Sorry guys, there hasn't been much Klaus. There will be a lot in this chapter to make up for it. Mainly Eli was still suffering from what she told Damon. Which I think one or two chapters ago I changed it to M. This has dark themes and I felt bad I don't have a trigger in the summary thing. I think I will add that when I post this. Anyway, mainly in this is story plus Klaus. And for anyone who might be thinking this, Eli will eventually start to like Nik, he will eventually start to like her. This is very far away from now. She is fifteen. He is in the 1000s. I will take this as he's in his twenties though, she'll probably be 17 or so when they start a relationship. It's not entirely planned out. I was just saying this in case anyone started freaking out.

~Sun

I padded through the Dark, trying to listen for Nik, I wanted to see him.

I came across him about a hour later, he was hunched, hands in his pockets. He was dressed fully and I looked down for me to only be in my pajamas. Wonderful.

He noticed me then, and smiled brightly and widely.

I felt awkward as I came across Nik. I smiled slightly at him. I wasn't entirely sure what to say, I hadn't seen him in a while.

I waved, "Hi." He smirked, "Hello. Little awkward is it not?"

I nodded, laughing. "Yeah...I haven't really slept recently." He looked a little curious but didn't say anything. For that I was grateful.

We both sat down at the same time, and funnily enough, he sat down exactly like me, criss cross.

I had to smile at that.

It was silent before I tried making conversation. "I had my first day of school." He smiled, "How did that go?"

I shrugged, "How you would think, I'm a freak, fifteen year old in junior year."

Nik nodded, "A little freakish, but it still happens to people. It makes you unique, love." I nodded back, quiet. I couldn't help but think of all the reasons I was unique. That didn't make me feel better.

"I've been doing more research." he looked intrigued.

"Um, I mainly used google. But, uh, I learned that I probably have and indigo aura. It's well known that people who have those color auras have sometime of clairvoyance or any psychic ability."

He nodded, letting me know he was following this. "So, I googled stuff about witches and things because there's this witch here, that before she died told me I was surrounded by death. Or related to it. Not sure what that means…"

"Do you know about witches who do black magic?" I nodded my head slightly, "Yes, my only thing is how would a witch be similar to me? Aren't they all nature-y and stuff?"

Nik shrugged, "Normally, they usually stick with things that don't go against nature. Hence why they hate vampires. A human's nature is to live and then die. We don't do that."

"I looked up possession, mainly because the witch stuff brought up Satanism. Know anything?"

He furrowed his brows, "Powerful witches on the other side can posses other witches. Maybe even humans but I haven't seen it."

I sighed, I was still unsure. "Do you know anything about Lilith, I know she was apparently Adam's first wife. Everything I've read has said she became a vampire. Or actually it just said a demon."

"If you're asking me if I knew her then you'll be very disappointed." I laughed, shaking my head, "I just want to know if there is ancient ideas or whatever they're called about her."

"Well, from what I've gathered throughout the centuries she was a demon, who had vampiric qualities. There was a fear about mirrors millenniums back about her possessing women through the said mirror. That's all I've got."

I looked at my hands, thinking. "Possession keeps on coming up." Nik shrugged, "Find out why."

I nodded, then stopped.

There was a heartbeat, which I've heard before, but it was weird. It was double, but they were beating at the same time. It was down to a millisecond. That was when I realized the hearts were ours. I didn't know what that meant, but I didn't want to find out.

Suddenly there was a roar, and then I was ripped from the Dark. I blinked open my eyes and stared at my ceiling in the boarding house. When I looked out the window I realized what happened, there was a storm, and it woke me up. What a strange feeling.

I rubbed my eyes, and stood up, heading downstairs. It was still early, hence how dark it was. Then again, I'm sure the clouds helped with that. I thought about getting breakfast but then decided I wasn't hungry enough. It was the weekend, Damon thought it would be easier on me to go to school for one day then rest. Still a little annoying he thought I was so fragile. I almost single handedly saved Stefan's life. And I don't think anyone but me would know just how devastated Damon would be.

I padded into the kitchen and found a glass for some water. I was bored and didn't know what to do. As I sipped my drink I started having a weird feeling. Like something ominous. Obviously bad since it was me.

I tried to ignore it, and when that failed I tried to decipher it. All I could figure out was that it was surrounding me, I think. Like, it felt familiar. Maybe it was even someone I knew. Well that didn't make me feel better.

