ch 44

Edward's POV:

"Now to the next point on the list...." I heard someone say but I wasn't paying attention anymore. I had achieved what I came for and had already gathered all relevant information I needed.

Instead of listening to the conversation I let my mind wander to the weekend before Anna, myself and our parents, for all intents and purposes, had come here to New York. The hospital where Carlisle worked had organized a charity event to collect money for the pro-bono department of the hospital.

This year it wasn't a formal dinner they organized but rather a loose party more in the direction of country style, Texas theme, of course the expensive version of it but if you want to entertain rich people and get them to make a donation you have to offer them something original these days. I had to admit it was refreshing and a full success for the hospital.

Alice took over our styling, of course, and I swear she put Anna's outfit together with the solid purpose of torturing me.

Alice had been blocking me the entire time she was styling my fiancé and when I was finally allowed to see her I thought…..honestly I don't even know if I was capable of thinking in that moment.

Anna wore skinny dark blue jeans that clung to her well formed bottom like a second skin letting her perfect behind look even more delicious then it already did. The jeans rode low and I could see the light shadows of dimples on her lower back and the dark red high heel boots she wore didn't help matters at all.

But it was the top that did me in. Alice had put her into a dirty red corset. It was held together by lacing in the back with a black velvet tie bow. Where the tie bow crossed there was a little path of exposed skin that made my breath hitch.

She heard that intake of air and turned slowly around. Her chocolate locks flew through the air before they bounced and saddled on the creaming skin of her shoulders. I was in hell or maybe in heaven I can't even tell.

Her perfect breasts were pressed up in that tight corsed and I could barely keep my body in place while my hands and lips begged me to rip that offending fabrics off my fiance's frame and have my way with her.

Since the dark blue jeans rode low the corset didn't reach down to the rim of her pants what allowed to expose a sliver of skin to peek out. When I finished taking the sight before in I was fully aroused and my chest was rising and falling rather uncontrollably.

"Are you ready?" She asked me with a knowing smile on her face and a sexy, teasing gleam in her beautiful depths before her face turned into an innocent pout and I lost all control over myself.

In a flash I was in front of her while she greeted my approach with a surprised gasp as my hands planted themselves on the exposed flesh of her hips. My fingers began to move slowly caressing her curves and kneading her creamy, soft skin until they arrived at her firm bottom and slid down to her thighs.

I cupped them and pulled her legs upward while I took a few steps forward, pressing her as careful as possible in the heat of passion against the wall. I wrapped her thigh around my hip, pressing my arousal against her heat.

"You are killing me here and you know it." I pushed out between grit teeth as I pulled my body flush against hers.

"Don't I always," she smirked at me. I could feel her warm soft perfect frame respond to my hard from as she wrapped her arms around his neck to pull me in for a soulful kiss.

"God," I groaned against her mouth while she lightly rolled her hips against mine.

"Edward," she moaned as her hands moved from around my neck into my hair, twisting her little fingers in my locks.

A growling sound emitted from the back of my throat when my hands brushed down her sides over the silky fabrics of her corset to the exposed flesh of her waist. Her heels were pressing in my bottom beckoning me further into her.

At this point I didn't care about the charity event that I didn't want to go to in the first place anymore. I was about to tear the corset off her beautiful body but I forgot to count a certain pixie into my planning.

"Edward! Anna! Don't make me come up there!" Alice voice shrilled in my ears and my mind and I sighed disappointed and slightly irritated with my favourite sister.

I put my mate on her feet while I gave her a tight smile as she was trying to catch her breath. She looked just too delicious with her lightly swollen mouth and the glassy look in her hazel eyes.

Before I had the chance to step away from her to gain my control back my little vixen locked her arms around my neck once more and pulled my head down to whisper into my ear.

"After the dance," she breathed, let go of me and disappeared out of our bedroom leaving me there to fight the raging lust that was coursing through my veins on my own.

My vixen would be the death of me and it was certainly a pleasurable way to die.

I smiled to myself the outfit she wore was beyond hot which is why I had my issues with it. I loved to see her in sexy clothes but I loathed it when other men ogled my mate. Sadly there was nothing I could do about it I lived long enough in this family to know that "You are not allowed to wear that!" or anything in that direction would guarantee me a place in the doghouse.

