Damon's POV
Bella spread herself out across the bathroom floor, her hands shaking and her teeth chattering. She looked so pale and so tired. I wish I could take away her pain. All of this was my fault anyway. I jumped a little as Bella suddenly sat up and began to throw up in the toilet. I pulled her hair back, and began rubbing her softly.
I rested my head on her shoulder and kissed her cheek slowly. "I'm sorry." I whispered softly, continuing to rub her back carefully.
"Why are you apologizing?" She whispered weakly.
"Because I did this to you." I sighed as she turned her head towards me. Her face was stained with sweat.
"So, you're not happy we're having this baby together?" She raised her brow and I sighed heavily.
"No, I'm happy. I just...I'm worried about you, Bella. You mean everything to me and I don't want to lose you."
"Who said you were going to lose me? I'm not going anywhere." She laid her head gently against my chest and cuddled close to me.
"Do you want me to carry you to the bed?" I asked softly.
"No." She breathed out. "Just leave me here. The room won't stop spinning." I nodded and got up and quickly got a pillow and rested it under Bella's head. She started closing her eyes, and fell asleep. I slowly walked out of the room and closed the door behind me. The minute I turned away from the door Stefan was in my face.
"Is Bella okay?" Stefan asked curiously.
"She's feeling a little sick." I admitted looking down.
"Yeah, I heard your conversation. Damon, how could you be so irresponsible? Do you have any idea how dangerous this could be for her?" Stefan glared slightly.
"Yes, I know. Believe me when I say this, Stefan. I hate myself right now. I'm not even sure what this could do to her or if she'll survive." I cringed having to admit that.
"How are you going to break this to Elena?" Stefan crossed his arms.
"I'll tell her in my own time. She doesn't need to know right away." I turned my head away from him.
"You're kidding right? Damon, that's her cousin. She has to know."
"I will tell her when I tell her!" I growled at him. " If you say one word to her about any of this before I tell her, I swear to god I will kill you, Stefan." I shoved him out of my way, and left the room.
How could I have let this happen? How could I have been so stupid? Elena may hate me for god only knows how long if Bella doesn't survive. I can't live with her hating me I care about her too much. She was always my friend even when I had none.
Maybe Bonnie knew a spell or something that could fix this. I highly doubt she would help me though after the last time I asked her for help. There has to be a way to clean this mess up though.
I went outside in the woods and stopped as I head a tree branch snap in the distance. I could hear breathing, but no heart beat. It could have been any vampire just passing by, but I knew better. Katherine had something she wanted and she wasn't going to stop until she got it.
"Congratulations on the new baby." Katherine's voice rang. I turned around and watched her smirk at me, practically chuckling. "You know there are such things as condoms. Ever heard of them?" She laughed and moved closer to me.
"What the hell do you want?" I glared at her. Tempted to grab her by the throat, but I thought I'd wait a few seconds.
"The moonstone. If I don't get it by tomorrow, I will start killing everyone that Elena, Stefan, and you have ever loved and you can kiss your precious wifey and baby goodbye. Do I make myself clear?" She took my shoulder and whipped me against the tree.
"You can go to hell." I spat at her.
"Looks like the blood will be on your hands then." She disappeared and I immediately went back to the house.
"Stefan?" I asked roaming around the house, locking the doors and windows behind me as I went.
"What do you want, Damon?" Stefan asked sitting on the couch, holding a glass of Vodka. I took the glass from right when he was about to drink it, and downed the drink in seconds.
"Hey!" He glared.
"We have a problem." I said a bit agitated.
"What's going on?" He asked concerned. I was afraid to tell him, because I knew he didn't know about Katherine escaping yet.
"Katherine just threatened you, me, and Elena. If she doesn't get the moonstone by tomorrow she'll go on a killing spree."
"That's just great." He shook his head, trying to cool off
"What do we do?"
"Well, We can't just give her what she wants. Chances are it'll involve Elena ending up dead."
"We tried killing her once, but that didn't work."
" I don't know, but we need to go tell Elena. She just got home." He said letting me go and heading for the front door. I just stayed and watched him until he turned around and stopped to look at me. "Are you coming or not?" He glared slightly.
"Bella's asleep, but I don't want to leave her alone. Not with Katherine running around. I'm going to call Bonnie."
I took out my phone and dialed Bonnie's number. I was thankful that she picked up after the first couple of rings. "What is it, Damon?" She answered a bit hoarse.
"How soon can you get over here? Elena's cousin Bella is sick. I was wondering if you could take care of her for me?"
"Yeah, that's fine."
"How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine, Damon."
"Okay, well hurry." I hung up the phone, and walked to the front door with Stefan. I had a bad feeling the moment I left the house, but there were things that needed to be done.
Bella's POV
I woke up dizzily. The room kept spinning around in circles. I tried holding my head, but it wasn't working. Surprisingly despite how I felt. I was really hungry. My stomach wouldn't stop growling, but I was too lazy to get up and eat. Then again, I probably wouldn't be able to eat if I waited any longer. So, I decided to get up and go downstairs into the kitchen.
The Salvatore's kitchen was huge. It was like one of those chef Kitchen's you would find in fancy restaurants. I looked in the fridge and saw the huge amounts of different kinds of foods to choose from, but I picked up one of the simplest foods possible, an apple. I took one bite out of it, and closed the door.
I dropped the apple and screamed startled as I saw Elena standing right beside me. "Elena... You scared me." I began to breathe a little heavily.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Her apology seemed a little insincere.
