Ok so i really like this chapter, it's so far my favorite. Anyhow, i'll let you get on ;)
Howl
Chapter Six
The Escape
Her eyes scanned the sky line from the window, the sun had almost set. Damon hadn't come back yet. Perfect. Her lips curled into a smile. Did he honestly think she would stay when she had the option of leaving? She'd never feel the sun on her skin again if it meant getting away from Ethan. She would do anything to stay away from that man. Anything.
Elena sat on her bed, her legs crossed and a frown on her face. She didn't understand. There was so much about his world that she just didn't understand. She felt a cold breeze brush past her arms and she turned to see him standing there,
"You're ok?" She smiled and he nodded walking towards her and sitting on the bed. She turned and pushed him backwards so he was lying on the bed and she lay next to him,
"Are you?"
"Yep…Damon explained like he usually does." Stefan laughed slightly and rolled onto his side so he was looking at her, she placed her hand on his cheek, "You're such a mystery." She whispered and he frowned gently
"I thought we talked about this..?"
"No," she laughed, her smile making him feel…weird "It's good." She moved forward, their eyes closing as they kissed. "Did I tell you how happy you make me?" she whispered, getting closer to him and letting him wrap his arms around her
"No…but I can guess," he said with a smile and she laughed, "You make me happy too…happier than I've been in years."
"Really? Well that's good." She laughed "Stefan I need you to promise me something."
"What?" he asked
"D-don't…" she paused "Don't leave me." He pulled away from her slightly
"What are you talking about? I'm not going to leave you."
"I…it's just, you know with Katherine and Damon…I…I just don't want that to happen-" he looked her straight in the eye
"It won't." he tucked a strand if hair behind her ear "Elena I love you so much, I'm not going anywhere."
She watched them from the tree by the house, she looked down and then up at the moon in the sky. She jumped down from the branches and began to walk; her bare feet against the cold concrete…not that she could feel it. Her heels hung from her hand as she walked. It was suddenly that she heard the music, her ears picking up what most people wouldn't. Some useless pop song that would probably end up annoying her, but right now it was music and it was rhythm and she wanted it. She moved fast, slicing through the air until she reached the back of a graveyard, hm…teen party. She pulled her shoes on and entered, immediately turning heads.
"Let's party." She said with a smile, she entered the group of dancing teenagers,
"Ahh what is this crap?" she said dancing up against someone, "Hey!" She shouted out to the DJ "Put on a good song!" Her eyes constricted and the DJ did as he was told, the sound blared from the speakers, the dance floor began to spin and the dancing became faster, the dancing more manic. Her presence created anarchy and she loved it. She turned, dancing with different boys every minute, her eyes luring them in as she span; she stopped suddenly seeing one boy. She smirked and walked, her eyes glued on him, her hands going to his chest
"And who are you?" he smiled slyly, his hands going to her hips,
"Tyler…who are you?" she smiled and laughed
"I'm someone you don't need to know." They danced, she dragged him to the middle of the group, turning and laying their hands all over each other, she turned, her back to him and closing her eyes, she grabbed his arms, wrapping them around her waist. The hands travelled up her chest and to her neck, "Steady on cowboy," she said and turned only for her eyes to widen and to take in an unneeded breath.
"Why? We were having so much fun." She tried to run but he grabbed her around the waist keeping her there,
"Ah, Mr Salvatore I believe." She said slowly wrapping her arms around his neck so she was looking at him, his hands on her hips as they 'danced' but only they knew it was to keep her there,
"And there I was thinking you might stay where you were supposed too?"
"Well of course I wasn't going too when there are so many easy meals around."
"Have you-?"
"Not yet." He shook his head rolling his eyes
"What am I going to do with you?" he said
"Hey, dude, I was dancing with the lady," Tyler suddenly realised he'd been hard done by and Damon looked at him
"Dude? Again with the dude, Honestly?"
