Renee POV

She blamed me. I don't believe this. I had nothing to do with this! If I had known it was a trap I would have warned them! Now Seth thinks I'm a traitor. The look of hurt on his face before he blacked out completely broke my heart. It wasn't just a look of physical anguish. I could see in his eyes that he felt betrayed, that I had abused his trust. I called out to him, trying so hard to convince him that I was telling the truth, but I don't think he heard me. I'm left surrounded by unconscious wolves, while I hug Seth tightly and cry hysterically.

"It's time for us to go home, Renee," I hear Natalya telling me, as she stands above me.

"I don't understand," I manage to cry out through my heavy dry heaving.

"Renee, this was all supposed to happen. I orchestrated the whole thing. You were always meant to help these wolves, and no other siren would do it genuinely. You were too perfect for this job."

"B-but you abandoned me! You sealed my powers! You told me the history I knew was a lie!"

"Renee, I had to do all those things. How else would have so willing led these wolves into my trap? It had to be genuine, Renee. You had to genuinely want to help these wolves or they would have found out about your true loyalties."

"And what about our history?"

"What you learned about our history is true, but learning our true history is the final step to becoming a high ranking officer." I look up at her stunned. Is she saying what I think she's saying?

"What are you saying?"

"Renee, I want you to join my ranks. You've worked hard enough for it and have completed your mission perfectly. I couldn't ask for more in an officer." I can hardly believe it! I've worked so hard all my life to join the ranks of Natalya's officers, but everything's different now. I can't join her ranks when I no longer believe in her mission.

"You still abandoned me!"

"And what is it that these wolves have done for you, huh," Natalya raises her voice at me. "You think that two-toned wolf in your lap cares about you?" I look down at Seth. I know he does… or at least did. We have, had, a connection. We had something I know we did. Those two weeks that I was in the basement, I don't know why, but I completely shut down and didn't talk to him at all, or say anything, but he still took care of me, and he protected me from Corey. He has to care about me. Why else would he do all those things? "You don't remember do you?" I perk up my head and look at her confused.

"Remember what?"

"He erased your memory didn't he?" Natalya points at Seth and starts laughing manically. "Did he really think he could keep it from you forever?!"

"Keep what from what?"

"I heard it all through your tears that night, the night you became their prisoner." Heard what? "Renee, you poor confused soul." She puts her hand on top of my head and strokes my hair softly. "Corey raped you." My world comes shattering down in an instant. I couldn't have been raped!

"You're lying! Seth stopped him before he could!"

"And then he left. Corey came back that night, taped your mouth closed, threw you on the bed and fucked you with reckless abandon." No, no, no, no, no, no! "Seth came for you after it was already done. You honestly believe that he was being nice to you out of the goodness of his heart? It was all a part of their plan, Renee. Wolves always stick together." I start sobbing violently. I can't believe this! I just can't! How could Seth let that happen to me?! How could he do that?! "I apologize for the part I played in what happened to you, Renee. I'm sorry that I had to sacrifice you. It wasn't fair to you." She kneels down and hugs me close to her as I lay my head on her breasts and continue sobbing loudly and uncontrollably. "Come back to us, Renee. Come back home. I'll never abandon you again, I promise." I can't even begin to register what Natalya's saying. I feel so hurt and broken that I can't even think straight.

"Can I just go home?" My request comes out a whisper. My voice is too hoarse from crying so hard to speak at a normal volume. Natalya pulls away from me to look me in the face. She smiles at me widely.

"Of course, you can come home, Renee."

Dean POV

I come to slowly, regaining my consciousness and as my vision clears. I'm some kind of room. Looks like a place where the darkest, sickest most evil rituals are performed. The walls are made of large, rough stones stacked on top of one another. In the middle of the room is an elevated podium of some kind with a large old book and a large bowl on it. What the hell is this place? Suddenly the ceiling opens up, letting in the light from the full moon. It illuminates the room completely so that I can see everything, and it's only then that I notice that Kaitlyn shackled to the wall opposite to me. She's unconscious but she looks to be okay.

"Kaitlyn," I call out to her, but she doesn't respond. "Kaitlyn!" Her eyes blink open and she looks around. I try to move toward her, but I'm held back by a tugging at my wrists. I'm shackled to the wall. I didn't even realize that I was shackled. Just then a door opens and Natalya comes in followed by her five high ranking officers.

"I'm glad you're awake, Dean," she tells me with a grin on her face. "You're just in time for the sacrifice. She walks up to Kaitlyn and strokes Kaitlyn's cheek. Kaitlyn shudders at the action and I can hear her begin to hyperventilate. "Don't be scared, Kaitlyn. This is what you were born for." I can't just watch this. I try to transform so that I can break out of these chains, but I can't. Something's preventing me from transforming. "Don't worry, Dean," Natalya addresses me while keeping her eyes on Kaitlyn. "You'll join her on the other side." Natalya reaches into Kaitlyn's chest, piercing her skin and sinking her hand deeper into Kaitlyn's chest.

