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, which 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 theme of Edward working as a guard at a facility holding humans. Thank you, hitntr01.

Chapter 3 - Renee's story

Renee had been married in the autumn of 2019. She had married her high school sweetheart after graduation, and she and her new husband had moved into their new home after their honeymoon. She felt she was living her dream and was very happy. She had immediately begun to decorate one of the rooms of their small house as a nursery and was delighted the day she learned she was pregnant.

She began making a traditional doll for her future child. The women of her family had a custom of making dolls from the scraps of their wedding dress. The doll Renee made had eyes made with buttons from her grandmother's boots, an apron and dress made with scraps of lace and silk from her wedding dress, and a blue belt cut from the ribbon that had been part of her flower girl's bouquet. The doll was stuffed with cotton from a quilt and a bit of her veil to make it stiff.

Renee's father made her a rocking chair and crib for her nursery, and he also brought a new set of jacks and other toys "for the boy," just in case her first child wasn't the girl she dreamed of having. His wedding gift to the couple had been a new roof for their first home.

Her husband was on a business trip in late June, 2020, and she was waiting to tell him the news of her pregnancy in person. The day he was to return, she was watching the news when she saw Aro announce the Event. She locked the doors, looked for garlic and anything to make a stake with, trying desperately to remember how to combat a vampire from the movies. Finally her husband's car pulled up to the house. He exited the car and came to the door with someone she didn't recognize. She ran to the door, and when he opened it, she saw his red eyes. His companion's eyes were red as well.

The companion, whose name she was to never learn under the new Rules, was there to take her to the local Human Containment Facility. Her husband had drawn up a contact with this vampire selling Renee to him. Her husband had been changed by a vampress who wanted him to be her mate, and she had changed him a few days before the Event during his supposed business trip.

Renee dropped to her knees and pleaded with her husband for their baby's sake, and she achieved a result, of sorts. The second vampire told her husband that he would amend the contract to include her unborn children for an additional sum of money. Her husband agreed and sold his rights to any unborn children for an additional $50.

The second vampire leaned over the kneeling woman to attach a collar and chain to her neck. Renee started to plead with him, but he slapped her. Every time she tried to speak, she was slapped again, until she realized she was not allowed to speak to a vampire.

She left the house with her new owner, never to see it again. The doll was left on the rocking chair. She was taken to a waiting bus, where she was chained to the seat. After the bus was full, they were driven to the Human Containment Facility. To distract herself along the way, she memorized the route to the Human Containment Facility, so she would know how to get home again. But the next time she was to see freedom was during the few minutes of her escape attempt with her youngest daughter, Bella. The escape attempt would cost Renee her own life, but lead to Bella's freedom.

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