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Author/Note 1: Sequel from Our Dawn 2
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Alert: the characters in this story curse a lot.
Our Dawn
Part III
Book 3 – Joy & Sorrow
Leah Clearwater
Chapter 21 – Insanity
In my whole life I had never had problems with a car before not even a flat tyre so it was really weird when I suddenly lost control of the Rabbit and hit a damn tree on the side of the road. Fortunately I wasn't driving too fast.
"Are you alright?" I asked Kim after killing the engine.
"Yes…What happened? Was there something on the road?"
"I don't know…It's like the car had a mind of its own."
I left the car to inspect the damages. Jacob was going to kill me. He had built the Rabbit years ago and he loved that car and now I had ruined it.
"Shit." I cursed when I saw the broken light.
I was still trying to understand what had made me get out of the road and hit the damn tree when I noticed the stench. There was a vampire close by and it couldn't be the Cullens. Everything happened so fast I didn't even have time to react. The next thing I knew a red haired leech with freckles was pulling Kim out of the Rabbit against her will. She tried to resist but it was useless.
"Stop moving or I'll break your neck bitch." He warned in a rough voice.
Kim obliged out of fear and looked at me. I knew she was frightened and the look on her face was a plea to me. She was silently begging me to save her. I had two options: I could phase and kill the leech putting my child's life in danger or I could watch Kim be murdered. I wasn't expecting to have a third option.
"I'll spare her life if you come with me." The leech said with a grin.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because my boss wants to have a nice chat with you."
"Your boss? And who is he?"
"The man who created me…The one who gave me this power…"
"What's his name?"
"I don't know. I don't know him that well."
I realised then that he was probably the vampire who had attacked Quil. He was definitely a newborn. What was actually disturbing was the fact that he wasn't working alone.
"What's your name?" I had to buy us some time. In a few minutes Jacob and the others would realise that something was wrong and would come looking for us. "Did you attack my friend Quil?"
"You mean the brown huge dog?"
"He's a wolf."
"Whatever…but yeah that was me."
"Why?"
"I was instructed to. Now…are you coming with me or do I have to kill your friend as an incentive?"
"Fine…But…I really want to know your name."
"Trevor."
The name sounded somehow familiar but it was Kim who recognised it.
"Trevor Carpenter?" She asked.
He glanced over at her surprised.
"Do you know me?" He inquired.
"Your parents think you're dead. Your mother is the Hospital…She's not well."
"I'm not their son anymore. I'm not related to them…I'm a superior being now. I survived that car crash for a reason…"
"You didn't survive Trevor. You were turned into a monster and the man you believe to have saved you was probably the one who caused your car accident." I explained.
Trevor's expression changed for a few seconds. He was confused. The vampire who had turned him had probably lied to him all along and if I could just convince him that he was being tricked Kim and I could still have a chance to go back home unharmed.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" He yelled.
"Think about it Trevor. Think about the accident. How did it happen?" I insisted.
"Enough talking." A creepy voice reached us and then I felt my body shivering. Two cold hands emerged from behind me and after feeling what seemed to be a bee sting I blacked out.
My head was hurting like hell when I woke up. I tried to move but I couldn't. It didn't take me long to notice I was handcuffed to a bed in a small and stinky room. It was dark but I could see that I wasn't alone. Kim was lying in a bed next to mine. She was still unconscious. There was a window covered with black curtains and by the doorframe stood a tall vampire with long and black hair and a red ribbon tying it into a ponytail. I almost thought he had somehow materialised himself out of a History's book because he sure looked like someone from the eighteenth century.
I didn't know where we were or what time it was but I heard an owl outside which made me believe we were in the forest and it was way pass dinner time. Why were we still there? Why didn't anyone come looking for us?
"What did you give me?" I asked the vampire.
"A powerful cocktail. It will help you to have some sleep."
"I don't want to sleep."
"I disagree."
"Let me go now!" I raised my voice but he wasn't impressed.
"I'm afraid I can't do that."
I tried to move my arms and legs but whatever he had given me it was still on my blood stream.
"Don't worry, Leah…I'm not going to hurt you. I've been trying to find you for so long."
"Who the fuck are you?"
"Joham." He came closer and I noticed he was holding a needle.
"No…Don't give me that again…"
"It's alright…it won't hurt the baby."
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The next time I woke up I could see a faint light coming through the dark curtains. The sun was shinning and Kim was awake as well.
"Are you alright?" I asked her.
She nodded but I could see the tears' marks on her skin.
"Did they hurt you?" I insisted.
"No…I think one of them is dead. I heard them arguing and now…"
To confirm Kim's suspicions Joham walked inside the room holding Trevor's head. Kim screamed and I was confused. Why would Joham kill his own partner? What did he want from us?
