The bizarre arrangement in the Gilbert household had been going on for about a week. According to doctor Bennett, Elena was getting better unbelievably fast. She still had the cast on her leg, bust she was now used to it so she was able to move easily around the house with the help of crutches. It had also been about a week since Elena or Damon had seen the younger one of the Salvatore brothers.
Elena was rummaging through her enormous, black bag in her living room without finding her keys. She had left a note on the kitchen table by the fruit bowl for Damon. She smiled contentedly as she held up her car keys and started to make her way out of the front door. She needed some time of her own after being watched 24/7. All week Damon had left her side only once on Tuesday, to take care of some problem at the headquarters and that's when Tyler Lockwood had taken over the duty. In Elena's opinion he was more professional than Damon until Caroline Forbes had came over. Does it even need to be mentioned that his eyes had been glued to the bubbly blonde instead of Elena for the entire time. Talking about being professional…
She placed her hand on the doorknob and turned is slowly while leaning to the door. She didn't want Damon to hear her and, of course, she had disabled the security system of the door so it wouldn't send an alert to his watch. Elena heard the muffled click and bit her bottom lip. Nothing. She stepped out and pushed the door closed with her hip and walked to the elevator and pressed the arrow that pointed downwards. Soon the elevator let out a small beep and Elena jumped in pressing the button for downstairs and smiled.
Damon stepped out of the shower in one of the bathrooms. One thing he had learned to love while living with Elena was the amazing shower along with Elena's mad cooking skills. He picked up a fluffy towel from the counter and dried his skin. He tied the towel around his hips and left the room.
"Elena?" Damon called walking towards the spare bedroom he had gotten for himself. "Elena?" He repeated starting to get a little anxious. He was standing in the living room and made his way to the kitchen. He saw a piece of paper taped to the fruit bowl and opened it. His eyes widened as he read the neat handwriting.
"Went out with Caroline and Rebekah.
I'll be back in few hours.
Do not try to follow me.
I'll be fine.
-Elena."
Damon groaned and threw the note back to the bowl. He rushed to his room and got dressed in few minutes. He picked up his car keys and dialled agent Saltzman's number and left the apartment running down the stairs.
"Rick, it's Damon. Miss Gilbert left." He said as the man on the other line answered.
"What? How's that even possible? I'll call Lockwood." Alaric replied stating it, not suggesting.
"Meet me in 30 minutes at the headquarters." Damon responded ending the call and getting into his Camaro. He threw his phone to the seat on his right and started the engine before pulling out of the parking lot and speeding down the road to the headquarters.
"This dress looks so chic!" Caroline said as she picked up a Champaign coloured strapless dress from the rack. Elena took a closer look to it and smiled.
"It would look great on you Care." Elena said before Caroline smiled widely hugging the dress and turned around quickly making the curls on her hair bounce. She headed to the fitting room and closed the curtain.
"You want to do something else than shop with the shopaholic?" Rebekah asked as she fiddled with the hem of some dark red satin dress. She then let go of the dress and ran her fingers on the rack, touching every single dress as she made her way in front of Elena.
"Shopping isn't on the top of my list of things I love but I can't leave Caroline. Maybe we could go grab a coffee next or something?" She suggested as Rebekah smiled.
"I know just the right place we could go to." She replied smiling slightly. Elena was too interested in watching Caroline's theatrical entrance as she swirled around in the dress that she didn't detect the edge of slyness in Rebekah's voice.
"I just got a call from the police and they said that there has been a break out. Klaus Smith has gotten out before his transfer. That happened four days ago." Tyler Lockwood said as he sat by the table in the conference room. Damon was pacing by the one end of the table and Alaric was leaning to the other side of it.
"Fuck! Why the fuck wasn't we informed earlier?" Damon yelled causing Alaric to stand up.
"Don't yell at the boy, it's not his fault that the lazy bastards didn't leave their doughnuts and report."
"I know! So yeah, at first we'll try to locate Elena. We'll use the tracker of her car, then her cell. I've already tried to call her but she isn't picking up." Damon said as he ran his hand through his still damp hair. "We can get some of the guys from the office to track down the Smiths and they'll try to catch Klaus."
"I can call Caroline…" Tyler suggested as he got out his phone and pressed few buttons and soon he started talking.
"Hi Caroline! Where are you?"
After a short conversation the agents learned that Caroline was at work and had left Elena alone with Rebekah Mikaelson. According to her they had left to grab a coffee. They sketched a plan as Elena's phone was getting tracked.
"You were right, this is a nice place!" Elena said as she took a sip out of her took in the beautiful decoration of the place. The walls were the same colour as café au lait and one wall behind the counter was as dark as chocolate. The chairs and tables were made of dark wood and there were several chandeliers hanging from the roof over every table. Every table, which were empty.
