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Chapter Two

Alice's POV

Klaus stormed through the warehouse door, nearly ripping the hinges off. His face was serious and questioning. I rolled my eyes and turned back to my dirt stained paper, dazedly sketching the group of people – if you could call them that – made up from vampires, werewolves, humans and witches; they were all seated on the blackened floor, talking amongst each other and giving me fearful glances.

They were all scared of me, I didn't know why. I was human, some of them were, but most were some kind of advanced being; any of them could easily overtake me. But they all shrank back away from me since I had become their watcher, their "supervisor". I – a human – had become the watcher of Klaus's supernatural "spies", it didn't make any sense.

But I ignored the looks and carried on sketching.

Klaus cleared his throat to get the attention of the crowd.

"What's happening?" He asked, glancing around.

I looked at the crowd as well and saw them all fidget under the intense stare of the hybrid. Then hesitantly, one man raised his hand and cleared his throat. "Um – Alex and I" – he pointed with his thumb at the man next to him – "went to the house earlier, there was not much movement. They are relatively quiet and appear to have to idea about us." He finished and lowered his head again.

Klaus nodded and looked at me, sat in my chair, feet up on an old-dusty table. But I was still looking at the man who had spoken. Dickhead, I thought.

Klaus looked down to my sketch and snatched it off me, and I looked up; annoyance evident on my face. I tapped the pen impatiently against my leg. "Hmm." He murmured still looking at the sketch. He gave me a glance and then looked back to the crowd.

"Okay, we attack tomorrow. We are running out of time, we have four days left. We will get her and we will all live once again." The crowd cheered quietly and smiles spread among faces. Klaus turned to me.

I sighed and followed him through to the other room.

Elena's POV

I grabbed her wrist and pushed on the inside of it with my thumb, holding the knife away from my chest, but it kept coming at me. It was now an inch away from puncturing my skin. "Lily!" I shouted. The knife stopped and I released her wrist. "You have to go easy on me, I'm a beginner." I said, gasping.

"Elena – "She laughed incredulously. "Do you really think a vampire who WANTS to kill you is 'going to go easy' on you?" She asked.

I sighed, "No." I rubbed my forehead. "Okay, come on."

She lunged at me with the knife and I caught her wrist and pushed the inside once again, finally hitting the pressure point. Lily gasped and her hand flinched, releasing the knife and she smiled widely. "Good!"

I smiled and jumped once with excitement. "Again!"

She picked the knife up and came at me again. I grabbed her wrist and pushed her pressure point, she dropped the knife but gripped my wrist that held hers, then she whirled me around wrapping my arm around my chest. Then she pulled my other arm up my back and went for my throat with her teeth. And stopped.

I was gasping with fear. "That could happen. The danger you could be put in by a vampire will most likely be by there teeth." She whispered in my ear. "Do you want to learn how to stop them in their tracks?"

"You can do that?" I asked.

"Of course you can." She laughed.

"What the hell is going on here?" Stefan asked, appearing suddenly in the living room doorway. His eyes full of worry and concern . . . and anger.

Lily laughed pretending to bite my neck, making a playful savage noise.

I laughed as she let go of me. "Relax Steffie." She joked, smiling widely. "We're just doing some fight practice."

"Fight practice?" He said, frowning. He looked at me then back at Lily.

"Yes, do you have a problem?" Lily said, playfully waggling her eyebrows.

"Yes! Elena shouldn't have to fight. She doesn't have to fight." He said seriously.

"No, but she should know how to defend herself." Lily said, her face losing the smile slowly as Stefan worked himself into a rage.

"Yes, but you could hurt her." Stefan said.

"I would never hurt her! I can control myself Stefan –"

"You're a hybrid, you've just came back from the dead and you can control yourself?" Stefan snapped, his eyebrows and voice raising at the end of his sentence.

"What are you saying Stefan?" Lily said, and Stefan didn't answer. "Hey?" She urged in a growl as she took one dangerous step towards him, her face already dark.

"Lily –" I started.

"You should have asked me about this! Not just decided to come at her with a REAL knife! To put your TEETH near her neck. You could have lost it, you could of bitten her!" Stefan said, raising his voice higher. Everyone in the house would be hearing this. I bet Katherine would be having a right laugh at it.

