A/N: Hii, I felt like doing another Damon/OC since it's a long time since I've done one, so thank you for dropping by to read it :)
I'll be updating this story in the weekends, but if I get the time to it then I'll definitely update more than just in the weekends
Disclaimer: (Sadly) I do not own the Vampire Diaries or any of its characters, but I do own those that aren't in the show or books ;)
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xoxo Ascha
The Mortality of Witchcraft
Prologue:
Pennsylvania, 2011
The knock on the door came so sudden and unexpected that everyone fell quiet at the dinner table and made all three of them look worriedly at each other – a reaction they often had whenever someone unexpected came to their home in the outskirts of Pennsylvania. The father of the small family excused himself from the table and sent his wife meaningful look before he went to the door and opened it, revealing someone whom he perfectly well knew who was.
Everyone knew who he was.
"Klaus," he said nonchalantly, his muscles turning tense with anxiety of what the old hybrid would do to him. They had worked together in the past, but it was a long time ago and now he no longer wished to be a part of his mission, because now he had a loving wife and a young teenage stepdaughter, who had recently turned 18. "What are you doing here?"
"That is not a particularly polite way to greet your boss, is it now?" Klaus said and suddenly looked at someone behind the father. He smirked. "Hello, sweetheart. What's your name?"
The father flinched and turned his head towards his stepdaughter, who stood shyly a few feet behind him, looking at the dangerous hybrid with worried eyes.
"Jenny, go to your bedroom. Now!" he ordered more than said.
His stepdaughter hesitated, but nodded and went upstairs, but her being upstairs didn't calm him down at all, because he knew that if Klaus somehow got inside the house he would be able to hurt her and his wife too.
"You've got yourself a very beautiful stepdaughter, Thomas. What is she? 17 now?" Klaus said, smirking mischievously.
Thomas didn't even bother to correct him and wanted to take Klaus' attention away from his stepdaughter.
"What do you want, Klaus? I told you I don't want to help you anymore. I have a family now and live a normal life and I intend on keeping it that way." he said angrily.
Klaus smiled devilishly. "Oh, I see that. But it's not your help or you I want. I need to borrow that beautiful stepdaughter of yours."
Thomas' eyes widened in shock, but he knew exactly why Klaus would want his stepdaughter's help. But he still shook his head and took a step inside just in case Klaus could somehow get to him, but to his surprise Klaus stayed still with his hands resting on the doorframe and a sinister look in his blue eyes. He fixated his own brown eyes on the staircase and could hear with his enhanced hearing that his stepdaughter was busy doing her homework. As long as her mother stayed alive and hidden in the kitchen Klaus wouldn't be able to get to her… or so he thought until he suddenly heard a scream coming from the kitchen.
"Ah, that must be Morgan. He's replacing Maddox's spot after he unfortunately died…" Klaus said and grinned at the sight of how frightened the 200-year-old vampire became.
Thomas watched as a man in his mid-thirties stepped out of the kitchen with his wife caught in a headlock and spotted the knife he held dangerously close to his wife – his very much human wife.
"Thomas, since you have helped me a lot in the 19th century I am willing to give you another chance. Fetch your daughter or your wife dies and I will personally take her myself. And don't even bother attacking Morgan, because he's not the only warlock in the neighborhood."
Thomas gulped and looked back and forth from his frightened wife, who was trying her best to break free of the grip as he had once taught her too. She knew what he was and knew who Klaus was, but the knowledge couldn't help her much right now.
"Shannon, stay still. I promise I won't let him hurt you or Jenny." he said as calmly as he could.
"Thomas, don't let him take her! Don't–"
"Tick tock, Thomas. What is it going to be? You have five seconds to make your decision," Klaus interrupted impatiently. "Five… four… three… two… one–"
"Mommy!" they suddenly heard Jenny cry from the staircase.
Everyone turned their gaze towards her, but Klaus was getting very impatient, so he ordered Morgan to slit Shannon's throat and the minute Shannon died Klaus was able to step inside, but he didn't get to stay for long because Thomas suddenly jumped on him, yelling at Jenny to run as he fought Klaus even though he knew that he wouldn't survive a fight against him.
At first Jenny stood frozen on the staircase and cried, but then she saw that the man who killed her mother was going after her, so she quickly moved under him as he ran up the stairs and ran towards the back entrance. She kept running as she came out on the eerie road, but she suddenly felt someone wrap an arm around her waist and turn her around, so quickly that she didn't have time to register who it was, but she just knew that it wasn't her stepfather.
"You're quite the fast runner, but you should know that no human can outrun a supernatural being," Klaus said, grabbing her wrists so she couldn't run away. "I heard that you were born with very special abilities and unless you want to end up like your parents I suggest you stop fighting."
Jenny ignored him and kicked him as hard as she could on his shins, but he remained unaffected and merely tightened his grip on her.
"Let go of me, you murderer! I will never help you with anything!" she cried, fighting with every bit of strength in her fragile human body to get away.
