Don't be ashamed to cry
Let me see you through
Cause I've seen the dark side too
When the night falls on you
You don't know what to do
Nothing you confess
Could make me love you less
I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
I won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you
I'll Stand By You by Carrie Underwood
Chapter Eleven: I'll Stand By You
"Go fish" Felecia sighed
"Seriously, you're sitting here playing go fish with Stefan while there's a serial killer out there?" Damon asked bursting into the living room now
"And there's the buzz kill I was looking for" Felecia sighed and her and Stefan looked up to face Damon now "There's not exactly much else we can do about the physco at the moment Damon. Plus, I haven't played go fish in forever, I wanted to play it" Felecia said with a smirk "If you're so worried about Elizabeth being around, then why are you here annoying us when you should be off playing body guard with Elena?"
"Caroline's with her, Elena's making me get some sleep" Damon said
"I was wondering where blondie was and why you look like hell" Felecia said
"So, while I'm sleeping, can you and Stefan keep an eye out for anything weird?" Damon asked
"You got it boss" Felecia said with a smirk and Damon rolled his eyes at her and he marched off upstairs. "…So, you got any 5's?" Felecia asked Stefan, getting back to their game
"Go fish" He said
"So, are you and Damon like boyfriend and girlfriend now? Or is it a secret again? Or are you…just, what the hell are you guys?" Caroline asked
"We're…complicated" Elena said
"What do you mean?" Caroline asked
"I thought we were together again, but after I ran to Stefan that night when there was that dead body in my house, it…complicated things. I told Damon I felt safer with Stefan" Elena sighed
"Ouch" Caroline said "Telling your current almost boyfriend that you're safer with your ex is a big punch in the face"
"Gee, thanks Caroline. That made me feel so much better" Elena said sarcastically
"You have been around Damon too long. You're actually being sarcastic" Caroline said "So, what are you gonna do about it?"
"I can't exactly flip a switch and feel safer with Damon. I mean, I could, but Damon would pick up on it and push me away for trying" Elena sighed "But, him knowing it and thinking I could go back to Stefan at any second doesn't exactly make things better"
"I see your dilemma" Caroline sighed
"I love Damon but-"
"Whoa, wait, did you just say you love Damon?" Caroline asked
"…Yeah, I guess I did" Elena said, noticing now that she had never said it out loud, not even to Jenna "I guess it slipped"
"Elena, you need to tell him!" Caroline said and smiled
"I don't know, what if he-"
"Don't go down the whole 'What if he doesn't say it back' road. Been there, done that, it over complicates everything" Caroline sighed "Just tell him those four words he's probably been dying to hear. 'Damon, I love you'" Caroline said and stared at Elena "Do I have to make you say it with me or something?"
"No, I can say it" Elena said
"Prove it, pretend I'm Damon" Caroline said and stood there in front of Elena and she tried to put on a serious face like how Damon had been lately and it only made Elena laugh, which caused Caroline to laugh "Okay, okay, no faces, just, pretend I'm him" Caroline smiled and collected herself
"Okay…Damon…I love you" Elena said
"…Elena, you're saying I love you without a gun to your head" Caroline said
"I sounded like that?" Elena asked nervously
"You sounded like if you didn't say I love you that someone was going to pull the trigger" Caroline said "Most guys don't wanna hear it like that…unless there actually is a gun to your head"
"Maybe I should just hold off on it then, huh?" Elena asked
"You could keep pretending that I'm Damon, if that helps" Caroline offered
"No…thanks anyway" Elena sighed
"Well, then until you can say I love you normally…why not at least show him that you're still into him?" Caroline said with a smile on her face
"…Caroline…what are you planning?" Elena asked nervously as Caroline walked over to Elena's closet
"Nothing at all. Don't worry your pretty little head about it" Caroline said
"How long have we been playing this game?" Stefan asked
"Uh…two hours" Felecia said "Don't worry though, the longest played game of Go Fish is actually…well, I'm not sure…but I'm gonna go for somewhere around three days or something, it sounds familiar" Felecia said
"You were there?" Stefan asked
"Yeah, I was part of it" Felecia smiled "Partially why I haven't played it in so long" Felecia said
Just then, Stefan and Felecia heard a door open and two people walk into the Boarding House and they knew right away by their scents who they were.
