A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for not updating in a while, I hope you can forgive me for that :) I've had a lot of school work to do and I still have things going on at home, but I'm really doing my best. :) Oh and I hope you've all checked out my other TVD story: Meant To Be, I hope you like it and if you have, please review okay?

Now please enjoy this, shorter, chapter! :)

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing that has to do with TVD! I just own Dani, William, Natalia, Nikolai and any other OC mentioned in the story! ;)

Natalia looked at me and smirked in a way only she could.

"Vy uznaete menya." You recognize me. She said and looked at me. "Daniella." She mocked and I shot her a glare. She still had her foot on Damon's chest and he hadn't moved yet. I was guessing he was either unconscious or trying to figure out who Natalia was.

"Actually, you know it is Danielle." I told her and began to walk around her slowly. She gave me look and I continued to talk to her. "Does William know you're here? We both know how much he hates when people take mattes into their own hands." She stepped off of Damon and began to circle with me. "He hasn't given you a ring I see." I stated looking at her hand and her eyes flashed down and she stretched them. "He gave me one." I said and lifted my hand, where the lapis lazuli ring glistened.

"Why don't we go home to your place?" She asked suddenly stopping her circulation. "People might hear when I kill you and it would be so much easier for me if they didn't." I tilted my head and slowly nodded. I quickly ran to Damon's side.

"Damon?" I whispered shaking him a little. He had been unconscious. I shook him a little again and he groaned.

"Sometimes I wonder why I even bother." He mumbled and I offered him a small smile.

"Get up Damon." I told him. And don't make a single move until I tell you to. I added in my mind and he looked at me. "Everything will be alright." I said loud enough for Natalia to hear. I don't know if she knows about me and my powers but I don't want to risk it. I helped Damon up and he glared at Natalia, who was looking amused at us, tapping a finger to her cheek.

"Natalia Romanov, this is Damon Salvatore." I said and motioned to Natalia. "Damon, Natalia Romanov, William's minion."

"William's lover." She corrected and I chuckled.

"I hardly think William gave in to your crazy demands. After all-" I knew my eyes had glistened in mischief at that point. "-he is still hung up on me." Natalia hissed and Damon began to step between us but I stopped him. "She wont do anything Damon. This is a public place and she doesn't even have a ring. She knows I can keep her busy here until the sun comes up because I am after all a fiew hundred years older than her." Damon slowly nodded and looked at Natalia.

"If you ever attack me again I'll rip your head off in less than a heartbeat." He told her and Natalia smirked amused.

"You sure have a way of choosing your men, Danielle." Natalia said, looking at Damon like he was the lamb and she was the big bad wolf. I stepped forward to attack but Damon stopped me.

"Don't honey." He said with emphasis on 'honey'. I looked at him.

"Oh, honey. This must be serious Danielle." Natalia mocked. Damon turned to her.

"It is." He said. "She's my fiancée." I stopped moving and turned to him.

Don't play with fire Damon. I thought to him and he just smiled at me.

Play along for once. And I did.

"Is it true?" Natalia asked. She seemed to have been taken aback by Damon's words. I slowly began to nod.

"Let's go home shall we?" I asked and Natalia very slowly agreed.

Text Stefan and tell him to get Elena out of the house. Do it quickly so that she wont notice. I told Damon and he squeezed my hand.

I already did, when I was 'unconscious'. I smiled to myself, proud to have a boyfriend with magic fingers.

Natalia walked into the Salvatore Boarding house without hesitation. She looked around amused and picked up my copy of Romeo & Juliet.

"No living person lives in this house?" She asked first, looking at Damon. Then she turned to me and smirked waving the book in my face. "And you still read this der'mo?" She asked and I gave her a look, taking the book from her hands.

"Yes and yes. I do still read this crap." I said and glared at her. "Does William know where I am Natalia?" I asked her.

"You are cutting to the chase." She stated, sitting down on the couch. "I like it Danielle. And no. William does not know that you are here and neither does Nikolai." My heart stopped. "You should be glad that they don't know of your engagement." She said and looked at Damon.

"Did William kill Nikolai?" I asked and she shook her head.

"No, but he knows about you and him." She said.

"Why did you come here?" I snapped and she jumped, standing up.

"Because I wanted to kill you. I have told you that already!" She hissed.

"Then kill me!" I yelled at her and she attacked. Damon pushed me out of the way and she jumped him instead, stabbing him with a pocketknife in the chest. She stood up again, her eyes black and her veins showing around them and looked at me. She took something out of her pocket and threw the item at me. I dodged it and ran to her, slamming into her and we fell to the floor together. I was on top of her and she glared up at me.

"Whore." She said calmly. I hissed at her and looked over at Damon. "Don't you know that William will find you wherever you go? And he will kill your friends an everyone you love just like he did last time." I ignored her completely although I put her words somewhere in the back of my mind.

"Are you okay?" I asked him and he pulled the pocketknife out of himself.

"Yeah. I am. If she's a vampire she should know that this wouldn't hurt me." He stated and threw the knife to the floor. I nodded and looked at Natalia again.