"Trevor was becoming quite impatient and he was going to jeopardise my plan. I had to make sure that today everything is going to work out fine."
Kim and I exchanged a worried look. He was planning something and I didn't like the sound of it.
"I'm going to set a fire and then…I'm going to help Lindsay."
He left closing the door behind him.
"Who's Lindsay?" I asked.
"I don't know." Kim replied. "What is he going to do with us?"
"Don't worry Kim. Jacob and the others are probably searching for us as we speak. They'll find us soon."
I tried to relax thinking about the two packs combining forces to find me and Kim. The Cullens were probably assisting them as well which meant we would be found pretty soon. I was just scared that we wouldn't be found in time to help the girl next door. Soon enough she started screaming. That was all we heard from at least ten minutes.
Then we heard Joham talking to her, telling her to calm down and relax because everything was going to be alright. The worst part of it was not knowing what was happening. If Joham was attacking her to feed I didn't understand why he was taking so long to kill her. So I assumed he was probably turning her into a vampire too. It made sense because he had done the same to Trevor Carpenter.
A half an hour later the screams stopped and Joham returned to our room. He was cleaning his bloody hands on a white towel and looked sad.
"What did you do to her you son of a bitch?" I snarled.
"Don't stress yourself too much Leah. It's bad for the baby."
"Fuck you!"
"Mind your language, will you? You Americans…"
"Why are you doing this to us?" Kim asked. "Why keep us locked up if you could just hunt like the others?"
"Hunt? I didn't feed on Lindsay and I didn't turn her either. I did turn Trevor though…But that was because I needed someone to help me. I needed a diversion."
I had just realised why Quil had been left alive. His attack was only a diversion. Joham's real plan was to get me but he needed the other wolves to be out of his way. He had used a newborn because they were faster and stronger than normal vampires and because they were easily manipulated. In the end he killed Trevor because he didn't need him anymore.
"You're a sick bastard." I said feeling suddenly dizzy. The smell of all that blood was really making my stomach flip.
"I'm not going to discuss morals with you." He said calmly. "But if you really want to know I was helping Lindsay to deliver her baby."
"What?" Both me and Kim asked.
"See? Vampires can be helpful too."
"Where's the baby?" Kim asked.
"Dead. Like his mother." He answered coldly.
"What have you done?" I inquired.
"She wasn't strong enough. There was nothing I could do…the baby was only seven months old and the poison killed him. Now I'll have to start all over again…with you."
He was speaking directly to Kim.
"What?" She asked frightened.
"Trevor said you wanted me, not Kim." I said.
"He wasn't lying. I do think you're the woman I've been looking for and that's why I'm saving you for last."
"Please, don't hurt Kim." I almost begged. "Do what you want with me but let her go. I'll do whatever you want."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"So…Leah will you give me your child?"
What the hell was wrong with the vampires these days? Why did they all want my children? The Cullens wanted to be close to us because they couldn't have children, the Volturi wanted William because of his power and now this leech wanted my unborn child. What the hell.
"You have no idea how important you and your baby are to me."
"You do know what I am, don't you?" I asked.
"Of course. I know all about you and your kind. I was quite surprised when I found out that there was another kind of werewolves."
"Me and my child don't have any interest to you. We kill vampires. What can you possibly want from my baby?"
I wasn't so scared of him anymore. I mean he was definitely insane or just plain stupid. Everyone knew vampires and wolves didn't mix. I mean everyone with common sense obviously and that excluded the Cullens because they kept thinking we were all buddies. In the end we did have a weird friendship going on but that wasn't important right now.
Right now I just wanted to know what the hell was this idiot thinking. Did he think all the magical creatures should have a syndicate? Or maybe he wanted us to form a club. I wasn't interested. I wanted to go home. Hopefully Jacob would find us soon enough and this nightmare would be over.
"I've been reading Doctor Cullen's notes about you and the so called La Push's wolf pack."
"You know the Cullens?" I asked.
"Not in person. I followed you yesterday and when you left I stole some of Doctor Cullen's notebooks. I've been watching you for a while now. I think it was fate that allowed us to run into each other in Port Angels when you were shopping with Kim, remember?"
Of course I remembered. I had felt his presence in the streets but I had never seen him. It looked like he had stayed in the area after that because of me and that was the reason why the packs never managed to catch him. He wasn't hunting humans he was just spying on me. That thought was really creepy.
"You're smart…I give you that. You didn't get caught so far but that is about to change." I said.
"No, it's not. I got rid of all the pieces that could give me away plus I'm a master at hiding my tracks. I'm a vampire for over two hundred years."
"You're underestimating my pack."
"Maybe." He shrugged. "But I have a back up plan and we'll be out of the country soon."
"Out of the country? And how do you plan on doing that with two pregnant women?"