I was on the couch, nose in a book while Damon was fixing the window from last night.

I tried to read past the bitching and the hammering as Damon put the last nail in the wood that would cover up what happened.

"I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door and annihilate the idiot that attacked us last night."

I flipped the page of my book, not bothering to look up, "Hmm, and get yourselves killed? Not happening Damon."

Stefan nodded to me, "Yeah, and then what? We turn to the rest of that house of vampires and say, 'Oops, sorry?'"

"I can't believe you made a deal with her." Elena was not happy with Damon, then again why should she be?

"It was more like a helpful exchange of information. And it's not like I had a choice. She's...scary."

"Besides, she's gonna help me get Katherine back."

Elena was pretty peeved as Damon sat there and explained everything. Pearl, Katherine, we even explained to Elena about what happened last night, hence the wood plank in the window.

"Of course she is. Damon gets what he wants, as usual. No matter who he hurts on the process."

Yes, about that, I was a little annoyed at his desperation. But I guess if you love someone for 145 years you're bound to do anything.

"You don't have to be snarky about it."

Elena wasn't the type to be aggressive but it looked like she was about to get in Damon's face.

"I woke up this morning to learn that all the vampires have been released from the tomb, I've earned snarky."

Damon walked over to the couch where I was sitting and sat down with a sigh.

"How long are you going to blame me for turning your birth mother into a vampire?" I narrowed my eyes at Damon, did he really expect Elena to forgive him? Sure Elena was awesome and compassionate and nice but she held grudges.

"I'm not blaming you Damon, I've accepted the fact that you're a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities." I winced.

"Ouch." That was Damon, Mr. Sass. Damon stood up and then left the room, going somewhere to plot, maybe.

"He just makes me so cranky." Stefan smiled, "He makes everybody cranky. Damon and I are gonna handle everything I promise." They smiled at each other and hugged, I had to look away.

"Well what about me? I can't just sit here and do nothing." I widened my eyes.

"That's exactly what you're going to do, Elena. It's not safe for you, specially since you look like Katherine. They obviously know her, and hate her." Stefan nodded but Elena disagreed.

"You're fifteen, Eli, what can you do?"

Stefan chuckled, "You'd be surprised." Oh right, I saved his ass yesterday.

I was typing in a word document about the things I knew and then didn't know about what I was. So far I had a lot of "I don't knows". Damon was across the room turning the clock.

"Hunting party?" I looked up from my laptop when I heard Stefan walk in.

"That guy did a number on me last night when he stabbed me, I gotta get my strength back up."

"I've got two liters of soccer mom in the fridge." I glanced at him, "Damon?" he turned to me, "Hmm?"

"Shut up." He frowned before turning back to the clock.

Stefan sighed, before zipping his jacket and saying,"We'll talk when I get back?"

Damon nodded, "All right, give my regards to the squirrels." I giggled, sometimes it was hard to hate Damon while other times it was easy.

I felt uneasy as Stefan shut the front door, but it was minor so I tried to ignore it. I frowned and checked my page so far.

The first column, known, had about five items. These were not helpful, they were mainly just things on what I could do, no actual entity.

Without looking up Damon muttered, "I know what you're doing, obsessiveness won't help anyone." I rolled my eyes.

"I want to know what I am Damon. You might not want to but I do. I'm trying everything and anything to figure it out. It's the one puzzle I can't solve."

It was probably hours later when I got that feeling again. The one I got right after Stefan shut the door on his way out. I breathed in and out, trying to calm down. Something was happening to him, and I would be no help if I had a panic attack. I bit my lip as I called out Damon's name.

The way I said it must have worried him, because that was all over his face.

"It's Stefan."

Damon walked out menacingly and said, "Well don't you look...alive."

Mr. Saltzman seemed cocky, which probably wasn't smart around Damon, "You can't hurt me."

Damon smirked, "Oh yes I can." I stepped out with Elena, trying to relieve the tension.

"Mr. Saltzman. We need your help."

Elena explained everything to him as soon as we got in his classroom. I stood there, listening, "Stefan's in the house. Damon's a vampire he can't get in. We need you. I would go but-"

"Your life is valuable, just like Eli's. Yours on the other hand."

"Stefan told me about your ring."