We went to the charity event but I didn't even last an hour. I whisked my fiancé away and we were back in our bedroom. I came to loath every reason there was for us to leave our bed. After our wedding we would definitely live alone for a while.

Not that anyone in the family was looking forward to have a newlywed Vampire couple around for certain reasons.

A lazy smirk spread across my face just as Bernard Masen officially ended the meeting.

"Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. And now that the hard work is done let us all celebrate."

People stood up from the big conference table and rushed out of the room into the hall where food and drinks were waiting for them.

I was satisfied with the outcome. The law firm still had my fathers name and his principals would still be followed.

I stood up from my chair, nodded my goodbye to the people that were next to me and I was on my way back to the hotel to wait for my fiancé. Anna and Esme must have been done by now. At least I hoped I would see her soon.

"Mr. Bass could we have a minute?" I heard Bernard's voice call after me.

I turned around and he and Catherine were rushing to my side. I heard in their minds what they wanted but they had no chance of getting it.

"How my I help you?" I asked politely.

"We would like to buy the shares of our company back." Bernard came directly to the point.

"I'm afraid that this is not possible. The holding I'm representing is not interested in selling." I let them down softly.

"We are ready to pay over the markets worth." Catherine claimed.

"That is a very tempting offer but I got told that the holding isn't selling them no matter what. I'm sorry to disappoint you but the shares are not for sale no matter to what condition." I stated calmly but also firmly.

Catherine and Bernard didn't like the answer and were greatly disappointed. I flashed them a careful smile and excused myself.

Not wanting to wait for the elevator I took the stairs. While rushing down I had the idea to stop by at a Victoria secrets or La Perla store to buy something nice for my beautiful mate. I had to admit that those gifts were as much for her as they were for myself.

A big goofy grin plastered itself on my face as I though about yesterday night and this morning. It was a shame that we couldn't deepen our kisses but we learned to cope with that. I had no idea how creative my little vixen could be.

Flying down the stairs I was stopped by the ringing of my cell. Fishing it out of my pocket I saw the Alice was calling.

"Hi Alice." I greeted her in a high mood.

"Edward….." Her voice was off and she seemed to be in panic.

Worry washed over me in an instant. Something was wrong. My free hand found the way to the banister to brace myself for whatever Alice had seen.

"What happened Alice?" I asked in a cool and controlled voice.

My yaw was clenched shut and my fist dangerously tight around the metal of the railing.

"They attacked us out of nowhere. I-I couldn't see them." She cried desperately.

"Alice what are you talking about?"

"We were attacked at our home. Jasper recognised two of them from his time back in Maria's army."

"What?! Are you O.K.? Is anybody hurt?"

"None here is hurt. We were able to kill them all. We are alright but…..but…"

"But what Alice?"

"I didn't...…I really didn't...." She was taking deep breaths.

"Alice calm down and tell me what happened." I demeaned sternly but kept my voice still even.

"There is none of them left." I heard Jasper say through the receiver.

"Mmm-hmm," I heard her acknowledge his information.

"What is going on?" I asked as my patience was reaching it's limits.

"Sweetheart put the call on speaker." Jasper lightly commanded.

"Please you have to believe me I didn't understand at first," Alice sobbed.

"What didn't you understand? Alice you are driving me nuts." I groaned.

What was going on? Why was she this distraught?

"I had the vision a few times but I didn't grasp the danger until we got attacked. I saw Esme and Anna standing in a shop. Then Esme was talking to someone but I didn't see anyone." Alice gasped for unneeded air again to calm down.

A vision in a shop Anna also had one of those this morning.

"Go on!" I urged.

"They looked scared. I…..first I didn't get it. I couldn't hear him or his companions I still can't but Anna found a way around it."

I had to take deep breaths myself because I was feeling like I was going to loose it. Whatever happened it was nothing good.

"Who did what? Alice damn it!" I growled into my cell.

"Sebastian he kidnapped Esme and Anna." She said in a rush.

"He...What?!" I exclaimed.

"He and his companions have teeth of children of the moon. It makes it impossible for me to see or to hear them. Unlike the Wolfs in La Push the really Werewolves don't disturb my vision but they just down show in them. Anna is repeating everything they are saying so that I know what is going on."