"Blondie, Elena, what are you doing here?" Felecia asked as they walked into the room "Got any sevens?" She asked Stefan
"Go fish" Stefan said
"God, what the hell do you have in your hand?" Felecia asked frustrated and Stefan just smiled a little
Felecia finally looked up and saw that Elena was definitely dressed differently, she was actually in a dress for no reason what so ever, and it looked really good on her.
"Damn, what happened to Elena?" Felecia asked and Caroline laughed a little and Elena felt a little out of place now since she was so used to usually just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, not a dress
"Elena, is our ticket to a less bitchy and whiney Damon" Caroline said "And, it works for her too"
"Oh, right, I heard about the little fight you guys had. That should fix everything" Felecia said and looked back over to Stefan and she caught him practically drooling over Elena "Hey, over here" Felecia snapped her fingers and Stefan looked away "No drooling over your brother's girlfriend. Especially when your brother is Damon. Do you want some peace and quiet, or not?" Felecia asked him
"I want peace and quiet" Stefan sighed
"Good boy" Felecia said "Speak of the devil, he's waking up now" Felecia said hearing Damon moving around upstairs
"Go get him" Caroline smiled and gave Elena a little push and made her walk upstairs
"Well, I quit" Felecia sighed and threw her cards down
"Afraid to lose?" Stefan asked and put his cards down with a smirk
"No. I know Damon. And I saw Elena in that dress. Get where I'm going here?" Felecia asked and Caroline and Stefan looked confused "Fine, stay here, I'm leaving. I'm not looking forward to hearing ever single little detail from upstairs" Felecia said and stood up
"Second thought, I'm coming with you" Caroline said
"Me too" Stefan said and got up and they all quickly left the house
Caroline and Stefan were walking around the forest with Felecia in front of them, looking around for signs of another vampire being through here, close to Elena's house.
"You think she would stay this close to Elena's house?" Caroline asked Felecia
"If she was smart, yeah" Felecia said "She's be watching to see who comes and goes, mapping out her attacks and times to go snooping through the house. Do you know who's there now?"
"Should be Jeremy, Bonnie, Jenna, and Alaric" Caroline said "I called over Bonnie and Alaric when I left to protect Jenna and Jeremy a little better"
"Good, a Bennett witch should keep her from going inside" Felecia sighed and suddenly stopped dead in her tracks "I got something" she said and took off and Caroline and Stefan followed her into the forest
Felecia eventually led them to this little house in the woods not to far away from Elena's house, in fact, Stefan was pretty sure that this was the house Anna and Pearl used to use while they were here with the tomb vampires.
"I'm picking up on…three humans…two vampires" Felecia said
Stefan listened in and heard three nervous heartbeats, someone almost on the verge of tears, and someone else walking around the house.
"Whoever is in there, one of the vampires is holding the other vampire. I only got three heartbeats and it sounds like four people are scared to death" Stefan sighed
"Could be Emily" Felecia said "Even if it isn't Elizabeth in there, there's still obviously a vampire problem"
"So, what are we gonna do?" Caroline asked
"Now we know where she is, I say we wait for Damon so at least we can have another guy with us. Elizabeth is stronger than all of us, remember?" Felecia said
"So, we wait for Damon" Stefan said
"Sounds like a plan to me" Caroline said
"Hide!" Felecia hissed and noticed someone opening the door to the front of the house
Stefan, Caroline, and Felecia quickly hide behind the trees in the forest and kept their eyes and ears open to see who was walking out of that house and why. Felecia peaked around the tree she was hiding behind and saw who it was very clearly. She saw a shorter girl, shorter than her, walk out of the house. She had her blonde hair up in a pony tail and her green eyes were still full of innocence, even though she was a cold blooded killer now, she could still pass off as a sweet, innocent, 17 year old girl, and she used that to her advantage. Felecia knew now for sure that it was Elizabeth.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are" Elizabeth said stepping away from the door "I can smell you all out here" She smiled "You think you can hide from me? Big mistake. So, come out now, or someone dies"
Felecia glared at Stefan and Caroline who were hiding behind the trees close to her, she was trying to silently tell them to stay put, they nodded slightly and stayed in place.
