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Chapter 1
Wickery Bridge

Elena

I could feel the pain of his hands grabbing me. The dark bruises that would form, had I been able to make it out of this alive. His strength was made from years of drinking the sustenance of his lively hood. I had the power of an ant compared to his lion strength. No matter how much I kicked, punched, wiggled, and screamed past the thin white cloth wrapped around my mouth and clenched between my teeth, it was of no use. My death was imminent and as he crept slowly over the wood sounding floor I heard each creek and felt the nip of the cold bitter wind as it slashed against my bare legs. I only wore shorts and a sports bra, my clothes were taken from me the moment I was snatched away during a basic fall day run almost a week ago. I remember the chair, the straps, the bags. Needles in each arm as I was drained of blood. Ever so slowly was it dripped from me. stopped for a day and then repeated. I never even saw his face, I only heard his voice. The Middle Age Era accent with a hint of sass. It was higher than Klaus's and Elijah's.

I knew then that it was Kol Mikaelson. The younger brother of Klaus and Elijah, the older brother of Rebekah.

No matter how many time I think of each name I'm disgusted by each one of the Originals but at this moment it was Kol I hated most.

"Sorry about this, but I can't afford to have my brother get all the hybrids he wants." Kol begins to say, I stop moving momentarily to listen to him. We've stopped moving all together. "You see, if I say that the doppelganger is dead then he will have nothing. That is until I show him all the blood I've gotten from you and force him to beg me for it. Then I will be on top and he will bow down to my power." Kol heaves a sigh and readjusts his hold on me. His hand stays close to my bottom and I cringe at the contact.

I begin to plead through the cloth between my teeth. "Please Kol." I said in a chattered voice as my covered eyes welled with tears. "Sorry about this." He says nonchalantly. I hear something splash in water. Water. He's going to through me in the frozen lake. I once again start my thrashing and, with all that's about to happen, I call a name.

"Damon!" I cry loudly into the cloth. "Damon!" I sob. My breath begins to hitch, my fear of the water escalates. I start to shake and cry and scream.

"Goodbye." Kol says calmly, sitting me on a railing, the one of Wickery Bridge, and then shoves me backwards. I fall, slowly, like a bird falling from its nest. I can feel the wind around me and begin to wonder why on earth haven't I hit the water yet. And then I envision it. My parents' faces as we sat in the car that day and drove straight of the side. Stefan heard a car crash but could he or anyone with Vampire hearing, hear me crash through the ice and sink into the below freezing water? The answer was no, so I hold my breath, close my eyes, and feel as I crash into the water.

~.~.~

It burned. The water was so cold that it burnt my skin at contact but the pressure easily lifted the covering on my eyes. I could only see blurry black images under the water, and the bubbles that I blew from my nose. I looked to my hands and feet that were bound by rope and causing me a great deal of pain and struggle. I began to draw my hands back against my bare ribs. The motion helped with removing the ropes. My right hand began to slip out, my skin tearing from the rugged material but being released non-the less. I could feel my heart slowing as I began to run out of air and energy to move. My body beat was non-existent and I could feel how I was being drained by this cold and the lack of blood in my system. I should have given up, right there and then! I don't know why I persisted. I could have simply inhaled water into my lungs and allowed darkness to over come me. But I, being so stupid, fought harder and finally got my hand free. I ripped my feet lose and kicked my way to the surface. I could hardly see when I rammed my head into the thin sheet of ice that caused warm blood to flow from my forehead. When I drew in a strong breath of air and my vision cleared I felt relived. My hands fumbled around my head until I was able to untie the cloth from my mouth and pull it away. I bit so hard I caused blood to soak into the cloth to my dismay; I simply released it back into the water.

With my little lasting energy I pulled myself through the sharp ice that cut up my skin until I could feel the muddy bottom.

"Damon." I said with that final painful breath until darkness pulled me and I fell face first into the mud like beach.

Damon

"Any luck with the location spell?" I ask Bonnie as my hands held onto the glass of bourbon I hardly touched.

"Nothing, she is literally no where to be found! Like someone wiped her off the planet." Bonnie falls back against the couch and rubs her eyes in dismay.

"It's alright Bon." Matt says, rubbing her shoulder softly as she shook with sobs.

"I can't find her and I feel like it's my fault." She whimpers, I roll my eyes.

"It's not." Matt reasons.

"There is no reason as to why I can't find her though." She demands angrily, sitting up again and looking at the map on the coffee table.

