In the year 2020, Vampires took control of society and ordered all humans placed in vampire custody. The people who were not captured formed a Resistance movement, headed by the Human Council, who began to plan the Insurgence.

I am indebted to Stephenie Meyer for this world we all play in and these characters we all adore. Additionally, I am indebted to hitntr01, who has graciously allowed me to use certain concepts from her wonderful story "In Need of Rescue", which constitute much of the background of my own story. These include: the language Vampiri, the Rules, the machines used to draw blood from humans, Manners Training, and the plot theme of Edward working as a guard at a facility holding humans. Thank you, hitntr01.

Chapter Two - The Gatherings

(Carlisle's POV)

In July, 2020, the first gathering of humans was done by organized groups of hunters. My own son, reverting to his former name of Major Jasper Whitlock, was a well-known leader among these hunting groups. Jasper was a natural for this job due to both his military experiences, in the vampire Southern Wars and human Civil War, and his extended exposure as a vampire to human society. He had attended high school multiple times while living with my family. His military experience, coupled with his repeated exposure to teenaged behavior while sitting in high school classrooms, allowed him to develop strategies to take the maximum number of humans from targeted populations alive. He was one of twenty vampires awarded a medal in early 2021 by the Volturi for their contribution to the successful establishment of the new vampire society.

The first gathering done by Jasper was at Forks High School, since we lived in Forks, Washington. Although I did not witness it personally, the description of his work that day was broadcast repeatedly on television, as it was being cited as an example for other groups to follow.

First, an announcement was made over the P.A. system for the third year students to gather in the Biology Lab. Malcolm Struthers had just finished orchestra and placed his cello back in the Music Department office. Emmanuel Williams, head of the wrestling team, had been working on a project in Shop. Melanie Meeks had just finished her third period Lit class when the announcement came over the PA system. She had come to school from my office at the hospital, where I had checked the cast on her broken arm earlier that morning.

Once the entire third year class was gathered in Biology lab, Jasper entered with his team, and announced they would be taking the class to the newly opened Human Containment Facility. Malcolm, who was TA'ing the chemistry lab, pulled two ingredients that could be used to start a chemical flame, and threw them at the vampires. Hunter Jeffrey pinned him and broke his neck. Emmanuel tried to help Malcolm by tipping over a shelf of glassware, but hunter Mike attacked him, sinking his teeth into Emmanuel's neck. Melanie started crying and pleading with the vampires to stop and was immediately attacked by a third member of the vampire team.

I knew that Jasper had been on the school baseball team with Malcolm's older brother. And my scent would have still been quite strong on Melanie's cast. He must have known he had connections to these children. But he paid no attention to any human distraction and instead focused on his mission.

Jasper reportedly stood motionless in the middle of the room during the fight, and after the three humans were dead, motioned that the rest of the students were to be lead out to a bus. Terrified, the remaining students went quietly to the Human Containment Facility. This process continued for the rest of the high school and then continued at the other schools in the city. The teachers and staff were killed after the students left the buildings.

The adults were much simpler. Tey were told that their children were in custody, and they could join them if they went quietly with the gathering teams. The mothers wanted to be with the children, and the men wouldn't fight since they were separated from their children. They hoped for their families to be reunited. This model was then used throughout the country as a way to get the most humans into the facilities with the least amount of human deaths.

In the rest of the world, the humans turned in by the vampires had notable inequities in their populations. Almost no human females were turned in between the ages of 12-28. Jasper kept his hunters in line, and as a result his groups turned in populations with age groups that were consistent with census figures. The heads of the European and Eastern continent hunting group, Bruno and Gunther, on the other hand, used human girls as a reward for successful hunts. At least Jasper had the decency not to permit acts of debauchery with the young girls. Unfortunately, that generally meant that after the girls were taken to the human containment facility, a vampire buyer could purchase any girl he wanted and take them to brothels.

As a result, once the humans in vampire custody began to age and die in the European and Slavic countries, blood had to be exported from North America. Most of the human live births were from North America as well. The brothels had insatiable demands for teenage girls, as the girls enslaved within brothels were dying within 4-6 weeks. After all, it took twelve to thirteen years to produce a teen aged girl. After a decade, there were rumors that kidnapped vampresses were being used in the brothels to offset the lack of available humans.

Yet another problem with the facilities was that Aro had put a cap on the price of the bottled blood. In order to make a profit, the owners of the Human Containment Facility had kept the young humans being raised in twilight style darkness without access to sunshine or exercise. The limited food rations supplied to humans were bought from the cheapest source available. This began to take a toll on the human inmates' health, so that after about sixteen years after the Event the younger females reaching breeding age had weakened bones. Many girls were experiencing broken backs and pelvic bones during pregnancy, and as a result, they were only producing one child before dying.

We had heard that there had been some humans who were sheltered by friendly vampires or had successfully hidden in isolated spots in the wildernesses growing between the occupied cities, who had started a resistance movement. The rumors claimed that a group of men had been chosen to become the Human Council. They oversaw the Resistance and hoped someday to see the liberation of humans from all forms of vampire custody and the reinstatement of Human Law. Most vampires did not take these stories seriously, and I was glad. Those vampires who did take the stories seriously tried to hunt down the council members. Personally, I could only hope that this council could find a way to keep human civilization alive until the day human freedom would be restored.

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