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~Eight and a half years later
"Okay, clearly we've learned never to let Matt try to direct us back home, when he's simply going from memory." A girl with long,blonde hair, lovely brown eyes, pale skin tone, and around five foot six says, an annoyed expression on her face, kicking a stone out of her path in anger.
"Excuse me? Um...Caroline, you were the one driving and taking wild guesses as on where to go." A tall man, six foot two, sandy blonde hair, and bright blue eyes replies with an exasperated sigh.
"You were the one who told me to drive down this creepy road! If it wasn't for you we would not have gotten a flat tire and we would not have to walk around the woods aimlessly for three hours!" Caroline hotly replies.
"Guys, can we please just not fight? We just need to keep walking and I'm sure eventually we'll find some help." A girl around five foot six, long dark brown hair,caramel colored skin, and dazzling dark brown eyes says optimistically.
"Yeah...Elena is right. I'm sure if we just keep on hiking we'll find..." Caroline stopped speaking abruptly. A dark,colossal mansion suddenly came up into their view,looming behind a great stone wall,with dozens and dozens of snow white roses.
"Well then..." Caroline says as she takes in the breathtaking leaning forward to inhale the roses, and their sweet intoxicating smell,could only look in , who sensed something not right with the place but seeing no other choice,began to climb the wall.
"Guys,I'm going to climb over the wall and knock on the door to ask for help. Don't go anywhere,it's not safe." Matt warned them before he jumped over wall onto the other side,not quite so gracefully,he fell. As he got back up,he noticed the mansion had an intricate and gothic look to it. Although rough around the edges,it was indeed beautiful. Pulling himself up from the ground, Matt walks up to the front door and knocks on the mansion,knocking for a few minutes and receiving no reply, Matt began to slowly open the door...
"Come on Elena...Matt has been in there forever!" Caroline grumbles as she plops down on a rock, a pout on her lips.
Elena rolls her eyes none too discreetly, Caroline could seriously be so dramatic sometimes. "Care,he's been gone for about..." Elena glances at her phone."A total of five minutes."
"So? What if something happened to him? You know,something awful could have happened in five minutes." Caroline mutters.
"Matt if a big,tough and strong guy, he can handle himself." Elena replies,as she rests her hand on Caroline's shoulder,trying to comfort her.
"Subconsciously,I understand that...but after what happened to Alaric,you know I worry. Besides,this place just generally makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.I feel almost as if there is something mystical about this place." Caroline says softly, a worried expression appearing on her face.
"Hey,Matt would be upset that you have so little faith in him." Elena jokes. "I'm sure he'll be fine. While we are waiting do you want to help pick just a couple of roses? They are just so alluring and beautiful I've felt the need to pick at least just one."
"Sure." Caroline says,her bubbly personality shining through as they both make their way over to the great,massive stone wall.
"Who do you think lives in that house?" Elena wonders as she tries to get a grip on the wall,while tilting her head to the side to get a better look at the house.
"With our luck,probably a couple of crazy,masochistic people." Caroline replies as she makes her way up the wall.
Climbing the wall,Elena tries to pluck the rose closest in reach when she suddenly felt a pull on the back back of her shirt. With a small cry,Elena falls from the wall and lands on the ground with dull thud. As she hit the ground her head hits a sharp rock and she falls unconscious,blood seeping from her head from the wound.
"Elena!" Caroline cries as she makes her way down the wall,stumbling as she tries to hurry and make her way to her hurt friend. Cradling her friends,she tried to assess the whether the wound was serious. She did not notice the pair of eyes staring at her until she looked and noticed a man front of man in front of her looked to be around her age,short blonde hair, and he looked to be around six feet tall. He had absolutely the bluest eyes she had ever seen,which were gazing at her with a look of anger.
"What are you doing here?!" the man roars as he walks closer to her,invading her space, giving her hardly any room to breathe.
Too shocked to respond,Caroline just stood there with a look of shock and fright on her face. The man,annoyed with her lack of response, glared at her as he he grabbed her wrist and roughly pulled her to him.
"When I ask you a question,I demand an answer." he then glares at her;waiting for a response impatiently.
"I..I..." Caroline stutters,practically shaking all over in Caroline could answer him though, Caroline noticed a dark blur out of the corner of her lets out a gasp as she turns her head and sees a dark haired,mysterious man,gripping a frightened Matt's Matt's name,Caroline struggles against the stranger to reach her friend.
The stranger had other ideas though and kept her roughly pinned to him,ignoring her pleas for him to put her ,still lying on the ground,slowly came her senses and looked at the scene in front of her in fright.
