Soul Of The Shadows
Summary: Stefan was holding Damon captive in the basement dungeon of the Salvatore Boarding House for days. He had starved Damon to the point of desiccation and stolen his daylight ring. After managing to get free from the dungeon, a royally pissed Damon kidnapped Elena to use her as leverage against Stefan to get his ring back. He tried to be nice to her... but being nice isn't exactly Damon's strongest suit... He'd become unstable and he'd abuse her. But, there lives a poor soul beneath the layers and layers of shadows... Will Elena ever learn to love the beast? Canon up to 1x04 then AU. WARNING: dark themes, rape/abuse violence, blood, strong sexual scenes and language.
Author's Note: After so many promises after promises finally here comes the story ... This story was a part of my short story series 'The Prisoner of Desire'. This story is a bit darker than my usual ones. You see, I got the chapter name reference from my one of the fav episode from the TV show- Heart of The Darkness and my fav book from tvd book series- Shadow Souls… so you can imagine it from the name the theme is a bit dark in here. I wanted to avoid violence as best as I could, but it seemed like my heart itself is pretty drawn to the darkness…
The idea occurred from, "What? Did you fedex it to Rome?" and "I want my ring Stefan or my next stop's at Elena's."
PS: It's my 19th birthday today… and this story is a birthday present from myself. That's why the long wait… I wanted to bring it out today…
There's a trailer video of this story on youtube. Please check that out. The link is on my profile page.
This story is inspired by "The Darkest Side of Me"- SuchALittleMonster. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you should check it out… if you're into dark Damon.
WARNING: This story is a strictly M rated. It will contain violence, gore, blood, language, rape scene, bad language…do not say I didn't warn you…
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD or any of the character... however I'd really like to own Damon and Elena for one day, one night so that I can play house with them ;)
The first three chapters are REPUBLISHED.
Chapter 1: When The Darkness Calls
Elena's POV
"Elena…"… "Elena"…
I was at the car wash, rubbing a car dry with a towel, when I first heard his voice... Damon was calling me almost pleading, his voice weakened, cracked. I whirled around to see him but he was nowhere to be found. I thought I was hallucinating because I haven't been seeing him for three days. Last I saw him was at The Founders' Party and I was really pissed at him because of what he did to Caroline. But have to admit after everything that he has done, being a complete jerk, trying to seduce me, trying to kiss me, abusing Care, trying to get me turned against Stefan, I still kinda feel for him. I don't know if it's attraction, hatred or just my simple curiosity to get to know him better. I know so little about them. Here I'm already like dating Stefan, but I barely know anything about him and something tells me that Damon is more mysterious than Stefan is. I whirl and I see Stefan washing the car next to me. I hand my towel over to Amelia and move towards Stefan.
"So where is Damon by the way?" I ask, but for some reason my instincts forbid me to tell him that I've been hearing his voice for several minutes. May be I don't tell him because I don't want him to know that I'm fantasying his brother's voice…
"I don't know…" he answers pretty annoyed. "I haven't seen him in a while. May be he left town…" I can clearly say from the glum tone in his voice, that Stefan's hiding something from me, but I don't say anything to him. I just smile and go right back to wash the car.
"Elena…"… "Elena…" I hear his voice again, more desperate this time. God, why Damon Salvatore of all the people has to have such an influence on my mind…I try to concentrate on my work.
"Elena…" "Elena…" "Elena…"…
Where is the light in your deep dark room?
A shock of white could save you from your shadow
Why is the dark behind the moon?
Out of reach until the light is shattered...
The beauty of the dark... yeah...
The beauty of the dark, is the beauty of you...
"Elena…"
I don't have any power over my limbs, as I can't stop them from following the voice. I feel like I'm a keyed up doll as I walk past the front lawn of the Salvatore Boarding house. I take the path to the back entrance and stealthily enter the boarding house by the back door. I follow the voice like my mantra and find myself in the basement of the boarding house. I see a huge iron door in the dungeon. It's bolted from the outside, but there's a tiny window on that door to see through what's inside. I peep through the bars and my heart stops dead…
"Damon…" OH…God…Damon. He's in there…"What is this?" I cry out. He feebly opens his eyes and turns his gaze towards me. God, he looks white as a corpse and how on earth did I know that I'd find him here…
"Elena…" with a great effort he stands up, "…you came", he says coming tottering forth towards the door.
