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Semper Ama
Chapter Twenty-Eight – The Descent
I was whistling merrily as I danced around my room Elijah had kissed me I couldn't stop the giddy feeling that bubbled in my stomach or the near manic laugh that escaped my lips nor could I stop myself from screaming out love songs as I showered. It was almost unbelievable how well he kissed and even now hours later I could still feel the tingling of my lips and the slight coldness of his. I pressed my fingers to my lips smiling happily into the mirror as I dried my hair and applied make-up onto my face. I pulled on a pair dark blue jean shorts and a strapless red and white polka dot top that flared out slightly under the bust, I paired it with some white sandals and got ready to leave. I headed down stairs and towards the kitchen humming under my breath as I pulled out all the ingredients to make a full English breakfast. I turned on the radio just as Aerosmith's 'I don't want to miss a thing' began to play. I sang the song as I cooked the bacon, grilled tomatoes and mushrooms, the sausages and toast and make scrambled eggs. I had just placed everything on the table when Alaric, Jenna, Elena and Jeremy came downstairs and began to devour the food. "Wow where you that hungry?" I laughed thinking that nothing could put a damper on my day. "It was amazing." Declared Jenna and Jeremy who laughed at saying the same thing. "I haven't had a meal like this in a while, it reminds me of my mothers cooking." Alaric told us with a reminiscent smile upon his face. "thank you," I told him, and I turned towards my siblings. "do you want a lift to school?" I questioned. "It's fine," said Jeremy "Rick's giving us a ride." He told me as he fists bumped Alaric. "Oh, it's Rick now is it." I smiled as I looked at the happy couple Ricks arm was wrapped around Jenna's waist and her head rested on his shoulder. I wanted that and for a moment my happiness went, and I was left with a feeling of despair. Elijah had a wife one I could tell he loved very much, him kissing me was properly a momentary lapse. He couldn't love me no matter how much I wanted him to because he loved her, and I would never be her. I so much wanted to find love, but I wouldn't take another women's husband I don't think I could even if I tried and from what I've heard from Kathrine and Lexi she sounded like a wonderful woman – I would not be able to compete so what was the point. "Can I have a lift, I want to go to Damon's before school?" Elena asked, and I nodded absentmindedly. "Let's go." I called as I grabbed my car keys and headed towards the car.
"Are you alright you look down?" Elena asked as we got into the car I ignored her and chose instead to play the song Father and sons. I drove to the boarding house on auto pilot. Elena didn't ask me how I was again, and I was glad, it was weird I liked Elijah so much after only a few days that it scared me. When we reached the familiar house Elena quickly jumped out and headed upstairs towards Damon's room. While I headed towards the living room where Stefan and Lexi where caring for a sickly-looking Kathrine.
"What Happened!" I exclaimed as I rushed to Kathrine's side, she was drinking a cupful of blood. "Werewolf bite." Stephan explained looking worried, Kathrine weakly took his hand in here's. "ring him." She moaned with a quick nod Stephan was gone leaving just me and Lexi in the presence of Kathrine. "I thought werewolf bites were fatal to vampires." I whispered to Lexi she too looked like she was close to tears. "They are but we know a cure." Kathrine spoke her voice weak as she moved allowing her nightgown to fall revealing an awful bite that looked infected. I bit my lip to stop from gasping at the site. "It looks like it's getting better." Lexi told her, and Kathrine let out a humourless laugh. "No, it doesn't but I…appreciate the sentiment." Kathrine mumbled as her head began to lull. "You said there is a cure, what is it?" I questioned the two girls shared a look before Lexi turned to face me. "it's the blood of a hybrid." Lexi answered as she ran a cool cloth over Kathrine's sweaty forehead. "That's good isn't it, Klause doesn't want you to…," I stopped the word die from passing my lips. "He doesn't want you hurt." I said a hopeful look was plastered upon my face. "that's true but we don't know how long it will take for his blood to get here, and Kathrine is more affected by the bite than others." Lexi spoke as Stefan came back into the room. "I called but I had to leave a message." He answered as Elena and Damon also arrived in the room, Elena trying to sort out her rumpled hair. "You and Elena should go to school." I told Stefan and Elena who looked ready to protest until Kathrine agreed and they both went though neither were happy with the idea. "I need to find Isabel." Damon said after a few moments of silence, He got up to leave when I stopped him. "Take Lexi with you," they both began to protest "Stop! I can look after Kathrine and I have magic if needed. Go!" I assured them as I practically shoved them out of the door. "Looks like it's just you and I." I told Kathrine as I sat next to her on the sofa. "Are you comfortable," I asked as she shook her head "come on then let's get you to bed." I told her as I pushed my self up from the seat.