This backstabbing, lying...…..I knew that guy was bad news for the very first moment I met him. When I got my hands on him he would beg me to end his miserable existence.

"Why is he doing this?" I growled into the cell.

Anger and fury was spreading inside of me like an out of control wild fire. I had to let go of the banister or I would have ripped the whole thing out of the wall.

"I don't really know but from what I understood someone is trying to get revenge on Carlisle."

"What do you mean revenge on Carlisle? Who would have something against him?" That was a concept that I couldn't comprehend.

I had never met someone who would want to harm my father. He was the most compassionated and kind person that I knew of.

"I don't know damn it. I can't see." Alice huffed frustrated.

"Listen Edward they are currently in a plane flying south. I will call Tanya and ask them for help. Alice has the feeling that there are at least three others with Esme and Anna and someone is waiting for them in the south. We need help for this one." Jasper informed me already planning a general ship.

"Does Carlisle already know about this?" I asked trying desperately to keep it together.

"No, I called you first."

"Alright I will meet up with him. I will tell him."

"Edward?"

"Alice it's fine I just need a minute." I told her and shut my cell ending the call.

I braced a hand against the wall and slowly slid down on it until I sat on the stairs. I put my head between my knees and took deep breaths. I had to get the raging anger and the fear inside of me under control or I would be of no use.

I counted to ten and buried the desire to murder someone and destroy the first thing in my way deep inside of me.

When I was somehow sane again I stood up and dialled Carlisle's cell.

"Where are you?" I barked at him when he picked up. I didn't mean to snap at him.

"Edward what's wrong?" He knew by the tone in my voice that something was up.

"Just tell me where you are!"

"I'm near the hotel. What happened?"

"Wait for me there. I'll be right over." I told him before I closed my cell again.

By the end of the call I was already out of the building, stopping a cap.

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Anna's POV:

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"You are a beautiful one. I have to give Edward that." Sebastian gauged me and had a disgusting smile on his face.

Was this guy stripping me with his eyes?

I girt my teeth and looked out of the window. Capture in this plane I couldn't use my fire or the whole thing would explode.

I had to wait for a better chance once we landed. Maybe I could find some time window were I could give Esme and myself an opportunity for an escape that wouldn't alarm the Volturi.

Esme squeezed my hand, turning my head in her direction I smiled warmly at her while I was drawing circles with my thumb over the back of her hand. She needed comfort as well.

"Esme it was a pleasure to meet you again as it always had been but I'm afraid that our time together is coming to an end." Sebastian smiled smugly at her.

I shot him a death glare which amused him.

"You seemed to have spent too much time with the ice queen Rosalie. You really shouldn't take her for a role model, my little hunter." He chastised me.

I had no words for that guy.

God bless Carlisle's big and compassionated heart but with trusting this bastard Carlisle made a huge mistake.

I could only hope that Alice understood the visions she was probably having. I wished that I could also force visions like Alice could then I would know if my efforts were successful or not.

Did Edward already figure out that Esme and I were missing? Our cells didn't make a sound. Edward's meeting must have ended already so he should have called me by now. Maybe he didn't because he knew in what a situation I was in.

Luckily as smart as Sebastian seemed to be and as much as he thought about how to protect himself from Alice's ability he didn't think of the human technology.

Esme and I still had our purses with us and our cells. We had GPS systems in our cell phones. The newest technology. No matter where on the planet we would be, if on the top of the Himalaya or in the middle of the Sahara or somewhere in the jungle of the Amazons, we could be easily spotted.

I really liked this whole my Vampires going all "Mission Impossible" thing.

I closed my eyes. I had to think positive. I reminded my self. We would get out of this alive and then I would marry Edward, we would have the big white dream wedding that I always dreamed for but never thought I would have.

Everything was going to be fine. I just had to say it often enough and I would believe it. It gave me the strength I needed to get through this.

"We arrived," Sebastian announced.

We landed somewhere and were escorted out of the plane by the four bad Vampires. The sun broke through the clouds and was shining brightly which is why the Vampires were all sparkling like diamonds.

If they were going out into the sunlight that meant that we where somewhere were none was around, at least no humans and I could finally use my fire.

