I would like to inform all of my readers that this story will be ending soon. There will be four to five more chapters making it a 14-15 chapter story. I may or may not create a sequeal, you will all have to help me decide after you read the twist I have coming for you! I must warn all of you that these last few chapters may sadden you. But, this story must come to an end. There is a possibility of a large amount of chapters being posted tonight because I suddenly want to write this story right now.
A Life changing Love Chapter 11
Elena P.O.V
My heart feels as if it is contracting in my chest and I feel as if I can't breath. This moment in time could change the course of my life forever and I hate moments like this. I wish things could be simple, I wish things could be normal. I wish that when I plan on telling the man I love that we have created a life and it is growing inside of me that I would be filled with a sense of joy, not a sense of anguish, of fear of the unkown.
I walk slowly, feeling weighed down, up the front steps until I reach the large door in front of me. The last time I was here, everything was a mess but, it felt like it would work out. Like everything would be okay. But how can I continue to live this life, this life filled with danger, if I am pregnant? If I am carrying a child that needs a stable home, a stable life?
I knock softly on the door, hoping he's close enough to hear my kock. My mind is swirling with the inevitable greif that will follow the words that I must say to him. The door slowly opens revealing a calm, relaxed looking Damon who I can smell has spent the day drinking his supply of bourbon.
Damon's eyes flash from me to my Aunt and then back to me, he looks shocked. "Come in." His voice is raspy, he clears his throaught to regain the usual confidience in his voice.
Wordlessly, me and Jenna walk over to the couch and sit down, side by side. Damon follows us and sits across from us on the love seat.
Before I can rethink anything, before I can find a reason that this isn't a good idea, my mouth opens and the words tumble out, clear and loud. "I'm preganant."
Damon looks up at me, removing his face from where his head rested in his hands. His eyes are wide and shock is written all over his face. Shock turns into a form of joy but, in a second I can see his look turn into as much anguish as I feel in this moment. He is thinking the exact same thing that I am, "How can we put our child in danger?".
I look over at Jenna after growing uncomfortable from Damon staring directly into my eyes without saying a word. She looks deep in thought and worried.
"I think something's wrong with Alaric..." Her words are barely a whisper but, everyone in the room hears them.
"What do you mean?" I ask her. How could she have guessed?
"I don't really know..it's stupid really it's just...when he left just now to get us coffee, he looked as if he was saying goodbye in a way. He sounded sad almost and he did this eye twitch thing that means he's lying but, what reason would he have to lie?" She starts rambling on, something she does constantly when she's worried sick.
But her next words shock me to the very core. "And this woman called me yesterday, she said her name was Katherine. She said that Alaric was supposed to meet her for lunch yesterday but, he never showed and then she gave me her adress."
Alaric's been having lunch with Katherine. I knew they were keeping in contact somehow but, if they've been having lunch that means she's here. In Mystic Falls! We know her adress. This is her downfall. This is our moment to catch her.
Damon almost falls out of his seat at Jenna's words. "What's her adress?" Damon demands, standing and picking up his leather jacket quickly from the coffee table, shrugging it on.
Jenna tells Damon the adress but, she has confusion written all over her face. Regret swarms at the thought of how I should have told Jenna the entire story sooner. Not the one the news paper covered. Jenna has no idea about Katherine, the police told the news papers to leave that out, it would make Katherine think that she got away quick and easy, no mistakes on her part. But Damon refused to keep quiet any longer and told the police all he knew on my attempted murder.
"Elena stay here." Damon tells me, I nod and sit back down beside Jenna.
"Elena, what's going on? Who's Katherine and what does this all have to do with Alaric?" Jenna begins to sound irritated. She knows that something is up and she knows that I know what it is.
I swing my head over as I hear the front foor open and then slam shut, the last thing I see is a glimpse of Damon's black, leather jacket as he shuts the door. I hope he comes back safetly. With that thought I turn to my Aunt who is currently looking royaly pissed off and is raising eyebrow at me.
"Mind telling me what the hell is going on. The truth this time, please." She spits out, the venom in her tone sends a chill up my spine.
"Well..." I start from the beginning, telling her the entire story. I have no idea what's happening with Damon and Katherine right now.
Damon P.O.V
That crazy bitch has finally made a mistake, her last mistake. She will pay for hurting Elena. She wil pay for almost destroying my happy ending. God, what did I ever see in her?
She was always manipulating, she always lied to me, over and over. The moment she faked her death, I knew she was top level crazy. I tried and tried to ignore her but, she just wouldn't leave me alone. So, I told her straight up "Leave me alone or I'll tell everyone what a phsyco you are.", still she persisted.
I had almost escaped her, I had travelled enough that she couldn't find me. But that night at the bar, my first night in New York in months when I saw her standing there. When I saw Elena standing there, I couldn't resist that temptation, the oppurtunity to feel something again. To feel alive again.
