Hello! It's been awhile, hasn't it? I'm sorry I haven't updated for awhile. I'm way busy with all of my stories on here and fictionpress and it's been a crazy couple of weeks. But! Here is chapter 15 :)

Emilie scowled at him but I could see that she still had a bit of respect and fear for him. She took the brush out of her hair and suddenly it was flying right towards Nathanial. "You know I don't like being interrupted," she stated, making sure to enunciate every word.

Nathanial spoke calmly although I could see slight irritation in his eyes. "I realize that Emilie, but I'm already irritated with you. I don't think now is the time to be throwing brushes."

Emilie kept a straight expression. "Why are you irritated with me?"

"What is this?" He gestured towards me. I cowered. "You said she was a threat. She clearly isn't."

"You're underestimating her," Emilie said. She glared at me and I pretended to be afraid of her. "She's not usually like this. You should watch out for her."

Nathanial frowned but then smiled. "Let's see how she acts if one of her friends is in danger." He motioned for the guards to follow him and they led me back to me back to the cell. I dreaded what was going to happen next. I couldn't risk anything happening to my friends.

So I did what any semi-normal moroi girl trying to save her friends would do, I pretended to faint before we made it into the cell. Nathanial looked me over. "What's wrong with her?"

The guards stared at my lifeless form blankly. "Uhh, I don't know," one of them was stupid enough to say. In a flash, Nathanial had snapped the guard's neck.

"Let me ask again," he stated slowly. "What's wrong with her?"

The guards all looked at me. "She seems to have collapsed from all of the stress of today," a guard noted nervously.

Nathanial nodded. "That must be it. She's weak. I can't believe I let Emilie talk me into this. I hope the others bring a bit of entertainment." He had them lock me up in the same spot as before and I waited a few minutes before I slowly pretended to come back to life so it wouldn't look suspicious on the video monitor.

"What happened?" Eddie asked in horror.

I pretended to struggle to sit up. "What happened is I pretended to faint." I gave him a small reassuring smile.

"Smart girl," Rose noted, realizing what my plan was.

"What do you mean smart girl? It's not very smart if you ask me," Eddie stated.

"Eddie, this is all an act. I'm doing this to protect you guys," I informed him.

"But what about you? You need the most protection out of all," he replied.

"Is that really what you think? I can take care of myself Eddie."

He didn't reply and I scowled. I turned to face the wall and ignored him. Unfortunately about a half an hour later Nathanial reentered the room. "It appears Emilie is still occupied with business, but I'm glad to see that the princess has awoken." He gestured towards me. I put on my weak act again and whimpered.

"What do you want?" Rose spat out.

"Well Miss Hathaway, I'd love to turn you Strigoi, but not yet. I think I'd like to know a bit about you all first. How about you Mr. Ozera? You've been rather quiet."

I turned my eyes to look at Christian. He sat stone faced in his corner. "What would you like to know?" he asked in a monotone.

Nathanial frowned at his lack of enthusiasm, but spoke anyways. "Tell me about yourself. Give me your life story. Try to keep it under 150 words though, I don't have all day."

Christian looked up at Nathanial and I could see sparks in his eyes. "My name is Christian Ozera."

"A little more perhaps?" A smile was starting to appear on Nathanial's face and I could see he was starting to enjoy himself.

Christian flipped Nathanial off and I tried to hide my smile. A grimace now appeared on Nathanial's face. "My my, none of you have the best manners."

Before I knew what I was doing, words came out of my mouth. "Says the strigoi who abducted us and then proceeded to lock us up in this room. I wouldn't say your manners are impeccable either."

Nathanial beamed and turned to face me. "So maybe she isn't as weak as she acts folks, this girl may have a mouth on her." He tilted my chin up so I was staring into his eyes. I knew my cover was blown so I glared at his icy face.

"Leave her alone!" Eddie shouted from across the room. I internally groaned.

"Oh so now the plot thickens. How delightful," Nathanial said while purposely trying to annoy Eddie by playing with my hair.

"I find it quite sad that your idea of fun is kidnapping a group of teenagers and torturing them," I informed him. My goal was to make him angry but he just grinned.

"I'm starting to think that maybe Emilie was right Miss Rinaldi. You're more of a threat than you seem to be. You put on a good act, I'll admit to that. You might be my favorite of the group so far." He whispered in my ear.

Rose saved me from any further contact with Nathanial. "Glad to see you're picking favorites now," she stated.

Nathanial turned to look at her. "Oh don't think I've forgotten about you Miss Hathaway. You are definitely also intriguing." He sent her what he probably thought was a charming smile.

He looked around at all of us. "Yes both of the ladies are the far most intriguing and even Mr. Ozera seems to have caught my attention. You, however I don't understand." He gestured towards Eddie.

"And why is that?" Eddie asked calmly.

"I don't understand how filth like you could ever fit in with a group like them. There's Rosemarie Hathaway, fierce guardian, Mr. Christian Ozera, who has great abilities and is able to hold his own in a verbal argument with a Strigoi, and of course there's this one," he caressed my cheek as he talked about me. Eddie growled. "This one may be the smartest of all and I admire her loyalty."

"Stay away from her," Eddie stated menacingly.

Nathanial ignored him and continued caressing my cheek. "But you see Ed; you don't mind if I call you Ed do you?" He didn't wait for a response. "You see Ed, you are nothing. You are a horrible guardian, you're a blood whore and you make no effort to hide you're feelings for Miss Rinaldi even though if you truly want to protect her, you probably should." Eddie snarled. "You see Ed, you are worthless. You are not worth my time and you are certainly not worth little Mia's time either." And just like that, he bit into Eddie's neck.

