Janna

Being kept somewhere unknown

"Comfy?" Janna twisted her neck to try to see behind her, but the speaker remained out of her sight. "Sissy doesn't want you to be uncomfortable." There was a low laugh that raised goose bumps on Janna's arms. The speaker stopped laughing and continued to talk conversationally to her captive. "She thinks you'll come around."

"Come around?" Janna ventured.

"To our way of thinking." The speaker stepped in front of Janna and the lone bulb backlit her well. It was Kelly in a frightful state, blood beginning to dry at the corner of her mouth and those damned eyes boring through Janna.

"You won't." Kelly stated flatly. "You're just a tease, getting a rise out of how much Kendra likes you. But I'm onto you-" Her finger jabbed at Janna's chest accusingly.

"-so I'm going to take care of you for her."

Janna focused on taking deep breaths to keep from panicking at the ominous turn this conversation was taking. "Stupid."

Kelly hissed, her cold hand trailing don Janna's cheek and coming to a rest on Jenna's neck. "I can hear your heartbeat."

That fact and Kelly's hand encircling her neck made her body betray her as Janna's heart rate skyrocketed. Kelly laughed coldly, retracting her hand as she stepped out of Janna's sight.

"Stop freaking out. It's not going to be up to you when you die. You're not good enough for our Family, but Kendra-" Kelly lapsed into silence for a moment. The moment drew longer as Janna turned her head, trying to determine if Kelly was still there. The darkness of her holding place was so thick it was like a blanket, cloaking everything not immediately near Janna. It was a bit disconcerting knowing that the bare bulb was placed just so that she was bathed in light while everything else was dark. She may have fallen off one or twice during the night, but her eyes felt light sandpaper from lack of sleep. Her nerves were beyond frayed, promoted to somewhere where every sound or touch sent chills of exhilaration or dread down her spine.

There was a scrapping sound just then- sounding as though it came from above. Janna wrenched her neck to look upwards, causing a shoot of pain to flare in her abused neck. She listened in silence for a handful of heartbeats, before hearing the report of a slamming door above her. Someone was there!

"Hello?" She shouted. Ignoring that she probably should make sure someone was there before she got her hopes up; she began to shout in earnest. "Please help me!"

"Someone there?" A man's voice trailed down to her, strumming hope to well up. "Yes!" Janna shouted her answer. "Please, help me! I've been abducted! I'm tied up down here!"

She fell silent, straining to hear a reply. Nothing. No! Desperate, she began to flail desperately. She discovered that if she braced her legs and bucked her back, she could make the chair hop across the floor, making a fantastic scrapping sound.

"Please, help! They're going to kill me!"

"You in here?" The voice sounded closer now, as though it was in the next room. Now that she could hear him better, she pegged him as younger, closer to her own age sight unseen.

"Yes! Over here! Please hurry." To her shock, she discovered that tears were streaking down her cheeks. From relief or desperation, she couldn't tell why her throat was constricting as she began to sob. "Please, hurry…"

Her cries were answered as a man's gruff hands felt along her own, gripping at the ropes that bound her.

"Shit, who done this to you?"

"Please, just untie me before they get back." Janna felt immediately petty and ungrateful that one of her first thoughts was his uneducated manner of speech. She could feel his hands grip her hands as he began working on the knots. "Thank you. Thank you…"

"Yes, thank you Janna." Chills made her veins leaden as Janna flailed in her chair. "No!" She screamed as she recognized the voice not as the man's, but as the vicious vampire, Kelly. She had returned.

"Run!" She screamed at her would be rescuer. "Dammit, get out of here!"

"Where'd you come from?" The man wondered, confused. "You been back there all 'long? Why didn't you help this girl?"

"RUN!" Janna screamed at him, her voice straining from the effort.

"Oh, I'll help her. But first, you-"

"No."