"How did I know that you were here?" I ask.
"Because I wanted you to…very… very badly", says Damon grasping the bars on the door from the inside.
"Let me out…Please…" he pleads demanding, his ice blue eyes boring into mine.
"Why?" I ask, because my head's all messed up… "Stefan said you left town. Did he do this to you?"
"Who do you think?" he replied.
Yeah, off-course! He had done that, how incredibly stupid of me to ask Damon, who had him imprisoned in their own house. But I'm still confused. "I mean…why'd he even do that?" I ask…
Damon lets out a feeble chuckle and says, "Look Elena, I'm gonna play your twenty-twenty questions… but I need you to let me out this damn cell…NOW." He almost gets me…I rush my hands to undo the bolt, but I stop. If Stefan had locked him in, then he must have had some good reasons to it… I remember all the bruises and bite marks all over Caroline's body. I told Stefan that he should have his brother arrested… may be that was the reason he locked Damon in.
"But…if Stefan looked you…then he must have had some reasons…I can't just unlock the door…"
"Yes, you can…" Damon howls… "…and now that you're not wearing that perky little necklace of yours…" my hand goes all the way up to my neck…Stefan told me to always wear it, but I took it off while washing the cars, fearing that detergent, water might ruin it. Damon hisses in an ice-cold voice, "…you won't remember what you're about to do…"
"What I'm about to do?"
"You're gonna open the door."
"You're gonna open the door", he repeats growling, his eyes are piercing my gaze… I don't know why did I do it, as my mind and body both told the different things. At last, I find myself unbolting the door.
As soon as I push the door open, Damon trembles. He's almost falling, I run in and he almost falls on my shoulder, pressing his whole weight on my body. "Whoa… Whoa…Whoa… I got you… I got you…" I feel his nose snuggling against my neck, purring on my neck. He looks so sick, so vulnerable. I slowly caress his hair with my fingers. "You don't look so good…"
"It'll be okay…It'll be okay…" he mumbles against my neck before turning his intense gaze towards me. "It's not gonna hurt. I promise…" he says breathing heavily… Is he insane? What is he talking about? "Just one bite…" he says before lowering his head to my neck…
"WHAT?" I snap the second my mind starts processing. He has wrapped his arms around my waist in a death grip. He tries to bite me again. I see his face, it looks like he has come from my worst nightmare, his eyes are bloodshot, purple-black vein appearing around his eyes, his canines are sharpened. I struggle in his arms to get free, but I can't. I keep trying to push his face away from me as far as possible. I keep screaming, "Damon, what are you doing? Have you lost your mind?... Damon, stop."
"Don't make this harder for me, Elena. It won't hurt. Just one bite", Damon snarls, tightening his grip around me.
I don't have any idea where did I find this courage, but I smack him across the face so hard that his head snaps to one side around one eighty degrees. He almost falls on his back on the filthy ground.
I use this opportunity to run out the door. As soon as I get out the cell, I push the heavy iron door to close it from outside, but before I could lock it with my trembling hands, he gets up, kicks the door wide open and stands in front of me in a split of a second. He's breathing heavily, his nostrils widened, fangs fully exposed. He pulls my hair and throws me back in the cell. My head hits the stonewall hard. He walks towards me like a great panther… I know this is the end of my life. But I won't die a chicken's death, I'll fight…until I draw the last breath…
I try to hit him with everything I can, I grab a brick from the ground and try to throw it towards him, but I can't, it's too heavy. I hear him chuckle as if he's finding to much excitement watching me struggle, like he's the predator, who loves to play games with his prey… There's a wooden chair, I reach for it and throw it towards him. Damon easily defends the chair in the midair with his hand. The chair cracks as it comes in contract with his hand and the pieces of the wooden chair shatter to the ground. Damon takes a few more steps towards me, chuckling like a deathly demon. I don't know how to stop him now. I grab the closest thing I get. It's a small tub with a flowering tree in it. Those flowers are nothing like I've seen before, but I don't care. I just throw the flowering tub towards him…
The tub hits him and something happens…something unnatural. "Ahhh…." Damon shrieks at his toppest peach… those unknown flowers are burning him. Smokes spiraling up from his hair, his face and the bare portions of his hands…I watch with shock that, Damon's almost crawling to the ground in pain. I waste no time to rush towards the door and get the hell out of here. This time I don't do the stupid mistake of wasting time trying to close the damn heavy iron door. I rush up the stairs, towards the hallway. I run across the hallway, to the main gate.
