WHISPER OF THE PAST – (Sequel of my story: Too much noise in the bedroom)
By Lovely Vero
Writer's note: First, biggest apologies for the late arrival of this chapter, I was busy with a work contract the past three weeks, and could not find a minute to myself. What can I say about this chapter? We're finally reaching a cross road for Elena & Alex (Damon), we're at a point that they will realized the truth about their feelings for each other. I will plunge head first into the last chapters of this story, and totally go with the flow of my deepest feelings about it…There will be surprises for you, as there will be some for me! As a writer I truly got attached to Alex…It was my own creation, and I was particularly proud of it…But, I have to make Damon come back…One step at a time…And believe me or not it is tearing me apart (LOL)…Because I got attached to that ruthless part of Damon…and his bad vampire vibes / soft heart ways…Wow! That Damon Salvatore has certainly a way of making you feel things. Enjoy my dear readers, and telling you that these last chapters are going to be intense seems completely unnecessary to this point….This one is a very emotional one, and, like always: hang in there!
Music: Have it all - Too much love will kill you / Freedy Mercury.
Small Extract: Stefan and Caroline / An unexpected affair – Part II
Chapter 7: "If the truth were known"
Caroline filled two cups of hot coffee, and directed her steps toward the fridge to take some milk from a shelf…She felt happy tonight…Even if everything was so wrong and that they were basically in danger with Klaus, tonight it was only her little fantasy world, with Stefan & Rose, in a little heaven…She turned the sound button of the old retro radio on the counter, before listening to an old disco song of Donna Summer and Barbara Streisand, while singing the lyrics, and dancing around the table.
"It's raining, it's pouring, my love life is boring me to tears…After all these years…No sunshine, no moonlight, No stardust, no sign of romance, we don't stand a chance…I always dreamed I find the perfect lover…But, he turned out to be like every other man…Our love, Our love…Enough is enough, I can' go on, I can't go on, no more no…Enough is enough…" She sang from the top of her lungs, before startling hard while feeling Stefan presence behind her, turning on herself, with a hand in front of her chest. "Oh! You scared me to death…I was singing, like a stupid fool while listening to this old 80's song…I made coffee for us…" Caroline said, while smiling at him, before loosing her smile. "Stefan?" She asked him.
Stefan took a few walking steps to reach her standing position, before locking his teary eyes into Caroline's, while standing lividly and silently in front of her.
"Are you ok? You're scaring me?" Caroline asked him, while putting a friendly hand on his left upper arm, before being pushed away. "What…What's going on?" She asked him, while shaking her head and taking a few steps backward, feeling an uneasy feeling hitting her suddenly.
Stefan shook his head in disbelief, while passing a nervous hand through his hair, before placing both of his hands on each side of his waist.
"How could you?" He asked her, while looking at her with a glimpse of hate in his stare.
"What are you talking about?" She asked him, with a trembling voice, while expecting the worst.
"How could you?" He repeated from the top of his lungs, while pointing a finger at her. "How could you play me for a fool like this?"
"I don't understand?" Caroline told him, while sweeping the tears that were filling her eyes, and running on her cheeks. She knew…She knew what was coming!
"Who's Rose? Who's her mother? I want to hear the truth from you own mouth… And don't you lye to me this time…Because you've been lying to my face quite enough since I came back! Damn you, Caroline!" She heard him screamed at her, before closing her eyes, feeling the tears running fluently on her cheeks, and hearing the last lyrics of the song that was still playing on the radio: Enough is enough! And indeed, apparently it was!
Small Recaps
Chapter 8: "Somebody to love"
"It's very hard that someone would be able to make me do something that I don't want to do!" A cold and ordering voice exclaimed loudly, making the man raise his head and smirk at Alex's appearance, in top of a steel platform.
Alex came down the steel stairs, while approaching the man's standing position, before placing his body in front of his, and locking his cold-icy stare with the stranger's.
"Who are you, and what gives you the idea that you can enter my world without any consequences, while thinking that you will have the slimmest chance to get out of here without me slicing you into pieces?" Alex asked the man in front of him, while placing his hands on each side of his waist.
"Who wants to know?" The vampire man sarcastically replied to him, while approaching his face at a near inch of Alex's.
"You worst nightmare…" Alex responded to the man, before lowering his head and spitting on the man's boots. "…Oh my bad, I can be so clumsy sometimes"He added to him, while smirking at the man.
"Mm…" The man mumbled to Alex, while looking at his soiled boots and raising his stare back in Alex's. "You're so arrogant now…So pretentious…I like it!"The man added to him, while taking a few walking steps around Alex, before coming back in front of him, and continuing. "You can simply call me Klaus!"
Chapter 9
"TOO MUCH LOVE WILL KILL YOU"
I'm just the pieces of the man I used to be
Too many bitter tears are raining down on me
I'm far away from home
And I've been facing this alone
For much too long
I feel like no-one ever told the truth to me
About growing up and what a struggle it would be
In my tangled state of mind
I've been looking back to find
Where I went wrong
Too much love will kill you
If you can't make up your mind
Torn between the lover
And the love you leave behind
You're headed for disaster
'cos you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you
Every time
(…) "You can simply call me Klaus!"
