So, I'm kind of trying to drag this chapter out, I want to spread it out over a few chapters so I kind of rambled towards the end of this one. They also much be a tiny bit shorter then normal. Putting any more in this chapter just wouldn't be right, it would make it look like too much. I hope you look forward to the next one, it's almost time I did a little explaining (almost) ;P
Also, I realised something… what the hell am I going to do with my life when this is finished? I don't wanna finish it :( I hate endings! So, I think I'm gonna have to ask you guys for some help. I need some ideas for a possible sequel, I'm NOT promising anything, but just in case.
Anyway, read! :D
Cat's POV.
I awoke with a groan, my head hurt and I felt a little dizzy. I sat up and put my hand to my head, squeezing my eyes shut as I waited for the pain to go away. It didn't last very long and I opened my eyes to look around. I saw a room, a pretty dark room actually. There weren't any lights shining which was kind of annoying
"That means no electricity" I realised. I was lying on a pretty comfy bed, there was a dresser on the wall opposite, a desk next to the dresser, there was a door that I assumed lead to a bathroom, a bed side table next to the bed I was on and an empty shelf next to that. I looked around for a while before realising something was a little off, I got up and walked towards the wall, that was when I realised that the four walls around me were made of glass, the dark room was what my small cage was being stored in. I looked down towards the ground, my cage was being elevated off of the floor.
"But how would they know to keep me away from the ground?" I wondered confused. I bashed the glass, but nothing happened, I bashed it again harder with my strength but it didn't even crack
"What the…" I heated my hand up and pressed it against the glass but it didn't even melt. I grounded my teeth and took a step back, pointing my finger at the glass, I shot a laser at the glass but had to duck as it shot right back at me and bounced around the cage before hitting the bed side table and putting a hole in the side of it. I looked at the glass confused before touching it again
"What is this?"
"It's specially made in order to keep you in" I looked around and saw a man rise up to the same level as my cage. I glared at him, I'd seen him before and that is how I'd recognised him at the front door of my house. He was the one who had attacked Sophie, the one she thought was familiar.
"Hello Catherine. My name's Zachariah" he introduced. I just glared at him, not answering. He tutted at me "It's rude not to talk to someone when they speak to you" he said disappointed, I didn't really give a shit about that.
"Where's my sister?" I questioned, I'd find out other things later, but if he'd kidnapped me and Sophie had been one most of the day, then she had to be here somewhere.
"Don't worry, she'd not far, and she's as harmed as you are" I knew what he meant by that, I hadn't been armed at all, which was weird, so she was fine. I guessed from past experiences that he wasn't going to tell me where so I didn't bother wasting my breath on asking. I'd just have to find out myself.
"What am I doing here?" I demanded
"Well, I needed to put you somewhere where you wouldn't run off again, and after our last meeting I needed to spend some time organising your rooms" he explained
"You didn't answer my question" I ground my teeth
"Yes I did, you asked what you were doing here, you're here to stay"
"Not the cage you idiot" I spat, he tutted at me again
"Now what sort of manners are those?" he asked, I just growled at him, my hair had turned red and was about to burst into flames. "It's absolutely fascinating how you two turned out completely different to the rest of us" he said watching me, I could see the interest in his face as he watched my rage effect my appearance. I didn't need a mirror to know my eyes were as red as my hair, the same colour as a vampire with red eyes in fact.
"What do you want with me?"
"Nothing much, we just want to observe you" he answered
"So you locked me up?" I asked annoyed
"Well, there's never been anyone like you among us" Zachariah admitted, repeating what he said before. I looked at him confused
"Us? Who's us?" I demanded
"All in good time Catherine, don't worry, you'll get the answers you're looking for, and as long as you comply you wont be harmed either. I suggest you just enjoy the luxury while it lasts." Zachariah looked at my cage
"Luxury?" I questioned, the damn asshole had taken away my freedom and away from my friends and family, plus he'd kidnapped my sister, who knows what he'd done to her!
