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Chapter 7:

"Are you freaking crazy? You can't just kidnap Klaus's girlfriend and then expect him not to try killing us for doing it!" a man shouted.

Gabriella jolted awake and sighed heavily when she saw that she was still inside the basement cellar. She could hear Damon cussing aloud and wondered what the hell was going on.

"How else are we going to get Stefan back, huh? By sitting in the bar and get wasted like you do?" Damon shouted.

She tried getting up and walked up to the bolted door. She couldn't see anyone nearby, but she could hear a pair of high heels walking around in the room outside the basement. She took a deep breath and gathered all her strength for another shout directed to Damon.

"Let me out of this hell hole right now or I'll–"

Damon suddenly stood on the other side of the door and his sudden presence caused her heart to skip a beat and her to lose balance. She fell down on the ground and hit her butt, which only made her let out a nasty cuss herself and it made Damon smirk smugly.

"It was about time you woke up," he said. "Are you ready to tell me the truth of what Klaus is up to or are you still in denial of what a monster he truly is?"

Gabriella snorted and and muttered another cuss that he seemed to have heard. He rolled his eyes and left again, but the clicking sound returned and came closer to the basement. A teenage girl, who looked about 17-18 years old, appeared at the door in a beautiful dress and looked like she had just arrived from a party. There was something about her that seemed so familiar, but Gabriella couldn't remember ever meeting her before.

"I'm so sorry about what Damon did. We don't want to harm you. We just want Stefan back. My name is Elena Gilbert. I'm Stefan's girlfriend and… I love him. You would probably do everything to save Klaus too if you were in my position," she said. "I promise I'll let you out if you just help me get Stefan back. That's all I'm asking for."

Gabriella hesitated, but she could tell that Elena was being sincere, so she agreed to help her and Elena did as promised. But when Gabriella entered the living room she didn't try to flee or attacked them now that she had the chance. She walked straight up to Damon, who looked pissed off about Elena's choice to let her out, and slapped him hard across his face.

"That's for locking me up, you prick!" she snarled and kicked him even harder between his legs, which made him bent down in pain. "And that's for kidnapping me!"

Gabriella heard someone snicker in the background and turned to see someone she didn't know. It was a man in his early or mid-thirties with short, who looked like he had been on a bender for the last few days. He stopped snickering when he saw her, though.

"I'm Alaric Saltzman – the very pathetic looking boyfriend of the woman Klaus turned into a vampire just so he could use her in the sacrifice and kill her." he said morosely.

"What? Klaus didn't…" Then again, she didn't know if Klaus truly had done all those things. Maybe he was lying to her and was hiding his dark side. Gabriella shook her head and turned her gaze to Elena, who seemed sad all of a sudden. "Is that really true? Klaus killed his siblings, Alaric's girlfriend, and sacrificed those other two women?"

Elena nodded. "We're not lying, Gabriella. I should know. The woman Alaric is talking about is my aunt Jenna and… I was one of the others he sacrificed, but if one of my friends hadn't used a spell to save me I would have been dead now. I don't know what Klaus has told you about us, but he hasn't told you everything and definitely not the truth." she said.

"But… oh, God! I can't believe this… Why would he lie to me? I don't understand…"

Gabriella sighed and sat down on the sofa. She needed a drink badly and she needed it now. She didn't want to believe all those accusations, but what if they were true? What if Klaus was hiding a monster underneath that charming, sweet, and seductive behaviour?

"I'm sorry you had to find out this way. It seems like you really liked him."

Gabriella cussed at herself mentally for not seeing this coming. Of course it had been too good to be true. It always was right until she found her boyfriend's dark side and exposed him for what he really was. It had happened before, but just where her boyfriend had been unfaithful to her or was a criminal, who used her for his own personal gain.

"It's a good thing that I kidnapped you then, because if you'd stayed with Klaus for one more second then he would probably have had killed you," Damon said. "So you should in fact thank me."

Gabriella snorted. "How is that supposed to cheer me up?" she retorted.

Damon shrugged and poured himself a drink. He sat down next to her on the sofa and was about to take a sip of his glass, but Gabriella quickly snatched it from him and took a large swig. He groaned and poured himself a new glass.

"What are you going to do when Klaus comes for me?" she asked worriedly.

They all shrugged except for Damon, who merely flashed one of his cocky smirks. "I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going to trade you for my brother. But first I really want to know what he's up to and don't lie to me again, because I can hear when your heart beats faster."

Gabriella groaned and took another swig. "I truly don't know what he's up to. I only know that for some reason my blood harmed him and he couldn't compel me. And no, I didn't wear or ingest any vervain before he revealed what he was. My ex-boyfriend, Derek, who was also a vampire, sent a package to my address in his name and in that package was a silver ring with the words Hybrid Solar Eclipse engraved inside it. That's all I know. I swear."

