Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.

Chapter 35: Let the Games Begin

Alice hadn't seen it coming, she had a blind spot when Rian was around, just as she had when Bella was pregnant too. It was too late to stop anything by the time her brain screamed something was wrong at her. Yes, she saw the man running. And yes, of course she moved forward to try to stop it. But she was slow and reluctant to leave Rian's side.

Rian on the other hand, took longer to comprehend what had happened. But as soon as she did, she was moving as quickly as her pregnant body allowed her.

Alice almost let out a gasp of shock as she, once again, recognized the man now threatening Winter's life. His smile widened, "Hello again." He had a thick accent that Rian couldn't quiet place.

As Alice had her revelation, Rian was having one of her own. This had to be another hallucination, she had seen this man before a couple of times. Once in the mall when she and Alice were shopping before Thanksgiving and once in Texas during Thanksgiving. But she couldn't shake this feeling she had seen him somewhere else too. "Is this real?"

Alice had almost forgotten about Rian's hallucination until that moment, she shook her head slowly at the girl.

"Eirik?" Winter's voice was unsteady, her mind trying desperately to understand what had just happened. "Baby, what are you doing?" She tried to pull away, but she only succeeded in choking herself against his stone-like grip. Suddenly she remembered all the things Rian had ever told her about her hallucination, and she was panicking. She scratched out towards him and only ended up chipping her nails, she tried to slap him and only ended up hurting her wrist. "Let me go!" Her last desperate attempt at getting away.

"Not a chance, babe." He said sarcastically. "Here is what is going to happen. I'm going to take Rian here with me and I'll let Winter go. If not, well, I have a short fuse and it would be all too easy to snap her neck here and now."

"What?" Rian was completely dumbfounded, why would he want some knocked up teenager?

And where's Emmett? Why wasn't he back by now? Did he not hear the commotion going on here or her rapid heart rate?

She had been so sure he would be there when she needed him, why wasn't he now?

Then she thought of Esme, maybe she was going to get the others, this vampire wouldn't stand a chance against the whole Cullen family (well minus Carlisle, he was still at work). But then again, wasn't Alice and Esme probably more than enough to take this vampire down? What was she missing in this situation? Why wasn't anyone helping Winter out of this predicament? If they didn't get Winter away from him safely soon, she'd end up trading her life (and the lives of her twins) for Winters and she wasn't sure if she could do that. But she wasn't sure if she could watch him snap Winter's neck either. She had been her friend since elementary school.

Rian felt the tears on her cheeks before she notice she was even about to cry. It was all to much. She knew she was going to let her friend die in front of her all so she could save herself.

"Alright, you don't think I'm serious." He leaned down towards Winters neck and bite the side and sucked the blood for a few seconds before letting her go and licking her lips. The moment his teeth punctured Winter's neck the young girl screamed out, louder than Rian had ever heard anyone scream. "You can either come with me, little one. Or I can drain her right now."

"She isn't going anywhere with you." Alice said as she stepped in front of Rian.

Rian watched as he purposefully slowly lowered his head to Winter's neck again, an effect meant for Rian. "Wait!" Rian took a deep breath, cursing Winter under her breath. The girl better appreciate all that Rian is giving up for her then. "I'll go with you. Just leave my family, including Winter, alone."

The blond man who was holding Winter dropped the girl to the ground as she continued to scream and writhe in pain on the ground. Rian turned towards Alice, hugged her and whispered to her, "Tell Emmett I'm sorry and I love him."

Day 55

Rian thought this was it, she would never see her children born or see Emmett again. Tears were streaming down her face as she imaged the life she now wanted more than anything. Why had she thrown that all away for one human girl?

She was flying through the forest as the one Winter called 'Eirik' was rushing her away from the Cullen's as fast as he could. At first she could hear Alice calling for Emmett and running after Rian, but it wasn't long that Eirik lost her.

Eirik ran with her so long that she had finally fallen asleep in his arms, and when she did wake back up she was shocked to find herself in a large room. In fact she was more shocked to have been able to wake up let alone in a lavish room that she was in.

Rian sat up in the bed she was laying on, a cold metal wrapped around her left ankle when she tried to move her foot. She panicked once again, this was not a good sign. Then again neither was threatening her friends and family nor was kidnapping her.

She, in her blind anxiety, began to tug at her restraint all the while knowing she would just make herself tired.

"Don't hurt yourself." The voice from the night before cut through her panic.

"Why? So you can?" Rian muttered bitterly. "I don't think so."

"I'm not going to hurt you, my love." He replied laughing softly, and creepily might I add. "I'm going to win you back."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"You will see in time. First we have to correct the mistakes you have made."

She didn't like the sound of that. "W-what?" Her voice was weak.

He only held up a large, sharp knife in answer of her question.

The panic she had felt before, even the panic and fear she felt as a child having nightmares of the very creatures that was currently standing in front of her, was nothing compared to the fear and panic she felt just then. She covered her stomach with her arms in a pathetic attempt to protect her babies from this monster and moved as far away from him as the chain around her ankle would allow. Her heart rate tripled. Her blood stopped dead in its tracks. And her body clinched…

Wait: that was just her stomach. Suddenly there was a crippling pain rolling across her back to her stomach.

Either it was the babies deciding it was high time to get the hell out of there, or her emotions as she stared at the knife sent her body into labor.

She screamed out, holding her stomach tighter. Later she'd realize she screamed Emmett's name over and over as the pain wreaked havoc on her body, but at the time, all she could comprehend was the pain and the screams.

"I guess I don't have to cut it out after all." He suddenly walked over to the door. "I'll be right back, I have some business to attend to while you correct your own mistake."