"Think of it as a hotel suit" he shrugged. I bashed the glass in anger but he wasn't phased at all
"Hit the glass all you want, it's bullet proof with a little added, extra. You wont be able to break it" and he lowered back down to the ground. I watched as he walked to a door at the bottom of the room, his hands in his pockets and disappeared. When the door opened I realised that it was much brighter out there then it was in here, I guess they were trying to limit the amount of access to my powers as possible. I bashed the glass again in frustration before stepping back and running my hand threw my hair, that reminded me of how Jacob had done it not long before, I already missed the feeling of his touch, the feeling of his lips on mine. I sighed, naturally none of these problems would just go away, would they. I took a deep breath and looked around the outside room again, I suddenly noticed that there was a pretty large metal box on the ground below me to the right of my cage. I walked over to the glass closest to it, it looked about the size of my glass cage, only it was metal. It made me question how that Zach guy knew to put me in a glass cage instead of in a metal one, and he knew to keep me off the ground and how he prevented the glass from melting, it was like he suddenly knew everything about my powers… but how? Unlike my cage however, this metal one had several tubes connected to it, all going to the wall next to it. I wondered if there was someone else other then me imprisoned here. Then it hit me, I hit my head with my hand, of course I wasn't alone, Sophie was here too. She couldn't break out of a metal cage but she sure as hell could get out of a glass cage, it'd smash upon freezing. However, she should be able to escape by using some gravity, so what was wrong with her that she couldn't do that?
"Sophie!" I called through my mind, looking at the cage "Soph…" I wasn't getting a reply and that worried me, I knew she was close because we always had a connection, it was like a feeling in the back of my mind, and it was still there. "SOPHIE MITCHELL!" I yelled
"Cat?" I heard her beautiful voice a few minutes later and let out a deep sigh
"Thank god" I muttered
"Where are you?" she wondered
"In a cage" I grumbled
"Where?"
"I don't know, some dark room with no windows or doors and I'm being elevated off the ground" I explained "What about you?"
"I'm in a metal cage" she said
"Then my cage is above yours" I said
"Knew you had to be close, otherwise the connection wouldn't work." she chuckled a little but there was something off about her
"Sophie, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'm just very tired and weak" she admitted
"Why?"
"They aren't giving me very much oxygen, limiting my chance to escape. I don't have enough strength to summon any gravity and my water's useless" she explained. That explained it, I clenched my fists
"They can't treat you like that" I ground my teeth
"Unless they're sure I wont run away or beat them all up, it's not gonna change" she admitted. I bashed the glass again but again, nothing happened. "What about you?"
"The glass doesn't melt, there's no lights or electricity around, my lasers just bounce around the cage and in such a tight space, and the fact that it could bounce like the lasers, my railgun is too risky" I frowned "And I'm off the ground and can't feel anything" I hadn't practiced growing plants when not touching the ground, I'd never had to worry about that before, I could counter act anything else with something else. I really wish I'd practiced that now.
"How come the glass doesn't melt?" Sophie questioned
"Don't know, that guy that attacked you and kidnapped us, his name's Zachariah and he said the cage was made specially for me in order to keep me from running off and destroying everything" I repeated
"How could there be a glass without a melting point?"
"I don't know, it's probably got one, only it's very high, it could take me days to melt it and I bet someone would notice and stop me." I muttered annoyed
"Do we know what they are yet?" Sophie wondered, knowing as well as I that they weren't human
"No, but they can fly" I grumbled
"Great"
"Though, Zach seemed very interested in us, he said there wasn't anyone like us among them"
"Who's them?"
"He wouldn't tell me"
"Of course not, these people just like to beat around the bush"
"I know, one of the reasons I didn't push him for your location, I knew he wouldn't give it to me, and I knew that if you were close then I'd be able to reach you"
"Smart thinking" we fell into silence for a minute before I remembered she'd been kidnapped too.
"Soph, what happened to you?" I wondered
"Well, I was reading, in the house alone. I'd gotten curious about our parents and thought that if they were really old and lived for ages like the vampires then there would be a trace of them somewhere, like a book or drawing. So I went into mum's office and looked through her books." Sophie explained
"How'd you know what you were looking for?" I asked
"I just looked for really old and used books, and then started from there. All the books I found were all on one topic"
"What?"
"Myths and legends" she answered
"Like your book" I remembered
"You read it?" she wondered
"I tried, to me it was just gibberish but I saw it on your desk and took a look, I was able to figure out what it was about but that was it." I answered
"Well, I figured out that mum had been researching myths and legends, I think she might actually have an idea on what we are" Sophie admitted
"How do you know?"
"Because we're a myth or legend" she reminded me
"Doesn't me it has something to do with us" I thought
"But why would she need to research herself? She'd have all the answers for that, but us on the other hand, we've been doing weird things for ages, I didn't believe they were that oblivious" Sophie explained, I sighed
"I knew it was too good to be true"
"Anyway, after figuring that out I went down stairs and to the library to try and find some other clue, like a marking in another book, but dad came home early and I didn't get the chance"
"Why did dad come home early?" I asked
"He forgot some medical document. But I got this one book which was the one on my desk and after dad left I went back and took a second look. I realised that all the books did have something else in common" she admitted
"What was it?" I questioned
"Angels"
Jacob's POV.
