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Chapter Seven

Lily's POV

He stood, and walked over to the window, everything was silent and I looked down and closed my eyes. I felt a hand wrap around mine and squeeze my fingers and looked up to see Elena leaning forwards in her seat, hand on mine. She smiled sadly and I turned to Damon, "Say something, please."

His hand came up to rub the back of his neck then he rubbed his face with his hands and sighed. Then slowly he turned back to us, looking only at me. "How? How did I die?"

"I did it, I killed you -" I was about to continue when Stefan placed a panicked hand on my arm and interrupted.

"No! Damon, she doesn't mean that." He said at Damon's confused expression. "A vampire killed you when you were distracted."

"Yes, and it was my fault, I distracted you." I looked down again and shook my head. "It was my fault, my fault."

His hand cupped my cheek and I looked up to his face, he was frowning sadly and his eyes were full of sorrow. Lily, I would die for you any day, he sent to me.

"You're not dying for me, Damon." I said aloud. I stood and sighed, one single tear streaming down my face.

"What's wrong?" Damon said, trying to hold one of my hands, but I held them up, signalling for him not to touch me.

"What's wrong is . . ." - I grit my teeth - "I don't know what to do!" My breathing came in quick now. "I don't know how to save everyone." I cried, more tears spilling over, I turned to the window.

Stefan was looking down, his hand joined with Elena's. Elena was watching Damon, the others were watching me, Katherine unusually quiet.

"Lily, we'll figure something out. We always do. Spencer might know what to do."

"We can't just sit here and wait, Damon."

"What else is there, Lily? Come on, enlighten me!" He snapped.

Elena's POV

I watched as Damon looked at Lily with a guarded expression, his face slightly annoyed, whilst Lily continued to look out of the window, pacing a little on the spot, her fists clenching and unclenching.

"Stop it, Damon." I said. "We all need to talk about this, not get frustrated and take it out on each other."

Damon didn't look at me, but his stance relaxed and his frown disappeared. He took hold of Lily's hand now. "I'm sorry." He whispered.

Alice's POV

"Are you okay?" Alex said, seating me down on a fallen log and sitting next to me, his arm wrapped around my shoulder.

"Yeah, just a little sore." I said. He tucked my hair behind my ear to see my face.

"I'm glad you're not badly hurt."

I looked into his hazel eyes and felt heat slowly rush up my cheeks as we held each others eyes. I watched as his glance flickered to my lips and back to my eyes to see if I had noticed, then slowly he leaned towards me; holding my eyes to see if it was okay with me.

Then my phone rang.

We both laughed, embarrassed and Alex leaned away as I reached to my belt for my hidden phone.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Alice, it's Lily." The voice said and I glanced around the woods.

"I don't need to change my phone company, thanks." I said.

"We need your help." She continued quietly. "We're in Richmond, Mom came to me in a vision and showed me what would happen if I did or didn't come back to Fell's Church."

"Go on." I said.

"If I didn't, Fell's Church dies, if I do, Damon does."

My eyes flickered to Alex and he shook his head slightly and mouthed, "What?"

"I won't be able to afford that. Not without consequence. Could we compromise." I said.

"If you come here, you'll be safe. Alice . . . I need to save the people I love, even you." She said, understanding the reason behind my weird words. "Alice, you'll be safe here. I can have someone come and get you."

I looked Alex again. "Can that be a joint account?"

"Who?"

"Alex Bailee." I paused. "Yes, he's a friend." I said, pretending to answer a question. Alex laughed quietly.

"Okay, where are you?"

"I live in Virginia, Fell's Church. Just outside the forest, nearly, virtually inside it." I laughed.

"Okay, it'll take about five-six hours for one of us to drive down to where you are, just wait, okay? I'm sorry it'll take so long."

"That's fine, thank you." I said. "Bye."

"Bye." I hung up.

"Who was that?" Alex asked.

"Just the phone company." I said and showed him my phone,

I'll tell you later, I think Klaus sent someone to follow us. But we need to stay here for a while.

He looked up to me and nodded, "That sounds great." He said.

He pulled me closer to him and we waited, still sensing the watching eyes around us.

Lily's POV

Alice hung up. "I need someone to go and pick Alice and her friend up. Katherine?"

Katherine looked up to me with an exasperated look. Then sighed and stood, "Fine, whatever. Where are they?" She pulled her jacket on and fluffed out her curls, standing with one hand on her waist.

"They're in Mystic Fall's obviously. And they're in the forest near Wickery Bridge. You'll be able to find them."

She nodded and walked out of the door, getting into her car. She revved her the engine and sped off down the invisible driveway with an almost silent purr accompanying the speed.

I shut the door and walked back into the living room. I sighed and sat on the sofa's arm. "I -" A slow knock on the door interrupted me and I stormed to the door, "for God's sake Katherine -"

The person I had opened the door to was not Katherine, it was a man I hadn't been expecting to see in a while. "Elijah?"

