"Elena, are you all right?" Bonnie asked concerned.

Swallowing down the dryness in her throat, Elena meekly nodded. "I guess so."

Her bloody tears still won't dry and the bedsheets had become red during the night, but at least she knew where her lightheadedness was coming from.

Strange she wasn't dead by now. 'Yeah right, I am dead since yesterday' she thought.

The door to their room opened. Elena saw a picture of herself walking through the door, self righteous as always.

"Katherine!"

"Good morning...My god, Elena what an ugly make-up. Even worse than your usual."

"Stop being a bitch and help her, otherwise she won't be of use for you at all." Bonnie replied angry.

"What's wrong with her?"

"I don't know but it looks like she can't stay like this for much longer."

"Bonnie, I hope you know that if she dies, your daddy will suffer endlessly before he is allowed to die, right? Make sure she keeps it up. I'll be right back." Katherine's snootiness was shaken a little and Bonnie sensed a tiny bit of worry in her voice.

Given the circumstances there was nothing Bonnie could do.

After a little while four Vampires entered the room. Two of them took Elena away and the other two dealt with Bonnie who tried to hinder them from doing so. She wanted to stay with Elena but to brain-attack four vampires at the same time was too much for her right now.

Elena soon found herself on the ground of the main hall. The furnitures were still under white sheets like yesterday when they arrived and somehow she had the feeling there was something she should remember.

Stefan stood right there, looking down on her, when she was to his feet.

But then he held out an hand to give her a lift. Angry Elena refused and shakily stood up by herself.

"I'm so sorry Elena." Stefan couldn't look her in the eyes.

"You're sorry? Do you want me to buy this crap?" Elena couldn't believe how real his act was.

"I truly am! Of course you can't understand..."

"Right, I can't so why do you bother. Go on and kill me."

"That's not the plan anymore. I was compelled by Klaus. I would never hurt you on my own free will."

As fast as the main door burst open as fast was Damon in and banged Stefan's head against the closest wall.

"What did he do to you?" he demanded growling seeing all the blood on her face.

"Well...Apologizing sort of."

"You gotta be kidding me." He noticed that she was okay even with all this blood. It only looked so horrible.

Stefan stood up and touched the fresh wound on his head. Thickly his blood ran over his fingers.

"Elena, I'm still compelled." He said and moved fast forward to crash his bodyweight into Damon's. Then he buried his teeth into his shoulder and ripped out a big lump of skin. A red fountain was pouring out on the ground.

Elena stood there baffled. She felt how her heartbeat sped up and how dry her mouth became.

Damon, weaker than his usual self because of the things that happened to him and Elena only yesterday, still found the strength to give Stefan a hard blow of his fist directly on his left cheek. The ring he was wearing imprinted itself on his brother's skin.

Elena only half heartedly watched the fight between them. Her focus was much more on the blood that had mixed and smelled like heaven and hell to her.

Stefan knelt over Damon and both were choking each other when Elena sat down next to them softly. "May I have a taste?" She wasn't looking at them, only on the blood that had pooled together.

Her index finger reached forward, covered itself in blood, similar as it would be dipped in a glass of cherry jam. Seductively she parted her lips and closed her eyes. The tip of her tongue met her finger between her lips only to get pushed back into her mouth. She needed to taste all of it. Metallic, warm, and sweet. It made her dizzy.

Damon and Stefan hadn't been able to move a muscle. Open mouthed they watched her forgetting all about their fight.

Then she wiped away her bloody tears with both hands and offered Damon and Stefan to feed from it. They both were trying to resist, being aware that something wasn't right here, but soon the smell of her life juice, placed directly under their noses took the better of em.

First they only licked it away. When everything was gone they couldn't help it and bit down on her palms. Drinking deeply. Elena moaned. Nobody could stop, nobody wanted to stop. Klaus's plan was to well executed. The spell to strong. And the three of them helpless.

Elena felt it coming. The change happened fast and brutal. The teeth forming in her jaw, the nerves that seemed to grew into her hair making her feel it, the nails mutating into claws, the pain in her eyes and the weight change on her head when something seemed to grow on it.

She knew how she looked. She saw it in a mirror in her dream. Horns, and snakes as hair, eyes of a goat, and teeth and nails like a big cat. Her dream came true. There was more but she couldn't remember. Her scream of pain echoed in the house when the transition completed.

The Vampire brothers hushed over to her. They caught her before she could fall to the ground.

Elena felt so exhausted, so hungry. When she felt them closing in on her, she scratched open their wrists with her claws fast and smooth. None of them withdraw his wrist. Then she pressed them together and lifted them up over her mouth. She drank till the wounds healed.

Damon examined his wrist and saw that the three scratches she gave him hadn't healed as usual. White thin lines of scar tissue were marking his skin now. Stefan still stared at her in shock unbelieving what just had happened.

"Take her and leave. NOW!" Bonnie ordered. She stood there in a corner with her half dead father leaning on her.

"Your last chance. Go or I need to kill her" Tears ran down her face. "GOOO!" she roared.

Without a word Damon throw a glance at his brother and Stefan lifted her up. Damon didn't know why but there was trust where five minutes ago was only fury for his brother.

They went outside, placed her on the backseat of Damon's Camaro and drove away for good.

The brothers were talking while Elena was asleep.

"What had happened in there? Why does she looks like the outcome of Medusa an Miss Sphinx?" Damon asked

"To be true, I have no idea, but maybe we'll find out when we both tell each other what we know." Stefan said.

"Okay, but you will not like it!" And Damon told him everything what happened so far from his perspective. How Bonnie came to them with the vision about Stefan and his need for a bloodbath that involved Elena; about Bonnie's vision, how this would change the world's fate; Elena and him running away; Bonnie's dangerous spell, that not only should have made Stefan forget about Elena, but also made Damon forget his manners. He told him everything about him and Elena, and how she died. He trusted Stefan to deal with it.

"Strange. I know I should be hurt, angry, anything like this, but I'm not. I'm only glad we haven't lost her." Stefan muttered.

"We?"

"Yeah. You and me... and her. Do you think that is..."

"Fucking crazy? Outrageous? Absurd? Yes it is. Something must have fucked our minds."

"You mean you feel it too?"

"Ja, I guess I do and we shouldn't act on it as long as we don't know what it can cause or cost us. Now tell me your story."