We walked cautiously up to Kathrine's bedroom, I held on to her as I tried to not let her fall no matter how much my arms strained to keep her up. "I hate this! I'm a vampire. I haven't had a cold in five centuries." Kathrine complained. "Let's just get you into bed okay." I said as I helped wrap the covers around her. "we don't get sick when we die, its fast and sudden. And it's certainly not drown out with an illness." She told me. "Kathrine you're not going to die." I tried to assure her, but it seemed futile as she shook her head. "I very well might if Klause doesn't get here on time…" she trailed off as if she had lost her voice and I shot up off the bed. "I'll go get you some more blood." I said at the questioning look, I quickly left the room heading towards my room where I got my magic book and then headed to the basement where I poured a glass of blood. I rushed back to where Kathrine lay, she now looked a sickly grey and seemed to by sleeping when I entered. I pulled up the chair next to her and began to read from my spell book.
"No, stop, Wait," Kathrine called out "this is crazy sis let's just stay." She moaned out. "It's okay Kathrine, just get some sleep. You'll feel better when you wake up" I said as I began to leave the room for some food. "Sister don't be so stupid they will kill us." She giggled before waking up, she began to gag and hold on to her stomach. "Oh, Mayrah. Mayrah, I need more blood." She said as she fell back upon the cushion her energy seeming to have disappeared. "yeah, of course, here." I called as I rushed to where I had placed the cup of blood earlier and helped her drink I hide my grimace as she drank like a starved man, her mouth and chin covered in blood. Then suddenly she began to throw it all back up, blood covered the white sheets as her body rejected the red substance. "okay, you're alright." I told her as I rubbed her back gently for a moment before rushing to the on-suite bathroom to get a cool cloth. When I came back she was gone…
Her bed was left rumpled and bloodied, I turned to leave only for my path to be blocked, there stood Kathrine, she grabbed me by the arms – digging her fingers into my skin and causing thin lines of blood to fall down my arms. My back connected with the door harshly nothing lie how Elijah had done it. I hated myself for thinking of that while I had a growling vampire pinning me to the wall. "It's all your fault Mayrah!" She snarled her face had fanged out with the veins under her eyes and she seemed to be getting closer to my face. "You Mayrah, you did this. You betrayed me." She shouted I was unable to speak but with a flick of my hand she was pushed away from me and fell in a heap at the bottom of her bed.
I stood gasping, using the wall to keep me steady as Kathrine's face turned back to normal, the veins under her eyes disappearing. For a moment everything was silent and still. "Mayrah? Oh, my God. Oh, my God, Mayrah, I'm so sorry." Kathrine gasped as she pulled her self up from the floor and weakly tried to crawl back into bed. I quickly rushed over and gave her a helping hand just in time for her legs to nearly give out. "I don't know what's happening to me." She murmured. "it's all right. Your gonna be alright." I tried to comfort as I led her to the chair I had recently vacated and once she was comfortable with a blanket thrown over her shivering form I began to strip and clean sheet the bed. With fresh linen on I helped her crawl into bed before disposing of the filthy bed sheets. She was back a sleep when I came up and snuggled into the chair, I could feel my eyes getting heavier and heavier until I gave into temptation and swiftly fell asleep.
