Do Or Die

Chapter Two

Elena thought she had been frightened by the vampires but standing before Elijah and feeling the chilling coldness of his piercing eyes she knew what she was feeling was true fear. Her whole body was frozen waiting for him to strike, the uncontrollable tremors running through her body causing her to panic and hyperventilate.

All the while he just stood there staring at her without a word.

Finally the silence was broken, "I gave you my word, again" Elijah's look became one of condemnation, "And you in return kill me" he brought his hand up and brushed back a few strands of her hair from her eyes, his touch soft and almost affectionate.

He tilted his head to one side and shook it; make a disapproving tisk tisk sound as he did so, leaning forward till their foreheads almost touched he whispered softly, "I won't make the same mistake again"

"Please…" Elena cried, but before she couldn't say anything more he lifted a finger to her lips to hush her.

"I will not hesitate to kill those close to you should they even attempt to save you" he said coldly ignoring her look of shock, "We will continue on with my decision to protect you till Klaus arrives and should your friends interfere…" he leant forward and breathed in her ear causing chills down her spine, "I will rip out their hearts right in front of you" he promised softly, smirking when he saw that his message had affected her the way he meant it to.

He pulled back just as swiftly and after retrieving the cell phone of the deceased vampire turned and grabbed her upper arm in a tight unyielding grip, "Time to be off" he informed her pulling her along beside him as he started through the corridors towards the stairs, "We have a long journey ahead of us"

After a short walk away from the Salvatore house, Elijah had stopped a passing driver and compelled him to hand over his car, he then proceeded to drive them out of Mystic Falls, and for the past twenty minutes Elena could do no more than watch as they drove down unknown back country roads.

Where are we going?" Elena demanded after finally calming down enough to talk, her voice still a little shaky.

Elijah was silent for several moments; Elena repeated her question knowing full well that he had heard her.

"Where no one will find you" was all he said.

Elena was somehow comforted by his words; if they couldn't find her then Elijah wouldn't kill them, but she knew Stefan and Damon to well.

Elijah grabbed the cell phone he had placed in his pocket and dialled a number, "Jonas" he murmured.

After a few seconds Elijah smiled amused while Elena could only watch, "As you can hear I am alive and well" he chuckled at his own words, "Well…alive as any vampire can be"

"I have Elena with me" he stated getting back to the matter at hand, "I want you to deliver a message to the Salvatore brothers"

Elena immediately tensed at the mention of Stefan and Damon, Elijah looked at her as he spoke his next words, "If they attempt to find her or get in my way…she will pay the price for their idiocy…that is all…If I have need of you I will call" with that he hung up the phone and continued to drive.

Elena had fallen asleep in the passenger seat of the car sometime during the drive, the day's events had finally taken their toll on her physically and even though she had fought the waves of exhaustion she had finally succumbed and drifted off.

Elijah turned to glance at her every now and then, hearing her soft moans as dreams of a dark kind haunted her. Even though she was the spitting image of Katherine he could not deny that she was in every other way different. He was impressed with the fact that she had not begged and pleaded when knowing her fate, In that alone she proved to be braver than Katherine, where Katherine had ran away she had decided to stay and sacrifice herself instead. Elena's betrayal however still left him bitter and angry, after seeing the date on the cell phone he had realised he had lost a week not a day, she had set his plans back and caused him a considerable amount of hassle.

He couldn't get the look of hope on her face when she had revived him; she had looked at him as her saviour…as her…hero. Of course she had known he would protect her from those vampires, after all the effort he had put in keeping her alive up until this point she knew he would readily do just that again.

But it had been a long time since someone had looked at him with a look of hope and not fear; he had not been privy to that expression for more than five hundred years.

Elena's body slumped closer towards him as he turned a corner, closer to his destination, the night sky had already fallen around them, and their only light other than the headlights were that of the moonlight.

He pulled off the gravel road onto a darkened driveway, and came to a stop in front of an large mansion-like old two-story brick house. He got out of the car and walked over to the passenger door opening it quietly. He leant in and after unbuckling her seatbelt pulled her sleeping form out and into his arms. Elena stirred in his embrace and blinked groggily looking up at him, sleep still trying to take her yet again.

"What…" she murmured looking up into his penetrating eyes. He gave her an almost friendly smile and shushed her bringing her closer into his embrace. "Welcome to my home," he murmured as he turned around to give her a view of their surroundings.

(Authors Note)

Thanks again for reading Im trying to update as fast as possible that is why the chapters arent so long as I have been very busy and likely will be for the next few days, please review and let me know what you think. XxX Will update again tommorrow.