"We couldn't pick up a scent either. Just Cat's fire" Esme admitted
"Although, there was something weird about the smell of those scorch marks" Alice muttered
"Do we have any leads to go on?" Carlisle wondered. The bloodsuckers were standing on their side of the treaty line while the pack was standing on the other side. We were trying to discuss what to do about the twins. It'd been three days since Cat had disappeared and Seth, much to the entire pack's annoyance, had called the Cullens to see if they'd heard or found something related to the subject. Naturally this had gotten them all involved and they refused to let us handle it. So now we were having a discussion with them about it. Sam had spoken to the elders about what to do, seeing as they were both imprints the twins were one of our top priorities now, and the elders — my dad — had decided we needed any help we could get on the matter. So now we were, once again, working with the bloodsuckers. To make matters worse another wolf had imprinted, and he'd imprinted on my sister, Rachel. That wasn't the worse part though, it was Paul who'd imprinted on her, so now Rachel was in on the entire secret. This had caused her to know about Cat as well, which she was actually shocked by but it didn't seem to change her knew found likeness for my girlfriend. Of course then she'd found out that Cat had been kidnapped and she's been worrying ever since, asking me twenty-four seven, whether we've found anything or not. I was, somehow, taking this better then Embry was, I didn't know what it was, but somehow I was managing to keep it together. I wasn't sure if I trusted Cat to be alright, or whether it was the feeling that these people didn't actually wont to kill the twins that I couldn't shake. I even had a thought that I trusted in Cat and Sophie's abilities all of a sudden that allowed me to believe they'd make it on their own. But when I listened to Embry's thoughts, they were all over the place, sadness and worry about if Sophie's hurt, or scared, or alone. Guilty thoughts about not being with her on the day she went missing, which of course this made me feel guilty because he was covering my shifts so I could go get Rachel. And then there was the anger, he held so much anger towards the people that did this, towards the people that might have hurt her, this in turn kept bringing out my anger. Although it seemed I hadn't been hit with the fact that Cat was in trouble yet, I was still going to rip out the throats of those who did this to her. They were going to be sorry that they ever went looking for her.
"The only theory we have is those people who attacked them, remember" Rosalie reminded us, I ground my teeth. I'd been so worried that day, but after so much quiet and peace of them not being touched again I'd let my guard down, I even left Cat alone in the forest that day, what if they'd taken her then? It would be my fault.
"Do you think their scents would still be left behind?" Emmett asked
"Not after all this time" Carlisle shook his head, he had a clear thinking expression on his face.
"There is one thing we could do" Seth spoke up, we all looked at him, what could he have possible come up with?
"What's that?" Alice wondered
"We could ask the twins' parents" Seth offered
"We don't know if they know anything" I reminded him
"But the twins found proof?" he half asked
"It's not our place to" Leah grumbled
"It's either that or we don't find them" Seth said, we sighed, he was right for once.
"How are we going to do that?" Paul growled
"Dad and Sue" I suggested "Their two best friends", everyone shared a look before deciding that was best, it was our only option. We couldn't sit around for god knows how long waiting and praying that the twins would get themselves out of the situation. Caren and John had been freaking out, they'd came home that afternoon and found the door open, the scorch marks on the front porch and their two daughters missing. They'd called Billy immediately to ask if they were at our house but Billy had said Cat had left at about five, that was when they 'broke the news' to him. I swear I could here something other then sadness and worry, I swear it was rage, but this rage wasn't just anger at the people who took them, it was anger directed at someone in particular. I guess that's another reason to ask them, if anything it proves they know what happened. It's about time we found out, whether the twins know or not, we needed the truth in order to be able to find them both.
Sophie's POV.
I probably would have lost track of time now, if it wasn't for my watch. We'd been here three days, Cat had been unconscious for two, me for one. Cat had told me what had happened, how she'd opened the door and then been attacked, my story was different. As usual I'd had the bedroom window open, I knew something was wrong the second it began to flood with some sort of steam, only it wasn't natural steam at all, it was gas. I'd looked up and seen that Zach dude just before I'd toppled over and collapsed, falling unconscious. When I woke up, I was in a metal trap, I breathed in but found no air went into my lunges, well very little air entered my lunges. I felt around and knew immediately that there wasn't very much oxygen around. Luckily, I could go with little, I was able to adapt to that kind of stuff, though I couldn't go forever without oxygen. At first I'd been fine, the lack of oxygen hadn't effected me, all I could think about was that my mother had been researching angels, and she'd been doing a lot of research. I paced around my small cage, it hadn't dawned on my till that moment that I was actually in a cage. It wasn't to small or cramped, it was actually like a small hotel room, a comfy bed, a dresser, a desk, an empty shelf and a bed side table with a lamp on it. I'd touched the walls and they were cold. It had taken about another four hours until I had to sit down, then lie down, and then try to move as little as possible. I wasn't panting, that only made things worse, but every now and then there was a bit of oxygen pushed into my almost vacuumed cage. I guess that was their way of keeping me contained and alive at the same time. It was working. In this condition I couldn't use anything to break me out of here, I don't know why I didn't use my gravity to break open the walls when I had the chance but I'd been to busy thinking about the angel thing, it was a step closer to figuring out the mystery that had been bothering me for days now. Every few hours I'd get a bottle of water, which I naturally sculled in a few minutes — my weakness slowing me down— to try and get some of the oxygen from the H2O and to keep myself hydrated, being the water elemental wasn't easy sometimes, especially at times like now.