"First of all," Lily continued. "She asked me to help her! I was happy enough to make sure she was safe. Or that she had a chance at making herself safe." She paused and took a breath. "And second of all, I am perfectly fine with being that close to her, I would never bite her. And YES, I know I can control myself. Maybe you can't but I can. Elena is my best friend for God's sake. Why are you getting so wound up about this! Would you rather she was on her own and a vampire attacked her and she didn't know what to do, how to at least TRY to help herself?"

"Lily . . . I'm not saying that, of course she should know!"

"Then what are you saying?"

"I just don't feel comfortable with YOU teaching her, you can get too rough and you've only been back for three days."

There was a deafening silence as Lily's face became furious, she picked up the knife and turned to walk out of the room.

"Lily, I'm sorry." Stefan said, his face full of regret.

Lily turned, her face hard. Then in one swift movement she threw the knife; it flew past me and I heard Stefan gasp and grunt. I turned to see him bent over clinging to his stomach. "Stefan!" I turned back to Lily but she was gone. "Stefan, here; I'll pull it out." I pulled the knife out and he grunted again. "Oh, God. Are you okay?" He lifted his shirt and I watched the wound heal. I sighed in relief. "I'm so sorry."

"No, no Elena. I'm sorry." He said. "You should know how to protect yourself when I'm not around . . . God I'm stupid."

"No – you have a right to voice your opinion, just next time talk to her, don't wind her up then scream it at her."

He pulled me into his arms and kissed my forehead.

Lily's POV

"God!" I threw myself onto my bed and lay there, face in pillows. What had I done? Stefan had said what he thought and immediately apologized, okay, I should have forgiven him. But something had triggered in my head, putting all emotions to a standstill.

Was he right? Did I actually have control of myself or not. When I threw that knife it didn't seem so.

"Lily?" Damon's voice came from behind me as he waltzed into the room from the shower room, with only dark grey sweatpants on. He rubbed at his hair as he gazed at me and walked over. He tossed the wet towel in the wash basket. "What's wrong?" He asked. "I heard arguing."

"Nothing." I said, my voice muffled by the soft fabric. He lifted me up by pulling at my stomach, forcing me to stand. He turned me around. "What did he say?"

I sighed. "Stefan doesn't think I can control myself. He says I could hurt Elena 'cause I'm too rough." I paused. "The thing is, I kind of agree with him. With the control part. I thought I could control my feelings, I thought I had it right. But then – I just –" I shook my head.

"What?" He urged, taking my hands in his and bringing them to his heart on his warm bare chest, I felt the slow beat through his hands and mine.

"I threw a knife at him. It hit him in the stomach." I said and looked down in shame.

Damon just laughed.

"Don't. Damon, please. I'm not in the mood."

"Listen, hey, look at me." I looked up slowly, and he held my eyes whilst he spoke. "You are in control, I have never seen someone keep there emotions in line as much as you. You are the most, kind, strong, beautiful girl I have ever known and will ever know." He kissed the tip of my nose. "Now. Missus, go and get a drink, get a nice warm bath and get one of my shirts and go to bed. It's late." He said.

"What are you going to do?" I asked.

"I'm going to talk to Stefan." He answered.

Alice's POV

"They were arguing – the girl – she was fighting with the other girl, the brown-eyed one."

"She was fighting with her?" Klaus asked.

"She told the green-eyed Salvatore she was teaching her self-defense to protect her from vampires."

I hated this guy, Bradley or whatever his name was. He was such a kiss ass. Ever since he had raised his hand, he had become Klaus's main source of information and he was milking the glory of being noticed by the "Master".

"So do they know?" Klaus said.

"Of course not; they think it's just another roaming vampire. They have no idea about any of us."

"We need to strategize. Go back with Alex again and keep watch."

"I could go with Alex." I interrupted.

Klaus turned to me, his face immediately turning suspicious. "You?" He said. Bradley ducked his head as Klaus disregarded him for someone more higher rank.

"Yes." I said.

He took a step closer to me and looked me in the eyes. I kept very still, looking him straight in the eye myself. After a moment he said. "Give me your hands."

"Why?" I asked hesitant.

