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Chapter 12

Somewhere outside of Mystic Falls:

His head throbbed and all his limbs hurt like hell. Alaric put a hand to his head willing the pain to go away. He tried opening his eyes but the evening sun was to much to take right now. He felt like he died. 'Well, I probably did due to these damned vampires!' he thought to himself. Slowly he opened his eyes again. After he could fully open them he took in his surroundings and found himself somewhere in the woods as it seemed. 'Where the hell am I? And how did I get here?'

Despite the pain in his body he sat up straight and tried to focus. The last thing he remembered was them running to his car, opening it and then they were attacked. He knew that something or someone tackled him from behind and that was it.

"You are Alaric Saltzman, am I right?" A voice said, coming from behind him. He turned abruptly and found himself face to face with a black woman he didn't recognize at all. Alarmed Alaric moved to stand up only to find that the attack and his 'death' still tired him out a little. He fell on his knees and tried to focus as another wave of pain washed over him.

"You need to rest a little more. You just died and your body needs more time to recover fully from that." the woman told him.

Alaric looked at her again and narrowed his eyes. He had no idea who she was nor what she wanted. In a different situation he would probably found her attractive but right now everyone could be a possible threat. He was confused by now. He was sure that if she wanted him dead that he would be already. But still something in her appearance made him tremble slightly inside.
"Who are you?" he demanded. "And where am I?"

"You are about a mile away from Mystic Falls. I needed to bring you here so that the vampires wouldn't be able to track you down."

Alaric tried to make some sense out of what she was saying but found that he couldn't. He was getting irritated and didn't like any second of it. "What do you want from me? And who the hell are you?"

The woman took a deep breath and moved a few steps nearer. "Don't be afraid of me. I'm not going to hurt you. Actually I'm here to help you and the others. But we have to move soon as time is running out fast. My name is Lucy, Lucy Bennett."

Same time in the hallway of Mystic Falls' hospital:

Matt was pacing back and forth. He still couldn't get what had happened several hours before. Right now he waited for any news on Carol Lockwood's condition. She had been in surgery for a few hours by now. He brought her here as soon as he found out that the vampires left. Many inhabitants were hurt badly as well as killed. It was terrible and Matt felt his head exploding while trying to find a reason in it. He hadn't been able to reach Tyler as well as Elena and the others. They weren't back at the mansion and he concluded that they had made it out of there in time maybe. But Tyler wouldn't leave his mother behind in such a situation. So where were they? He was worried beyond his mind that something bad happened to them as well.

"Excuse me, but are you the person that brought Mrs. Lockwood here?" A voice brought him out of his thoughts. He looked left and found a man standing a few feet away from him.

"Yeah, that was me. I'm Matt Donovan, a friend of her son. How is she doing?" He strode over to the person he thought of being her attending doctor. "Mrs. Lockwood is in a bad condition." he responded. "I tried to get a hold of her son but I can't seem to reach him." Matt told him. "I thought so. But that is not important at the moment. Would you please follow me? I have some questions concerning what happened so that we can see to tend Mrs. Lockwood as best as possible."
"Of course, Mr..." Matt then took in his appearance. Neither was the 'doctor' wearing a white coat nor a name tag could be found on him. A strange feeling overcame him. "Sorry, I didn't quite catch your name. What was it again?"

The man took a step closer and gripped both of Matt's arms. He then looked him straight in the eyes and said: "My name is of no importance to you. You will follow me willingly and stay quiet." Matt only nodded to that. The man smiled and turned around motioning for Matt to follow which he did. Together they made their way across the hallway to the door, leading them to the staircase and eventually out of the hospital. The vampire still smiled as he opened the door and saw the stairs in front of him as he felt himself pushed down from behind. To startled he couldn't grip on the stair-rail and fell down about 20 steps, hitting the hard floor face first. He crashed down rather badly and felt some bones snapping and wondered what had happened when he felt himself being turned over on his back. "Rule No. 1 of surviving in Mystic Falls: Always watch your back!" Matt told him as he hovered over him. "Rule No. 2: Always carry a stake with you!" And with that being said he took a stake out of the inside of his jacket and pierced the vampire's heart.

Good thing he still kept to drinking vervain every morning, he decided.

