"Damon?" Elena's eyes snapped open from where she was lying on the floor by the door of the bedroom still in Stefan's lap. She sat up fast and shut her eyes trying to hear him again. Had she really heard him? Was she hallucinating from all the stress?
Stefan looked down at her, hearing her calling out to his brother. "Elena, what's going on?" he asked gently.
"I heard him, Stefan. I heard Damon," she cried out and he put his finger to his mouth again reminding her to stay quiet. Her voice then fell to a whisper. "I know I did. He was crying out that I had to be okay."
Elena's head darted back and forth like Damon would be right there in the next moment. "Didn't you hear him Stefan? He told me you can hear each other. Did you hear him?"
Stefan shook his head. He hadn't heard anything. He knew his brother and him had some kind of telepathic connection but this was the first he heard of Elena having it too. "I didn't hear anything Lena. Are you sure you didn't just imagine what you wanted to hear?"
Elena's eyes flashed angrily at him that he didn't believe her. "No, I didn't imagine it. I did hear him Stefan. He was begging that I had to be okay. That we had gotten out of here. He is trying to reach out to us, to me."
Stefan face scrunched up in confusion. This was new. How come Elena would start hearing Damon in her head, if that is what happened.
"Okay, okay Elena. I believe you, maybe my body is too destroyed from the werewolf bite that I can't hear him. None of my other vampire senses are working well too." He put his hands on her shoulders keeping her from jumping up and possibly giving them away if someone was close by. "But then if he did call out to you, then we need to do what he said and get you the hell out of here."
His eyes darted back to the front of the cabin from his place by the door. "What is taking your brother so long?!" Stefan hissed out. He could feel his strength fading again, likely with the Original blood's power to keep him healed weakening with how destroyed his body was already. They needed to go.
Standing up he helped Elena to sit back on the bed. He stared at the two other cups of Original blood knowing he could not waste them or use them up too soon or they would both die.
He breathed a sigh of relief when finally he heard the door open and Jeremy blurred into the room with Tyler close behind. He looked for Bonnie but no one else came into view.
Jeremy saw the way Stefan was studying them and looking behind Tyler too and hung his head. "I couldn't find her. She must have ran, but I have no idea where," he panted out.
He looked to his sister. "Sorry Elena but we can't wait for her. We need to get you out of here now." He grabbed her arm, helping her to stand up.
Stefan draped a thin blanket over her shoulders. "He's right. It's time." He reached for the one glass of blood on the dresser, leaving only one more there. And with a hesitant look at Elena he gulped it down.
Elena looked back to Tyler. They were not close friends really but she did care about him and knew how much he must be struggling too with everything that was going on.
"Damon is still out there, leading the vampires away from us," she stated what everyone already knew but then she looked pleadingly at Tyler. "Stefan and Jer can get me away from here. I trust them. But Tyler, Damon is all alone out there facing so many enemies."
Stefan was already shaking his head, knowing what she was going to say.
She shushed him, a hard look on her face. "I know Stefan. But I can't leave Damon to die out there. Elijah can't be killed. But all it takes for my Damon to be killed is one..." She shuttered and her hand shook as she placed them on her heart.
Tyler was regarding her sadly and had stepped forward to rub her arm. "I can Elena. If that's what you want. I can go help Damon."
She nodded rapidly at him, tears already threatening to fall again. "Yes, please Tyler. I can't lose him," she whimpered, pulling the blanket tighter over her shoulders, hearing it rub against Damon's leather jacket.
Tyler nodded back to her and his hand fell from her arm to squeeze her hand in reassurance. "I promise you I will go after him and help him." Elena was smiling then thankful to have someone on her loves side. "But first I need to help get you safe."
"No! No Tyler! By then it might be too late!" Elena's tears them spilled now her cheeks again. She caressed her belly lovingly looking down on where her and Damon's children were growing. "Please, I am begging you Tyler. Don't let these angels grow up without a dad. Don't you wish for just one more day with your dad?" Elena pleaded her voice shaky with emotion.
Tyler nodded numbly, knowing how hard it had been on his mom and him just these last few months since his dad had died. And now he had lost Mason too. Family was so important and could slip away so quickly in the blink of an eye. Sure his dad and him had their fights and disagreements but he still loved him and would never have wanted him to die.
