Elena POV

As I awoke I could hear voices around me. They were panicked and angry. I opened my eyes slowly and I was taken aback by the number of people around me. It took me less than a minute to realize that they were all vampires. I spotted someone I recognised; Pearl, the owner of the apothecary. I struggled over to her. Her gaze snapped to me. Her eyes were red as though she had been crying but immediately she glared at me in rage.

"Katherine! How could you do this! I was your friend!" She screamed at me and I shuffled back a bit. I could smell the power coming off of her and I knew she was a lot older than I was.

"I'm Elena. I'm not Katherine. I don't know where she is, but I guess she is here somewhere. Every other vampire is it seems." Pearl's expression softened but anger was still ever present on her face.

"Do not bother searching for your doppelganger companion, Elena. She is the reason we are in here." I frowned, confusion flooded me.

"I don't understand. Where is here?"

Pearl sighed.

"We are in a tomb. It's underneath Fell's church. They put us in here and set the church on fire."

I felt fear course through me. No one would possibly know to come help us. The humans would believe we perished in the flames of the church. Pearl's earlier words finally registered.

"Wait, you said it was Katherine's fault. How is she involved?"

Katherine would not leave me to desiccate in a tomb. We had slowly formed a bond over the years we had spent together. I knew she was up to something but I never thought she would harm me. Pearl looked sympathetic.

"I see you too put your faith in the wrong person. Katherine betrayed us all. She made sure the round up tonight went down perfectly. My Annabelle managed to slip away thankfully."

I instantly felt sympathy for the woman. Her daughter would not know that her mother was alive. Something still didn't make sense. How did Katherine escape? I presented the question to Pearl and she let out a hollow laugh.

"Come on Elena, you know the power she has over men. She would have got someone to let her go. I'm sure she could have included you in her deal but she didn't. She left you here to desiccate."

The weight of all that had happened crashed down. I was stuck in a tomb with no knowing if anyone would ever find me. I would not die but I would desiccate and become a living corpse, unable to move or speak and only know painful hunger. I settled back against the wall of the tomb, trying to stay cut off from the view of the desolate faces and the sounds of their plans to attempt to escape.

The shock of being locked in the tomb slowly began to wear off and I suddenly remembered the last thing that had happened before I was taken

Damon and Stefan had come to save me! My eyes widened. Damon was shot! I felt my heart seize as I saw it all over again. I had been so happy to see him and to feel his arms around me. I had truly believed everything would be okay and then the gunshot sounded and he fell to the ground. Tears began to well in my eyes. All I could see was the blood seeping through the material of his shirt, his eyes unfocussed. I barely noticed as Stefan went down not long after. I had screamed for the hands that grabbed me to let me go so I could heal Damon but they still threw me in the back of the cart with the others again. I pulled at the bars with all my strength but I was still weak from vervain.

Damon would be dead. The knowledge was hard to stomach. There was no way he could survive a gunshot wound through the chest like that. I froze in my descent into grief as I remembered that yes, he could. Damon had given me his blood earlier in the day. And I healed him. A shocked breath escaped me. Damon would not die. He would wake in transition.

I had spent so long being afraid of him becoming like me but right in this moment I felt joy fill me. I sobered quickly as I realised he would be alone. He would wake alone in transition. I was trapped in here and I would not be able to guide him. I would not be able to teach him how to live his life. Or perhaps he chose not to complete the transition. I winced at the thought. It was a possibility. Damon would believe I was dead. I had come to accept that Damon felt the same love that I felt for him. If the position were reversed, I would choose to die rather than turn. It was selfish to wish that he still turned anyway but there was hope that I may be free of this wretched tomb one day. I only hoped that if that day ever came that Damon would be waiting for me.

I looked at Pearl once more. She looked miserable and she had a far off look on her face. She must have been thinking of her daughter.

"I'm sorry about your daughter." Pearl glanced at me cautiously but she nodded in response.

"I hold onto hope that I shall find her again one day." I nodded at her response and settled back into my position against the wall. I held onto the same hope, though mine was for Damon.

I was struck with a positive thought. Katherine had been using Stefan as her feeding human, so she must have been healing him with her blood. Damon would not be alone in his transition. He would have his brother. I smiled. He would not be alone. Hopefully they could both find their way if they stick together.

A/N: So I know that I have let a lot of you down because I have left this story abandoned for so long. The truth is I have had a terrible year. Last year most of you will know that I talked about starting a new musical theatre course. I was excited to do it at the time but now I wish I never did it. It was almost literally hell! They had a terrible attitude towards me as I had never done dance before. I won't go into the whole ordeal but it was horrible. Because I had this terrible experience, it caused me to have extreme stress and anxiety, along with depression and eventually it led to me having seizures. Now after a long time filled with hospital visit after hospital visit, I've finally been diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, or simple partial seizures.

Anyway, sorry to throw my own pity party here haha. I just want to give you all an explanation of why I haven't uploaded anything.
Also, I haven't watched any of season 6 yet so please no spoilers! I hope you enjoy this chapter and I will try and have another one soon.