"Run…run…" I hear someone saying, I don't turn to see who it was…I just run… I hear someone saying, "No Damon…no…" I hear Damon growling… there I'm almost near the main door, I keep running, but suddenly my heart stops dead as I hear a cracking sound coming from the hallway, a sound of cracking spin...
I turn and horror sweeps all over my body. I see a lifeless body dropping on the ground and Damon snarling behind it. The man died, he was killed because he tried to save me… I turn to the door and run as fast as I can. I reach the door but before I could unlock the doorknob, Damon stands in front of me and in an inhuman pace, he pins me against the wall next to the door and bites me on the neck. I shriek, as the monster drains out my life force…
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With a loud gasp for air, I wake up. I wipe the sweat away from my face with both my palm and tuck the sweaty, messy hair strands behind my ears. I try to shake the horror away, but the reality's more horrific than my dreams. I'm sitting on silk sheets, which are definitely not mine. In the low light I still can feel it that wherever I am, I'm not in my room. Which deliberately means that those freaky dreams that I've been having all night along, and trying so hard to console my mind that they're just dream not real…are all real…This is all real. I was hearing Damon's voice mystically…real. I came to the boarding house…real. Damon tried to bite me…real. Then I ran like hell…real. Damon killing his uncle, Zach…real… it was all real except for Damon didn't get to bite me…I shiver as I remember all the horrible things from yesterday…
Damon had me pinned against the wall. My back hurt badly from the impact of being slammed against the wall so hard. I shrieked as he lowered his face, his sharpened fangs down on my neck. But before he could bite me, someone stormed into the house, kicking the front door wide open. Damon let out another shriek, more deathly this time. I saw him burn again as the sunlight hit his body through the open door. I saw him burning more badly this time, then within a flash of a second he was gone.
"Hey, are you okay?" Stefan asked in a soothing voice. I scrambled in his arms immediately. He continued to comfort me, placing small kisses on the top of my head, caressing my back with his tender arms and murmuring something in my ear. I didn't make any sense of it. I was panting, breathing heavily, sobbing in his arms, my heart painfully hammered in my chest…I was crying as I realized what a tangled mess I put myself in. Damon tried to bite me, his face was like a demon from the hell and moreover I watched him murdering his uncle. Though his brother saved me, but are they really gonna leave me alive after everything that I saw…I could still hear him growling in the shadows… I can't see him but I can feel his presence just behind the lines of sunlight…
All of the sudden a wooden stand of a lamp pierced through Stefan's chest, like a makeshift wooden spear. Stefan cried out in pain and fell on the Persian rugs. I rushed to help him…that was the biggest mistake I'd ever made.
As soon as I left my safe world of sunlight a pair of pale hand immediately grabbed and took me in the shadows…I shrieked as I felt the surge of pain of his fangs piercing through the delicate skin on my neck. Then it happened all over again… I caught a glimpse of Stefan standing up and running across the hall. Through my tear strained eyes… I saw him running in an inhuman speed and sliding all the curtains of the room wide open, filling the entire room with bright sunlight. Damon immediately disappeared…causing me to fall on the floor… I could feel hot liquor streaming down from my neck. Stefan pulled me up and took me in his embrace… I felt Damon roaring in the dark, snarling like a untamed black panther. Stefan tried to calm him. He pulled out a bottle from his jacket pocket, a bottle that contained a liquor that looked exactly alike the one that was flooding from my neck, a bottle of blood… he threw the bottle in the shadows and I heard heavy sound of quick gulping…
I nearly jumped as about 10 seconds later the empty bottle hit the floor next to me… "I want more…" Damon growled from the shadow…"No, that was enough for now…" said Stefan and turned towards the door still holding me tenderly in his embrace…
"I want my ring, Stefan…"
Stefan turned back, "I gave it to Zach to hide…" he eyed the lifeless body on the floor for a few moments and continued, "Probably shouldn't have killed him…'
There was an utter silent for a moment… "Ah… you almost got me…" said Damon chuckling. His seriousness immediately replaced it. "Where is it?" he asked in a ice-cold voice…
"I'll get it back…but I need some time…"
"What, did you fedex it to Rome? Where is it?... I want my ring back Stefan…." Damon warned, "I'm gonna suck her dry next time."
