Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and The Vampire Diaries. They belong to J.K. Rowling and L.J. Smith. I am writing this just for fun and no money is being made.

AN: I wasn't able to reply to anyone of you, for which I would like to apologise.

Mystic Falls

His blood was boiling as the images he had seen in the pensieve etched themselves into his brain. He agreed wholeheartedly when Kol said that instead of killing Dursley's, they should've kept them alive and tortured them until they begged for death. They kept his daughter in a cupboard for the first 11 years of her life.

His whole family had been shocked when they saw Damon helping a 4-year-old Athena. Even though she had cuts and bruises all over her body and her wrist was broken, she was afraid to go to a doctor because her 'aunt or uncle' would get angry and punish her. She was treated worse than a servant, more like a slave and even Elijah wanted to kill them, after which he had told both his siblings that the deed was already done. Damon buying her food was the first time someone showed her kindness and his daughter had thanked him like he had given her the moon. He himself was grateful to Damon, now that he knew the reason, she was fond of the elder Salvatore. He refused to think anything beyond that because he would end up killing the vampire if he did. Not that he was opposed to the idea, but he knew that Athena wouldn't… appreciate the gesture.

They had seen how she made friends for the first time and how happy she had been to be the part of this new world where she wasn't 'a freak'. They could've never imagined the things and creatures that existed in the World. Kol had wanted the basilisk Athena encountered in her second year, until she killed him. He had been disappointed, but was oddly proud that his niece was a 'badass'. After which he was fixated on keeping a dragon as a pet, until Elijah reminded him that vampires and dragons probably wouldn't go along well and he reluctantly agreed.

Klaus had been angry at first that Lily never told him about any of it, but he also understood why she hid it from him. After all, she thought he was merely a muggle, a ridiculous term in his opinion, and she herself wasn't safe.

They saw Voldemort trying to kill Athena every year by different means until he finally came back in her fourth year after killing her friend and torturing her. They had stared bemused and Rebekah had outright hissed at the creature that emerged from the cauldron. 'Whiter than a skull, with wide, livid scarlet eyes and a nose that was flat as a snake's with slits for nostrils...' The murderous rage he felt when the snake laughed while torturing his daughter was something he hadn't felt before. Never in his thousand years had he wanted to kill someone more and he hadn't been able to stop himself from attacking the creature. All but forgetting Athena's words that he wouldn't be able to do anything and Voldemort was dead, but was stopped when he passed right through the 'snake' and the memory continued. He couldn't describe the emotion that filled him when he saw Lily's ghost in the graveyard, telling Athena to run.

How the world had proclaimed her a liar when she told them the truth!

All the Mikaelson's stared bewildered when her professor transformed into a werewolf. The wolf was different than he was and they saw how mindlessly he charged towards the dog, forgetting that it was his best friend. An Animagus was also something which piqued his interest, but he left it for later.

Umbridge was added along with Pettigrew to the list of people he and his siblings would've loved to torture, after they saw how the bitch had forced Athena to write with her own blood. Then there was Bellatrix – the one who had killed Athena's godfather. Klaus saw the state she had been in when Sirius fell through the veil and he knew that he wouldn't ever be able to forget Athena's screams for him to come back.

Klaus saw Snape killing Dumbledore and remembered how Lily used to talk about him fondly. Her childhood friend!

They were left perplexed when the old bastard left Athena some clues, telling a 16-year-old to Kill Voldemort. He was glad that at least her friends stayed with her on the run when she was declared 'Undesirable No – 1'. His urge to kill increased when she was once again tortured in the Malfoy Manor before the elf rescued her. He saw her destroying horcruxes, seeing Snape's memories and decided that Dumbledore was the first one he would've preferred to kill. Even Elijah agreed. The bastard not only manipulated the whole world 'for the grater good', but he raised Athena only to be killed by Voldemort himself. He knew all along this would happen and played everyone like pieces of chess. Especially Athena and Snape, saving them for future.