When my eyes finally adjusted to the surprisingly bright sun for this time of the year I saw that we were in the middle of a bleak landscape. The few plants that I could see looked draining of their life.

I looked around and saw a big air plane hangar standing at the end of the short runway. We landed on a private runway somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

The life here in the south seemed to be different. I couldn't understand from the moment I heard about the Southerners why in the world those Vampires would life in an area where the sun shone so much.

I do get the Vampires only at night thing but still. But then again if you don't know that there is another way of living...…

It was the perfect time to use my ability now but something stopped me from doing so. I didn't know why but I had the feeling something more dangerous was just around the corner and showing my capabilities off now wouldn't be such a bright idea.

"Move!" Commanded the bulky one and pushed me forward.

I took Esme's hand and together we approached the big hanger. The closer we got the bigger the thing seemed to become.

The hanger looked like it could easily fit two of those Jumbo Jets, Boeing 747.

An uneasy feeling swept over my body the closer we got to the hanger. I could feel my heart beating faster with every step I took and my breathing became more laboured. Blood was rushing through my ears while I swallowed hard.

"It's going to be fine." Esme whispered, squeezing my hand.

But when I looked at her face I could see that she didn't believe what she just said. I had never seen so much concern in her eyes before. Her face was twisted with the worry and fear that she held inside.

Something was behind those giant metal gates. I could feel it. It was vibrating in the air around us. It was just a big metal container that stood before us but for some reason I only wanted to run as fast as I could from it.

Stopping before the huge metal gates the bulky one went and pushed them apart with ease. When he did so and a small sliver was open and an ice cold shiver run through my body.

I couldn't see anything inside the hangar. It was just blackness but even though we stood in the bright, blazing sun of the south I was feeling cold. Something sinister was inside there. I just knew it.

"Ladies." Sebastian smiled urging us forward.

Esme and I looked at each other, trying to give one another strength. I swallowed hard again and stepped forward.

Clutching Esme's hand I stepped between the metal gates of the entrance to the hangar and after my eyes adjusted to the dark I froze in place out of fear, stunned surprise and horror.

I heard Esme gaps in utter shock at the sight before us.

What I saw in front of me I hadn't thought possible. Looking over the nightmare that was standing before me my hopes that we could survive this were slowly melting away.

Whoever did that was insane!

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Edward's POV:

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"A child of the moon?!" Carlisle shuttered after I told him about what happened to our mates.

"Anna had a vision about their kidnap but she couldn't see Sebastian and the others in the vision because of the children of the moon. Damn it." I punched my fist through a wall.

I pulled my hand out of the wall and tried to calm myself again. Thoughtless violence wasn't helpful now.

Carlisle was sitting frozen in shock, fear, horror and betrayal in front of me in the love seat he had fallen into while I informed him about Alice's call.

Anna's lap top blinked up. A conference call was being requested. I went over and hoped that Alice had some news for us.

"Anything new yet?" I asked her immediately the second her picture appeared on the screen.

"No," she shook her head, "they are still on the plane."

"We have them on the radar. None of our kind thinks to crush a cell because of the GPS in it, thank god." Emmett tried to cheer the mood up a little. It was in vain.

"I have all the weapons ready and packed." Rose called from somewhere in the house. I assumed from the basement.

"I called Tanya and they are on their way to help us. They will wait in the air port in Alaska until we know where we are going." Jasper said.

Carlisle stood behind me listening intensely to the conversation while trying to pull himself together.

"Edward….." Alice wanted to say something but was cut of by a vision.

We all held our breaths as Jasper caught her in his arms and Rose appeared next to Emmett. We waited for her to resurface and tell us what she has seen.

I prayed that Anna and Esme would be alright and that nothing bad happened to them while we were figuring a way out how to safe them.

With each second that passed Alice's face was becoming more and more horrified and Jasper more concerned. Whatever she was seeing it scared her.

I detested the fact that I wasn't there in this moment and couldn't see what she was seeing.

"No…..no...no," Alice moaned terrified and baffled.

When she resurfaced from her vision she looked like she had seen a ghost or worse. She pushed her tiny body further into her husband's embrace for comfort.

"Alice what did you see?" I urged her. Not to know was driving me mad.

