Title: In Need of Rescue

Chapter 4: Physical

The next day came quickly. My mom and a few of the elders went to their own corner leaving us younger ones alone. I didn't talk to anyone my age. I didn't want to get attached because the vampires don't like when two humans get attached. They will take one away.

We sat around and drew on sheets of paper and talked. Although, you can only talk about so much before you have nothing to talk about. I looked where the elders were; they never talked for this long. We looked up when we heard the door opening.

The man that seemed to always be interested in me came in; he looked in my direction, "Bugh." I walked out while everyone stared at me. I was trying not to show my excitement to be able to talk to this guard again. I followed him down the hall. I wanted to take a chance to talk to him but I know he said we couldn't let the others know that we are talking.

I saw a group of males walk by. They must be off to harvesting. I didn't take much of a look at them though, I didn't want a vampire to see that and hurt me.

I followed behind as he opened a door and had me walk in. It was the doctor's table that they have us sit on once a month when the doctor comes in.

"Sit down on the table." He said nicely as he seemed to fidget a little.

I did as he said and was about to ask him what was going on when the doctor walked in. I was confused; he had just seen me three days ago. I was about to speak when the two started to speak vampiric to each other.

The doctor nodded and walked over to me. I looked at him as he picked me up and placed me on a scale. He looked behind me at the numbers. I stretched my neck to look. They only did this once a year and I had it done three visits ago. I was ninety eight pounds which was where I was last time. Then he put me back on the table. "Open your mouth." The doctor said as he held out a long stick. I did as he said, "say awe."

I did as he said, he looked into my mouth. He wrote some things down on the paper. I was really confused as to what could be going on.

He then grabbed a small light, "I will flash this into your eyes, don't blink." I didn't know he could speak human so well. I was shocked, did everyone know human? The light blinded each eye as I started to blink so that I could see again.

The doctor went to write some more stuff down on the paper.

The guard seemed disturbed about something as he went over to the paperwork and looked it over as the doctor wrote something down. "Are you sure?" he asked, pointing to something on the paper.

"Yes." The doctor said. "I will show you." He walked back over to me, "Open your mouth one more time." He said. I did as he said and he held my tongue down with the stick. "See they are already grown in."

"Yeah." The guard muttered something that I couldn't hear.

The doctor then grabbed my left arm and slowly pressed down as he traced out my arm, being careful of the bruises that had formed from years of harvesting. He then did the same for the right arm. He then stood in front of me and touched under my jaw line. "Breath in and out." He said. I did as he said. The room was quiet. "One more time." He asked.

After that he went over to his paper and wrote some more down. Even if I could read, I knew it was in vampiric so that wouldn't help me.

The doctor came back over to me as he grabbed my feet; they were a disgusting brown/black color. He spoke in vampiric.

"That won't be an issue. It's curable." The guard said.

The doctor then looked at the guard, "Are you sure you want to do this?" he asked.

"I have no other choice."

"You are going to follow what the others have already done. You yelled at them for this."

The guard shook his head, "No, I am helping someone."

The doctor looked over at me then started to speak vampiric to the guard.

"I already made up my mind. This is just a precautionary thing I was told that I have to do." The guard said. "Come." He said to me. I looked at him with a blank expression, why weren't they speaking their other language. I got off the table and followed. "So clean bill of health?" He asked.

"Yes. Very much so."

He nodded and walked me out of the door. He opened the cage door and had me walk in. The elders looked up from their spot in the corner. The guard eyed them cautiously while closing the door. I didn't know what to think of this.

The night finally came as everyone fell asleep. I waited up as the new guard finally came over; I got up quickly and ran to the bars. "Hello." I said happily. I was grinning from ear to ear.

"Hey." He said to me. "How was your day?"

"Nothing happened." I told him.

The man laughed, "I got something for you."

My smile grew as he took a pear out of his coat and hand it to me.

"Enjoy Isabella."

I had never had one before as I crunched into it. It was so juicy just like my mom described them. I wanted to wake her up and give her a bite but I knew it wouldn't be a good thing to do.

"How is it?"

"Very good!" I said eating the whole thing, including the core.

"Good."

"Why are you being so nice?" I asked.

"I want to make sure you are kept well."

"Why me?" I asked.

"You will find out soon enough." He smiled as he sat down in front of me. The bars were the only things separating us.

"Are you high in power here?" I asked.

"No, but money does talk."

I nodded. "Money, it's that green stuff right? My mom told me about it."

"It's not green anymore, now it's red." He went into his pocket and picked out a red piece of paper.

"Real money?" I asked.

"Yes."

"May I touch it?"

He held it out and I got to crinkle the sides of it making me giggle. "It's neat isn't it?"

"Yes, very much." He took it back into his pocket. He was still sitting cross legged in front of me and he leaned forward so that he was in my face, "Young Isabella how would you feel about leaving here one day?"

"Where would I go?"

"I can get a place for you." He said.

"What about my mom?"

"She will have to stay here with the others. Only you can come." He touched my hand. I looked down at his cold hands that enveloped mine.

"My mom says to never trust a vampire."

"Do you believe that?"

"I don't know." That was the truth. I never really did but this man did nothing to make me not be able to trust him.

"What is the one thing you have always wanted in this world?"

A family? A life? Freedom? I then realized what I wanted, "To see the sun."

He looked at me oddly, "Is that it?"

I nodded, "It sounds so amazing." I sighed.

"Yeah, it is amazing."

I looked at him, "You've seen the sun?"

"Every night."

"And the moon?"

"Every day."

"What about a pond?" He could tell me about each.

"Yeah, they are nice to go to once in a while. The beach is better though."

"A beach?"

"Yes, the beach is a place with sand and salty water as far as the eye can see."

"Wow."

"I just need you to tell your elders one thing."

"What?"

"Tell them to not try it."

"What does that mean?"

"They will know, but don't tell them I told you." He chuckled and poked me on the nose. "Go back to bed now. Tomorrow will come soon enough."

I nodded and got up to go to my mat. Sleep came quickly due to my lack of sleep these past few nights.

That night instead of having a dream where my mom and her son were with me on the swings we were on a sandy beach. We were running and jumping in and out of the water until the guard came up to us. He looked stern as we all stood in fear and then he joined us as well as we kicked the water and splashed it around. The sand clung to our feet as we ran from the water and laughed. It was fun and it was peaceful. I started to laugh, this was a life worth living, this was worth being around. I wanted this as my world.

Alright, next chapter down. Hopefully it's too your liking, I didn't reread it as much as I usually do. I shouldn't say it but I will anyways…

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