Suddenly I couldn't breath anymore, I couldn't feel the earth beneath my feet, I couldn't feel the pain, the agony anymore…I was drifting away in the dark… the last thing I felt was someone's strong arms holding me, someone murmuring softly….
I woke up in my dear old, familiar bed, gasping for air. I thought I was having a terrible nightmare, but when I saw Stefan sitting in the bed besides me and holding a porcelain bowl full of crimson color water and a bloody washcloth floating in it, But now I knew, none of them were my subconscious imaginations, the reality was more horrible than anyone's worst nightmares…
Stefan was washing the wounds on my neck. I slapped his hand away. I started sobbing as the horror swept through my spine. "Get away from me…get away from me…" I say in between my sobs, I couldn't find my voice to scream as it's cracked, painfully cracked from the shrieks I did earlier…
"Elena, I need you to understand, I need you to calm down…" Stefan said begging.
"How can you say that right now… Damon…his face was like a demon form the hell and… he bit me…" I yelled.
"Elena…oh Elena, calm down" Stefan tried to sooth me by brushing his knuckles on my cheek.
I immediately backed away as far as my little bed would allow me. "Don't touch me… you're a monster…just like him. You fed him blood. You ran as fast as he did…You're a monster..."
"Listen to me, Elena. I'm a vampire." I jumped from the bed and tried to rush towards the door to Jenna, to Jeremy… "But I'd never hurt you, Elena", said Stefan, while getting out of the bed…. I rushed towards the door, but before I could unbolt the lock, he forcefully closed it placing his hand firmly on the door. I gave up hope, I leaned my forehead against the door. "Elena, I need you to understand…" he turned me to face him. I pressed my body against the door, to keep the space between the two of us as broad as possible… "I'd never hurt you…you're safe with me", Stefan said calmly…
"Then why is there blood in your lips?" I spat. Oh God, this monster had drunken from me even when I was unconscious… Stefan lowered his gaze towards his lips, wiped the slight trails of blood away from his lips with the back of his hand and gave me an apologetic look of guilt, which confirmed me crystal that he really had drunken from me.
But before I could panic he said, "Look, Elena, you were fading fast… you needed my help. I helped you…" how can some demon help me by drinking my blood while I was in an unconscious state? I thought. Then he spoke again, "You lost a lot of blood. You needed my blood. I gave you my blood…it healed you."
My hands immediately found their way up to my neck. To my surprise, the skin in here wasn't torn or wounded, as it was supposed to be, it was smooth, good as new…his blood healed me. But yak! He made me drink his blood…I felt sick as a strong nausea hit my stomach… I was grateful to him for saving me from the brick of death, but how could I trust him? Knowing that he was a vampire…his brother was one. Damon made me unbolt the lock of the basement dungeon against my own will… how could I know that Stefan wasn't doing the same right now… They can make people do anything they want. Oh Lord! What have I put myself into…I thought. All the rational thoughts were fading fast from me…one moment I was thinking I should jump off my open window, the next moment I was thinking I should scream out loud so that Jeremy or Jenna could come in and save me… What was I thinking, involving Jeremy and Jenna into this…so that Stefan and Damon could suck their blood to death or worse… crack their spin…? I couldn't think of anything else. They were the only family that I had left and I'd die before I let anything happen to them…I'd do anything in my power to save them…
I quickly rushed towards my desk and grabbed a pencil-sharpener knife and pointed it towards him…who was I kidding, I'd seen enough vampire movies and read enough vampire novels to know that they were not this easily destroyable…
"Put it down, Elena" in a heartbeat he stood next to me, my heart froze in terror as he snatched the knife from me and put it back on the table. "I'd never hurt you…" Stefan said grabbing my face in between his hands.
