Sorry about the wait, I've had absolutely no inspiration but finally today I could actually think and write.

DISCAIMER: I don't own Twilight.

Chapter 17.

I went with them quietly. I didn't see the point in putting up a fuss; after all I probably couldn't take them on my own. I was surprised and happy when they took me to a little shack just off the border of La Push. One of the wolves would have to run past here at some time and hopefully it would be soon.

Laurent shoved me onto a blanket in the corner of the room.

"Tie her up, I don't want her trying to run." Laurent picked up a rope and followed Victoria's order.

"Yeah because if I was going to run I'd totally let you take me first." I rolled my eyes at her and in a second she was across the room and her palm was whipping across my face. It stung and I'm sure my cheek was growing red, but I didn't react, I just smiled and I think it annoyed her more.

"Just get her tied up." He did as she said and for a second he pressed his palm lightly to the mark on my face and mimed 'I'm sorry' to me. I nodded my head once and then looked away, letting him get on with tying me up.

When he was done he moved away from me and walked towards Victoria. She was staring out a window, watching nothing. I rested my head back against the wall and thought about Jasper. He's going to hate himself for not being around while this was happening but then again Jasper being out of town is probably why they decided to take me now.

Victoria turned to me and glared, her teeth bared slightly in a distorted grin as she walked slowly towards me.

"Laurent, get the camera set up." She knelt down in front of me, grabbing my cheeks between her fingers, digging her nails into my skin. "Although I am going to enjoy your torture, I'm going to be absolutely ecstatic at the pain it will cause those freaks that call themselves vampires. I know they left you but I also know that this will hurt your precious little Jasper more than it ever would have hurt that ginger one. He won't have a reason to live once you're gone, and the recording of both of your deaths will go to the rest of those pathetic animal drinkers and it will crush them. I have this all worked out Bella, you've just made it easier for me by becoming involved with your Jasper." She slapped me again, not hard this time it was more patronising but I couldn't care about anything she would do to my body right now, all I cared about was Jasper. They're going to kill Jasper.

She started to walk away but I couldn't let her go without saying something.

"You really think Jasper would let you kill me and not do anything about it? Yes, you're right my death will hurt him, but you of all people should know that the loss of a vampires mate is a hard thing to handle and I know Jasper a hell of a lot better than you do, I know he will be dead set on revenge, and I promise you Victoria, he won't stop until he has your head as a trophy." I barely registered the words I was saying, I just knew that it was the right thing to say.

Laurent had the camera set up just as Victoria went to hit me again, but she stopped herself and grinned.

"Oh, are you finally ready to accept him as your mate? Because that would make this all the more fun." I stared at her in shock, the reality of everything with Jasper finally hitting me. The feelings I got everytime I was around him, the way we were always in tune with each other's emotions, the reason he told me that maybe we'd get married someday, why I wanted us to get married someday even though I've always hated the concept of marriage, the reason he stayed behind when everyone else were so easily coaxed into leaving me, and why he wanted to protect me that fateful day of my eighteenth birthday. Jasper wasn't protecting his brother's girlfriend; he was protecting his own soul mate.

Jasper is my soul mate.

"Yes, you know now don't you, and the fact that you're only just admitting it to yourself will make it even harder for him not to crumble completely." She turned back to Laurent. "Have you got it set up yet?" He nodded and she grinned that distorted thing again. "Good. Now Bella, let me get a taste of that sweet blood of yours." She grabbed my hair and ripped my head back, exposing my neck. I could feel some strands of hair popping out of my scalp and I knew I would have a big bald spot if she didn't loosen up her grip soon, so I complied and let her begin to drain my blood.

Her teeth scraped across the skin on my neck and then bit into my flesh. I could feel the warmth of my blood dripping out of me some of it going into her mouth, some dripping down my neck and onto my chest.

She kept drinking, and drinking, and drinking and it felt like it would never end, but I didn't feel any different, I didn't start to feel weak or dizzy or disoriented like I used to when I was losing a lot of blood and I knew I was losing a lot of blood because my top was already completely soaked in the stuff, it had started to pool on the floor and she was still drinking more than half of what was coming out of me.

Victoria finally pulled away, looking shocked and clearly wondering what was going on. I felt the wound on my neck begin to close and her eyes widened as she watched me healing. What I wasn't expecting was that ugly grin to envelop her features and for her to begin cackling like a witch but she did.

"Oh Bella, I'm going to have so much fun with you." The hand that was still in my hair tightened its grip and pulled my head back smashing my skull into the wall beside me. I felt more blood begin to drip from the wound she had created but it was only seconds later that the pain disappeared and the wound closed. "Let's see what I can break now. Laurent any ideas?"

