Hello dearest readers! How've you been? I know I said I'd update faster, but I was on holiday and I didn't have time to write another chapter…I'm terribly sorry! I hope you'll like this chapter because soon after this...te real drama will begin...

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Elena's POV:

I wasn't expecting to see Rebekah standing in front of me, with an expression that screamed danger. I wanted to slam the door in her pretty little blonde face, but I knew that would be to no avail. So I decided to actually ask her what she wants.

"Not so nice now are we? Well, Elena dear…you're coming with me…" Rebekah grabbed my arm, dragging me out of the house towards her car. Panic surged through my body as I looked around, trying to find a familiar face or something…anything that could help me escape. But I sighed in defeat, realizing that there was nothing I could do to escape her and, besides, it's not like she'd kill me; Klaus already warned her about hurting me.

"Where are you taking me?" I tried to sound strong and demand an answer, but she saw right through me, sensing just how nervous I was as she practically pushed me in her car, slamming the door behind me and speeding to the driver's side.

"Well if you need to know…I'm taking you to a place that I'm sure you'll love…" She smiled that smug, arrogant smile of hers that makes me want to slap it off her face. Rebekah drove us into the woods, going further than I'd been before and I started to get a bit scared by the mere thought of being alone with the bitch in the middle of the forest where no one could see or hear us.

The car stopped as we reached a clearing, but I couldn't see anything special about this particular part of the woods besides a few rocks and I was starting to get really nervous about the things that this evil blonde could do to me. She quickly got out of the car and I followed her outside, watching intently as she strode over to those rocks.

Before I had time to ask anything I saw her kick the ground hard enough that it collapsed in front of me. Curiously enough there seemed to be a system of tunnels hidden under the earth and Rebekah turned towards me, an evil glint in her eyes as she grabbed my arm and sped us inside of the tunnels.

"What are we doing here?" I gasped, jumping back from her grasp as I looked around, seeing massive stone walls that stretched around me, a couple of tunnels leading away from me in different directions.

"Well…not much…unless you try to run. In which case I get to kill you" Rebekah's grin made me cringe. But I understood what was this all about: I was leverage and they'd probably force Damon into doing something to stop Esther's plan. Damn it!

She disappeared from my sight, leaving me alone. I didn't know how much time did I have, but I didn't want to waste any of it so I pulled out my phone. No signal…Shit! Things turned from bad to worse in a matter of seconds when Rebekah came back, holding her phone as if to take a picture.

"Alright love, now look into the camera"

"What are you doing?"

"Shooting a picture to inspire your boyfriend." Her voice was full of venom and the look in her eyes made me cringe. What could Damon do to stop Esther?

"I guess you think I had this coming…after what I did to you…?" I take a deep breath not knowing how to get the information out of her.

"You know…I don't know what I want more. To find out we're saved or to find out that it's alright to kill you."

"This isn't my fault. I wanted to get rid of Klaus. At one point so did you… I didn't know your mom was planning on killing all of you" I tried to make a point and prove that there's nothing I could've done to prevent this because either I gave Esther my blood willingly or she'd have taken it forcefully.

"Do you think I want to spend what could be the last few hours of my life having idle chit chat with the girl who literally stabbed me in the back? Of course not! But for some reason everyone seems to want to bend over backwards to save your life which is incredibly annoying but makes you the perfect hostage!" Rebekah snapped at me, yelling in my face and the mad look she sported made shivers run down my spine.

"So why don't you sit down and shut up before I ruin everything by ripping your head off." Her menacing words had the desired effect on me and I backed away, almost tripping over a rock as I tried to get as far away from her as possible. I sat down slowly, watching her as I tried to keep my calm.

Damon's POV

I entered the Grill and immediately spotted Ric at the bar with his sexy psycho doctor and I decided to head over to them. I couldn't find Elena and I was hoping that Alaric knew something about her or at least that he had talked to her.

"Buddy! I thought I might find you here…" I smirked at the teacher and then turned to greet his companion…even though I couldn't actually say that I was pleased to see her.

"Are you on a date with miss psycho doctor over here?" I didn't give a damn about their date actually but I wanted to see Ric's reaction…I needed a distraction after all and they were the first people that crossed my path. Well…I pretty much wanted to get on their nerves a bit, but I had to keep in mind that there was a reason why I was here and that was to find Elena…

"Damon…we've been thinking about the attacks and we think that the killer is a vampire…" I heard Ric begin to argue with me, but he trailed off and I looked up at him to see what had caused him to shut up. His eyes were set on the entrance door and I looked that way, spotting two of my favorite Originals…Klaus and Kol entering the Grill.

