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Here's chap 9 and another chap might be up later today since I finished my other fics yesterday and I'm only working on one atm :)

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xoxo Ascha

Chapter 9:

England, 2011

Klaus left me alone in the mansion the day after we returned to England and went out with Stefan to find James, who of course had left his apartment the day we left to find the sunstone. I hoped that they wouldn't find him, because if they did… I was never going to forgive myself then. He was a close friend of Elijah and therefore a friend of mine too.

However, there wasn't much I could do since Klaus ordered me to stay, but now that I was home alone I used my leisure time to relax and watched more television. I was starting to like some of the shows and actually enjoyed technology for once.

It was a great way to entertain people and even the poor was able to watch the same plays or "shows" as Klaus called them without having to pay or be looked down upon. They merely had to own a television and I was truly happy to know that the people were… equal now more than before.

But as I was sitting all alone in the mansion and watching a strange movie named Constantine, I suddenly heard voices coming from outside the front door and I knew that it wasn't Klaus or Stefan, because they only left an hour ago and Klaus's minions were still searching for James near England.

Hesitantly, I turned off the television and listened carefully to the two voices, while I hid behind the sofa. I could take both of them down if I wanted to, because I could smell that only one of them was a vampire and a young one in fact, but I was worried of what they were doing here. We were in the countryside far away from the big cities and the nearest town was miles away.

The one of them who wasn't a vampire opened the door and tentatively went inside. I let my fangs extend and could hear the human girl's heart beat faster as she approached the living room. When she entered the living room, all I could see from behind the sofa was that she was armed with a crossbow, so I jumped on her and she let out a scream, which made the vampire react and run inside.

I flashed my fangs and red eyes at the vampire and jumped on him as well, slamming him hard into the wall before he could stop me. He could feel that I was stronger than him and tried resisting, but I held his throat in a tight grip and could snap his neck if I wanted to. But I suddenly felt a burning sensation in my back that made me let go of him and I fell to the ground with an arrow in my back.

It hurt badly, because the arrow had been soaked in vervain, but when the vampire was pushing the arrow closer to my heart, I finally looked at the face of the girl and recognized her immediately. It was hard not to recognize her, but it was so strange to finally meet her. She was the doppelganger.

"Elena!" I cried and she luckily reacted to it. She told the vampire – Damon – to stop and stepped closer to me, but held the crossbow aimed at me. "You are Elena Gilbert, yes?"

Elena nodded and looked worriedly at Damon, who must be Stefan's older brother. I could definitely see the resemblance, but he was complete opposite of Stefan's personality. He reminded me of Klaus in some ways and that worried me slightly.

"How do you know me? Who are you? And where is Stefan?" Elena asked almost accusingly.

"Stefan told me about you," I said. "He is out with Klaus right now, looking for my friend James. I was the one who told James to contact you. My name is Maeva."

Damon pulled the arrow out, lifted me up from the floor, and injected something into my neck that forced me to fall asleep. I tried forcing myself awake again, but the more I fought the sleepier I became and I eventually just gave up and let the dream come to me. But it wasn't an ordinary dream or a nightmare about how Klaus trying to kill me. It was an old memory that I had nearly forgotten.

France, 1542

"Angel! I know you are in here somewhere… I can hear your heartbeat, remember?" Elijah said, chuckling softly as he walked inside the lounge.

I tried hard to suppress my giggles and took a sneak peak from the side of the sofa, but I could not see Elijah anywhere in the living room. I crawled a little more out from behind the sofa and suddenly felt someone grab my ankles. I let out a surprised scream and turned around to kick the person, but I sighed in relief and laughed when I saw that it was merely Elijah.

"Elijah! Have you not heard that it is very, very rude to shock a lady?" I asked, pulling him down on me and feeling his hand caress my bare skin in places where normal men would never touch a lady.

"I suppose I have, but it is also very rude to hide from your secret lover…"

Elijah said, kissing me tenderly on the side of my neck and sending jolts of excitement through my body. I cupped his face in my hands and let my lips crash with his. He tasted as sweet as honey and not just in the metaphorically way. I smiled against his lips and felt the tip of his tongue gently touching mine as he kissed me passionately. I felt a warm tickling feeling inside my stomach and the more Elijah kissed me, the more the heat spread throughout my whole body and I had a hard time controlling the burning lust inside me.

For three perfect weeks we had been more in love than ever and had a hard time letting go of each other. Elijah would take me out for dinner or on long walks on the beach, but our romantic trips always ended with us together in a deep embrace, kissing and enjoying every minute of our time together…

"Maeva... my sweet angel," Elijah whispered softly into my ear, even his voice was sending wonderful shivers through my body. "There is something highly important that I need to ask you."