I began to hysteria… "All those animal attacks…All those people, who died?" I removed his hands away from my face…
"…no…no…no…that was Damon."
"Damon…" I mumbled.
"Yes… I don't like to hurt innocent people", Stefan said.
"Then why did you get involved with us, with me", I spat…
"Elena, I should have told you earlier. I wanted to…I was gonna tell you…"
"When? After you had me all wrapped around your fingers…or better yet, made me your own voodoo doll, like Damon did to Caroline?" I could feel my fear was replacing with an explosion of rage…fast…
"Elena, Damon's different…"
"How?" I spat, "You both are monsters, you kill people, feed on their blood, then how can you differ from him?"
"Because I don't drink human blood…I've been feeding on animals for years now. Damon… he likes injecting pain among the people, he likes to prey on human."
"…and yet you let him get involved with Caroline…"
"Elena, trust me…I know my brother very well… forcing Damon not to do something is much more dangerous. He takes that as an invitation to a disaster…" Stefan explained.
"So you did nothing…nothing… to save her, save us from him…" I began to cry again.
"I did, Elena. I tried… I tried to lock him in the basement, I thought he wouldn't get any blood in there and without blood, he'd desiccate in few months. I even stole his daylight ring. Though that without his daylight ring, he'd never dare to come out in the light. I didn't think… I didn't think, he'd bargain his ring for you… I made him infuriated…" Stefan said clutching his hair in both of his fists, "Oh…God… Elena. I had no idea that how strong he was, even when he was starving, he could call up on you and make you do things. I had no idea that he'd take his revenge on you… I meant you no harm Elena…"
"If you mean me no harm, then you'll go… you'll go away from my life forever…" I said it breathless…
"I'll go…I'll go. But I need to keep you protected from him now."
"You don't need to worry about my protection… If you want me safe, then you'll give Damon his ring back…and leave our lives, both of you…"
"I will, Elena. I'll give him his ring back… but I need time. I hid it in the Castle of San Salvatore in Italy. I need time to go pick it up from there. I don't want to leave you in this danger. I want you to come with me…"said Stefan.
Before he could do anything to make me go with him, I shook my head heavily and spoke, "I don't need to go anywhere with you…you just need to give him his ring back, and get the hell out of my life…"
"Elena, but it's dangerous for you to-" he began, but I stopped him in the midway, "…and it's safe to travel with a vampire, isn't it? Look, Stefan, I get it that you care about me, you worry about my safety. But I'll be here with my family and friends…I'll be safe here…and I'd never run away leaving my friends and family in danger…"
"Why aren't you seeing this? Damn it… I'm just trying to protect you…" Stefan growled…
"I don't need your protection… the only thing I need to be protected from is you and that bastard brother of yours…if you're really worried about me then you should leave and bring Damon the ring as fast as possible and then leave my life…"
"What do you mean leave your life?" asked Stefan.
"I made myself clear, Stefan. I don't want to do anything with you. I'm not some pathetic novel girl. I can't love a living dead."
"Does that mean -?"