Janna wept uncontrollably as guilt and despair flooded through her. She bucked her legs, desperately trying to free herself before her inarticulate would be rescuer was killed. Her rescuer hadn't managed to untie the ropes, but they had loosened somewhat. There were sounds of a scuffle somewhere behind her. It sounded brutal and quick, terrifying Janna in how she couldn't hear anything from the guy at all. Soon, too soon – she could see his feet approaching from her peripheral vision.

"No, forget about me, just run-" She began when the rest of the young man came into view. Kelly was dragging his lifeless body by one arm and deposited the body on the ground coldly, with no emotion. His sightless eyes stared upwards.

"Oh God." Janna began to wheeze, guilt stampeding through her. Her own brown eyes were anchored into his dead ones, a myriad of emotions making her incapable of speech. Unfortunately Kelly was as she leaned over; speaking with the dead guy's blood dabbled on her lips.

"Thank you, Janna. I couldn't have done it without you."

A door slammed above and Janna choked out a sob. Quitting the cellar, Kelly ascended the stairs to meet her sister with confidence. "I knew you were wrong about her." She greeted smugly, forgoing hellos. Binging Kendra up to speed, Kelly was incensed at how Kendra didn't share her belief that Janna was too weak to join them.

"She'll Change." Kendra insisted, "I did. You did. We were different people before we were Changed- disillusioned, lost..."

"All we had were each other." Kelly replied tightly, feeling threatened. "It was enough."

"It was." Kendra soothed, seeing the edge in Kelly's eyes. She moved closer, taking her sister into her arms with a hug.

"I'm not saying that Janna's going to replace you, Kel. She never could. Please understand that." Kendra pulled back to look into Kelly's eyes which had faded to their deep cerulean blue. "I'm saying that I'm planning great things for us- and we'll need more than four hands to get the job done."

"Alright…" Kelly accepted, looking downstairs. "Just not her. Please."

"You're serious about this." Kendra said slowly, following Kelly's gaze. "You're opinion means a lot to me. If it means this much to you…"

"It does." Kelly insisted. "We'll find somebody worthy together. I've already thought of someone-"

"Have you?" Kendra's voice was low, a dangerous tone. Kelly immediately realized the conversation had shifted and back peddled. "Thought of someone that I'd like to offer for consideration." She amended clumsily, guilt written across her face.

Kendra stepped away from Kelly, staring down towards where the captive was. "I'll think about it." She said shortly, her abrupt manner wounding Kelly. "Try to make sure no one stumbles in again, would you?"

The door slammed shut before Kelly could reply. She stared after it open mouthed for a minute, before it closed into an awful scowl.

"Hello?" Janna ventured weakly as she head footsteps on the stairs. It had been at least ten hours since she'd had anything to drink, and the crying had dehydrated her even further. She twitched from her awkward position on the floor, unable to see who was in the room with her. "Kendra?" She asked hopefully.

"Oh, you wish it was her, don't you?" Kelly snarled, lifted Jenna up off of the floor by her arm. Jenna cried out as Kelly flung her- slamming her back into the nearby wall. The wood fractured from the force of Kelly's anger, causing Janna to fall to the floor unsupported.

"Please, don't-"

"Please don't." Kelly mimicked nastily, advancing on Janna. Janna kept her back to the wall as she backed away. "You're so weak. You don't deserve to be a part of our family; you shouldn't even waste air out there-"

Jenna's shoe edged against something soft. Looking down, she'd realized she'd stepped besides the dead stranger's outstretched eyes. Seeing his open eyes, remembering how he'd died- Jenna steeled herself as she stretched down to the floor for what she needed.

Suddenly Kelly was there, gripping Jenna's shoulders so hard the ache seemed to go down to the bone. "- so you're gonna die right here!"

Kelly leaned forward, her fangs scratching Jenna's neck-

"AAAAAUGH!" Janna screamed as she shoved her makeshift stake forward. It missed the heart completely, but Kelly lurched to the side as she drew it out.

"You little-"

The stake fell harmlessly to the ground as Kelly leaped for Jenna, smashing her against the wall. Jenna's sight wavered as Kelly smashed her head against the wall, snarling angrily. Jenna hung on for a moment longer, but her world disappeared as everything went black.