I was curled up in a ball now on the bed, my eyes shut, I'd been like that when Cat had shouted to me. She'd made me jump at the time and I couldn't help but groan, the first thing I thought was how annoying she was but then I remembered I was locked away and got curious as to how I could hear her. I was so relieved to learn she was alright, but a little angry at this Zach guy for kidnapping her too, guess it was to be expected he and that chick were after us both.
"What do you mean angels?" she asked after I'd told her
"As in the angels we googled, remember, she was actually looking into angels"
"What about them?"
"I don't know" I groaned "I didn't get the chance to find that part out" I admitted
"Stupid idiots" she muttered, talking about the people that had trapped us here
"What do they want anyway?" I wondered
"Something about observing us and testing us" Cat grumbled. Great.
"How are they going to do that without letting us out of these cages?" I wondered "And surrounding us with our elements. They do that and we're out of here"
"No idea but I hope they're that stupid" Cat wished
"We probably wont have as much luck" I sighed
"Hey, think they know about our mind connection?" she wondered
"Who knows." I muttered "Though if they did they'd probably have tried to keep us out of one another's heads too"
"Why? Incase we start planning? You can't move and I can't think that much, I think they're right for now"
"For now, they've been right for three days already" I informed her
"Three days!?" She asked surprised "We've been here for three days already?!"
"Didn't you know that?" I asked
"If I know I wouldn't be reacting as such" she muttered
"True. Don't you have a watch?"
"That doesn't help with days, just hours" she mumbled, I sighed
"I was out for a day, you were out for two"
"So it should only be two days…" she thought
"Except that it's after mid night so I'm just counting that as three days" I explained
"Nice" she said sarcastically
"Thanks" I said more cheerfully.
"You know there's something ironic about all this" she admitted
"What?"
"A few hours before Zachariah got me I'd told Jake that I was fine and that I could look after myself, and now look, I'm a prisoner." I chuckled
"What a way to jinx yourself"
"Yeah, I know right. I'm so in for it when we get back" she groaned. I thought
"Think we'll get back?"
"Course we will, I'll die of boredom before I stay here for too long" Cat confessed
"Great, and I get to listen to you complain"
"Yep, I apologise in advance
"Well I don't accept in advance"
"Well you're just the badder person" she grumbled.
"I can live with that for now"
"Course you can" and we fell into silence again for a while. I felt better though, knowing Cat was at my side, I knew that know matter what she'd be there, somehow. And even though I could hardly move and I was locked up, I felt alright, safe, with her near by. I wasn't alone.
Embry's POV.
I was currently sitting in Sophie's room. Ever since she went missing, and when ever I had a free moment, I came here. Though it didn't help my anxiousness. I didn't understand how Jacob was so calm, so… ok. It was seriously like he was ok with them being gone, I didn't get it. When I'd heard his thoughts on the matter it was like he believed in them to be alright, or that he was convincing himself of that. But what if that wasn't the case? What if they were seriously hurt or in pain? I clenched my fists and ground my teeth, not only was I angry, but I missed Sophie. It'd been four days since I'd seen her last, I didn't know how much longer I could keep this up. It was like someone had ripped my heart out of my chest but I hadn't died, the further away they took my heart, the more pain I felt, and right now, I was in agony. I could hardly stand, hardly patrol. I knew Sam could feel my pain, that was why he'd given me the next day off, but with all that free time, I was only going to think about Sophie more and that wasn't good for me, it wouldn't help at all.