"Yes, Stefan… It's over. It should have never happened in the first place…" I saw teardrops beading in his eyes… but I said firmly, "…now, if you cared about me even for a second…you'll leave, you and your brother... and never think of coming back in my life ever…again"
"I'm sorry, Elena…I never wanted any of this to happen…" with a hush like a gust of winds, he left my room through the window. The gauzy curtains flew for a few moments…
A drop of tear bead slips from my lashes as I remember the moment… the hurting eyes… I hurt him and whatever is happening to me right now, I'm paying for my own Karma. Sitting up in the huge four-poster bed, I eye the room for a moment. I'm in the boarding house, I'm sure of it. I see their back lawn, a sizzling spring morning through a gap between the heavy curtains of the huge wall sized window. I run my fingers nervously through my hair and make an attempt to get out of the bed. But instead of getting out of the bed I clutch my legs to my chest and start weeping as I see a huge dark brown arm chair and the thing hung from the back of it…a black leather jacket…his jacket…he really did imprison me…
Tears well up in my eyes, I want to curl into a small ball, wishing that I'd disappear from here. But I won't… Damon kidnapped me and imprisoned me in their own house and I have no clue, what the hell is he planning to do to me…
After Stefan left, I spent hours to recover from that impact. I showered, I tried to sleep…I really, really wished that I could forget it all like it never happened. But with every breath I took, all those horrible things kept crawling in my mind… I helped Jenna cooking dinner just to make my mind busy so that I could forget all these for a few moment, we talked about gibberish, I laughed at her lame jokes, in fact I myself made stupid jocks to make the weather lighter. I spent hours playing video games with Jeremy, which I hadn't done in a very long time… I couldn't get them involved in all these, I couldn't tell them… but I wanted to feel them close to me, I was so scared to be alone. After we finished our dinner, we watched a movie together, a comedy movie. Then Jenna suddenly ditched our movie night, saying that she was exhausted… so we two siblings watched the movie for the next couple of hours…and when the credits started rolling, we decided to head back to our bedroom and sleep, the doorbell rang I and Jer both went to answer it giggling…
My heart became a baby bird and it flew away the moment I saw the person standing on the other side of the door. I wanted to shut that door with all my strength. But he simply held it wide open with such less effort, it seemed like I was a little mouse to a mountain lion. I wanted to keep Jeremy safe from all of these, I told him firmly to go upstairs. I knew it was too dangerous to talk to him alone, but I couldn't put Jeremy or Jenna in this.
"You're afraid of me…" he said with a devilish grin on his lips… "I'm gonna go out on a limb here… and guess…Stefan finally fessed up" he said chuckling.
The only thing I was worried about was my own limbs… "Stay away from me", I said breathless.
"Hey, hey, hey… there's no need to be rude. I'm just looking for Stefan…" he said.
"May I come in?"… He suddenly asked and before I could answer, he replied himself, mocking his own question, "Oh. Wait! off-course I can. I've been invited in…" and stepped inside the house, closing the door behind him…
"We can cut to the chase if you want…I'm not gonna kill you right now. That wouldn't serve my great agenda…" he said pacing around the living room…
"Oh yeah! And what is that?" I snapped. Even if I was scared, but I was mad as hell at that son of a bitch…
"You really wanna know. Don't you?" he said leaning close to me… I stepped backwards, until I felt the wall against my back… he read the cold dead expressions on my face and continued, "So… Where's Stefan?"
"He's out looking for that bloody ring of yours…" I hissed venomously…
"Don't look at me with those judgy little eyes…I did it all to you to get even with him. Trust me, it wasn't half a bit of paying back after what he had done to me…" he came closer, while explaining. I pressed my back on the wall to keep the minimum distance from him…
"You're a monster… You deserved it…" I didn't know from where did that came from…I knew how murderous it could be to provoke an untamed beast like him. But I felt my mouth and my mind welling up with an uncontrollable rage. I saw his jaw tightened, his handsome features almost changing in to a demon for the fraction of a second. Then he turned away from me, as if he was killing the urge to rip me apart right then right there. I stay frozen right there.
After a few moments he turned and spoke, "Got the whole life-story. Huh?"
"I got enough…"
"Oh… I doubt that", he said biting his lower lip…then suddenly he grabbed my hand in an iron grip and started walking towards the door…
"Damon…what are you doing?" I tried my best to pry my hand from his grip, before the point of breaking my bones…
Damon suddenly released his grip but tended to grab me by my upper arm. I snapped backwards and said, "I'm warning you…if you take another step towards..."
"Then what?" he said, "What can you do against me, Elena?"
I fell silent as the realization hit my mind… he's a predator, I'm his prey… what can I do against him…
"I don't know…" my voice was a bare whisper, "I'll find something…Believe me…"
My heart jerked and started pounding hard in my chest as he started laughing. "I do believe you…" though the laughter left his lips, it left it's traces in his eyes… "I do believe you that you'll find something. But in order to do that…you'll need some time around me", he leaned in and grabbed my upper arm painfully and he said smirking, "…and I'm gonna make sure you have it." He started dragging me towards the door…
"Damon…let go of me…let go of me…" I shouted and I continued to hit him with my free hand.
