Authors Note: Okay, so here is the next chapter. I'm posting it a little early because it's kinda short (we'll make up for that in the next chapter) and because I'm going to visit some family so I won't be able to update for a couple days so why make you wait any longer :) Thank you all for the AWESOME responses to the last chapter. I'm glad you liked the darker side of the vampire world, you'll get to see more of it in this chapter. So please continue you're awesome reviews and for anyone who doesn't review, now is your chance to shine :) Tell me what you think, even if it is just a simple smiley face. It will take five seconds and make me extremely happy! So here it is. Chapter Six.

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The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus


Chapter Six – Grim Goodbye

Amber POV

Faster than I could even blink, one of the six blurs that had shot out of the forest, was standing right in front of me. He smiled wickedly at me before he threw me backwards a few feet. It barely looked like it took him any strength at all to throw me. The man looked strong, but was it really possible to shove a human being that hard and make them fly backwards at that speed? I could feel myself going into a terror stricken shock.

'What the hell is happening?' I asked myself. I could hear my friends asking these questions and screaming all around me. But, try as I may, I couldn't focus on them. My vision was trained on the person in front of me. From what I could tell in the dark blanket of night, he was an extremely tall man with black hair. He also had those evil blood red eyes was using them to stand above me, obviously trying to intemidate me, while looking at me with hunger in his eyes.

"Who—what are you?" I finally managed to ask.

The man inched towards me and soon he was right in my face with a menacing expression on his face. I tried to shrink back but I had no where to go. Finally he answered me, "Your worst nightmare." He cackled.

I stopped for a second and thought of the irony of the situation. It was just too uncanny, not only was this—thing—attacking us, but it had just said the most cliché line I had ever heard. I had to be a dreaming. This couldn't actually be real.

"This has to be a dream." I mumbled. I tried to pinch myself but the man grabbed my hand in a blur of motion. He held onto my wrist tightly and I could feel it starting to lose circulation. A few traitor tears escaped my eyes, not only from pain, but from fear as well.

"You aren't dreaming, sweetheart." The man said in a sarcastic voice. He was clearly mocking me.

"Then who are you?" I asked softly, but the man seemed to ignore my question. Instead he loosened the death grip on a wrist slightly. I sighed in relief and shifted my eyes to look at it. There were already dark bruises forming around my wrist in the shape of a hand.

The man suddenly took my wrist and placed it under his nose. I watched in confusion as he took a deep whiff of my wrist. As he did so, his crimson eyes dilated to where the crimson pupil was barely even noticeable.

'What is with this man?' I wondered.

The man grinned at me, almost as if hearing my thoughts. "Why, I do think that you smell even more delectable up close and personal. I can't wait to taste you…" he trailed off with a dazed look.

"Taste me?" I asked loudly.

It took him out his dazed look and his evil grin was back in place. His pupils were still dilated and in that moment, he looked like a creature out of one of my most feared horror movies come to life. In a blur his face moved from its position just inches from my face, to my neck. Then, out of seemingly no where, I felt an extreme pain pulsing on my neck as the man sunk his sharp white teeth into my neck.

'He is biting my neck—he is BITING my neck! What the hell, is he a VAMPIRE!?' my mind was screaming at me.

I screamed in shear pain. The things around me like trees, bushes and the tents started to dull right before my eyes. It was getting so hard to focus. I couldn't see very well at all. And suddenly, just as quickly as the pain had started, the pressure on my neck stopped. I watched as the man flew backwards in a fast blur like before and landed somewhere in the forest with a loud crash. Two more blurs ran into the forest. I heard a ferocious growl and a strange male voice screech, "The vegetarians!"

I had to force down a giggle. If I wasn't about to go into shock I probably would have been laughing. 'Why in the heck are they screaming about vegetarians?' I wondered.

I noticed that all the other red eyed creatures—that I now assumed were vampires after that black haired one bit my neck and started sucking my blood out—were all flying backwards at a fast rate into the woods like the first guy. I tried to sit up but as I did suddenly I was filled with a horrible feeling of fire bursting throughout my body. I screamed out in pain and fell back towards the ground. Through all the pain, my vision started to clear up a bit. I had heard before that pain made your vision blur, but right now, I was doing the opposite. My vision sharpened through all the pain and as it did I noticed a pale blue bubble-ish thing surrounding me and all my friends.

'What is this bubble thing? Am I going delusional?!' I thought as I saw the bubble.

I heard soft footsteps and I noticed that another creature was walking towards me. I cringed slightly away from it but then I noticed that she was different than the other ones. Instead of having hungry burgundy eyes she had loving indigo, almost violet, colored eyes. Her face was angular with a predator type feel but I wasn't afraid of this creature. Her expression was full of sorrow as she made her way towards me. Her lovely heart shaped face was framed with silky dark auburn hair that hung in natural looking ringlets. I was guessing by her appearance that she was probably in her early twenties. She was beautiful and not at all scary even though I was almost positive she was a vampire too. What was even weirder was that I felt like I knew her from somewhere, I just couldn't think from where.

