A/N: Hey I've been a little busy, otherwise I would've updated sooner...anyways, hope you enjoy :)

BPOV

Five minutes later, everyone had been filed back into the building, and in the cots on top of the uncomfortable and filthy straw. Alice came up to my cot and climbed in. She looked at me for what seemed awhile, but then she spoke up.

"I'm going to assume you have questions?"

"Yes. Tell me everything."

"Well, I wouldn't know where to start...well, as you know, we dig, and all day. We only get one bowl of soup a day, and sleeping arrangements are...how do I put it...inadequate. People like us here are treated as dogs, without mercy."

I opened my mouth to protest, thinking of Edward. But I stopped myself. For some reason, I felt that I should keep Edward to myself, even from Alice.

She continued, "There are doctors here who do experiments on us, trying out their creations. It is horrible."

"How do you know about the experiments?"

"When I first came here, and woke up, they took me to a dark building, where you could hear the screams inside from the outside, and smell blood in their air. They took me in, and injected some drug into me, and next thing I know, I'm waking up again. Except I was strapped to a table, and next to me were things and tools I could not name. There was blood everywhere. Splattered on the walls, spread carelessly across the floor, and on me." A tear fell down her cheek.

"Bella-" she sniffed, and went on. "The doctor, h-he was going to carve out my stomach, and use my insides for...oh I don't even know what!" I sat there, listening.

"But before he could, he was called away, and then a Dr. Whitlock walked over, and released me. 'Go. Quickly...you are of no more use at the time being,' He had said. I sometimes see him, but can't ever thank him. There are eyes everywhere. Whether it was intentional or just orders, that man saved my life." While I listened to Alice about this doctor, she appeared to blush a little. "But, it's ok. I'm still alive, aren't I, mein freund?"

Wiping at her face, she kept going. "Sometimes people's hair turn white because they are so close to death for such a long time. Many attempt to escape, but they are killed. I only know of one time anyone had escaped." she sighed.

"Did you know him?" I asked.

"Yes. He was my best friend. His name was Emmett. I'm not sure if he actually survived, but I know he made it out...unlike everyone else, and against all chances of this horrible place. He had wanted to take me with him, and the girl he was in love with."

I felt so sad, and wished to whatever God there was that we would one day get out too.

"Why didn't you go with him? And who was his woman? Was she a prisoner here?"

"I couldn't. I was with them when the guards sounded the alarm of escapees. Emmett and Rose, his woman, were both already over the fence. I was about to start to climb up, but the guards were right behind us. Rose and Em escaped just in time. If I wouldn't have run back, they would have seen me, and killed me for sure. Rose was actually a nurse here that was assisting her brother, one of the doctors."

I sat and thought for a moment before it came to me. "Dr. Whitlock was Rose's brother, wasn't he?"

She nodded, the pain on her face evident. "This was almost a year ago. Emmett had come back to get me several months later. Rose wasn't with him." Alice smiled wistfully. "He told me that she had been expecting a child within the next few months. I was so happy for them, but I told him I would go on my own terms. I would not risk his or Rose's life just for the slim chance of saving my insignificant one."

"No matter what you think, if you were insignificant, you wouldn't be alive." I smiled at her helplessly, hoping to brighten her up. I began to think again about the situation we were in when I remembered something.

I did have another question that had been burning in the front of my mind since I had gotten here. "What are these chambers you have spoken of before?''

Alice got a faraway look in her eyes. "I'm not to know of this, but there are stories and rumors of it, and enough of them to make any of us afraid. They say that when the doctors split you at your arrival, that one path is one to a slow death, the one we have taken."

My palms started to sweat. Mama and Lizzy didn't have the slow death, but what did they get? "What of the other path?"

Alice seemed to hesitate. "The other is said of certain death, by fumes-'' Alice stopped, watching my expression.

My heart stopped. My hands went cold, and the rest of my mind went numb. I stopped breathing, and just stared at Alice, shaking. I leaned forward and grabbed her shirt desperately. "You can't know for sure! Can you?" By now, I had let the tears come, and there was nothing to stop them.

Taking my hand gently, she asked, "Who, kind? Who have you lost?" she asked sympathetically.

I just shook my head, crying. Alice gathered me in her arms, and let me cry, and we stayed like that, and I fell into a deep dreamless sleep.

A/N:This was the second time they fell asleep crying...it's very depressing. Well, this was the chapter to clear some things up for everyone, including myself. What did you think? Review Plz :D

-VanaBana