"This is madness." She whispered while she slowly shook her head from side to side.

"Alice!" I growled impatiently.

She swallowed hard and started speaking.

"They landed somewhere in the south and were pushed into a hangar...…." Her voice died down.

So far it wasn't that bad so what had Alice this scared?

"Alice?!" Carlisle asked carefully.

"Newborns." She pushed out.

"We can take care of a few newborns." Emmett stated confidentially while I felt sick with worry. Newborns were uncontrollable, thinking about what they could....

"Not a few." Alice shook her head in disagreement interrupting the horrifying stream of images that build in my head.

Jasper looked confused at his wife in his arms.

"Hundreds." She breathed.

The venom froze in my veins as my ears took in the word. I didn't even have words to describe my condition anymore. Jasper's mouth fell open and he looked with utter disbelieve in his wide open eyes at her.

"What do you mean hundreds?" He searched her face for any sign that he hadn't heard right.

"It is impossible to control more then forty newborns at once. If the group gets to large they start to kill each other off." Jasper spoke from experience.

"Hundreds that's simply impossible!" He stated firmly.

"But that is what I saw." Alice claimed.

"They are all in that hanger. There are at least two if not three hundred there."

We were all speechless and shocked at the discovery. A group of two to three hundred Vampires and none noticed that. How was such a thing possible?

"But the strangest thing is that they are unmoving."

"What do you mean unmoving?" Carlisle asked regaining his composure.

"I don't know they are just standing around like statues. I have never seen anything like it." Alice's eyes were wide as she tried to explain what she had seen.

"They are not reacting to sounds or to movement at all. I don't understand this." She shook her head again.

None said anything as we let the horrifying reality sink in. Carlisle and I let ourselves fall into the chairs that were standing next to the computer desk too paralyzed by the new development, shock, terror and fear to be able to function probably right now.

I pinched the bridge of my nose with my thumb and forefinger while my body for the first time ever felt as cold as it was. I couldn't tell how much time passed when I suddenly heard Eleazar's voice.

"Who would be insane enough to make so many newborns?" His voice was rising with each word.

"We don't know." Jasper answered.

"This is a disaster if they are going to be let lose….." Carmen whispered terrified.

"Do we even have enough weapons to fight them?" David asked concerned.

"Yes." Rose stated firmly.

"Maybe we should inform the Volturi." He proposed.

"NO!" Alice and I barked fiercely at the same time.

David and your cousins were taken aback by our reaction.

"It's Anna's gift." Eleazar was the only one who was not surprised by our reaction.

"What to you mean her gift?" Tanya asked confused.

"She is a shield so what?" Kate threw in.

"She is not only a shield." Eleazar admitted.

"What is she then?" Irina asked wondering.

"She has the ability to copy everyone's gift and to make it stronger." I explained.

"What do you mean she can copy them and make them stronger?" Garrett asked confused.

"Her shield is like a mirror with a data base. Once she comes across someone with an ability her shield is copying it and saving it. That gift will remain forever at her disposal." Eleazar explained.

"So if Aro ever gets to know about Anna he would want her for his guard." Kate voiced one of my greatest fears.

"I don't think so." Eleazar shook his head and I heard Carlisle sighed next to me.

He was hiding something from me. I tore my gaze away from the screen and narrowed my eyes at him.

"Anna is too powerful he would fear her. If he knew about her he would order to kill her."

I was shocked speechless by Carlisle's statement. I knew that the Volturi could become a problem at some point in time but I wasn't expecting this. One thing became painfully clear to me in this moment. At some point in the future we would have to deal with the Volturi.

"Yes, but right now she is too weak to be able to deal with those newborns there on her own and to powerful for the Volturi not to want to destroy her." Carlisle said grimly.

"Either way it seems we are all dammed." David whispered to himself.

"We are thirteen. Even with the weapons that Rosalie and Jasper invented that's not enough against over two hundred newborns." Garrett spoke up.

"We could call the Wolfs in La Push they do own us still." Jasper was calculating.

"That is screwing up my visions." Alice was frustrated.

I didn't like the idea of a wolf anywhere near my mate after what happened back in Forks but we were running our of possibilities to be able to deal alone with the threat before us.

"I know they own you but would they really risk their life's like this." Kate wondered.

