Wolves Run Wild

The next morning we all met in front of school. Compared to our usual selves we were mostly quiet and unresponsive. So I decided to try get us talking, or at least grunting. Really anything would be better than the miming and dull looks that was currently going on.

"So how was everyone's night? I mean after the craziness of yesterday?"

The girls just stared back at me. Wow, there was some seriously dead vibes hanging in the air.

"Oh come on! Give me something to work with. I mean I am going to need something to distract me from my lesson with 'Mr Smith'. I will take any form of distraction, just please give me something!"

I realise how desperate I sounded but can you blame me? I mean I was stuck in a classroom for an hour without any of my friends, while being taught by one of the oldest vampires in the history of the world, who had probably been living through what he was teaching us. Add the fact that he was insanely handsome and for some reason had me blushing constantly, and you could see why I was in need of a distraction.

I was roused from my thoughts as Elena finally decided to say something.

"I saw Alaric with just pink flower boxer shorts on."

Again there was silence. Well I was not expecting that to come out of her mouth. Not at all. Bonnie started snickering, while Caroline and I stared at each other before turning to Elena and saying simultaneously:

"How did he look?"

"I don't know! I didn't exactly want to see anymore, for goodness sakes he's my teacher and dating my aunt! That puts him in the 'gross, do not think about' column."

Bonnie, Caroline and I smiled at her obvious freak out at seeing Alaric practically naked as we walked into the classroom. Alaric was standing by his desk as we entered. I couldn't stop myself from walking up to him and saying:

"So did you have a good night sir? I heard you partial to the colour pink, oh and that you like daisies,"

I watched as his face slowly turned different shades of red until he finally settled on a colour similar to a cherry. He glared at me when I gave him a small, innocent looking smile, before he mumbled something that sounded rather rude under his breath and told me to take a seat.

The day was rather uneventful after that. Well at least that was before I entered Elijah's class. He was sitting behind his desk, watching the other students settle. I tried to sneak into my seat. Maybe he would just ignore me, and I could pretend to be invisible? Sounds good for me.

Sadly as I made my way to my seat he called to me. I sighed, mumbled 'dammit' under my breath, and then straightened my back and squared my shoulders before turning and walking to his desk.

"Yes sir? Was there something you needed?".

He smirked at me, as if he knew that I would rather be calling him names of a much more colourful vocabulary.

"Well, after that debacle yesterday we did not manage to discuss a suitable punishment for what happened in class. So I made an arrangement with your other teachers. Instead of receiving anymore detentions for being late, you will now be my assistant."

I was stunned by this. What the hell did he mean by his assistant? I don't want to be an assistant to some crazy, old man vampire. Then I noticed him glaring at me with his delicious brown eyes and realised that I had spoken my thoughts out loud. So I tried to get out of it:

"Isn't there anything else? I mean you really don't want me as an assistant. I am lazy, slow, and wouldn't be much help at all. So you know what, you can just let me off this one time and I promise I will never do anything wrong again!"

Maybe I was laying it on too thick. But seriously how was I supposed to survive being around him alone, after school, just me and him; him and me, when I can barely keep my nerves straight in a classroom full of people?

He saw the flash of horror/ uncertainty that went across my face as I tried to talk him out of it, and his smirk widened. He stood up and leaned towards me as he placed his hands on the desk in front of him. It was done in the same way as you would see in those crime movies where the mafia boss would stroking his cat; well apart from the fact he didn't have a cat to stroke.

"No I think you will do just fine. Besides this way I can keep a close eye on you. There will be no way of you or your friends hiding something behind my back. I intend to be watching you very, very closely. Now we will start today afterschool. So I expect you to be waiting outside my office by the end of the day. Oh and don't try to get out of it, I assure you that if you try to hide; I will find you."

As he spoke his face got closer and closer to mine until we were so close that I could feel his breath heating my face, and could see the different shades of brown mixing in his eyes. Of course I was blushing heavily now, as any reasonable person would be doing when those very kissable lips were that close. So before I could humiliate myself I just nodded once then turned and hurried to my seat. I was quite proud of myself getting out of that situation without major humiliation.

The rest of the lesson was a blur. I couldn't pay attention even if I had tried to. And just like last time I could feel his eyes on me throughout the whole period. By the time the bell rang I was a hot mess. God, those eyes gave me the shivers, and not exactly the 'oh I'm scared' ones if you know what I mean. I didn't help that I had started dreaming of him shirtless halfway through the lesson. You would be just as frazzled as me all you could think of was rippling muscles and broad shoulders.

