The wedding crasher

Hi everyone I hope you didn't mind waiting for this chapter. I'm sorry it is a short one, but I have a lot of work to do. I will make the next chapter long to make up for it. I hope you like it it's one of the last ones. Please review and tell me what you think, thank you.

Elena POV

"Not again" she thought as she looked upon yet another unfamiliar place she had been brought to against her will.

She sighed; at least the view was nice here, wherever here was. She hadn't had time to ask the wedding crasher were she was or why she was her, as he had locked her in the tower she was now in and hadn't appeared to explain anything to her.

She was beyond furious and she yearned to have answers as to why she was ripped away from what should have been the happiest moment in her life.

She surveyed the beautiful view before her, marvelling at its beauty. She never knew a place like this existed; if she had, she would've been here a long time ago. The sky was pitch-black with no stars, which was unusual, but it made the blood red moon stand out. The landscape was no land, just an endless stretch of black water. The water reflected the red moon and had a glow; it was odd that there were no boats or any interruptions in the water, but the peace of the scene looked fitting. Elena stretched her hearing. There were definitely humans around because she could hear their heartbeats. The human's heartbeats were fast and frantic, like they were scared.

Elena paced back into the room in the tower wondering what next to do. She couldn't see any escape as there was only one door that was locked and Elena knew that that one door was her only escape. She didn't much fancy plunging herself into the foreboding black water.

Damon's POV

"I want her here now", he screamed at Stefan, pacing back and forth in his room.

"She doesn't have any power. What makes you think she can help us?" Stefan said back, calmly. Damon had been frantic when Elena had gone missing. No one had yet approached him apart from Stefan, who had informed him that every wedding guest that was human couldn't remember Elena walking down the aisle, and just believed she had done a runner.

"Do you see a better option?" Damon all but screeched at Stefan. "She's the only one who will even have a chance at finding her and I want to take that chance no matter how small. I will get my wife back." Stefan was about to contradict him and remind him that he and Elena weren't technically married yet, but Damon gave him a look that said "you dare".

"OK. I will try and find her", Stefan said. "You go north and I'll go south. The first one to find her will bring her back here and alert the other straight away". Without another word Stefan and Damon flew from the house to find her. The only person who would know where to go to find Elena: Bonnie.

Elena's POV

The click of the lock made Elena look around at the door. "Who are you?" she said, barely controlling her temper, as the person who had ruined her wedding swaggered through the door.

"Well hello, Miss Gilbert." He walked up to her with his arms open and Elena flinched away from him.

"I would've been Mrs Salvatore right now if it weren't for you, so I suggest you give me a very good reason as to why I'm here, and not off enjoying my honey moon."

"What a shame that would've been". He sat down on the dark-brown sofa and patted the space next to him, inviting her to sit down. She took a seat in the chair opposite him and he merely smiled.

"Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Gabriel – ironic name I know, for someone of my stature". He got up and went over to the large, shiny kitchen on the opposite side of the room. He opened the fridge, taking out a bottle of chilled champagne.

"All I know is your name. Now I want to know who exactly you are and why you crashed my wedding". He poured two glasses of champagne and brought them over. Elena shook her head when he offered her one, so he placed it on the glass coffee table in front of her. He sighed and gave her a once over. "How can I put this without making you launch yourself head-first off the balcony?" Elena looked at him confused. "You should know I am not like every other girl; I can handle a lot and my patience is wearing thin, so I suggest you hurry up and get on with it". She grabbed her champagne and took a large gulp.

"Well, to tell you the truth, I will have to start from the beginning. You see, my father was saying only a week ago how I needed to find a wife; someone to run the family business with me; someone who is beautiful, talented, and worthy to stand at my side as my wife; someone to carry on my bloodline.

Also I thought it was an impossibility – that was until I felt it: a shift in the air; a change in dimension that could only mean that a powerful being had been created". He paused to take a drink of his champagne. He didn't seem surprised by Elena's open mouth gaping at him. She knew he must have unbelievable power to have sensed her and she could only scarcely imagine what kind of family business he was into.

"I, naturally, went to investigate and find the answers to my dreams. I found the girl that ticked every box and fitted every category. I found a girl that was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen, and I knew from the moment I saw her that she was the one I would marry, so I stopped her from making a big mistake, and here we are."

"If you think I'm going to marry you, you're wrong. There's only one person I'm going to marry, and I'm going to do it right now". She stood quickly, but he was just as quick. He grabbed her arm tightly and she winced. She didn't understand how he could hurt her - what with her being a vampire/witch and all - but she didn't want to stick around and find out. She tried to pull away, but he held her in place.

"I don't know where you think you're going, but if it is anywhere out this room, you'll have to go with me because it is very dangerous around here, when you're not known. Don't worry, after the wedding everyone will know who you are". Elena shook her head at him. "Don't you get it? There isn't going to be any wedding", he said. She twisted her arm; his grip was getting tighter. "I forgot to tell you what the family business is. You see, my father is king to a throne, and not just any throne. My father is the devil and I am his son. I will one day rule and you will be at my side as my wife, whether you like it or not, because no one refuses me."

"Go to hell", she spat at him.

"We're already there, my queen".

Sorry about the cliff hanger. I will try and update as soon as I can.