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Author's Note: New year new chapter. I just got back my inspiration. I have the perfect song for this chapter. Within Temptation – Angels.

Sparkling angel I believe
You were my savior in my time of need.
Blinded by faith I couldn't hear
All the whispers, the warnings so clear.
I see the angels,
I'll lead them to your door.
There's no escape now,
No mercy no more.
No remorse cause I still remember
The smile when you tore me apart.
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start.
You showed me dreams,
I wished they'd turn into real.
You broke a promise and made me realize.
It was all just a lie.
This world may have failed you,
It doesn't give you reason why.
You could have chosen a different path in life.

Riley's POV
 I feel like dirt right now. I'm in a house I abandoned, my best friend hates me, my girlfriend thinks I'm dead and her fiancé is a sociopath I want to kill. Also, I'm going kind of crazy.

Yeah you are!

"Shut up voice!" That stupid son of a bitch was constantly putting me down. Edward did this shit to me. He made me spiteful and unlovable.

He made you feel like you were worth something.

"I felt like trash!" Stop it Riley, you can't relive it again, you already have so many times, it's over now.

You brought it on yourself!

I clutched my head tightly. "Don't make me relive it, please!" I sobbed.

It's your own fault!

Flashback

I was a spectator in my own flashback. I had to watch as my six-year old self went up to the rusty gate of the school playground. "Hey kid!" A sleazy guy whispered. "You see that van." Small me nodded. "Well there's tons of candy in there. And I can't eat it all by myself." He smiled.

"I can help eat it mister." Small me had smiled. The other kids ran by but no one noticed. I called out for the foolish teachers but they couldn't hear me. I tried to punch the guy but he didn't feel it. It was only a memory. It was futile.

"Well c'mon then kid." The guy lifted Small me over the fence and they walked hand in hand towards the van. The guy looked around and placed Small me in the back of the van. He drove away. I chased them but it was no use, I couldn't stop the past. They stopped in an old lot. The guy opened the door and climbed in the back with Small me.

"Where's the candy?" Small me asked the man.

"My friend's bringing it." He said. Small me checked out the guy. He was chunky, sweaty, balding and pretty tall, but everyone is when you're six. Soon another guy hopped in the back. "Hey man what took so long?"

"I had to get away from my parole officer." This guy was an even bigger slime ball than the first. He took one look at Small me and I erupted with anger. I had seen this movie many a time and I was still fuming. "Well look what we got here, a little cutie." He smiled. He grabbed small me roughly and kissed his neck. Small me pushed him off.

"Where is the candy you liar!" Small me shouted. The sleazy man back-handed him.

"Maybe we shouldn't do this Mitch." The fat one said shakily. He received a deathly glare from him.

"Don't you dare back out on me. Or do I have to remind you how I took the wrap for your addiction to young nurses!" He said quickly. The fat one just looked down.

"I'll teach you to talk back you little bastard." Roughly he grabbed Small me from the floor and shoved his tongue down his throat. Small me coughed but he didn't let up. He grabbed Small me by his-I chocked a little. It hurt thinking about it. Small me started to shout and I knew what was coming next. The door flew open to reveal a bronze haired vigilante. He wore dark sunglasses, and a flowing black trench coat. He looked like an avenging angel, or that's what I thought as a child. He was really a cruel bastard who took everything I gave him and threw it in my face.

"Let him go." He said so softly that it scared the shit out of them. It was like an orphan with a gun. Looking beautifully innocent doesn't mean you are. The slime ball Mitch wasn't going easily. He grabbed a pipe from the alley ground and walked towards Edward. Edward backed away as they both advanced on him. He smiled a little before he shut the van door. All Small me could hear was someone hitting the ground. Even though I was sitting in the back with him I still knew that Edward had ripped their throats out. This was the beginning of my nightmare. Small me was shaking silently in the corner. "Come now little guy, you're safe now." Small me just looked at him and smiled. Edward lifted Small me out of the van and walked with him. He walked him back to the school.

"Where were you?" One of the idiot teachers asked. "Recess is over now." She scolded.

"I was with-"He turned but Edward was gone. "Never mind" They went inside.

Flashback End

It had hurt to remember all that. My eyes burned from tears that wouldn't fall. I sunk to the floor. I wish I was molested that day, Or even killed by those creeps. It just hurt to think right now.

Everyday Edward had shown up at that small rusted gate and talked to me was another day I couldn't reverse. He said those guys were bad men and that they would have hurt me. He said he was my protector. I found out his name was Mason. He kept visiting me. He persuaded my parents to go camping with him. They agreed to let me go too after I begged. We hung out the first night and had sat in a log cabin he said he had built. That was the day I realized he was a monster.

Flashback

We walked slowly into the cabin. Mason flipped on the light. It was like a movie. It was much bigger than it looked, it had a popcorn maker, a movie room, a huge flat screen T.V. and a full bar. To me it was heaven, to Mason it was a waste of space. He said I could change out of my pajamas and into the bunny pajama set he got me. He was the only one who knew I loved bunnies. I ran my fingers along a black door at the end of the hall.

"What's in this room?" He walked out of the movie room and looked at me funny.

"Don't ever go in that room" His face was scary when he said it. He never got mad at me. My dad acted the same way before. I just found out he had pictures of mom in her underwear. I don't get it, I've seen her in underwear too but I don't get all weird about it. It only happens when mom leaves for work though. I wonder if Mason has any pictures of my mom. That would explain a lot. I looked up and he was gone.

I touched the door again but something was wrong. Doors move a little even when they are shut. It felt like something was lying on the door. I'll ask later. I went into the movie room and sat down.

