A.N: OK, so I know that I haven't updated in a few months but I've had so much crap to deal with at work as of late. And I've been partying with my friends and getting out with my friends more. Oh! And I got a boyfriend! I'm all happy and crap so I've gotten back to my writing. So, without further ado, here is the next chapter of Return. Enjoy! :)

"Damon, would you just stop pacing for a minute and help us?" hollered Stefan from inside the study.

"Sonya isn't answering her phone at all. Would you rather me put in my two-cents and be a complete ass or would you rather me try and find out whats happened to her?" asked Damon sounding frustrated.

"Fine Damon, just go find her instead of pace around." said Elena tiredly.

"Hey Damon can you - " began Stefan but Damon was already gone. "Or not."

Sonya couldn't move or talk, all she could do was lay there and feel cold and alone.

C'mon Sonya! You can get out of this! You're strong. C'mon just move, just a little bit, that's all you need is just a little movement. She thought to herself, more like yelled at herself. She knew that she could move if she just tried hard enough, she just needed to concentrate!

Alaric hopped out of his car and was heading toward the Grill when he saw something shine out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but check it out.

When he walked into the dark alley he couldn't believe the scene in front of him; Sonya with her skin all grey and ashy and lifeless, a silver dagger buried deep into her chest.

Alaric! Ric! Help, get this damned thing out of me, please! She yelled at the top of her lungs but he couldn't seem to hear her. Oh for the love of all that is dead! Pull it out!

Ric ran his hand over his face solemnly; "Jesus Sonya, what did you get yourself into?"

He was about to pick up Sonya and take her to Salvatore Manor when an odd idea came into his head.

"Hope this works..." said Ric taking a deep breath before placing his hands around the dagger and pulled.

'Atta boy Ric! Whooped Sonya happily.

Once he got the dagger out of her he let it drop onto the pavement beside him and sat down cross-legged beside Sonya, waiting to see if it would do anything or not.

After what seemed like forever Sonya quickly jolted up into a sitting position and took a deep, gasping breath of air like she had held her breath for too long. She clutched at Alaric's arm as her skin began to go back to it's creamy pale complexion, which suited so much better than the concrete color she had been moments before.

"Oh my God! Ric, oh my God, thank you so much," said Sonya hugging him tight, "It felt so... it was so horrible Ric, I couldn't... Oh God it hurt so much, I've never felt that before."

"Shh. It's okay Sonya, it's okay, you're fine now." said Alaric running one hand through her hair while the other rubbed circles on her back.

Sonya continued to cry and shake in his arms, she was crying hysterically in front of a complete stranger but she didn't care, she needed to get it all out. Everything that she had been feeling in the last weeks just began to flood her at this point and she couldn't stop crying or shaking, she just had to let it all out.

After a few minutes Alaric pulled away from her slightly and looked her up and down, his eyes finally landing on the hole in her shirt where the dagger had been to see a small mark still there.

"Let's get you out of here and in a new shirt, that ones completely ruined." said Alaric with a small smile, trying to lighten the mood slightly.

Sonya couldn't help but smirk and let out a little giggle as he helped her stand, stopping only to pick the dagger up from the ground beside them and putting it in his back pants pocket.

"I still cannot believe that he killed me. He freaking killed me Ric, it's only fair that I repay him somehow." said Sonya her arm around his middle while his was around her neck.

"I'm going to take a wild guess and say that he would be Elijah-" he paused to see her nodding her head yes. "Well we have a dagger too, remember, and some white oak tree ash. You can repay him and stab him just like he did to you."

"No!" said Sonya a little too harsh than she meant to. "I mean.. If a vampire stabs him with that dagger then that vampire dies as well."

"What? Are you sure?"

"Very sure. He told me himself."

"What else did he tell you?" asked Alaric helping her slowly walk up the steps.

"That's all he told me other than saying that he was sorry but he had to kill me so I wouldn't spill to you and the others about that interesting little tidbit. And he asked me to forgive him... if I were to ever live again." replied Sonya letting a growl resonate through her body.

"Uh, hey Sonya, mind releasing the grip on my ribs a little?" asked Alaric, his breath slightly hitching.

"Oh! Shoot, sorry Ric." said Sonya instantly letting her grip falter as she leaned up and kissed him on the cheek.

"What was that for?"

"For saving me, I really appreciate it."

"Any time Son, any time." replied Alaric opening the passenger door for her.

Damon returned to the Manor after searching for traces of Sonya for over an hour and plopped down in one of the armchairs, a glass of bourbon in his hand.

"Any lucky?" asked Stefan walking into the study.

"Zip. Zilch. None." he replied, taking a big drink from his glass.

