"Well, the little lovely has already had a taste of my blood, so why don't we just go for the whole thing?"

Two days shut in my apartment, and the second I come out on Monday night, I'm whisked back to the Salvatore house. The whole group was there, minus Matt and Bonnie, plus Elizabeth's daughter Caroline. She was a vampire too, of course.

Stefan glared at Klaus as he said "We don't need you involved in this any more. You tried to take Dani prisoner!"

He shrugged a shoulder. "I let her go."

Damon interjected with "Only after your big brother came to the rescue. It's a pity that he has to keep track of you."

Klaus stepped up to him. "Says the boy that lets his younger sibling dictate everything he does, including his choice of women." They growled at each other until Caroline stepped between them.

"Seriously? Stop arguing like a bunch of preschoolers. I'll get some blood." Caroline went towards the

kitchen and I stared at everyone.

Damon and Klaus still scowled at each other, Stefan and Elena stood watching the both of them, and Jeremy's eyes flitted back and forth between everyone. I could tell he was uneasy in a room full of this many vampires, because I was too.

Unable to take much more of it, I stood and went into the kitchen. Caroline was just filling an opaque glass with what I assume was blood, because afterwards she dropped an empty medical baggie into the garbage.

"Oh, hey, I didn't know you came back here."

"There's waaaay too much tension in there, I couldn't stand it." I took the cup from her and said "Are they always at odds like that?" She nodded.

"Pretty much. Everyone always has different ways they wanna handle stuff, so we're always arguing. Stuff usually still gets done though."

"Usually..." She raised an eyebrow. "Stefan told me it wasn't planned for Elena to become a vampire. Or for Klaus to even be alive right now."

"We made a few mistakes, but everyone does...Come on, drink it before they all come barging in here."

Caroline watched as I cautiously sniffed at the cup before raising it to my lips. I sipped at the dark red liquid, and it tasted much the same as Klaus' blood did when I bit his hand. I drank some more, a big gulp this time, and found I didn't hate the taste of it.

When I downed the entire cup, she said "Well?"

"It tasted...normal. Like water; not good or bad, I guess..."

"Probably because it's hospital blood. But I guess this means you really are half a vampire, because I know no human could down a cup of blood like that."

"Oh yippee..." I wasn't exactly joyed. "Wasn't Stefan supposed to have some vervain here too? They wanted to see if that would affect me too."

"Um...let me go check." Caroline disappeared and I leaned against the kitchen counter. It wasn't long before her empty spot was occupied though.

"So, you are a half vampire after all...How delightful."

"Go away Klaus."

He laughed. "Without you trying some of this vervain? You requested it." I stared until he produced a little bottle of the stuff, and I grabbed it out of his hands. "Don't look so eager love, it will probably weaken you."

"Why are you still talking?" The only reason I could get away with being so cocky was because there were other vampires in the house, and I knew he knew that. That was probably why he didn't stop grinning.

I opened the small bottle and, without thinking, downed the clear liquid that looked like normal water. It tasted funny, and burned a bit going down, almost like liquor. I was staring down at the bottle in my hands when my vision began to get blurry and my body weakened severely.

Klaus caught me as I began to fall and said "I was counting on you doing that."

"What..? Why..?"

"Like I said, I won't have anyone else bothering you until I'm done with you. Besides, I could use a half vampire like you on my side."

He hoisted me up into his arms and I heard someone call "Where's Dani?"

The door to the kitchen burst open and I only caught a glimpse of Caroline's face before Klaus whisked us away from the Salvatore house.

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When I was jolted awake out of a deep sleep, the first thing I noticed was that my face was pressed into a soft pillow, and I was no longer wearing my jeans or T-shirt. I pushed myself up and saw I wore only a silk nightie, and that I was back in Klaus' bedroom again.

I jumped up and, after a quick search for my clothes with no results, I sped to the door.I opened it but when I tried to step out, I couldn't.

"What? What is this?!" There was a chuckle and I looked to the end of the hall.

A girl with blonde hair sauntered over to me.

"My brother told me he brought a guest home, and that she was a half-vampire. Pardon me, but you look superbly unimpressive for such a being."

"And who are you supposed to be, a reject Barbie model?" Her face twisted into a grimace. "Why can't I leave this room?"

"You'll have to ask my brother Nik about that. I am enjoying myself, watching you struggle to move through that doorway. I'm guessing he compelled you to stay in there."

"What?"

"Rebekah!" She spun and Klaus came up angrily behind her. "I told you to leave my guest in peace, didn't I? She isn't to be disturbed."

