Chapter 3

finally!! Sorry it took so long, I had a lot to do and for two whole weeks I was doing this movie shoot with a bunch of friends and stuff so I couldn't do much else. Then it took me forever to figure out how to start this chapter. So again, sorry I made you all wait so freakin' long.

We only had to wait a few minutes before the door opened and a boy, who I assumed was Edward, slipped into the room. After a momentary blindness from the light that leaked in with his entrance, I was able to get a good look at him. My eyes widened at what I saw and something moved inside me, a need to be closer to him, he was so incredibly HOT it wasn't fair! This was so far beyond normal teenage horniness, especially for me. I had never felt anything close to this before.

"What?" Alice asked suddenly, "what's she thinking?"

"She's not really thinking anything in particular." Edward replied, "but the things she is imagining are a little disturbing."

Alice giggled.

"You wouldn't be laughing if you could read her thoughts." He cringed slightly as an incredibly detailed and steamy image popped into my head. I guessed he really could read minds.

Edward's pov

Trying to block the fantasies this strange girl was imaging, I focused on Alice's thoughts.

"What is her name?" I asked, then added, "don't say it aloud." as the girl flinched at the idea of hearing her name.

Emily. Alice thought. I nodded in response.

"So she is afraid of her name and her voice." I said, then turning back to Emily, I added, "why?"

It hurts. She thought.

"And you don't know why?" She shook her head "no" with an apologetic look on her face.

I smiled gently. "When was the first time you noticed anything odd?"

Her thoughts flashed to a memory of craving meat.

I was a vegetarian. She thought.

"What happened next?" For the next few minutes, Emily showed me everything she could remember, from the time she realized she had night vision to when she tasted human flesh and blood for the first time. She showed me the times when she had noticed how acute her senses were. She showed me how much her strength had heightened with images of herself shattering doors with a single thrust of her palm; and jumping from one building to another in her flight from the police. And she showed me so many more memories in between those....

Emily's conclusion was of the last memory of the last thing she had done before waking up in this room.

"Is she alright?" Emily asked aloud, shocking both me and Alice. I guess reminiscing had helped her a little.

"She will be fine," Alice answered. "But she definitely won't be coming back here any time soon."

Emily seemed a little upset by this, though it was not because she wanted to taste the poor woman's flesh again, but because she new it was her fault, that she'd terrified her, injured her badly.

"I'm sorry," Emily said. "I couldn't help it, she smelled really yummy and I was so hungry..."

"It's alright, she'll be fine," Alice said in reassurance, then added, "I swear." at Emily's skeptical look.

"I have one question though," I said after a moment, addressing Emily. She nodded for me to continue. "How is it that you can speak now, but you couldn't a few minutes ago?"

"Some times I feel saner than other times," she replied. "And it could also have something to do with remembering thing the way I did. I think having a clear, collected, somewhat normal thought helped me regain some of the sanity I'd lost among all this insanity."

"Well, then keep talking," I said. "Maybe you could hold onto that sanity and perhaps you could convince– "

"No," Emily cut me off, shaking her head. "I can't convince these people anything. Besides, it's better they see me as some insane monster–slash–human that can't even comunicate through words, I think."

"Hmmm, she has a point," Alice said. "Well, I think we should start discussing how to get you out of here, because this most certainly is not the best place for you to be."

The three of us considered our possibilities for a moment until I suddenly had an idea.

"We can fake her death." I said.

"And Carlisle can help us." Alice and I both smiled slightly as she said this.

"What're you two smirking about?" Emily demanded, eyeing our expressions wearily.

"Don't worry," I said.

"All you've gotta do is..." Alice said, turning her eyes to Emily. "Play dead."

please review, and sorry its so short. I was going to write more for this chapter but figured I should just post what I had so I wouldn't have to make you awesome readers wait any longer. I kinda feel like I'm overdoing some of the parasite's symptoms a bit, let me know what you think about that.

Shaenie Cullen.

ps. Was that a good ending or should I continue this chapter on the next page thing..or whatever its called? Or should I leave it at that and start the next chapter?