Elena could see she was reaching him and did not care that Stefan was trying to urge her forward and just forget it and let Tyler come with them. "These miracle babies need their daddy. Just like you needed yours. Please, help me get him back to them, please."
Tyler's shoulders sank in defeat. "Okay Elena, I will do it for you, and my dad. But Damon will kill me if anything happens to you...so you better get safe." She nodded again at him. "Okay then, which way did he go?"
Stefan too knew she was not just going to give up and pointed pretty much straight forward from the front door of the cabin. She was right Damon's life could be in real danger with all the vampires after him and he knew Elena would want to do all she could to protect him. He was more aware of how deep their love was every time she spoke about him.
Tyler gave him a terse smile before looking back at the his pregnant friend "I will do my best Elena. And I'm counting on you to get the hell out of here so if I do save Damon he doesn't come after me because something happened to you." He gave them all a serious look and then bolted out the door straight ahead.
Stefan glared at her knowing she was risking her life and the life of those children more without Tyler here but he knew there was very little he could ever do when she made up her mind on something. So he just kept her behind him and Jeremy stayed in front of them as they led her to the back door of the cabin.
All three of them hugged the outside wall of the cabin, still very aware of the strong smell of gasoline all around them. Stefan put his hand up over Elena keeping her back as they moved forward cautiously.
Elijah had caught his brother's eye as he sped out of the cabin and raced away into the woods as fast as he could. He was counting on Klaus coming after him first. He would think that Damon would want his love with the strongest of them. He knew his brother would give chase and could not resist this kind of game. He lived for the chase, the challenge of it, the rush it gave.
Although he had seen changes in him in the last day or so already and he had no doubt his brother was in fact in love with the young blonde vampire he was still more or less the brother he knew and could predict his actions.
But he knew love does change people and he had seen an almost pleading sadness in Klaus' eyes as he had promised that Elena would not be hurt and that he would never harm children. Klaus had looked him in the eye saying that he could not believe that Elijah thought him to be such a monster. But he had dismissed him, not believing the words coming out of his mouth. Knowing how manipulative he could be and had been, to stay alive and away from their father all these centuries.
He held the blanket tighter hearing branches breaking behind him, bushes crashed through and he knew it would not be long. But he was determined to get as far away from the cabin as he could, giving the doppelganger a long opening to escape.
Dr. Martin and Luca had been waiting near the gas station a few miles west but he warned them of the danger and the vampires and witches Klaus had called. He had been reaching out his sires, to get more vampires on their side to keep her safe but from all he had reached out, the closest ones were still more than a day away and Klaus had put this in motion now or never.
There was no going back and him and Damon might not have any allies out there to help even the odds.
He felt like he was nearly flying feeling the wind behind him as he ran at vampire speed. He leapt over a downed tree and raced across an empty field. He was almost to the other side of the field when he felt someone slam into him and they rolled on the ground as he lost his grip on the blanketed fake person. The blanket rolled against the nearest tree as he leaped back up from the ground to be face to face with his brother.
"Niklaus," he hissed out, his arms spread wide as he stood between him and where the decoyed doppelganger was hidden. He stood tall making sure to keep the blanket out of Klaus' view to keep up their ruse.
Klaus was glaring at him, his jacket blowing in the wind as he dropped his little surprise on the ground beside the tree, out of view. "Elijah. Give her to me. Last chance brother."
Elijah laughed and then his voice lowered. "Or what? You and I know you can't kill me and I can't kill you. So we are back to empty threats."
"How can you say that for sure brother? Maybe I have an ace up my sleeve." Klaus snarled back, his voice daring. "Just hand her over and will tell my vampires to spare Damon."
Elijah bristled at that, knowing how in love the young vampire was with the woman they were all trying to protect and glared right back at him. "How do you know I don't have an ace up my sleeve," he hissed out, his voice ominous. "You don't have Damon, you couldn't. You chased me. How could you possibly know what is happening to him? You lie Niklaus, you always have when you don't get what you want."
Klaus walked back and forth hoping to get a glimpse of Elena tucked up behind his brother but Elijah matched his steps keeping him in between them. "You cannot win Elijah. I have the advantage and I am not leaving here without her." He listened, trying to make out the humans heartbeat but he could hear nothing. The wind was whistling strongly through the trees but there was no sound of a heartbeat anywhere nearby.