He didn't realize that he had fallen on his knees and was crying until Rebekah hugged him. Seeing his own child being killed in front of him was too much and he felt like burning the whole world to ashes. And he would've, if he hadn't known that she was indeed fine.

They saw the dead look in her eyes when her fiancée was killed and again for the first time in his existence, he prayed for it to be over. Her to be happy, even though he wasn't sure if anyone would listen to him. Voldemort died and they blinked, realizing that they were now standing in the living room.

Later, he calmed himself when Elijah pointed out that Athena would be home soon and wouldn't be pleased if she saw the state the house was in. Along with the chaos, there were body parts of different people scattered around, not to forget the blood which was soaking the carpets, couches and the walls.

When had he done this?

The Cell

Instead of answering, the man replied just as coolly, "Welcome. I'm 12144."

Athena frowned. "What?" As she realized that he had told her a number instead of his name, she gasped involuntarily as it occurred to her that he had to have been here for a long time for referring himself as a number. "How long have you been here?" she asked dreading the answer.

"I've been here since the World War II." He told her nonchalantly.

Her eyes widened at the horror that filled her and she felt that she might puke any second. The man had been locked here from 1940's and she shuddered. But to distract herself from getting sick, she asked, "Why have they kidnapped us? What do they want?"

"They carry out experiments on vampires. What I want to know is why are you here? You seem pretty much human to me." The man said just as calmly, but she could hear the curiosity in his voice.

Even though she wasn't able to see the man, she stared towards where his cell was horrified. Her panic turning into hysteria and she unconsciously moved towards Damon's cell. What kind of people carry out experiments on another living being? An image of Umbridge came to her mind unbidden and she shivered. Yeah, people like her could easily do that. She closed her eyes and muttered under her breath, "Accio wand." She waited for some time and tried again only to be disappointed when nothing happened. If the man heard her, he gave no indication and she closed her eyes miserably. "My dad and my friends will find us." She whispered more confidently than she actually felt. The only thing curbing the terror she felt was the knowledge that Damon was with her. It was selfish of her to be happy about him being locked in such a place, but with him nearby, she felt somewhat safe.

He snorted, but didn't say anything else. Athena looked at Damon, who was still unconscious before turning back towards the man and asked, "What's your name?"

Before he could answer, they heard a groan from Damon and the man said, "Why don't you ask your friend? He should remember me."

It was said it with such conviction, that Athena was left puzzled. How did the man know Damon if he had been locked from mid-1940's? Maybe they knew each other before he was captured? "You know Damon?" she asked unnecessarily.

There was another groan from Damon and he inhaled sharply. This time, the man didn't reply, neither did she wait for it; instead, turned towards Damon, waiting for him to wake.

Damon opened his eyes slowly, instantly realizing that there was something wrong. He remembered that he was at the boarding house when automized vervain filled the living room. He tried to run, but someone shot him with a couple of vervain darts. Even though he had fainted afterwards, but he was mighty satisfied that he managed to kill the man who had shot him. He was lying on a cold floor made of stone and as his eyes adjusted to his surroundings, all the bleariness left him instantly when he realized that this place was hauntingly familiar. He looked at the wall beside him and his fear increased tenfold when he traced his initials - 'D.S.' carved into the wall with his fingers. He remembered this place as if it has been yesterday and looked around wildly, when the memories of his time in captivity and being tortured which he had hidden somewhere inside his head, came rushing back.

"No, no, no, no…" he repeated out loud unintentionally.

"Damon!" He heard Athena's voice and whirled around, only to find her in the joining cell.

His eyes widened even further when they landed on her. "Athena? No! What're you doing here?" he asked as he crawled towards her and held onto the bars, trying to rein his increasing alarm.

"I don't know." She whispered as she moved closer, holding the bars just like him. "Are you alright?"

Damon's head fell forward as he sighed. Trust her to worry about the well-being of others even if she was in the similar situation. "I'm fine." He murmured as he used all his strength, trying to break the bars to no avail.

"Welcome back, 21051."