"Dean," Kaitlyn screams out to me. I pull harder on the chains, desperately trying to free myself from their confines. "Dean!" She screams my name louder and repeatedly as a fight with everything in me to break my chains. "Dean wake up!" Wake up?

My eyes blink open as I feel someone shaking me lightly. "Dean wake up!" There's that voice again, wait… That's Kaitlyn! I sit up immediately at the realization and look around me to find Kaitlyn kneeling next to me with tears in her eyes. "You're awake!" She wraps her arms around me tightly and cries into the crook of my neck. I wrap my arms around her, returning the hug with a passion. It was a dream. Thank God, it was only a dream.

"You have no idea, how grateful I am that it was just a dream," I tell her.

"I wish we were still dreaming," she says slowly pulling away from our hug. I look around us and notice that we're in what looks like a prison cell. That makes sense. I remember Natalya and her high ranking officers capturing us. Renee betrayed us. I knew we couldn't trust her.

"What time is it?"

"I don't know exactly. I just know that the sun is out, so it must be morning." I look around the cell again and notice that there's sunlight coming in through a very small window in the wall with bars gating it. There goes that escape plan. "You've been unconscious since they brought you here."

"When did they bring me here?"

"Sometime during the night. I'm not exactly sure when. What happened?"

"We came to rescue you guys, but it was a trap. Natalya knew we were coming and captured us." She lets out an audible sigh and tilts her head to the side, averting her eyes from me. She shakes her head before returning her gaze to me.

"What about you? How are you holding up," I ask.

"It's awful, Dean. The first day here, Natalya told Jojo that she killed her family and she ripped Eve's heart out,"

"Wait, what?! Eve's dead?"

"Yeah, Natalya said she deserved to be happy and at peace and then pulled her heart out." That's… appropriate if a little unfortunate. Eve was a traitor, yes, but she was still a member of my pack. I grew up with her around. It's hard to believe she's gone. "She let those vampires feed on her dead body. She let them do it in front us." Her story is making me frustrated, angry and exhausted all at the same time. It's bad enough Natalya killed Eve in front AJ and Kaitlyn, she had to expose all that to Jojo too. She's a despicable creature.

"Where's AJ and Jojo?"

"I don't know." Her eyes fall and she puts her head down. "When Axel and Ziggler were finished with Eve, they separated the three of us. I couldn't do anything to stop it, and I tried! I tried so hard!" She starts crying, and I pull her in my arms. She lays her head on my chest and curls into a ball, sitting on my lap as she sobs harder. I lean back against the wall, holding her close to me as I stroke her hair.

"It's okay. Everything's going to be okay." I don't really know if that's true. In fact, I'm pretty sure we'll all be dead soon, but I can't tell her that. She's already been through hell and back, I won't be the one to give her something else to worry about.

AJ POV

I sit, curled up, on the cot on the left side of my prison cell, staring at the body lying on the cot across from me. It had to have been hours ago that they dumped him in here. They did this on purpose. I know they did. Why else would they put the father of my unborn child in the same cell as me? They just made this situation go from absolute hell to…well whatever is worse than absolute hell. Ever since I found out I was pregnant my life has been a downward spiral, and the last few nights have been horrific.

I could hear Kaitlyn screaming out for me and Jojo as they pulled us away from her. I kicked and screamed and fought with all my might to get out of Axel's grasp, but he was too strong. He took me out of the hallway where the other prison cell was and walked me down a hallway, then down a flight of stairs. I was really far away from Kaitlyn now. He locked me in the cell and waited, all the while he looked at me like he was starving. Didn't he get enough from devouring Eve? He still had her blood on his chin, beard and clothes for goodness sake!

A few minutes later, I hear someone walking down the stairs and I begin to get really nervous. Ziggler than entered my line of vision and spoke to Axel. "You didn't harm her or the child did you?"

"Both are intact," Axel answered. "If you want me to be sure, I could always feed on her."

"Wipe that smile off your face, Axel." Axel immediately obeyed Ziggler and a frown overtook his features. "You didn't learn your lesson from what happened with the wolf? Natalya didn't even have a reason to kill her, and you're ready to provide Natalya with a reason to kill us? Don't be stupid." He turned to me with a straight face and I tensed up automatically. "I would like it if you didn't put up a fight. Now I could spellbind you, but I might be tempted to fuck you senseless if I do."

"No," I shouted at him. I couldn't let that happen for several reasons.