"What about it?"

Damon popped in, "Let's recap, you tried to kill me, I defended myself, you died. Then according to my brother your ring brought you back to life. Am I leaving anything out?"

Mr. Saltzman's jaw clenched, "Yeah. The part where I try and kill you again only this time I don't miss."

Elena stepped in, "Mr. Saltzman. Please. It's Stefan."

"I'm sorry Elena, it's not my problem."

"That's a shame, because the woman in charge of the crowd can help you find your wife."

"You're lying."

"Am I?"

"Why don't you ask her for yourself? Coward. Come on Elena, Eli." I opened my mouth to stop him but Mr. Saltzman cut me off, "Alright, wait. I'll go."

There he went, gathering all of his vampire killing stuff and laying everything down on his desk.

"Teacher by day, vampire hunter by night."

I snorted as Mr. Saltzman said, "I've you to thank for that."

Elena ignored us all. "What are these?"

"Those are tranquilizer darts filled with vervain."

"Just get me in. I'll get Stefan out." I nodded, calculating his chances.

"That's your plan? You're just gonna take them all on yourself?"

"Well, I'll be a little stealthier than that, hopefully." I rolled my eyes, "Hopefully."

I turned to Damon, "I'm coming with you." His eyes widened and he shook his head furiously.

"No, Eli, did I mention no?" I ignored him, "Here, I'm the little girl remember. Let's say, me and Mr. Saltzman walk up to the house, pretend our car broke down. He can be my dad, couldn't he? Don't we look a little alike?"

Mr. Saltzman shrugged, but Damon looked...jealous? What?

Elena leaned in, picking up one of the tranquilizers.

"Whoa, what are you doing?" That was all three of us.

"I'm going with you guys."

I shook my head as both Damon and Mr. Saltzman disagreed.

"You need me, I'll get in. You could distract them and then I'll get Stefan out."

I laughed, "Yes and oh, how many things can I list that would go wrong? Here, first, they will recognize you, maybe even recognize you from being with Stefan. Sense a problem? They all hate Katherine remember? Not happening Elena."

"You'll get yourself killed you're not going out there." Damon agreed with me.

"I'm going," She insisted.

"So, when you get," Damon sighed, "us in, get out as quickly as you can. I'll know how to sneak around where they can't hear me. You'll basically just be in the way."

"Damon now is not the time to be the lone ranger."

"Fine, Elena, you can drive the getaway car. Hmm? You're not going in the house."

I discovered Elena was quite scary when she was angry. "You can't stop me. It's Stefan we're talking about here. You don't understand."

"Oh, I understand. I understand. He's the reason you live. His love lifts you up where you belong. I get it." I widened my eyes at Damon's tone, he sounded very childish. Like, I admit I didn't like it when they were all lovey-dovey, but they cared for each other.

"Can you not joke around for 2 seconds?"

"I can't protect you, Elena. I don't know how many vampires there are in there." he snapped, "That's how long it takes you to get your head ripped off. I have to be able to get in and get out. I can't be distracted with your safety. Or this will be a bloodbath that none of us walk away from...including Stefan."

It was silent.

"I know. I get it. I understand."

Mr. Saltzman looked in between them, "If we're gonna go then let's go." I nodded and we all headed for Damon's car.

Me and Mr. Saltzman ran up to the house infested with tomb vampires and he rang the doorbell.

When someone answered we both put ourselves into our characters.

"Oh, good, someone's home. Uh, could I use your phone? My car broke down a few miles back and this is the first house I saw."

The funky looking dude who spoke like, really still-ly said, "Well, lucky you."

"Yeah, lucky me."

The man smiled at me, leaning down towards me, "And who's this?"

I smiled, acting very baby-like. "My name's Claire! My dad's car broke down when we were heading home for dinner. Mom's gonna be worried." I think I lie well, and he seemed to believe it.

The man nodded and opened the door wider as and invitation for us to enter. We did so and the still-y man called out to a guy called Billy? I was more focused on our task then names. That vampire led us through the house, there were some vamps slow dancing to music of this decade I suppose.

Maybe just the century. They must have had a real culture shock.

"Hey Miss Gibbons, this guy wants to use your phone." Billy the vampire said as we entered the kitchen. it looked normal, light and carefree. I preferred the boarding house's though.

