Criminal (1D)

Chapter 31

Jenna

I jerked to the side and felt like my head was thudding on something cement when I was against the metal table. I blinked and suddenly when I opened my eyes, I was looking up at Harry, Zayn, Liam, and a bloody lipped Louis. They gasped and leaned back, looking at two shapes that I couldn't focus on.
"Jenna?!" A voice called. Female. I knew that voice. Then my mom appeared, looking shocked and over joyed. She ran forward and slumped on her knees next to me, taking my hand. But it wasn't mine. I looked down to find a longer, buffer, broader body below me covered in dark skinny jeans and a white muscle-T. I was in Nialls body. But if I was here, where was he? Was he in my body?
"What's going on with him?" Louis asked.
"It's not Niall right now. It's Jenna. She's in his body. Look at his eyes. Their hers." My dad says as he appears beside my mom, clutching Nialls bicep.
"Jenna can you hear us?" My mom asked. I nodded slowly then looked around again, finding a girl beside me with fang marks and blood running down her neck. Did Niall do that? Someone's hand snapped in front of my face and I refocused on the people around me.
"Where are you? I mean...your body?" Harry asked. I blinked at him. My memory of where I was being held captive was completely hazy. I couldn't remember anything.
"I...I don't know." I said, my voice coming out low and scratchy. Nialls voice. I could feel his vocal cords scraping together like sandpaper, but I felt no pain.
"Where are we?" I asked. I felt foreign in Nialls body. Like I could move and feel things but I just felt...not all the way there.
"Well Niall started freaking out and we decided to pull over to let him feed and we kinda lost him in the crowd then brought him here." Louis explained.
Zayn stepped forward and helped me stand.
"So what's up with Niall?" I asked, concerned for him.
"Well ever since u left, his powers have been leaving his body and flowing to you and your daughter..." My parents froze for a second, hands gripping a tad tighter to Nialls arm like if they let go I would disappear back to my body.
"What so he's weak?" I ask.
"Ya, and he feels your pain instead of you." I froze.
"Oh my..." I trailed off as the lads leaned forward and hoisted Nialls body off the ground, pulling us out of the alley and into a crowd of millions of dancing people. We were pushed and shoved this way and that and I felt like I was going to throw up. We came upon my parents car and we all piled in. Nialls body was pushed into the backseat. Nialls body suddenly jerked and I couldn't feel his legs anymore. I could feel pain in my left arm and it suddenly went limp. My vision flashed back to a grey ceiling and back to my parents worried faces.
"What's going on?!" Liam shouted.
"We're losing her! He's coming back to his body. Jenna. Focus here. What do you see? Where are you?!" My mom shouted over him.
"A-A basement. It's large and I'm laying on a table in a room with a tray of weapons." I whisper. My vision flashes again and stays longer before going back to Nialls body.
"There's a stamp on my arm. It's a triangle with two other triangles in it." I whisper before my vision slowly fades back to the room and stays. Alena is sitting next to me, a branding iron in her hand with the stamp on my arm in a metal ring at the tip. She had branded me!
"Hello ms Nialls mate! So glad your back! I just happened to have a wonderful little conversation with our Nialler." She said, her gaze blank. I finally realized the mess around me. The tray had toppled to the floor and the weapons twisted and bent, half the table was cracked somehow, and Alena had a healing cut above her eyebrow. I grinned.
"Bitches get stitches!" I laughed just below a whisper. Alena glared at me and raised a hand to slap me across the face, but right before she did a voice shouted above us. Alena growled and stood. She turned away from me for the first time and I got a glimpse of two jagged scars forming a v on her back. They were wing scars. Someone had stolen her wings. Wait, could that mean she was a devilangel?! She quickly disappeared up the stairs and as soon as she was out of sight I wiggled around to find what was poking me in the side. I smiled as I pulled a screwdriver out with half of it ripped to make it jagged like a knife. Thank you Niall! I made a mental note to kiss him as thanks when we found each other. I bent my arm at the awkward angle I needed to start rubbing the serrated edge against the binds until they began to weaken enough for me to pull apart with my strange burst of enhanced strength. I heard the door upstairs open and close and the house suddenly went quiet. I loosened and pulled off the binds around my feet and sat up, stretching all the cramps and clenched joints before standing up. I almost fell over because my legs hadn't been used in a while. I heard the distant drumming of a headache somewhere and instantly pictured Niall, a vampire, with a headache. I almost laughed aloud. I didn't know how I could be so loopy right now. I tiptoed up the stairs and tried the doorknob but it was locked so I pressed my ear against the door and pulled another power from Niall for a moment. His enhanced hearing. I listened through the house and found it empty, along with the yard surrounding it. I gave the ability back to Niall and stood back before sweeping my leg forward and kicking a hole in the door. I reached into the hole and unlocked the door before opening it from my side. I hurried through the house and out the door. I was surprised to find myself right in a nice suburban neighborhood. I could even see small children bouncing on a trampoline next door. I took off at a run through the yards so I didn't risk Alena coming back to see me running away. I made it to a main street and continued on my path, but instead walked throughout different connecting neighborhoods and fields with deer. I ran until it became dark so I ran circles around a grove of trees to mix my scent and make it, intern, disappear. I found a large willow tree in a field and decided to sleep in its sweeping branches. I prayed Niall would find me soon because even I could feel the line of his power weakening.

I woke up when a hand clamped down around my wrist. My eyes opened to the sight of Alena glaring to my core. I screamed as she shoved me off the branch and I fell to the ground, smashing into an unearthed root. I silently swore because I hated the thought of Niall being the one to feel it.
"You thought you could escape me?!" She hissed angrily, dropping down beside me like a cat. She swung her leg back and smashed it into my windpipe, causing me to gag and throw up the contents of my empty stomach.
"I will make you pay, bitch! I will take everything you and your vampire boyfriend care about!" She growls as she hoists me up and speeds me away at vampire speed. When we stop we're no longer anywhere near civilization.
"Where are we?" I spit when Alena drops me like a rock onto dirt.
"Your new home! Sadly, it will only be yours." She answers before kicking me and forcing me to roll away. A hole opens up below me and I drop three feet to a room made solely of black rock. As the hole above began to close, the rocks assumed a faint purple glow.
"These rocks have been charged with dark magic since the birth of the vampire race! Ever since I turned your pretty little friends into the immortal beings that they are! They have this special power to inflict the most painful pain ever. So much in fact, that there will be so much that you and our Nialler will feel it." She grins evilly down at me. The hole is almost sealed off now.
"Oh, and did I forget? It can only hold one person at a time... Which means, your precious little unborn baby won't survive long! Happy memories!" She waves and smiles as the hole completely closes.
"No!" I scream, dashing to the wall and pounding my fists against the glowing rocks.
"Let me out! Please! I'll do anything! Kill me, but not her!" I scream, but to my horror, Alena doesn't return. The hole doesn't magically reopen. The only thing that does happen is my baby shifts inside me, before laying silent once again. Tears slide down my face and I slump to my knees against the wall.
"Please! Niall save us!" I cry silently, but nobody answers but a soft buzzing emitted from the walls.