Hello everyone!
Two stories in two days, that will hopefully make up for some of my absence the last month:)
So, this is the first chapter in my new story. After 3x9 Homecoming Klaus chooses to lock Elena and Damon away to prevent futher interference in his plans. What will long days and nights in a cold dark cellar do for our favorite couple? Will they grow closer or step on each others nerves? Well, you'll just have to read and see for yourselves:)
The prologue will seem quite dark, but I will include lighter themes in later chapters.
Please let me know if you like the prologue and I will have the next chapter up in a few days (maybe faster if I get inspirational reviews:))
Please read, enjoy and review:)
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries or any of the characters in this story. Only the plot is mine.
Prologue
Elena fought uselessly against the ropes that kept her hands pinned behind her back in a hurtful fashion. Her smooth hands were sore from the struggle and her body bruised with the attempts at getting leverage from the ropes securing her wrists. She rested on her side for a moment, throwing worried looks at the dark haired man laying unconscious by her side, wishing he would wake up and miraculously save them from their precarious situation.
Their body's swayed slightly with the movement of the car that was currently leading them towards their unknown destination. Elena had been on her way home from school when a man and a woman suddenly had grabbed her from the sidewalk, quickly covered her mouth before she could gain anyone's attention and dragged her towards a black SUV parked beside the road. The last thing she remembered was being tossed into the huge trunk of the car and catching a glimpse of a familiar black-clad vampire before she felt a wet nasty smelling cloth cover her nose and she had involuntary dropped into a thick darkness of unconsciousness.
When she had woken up an unknown amount of time later the car was moving and she had desperately tried to wake the vampire by her side, whispering his name urgently into the tight air surrounding them. She had been out of her mind with worry when he didn't wake up by her pleading call, and she had thoroughly searched his body for injuries with her eyes, needing him to wake up and act as her saviour as he had done so many times in the past.
After her failed attempts at arousing Damon from what she believed to be a vervain induced coma, she was now once again struggling with the rough material restraining her arms. Her heart leaped in her chest when she noticed that the car was starting to slow down and she registered the change of road surface that made the car bounce slightly. Elena kept fighting for her freedom, sensing they was nearing their destination and desperate to get away before she could come face to face with whatever was awaiting her when they arrived.
When the car come to a stop ten minutes later Elena could feel her heart beat wildly and painfully against her ribcage. She had no idea what was awaiting her, or more important, who was awaiting her.
The backdoors where wringed open and Elena immediately got blinded by the bright afternoon light streaming into the dimly lit space. She felt someone grab her legs and pull her brutally out of the car and onto the gravel in the driveway were they had parked. When her eyes had adjusted to the sharp light she took in the sight of the huge old-fashioned mansion in front of her. The building reminded her a great deal about the house Rose and Trevor had housed her in after their abduction several months ago. From the look of the outside it did not seem like it had been used as a dwelling place for quite some time, the painting dry and flaky, and the pillars surrounding the broad patio entangled in wild growing vegetation.
Elena had barely a second to look around in confusion before she was violently grabbed by the arm of the young woman and hauled towards the huge oak-wood door in the middle of the patio. She turned her head in desperation and observed with relief the man following them with Damon thrown carelessly over his shoulder.
"What do you want with us? Why have you taken us here?", she couldn't help the question from tumbling from her dry lips, her voice raspy and unfamiliar after several hours of silent panic in the tight space of the car's trunk.
She didn't receive any reply and she felt icy panic claw at her insides the moment the dark-haired woman pushed her inside the front door and kept forcing her deeper into the dark confines of the house. Elena was led straight to a door revealing a staircase, squeaking dusty steps leading down into a complete darkness. Fear drowning her insides, Elena tried to fight her way out of the woman's grip, panic giving her body an abnormal strength unfitting to her slender frame. Still, her strength was useless in a fight against the supernatural being she soon realized her opponent to be. A feline hiss filled the air as a hand closed around Elena's fragile neck, smashing her small body against the rough wall to the point where her toes barely touched the floor beneath her.
"Don't you dare fight me you pesky little human", the woman growled inches from Elena's face, her dark shoulder length hair almost touching Elena's cheek and her hard silver eyes glowing menacingly in the dim light.
Elena, breathless and aching after the violent impact with the wall, was roughly pulled down the stairs, her feet barely hitting the steps in the heavy darkness around her. She felt herself being led through another door before she was carelessly pushed down unto the cold concrete floor, her knees hitting the hard surface with enough force to bruise. A small circle of light penetrated the darkness around her and she turned her body slightly to see the man carrying Damon's lifeless form enter the doorway with a flashlight, dumping the body violently on a lumpy mattress close to the door.
Elena tried to stumble to her feet, but the movement sent shocks of agony through her body and made tears pool in her sore eyes.
"Soo, little doppelganger", the woman's icy voice sounded through the nearly completely dark room, "our comrade Klaus sent us to put you and your little vampire friend here out of harms way for a while. Apparently he is tired of his personal 'blood bag' trying to get herself killed or planning nasty plots to take him down together with her little supernatural friends" .
"You're hybrids", Elena whispered only slightly loud enough to be heard.
The woman only watched her with a knowing smirk on her face, light and shadows colouring her features and giving her an even more vicious look.
"I think I've have given you more than enough context by now Sweetheart. Me and my friend here have places to be, so we will be living you for now. Guess we will back in a week or so to check up on you"
Elena sat motionless on the floor, her panic of being left in a cold dark room with no access to food or water making her throat retract and impossible to get any words through her trembling lips. Seconds later she could hear the door close behind the two hybrids and some scratching sounds while they secured the door from the outside. Not before she distantly heard their car roar to life and start moving down the road did she change her posture, her head falling down in her hands and raw sobs ripping through her chest and disappear into the deep darkness surrounding her.
Still crying she crawled towards the spot in the darkness where she hoped to find Damon. After some minutes of desperate searching and blindly tumbling in the dark her fingers hit the familiar fabric of Damon's leather jacket. She crawled nearer, curling herself into a ball next to him on the mattress and pressing her face against his leather-clad back. Her eyes continued leaking and her whole body trembled from the fear and pain that rolled through her body in crushing waves. As her eyes closed in total exhaustion, helplessness caught her in its merciless grip, and in the cover of the silent darkness she uttered her final goodbyes to the world. How was she supposed to survive this.
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