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Chapter 20

JPOV

I don't know how long I have been in this bag. I can't tell exactly where we are, but based on the heat and smell of dust and sand I would say we are back in the South. My birthplace. The place that made me the demon of legends.

I would kill her. Maria will not be walking back out of this desolate place ever again.

All at once I was dropped onto the ground and felt the thuds of my other body parts. The pain has been immense. Included with that is the thirst of all the surrounding vampires and their pain and determination. I have been feeding off the determination. I need it to survive this encounter with Maria.

I have to get free to get back to Isa, but I can only bet that I will be watched every second of every day to be sure that The Captain does not come to try to get me out. Again.

The bag was unzipped and I did not recognize my surroundings.

"Mi Amor, Major what do you think of the new camp? I moved it not long after I lost my prized possession. Again. But I will not be making the same mistake. You see I got you from the North and no one was the wiser. Your own coven mates sold you out. No one will come looking for you."

I rolled my eyes at her words. "Maria, do you honestly believe that the next chance I get to leave I won't?" I wanted to get her riled up to see how much she would reveal. It would make my job easier in the end.

"Ah, you seem to think that I will allow you the opportunity. I will have someone with you at all times." A stranger walked up next to her with that statement. "This is Hector." I glanced over him and saw nothing special. "He will be your shadow from now until I feel I can trust you. But before that happens I must break you." She snapped her fingers and I was taken into what I anticipated to be the dungeon of sorts.

Unfortunately, I was right. "I need you to be strong, so there will be no animal blood here. Those are the rules, so I hope you can get over it. I will have some brought in for you to feed on, but first Hector will help to reattach your limbs." She smiled as she said this and motioned Hector to come to help me. Little did I know they would be put on backward. I nearly screamed out in pain at that. She turned and left, her sinister laugh echoing in the wind.

I looked at Hector again and tried to figure out his game. I could hardly concentrate as my mind became fuzzy with pain. I didn't scream out to give her the satisfaction, but this was the worst pain I had experienced in the last 70 years. I closed my eyes as I laid on the ground and tried to find the Major. We would need to work together to get out of this mess.

As I tried to detach myself from the pain and emotions of my surroundings I finally found him pacing in the back of my mind. The living breathing being of the Major. I must be going crazy for sure this time.

(Major, Jasper)

"I can't believe she beat me. It didn't even look like she tried very hard. How strong is our mate? Jasper hasn't let me meet her yet. Only to fight his battles for him. Does he know how much I have saved him from? All the horrors that I keep hidden from him. He wouldn't have survived if he had known them …"

I guess this explains why he has not been present to help me right now.

"I never asked you to save me. And of course, I don't let you out to meet others, especially Isa. She is everything I have ever needed…" I figured I might as well make my presence known so we can get this discussion on the road. And I am pretty angry at him for insinuating that I have been kept from the horrors of the world.

"No, she is everything WE have ever needed. She is as much your mate as she is …"

"Maybe if you treated others with a degree of respect you wouldn't be locked back here all the time. If others were not scared of you then we wouldn't have half the problems that we do right now."

"You think we have problems right now. We are only getting started with our problems. You see while you have been enamored with OUR mate, I have been keeping track of things you cannot even imagine. You are weak! Now stop interrupting me boy before I teach you how to show some respect."

That was as much as I could handle his insults of me. I am a warrior and it is time we started acting like one. I mentally charged at him and the fighting began. I would block his mental attacks as he would try to block me. I was mentally exhausted after looking for weaknesses in his defenses. I brought up every instance where others pitied me and found me to be too intimidating. The times they would cower as I strode past. I brought up the feelings that they felt when my eyes landed on them in a crowd.

I put all of the pain and fear and hate in the front of my mind for him to see.

What I was not expecting was the return of images. Only these ones I had no recollection of. They were the fear of vampires knowing that they were going to die. Unfortunately, these images and memories brought with them the despair of fighting for Maria, the torture that I endured when I let Peter run away. It all came back with a vengeance and now I would never forget it again.