"Hey that's so not cool, do you even want to dance with him?" He asked Olivia,
"Not really." She said laughing
"Ouch." Damon said looking at her, "That's not what you said the last time I asked you."
"The last time you asked me I was human," she said through gritted teeth,
"Fair point."
"I'm sorry dude, but this girls all mine." He said turning her around,
"Wrong answer," she said before grabbing the knife he had concealed in his jacket and stabbing him in the ribs, he made the sound of being winded and laughed
"You're such a bitch." He said pulling it out before anyone could see, she smiled and he looked at Tyler and grabbed her fore arm "Excuse us."
"I'll be right back," she said winking at him and blowing a kiss at him, Damon slammed her against a tree
"What do you think you're playing at Olivia?"
"What? I'm just having fun."
"Fun? Ok, well let's say, we'll go home and have fun. Inside. Locked inside." He said bluntly,
"Ah…" she said sarcastically thinking about it "Gosh, what a hard choice, stay and play, possibly, no defiantly, eat someone or go home with you…hm…it's tempting, really, but I chose here." She said before slipping under his arm and scampering back to the crowd and slinging her arms around Tyler who whooped at her return. He growled angrily stabbing the tree with the knife. He thought for a second watching her…nope, it had to be that. He walked slowly back through the crowd towards her, not letting her realise he was behind her,
"Seriously!" Tyler said angrily looking up "She doesn't want you!"
"Uh huh." Damon said before, without anyone seeing, injecting her with vervain in the back, her eyes widening, gasping in pain, he lowered his lips to her ear and said "I didn't want it to come to this." He looked at Tyler, "Hey, you look thirsty; you want to go get another drink?"
"Yeah. I want to get another drink." He said succumbing to Damon's control; Damon caught her as she fell sideways and lifted her into his arms,
"Right…home time." he said before moving through the crowd back towards the boarding house.
He closed the door with his foot, he began climbing the stairs, he walked across the landing and to his bedroom, opening the door and then dumping her on the bed. She groaned slightly,
"Olivia, Olivia, when are you gunna learn?" he asked with a sigh, he shut the door and then lifted her up again, pulling back the sheets and placing her between them. He drew them back over her and then pulled off his leather jacket, turning with his hands on his hips looking at her. His blue eyes scanned her and how awesome she looked in his bed. He turned his head to the side with a slight frown "Huh…" he blinked confused but then rubbed the back of his head, going to the door and shutting it behind him.
She forced her eyes open, it hurt just to be awake but she had to get away. She pushed herself out of the bed, falling with a thump to the floor, she winced and everything hurt. She hated Vervain; it turned you into a venerable person, mind and body both affected. The only time she'd ever cried as a vampire was when she'd been injected with vervain. She pushed herself up, crawling on hands and knees to the door; she reached up for the door handle, her fingers slipping on the metal. She made a sound of annoyance and reached up further, hauling the door open, she used the door frame to stand up and almost stumbled forwards. She steadied herself and looked around with her moving vision; it was like being insanely drunk. She walked forwards, falling into the banister, her hands slamming against it. She closed her eyes, trying to regain some sort of normal feeling. Suddenly she heard a floor board creak, her eyes widened and her head snapped up,
"Oh my God…are you just never effected by anything?!" she growled at him and then ran forwards, going for the stairs; she reached the first stair and stopped, swaying violently at the top. She felt him grab her just before she fell
"NO!" She shouted, lashing out at him, as he tried to steady her, "NO! DAMON PLEASE!"
"Ok! Calm down!" He said holding her arms, trying to stop her from hitting him, "Calm down!" He said, his eyes locking onto hers "What is wrong with you?! Why are you trying to get away so badly?!" He said, frowning violently, he saw her blinking, trying to stay conscious,
"You don't understand!" she pleaded "Please! Just let me go!" he looked at her,
"I…I can't." she suddenly sunk to the floor and she began to cry, tears ripping down her cheeks, he kneeled down, "It can't be that bad..?" he said, she looked up at him,
"Can't it?!" She shouted "Can't it?!" she grabbed onto his shoulders, looking straight at him "You don't understand what it's like to have no control over yourself, he…he is always there. He keeps you like a prisoner…and he…he…" she couldn't bring herself to say it and instead she curled herself into a ball, her head on her knees, he frowned, his eyes scanning her back, he brushed her long hair aside and moved her top, he began uncovering something, his frown deepening as he pulled more material away.