"Look," I begin, resting against the single chair and taking a simple swing of the bourbon. "If Elena were truly in trouble, she would have called for someone by now. She knows very well… that um…."

"Damon, what is it?" Matt asks as I furrow my eyebrows and sit up again.

"I hear Caroline running." I say slowly, listening in as the patter of feet make it to the door and enter quickly.

"I heard her!" Caroline shrills, grabbing a blanket and beckoning us to follow. "She was calling for you, Damon, she's not to far from here." I rise so fast that my glass flies from my hands and clatters to the floor.

"Where did you hear it come from, Caroline?" I ask as I vampire speed to the door and whip out my phone.

"South of the town, near the border of it." She says as we begin to run and I fumble to call Stefan.
"Did you find her?" He answers with.

"Caroline heard someone calling my name near the south end of town. We're going to check the bridge, you scower the border." I say, he agrees and hangs up.

"Why the blanket?" I ask Caroline as the wind whips past our ears.

"It's 5 degrees (-15 Celsius), Damon. She may need it." She explains, slowing down as we come near the bridge.

"Look everywhere, I can smell her." I say.

"Me too." Caroline sniffs subtly and then furrows her eyes. "Do you hear that?" She asks me.

"Crying." I say hopefully, running to one side of the railing while Caroline takes the other.

"Damon, look!" She demands, I run back to her side and noticed the broken ice that leads to the outer banks. There laid the body of a nearly blue girl. She shook from the cold and heart beat made no noise in my ears like they used to from this distance.

"Elena!" Caroline shrieks, we both run and make it to her side within seconds.

"Give me that blanket. Call Stefan." I demand, throwing my phone at her and whipping the blanket around Elena's slender frame. I curl her up into my lap and stroke her drenched hair as she nuzzles into my neck.

"I got you, it's okay." I whisper, grabbing her soaked toes that never got away from the water and tucked them into the blanket as well.

"Cold." She mummers against my neck as her cold lips skim my skin.

"We'll get you warm soon. I promise." I say looking at Caroline who is contacting Stefan and telling him to get home and get a hot bath going.

"Bye." She says, rising from the ground and taking her sweater off. She wraps Elena's hair in the sweater and helps me to make it up the hill without jostling her too much.

We begin to run until I see the boarding house come into view.

"We're almost home, Lena." I tell her, pulling the blanket a little bit tighter around her shaking frame.

"Stefan said he was going to bring by Meredith. She can help in case anything internal-"

"Meredith won't be able to help!" I spat loudly, slowing as I got to the door and burst through it.

"Elena." Bonnie cries, rising from the couch with Matt and Jeremy.

"She's freezing. Is the bath ready?" I ask them. They all nod so I run up the stairs to my room where I can hear the water filling up.

"Stefan." I say when I enter.

"Meredith is coming by in case of hypothermia or-"

"Just leave and get hot water bottles ready." I demand, pointing towards the door. Stefan leaves quickly allowing me to place Elena down despite her weak protests of clinging to my shirt.

"It's alright." I promise her, unclenching her shaking hands and removing the blanket. Her stomach was teared up from the ice as well as her right hand. Rope still hung around her left wrist and right foot. I remove the restrain and begin to undress her quickly of her bra and shorts. She refuses to open her eyes as tears slip down her cheeks and blood stays coating her forehead.

"Deep breaths." I coach her, lifting her back into my arms and easing her into the warm water.

"No!" She cries in protest, I remove her quickly.

"Elena, calm down. Open your eyes!" I say as she shakes her head and sobs.

"No! Don't hurt me." She begs, thrashing her legs since I held her arms. I kick my feet from the shoes I wore and placed her down on the blanket once again so I could remove my pants. I kept my shirt and underwear on as I picked her back up and stepped into the tub. Together I sat us down and held her against my chest as the warm water soaked our cold bodies.

"It hurts." She whispers as her fists clench my shirt and my hand slowly lift water to run over her back. I sink lower so the water is up to her chin and I can work on cleaning away the blood.

In that moment, the want to take the pain away and feed her my blood became insanely strong. I would give anything to heal her and take away all that has happened to her.

"I can make it go away." I whisper into her ear, hoping for her consent. All I get is silence, she just trembles and grips to me until I feel the water decrease in temperature.

I hope you enjoy this story. It's before Elena is a vampire obviously, but Damon loves her instead of Stefan.

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-Valentina