"What are they doing here?" He asked instead and I turned to him, not knowing what the hell to make of this because by the looks of it, these two didn't know anything about Elena's whereabouts and I was kind of counting on one of them to have something to do with her apparent disappearance.

"I don't know…but I think we are about to find out." I whispered to Ric because I knew that they'd probably heard what we were talking about so…there was no sense in denying it. And I was totally right by the way…

"Oh come on now…let's not go blaming the new family in town just 'cause you lot got yourselves a killer at larch." Klaus approached us, as always intruding on the conversation as he and his little brother took a seat at the bar.

"Don't mind us, my brother and I are just here to let off some steam…" He added as he smiled and I smirked, noting that pretty-boy, Kol was looking at Ric's date a little too intently. I wondered what was the deal with that, but it was not that important so I studied them closely, trying to see if they gave away any info about Elena.

"Okay then…I hope you won't drink your way through the liquor supply of the Grill" Sarcasm was always one of my forte's and I had the pleasure of seeing Klaus' smile falter as Ric led Meredith towards a pool table, signaling for me to join them.

"Oh…why don't you join us, Damon? I'm sure that with your high alcohol tolerance we'll drink more than enough." Klaus seemed awfully unaware of his mother's plans so I was a bit hesitant as to accepting his offer, but I could really use a drink right now.

"I'm not one to refuse a drink…" I said, smiling at them smugly as the bartender filled 3 glasses of whisky. I can practically feel Alaric's eyes drilling holes into my skull, but he doesn't say anything and I can hear that he has sent a text. All I can do is hope that he told Blondie and Witchy and even Stefan to look for Elena.

In the meanwhile I drown my drink and tell the bartender to leave the bottle because we all know how hard it is for a vampire to get a buzz. Especially for an Original vampire and I thought I could at least find out where the other Originals are…and if they have Elena with them by any chance.

I didn't really get much time to even begin questioning the Originals when I saw Stefan enter the Grill, coming to the bar and discreetly motioning for me to follow him. As I was about to stand up I saw Blondie walking in and she scowled at me, but once again motioned for me to go towards Stefan. She appears to be the bait for Klaus and I got the signal…I'm going, I'm going…jeez!

"Well…thanks for the drink, Klaus…Kol…but I think I'll go back to my old drinking buddy, Ric!" I smiled sarcastically and stood up from the bar and before Klaus had time to argue, I walked towards the pool table. I could hear that Kol noticed Caroline and made a commentary about noticing her at the ball and I smirked as I heard Klaus' lovely response about tearing out his liver if he says another word about the "stunning" blonde…

I rolled my eyes at the Original's antiques, but as I looked at Stefan I could see that he had one too many frowning lines on his forehead, meaning that there was something bad going on and it was serious.

"What's wrong?" I keep my voice low so that the Originals from the bar wouldn't hear me but Stefan doesn't tell me a thing. Instead he hands me his shiny black I-phone and I immediately start reading the text that's on the screen.

"I have your pathetic little doppelganger…so if you want to save her life I want you to help me stop mother. She is drawing power from your witches' bloodline. That line needs to be broken so I suggest you find them and kill at least one of them before anything happens to Elena. You have until 9:06 pm to find them or I will kill Elena. Xoxo Rebekah"

"How super specific of her…What's at 9:06?" I whisper to Stefan and he signals me to go discuss this outside. I hurriedly make my way through the crowd and as we walk into the alley outside the Grill I turn towards my brother, expecting an answer.

"By 9:07 the moon will be full and Esther will have the power she needs to end them…" Stefan explained and I went over the details once again in my mind.

"So we have to kill one of our Bennett witches to break their bloodline and then the Original Witch won't have the power to kill them. Basically it's either Elena or a witch…" There was no doubt that the obvious choice was going to be Elena…but knowing my Elena I wasn't so sure she'd agree to killing one of her friends.

"OR…we could just dagger one of them and find Elena before the sacrifice" I was not about to risk all that I had gained for a stupid witch. I didn't want Elena to hate me for having killed yet another of her friend's relatives. It was bad enough when Bonnie's "Grams" died and she blamed me for it…I didn't need a do over.