"Whatever..." Rebekah walked off and Klaus came down the hallway.

"What did you do to me? Why can't I leave this room?"

"You can't leave because I told you not to. Compulsion, remember?"

"But I can't be compelled, you tried it on me before."

"Yes, but you weren't under the influence of vervain then. It seems instead of it burning you, you simply get very weak. Weak enough that I was able to compel you when we arrived here yesterday."

"Yesterday?" It was Tuesday? How could I have been asleep for a whole day?! "Did you compel me to sleep or something?!"

"Yes, actually. I can't have my person blood donor exhausting herself with worry, now can I? I also changed your clothes, they were terribly filthy...And that tiny gown flatters you so much more."

I covered myself with my hands. "That's..." Klaus changed my clothes. He saw me naked. "Don't you ever do that again! How dare you look at me like that!"

My face heated up as he walked in the doorway, forcing me backward into the room. I crawled onto the bed and he pushed me down, and when I tried to push him away, I couldn't.

"I also compelled you to not resist me. I gave you more vervain this morning, so you've got a few days until it's fully out of your system. Which leaves me a few more days to compel you to do what I want."

"What? No!" Klaus climbed atop me and I willed myself to push him away, but my arms didn't move an inch. "Get off of me!"

"Stop screaming." His turquoise blue eyes stared into mine, and I stopped shouting. damned compulsion. "Now that I have you quiet and complacent...I wonder what I should do with you."

"Let me go."

"I think not." Klaus skimmed his nose along my neck, undoubtedly smelling my blood beneath my skin. "Your half-human blood smells so exquisite...Better even then that Elena's blood, when she was human."

"I don't care how my blood smells or tastes or anything...I only care about keeping it in my veins."

"Well, I think personal blood donor means you have to let me feed on you." Klaus lowered his mouth to my neck and did just that.

It didn't hurt nearly as much as the first time he fed on me, but I guess that was because I was still a little out of it from the vervain he'd given me.

I held my breath until he released himself from my neck, but nearly choked exhaling when he dripped my own blood down onto my face.

"Now you're all blood-spattered...How wonderful." He licked the blood off my face and I shuddered inwardly. "Since you're behaving, you may walk around the house now. But you are not to leave it." He compelled me again and I cursed.

"Fine...Can I at least put some normal clothes on?"

"No. You stay in this. And if Stefan or Damon or any of their friends come inside this house to try to save you, kill them." I gasped as he climbed off of me.

"You can't do that!"

"I can, and I did." He left the room and I jumped up and ran after him. "Following me now?"

"I don't want to kill anybody. I shouldn't be here, so if anyone comes to get me, I'm leaving."

"I've compelled you, you don't have a choice. And just in case you can't kill them..." Klaus spun and looked me in the eyes again. "If someone does manage to take you from here, you drink some of my blood and turn yourself into a vampire." He handed me a small vial of what I knew was his blood. "Keep this on you at all times."

I slipped it into my pocket and muttered "This isn't fair...What if they do rescue me and I do this, and I don't turn? What if I just die?"

"Then I suppose I'll have to bury you in the yard." I gasped and Klaus walked out the front door, leaving me alone in the house.

I slammed the front door shut and went back up the stairs, slamming the bedroom door as well. I saw my phone on the bedside table and went to it, but the only number still in it was Klaus'. He deleted all my contacts!

Now I didn't even have anyone's phone number to call for help again.

I laid back and stared at the ceiling, then out the window at the night sky. What time of night was it anyway? And why'd Klaus compel me to sleep for a whole day?

"Sitting here pitying yourself isn't going to help your situation much." I looked over at Alaric's ghost, sitting up on the bed beside me. He looked down at me. "Not going to escape?"

"I can't leave the house. If anyone comes to rescue me, I have to turn myself into a vampire using Klaus' blood. I don't really have any options here..."

"That is a bad situation...But what can I really do? I'm dead."

"Exactly..." That gave me a thought. "Jeremy can see you, right?"

He shook his head. "He hasn't been able to since he became a hunter. Probably because I was a vampire right before I died."

"What about Bonnie? I know witches can contact the dead, and see them sometimes." He nodded. "Can you go to her and tell her what's going on? About me being compelled?"

"I can try...But I can't promise anything. Bonnie's been a little off since she had to use a dark magic spell to desiccate Klaus' body." I raised an eyebrow. "We tried to kill him, but failed. Again."

"Please just try." He nodded and disappeared from view, hopefully to wherever Bonnie was at. I hoped dearly she would see and hear him, because I wanted out of this place as soon as possible.