"Fine. Stay there" Elizabeth said and walked into the house, leaving the door open and dragging a familiar person out of the house and throwing her down in front of them and it was then that Felecia saw it was Emily, weakened down from vervain and barely able to keep her eyes open. She was healing slowly from scratches and broken bones and vervain burns still, she looked like hell, and Felecia couldn't believe that Elizabeth would do something like that to Emily, she knew now that something definitely snapped inside Elizabeth, she was nothing like the girl she met in 1956. "Stay there and enjoy the show. I plan on ripping her heart out…or something poetic like that" Elizabeth giggled "Maybe decapitating her would be a nice change of pace, haven't done that in a while"
"Stop!" Felecia said and stayed hidden and she gave Stefan and Caroline another silent glare to let them know they couldn't hide, she wasn't bluffing
"…Show yourself of she dies" Elizabeth said, not recognizing Felecia's voice
Felecia carefully and slowly stepped out of hiding with Stefan right behind her and Caroline took off out of sight in a flash.
"Where'd she go?" Elizabeth asked
"I sent her away, she's not part of this" Stefan said "She's not even a year old yet"
"Aw, I looked forward to killing a baby vampire. Oh well, I'll go find her later" Elizabeth smiled and picked Emily up by her throat and smiled over at Felecia now "So nice to see you found your way home Felecia"
"Nice to see you've finally snapped and took the train over to Crazyvile, Elizabeth" Felecia said "Why are you here?"
"You know already. I heard your little torture session while I was over by the Boarding House" Elizabeth smiled "Lexi was a friend of mine. She's dead. So now, I'm killing someone that Damon cares about. Emily might send a little warning message if she shows up heartless or headless, but my main goal here is that little Katherine look alike of his"
"Lexi was my friend too" Stefan said "I was mad at Damon too, but I didn't kill anyone he cared about for revenge" Stefan said
"I know. You're a whimp. He's your precious older brother, that deep down you still care for and you treat him like a bomb that's about to go off" Elizabeth said "Well, I'm going to do what you couldn't. I'm going to set off that pretty little bomb known as Damon Salvatore"
Suddenly, without warning, Elizabeth crumpled to the ground, letting go of Emily and she was grabbing her head in pain. Felecia and Stefan looked over to see Bonnie there with Caroline. Caroline raced over and picked up Emily and handed her off to Felecia. Before Stefan of anyone could get close to Elizabeth to get her with vervain that they brought, she stood up perfectly fine even though Bonnie never stopped her spell.
"I may not be used to Bennett witches, but I'm still stronger than your little spells" Elizabeth spat in rage and everyone saw that anger in her big innocent eyes now.
Caroline quickly picked up Bonnie and ran her off back to the Gilbert House and Stefan knew Caroline was going to stay there if Elizabeth tried to come back. Elizabeth focused her attention now on Felecia and Stefan and she came after them.
"Go!" Stefan said to Felecia and she nodded and took off with Emily
Stefan and Elizabeth fought for a while and she got a few good hits on him, but with one lucky hit of the vervain on her, she got off of him and in that second, he grabbed a fallen branch and used it as a substitute stake and plunged it through her heart. Stefan waited to make sure she was dead and he saw her turn gray and finally go lifeless. Once he was sure she was dead, Stefan walked away and had to go check on everyone else before getting rid of Elizabeth's body.
"Okay, enough lovey dovey time" Felecia said and burst into Damon's room to be surprised to see them both fully dressed "…Wow, I'm surprised, Damon Salvatore restrained himself"
"I can restrain myself when I want to" Damon said "What's wrong though?"
"We found Elizabeth." Felecia said "We got Emily, she was going to kill her. Caroline took off for Elena's house to protect them and Stefan was fighting Elizabeth last I saw him. Emily's downstairs."
"Felecia!" Everyone heard Stefan's voice and were thankful to know that she was still alive
Stefan raced upstairs and saw everyone in Damon's room. "I killed her"
"…You did?" Felecia asked surprised "…Did you burn her or anything yet?"