"I'd start with her legs." He sounded bored and kept his eyes on the camera. I knew he didn't want to watch and I didn't blame him.

"Good idea." She brought her bare foot up and placed it on my knee cap. Her grin widened as she began to press down, slowly and purposefully until the bones in my knee began to crack and shatter. I gritted my teeth and tried to ignore the pain, not giving her the satisfaction of hearing me scream. Once she was done with my knee she went to my other leg and put her foot over my shin. "Come on Isabella, you know you want to scream for us." I stared right in her eyes as she did the same thing to my shin, crushing it until it was completely shattered, but I never made a sound.

She glared at me and grabbed my right hand, making sure the camera could see perfectly as she broke each one of my fingers, bending them backwards until they couldn't go any further. She did it to both of my hands, but I just ground my teeth together and ignored the pain, thinking only of Jasper, my beautiful, wonderful Jasper.

I could tell she was getting extremely annoyed with me by the time she broke my fingers. Within half an hour after she had broken both my arms twice and my legs again, she punched me in the face more times than I could count with more force than I thought was possible and she stood on my chest, crushing my ribcage into my vital organs and I started coughing up an extraordinary amount of blood. That was the only time I thought I was going to die. I could feel my body crumbling beneath her, my lungs and my heart working as hard as they could in their damaged and battered state and I actually thought to myself that they were working for no reason, as this surely was going to kill me. But only seconds after the thought had swirled through my brain, my chest began rising and repairing itself, I stopped coughing up blood and my lungs started helping me breathe rather than drowning me.

And throughout the entire time I didn't make a sound.

She screaming and grabbed my hair, pulling my head back once again and smashing it into the wall.

"Why. Aren't. You. Scream. Ing!" With every syllable she smashed my head into the wall until there was no wall left to throw it into. She let me go and moved away from me, wiping my blood off her face with the back of her hand. She moved over to Laurent and turned the camera off. "I'm going to patrol. Clean her up and make sure she's all repaired and ready for the time I get back. I will make you scream for mercy bitch, even if it takes me forever." She ran out the house and Laurent left the room. He came back with a bowl of water and a bag. He put the bowl down on the floor and took a bar of chocolate out the bag.

"Here, it will help you keep your strength up." He also took a bottle of water out the bag and some clean cloths. He dipped a cloth into the water as I ate and, leaving it there for a moment, he pushed my fingers back into place so they could heal properly. It hurt but I barely noticed as the chocolate kept my mind occupied, it tasted so good.

He picked up the cloth and started to clean the blood from my face. I was surprised it hadn't disappeared like it usually would but maybe that's because there was so much of it now.

"Bella, I'm very sorry about this, about everything that's happened, but Victoria has been so bent on revenge and she's saved my life a time or two so I owed her, I couldn't say no." He picked up the bottle of water when I finished with the chocolate and I took a drink.

"I don't need an explanation, I just need Jasper." He nodded and continued wiping at my face, trying to get all the blood and grime off my skin.

"I know, that's why I sent him a message, I don't know when he'll get here or if he even can but he knows what's happening. What James did to you wasn't right and I didn't support it, I feel the same about what Victoria is doing, and although I'm helping I severely wish I wasn't." Just the fact that Laurent had gotten in touch with Jasper for me made me jump up and try to hug him, but I forgot that my hands and legs were tied and I fell over into the bowl of water which was now tinged pink with my blood.

"Thank you, Laurent, thank you so much for getting a message to Jasper." He helped me back into the sitting position and went to change the water. When he was back he sat in front of me and started to dab at the blood in my hair.

"You're welcome Bella, it was the least I could do but like I said I'm not sure if he will be able to do anything about it." I knew he would. The first thing Jasper would do was tell the wolves and that would mean they should be coming for me, sooner or later.

"He'll figure something out; he really is a very smart man." Laurent smiled.

"Yes, I doubt he would have been mated to you if he wasn't." His smile fell a little after he spoke. "I am also sorry that you had to find out about him being your soul mate like this, I know it had to be a bit of a shock." I smiled but shook my head.

"Don't be sorry, at least I know now, but I think I always knew, on some deeper level, there was always something more to mine and Jasper's relationship and I can't wait to let him know." Laurent smiled again and he was about to say something but he shook his head and put a finger over his lips before continuing to clean me up. I knew that it must mean Victoria was almost back and only a few seconds later was she barging through the front door.

"Anything?" Laurent asked. He stood and took his bag and the water away.

"Nothing. They don't have a clue." She told Laurent to turn the camera back on and then came to kneel beside me again. "You ready to scream?"

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KV =D