Hey guys I was up really late with a really great idea for the future chapters once all this slow stuff is all settled and I'm really excited! Hope you like this chapter and soon enough things will start to get a lot more heated... :)
"Elena what was that are you okay, it was like you were in a trance what happened?" Damon and Stefan are standing in front of Elena as Matt asks her what happened.
"You compelled her," Stefan says to Damon blankly. "Did he hurt you Elena, I swear I'll…"
"Stefan knock it off, this isn't what is really important right now, I still need time to think about what I'm going to do," Elena informs with a dry throat.
"Well you don't have much time Elena," Damon states, trying to avoid the elephant in the room and wondering which memory just came back to her. Elena on the other hand was jittery and paranoid; if she didn't turn that meant she wouldn't have to make that deal with Katherine, but would that really stop her from killing everyone that she loves? The answer to that question ultimately makes the decision for her.
"Actually…I don't need it, I know what I'm going to do," Elena says shakily. "It's what I have to do, I have to feed."
"Elena, you don't have to do anything, not for any of us this is your life," Damon stresses but this doesn't faze her, she can see through his lapis lazuli eyes that he can't lose her, she knows deep down she can't lose him either, him or anyone else in the room.
"You guys just, you don't understand," Elena forces this out of herself, running a hand through her hair. With tears in her eyes she sprints up the steps to her room and shuts her door, she needs some air. As she opens her window she hears a loud knock on her door.
"Elena, come on open up" Damon yells through the door. A faint brush of wind scatters goose bumps over her cold skin, and before she can react a hand flies over her mouth and forcefully grabs her head. She lets out a muffled scream that is cut short by the feeling of fangs by her neck.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," A raspy voice growls, it's Katherine. She pushes Elena onto her bed and wraps cloth over her mouth and around her head painfully tight and Elena whimpers.
"Elena!" Damon screams, hearing her whimpers, "Are you okay what's going on in there?"
"I'm fine Damon; I just need a little more time to think, is that okay?" Katherine's imitation of her is eerily good; she would've thought it was herself as well.
"What happened to being all for the feed," Damon shoots back.
"I do want to be a vampire Damon, I just need a little time to cope with it before I decide to turn," Katherine expresses innocently, she had to have been listening in the whole time once I got home, maybe even before then.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Damon asks slowly.
"I'm sure Damon," Katherine responds. "See you down there soon." As she waits for Damon to go downstairs and tell the others she keeps a sharp eye on Elena. "Let's go," she whispers to Elena and with that Katherine jumps out the window with Elena in her arms. Halfway down the road in Katherine's car, which is most likely than not stolen, Katherine rips the cloth from Elena's face.
"What are you doing are you crazy?" Elena screams at Katherine.
"I know you better than you think Elena," she grits out my name like it's poison on her tongue, "you weren't going to go through with turning, at least not for sure, I needed to make sure myself that you turned," Katherine explains, and Elena's eyes widen at what she is implying.
"I don't want to hurt anyone Katherine," Elena states in a clear cut manner through her clenched teeth. Her whole body was on fire, she needed blood, but hurting someone to get it wasn't in her agenda. Soon enough she wouldn't care and she needed to get some blood before she lost all control.
"You don't really have a choice in the matter now do you?" Katherine rhetorically asks, dryly and unenthused. Elena scoffs and rolls her eyes, desperately trying to keep a cool expression while she attempted to conjure up a plan; she just needed a little time.
"So, you really still have feelings for Stefan after all this time, why come back now?" Elena needed Katherine to take the bait, it was a long shot, but she had to have hope. Katherine's face turned to stone, hiding any emotion Elena could've worked with. She turned to face the road up ahead, pretending to be very concentrated on driving "safely" and took a breath before replying.
"Why the sudden curiosity, huh?" Katherine barely got that jab out.
"Just curious is all," Elena dragged on, eagerly waiting for Katherine to snap so she could gain her freedom. "Are you going to answer the question or not?" She snapped after a while of silence. All of a sudden Katherine jolted up and jammed on the brakes. Before Elena could register what was going on Katherine had her by the neck.
"You really should learn a thing or two about self-preservation, allow me," Katherine's voice sliced through the tense air, her strong hand gripping Elena's throat and slamming her head against the denting car seat. "Rule number one, don't push people who are stronger than you," Katherine snapped Elena's wrist at the word stronger and Elena screamed at the top of her lungs. "No one to save you now, huh?" Katherine's smug voice chimed into her ears as tears swept down her cheeks, but Elena knew she was right, she was alone and weak.
"Fine, kill me, you'll be doing me a favor," Elena choked out.
"I think I'd be doing everyone a favor if I killed you, but unfortunately for you I don't do favors," With that Katherine let go of her throat and Elena gulped in as much air as she could fit down her bruised throat. "Would you look at that," Katherine piped up, her mood switching to a cheerful one within milliseconds.
"What are you talking about?" Elena exasperatedly asked, clutching her wrist and holding back the tears that were making her eyes all heavy.
"Looks like we just got lucky," she replied, seeming pleased with herself, as always. As Elena followed her gaze, barely able to twist her neck, she spotted a young brown haired boy around her age walking down the street.
"No way," Elena said quickly, carefully eyeing her doppelganger.
