A/U
Here's more of it as asked for ;)
I've twisted about with the whole thing just letting my imagination run.
Sorry if it goes on a bit.
P x
Chapter 1
Elena's P.O.V
I'm trying to find my pace as I run through the unknown forest that's foreign to me.
I've warmed up now and I'm trying to find my way as I'm running out of breathes. I'd been running with Matt but I think he ran off without me after I looked away from the front, feeling sick. My stomach was churning again and I'm not too sure why, I didn't eat anything before I ran and I'm not thirsty.
I start to get a bad feeling about where I'm heading, I can't see any marshals in bright illuminating orange coats and I can't hear the crowd screaming names and wings anymore.
I start to debate with myself if I'm lost but I keep running anyway. I only followed one path because there was only ever one path. Yet I can't see anyone in sight.
I stop for a few seconds, looking around and then I walk over to the right, looking down the bank that seemed quite steep. I can hear water nearby trickling like a stream or river. I follow the noise and find a miniature rocky stream that follows down the steep bank. I cup my hands and plunge them into the 5 inch deep liquid. Once my hands are full I pull them towards my face and I move my face towards my hands and take a drink.
The water is pure. I stand up and take another look around. I hear twigs snapping behind me and as I rotate to take a look the ground gives way and I'm falling, tumbling down the bank towards the deep endless bottom. The rocks sticking out of the ground punch me on my open skin. When I come to halt I lay there for a few seconds trying to recollect what just happened.
My heart is pounding and my pulse is raging. I can feel stinging everywhere and I feel bruised.
I sit up and look at where I am. It's darker down here and I can't see a path. I look up to where I fell from and notice that the ground was damp being near the stream and all. Little did I know that that would happen though.
I start to get up and inspect myself making sure that I haven't got any sharp pains that could result in a possible break, fracture or sprain. I check out all the places that feel bruised and stinging, but I only have a few grazes and bloody rashes. Not too bad for a fall of that height.
I stumble forwards feeling a sharp pain in my knee cap and feel dizzy on my head. I look down and my left knee looks disorientated. I won't touch it just in case I make it worse. I know first aid but Stefan didn't teach me for the knee.
I sit back down frustrated and lost until I hear more shuffling and twigs crackling. I turn towards the noise and I can see a familiar dark blue uniform with a dark orange card on it. Another runner! They are far away so I can't tell who it is; I don't recognize them from here, until they start walking closer towards me.
Unbelievably I can recognize the perfect face and hair that spikes off in waves towards the left. How is he here?
"Hello?" I yell, he's still too far away.
"Hello" Yep it was the same British accent that I had heard from earlier.
He comes closer jogging towards me this time and I can see a red mark on the right side of his forehead, the mark continues to his cheek bones. He must have fallen as well.
"No time for sitting around Elena" He smiles
"No time for stalking Kol" I reply smiling but generally happy to see someone.
He halts at me, looking down at me as I helplessly stare up into his deep dark brown eyes.
"You fell too?" He asked.
"Yeh, where did you fall?" I replied.
"About 30 meters away, I saw your bright red tracks and decided to check it out seeing as I was lost" He explains.
"Where did you fall?" He asks me.
I point behind me, sending my finger upwards towards the piece of broken land. He follows the direction of my hand with his eyes.
"Oh I see" He flinching a bit as he strains his eyes.
"That's quite a nasty mark you've got there" I say pointing to the area of where it is on my head.
"I don't think it's quite as bad as yours Elena" He says. I put my hand up to my forehead where I can feel it throbbing and touch it. It hurts like hell and feels slippery. I pull my hand away and notice the scarlet red color that covers my hand.
"Ouch, I didn't notice" I say, shocked that I could've missed it.
"Yeh well it's hard to miss" He jokes.
"Ha ha" I say sarcastically with a jokingly filled face.
"So what do you want to do now?" He asks.
"Find our track" I reply.
"Ok let's do that" Kol agrees.
I get up as he steps forward to take a look at where we are but all there is are trees.
I step forward limp at the pain shooting through my left leg and burning around my knee.
"Are you ok Elena?" Kol asks noticing my limp and the face I make with gritted teeth trying to get rid of the pain which just makes my head throb more.
"I'm fine I'll survive" Hoping to just walk it off.
"Are you sure?" Kol is persistent in asking me.
"Uh…" I'm cut off as I keep limping forwards.
"No you're not Elena where does it hurt?" Kol is full of serious tone now.
I lift up my left leg track bottoms to show Kol what I had gathered on my knee. It had got worse now since I applied pressure. It was a bright blue and purple and the knee cap had moved more to the left of my leg, it was swollen and the massive lump on the right was the size of my fist.
