Chapter 23
I look at the sleepy Elena was I watched the SUV stop and I tried to prepare my attack plan. Who was I joking the way my arm looked I didn't stand a chance against the vampire and nothing guaranteed me there weren't more wherever we were. I touched my sister arm confirming the knife was still there hidden as I saw the doors opening.
"Out." He tells me as I jump of the car and he was about to wake her up.
"Can you at least carry her? She's sleeping. I am sure she not much weight for you."
"If this is some plan to escape I hope you know I am not the only one vampire in here." He tells me treating as I just roll my eyes. Of course there were more. I needed to actually see how many more so I could make an escape plan. I saw him caring my sister as I looked off Damon's jacket as I analyze my arm seeing the wound opening again as I touched it noticing it was hotter it should and hurting too.
"So that what smell so good." The vampire says approaching me as I notice his face.
"Come close to my arm and you will be without one." I treat him as I see him just grinning at me as I put on the jacket. God could this get worst?
I walk into the abandoned house. Great there is no way they have a first aid kit in here. I am screwed with the arm like this, it I won't last in this place more than two days without having to cut it, how the hell will I get Elena out of her safe?
As we walked I saw Elena moving as she woke up and the vampire put her on the couch.
"What do you want?"
"Ssh"
"Please, I'm hurt." She says as I walk to her removing the ropes.
"I know. Just a taste." He says turning into his vampire face as I start to cough at him and ready to attack him when someone stopped him
"Trevor! Control yourself." The woman says as the vampire looked at her not pleased.
"Buzz kill."
"What do you want with me?" my sister asked her scared.
"Oh my god, you look just like her." great of course Katherine had to be involved.
"But I'm not. Please, whatever you"
"Be quiet!" she says as I look at Elena nodding for her to follow the vampire rules. We weren't in a situation of barging at list not until I did something about my arm.
"But I'm not Katherine. My name is Elena Gilbert; you don't have to do this."
"I know who you are, I said be quiet."
"What do you want?" She says and before I could do something she slapped Elena making me get to my sister to cheek if she was hurt, but gladly she was not.
"I want you to be quiet."
"You're ok Elena, don't worry." I ask her knelling in front of her once the woman leaves. Of course she is not, your sister as no experience with kidnapping.
"Why are they doing this?" She asks scared as I look at her with pity, poor girl, she doesn't deserve this.
"I don't know Elena, I don't know." I tell her as I make her a sign to me quite as I push her sleeve up showing her a knife as she looked surprised and I point to the knife and to me showing her that is was mine. "You're still hurt?"
"No I'm much better than you." She says touching my arm as I try to not flick at the pain it was costing me that gesture that for her meant nothing more than comfort.
"Why don't you sleep for a while?"
"I don't think I can. I have too many thoughts in my head."
"Why don't you lay and I will see what I can do." I tell her helping her laying on the couch as I put my head in her forehead trying to make all the thoughts go any and just maintain some serenity in her and some sleep too.
"It's working. How?" she asks tired as I gave her a little smile.
"We will talk after you relax, ok, just relax." I tell her as she closed her eyes and I turn a bit sitting on the floor with my back against the couch as I took off the jacket again and looked at the wound that was larger and much worst.
"That looks bad."
"Thanks." I tell the vampire sarcastically as I destroyed part of my dress on waits and used it to wrap around the wound to maintain pressure and maybe just buy me more time before the fever starts and the circulation knowing that it would make me I stand to be dizzy and eventually pass out and that the last things Elena and I need right now. I look at the vampire who is still looking at me with intense eyes. "What you can't take a little wound?" I tell him as he raises his eyebrows but leaves.
"How's the girl?" I heard the voices as I approach them without making any noise to they couldn't detect me.
"Still passed out."
"And the other?"
"Her arm looks pretty bad." He says as I roll my eyes. That it's all he had to say.
"You didn't touch them, did you?"
"Give me some credit. So, you called him?"
"No, I called one of his contacts. You know how this works."
"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?"
"They say he got it." who got it? I wonder walking in the sound direction as I walk the stairs silently
"Wonderful and what?""
"So that's it Trevor. He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait."
"Look, it's not too late. We can leave it here. We don't have to go through with this."
"I'm sick of running!" Finally something I can use. See who need to read mines when you can sneak up on vampires.
"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying."
"Elijah's old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free." She says and then turns to me. Probably got the smell of blood from my arm.
"You! There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're tragically wrong. Understand?" she says as I roll my eyes at her. Like I didn't knew that already.
"Who's Elijah?"
"He's your worst nightmare." Of course he is.
"So, do you have water or something to stop a bleeding?" I ask her as she looks at me perplexed.
"Trevor, go see if the other girl is awake." She tells him as I see him leaving.
"So you're in change. That must be cool. Wanna tell me how you do it?" I ask her as I sat in a table knowing I shouldn't stay up much time.
"So you're the famous Erynys."
"Seriously what is with you older vampires and knowing who I am?"
"I observed Elena for some time, I had to make a little digging on her friends and family too. Have to say, you weren't what I expected."
"Sorry, my arm it's kind of screwed but I promise to put a fight the next time."