"Or I could simply call you the gum under my shoes!" Alex replied to Klaus, while smirking at his face, before making his men burst into laughter.
"It would be wise for you to show me a little bit of respect!" Klaus responded to him,while taking one more walking steps, bending his upper body at a near inch of Alex's.
"And it would be wise for you to back off, Mister Klaus!" Alex replied to him, while slowly pushing him with his right hand placed on his chest, making Klaus lowered his sight, back away a little, while raising his head in a confrontational gesture. "…So, Man of the hour, what is you business with me?" Alex asked him, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Well…It came into my attention that you're hosting in this nice little warm and welcoming home of yours, a young woman named Elena Gilbert," Klaus sarcastically said to Alex, while smirking at him.
"Never heard of her…But if that was the case, how is she your business…" Alex asked him, while bending his head near him, and adding. "…Mister Klaus?"
Elena was walking through the corridors of the underground when she heard the voices in a distance, exchanging in an altercation. She walked along the walls, while trying to not be noticed, before so slowly trying to pass her head to see what was going on in the main entrance, in front of the main elevator, when she was suddenly pulled away from her position, pushed forcefully on the wall, with a left hand placed over her mouth to forbid her to scream.
She raised her sight to finally see Bill staring into her eyes, in the dark, before seeing him whisper words to her.
"I let you go, but you have to keep quiet?" He murmured to her, while putting a finger on top of his own lips to show her to silence herself, to which she nodded her head to agree to his conditions.
He free her from his hand over her mouth, before sliding both of his hands on each side of her hips to maintain her immobile, while pushing his body on hers. She raised an angry stare at him.
"Is this really necessary?" She angrily mumbled in her teeth, in a low, almost none perceivable whisper.
"Yes, princess…" He murmured to her, adding. "…I don't trust your judgment these days!"
"Oh…" Elena mumbled in her teeth, while trying to push him away from her, but being kept in place by his strength.
"Shh….." He whispered to her, while putting his finger on his lips for the second time.
Elena kept quiet and turned her head to the right to listen to the voices.
"What somebody cut your tongue, Klaus?" Alex asked the intruder vampire man.
Elena startled hard, while opening her mouth in shock, and staring at Bill.
"Let just say that Elena Gilbert and I are old acquaintance…" Klaus replied to Alex, while tilting his head to the right and smiling deviously to him.
"Never heard of the name…Is she one of the human that you would like to taste again?" Alex asked him, with a sarcastic tone of voice, while taking a few walking steps around him. "…Not in my habit to keep human girl on my side for very long…I stalk them, I kidnap them, I taste them, suck them dry, and then I kill them!" Damon explained to Klaus, while smirking, and before adding. "…You must have the wrong address! I suggest that you take your slavery men with you, and leave while I am still in a good mood!"
Elena lowered her head, while tears filling her eyes, before feeling Bill right hand raising her chin, to stare into her eyes.
"He's playing him!" He explained, in a low whisper, to reassure her, to which she nodded her head in thankfulness.
"Thank you…" She whispered to Bill, to which he nodded his head back at her.
"If you could just give to her this message…." Klaus said to Alex, while crossing his hands behind his back and taking a few walking steps to place his stare directly into Alex's. "…Tell her that I am in need of her assistance very soon, for the sacrifice…And tell her also that her daughter, Rose is absolutely adorable!" He added to him, with the smile of a devil on his face.
"No!" Elena almost screamed, before being stopped by Bill's hand on her mouth.
"Calm down!" He ordered her in a whisper, before feeling her squirming with all her strength underneath him, and finally passed out in front of his eyes. "I just needed that!" He angrily mumbled in his teeth, before sliding his right hand under her knees and lifting her up in his arms, before bringing her into safety.
Alex felt a small lump form in his throat, but he kept his stare in Klaus's without showing any sign of weakness to his opponent.
"If I ever see that human girl in front of me, I'll tell her to contact you, or I'll have her for breakfast…It will depend of my mood at that moment…Now, leave!" Damon ordered him, while crossing his arms in front of his chest, and staring at him, before seeing his vampire men take a few walking steps in direction of Klaus and his own men.
"Well…I wouldn't want to extend too much my welcome…" Klaus answered Damon, while turning on himself, and directing his walking steps toward exit of the underground, before turning one more time to face Damon, and adding. "Till we meet again, mate…" Alex added to Alex, before signing with his hands to his men, and taking the path to the underground elevator.
"The children…" Alex asked Bill who was going down the steel stairs.
"They're safe, Alex…" He answered him, while limping with his injured leg toward his standing position.
"Elena?" Alex questioned him, while putting a hand on his upper left arm.