"Everything all right in there…" I heard Jeremy's voice and my eyes followed the source and found him standing on the staircase, hovering over the railing…
"Nothing, Jeremy…just go back to bed…"
"Doesn't look like nothing…"
Damon glanced upwards for a moment and before I could do any thing to stop him, he rushed towards Jeremy and pinned him by his throat against the wall next to them… I heard Damon murmuring in my brother's ears, loud enough for me to hear from downstairs, "You're right it's not 'nothing'… you see, I have a problem here. I want your sister to come with me, but she won't. And you my dear, interrupted me the exact moment I convinced her to come with me…So tell me, brother, if I should kill you right now… or go for the sleeping beauty next room, if your sister doesn't agree to come with me…"
Oh…God I don't want my brother to get hurt because of me, I cant let him get hurt…I thought… that beast was gonna kill both of them and he was gonna make his way to me before or after killing my entire family…so I decided wisely, "Damon, I'll go…I'll go with you, just don't hurt them…" I begged him.
I saw him murmur something in my brother's ear, and then he slammed Jer across the wall, when he was finished. Jeremy made a chocking sound, he surely was hurt. But before I could go help him, Damon came rushing like a hurricane. He threw me over his shoulder and our house blurred from my vision…
A dazzling beam of sunlight was peeking through a narrow gap in between the dark chocolate curtains…
I cried for it seemed like hours. I thought that Damon'd come anytime and do something terrible to me. But I don't feel his presence anywhere. I don't think I can out run him, but if I try to get out the boarding house now, maybe I'd be able to get past Damon, because it's still daytime out there. He won't be able to chase me out in the daylight. I can get to my house, and then I'll have the entire day. I can take Jenna, Jeremy somewhere far…out of his reach…
I get up from the bed and walk towards the door. I turn the knob and to my surprise, it wasn't locked from the outside. I silently open the door and start walking downstairs… I don't know much about the Salvatore house, but I know that the main entrance is through the living room…and I knew there's a back entrance through the library, which leads to the path through the back lane and ends at the high way near the Wickery Bridge. I was probably in trance when Damon made me come here and unbolt him from the basement dungeon yesterday, but my memories of the path are still crystal clear in my mind… I decide the sooner I get to the high way, the better. So I start making my way to the library as soundlessly as possible.
I stealthily walk towards the door. Still no sign of Damon… There's only a few feet left in between me and my freedom…I walk to the door and my heart stops beating…
The door was padlocked from inside. I deliberately try the windows… padlocked…everything padlocked…Every place of the room, from where someone can enter of get out was locked… it's just the moment I think of trying to break a glass window, throwing a chair or something… it happens…
Yeah... haaa!
(guitar solo)
Somewhere in the house rock music starts playing aloud, shattering my ear drum. My heart's pounding so loudly that it feels like it's in my throat… I try to calm myself and process the idea that originated in me, as the music goes on…
Your heart's on fire but you're cold to the touch
I know you want it, but you love yourself too much
Your heart's on fire but your head isn't right
You better leave it, I ain't ever giving up!
Hey hey hey!
Oh!
This is a given I think, because the loud noise is surely gonna shield the sound of me breaking the glass… I search for a chair or a stool or anything lift-able… when suddenly I hit something unexpected, I crush against a wall hard chest. I look up to find piercing gaze of blue orbs…
I start quaking in terror. But, with an unexpected 250 kilo-watt smile, he says… "Looking for me?"
Music for the Chapter: Beauty of the Dark- Mads Langer; Jet- Black Heart.
Author's Note: Woo… what do you think what's gonna happen when Damon finds out she was gonna break his precious window? *wink*
Now here, I confess my crime… I published this story in my short story collection- 'The Prisoner of Desire'. Because I was worried that people might not like the idea of darker Damon. But, I always craved to enlarge this story and after seeing so many requests, I figured that I really should enlarge it. So the first three chapters are almost the same as the updates in 'The Prisoner of Desire'… but, what's going to come next is unpredictable and I also removed the three chapters from 'The Prisoner of Desire' a while ago… So… Please, please review and let me know if I should continue this or not…
I'm going to update the next two chapters within the next 48 hours… the following chapters are going to take some time…
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