Revelations

Chapter twenty three

I started coming to, but everything hurt. My head felt like an elephant had trampled over it, my body felt like I at least had a few broken ribs from being thrown in the back of that van. Ouch! I couldn't move.

I looked up and noticed my hands were chained to the bed I was laying on. I was trying to take in my surroundings. It looked like some sort of cell. It was damp and dreary. It put the jeepers up me. I didn't recognise these surrounding but then again I had never been kidnapped before.

I started sobbing. Why me? What have I done wrong? Gracie you have to listen closely. They're jealous, Gracie. They don't understand. Stay calm focus on calling for Jo, you two are connected. She'll hear you! Just stay calm and if all else fails run! My subconscious was being nice to me again. She seems as scared as I am, but she was telling me to focus. I had to try even though now I was in so much pain.

I closed my eyes and tried to focus on Jo "If you can hear me, please help me. I need help. Jo please help me." I laid in silence waiting to hear something, but nothing. I was doomed. I could feel it. I was weak and vulnerable now.

I took some deep breaths and tried again. "Jo if  you can hear me, I need your help. I'm hurt badly and I don't know where I am." Still nothing. Just then a door opened and I heard footsteps, I closed my eyes,

I didn't want to look my kidnapper in the eyes. I hurt so badly, maybe I will just die. I will be free, I saw Leighton and Jo, my parents and everyone else smiling at me, and from somewhere I felt the strength to face it head on.

I opened my eyes and faced who was coming and, well, I was shocked. it was none other than Reaba.

"Why?" Was all I could muster up. She laughed at me. It was more of a shreek. It was eerie and it made the hairs on my arms stand up.

"Why, indeed? " she said. "Until you came to Oxford everything was going great. Leighton was interested in me, you've ruined everything and now you're going to suffer." My subconscious was right it was all jealousy, I turned to face her.

"So, because you're jealous you kidnapped me? Got some vampires to torture me on the way. What now? You're just a human." She laughed again flipping heck everything that hurt started hurting ten times worse, and all she did was laugh.

"Oh poor Gracie I'm not a human everyone believes I'm human, but I'm a half vampire too. In seconds, too fast for me to see. she was by my side. I screamed as her teeth sank into my neck.

Within seconds she spat it out. "That's impossible! How the hell?" She looked at me, her eyes burning through me.

"What have you done, bitch." I was confused, and she started slashing me with her claws. Everywhere was burning with pain. I felt the blood flowing from everywhere, and she ran out the room, crying.

I felt so weak. I was a goner. I was sure of it. A man came in and I screamed. "No, please don't hurt me. I'll do anything."

"Shush. I'm not going to hurt you. Stay still and drink this!" I looked at him he was tall and bulky. He shared similar features with Reaba. "I told her this was a bad idea, but she never listens to me."

What was he on about? He was in on this too. I took the cup and drank the contents. I spat it out. It was warm and vile. it had a copper-rich taste. Yuc. It was blood!

"You stupid child! I'm trying to help you. No wonder she wants you gone, you're a liability." Just then Reaba came back in the room.

"Get out, Tobias, what are you doing here? You have no right. I want to be alone with the half breed"

Whoa who was she calling a half breed? I turned to look at her she gave me that evil stare. "Fine, Reaba, but it's on your head."

She turned back to me, "Oh we do look a little battered, don't we?" And she came over, running her sharp long claws across my arm, instantly slicing into my flesh.

I screamed in agony, "What are we going to do with you?"

I sucked in a load of air as I tried to talk. "Reaba why are you doing this?" That shrill sound ran through my body again, as she laughed.

"I was meant to be with Leighton. The night we slept together he gave me the ring that you're wearing, only to take it off of my finger the moment he laid eyes on you. You disgust me Gracie Carteri." She's lying. She's got to be.

Leighton said I was the only one for him. He said he was a virgin like me. He gave me the ring cause I was his soulmate. Had he lied to me about that too? How many other lies has he spun me?

I was furious. I felt so betrayed now. I just wanted to die. I wouldn't have to wait long, I was sure of it. I felt weaker and weaker. I tried to muster up enough strength to speak again.

"So you think if you kill me, I'll be out the way. Hold up. How come you carried my books after Jo told you to? How have you kept this from then? "

She skipped across to the window, "My Mum's a witch, isn't glamour a beautiful thing?" I had no idea why I even asked, none of it mattered anymore.

"Just kill me then."

She turned and smiled at me. "That would be far to easy, you see. If you bleed out for longer, you will start to realise just how hurt I've been. What pain I feel every time I see you with him, rubbing my face into it little by little. No, this is a much nicer way." Then she skipped out the room.

"Gracie please stay with me. You have to concentrate! Call Jo. Call her!"

"Oh, shut up, will you? I've tried. I've been calling her." No one's coming. I laid there sobbing. Leighton had lied to me all this time.

I thought he was the one. I wonder if this is how Reaba was feeling. No wonder she had me chained up.

"Damn it, don't go soft now. You need to get out of here."

I took a deep breath and tried again. "Jo ... Jo .... Please help me. It was Reaba, She took me. She's got me somewhere. I'm bleeding badly. Jo, please."

Nothing. This was pointless. I tried something else. I called them all, but nothing was going through. I looked over at a small square on the wall, it resembled a window. The sun was still out and I felt a reverie of peace blow over me.

If this was the end, I was grateful for one thing. I at least fit in somewhere, after fourteen years of trying,p even if the whole experience was dangerous.

I will always be grateful to have belonged to a loving family. Having the best family ever. "Mum, Dad, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, know I'll always love you."

I closed my eyes, waited for the darkness to come. I'm sure my gramps will come for me when it's time.

Suddenly I heard screaming and guns going off. Then more screams, and people shouting, "Find her, find her now!" But I was too peaceful to open my eyes, to peaceful to scream.

"I've found her" I swear I recognised that voice, but I couldn't open my eyes. I tried. I tried so hard. I felt my body being lifted off the bed and held close to someones chest. "Oh, baby, stay with me! Please stay with me, I love you Gracie." Was it Leighton? My body was then laid down on another surface. "Gracie I'm here. I'm so sorry. Please stay with us. I can't lose you."

I so wanted to open my eyes and say thank you to my rescuer but I slowly started to fade away.

My body was almost floating. I was walking towards a field. There was fog all around me, and in front I saw a figure walking towards me.

I knew this figure, I started running towards it. Yes, it was him. I kept running. It was my gramps he was getting closer and closer and I ran into his arms.

"Gramps, oh Gramps, I've missed you so much."

He brushed the hair out of my eyes and rubbed his nose against mine. He use to do this when I was a child. I was lost the day he died.

"Gracie I've missed you too sweetie, but It's not time for you yet. You're too young. You have a special ability Gracie, they need you. You have a third chance" and he pushed me back. I was spiralling backwards into what seemed like a black hole. I was screaming then I hit the ground. I was back, and my memories were back too. my eyes flew open.