"Are you okay?" I asked slightly backing away.
"That depends did you find what I asked you to look for?"
"What are you talking about?" I asked confused, backing away even more a little frightened, she wasn't making sense, and that wasn't like her.
"Where is the moonstone, Bella?" Her eyes slowly turned black. I knew immediately it wasn't Elena. I tried running out of the kitchen and up the stairs, but I ran into her, and she threw me down the staircase, I cried in pain, as I could smell blood form on the hardwood floor.
"My patience is wearing thin." She started walking towards me. I started to shake as I couldn't move. I was in too much pain to move. "Compelled or not compelled, you will find it for me, or I will kill you. You have till tomorrow." She jabbed her heal into my stomach, and I began to cough up blood.
"I don't know what it looks like." I whimpered.
"It's an Oval shaped white rock you can't miss it." She pushed my side with her foot to move me out of her way and walked out the front door. I held my stomach and whimpered afraid for my life.
What if she hurt the baby? What the hell was I dealing with? I felt dizzy again, but it was different kind of dizzy. I felt light headed, and weak. I had ringing in my ears and my vision blurred. The only thing I could hear was a door shut and I began to shake again because I was afraid it was her coming back for more. But it was different this time. The person that came in seemed frantic and worried. My vision began to clear up and I saw it was Bonnie, Elena's friend.
"Bella, can you hear me?" She asked worried. I coughed up more blood trying to find the strength to speak. I nodded slowly and winced at the pain. "Can you tell me what happened?"
"There... was a girl... she... looked... just like... Elena... she pushed me down the steps." I whimpered remembering everything that happened.
"Katherine." She whispered to herself shocked. She slowly began picking me up. "Bella, it's going to be okay we're going to get you to the hospital."
"No... I have to... find the moonstone. I have to... bonnie. She'll kill me if... I don't."
"Everything's going to be okay, Bella. I promise." I slowly blacked out after that.
Bonnie's POV
All I could pay attention to was doctors running in and out of the Hospital room Bella was in. I sighed when Damon's phone went straight to voicemail again. This was going to hit him hard when he found out. I then tried calling Stefan and Elena's phone, but they went to voicemail as well. It was frustrating I couldn't get ahold of anyone! I then tried calling Jeremy's phone and finally someone picked up. "Hello?"
"Jeremy, where are you right now?" I asked a little frantically.
"Home, why? What's wrong?" He asked immediately.
"There was an accident. Bella's at the hospital. I'm here with her right now. It's not looking good Jer. She lost a lot of blood."
"What happened?" He yelled worried.
"Katherine Happened. Bella said she pushed her down the steps asking for the moonstone. She cracked her head open and has a broken rib. Can you please get over here? And tell Elena" I added
"I will and I'll be there right away." He hung up.
I slowly looked back at Bella's room and shook my head. I should have said no to helping Damon get Katherine out of that tomb.
Elena's POV
I couldn't believe anything I was hearing. There was no way Katherine could have escaped. I don't understand how Damon could have done such a thing to even help her. "So you're telling me that Katherine is out of the tomb and now threatening everyone for the moonstone? Damon, what the hell were you thinking?" I snapped.
"You should be thanking me. I saved Bella's life with the information Katherine gave me." He rolled his eyes
"Why would you even trust her? She could be lying."
"Can we just stop arguing? What we should be focused on right now is that Katherine's out of the tomb and wants the moonstone." Stefan interjected.
"Do we even have a plan?" I asked curiously, shaking my head.
"No." Damon looked down. Jeremy came running down the steps and I could see his distraught face, which worried me.
"Jer, what's wrong?"
"Bella's in the hospital, Katherine stopped by Stefan's place and pushed her down the steps."
"What?" Damon yelled loudly.
"Jeremy, is she okay?" Stefan added and Jeremy shook his head.
"Bonnie, said it doesn't look good. She's at the hospital with Bella as we speak."
"I'm going to kill her." Damon growled heading for the door.
"Damon, no. Bella needs you right now. We have to go to hospital." I couldn't believe this. It was all Damon's fault Bella got in this mess in the first place.
"Jeremy I'll go with you if you're leaving now." I whispered. Jeremy nodded and walked to the car. I followed behind, and got in the drivers side and drove to Mystic Falls hospital. I was hoping Damon wouldn't show up, but I knew that that would be impossible.
We walked inside and asked the nurse what room Bella was in and she pointed to the end of the hall, and sure enough there Bonnie was sitting outside of the room covered in blood. She ran straight to Jeremy and Jeremy hugged her tightly to him. I held back tears and walked slowly up to them. "How is she?" I whimpered softly.
"Not good, Elena." Bonnie teared up and then hugged me. "The doctors said she had some abdominal bleeding, a couple broken ribs and she lost a lot of blood." I shook my head in shock. I can't believe Katherine had gone this far. I don't understand why she did all this just to get the moonstone.
Stefan and Damon ran up to us a few minutes later. I could see that Damon had been distressed so I didn't bother talking to him. I knew he needed space. "The doctors won't let us in." I whispered looking down.
"They've been working on her since she got here." Bonnie admitted staying close to Jeremy.
"This is all my fault." Damon whispered horrified. I sighed and walked up to him slowly and hugged him close. He looked at me a little surprised.
"How can you not hate me after everything that's happened, Elena?" I shook my head and breathed out slowly.
"It's not your fault." Was all I could say.
"Are you mad at me?" He whispered.
"I'm still trying to decide if I am or not." I whispered back and kissed his cheek.