"She fainted in my arms…She was coming toward us, when I caught her in good time, and had to literally threw her on the wall to stop her for going further!" Bill explained to Alex.
Alex nodded his head to Bill, before turning and addressing himself to his men:
"I want men stationed in front of each entrance, in front of the dorm of the children…Two of you will trail him and his men to wherever he's going, and get back to me! If necessary we'll have to move the children away from here!" He angrily screamed at them.
"Yes, boss!" He heard them screamed back at him, before jumping from their above observatory position, and obeying to his orders.
Alex turned to look at Bill in the eyes, while passing a rapid on his face.
"It's him, isn't it?" Alex asked, while seeing Bill lowering his sight and staring at the floor without answering him.
"It's in the past, Alex…And nothing can be done about that anymore…" Bill replied to him, while raising his head staring at him in the eyes, before adding. "…You have to go…You…You need to save your kid!"
Alex startled in surprise while keeping his eyes locked with his right arm man and friend.
"Ya…It's actually pretty funny…" Bill explained to him, while passing a quick hand in his hair and giggling nervously, adding. "…But, I do believe that this little girl is your kid…And this last piece of the puzzle is proving that Elena was telling you the truth…There, I said it!"
Alex stayed immobile in front of his friend, while swallowing a lump in his throat.
"I…I think that you are…I mean, you were…God it's hard" Bill added to him, while shaking his head, and feeling tears in his eyes. "…I think you were Damon Salvatore!" Bill confessed to him, while avoiding looking at him in the eyes. "I always thought that you were him, since I met your brother in the wood, several years ago…But I was afraid that we would…I mean…That I would loose you if you would remember! What a coward I am as a vampire, would you say?"
Alex lowered his sight, while keeping quiet for a moment…He was realizing that he was just pieces of who he used to be even a month ago. He nodded his head to his friend, without being able to speak.
"So…You need to go check on your kid…Because, I wasn't able to save my two boys…And…I don't want you to make the same mistake…You must think that I'm crazy and pretty much hating me…" Bill continued explaining to him. "But you need to go Alex…Or, you could regret it forever…and forever it's a very long time for a vampire!"
Alex stared at his friend for a few minutes, before raising a hand on his right shoulders, and saying:
"Sooner or later…I'll avenge you, Sylvia and the kids, Bill…You have my words!" Alex found the strength to whisper to his friend, before walking toward the elevators, and storming out of the underground.
Elena woke up on Alex's bed, she blink her eyes a couple of times, fixating the ceiling, before straightening her body in a sitting position, and putting her right hand on her chest, while breathing heavily. It took her less than a few seconds to remember the previous events, before jumping out of the bed, pacing back and forth in the small room, while passing nervously a rapid hand through her tangled hair….Rose! She needed to go back to Mystic falls to know if Rose was safe!
She heard the steel door open, before seeing Alex enter inside their room and slamming the door close behind him, taking a few more walking steps to reach her standing position.
"Talk woman and tell me the truth!" He ordered her, while bending his upper body near hers, and locking his eyes in hers. "Is Klaus the man who put the spell on Damon Salvatore?"
"Yes…" She nervously answered to Alex, while nodding her head to him.
"Damn!" He exclaimed, while pacing back and forth in front of her, with his hands placed on each side of his waist.
"He was the one that made you…I'm sorry, that made Damon sick, and then you know the rest….Klaus had also a spell put on himself thousand of years ago…Now he can become a hybrid if, and only if, a sacrifice takes place at a certain date of the calendar…And the time is almost here!" Elena explained to him.
"But why is this psycho Original needs to have you particularly, Elena?" Damon asked her, while gesturing with his hands, and rising one of his eyebrows in amazement.
"Because I am a doppelganger...and I have the desirable blood in my vein that would make him succeed…" Elena explained to him. "…He's a monster, Alex, he has no soul!" She said to him, while rubbing her hands together.
"I thought I was the monster in your life…I feel betrayed now!" He responded to her, with a sarcastic tone of voice, while staring into her eyes, making her startle in surprise by his remark.
"I really don't find this funny, Alex…" She mumbled angrily in her teeth.
"I'm sorry Elena…" He replied to her, while passing nervously his right hand through his long hair. "…And, I know how he can act already…"
"What?" She responded to him, completely dumfounded by his answer. "How can you know? Do you…" She added, hopeful that he was regaining Damon's memory.
"No…" He responded to her, while shaking his head in negation, and knowing by instinct what she meant. "Bill knew him…From his past!"
"Bill?" She said to him, with an open mouth expression. "How…When?"
"Sincerely, Elena…I don't think that you're ready to hear about the how and the when of Bill story! And as for me, let just say that I witnessed something in Bill's past…" Alex responded to her.
"Then let me go Alex! Let me be with my daughter…Please!" she begged of him, before putting both of her hands on his chest, while feeling tears filling her eyes. "Let me go…I need to go back to my baby…I need to warn Caroline, I need to go back to my daughter, please, Alex…Please!"