So when the bell rang I made a run for it. Nothing stopped me from getting out of there. Luckily it was lunch time and everyone was already seated by the time I got to the table. I collapsed onto the table and rested my head on my arms. I groaned in despair. Stefan just raised his eyebrow at me and said 'juice'?

"So I'm guessing the lesson with 'Mr Smith' didn't go well then?" Of course Damon couldn't go a minute without some sort of sarcastic comment. So I decided to throw one back at him. And in a perky voice said:

"Oh no! It was great! Especially the part where Elijah decided to make me his assistant! And by assistant I mean the type where he is around me as much as possible, so yeah it was fabulous!"

You know maybe I should get a career in making awkward silences? I mean I seem to be able to cause a lot of them. Finally after losing the dumb look on his face, Damon replied:

"Wow Dory, just wow. You really have a knack for getting stuck in the most stupidly dangerous situations, don't you!?"

"Hey, at least I don't go looking for danger like Miss 'I must save everyone' sitting next to me." Cue death stare from Elena.

"Now if you excuse me I am going to sign out with the nurse, since I am suddenly feeling 'oh so sick'. Damon when I come back you will so be taking me to the boarding house." Damon replies:

"Why will I be taking you from school?"

"Well, you see, if you don't then I will have to stay helping Elijah after school. Just him; scary, powerful vamp and me; vulnerable, human girl. So you see; I would rather escape that until we can come up with some sort of game plan."

And with that I strode back into school to sign out with the nurse.

A few hours later and Caroline, Damon and I met up at the boarding house, Tyler, Stefan and Matt had football practise, Elena was helping Jenna and Bonnie had some witchy thing going on. Caroline took to the stage straight away.

"Well we have another problem. A woman named Jules just arrived at Tyler's house. She's a werewolf looking for Mason, as in the guy we killed, and she brought a whole lot of furry friends with her. Now Tyler still doesn't know we killed Mason. But if he finds out then he won't forgive us, or me, even if it did happen before we were dating. And it's not like I mea…"

I decided to end her babble immediately, as amusing as it may be.

"Caroline! Breathe and focus on the major points here. She is probably looking for the moonstone, which we have. So now we need to hide it from not only an Original but also a group of dogs. So what do we do?"

Suddenly a window broke and gas filled the room. Damon and Caroline fell to the ground, crying. It looked as if their faces were burning. Must be some sort of vervain vapour. I grabbed it and tossed it into the bathroom, shutting the door. When I re-entered the living room Damon was tied to a chair by chains and a spike collar around his neck. Caroline's legs and hands were tied together and her eyes were pleading with me to run. But I couldn't leave them. So instead I raised my hand and focussed my magic at the guy holding Caroline. A moment later he was sailing through the air and went crashing into the wall. Once I saw that he was not moving I ran to untie Caroline. Unfortunately, because I was so focussed on Caroline I missed the five other guys and one woman entering the room. I also missed one of the guys hitting me in the head with a lamp.

My first thought when I woke up was 'why was I always the one to get kidnapped?'. My second thought was 'why am I hanging on a chain?'.

It was true. My hands were tied together on a hook, raising me up so that my feet couldn't rest on the floor. I looked around the cell I was in. It must have been a cellar, I concluded, from how dark and damp it was. I heard a groan to my right and saw that it was Caroline sitting in a cage. As she finally came into full consciousness she zoomed to the door of the cage to get to me. But when she touched the bars her hands burned, and she hissed, drawing them back.

"Dory are you ok? Where are we? Are you hurt?"

I assured her that apart from sore arms I was ok, and told her that I had no clue where we were. After that Caroline started shouting. I would have joined in but I needed to conserve my energy. Twenty minutes later the cellar door opened and four male wolves stepped in, one of them was Tyler.

"Tyler what's going on?" I had never heard Caroline's voice so small and weak as it was that moment. But when I turned to see Tyler's reaction I saw him glaring at us. As he opened his mouth to speak one of the other wolves, this one a broad-shouldered blond male, grasped his shoulder and spoke instead.

"Silence vampire. You are here to pay for your crimes. We know you killed Mason Lockwood, so we thought it was only fair that we get payback. You know an 'eye for an eye' as they say. Well now you and your friend will feel our pain,"

I could almost feel the heat of his anger from his words. I knew that this was not going to end well.

"Please just let Dory go. She's human. She doesn't deserve this. Please Tyler tell them!"