"Or maybe you don't have her after all, eh brother?" Klaus' eyes bore into his. "She isn't here...is she?"
Elijah knew he could not let Klaus leave him and go after Damon or worse yet go back to the cabin. But his brother could not be kept in the dark for long. He was far too smart.
"Oh I have her." Elijah lied. "But she in unconscious and you are not getting anywhere near her. I will not let you hurt those innocent babies!"
Klaus studied his brothers face as he spoke. Still unsure where she was. But if he was just a decoy then he needed to find out damn fast before she actually got away. He was tired of the talking.
"I'm not going to hurt those children brother! How many times do I need to say that?!" And he rushed him with all his supernatural strength, slamming Elijah back into the tree beside where the blanket lay. There was no movement from it.
Elijah saw his brothers eyes fall to the blanket and he snarled and used that split second to push back, slamming him into another tree. Their arms were locked on each other, preventing either of them from reaching for a branch to stake the other with. Nothing out there would kill them, but it would end the fight fast and allow Klaus to get away... if Elijah was staked.
Klaus snarled and groaned, fighting his brothers weight on him. "All I need is to get one branch in your damn heart Elijah and you are down for the count." He twisted out of his grip and spun himself back picking up a branch that they had snapped off the tree.
"You cannot beat me brother. This is not about you." He leapt up, lifting the makeshift stake in his grasp aiming for the vampires heart. Elijahs' hands gripped his, fighting back from getting the stake in his body.
"You cannot win Niklaus. Caroline will hate you and all the love you have been searching for all your life will be gone...if you do this," Elijah grunted seeing the stake get closer and closer and feeling his strength to hold him back fading.
Klaus' eyes were hard on his, his expression emotionless. "I will get everything I want brother." He fought some more, forcing the stake closer. "You can't stop me. Caroline will be mine. She will forgive me. She loves me. I will save her from Father and you will see that your baby brother does not let the people he loves die."
In a flash he had swept Elijah's legs out from under him, sending him crashing to the ground. Klaus stabbed him in the heart in one swift swing...but then fell back in shock as the wood literally shattered on his brother's chest! Not one piece of it penetrated his heart!
Klaus caught himself with his hands as he watched Elijah's eyes snap to his as he jumped up, grabbing him by the neck and slamming him hard into the tree in front of them.
Elijah face was full of anger at almost being staked but he wore a slight smirk on his lips as he watched his brother's eyes widen in complete and utter shock. "Surprised?" he smiled up at him.
Klaus was struggling for air as his grip tightened. Elijah's head moved closer to his brother's till his mouth was almost at his ear. "Checkmate," he breathed out.
Damon waited with baited breath as three vampires came into view. They blurred past where he was hiding and raced up to the blanket against the tree. He could see them sniffing, sure they had caught the scent of his blood. He saw another one come out from the shadows and was looking around them as the others pulled the blanket apart seeing that there was no human girl hidden in there.
Damon did not even give them a second to react. Snarling and growling he flew at them and plunged his hand in the one nearest the ground, as the others turned to him in shock as he tore out the vampire's heart. He pushed back at two of them sending them careening into nearby trees as he felt the last one grip his neck in its grubby hands. The blue eyed vampire whirled at super speed and slammed him against the tree behind him impaling him on a low tree branch till it stuck all the way out his chest from the back. He barely had a moment to turn as he was slammed back against another tree and his felt his vision spinning.
The two vampires he had thrown were back, circling him with blood red eyes as he felt a wound on his head drip blood down his face. He shook his head, trying to clear his vision as he jumped back to his feet. He felt exhilarated from the fighting, the blood, the scent of death around him. It was a vampire's playground that he had not visited in this way in a long time.
He saw more and more vampires coming out of the darkness around him and he was scared for a moment that being outnumbered would be his death. But these looked to be new vampires that Klaus had turned. They seemed unsteady on their feet and unsure of their power and he could take advantage of that.
Cocky as ever he smirked at them, the blood that had run down his cheek pooled by his mouth and bathed his brilliant white teeth in red. His fangs were dripping with his own blood, his mouth open snarling. He motioned his head back away from them thinking he still had an opening behind him.
"Come and get me, baby vamps," he teased with a big bloody smile.
And he was about to turn around, to run, when he felt more vampires behind him and he whirled around, slamming one back against a tree before it could stake him and tearing the other ones head off. His fangs were soaked with more blood, dripping down his chin and going down his shirt as he whipped the head at the group surrounding him from the front. He knocked a few down like he was bowling.
