A new beginning

The nightmares

Jake's POV

I ordered four different kinds of pizzas, then the four of us were sitting on the ground around the coffee table sharing and eating the pizzas. It felt weird that a bunch of vampires were standing around us, I could feel the tension rolling off from Alex but I tried my best to remain calm and relaxed, so the girls could eat comfortably.

- So Alex, could you maybe tell us about Klan too? What is your experience with him? - asked Carlisle politely. Alex popped a whole slice of pizza in his mouth and after destroying it in a minute, he answered the question.

- Well, that is not a nice story. I was fourteen years old when I invaded our village, I guess it was a year later after Nessie was abducted. He came with six vampires, in the middle of night, and took me, and another boy. The night is foggy, but I remember them killing my parents... - his face was clouded with memories, I doubted he like to talk about this. - I wanted to fight them off, and I managed to change for the first time in my life. But of course, I was weak and young, and even though I heard about the legends from grandfather it was hard to believe them. My grandparents were babysitting my little brother, who was two years old at the time.. they were at a different location, so they survived. The other boy... we went to school together, I knew him. But he wasn't triggered, he didn't change .. so they killed him too. They threw me in a cell underground where I lived for six years. That's where I met Nessie, and decided to adopt her as my sister. - he grinned at her, and she sneaked her arms around his middle and hugged him from the side.

For a minute I felt jealousy, but I quickly dismissed it when I saw him looking at her. They really loved each other as siblings. And she was lucky that he was there for her... since I couldn't be. This man helped her a lot, I should be grateful for him.

I watched as Edward watched them with the same sad but grateful expression. He wished to be the man who protected her ... but he couldn't either. This man did. And we need to respect him as her brother.

Edward must have heard my thoughts because he looked at me, and gave me a very subtle nod, to show that he agrees with me.

- What was your life down there? - asked Carlisle.

- Fun. - said Alex with a sarcastic smile. - We had training, twice a day. One separate for the wolves, and one together with hybrids. They taught us how to control our wolves, that part wasn't so bad actually... I could use some of those techniques with my pack. We had to study as well, for some stupid reason it was important to him to keep us up with school subjects.

- He had plans to use us as secret agents in the real world... like in schools and stuff. That's why it was important. But he never really did that, not many people were loyal enough to do it. - added Nessie.

- There were normal parts, believe it or not. But there were other parts. Like sleeping in a cell, or being punished whenever we disobeyed or didn't perform well enough. He had different torture rooms.. medieval style and all. He tried to brainwash us all well, make us believe we are soldiers and together we will build a better world...he is very psychotic. It did work on some people, never did on me. I remembered my parents and grandparents too much and knew what he took away from me. - Alex had a dark look on his face, and I could only imagine how many times he wanted to kill that monster.

- And how did you escape?

- We have started a little rebellion. - he said with a smug smile while looking at Nessie. - Tried to convince the wolves and hybrids to go against him, to join us. It was tricky, because some of them were very loyal to him...the brainwashing technique actually worked on people. But they questioned things when they heard all the things he had done to Nessie. At that time of course we all believed she was his daughter. - he was quiet for a few seconds, and I tried to take some deep breaths to control my anger.