Summary: After Damon and Stefan rescue Elena from Elijah, they forget to also rescue Maddison Bennett, also known as Maddie. Elijah ends up finding her and as time passes they grown an instant connection with one another. Maddie knows that it's wrong and she ultimately shouldn't be with Elijah, but she doesn't care. This is her story.

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BEFORE THE SUN SETS

CHAPTER 7 ~ Taken … Again

I DO NOT OWN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES!

"Oh it's you." Maddie felt her cheeks get hot. She hadn't been expecting to see him again, at least not this soon.

"Were you expecting someone else?" Elijah wondered in all his glory.

"I wasn't expecting anyone actually, but I'm glad to see you … again." She grinned. Suddenly she felt shy around him, she wasn't sure why. Oh right, probably because we almost kissed, she thought.

"You asked me earlier why it was a good thing your parents aren't home."

"Yeah?" She was confused, having no idea where this was going.

"This is why," he grabbed the back on Maddie's neck and pushed his mouth against hers.

Maddie was stunned at first. She did nothing. He pulled away to look at her. She continued to look at him before coming to her senses. Once that happened a fire ignited in her. She grabbed him by his shirt and pushed her mouth back against his. His warm lips so soft against hers. Securing her arms around his neck Maddie felt herself push him onto her bed. She knew she wasn't going to have sex with him but she was going to enjoy every single second of this "makeout session."

She was still kissing him as she moved around so that was was laying on top of him. His hands went to her side and hers went to his face. Slowly she stuck out her tongue and swiped it against his bottom lip. Elijah complied by opening up to her. She moaned loudly as their tongues snaked together as one.

She she was in heaven.

That night Maddie had the best night's sleep ever. The moment she came to she found herself grinning at the ceiling.

She had kissed Elijah.

Well, he kissed, her but still it was the best day of her life. She let out a little yelp.

"Someone woke up happy."

Maddie immediately sat up. Elijah was standing right in front of her bed. She got out and threw himself at him … literally. She was now in his arms with her legs wrapped around his waist, her lips on his. When she came to, she pulled away. "Sorry."

"Believe me, it's no problem."

"I haven't even brushed my teeth though," he chuckled lightly kissing her shoulder. "Not that I'm not happy to see you, especially after last night because I am, but what are you doing here?"

"I came to see you."

"And did you come through my front door?"

He chuckled, "No actually, the window. Not that it would have mattered, your parents aren't here."

She frowned. Her dad was most likely at the hospital but her mom was usually home on a Saturday morning. "Your mom left a note, she went out with a friend for the day. She will be back sometime this afternoon."

"Ah." She removed herself from Elijah's arms. "Well, I am going to brush my teeth, you'll be here when I get back, right?"

"Yes."

She gave him a huge smile before running to the bathroom. Quickly she flaused and brushed her teeth. She couldn't believe she went for the kiss without brushing her teeth. She was mentally giving herself a reminder to never do that again.

When she got back to her bedroom she closed the door even though no one was home. Elijah was sitting on her bed, facing her. She walked over to him and climbed into his lap with her legs on either side of him.

"Hi."

"Hello," he moved a strand of hair out of her face. "Seems you are quiet the morning person."

"That's only because you're here."

"Is that so?"

She nodded enthusiastically, "Yep." She found her eyes wandering towards his lips again. Not even caring she kissed him again. He kissed her right back opening up his mouth to her. She was totally down for a make out session this morning.

Maddie broke apart from Elijah a little while later, "Alright, that was fun, but the human needs to breathe normal for a minute."

"Of course."

Maddie just stared at Elijah, and in turn he stared right back.

"Is it real?"

"Is what real?"

"This?" Maddie gestured between the two of them, "Us? Was last night real?"

"Yes Maddison, last night was real. As is this morning."

"Good." Maddie pecked his lips. Before it escalated again her stomach growled.

"Breakfast for the human?"

"Are you offering to cook for me?" Maddie wondered, grinning.

"I've been known to make a few dishes here and there."

"Really?" Maddie quirked an eyebrow. "Because I am totally in the mood for some waffles right now."

"Waffles it is," Elijah scooped her up bridal style, carrying downstairs. The smile on her face stayed perfectly intact.

Unfortunately Saturday and Sunday came and went far too quickly. Getting back into the routine of school after a week off was awful, but Maddie was doing it somehow. The first few days especially she hated getting out of bed. At the moment Maddie was up early, getting ready for school after her shower. It was nice outside, but there was a breeze. She examined her closet carefully before going with a pair of dark denim blue jeans that were ripped and a short sleeve black shirt. The shirt was kind of short so you could see part of her stomach, only little bit.