I couldn't even think of Stefan doing it because he was far too vulnerable and he felt guilty enough already for his recent slip-ups under Klaus' control. Even though there was no chance that I'd admit it, but I cared about my brother and I didn't really want to drown him in guilt.

"Caroline got Klaus out so we can go in and have Alaric stake Kol with the dagger now…" Stefan said, after reading a text and I snapped out of my thoughts, smirking as I pulled out the dagger from my jacket and walked back towards the Grill.

As we made our way towards the pool table I saw Kol talking to Meredith and Alaric came to me to take the dagger. The damn thing happened so fast that I only saw Meredith luring Kol outside as we followed, catching his limp body once Ric had daggered him.

We were about to dump his body into one of the storage rooms outside the Grill when we were met with one furious hybrid. Klaus sped over to his brother and ripped the dagger out of his chest, pushing Alaric into the wall and Stefan onto the stairs.

"I should've killed you months ago…" He looked at me and his eyes held that evil glint that was actually intimidating after that demonstration of his speed and power. But I was smart and I knew exactly what to tell him so I did.

"Do it! It's not gonna stop Esther from killing you…" Now I got him…this got his attention.

"What did you say about my mother?"

"You didn't know I was friends with your mommy? Yeah…we have a lot in common. She hates you as much as I do…" That being said, Klaus growled, rushing towards me and I really thought that he would kill me. I've never been happier to hear Elijah's voice as I was then because Klaus stopped in his tracks and turned towards him.

"What did mother do? What did she do, Elijah?" The Original was standing at the top of the stairs, looking as if he was debating whether to tell Klaus or not about the whole situation. He sighed and pulled something out of his jacket pocket and descended the stairs. I was fairly certain that he wanted to tell Klaus everything, but instead he addressed me.

"Tell me where the witches are or Rebekah is going to kill Elena…" My eyes widened and I glanced at the big tower clock, seeing that we still had time until 9:06 and it still was weird that Elijah knew about Rebekah…

"My sister tends to be a bit unpredictable…so when I heard that Elena was missing I knew that Rebekah had something to do with it. Believe me…she's not safe with my sister wherever they are. I suggest that one of you goes after her and one of you comes with us to try to prevent the completion of the spell."

Wow…now I don't know which one will be worse…to go searching for Elena all around Mystic Falls OR to go on with the Originals and kill one of the Bennett's…

"Brother…I can go with them and you can go look for Elena" Stefan stood up and came to stand right in front of me, probably knowing that I was on the verge of exploding from the pent up frustrations of not being able to do anything about Elena's disappearance…

I was grateful in one way that he understood me, but I still didn't feel like it was a good idea to let Stefan go with the Originals. On the one hand there was Elena…the woman that I love and on the other there was my brother which was emotionally unstable and on the brick of falling off the wagon again and going on a killing spree.

Also…Stefan said he had turned off his switch and didn't care about anything right now. Of course I didn't entirely believe him, but there was a tiny chance that baby bro would screw us over if he went with the Originals and allow the sacrifice to take place regardless of what happens to Elena. I would've never said it out loud but I was scared, scared for Elena and for my brother.

What the hell was I supposed to do? Leave my brother to walk off with the enemy and go around town looking for Elena so that Rebekah wouldn't kill her…? OR go with them and finish the job so that my saint brother could save my girl and be the hero as always? Fuck! It wasn't much of a choice…but it was obvious what I would do…

"Elijah…do you have any idea of where Elena is?" I turned towards him and he looked at me steadily as he nodded- NO.

"Damn it! We have to go and stop Esther… and we have to hurry up and finish this thing so that Rebekah will release Elena because things might get dirty if not…"

I was trying to sound tough and I was already heading towards my Camaro with Stefan hot on my heels. I saw Klaus and Elijah dragging Kol to a car near-by and I knew they were not going to be far behind so as soon as we were both in the car, I stepped on the gas pedal and sped on the street towards the old witches' house to stop Esther and get Elena back soon hopefully.

SO…I know this isn't much but I wanted to post it so that you could have a little something to read…

BTW…I just got home and I am starting to write new chapters for all my other stories and I hope I'll get back to normal now that the summer break is almost over. Anyhow…I hope you haven't given up on me and that you'll stay with me on this story as the drama will come in the near future for Damon and Elena…

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