"mummy why must I wear this?" questioned the young girl by my side, we stared into the French inspired cheval mirror, the young girl I suspected as my daughter was pouting as I laughed at her antics. "Darling it is your uncles wedding, you must wear it." I told her as she pulled at the corset. Her dress was a starting blue with elbow length sleeves, a square neckline and a corset and it appeared to her first time wearing one. "but it is itchy and tight." She whined as I pulled her hands away from the material. "Well then we must untie it slightly." I said as I moved behind her and untighten the blasted torture device, the maids always did tighten it just a little too much. "is that better sweet heart?" I asked as I took in what I was wearing it had a modest off the shoulder neckline with lace elbow length sleeves, a tight-fitting corset that still allowed me to breath and was the colour of steel and decorated with feather embroidered all along the bottom. It was stunning. My starting red hair had been pinned into a bun with a few louse strands curling down onto my shoulder and decorated in snowdrops. "It is, thank you mum." She smiled as she gave me a one armed hugged just then there was a knock at the door and a handsome though slightly blurred to my eyes entered the room. "How are my two-favourite girl?" he asked as he walked across the room giving his daughter a kiss on the fore before he greeted me with my own. It was magical and exhilarating just like all those years ago and as he pulled away I let out a deep un-needed breath and realised the room was now void of life. The scene had changed to something much darker, something much more sinister. The brick walls of the dungeon were oozing a red liquid and from the walls were the echoing of screams and pleas for help… Elena, Jeremy, Stefan, Lexi, Jenna, Alaric, Damon and Elijah's voice came together in a shrill scream. I fell to my knees and gripped my head begging for it all to end. "I'm coming Mayrah." A high pitch voice screamed above the others and a cold laugh bounced across the walls and with a start I awoke…
The bed was once again empty. I began to search for her calling out her name, but it was only when I was in the dungeon that I found her covered in blood and guzzling all the blood from the freezer. The sight of it was sickening though I tried my best to hide my feelings. "Oh, my God." I whispered unable to help myself, the infection on her back had spread and she was surrounded by empty blood bags. As soon as she saw me she dropped the bag the veins under her eyes becoming more prominent, the longer she stared the more she began to glare. "Mayrah." She hissed as she got off the floor and I move backwards trying to get away without hurting her. "No." I panicked as I ran from the way I came pushing a piece of wood in the way to stop her- if only for a moment. She caught me in the hall and pounced on top of causing the phone I had in my hand to fall out and skid across the floor. I could smell blood on her breath and the feeling of fear crept up inside me as I flung my hands at her sending a small wave of magic at her and causing her fly away from me. I scrambled for my phone and got there just in time for her to pounce once more on my back and take a great bite out of my shoulder. Giving a great cry of pain I threw my hand back and sent her crashing into the wall, knocking her out as I man a run for it. Up the stairs I ran towards my room and locked the door as soon as I was there and made a move to open all the curtain though now that I thought about it she had a daylight necklace, so this was no protection at all. I could hear her creeping about downstairs like an animal stalking its prey. I quickly moved into the bathroom to take a look at my shoulder, there were several teeth imprints from were she tore into my skin and blood was flowing from the wound. Rummaging through the cupboard under the sink I quickly found what I was looking for – the first aid kit. I had to stifle a whimper as I ran the antiseptic wipe over puncture wounds before placing a plaster over the torn area.
My phone was dead. I carefully pulled on a thin white jacket to hide my injury and sat on my bed waiting for my inevitable doom when Kathrine would smash down the door and kill me. I had to come up with a plan and fast. There was silence. The house was still. If I could reach it to the phone in the living room I could call for help. Or stay here and wait it out surely school wasn't still on. But after what seemed ten minutes of waiting I had finally had enough and braved myself for Kathrine who could very well be out there getting ready to devour me.
I made it across the landing, down the stairs and into the living room before I was intercepted out of nowhere Kathrine was there growling and spitting like a dangerous animal. Gulping I tried to stay calm and keep my heart beat steady, but it wasn't really working. With a great snarl she ran – the living room was empty and the door t the outside world was wide open. Great I thought sadly and with a sigh I took hold of the phone, time to ring for back up. "Hi Stephan, we have a little problem…"
It wasn't a little problem. The police were called all looking for the vampire and Kathrine killed several people by the time I was able to knock her out and bring her back home. My injury that I hadn't told anyone about was slowly getting more and more painful and the bleeding wouldn't stop, with every passing minute I could feel my magic stopping and the sweat building on my brow, the churning in my stomach wouldn't stop and all I wanted was a nice warm bath and my bed. But instead Damon was shouting at me like a child, my head was pounding but he didn't seem to be slowing down. I could see my world becoming black as my head began to spin and the last thing I remember was someone screaming out my name.
