Chapter 7

Torment

Ash was sitting in his car off of an old deserted road waiting for his cousin, his friends and their three other brothers were waiting on the side of the road quite a distance away from Ash. The plan was to take Alder by surprise and attack. It was quite simple, really. That's what had Ash worried, it was too perfect, and nothing perfect ever worked perfectly.

It was past ten and the moon sat full in the sky, a beautiful, glowing orb. Ash looked up at the stars and did what he always did at night under the stars, he thought of Mary. She was into astronomy, the last thing he'd said to her was no matter how far away they were they'd always be looking at the same sky.

They were far away from each other, he was in San Fransisco and she was in Briar Creek Oregan, a little town where nothing ever happened, until his sisters ran away, and he followed them there only to find his soulmate. His thoughts wandered this way for a while until his ears picked up the sound of a car coming down the street. It was time.

Ash got out of the car and stood there waiting, hoping someone else had picked up the sound as well. He was a capable fighter and a strong telepath, the problem was he was only nineteen, Alder was two hundred, he had two hundred years to perfect his techniques, in a one on one fight Ash would lose.

Alder's car drove up next to Ash's and the engine was turned off, Alder stepped out of the car.

"It's been a few years Ash, good to see you."

"You too," Ash smirked, walking over to meet him. Alder had no time to prepare as a shadow thrust its way between them and knocked Alder on the ground.

"Where's my sister?" Ash stood in shock as the youngest brother, Noah, stood on top of Alder growling. Ash knew that from where the brothers had been it would have taken at least five minutes running full speed to reach their spot, it had taken this boy barely two. He had never seen anyone, vampire or not, run that fast. Ash stood in shocked awe watching.

"Who the hell are you?" Alder asked, trying to move the boys foot. It didn't budge.

"Where's Lily?" Noah growled, his fangs forming in the moonlight. A look of astonishment crossed Alder's face at the name. That was when the rest of the flock appeared.

As soon as the look crossed his face it was gone, leaving in its wake a look of mild recognition. "The girl from the Iris right?" Alder asked. "Ash whatever is going on?"

Ash smirked and looked down at him. "As if you didn't know dear cousin, dear cousin that was coming here to kill me. We know you kidnapped the girl. The question is, where is she?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Really?" Shiloh asked as he walked next to Noah. "We think you do, but don't worry there will be plenty of time to tell us. Tie him up and throw him in the trunk. My mother would like a word with you." The brothers looked from one to another smiling ferociously. The look on their faces made Ash cringe, he felt sorry for Alder.

Shiloh pulled into their grage a half hour later and cut the engine. He was worried, not just for Lily but for his parents too.

They had made it home late last night and gone hysterical. It was all he could do just to keep them from running out of the house and tearing apart San Fransisco to find her. Shiloh had promised them a chance with Alder. As he stepped out of his car he called his parents to let them know everything had gone acording to plan.

Shiloh popped the trunk and the brothers, plus Ash, all gathered around it to look down at Alder. He had been hog tied with bast cord, and gagged as well, he had barely moved an inch from where they had placed him in the trunk. He made a few noises as they looked at him, making every man smirk down at him with loathing and even a little pity.

Jason reached into the trunk and pulled him out with barely any exertion at all. Shiloh walked to the garage door and opened it for him. They all filed in soundlessly into the living room where Jason dropped Alder unceremoniously.

Their parents were waiting for them.

"So this is the puny prick that kidnapped my daughter," their father stated, looking down at him. Their mother crouched down, looked in his eyes and touched his forehead, touch increased a psychic bond. A moment later she pulled her hand back as if she had been burned.

"That's how you want to play it, we can play rough too," she murmured. "Take him into the basement, I don't want any blood on the carpet," she turned and walked away, leaving Alder in their care.

Jason leaned down and picked him up, this time Shiloh opened the basement door for him and flipped on the lights. Jason walked past him and down the stairs into the cold, dark, cement rooms of their basement. Jason dropped him on the floor creating a dull thud.

Their parents had been down there before them, readying the room for their use. A solid wood chair stood in the corner of the room, and next to it on the floor lay a variety of tools from wooden stakes about four feet long to metal nails. While metal couldn't kill a vampire it could inflict pain, and after all they didn't want him dead, yet.

Ash picked Alder up from the floor and set him down in the wooden chair. He then picked up a length of bast cord and secured his shoulders and legs to the chair so he couldn't squirm out of it.