Klaus was getting tired of this, so with one quick movement he knocked her unconscious and threw her up over his shoulder, waiting on the eerie road as Morgan and another warlock named Heath, drove up to him. Heath stepped out of the car and opened the trunk, pulling out a roll of duct tape and tying Jenny's arms, legs and covering her mouth with it. She was at last placed in the trunk and the three men drove back towards North Carolina.
After finding out that Mikael – a very old and dangerous vampire hunter turned into a vampire – supposedly had been set free and was most like now on a hunt for him, he had decided to pay his old friend a visit.
Klaus had kept an eye on Thomas after he dropped out and knew everything about his family – particularly his stepdaughter, whom he had taken in as his own when he married Shannon. He had fit perfectly in Shannon and Jenny's life, because not only did he accept Jenny's special abilities, but he also knew how to deal with it.
Of course Klaus had expected Thomas to help his Jenny flee and his futile attempt hadn't lasted long before his heart had been ripped right out of his chest. But another part of Klaus also hoped that Thomas would be loyal to him like he was in the past and help him again now that his ripper Stefan Salvatore was busy looking after the doppelganger and his only way to create hybrids.
However, Thomas was dead now and he had gotten the girl, so he did not complain. And as they finally arrived at the abandoned house in Reidsville where he had found the dead body of the vampire, who once found the first doppelganger for him and eventually betrayed him, he ordered the two warlocks to make sure that the girl couldn't leave the house if she somehow got the duct tape off. He couldn't risk her getting away and he definitely couldn't let any of his enemies get her.
"Such a beautiful girl…" he murmured as he placed her on a worn couch.
It looked like she was fast asleep, but in reality she was just unconscious and would wake up in a few hours, feeling most likely a banging headache. Klaus smirked at that and gently ran his fingers through her long and voluminous brown hair. She looked a lot like her mother, but there was something angelic and innocent about her that reminded him of someone else.
"Let's hope you're not as foolish as your ances–"
Klaus was interrupted by the sound of his cell phone vibrating in his pocket for the tenth time today and he didn't have to look at the caller ID to find out who it was. Ever since he left his younger sister Rebekah in Mystic Falls she had been trying to reach him, but he had ignored her on purpose. He didn't have time to worry or think about her right now when Mikael was on the loose.
"Leave me alone, Rebekah!" he said in a sing-song voice as he finally answered.
Rebekah growled, but he didn't care. She was his distraction in case Mikael came to Mystic Falls and if he suddenly stopped calling him he would know where Mikael was and could get away before he found him. Or better – he could work up a plan to stop him, while Rebekah or the other vampires (preferably Damon) kept him distracted.
"Nik, you can't just leave me here! You've broken Stefan and now he–"
Klaus rolled his eyes and hung up just in time as Jenny started waking up. She groaned at the pain she felt, but when she opened her eyes and spotted Klaus sitting right by her feet, she jolted out of the couch and fell down on the dusty floor. She tried running away, but was stopped by the duct tape and couldn't even curse at him, because her mouth was covered with duct tape too.
"Take it easy, sweetheart. You might as well behave instead of using all your strength on something that won't work anyway. You can't escape me, Jenny. I'm a hybrid and more powerful than you could ever imagine." Klaus said, placing her on the couch again.
Jenny sobbed quietly when she remembered what he did to her parents, but Klaus didn't want to stick around and watch her cry, so he left the dark room that was only lit up by dozens of candle lights and returned to his other plans for tonight. Jenny sat still at first and tried getting a grip on what had just happened.
A few hours ago she had been sitting at the dinner table with her parents and minding her own business, and suddenly this hybrid she had been warned about many times before in the past had come. He had ordered that man to kill her mother and now her stepfather was dead too, trying to protect her. None of this was supposed to happen tonight and now she was trapped in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere.
I should have run faster, she thought even though she knew that it wouldn't have worked. She was just a human and he was a full-blooded hybrid. He had lived for more than a thousand years and killed more than a thousand people in his life. I should have hid in the woods. I should… have done something!
Jenny sighed heavily and took a deep breath, wanting so badly to wipe her tears away, but her hands had been tied on her back. She tried wiggling her feet out of the duct tape without any success and decided to roll towards one of the doors instead. She only got two feet away from the couch before Klaus returned with a female witch, who had shoulder-long platinum blonde hair and the bluest eyes she had ever seen.
"Is that her?" the witch asked, the hint of a French accent in her voice.
"Yes and unfortunately she is not that good at listening to me," Klaus said, taking Jenny by her feet and dragging her back towards the couch. "Let's see if compulsion works on her, shall we?"
Klaus pulled her up in front of him and cupped her face in his hands, forcing her to look at him. She closed her eyes tightly as Thomas had taught her, but the witch forced them open with a quick spell. But as he tried compelling her to behave he could tell that the compulsion had no effect whatsoever on the girl, which made him growl and push her back down on the couch.
"Looks like you're going to have to chain her to the couch." the witch said.
"Oh, I don't have to chain her to the couch to make her stop fleeing," he said and knocked Jenny unconscious again, grinning as he said. "That should keep her still for a couple of hours."
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