"Elena…I won't let anything happen to Rose!" He answered her, before taking her face in his hands, while holding her immobile in the meantime, and drowning his sight in hers. "If you go back, you'll play into Klaus sadistic game! You can't do that, Elena!" He added, while shaking his head in negation to her.
"Let me go!" She screamed at him, while hitting his chest with her closed fists, before trying to squirm herself out of his arms.
"Elena! Stop it!" He screamed back at her, while holding her fists with both of his hands, before pushing her on the wall behind them, keeping her immobile while holding her hands above her head.
"Please Alex…I need to go…I need to go see my daughter…I beg you!" She screamed at him, in a teary voice.
"Elena, calm down…Look at me!" He ordered her to do, while waiting for her to raise her sight at him. "I'll go!" He said to her, before adding. "I'll go back to Mystic Falls, and I'll find out if Rose is alright, ok?"
"Why…" She murmured to him, while feeling her tears running on her cheeks.
"You know why…" He murmured to her, while swallowing a lump in his throat…Yes! Alex knew why…But, he was not ready to admit it to himself yet, or to say it out loud to her.
Elena felt the beats of her heart rising in her chest, while raising her head to stare into his eyes. Alex lowered his head near hers, putting his forehead on top of hers, while closing his eyes, and whispering: "I go see if Rose is ok, but you need to stay put and safe here, ok?"
Elena nodded her head, while being liberated of his grip on her wrists.
"Thank you, Alex…" She murmured to him, before closing her eyes and whispering more. "…I feel like I'm dying inside…I'm so scared…I'm scared of what he could do to me and to Rose…"
"We'll find a way, Elena…We'll find a way to protect you forever…" He whispered to her, while slowly rubbing the length of her arms to calm her down, while keeping his stare locked in hers…Feeling her heart pumping the desirable red elixir that he was always graving for, seeing the blue vein on the right sight of neck engorged with blood, while trying to control the urge to taste her in every way a vampire deeply in love would want to taste his woman, before sliding his hands on her waist, raising, frantically and with desire, her body on the wall, feeling her bare legs, encircle his waist, before lowering his head to put his lips on her neck while licking her skin, tasting the salt of her previous tears on her flesh.
Elena put her hands in his hair, while grabbing with strength, caressing his neck, before bending her head backward on the wall to give him more access to her skin….Oh, how much she wanted him…How much she needed him right now….How much she needed Alex to breath life into her! He crashed his mouth on hers; devouring her lips, while sliding his hands under her t-shirt, caressing her back in slow erotic movements. He let her slip on the floor again, while passing her t-shirt over her head, before seeing Elena pass his own over his head, while feeling her hands slide on his muscular chest in circular caresses, feeling her lips crash back on his, tasting each other mouths with a degree of desire never reached before that day. He slowly bring her near the bed, before rising her in his arms and lying her on its cover, while seeing her get rid of her bra, and handing her hand to Alex, for him to join her…In a rush of a desire that must be appeased. She bended her back, while breathing heavily and closing her eyes, before feeling him caress her chest, and his mouth slowly tasting the forbidden fruit of her breasts.
"Oh Alex…" She murmured to him, while rolling her head from right to left.
Alex raised his head to look at her, while caressing her belly.
"I know, Elena…I know what you need…" He murmured to her, while bending his head near hers, and slowly caressing her lips with tips of his fingers.
"Could you give it to me?" She asked him, while locking her eyes with his, and caressing his cheeks.
"Right away woman…" He answered her, with a mocking tone of voice, while seeing her smile back at him, and slowly lowering his head to kiss her again.
"Where's Alex?" Bill asked Elena, while passing his head under the arch door, before entering Elena's and Alex's quarter.
"He just left…He told me that he would see the children before leaving for Mystic Falls." She answered Bill, in an emotionless tone of voice, while sitting on the floor, her arms encircling her knees, her back leaning on the wall.
"Ok…" Bill replied to her, before adding, while placing his hands on each side of his waist. "…And you will let him leave like that?"
"What you want me to do?" Elena replied to him, without any further reactions, adding. "It's not like I can do anything? He's forbidden me to go with him…But, he promised to take care of Klaus if Rose is in danger!"
"And he will!" Bill screamed, while pointing a finger at her, before adding. "…Because it's his daughter!"
"What did you just say?" Elena asked him, while suddenly turning her head to stare at him in complete astonishment.
"You heard me…" He simply replied to her.
"You knew…" Elena said to him, while rising on her feet, and talking few walking steps to reach his standing position, while being answered by his silence. "Answer me!" She screamed at him.
"It is more complicated than what you think, Elena…Alex has a life here…He's wanted…He's needed!" Bill screamed back at her.
"And you think that he's not wanted or needed in my heart?" Elena answered him, while feeling tears running on her cheeks.
"I don't know, which one you're talking about: Damon or Alex…Because, you see Princess, It's the same man! But I'm not sure that you are able to understanding that fact!" Bill screamed, while pointing a finger at her.
