Due to some suggestive content, the rating of this story is now Teen. I also want to acknowledge my brilliant son for helping me out with the next two chapters. Enjoy!

Chapter 10: Trapped inside these walls

Two weeks later, the Cullen's began to lessen their vigilant watch over Lexie after seeing how well she controlled herself around Reneesme, Jacob and his pack members. Today, she was sitting next to Jacob in a small meadow surrounded with spring-time wildflowers, laughing as she watched Reneesme, who looked about ten, chase bugs. Jacob smiles at the sound; since it was something the sad newborn rarely did and looked over to see her bright smile. He still could not believe that she had gone from a bloody mangled body to a beautiful young woman, who he found to have a kind and gentle spirit.

"Hey, Lex?" he asks, and then watches her pull her gaze from the giggling child to look over to him.

"Yes, Jacob?"

"Are you doing okay? I …. I mean is it getting easier to accept what you are now?" He asks anxiously while pulling apart a flower.

Lexie watched as the different emotions crossed his face and knew that his approval to allow her transformation had been had been as life altering to him as it was to her. Being a surgeon that dealt with life or death decisions every day she knew that Jacob had showed a great deal of maturity for someone his age. Putting her hand on his arm, he looked startled at her touch.

"Jacob, All I can tell you is that I'm taking this whole alternative lifestyle one day at a time. But I do understand and accept that this change was necessary for me to continue to exist." She returns her gaze to the laughing girl running along the edge of the forest and smiles before continuing.

"You made the right decision, Jacob and one day I will thank you for my new life, but right now all I can think about are the people I've left behind… I can't go home and it hurts."

Jacob swallowed the lump in his throat, trying to think of something comforting to say and watched as she stood up to dust off her jeans.

"On a less serious note," she said trying to lighten the mood. "I cannot even begin to tell you how bored I've been for the last two weeks. I'm a Doctor that lived and breathed 16 hour surgeries to save lives, now I'm sitting around looking at trees; I'm starting to go a little crazy!" Jacob laughed then jumped up and called out for Reneesme to follow them home.

The trio had just begun walking back to the Cullen home, when the wind shifted and the unmistakable scent of human blood overwhelmed Lexie's control on her blood lust. In a split second, her vampire instinct had taken over and she began running toward the sweet smell.

"Lexie? " Jacob called after the newborn, and then caught the scent that had gained her attention. "Oh crap!" He knew he needed to stop her before she did something she would regret, but could not leave Reneesme on her own. "Come on, we need to get your Dad!" he said to the little girl and transformed into a wolf so she could jump on his back. Running at full speed he quickly reached the Cullen home and began to "yell" for Edward in his mind until he came out of the house. Edward nodded in understanding.

"Tell Carlisle what's going on, I'll try to catch up to her!" then sprinted into the woods to try and stop her from making a devastating mistake.

Forty miles in the opposite direction, the scent she followed erased all rational thoughts of why she needed to stop and go back to the Cullen home. All she could feel was an overwhelming need to feed and the closer she got to the source, the faster she ran. Suddenly Lexie was standing outside of an old abandoned cabin; the smell of fresh human blood lay just beyond the wooden barrier and it was so strong that she is unable to stop herself from crashing through the door.

Entering the room, her eyes quickly adjusted to the dimly lit interior looking for the source of blood that drawn her here and landed on a shocking sight against the far wall. Ten feet away on the floor, sat a terrified teenage girl, who looked about 14 or 15, stripped down to her underwear with her arms wrapped protectively around her legs in an attempt to make herself smaller. Lexie could see that the girl has several thin lines cut across her arms, chest and legs, which had caused her blood to pool underneath her small shivering body. Along with the cuts, the girl showed obvious signs of torture and abuse with the bruising covering her face, neck and shoulders. Shocked at her discovery, Lexie's blood lust instantly disappears as she stepped forward to help the girl. Off to her left she hears a raspy chuckle and watches as a shadow moves away from a darkened corner. Standing between her and the girl stood a thin, gaunt man with greasy hair and tattered clothes, who looked to be in his mid-fifties; his pale white skin sparkled from the sunlight streaming in from the door behind her. Coming closer, the filthy man looks at his intruder from head to toe and smiles a twisted grin as he begins to lick the blood from his fingers.