"Then I suggest you make this easy on the both of us." He bit into his wrist, breaking the skin and making himself bleed. Oh my God I think I'm going to be sick. I feel bile rising up my throat. Scratch that, I am definitely going to be sick. I ran to the corner of the prison cell and threw up. I didn't even eat dinner, so I wasn't really throwing up anything. I was just dry heaving. "Doesn't look like you've eaten anything, human. That's not good for the baby," I heard Ziggler say from behind me. "Axel, go get the human some food. Something filling." I heard Axel's feet shuffle away and I resume throwing up. "You need to take better care of yourself, human. You wouldn't want anything to happen to that precious baby of yours would you?"

"Fuck… you," I managed to tell him between dry heaves.

"Don't tempt me, sweetheart." I heard the lock to my cell shift and turned myself around to find that Ziggler was now in the cell and standing right behind me.

"Get away from me!" In a flash he had his hand around my throat and I was up against the wall. How come I always end up in this position when I'm kidnapped?! He put his bleeding wrist to my mouth forcefully and told me to drink up. I shook my head furiously, trying to get my lips away from his wrist.

"Stop fighting me, human!" He gripped my throat tighter, making me gag and gasp for air. He took advantage of the opportunity and stuck his wrist on between my lips. I could feel the blood sliding down my throat. It was awful! I shook my head again and started kicking at him, and although, each kick landing to his stomach, they didn't even make him flinch. I felt more and more blood fill my mouth and I began to cry. "That's it human. Drink my blood."

The same thing has happened for the past four nights. In fact, they had just finished feeding me the blood when Natalya came into my cell and threw Punk on the cot. There's no telling what kind of stress this is putting on my child. They have been feeding me, and although I wanted nothing to do with it at first, I wasn't about to put my child's life in any more danger. The last thing I want to do is miscarry. I wouldn't be able to handle that.

I hear Punk groan and he begins to stir a little. I guess this means he's finally regaining consciousness. He lifts his head but his eyes remain closed as he sniffs the air. Suddenly, his eyes snap open and he looks in my direction. The look on his face is that of… relief? He's relieved to see me? In an instant he's on my side of the cell holding me closely in his arms. I have to admit it feels great being near him again. At the same time, seeing him again makes me feel guilty. The last conversation we had left me feeling like crap, and not just because I was kidnapped. I felt like crap because he was right. It was wrong of me to try to leave without telling him about his child. Maybe I should have listened to Kaitlyn, but at the same time telling him wouldn't have changed anything between us. Why should it?

"April," Punk starts. "I was so worried about you."

"You were worried about me?" I'm genuinely surprised. He releases me from his embrace and sits beside me on the cot, never taking his eyes off me.

"Of course I was. Why would you think otherwise?"

"Aren't you mad at me?"

"I'm too grateful that you're alive to be mad at you," he tells me with a smile on his face. It's the first time I've seen him smile like this. "Are you okay?"

"I've been better."

"Yeah, I could imagine."

"What's going to happen, now?" He looks at me and sighs while running his hand over his face.

"I don't know. We had a plan, but that didn't work out as you can see. I'll figure out something. We'll get out. I promise." I don't really react to him. I'm trying to keep my feelings in check because all I want to do is cry. "April, we need to talk. It may or may not matter in the long run, but I need to tell you something very important." I nod and turn my body to him, giving him my complete and undivided attention. "Before we got interrupted, I wanted to address what you said about me not wanting you." Of course he wants to talk about this. He's just going to confirm my suspicions. "I don't want you thinking that I don't care because I do, more than I've cared about anyone or anything since my mother passed." That doesn't make any sense.

"I don't understand. If you care so much about me then why don't you want to be with me?"

"April, I do want to be with you, but because of what we are I didn't see a way that it would possibly work out so that we can spend our lives together, but that's changed now."

"Why, because I'm pregnant," I scoff at him. "Don't think you're obligated to be with me just I'm having your kid."

"That's not it."

"Then what is it?! This child hasn't changed the problem which is that you're a wolf and I'm a human!"

"But it has provided a way for us to be together." I'm even more confused now. He takes my hand in his and carries on, speaking to me gently. "April, before this child there was no way, that our two societies would have allowed us to spend the rest of our lives together. This child is our way, our opportunity to be together, the way that both of us want to be together."

"B-but,"

"April, please stop fighting me," Punk interrupts me. "You've been fighting me at every step since we admitted to liking one another. For once, stop fighting me. Please?"

"I just don't know how,"

"As soon as we get out of here, we'll figure out the little details along the way. Right now just look at the big picture." He takes my face in his hands and gazes into my eyes softly. "I'm begging you, April. Give this a chance. Give us a chance to be a family." I can't hold back my tears anymore and they burst out from behind my eyes. He takes me in his arms again as I cry into his chest. I want to give this a chance so badly. I just don't know if we're going to live long enough to do that.

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