Not just here, but Mystic Falls in general. Screw it if I couldn't afford Richmond, I'd go to another town, any other town, as far away from here as I could get. I couldn't handle much more of the stress this town and its residents were putting on me. I wondered how I ever survived here before.

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I couldn't sleep, and it was sunrise before Klaus returned to the house. I was sitting on a chair in the parlor when he walked in the door, shopping bags in hand.

"Here, you'll wear these while you're here." He dropped the bags beside me and immediately went into the kitchen. I looked through them and found lots of silky, lace things, and pushed the bags onto the floor.

"I don't dress like a whore."

"You'll dress how I tell you to. Unless you want me to remind you of what I can make you do?" I shuddered. "Now get dressed."

I took the bags in one hand and stood, but Klaus walked in and said "Did I say get dressed upstairs? I don't believe I did."

I dropped the bags again and replied "You can't be serious."

"Oh, I am. Now strip down, love." I groaned and complied with what he said.

I slowly pulled off the nightie he'd made me wear, revealing the plain black bra and undies I wore beneath. I looked through one bag and found a fancy red pair, and a little robe that went with them.

"Do I seriously have to wear this? Can't I wear some jeans or something?"

"Dress. Now." I sighed.

Klaus stood and mercilessly watched as I stripped bare and halfheartedly tried to cover myself. I quickly dressed in the new things and tied the robe around me again, and sat back down on the couch.

I tried hard not to start crying and I forced out "Are you happy now that you've embarrassed me? I've never been more humiliated..."

"Oh, it's not that bad, love. I'm sure all your boyfriends love the way your body looks. I know I do." I pulled my legs up to my chest and hugged them, and buried my face between my knees. "Dani?"

"Stop acting like you care about anything." I couldn't keep the sob out of my voice. "Nobody's ever seen me, and I didn't want anyone to. Especially not you." I put as much malice into my voice as I could, but it didn't seem to do anything.

"Your twenty years old and haven't been with anyone? Well, I'm honored to be the first."

My head snapped up. "No! I haven't slept with you and I never will! I'll smash your blood vial and run out that door and kill myself before I let that happen!"

Klaus' hand flew to my chin and gripped it tightly. Oh no, he was going to compel me again...

"You will not commit suicide unless you have a vampire's blood in your system, do you understand?"

"Yes..." He let go and I buried my face again. "Just go away...I want to be alone."

"Fine." He surprised me by getting up and walking into the other room. "I expect one or more of your friends to be showing up here sometime today, so I suggest you get a weapon ready. I have the stake they need to kill me, but just to be careful."

I groaned. I didn't want to have to kill anyone. But since I was compelled, I knew I didn't have a choice.

I went upstairs and retrieved my gun with the wooden bullets. I didn't remember putting it or anything into Klaus' closet, but knowing him, he'd probably told me to put them there while I was compelled. I took it with me downstairs and sat on the couch again, tucking it between the cushions.

I wasn't at all religious, but I prayed desperately that nobody would try to come and rescue me.

I was, of course, ignored. It was barely an hour later, when the sun was finally bright up in the sky, that I heard the sounds of a car coming up to the house. I looked out the window and saw it was Damon's Camaro that I'd ridden in before.

I went upstairs to Klaus' room and told him "My cavalry just drove up to your front door. Would you like me to jump out the window now?"

"I'll go deal with them. You go in the kitchen and fetch me a drink, would you?" I grumbled as I hurried back down the stairs, my arms wrapped protectively around me, and into the kitchen.

After I got the drink, I stayed there to hear what Klaus and the others were saying to each other.

Klaus- "Stefan, Damon...and Tyler? What a nice surprise." Tyler? I don't think I'd met him yet.

The unfamiliar Tyler said "You kidnapped someone, and we're here to take her back."

Klaus- "Did your little girlfriend put you up to this? Caroline did seem quite worried when I took young Dani."

Stefan- "Stop playing games, where is she?"

Klaus- "She's here, of course. Right in the kitchen. Dani, would you come in here?" I groaned and stepped out of the kitchen.

When I entered the room and sat beside Klaus, three pairs of eyes widened with shock. Klaus simply chuckled and took his drink from me, and I clenched my hand around the gun still tucked between the couch cushions.

Stefan furiously spouted "Dani?! What the heII happened to you?!"

"I was compelled to dress like this...I'm usually immune, but he gave me some vervain and I guess it weakened me enough that I could be compelled."

Stefan's eyes moved to Klaus, while the other two's remained locked on me.

