"Uncle Alex, Whats happening? Why are you going so fast?" Sarah was sitting in the passenger seat of her uncle's dark blue ford, panic laced heavily in her voice, she gripped onto the leather seat as she attempted to calm her trembling hands. Her uncle glanced over his shoulder at her terrified face trying his best to put his thirteen year old niece at ease, his heart ached at the sight of her shining terrified blue eyes.
"Don't worry, Sweetheart. I'm going to keep you safe. We just need to get out of here and I'll explain everything." He said while his eyes focused on the road ahead, he then look to the left he could see a dark figure shift through the trees. He reached inside is brown coat and removed a gold pocket watch flicking it open. Sarah noticed his eyes widening her heart raced at the instant panic etched over her uncle's face, he quickly placed the watch back in his coat and hit the gas pedal.
"Uncle Alex, Is everything okay?" Sarah asked her voice started shaking in fear as a cold shiver went through her body while the car began to pick up speed.
"Kiddo, Don't Worr- " He began to say but was cut off by the shrieking ring of his cell phone. He immediately felt through his jacket with one hand and grabbed his phone quickly answering it. "Abby, He's trailing us and he's getting pretty damn close. I don't think we're going to make it." Her uncle yelled over the phone while Sarah started frantically looking around wondering who was after them. "We'll have to do it now, then drag him there. He's gonna kill her if we don't..." He was cut off when they saw a figure suddenly appear in the middle of the road, she screamed as her uncle failed to stop the car from colliding into the figure. The car toppled over and started flipping towards the side of the road and skid to a stop when it hit a large pine tree. Sarah's vision began to fade into darkness as she heard her uncle yelled for her to stay awake.
When she woke up her head was spinning and throbbing in pain, her vision was blurry, she felt warm liquid dripping through her hair, she whimpered lightly touching her head. Her eyes began to clear and she groaned realizing she was upside down. She could hear footsteps crunching against the gravel of the road, she looked towards her left and started to panic when she realized her uncle wasn't in the driver's seat. Unshed tears started to form in her eyes when she saw the broken blood stained window. She was about to call out to him but she was interrupted when she heard a cold voice in the distance.
"Alex, you're one of the most tenacious Eriksons I've come across in my time but tonight your bloodline will cease to exist and victory shall finally be mine at last." the dark figure spoke with a sick thrill in his voice.
" Is this what you've been waiting for after all these centuries my niece's death, so you can finally celebrate some sick victory over my family." Sarah heard her uncle's voice filled with anger and felt relieved knowing he was alive but soon her blood turned cold when she heard the dark figure's loud laugh unaffected by her uncle's words.
"You know what your bloodline was destined to bring forth. You know what she is and why she will be wanted. I won't let that happen, Niklaus will never be allowed to succeed." He said venomously and growled with pure hatred at the last statement.
"You disgust me, waging a war against an innocent child all because of the hatred you feel towards your son slaughtering my family like we're the Abominations." Her uncle spat out.
Sarah could hear him losing his temper while she began struggling to unbuckle her seatbelt, a few seconds later it released and her bruised body fell on the roof of the turned over car. She cleared away the tiny shards of glass as much as she could as fear and adrenaline started taking over her body. She crawled through the shattered window and crouched down on her knees behind the car, she could see the back of her uncle's coat facing away from her, a trail of blood dripping over the side of his face. Standing about ten feet away was a older man with blond hair wearing a dark charcoal jacket, she edged closer but stop as the cuts on her arms began to sting.
"You murdered my sister, ripped her apart into pieces, watched her cry for mercy in vain, you couldn't even grant her the sympathy of a quick death." Her uncle screamed at the man as Sarah's eyes went wide. This was her mother's murderer, the man that haunted her dreams every night since her death. Her hands began to tremble, she could still hear her mother's screams from that night and feel her unbearable agony, tears started to fall from her eyes trailing small rivers down her face as her uncle continued to shout in fury. "Your family doesn't deserve to live, their the true abominations and you are exactly like them!"
The blond man growled loudly, his face started to change dark veins surrounded his eyes and two white sharp teeth elongated from his mouth. He advanced at an inhuman speed towards her uncle, grabbed him by throat and lifted him a few inches off the ground leaving him gasping and struggling for air.
"No...!" Sarah screamed at the sight of her uncle being choked to death and ran towards the two men. The blond man turned its cold gaze towards her, she stopped dead cold in her tracks looking at the smirk on his gruesome face, he chuckled at her her terror while her uncle struggled.
"I'll be right with you, Sweetheart." Her heart stopped as those words left his mouth, she stood still frozen with fear. 'Do something, He killed mom.' those words kept screaming through her mind willing her to move. She was pulled out of her symphony of frantic thoughts when her uncle screamed out.
"You. Will. Never. Touch. Her." He then stabbed him in the heart with a syringe hidden in the sleeve of his coat and emptied the thick red substance it held into his chest. The blond man released his grip on his throat and stumbled back away from him, her uncle grabbed the phone from the left pocket of his coat and yelled into the reciever. "Do it now, Abby! Do it now." He was soon roughly grabbed by the collar of his neck and slammed into the side of the car.
"You think you can defeat me, you are nothing but a - ..." The blond man started choking and clutched his chest, his face turned grey and ashen he dropped to his knees gasping, Sarah felt relieved a small smile played on her lips as she saw him go down. "What...have...you...done...?" He struggled to spit out the words but got no response in return as he dropped face first to the ground, her uncle shockingly following soon after.
Sarah heart pounded hitting the walls of her chest as she saw her uncle laid out on the concrete unconscious. She ran towards him and fell to her knees besides him, grabbing him by the lapels of his coat she began shaking him trying to wake him before the other man could recover.
"Uncle Alex, Please, Please, Wake Up!" she cried out frantically. "Please Wake Up! Uncle Alex, Please Don't Leave Me." She was sobbing uncontrollably when he didn't respond, she could see he wasn't breathing and cried even harder. She sat down on the concrete her head on her knees crying endlessly still holding her uncle's cold hand tightly.
A couple of hours had gone by, she was still in the same position she was hours ago. She felt nothing but the harsh emptiness filling up inside her. Everyone she ever cared about in her life was ripped away from her. She was exhausted from all the hours she spent crying, the sun would rise up soon but she was too lost in her sorrows to care. All she wanted was her family back, she wanted her mom to sing to her every night, she wanted her dad to kiss her and make her promise to be good. She wanted her uncle the only family she ever had left in her life to come back and tell her that this was all just a terrible dream. She wanted to scream out at the world and beg it to bring them back but nothing came out of her soft subtle lips. Nothing was going to bring them back, tears kept pouring down her face as she felt her self being pulled deeper and deeper into the numbing darkness.
She was suddenly startled when she felt an hand lightly touch her shoulder making her scream in fear. She looked up and saw a beautiful dark skinned woman through her watery eyes, she didn't seemed all that suprised to see her abandoned in the middle of the road next to a dead body while she stroked her arm in an effort to comfort her.
"Where's Mikael, Honey?" was the first question she asked. Sarah was at a lost for words looking at her face she slowly pointed towards the direction of the blond man, she didn't know how to explain everything to her so she hoped she'd understand seeing the other body behind the car, the woman nodded at her seemingly understanding her incoherent state.
"I'm Abby Bennett by the way, Your uncle sent me here to help you."