The Return
Samantha - Here is the next fun filled chapter. Waited until VD came back for its second season so now updates shall be weekly most likely at the weekend :) Unless y'all are lucky and I decide to do a mid week update.
Chapter Five - Is Lying too Harsh ?
Elena blinked rapidly regaining what little composure she had and straightened her back, kicking the girls body out of her way with a ferociousness she didn't even know she had in her. With a small flick of the had, Elena wiped the remaining blood that had dribbled out of the side of her lips and licked it off her fingers. She longed to pick the girls body back up and continue feeding, the red hot burn in her throat told her she was still hungry but her rational mind prevented her from taking the small movement downwards back towards the body.
" Damon. " Elena burst holding her ground, she was unsure what to expect from Damon, so she expected anything and everything. He was the unprodictable Brother.
" What the heck are you doing, Elena ? " Damon asked with an angry look on his face but the concern in his voice betrayed his expression.
" I was catching a bite too eat. " The girl at Elena's feet moaned slightly, showing Elena she was still alive. In one swift motion, Elena kicked the girls head snapping it to the side with a sickening crunch. The women's lifeless eyes looked at Damon, a symbol of death. " Silence is golden. " Elena purred as she bent down and smoothed the girls tangled hair.
" Elena, just stop. Think about what your doing, this isn't you. " Damon moved forward out of the darkness of the tree's and into the moonlite road.
" Damon, you just don't understand. I hear her all the time, compelling me to do things. And now look at what I am. Its so much harder now. " Elena had allowed tears to build but to her dismay they didn't fall, all she wanted was to be cleansed.
" Bonnie can help you, Stefan can help you, for craps sake I can help you ! You just need to let us ! " Damon had dropped his angry facade and turned to full out despritation.
" I can't. I-I can't. "
Be strong, Elena. Damon doesn't understand. He never will understand.
" Please. At least let us help you with your hunger and all your new abilities. Your new to all of this. "
Thats what I'm here for sweetie. I'm all the info you will ever need.
" Damon, just leave... now. Turn around and walk away. Now. "
" And leave you here in this state? I think I'll pass on that suggestion. "
" It wasn't a suggestion. " Elena growled loosing herself, it was getting harder to restrain herself. She seemed to be angry with the world and everything in it. Katherine was busy whispering away like she usually did as of late, all Elena wanted was a little silence. Something she couldn't even acheive in her own mind. That was just ludicris.
I can help you out, you know. If you let me.
Elena considered Katherine's proposition, but really couldn't see how she could do anything but insesently whisper old memories and useless stories to an unwilling listener.
" I've been where you are, Elena. I get it, its hard and you've got it worse than I ever did because you watched it happen to yourself and couldn't do anything about it, you didn't want any of this. "
" Did you have a disembodied past life speaking to you in your head too ? Do tell how you managed to get rid of it. I am dying to find out. " She shot back casually.
" See that right there. That wasn't you ! That was Katherine talking. " Damon knew he was repeating himself but the girl standing in front of him right now was so confused and desprite she wasn't able to see reason.
" No, this is all me. Elena. " Her hands flew out to her sides to exaggerate her point in a dramatic fashion.
Let me help you. The voice pulsed over and over like it was on a constant loop, compelling her to accept.
" Yes. " Elena whispered out loud.
The word had bairly left her lips when the darkness crept in from the edges of her vision and over took her, the numbness overtaken everything.
Elena collapsed in a pile before even Damon could catch her. Her eyes fluttered like butterflys. Her entire body racked with tremors, Damon to be truthful was terrified for the first time in perhaps his entire life.
Elena stopped moving and her eyes slipped closed then opened slowly a wicked glint to her eyes.
" Hello, Damon. I'm sure you remember that I like to be on top." Her lips curling into a seductive smile as she studied his face.
" Katherine. "
" In the flesh. " Katherine laughed through Elena's lips.
" Where could she have gone ? " Bonnie huffed as she paced back and fourth on the Salvatore Boarding House porch, her hands glasped tightly on a large black book.
" You can come in you know. " Stefan drawled from the entry way.
" I don't think so, Stefan. I'm only here for Elena's sake. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here. At all. "
Stefan nodded mutely from the doorway and lent his body so he could lean on the doors frame, his arms crossed again his strong chest. He understood the reasoning behind Bonnie's hatred and could see just how strong her bond between the two bestfriends was. Bonnie had ventured out of her comfort zone all the way out into red territory to save her best friend and she was determind to do just that... Save her.
" I could do a tracking spell and find her that way. Wouldn't take too long. " Bonnie suggested. " Fast and simple. "
" No need. " Damon's voice annonced causing the young witch to jump and whirl round her face lighting up then dimpling in confusion.
In the other brothers arms was Elena, her arms fixed behind her back and a rebellious look on her face, it was all wrong. Her eyes were inky black mixed with swirls of blood red, a trail of black veins circling her eyes. Her smile revealed a brillently white set of elegantly pointed canine teeth, wicked sharp and deadly.
" Ah, the gangs all here. " She chorused as she was brought forward into the pull of light that was spilling out of the house.
" Your not, Elena. " Bonnie cried in disbelief, her head shaking frantically side to side throwing her hair in all directions.
" A desendant of my dear Isobel, now this I like. I'll need a witch by my side. " It was hard to see her best friend talking like she was but Bonnie understood full well that her bff wasn't quite at home at the moment.
" But, how ? " A distraught Stefan asked, his eyes moving between his brother and his girlfriend. " I didn't think... "
" You shouldn't think, Brother. "
" This isn't the time, Damon. " Brotherly bickering was always key in the Salvatore relationship but as usual the fighting always came at an inappropriate times and always the wrong places.
" Oh, Mr Bossy boots today ? " Shot back Damon almost instantly.
" Someone needs to control you. "
" That person is supposedly you, Saint Stefan ? "
" Yes, it is. "
" Oh well you can crame that self rightoues attitude right up you a- "
" Both of you for craps sake, SHUT UP !" Bonnie yelled as loud as she possibly could muster and letting her power loose, silenced both brothers in an instant with a simple flick of her wrist. " My friend is in trouble and all you two idoits can do is argue ? "
Bonnie released the two brothers and was happy to hear an apology from Stefan and an annoyed grunt from Damon.
" Bring her inside. " Stefan said from the doorway, moving out of the way so the two could get inside. Bonnie hesitated for a few seconds but followed soon after, a rock hard look on her face. Its all for Elena Bonnie thought.
Inside, the air felt thick with tension. Everyone seemed to be staring rather that looking at 'Katherine' her smug demenore reminding them all that Elena wasn't home. Katherine was more powerful than the two brothers put together, so it was obvious that Katherine wasn't forced against her will to be here, she had chosen to come. At any moment that could all change and Elena could disappear for good. Then again even the almightly Katherine wasn't immune to witch wammy.
" Now why don't we all hold hands and make up ? "
" Give Elena back. Now. " Stefan growled and as his eyes darkened.
" Not just yet, sunshine. I still have a few little matters of buisness to deal with. Then your home gir'll be back new and improved and a little less... Breakable. " Her teeth glinted in the dim light dangerous and sharp.
" You lied to her all along. " Two voices accused in unison, the first time the brothers had agreed on anything that night.
" No lie, gentlemen. Just a few... Points I happened to miss out. "