Damon heard a voice, he'd never thought he would hear again. The voice of a person, he had long since buried deep inside. His head snapped up as he looked through the bars and focused on the vampire in front of him. How hadn't he noticed before? Oh yeah. He was trying to control his own fear. He stared agape and asked needlessly, "Enzo?"

"It's been a while, mate."

The tension was palpable and Athena looked between the two vampires with a frown. "How do you know each-other?" she asked.

"Our cells were next to each other when I was locked here years ago." He said nonchalantly before looking around and added, "We need to find a way to get out of here." Damon told her, eyes still on Enzo.

"You still remember me? I thought you would've long since forgotten the person you left behind to die in that fire." Enzo said sarcastically, but there was barely hidden anger behind the words.

Athena stared at the two, unable to believe that Damon had been here before. The man, 'Enzo' had said that experiments on vampires here. That explains how they knew the other, but that would mean… She looked at Damon and asked, "Damon? What the hell is going on?"

Damon swallowed back the guilt rising inside him, and winced. This was the last thing he wanted Athena to know. She already hated him and he didn't want her to know this darker side which he had hidden from everyone, even Stefan. Nothing could be worse that telling her.

"We were locked here by Dr. Whitmore, who experimented on vampires, knowing that they heal from all the wounds. He used to out the internal organs into pieces every day, only to regrow them, so he could create some cure for humans. I was here from 1953-1958." Damon told her monotonously.

Athena gaped speechless. "Oh My God!" she breather stunned. While Enzo almost yelled angrily, "That's all you have to say?" staring at Damon, who stayed quiet, but his eyes tightened.

"That isn't all. Let me tell you. I've been waiting for years to tell someone." Enzo said as he made himself comfortable against the wall.

Damon clenched his jaw, but didn't say a word.

"Damon and I were locked in this cell for years – tortured, beaten… humiliated. But we weren't gonna let them break us. No. We decided that if we want to escape, we need to work together. We needed each other. I gave him all my blood rations for a year, so he'd have the strength to escape. Our plan began perfectly until it didn't. When he killed all those people, I was waiting in the cage for him to release me. For my friend. My cellmate. The only soul I had connected with in all those years of captivity." Enzo paused, betrayal clear in his eyes, while Damon kept his eyes strictly on the wall. He couldn't look at Enzo, neither could he look at Athena, knowing he would find nothing but disgust. "Then the fire starts. Burns out of control, but Damon just can't get the damn cage open. Looks me in the eye as if he doesn't even recognize me… turns around… saves himself… and leaves me to die." Enzo added dramatically.

There was eerie silence as no one spoke, until Athena cleared her throat and said, "Okay. We need to find a way to get out of here."

A vein throbbed in Enzo's forehead as he stared at the girl furiously and finally managed, "You think its that easy? In case you missed it, I've been locked here since 1940's."

Athena breathed deeply to calm herself before turning towards Damon and uttered, "I dropped my wand. Stefan's our best bet. He and my dad will find us." She nodded with conviction. "By now they will know that we're missing. They will find us."

"Points for optimism." He said as she rested her forehead on the bars. "Unfortunately, Stefan doesn't even know this place exists."

She raised her head and looked at him with a frown. "How is it possible? You were here for five years."

"For the first year I thought he'd rescue me. He didn't. Once I escaped, there was no point in telling him. I never told him or anyone what happened here." he told her wistfully.

Enzo looked at the two, confused. In the time Damon was here, he had said that he would find a way to free the love of his life 'Katherine' who was locked in a tomb. This girl was very much human and far from the description of the girl Damon had told him. He was positive that these two weren't just friends. Since when did Damon cared about anyone but himself or Katherine? He hadn't been in contact with his brother, Stefan for years the last time he was here, and he himself had suffered because he trusted Damon. He hadn't missed the way Damon had been terrified when he saw the girl here – meaning, he wasn't as worried for himself as he was for her. What he wanted to know was what exactly had happened and who the girl was?