"Did he remember?" She asked Bill, while seeing him shook his head in negation.
"Bits of memory, images…But, he is still Alex! But he knows…He knows deep down inside of him, that he's Damon!" Bill replied to her.
Elena opened her mouth in shock, while putting a hand on her chest.
"Why would you push him away from me then?" Elena lashed out at Bill.
"I did not push him away from you, Elena…" Bill responded to her, before adding. "…I protected him of being hurt by you once again!"
"Hurt by me?" Elena screamed at him, while putting a finger to her own chest. "You have it wrong…It's the other way around!"
"It's not you who met him after he had lost his memory five years ago, who picked up the shreds of his life at his side, who heard him cry every night, and howl to the werewolves while hurting like no man should hurt…It's me who was there…And who understood every pieces of what he felt at that moment, because I felt the fucking same!" Bill screamed to Elena, while hitting his chest with his closed fist, and bending his head at a near inch of Elena's. "He suffered hell, Elena…He was lost in himself…He had to rebuild himself bit by bit…Step by step…I haven't lost my memory of the past events of my life, and yet we were suffering the same agony! He was missing you, without knowing what he was missing, and I was missing my past life while knowing what it was!"
"I didn't know…" Elena replied to Bill, while feeling tears rolling fluently on her cheeks.
"Yes, you did…But you put your own pain at arms length…And you thought that forgetting about him would make you hurt less!" Bill told her, while taking her head in his hands, seeing her nodding her head in approval to him.
"I was missing him so much that I thought I would die…" Elena screamed at Bill, whilehitting his chest repeatedly with her closed fists.
Bill hold both of her wrists in a firm grip in one of his hand, while bringing her in his arms, helping her let out all her frustration, anger and sadness.
"Crying is good sometimes, Elena…" He murmured to her, while listening to her wailing.
She finally stopped crying, while raising her head to look at Bill, and pushing herself out of his embrace.
"Don't worry I won't say a word of this to anyone…I have a reputation to keep!" He said to her, making her smile timidly to him.
"Thank you…" She said to him. "Why are you nice to me, now?" She asked him, to which he shrugged his shoulders to her.
"I'm not nice to you…I'm doing this for Alex...He likes you Elena!" He confessed to Elena, while seeing her shake her head in negation, before adding. "What am I saying…No! He's in love with you! Yes! He's in love with you…You're the only woman in five years that was able to wake up his heart…Why do you think? Because even with his memory lost…He was able to recognize you…Did you ever saw a love so powerful, Princess? And now, he's willing to go save Rose….For you! You get under his skin, Elena!"
"I can't be with him, because he's a monster now…." Elena said to Bill, in a teary voice.
"He's the monster that you want to see and the angel that you don't, Elena…Even when he was Damon he was still a vampire…But, I bet you wanted to put that part of him, away from your relationship!" Bill answered her, while locking his eyes with hers.
She lowered her head, while rubbing her hands together, and closing her eyes…Bill was right!
"I want to know more about how Alex was at the beginning…" Elena asked Bill, before adding. "…And, why did you say that you suffered the same intense pain that he did?" Elena asked him.
Bill stared at her for a short moment, before taking a few walking steps to reach the desk and sitting on its top, while putting his injured leg on the chair.
"Five years ago, I was leaving in Ohio…" Bill started explaining to Elena, before clearing his throat, and continuing. "…Little town called Grove City…Me and my wife Sylvia, we were…" He continued explaining, before lowering his head and coughing nervously, while rubbing his hands together. "…We were the owner of a small farm…You know the kind of farm with a white picket fence…Beautiful yellow and blue exterior walls…With couple of rabbits, and chickens walking around…The boys…" He said to a dumfounded Elena, while passing a hand on his teary eyes. "…The boys, they were twin brothers…They used to run behind the chickens…And it was so funny…" He added while nodding his head and smiling timidly, while seeing the images memory in his mind.
"Is it them on this picture?" Elena asked him, while sliding her hand in her skirt pocket, and unfolding the picture that she had find on the floor of the underground kitchen.
"Yes…" Bill replied to her, while taking the picture in his hand, and questioning Elena with his stare.
"Oh, no…I did not take it from you…" She assured him, while shaking her head in negation, and adding. "I find it on the pavement."
Bill took the yellowish picture from Elena's hand.
"It's Sylvia and the boys…" He said to her, while looking at the picture, with teary eyes.
"What happened?" Elena asked him, while approaching his sitting position.
"It was the evening of a summer day…I remember…I was putting the tractor in the shed…I was walking slowly toward the house after a hard day of work, Sylvia was cooking our favourite dish that night…I had the rays of this beautiful colourful sunset in my eyes…When I saw him and the others appear in front of me!" Bill explained to Elena.
"You saw who?" Elena asked him, with an open mouth.