It was actually Cordelia's shirt that Maddie "borrowed."

Changing quickly, Maddie slipped on a pair of black sandals before grabbing her things and making her way downstairs. She grabbed a banana for a quick breakfast and ate it before downing a mini water bottle.

"I'll see you later mom," Maddie spoke quickly before walking out the door. She was running a tad late.

"See you later, have fun at school."

Maddie was by her car and had unlocked the door when she felt someone behind her. She hesitated turning around, she didn't necessarily feel safe. She turned around slowly, and there stood none other than Tyler Lockwood. She frowned, "Tyler? What are you doing here?"

He said nothing, only stared at her. She felt like he was examining her.

What the fuck did Damon do now, she thought annoyed.

"Hello? Earth to Tyler."

"You knew all this time, didn't you?"

"Excuse me?" Maddie crossed her arms. She wasn't exactly sure what he was going on about, however she knew she would be late to first period if he didn't get to the point.

"All this time you knew didn't you?"

"What did I know Tyler?!" She snapped.

"That my uncle Mason was dead."

She kept her face composed, "Alright Tyler, I don't know what you think you know but leave me out of it."

"Of course, were you there when it happened? I mean you are loyal to Damon."

"Look Tyler, I have to get to school, I suggest you do the same."

Tyler took a step closer to her. She didn't remove her stance though. She was not about to let him intimidate her. They just had a stare off for awhile and that was it, until Maddie's front door opened, both teens looked at the Maddie's mom who had came outside in a t-shirt, yoga pants and sneakers. "Oh, hi Tyler." It was obvious to everyone that Janette was confused to see him.

"Hi Mrs. Bennett."

"My mom just wanted you to know she planned on having some kind of memorial for those have lost their lives recently," he was looking at Maddie. "She wanted you to give her a call."

"Me?"

Maddie quirked an eyebrow. Her parents didn't hangout with the founding families of Mystic Falls so what the hell did Mrs. Lockwood want with her mother. I mean it wasn't like her family was unknown but they chose not to hang out with people they really didn't like.

"Oh, alright." Janette was now standing next to her daughter. "I will."

"See you later," Tyler spoke before walking away.

"That was odd."

"Tell me about it." She and her mom continued to watch Tyler go before she got in her car and headed off to school. Throughout the day she found herself barley paying any attention to her teachers. She couldn't stop thinking about Tyler and his surprise pop up. She definitely saw a meeting with Damon going on in the future. She was pretty sure that he was still pissed at her, not like she cared, but if wanted to take care of something he should stop worrying about Elijah and deal with Tyler. Because if he showed up unannounced again there was sure to be a problem.

She noted how none of the Mystic Falls gang attended school today either. It wasn't a shock though, it was rare to really ever see them at school.

Once the day was over, Maddie went home. She hadn't had a chance to actually leave during her lunch since she had to practice her band solo for the upcoming concert. Her band teacher, Ms. P wanted it to be perfect, and it was was almost there just a few things needed some work. She didn't have practice until 4 today, which was a good thing. The only bad thing was that she wouldn't be getting out until around 7 tonight. It was going to be a long practice since they were working for the playoffs. She was sure they'd make it but of course you have to put the work in to get there.

She ate a quick sandwich and worked on her homework in her free time. When the time was getting close to 3:20 she went upstairs and showered before changing into a pair of Nike spandex shorts and a lacrosse pini with her sneakers. She grabbed a frozen water from the fridge and placed it into a section of her Lacrosse bag before leaving. Practice wasn't really that bad. They did about forty five minutes to an hour of conditioning and then split into two teams. One team consisted of the girls in the pinis and the other team consisted of the girls who didn't have pinis.

"Alright girls, we'll see you all tomorrow for practice!" The coach announced before letting them go.

Quickly collecting her things, Maddie headed off to her car. She put her things in the back seat and closed the door. She stood there for a second, and then looked in the window of her car. Her eyes went wide for a second when noticed the figure that reflected in the window. She slowly turned around. A woman stood there. Tall, slim, blonde hair.

"You're Maddison Bennett, right?"

"Who wants to know?" She asked on the fence. She didn't like how this girl was looking at her.

"I'm Jules."

"Jules?" Maddie suddenly got the chills. "Well, it's nice to meet you but I have to go." Within the blink of an eye Jules was standing right in front of Maddie's face.

"Not so fast," Jules grinned. "I'm gonna need you to deliver a message to Damon," she paused, "and Stefan."

"And what's that?" Maddie breathed out. She was scared and Jules knew it.

"I want Tyler." With that her world turned dark in an instant.

