Part 14

Nothing but a monster

A vampire… No, that couldn't be true. This had to be some bad dream. First of all, there was no such thing than vampires. I was dreaming or then I was dead and this was hell. That meant that I was a demon. The thought brought tears to my eyes, had I been so bad that I deserved this punishment?

"No…" I muttered.

"Rosalie?"

For a moment I had forgotten that I wasn't alone, I was still sitting on Kol Mikaelson's lap.

"This can't be… How…"

He cupped my chin and made me to look at him.

"You were dying, so I gave you my blood," he explained calmly. "If a human dies with vampire's blood in her system, she will become a vampire. That is what happened to you."

I stared at him disbelievingly; he seemed to be very much serious. This was really happening, it wasn't a nightmare.

"You…are a vampire," I muttered.

He nodded.

"Yes. Let me show you."

My eyes widened when his face started to change, black veins appeared beneath his eyes and he had fangs. Instinctively I hissed and jumped on the bench opposite him. I had no idea what I was doing, but some new part of me saw him as a threat. He smiled and his face returned to normal.

"Oh, I knew you would be magnificent," he purred. "My little wildcat."

I was still standing on the bench with my back arched. Slowly I touched my face and felt that I had fangs as well.

"You…you did this to me."

He leaned back on his seat and grinned.

"We'll find some way for you to thank me later, but first I should probably tell you about some basic things…"

I didn't hear a word he was saying, a long growl escaped my throat before I attacked him, pulling on his jacket and shouting.

"Bastard!"

He looked completely surprised; I slapped him so hard that his head turned sideways.

"How could you! You had no right!" I snarled furiously and tried to slap him again. He grabbed my hand in a viselike grip before turning to look at me, his dark eyes flaming in rage.

"Enough," he growled warningly.

"Go to hell!" I shouted and tried to slap him with my other hand. He grabbed it too and forced me on my back, trapping me under him. I growled like an animal, showed him my fangs and struggled with all my might, but unfortunately he seemed to be stronger than me. In fact, he didn't even have to struggle to keep me in place; he kept looking at me coldly. This couldn't be the same person I had known, how was that possible.

"Get off me!" I growled.

His eyes narrowed before he revealed his fangs.

"If anyone else would have acted like you just did, I would have already ripped their heart out, but since you are a newborn and I haven't taught you the rules yet, I will give you another chance."

I glared at him venomously, but I didn't struggle anymore.

"Another chance to do what?"

He smiled and touched his sharp fang with his tongue.

"To learn. First lesson, it's not wise to attack someone who is much stronger than you. Not to mention if that person is all you have."

"What?" I snapped.

He looked at me intently before replying.

"Your life as you knew it is gone. Your friends, your family, your home, all of that is gone."

I shook my head, I refused to believe that.

"No."

"Yes," he stated firmly. "You are no longer a human, you feed on humans. Your friends and your aunt will want nothing to do with you, believe me. To them you are nothing but a monster."

His words made me flinch, this couldn't be true. Elsa wouldn't… I had attacked that priest. Kol was right, I was a monster. His eyes softened a little when I let out a sob.

"There's no need to cry, darling," he said and touched my cheek. "You're not alone; I will teach you everything you need to know."

I turned my head away and pressed my lips together.

"I want to go home."

"That's where we are going," he replied. "I'm confident that you'll adjust fine."

I didn't move when he got off me and sat down opposite me. My mind was a mess; I had no idea what to think.

"You…were a vampire the whole time?" I muttered while finally getting into a sitting position.

He seemed amused.

"Yes, I've been a vampire for a very long time."

"Why didn't you kill me then? Isn't that what vampires do?"

"I found you intriguing," he replied. "It would have been a waste to kill you."

I frowned.

"Is that supposed to be a compliment?"

He grinned.

"Perhaps."

I crossed my arms and turned my head away, I needed to clear my thoughts. I had thought that I knew this man and I had liked him, but I didn't really know anything about him or about vampires. Sure I had heard some stories just like everyone else, but those stories had been about disfigured creatures that lived in cemeteries and rose from their coffins after the sun had set to hunt the blood of the living.

Adrian had loved to scare me and Charlene with those stories when we had been children; I remembered having nightmares about vampires. Now I was a vampire. The thought was so confusing that I didn't know how to handle it. I didn't even notice that the carriage stopped, not before Kol handed me a blanket.

"I suggest you cover yourself with this unless you want to have more burns," he said.

I didn't have strength to argue or ask where we were, I simply did as he said. He lifted me up before opening the carriage door; I tensed instinctively when I felt the daylight through the blanket. This time there was no pain, all I felt was him moving incredibly fast. No more than three seconds later he stopped and placed me on the floor.

"Welcome home, darling," he said and lifted the blanket. I was in a huge living room, this certainly wasn't my home.

"Where are we?" I muttered. "I want to go home."

He raised his eyebrows.

"There's no other home for you, not anymore. I thought we've been over this already."

"I want to go home," I repeated stubbornly. "I want to see Elsa."

"Why, so you could drain her?" he snorted. "Not that I have a problem with that."

"I would never hurt Elsa," I snapped.

He laughed and shook his head.

"Oh darling, you are a newborn vampire, you would hurt anyone for their blood."

"No!" I shouted and grabbed the nearest object within my reach, a coffee table. Kol didn't say anything when I threw it against the wall.

"I want to go home! You had no right!"

I couldn't control myself, I started to rampage like a wild beast, destroying everything I got my hands on. Kol crossed his arms and observed me carelessly; despite of my rage, I didn't try to attack him.

"What the hell?" a male voice said from the door.

"Everything is under control, Nik," Kol replied. "She's a newborn."

"I don't care," the man snapped. "Stop her or I will."

I didn't hear what they were saying; I was ripping the sofa in pieces. I had never felt such anger and I needed to let it out. Maybe the lack of control should have scared me, but it didn't. In some way it was liberating.

"Rosalie," Kol's firm voice said. "I order you to stop."

To my shock, my hands stopped moving immediately and I dropped what was left of the sofa. I looked up and met Kol's gaze.

"What…what did you do to me?"

"It's called a sire bond," he replied calmly.

"You sired her?" the other man said before I managed to speak. "How naughty of you…"

He didn't finish his sentence when he took a better look at me.

"Wait a minute… This is Elijah's girl."

"No, she's not," Kol huffed. "Everyone knows that, except apparently you."

The other man, who I now recognized as Kol's brother, frowned.

"Who is this girl then?"

"She's mine," Kol replied.

"No, I'm not," I hissed. "If you think…"

"Silence," he ordered. "The playtime is over, darling."

I tried to shout at him, but I couldn't. That didn't stop me from picking up a candlestick and throwing it at him. He dodged effortlessly; his look told me that I had gone too far.

"My, my," his brother chuckled. "That's quite a wildcat you got there, brother. Are you sure you can handle her, I can just tame her for you…"

"That won't be necessary," Kol replied icily. I swallowed when he took a step towards me. "I'm more than capable of doing that myself."