"It was just a distraction, wasn't it?" I asked her and she nodded. She was bleeding from her mouth and nose and I looked at her. "William didn't send you. He doesn't know where I am, does he?" She nodded.

"I haven't said anything to him. I figured I could lie and say that you were killed by someone else and he would finally be with me." She confessed and I tried to look into her mind. For some reason I couldn't.

"William never told you the truth about my mother, did he?" I asked her and she looked up at me.

"What truth?" She snapped.

"That she was a witch and that I inherited mind reading from her?" Natalia's face changed. She didn't know.

"He lied to me!" She cried out and began to cry. She was devastated for some reason. I stared at her confused. "Let go of me! I wont kill you!" She yelled and I slowly began to get off of her. Damon was still prepared to fight if something changed. Natalia was up again on her legs, shaking with sobs. I walked over to Damon and he put an arm around me. He whispered so that only I could hear.

"We have to kill her. She might report back to William." I nodded curtly and stepped aside. Then I heard it. A simple snap and Natalia had thrown the stake at Damon. I was quick to move and stood in front of him, but I wasn't quick enough to catch the stake. Everything stopped...

Natalia screamed out in pure joy. "I did it!" She yelled and laughed, throwing her head back. Then she stopped. I looked at her and saw blood spreading, where her heart had been and she fell to the floor already rotting. Behind her was Stefan, Elena and Alaric. Alaric had fired a stake with his stake gun and killed Natalia. I felt Damon catch me as I fell and Elena and Stefan ran to my side. Then I gasped for air.

"Get it out of me!" I yelled at Stefan who was hesitating. "She missed my heart by three inches! That stupid schmuck must have failed biology." I said and Stefan pulled the stake out. Alaric examined Natalia's body and I sat up. "God damn it." I muttered, rubbing my wound.

"Dani. Who the hell was she?" Stefan asked sounding worried as they helped me stand up. I looked at Natalia.

"A part of my past." I muttered walking toward the kitchen, but nearly falling over. Stefan and Damon caught me and I looked at them thankfully. "Her name was Natalia Romanov and she was one of William's minions." I told them running a hand through my hair. "She was a Russian tourist with her fiancée Nikolai one summer around thirty years ago and William had found them in his bed together. They had found his secret hideout and instead of killing them, he turned them, which is still basically the same thing." I said shrugging.

"So now you have decided to go all out with all the details?" Damon said sarcastically. "And what the hell happened between you and that Nikolai dude?" He asked and I looked at him.

"No reason to be jealous Damon. I knew him before I ever knew you." I stated and they helped me towards the couch where they made me sit down. "Elena. Sit." I said and motioned to the place next to me. She looked at Damon and then at me.

"Are you sure you don't want-"

"I'm sure." I said not looking up. She sat down next to me and the three men looked at me.

"So now, will you please continue? Who is Nikolai?" Damon pressed on and I continued.

"He is also one of William's minions but he has no other choice. He is only staying long enough to see if William will find him a ring. Nikolai was the unfortunate bastard who fell in love with me once when William captured me. Everytime William would leave to hunt or something, Nikolai came into the room and nursed my wounds. Natalia had broken off their engagement after she was turned, she found that William was a much bigger man that Nikolai would ever be, but that wasn't really true." I told them. Damon glared at me.

"I don't know if I should put this Nikolai on the good or the bad list." He stated and I looked up at him.

"Both." I told him, flashing back to the first time Nikolai and I talked.

1981

The room was dark and cold but it wasn't a basement. I wasn't prepared this time. I was never prepared for when he would find me. I closed my eyes, feeling the pain of the vervain drained ropes that tied my feet and hands to the bed. At least this time it's more comfortable, I thought to myself and I heard the door open. A tall, muscular man with black hair and gray eyes walked in. He was wearing a simple shirt and a pair of black pants.

"You must be Daniella." He said quietly. He had an accent. Russian, if I was correct.

"Danielle actually." I corrected him, barely recognizing my own voice. "William sent you up today? What he got tired of using his own force and decided to send a professional to beat me until I agreed?" The man cringed and shook his head.

"I do not care for William." He told me and I tried to look him in the eyes.

"Then why are you here?" I asked him. "If William didn't send you then he-" I stopped. "When did he turn you?" I asked suddenly and the man shifted uneasily.

"A year ago. I still haven't gotten used to it." I looked at him.

"I feel sorry for you." I told him and he cracked a sad smile.

"Me too. My ex-fiancée feels otherwise. She says this is a blessing for us." He told me and I nodded.

"It isn't." I said curtly and he nodded back at me.

"I know." He shifted a little and looked at the window where the curtains had been pulled out. "He didn't give us a daylight-ring." He told me. "All he did was fill us in on what you had done to him. How you refused to marry him and how he killed you so that you could be together forever in the afterlife." The man told me.

"And what did you think of his marvelous story?" I asked him bitterly. He reached into his pocket and took out something. A little white napkin.

"I felt only more hatred towards him," He explained. "but I felt sorry for you." Then he slowly began to dab my right arm. At first I expected pain, my mind was of course screaming vervain, but then I felt nothing else but water. I let out a small gasp and he stopped. "Did I hurt you Miss?" He asked politely and I shook my head.