"Embry" I looked up to see Jacob standing at the door, I dropped my head away from his gaze as he walked towards me and sat next to me "My dad and Sue are going to come around tomorrow some time and admit everything. They agreed with Seth's idea, that it was the only way." he explained, I didn't say anything and he was silent after that also. "Doesn't being here hurt?" he eventually asked, his voice broke as he spoke. I looked at him confused and saw such a sadness and loneliness in his expression on his face
"Reminds me of her." I eventually answered "I almost feel like she never existed and it was all a figure of my imagination, something so beautiful. Being here just reassures me it was real" I muttered, I felt his hand on my back
"It was real" he said as he patted me comfortably "I can promise you that". We heard footsteps coming towards the room. That was the reason I had to keep leaving, every night Sophie's mother walked into her room and basically did exactly what I did, just sat down and looked around, she often cried too, or muttered to herself. Though, even with my ears, I could never make out exactly what she was muttering. Jake and I got up and left the room before she opened the door. We walked into the trees and I took another look at the house. I seriously felt like it was just going to disappear and I'm going to wake up from a dream that had turned terribly sour.
Rosalie's POV.
"Carlisle, what are we going to do if we can't find them?" I asked
"We'll find them, we'll find some clue" Carlisle assured me. I felt more useless then ever, Alice had her visions, Edward had his mind reading and those usually helped us through such situations, but neither things worked on the twins and for once we were just as much in the dark as everyone else. The dogs were reluctant to co-operate with us, and I couldn't care less about that, I didn't really want to work with them again either. But I'd come to care for Cat, she was fun to be with and I knew that working with the pups was the best way to finding them. I knew Alice was tearing her hair out at feeling more useless then the rest of us, Emmett was off some days breaking something to get his frustration out, Esme was cleaning the house five times a day to try and take her mind of things. I'd never realised how much of an effect the twins had had on our family until now. Although they were close knit with the dogs they weren't like others.
"Rrrr, this is driving me insane!" Alice groaned from up stairs, this wasn't the first random outburst she'd had. She was trying to search through our futures in order to find something on the twins. Although she couldn't see their futures she could see them if they had something to do with someone who's future she could see, like ours for example. When we'd learnt this it had confused us even more, this was new, it'd never happened before. It just added more mystery to the twins, as if we weren't curious as to what they were already. Jasper was trying to calm Alice down, the small girl had basically gone into hibernation trying to find some sort of clue. Naturally Edward didn't know, and none of us planned on telling him. We weren't going to ruin his honey moon just after it'd begun. Esme put her hands around my shoulders, I didn't realise I'd tensed up, she knew I was worried, even if I wouldn't admit it.
"It'll be alright Rose. We'll find them" she smiled at me, but I could see the doubt in her expression. I forced a smile for her sake but I wasn't so sure, they were more likely to come back then we were to find them, and although that was good, I had no idea how long it would take them to do so. Time, I had so much of it, but I didn't know how much time I could spend like this, just waiting on an event I wasn't sure would even transpire.
Zachariah's POV.
"Are we ready?" I asked walking into a high tech room. It was full of people and computers, this was our main operations room.
"We're ready" the man in front of me answered. I turned to took at our two observer camera's, they were on the twins. Those two special girls. I had spent so much time hunting them, so much time looking for where they were hiding. It hadn't mattered how many times I found them, as soon as I did, they were just taken and hidden from me again. But now, that had changed. I had them both in my sights and it turned out they weren't so normal at all. Something in them was different to the rest of us, and although the reason we were after them in the first place was to punish those who'd hid them, we had now changed that mission slightly, not only were we punishing the traitors, but we had a few experiments to do. It was about time to find out how these girls ticked, find out all they could do. They were the most unique girls ever and we'd never found anything like them. I grinned, this was going to be interesting.
"Sir, what happens if they don't survive?" a man asked
"Oh don't worry" I assured him looking at Sophia's screen, we were keeping her with very little air, after finding out she was able to manipulate the air somehow we knew to keep it from her, and yet, she was still surviving. "They'll survive." I was sure of it, if they were anything like those traitors, then they'd definitely be fine.
For the past few months, after our little encounter and after I'd discovered their little secret, I'd had someone following the two girls and gathering information on them, keeping hidden and under a low profile. He reported back to me after every day and every time he had something knew to share. These two girls, they were unlike anything I'd ever seen. With ever piece of information we created those special cages for them, now they were ready and being put to very good use. Sophia was too weak to try anything and Catherine's glass was indestructible. All we needed now was our testing facilities to be finished and we could begin the experiments. It was about time I turned in some results to the higher ups, they had been getting impatient.
"Sir what will we do if they come looking for them?" one of the operators asked
"Oh don't worry, I doubt they'll know to come here to find them." I smirked "And if they do find them, then I have a special gift to give in return for their visit" although I was so confident they'd never find us here I had a small side project going on just incase, it was about time for a little pay back, and I couldn't wait to see my old friends.