"Do. It."

I wet my lips and give him my hands my jaw tensing. He searched them, then brought my wrist to his face. I tensed and my breathing paused. His eyes flickered to mine as he leaned in on my extended hand and inhaled my scent there, one of his thick, dark brows raised.

Then he bit me.

"Ah!" I flinched and had to watch as he drank my blood. Bradley looked away and I heard the intake of breath of the audience in the room catching what was going on. Klaus withdrawed his mouth from my wrist and looked to me and smiled. "Mmm." He said. "Hold these." He said to Bradley. He stepped forward and wrapped a white handkerchief around my wrist, then held it there, holding both my wrists in a gentle but constraining way. Klaus crouched to the floor and began searching my legs and jean pockets, then he searched my jacket pockets and my hair. He looked at me and frowned. "You don't have Vervain?" He said, slightly incredulous.

"Do you really think I had time to pick and chose what I brought with me here?" I said, fluently lying my innocence.

The tiny lump of a flower bud now felt huge in the toe of my sneakers. I ignored it.

"If you go with Alex." He paused. "Can I trust you?"

"Yes." I faked in monotone. "You can trust me."

"Go with him and watch over the house." He turned to Alex who was slowly walking over his chin held high. His blonde ruffled hair astray. His hazel eyes met mine as he stopped, and he smiled a crooked smile; I looked away to Klaus. "She's coming with you. If she runs, hurt her." Alex nodded tightly and we turned to leave for the house.

Lily's POV

I ran the hot water in Damon's huge bath, calming myself by blocking out all noise but the running water. I sat down on the chair next to the bath and put my head on my hand, watching the water run. I was actually really tired. I wanted Damon up here to cheer me up, but he was speaking to Stefan. I listened in.

"Stefan." I heard Damon say.

"Ooh, Stefan's in trouble." That was Caroline.

"Caroline." Demetri warned, and I heard Katherine laugh.

Damon's POV

I took Stefan into the hallway, there wasn't any point of it, all of them could hear us anyway; except Bonnie and Elena.

"What happened before? With Elena, Lily and you?" I asked, wanting the full explanation of why Lily was now doubting herself.

Stefan looked down and shook his head, rubbing at his eyes with his thumb and forefinger. "I know – I said some stuff. I just . . . freaked out." He paused and sighed in frustration. "I walked in to see Lily holding Elena in a restraining way and she had her mouth near her neck. When I asked what was going on she pretended to bite her. I guess it just – frightened me."

I hit him on the chest. "Stefan. Lily wouldn't hurt Elena –"

"Not on purpose, yeah, but – " He interrupted.

"Stefan. Lily would never hurt Elena. She IS in control, she always will be. Her personality is what controls her, not what she is." I paused. "What exactly did you say to her?"

"I said, something about her self-control and told her she could hurt Elena by getting too rough." He said, straightforwardly.

I shook my head and flexed my jaw. "And that's when she stabbed you."

"She threw it at me, and no. She did when I apologized."

"It's because she knew you were lying."

"I wasn't lying." Stefan frowned.

"No. you said what you thought of her, then apologized. She knew you meant what you said but you were only sorry because you didn't want her to know what you thought." I said.

"I am really sorry. I didn't mean it at all. I just . . . Elena's human – fragile and Lily is really strong."

"Next time Stefan just ask her to stop, don't start arguing with her for fuck's sake."

He nodded and walked back into the living room.

There was a loud banging on the front door.

Alice's POV

We were walking through the forest now, just near the outer edge of the boarding house drive. And I began my plan. Okay, hopefully you're weak, I thought.

"Ow! Alex! Something's got my foot, look! Help." I called, jumping around.

"What, what is it?" He said, bending to look closer. I grabbed his shoulders and kneed him in the face knocking him clean out and blood dribbled out of his nose. Good, he's human. I lay him on the floor and ran towards the boarding house. I pounded on the door with my fist.

A familiar handsome face answered the door, their ice blue eyes shining, "Alice?" He said, shocked.

"Damon. I have to speak to Lily." I said.

Long chapter for you here, I really hope you enjoyed it. Review as usual if you have any questions just ask in the review or send me a message.

Next chapter next Saturday.

Kellie xx