Back to Bonnie:

After being told by Anna how she could create a time loop Bonnie thought about her possibilities. She was stuck in a cell somewhere she didn't know, still being blindfolded so that she wouldn't be able to use her powers at all. Anna had been right as she said, that they wouldn't be in this situation if they had let them die back then. But still Bonnie couldn't let that happen. They were her friends. She would do anything to protect them, no matter what. There has to be another possibility. Although she wasn't happy of dying she would take the risk as long as it meant that her friends would survive this. She felt herself reminded of the first time she was ready to give her life to defeat Klaus and thus saving everyone.

For now she needed time to think. Anna was gone, thankfully, so she wouldn't have to listen to her constant rambling about her Jeremy. And although she had actually come up with an idea that might get them out save, to Bonnie she was still a crazy maniac.

Suddenly she felt another presence being there with her. Bonnie groaned at the thought that Anna could be back to either declare Jeremy's undying love for her and her alone or explain the importance of certain person's deaths.

"Bonnie? Can I talk to you for a minute?"

For a moment Bonnie was confused as she clearly expected Anna to be there with her. "Vicky?"

"Yeah, it's me. So, do you have time?" She sounded kind of down and Bonnie wondered what the cause of that might be.

"Well, it's not like I'm going anywhere soon, so shoot." Bonnie tried to joke.

"I knew what Anna wants you to do. But, please, don't do it. You can't do it." Vicky begged her. Bonnie was puzzled. "And why?" she wanted to know.

"If you do that you will die and you can't do that to Jeremy."

"What?"

"Bonnie, Jeremy lost two of his former girlfriends already, as well as Jenna. I believe that if he would lose another person that he feels strongly for that might destroy him."

Bonnie couldn't believe it. Here Vicky was standing in front of her, begging her not to risk her life for Jeremy's sake. Her heart went out for the girl. She knew about everything that happened to the girl and still here she was concerned about another person's well-being than even considering her own circumstances.

"You know, before I died, well, before Stefan staked me, I wanted to move away from Mystic Falls and wanted Jeremy to come with me. Back then I was really troubled with myself and the only person really being there for me was him. He seemed to be the only one who understood me. And he loved me no matter what I had done myself, with Tyler or anybody else. I wanted him to come with me, even to turn him into a vampire as I thought that nothing could go wrong as long as he is by my side. But then I attacked him and I know now that he would be dead if it wasn't for Stefan stopping me. I'm grateful that Stefan did that actually as I couldn't imagine him dying on my hands.

The first thing I did after I somehow got back here was going over to Jeremy. I believed that he would understand as he always did and that he would know what to do. But after he saw me, he was so shocked that I needed to leave. Regret washed over me as the last thing he must have remembered was me intending to kill him. But still I watched him a while after from a safe distance. And then I saw you two together. You looked happy. He looked happy, even more happy than back with me. And then I realized that he loves you, far more than he ever did love me. And that what brings me here. Due to me, Jeremy was devastated but if you would die he wouldn't make it through."

Bonnie was shocked to say the least. Although the day proved her to expect the unexpected many times by now but never in a million years would she have expected this. She couldn't even speak as she felt herself have a lump in her throat. She was so deeply stirred by Vicky's speech that she knew if she would actually be able to see her standing in front of her there would be no holding back tears anymore.

"I'm begging you, Bonnie, if there is any way around it, please consider staying alive. If you can't do that for you then please do that for him."

Then silence followed. After a few moments she found her voice steady enough again to call out for Vicky. After receiving no reply she tried again with no success. Then she found that she didn't feel her then anymore and was once more left alone.

Somewhere else in Mystic Falls:

The first thing Elena felt was a soft cushion. As she opened her eyes she found herself lying on a red couch with a big black cushion under her head. She sat up and took a look around. She was in a room foreign to her, some kind of library as it seemed. She had no idea how she got there as the last memory she had was being in front of Alaric's car and vampires attacking them. For a moment fear welled up inside of her. She had no idea where and how her friends were. The fear in combination with the shock of what actually had happened were to much for Elena to bear and tears slowly made there way across her cheeks. She felt scared and lonely right now and due to that felt herself being impossible to move.

"My dear darling. There is no need to cry, believe me." Klaus voice could suddenly be heard behind her. She whipped her head around and froze. Klaus was standing a few feet behind the couch, watching her with a pitying face. "Spare your tears. You will need them later."

End of Chapter 12

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