"What..?" he said as he looked at the long scars in her skin, it was a letter, scored into her back as if it was butter, "Olivia what the hell is this?" she didn't answer so he grabbed her arms and pulled her up "Hey," he said "Listen to me," she was disorientated "What's the scar on you're back? You didn't have that before…I know." She laughed bitterly,
"It's too say we're his…he gives them too us before he turns us…so they stay. He can't get us mixed up with the others."
"Others?" he questioned confused, a frown on his face as he held her upright, she looked at him confused
"You…you really don't know what he is do you?" she said, his eyes scanned her "What did you think I meant when I said he didn't just bite us?" Damon shook his head, still confused,
"Well…I don't know…"
"Every time I'm with someone, all I feel is him." She said shaking her head "And the other people he gets to pay for it. I guess it's like a slave trade. Sex with a vampire…how fun." She spat out bitterly, Damon felt sick…he'd given Ethan a lot of girls…a lot of young girls. He never asked and never thought what they were for. "I'm so scared of him. I'm this animal…this monster that can't be controlled but Ethan? Ethan…he can control anyone he wants." Damon found himself becoming angry, Damon was a lot of things and sure he'd used girls but they'd always wanted him…he'd never forced himself on them. He had more dignity than that.
"So…"
"I…please. I don't want to be that anymore…I can't be it anymore." She said, tears still fresh in her eyes, she looked at him, "Please don't make me." He swallowed, he had two options here, go against Ethan and what he was doing…or let him do it. "Please." She whispered, her eyes wide and looking at him, he ran his hand through her hair to her cheek,
"What am I doing?" he said shaking his head "This must be a death wish."
***
"It's time Olivia."
"What..?" Her eyes opened, she gasped sitting up and seeing Ethan, "No…no, no, no!"
"What? You thought Damon would help you?" Ethan laughed "Olivia…oh poor Olivia…how many times will you fall for his tricks? Damon Salvatore is nothing but a lair…you should know that…he's the reason you are what you are," he ran his hand down her cheek, she flinched
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" She screamed, trying to lash out but something stopped her hands, she screamed seeing that she'd been chained to the wall, thick metal keeping her in place "No! Why are you doing this?!" She cried looking up at him
"Why? Because I'm trying to stop you running…you can't escape me Olivia, you never have and you never will." He hit her, sending her back into the wall with such force that she heard the crack of her ribs, she felt them automatically heal, "Now…I'm going to leave you in here to think about what you've done…" he said with a smile, she gasped, standing up trying to get to him
"NO! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HERE!" She screamed as he began to close the heavy iron door "NO! STOP!" She was screaming at him,
"You're going to be with me forever Olivia…you're never getting away from me again."
***
"OLIVIA!" She screamed jolting awake, she was looking at bright blue eyes and her whole body was shaking
"W-What the hell..?!" he said looking at her with a frown, "Stop screaming! My ears are hurting!"
"Oh my God you're going to give me to him aren't you?" She said shaking her head and scrambling out of the bed,
"What are you talking about?!" He said, "Ok, you've totally lost it."
"No! You've totally lost it thinking I could ever trust you! How could I when you gave me up before!"
"Hey! That was different!" he said angrily getting up,
"How?!"
"Because I didn't know what Ethan was doing?!"