"Just think about it, you'll get to live for Jeremy, find out what occurred last night, and stop that searing pain in your wrist and the tightness in your throat. Think about how the warm blood will gush down your throat, the satisfaction and liveliness you'll get from just one sip. You don't even have to kill him," Katherine spoke in a calculated tone, excitement roaring in her hushed voice, whispering in her ear.
"No!" Elena shouted and attempted to open the car door and rush out, but Katherine already had her pinned to the seat with little effort by the time she touched the door handle.
"Didn't think you'd be that easy after all you're you" Katherine stated with a tight smile. "I didn't want to have to do this, but…" Katherine's raspy voice trailed off, her eyes slowly wandering to Elena's neck, "No necklace? This will be easy." Before Elena could turn away Katherine's cold eyes were piercing into her own, "You're going to feed and drain the life out of the closest human in sight. After you feed you will come back to this car immediately and tell no one you saw me. If you don't come back in five minutes, Damon will be dead." Her monotone voice sent chills down Elena's stiff spine and her legs moved without command. Katherine made sure that if her compulsion broke off once she fed she still had to come back, for Damon. She had no choice; Katherine had won, again she knew she couldn't live with herself if Damon died at her faults. Just as Elena reached the boy across the street a set of hands grasped onto her and turned her around.
"Damon?" Elena asked, she should've realized he would find her, he always does.
"Elena! Where did you go, why did you run away?" Damon asked worried, fixing his eyes on hers.
"I…I have to feed Damon," Elena's tears were finally erupting and she couldn't hold them in, she knew what she had to do. "I'm so sorry," she whispered, unsure herself if it was directed to Damon, the boy she was about to kill, or both.
"Elena stop, you don't have to do this, I can help you," Damon cried desperately.
"No Damon. You can't, you really can't," Elena's strong voice turned into another soft whisper only he could hear. Her eyes gave it all away.
"You're compelled. Who compelled you Elena?" Damon tried to get more out of her but she just turned away from him and just like that bit into the neck of the boy. "Elena no!" Damon tried to rip her away from the boy but it was useless, she already swallowed her first sip of blood and it was the best thing she had ever had.
"Mm, so good," Elena moaned into the boys neck.
"Elena get off of him, you completed the transition its time to stop," Damon spoke firmly, grabbing her forcefully off of him.
"Dammit Damon leave me alone!" Elena screamed.
"Excuse me? I'm just trying to help you Elena, just let me freakin' help you!" Damon shouted.
"How about you let me help you," Elena pushed him to the side and picked up where she left off, and drained him completely. "There, now you can live," Elena concluded, throwing the lifeless body to the asphalt. She felt as dead as the boy she had just drained, like a part of her was too shocked to even understand what she had just done. She knew it was only a matter of time before remorse flooded into her veins to replace the blood, but all she could think about was returning to the car. With that Elena sprinted away, just a blur in the trees, while Damon watched dumbfounded. He was far too confused and angry that he had let that happen, he let his hurt distract him from stopping Elena. He didn't get hurt, he was Damon fucking Salvatore, and he needed to find Elena.
Elena felt a weight being lifted off her shoulders as she approached Katherine's sports car, blood dripping from her mouth, what she didn't know was that Damon had followed her and stayed low to listen in on their conversation.
"There are you happy now," Elena drawled out as she slumped into her seat.
"Me? I think you should be the happy one, why did you do it, once the compulsion wore off as you turned you didn't have to come back or drain that poor, innocent boys body," Katherine obviously knew the answer to that question but she loved any chance to make her blood boil.
"I had to and you know it, just drive would you," Elena growled through clenched teeth.
"You really are no fun, that's too bad no reason to keep you awake then," as Katherine smirked and before Elena could defend herself Katherine banged her head against the window and raced towards Mystic Falls with a pissed off Damon hot on their trail. He knew Katherine had something to do with Elena's behavior and he wondered if it had really been Elena most of the time. He needed to get her out of this alive, no dealings with Katherine ever ended well, and he wouldn't let her screw up his one chance at happiness. He followed them all the way back to the gilbert house, perched outside the Elena's bedroom window listening in to what was going on.
*DE
Elena stirred in her slumber as Katherine finished up straitening her ringlets using Elena's dresser mirror with thousands of pointless pictures of her dead loved ones, according to her. She scoffed to herself just as Elena woke up, "I shot you up with vervain sorry about the inconvenience princess," Katherine informed Elena coldly.
"What are you doing," Elena spoke slowly and unsurely.
"I guess I must've hit your pretty little head too hard," Katherine mumbled a bit bored with herself, she'd thought this was going to be much more entertaining than it actually was, but she was sure this would mix it up a bit, "We're going to switch places because I can't trust you to hold up your end of our little bargain, unless you're up to it."
"Up for what exactly?" Elena asked sacredly.
"Well here's how it's gonna go…"
Damon was finally about to hear what she was up to when Katherine stopped mid- sentence and clicked her heels over to the window and shut it along with shutting the shades.
"Just for extra precaution and of course I had your little Bennett witch spread whatever witchy crap around the room for a little sound proofing," Katherine explained and Damon cursed in Italian under his breath. As if on cue he heard his name and then it was all quiet, guess he'd just have to wait and see what happened which was something he wasn't very great at.