I gave the woman a once over and I had to contain my disgust. They were using her as a walking, talking blood bag. She had bite marks on her wrist, her neck. I also knew Mr. Saltzman saw the marks too.

"Oh, sure, honey. It's right there." She pointed in a random direction, at least to me. But it did have a phone.

"Thanks." We headed over to it and I braced myself, I already knew the vampire was about to charge us. I slipped my stake out of my long sleeve slightly. Luckily with the rain no one would have suspected a thing. I heard the guy charge the history teacher and Mr. Saltzman turned just in time to jam the stake in the vampire's chest.

There was a gross snapping sound but I didn't mind. I realized I wanted to hear it . Saltzman slammed the dude against the wall and let him fall. I quickly jumped over him and opened the door that was in the kitchen. I also heard him turn the faucet on along with the blender. Right, we needed the sound muffled.

As I opened the door mr. Saltzman grabbed the woman and led her to the open door where Damon was waiting.

"What's happening?"

"I'm really sorry but you're going to have to invite a friend of mine inside."

The woman looked at Damon once before turning to Mr. Saltzman, "Oh, I'm sorry. He's not allowed in the house."

"Yeah I know but you gotta make an exception…"

I knew what was going to happen as Damon told him to get the woman out of the house.

The snap of her neck after he asked her a few questions confirmed it.

"You were supposed to compel her."

"It doesn't work that way."

"She's human."

Damon glared at him, "And I'm not so I don't care. Now get out of here and get rid of the body."

I stayed, of course, but Damon didn't have the time to question it. He held one finger to his lips to hush me and I nodded.

He shoved us in a closet and we waited for maybe five minutes all the while I was trying to not have a panic attack at how close Damon was to me. When those five minutes were up a man walked next to the closet and we both jumped out, Damon staking him first.

My stake still in hand we walked through another area, trying to get to Stefan.

I listened for a second, hearing music. It was below us.

I shoved a finger to my lips and looked at Damon, I exited the house, but still on the porch. There was a cellar. Perfect for tying someone up and torturing them.

I pointed and he nodded, he was following me the entire time.

We snuck into it, and I shoved him into a corner quickly. He didn't question me. A second later a man walked by and sat back into a chair, his music still on high. It was quiet, except for his loud rock music. Of all genres why would a new-to-this-century vamp like rock? Classical would make sense. There was a gasp behind us and it sounded oddly familiar. The vamp listening to the music heard it too and stood up, heading over to the noise and past us. I slammed into him and stabbed him with the stake.

His death was quick and quiet. At least if the faucet was still running. We both turned to see Elena. God fucking dammit. Damon yelled at her first.

"Are you insane?" I nodded, pretty certain she was.

"What the fuck, Elena, you literally would be dead with we weren't here right now."

She grew angry, "I need to help you find Stefan, I'm helping!"

I stopped her, "So when we do find him, how do we tell him you had your head ripped off?"

She bit her lip, embarrassed I think.

I sighed, "Let's just get over this, okay? We need to find Stefan."

We found him hanging up, tied to the ceiling. Damon busted the door open for us. I could of probably done it, though everyone still saw me as the human girl.

I wasn't.

Well human at least.

"You shouldn't be here." Stefan sounded so pitiful and my heart hurt. Well everything hurt. Suddenly I felt weak, and tired. I just wanted to sleep…

I nearly fell over but Elena caught me, we made eye contact and I think she understood. She sat me on the counter and went to work on untying what I figured were vervain coated ropes.

"Wait." I caught from Stefan, it was hard to hear him, even for me.

Stefan looked at the man who I hadn't noticed before. He had two stakes in his legs and looked weak. My legs nearly felt immobile. I forced myself up and nearly kicked them out the door before I start ripping the stakes out of his legs.

I also got to work on untying him. Vervain ropes and all. Once he was free, he thanked me. "Thank you…" he was still so weak. I smiled crookedly. "You're welcome." Then I sprung out the door. I was almost out when I stopped after I heard banging upstairs. "Damon…"

I was so focused on him I didn't notice another tomb vamp knock me to the floor. I grunted, turned over and he smirked at me, I was such the little 'human girl'.

I grinned back as he went for my neck. I punched him in the side of the head, with way more than human force and he was sent reeling. I got up just into for him to charge me. My eyes must have flickered black for he stopped, this gave me time for all my energy to charge? I wasn't sure what that meant. All I did know was that when he did run into me he flew back, like he hit a force field. What?

