We turned quickly. Damon reached over and flipped on the lights. The voice had come from a girl standing right inside the living room. She was beautiful of course. Bright green eyes and wild blond hair. I stood right behind the frozen Damon who had yet to say anything.
"Damon Salvatore, still gorgeous as ever." She purred and crossed the room like a runway model. She cupped his chin in her hands and cocked her head to the side waiting for his response.
"Aralynn? What are you doing here?" He asked pushing her hand away.
"Damon! After all these years! That's so mean!" She pouted. I moved over the tiniest bit to get a better view of her.
"Oh hi!." She smiled at me. "Wow, you really do look just like Katherine." Her face fell serious for a moment. Then suddenly she burst into a wild laughter. I looked up to Damon who was still seemingly frozen in place.
"So, have you slept with this guy yet?" She asked cheerfully pointing to him with her thumb as if we were enjoying girl talk at a sleepover. "A-may-zing." She mouthed. "But then he dashes off and you don't see him again for another sixty, seventy years. What a jerk." She shook her head smiling. I had to swallow the stitch of jealousy.
"Well, anyways...unfortunately Katherine sent me here to kill you." She smiled at me. I took a step back and Damon did as well as he pushed me completely back behind him again.
"Your not touching her." He hissed. Her shrill laugh rang out again.
"Oh relax Damon, she changed her mind." She said flippantly.
"Why?" Damon demanded, with doubt in his voice.
"She decided she didn't want you Salvatore's living without Elena. She wants Elena to live without the Salvatore's." She answered bluntly.
"No!" I screeched leaping from out behind Damon. Damon snatched me back by my arm and forced be back behind him. She went on talking as if she never noticed I had moved.
"Speaking of killing you guys, where is Stefan?" She asked casually.
"You leave him alone." Damon warned. I stood behind him trying not to go into a full panic attack. I couldn't begin to believe this was really happening to me. I couldn't imagine one second without Damon and Stefan. Katherine definitely had the right idea if she was aiming to make me miserable. Or ruin my entire life.
"You can be difficult all you want Damon, but we will get him to. Katherine said if this wasn't taken care of she would come here herself. You might want to cooperate for Elena's sake." She smiled.
"Aralynn? Why is it that you are so loyal to Katherine that you would kill an old friend?" Damon spoke smoothly.
"Damon, I'm not that loyal to Katherine and what makes you think that I'm your friend. You made it perfectly clear in the past that I'm nothing to you."
"Aralynn I -" Damon began but he was cut off suddenly.
"No! You made it perfectly clear! And what is she doing here with you anyway, I had heard she was with Stefan." She look at me confused and to Damon. Then suddenly her face changed into understanding.
"Oh...I see." She laughed lowly. "History really is repeating itself I would say." She said and then all the sudden in a flash she had Damon slammed against a wall. Holding him by his shoulders.
"Your weak." She said in surprise. "Why?" She slammed him one good time against the wall for a quicker answer.
"I haven't had anything in a while." He choked out. She looked at him for a few moments. Her eyes widened in surprise.
"Your not drinking human blood." She stated.
"No." He whispered.
"Who are you Damon?" She shook her head with pity. Then suddenly she pulled a dagger from her side and jammed it into Damon's stomach. I screamed and ran forward but I was grabbed by someone else behind me. They stood and covered my mouth as we watched Damon's pained face twist and he slid slowly down the wall. I struggled and kicked to get to him but whoever was holding me back wouldn't budge.
Aralynn turned to me and smiled. "You know what this is?" She said holding up the dagger in front of her. "It's filled with vervain and it releases when we get pierced with it. It's very painful." She said seriously. Then smiled as if it was a joke. She turned back to Damon who had fallen to a sitting position by the wall. He looked up weakly with immense pain on his face.
"Let go of her." He barely got out. I felt tears stinging my eyes watching him in that much pain. The all the sudden Aralynn picked him up by the front of his shirt, took her other hand and jammed the dagger into him again. At that moment he hit the floor out cold. I screamed a muffled sound through my capturers hand who suddenly released me. Then a girl much shorter then me with auburn hair and cat like eyes came into view in front of me. She waved her hand across my face and I suddenly and uncontrollably fell into a deep sleep.
I woke up in a field. The sky was a deep purple with the coming of dawn. I sat up with a gasp my eyes searching instantly for Damon. I saw him now standing with his back against a tree. His eyes met mine with a withered sadness. I heard a quiet chanting and then noticed the short girl that had put me too sleep standing to the side of the tree. She was mumbling what sounded like a spell and then I noticed the chain that was wrapped around Damon snapping together by itself.
"Your a witch." I said in shock.
She rolled her eyes. "Good job." She shook her head. Once she had Damon tightly bound to the tree she turned to me.
"Why are you working with Vampires?" I asked.
"Not all of us hate each other." She shrugged.
"Stop asking so many questions it's annoying. Plus, you should be worried about bigger things right now." Aralynn said, coming out of nowhere. She walked up to Damon who was still half out of consciousness standing limply against the tree. She took his hand and pulled the ring off his finger.
"Good night sweet prince. You will burn at dawn." She purred. I got up and began to run to Damon but I was snatched up again by the incredibly strong witch.
"Oh, Calista, don't worry, let her say her goodbyes. I'm sure Katherine would love to hear about it." Aralynn said. She released me and I staggered to Damon.
"Damon!" He slowly looked up to meet my eyes. He flinched in pain but tried to smile weakly for me.
" Damon, what do I do?" I began to touch the chain around him looking for some sort of way to get it off. But it was all links with no opening. She had put a spell on it.
"There's nothing you can do." His voice was so weak I could barely hear him.
"No! There has to be something!" I began to look around. The sky was growing pink.
"Elena, look at me." He whispered. I looked up at him. His blue eyes we're weak but were still enough to take my breath away. "There's nothing sweetheart." He said his voice scratchy and worn.
Something between a scream and a sob tore from my throat. I reached out and touched his face.
"Elena, you have to do something for me."
I couldn't speak I just stared through the tears pouring from my eyes.
"You have to warn Stefan, he still has a chance. Now that we know what they are planning to do, he can stop it. Don't let them do this to him." He pleaded. I noticed suddenly the light was beginning to grow enough to start casting shadows. He looked to where the sun was beginning to rise and flinched away from the light. His body shuddered and he groaned in pain.
"No, no no." Was all I could say as I sobbed.
"Elena. Its okay. Listen to me, look at me." He whispered.
I looked up at him.
"My brother loves you Elena. He will always love you. Your going to be okay." His voice caught suddenly and a hiss of pain escaped from him. He turned away from the sun that had begun to peak above the hill in the distance. I saw the side of his neck and his arm where the rolled up sleeve stopped begin to faintly blister.
"Damon." I sobbed. I realized that everything he was saying wasn't apart of comforting me. He was saying goodbye. He writhed for a moment in pain, his jaw was clenched and he moaned in pain again.
His face relaxed for a moment and he caught my eyes with his.
"I love you Elena." He choked out. "I have from the moment I saw you. I love you like I've never loved before." He smiled as best he could with tears in his eyes.
"I love you Damon." I whispered still struggling with sobs. I saw Damons eyes flicker past me and I turned to see something I wasn't expecting.
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