"Elijah,throw our visitor into the "guest" suite." the stranger holding Caroline said to the dark haired man,with cruel glint in his eyes.
"No! He can't stay here! Can't you see he's hurt?" Caroline cries,finally breaking out of the stranger's hold and rushed to Matt's cuts abd the bruises on Matt's face were noticeable all throughout his body."He needs to see a doctor!"
The man called Elijah suddenly spoke up,"That's too bad sweetheart this is what he gets for trespassing,now leave before you both suffer the same fate!"
"But he could die! Please,we'll do anything!" Elena cries,as she clings to Matt desperately.
"There's nothing either of you can do. Now leave before you both suffer the same fate!" Elijah says in a hard voice.
Both the stranger and Elijah turned away from the girls,dragging Matt with them as they began to leave.
Suddenly,both Elena and Caroline,who had been discussing a plan with each other cried out,"Wait! Take both of us instead."
"Both of you?" the blonde haired man said in a mocking voice,he then softly said,"You would both give up your lives and your freedom just for this man?"
"We will,if you agree to let him go," Caroline says tearfully.
The men looked at each other to discern what the other wanted to do about the situation.
"Done." Elijah answers them before swiftly going over to Matt and began dragging him away.
"Wait!" Elena and Caroline both cry out. "We'll never get to see him again,the least you have done was let us say goodbye! You are a horrible man,I hate you! Caroline sputters,glaring at the blonde man before her.
Choosing to ignore what Caroline just said,the blonde man says,"Get up,and let me show you both to your rooms."
Elena and Caroline,too tired to fight him,just silently got up and began to follow though they were basically prisoners,both Caroline and Elena had to admit the mansion was quite as beautiful and intricate on the inside as it was on the outside.
The blonde stranger showed them to a guest bedroom that held:two beds,a mirror,dresser,closet, and a private room had a look of elegance in it,the walls a creme color,the furniture a dark cherry wood,and the bathroom all marble.
"This is your room,you are both free to wander to any part of the house,except for the third floor." the stranger says,making his way to the door.
"What's in the third floor?" Caroline wondered,as she made her way over to one of the beds and sat down.
"Nothing of importance to you,just stay away from is at seven and I expect both of you to be there." the man said before leaving the room and slamming the door on his way out.
"How could this happen?" Elena softly says,as she slowly sat down on the bed,her eyes filled with unshed tears. "What if we never see our family or friends again? What if we are here forever?
"Don't worry,we'll find a way to leave this place. We just need to have faith that Matt will come back and save he doesn't,I'm sure we can find a way to escape." Caroline says,hugging Elena and trying to console her.
"How can you be so sure?" Elena says,wiping the tears from her eyes.
"I'm not really sure of anything,but I do have faith that Matt loves us and that he will do anything and everything in his power to save return we will do all that we can in order to escape this place." Caroline replies,determination in her voice.
On the other side of the house,Elijah and Klaus were having a discussion on what to do about their situation.
"What if they are the girls that will break cure?" Elijah says to his brother.
"Of course,I've thought about that. But after what we just did do you really think they would let us court them now? There is a zero percent chance they would ever fall in love with us now." Klaus bitterly replies,staring into his drink with a hard gaze on his face.
"We must not give up now, is always a chance brother,something may change in their aspects of us. We just need to try to win over their affections instead of acting like their captors." Elijah responds,as he looks out the window with a pondering look upon his face.
"That's easier said than done,brother. They hate us now,and their is only two years left before all of the white roses on the stone wall wither,and then we both shall die." Klaus says despairingly,a look of hopelessness in his icy blue eyes.
Elena and Caroline,both having been exhausted with the events and after tending to Elena's wound,had fallen asleep on their own respectable beds,when a loud thundering came from the outside the they heard someone pounding on their door and the sound of voices shouting.
"I thought I told both of you to come down to dinner!" they heard a male voice angrily say.
Caroline was utterly fed up with the events going on(and the drastic changes in her life) shouted," We're not hungry and we don't want to see either of you!"
"Open this door now or you will suffer the consequences!" the voice shouted back,anger and hate steeling his tone.
Before Caroline could reply,the noises outside the door stopped. Elena,leaning against the door,tried to hear if anything was outside the door,shook her head head to say there was no one there.
Who does he think he is? Caroline thought to herself. There's no way I want to be within two feet of him after what he has done.
Caroline and I will never want to be with or see either of them,after what they have done to Matt and to us. Elena thought to herself,as she sunk onto her bed and started to sob quietly.