"It's their duty to protect humans from our kind. Two hundred newborns let lose that...." I didn't even want to think about what consequences that could have.

"But you said that they are standing still and are calm. How is that even….." Tanya was at loss for words.

"We don't know but if humans get to know about our existence. It wouldn't be long before they would discover how to kill us and erase our kind." Jasper stated soberly.

"We can also ask Batiste and the others for help." Alice piped up.

"Do it Jasper let's see if they will agree." I said and slumped back into the chair behind me.

I placed my elbows on either side of the armrest of the chair, twinned my fingers together and rested my chin on my hands. I had to be strong now. Anna always was. She never gave up until she was back in my arms and neither could I.

This was not the time for being weak and breaking down. I had to be strong now. Strong, cold and calculating. I would have her back in my arms, in one piece, safe and sound. It wasn't a question of if but when and the ones responsible for it would suffer a painful death at my hands.

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Fin's POV:

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"An army of three hundred Vampires." Mom repeated in a shocked voice.

Dad had just disconnected the call we have gotten from Jasper informing us about the situation with the Vampires in the south.

The room was silent, none uttered a sound after the shocking discovery. Aya's gut feeling had been right as always but this was worse then everything we ever had to face before.

"This is non of our business. We are not obligated to help the Cullen's." Julian was the first to break the silence. He was always worried about our safety. For Julian there was nothing more important then our family and everything else could go to hell as far as he was concerned.

"What?!" Tia's voice sounded stunned and an irritated edge was audible.

"Do you want Fin to get killed?" He barked angered at her.

Tia winced, her mouth opened and closed several times before she shook her head and snuggled back into my side.

"I don't think it is that easy Julian." Aya stated in a business like voice.

"What do you mean?"

"There are three hundred newborn Vampires," Aya said and we all nodded in confirmation, "according to what Carlisle told us, those creatures are violent and unpredictable always ready to attack everything that moves."

"Your point." Julian looked at her urging her to drive her point home.

"What will happen when whoever or whatever controls them the losses this control over them?"

Her question slammed into us all like a fright train.

"When the humans discover the existence of Vampires it won't take them long to search for other supernatural creatures." Our father stated. That was it our existence was also threatened by those Vampires in the south.

"Are we going alone?" I questioned. Tia tightened her grip on my shirt.

"No, I will call Oscar, Tate, Devon …..The ones who are loyal to us. Brice can never get to know about any of this." M y father said with a grave expression on his face.

He didn't trust Brice Norwich and I had to admit after just one meeting with him neither did I. He was the leader of our clan but he was certainly not an honourable man or even one who's example one should follow.

My dad was convinced that he killed his own parents to gain power, to become the next leader. My dad was a protégé of the former leader and got along with him every well. He used to tell us kids all the time what a fair and reasonable leader Joseph Norwich was. Dad admired him since he was little.

One night a fire broke out in the village they had been living in long before my dad even met my mom. The strangest thing was that Brice's mother Temprenc never made it out of their house and when they found Joseph, shortly after the fire started just steps away outside his own home that was in flames, he was already dying.

The blood bond demanded his life since his life partner was already not on this planet any longer. According to dad she had died too soon. The fire couldn't have possible killed her that fast since Joseph was nearly dead as well as they found him while Brice had coldly watched his father died as dad told us.

Of course he had no evidence but the satisfied and triumphed smirk on Brice's face after his father took his last breath told my dad everything he needed to know.

Luckily Brice thought of Vampires as barbarians with no intelligent mind that were driven only by their lust for blood. If he knew the truth god knows what that power hungry beast might be capable of.

Unfortunately he knew how to be charming, how to blind people and make them trust him. The only way to keep him in limits was to let him believe that there was nothing valuable he could gain from Vampires.

I was extremely thankful that we weren't like the kind of Werewolves that the Cullen's told us about and didn't have a pack…ahhh….clan shared mind.

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Anna's POV:

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Walking into the hangar it felt like we were walking into the pits of hell. When the bulky Vampire closed the metal gates behind us I cringed while goose bumps prickled all over my body.

"Move." Commanded the woman pushing me forward.

I suppressed the urge to turn my head around and to glare at her. That wouldn't have been such a wise move in this situation.