Athena looked to the ground, trying to swallow back the bile. "Okay. But why are we here now? Why am I here?" she asked through her increasing panic.

"I don't know." Damon said as he looked into her eyes. His hands went to her knuckles which were almost white because of the tight grip she had on the bars. "Athena… I Promise, I'll get you out of here." He whispered, waiting for her to pull her hands back, but when she didn't, he stayed like that. This was the closest he had been to her ever since he decided to be an utter fool and he didn't want to lose it, but knew that it was probably because of her fear. Once they got out, things would go back to the way they had been from the past months. And he would find a way to get her out of here. There was no way he would let her stay in this dreadful place for long.

Athena looked at him and nodded, even though she knew there was no way out. But his expressions were so earnest, that she believed him automatically.

"I wouldn't be sure about that." A voice said and their heads snapped towards it together.

Mystic Falls

"Damon!" Klaus shouted, standing at the gate of the Salvatore Boarding House. He wasn't invited in, so he and Kol stayed at the door waiting, before he lost his patience and shouted again, "Stefan!"

Where was she? Athena should've been back hours ago, but he was done waiting and he decided to go to her house. As soon as he stepped inside her house, he knew that she hadn't been here in days. The only smell in the house was of her two friends, who came out and told him what he already knew. Which was why he was here! She didn't know much people beside the Salvatore's, one whiff and he knew she hasn't been here as well. But what caught his attention was strong smell of vervain coming from the house.

"Klaus."

He whirled around and saw Stefan getting out of his car. In the next second, he was holding Stefan by the throat, feet dangling in the air, choking him and growled, "Where's my daughter? If you or your brother did something to her…"

"Stop!" Caroline shouted, but Klaus tightened his hold further, while Stefan struggled to breathe. "We don't know where she is! We've been searching for Damon. We can't find him as well."

That got his attention and he dropped Stefan, who fell down, breathing heavily. Caroline was at his side in an instant, checking on him.

"Now love, you should start speaking before I start ripping people you care about." Klaus said charmingly, earning a glare from the blonde, but remained unbothered.

"The air in the kitchen and living room was filled with vervain when I entered an hour ago." Stefan said as he stood up, pulling something from his jacket and showed it to Klaus. "We found these lying on the floor."

It was Damon's cell and a needle filled with vervain.

"Wait. Where's Athena?" Stefan asked anxiously, when he remembered the reason for Klaus's being here in the first place.

There was a loud crack and they turned their heads in the direction. It wasn't Athena, but Hermione and Ron, but something in their expressions alarmed them.

"What?" Kol asked before his brother could.

"I placed a tracking charm on our wands before the war. Athena never leaves her wand behind, but when I wasn't able to find it, I used… uh… its not important." Hermione uttered and pulled something out from her purse.

Klaus, Stefan and Kol stared wide-eyed. It was Athena's wand! Her broken wand!

"You don't think it's the death eaters, do you?" Stefan asked the witch.

"There was no magical signature apart from Athena's where I found the wand. I searched." Hermione told them, already busy trying to figure a way to search her friend.

"We could use…" Ron started, only to be interrupted by Hermione. "It would take hours, Ronald and there could be a false lead if a witch or wizard is involved."

"Bonnie could help!" Caroline exclaimed.

The Cell

The man turned on the light and Athena blinked, trying to adjust to it. The man standing there seemed like a doctor. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, a muggle if she was correct in her assumption. "I'm Dr. Wes Maxfield. I conduct experiments on vampires in hope that maybe their blood could be used as a cure for all diseases."

She stared at him horrified, but then another thing occurred to her. She was a human and he conducted experiments on vampires. Something wasn't adding up, so she asked, "Why am I here?"

He grinned at that, eyes shining brightly with a mad glint in them. "You see, I've known about witches from a long time now. But you… you're special. When I was told that you're the most powerful witch in the world, and as being the man of science, I was intrigued. I didn't believe it until I saw Damon here healthy as a horse after he was bitten by the werewolf. Imagine the possibilities of what we could do together. How many lives will be saved if we found the cure?" he told her manically.

