Chapter 7 : Well, I Think I Was Kidnapped. Great.

When I woke I quickly realized I was in more pain than I had ever felt, more than anyone should be able to bear, I was dressed in a large shirt that was not my own and my body vaguely smelt clean. There were bandages tightly wrapped all over my body and I could not move. My heart began to race as I tried to gather my senses. Where am I? What happened? I'm not dead, right?

I searched the room, or at least tried too. I was frantically looking for answers. My legs were still numb and swollen from the bites. The bandages… Someone had bandaged the bites… Who? Then it dawned on me. Wherever I am, I'm not alone… The bloodsuckers must have dragged me to their dungeon to finish me off… I have to get out of here!

I realized when I tried to move that the majority of my body was in fact numb but my right arm, which I didn't get a bite on somehow, felt for a night stand. Soon I found what felt like a lamp and felt till I was able to turn it on. The room then lit up but dimly, even if I could focus my eyes I wouldn't be able to see much. It must be night that or these bloodsuckers didn't have enough money for a decent lamp. How much time had passed? It felt like seconds but I remembered dying in the daylight. "...there's a small human town that will be waking up soon near the eastern shore of this water…" Claudad had said that before my fade. The room I was in felt rather large and I could feel the blankets neatly folded over my body. Claudad… did she have more vicious plans on how to enjoy my blood? Why didn't they finish me off? Quickly I decided it didn't matter, that I needed to focus less on the why and get my ass out of here. Near the bed I was laying in was a small cart with what resembled, through my terrible eyesight, medical supplies. I must be right, one of these freaks had bandaged my bites and thankfully it looked like they left enough supplies for me to load up and get the hell out of dodge.

"Okay Leah take a deep breath… and leap." My subconscious ordered, to which my body followed and I was immediately met with agonizing pain as my body smashed into the hardwood floor beneath me. The bed was higher off the floor than I'd anticipated. I cried inwards and began to force air in and out of my teeth quickly as tears fell uncontrollable. My heart was racing now. I wished I was dead… Anything but this… "NO. No Leah, keep going! Get what you need and go!" I took a few more deep breaths and dragged my body across the hardwood floors. When I looked down at my legs as the bandages started to slip off I realized I was in an adult cloth diaper and was immediately disgusted. They knew me as a wolf and as a woman… I had completely revealed myself to five bloodsucking freaks. "Move on Leah! Get what you need and go."

"Okay… okay okay okay…." I whispered through tears as I took one last deep breath and pushed myself to get to the cart and loaded a small makeshift stachal that I tore up my shirt to make. The odds of surviving this with one hand were beginning to look less than stellar, but if I stayed here dead, I needed to move.

I then turned my attention to the door, or what I assumed was the door. It felt like a world away and I knew I had torn stitches on one of my legs. I would need to completely pivot my body to reach the exit. I listened to see if I could hear anyone but my racing mind and the pain the venom caused combining was clouding my heightened instincts. My subconscious continued to order me to flee. Terror had taken over my entire body. I cried out as I bit into my last remaining good arm in order to control my pain to some degree, it worked enough at least for me to pivot. As my arm began to bleed and I dragged myself to the door.

"Please… please please don't be locked…" I whispered through tears.

It wasn't, finally, an ounce of luck. I looked forwards up the hall I could see what looked like a bathroom maybe a couple feet from where I was but as I turned to look down the poorly lit hall I realized my pain mixed with the amount of venom in my veins was beginning to truly blind me… my luck had run out… I took one last deep breath and used every ounce of my power to scootch towards what looked like a dark blob in the potential shape of another door. I couldn't be wrong about this. If I was, then I was dead, for good this time I'm sure.

"Okay Leah you can do this…. Just keep…. Moving!" I said to myself, I could feel myself losing blood and I realized I probably didn't have much to lose considering how weak I was. I needed to phase but as I tried I realized my wolf… she was gone… I was alone and worst of all…. Human.

I came to an even larger feeling room that felt warm, and almost smelt like a low fire had been burning. I could feel a soft leather object as I passed by it. I think it was green or maybe black? Crap, I can't see. Panicked I felt it more to try and get a grasp of where I was and determined it was maybe a chair or sofa. I must be in a living room! My living room is near my front door, most are I imagine, I must be right the dark blob had to be another darkly stained wooden door! It had to be my way out. I could feel myself smile and then I felt my upper body smack onto the hardwood. There was nothing my good arm could do as it had begun to bleed and was now as weak as the rest of my body. My mind was still awake but my body refused to move, I had lost too much blood and even though I was numb I could tell my body was drenched in it.

"Great. Now I'm going to bleed to death because I tried to save myself. Thanks for nothing subconscious!" I said using breath I hardly had to waste.

I decided accidentally killing myself was better than a bunch of blood suckers coming home to eat me slowly. Man… This is really gonna show them who's boss.

"Oh my! What did you do to yourself!" A man's voice shouted.

I realized I had blacked out again and I didn't know for how long, his voice shook me awake. I didn't recognize it and immediately deduced that this must be Claudads mate. Seeing as how all these Vampires had found love in the afterlife, not that any of them deserve it.

I turned my head to try and look but was too weak and he was already at my side. Barf.

"Leave me alone! Don't touch me! Please, please leave me alone! Let me go, I wanna go home, please!" The words left my mouth in a faint exhausted whisper. I might not have even said them aloud. Tears flowed from my face, I couldn't stop myself. I didn't want to live but I felt so desperate… For the first time in my lift I begged for mercy.

"You're going to be alright girl! What... Did you bite yourself? Why?!" He sounded shocked and almost angry. "My god you… What did you do?!" His voice was shaking now as he hovered over me. He seemed almost concerned.

Why would a bloodsucker be concerned for me? Or was he just upset I ruined their meal?

Before I could even think to respond he had me in his arms, I couldn't feel him I was so numb. However his body was rock hard. Must be a bloodsucker, I confirmed in my head. Double Barf. In what felt like no time we were back in the room.

"Stay! Do not move!" He ordered as he dashed out of the room.

"I just wanna go home.. Please…" I said, fading out again.

I felt something poke me in the arm and then again. My semi good arm was numb after a minute. But I felt no searing pain this time, it was nothing like the other times they had bitten me.

"Alright… Time to sew you up. Again." The man said he was clearly frustrated.

I was too weak to bring words to my lips and instead began to cry.

"It's alright girl… You're going to be alright, I promise. I swear to you, I am a man of my word." His voice was soft now as his hands worked quickly to stitch.

"I… I-" I had no more breath to spend on words.

"Don't try to talk, rest your eyes, we can talk when you wake up again. I won't leave so you don't go wandering down my hall again." His voice sounded calm but I sensed that he was annoyed.

Great, now there was no escaping my captors. I wished I could see him but I was completely blind the venom is trying to shut down my entire body. I closed my eyes and soon after felt a weight on my hand and one on my stomach. His hands? And there was nothing I could do. I was too weak to even cry. Then strangely enough I almost immediately felt a great relief rush through my body. For a moment the pain felt as if it was receding from my body. As I began to fall back into the blackness I couldn't help but wonder, now was I dying? For christ sake why has nobody ever told me about how death works…

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