Hey there, i'm sorry it's been awhile! I've been struggling with writing this and i'm sorry if it shows through this chapter! I'm just kind of losing steam for this story but I refuse to stop it! I'm going to keep writing till the end. Thank you to everyone who has been reading and I hope you like this chapter!

Mia's POV

Memories of Spokane and Strigoi filled my mind as I stared into Emilie's now- Strigoi, lifeless, crimson eyes.

"Emilie, what do you want?" I asked as she approached me with a cruel smirk on her face.

"Right now, I'd appreciate if you'd cooperate while I take you to an abandoned warehouse where I can make your life absolutely miserable."

"You will never give up, will you?" I asked sadly.

"Don't act like your better than me Mia Rinaldi. You're not. Not even close. By the end of this, both you and Tyler will realize that."

"Wait, how can you still care about Tyler if you're a Strigoi?"

She shoved me against the nearest wall. I tried not to cry out as the impact of the wall hurt the injuries I already had from Tyler's episode earlier.

"First of all, I don't love Tyler anymore. I just decided I'd like to play a game with you, him, and your little posse. You like games don't you Mia? It really seems to me like you do. You lead guys on and then tell them you don't like them. Pretty pathetic if you ask me, but hey if those are the kinds of games you play, I guess I can't stop you, or maybe I can." She smiled.

"Emilie, just leave them all alone. Go ahead, kill me. I really don't care. Just leave my friends alone."

"No can do princess. You see, a while ago when Eddie was my compelled- blood donor for awhile, I had him tell me about Spokane. I actually found it an interesting story that would have ended perfectly if it weren't for Rose helping you all escape. So I thought to myself, why not get the gang back together? It's a shame we can't include that kid who died because he's dead of course, but I thought it would be fun to reenact your time in Spokane. Except this time, there will be no happy ending! Doesn't that sound fun?" she gushed.

"The only reason we all managed to get captured in Spokane was because we were all young and unprepared. You're not going to be able to capture all of us, not now that Rose is a bad-ass guardian in training and now that we are all more prepared than before." I sneered.

"That thought did occur to me," stated Emilie while smirking. "So, I called in some Strigoi to help me. One is an extremely old one that has killed even the toughest of guardians and guess what? He and his henchmen happened to be interested in the Spokane story so they decided they wanted to take part in the game also. Hate to tell you princess, but you're friends are already captured."

I had a feeling this time around wasn't going to end up very well. After finishing her victory speech, Emilie handed me off to two Strigoi who then fiercely threw me into the back of a truck. One joined Emilie in the front of the truck and one climbed in back with me, obviously showing excitement that he got to sit in the back with me. I inched as far away from him as possible. I mentally cursed the whole ride to the factory Emilie was taking me to. The strigoi that sat with me smiled at me with a predatory look in his face the whole ride. "How fun it would be to see you as a strigoi, love," he eventually said. I frowned at him and then ignored his glances.

Finally, after what seemed like forever, but was really only about thirty minutes, Emilie opened up the back door of the truck. "Grab her," she commanded. The two strigoi obeyed.

"Don't you guys get sick of taking orders from a stupid girl who is only on a revenge mission?" I asked them. They looked at each other and I had a feeling the thought was now running through their minds. I smirked.

"You idiots! Bring her inside!" Emilie yelled.

They quickly dragged me inside with a great force. I frowned. I was still hurt from Tyler's beating the day before and it hurt being dragged by them.

They brought me to a room that contained Rose, Eddie, and Christian all chained to small cots and with the same cuffs as they put on us in Spokane, the ones that stopped magic. "Eddie!" I quickly ran up to him and gave him a hug.

The guards quickly roughly moved me over to a separate cot and chained me to it. My whole body ached from the events of the day and I was sure one of my ribs was cracked. It hurt like hell.

"Hey Mia. This sure brings back memories, doesn't it," Eddie stated grimly. I nodded my head sadly.

"Why are we here?" Rose asked me.

I repeated to all of them what Emilie had told me. "The old strigoi must've been the guy in charge of taking me. He and a pack of like 3 strigoi tried to take me. I managed to stake like one or two, but there were too many. Stupid old coot." Rose growled.

"3 came at me," Eddie stated.

"Yeah 3 took me from my room. I managed to give them some pretty bad burns though," Christian grimaced.

"3 including Emilie came after me. But this means we are dealing with at least 13 including the old guy and Emilie."

We all sat there in silence. Finally I spoke up. "We need a plan before they try to reenact the events that happened in Spokane."

"We need back-up. We can't take this many out. Do you think we could contact someone somehow?" Eddie asked.

"Adrian can dream-walk," Rose piped up. "I'll try to sleep so I can tell him what's going on."

We all agreed and Rose started to drift asleep when all of a sudden Emilie and two guards entered the room. "Ah, ah, ah. No sleeping for Rose. I know Adrian can dream-walk Rose. How stupid do you think I am? The rest of you are free to sleep because I know he won't bother coming into your dreams, but Rose, if you try to sleep again, you will be punished. Besides, we'll be giving you all anti-magic pills soon enough so we won't have to worry about any of you."

"Wait, how did you even know she was going to sleep?" Christian asked.

"We have cameras. We can see everything. I wanted to be able to hear everything also but cheapskate Emilie refuses to buy them," stated a guard.

"Lewis, shut up. Emilie said through clenched teeth.

"Sorry," he mumbled.

Emilie turned to us, "But anyways, this is my game now. You will play by the rules, or else things may not turn out in your favor. Nice chatting with you, bye." And with that, she strode out of the room with the two guards in tow.