As Stefan was about to say something the front door opened and in walked Alaric with Sonya attached to his side, still weak from the sticking she had gotten hours earlier. Damon was at her side in an instant.

"Where the hell have you been?" he asked angrily.

"Stuff it Damon, dear. I've been killed okay." she said waving him off while Alaric sat down with her on the couch. "Luckily for me, Rickey here found me and pulled the bitch out."

"Hold up, you just said you got killed? What do you mean you've been killed?" asked Stefan, his face and eyes full of worry.

He and Damon both sat down in the chairs opposite Alaric and Sonya.

"I mean that I was literally killed. Dagger and white oak ash and all." replied Sonya with an unamused laugh.

"Stefan can you go get her a few blood bags, she really could use it right now. Trust me." said Ric.

Stefan nodded once before standing up and blurring out of the room, coming back moments later with seven bags of blood in his arms.

"Whoa there buddy, don't bring any of that human juice near me. I'm off it, remember." said Sonya holding her hands up in front of her and scrunching her nose.

"But you just had some ear-" stopped Stefan when she gave him a death glare that would have surely killed him if he weren't already dead.

"You don't drink human blood?" asked Ric when Damon said "You had some earlier?"

"Oh c'mon! It was just a little bit Damon! Not like a drained a bitch, unlike some people." she said indicating him in the some.

"Good point."

"Isn't it though."

"Son, you need to drink something stronger than animal blood. Just drink the damned blood and stop being so melodramatic." said Stefan thrusting a bag into her open hand.

Sonya, Damon and Ric all looked at Stefan as he said this, he didn't usually talk to someone like that, least of all Sonya.

"Wow Stef, Damon sure has crawled up you're ass and made you like him." said Sonya, her voice slick with venom.

Now all eyes were on her and all she could do was look between them with a shocked look on her face.

"Bites back doesn't she." said Ric, a small smile playing on his lips which Sonya returned.

Damon and Stefan looked between her and Ric for a few moments, assessing what was going down in front of them. It seemed to them like Sonya and Alaric were kind of... flirting!

Feeling eyes on them the once again turned to Stefan and Damon, confused looks on their faces matching the brothers'.

"What?" snapped Sonya, growing more and more tired by the minute which pressed on her happy buttons. "Sorry... I can't help it, I'm so tired it's annoying."

"It's fine Son, you just had a big sharp and pointy rammed through you're heart. And compliments of Elijah to top it all off." said Ric pulling the dagger out of his back pocket.

"Wait, wait. Elijah did this to you?" said Damon seething.

"Oh yeah, well, no. Apparently if another vampire were to stab one of their own with this and our lovely little dagger dipped ever so nicely in ash and that vampire goes bye-bye." replied Sonya ripping into the blood bag and guzzling it down faster than you can say heebie-jeebies.

"Shit." said Damon and Stefan in unicision.

"I know, it's a kicker ain't it." she said ripping into yet another bag and guzzling it down just as fast as the other.

"So wait... If another vampire tries to kill him then that vampire dies as well?" said Caroline attempting to get the thought through her head.

"Straight from the snakes mouth." muttered Sonya as she threw her sixth bag of blood on the table next to her and ripped into her seventh.

"Geeze, thirsty much?" said Damon giving Sonya a weird look.

"Bite me." snapped Sonya glaring at Damon.

When she turned her attention to Stefan her features became soft once again, "Hey Stef do you have any vervain?"

"What?" asked everyone in the room looking at her like she was crazy.

Sonya looked at all of them, her face completely innocent making her look like a child rather than a grown vampire. Stefan was the one who recovered first.

"Why do you want vervain?" asked Stefan calmly.

"I need to boast up my immunity to it, plus it means more blood. And I don't know why but I'm super hungry... Maybe the vervain will help me to stop being quite so hungry." replied Sonya with a shrug.

"I think she has a point, it could help her stop from gulping down all of our stash." said Damon with a smirk at his attempt at a joke.

Sonya threw the empty blood bag in her hand at Damon with enough force to push him back a step.

"Nice throw." said Caroline with a smile in her direction which Sonya returned.

"Why thank you Ms. Forbes." said Sonya still smiling.

Stefan couldn't help but laugh as he left the study.

"I think I liked it better when you didn't like her." said Damon with a scowl.

"I think I liked it better when you weren't talking quite so much," said Sonya with a slight giggle before attempting to stand up, but failed and fell back on the couch. "Damn it!"

I know it's not much but it's better than absolutely nothing which I so rudely have been giving you for nearly four months but hey, at least I'm giving you guys something now. Anyways, there's chapter 10 for you. I'll have the next chapter up as soon as I can.