"Ooh hoo," Damon laughed and grabbed the other vampire behind him fast before he attacked and held him in front of him his arms tight around its throat. Damon's eyes were full of blood and he was in full on vamp attack mode. He glared at the group in front of him. "Should I go for a strike?" he teased them and his teeth tore through the vampires neck as Damon let his body fall to the ground.
He held the head in his hands, swinging it back and forth his eyes daring. "Who's next?"
There was nothing but fear in the remaining few vamps eyes as they watched him swinging the head around, holding it by the hair. Two vampires turned and ran and he laughed again. Maybe he could survive this suicide mission and actually get back to his girl. He pleaded with fate or destiny or whatever that his desperate hope could be actually be true.
Damon forced his head to focus on his attackers and not his lovely Elena and he threw the head at the vampire stupid enough to advance on him next, knocking him to the ground. Still feeling so full of energy knowing he could crash at any moment he ran around and around the lone vampire still standing and finally grabbed for his neck and snapped it. Not missing a beat he raced to the nearest tree cracking a branch in half and leaped down, stabbing the last vampire in the chest and watched him turn all veiny.
He was about to get up when he felt this overwhelming pain in his head and he fell to his knees, the expensive jeans landing in the dirt. He was holding his head like it was going to explode!
"Ahh, damn witches," he growled out and turned around his head nearly to the ground to see two more vampires striding closer and closer as he screamed in pain.
He saw one of them swinging the ax from the shed between his fingers as he slowly advanced on him.
Oh shit, this was not good.
Elena pressed close to Stefan waiting for him to say when it was okay to run. She wondered how long the blood would keep giving him the strength like it had been. She could still see the dark black veins along his arm and up his neck and down his chest but the weakness he had before was gone, at least for now. She heard a hushed whisper and Stefan was motioning Jeremy to turn back toward them.
Her brother spun from where he was leading them to face them as Stefan spoke quickly. "Where is Bonnie's car Jer? Do you know? We need to get Elena there fast." His eyes continued to dart around for any sign of threats. But there was too much open space between the cabin and where Jer said the car was, just past the trees by the field across the road.
Stefan looked back at Elena wondering if he could carry her. It would be a long sprint out in the open but it could work. She was the only one of them that could not run at vampire speed and Stefan was not sure how long his adrenaline would last yet.
"Elena, we have to run." He opened his arms motioning her closer. "I can carry you. We need to go fast and its way too exposed out there, even with the sky so dark."
Elena nodded numbly knowing this was it. There was no safe haven anymore once they were out there. She put her arms around him hesitantly. "Stefan are you sure you are strong enough?" she questioned, knowing how weak he had been just merely a half hour ago.
"No, I have no idea if I am strong enough. But I need to get you and the babies away from here fast and you can't run as fast as we can."
Jeremy turned back around again into the huddle. "I can carry her Stefan." And he reached out for his sister. He could feel another wave of hunger at her standing so close to him and could hear her heartbeat so strong in his ears. He turned away from them and gritted his teeth and pushed the thoughts from his blood hungry brain.
But Stefan pulled her back as she was ready to reach out to her brother. He just didn't feel right about that. He knew how raw new vampires hunger could be and he could not take that kind of chance with her.
"No Jer," he breathed out. "I'm not strong enough if we get attacked. You need to keep watch and fight any vampires that you see. We will follow you."
Elena knew they were doing all they could to protect her and she drew in a deep shuddering breath and climbed into Stefan's arms. With a whoosh they were running and even at the rapid speed she saw both of them swinging their heads back and forth watching for any attackers.
Jeremy called out and pointed ahead and saw the car tucked in the trees just before the field. They raced over to it and Jeremy threw the door open looking frantically for the keys. "Keys, keys, where the hell are the keys?" he muttered aloud as he checked the visor, the ignition, the glove box and all around the seat.
Stefan had blurred around to the other side of the car and set Elena down, feeling his breath heaving from the exertion as he opened the door and helped her inside. He turned to look at Jeremy from the passenger side seeing him still not finding the keys.
Elena just sat with her feet tucked up, her whole body still wrapped in Damon's jacket as she waited anxiously. As much as she knew they needed to leave, she hated leaving Damon out there and not knowing how he was doing.