I frowned. "Crap, there goes that plan."

We all sat for awhile in silence, trying to think of some way to get out. "Wait," Christian piped up. "Tyler can dream-walk, can't he?"

A gigantic smile came across my face. "You're right! You're absolutely right! I'll see if I can contact him."

Eddie looked at me slightly nervous. "I don't think you should do that, the spirit was driving him crazy when we saw him last."

"I have no choice. Besides, it's not like he can beat me up in a dream," I admitted.

Rose sat up. "Hold up, what happened with Tyler?" I filled her and Christian in on what happened. By the end of my story, they both were fuming.

"He's insane, I don't think you should do the dream-walking thing," Christian stated. Rose stayed silent, knowing that I would do it regardless of what anyone thought.

"He's not insane. It wasn't his fault, he can't control the magic." They all glared at me as I defended him. Finally, I stopped defending him and tried my hardest to drift to sleep.

To tell the truth, I was scared. I didn't know how Tyler would react. But there was one emotion that was more dominant than my fear and that was determination to get out of here. "Please be sleeping, please be sleeping," I murmured to myself, hoping that Tyler was sleeping.

After a few moments, I realized I must've dozed off because I was in a completely different setting. I looked down to see that I was in a sleek, midnight blue gown and I was standing in a forest of some sort, where the sun shone down on me. The area was beautiful; and me wearing a gown in the middle of the forest was so… Tyler.

I looked up to see him in a tuxedo. With his hair slicked back he actually looked kind of handsome. "Hello there," he smiled at me.

"Thank goodness this worked! Tyler, Emilie is absolutely crazy. She's Strigoi and she abducted me, and Rose, and Christian, and Eddie. She's reenacting our experience in Spokane apparently. Oh god, you have to help us Tyler." I almost broke down, but I stayed strong and held my ground.

Tyler's face paled and the dashing smile that had been on his face vanished. "Shit Mia, where are you guys?"

"I really don't know. Does Emilie know of your ability to track people?" I asked him nervously.

"I don't think so. I never told her about my abilities except the one to inflict pain and the super-compulsion. I can't track Strigoi, but I can track you guys. The only thing is, I took some of Lissa's medication and so my magic is subdued. This dream-sleep thing seems to be the only thing working right now and thank goodness that it is."

"Crap. Okay we can't be too far away because the truck-ride here was about a half an hour. That's really all I know. We'll try to escape, but there's a lot of Strigoi and I have a feeling they are going to do something to us soon. I have a feeling they are either going to move us to a different location or kill us. Inform people about this. Lissa, Dimitri, Charlie, Alberta, Stan, honestly inform as many people as you can, maybe you all can save us if we can't save ourselves."

I took a breath after I had spoken and a tear rolled down my cheek. I felt Tyler grasp me and let me fall into his arms. "I'll save you Mia, don't worry," he whispered. "I have to go now and tell everyone about you guys, but stay strong, I know you will."

"Thanks Ty," I replied softly.

"Don't thank me. I don't deserve your thanks after what I did to you," he looked me over and examined all of my injuries. "I'm so sorry."

"It wasn't your fault."

"It was; I couldn't control the spirit. It makes me go crazy. I'm sorry Mia, I love you," he stated. My eyes went wide and before I knew it, I was back in the room with Christian, Eddie, and Rose.

"How'd it go?" Eddie asked nervously.

I was about to tell them everything when a door opened. A handsome Strigoi with his dark hair gelled back smiled at all of us. I spotted Rose growling and I guessed that this was the extremely old Strigoi she had been captured by.

"Try to contain your anger Ms. Hathaway, I'd like it if we all stayed civil," the Strigoi spoke. He had a smooth voice with a slight accent. Romanian maybe?

Rose continued to glare at him. "Who are you?" Eddie asked, probably hoping to distract him from staring down Rose.

The strigoi held his gaze for a few more moments, then whirled around to face Eddie. "As cliché as this might sound Mr. Castile, I am your worst nightmare."

He examined Eddie, then Rose again, then Christian, then finally he turned to face me. As he stared at me, I knew what I was going to do. I was going to act shy; weak. Maybe if he sensed fear from one of us, he'd know I was the weakest link and he'd harass me instead of the rest of them.

He looked at me with slight interest. I pretended to cower and shrink away from him in fear. He smiled. "There's no reason to be afraid my dear." He grasped my chin with his frozen hand and tilted it up so I was looking into his eyes. I mustered up as much fear as I could manage and whimpered.

"Leave her alone," Eddie growled from behind us.

The Strigoi frowned at me. "I must be frank with you. I'm disappointed with you. From what Emilie said, you were someone to look out for, a threat. You don't seem like a threat to be."

"Please leave me alone," I begged softly. I made my eyes watery and as big as possible, knowing that I was baiting him.

"No, you're coming with me," he replied as he waved in a few other Strigoi guards in to take me with him.

"You son of a bitch! Leave her alone!" Rose shouted.

"Language Rosemarie, I won't tolerate it after today," he warned her as the guards dragged me out the door.

I gave them my most reassuring smile with a wink and then went back to looking weak. He had the guards drag me through the hall until finally we all reached a room. The main Strigoi barged in without knocking and inside was Emilie, brushing her hair.

"What is it Nathanial?" she asked impatiently as she turned around. "She's not supposed to be out of that room."

"We need to talk," the Strigoi who I guess was named Nathanial replied.

I shuddered. What the heck was going on?

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