Looking at Esme my heart went out for her. She looked so scared and frightened. If she could cry I'm sure tears of fear would be streaming down her cheeks.

I concentrated completely on worrying about her this was the only way I knew how to keep it together. When I just occupied my mind entirely with Esme's well being there wouldn't be enough place in my mind to let the fear get to me and break me down.

At least in theory it sounded plausible.

We were led to a metal box. The box was made out of two sheets of corrugated iron placed against a wall of the hanger. The corrugated sheets were about a meter and a half high. Of course there was no lock or even a door to hold the prisoners.

Not that one needed a door if there was a whole hanger full of Vampires.

Looking into the eyes of the Vampires that stood there still and motionless like statues it unsettled me greatly, not only their number but also the fact that they didn't pay Esme and me any attention.

They weren't even looking at us as if we weren't their in the first place. What seemed to be a good thing for this moment could turn out to be a problem later.

"Are those newborns?" I asked Esme.

She looked at me with troubled and fearful eyes and nodded.

That was making even less sense what I knew about newborns was that they pretty much had the attention span of a goldfish and they should have shown any kind of reaction to my heartbeat.

I had the feeling this was only getting worse.

We got roughly pushed into the box where other Vampires were already resting on the ground. They looked like they had been through hell. One of them looked up at me and if I hadn't know that he was a Vampire I would have mistaken him for a zombie or a corpse that had been removed out of it's grave.

Their clothes were torn, their faces were fallen in and had cracks, their bodies were drained of nutrition, their stone skin looked leather like as it was spread across their bones and by the look into their eyes I could tell that they were really thirsty. All of them looked at me with hungry eyes. Esme pulled me into her embrace and growled in warning.

That caught one of them off guard and they stopped. Swallowing hard Esme and I eased ourselves to the ground as well. All the while she was holding me firmly in her strong embrace as far away from them as she small space would allow.

Help me! Suddenly a faint whisper rang out in my mind.

I turned around to look outside of the little prison cell we were put in to look for the owner of the call for help, assuming I heard the voice from outside of the metal confines but I couldn't see anyone who was trying to get my attention.

"Is something wrong?" Esme asked me concerned.

My head snapped up and I looked at her fear and worry stricken face.

"Ah…..no," I shook my head. No need to worry her more then she was already.

Help me! I heard the small child like voice again but this time there was also a feeling in my head as if something was pulling at my mind.

It didn't feel like a headache but if I had to describe it I would say it felt like there was a thick liquid in my head and something was trying to pull at it. That was a really weird feeling.

Help!

The sight before me went black for just a split of a second and I gasped in surprise. The pull on my mind got stronger.

"Anna what is wrong?" Esme's voice rose an octave.

I'm here!

Suddenly a picture of an old, worn down, dark hallway flashed before my eyes. It was like a déjà vu. I had seen this place before.

"Anna!" Esme's voice started to sound panicked.

My lips were parted but no sound escaped them. My eyes wandered over the Vampires that sat in front of me and there in the middle I spotted another one.

He unlike the others wasn't sitting but lying on the ground. My sight of him was limited because he was lying with his back to me and the other Vampires were shielding him with their bodies from my view.

"I don't know." I whispered absently and everything went black.

I felt like I had been hit full force with something or more like something slammed into me and knocked me out really good. I was lying on the ground, groaning as I struggled to move and open my eyes.

I couldn't feel Esme's arms around me anymore neither did I hear anything instead there was this sinister cold and stillness.

Finally having pulled myself together enough I dragged my eyes open and heavily shifted my body into sitting position. I had to wait a few seconds before my eyes were able to focus on my surroundings.

To my surprise I had to discover that I wasn't in the hangar anymore. No, I was in some kind of hallway. The one I saw moments ago, at least I think it was moments, in this strange flash.

I was sitting on a dark green carpet that had definitely seen better days. I could recognise black painted wood where the carpet didn't cover the floor.

I knew that dirty carpet below me and the sinister atmosphere was also not unknown to me. I had been in this place before a few times in my dreams.

Right then it all came slamming back into me, the dreams that I couldn't really remember and the voice I heard that I forgot the second I woke up each morning but why did I have that strange dream now or wasn't it just a dream?