Elena wakes up in an old, large, abandoned looking house. She tries to sit up but her muscles ache all over.
Where the hell am I?
She's sure she can hear talking, but her head hurts so it's hard to tell.
Elena groans in pain as she struggles to stand up, but she manages.
She leaves the room and goes down a hallway to a room with a table covered in books.
One book in particular catches her attention, a hard, brown leather book with the word 'Petrova' on the side.
Elena flips through the crusty pages. Clearly this book is very old and is also written in a forgein language. Eventually she finds a drawing.
A man with long-ish hair and a beard, next to a woman with her hair up who appears to be his wife.
Below the two is another person. A girl.
Oh my God, this is Katherine.
Elena realises then she shuts the book carefully so she doesn't damage it, then she hides it behind some boxes.
If that really is Katherine then that book should belong to her.
"What are you doing in here?" A British accent snaps behind her and Elena turns her head to look.
Standing there is a beautiful, but annoyed looking woman with short brown hair. She struts towards Elena and grabs her arm, forcing her out of the room. Elena tries to pull away but the woman doesn't even flinch.
"Who are you?" Elena cries.
"Who I am doesn't matter. Now stay here." The woman demands, throwing Elena into the couch she woke up on, then she leaves the room.
"I thought I told you to tie her up!" The same woman shouts to someone.
"I'll do it now." A male voice says and a few moments later he comes into the room with some thick rope.
"What do you want from me?" Elena asks as he ties her wrists and ankles tightly, then he looks up to face her.
"You really do look just like her." He mutters.
"You mean Katherine? I'm not Katherine, my name is Elena Gilbert." Elena panics.
"We know, we came for you." Says the woman coming through the doorway then she turns to the man.
"He will be here soon." She says and the man nods his head.
"Who? Who will be here?" Elena asks
"Your worst nightmare. Don't leave this room." The woman tries to compel Elena before leaving with the man and fear washes over Elena like a wave.
So they're vampires, or at least she is.
The two continue talking but their voices fade away.
This house must be huge.
Elena peers around the room for something to cut the rope, but there is nothing so she tries to wriggle out of it.
She tries with her hands first, then she can at least attempt to untie the rope around her ankles. All the windows are blocked so maybe they can't walk in the day, that gives Elena an advantage. If she can just escape the house before it gets dark.
After a long time of trying, Elena frees her hands, then she begins work on her feet, tugging at the rope. Her hands are red, burning, her skin is peeling, but she unties the knot and stands up, sneaking towards the door and peering around the corners to make sure nobody is there.
The only sound she can hear is the pounding of her heart and the occasional creak of the floorboards beneath her feet.
A loud creak echoes making Elena cringe, she stops for a few seconds then continues walking. It seems like nobody heard her. As she walks further down the hallway, she reaches a door and beyond it she can hear talking.
Something about a man named Elijah.
Is he the man they were talking about earlier?
Elena wonders and her stomach aches because of how anxious she is.
There are a flight of stairs that go down, but they look old and like they would make lots of noise. Although Elena is certain they won't kill her, she doesn't want to take the risk so she leans closer to the door to hear better, but instead she trips over a floorboard and slams into the door.
The door swings open and the woman is standing there.
"I thought I compelled you to stay in that room!" She says, pulling Elena up off the floor.
"I'm on vervain." Elena mumbles and the woman sighs, then drags her down the noisy staircase, through another hallway until they reach a door which leads to the basement.
"There is no way you can run from this!" Says the woman, practically throwing Elena down the stairs into the dark, cold room and she slams the door. Elena hears the lock click behind her.
The room is so dark, Elena can't see anything around her. She tries to stand up, but her ankle is slightly twisted, she breathes in sharply at the pain and she feels tears flooding her eyes.
Eventually she passes out.
-Many Hours Later-
Elena wakes up, still on the same cold, hard, concrete floor she was left on.
She hears no noise around her or outside the basement, the only company she has is a damp smell and probably a lot of spiders, but they are the least of her problems.
I have to find a way out, I'm sure Stefan and Damon are coming for me.
Elena hauls herself up onto her feet and holds her arms in front of her, waving them around so she doesn't bump into anything. She finds a string and pulls on it and a dim light flickers on. It's not much but at least she can see what's around her now. The place is full of old boxes and outdated, broken furniture.
Elena snaps the leg off of a chair ready to use as a weapon.
She limps towards the narrow staircase and climbs up it, then she starts banging on the door.
"Hello? Please let me out, I need water, I'm dehydrated!" Elena shouts. It's not a lie, she is really thirsty.
She tries banging again, even louder this time and she hears footsteps but before the door opens she tucks the homemade stake in the back of her jeans.
The door slowly opens and standing there is Stefan, he clamps his hand over Elena's mouth and picks her up.
"I'm getting you out of here." He whispers.
"Wait," Says Elena, remembering Katherine's book "I need to get something." Stefan hesitates but then he puts her down.
Elena starts walking up the stairs when she hears a loud crack behind her and turns to find Stefan on the floor with a broken neck and a man in a suit standing above him. Elena gasps and she runs up the stairs but another man that she doesn't recognise appears at the top and pushes her back down. Elena screams and lands at the smart man's feet.
She notices the woman from earlier standing at the top of the staircase, looking afraid, but then she disappears. Elena gasps as someone snaps the neck of the man that pushed Elena and he falls to the floor.
"Who is there?" The looking smart man calls and pulls Elena to her feet roughly.
"Up here." She hears Damon whisper and the man leaves her to make his way up the stairs.
"Whoever you are, if you think you can beat me, you can't." He says when Damon pops out and throws something at him. It explodes and he growls.
"Vervain." He spits but it didn't stop him, it just made him angrier. This catches Damon off gaurd and clearly he has no other tricks up his sleeve. He grabs Damon and punches his hand into his chest, when suddenly Katherine comes out, shoves a stake in his heart, then she kicks him down the stairs.
Elena stares as his skin turns grey and his veins become visible.
Elena runs up the stairs and throws her arms around Katherine.
"Thank you." She whispers and Katherine stands awkwardly with her arms at her side.
"It was no problem." She mumbles and Elena pulls away, with a huge smile across her face, then she rushes to Damon to make sure he's ok, then Stefan, who Katherine says will wake up soon.
"He's not dead, we have to go." Says Katherine "Get Stefan to the car."
"What do you mean he's not dead? You drove a stake through his heart." Damon hisses.
"I'll explain on the way, come on." Katherine says, picking up Stefan with one of his arms around her shoulder.
"Wait here!" Says Elena and she runs up the stairs, quickly retrieves the Petrova book, then she goes back down.
"What's that?" Asks Damon.
"Don't worry." Elena says and they all leave.
Sorry if the end of this seemed rush, but I need to go to sleep now. Please leave a review, it makes me more motivated to write if I know people are actually reading and enjoying it. Thanks :)