"You fool, do you see now? I have saved us from all of this. All you see are the people who shy away from you because of your scars and reputation, but let me tell you we earned every bit of their respect. I have never told Peter of the pain we endured, you didn't know until just now, but I have never forgotten. I keep that pain locked behind this door in your mind because you could not have survived. The first time you feel complete is with OUR mate and she finally soothes you in a way that has never happened before, but I don't get to feel that. You think I am so savage I could hurt our mate.

I did try to show her a woman's place today. Sure. I am an alpha male, and I always have been, but she is perfect. She is the Goddess of War as we are the God of War. Now whatever happens to us, she will always come first. We need to work this out. And we will, but right now there is someone coming toward us from behind you."

At his words, my eyes snapped open and I saw Hector bringing in the beings I was to feed on. Maria was really going to do her best here to break me. They were all children. Some no more than 3 years old. I could hear their heartbeats flutter in their chest.

Hector looked at me as if I was gum stuck to the bottom of his shoe. "Eat, or I will make them all bleed out in front of you."

He turned and walked out of the room snapping a little girls ulna as he passed. She gasped and screamed in pain.

I would hear these horrors in my dreams, and I don't even sleep. I soaked up her pain into myself and her sobs turned into sniffles. My legs were not yet healed and I know that Hector would come back and skin them alive if only to prove a point.

I took what energy I had left to put them to sleep and drug myself over to the pile of passed out children. The Major tried to come forward to take the pain for me, but it is time I learned how to deal with my sins myself.

I drained every one of them. Snapping their necks so they wouldn't wake. There were only 3 and it wasn't enough to fill me, but it was enough to finish mending my wounds and turn my eyes crimson. The blood was some of the sweetest I had ever tasted. Children are always the best smelling and delicious that a vampire could come across, but my heart bleeds for the parents who would never see them again and that made the taste a little less sweet. As much as it saddened me to see the children die at my hand I also felt the Major and I merge into one another again. Just a little, but it is a step in the right direction.

I sat back against a wall and finished my discussion with The Major. I would end Maria and I needed his help for that.

IPOV

My future seeing powers and tracking gifts located Jasper as soon as he was still. He has been taken to the South. I can only assume that Alice called that bitch from the South to come and get him. She did not heed my warning and now I will have the pleasure of ending her. I should have suspected that it would be her when I heard the comment about the Mexican woman in someone's thoughts. I don't remember who right now. Well more like I don't care.

I got another vision that the Volturi will be coming early. I sent that one to Alice by way of a telepathy power. She will believe that it is just her gift giving her information, but I hope it will make her move me. She doesn't know it but I have been blocking her gift from showing her the true outcomes of her plans. Instead, I have been sending her false endings to the decisions she makes while I see the real ones.

If she knew the extent of my power, it does not show with how she is treating me right now. As a mastermind, she should have been keeping me in the dark, decapitating me, anything more than just these werewolf restraints. Now don't get me wrong, they hurt like a bitch, but she didn't put much effort into this plan of keeping me from influencing her plans.

I have been locked in this room for 5 days now and the pain of the wounds inflicted with the chains is starting to wear me down. Not to mention the extra energy from using all the powers I have been. I really need to feed, but I am not sure how that will go.

I opened my eyes and looked around my cell. I could see a slight light from outside the window and knew that another day was beginning that I would be locked in the torture chamber away from my mate. The world will burn when I am released. The longer I go without feeding or my mate the more my darker personality comes out.

I could feel my eyes go pitch black and my frame of mind sharpen the angrier I got. Alice does not know what she has brought on herself, but I plan on making sure she is aware as I burn her piece by piece.

APOV

The future changed again. The Volturi will be here soon to take us from Carlisle. At least that is what I told him. He is freaking out and calling in our warriors to fight them. Not much longer and I will rule the vampire world.

At the last possible moment, I will take Isa some skunk blood to strengthen her up and take her to the battle. My plan is foolproof and I can't wait to see it in action.

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