"Damon, baby," she whispered hoping desperately that he could hear her like she had thought before. "We are at the car and almost home free. Just please, please come back to us. I don't want to leave without you," she pleaded silently.
"Jer we need to get out of here. Where are the keys?!" Stefan hissed at him. Jer was feeling all along the floor and Stefan leaned down too opening the other compartments and feeling around on the floor and between the seats. He gasped out as his hand barely touched what had to be the key chain but he could not reach it from where he was.
"Between the seats Jer. I felt it, right here." He bent back down and pointed and Jer leaned all the way over the seat feeling the keys with the tips of his fingers.
"Almost got them," he called back to him. Reaching his hand deeper between the front seats he grasped the chain and pulled till he had them clutched in his hand. He looked back at Stefan proudly only to see him ripped away from the car and thrown back!
Elena screamed, feeling the rush of air as Stefan was there one second and gone the next as she saw him tossed against a tree further away. Then she saw a vampire, snarling and baring his fangs at her, advance on the car!
Jeremy was in front of her in an instant. He pulled her from the car keeping her behind him as the vampire stood in front of them. Elena was clutching her brother's arm tightly not knowing what they should do. He walked slowly keeping her behind him till they were beside the car.
"There is nothing for you here but a quick death dick," Jer snarled at him, his eyes filling with blood as he felt his fangs click down in place. That whole sensation felt so strange. "Get the hell out of here," he snapped at the lone vamp.
The spiky haired vampire shook his head walking closer. "She is what we are after. I can't let you go," the creep snarled back at him.
Jer shook his head at him, his eyes darting around for any more threats and he saw Stefan shake his head and stand up slowly behind their attacker. "No way in hell are you taking my sister!" he yelled at him.
The vampire rushed forward and slammed Jeremy against the side of the car literally making a person sized dent in the passenger side. Jer growled and fought as he felt the vampire going for his heart to rip it it out. He grabbed for his hands, keeping them back and then felt Stefan grab for the attacker throwing him back off of him.
The vampire leapt to his feet, glaring at Stefan and picked up a branch on the ground. Then another vampire and another blurred to the ones side and Jeremy's eyes widened as he looked to Stefan. Damn it! Three against two...and they still had not gotten Elena safe.
Stefan looked back at her his eyes pained, feeling like he had failed Damon and her. He mouthed that he was so sorry, like it was already over. His head snapped back forward and he felt the pain in his body coming back. The blood's strength was fading and it sure picked a hell of a time to do that.
The vampire's started spreading out leaving Stefan and Jeremy not knowing how to stop them and protect Elena at the same time. All three rushed them at once and Stefan grabbed for one slamming it to the ground as the other tried to sneak past him to get to Elena. Jeremy was fighting the other one rolling on the ground to keep from getting stabbed with a stake.
"Elena run!" Stefan called out in panic. He did not know how long they could keep these creeps back. It was looking more and more like they failed. "Get out of here!" He saw her hesitate for a moment before she turned and ran the other way.
He had waited years, centuries even to have outsmarted his brother, just once. Elijah grinned victoriously at him watching Klaus' nostrils flare at him as his mouth opened and closed as he gasped for breath between Elijah's tightly clenched hands around his throat.
"Do you really think I'd go into a fight with you without a few tricks up my sleeve? My witches gave me a protection spell against mere wood because dear brother, I knew that was all you could do to take me out. And now you don't even have that..."
Klaus glared fire at his brother, as he choked and gasped. "I'm impressed," he hissed hoarsely. "But I have tricks too..."
"Caroline look at this!" Bonnie gasped out. "It says that there is another way..." She poured over the grimoire reading the Latin the best she could.
Caroline leaned back down to where she was pointing. "Another way to what Bonnie? Another way to stop him? To find out why it seemed like I just compelled Nic before when he was sure he heard you in here? What?"
Bonnie scrunched up her nose and wiped her forehead as she felt a yawn coming. She had been concentrating so hard already trying to figure all this out and even with sleeping in Jeremy's arms last night she still had lain awake just watching him sleep. Her brain felt like it that was the night it wanted to stay up and would not switch off since so much had been going on, not to mention her unprofessionally stitched up head wound that was pounding with pain off and on.