Warm green eyes snapped open, however the girl they belonged to didn't move.

Her eyes stared at the ceiling as flashes came back to her. She remembered her head hitting something hard, she is pretty sure that Jules banged her head against her car.

Pound … Pound … Pound.

Instinctively Maddie Bennett's hand went to her head which was pounding. She could feel something sticky by her hair. Moving her hand and taking a look, her eyes bulged at the blood.

Not hearing anything she sat up quickly. Her eyes came to focus on the bars that surrounded her. A cell. She was in a cell of some sort. Looking to right she made out the figure of someone lying down. Squinting her eyes she was able to make out the figure of someone. Another girl. Blonde ... curly hair ... CAROLINE! She crawled over and tried to reach for it but couldn't quiet make it.

"Caroline," she whisper and yelled. "Care! Wake up! Dammit Caroline wake up!" A sigh of relief came out of her as Caroline shot up.

She watched helplessly as her friend let out a shriek. She could only see the side of her though. Her mouth formed into an O when she saw why Caroline was screaming. There was a hole in her head and she watched helplessly as Caroline got out what appeared to be a bullet. Maddie thought she was going to throw up.

"Maddie?"

"What the hell is going on?!"

"I'm going to get us out of here," Caroline said reaching out of the cell and trying to get it open. There was a latch but she couldn't quiet get to it, instead she ended up falling back only to see Jules boyfriend, Brady sitting there looking at her. Maddie had now noticed him then as well and huddled to the back of her cell.

"I see you got the bullet out," Brady said to Caroline. "That was … nasty. I got lot's of wooden bullets. I got toys. It's gonna be a long night sweet pea." He was smirking now. Maddie felt sick to her stomach even though he wasn't talking to her. She jumped when she heard a gun go off and watched as Caroline screamed.

Maddie crawled over and reached her arm through the cell trying to touch Caroline. She was able to reach part of her shoulder and squeezed it as comforting as she could. "We are going to get out of here Care."

"That's what you think," Brady spoke now looking at Maddie.

"Why are you doing this?"

"I'm sure you know why. I hear Damon Salvatore is your best bud."

Before she could respond Jules walked in, a phone to her ear. "He needs proof." She watched in horror as Brady shot Caroline, twice! "And that is only the beginning." Jules stared at Maddie now. "Because the minute we get bored with Caroline, the lovely Maddison is next. I know you probably don't care about Maddie but if something happens to her Damon will never forgive you."

"So," Brady moved so he was crouched right in front of Maddie's cell. "How many vampires are there in this town anyway?" Maddie didn't respond which only made him smile. He grabbed a green water gun and started spraying Caroline which caused her to scream. Maddie looked at her friends burning flesh … vervain!

"What's your name?" Maddie wondered aloud getting his attention. She could not bear to see Caroline tortured anymore.

"Brady."

"Brady, why are you doing this?"

"Because it's fun."

"You're sick."

"You know, I wasn't supposed to torture you unless Tyler never showed," he lifted the regular gun in the air, "but since you have such a smart mouth ..." he trailed off and fired the gun towards Maddie's ankle.

The minute the wooden bullet hit her Maddie let out a blood curling scream.

"Did that hurt?" Brady wondered giving her a sadistic grin. "Oops."

Maddie clutched her ankle. She was still in her practice clothes so when she looked down she could see the blood spilling out. She clutched it tighter. At this moment she just wanted her mom, her dad, her sister and Elijah. She tried to think about them to keep the pain down.

"You know, I was interested in meeting you."

Maddie lifted her tearful eyes to him, "Why's that? So you could shoot me in the ankle?!"

He chuckled, "No, that isn't why. It's more so the fact that you surround yourself with filthy vampires. Why?!"

That's a good question, Maddie thought, why did I surround myself around vampires.

"Because …," she looked at him determinedly through the tears. "They are my friends." Brady watched as tears ran down Maddie's face.

"That's … pathetic." With that he got up and left.

"Maddie," she glanced at Caroline. "Are you alright?"

"How are you?" Maddie wondered. She was more worried about Caroline than herself considering Care had been shot multiple times.

"I'll survive," Caroline said weekly. "But seriously, are you alright."

Maddie nodded quickly, looking down she could see her hand that was holding her hand was covered in blood. The hand on top of that one wasn't as bloody.

"I'm fine." Maddie tried to give Caroline a grin and moved both of her hands up doing so, big mistake. She watched the look on Caroline's face and watched as her eyes stuck to her bloody hands.

She was very thankfully for the cage at the moment.

"Care," she breathed out very slowly, "are you, are you alright?"

"You should cover your wound." Caroline commented. She kept reminding herself that this was Maddie, her best friend, she didn't want to kill her.