When I found out that Katherine had given that proposition to Elena I almost lost it but, I had hoped that when Elena said that she wouldn't write that article on me, Katherine would admit defeat. I had hoped wrong.
She made up that lie about me killing her, told it to Elena and threatened my happy ending. The one that was finally in reach. The one that I didn't and I still don't deserve. Elena is the angel sent to me to push away the darkness that has clouded my life for years.
And now she's pregnant. My angel is pregnant with my child. I can no longer sit back and let Katherine threaten our lives day by day. My child will grow up safe and happy, no matter the cost.
My knuckles turn white as I grip the steering wheel tightely, rage and hatred overwhelming me as I drive to the adress Jenna gave to me. This will be Katherine's last moment alive, I am sure of it. I will not let her breath another breath. I will not let her get another chance to ruin me happy ending.
In a blinding rage I speed to my destination, rain pouring from the sky but somehow it doesn't blur my vision in the slightest. I arrive at the apartment buidling. It seems Katherine took no care in hiding herself. The building is in the middle of town, not very far away from town square. The buidling is a tall, red brick, structure that looks like it would cost anyone a fortune. I park in the front of the building and swing my car door open.
Alaric P.O.V
"Alaric? What are you doing? Put the gun down." To anyone who doesn't know her, Katherine would sound perfectly calm but, I can easily detect a hint of fear in her voice. Good. I want her to be the one that's afraid.
"No, not this time Katherine. I have been so afraid lately. Afraid that you'd hurt Jenna, afraid that you'd tell her everything out of a jealous rage. But I'm not afraid anymore. You deserve to die and I deserve to be punished for my sins." I yell stepping closer and closer to Katherine, backing her against a wall.
"You..you don't want to do this Alaric. You love me. I know you do." She feigns confidence and tries to give me one of her toxic smiles but, I just shake my head.
She doesn't love me and I sure as hell don't love her. She's a crazy, manipulative, bitch who has crossed a line that she can't go back from.
"No I don't. I did once. I loved you more than the world but, that was only because I couldn't see the bitch that you really are!" I boom, I can see the icyness in my tone has frigtened her. I chuckle, I have frigtened Katherine, the one who uses people and then throws them away when she tires of them only to draw them back in when she wants them again.
"Ric! You're scaring me!" Katherine cries, a tear slipping down her cheek.
"Oh really? I'm scaring you? Well how about you take a second and think about how scared Elena was when she got shot by you. How scared Damon was that the woman he loves would die. All because you want what you can't have!" My voice is filled with rage and a sob escapes Katherines lips.
I back up only an inch and grip the gun firmly in my hand as I raise the gun, pointing it towards her head. I see her lip quiver in fear and tears fall down her cheeks. My finger moves towards the trigger but suddenly I'm knocked back, falling to the floor and all hear is a loud blast and then everything goes black.
Damon P.O.V
I run to the door as I hear Ric's voice booming from Katherine's apartment. As I open the door I am shocked at the sight before me. Rick is standing only an arms length from her, gun raised to her head and Katherine looking as if she's breaking down into peices. Tears stain her cheeks and she is visibly shaking. She deserves everything she's getting but maybe killing her isn't the best idea.
I can't let Ric kill her, he'll get sent away to prison and lose Jenna all in one. I should hate him for his part in Katherine's plan but I just feel sorry for him. He was used and abused by her over and over, then when he thought he had finally escaped her, he was threatned and drawn back into her grasp. Just like me.
Katherine's blue orbs flick over to me but he doesn't seem to notice. I take a few steps forward and Katherine is now using her eyes to plead with me, to save her. I will, but not for her sake. Only for his and Jenna's and most of all, Elena's.
I reach him just as his finger lands on the trigger, before he can press down I jerk him back by his shoulder, flinging him onto the ground.
Suddenly I feel as if everything is distorted, a gunshot rings in my ears as well as Katherine's high pitched scream. I stumble backwards, my vision blurs and I feel pain shoot through me like none I have ever felt before. I groan and grunt as I bring my hand to my stomach, feeling a wet liquid seaping through my shirt.
My eyes flick down to where my hands are pressed and blood stains my shirt as well as my hands, gushing from my wound. It only takes me a second more to register what has happened, I've been shot and now I'm dying.
I feel my eyes widen and then everything is spinning, slowly a darkness is dragging me down. I'm gasping for breath as Katherine crawls towards me, I see that she's sobbing and screaming. She really does love me. She's mad with love but that will never make up for what she has done.
"Damon..no, you can't die. Everything I've been doing has been for you, you can't die." She sobs but her voice grows fainter and fainter by the second.
I back into a table and then fall to the ground, a chair falls with me and my head hits the wooden floor in a matter of a second.