Bill raised his sight on her, before responding to her in a whisper: "I saw Klaus!" leaving a mouth open, speechless Elena in front of him, while telling her the memory lane story of his past….
"Good evening!" The man addressed himself to Bill.
"Oh good evening, folks…" Bill replied to the man, and the ones standing behind him, while wiping his dirty hands on a wet cloth. "What can I do for you? Are you lost? Do you have a flat tire or something?"
"Well…Something like that. Actually, we were wondering if we could use your hospitality for the night…If it is not too much bother for you and your beautiful wife?" The man asked him, while smiling deviously to Bill.
Bill felt a cold shiver of apprehension hitting his lower back…He rapidly scattered its surrounding, while noticing that they were outnumbering him…Charlie, his neighbour was gone with his family for the day, and he was pretty much alone in this range of farms.
"Well…We can certainly offer you fresh tea and a phone, if you need to call someone for help?" Bill said to the man, while directing his walk toward his house, he needed to verify that Sylvia was safe with the boys.
The man took a walking step toward him, before putting his hand on Bill's chest, and holding him immobile in front of him.
"I was thinking more as offering us lodging for the night!" The man replied to him, more as an order than a request.
"Well…I don't think that it would be possible…" Bill replied to him, while swallowing a small lump in his throat, before adding. "It's a very small house, and it's very crowded already. "…But, you're welcome to pass the night in the barn if you want…" Bill added while slowly passing beside the man, and walking toward the house, before hearing the man screaming an order to his thugs.
"Bring the woman!"
The back door of the house suddenly opened, and Sylvia appeared while being held by her two arms against her will, with the two young boys being dragged by another one of Klaus's man.
"Now…Do you understand more clearly?" Klaus asked him, while raising one of his eyebrows in a devious way.
"Sylvia!" Bill screamed from the top of his lungs to his wife.
"Bill….." His wife screamed to him, while trying to squirm away from the man who was holding her.
"Let go of my wife and my sons!" Bill screamed to Klaus.
"Or what…" Klaus laughed in his face, while nodding his head to his men, as a sign to follow his order.
"Oh my God…" Elena exclaimed, while putting a hand over her mouth to retain her screams. "…What happened to them?"
Bill raised his sight to look at her, while showing an absent gaze.
"One of his men sucked her dry! In front of my eyes…I tried…I swear, I tried to get to her, and save the boys…But, they hold me so tightly, and they had so much strength…And they were so many, I couldn't move…." He explained to Elena, while looking athis injured leg, making Elena lowered he sight to look at it at the same time he was.
"That is where you had you injury…" Elena asked him.
"Multiples fractures…I was beat up very badly!" Bill explained to her.
"But why would you turn … I mean…" Elena asked him, while passing a quick hand through her hair.
"You mean how did I became a monstrous vampire, and did not let myself die?" Bill asked her, while looking at Elena in the eyes. "That what the rest of the story will tell you Elena…I was badly beat up…They had savage my home, killed my family, and they finished their reign of horror by putting the fire in the house…erasing in an instant all our hard work…We did not have a lot of money, me and Sylvia, and the farm was highly mortgaged…I knew that I would be without a penny in my pockets…and thinking about it, without Sylvia and the boys I only wanted to die...Which, I guess that is what happened when one of the vampire started to drink my blood…" Bill explained to Elena, before remembering more…
"Hey boss! Do we leave his dead body for the coyote to eat?" One of Klaus vampire man asked him, while bursting into laugher.
"We need to go! Leave that man body near the wood…It will make a feast for the wild animal…" Klaus answered his man, while smirking.
The man dragged the body near the entrance of the large forest, before turning his head in alert of a strange sound in his ears, like an animal growl.
"Hello? Someone there…" The vampire man asked, while turning several times on himself…and scattering the dark night, before being grabbed forcefully by two strong arms.
"Rrrrrrrrrr…" The man heard the sound of a creature growled in his ears, before being pushed violently on the ground.
"No, no…" The vampire man screamed at the man-creature in front of him, before being decapitated in a matter of seconds.
"What…Who are you?" Bill whispered almost incoherently, in a semi state of consciousness, while feeling the whisper of death calling him, watching the man bending his body toward his own, between his half open eyes. "…Let me die!" He murmured to the man, before seeing him rip his wrist open, and forcing him to drink his blood while placing his wrist in top of Bill's mouth.
"He saved you…"Elena murmured to Bill, adding. "When was that?"
"Probably a bit after he lost his memory…He was pretty much still a wild animal…" Bill explained to her, while nodding his head.
"But, but…He healed you…You should have been fine after he fed you his blood?" Elena asked him.
"He put my body on his shoulders, and I remember that he ran and walked for a long time with me on his back…I was gaining some strength, but my leg was too damaged…I became to have the symptoms of the gangrene." Bill continued explaining to Elena.
"He had to turn you to keep you alive…" She whispered to him.