"No. Thank you." I told him. He was washing off the blood that William had left to dry on my arms. There were still small cuts and bruises visible, even if that would be impossible for a vampire. I looked the man in the eyes. "What's your name?" I asked him and he offered me a crocked smile.

"Nikolai Volkov."

End of Flashback

All eyes were on me now and I just sighed deeply, looking at Damon. He rolled his eyes at me and began to stare me out.

"He helped me Damon. But at the same time he was always afraid of William. That's why you can't be a hundred percent sure that he is good." I said and suddenly Alaric put his hands up in the air.

"Okay I'm a little confused here. No one has filled me in on anything. All I got is a call from Stefan to meet him outside the house as soon as possible and to bring a stake-gun and vervain darts. Now tell me, who is this William guy?" I stared at him and remembered.

No one has filled you in on my case? Alaric jumped and stared at me.

"What was that?" He asked, staring at me. "Did you just...?"

Yes.

"But that is-"

Impossible? That's what I thought the first time it happened. I lifted my hand up. "Take my hand." I said and Alaric stared.

"You want me to... Take your hand...?" Alaric asked and laughed uneasily. "Okay." He said and reached forward.

"No!" Elena exclaimed, standing between us. She looked at me and I noticed she was scared.

"What Elena? It will be so much easier if I just showed him instead of telling him about everything that has happened." Elena shook her head.

"No Dani. Last time you did that you were out for hours, and when you woke up you said that you had seen your sister." Elena said and I looked at her.

"I'll be fine." I said, and once again tried to reach for Alaric's hand but this time Damon pushed it out of my reach.

"Elena's right." He said sternly. "That's enough Dani." He said and I stared at him. "You almost died two minutes ago." I looked at him. He was angry, I think.

"Damon. I'll be fine. Trust me." I said and he shook his head.

"Go to your room and rest." He ordered and I stared at him.

"What the hell?" I asked him. "You can't tell me what to do." I told him and he snorted.

"Watch me." He mocked and I began to stand up to hit him but Elena pushed me down again. That meant that Elena was stronger than me.

"You..." I began looking at Damon, but then I sighed. "Thanks for coming you guys." I said looking at Elena and Alaric. "But I think I need to talk to Stefan and Damon alone. Will you excuse us?" I asked and they slowly nodded. "Elena, can you fill Ric in on what you know about William?" She nodded and once again I thanked her. They walked out of the living room and went to the library instead. I turned to look at Damon and Stefan. Then I said ten words that changed every single emotion in the room.

"I don't think I can live with you guys anymore."

A/N: Oh no! What is Dani up to now? :O Haha, like I said earlier, this chapter was shorter than the last one but I really wanted to get it out there and please believe me when I tell you guys that everything WILL work out in the end (which btw I've noticed is a long, LONG way from where we are now). Please trust me and don't be mad at me okay!

And I know some of you wanted me to keep Natalia on for a while but I just couldn't do it. I was afraid that if I had made her go away, William would have found out and then had to put his 'plan' in motion. If you really want to know what I was thinking when I wrote Natalia and Nikolai in on the story, then here it goes: I needed two characters that were somehow connected to each other and at the same time got tangled into Danielle's life with William. Of course one had to be psycho and the other one should be a little nicer :) And there came Natalia and Nikolai, the two Russian tourist with bad luck :) Oh and obviously Danielle knows Russian too since she could understand what Natalia was saying ;) That brings me to wonder, how did she learn it and does she know any other languages? I mean in over 200 years you have to travel a lot right? And not to mention that she has lived in France for a couple of years :)

Intresting...

Well, anyway, Natalia wasn't really that important to the future of the story, that is why I killed her off in this chapter. She might make it back in some flashbacks, but I'm not promising anything. And I just thought you should know that (SPOILER ALERT!) Nikolai is actually the one who will be making something great happen in the future of this story... Who knows? That poor gys might be the answer to a lot of things in Danielle's life...

Hehe... Oh! Before I forget! One more thing! ((SPOILERS FOR THE DESCENT AND DADDY ISSUES! IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED DON'T READ!))

I DID watch The Descent and I totally shed a tear with Damon! =O I LOVED him and Rose together in the end! It was so sweet and at the same time heartbreaking, but hey! What are ya gonna do right? I mean, if they would have found a cure for Rose the things with the werewolves wouldn't have been so bad. Now Damon, Stefan and Caroline know that they have to watch their backs, instead of going like "Whatever, bite me. I'll just go and drink the cure anyway...". And daddy issues was awesome as well. I'm hoping to see Caroline and Tyler forgive each other and get together or something because I just love their chemistry!

Wow that was a long authors note, but I think I covered everything I wanted covered. Haha ^^

Please review and make me happy! Then I might put the next chapter up (which I already have written but am still looking over and editing) sooner! =)

And thank you for reading =)

xoxo

Spicy

P.S. I'm thinking about making a third story in the Tough Love series... What do you think about that idea? ;)