Maddie listened and clutched her ankle which was still giving her pain. She scooted farther away from Caroline.

"Ah, you're both still here?" Brady asked with a laugh as he walked back in. Maddie resisted the urge to roll her eyes. "I'm afraid our little game of fun is coming to a close."

"Oh," Maddie said in shaky breath, "did someone finally show up to kill you?" Maddie could not resist herself.

"You're a funny one, you know that." With that he pointed the gun at her again.

Outside Rose could hear them. Stefan and Tyler. "I know you're out there." She watched Stefan and Tyler come out.

"Where's Caroline?" Stefan wondered.

"Locked up tight."

"And Maddie?"

"She's still breathing, for now."

"Let them go and I'll release Tyler. This doesn't have to get any messier than it already has." Stefan looked at Jules intently, "I'm not your enemy Jules."

"It's a little late to be waving a white flag, don't you think?"

"You need to leave town, no one else has to get hurt."

"I'm not leaving without Tyler."

"Tyler's free to make his own decisions, as soon as you release Caroline and Maddie."

"My brother the peacemaker," Damon spoke as he walked up. "Since Stefan got here before me I'm gonna let him try it his way before I resort to my way, which is a little bloodier." Damon smirked. "So give us Maddie … and Caroline."

"Let go of Tyler."

"Give us Maddie and Caroline. Without a full moon it's not an even fight and you know it." Jules smirked. "We will take you."

"I'm not so sure about that, tough guy." Jules smiled before let out a whistle. Damon, Tyler and Stefan watched as men emerged from the woods.

Great, Damon thought, more werewolves, just what this town needs.

"Let's try this again," Jules said. "Give us Tyler."

"You heard her, go. Go go." Damon jerked his at Jules, but Tyler still looked at him unsure. "Get over there."

Tyler went over to Jules.

"Which one of you killed Mason?" Brady spoke loud and clear, looking from Damon to Stefan.

"Ughh, that'd be me." Damon admitted pointing to himself.

"Boys," Brady pointed a wooden stake towards Damon. "Make sure that one suffers."

"We can take them." Damon said to Stefan before looking around.

"I don't know about that."

"Well then," with that Damon darted towards Jules and the fighting began.

Inside of the trailer Caroline was struggling with a latch on the cell. She was determined to get herself and Maddie out. A part of her was fighting so hard because she wasn't sure how much longer she could resist a bleeding Maddie. Her blood was just flowing out.

"Tyler!" Caroline exclaimed as he rushed in. Maddie looked at him and he looked at her, worry on his face when he saw the state she was in. "There's a latch, there's a latch on the door and I can't get to it." For a second Tyler just stood there and looked at Caroline, then he looked to Maddie. His mouth almost his the floor. There she was Maddison Bennett who he had just seen that morning in perfect condition, clutching her ankle which blood was still flowing out of. But it wasn't just that. No, he could also a see a stain in her side. Shit, he realized coming to the conclusion that she had been shot in the side and ankle. That's why there was so much blood. He never wanted any of this to happen. "Tyler, please, Tyler." With that he went to help Caroline out. The minute Caroline was out she started for the door until she remembered Maddie. She turned around and saw Tyler getting Maddie's cell open. Maddie weakly crawled out and Caroline helped her to the door.

As Caroline walked out, Jules grabbed her and held a gun to her neck, pressing her against the trailer. Maddie almost let out a yell before a man came up and grabbed her pressing a gun to her head, his hand firmly around her neck. "Did you really think you were going to get out of here that easy?"

Maddie whimpered. She had been shot not once, but twice! First in the ankle and then in the side. She wasn't going to put it past any of them to shoot her again.

She watched helplessly as Brady prepared himself to stake Damon. She looked down, she couldn't watch Damon die.

No matter what, he was still her friend.

When Brady let out a scream, she looked up. She then felt the man who had grabbed her let her go and scream. She could hear Jules screaming as well. Looking around she saw all of who must be the "wolves" clutching their heads.

"What's happening?" Caroline breathed.

"What the hell's going on," Tyler said at the same time.

With that Jonas came out of the woods. "Elijah made a promise to Elena," he spoke. "I'm here to see it's upheld. You need to go."

Stefan stood, looking around. Damon slowly got to his feet looking at Maddie. His eyes went wide as he looked at her and took in the sight she was in. Before she could collapse he picked her up and vampire sped out of the woods. He had to get her to the hospital. He knew Stefan could handle Caroline.

Maddie could feel the wind as Damon vampire sped with her in his arms. She could slightly hear him talking to her and telling her that he was going to get her help and to hold on.