Rose and Christian let out a string of curse words. I sat there in shock. The worst part knew that I couldn't do anything to help him. Nathanial finished and took a look at all of us. He smiled at me and approached me. I shuddered when I saw the splatter of Eddie's blood on his lips. He licked them in front of me tauntingly. "Close your mouth Mia, surprise and fear are two emotions that don't become you."

He walked out of the room leaving things in chaos. Rose and Christian continued swearing and Eddie had a dopey smile on his face that proved he had lost himself to the endorphins. "I'm going to do whatever it takes to make sure that man dies a painful death." My voice snapped Rose and Christian out of their swearing.

Christian looked up at me. "Mia, are you okay?"

"He's probably watching us you know. Watching us on the video monitor, watching how terrified we look, watching us squirm," I found myself saying. "We can't show any weakness no matter how we feel." They nodded and I felt myself sucking in a breath.

"Mark my words he's going to pay for what he did to Eddie," Rose stated through gritted teeth.

Eddie was currently sleeping. I looked over at him and felt the desperate need to hug him and tell him that everything would be okay, even though I didn't know if it actually would be.

"I think I have the beginnings of a plan," I told them all as I stared at him. I would save Eddie, I had to save Eddie.

A few hours later, when a guard came in to drop off food, we were ready to give the plan a try. I nodded to Rose. "What the hell is this?" she screamed at the guard.

"What are you talking about bitch?" he asked her.

"You gave me this crap to eat! At least give me a frickin pudding cup asshole!" she shouted. I grinned. I knew there was a reason why Rose and I were such good friends.

"Shut up," he grumbled.

"What? Those there are fighting words dumbass! Let's go."

"Fine!" He put up his fists. I grinned. This one wasn't the brightest in the box of crayons.

Rose groaned in exasperation. "It's not a fair fight unless you untie me idiot!"

"Oh. Right." And just like that, Rose's cuffs were off. This was too easy. The guard was Strigoi, but in an instant, she was kicking him and punching like a madwoman. She managed to get him on the ground for a moment and she quickly unlocked Christian's cuffs. Soon, the guard was screaming while Christian burned him. Rose unlocked Eddie and I, then put a still very-out-of-it Eddie on her back. We ran out the door quickly.

"Christian, be ready to distract as many guards as you can! Just a small flame for each one, that's all we need!" I screamed at him.

He did as he was told and managed to set a few Strigoi on fire. I had never run this fast in my life. We passed some sort of kitchen thing and Rose grabbed a knife. Everything was going perfect until we were stopped.

"Well hello again! I figured you all would make some sort of escape at some point," Emilie stated. She and two guards stood in front of us. One more came from the direction of the cell glaring at Christian. He must've been one of the guys Christian burned.

"Where's your partner in crime?" I asked Emilie.

"Nathanial is actually out at the moment but that doesn't mean I can't handle things on my own," she said.

I smirked. "Looks like you're doing a great job." I spotted a sink in the kitchen thing and in a second, it had exploded. I smiled as water came rushing out. One of the guards grimaced and ran towards the sink, trying to stop the water. I somehow made it attack him. The two other guards looked worried.

Christian smirked at the one he had previously burned. The Strigoi was in flames in seconds. He ran away. Rose attacked Emilie, but in the process of doing so, Eddie fell off her back. I swore and looked at the sink again. I attacked Emilie with the water for a moment and then shouted to Rose. "Get Eddie out of here! Run!"

She gave me a look that said she was coming back and I groaned. Leave it to Rose to be way too stubborn. "Rose don't you dare come back unless you have help! Save Eddie for me please!" she must've saw the desperation in my eyes because she reluctantly nodded and ran.

I motioned for Christian to leave, but he wouldn't. "CHRISTIAN! Get out of here!" I screamed at him.

"I'm not leaving unless you are too," he replied.

I felt like my magic was almost used up. Emilie smiled when she saw the water become weaker. She called to the guy by the sink that was also being attacked by my water. "Grab her you idiot! The sooner you grab her, the sooner you'll stop being attacked!" The guard ran over to me and shoved me to the ground. I gasped and couldn't hold my magic any longer. I could tell Christian was the same and was worn out from using so much magic.

A few minutes later Christian and I were in the cuffs and chained up in the same room as before. This time there were two guards in the room with us. I was upset I hadn't got Christian out, but was happy that at least Rose and Eddie made it out alive. Emilie threw a fit when a guard reported that the two couldn't be found.

As crappy as the situation was, I was excited for one thing. How pissed Nathanial would be when he got back. He'd be so pissed and I was guessing that he'd mostly be pissed at Emilie. My assumption proved to be right when I could hear screaming outside of the room. I smirked.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU LET THE TWO GET AWAY?"

"IT WASN'T MY FAULT! MIA WAS ATTACKING WITH WATER, CHRISTIAN WAS ATTACKING WITH FIRE, AND ROSE WAS JUST PLAIN ATTACKING! YOU FORGET THAT YOU WEREN'T HERE WHEN YOU SHOULD'VE BEEN!"

I heard a loud thud and guessed that one of them had hurt the other. My money was on Nathanial hurting Emilie. Sure enough, a few moments later Nathanial entered the room. "I suppose we underestimated you both. Looks like we are going to have to relocate as soon as possible."

About four guards were behind him. I grimaced as he ordered them to carry us to separate trucks. I struggled, but one glare from Nathanial was all it took to get me to stop. Soon, I was being shoved into a dark truck with three strigoi in the back with me. The cuffs were still on and I knew there was no chance of escaping the truck. I could only hope that Christian had better luck.

I tried to pay attention to everything that went on the entire ride. Every bump, every stop, every turn. After about an hour and a half the truck stopped. "Are we here?" I asked curiously. One of the guards glared at me and slapped me across the face. I rubbed my face. Some people were so touchy. What was I? Everyone's personal punching bag these days?

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