She sighed sitting back, blinking a couple times to try to clear her hazy vision. "I'm not sure Care. But it talks about a huge white oak tree being burned down cause it was the only thing that could kill them. But then it speaks of a sword. The sword used in the ritual to turn them into vampires was melted down and can be used together with the ash of the tree."
"Well we need to hurry up and figure it out Bon. This could all be over and I will be stuck here not able to help anyone! We need a way to stop him now!"
Caroline leaned back stretching her neck. "I can't stand being trapped here like this. Did my idiot lover not even think I might not have to pee at some point? This is so ridiculous!"
"It's a dagger Caroline!" Bonnie cried out holding the book up to show her. "The witches said that the sword could be melted into a dagger. And the dagger and the ash from the tree are to be used together."
Bonnie flipped all the way back to the now not blank page. "That is what this page is talking about. The one after the one we revealed speaks of balance too..That nature needed balance to the hybrid's potential power.
This the only place I can see that there is any mention of a doppelganger at all too. It says that nature placed protection for the doppelganger from the hybrid once she was discovered by way of invisible connection." She furrowed her brows at her friend. "Whatever that means? I have no idea. But it says that it could be used to protect her from him or any threats to her safety."
Bonnie closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Whoa, way too much information. And none of that makes any sense."
Caroline nodded. "Yeah I know what you mean. I don't understand that either. Invisible connection? Way over my head."
"Yeah you and me both," Bonnie echoed. "Then it goes back to the other way nature needed balance. That the dagger was a weapon that could be forged and it would immobilize an Original."
Caroline's eyes widened. "I thought his father had the only weapon against him. That is what Nic told me. That is why he did the spell to get Elena pregnant because without it he would never be strong enough to kill him."
She leaned her head back closing her eyes for a moment trying to make sense of everything Bonnie had discovered. "I am so confused. Does that mean Nic knows of the dagger that could put down even his own brother?"
She sat up fast running over what she was saying again in her head. "Bonnie, if Nic has a way to incapacitate Elijah then we have to stop him! Damon and Elena are depending on him to help them get away. Elijah has witches close by that can help her get safe. But if Nic could do what you are saying then they have no chance!"
Caroline was frantic knowing she was trapped in the damn seat and could not move. But Bonnie could go warn them. They were already running but they had no idea what Nic could be planning.
"I'm stuck here but you could go warn them Bonnie. You could tell them that Nic might have a weapon that could take out Elijah!"
There was a gust of wind and Klaus' eyes widened seeing the blanket fall apart and a pillow fall out of it. He started laughing low in his throat despite being strangled as he saw that she was not there.
Elijah turned his head following his gaze seeing that he knew. He barely turned back a second, his grip loosening just slightly. But that was all it took for Klaus to slam his head against Elijah's' and squirm out of his grip. He tackled him to the ground and reached around the tree.
Elijah saw the glint of victory in Klaus' eyes and he knew he wasn't the one who had outsmarted him.
He felt thing happening in slow motion. His eyes bulged as he saw his brother reaching for something and he just knew Klaus had been one step ahead the whole time.
He saw him lift his hand holding a long iron looking dagger before he plunged it into his chest. He felt the jolt of it pierce his flesh and then he could taste darkness, emptiness and he wondered if this was what death felt like.
Klaus leaned in to his brother's ear as he watched his skin go ashen and veiny. "Don't worry Elijah. This is just temporary death. I just need you out of the way."
He leaned in even closer, his lips a breath away from his ear. "I really am sorry about this. But I thought it was time you know there was not just one weapon against us, brother." His expression was sad, not cocky or confident even in the face of his victory against him and Elijah saw that his brother did in fact look remorseful of everything that was happening.
"One down, one to go." Klaus mumbled getting up on his knees.
Elijah's eyes widened more as he fought the feel of death racing through his body. He opened his mouth, his voice raspy and faint as he gripped Klaus' arm. "This... isn't... over..." He saw his brother looking sadly back at him before he turned away.
His only hope was that Elena had made it to his witches by now for he could not help them anymore. And he watched as Klaus stood up and raced away in to the trees to find Damon next no doubt, the last one standing between him and taking her away.
Stefan was dying, Damon was already poisoned and now Klaus had found a weapon against him, a weapon he had never seen or heard of. He fought the coldness flooding him as his eyes fell closed and then the darkness took him.
Review? Sorry, everything sucks right now. I didn't say it would be easy.