"Elena I'm carrying you" He says after taking one glance at it.
"No no you don't have…"
"Yes Elena I am" I stay quiet after being cut off.
"Ok" I say. He walks over to me looking at me in the eye getting closer to my face and then he bends down and gently lifts me up, his left arm around my back and his right underneath my thighs.
He doesn't make a sound as he elevates me from the ground, showing no struggle as he lifts me up.
"Are you sure?" I ask looking at him as he starts to walk forward.
"Positive Elena and your head doesn't look too good either" He says, making me notice the pulsing in my head. I start to feel dizzy and start to breathe heavily. My eyes feel heavy and weightless.
"Elena, stay with me" Kol says, waking me up. There's a ringing in my ears and I want to just sleep.
"Elena let's make conversation" Kol says to me.
I make a noise that agrees with him and feel sleepy.
Kol's voice starts to fade away as does the pain; I'm starting to feel relaxed and collective. My eyelids close once; I open them briefly feeling the calm motion of Kol's movement beneath me. My eyelids close again and I once they do I can't open them again. All I see is black.
Kol's P.O.V
Great she's blacked out. She's gone I've lost her. She's still losing a lot of blood and I'm struggling to find my way out of this forest. I'm following the stream that Elena was sat by when I found her.
The runners must have finished the 3 miles by now for the cross country. This Revolution Athletes program needs to sort it out. They've lost two runners and hadn't made sure that there were any dangers, yet here I am carrying an unconscious beauty in my arms.
"Unbelievable" I mutter under my breath.
It's starting to get dark and I still don't know where I am.
I decide to take a rest and lay Elena down on some leaves that are dry. I take my spare pair of socks that I have in my pocket just in case my feet got cold and I tie them together making a bandage.
I secure the bandage around Elena's head whilst she breathes heavily. Covering the gash that she acquired from the banks. I sit for a while figuring out what the hell to do next.
I can hear Elena mumbling through her breath, she's still alive which is good but I'm trying to make out what she's saying.
"No…no…Jeremy, don't you won't survive" Is the first line that seeps out of her mouth.
"Stefan, Damon…no" I wonder what she's thinking about.
Her eyelids are blinking rapidly and her body starts shifting. She's sounds like she's in pain as she cries and starts to scream. What's happening, why is Elena acting this way?
She's screaming loudly now and I have no choice but to shake her.
"Elena calm down its ok" I keep shaking her until she stops and her eyelids flutter open like nothing happened.
"Kol?" She looks at me with her battering eyes that could tell a million stories just by looking at them.
"Elena I'm here it's ok, you were just having a bad nightmare, no worries" I didn't feel so lonely anymore, I hate having to be silent, all my life I've grown up the youngest of my siblings, I walked around unnoticed and they don't care but now I feel myself again.
"Ok" she says honesty in her tone. I scramble around for dry wood or anything dry really.
After finding 3 pieces of dry wood, I find the lighter that I tucked in my socks and start to light it, placing it in the clearing that I made. I spaced out all the leaves so that there was a massive circle with damp soil.
I dragged a massive log over closest to the fire and I sat down next to it, Elena crawled into me, shivering. I let her cuddle up so that our body heat could project onto one another.
"Can we continue with our guessing game?"
After about an hour of guessing each other's personalities and differences and sharing what we both love and hate. I think I like Elena. Her beauty is sudden and something I've never seen before. Her brown eyes gaze up at me, smiling.
"Elena we need some rest now, I've got you warm and your knee looks less swollen, you should be fine" I say insisting that she sleeps but hoping that she wakes up.
Elena's P.O.V
The last person I see is him. His charming dark eyes surrounded with so much insecurity and expression. His eyes haunt me as I close my eyes after seeing him stare down at me, his face perfect and his hair a brown handsome mess. It was no lie that this man was amazingly hot but so kind and sincere at the same time. It takes forever to find someone like that.
I start drifting off to sleep, my nose nuzzling his shoulder. My ear is pressed against his sturdy soft arms as if he was a carpeted metal robot. His breathing pattern is deep and slow. He's calm which makes me feel safe.
I've known Kol for less than a day but my feelings have risen for him. I feel almost like a whole. I have Stefan and Damon waiting for me back at home along with Jeremy Gilbert, Caroline Forbes and Bonnie Bennet, my three best friends. My teacher is my former guardian; Mr. Saltzman is a man with a large sole and golden heart.
I start thinking about Grayson and Miranda again. The two people who I thought I could trust my whole life. The two people who I thought would love me my whole life. No, they left Stefan, Damon and I to suffer trying to survive without money, food or love.