I sat up and could see that Elijah suddenly became worried. I had never seen him quite as worried as he was this late afternoon and wondered what he needed to ask me. He looked at me for a moment and the worried expression on his face disappeared. He smiled and gave me a soft kiss on my cheek before he reached for something in his pocket. But he didn't find what he was searching for in his left pocket, so he searched the right one and then when he didn't find the thing there either, he suddenly became worried again.

"What on earth are you doing, Elijah?" I asked, giggling of his weird behavior.

"I… I had it a few minutes ago…" he muttered, looking confusedly around. "Wait here. I merely have to find something first."

Elijah stood up and went back to the entrance, but as he left the spot he was sitting on, I saw something that made me utterly speechless. A beautiful diamond ring was lying on the floor, but it was not a normal diamond ring even though the silver ring itself was quite normal. The diamond was shaped as a heart and it looked much more expensive than the engagement ring Aldéric gave me.

"Oh… there it is… in your hand," Elijah said and coughed to clear his throat before he kneeled down in front of me. I was still speechless and had no idea that Elijah felt this way about me. I knew that he was a vampire and that vampires never married humans, because they would live forever, while the human would grow old and die. I would grow old and die. "Maeva, I–"

A cold splash of water woke me up and I looked confusedly around in the house I was in. I was gasping hard, but when I saw Damon stand in front of me with an empty bucket, I began remembering what had happened. They abducted me!

"Vous idiot! Klaus va me tuer, James, et puis quand il vous trouve, il va vous tuer aussi!" I hissed angrily.

Damon snorted. "Well, I don't need to understand French to know that she's pissed at me…" he said, smirking smugly.

I ignored him and stepped out of the bed I had been placed on, but when I tried leaving the house I was suddenly stopped by an invisible force field or wall. I tried breaking the wall, but no amount of power could break it down. I turned around with my fangs flashed and was about to jump on Damon when I suddenly felt an excruciating pain in my head that forced me down on my knees.

"Don't fight us," the dark-haired, green-eyed, and dark-skinned girl in front of me said. She was a witch and she was more powerful than she looked. I stopped fighting and she made the pain go away just like that. "James, is this really Maeva?"

"James?" I said and looked confusedly around. I saw James standing at the end of the hallway and ran to him immediately, hugging him tightly and thanking him for getting me out. "James, you need to get away from here. Klaus is angry with you and–"

"I know, Maeva. I know," James said and ushered me in to the small living room where another human – a man in his early or mid thirties – sat with a cup of coffee in his hand. "I apologize for sending you to a decoy, but I can't let Klaus get that sunstone. Luckily, I ran into Miss Gilbert and her friends and they agreed to help me find you… or rather, Elena agreed to help."

"Oh... but Klaus will become furious when he gets back and Stefan… oh, poor Stefan will get hurt!"

"Klaus won't kill him. He needs Stefan and we will be long gone before he finds us. But first we need to find Elijah and his siblings."

I nodded in agreement and could hear Elena entering the room with a worried expression on her face. She missed Stefan probably as much as I missed Elijah. I felt bad for her and regretted that I attacked her before. I never meant to hurt her and just wanted to find Elijah, so he could help me.

"I apologize for attacking you, Elena," I said. "I… I know that you are worried for Stefan, but I promise I will help you now that you have helped me."

"Thank you, Maeva. And I'm sorry we attacked you too," Elena said. "How is Stefan? Is he still… himself?"

"Himself? If you are referring to his lust for blood, then… he's trying his best to fight it, but it's hard when Klaus is watching our every move. He locked me up in a tomb for 469 years and made me addicted to human blood too."

"469 years?" Damon repeated as he walked in to the kitchen too. "So you're what? 480 years old?"

"Firstly, a man does not ask of a lady's age and secondly, I'm 489 years old," I said sternly, making Damon rolling his eyes. He obviously hadn't agreed to help too. "But I don't matter right now. We need to find the sunstone before he does and find Elijah and his siblings as well so they can help us."

"The sunstone? Why would Klaus need a sunstone?"

"That… it s a very good question indeed, but I don't know for sure what the reason is. I only know that he needs me for something and…" I showed them the half sunstone I had. "… this. The sunstone was cut into two pieces, you see."

Damon frowned and wanted to talk with Elena for a moment in private. But while they talked with each other about whether or not they really could trust me, I was introduced to Elena's friends – Alaric Saltzman, Bonnie Bennett, and Caroline Forbes.

They all seemed nice and trustable, but while they wanted to wait a bit before we began looking for the Originals and the sunstone, I wanted to leave the house and start searching. I wanted to see Elijah right now.

"So… how did you get involved in all this?" Bonnie asked, mostly referring to the sunstone necklace I now had in my hands.

I sighed and smiled weakly by the thought of when I first laid my eyes on Elijah on my 20th birthday. I was happy that he had been the one, who had to seduce me and get the necklace, but I still somewhat wished that Klaus had been the one. I wanted to know if Klaus truly could love a woman.

Yup, Maeva is finally free and it's now the real fun begin ;) Thanks for reading and please review! :D