"No" Stefan said
"We need to do that, she could still come back" Felecia sighed "Damon, take Elena over to her house, stay there with her and Caroline, we'll go burn the body, okay?"
Damon nodded and him and Elena walked out of the room with Stefan and Felecia shortly behind them.
Elizabeth moved around and started to regain consciousness. She looked up and let out a big sigh when she saw the branch sticking out of her chest. She braced herself and pulled it out of her and bit back a painful scream that she wanted to let out. She threw the branch aside and waited for herself to heal up.
"He missed" Elizabeth mumbled to herself and smiled a little , he missed her heart by a tiny little fraction, now she was pissed. Now, she wasn't just going to go after Elena, but everyone in Mystic Falls. She was going to make this town rain blood and tears. She was going to make them pay for killing her and Lexi. And she knew just who to go to, who knew how to make people suffer better than she did. None other than Miss. Katherine Pierce herself. All she had to do, was kidnap that little Bennett witch and make her lift the curse off the tomb, and get Katherine out of there. Sure, the witch would also be Katherine's blood to get her up and moving, but after Katherine was back, having the witch dead would be for the better of things instead of leaving her alive and being able to help them all.
Elizabeth stood up and brushed herself off, she knew just where she was going, and she was going to wait right outside that house until the witch walked out.
"Damon, I'm really scared" Elena said and gripped onto Damon's hand as if he was the only thing keeping her from falling of the edge of the earth right now
"It'll be okay" Damon reassured her and brought her closer to him until she was sitting in his lap on the couch in her living room and she had her arms wrapped around him
"She's dead, right?" Caroline asked nervously
"Not all the way" Damon sighed "She's strong, she could still get back up and walk away if she isn't burned to a crisp" Damon said
"I hope they burn her in time" Caroline sighed
"I've never seen anyone just shake off my spell like that" Bonnie said
"You've never faced someone that powerful" Damon said "They're a pain in the ass to kill" Damon grumbled
Felecia and Stefan walked over to where Elizabeth's body was supposed to be, and all they saw was a bloody tree branch thrown to the side, she was up and gone already.
"Shit!" Felecia hissed "This is just perfect, now she'll really be pissed off"
"Can you pick up her scent? We can find her and kill her again" Stefan said
Felecia took a deep breath and started trying to catch her scent. "She head towards the Gilbert's" Felecia said and Stefan and her took off towards Elena's house, following the scent
"Bonnie, you sure you don't want me to come with you?" Caroline asked
"Caroline, I'm going to my car to get a book, I'll be fine" Bonnie said and smiled a little and walked out the front door before anyone could protest
It was then with Bonnie standing by her car that Elizabeth snatched her and bit into her neck, draining her of blood until she was falling into unconsciousness. Once she was out, Elizabeth forced some of her own blood into Bonnie's mouth and knew Bonnie would heal up now. And with that, Elizabeth threw her over her shoulder and hauled her off to the house she was staying at where she would wait for Bonnie to wake up. And Elizabeth smiled the whole time, knowing that she had escaped Stefan and Felecia again, just by a few seconds as she walked off.
"Idiots" She said to herself with a smile as she ran through the woods and into her house where her other three humans sat, still scared of her
A/N: So I introduced the physco Elizabeth in this chapter. She had Emily and was willing to kill her, someone she used to be practically sisters with, she was willing to kill her just to piss off Damon. Pretty messed up, huh? That, and on top of it all, she looks like this perfect little all american girl who's sweet and innocent, but she's the farthest thing from that. And now, she wants to go wake up Katherine and basically kill everyone because she can and she's pissed that Stefan staked her. Stefan needs to learn how to aim a little better when it comes to staking a physco vampire.
So I hope you guys liked this chapter, probably the only story I'm updating today will be this one, or who knows, maybe I'll update another one. But, i do know that tonight it FINALLY the night to go see Harry Potter 33 There may be no Vampire Diaries tonight, but, there is Harry Potter, he's helping me survive this week with no TVD.
xoxo, Avril