"Hey sweetheart your father and I are going to get out the house for a while, but Stefan and Damon are both downstairs if you want anything" Mom spoke to me as she sat beside my bed, her perfume swirling around my mind messing with my senses and letting me know that that is a safe smell.
"Ok mom" I reply as she gently stroke my hair back from my forehead repeatedly, making me sleepy and relaxed.
She gave me a quick smile, spreading the light nude pink lipstick that covered her thin plump lips. She walked out closing the door over behind me. I heard the familiar large steps that were getting closer. I could shadows projecting from underneath my door and then I heard muffled noises.
"Is she still awake?" My dad asks my mom.
"Yes but barely so make it quick and let's get out of here" My mom said in an unusual rushed tone. She was panicking but I don't know why so I didn't worry.
The door opened and I watched as my dad peered in.
"Hello princess" The usual nickname my dad gave me in worried occasions soothed me.
He walked over and sat beside me in the same spot that my mom had sat in just 2 minutes ago.
"Hello daddy" He gently rested the fore of his index finger on the top of my nose that levels with my eyebrows. I close my eyes as he brushes his finger down to the tip of my nose. My dad's character move that only I receive.
He pecks me on the cheek and starts exiting the room, leaving nothing but the mixed scent of both my mom and him behind.
I open my eyes battering them as I fight the sensitivity to the bright lights above me. I'm warm and for some reason not in the damp cold forest. My vision is blurring but I can hear male voices to my right.
"Will she be ok?" A familiar light sound asks.
"Yes she'll be fine but she will need support to walk" both the speaking voices were strong and British.
"Ahh she's awake" The deep second voice spoke again.
I continued to stare up trying to gather where I am, notice the sounds surrounding me and the feeling between the webbing of my fingers. A tanned man peered over me looking at me straight in the face. He rested his hand on the left of my face and then I flinched at the bright white light that was shining straight at me.
"Miss. Elena Gilbert?" The male asked I was assuming he was a doctor.
"Yes" I replied, I'm tired and it felt a great effort to open my mouth.
"I'm assuming you have questions?" He asked me his blue eyes staring at me intently.
"Yes" I repeated.
"Do go ahead and ask and I'll answer anything I can" He says, I thought about my questions carefully.
"Where am I and how did I get here?" I ask slowly, suffering with pain in my head.
"You are at Ivy Legion's hospital and young Mr. Kol Mikaelson here was found in the forest you were running in unconscious with you on his lap also unconscious" I digested the information and got ready to shoot my next question.
"What's wrong with me?" Insisting I need to know.
"You have a broken knee cap and you've fractured you shin, you also have a very mild concussion with 7 stitches in the gash on that you forehead that you acquired" He finished, a broken knee cap and fractured shin, I don't care about my forehead, but I won't be able to run again?
My last question which mattered a lot to me than I thought it would.
"Where is Kol?"
The doctor looked up and towards my left, brushing his hand through his blonde hair.
I scanned over to where the doctor was staring and I found Kol, sitting on his own bed covered in blankets and a bandage over his head. His lips are blue and his face is pale. He holds up his hand with his index and middle fingers pointing out as he gives me a salute with a smile the creases his forehead when he raises his eyebrows.
"Hey there lazy" He joked.
"Hey there stalker" I joked back giving a weak smile and tired eyes.
"I'll give you two sometime to talk it out" The doctor says as he exits the room that only Kol and I are in and sharing.
"Thank you brother" Kol says smiling up at the doctor who burned my eyes by shining an L.E.D light in them.
As the doctor exits I give Kol a confused look as to what he meant by brother.
"That's Klaus he's my older brother" Kol explains to me staring up at the ceiling.
"Ahh, so what did you do?" I ask.
"Once we fell asleep I froze and got pneumonia and didn't wake up for a day until we had our own little search party find us with you asleep on my lap as well with my homemade bandage around your head made out of socks" I laughed at this, wow we were out for a day.
The silence is brought upon us and a thought comes into my head, one that screams and starts me at panicking level.
"Stefan and Damon" I mutter under breath as I look down at the covers radiating warmth.
"Elena?" Kol ask, all the happy has gone from his tone.
"Stefan and Damon" I say louder.
"Oh your two older brothers right?" How does he know I didn't tell him about my siblings, in fact the family conversation didn't cross our paths?
"Yeh" I say.
"They should be here soon; Klaus said they landed about 2 hours ago.
Just as he finishes the two people I love most enter the room and my smile extends like never before, I'm relieved and my eyes start to well up after recovering from the white light.
"Elena" say my two older brothers in sync with each other.
"Stefan, Damon"