Athena stood up, staring at him appalled. "Experiment? You mean to say torture?" she stated hotly.

Damon stayed near the bar, waiting for the man to come closer so he could kill the bastard. Enzo stared at them, staying where he was. She wasn't the first witch he had encountered, but seeing such a young girl who had been brought here to help the 'good doctor' was intriguing.

"They aren't humans." He told her offhandedly as he motioned with his hand. Two people holding guns, opened the lock to her cell and she panicked. "Who told you about me?" Athena questioned in order to think a way out of this. She could do magic without her wand, but wasn't willing to risk it when there were guns in their hands.

"It isn't important. The main thing is that you're going to help me in finding the cure." He smiled at her as the two men entered inside and she backed away.

"Wait!" Damon shouted after trying and failing several times to break the bars. "Let her go and I'll stay here. You can do all your experiments… anything you want and I won't even fight back." He begged the man desperately, wanting to keep her safe by any means.

Enzo's eyes shot up to his hair with disbelief. The same Damon who had left him to die was offering himself like a pig for slaughter.

Now, the man smirked. "This is why you're here in the first place. You'll stay here until we have her." He pulled something out his pocket and showed it to them. "This here will ensure that she stays here."

The glass vial was similar to ones they had in the Wizarding World and her apprehension increased. "What's that?" she asked shakily.

"The man who gave it to me didn't say." Wes told her disappointed. "But I've been told to inform you that 'the potion imitates the effects of the Imperius Curse.' You'll do everything you've been told and I need you to help me in creating the cure, even if we had to kill hundreds of these monsters."

Athena's heart hammered in her chest as she looked at the vial and the gravity of the situation hit her, but didn't had the time to say anything as the two men held her by the shoulders tightly and started pulling her along.

She knew there was no way she could fight three men together, but she still had her magic. So, she mustered all the magic she could and flung the men away as soon as they touched her. Both of them flew away from her – one collided with the wall outside the gate, while other hit Damon's side of the wall, directly in front of the bars. Without wasting a second, Damon blurred towards the man and snapped his neck through the bars. Athena stared as the man fell on the floor and then she heard a gun-shot. Her head snapped towards Wes who had his gun pointed towards Damon. "No!" She screamed as she saw Damon falling to the floor, dead and his blood forming a puddle on the floor.

She felt a pinch in her neck and realized that the man had stabbed her with a needle. Her vision blurred, and she lost consciousness. The last thing she remembered was the man pouring the contents of the vial down her throat.

Mystic Falls

Bonnie glared at the hybrid and his brother standing at her door.

"We wouldn't have come if it hadn't been urgent. There are people who want her dead and we don't know who took her. Please. She's my best friend." The redhead, Ron, pleaded.

"Please Bonnie." Stefan begged.

She might hate all these Originals and Damon, but Athena hadn't harmed anyone as far as she knew. The girl had even been friendly until they stopped talking because Elena hated the girl. If a spell could save her life, she wasn't going to let her die; especially since they could've killed the girl when the Originals were linked. She had trusted Elena at that time, but these people didn't seem evil to her.

"I'll need your blood." She told Klaus and Stefan with a sigh, but wasn't expecting the bushy haired one to jump on her, literally with a chant of Thank You's.

The Cell

Damon moaned painfully as he blinked his eyes open. He was getting tired of waking up like this. His head was aching and he tried to move his hand where he had been shot, but couldn't. Instantly he was on alert and his eyes snapped open as he looked around wildly. He was strapped to the surgical table in a familiar lab. There were two tubes injected in both his arms and it took him a moment to realize that the man was performing some kind of a blood dialysis on him. He struggled to get free fruitlessly, as he felt weak as a newborn kitten.

'He had definitely been injected with something', he thought warily.

"Athena?" he mumbled weakly, only to earn a snort from Wes, who entered with a couple of papers in his hand before checking the machines in the room. His eyes widened when he saw Athena, who followed Wes before standing beside him on the surgical table and his struggle to free himself increased. There was something wrong with her. He just knew it as he kept his eyes on her and whispered, "Athena?"

