The door upstairs I could hear slam open just as the one down here closed.

I didn't know what Kyle meant by "part two" until I hear the first scream of a worker. Trent was making process with the blood bank thing; people might have thought that he was changing for the better. The progress was all going down the drain as another scream was heard. Trent is starting to turn back into the Monster everyone thinks him to be. Part two has begun.

This was happening all because I wouldn't agree to kill the prince. I should have never come.

If I could move any part of my body right now it would be my arms, just so I would have something to cover my ears. As screams continued to happen all I could do was listen. I couldn't scream that I was in the basement; there was still something over my mouth. He had no idea where I was, and that's what probably scared him the most. And just like the first time I went missing he was going to do whatever he could to find me, like killing.

It was like I was in the castles basement again. The same familiar feeling of a rag over my mouth and my hands being tied behind my back, trying to tell Trent to look at me, to tell him not to harm anyone, that I was with him in the room and he didn't need to kill anymore. This scenario was different; I wasn't in the same room as him. There was no one to tell him to stop.

The images of people started to become a vivid picture in my mind. One head on the ground, a dead body hanging over a chair, someone gasping for breath and scratching at their neck to be released, screaming that they didn't know where I was. I tried shutting my eyes to make the images go away, but it just got worse. And my hearing intensified as I heard one word screamed upstairs, "Monster."

He isn't a monster, that's not who he is.

Helpless, that's what Kyle called me, and he was right.

I couldn't even move my head to try and shake the gag off my mouth. I was like a stuffed animal that someone decided to leave on the floor. I hate it.

"Where is she?!" Trent yelled, as another crash was heard.

I'm down here! No words came out.

"I'm so sorry, your highness, I have no idea where she is." Val actually sounded frightened. Her voice shook as I could hear the click of a door open. "She should be here. I have no idea where she could have gone."

"You are lying to me!" A hiss was heard and another crash. "You know exactly where she is. You're just not telling me."

"I'm telling you the truth. Maybe she left; she finally found a way to leave you." What was Val doing, she was aggravating him. "I bet she couldn't wait to get away from you. She probably hates you."

When I first met Trent that's what I told him, "I hate you." That was in no way true now, but his mind was already in overdrive. I could picture his eyes getting that deep red color. I hear another scream, but this one was longer than the others, it sounded more painful, and then it just stopped.

Val was dead.

"She doesn't hate me. She wouldn't leave me." Trent was talking out loud trying to reassure himself I wouldn't do those things, and I wouldn't. I wondered if there was anyone listening to him talk out loud, but my ears didn't pick up any heartbeats. He had killed all the humans in the building. He was alone upstairs. I don't know how many vampire guards were still here, but I knew they would all be outside, just waiting for the prince to calm down.

If I was up there I could help, people wouldn't be dead.

Why did I have to be so helpless?

A wall cracking under pressure was the next thing I heard; he punched it, and not just once; continuous.

"She doesn't hate me." I don't. "Chloe would never leave me." I wouldn't.

I felt like pins and needles were hitting me as if I was waking up from a deep sleep. Slowly my toes started to move, and then the feeling traveled up my legs to allow them to bend, up to my torso and arms. My fingers were starting to move, and finally to my head. I could now freely move it how I wanted.

This must have been Kyle's plan, more likely Jen's plan. To make me un-mobile just long enough for Trent to go mad, and then release me to see the damage he caused. To show me how useless I was in preventing it, because that's what I was in her plan now. She didn't need me anymore; I am useless.

The first thing I did was remove the rag from my mouth so I could take in more air, not that I needed that much anyways, I actually didn't need at all. Just the feeling of opening and closing my mouth freely was great. I just wasn't ready to talk yet, I wasn't sure if this room was soundproof or not, I'd wait till I got upstairs.

Like a baby who was learning to walk for the first time, I pushed myself off the floor and wobbled on my two legs to the door that led me upstairs. There were more stairs then I remembered, but I still made it all the way up without injuring myself. No headlands with my wobbly legs. Once I reached the top the door was more difficult. Making my hand have to grip something to open felt strange, and once the light of the room hit me it was like I was in a new place, one I have never been in before.