I awoke on a lovely and soft bed, groaning I tried to move but gave a great cry of pain as I put pressure on my hurt shoulder. "Why didn't you tell us you were hurt." Damon ground out between clenched teeth, looking furious, his knuckels where even more white than usually as he clenched the arms of the chair he was sitting on. "we had bigger fish to fry at the time, it was only a small cut." I told him as I whimpered at the pain. "A small cut," he growled out. "look at it." I did my shoulder look as if the skin was wilting off, looking scared and the puncture wounds were oozing a sickly green liquid as well as blood. My shoulder was raised and bright red as if I had caught sun burn. I gave a shudder before turning back to Damon whose lips were pulled into a tight snarl. "it was only a little bite." I mumbled not full understanding why this had happened its not like this was my first bite. "a bite from a vampire who was poisoned from a werewolf bite." He snapped as he shot out of the chair and stalked out of the room. After several moments of being along I fell back to sleep.
The sun was blearing down on me as I sat playing in the garden, today was my eleventh birthday. I felt the giddy excitement bubble up inside me. "Mayrah come inside and get ready." My mum shouted out to me and no other words were needed as I rushed inside the house only stopping to hug her on the way. I pulled on my new dress that Margarette had bought me – the top was this strapped and black before it flared out into a nude pink skirt, Bonnie bought me a Minnie mouse necklace and earring set, with tiny fake diamonds making up the silhouette of Minnie face and red diamonds making up her bow. It only took my five minutes to get ready and then I was waiting by the door bouncing up and down happily, Both Jeremy and daddy were earing shirts and jeans and Elena was in a pretty thick strapped navy-blue dress that also flared out and was decorated in pretty pink flowers. Mum looked very pretty in a pretty red dress that had thick straps placed perfectly upon her slim shoulders and had a sweetheart neckline, it fell to her knees in a tight fit, she wore glossy black heels. As for me I was wearing a sparkling golden dress that was off the shoulder and had cap sleeves, I put of navy blue ballet shoes and Bonnies jewellery set, mum even let me wear make-up for the first time.
It took us serval minutes to walk to the mystic grill, Mum and dad were holding hands with each other, while dad also held on to me while mum held on to Jeremy. Elena was off running about. There was a squealing of tiers and the shouts of raised voices and it the light of the headlights was Elena about to be killed by a van. I pulled my hand from my fathers and ran, slowing down time unnoticeably as I pulled her away from the collision…
"ELENA!" I gave out a scream my body sagging as I panted, the door flew open and I a second Elena was by my side. "What is it?" she asked worriedly as she bit her lip and help my hand. "I though…" I said trailing off "never mind it was just a dream." I told her, she began to open her mouth and speak again when a very loud knock came from the door. I heaved myself from the bed and refused to get back in no matter how much Elena begged me so and so with a defeated sigh helped me cautiously move downstairs. There waiting to be let inside was a very pretty lady her hair was dark brown and curly; her eyes were a sad brown though they seemed to light up when she saw me for some strange reason. Her skin was tanned, and she looked remarkably like Kathrine. "Nadia." A voice chocked behind me and in a second it seemed the new vampire forgot she couldn't enter as she bounced off the invisible barrier. "Please come in." I called and as soon as I did the girl – Nadia – was within Kathrine's arms both speaking rapid Bulgarian. The only word I understood was майка which meant mother. After a few moment Nadia pulled out two vials of red blood and handed one to her mother and with a small smile one to me. I downed the red substance pretending it was strawberry juice and gaged at the taste, but the effects worked almost immediately though I still felt weak the feeling of throwing up had greatly demolished. Even Kathrine looked better – less grey.
Though today hadn't been perfect, not even closely so it had taught me a lesson be grateful for the things given to you in life because not even immortal beings are inflammable to death and from this day on I would live…
