Taken

Seween.... Why you cwying? Did I do somfing wong?" I, the little girl, take the woman into my tiny arms and the beautiful woman begins to shake as my grip on her tightens. I can feel her sadness build and become as thick as the mist that surrounds us. 

"Maddy, my angel!" She pulls me slowly away from her and looks deeply into my eyes. She is crying from pain. It confuses me as I have no idea why such a beautiful woman would be crying so fiercely. "Never forget everything I've taught you and told you. You are my angel and you are very special. If anything.... Never forget that." 

Why? What she says makes no sense. I would never be able to forget all that, she would constantly remind me. So why? And why would it bring tears to her eyes. A sense of urgency grabs a hold of my tiny body along with her sense of fear and sadness, making me shake. Scared. 

"Seween? Don't cwy, pweez, I wove you Seween." Is all I can say before the stabbing pain in my heart makes tears come flooding out. 

"I love you too Maddy. I always will." She places a soft finger over my heart and taps her finger over my heart, "I will always be right here for you my angel. Always!" She says, before I hear movement and turn my head away from Selene to see what's coming our way.

As I turn my head I see two huge, mangy wolves and a man holding something I've never seen before. I watch as he painstakingly raises it and points it at us. The two wolves growl menacingly, non stop.

BANG!!!!!!!!

Sudden silence, then the ringing in my ears start. My heart racing out of my chest. Panic setting in. I turn and face Selene. She's laying on her side with her eyes fixed on me. I reach out and grab at her but she doesn't move. "Seween! Seween!" I scream trying to be louder than the ringing in my ears. What is happening? Why is she not moving? She can see me but she doesn't want to move. I lift my tiny hands up to see if maybe my hands are the problem and that's when I see the thick, dark, red water covering my hands. What? What is this? I start to look around to see where it is coming from, when two strong hands grab me and yank me away from Selene. No! No!

"Seweeeeeeeeeeen!"

I jerk forward, a bright clinical light piercing my eyelids. Sweat running down my forehead. Shit.... Not again. I roll my eyes and flop back down.

"Another bad dream, huh?" Came a quiet, sweet voice, from next to me. I turn my head and see a pretty, blonde woman with icy blue eyes, looking at me pitifully from the cage next to mine. She introduced herself as Andrea. She's new... I just nod.

"Forget it blondie. She's mute that one!" Yet another slide remark from Cassandra, the resident vampire in the cage opposite Andrea's.

I close my eyes and try cutting everyone out. 

"Don't you ever quit? It's bad enough we're stuck in this shithole. We shouldn't have to put up with your mouth." Came the heavy voice from the witch, Agatha, who was opposite my cage.

There are a lot of cages here, filled with all sorts of beings that I never knew existed, but got to, over the years I've been trapped here. I was 6 when that hunter with his rogues burst in on my and Selene's little world. A shiver runs down my spine at the thought. Back then they thought I was just a little human girl who had been kidnapped and that Selene had been some kind of a witch who put a spell on the area so no-one would find us and her twisted sense of being a mother. That also came to an end, the moment I accidentally cut my hand trying to peel carrots in the kitchen.

My mind wanders back... Would all this not have happened if I had been more careful?

The smell of braising onions with rattling pots and pans thickens the kitchen air.

"Stop running in the kitchen! How many times have I told the two of you!" Screams Martin, the chef for the compound. " In fact, Josh, get out! Madison, come here!" The orders were barked out at us like we were dogs. I didn't like it. It made my stomach turn. Selene was never this angry, let alone all the time.

" Seeing as though you like the kitchen so much. Here!" A large knife was shoved into my hand and a large, bulbous finger was pointing in the opposite direction, to the corner of the kitchen where all the freshly picked potatoes, onions and carrots were piled up against the wall." Make yourself useful. I need carrots! "

Here I was, a year after these gorish people brought me to their compound... Peeling carrots... My mind clouding with memories of growing up with Selene and the year that has passed since. It wasn't so bad here. Huh, how stupid I was for thinking that. Not even two seconds later Martin was screaming at me. Again... But this time for bleeding on his carrots. His huge, intimidating frame stood over me. One hand on his oily, oversized hip and the other waving a threatening, pointed finger at me.

"What in the hell child! Look at you! You're bleeding all over my fuc..." He broke off. His eyes widened. He started screaming again, only not at me. He grabbed a fist full of my hair and yanked me to my feet.

"Chris! Chris! For fuck sakes, Chris!" Martin yells as he drags me along with him, grabbing another knife on our way out the kitchen.

"What!?" Chris says, then sees Martin yanking me by my hair. "Fuck." He says, raising a hand to his face and pinching the bridge of his nose at the sight of us. "What did Maddy do now?"

Martin comes to a halt in front of Chris. He stares Chris in the eyes, pulling me in front of him and tilting my head degradingly slowly to the side. He raises the knife and plunges it straight into my shoulder.

"Aaaaaaaah!!!!" I scream and buckle with pain as the blade slides into my flesh and back out. 

"What the fuck is wrong with you man!!!!!" Chris shouts into Martin's face as he grabs me out of Chris's death grip.

"Watch." Is all Martin says before he turns on his heels, leaving me in Chris's hands.

Shakily, Chris looks down at me and the bleeding wound Martin just gave me and his eyes, just like Martin's grow wide with shock.

"Fuck!"  Is all he whispers more to himself before he raises his hand and punches me.

I heard the crack before I felt it. When I felt it, that's when I became dizzy and my vision blurred. 

And the darkness took over.