Trauma • Carlisle Cullen

Questions (Chapter 19)

I think the worst thing about not being able to sleep is not being able to escape reality. I have to worry about Victoria coming to hit me all night. If I was sleeping, I would forget about it. I hope someone comes to save me, even though they don't know where I am.

I just hit the 1 month mark and I wish vampires could die due to starvation. I can't move, I can't feel my throat, I can't feel any part of my body. My eyes are closed a lot because of the pain. The weird thing is, when I get cuts, I don't bleed, it's like I get a painful papercut and it just doesn't bleed.

If someone does rescue me, they will probably see the silver bite scars on my arms, one of my biggest secrets will be out and I will have to tell everyone the story. I am wearing long sleeves but they are ripped everywhere, being held together by a few strings.

A few hours later, Vicky walks out the cell door after hitting me and I am laying there with more pain to deal with. I hear running footsteps down the halls yelling, "ELEANOR!? WHERE ARE YOU?!" I can barely hear the voice, my ears, eyes, mouth and nose are all beat up. I try to yell back but no sound comes out.

A figure comes into view.

"El!" The figure says. I think it's Carlisle. My vision gets blurry. Out of excitement, a whisper escapes my burning throat.

"Carlisle?" I ask.

"Yeah, it's me. El, your eyes are the darkest black I've ever seen! How do you have bruises?" Carlisle asks as he grabs a sweatshirt from a bag he brought.

I try to respond but only my mouth moves, no sound comes out.

Carlisle looks at me with sadness, he puts one of his sweatshirts over me and puts one pair of my sweatpants on my legs.

"El, we are going to take you back home." Carlisle says. He picks me up bride style and I wince in pain. "Sorry." He says as he carries me out to the jeep

In the Jeep, everyone is panicking. All I hear is, "look at her eyes!" "how is she hurt?" "Is she a human?" "Are you ok?"

I can't silence it all out. When we get back to the Cullens house, Carlisle runs me into his office and lays me on the medical table.

I cough but then I grab my throat from the overwhelming pain.

Carlisle runs in with a few blood bags. "I got you some human blood, it will smooth the thirst better." I nod and grab a blood bag.

It feels like liquid gold is going down my throat, I can feel my throat get better with a cold sensation. I drink about 5 blood bags. I can feel my throat again.

"That feels better." I say.

"Yeah, your eyes are turning back to normal." Carlisle adds. "So what did happen? How do you have bruises?"

"Ummm, well, ummm." I stutter, unsure what to say.

Carlisle sits down next to me. "You know you can tell me, right?"

"Yeah, I know. Well, I was watching TV in my living room when I get a knock on the door, it was about 2 in the morning and I supposed it was one of my friends with an emergency, but when I opened the door, it was this girl Victoria. She put a bag over my head and tied my hands and legs together. It turns out that she is James's mate and we killed him. She wanted me to feel worse pain than she felt when we killed James. Later, she injected me with this serum that is supposed to make me feel physical pain, and here we are now." I explain.

"El, I am so sorry I couldn't find you for a month." Carlisle says.

"Wait, how did you find me?" I ask.

"Well, a bunch of our family members that went missing came to the house and told us where they were and stuff." Carlisle says. "They said that you freed them."

"Oh yeah." I say.

"Can I look at some of your bruises? Maybe treat them with something if I can?" Carlisle asks.

"Umm." My heartbeat increases a bit. "I-I guess."

Carlisle starts rolling up my sleeves and sees multiple black and blue marks, I see him look at my bite scars.

"Where did the bite scars come from?" Carlisle asks.

"Only Max knows, but my transformation into a vampire is a long story." I say.

"I think I can keep up." Carlisle says.

"I was hiking in Minnesota and this vampire found me and took me to this barn and forced me to train newborns. They sucked my blood and attacked me but one night, they all appeared in the room I slept in and they all attacked me at once. They bit a lot of areas on my body, the scars go all the way down my neck, back, and stomach. After my transformation, I killed them all. Every single one of them." I say

"I'm really sorry you had to transform that way." Carlisle says.

"Can you maybe, not bring it up and not tell anyone else? I don't think I'm ready for anyone else to know yet." I say.

"Of course." Carlisle says. He smiles at me and rolls my sleeves back down.