For a moment it seemed as though Tyler was about to agree in letting me go. Then his expression closed off and he didn't seem to care anymore. He simply said:

"Why should I. You didn't give Mason a free pass did you!? No! He's dead! He was my uncle Caroline; my uncle! But no one gave a thought to that when you killed him. So why should I care if you are killed too? Right Caroline?".

And with that he turned at left, ignoring Caroline's pleading or cries. The door closed behind him.

The three wolves spread out and the blond one from before brought out a gun from his back pocket and shot Caroline in the arm. I heard her cry out, but that sound was being drowned out from the rushing in my ears. He shot her again. I knew I needed to do something so once more I focussed my magic, and concentrated at the blond.

His hair caught fire and he dropped the gun. I smirked. Unfortunately one of the other wolves saw that I caused the fire.

"You little bitch!"

He slapped me hard and I bit my tongue to stop myself from shouting out. I didn't want to give them the satisfaction of hearing me in pain. But I couldn't hold in my scream when the blond shot me in both my legs and in my chest. I felt blood start to drip from my mouth. I knew that if we didn't get help soon I was going to die. Caroline knew that too and tried to scream for help even as they threw vervain water over her. Someone punched me in the gut. I felt my vision getting fuzzy around the edges as I began to lose consciousness.

Then suddenly all the wolves dropped onto the ground holding their heads and crying out. I saw two dark shadows in the doorway. They both zoomed around the room until the wolves dropped dead, their hearts missing from their bodies. One blurred towards me and untied my hands. All I could see were brown eyes. I felt so tired, I just wanted to sleep. But as I was letting my eyes close I heard a strong, cultural (yummy I would also say if I wasn't on the verge of dying) voice called out to me:

"Dorina you must keep your eyes open. I have not permitted you to die just yet."

From that I'm sure you can guess who was carrying me outside.

I felt my body being placed onto a hard surface. I also felt more of my blood fill my mouth and started coughing more out. From what sounded like far away I heard muffled cursing and a bloody wrist was pushed into my mouth.

"Drink!"

Someone stroked my throat, coaxing the blood into my body. After a few minutes the wrist was pulled away and I finally let myself fall unconscious.

When I woke up I was back at the Boarding House. My stiff muscles protested my movement. I was in one of the guest bedrooms, still wearing the same bloody clothes, but my wounds had been cleaned and were healed. I slowly rose and made my way downstairs into the main living room where I had heard voices.

Several things happened when I entered. First everyone, even Bonnie, ran to give me a hug. I grimaced at how hard they were but endured it since I knew how worried they must have been. Then I saw Elijah standing by the fireplace, a glass of what I guessed was whisky was held in his hand. He was the first to speak, addressing Elena:

"Well it seems that everything is I order. I will take m leave then. I will see you tomorrow Miss Gilbert; you and Miss Kirk.".

Then he turned to me.

"And you Dorina. Do try not to miss this appointment. It would be most inconvenient for me, and in turn unwise for your well being. Have a goodnight." And then he was gone.

It was then I found out what had happened this night. How Elena had not met Jenna but instead made a deal with Elijah to protect us. They had then come to the boarding house to see two werewolves about to attack Damon. Elijah killed them and then proceeded to find out what had happened to Caroline and I. He had used his warlocks to find our location and immobilize the werewolves. Elena cut off Stefan's speech here.

"I swear Dory. When he heard that you had been taken he honest to God growled. It was majorly frightening. And when we found you and Caroline being tortured. And you just hanging there, your blood making a puddle on the floor. Well he was furious. I don't know what you did to get him to favour you, but I can tell you that he didn't just come to check we were alright; no he came to check on you."

I blushed when hearing what Elena was saying. So I tried to steer the conversation away from there.

"Well anyway, so Elena and I are meeting him tomorrow? For what?"

Elena was the one to answer this.

"Apparently he wants to explain some things about Klaus. We need to go and he is taking us to his house. No one is allowed to follow. Everyone has agreed, even Damon,"

I looked at him with a raised eyebrow, but he just gave me a sarcastic smile and raised his glass in my direction before chugging it back.

"Ok but why me?"

No one could answer that, so I decided to call it a night.

"Well I think I'm going to go to sleep. I'm just going to take one of the guest bedrooms since I'm too tired to go home. Oh and thanks for the healing blood guys."

As I made my way upstairs Damon shouted something at me. Something that shocked me as well as made me smile (and maybe as well made me shiver in delight). He said:

"Oh we didn't heal you. No Elijah had that honour. It is his blood in your system."

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