"I'm sorry for getting angry."He sighed. "I'm going to take a quick walk. Watch any movie you want." He smiled and walked out. I picked up Saw 6. I was scared to watch it alone. During the movie I heard a groan. I thought it was the movie. I paused it. I heard it again. I got up and walked into the hall. It came from the weird door.

I walked to it and grabbed the handle. Something was definitely on this door. I used all my strength to shove open the door. I felt a bar on the wall. I felt for a switch. I found it and flicked it on. The bar was of a cage with a big lumpy black sheet inside. I tugged at it and it revealed a giant gray-black wolf. Its big tail was out and lying next to the door and its neck was twisted the wrong way. It groaned and I lightly touched its face. It whimpered and when I pulled my hand back it was covered in blood.

"What happened to you?" I asked. It let out a loud shriek as it tried to turn its head. All of a sudden its quick rising chest fell. It didn't move again. I waited a few seconds but it was dead. I covered my mouth with the bloody hand. I numbly stumbled forward away from the light and the dead wolf.

It was dark so I felt for and found a wall switch and it revealed a single bright bulb. Its glow led me to a flight of stairs. I walked down there until it got dark. I pulled a short cord in front of me. It grew light. I saw something with a sheet over it. I cautiously walked over to it. I stepped in something. I looked down and it was all red and sticky. I closed my eyes and stepped towards the sheet. I pulled it off in one quick tug. It revealed a table of "instruments" and a familiar man. He played Santa on Christmas last year. He was just hanging from the wall dripping with blood. Hooks were through his skin but they didn't rip. His skin had been ripped down the left cheek and I could see bone.

"Santa, are you awake?"I asked quietly not knowing what else to call him. I put my shaky hand up to his stomach and gently touched a deep wound. His eyes shot open and he started screaming. "Sshh, Quiet!" He finally quieted down. I slowly pulled hooks out of him. He had passed out by the third hook. There were ten more before he fell to the ground. "I'm going to get you out of here."I helped him up. Surprisingly he could stand.

"What are you doing?" I froze. Mason was back. I hadn't even heard him come in. I pulled a knife from the table.

"Stay back!" I yelled. He looked calmer than ever.

"Don't hurt yourself." He looked at the knife. He walked forward. I let him take the knife from my hand. I might be small but I wasn't stupid. While he was looking at me Santa was getting away. I kneed Mason in the balls and ran. He doubled over. I ran up the stairs and locked the door. The man was gone. I was heading towards the front door when Mason grabbed me. I thrashed until I realized it was the Santa guy.

"Santa, we have to get out of here!" I said quickly. He looked questionably at the name but said nothing. "He's dangerous. Do you see what he did to you?"

"Kid, forget about me. You need to know that he's not human. He's a cold-blooded killer. Kid…he's a-"His eyes were unfocused. They rolled back into his head as a single tear of blood slid from his eye. When the drop hit the ground he convulsed, coughed blood on me, and collapsed. Behind him was Mason's hand where his head was. He had shoved his head through Santa's head. I sprinted for the door. He grabbed me around the waist.

"Be calm Riley, its okay." He cooed. For a moment I felt safe until I remembered the poor wolf and Santa. I screamed and fought but he held tight until I was exhausted of fighting. I took a weak swing at his face. Then I just sobbed. I was pounding his chest which he accepted. "I know, I know." He whispered. That made me angry.

"Then why'd you do it, huh? Why did you kill that wolf and that man?" I thought back to the day I first met him. I bet he killed those men too, though they deserved it.

"I said I was your guardian. I ripped those men's throats out the first day we met. I killed those guards that beat you. I killed the inmates who tried to attack you. I killed that sick fuck priest who had impure thoughts about you. I killed the wolf who was circling your tent earlier and I killed that guy because he was drunk last Christmas and put his hand in your pants when you sat on his lap. You might not remember but I do. I even killed Lexion for trying to break up your family." He confessed. Wait how did he know what the priest was thinking.

"You got me put in jail you bastard!"I screamed.

"Not intentionally" He said quietly.

"Eight fucking years Mason, eight fucking year! I was in there since I was six. You let a six year old go to prison. You're not my guardian; you're just some sick twisted weirdo. You promised to protect me. You made my life a living hell! My girlfriend, my only love is in love with some asshole emo kid. His siblings are creeps who look at her funny. And she told me sometimes she is deathly afraid of them and she doesn't know why." He just stared at me.

"She gets hit on by losers. The girls hate her. The only girl who's nice is always with her own boyfriend. Some creep Eric is stalking her, and she thinks some Mike guy is trying to molest her. I'm not even there to protect her because of you! She has no one and I can't even say she always has me because I'm never around!" He didn't meet my glare.

"If she got married I wouldn't even know anymore. I'm not allowed to contact her anymore. You remember that guard you killed; well you should have just let him beat the shit out of me. The warden was his dad, so now I can't even be in the same state as her. I'm in fucking Idaho you asshole. You know why? The warden thought I had something to do with his son's death, but since he can't prove it he just had me kicked out of the state. So I can't legally see her. And even though I don't give two shits about the law if I got caught in Forks I'd be in prison so long she wouldn't even recognize me!" He looked apologetic but I didn't care.

"I can make it all better." He said.

"Mason…you, you've done enough." I said. For the first time I felt defeated.

"Give me another chance." He begged. "Don't just blame me for everything. I helped you so many times you ungrateful shit." He said finally revealing his true nature.

"I hate you!" I said with all the pent up anger from everything he had caused.

Flashback End

That's the day I remember. My dad pulled a few legal strings and we moved back to Forks. I should have realized what Edward was earlier.