I straddled him and shoved my second stake in my other sleeve into him. I missed his heart the first time so he still struggled but I felt my energy explode and he sort of did? Like he was there and then wasn't. And there was blood everywhere. I smirked at his body, well what remained of it.

I was grinning and covered in vampire blood when Damon found me. I looked at him, still out of it and seeing red and I just knew my eyes were black. He gasped slightly, just a small intake of breath but I caught it. He didn't know me. At least not this version.

"We need to find Frederick." I nodded though still in a haze and limped out of the cellar into the woods towards the car. That's where the two lovebirds would be right?

I was at the car only to see no one there, I searched everything in my vision frantically and noticed the wires of the car were cut. Dammit.

"This is for Bethanne." I turned as I heard and I started running up to the three. One human and two vampires, only one was not the one who should be alive…

"I was the one who killed her. Not Stefan. Deal with me first." I yelled out, even though he probably would have been able to hear me either way.

But god I was so fucking cocky.

He turned and his eyes widened, he saw the little girl.

He ran towards me immediately but I was ready. My hand was already charged and I felt like my entire body was on fire. But in a good way.

As soon as he was close enough I charged him into the ground, my entire body burning him through his clothes.

He screamed and I felt his pain but I loved it. I enjoyed his pain, the pain I was causing. I thought to myself during the short fight that he was pathetic. Trying to fight me. Trying to fight someone stronger than him. Trying to fight a Demon. What a loser.

I dodged his kick and slammed my hand to his neck, burning it to a crisp. He was yelling the entire time.

I laughed.

Finally I searched for a stick, or log maybe and jammed it into his chest. Time after time after time.

I didn't realize I was grinning through it until Elena pulled me away from him. I remembered his name was Frederick.

I came to my senses and I looked down to see blood. Literally fucking everywhere. It was on me, the ground, his...body. I just killed someone. I killed someone and I laughed the whole time. I killed someone and wanted to do it again.

I was alone in my room, cradling my knees to my chest. All I could think about was the blood. It should have triggered me or something, but I liked it!. I wanted more. More on my hands I guess. Just more on me.

My head was against the wall and I started going in and out of sleep. I was too antsy to sleep but to tired to stay up. What a beautiful paradox.

I opened my eyes only to be greeted with the Dark. Well Nik, really. He was standing right in front of me. He frowned.

"Was I the only one who sensed you were going to be here?"

I shrugged, still out of it. "Not sure." I slurred my words slightly and he narrowed his eyes.

"What happened?" That was when he noticed my clothing. It was still bloody. It was still bloody and I wanted it to stay that way.

"Stuff happened Nik." He tried to crack a smile, "I can see that."

"I helped someone today. I helped someone by killing." His eyes grew grim.

"It always hurts the first time. But you need to realize you saved someone." I nodded slightly.

"I just-I just did it brutally. I wanted to, Nik. I wanted to cause pain. I wanted to cause death."

He sighed, sitting down and urging me to do the same.

I shook my head, refusing to calm down basically.

"This has to do with what I am." I started.

"But I can't…"

"Can't what?"

"I can't do this. Everytime I get closer to figuring out what I am I just get more and more monstrous."

He chuckled, "Some say the same about me, love, it's alright."

I kneeled in front of him.

"No, no, no. I'm dangerous," I whispered to him. "I don't know what I am. But all I know is that I have no control. I just...I just get worse and worse. Because everything I touch isn't dark enough."

"Love-"

"No! You have to listen." I was crying now. God, I'm pathetic. "I killed someone...and I liked it."

My voice broke as I continued, "I liked their pain, their suffering. It fucking fueled me!" I stopped and looked him in the eye as I spoke again.

"You have to stop me."

Hey would anyone care if I made a tumblr for this? I mean it'd just be titled It Always Hurts the Same soooo. It would be like pictures and maybe gifs of the characters, nothing I'm making though, I'm really bad at stuff like that. But, if you want to and maybe make things for this story just send it to me and I'll be happy to give shout outs or whatever. Right now It would probably just be like Eli and Damon. OOo if someone could figure out how to have like, a black background that'd be amazing to show Eli in the Dark or whatever. Okay, so, hope you enjoyed!