The comfy chair was no longer upright and instead flipped upside down, there was scratch marks all over the walls, some darker than others. Trent had definitely been here, but if he had been in here, how did he not find me?

I looked behind me at the door I just came through and no longer saw stairs when I opened it, but a not-so-deep closet filled with coats. When I reached for one of the jackets it went away and the stairs appeared. Trent probably didn't think it was deep enough for anyone to hide in it and let it be, that's what any vampire would think when they saw it, which was the point. This was an escape route if anything bad happened, and it did its purpose. It's great at hiding people.

I started to pick up a strong smell of blood that overpowered the one of lavender. I didn't notice it before, but now I did, and it made my mouth water. My nose directed me to walk over the chair and behind a broken desk to where a body lay on the floor. I examined it closely, from the jeans all the way to the braided bun. Val, why did you have to be so stupid?

I could see all the blood emptying from her neck and couldn't pull my eyes away. It would taste so good. It reminded me of a bakery that had a sign reading "Free desserts." The temptation was strong, and my fangs were already out, just waiting for me to take one step closer. I didn't have anything to drink this morning and was now regretting it.

Just one more ste—

The crash saved me. I jumped back from the body and headed towards the noise. I was remembering why I came upstairs, Trent still needed me.

I gained my voice back. "Trent, where are you?" With vampire speed I ran around the rest of the wreck and to the front desk where I heard some noise coming from. There were more bodies in here, making me need to take a steady breath to control myself before I continued.

"Trent, I'm here."

I walked around the desk and saw him leaning against it propped on the ground. I saw his familiar dark hair, his black colored jeans and tight black T-shirt he wore here. The colors were just dark enough to think it was water that was spilled on him instead of blood, but when his head lifted up to mine there was no mistaking that it was blood. His fangs were out as red run down from his mouth.

"You are back? Why would you come back?" his eyes turned back to black and his fangs went away.

"I never left." He thought I would leave him. "You know I once told a man to let me go, and you know what he told me?" I was referring back to that one night I tried running out the front door.

"Never," he replied.

I sat next to him on the floor. "And he was never going to let me go, and I would never leave him...ever."

He pulled me to his body and brought his nose down to my wrist and gave it a kiss before biting down on it, as if re-marking me. "I love you, Chloe."

"I, I—" I looked down at his hand that wasn't wrapped around me and in it lay a phone. "Who did you call?"

He looked down where I was looking. "I didn't call anyone, they called me."

"Who called you?" I asked.

His eyes didn't connect with mine and instead looked at one of the bodies surrounding us. This man was sprawled out on the ground and had a camera lying directly beside his left ear.

I forgot all about the camera man. He was coming later to video tape the whole place and what it looked like. To show people at home that I came and was fine, and that it was a safe place to come and that all the humans here were friendly; A place of no harm.

"He got just enough footage before I killed him," Trent mumbled, "Just enough video of dead bodies to show people not to come, and to top it off a rabid prince out to kill." That footage couldn't be deleted. It was live, directly put on TV. He looked up at me, eyes pleading. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I was so worried where you went. Where did you go?"

I looked back at the phone in his hand and sighed. I couldn't tell him. Would I tell him I got kidnapped again and they just let me go? He would think something was up. He already thinks Jen turned me against him. What if he thinks that I came here on purpose to frame him, I couldn't afford for him to hate me. I'll just tell him later when this isn't so fresh in his mind. I gave his hand a small squeeze.

"I'll answer that if you answer mine." I looked at him to make sure that was okay. He nodded. "Who called you?"

"Kally," he answered immediately.

I started fiddling with his fingers. "Why would she—"

"She was crying. Things happened when that video was out for the public to see. A riot broke through the castle walls, too many that the guards couldn't hold them back. A vampire close to Kally has been killed." No, please don't let it be— "Drew is no longer with us."

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