"Klaus, you let her go right now...She didn't do anything to anyone!"

"Yes, but she could do something. Dani cannot be compelled without vervain, can walk in the sunlight without a witch ring, and can blend with humans indefinitely better than we can. I intend to use her."

"Why?! You have other vampires and witches and humans under your control, why her too?"

Klaus stood. "As I said, Dani is the only one of us that can belong to both worlds at once, so she will be very useful when it comes to some...things I need taken care of. Like finding your creator, perhaps."

Now Damon reacted as well. "You're going to try to use Dani to find Katherine? How's that supposed to work?"

"If Katerina knows I am coming, she will undoubtedly run. But if she thinks a human is looking for her...I will have her back in my grasp in no time. She may also be of use in finding that idiotic younger brother of mines, Kol. Like me, he's always interested in whatever new creatures happen to pop up in this tiny town."

"Wouldn't it spoil your plans if we just took her now?" Klaus grinned and stood face-to-face with Damon. "What are you smiling about?"

"I'm smiling because I've already won this argument. I've compelled Dani to shoot whomever attempts to rescue her, but if you somehow succeed in removing her from this house, she will commit suicide with my blood in her system. We all know what'll happen then, now don't we?" Everyone tensed, including me.

I removed the gun from between the couch cushions and stood, and pointed it at Stefan. Klaus sat back down as I said "I think you should leave now."

"Dani..." I shook my head.

"I don't wanna shoot you Stefan. You're one of my only friends here, but if you try to take me, I won't be able to stop myself...And I don't want to turn into a vampire either. So please, just get outta here before he makes me shoot you."

Him, Damon, and Tyler all looked at each other before slowly making their way to the door. I followed them, gun still pointed forward, and stopped just short of the doorway.

"If you find a way to desiccate Klaus I'll be released from his compulsion, or find a way to release me with a spell or something. Please." Stefan nodded and I pushed the door shut, dropping the gun on the floor.

Klaus was immediately at my side and said "I don't believe I said you could speak to them."

I spun and responded harshly with "I don't believe I give a shît. You locked me up in here, embarrassed me in the worst possible way, and tried to force me to kill my friends...I don't even care if you feed on me anymore, or try to turn me into a vampire anymore. 'Cause if you do, I'll just go walk out in the sunlight and kill myself."

Klaus looked rather impressed. With me or with himself though, I didn't know.

"Well, you seem to have all your priorities in order...Except, even if you turn into a full vampire, I can still compel you not to kill yourself." At my shocked expression, he simply taunted me with "I bet your precious Stefan forgot to tell you that, didn't he?"

My face twisted into a grimace.

"Why am I here, really? You can spout off all you want to them about using me for stuff, but you tried to keep me here even before you knew what I was."

"It seems you were keen enough to catch me on that, so I guess I will tell you. It was the taste of your blood that drew me to you, as I first said. My blood is unique, it can cure werewolf bites and create hybrids. Since you found out about yourself, have you not wondered what your blood may be able to do?"

I shook my head. I honestly hadn't thought a thing about it, mostly because I was busy worrying about getting kidnapped.

"My blood probably doesn't do a thing...You've been drinking it and you're no different, obviously."

"Except I can compel you now." I tried to say something, but no words would come out. "I lied about giving you vervain last night. There is none in your system now, but I do have your blood in mine, and that is what is allowing me to compel you. I didn't want to reveal that tidbit to your friends, just in case they tried to use it against me."

"And what's stopping me from telling them the next time they show up here?" He stepped closer and I stepped back against the front door.

"You have to listen to me, and I'm ordering you not to say anything." I cursed to myself. "Anything I find out about your half-vampire status, you are not to reveal to anyone. Don't even speak about yourself to anyone unless I give you permission. Understand?"

I nodded grimly. Klaus patted my head and said "That's a good girl. Now, how about a drink?"

I looked at him oddly, until I realized he was talking about my blood. I pulled down the neck of my robe and he said "You've learned not to hesitate. That will come in handy in future, I should think."

"Just...shut up and take your drink already."

"I didn't say I wanted to drink from your neck." I stared openly at him, trying to step back, but I was already caught against the door. "Take off that robe."

I shook my head, but did as I was ordered. "Don't do this...Please..." There was no sobbing or tears, just...remorse. I didn't want him to do this, I wasn't ready, just like when he'd made me undress in front of him. "Klaus, I can't do this..."

He looked me in the eye as he said "I will drink blood from you right now, and you won't try to stop me." I whimpered as I nodded.