A/N: I decided to be an awesome author and make this story longer than Originally [lol] intended. [YAY!] I hope you like the little plot twists and stuff in this story. (:

Idk if you would consider parts of this chapter to be considered 'dark' so warning I suppose.

Enjoy! xoxo

Elena's POV

I backed away from him inch by inch.

"What are you talking about?" I let the fear show in my eyes.

"You heard me Elena." He smirked and stepped forward slowly.

"This isn't you Damon." I felt a tear drip down my face. "Please, just let me go home."

"To Kol?" he growled, staring at me. "Why should he get to be with you when I can't?"

"Kol and I aren't even together!" I spat. "And you can be with me…just not in the way you would like."

"That's not good enough!" he looked pained and his eyes betrayed so many emotions that I got confused just trying to untangle them.

"Why can't it be knowing I'm happy?" I backed into another tree and cursed mentally.

Damn forest. Why can't there be random stakes or friends roaming around? Stupid trees!

He glared at me and I spoke again. "Don't do something you'll regret later Damon. Please."

"I don't think I'll regret this, 'Lena." He appeared inches away from me.
"No Damon! Please! No!" I screeched, but he didn't listen. He stepped forward and wrapped his arms around my waist, and the both of us vanished a moment later.

Color blurred by quickly and I shut my eyes, a voice whispering in my ear. I found myself drifting off to sleep seconds later.

Kol's POV

It was already dark outside, and I hadn't heard anything from Elena. I checked my phone before I overreacted. No messages or calls from anyone. I looked outside, and shook my head in frustration when no one was there. I decided to see if she got in touch with Jeremy so, I went to her brother's room and knocked on his door.

A moment later, he came to the door, sticking his head out cautiously. "Can I help you?"

"Have you heard from Elena?" I furrowed my brows.

"Is she not back yet?"

When I shook my head, his eyes filled with worry. "She went after Damon… didn't she?"

I nodded again. "He's reckless, isn't he?"

Jeremy nodded this time and I cursed, resisting the urge to punch the wall.

"I'll be right back." I grabbed my jacket off Elena's bed and started to walk down the stairs.

"Wait!" he called to me. I turned around, hiding a scowl. "I'm coming with you."

I ended up scowling, as I said, "No You'll get hurt and slow me down."

He ran down the last few stairs and grabbed my shoulder. "She's my sister."

I sighed, "Fine, c'mon. But if you get hurt, don't expect me save your ass."

Little Gilbert simply nodded and grinned when he revealed to me four vervain darts.

I smirked and he ran to his car. "I'll run, I can cover more ground that way."

The car door slammed and I took off in a blur, headed the way Elena had so many hours ago. I turned the corner and walked at a human pace. I scanned the sidewalk and the road for any sign of her. Something gleamed in the streetlamp light and I bent down, picking up the object. It was her earring. I scowled and pocketed the earring, trying my best to keep it under control. I studied the ground for tracks and noticed some bushes and leaves that were disrupted. I followed them in a blur back behind the houses into the woods. I scanned the area, and sat two sets of tracks.

They were here.

I figured Jeremy could be helpful so I walked to the main road and waved him down when he passed by a moment later. We journeyed back into the woods together and I pointed out the tracks.

"So they were here then?" he asked with a frown.

"Like I said, little Gilbert, there's two sets of tracks." I found myself using Damon's nickname for him.

He whipped out a flashlight and began to scan the floor. I looked around for a while and finally noticed a scrap of fabric stuck on thorn bush near some trees.

"Shine the light over here," I called. He was at my side in an instant.

"That's her jacket all right!" he smiled hopefully. And I found myself smiling along with him.

We continued to search near where the jacket scrap was, and I noticed a shiny object buried beneath some leaves. I pulled out a charm bracelet.

"Is this hers?" I held it up in his beam of light and he peered at it.

"That looks vaguely familiar. So yeah it must be hers," he said quietly.

I nodded and looked around. "There aren't anymore tracks, he must have taken her back out of the woods."

By the time we made it back to the car, he had already whipped out his phone.

"Stefan. Your sorry excuse for a brother kidnapped Elena."

I heard Stefan exclaim and curse. "Where are you?"

I snatched the phone out of his hand and he scowled. "We're coming to you, stay at the boarding house."

The line went dead and I scowled, walking to his car.

"Are you just going to stand there all night? C'mon." I said with another scowl plastered on my face.

Jeremy climbed in the car and we drove to the Salvatore Boarding House.

Elena's POV

"You will sleep until I wake you."

My eyes drifted shut as the world sped by.

I was standing at the front door with a stake clenched in my hand. I looked out the door, and instead of Kol, it was Damon.

'I'm already invited in, Elena.'

He flew towards me, fangs extended and I felt myself whimper, but the pain didn't come. The scene changed and I was watching Damon's car fly by. He was crying and looking at me sadly. His head twitched and he hit his head with his palm.

No. NO NO NO!

She'll be mine! I heard a chuckle and the scene changed again. I was standing in the forest, watching the scene that just happened replay before my very eyes. I noticed Damon's actions. First, very human, then vampiric, then human again. Was it possible to have a witch screw with a vampire's humanity 'switch'?

Many scenes flashed by my eyes, some Damon's and some mine. I felt the same sick pressure as I did in the clearing so many days ago, and I knew it had to be Esther.

She was screwing with everyone's lives, even after dying- twice.

I called to her in my head.

'Stop this! This isn't right. Don't mess with your poor son and Damon! Don't play with his jealousy, his anger, his loneliness.'

There was no response, but the pressure increased for a moment before going back to normal. She heard and didn't agree.

The scenes flashed before me still, the color overwhelming. Girls' faces flickered by too and I was met with Kol's face instead of Damon. All of them had been bitten and abused. I tried to close my eyes and block it out, but it was no use. I cried for Kol's old life and for myself as I saw my face, pale and beaten right before everything went black.

Damon's POV

I drove my car down the highway, feeling pressured and nauseous.

"It's always going to be Stefan!" Elena's voice echoed in my ears and I held back tears, before the pain fading.
Stupid worthless human! I should kill her now!

No! I shouldn't kill Elena!

"I care for you Damon!" her voiced echoed still.

Stupid humans with their emotions, always getting themselves killed.

"I'll make you fall in love with me, don't worry!" I heard my voice echo through the silence, mocking Kol's arrogance.

I felt the switch snap and I cursed. I looked over at the doppelganger and felt myself radiate jealously. She was always loved. Always had people trying to save her. Always had people wanting to be with her. Always 'poor little Elena'. 'Always picked first.' I recalled Caroline saying, and sneered at the truth. The little brat had it all, and she went for Kol instead of me. The bitch kidnapped her for crying out loud!

So are you, a voice whispered and I slapped my head and cursed.

The switch flicked back on and I felt like crying again. I was such a terrible person to sweet dear-…off. Stupid bitch just had to be so damn appealing. Why couldn't she look like someone else! Wouldn't make me so damn lustful all the time!

I clicked on and off like this for hours, the pressure on my chest increasing and decreasing as we drove far away from Mystic Falls.