A/N: Thanks so much for all of the reviews and alerts they really made me smile! You guys are so awesome! I'm totally looking forward to season three of the Vampire Diaries when it starts in the UK tomorrow. A long chapter for you! - Leahlovessalvatore124

Chapter Twenty Six – Blood And Bex

"Right you remember the plan Scooby?"

Tyler nodded at Damon.

"You should call me Wolverine. Wolverine's awesome."

Damon squinted his eyes for a moment, scrunching up his face for a second.

"Mm..I'll think about it. Who knows, if you do well, I will give you a Scooby snack."

Tyler looked confused.

"Seriously?"

"No! Now stop stalling and get your furry ass out the car now!"

Tyler huffed before boosting himself slowly out of the vampire's car, slamming the door behind him. He knew he had to go anyways, he wouldn't let Caroline go in on her own, and he linked their hands together before they quietly followed Damon.

The old warehouse was huge, its shadow like a blanket of darkness over everything in front of it. Just before they took another couple of steps, Damon felt his phone buzz in his pocket.

"It's Ricky. He just sent me the number." He said. He'd explained everything about the number Alaric had found and traced to the warehouse, and about how he thought that it was connected to Bex because it was only a road or so away from a small Church with bells under the same name.

Damon typed the numbers quickly, smiling at the familiar voice that answered.

"Stefan? I've been waiting for you to return my calls!"

"Wrong brother Becky-Boo."

Damon smirked into the phone as he reached the back door to the warehouse. He didn't need to try to push it open to know it would be locked. He gestured for Caroline to help him. She nodded, skipping towards it and with a sharp kick, the door fell through as Damon cut off the phone call.

As they stepped slowly inside, Tyler felt Caroline squeeze his hand and move a little closer to him.

It was dark and everything was draped in dust and cobwebs. There were random boxes and bits of wood scattered around. Tyler felt Caroline cringe in his arms and watched Damon stop suddenly.

"What, what is it Care?" He whispered. She was turned half towards him, but even then he could still see the veins that swirled around her eyes and the hand clutched over her mouth and nose.

"Blood..so much blood."

She whispered, a worried and horrified look crossing her face.

Damon saw something glint from the corner of his eye on one of the dirty walls, the light from the door way making it shine. He reached out, touching it, and something wet stuck to his fingertips. Damon lifted his fingers to his nose, inhaling deeply.

And then he voiced his worst fear, his stomach turning sickeningly.

"Elena." He choked out, his heart squeezing in his chest, anger, love, worry, all blurring into one loud and frustratedly angry emotion that raged through his entire being.

"Mm..clever boy." A voice sounded snidely in front of him. Damon felt his hands balling themselves into fists, heard his teeth practically grind. Bex. He wanted to rip her apart. He wanted to make her hurt more than she'd hurt Elena, which he guessed was probably a lot. He wanted to kill her.

"She's stronger than you think." He growled, the only thing he could think of was how he knew she'd attacked Elena.

Bex raised one blonde brow as she strutted towards him, her high black boots clicking across the floor as she walked.

"But not strong enough." She said smiling happily.

"She'll be able to take you down easy as pie, Becksy darling." He spat.

"You better hope so. 'Cause in her state, it's extremely unlikely that she'll ever even walk again, let alone take down a vampire, Damon." She said teasingly. Damon restrained the almost unbearable urge to tear her head off her shoulders and toss it across the room like a Barbie doll. Although, as soon as he even lifted a finger, he was grabbing at thin air as she dodged out of the way. Damon had already known Elena would be weak after the episode with the exploding green power light in the woods.

"Why are you even here Bitch..oops, I mean Bex?"

Rebecca rolled her eyes at Damon's comment, putting a hand on her hip.

"You know me Damon. I came for a little visit."

Damon rolled his eyes back at her.

"Be serious, for once in your annoyingly long life."

Bex huffed.

"I came to find Stefan. And then I tracked him to Klaus. There were some rumours about a certain doppelgänger just floating around, and I decided to do some digging. Then I found that wench Elena..and I guess I got jealous." She pouted, laughing to herself. Damon narrowed his eyes. There was something about her that said she wasn't telling him something.