"Yes…Against my wile actually…" Bill said to Elena, while giggling nervously. "Since then…We never part road…I helped him deal with his anger, and his extreme sadness inside of him…He was like a lost animal, with no recognition of who he was…All alone in the world…And he helped me stay alive…and accept myself as a vampire!" Bill explained more to her. "That is pretty much the all story, Elena." Bill added to her, while raising his stare at her.
"The children…It's because of your boys that you're saving the others from the street?" Elena asked him, realizing more than what she could actually express by herself. "I'm sorry for you lost, Bill…" Elena added to him, while lowering her head. "…And I understand that your anger made you become what you are now." She added to him.
"Aren't we all sorry for our own lost…But, don't put a psychology 101 on me, Elena…We are vampires now…It's our nature, mine, Alex's…And all the men who decided to be with us!" He explained to her. "Now …" Bill added to her, while rising on his feet, taking a few walking steps to reach her standing position, before grabbing both of her shoulders and lowering his head near hers. "Free him of yourself if you don't intend to accept him as he is! Because he suffered enough because of you, Elena, or, run to him, run…before he leaves…And tell him that you will be with him as he is now, not as a fantasy that you have in your head of him or accept to loose him forever! Because the man that you are so afraid of…And the man that you lost five years ago, is the same!" He screamed at her, while shaking her by the shoulders. "…And he is about to probably loose his life to save your daughter!"
"I can't loose him for a second time…" She mumbled almost incoherently in her teeth, while shaking her head in negation, and feeling her tears running fluently on her face; she raised her sight on Bill, before finally realizing the truth: She was in love with Alex, as much as she had been in love with Damon…And these two men, were the same one and only!
She pushed Bill with all her strength away from her, while rushing to the door, storming out of the room, running thought the underground corridors, toward the elevator, before taking the steel stairs.
"Let her pass!" She heard Bill screaming to the vampire men who were blocking her way, while smiling at seeing her running toward the elevator, and crossing his arms in front of his chest.
She pushed the button of the industrial elevator, and pushed, and pushed…Waiting patiently for the doors to open in front of her eyes, before storming inside, and pushing the ground level several times, while pacing back and forth in the small abode, and passing a nervous hand through her hair. She needed to catch Alex before he left…She needed to reach him, now!
The sliding door or the industrial elevator finally opened, and she rushed outside while running into the small cave toward the exit, rushing outside into the night sky…
"Alex! Alex…." She screamed from the top of her lungs,while scattering her surroundings, before being grabbed with a hand on her arm, by one of his man. "Let me go…Where is he?" She screamed at the dumbfounded man.
Alex was sliding a small army bag on the back seat of his Transam car, with the blasted sound of a song coming from the car radio though the open door.
Too much love will kill you, If you can't make up your mind,
Torn between the lover, and the love you leave behind, You're headed for disaster
'cos you never read the signs, Too much love will kill you
Every time…
"Alex!" She screamed on more time, while seeing him bend his head to enter the passenger seat of the car, before seeing him turn and take a look at her.
"Elena…" Alex screamed back at her, while raising his head, and looking at her with an open mouth expression on his face. "What…"
Elena took a few walking steps toward him, while feeling the tears filling her eyes. They were now standing face to face at a near meter of distance.
Alex searched some kind of explanation of her presence on Elena's face, while trying to understand what was happening in front of his eyes, before seeing Elena jumped into his arms, encircling his neck, with her arms, gluing her body on his, and burying her face in his right shoulders.
"Elena?" He asked her, completely dumfounded, while caressing her hair. "What is it? I told you that I would protect Rose, what are you doing in here, out of the underground? It's not safe for you to be here…We could be watched!"
"It's not that…" She whispered to him, while raising her head, and staring into his eyes.
Alex raised his right hand near her face, before caressing the contour of her face, while locking into her eyes.
"What are you trying to tell me?" He asked her, while keeping his stare in hers.
Tears were running fluently on her cheeks now, and she was shaking her head.
"I'm so sorry…I hurt you so much!" She mumbled, almost incoherently, to him. "…I was a stupid fool…And I let you down!"
"For God sake, Elena what is going on with you?" He replied to her; while forcefully raise her head to make her look at him, with his hands encircling her face.
Elena swallowed a small lump in her throat before admitting.
"I'll wait for you…" She told him, in low whisper, while nodding her head. "…I'll wait for you for ever!"
Alex froze on spot, while searching in her eyes a trace of untruthfulness.
"Stop this Elena! You don't need to play me for a fool…Either way, I promised you that I would protect Rose…I have unfinished business with Klaus that I need to take care!" Alex responded to her, in a colder voice.
"I'm not playing with you…Not anymore!" She whispered to him, while shaking her head.
"I'm not Damon Salvatore! And I'll never be!" He screamed at her, while gesturing with his hands in anger. "Stop thinking like that!" He added to her.