"It's not that. The first time I head of you I thought you were older."
"What can I say people tent confused me with a friend of mine."
"Mystique."
"Ok, now I am interested, how do you know so much?"
"There are a lot of rumors about you kind. Especially around vampires."
"She is going to love knowing she is famous." I say as I see the woman giving me two wet towers.
"I don't want you bleeding all over the house." She simple says noticing my surprised face.
"Why am I here?"
"You keep asking me these questions like I'm gonna answer them." she tells Elena as we both walk in her direction.
"Why won't you?"
"That's another one." Then the vampire turned to look at me with a boring expression, what did she expected my sister would be interrogation her like Raven and I?
"You got me, okay? It's not like I can go anywhere. The least you can do is tell me what you want with me."
"I personally want nothing; I'm just a delivery service."
"Delivery to who?"
"Elijah, Lena." I tell my sister as I sit on the couch.
"Two points for your sister for eavesdropper."
"Who is he? Is he a vampire?"
"He's one of the vampires, the originals." I knew the name was familiar. Of course my father used to tell me stories about the originals vampire when I was younger. Wait, what do they want with Elena?
"What do you mean the originals?"
"Again with the questions. Haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you your vampire history?"
"So you know Stefan and Damon?" Of course she knows Elena, everyone does research before kidnapping someone, at least I do. Maybe this was Karma. No they want Elena not me so it doesn't count as Karma, does it?
"I know of them. A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones. I'm more of a sucker for the bad boys though but I digress."
"How I understand you." I tell Rose, if she knew about Mystique and me of course she knew about Magneto, and everyone who knew the brotherhood, knew we are (better were) the highest rakings that makes rumors.
"Who are the originals?" Elena asks as I try not to roll my eyes that was not the question needed to be asked.
"What did they do to you?" I ask her as she gets my attention. "Or better yet, what did you do to them?"
"Four more points. Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tired, we want it over. We're using your sister to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess.
"But why me?"
"Because you're a Petrova Doppelganger, right, that what this all about?" I ask the vampire who nods.
"You're the key to breaking the curse."
"The curse? The sun and the moon curse?"
"Oh, you do know your history." She says to Elena ironically but I don't see my sister caught that.
"What do you mean she's the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse." I ask her trying to stay focus on the main propose. Gain time, because I couldn't get us out so I needed to trust that Damon and Stefan would find us, preferably before I bleed to death or with a high fever.
"No, the moonstone is what binds the curse. The sacrifice is what breaks it."
"The sacrifice?" I ask her not liking that word for a bit.
"The blood of the doppelganger. You're the doppelganger which means, in order to break the curse you're the one who has to die."
WHAT?
"Tell me more."
"Captivity has made her pushy, eh? What do you want to know doppelicious?" He says as I roll my eyes felling his arm around my neck. "Don't worry gorgelicious I still find you hotter." He tells me as I use my good arm to switch his as he let's go using his vampire strength and speed. "Feisty, I like it."
"Who were you running from?" I ask him giving him an innocent but sexy look.
"The originals."
"Yeah, she said that. What does that mean?" I ask repeating the same I did before. Human, mutants or vampire, man are always the same.
"The first family, the old world. Rose and I pissed them off."
"Mm-mm." Rose says and I try not to smirk at this. She was so in charge.
"Correction, I pissed them off, Rose had my back and for over half a millennium, they wanted us dead."
"What did you do?"
"He made the same mistake countless others did: he trusted Katerina Petrova."
"Katherine." Elena says looking between the three of us confused.
"The one and only, the first Petrova Doppelganger."
"I helped her escape her fate and now I've, sorry, we've been marked ever since."
"Which is why we're not gonna make the same mistake again." Rose says with her eyes fixed on mines. She knew very well I was the risk not Elena.
Once we were left alone Elena show me the papers Bonnie send her as I nod. I know they would find us. Now I just need to buy more time.
"You're ok?" My sister asks me as I look at her confused. I hope I wasn't showing anything. I never took off the jacket in front of Elena and I used the towers to hold the blood as much as I could.
"Yes why?"
"You look pail but you're hot, like fever hot." She says touching my forehead as I pull apart.
"I'm fine Lena."
"He's here! This was a mistake." Trevor says coming in the room scared. Damn it. I look over at Elena and then at her arm as she nods understanding that I was referring to the knife. Elena with a knife and me with a purple arm against an original and two other vampires. We were screwed.
"No, I told you I would get us out of this. You have to trust me."
"No! He wants me dead, Rose!"
"He wants her more."
"I can't do this. You give her to him, he'll have mercy on you but I need to get out of here."
"Hey! What are we?"
"We're family, forever." He tells her and I now I was sure I was pail. Family. Damn it. Don't show compassion, don't do it, Sofia.
"You're scared." Elena tells them as I give her a pointless look.
"Stay here with her and don't make a sound."
Elena and I waited until I heard steps coming and I saw Rose walking with a man. Damn it, why couldn't he be a 50 plus years old man, he had to be a young good-looking one. I saw the surprised in his face when he ran to Elena and I was about to interview when I felt Trevor holding my arm, the one hurt, as I try to not scream in pain as he did it.