He sighed.

"Come on Becky, fess up."

Rebecca looked at him, something flashing in her eyes, and he smiled. She hated being called that. Hated it.

"Klaus found me..and now I'm on the run. And I figured if I.."

"You figured if you took Elena and took her to Klaus that you'd be off the hook and free to prance off happily into your own bloody little sunset. Dream on lady. A) if you did, you would not just have Klaus on your back, and b) Santa would still kill you and add you to his creepy museum of dead family members."

He grinned, satisfied as he watched her eyes widen, and for a long moment she looked scared.

"How do you know?" She whispered.

Damon shrugged.

"What, that you belong to a family of originals, and that your brother is the big bad ass puppy-mutt Klaus?"

She nodded slowly.

"I only told Stefan.." She paused for a second. "So then he told you. Typical Stefan, still trusts the brother who tried to screw him over for more that a century." Bex nodded again, and then she was back to her cool bitchy self, annoyance and anger ringing in her voice. "I'm not giving her back."

Damon nodded too, taking a slow step towards her that didn't go un-noticed.

"Oh I know. Because I won't ask again. Me and my pals will drag your cold dead corpse into a ditch on a random roadside if we have to. One way or another I will get her back, and Karma will bite your ugly butt."

Bex looked him up and down, highly doubting that he would even be able to touch her, let alone kill her. She was too distracted to notice Caroline coming up behind her. But Bex was fast, and Caroline was on the floor in a second. Tyler started forward, but Damon grabbed his arm before he could strike the evil blonde vamp with it.

"She's not even worth it." He said, waiting for Tyler to stop shaking before he let go. Bex danced out of the way.

"Did you know she talks a lot when she's unconscious. I had to hit her more than a few times to make her stop saying your name. Why don't you just give up on her Damon? Push that button and switch off again, then you don't have to feel when she goes running back to Stefan. We both know that will happen. You could walk out right now and have her out of your life. You know why? Because they're both the same. She is just another Katherine." Bex said, running a manicured hand down Damon's jacket, right before he grabbed her hand so hard that she flinched.

"You don't know anything about her. Anything." He growled, pushing her off of him so that she staggered backwards slightly.

"Ooh, feisty. Non wonder she likes you. You're so hot when you're angry." Bex grinned seductively, her grin teasing as she circled around him, catlike. "Did she tell you that her diary went missing for a while? Just after Stefan went missing? I've done my research Damon. I don't come to a town near mystic falls without knowing exactly what my strengths are, exactly who my enemies are, exactly who I can manipulate and exactly who I can kill in the process. I'm old Damon. Old enough to know so much more about playing the game than you do."

She said, eyes flicking at him.

"I have moves you've never even seen before." Damon said, glad that both of his friends had recognised their secret signal phrase that they had all agreed on, and that nobody else knew. In less than a moment, Caroline leapt up from her pile on the floor, grabbing the other blonde vamp in a headlock, while Tyler had both of her arms in an iron grip.

"Go..she won't stay down long."

Tyler wheezed as the vamps teeth snapped at him, inches from his neck.

Damon nodded, and Tyler gave him a knowing look as he blurred off, following the blood trail.

He didn't waste any time, and no matter how much of an idiot he knew he would look like, he called her name, desperately hoping that she would reply. Damon followed a few spots of blood and a bloody smudged hand print to another dark room up three small stone steps. He busted the door down with ease, and to his annoyance it was another room full of rows of boxes. Just as he was starting to get even angrier, with his vamp vision he saw the corner of a finger poking out from behind a light coloured wood box way over in the corner.

He blurred towards it, hoping it was Elena, shouting her name, so loud he wished she would jump out and hear him, just run into his arms and then when she was with him, everything would be alright again.

But when he saw the body his heart sunk. It wasn't Elena. It didn't even look like her. Their hair grey and their eyes were green. He let his fist slam through a box. Bex had been playing him. Dangling strands of hope in front of him only to have them snatched away again.

Still, he stuffed the body into a large trunk, because he knew it was what Elena would do if she were there..if she would ever be there again..

Don't think about it.

