hated it.
Her body was freezing in the flimsy clothing she'd been left in. And her head hurt. Her head hurt so, so much. It pounded… a pounding that seemed to make her body ache already. She hurt. She couldn't remember the last time she was so drowsy or exhausted, and all she could think about was the Major. Where he was, what he was doing… why she was here of all places.
The longer she lay awake, the more her eyes began to focus. Her senses came back in full, and slowly but surely her hearing returned to normal, and her eye sight came back from its first fuzzy appearance. Looking around, Alice deducted she was in a basement of some sorts, or a cellar. She moved to stand when she regained the strength back in her legs, only to realize that she couldn't. She'd lost the ability to move away. All because of the chains strapped too her ankles.
Hopelessly, Alice clawed at the chains as desperation slowly set in to her thoughts as tears formed behind her eyes.
She wanted to go home.
Not to the Major, or Charlotte, or Peter.
Alice wanted to go home.
She wanted her mom's home cooked meals, and the voices that filled the house along with the smell of fresh bacon on a Saturday. She wanted her high school, and her drama, and her friends, and her enemies, and her life. She wanted her bed, and her mom, and her dad, and her family. She was too young to die this way. To die alone, in a cellar, without ever seeing her family again.
It wasn't fair.
It was-
"Alice…" that cold sensual voice called out as her head whipped around to the suddenly approaching pale vampire. His aura screamed dominance, and not the kind that made people want him. The kind that made everyone cower in fear. "I was hoping you'd be awake." he smiled as she shivered at the cold malicious smile creeping it's way onto his face. He reminded her of death… what death would look like, and talk like, and walk like if it were embodied in a person. He was death. And he scared her beyond belief.
"What did you do?" her voice, weaker then she would have liked leaked through the air struck with fear and tension as he smiled. A grin that crawled across his face, enjoyment… she saw. He enjoyed watching her squirm. He enjoyed her fear. "Where have you taken me?" she asked, the shivers wracking her body increasing tenfold as he took another step closer and crouched in front of her, searching her eyes as she ducked to avoid his gaze.
"You're special… important." he mused half-heartedly as she watched him size her up. "You mean more to the Major then he lets on… and I need that asset on my side."
"You're wrong." she stated suddenly, surprising herself more then she did him as her voice, still with it's slight quiver sounded stronger then it had before, despite her sinking heart and hope. "I mean nothing to him. I'm the blood bag he crags around for show." she whispered. Half of her conscious believing the statement, the other half denying it with every fibre. "He's not coming for me…" she stated as the vampire before her laughed and scoffed. Standing before her again as his body towered over her small, sitting frame.
"Believe what you want sweetheart. But your wrong. Jasper Hale… the "God of War", worships you. Maybe not that you can see. But his soul is bound to your's, and I need that leverage if I'm going to win this. He'll walk through fire to get to you, he will sacrifice everything to find you. And when he does, I'm going to be there to watch you break his heart." he grinned as Alice shook her head.
"Let me go! Let me go home. I don't want any part of this. I don't want to be a part of what you're doing." Alice begged as he smirked and shook his head, striding over to kneel in front of her again as his cool finger brushed the strand of hair away from her face and behind her ear as he tilted her chin so her eyes would meet his cold, dead, red ones.
"We're going to have a lot of fun together you and I…" he smiled as Alice shook her head out of his grasp.
"I have to apologize about the accommodations, I know it's not the Plaza. But as you can guess the Major's on the hunt for you. And, well… because you're his mate your scent is so much stronger. The cellar does a pretty good job of masking smells, so I'll have to leave you down here for now. But don't worry. I'll get you set up with everything you need." he smiled. Fingering the chains around her ankles as tears escaped Alice's eyes at the prospect of being trapped in a basement.
She hated crying, but just this once her body betrayed her. And she couldn't hold back the tears that spilled over. "We can have fun together though… I'm assuming one of the other's told you what feeding feels like?" he asked as Alice's breathing hitched. Suddenly very weary of her position, and visibly shaking where she sat.
She was no match for him, she held no power when it came to him or what he did. And he knew it. And he would use that against her over and over again, and Alice couldn't do a damn thing about it.
"Like sex… but without the possibility of me breaking your fragile human body." he chuckled as Alice felt the colour drain from her face. Suddenly light headed at the idea and the prospect of being fed from against her will, by someone that would certainly show her no mercy.
"I won't promise you it'll feel as, how would you say it? Lovely? Euphoric?… as feeding with your make. But you'll be withering all the same when I'm finished." he winked before pulling her wrist up lightning fast and nicking the skin with his teeth where her vein lay just underneath. Alice gasped as he ran his tongue across her skin, his cold lips unwelcome on her flushed and freezing skin.
Moaning at the taste, he pulled back and smiled at her before standing once more with a wink.
"You and I will have lots of fun together my love. And when I defeat Ares, and turn you myself… that sire bond will keep you right by my side. And we'll rule the south together."
Alice was lost, she never heard him leave, never realized he was gone until the empty feelings of loneliness settled in once more around her. The chill of the room setting deep into her bones again.
For the moment, Alice treasured the silence, it gave her a moment to think, and following that moment, she sunk into herself. She hated herself. She hated the Major, and Charlotte and Peter, and Samuel, and vampires, and everything about her life. She hated that she was so weak, and so fragile around them. That she had no power, and no control. She hated the headache that had begun pounding in the back of her head, and the pain that radiated out from behind her eyes every time she tried to open them. She could feel her body convulsing, but she hadn't eaten in what felt like years… she had nothing to throw up. And she knew that, so she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Gagging at the smell and the reminder of the cellar, and where she was, who she was with… and tried to calm her ragged breathing.
She was too young for this. She was too fucking young to be in this fucking situation with all this fucking shit going around her and it was so un-fucking-fair.
She hated him.
She hated all of them.
She was going to get out of here, and she was going to run, and she wasn't going to look back.
No one was worth this much trouble.
Not One. Fucking. Person. on this planet earth was worth the hell she was going through… and it'd taken all this for her to realize that.
She may never even get out of this hell.
Who was she kidding.
She didn't know the Major, or Charlotte, or Peter. Maybe it was all a lie. Her mom always used to tell her that you couldn't know a person unless you'd seen them at their worst.
Samuel was threatening the Major's empire. That would be his worst, when his territory was brought into question Alice couldn't be sure if he would come for her or not.
What if this was it?
What if she was stuck here forever?
What if Samuel got tired of her and simply decided she wasn't worth the time or effort and just killed her…
The more she pondered the last idea, the more she realized that now, she welcomed death.
Anything would be better than this uncertainty, this unknowing, and waiting… and loneliness.
Anything would be better than this.
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