"YES YOU DID!" She thundered grabbing the nearest thing to her and throwing it at him, he caught it and walked forwards grabbing her wrists, she struggled against him but he shoved her backwards so she hit the bed, she punched him in the chest as he climbed onto the bed and then around the face, he tried to grab her arms but she hit out at him so he couldn't. He fought with her and found himself straddling her midriff, trying to stop her, she punched him across the face which caused him to fall off the bed. She bolted for the door but with one last growl of annoyance, he rugby tackled her, she yelped as they hit the wooden floor and she found him once again on top of her and holding her down.
"Would. You. STOP?!" He said, his eyes wide, eye brows furrowed "For God's sake!" He shook his head "What is wrong with you? I'm not going to hand you over to Ethan so just calm down!" She swallowed gritting her teeth and exhaling loudly
"Will you get off me?!" she hissed
"Well that depends. Are you going to hit me?" He asked annoyed
"Shut up and get off." He smirked
"To be honest I don't really want to." That was when she realised he wasn't wearing a shirt, she narrowed her eyes
"Don't make me hit you." She hissed
"Love to see you try." She growled before using all her strength to turn the tables, she glued his wrists to the ground and he laughed "Oh you're one of a kind."
"And you're an arrogant ass." She said through gritted teeth,
"And you're a total bitch. Looks like we're square." He could've sworn he heard her teeth grind together, suddenly the door opened slowly, both turned their heads to look at Stefan who began to frown "Oh hey brother," Damon said with a smile
"Is uh…everything ok?" he asked, looking from Damon to Olivia,
"Yeah." Damon said with a nod "Everything alright with you?"
"…Yeah."
"Ok…bye." Damon said with a nod, Stefan shook his head before closing the door. "Where were we?"
"I was kicking you're ass." She said narrowing her eyes,
"Hm…alright." He said sarcastically and flipped her again but this time he was leaning on his elbow and looking at her "How many times do you reckon we're going to do this?"
"Until I break every bone in you're body?" she said with a questioning look, her head turned away from him, he laughed
"Hm…you're much more fun than Caroline."
"What?!" She shrieked, turning to face him, her eyes widened as he kissed her, he broke off, looking at her and then a small smile graced his face,
"What is wrong with you?!" she shouted, he laughed, "Get off me!"
"Alright, alright." He said pushing off the ground and standing up, she stood up, shaking her head,
"You're infuriating! You think you're so wonderful! You think every girl wants you! Well I don't want you!" she said walking to the door "And you know why?! Because I know! I know that you'll use me! You are no better than them! Those men. You are no better." She pulled the door open but it slammed shut, his hand above her head, she turned to look at him and he looked angry, more than she had ever seen him before.
"Never say I am one of them Olivia. Because I'm not. I have never forced a girl. They always want me. Women are as bad as men! And no I'm not saying what happened to you was right but not every man is the same." She looked at him with daggers in her eyes,
"Yes they are." She hissed, they came face to face "Every single one."
"Oh you annoy me." He said narrowing his eyes
"Men do not feel Damon. Men cannot feel…especially vampires." He forced her shoulders against the walls roughly,
"Don't tell me I can't feel. Ever." He said "I chose not to feel because I can't take it. Not after you're brilliant friend Katherine."
"I knew it!" She said "I knew she broke you!"
"Yes she did break me and you know what? I will never feel for a woman like that again!"
"Well good!" she said
"Well fine!" they were silent for a moment, teeth gritted, both angry, not moving and just staring at each other. Suddenly they locked onto each other, kissing each other passionately; he ran his hand into her hair, walking her backwards, her back hitting the chest of draws. She dragged her nails down his bare back; she looked up as he kissed down her neck, his lips soft against her skin. She took in a breath and for the first time in years she felt...She felt alive.
Awwwwwww, well how uh, sweet? I dunno if some of it was a little bit too cheesy? I tried my hardest to make it not that fluffy, but in the end of it all i'm a sucker for romance. Yeah, Olivia got her kick ass reputation back in this one, only to be brought down a peg or too by our favorite vampire anyhow, please review, tell me what you thought. Peace out. x