"But you're a part of him…And…" She started explaining to him, before adding. "…And I can't imagine my life without you in it, Alex!" She confessed to him, while staring into his eyes for a long moment, before rising on her toes, and crashing her mouth on his, while intensifying her kiss, and sliding her tongue between his closed lips, making him groaned in pleasure, while feeling him rub his hands all over her body, sliding one under her t-shirt, while caressing her tattooed skin.
"Mmm…" He mumbled in pleasure, before gently pushing her at arms length. "What is this?" He asked of her, while encircling her wrists with one of his hand. "I won't play your game, Elena!"
"I'm not playing…" She confessed to him, while shaking her head, raising her right hand to caress his left cheek, before approaching his standing position. "…I want to be with you!"
"Well…Your theatrical scene is not one of the best, I don't believe you!" Alex angrily mumbled to her, while passing a nervous hand through his hand…What was happening exactly? He thought to himself. "You need to do a freaking better job than this!"
"That is ok…I'll wait here for you, Always…And I will convince you eventually…Because you deserve that someone wait for you, Alex!" She responded to him, in a teary voice, making him gasp in surprise and shock of not recognizing the woman who was standing in front of him. "Now, go save our daughter!" She added to him, rising on her toes, and sweet kissing his lips, before staring into his eyes, while caressing his cheeks. "Be gentle with your brother…At least, he searched for you all these years, while I didn't!" She added to him, before detaching herself from him, and taking a few steps away from the car.
Bill who had witnessed the scene, took a few walking steps, before standing beside Elena.
"Be careful, Alex…Come back in one piece!" He said to him, while nodding his head, and before seeing Alex nodding his head in return, taking place on his driver seat, before making the engine roar, while leaving with a grinding wheel noise.
"You're a bad ass mother fucker; Elena…And I say that with respect…It takes guts to do what you just done!" Bill said to Elena, while lighting one cigarette. "Cigarette?" Bill asked her, as a mocking gesture, while showing her his pack, before seeing Elena take one from the pack, making him stand still in surprise for a few seconds.
"What?" Elena replied sarcastically, while looking at him and adding. "You like me now?'
"Not a chance in hell…woman…" Bill responded to her, while passing his lighter to her, and smirking. "…But I respect you more!" He added, while winking at her, before seeing her smile and raised her shoulders proudly.
"He did not believe me though…" She whispered to him, a moment later, while taking puffs of her cigarette.
"Can you blame him?" Bill asked her, while turning his head and looking at her, before seeing her shake her head in negation.
"No…" She replied to him.
"But…" He said to her. "…It's going to eat him alive…And he'll be thinking about it a lot…and that will give him a reason to stay alive, if ever he put himself in trouble." he added to her.
"I was aiming for that…" She responded to Bill, while smiling heavenly.
Stefan Salvatore pushed the door of the antic costumes store of Mystic Falls, while ringing the little bell attached to its door frame.
He approached the cashier counter, while sliding his hands in his jeans pockets, and scattering the store while looking out for the owner.
"Hello…" He exclaimed, while waiting patiently for someone to appear.
A sexagenarian, with salt & pepper hair, and small glasses on the tip of his nose appeared in front of him, while asking to Stefan Salvatore:
"Yes, may I help you?"
"Yes, hello…You surely can, my name is Stefan Salvatore…I called couple of hours ago, to reserve a 1970' disco costume?" Stefan said to the man.
"Oh yes, Mister Salvatore! Of course…For the Disco party at the Lockwood…I presume?" The man asked him, with a smile.
"Well…You presumed right!" Stefan answered the man, while raising his eyebrows and shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh! I don't see much enthusiasm for a young man?" The older man replied to him, while hiding his hilarity behind one of his hands.
"Let just say that I saw my share of Lockwood events!" Stefan replied to the man, while smirking.
"I do understand…Can you come in the back store, for you fitting of the suit… I think I find the perfect one for you!" The man said to him.
"Sure…." Stefan replied to the man, while following him behind a curtain.
Five minutes later he was sliding the curtain of the dressing room, while taking a couple of steps to reach the mirror in front of him.
"Oh God…" He exclaimed loudly to himself, while rolling his eyes to the ceiling, catching his own reflection on the mirror on feet. John Travolta in all his disco glory was certainly standing in front of the mirror, in this glittering two pieces suit. Unfortunately, he had no other choices but to attend this Lockwood event with Caroline, Rose's safety was in stake…Especially with Klaus back in town.
"I would prefer to be caught dead, torture, or having my head ripped off from my body than having a brother, who's dressing like you!" Stefan heard a voice say to him, making him startled in surprise, while feeling a range of shivering hitting his entire body, before very so slowly raising his head, and seeing Damon reflection.
"Damon…" He exclaimed in shock, while staring into Damon's eyes in the mirror.
Oh, I love this chapter! And I was really feeling good while writing it…Because, I was able to put Alex with a tiny bit of Damon in him…Step by step…Not as easy at it seems, let me tell you.
Can't wait to read you all, and of course to answer you.
Going back to my other stories now...
Till next chapter, be happy my dear readers!