"Well, looky what we have here," He says with excitement, "a Newborn." In a blink of an eye, he appears a few feet in front of her and reaches out to run a bloody finger across her cheek.

"A pretty, pretty little Newborn at that," he says with a laugh that made Lexie's skin crawl. "Smelled the blood didn'tcha?" With his vampire speed he backs away and roughly pulls the girl up by her hair and twisted her head slightly to expose her untouched neck, then puts a small cut over her jugular with his dirty fingernail to allow a small stream of blood to trickle down between her breasts; she yelps in pain.

Not sure what to do, Lexie flinches at the sound and grits her teeth as she helplessly watches the man torture the girl.

"How about we share?" he says looking back at Lexie, "An olive branch if you will…. Or maybe better yet a toast to celebrate a new friendship." He leans close and drags his tongue in the fresh blood from the girl's chest to her neck as she quietly sobs in fear. Lexie feels a wave of anger and revulsion slam into her as she begins to wonder what kind of twisted monster this vampire had been as a human and continues to watch as he puts his hand around the girls throat and tightens it just enough to make breathing painful.

"Well girl?" he asks, "Don'tcha want some or am I gonna get this all to myself?" Then runs his hand seductively down the length of girls arm and when she tries to pull it away, he grabs it to squeeze. Lexie can clearly hear a crack as the girls fragile bones snap under the near unstoppable pressure of the vampires grip and she screams in pain.

"Help me!" She begs hysterically to Lexie, "Please help me!" Unable to stand idly by and watch this monster torture this girl, Lexie moves closer.

"Get away from her!" she says through gritted teeth. Startled, he looked back to Lexie with narrowed eyes.

"What the hell did you just say to me girl?!" He asks as if she was nothing more than a disobedient child who had spoken back to her father. Lexie takes another step toward the vampire, her body rigid with anger.

"I said, get away from her, you sick bastard!"

Angry, he tilts his head to the side then says, "You know, I was kinda thinking the two of us could start our own little coven. In fact," he continues while undressing her with his eyes," I was even thinking that you might be interested in sampling the other pleasures that come along with having an unbreakable body."

Feeling a strange pressure start to build up; Lexie's body begins to tremble with rage as she watches this creature look back at the whimpering girl, then shrugs.

"I guess I'll have to wait to get my jollies off on the next pretty little thing I find." Then before Lexie can react, he reaches over and twists the girl's neck until there is a sickening crack and she falls to the floor twitching.

Shocked at what had just happened, she failed to see the vampire rushing toward her until he grabs her by the throat to pin her to the wall. Their eyes lock as they stared at each other; his with frustration at how this pretty little newborn rejected what he offered and caused him to spoil his entertainment for the day; and hers in pure hatred against the monster that had just snuffed out an innocent girls' life. He moves closer until his face is an inch away from hers, enjoying the feel of her body pressed against his and laughs.

"Being a newborn you're stronger than me, but I've been at this a lot longer, so I'm pretty damn sure this fight won't last long. Now you have two options, Girlie; you can either join me in drinking what's left in that kid's body." He stops and twists her neck slightly then licks the cheek he had previously marred with the girls blood. "Then we can consummate our new union in that bed back there for the next few days." He smiles to himself at the thought, before continuing. "Or you can take the second option, where I rip your head off and still enjoy your body before I destroy it."

His putrid unwashed smell and disgusting suggestions, angered her more as she struggled harder against his grip, until the pressure building up inside her begins to feel like an expanding balloon that's about to explode. Turning her head back to face him she looks into his demon-red eyes with uncontrolled hatred.

With that look he knew she wasn't going to play his game, "See you in Hell, Girlie." he laughs and puts his hands on either side of her head as if he intends to crush her skull. Before he can though, his body suddenly becomes taunt.

"Don't …Call….Me…..Girlie!" she growls with loathing.

The vampire suddenly releases her and backs up to wrap his arms around his chest, before doubling over in pain and screams, "What the hell!"