"Oh dear—" she muttered in a soft, musical voice that was not at all chilling like the others. She suddenly turned and yelled towards the other violet eyed man who was standing over by Shay, "Lester, she's been bitten!" The woman cried.

'Lester? What the heck is he doing here?' I wondered. Out of nowhere the infamous Lester Harper appeared next to the beautiful women, who I was sure was a vampire also, just a nicer and kinder one. 'Is Lester a vampire too? Is that why he is so secretive about his life?'

Lester knelt down next to me. His dark brown hair was windblown and he carelessly ran his hand through it in frustration, making it look outlandishly messy. He too had a concerned and saddened expression plastered on his face. But what shocked me the most was his eyes and his face. It was so different. His eyes the same pulsating violet color of the woman's and his face also took on a predator look.

'That's funny,' I thought to myself. 'I could have sworn that Lester had grey eyes and why is his face different?'

"All the others were bitten as well." Lester said.

"Lester, what do we do?" the woman cried in grief.

"I'm so sorry Grace, but I don't think there is anything we can possibly do. The venom is already starting to spread. It's too deep. All I think that we can do for them is bring them back to the house where they can finish out their change in a more comfortable place than the forest floor. Also if we have them at the house, we can make sure they are safe." Lester replied in a soothing voice. "How are we going to be able to explain this to everyone—their parents?" He muttered to himself and shook his head in distress.

I saw that the women whose name was Grace was looking at me with regret in her eyes. She had to be Lester's wife Grace, whom I had never met, "I'm so sorry young one. Please forgive us. We should have been there to protect you kids. I'm so sorry." She cried silently.

I tried to choke out of response but I psychically wasn't able to. I tried to transfer all the emotion in my eyes and she seemed to at least catch my drift—that I was thankful that she and Lester had arrived when they did. She may have thought that she and Lester were too late but, to me, they had arrived just in time.

That is when I heard my other friends start crying out in pain about fire and something burning them although it was clear there was no actual 'fire' around them but I knew exactly what they were feeling. A raw burning fire was spreading throughout my body. I let around piercing scream of torture. I felt Grace picking me up in her arms. They lessened the fire in my veins because her arms were stony and freezing.

After she had me in her arms, she slowly walked over towards two other trembling bodies. As we walked closer I could faintly make out Shay and Matt's slightly mutilated features. They were lying near each other, trembling involuntarily. I cringed when I saw the blood that was gushing from a gash in Shay's neck and a cut near her wrist. There was a similar gash on Matt's forehead and neck. Grace then picked them up in her arms without another word. I wasn't sure how she was able to hold three teenagers in her arms but I didn't question it. I was in too much pain. I felt Grace start to run because I could feel the air blowing past us in a comforting breeze. Then another course of fire burst through me and right then more than anything, I wanted to die.

The pain was too much to bear.

Things started to grow fuzzy. I could hardly even make out Matt and Shay's features at this point. I sighed uncomfortably as everything around me was slowly faded into a welcoming dark black stupor. I could feel myself losing consciousness fast.

The last thing I could remember before the blanket of darkness took over my senses completely was seeing Lester running behind us at a very alarming speed with Olivia and Roxie in his arms. What I also noticed was Brie was no where to be seen and that Lester had a heartbreaking grave look carved into his stunning features. But at the moment, I couldn't bring myself to think much into it. Then—black.

-x-x-x-

After what had surely felt like hours, I slowly came out from the black fiery oblivion had had sunken into. I felt that I was lying on a soft feather bed that I didn't remember being sat on. I tried to open my eyes but I soon found out that I couldn't. I could only hear things and the only thing I could hear was my friends screams. They had to have screaming very loud, because something in my senses told me that my friends were not in the same room as me. They weren't even near me at that moment. That scared me slightly.

I had never felt anything like what I was feeling right now, why wouldn't it stop. I wasn't sure what was happening but something told me that I was turning into a vampire. I wasn't sure why but I was almost positive that that was what was happening and I wasn't sure how I felt about that but I knew I had no choice. I was broken out of those thoughts quickly. Another burst of pain. I let out another deafening screech of suffering as the fire pursed deeper and deeper into my veins.

I heard someone talking through my distress, "Poor thing…she never even had a choice." I indistinctly heard Grace say. Although I couldn't see I somehow knew that she was sitting on the bed near me.

A voice answered her which I soon realized was Lester, "Most of us never do." He said grimly.

"How are the others?" she asked.

"They are right on schedule, only another day." Lester told her regrettably.

I heard Grace sigh softly, "Two days of pure torture plus another one to go. They have been through so much and they don't even have a clue what is happening to them. Thank god we got there when we did." She said.

"Yes, if you hadn't set up that force field they would have all been dead." Lester said. As he spoke those words they just got fuzzier and fuzzier towards the end and I couldn't even understand them anymore.

That was the last thing I heard before slipping back into unconsciousness again.


So there it is, what do you think happened to Brie? And who know, what IS Lester and why is he the one saving them? Tell me what YOU think is happening :) REVIEW!!