"Let's take his gag off and see what he has to say," Ash said quietly. The others nodded as Ash leaned forward and pulled out his gag.

"You wouldn't dare torture me," Alder said as the gag came out. Ash smiled a sad smile at his cousin.

"If you truly believe that you are a bigger fool than I thought."

"You'll be hunted through out the Night World," Alder cried.

"We already are you fool, every one of us in this room, you were an idiot to fuck with us," Josh said, stepping in front of Alder.

"Josh, I thought we were friends, can't we work this out?" Josh punched him.

"You kidnapped my little sister, why don't you save yourself the pain and tell us where she is?"

Alder didn't say another word as a drop of blood dripped down his chin.

"So be it," Shiloh whispered. "Let's get this over with."

Shiloh reached for a metal nail when Ash stopped him. "Let me do this, I'm more familiar with it and he's my cousin."

Shiloh nodded and stepped back, looking like there was a bad taste in his mouth as he handed Ash the nail. Sighing, Ash stepped in front of Alder.

"So you gonna tell me where she is yet?" Ash asked as he stepped forward.

"Lily was dizzy and tired. She hadn't eaten anything since she had been abducted two nights ago, and even then she hadn't had much only enough to stave off her thirst for a while. She was losing her powers, she just prayed she would have enough to do what she needed to do to escape when the time was right.

"I dunno Lane, she looks kinda sick," she heard patty say from the other room.

She smirked slightly, while the bruises of two nights ago had healed, except for the ones given by wood, she still looked nothing like herself. Her vampire body was sick without food, but so were the human, shapeshifter, and werewolf parts of her. She was starving to death, she knew they wouldn't let her go that long without eating, it could take weeks or even months before a vampire died of starvation, depending on how strong the individual was to begin with, and they wanted to kill her long before that.

"Of course she looks sick, she hasn't eaten anythin in two days, the point is we need to see if she is actually human or not, only way to do that is starve the vampire," Lane said.

Lily slumped in her chair as they spoke, she wanted to look as weak as possible when they walked in. Her pathetic show must have worked because Patty's eyes gre large as she spotted Lily, Lane just glared at her.

"I know what you're trying to do Lily, but not to worry, I've decided to feed you," Lane said. She grew curious.

"Feed me what?" She asked.

Lane walked out of the room and returned a few minutes later carrying a bag of Burger King, her mouth began to water at the smell of the food.

"That's not food," she said, trying to ignore the bag but she couldn't take her eyes off of it.

"Of course it is Lily, and I know it's your favorite too, we always go to Burger King," Lane smirked.

"Well then just untie me and I'll eat."

Lane smirked down at her. "I'll tell you what Lily, I'll until one hand."

"Sounds good," she said with a smile.

Lane turned to Patty and motioned for her to untie Lily while he stepped closer to her with the bag. She felt one hand drop from the bonds that had held her and brought it in front of her, flexing it to return circulation.

Lane proffered the bag and after a moment she felt strength return to her hand. Lily reach out quickly, bypassing the bag she grabbed Lane's wrist and pulled him down to her, his neck was exposed and in a flash she struck, ripping open his viens and drinking his vampire blood. Lane's hands wrapped themselves around her head and he tried to pull her off while Patty began to hit her over the head with their wooden club.

Finally the pain became too much for her and she released Lane, almost lapsing into unconsiousness. Lane stepped away from her and glared.

"Stupid bitch, you can't get the blood you need from me, I'm a vampire," he growled. She smiled as she felt darkness envelope her. He had no idea what she could gain nutrition from. He was a fool.

The last thing she heard before she passed out was, "tie up that other hand and let's get her in the car, I''ve had enough of this."

Yay, a new reviewer! Thank you for reviewing and welcome to the story Piscean Wisdom. I update this story about everyday, can't get it off my mind, and also I LOVE updates, they make my day, or night. I was so excited when I saw I had another reviewer, I was like YAY.

I hope you guys liked this chapter, the next one should be even better. I wasn't sure if I should put in all the torture, thought it may be a bit gruesome and all.

Anyway the history with Alder will come out more next chapter, as for Patty she was also sent to watch Lily, but I suppose I didn't make that clear enough, guess I'll have to go revamp it, so to speak.

I do agree with you Windy that my other story is much more a daydream than anything else, ahh Johnny, but yeah I really do love this story. Thanks for your review Windy.

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