Author's note: Again i don't own anything other than this plot and the Original Characters used in it. Klaus makes his appearance in this chapter. And Asariel is going to be getting a wake up call. Damon gets pissed off and Elijah better watch out.


Chapter 6

Within a week, Asariel and I were back to the earlier part of our relationship. We were a happy, almost couple is how I had put the early part of our relationship into perspective. We had made plans for the night before the full moon again, but when I got there her mom answered the door.

"Damon, to what do we owe this pleasure?" Mrs. Verdantia asked. I visibly flinched. She was probably the only human that could ever scare me.

"I'm here to see Asariel. She didn't tell you, did she?" I asked, worried Asariel had kept our dating secret.

"Oh she told me. If I'm not mistaken, she stopped seeing you last Friday… And she didn't tell me that the two of you had broken up." Mrs. Verdantia said and I gulped. Yes, I, Damon Salvatore, gulped at the mentioning of my forced break up with the girl I loved with my whole entire being.

"In all honesty, Mrs. Verdantia..."

"Damon, did you compel my daughter?" Mrs. Verdantia asked.

"How…How did you know?" I asked staring at her. She let me into the house, leading me to the kitchen.

"Asariel is good at keeping secrets, Damon. She didn't tell me. Her father, Elijah, brought her to me one night when she was just a few weeks old. He gave her to me and told me everything about what he was and why I was to protect her. I knew what she was going to become one day if she so chose to be."

"So you knew I was a vampire all along… And you knew about Elijah.. And yet you didn't tell me?" I asked. I could feel the anger actually bubbling up inside of me.

"Elijah made me promise or he would take her from me, Damon. I was not supposed to reveal who her father was to her or anyone else for that matter." Mrs. Verdantia answered as she fixed herself a mug of coffee. "I love her as if she were my own child, Damon. I raised her as my own."

"Elijah made me compel her… He threatened to kill me and take her far from her if I didn't." I said seeing that Elijah had done all of this just to protect his precious girl. "I would break it but I worry about her being hurt by Klaus if I do."

"Then I suggest not doing so. She'll be safe from Klaus as long as she remembers nothing." Mrs. Verdantia said nodding. "She's back in her room, sleeping. I was supposed to wake her up before you got here, but I needed this little bit of time to speak with you."

"Thank you for informing me, Mrs. Verdantia. I won't let her get hurt." I said before heading back to her room.

I half expected her to be sitting there in her bed, reading, but that wasn't the case. She was nowhere in her room. I looked through her closet and her bathroom. The window was wide open, the black and burgundy lace curtains catching the breeze. I looked around even more, seeing a note on her bed this time.

"Damon,

I didn't doubt that you would be the one to find this when she disappeared. She's my niece and I won't have her with the likes of you. Especially when you have broken her heart and she doesn't even know about it.

My brother was foolish to keep her from the rest of her family. And you were foolish to think you would be able to keep her to yourself forever. She'll become what she was born. She was a hybrid like me at one point and time, Damon. And I will make her one yet again like she deserves to be."

I stared at the note, my eyes not really focusing on the words, but on their meaning. Elijah wasn't going to take her from me, but Klaus would. My fists had the note crumpled up in seconds before I made my way out of the house. I didn't tell her mother because I didn't want to worry her. I was home before I knew it, my anger fueling every step.

"Elijah, you better show your sorry ass now," I growled going into the study to see him with Stefan and Elena. "Your brother is mine when we do this mess."

"What happened?" Elena asked staring at me. I tossed the crumpled up note to her for her to read.

"Klaus took Asariel from her home today. Left that note for me. He's taking her away from me. She was a hybrid before you had her made human, Elijah. You failed to mention that when we had all those nice talks." I growled, "He'll keep her from me. Or at least I figure that is what he plans to do."

"Klaus doesn't want Asariel. He has no need for her.. Unless he plans to use her for the sacrifice," Elijah said. Even I could tell it was hard for him to believe that his brother would want to harm his niece. "But he can't because she was born a hybrid.. And she would become a hybrid again if he were to make her vampire. She'd have to kill someone eventually."

"Then he plans on taking her from here. He wouldn't want her dating me anymore than you would I'm sure." I said angrily. "He is mine."

"Damon, maybe you're jumping to conclusions. Are you sure that…" I didn't even want to hear Elena finish. I quickly walked out of the house, heading to the grill. I needed to get drunk again. I'd stopped drinking as soon as Asariel and I started seeing each other again, but now I was in desperate need of a drink.


Asariel's P.O.V.

I stared at Klaus, standing before me in Alaric's apartment. Katherine was sitting on the couch watching me closely.

"I told Damon you would use me against him," I whispered as he circled around the chair I was stuck in. He'd compelled me to remember what Damon had made me forget and to stay in the chair. I couldn't move until he said so. "I warned him making me forget wouldn't do a thing for either of us."

"And yet he didn't listen to you, love." Klaus literally purred in my ear. "My sweet, beautiful niece… You look just like your mother. Pity Elijah lost her the day you were born. She would have made a wonderful hybrid."

"Leave my father and me out of this, Klaus." I spat, my voice dripping venom. "You won't turn me against Damon."

He laughed at me, moving from behind me. I couldn't follow him with my eyes since I was trying to contain the fear that was bubbling up inside of me. I took a deep breath, willing it to go away.

"You really think your father would let you stay with him even after I was taken out of the picture?" He said coming to stand in front of me. "And you forget that I can make you turn against your precious Salvatore brother, dear niece. Your necklace isn't around your neck and you have not been ingesting the vervain like you should have been."

"If you do it, I'll never forgive you," I growled at him before spitting in his face. His first reaction brought his hand across my face, leaving a stinging feeling in its place.

"Asariel, you are my niece. I don't like lay a hand on a woman normally. But you don't remember growing up around me and how much I spoiled you. Your father only cared for you because you were the spitting image of your mother. I adored you because I saw the potential that you had. Now I'm giving you the choice. You can join me and become a hybrid again…Or you can die before the eyes of your precious Salvatore brother."

"I'd rather die than join you, Klaus." I said staring up at him. His hands came to rest on my arms, his eyes boring into mine.

"Then I guess we will have to do this the hard way." He said smirking. His eyes turned blood red and black as his smile allowed me to watch as his fangs grew out. "Welcome back, Asariel."

I cried out, every nerve in my body wanting to fight him off. I knew what was coming. His fangs sank into my neck and he began to drink. I knew what was coming. Either my death…. Or my rebirth into the life of a hybrid… A life that I did not remember.