"I know, my brother used to come here with me." Rebekah responded before taking a bite of her chocolate chip cookie.
"I never knew you have a brother." Elena stated as she broke a piece of her honey muffin and ate it.
"Oh I have my secrets." Rebekah said and smiled.
"It's unreal how tired I am." Elena stated as she closed her eyes. She yawned and took a deep breath. Soon after that she dozed off and was circled by a bunch of people.
"Good work, sister." Klaus said as he kissed his sister's forehead and turned to Kol. "Take the girl to the warehouse. Make sure you ditch her phone too. We aren't taking any risks."
Kol nodded and picked Elena up from the table. He grabbed her purse with him and placed into his car that was parked right outside the coffee shop. He then went through her bag and found her phone and threw it down the drain, hoping it would wash away with the water. He threw her bag into the car and closed the door before getting in himself and speeding away.
"I was almost starting to like her." Rebekah admitted as she glanced at her brother.
"Toughen up little sister and go break up with your boyfriend or something." Klaus replied as he left the shop with Elijah leaving Rebekah alone.
"I got the coordinates!" One of the computer experts yelled as he typed something viciously. "Sent them to your phones and car navigators."
"Thank you, Giles" Damon said as he grabbed his leather jacked from the back of his chair and started to run to his car followed by his group. They all got into the black van, Tyler was driving rest of them were in the back getting on their gear as Tyler followed the navigator and reached the coffee shop.
"This is the exact place she should be… But here's nothing…" Tyler said as he stood on the pavement staring at the screen of his phone. "Maybe there's something wrong with the satellite?" He suggested.
"I don't think there is…" Alaric said as he stared down the drain. "Call her." He told Damon and soon they heard buzzing from the drain.
"For fucks sake!" Damon yelled angrily as he lifted the grating away and picked up the phone. It had dropped on some pipes so it hadn't touched water. Damon unlocked the phone and opened the camera roll. There were few new photos and in the last of them were Elena and Rebekah at some coffee shop and there was a man in the background. It was Klaus Smith. Damon groaned and gave the phone to the other men and decided to make few phone calls and get the security tapes of the places nearby.
Rebekah was sitting in Stefan's living room and staring at him while he was standing on the other side of the room.
"Why are you doing this?" Stefan questioned as he stared the woman in front of him.
"I don't know. This just doesn't work. It's now you and me, I just feel like it's not we anymore." Se responded trying to look apologetic. The man in front of her tried to closer but she stood up. "No Stefan, don't…" She pleaded and began to walk away from the room heading to the front door.
"Rebekah, please!" Stefan called as he grabbed her arm.
"No! Get your hands off me!" She said as she pushed him to the wall with her free arm and started to open the door. Stefan soon grabbed her again and pleaded her to explain. She just slapped him and left the apartment and the confused man behind her.
She walked down to stairs not bothering to take the elevator. She could feel few tears slide down her face. She wiped them away with her thumb and tried to be strong. When had she even started to have real feelings towards the annoying man who obviously still had the hot's for his lovely neighbour. Any guy would have been glad to have her next to him at night but apparently that wasn't enough for him. She was never enough for him or anyone.
Elena was starting to wake up. Her eyes opened slowly and she scanned through the room she was in. No windows, just one door. She tried to stand up from the floor but realized that her feet and hands had been tied and there was no way she could get out of those without any help. Tears started to run freely as she remembered how stupid she had been and left without Damon and leaving him just a small note. Maybe he didn't see it or maybe he did but decided to let her be. Maybe he wasn't looking for her at all.
"Ahh princess, you're awake. Nice to see you awake!" Klaus called as he opened the only door. The yellowish light of the room made him look scary and Elena couldn't help crying. "Oh don't cry! You aren't going to die! Well not yet…" He said with a laugh. "Now only if I had your father to see you all tied up and depressed. He'd be devastated. He should've thought about that before he tried to make a fool out of me. What a foolish chap he was…" He continued and stared at the terrified woman by his legs. "Boo!" He yelled as Elena let out a whimper and started to cry harder. With that Klaus left the room, the room where his laugh echoed from the concrete walls.
Author's note
Another update and the story really started to move on!
I got to admit that personally I think that Elena did the stupidest thing when she left the house but I wanted to make her like she's in the show. She's stubborn and doesn't play by the rules. She always does what she thinks it's the right thing without thinking through the possibilities.
Even though I tried to make the characters like they are in the show I had to use some freedom with 'the Smith family' aka the originals in the TV show. I had to make them meaner and scarier than in the show to make this work.
So yeah, thank you so much for reviews and reading. Now we only need to wait until Damon finds her!
-Oona