"Human. It's impossible. Hello there." He says now looking at me.
"This is her sister. She was with the doppelganger." Rose tells him as he walks in my direction and I show him a blank expression. Showing you were scared it didn't help. I need to teach Elena that someday.
"Sofia." I introduce myself still with a blank expression, this guy was different than Trevor he would fall for the sexy or seductive look. "Now isn't there any change we can talk about this curse nonsense?" I tell him knowing I needed to buy time for Damon and Stefan.
"She's very feisty." Trevor says as I gave him a dirty look.
"She's bleeding." He says not taking his eyes from me as he tries to take off my jacket but it try to stop him. "No. no." He whispers at me as he takes off my jacket and I hear Elena gasps behind me. Damn it, worst day possible.
"Sofia. How?" She says and I heard the shock and I look over at my arm where the second towel I was using to make pressure on the wound as completely red and the arm was in a deep purple and swallow. "You must be in so much pain."
"Elena, it's look worst then what truly is."I tell her and I could almost imagine the three vampires waiting to roll their eyes as I felt Elijah's hands on my forehead. I knew I had high fever don't need to make it more obvious.
"Actually if your sister arm stays like this she probably was to cut it by tomorrow." Elijah says with a neutral voice still looking at my face.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Elena asked as I try not to lose my patient. Come on you need to buy time may as well used the stupid arm for that.
"Beautiful necklace." Elijah tells me taking it away as he looked at me in his eyes. "Why don't you answer to your sister?" He asks and I knew he was compelling me. I knew if it was working I would had to tell Elena I was in deep pain since yesterday but I realized it wasn't working.
"Sofia, how did this happen?" She asked as I looked at all of them and turned to Elena.
"Ran into some complication last night." I told her as the surprised in the vampires' eyes was noticed, at least by me, they knew very well that the wound had more than one day.
"We have a long journey head of us. We should be going." He says putting Damon jacket back on me.
"Please, don't let him take us." Elena begs Rose but I knew there was no way so by best change was that Damon and Stefan were closed.
"One last piece of business and we're done." Elijah says to Trevor.
"I've waited so long for this day, Elijah. I'm truly, very sorry."
"Oh no, your apologies not necessary."
"Yes, yes it is. You trusted me with Katerina and I failed you."
"Oh yes, you are the guilty one and Rose aided you because she was loyal to you and that now I honor. Where was your loyalty?"
"I beg your forgiveness."
"So granted." He says but then smacks Trevor's head killing him as I looked at him shocked. Ok I didn't stand a change.
"You…!" Rose says as I noticed her broken expression.
"Don't, Rose, now that you are free."
"Come." He says to both of us.
"No, what about the moonstone?"
"What do you know about the moonstone?" ok good one Elena, buy us time.
"I know that you need it and I know where it is."
"Yes?"
"I can help you get it."
"Tell me where it is."
"It doesn't work that way." Elena powerful vampire in front of you who can compel you, it doesn't work like that.
"Are you negotiating with me?"
"It's the first I've heard of it." Rose speaks as I gave her a sad smile as I saw Trevor's body.
"What is this vervain doing around your neck?" he says taking off her necklace. See Elena what did I told you?
"Tell me where the moonstone is."
"In the tomb, underneath the church ruins."
"What is it doing there?"
"It's with Katherine." I tell him as he looks at me.
"Interesting." He says and at that moment I head a glass breaking and I tried to hide my happiness. Finally.
"What is that?" he asks rose who looks as confused as him.
"I don't know."
"Who else is in this house?"
"I don't know."
Suddenly Elijah catches my sister as Damon and Stefan run round the house in high speed and I feel Rose holding my arm as Elena is throwing at us and I take that opportunity to take the knife from her sleeve without being noticed.
"Up here." I hear Stefan as Elijah used his high speed to get there but at the same moment I head Damon speak 'down here' distracting Elijah as I believe Stefan sends a shake to the oldest hand and Rose and I are taken at the same time Elena is and I noticed Damon holding Rose and covering her month as his other arm touch my waist gently.
"I repeat, you cannot beat me. So I want the girl, I'm gonna count to 3 or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?" I look over at Rose and she looks at me back so I look at Damon nodding showing him that he could trust her as he left.
"I'll come with you, just please don't my friends, they just wanted to help me out."
"What game are you playing with me?" He says as Damon leaves giving me a stake and I see my sister throw the vervain bomb in his face burning his sink but soon he was healed and walking to my sister as Stefan appears and shot him with the compressed air weapon but it wasn't making much more so he throws himself at Stefan and I walk closely as Elijah gets up after they fall from the stairs so I take that moment to send him the stake missing his heart as I felt on the ground in pain because of my arm and I felt an arm around me and saw Rose looking at me with comprehension but I nod for her to run even if I had the impression it wouldn't be the last time I would see her as I felt on my knees in pain but still seeing Elijah death and Stefan hugging Elena.
"Sofia." I heard Elena scream as in that same seconds I saw Damon at my side but my vision was failing.
"No, don't you dare to close your eyes." Damon words are the last thing I heard before everything went dark.