He told himself. He would find her, he would bring her back, she would be okay, just like all the times they'd got into trouble before, he'd saved her. He told himself that this would be one of those times, that she wasn't lost forever.

Then just as he felt a single tear slide down from his face, something twitched in the box he'd just punched.

"Damon?" A voice cried. He almost fainted. It was her! It was really her!

"Elena! Oh God Elena!"

There was a rattling inside it, and he went to rip the lid off with his shaking hands, but it was already flying through the air and across the room before he had a chance.

"So 'sorry' to get your hopes up Damon. Got anything to eat, I'm starving." Katherine grinned. She was standing in front of him, hair curled, wearing a tight black top and a leather jacket with black leggings and her usual six inch studded black boots, a scheming smile plastered all over her face.

Damon wanted to punch her. She always turned up where she wasn't wanted. Especially now when he'd been so close to getting her back, as soon as he'd seen her, all hopes had vanished, just like Elena.

"Ever heard of the words go stake yourself?" Damon snapped. God she was so annoying.

"Ever heard of the words nice to see you?" She replied, flipping back her hair. Vain. Vain self-obsessed bitch. Damon thought. It was hard and painful to believe that he'd actually lost his virginity to..well..that.

"Fine, fine. I won't tell you what I know. No worries. I'll just happily watch you stumble around and lose Elena forever." Katherine smirked, taking a nail file out of her pocket and perching on the edge of a box, starting to do her nails.

Damon narrowed his eyes. Yes, it was typical of Katherine of all people to know something, but why would she want to tell him anyway. She wanted to see Elena dead and buried so that she could profess her undying love for Stefan. He just about managed to contain a snort as he thought about that. Yeah, like he could believe that. Fun and games, that was all Katherine was. Unless there was something in it for her..

"What do you want, Katherine." Damon said tiredly.

"Nothing. As it happens I don't want anything." She said, filing her little fingernail.

"Hallelujah!" Damon cried sarcastically.

"I don't want anything yet."

Damon let out an exhausted eye-roll. He was so sick of this.

Katherine noticed his impatience and sighed.

"Me and Elena have a deal. As long as she is alive, I still get what I want, and you still get what you want, can't we work together Damon?" Katherine batted her lashes at him. Damon laughed.

"What deal was that again?" Damon inquired, trying to act cool.

This time Katherine was laughing.

"I never told you a first time. Hey, why don't you ask Elena when we get her back." She said, scooting off the box. Suddenly she paused by the door. Damon was beside her in a second.

"Bex. She's coming. She got free, we have to go." Katherine said, dragging Damon and running with her vamp speed to his car outside.

Katherine waited by the door for some reason Damon didn't understand.

"What are you waiting for? Christmas or Becky Santa's newest reindeer?"

Katherine didn't move, but smiled at him cheekily. Damon really wanted to knock her bobble head right off her shoulders. He pulled open the door, bowing slightly.

"There you go Miss Katherine." He trilled, his voice going high, and he gritted his teeth at the same time as she slid her palm into hers and he helped her into the car.

"Why thank you Mr Salvatore." She said, laughing to herself. And then she screamed, because Damon was in front of her with a stake, but that wasn't what she was screaming at. It was the face of another vampire that leered behind him, blood stained and blonde, Bex with her fangs on full display, and then Damon was on a pile, unconscious on the floor.

Katherine leaned her back against the car.

"That's all for now, Katherine." Said Bex, licking Damon's blood off of her lips.

Katherine sighed.

"I'm done?"

The blonde vampire smiled.

"Yes, you're done."

Katherine smiled back.

The vampire looked her full in the eyes, prising the stake out of Damon's hand and putting it into Katherine's, not breaking her gaze, pupils dilating and eyes flashing.

"You know what to do with it."

She whispered, compelling her.

And then Bex skulked away, back to the warehouse, her black heels clicking against the concrete. For a moment she paused. A shriek pierced the air, and the sound of a body falling to the ground. Bex smiled and carried on walking. One thought in her mind. By the time I'm done, I'll be the only one left standing.

A/N: So many plot twists! I will try to write as much as I can and update as soon as possible! So, who, if anyone is dead? What happened to Caroline and Tyler? Thanks again. - Leahlovessalvatore124