"Don't worry about that."
I watched as Joham prepared another cocktail to inject me with. If only he stopped giving me that stuff I would be able to move and rip his head off with my own hands.
"You know…I believe God as a plan for us all. That's why I was given a second chance. Vampires are the purest creatures on Earth. God created us for a reason."
"You can't be serious."
"I am. My purpose is to follow His plan and make sure that we can live freely…We'll be finally respected."
"The Volturi won't let you do that."
"The Volturi are fools. They'll fall like the Romanian Coven before them."
"You can't fight against them, you idiot."
"I will. Thanks to you."
"What do you mean by that? What do I have to do with this?"
"I believe in God but I also believe that science can be used to fulfil His plan."
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
I was becoming impatient now. He wasn't making any sense.
"God instructed me to create a new generation of vampires."
"You want to create a newborn's army to kill the Volturi?"
I've seen that one before and I knew if that was his plan, it wouldn't work.
"No. Other vampires tried that before and it didn't work."
I guess he wasn't that stupid.
"You bet it didn't, you freak. There's a reason why they're still in charge."
I couldn't believe I was actually defending the Volturi but at least the Italians wanted to protect the secret of their existence and although they were monsters and murderers, they didn't want to rule the world.
"I'm going to create a hybrid."
I could only think about cars when he said that but soon I understood. That's why he was so interested in pregnant women. My body was shivering with that thought.
"Vampires can't have children." He said sadly. "And a newborn's strength only lasts a couple of years…but a hybrid, a half-human and half-vampire would be able to keep that strength. Imagine what an army of hybrids could do…"
"You're completely insane."
"Science proves I'm not. Different animal species are being crossed in labs all over the world. Man has now the ability to create new species and even to clone them so why can't I create a hybrid?"
"Because that's just wrong."
"Maybe it's wrong but it's not impossible. Not for me."
"What do you want from me then?"
"That's obvious Leah. I've tried to create a hybrid by turning a pregnant woman into a vampire but it didn't work. The baby usually dies and I was forced to kill the mother after she turned into a vampire. Then I've tried to inject vampire's venom directly into the baby's bloodstream. But it didn't work either. As soon as the baby starts to change the mother dies and so does the baby in a few hours. Lindsay was my last attempt and it failed."
"How many women and babies did you kill?" I asked feeling completely shocked about what he was doing.
"It doesn't matter. But I'm getting closer. I believe that the more advanced a pregnancy is the more chances I have to succeed. Lindsay was now seven months pregnant and she survived for two months after her baby was injected with the venom."
Kim winced realising that Joham was going to do the same to her. I couldn't let it happen.
"If only the mother survived until the birth…" Joham said dreamingly.
How could a woman bear a child that was dead? Of course she would die. Joham was completely insane if he thought that he could create a hybrid. Such a thing would be an abomination.
"I know what you're thinking." He told me studying my expression. "But you'll be different because you're unique Leah. You're a shape shifter, I'm sure your baby will survive."
"You can't do that. My baby has the wolf gene…"
"Your baby is human…as far as I investigated you only morph into wolves after a certain age. Now I have to go dispose of Lindsay's body so behave, alright?"
Tears emerged slowly from my eyes and for the first time I felt scared that Jacob couldn't find us in time.
A/Note 3: So, just to clear up what will happen in the next few chapters, I decided to use Joham's character from Breaking Dawn, although he's only mentioned once or twice in Stephenie's book. Things will get nasty for the packs, but I also decided to rejoin them, which will make them work together much better in a time of crisis. There are still a lot of surprises coming along (about the pack, Leah's pregnancy, the Volturi…). So far I have everything planned to work on Our Dawn 4, but no promises, okay? I have tests starting on November which means I plan to finish Our Dawn 3 by the end of October. Thanks for your words.
Blackwater101: Don't worry about the reviews, you don't have to review every single chapter. I couldn't follow your ideas one hundred per cent but there are a few things in common. I chose to work with a character created by Stephenie, as you probably noticed. Joham is in Breaking Dawn the vampire who wants to have babies with human girls (*shudders*), he's Nahuel's father, but in this story, since I don't like the idea of a male vampire being able to conceive babies, I changed things a bit. So Joham's goals remain the same, he wants to create hybrids because he believes vampires should tell the world about their existence. He needs Leah because she's not an ordinary human, so he thinks she can be the mother of these so called hybrids. There are going to be scenes in the forest, Joham will try to run away, many lives will be lost and the Volturi will help (yes, this time the freaking Italians will help the pack, shocking right?). Because I'm a Bella/Edward fan I chose not to break them up, but that doesn't mean she won't have doubts and try to ruin Jacob's blissful moments as a father. The same goes for Sam.
Take care,
Karisan