Chapter Two

The pain was intense, it consumed my every thought until I couldn't think anymore because I knew that I was dead. Or at least I hoped that this torture fest was over. Every bone in my body felt broken, every nerve pinched, and my head was throbbing.

As I slipped into unconsciousness, I wasn't alone. They were there holding me comforting me as I begged for my parents even though I knew that they had passed away, Elena, and even Ian. I changed my mind, I didn't want to die.

At least not before I graduate from high school.

At least not before I graduate from college.

At least not before I fall in love and get married.

At least not before I have kids.

I pleaded with them too. I told them not to let me go because I knew that if they did I would be gone forever.

Sometime while I was out, I started to notice the way the pain eased, and that was finally when I relaxed.

Either I was already dead or I was going to wake up soon.

Either way it was peaceful.

When I awoke I was surprised to find that instead of being in a hospital, I was in my own bed. However, there was an IV in my arm pumping in clear liquids. I guessed that it was mostly water.

I expected a few broken bones, ribs, and a concussion if not worse, but I felt fine, great actually.

"Hello," I said out loud trying to let somebody know that I was awake. It sounded like a stampede heading towards my bedroom. I made sure that I was wearing a beanie to hide my major bed head.

When I see Tyler….He's a dead man.

First there was Aunt Jenna and by her side, Alaric. "Thank God you are awake," she said. Behind her was Elena who walked slowly towards me oddly guilty, Stefan who rubbed her shoulders to try and comfort her, he nodded in my direction and smiled politely, Jeremy, and Tyler.

"What is he doing here?" I practically growled. I tried to lunge at him, but Jeremy gently pushed me back down.

"Calm down, sis. He didn't mean to. He came to apologize," Jeremy explained.

"So…he can do it again!" I declared struggling to get up, but dang it Jeremy is just too strong. Maybe that's because he's a personal trainer part time vampire hunter.

"For once I agree with little pocket fairy over here," Damon said suddenly appearing with Bonnie practically plastered to his side. I playfully glared at him. Even though he could be a total dick sometimes, he knew how to lighten up the mood.

"I'm not that short," I mumbled.

"She's as tall as me, babe," Bonnie added.

"Exactly," Damon said, "short."

Bonnie harrumphed.

"Can we see her now?! We are not getting any younger," a very hot masculine voice said from the kitchen. He had a British accent.

"Just a minute," Elena said before looking at everybody pointedly, "I'd like to talk to Bella alone please."

Everybody groaned, but obeyed except Tyler.

"Bella, I'm so sorry," he apologized, "when Elena didn't follow through on a deal with Klaus he told me to do it. I didn't have a choice."

"Whatever try explaining that to your next girlfriend," I said, "hopefully Klaus will never need her to break another curse."

Tyler narrowed his eyes at me. "Fuck you, bitch."

I ignored him and said very sarcastically, "Your apology has been accepted. I can almost see the guilt coming off of you in waves."

"She's almost as bad as I am," Damon muttered from out in the hallway. Bonnie shushed him. Tyler stormed out of the room.

Once everybody was gone Elena shut the bedroom door. "They can still hear us," I grumbled.

"I just thought that it would be easier to talk this way with a little more privacy," Elena shrugged.

"Spit it out. What happened?"

"Well…" she hesitated, "today Klaus told me that he we were leaving you know him and I. I said no, and he said that he would hurt somebody I loved."

"Me," I said suddenly realizing.

"Yes you. I didn't know!" she flung her hands up into the air, feeling helpless, "we tried to stop him, but it was too late."

"So Klaus was the one who ran me over in that large black car?"

"No actually it was another one of Klaus's hybrids," she said.

"Oh."

"There's more," she bit her lip. "Elijah came knocked on the front door just a little while ago. He wasn't alone. He was with Klaus. They want to meet you."

"Wait, what?" I was so confused. First, Klaus ordered somebody to run my ass over, and now he wanted to meet me? What else does he want from me? One second he wants me dead, and the next…What changed.

"They're actually out in the living room right now. They said that if we let them meet you then Klaus won't take me away. He'll take two pints of my blood, and then he promises to leave me alone," she said.

Well that was good news kind of. I was worried about how much blood Elena would loose, but we could always get her a blood transfusion, and she wouldn't be held captive for the rest of her life.

There was still one problem…

"Why are they interested in meeting me?"

"I don't know," Elena shrugged her shoulders, "but don't worry we'll be there the whole time. We won't let them hurt you and if you are uncomfortable you don't have to do it."

"I'll do it if it means you get your freedom," I said.

We hugged and then I got up momentarily forgetting about the IV until I was yanked back. There was a metal thing that looked like something you could hang your coat off of with a few bags full of clear liquids hanging off of it.

"You were asleep for a while, two days to be exact. Damon said that the vampire blood would be enough to hold you over hunger wise, but that you would still need water. We didn't want you to get dehydrated," she explained.

"Wow," my eyes widened, "how did you get access to an IV?"

"Elijah actually helped us out with that. He has connections all over the world," she said, "including at the Mystic Falls Hospital."

"How do you take it off?" I asked.

She took it off in one quick motion. "Elijah showed me how."
I sluggishly began to move downstairs still feeling exhausted even though I had slept for a couple of days.

I stopped when I got to the living room.

There they sat on the couch looking like they belonged here, lived here. The two guys from my dream.

When my brown eyes locked on theirs, a warm feeling crept up into my stomach, and I could swear that for a moment I felt a magnetic like pull towards them. It was overwhelming, I could barely stop myself from running towards them.

They stood up and when I was within arms reach, they pulled me towards them running their hands through my hair and down to my waist and back up again.

"Mine," they hissed.