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Chapter Six

Lily's POV

"What?" Stefan said, looking as if he was unsure if he had heard me correctly.

"Damon died. I distracted him." I said and at their look, I added, feeling slightly sick, "Not me - me, future me. I distracted him and he died."

"What was Damon even doing there if you went back on your own?" Bonnie asked, her face saddened but still continuously determined. "He wouldn't go back now, especially after what he had to do to you, to get you away from there."

"I don't know, I guess they followed me back there, even after what Damon had to do, he wouldn't let me go alone. You were there" - I nodded at Stefan - "and Caroline, Demetri, Katherine and Damon. We were all fighting with the Dimension and we were winning, then I watched myself turn to smile at Damon, he looked at me just as a vampire pushed him to the floor and the wood -" I stopped, a lump in my throat beginning to build.

"But everything else was all right?" Stefan said suddenly, his head flying up from hanging in grief. His eyes full of deviation and gleeful hope.

"Yes, Stefan, we win and Fell's Church live, but Damon -"

"But now you know he dies and you can stop yourself from distracting him. We can do everything the way your vision was, and you can stop yourself, Damon lives and we win!" He said and smiled slightly. The hope and happiness gaining domination over any remaining grief or sadness. And now I was going to pull that away from him with my words.

"No, Stefan," I said, "the only reason we win, is because Damon dies."

"Why?" He said, his voice a begging cry.

"Because when Damon dies -" I began, then changed my way of expressing it. "I watched myself go crazy." I said and felt my eyes glaze over at the memory replaying through my mind; of me when I looked up from Damon's still form, as I lay him down and let my face reveal what was truly underneath the mask, under the human façade, to reveal the monster I had kept deep under all these years, the real monster that was within me, the bad side only few saw in me when they met me; my eyes becoming dark and tingeing with gold from my other supernatural self. My canines growing to extraordinary length and blood flowing through tiny vessels beneath the dark shadows that now underframed my eyes. Then, as I savagely killed every enemy that stood before me, except for one, Klaus.

My mind replayed the anger and rage as I gripped my father by the throat and forced him to his knees to look upon the deed in which I blamed him for, and then, as I let my anger take over - the only quality I had inherited from him and kept under covers for years, letting myself slowly simmer. But, now, I saw myself boil over, even now I could feel the heat rushing up my throat and cheeks as I watched myself coldly murder my own father, my own flesh and blood. Because deep down, I knew I wanted it to happen, to be able to kill him after everything he had done to ruin my life. If he hadn't killed me, I wouldn't be in this mess trying to figure out how to save everyone.

I snapped myself out of my long reverie and looked to Stefan and Bonnie. "I guess I became overwhelmed with pain that I just went crazy and killed them all." I said. "But if we save Damon, someone else will die, we all could, there is too many of them, I was wrong and we won't be able to manage. There's at least one-ten, one-twenty of them and six of us -" I cut myself off, I didn't want to talk anymore, talking made it real, made it true. So I just looked to Stefan, who was biting his lower lip and thinking, then he looked to me, his face useless but full of pure determination - he had to find a way to save his brother, his only - by blood - family member left.

"So what do we do?" He asked finally.

"I could come, my Powers could be useful -"

"No, Bonnie. You're not going to be near that place whilst this is happening, and neither are Jeremy and Elena." I said in a final tone, not to be argued with. I thought for a moment myself, racking my brain for any ideas at all that would limit loss of death on our side to zero, but came up blank. "I don't know what we're going to do yet," I confessed. "I'll just have to talk to Spencer again, see if we can change what happens."

They nodded.

"Hey, what are we going to tell the others?" Bonnie asked.

"Tell them nothing yet, definitely not about Damon, we'll discuss a plan later."

Klaus's POV

I slammed the warehouse door shut behind me, the crowd silencing and turning towards me.

"We need a plan, now!" I snapped, pacing back and forth along the dirt covered floor. Alice was stood beside me, her chin raised slightly, her face ever so much smug. I narrowed my eyes and grasped her chin, forcing her to look at me.

She never bothered to struggle or writhe in my grip, she just watched me with her devious light-blue eyes. "You didn't have anything to do with this, did you Sweet?"

"Of course not, Niklaus." She said in a oh so innocent tone. "I would never betray you like that."

"You may already be dead, Alice. But I can still hurt you," I whispered dangerously as I stabbed her in the stomach with a pocket knife attached to my belt. She gasped and pushed me away, pulling the knife out and pressing her two hands to the wound to stop the bleeding. She fell to her knees beneath me. I myself kneeled down on one knee. "And fix you." I said, biting my wrist and putting it to her mouth, forcing her to drink. "I could do it over and over and over again, until the torture becomes too much and you die. Then you will come back as one of us" - I pointed to myself in example - "and I'll do it again and again. Do you understand?" She nodded weakly, licking her lips to get the last of the blood I had left there.

I stood and was face to face with an angry Alex. "What?" I snapped.

"I believe that wasn't appropriate, Niklaus."

"Oh, do you?" I said. "Good for you." I patted my hand on his shoulder and began to step past him when he suddenly grasped my wrist and held me there, stopping me from walking away. "Are you that stupid?" His hazel eyes remained on mine. "I guess so." I gripped his throat.