"Hello, Lily. Nice to see you . . . breathing." He smiled, then his gaze skimmed across the length of the doorframe and he glanced into the house to look at the others, he gave them a wry wave. Then his eyes flickered back to mine. "May I come in?"

I glanced around myself, but outside, looking for any sign of movement, all I saw was still cars and gently swaying trees and . . . snow. Then I looked back to him, his face still held his smile as he waited patiently for an answer.

"Yes, Elijah. Come in." I said and he stepped over the threshold and lifted my hand to kiss it gently.

"Thank you." He said as he crossed his hands behind his back and walked into the living room. "Good morning." He greeted the others politely and there was a quiet, disconcerting murmur of 'hellos' as they observed the new events.

"So, are you on your own?" I asked.

"No. Actually." He said. "I have some friends with me."

"Friends?" I glanced out of the door again.

"Yes, whilst you've been dealing with your own problems, I've been busy. My siblings." He said and my head snapped back to him.

"Your siblings? Your brothers and sister?" He nodded. "Why?"

"Well, your Mother, Spencer, came to see me." He said and he leaned against the windowsill.

"Spencer . . . came to see you?"

"Yes." He said as he adjusted the cuffs of his shirt. "She told me everything,but one thing she said that stood out was that 'you can't change your future, but I can', meaning you can't change your future, like you've all been trying to figure, but I can do it for you." He looked at Damon who, now, was leaning on the fireplace, arms crossed, his expression tense but curious, then looked back to me. "We want to help you," he continued, "I convinced them you're worth helping, they all hate Klaus for what he did to them, and to our mother." His thumb pointed out of the window and I glanced to his car again.

"They're out there?" I asked.

"Yes, in my car. They're waiting to see whether you agree or not. They want to meet you." I was still looking at his car, unsure. "They're not bad people, they honor people like you. Someone who has been through hell, literally, but still have strength to care - to love. Who still have their humanity."

I sighed, "Okay."

He smiled and stepped past me walking out of the still open door, walking to his car. He reached it and opened the drivers door, he said something and I watched the other three doors open and a girl stepped out of the front, three men out of the back. All doors shut, they began to walk towards the house and I walked to the front door myself, ready to greet them.

The man closest to Elijah, was average height, maybe slightly taller than Elijah, from what Incould see his eyes were light hazel colour and his hair was similar to that, his face was pale and defined, his chin was covered in light stubble. He wore dark jeans and a plain black t-shirt, over that he wore a dark grey casual blazer, open.

Next to him was another man, his hair a dark chocolate colour, similar to Klaus's, his eyes were also the same dark colour and his face had dark stubble framing his chin. He was also wearing dark jeans but he wore sneakers and a black velvet jacket, covering his midnight blue shirt.

A girl was beside him, blonde, with blue eyes. She wore slim jeans that hugged her curves and a loose grey top, necklaces decorating it.b

The final man on the end had hazel eyes and his hair was a light dusty blonde, he -like the others- wore black jeans with a dark grey shirt, loose black tie and fitting black waistcoat.

They reached the doorstep and Elijah stepped forward. "This," he said as he took the girl's hand. "is Rebekah. My lovely, but very spoilt and stubborn sister." She shot him a glare and then turned to smile politely at me.

"Hello." She said and reached as far as the barrier of the door, to shake my hand. I reached past the door and shook hers and smiled back at her.

"Hi, Rebekah."

She stepped back and Elijah released her hand and placed a hand on the shoulder of the man with the hazel eyes and dusty blonde hair.

"This is Henrik." He said. And the man smiled crookedly and pulled one hand out of his jean pocket and lifted my hand to his lips.

"Hello, Lily." He said, his voice was velvety smooth, his accent quiet and polite. "It's nice to finally meet my neice."

"It's nice to meet you, too, Henrik." I said and he stepped back as the other man next to him impatiently stepped forward and grasped my hands in his. His dark eyes meeting mine with a warm smile.

"Hello, I am Kol. It's great to meet you." He said.

"You, too, Kol."

Then, finally, the light haired man with the hazel eyes stepped towards me and shook me hand and bowed. "Finn." He said simply and smiled. They were all astonishingly beautiful, the men were dark and mysterious looking, but perfectly polite. Rebekah, blonde and elegant with a strong vibrancy.

"Well, here we are." Elijah said. "Do you want our help?"

I looked to Damon, he was stood in the doorway, his arms crossed. He nodded tersely. The others were quiet and tense. I looked back to Elijah.

"Yes, we want your help. Please . . . do, come in."

Elijah's back! This chapter was going to go a completely different direction when I suddenly thought (when I re-read Bitten and Bound) where did Elijah go? He just disappeared with no explanation, haha. But he's back! Dun dun duuuuun =) Please review, thanks.

Kellie x

P.S - I know it's not a very long chapter, but I started it on monday and left it, forgetting about it, I only just finished it now, so I'll write a long one for next weekend, promise. I really need to stop putting cliffhangers at the end of my chapters, it's just really tempting, =D x