Damon and the others frowned, but when Alaric opened his mouth to say something, he was interrupted by the sound of someone knocking on the door. He and Elena went to look who it was, leaving Gabriella alone with Damon.

"Your blood really harmed him?" he asked in a serious tone.

Gabriella nodded. "And his friend – Hannah – said that I had a gene that was a lot like vervain and wolfsbane, but it only works on hybrids." she answered hesitantly.

Damon raised an eyebrow. "You know why you have this gene?"

Gabriella shook her head. "I lived a completely normal life before Klaus returned to London. I went to the pub, worked from nine to five, and minded my own business. Now I'm suddenly talking with a vampire about my hybrid boyfriend and why my blood hurt him."

He chuckled and raised his glass. "Welcome to my world!"

Gabriella rolled her eyes of him. "You're really not like your brother, are you?"

"Not even close. But that depends on which side of Stefan you're talking about. The one, whose on a bender now is worse than me. The other side is like a god damn saint."

"So right now you're the god damn saint?" Gabriella smirked when Damon frowned of that.

He narrowed his eyes and glared venomously at her. "I don't like you."

She giggled and stuck her tongue out at him, but she was reminded of Klaus and sighed weakly. "Damon, I've told you the truth now and… I trust that you were not lying about Klaus when you told me all those things."

"I'm not lying, Gabriella. And if you don't believe me, then go to the cemetery and look at Jenna's grave. Klaus is… the Devil himself. He doesn't care about humans and I frankly believe that he only kept you around because you're his only weakness."

Gabriella felt the tears brimming in her eyes again and finished her drink. "Can I have some more?"

Damon nodded and poured up some more Bourbon for her and then a little more to himself. Elena and Alaric finally returned and they weren't alone. Stefan was back and he didn't look particularly happy to be back. Gabriella guessed that Klaus sent him to get her and that annoyed her immensely. Even though she was pissed off about him hiding all those things from her, then she still cared about him and knew that he was capable of loving a human. She did date him before he realized what her blood was able to do and didn't have to ask her out that time in the bar.

"Well, look at that! Steffie is back!" Damon said sarcastically, because he could tell that Stefan had changed tremendously. He consciously stepped in front of Gabriella as if to make sure that Stefan didn't just grab her. "I'm guessing you're here as Klaus's personal assistant, am I right?"

Stefan showed no emotion at all in his face. "Give me Gabriella and we won't hurt you." he said firmly.

Damon snorted. "Or what? He'll kill us? I don't know if you know it, but Gabriella might be our only way to stop him. Aren't you more interested in helping us than doing his dirty work?"

"Damon, I don't have time for this. Give me Gabriella. I won't say it again."

"Forget it! Tell him to come for her herself, because we're not giving her to you!"

Stefan flashed his red eyes and fangs and in a flash he was suddenly on Damon, grabbing his arm and swinging him hard across the room. Alaric tried to shoot Stefan with vervain soaked arrows, but Stefan was much faster and stronger now that he was on human blood. Gabriella tried helping her captors by throwing lamps and other bottles at Stefan, but he swiftly avoided them – well, all except for one that hit him in the head and knocked him down on the floor. Alaric took this opportunity to inject vervain into Stefan's neck and that forced him to stop fighting.

Damon and Alaric then grabbed him by his arms and dragged him to the basement cellar and pushed him inside the cellar Gabriella had been inside. The door was locked before Stefan could rise to his feet, but he still tried escaping by slamming his fist hard on the door.

Gabriella felt bad about betraying Stefan, but she was scared of going back to Klaus when he'd lied to her and hid a very dark side. She still left the boarding house, though, and took off in Stefan's car. She didn't know where to go, because she was in a completely different country, so she just drove around until she found a place where she could get a drink. She stopped at the Mystic Grill and went up to the bar, ordering a whole bottle of Scotch.

"Hello, sweet–"

"Fuck off, prick!" she snarled.

The man behind her cussed and went away, but Gabriella just ignored him and took a swig of her glass. She needed to be alone more than ever and to let go of all her worries.

"Rough day?" the bartender asked friendly.

"Rough week," Gabriella corrected. "Why do people have to keep secrets from each other?"

"Because they're scared that the person they like or care about won't like them then…" she heard a familiar voice say.

Gabriella didn't need to turn around to know who it was. She gulped and looked at Klaus anyway, who sat next to her with a worried look on his face.

"You didn't think that I was going to let Stefan save you all by himself, did you?"

She didn't answer, but just shrugged and took another swig of her glass. She was starting to get drunk and when she was drunk she never hid how she felt about someone.

"You lied to me," she said. "I trusted you and you… lied right to my face."

"Gabriella… they're all liars. You don't know them, but you know me and I care about you. They don't. Are you really going to trust them after how they kidnapped you?"

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