"She's waking up, ah, there's our girl." Maddie could hear her dad talking. She wanted to open her eyes but they felt so ... heavy.

"Come on baby girl, open those beautiful eyes for us." It washer mom. Her eyes were really heavy so she moved her hand first.

"Meds are strong." She heard her dad murmur. "Well, at least we know she can hear us."

Slowly Maddie was able to raise her eyelids, however because of the bright light she closed them again. She felt herself turn her head before she tried to open her eyes again. They got halfway open before she closed them again, only to keep them open the third time.

"Hi honey," it was obvious her mom had been crying.

"Mom." Her voice croaked.

"I'm here baby, we are both here."

"What happened?" She could remember everything, being shot, Damon helping her out but she wasn't sure what her parents knew since she had passed out.

"You were shot," the venom in her mom's voice was obvious. "But Damon saved you and brought you to us."

"Dad?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I still play Lacrosse?"

He chuckled. "That's what she worries about," he said to himself. "Yeah, you can still play. Damon gave you some of his, ugh, blood. I got the bullets out and then he, did his thing. You are just going to have to to take it easy." She could tell her dad was uncomfortable with the whole talk of her having Damon's blood in her system.

She looked around and saw that she was home. "Where's Damon?"

"He left."

"Oh."

"He said he is coming back tomorrow to check on you though."

"I have practice tomorrow afternoon."

"You will not be going!" Her mom said fiercely. "You and I will be staying home so I can keep you in my sight."

She frowned but said nothing. Her body was just now really waking up, she felt a slight pain in her side and in her ankle, but it wasn't too bad.

"I doubt she's going to let you out of her sight for awhile, just go with it." Christian whispered to his daughter when Janette went to go get her some water. "You alright?"

Maddie nodded. "Yeah, fine. I just wanna talk to Damon."

"Tomorrow." He sighed. "After you Skype with Cordelia."

"You told her?!"

"Of course, you know how she and your mom are." He tried to joke but Maddie was only irritated. She was glad for their concern, and she didn't mean to sound ungrateful but now she had to not only deal with her mom but her sister. While her father was worried she knew he wouldn't hover too much.

She nodded, sitting up. Christian helped her and she sighed sitting back. Her mom returned with a water bottle that moment. "Drink up honey."

She drank a little less than half before she set the bottle down next to her. She wasn't exactly sure what to say.

"You must be tired," Janette said.

"Just a little."

"Alright, let's give her some space. She's awake and breathing, that's all that matters." He practically had to drag Janette out of the room. Maddie couldn't help smile at her parents though. She laid in bed and sighed. Looking around she spotted her cell phone on her in table. She reached for it, but it was far. She was prepared to get out of bed until her phone was being handed to her.

"Don't stretch too much."

She smiled, taking her phone and looking up, "Thanks." Elijah smiled back at her. "You must like sneaking through my window."

He sat down in the chair that was by her bed. "It's not bad." They stared into one anothers eyes. "How are you?"

"As good as I can be, I guess. How did you find out?"

"Jonas."

"Right, the witch."

"I think he would prefer the term warlock."

"Whatever," she muttered. "Did he run back and tell you everything?"

"No actually, or I would have been here when you woke up."

"Guess that's a good thing. You might have run into Damon."

"Damon be damned." She was a little surprised but smiled nonetheless. "I can assure you the parties responsible for this will pay."

"I'm fine."

"You were attacked!" Elijah growled.

"But I'm fine," she touched his face with her hand. "Now let's not growl since my parents are home. Wouldn't want them to run up here and then beat you with a baseball bat, or in this families case a lacrosse stick." She could still her trying to ease the mood was not working. "You still aren't happy."

"No, I am not!" He snapped.

It was silent for awhile. "Well that's nice," she finally said.

"What is?" He wondered.

"You being concerned for little 'ole me. It's nice."

"Maddie," he moved his face closer to hers. "I will always be concerned for you. I care about you."

She said nothing. Only smiled and moved closer to him. "I care about you too." She made a move and pressed her lips to his.

She knew that it wasn't over, but she was glad to be ending such a shitty day with a kiss from Elijah.

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In this chapter: Elijah and Maddie finally get there kiss. Tyler shows up at the Bennett house before Maddie goes to school and wants to know if she knew Mason was dead the whole time. Jules ends up kidnapping Maddie in case Caroline isn't enough. Brady shoots Maddie ... twice. Jonas rescues Caroline, Maddie, Damon and Stefan from werewolves. Elijah tells Maddie he will have vengeance on Brady for shooting her.

In the next chapter ... Damon, Elijah and Maddie ... all in the same room! :)