Her eyes flickered to him, but gave no response that she even recognized him. His heart sank when he saw the stony, almost lifeless look in her eyes. He had been with her for the past couple of months, they had been through ups and downs. He had probably seen every emotion in her green eyes, but never had he seen this glassy and blank look in them. His eyes went to the doctor he knew he was going to kill soon and snarled, "What did you do to her?"

Wes waved his hand offhandedly while reading something, not at all bothered and said, "You should be more worried about yourself."

With that, he picked up a scalpel and stepped on the opposite side of Athena. Damon's struggles intensified and he looked ready to kill when Wes asked her thoughtfully, "Can you immobilize him? I won't be able to work if he kept moving like this."

Damon looked straight at Wes, his eyes glaring daggers as he glowered through clenched teeth. "I'm going to kill you. Slowly, and I'm gonna make it painful."

Athena's hand went to Damon's chest, but stopped before she could touch him. Her eyes met Damon's and he saw a flicker of something in them. He looked into her eyes and begged, "Athena. I know you can hear me. Break out of it. You've done it before. And then we can go back home."

Wes stared with narrow eyes as the witch's hand waivered and stopped before she could touch him. The potion given to him by the 'Britisher' had worked as she had easily tortured 12144 before swiftly snapping his neck with a simple wave of her hand, like he had told her to. 'The man' had promised to give him more potions and ingredients which were only known to their kind – wizards and witches. He couldn't even imagine having those in his hands. Now, he just needed to make the girl kill the vampire, just like the man had asked, in exchange for their secrets. He was almost near a break-through and couldn't stop now. Maybe she needed a little push, so he pulled out some stack of papers from the nearby drawer.

"Athena." He said and her eyes snapped to his. "These creatures don't deserve your kindness or sympathy. And Damon? He's nothing but a monster." He showed her a picture of a boy no older than 10 and continued, "He's Aaron Whitmore. He thinks that his entire family is haunted by a deathly curse. Do you know why? Because Damon here, killed every member of his family. The last one being his parents, not even months ago. He's an orphan now. Do you know what it does to a child? Who else would do it to a child if not a heartless monster?" he asked with an arched brow.

A cold feeling filled Damon when he saw Athena's expressions becoming vacant again. Her hand touched him and he felt a small current flowing through his body. He tried to speak, but realized that he was unable to move anything apart from his eyes which stayed on her, even though he felt the scalpel cutting his abdomen and tears fell down his cheeks.

Bonnie's spell showed them that both Damon and Athena were at the same place. Now he along with Elijah and Kol were on their way to the house. It wasn't far, about an hour from Mystic Falls and Klaus was driving as fast as he could. Stefan was right behind them in his own car with Hermione and Ron because apparently, they couldn't apparate to a place they hadn't seen before.

People were going to suffer as soon as he had his daughter safe with him.

Everything around her was brighter than it had ever been and she felt content in a way she hadn't felt before. She knew she was supposed to do something… fight back, but for the world she couldn't remember why! Even though she couldn't see who it was, but there were people paying in a very familiar garden. The Burrow! The sun was shining brightly and the Weasley's were busy playing Quidditch. She found herself laughing along with Ron and Hermione and looked back to see her mum sitting with Molly, discussing something. Her mum looked up and smiled at her, and she grinned back.

"Athena!"

She heard a voice, but before she could turn around, she was pushed into the pond. When she resurfaced and looked up, she saw Fred and George laughing merrily at her. Ron, who was right beside her was spluttering indignantly. George winked at her and Fred shook his head at his brother before kneeling down and giving his hand to her.

She was about to take it when she heard a heart wrenching scream and whirled around, looking at everyone, but they were still busy in whatever they had been doing.

"Athena!"

She heard again and blinked, focusing on her fiancée who asked with a dimpled grin, "Where did you go?"

She heard another scream and could swear that she knew that voice. Had heard it before.