"Let go of him!" Alice screamed and I went sliding across the floor as she barged into me.

The crowd watched in shock as I stood and walked over to the bitch, backhanding her onto the floor. "You really shouldn't have done that." I hissed.

Arms constricted me from behind and I turned to see Ruth and Lucias -old, wise vampires - holding me back from attacking the blonde.

"What are you doing?"

"You can't kill her." Lucias said, his heavy Italian accent emphasizing the word 'kill'.

"She's the sister of the girl," Ruth continued for Lucias, knowing full well I would listen to her clearer, more smouldering British accent (:D). "Do you really think you'd live long after killing her?"

I sighed and pulled my arms free of them. Watching as Alex helped Alice to her feet, wrapping his arms around her in a possessive way.

"Don't think that it would matter if I killed you though, Alex." He said nothing, but headed towards the warehouse door with Alice. "Where do you think you're going?"

"We're going for a walk. Alice needs to heal. We'll be back soon." He walked out of the door and I turned to the crowd, I looked at Willow, who was sat in front with Tristan, waiting for my command, "Follow them, see if they lead you to the girl." I said and they nodded, stood, bowed and left.

"Right! Does anyone else want to take their chances against me?" I said. "No? Good. Get to work on a plan. We have two days left, two! We need her dead."

Lily's POV

4th December

Dear Diary,

I had a dream last night and I saw Spencer. She showed me my future and believe me, either way, it wasn't a future you would dream or wish for.

You see, when I came back from the dead - yeah, I died, I kind of forgot to tell you - but anyway, Bonnie brought me back, but because the spell was so strong, it brought back the whole dimension that I was in back, too, including Klaus, my Father. Except he isn't a what you would call a very good parent, he's tried to kill me on several occasions, succeeding once - previous statement - and now he's trying to again.

Because, if I don't die, they do, in two days. My sister, Alice is one of them, she's not trying to kill me, but if I don't die, she will. She says it's all right, that it was "her time" years ago, but how can I live with her death on my conscience?

I'm not in Fell's Church anymore, Damon wouldn't let me stay there with so many coming after me at once so he injected me with a lethal amount of Wolfsvain, it knocked me straight out. Believe me, I was pissed at him, but when I think about it, how much he has done for me, how much he will do for me, I know he was doing what he thought was right, what he thought would protect me. He took me and the others to Richmond, a few hundred miles away from Mystic Falls.

That's when I had the dream.

Spencer showed me what would happen if I stayed here - the whole of Fell's Church died and probably many more outside of town. And we would come home to a deserted war scene. That probably sounds like the worst of it, but it wasn't believe me, she also showed me what would happen if I went back.

Damon would die . . . and now I'm crying because I don't know what to do anymore, my life is so messed up, I can't think of any way to save the people I care about and love most deeply and I only have two days to figure something out.

Me, Bonnie and Stefan are going to tell the others what happened, and hopefully we'll be able to figure out something,

Lily xx

"Lily?" A voice interrupted me and I shut my journal and shoved both pen and book under my pillow. I got up off the bed, wiped my face clear of tears and opened the bedroom door, coming face to face with blue eyes that I could never forget. I pulled him to me in a tight hug inhaling his scent of leather and scotch.

He was rigid with shock, and he slowly relaxed and wrapped his arms around me, "I thought you were mad at me?"

"I was, not anymore. I know you were trying to save me. But I have to tell you something, we have to," Stefan and Bonnie appeared behind Damon. "Come downstairs." I said, releasing him and taking his hand in an tight hold. We went downstairs and sat on the sofas in the living room, the others already in there, waiting. I took the footstool Katherine was using - gaining a dirty look - and sat on it, allowing all of them to see me. Stefan sat next to me on one sofa and Damon sat next to me on the stool, wrapping his arm around me.

Elena sat next to Stefan and Katherine next to her, it was really weird seeing them next to each other, being able to actually compare them. But I didn't dare compare Elena to Katherine. Jeremy, Bonnie, Caroline and Demetri were seated in the other grey sofa. And they all looked to me expectantly.

"I had a dream this morning. I saw Spencer, my adoptive Mom, for those who didn't know. And she showed me my future." Damon's soothing circles on my shoulder paused for a moment then continued cautiously. "She showed me what would happen if I went back to save Mystic Falls and would happen if I didn't. Neither of them showed pleasing results." I glanced at Damon sadly.

"Go on." He said.

"If I don't go back, Fell's Church die."

"What? No!" Elena cried. "Jenna - Matt, they're still there."

"Yes, I know, that's why I have to go back."

"But what happens if you go back?" Jeremy asked.

I looked down and hesitated.

"Lily?" Caroline urged.

"One of us die."

They all fell silent, none of them saying a word and after a moment Elena quietly whispered the question they were all thinking, "Who?"

I swallowed hard, trying to shrink the lump in my throat and to hold back the tears.

"Who, Lily?" Damon said.

I looked up into his ice-blue eyes and whispered softly, "You."

When Lily says "There's at least one-ten, one-twenty of them . . . " She didn't mean theres on to ten or one to twenty, she meant One hundred and ten or One hundred and twenty. Just in case that was confusing, :) . Please review, thank you,

Kellie xx