"Did you hear that?" she asked Fred, who gave her a funny look. "There's nothing. Come on, lets get inside or you'll freeze."

She moved her hand towards his, but stopped. There was the scream again and she blinked. There was something wrong as she was sure this happened before. She looked at her mum who was looking at her worriedly and called, "Are you alright? Come out or you'll get sick."

She looked at the faces around her and shook her head when everything turned hazy. What was happening to her?

"Athena…!"

Fred screamed, or was it Fred? The red hair morphed into black and brown eyes turned to baby blue. She was so startled to realize that she knew the man.

"Damon!" she breathed, just as she slipped and fell into the water once again.

Athena inhaled sharply as she blinked away the fog that had been clouding her mind. Looking around for her mum or Fred, she found herself in a lab and just like that, everything came rushing back. Her mum wasn't there and nor was Fred.

The scream she had been hearing permeated the room and her head snapped to Damon, who was strapped to a table, bleeding profusely. His stomach was cut open and Dr. Maxfield was examining his organs. Her stomach churned at the image, but the rage that filled her at seeing Damon helpless and at the mercy of a mad-doctor was so overwhelming, that she wasn't able to control it. The man not only tortured Damon, but he had forced her to torture Enzo before she snapped his neck. Even though she knew that Enzo wasn't truly dead, but the man in front of her did it just for fun. Made her use an Unforgivable on someone who had already been through more than enough in his life, just for fun.

The anger that consumed her wasn't foreign. In a swift motion that surprised herself, she raised her hand and the largest knife lying on the table flew straight into her palm. She might've made some kind of noise because Damon's head snapped and he looked straight at her, now that her magic wasn't keeping him immobile any longer. Maxfield turned towards her, frowning just as she stabbed him in the stomach.

He obviously wasn't expecting her to break through the effects of the potion as he stared at her surprised before looking down and his hand went to the knife inside him. He fell on his knees, gurgling as he threw blood. She backed away from unconsciously him until she hit the wall behind her.

"NO…...!"

Someone screamed, but she was focused on Maxfield, who gasped for breath before dying in front of her. The next thing she knew, her dad was standing in front of her, looking at her anxiously, 'as if she was the one who had been stabbed', her mind supplied. Her eyes went to the body lying on the floor and she almost snorted when she saw Elijah checking his pulse. Even she knew that he would find none as the man was dead. She had killed him.

She kept staring at the body and provided unnecessarily, "I-I didn't mean to…"

She missed the worried glace shared by Klaus and Elijah as Stefan helped his brother. Kol, Hermione and Ron were staring at her concerned, but she didn't see them as her head started throbbing suddenly. Her hands went to her head, eyes clenched shut as she felt like someone was using the Cruciatus just inside her head. She wasn't aware of the groans and screams that left her as she fell on her knees and the pain and burning grew, spreading throughout her body. The pain in her chest increased and she felt like she was having a heart-attack.

Everyone looked alarmed, apart from the Mikaelson's and Hermione, who knew what was happening to her. Damon was leaning on Stefan or else he would've fallen. He wasn't able to voice his concern as he too stared, but managed to drag Stefan along as he tried to move closer to Athena.

"What's happening?" Ron screamed, eyes wide, hand clutched tightly into Hermione's.

Her fist collided with the floor as she grunted loudly before she went silent, breathing harshly.

"Darling?" Klaus muttered and her head snapped up as looked straight at him, her eyes glowing yellow, obscuring the green.

AN: First, I wasn't going to write her memories again as I've already written two chapters of it, but some of you wanted to see the reactions of her family, so I kept it as short as I could.

Second, I've changed Aaron's age because seeing another orphan child hit Athena where it mattered the most. This way she was able to relate to him, making her forget why she should fight the curse.

Last, I've increased the pace of this story a bit and I want to finish it as soon as possible. It's already been long and I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to give it once I start preparing for my exam properly. Even after that.

Hope you liked it and have a nice day everyone.

March 30th, 2019