A/N; Here is the next exciting chapter! Hope you guys love it! I know this is my first AU story but if you do enjoy my writing I`d love for you to check out my other stories.

I wrote a multiple story Post VD finale series that starts just at the last episode and continues from there and I thought filled in more than they left us with.

My other series starting with Eternally Blood Bound is also Vampire diaries and starts of in Season 2 and goes off canon after Stefan is trapped in the tomb. It is a very action packed, intense and thriller romance and that is Delena centric and shows a different way for them to have unearthed Elena`s feelings for him. Its full of hot kisses, and torture and snarky one liners and a deep dark secrets. I'm still working in Book 3 but had been devoting my attention to this story for now. But check it out if you haven`t already and let me know what you think. Damon is the main hero in that series even though he isn`t hardly in it till chapter 8. He is worth the wait.

Anyway enjoy this chapter and check out the amazing authors on this site. delenadreams, Mariah April May, scarlett2112, Vitash, deepwater1978, movingonisnevereasy and so many more. I just cant keep up in reading all their amazing talented stories.

Chapter credit to my sweet husband for telling me jokingly it should be called Falling For You and I liked it!

Language warning...Damon is pretty freaked out and it shows in his thoughts.

Damon's POV

I had nothing more to give her so I gave her everything I had left to give.

I unbuckled my seat belt and threw myself on top of her without a thought to my own safety. The fear and the horror in her eyes was paralyzing, nearly crippling my senses and I knew I had to pull her out of it or I would get sucked in too just seeing the pain on her beautiful face. This was the girl that was scared just from the plane taking off and she had been squeezing my hand in a death grip already then.

Now though we were crashing, hard and fast with no way to stop it. Hell, I knew how to fly a plane and had done so on some missions. But I was cuffed to the damn chair with no way to get to the cockpit this time. Elena was too far in her panic to even listen to me to get the keys for my cuffs from Matt either. And he was sitting all the way across the aisle from us and I couldn't reach him even with the buckle undone.

The pilot had been frantic on the intercom already that he had had no control and could not stop the plane from plunging down from the sky! How the hell had this happened?!

I couldn't do anything to stop the plane from crashing or free myself but looking at the terrified face of the woman I loved...I knew I could do something for her.

So I didn't think about anything else. I didn't think about the ache in my heart that I had already been nursing, knowing I was being left in Bulgaria without her. Or the pain of not kissing her before, when I could see SO clearly how much she wanted me too, before Matt burst in. I didn't even think of all the pain I was in, my ribs spasming from the hard boots of that bastard guard that connected with my muscles as he cursed at me that I would never have Elena. And that from everything I did to get to her, he would beat till I didn't even remember her name. The fire in his eyes as I peeked up from between bloody dark lashes made me believe every putrid word from his mouth.

He didn't even know it...but he was right. What did I have to offer this woman? This perfect soul that I felt was made just for me. A life as a wife at home while her husband was on missions and her never knowing if I would make it back. Passing in the night with her as a doctor at a local hospital and me traveling so much. Her swollen belly, as she would embrace me after weeks of being undercover and then barely being home a few days to revel in her, till the powers that be would pull me away again to disappear again. Missing my child's birth because I was trapped deep in with a Mexican drug cartel? No, that could not be our life. I wouldn't let it be.

Enzo had made it work being married and now with a child on the way. But he wasn't deep cover, he was field ops, clean up crew more so. He hadn't been forced to go away for months on end to dig deep into the bowels of organized crime.

As I was moving to cover her, protect her from the imminent crash, and possibly death...so many thoughts raced through my head. I wanted more time with her. I didn't want things with us to end before it barely begun. But seeing her eyes shut so tight, her lips nearly red from her biting them in her fear, her hands swinging around grabbing wildly for me as she cried out my name, I knew I could not die without kissing her.

I fought against the wind, the pressure trying to hold me down in my seat, pushing me hard against the cushion as the plane was almost at a full downward tilt. Matt was literally hanging from his seat and if he hadn't had his buckle on he would have been dashed around the small space like a rag doll. I gripped the armrest with my restrained hand, yanking it up and out of the way between us and pulled my weight against the wind and dragged my body against the gravity to pull myself nearly on top of her.

I curled my free arm around her waist at the same moment that I just crashed my lips to hers, the force of the wind pressing my whole body against hers in the small seat. My knees were on the seat, one beside her and as we kissed her thighs parted more and I edged my knee between hers, half straddling her body in the seat. Even with the loud whine of the jet engines I could hear her whimper as her hands framed my face, holding me tight, her fingers burying themselves in my sweaty hair.

My mouth opened more, seeking, hungry, hot and full of want and desperate to draw her focus to me and my fervent kisses, rather than the pure terror of the wind against our faces, the screams and shattering glass and creaking metal. I tangled my tongue with hers, the heat of her mouth, the grip from her fingers in my hair, and her little body shifting in the seat pressing me closer, pulled a rough groan from my throat as we kissed.

I shielded her with my whole body around her, my legs fighting the gravity even more to encircle her completely as she was still buckled in tight, with me flush against her in the seat. I could not get close enough to her in these frantic moments knowing the end could shatter everything between us in mere minutes.

I nipped at her bottom lip, sucking it into my mouth when she broke away to gasp for a much needed breath. My free arm wrapped as tight as I could around her. "Just hold me tight. Don't let me go," I breathed in her ear before covered her face with more kisses, my lips wanting to touch every bit of her soft skin that I could in the little time we had left. There was so much of her I would not ever get the chance to explore now, taste and revel in. There was not enough time. Not enough time to even begin to show her how much I loved her.

"Mmm," I heard her moan. "I'll never let you go Damon."

My heart soared at the joy even these precious and fleeting moments had given me and I had hoped had given her. I had never felt more alive right that second, clinging to the person that meant the most to me in the world as we crashed to our possible deaths.

I should not have dared to look up from our little bubble of heaven, but a strong gust of wind caused my eyes to follow it only to stare in complete shock as part of the roof of the plane was ripped off and up into the sky! The bright sunlight shone in through the hole in the roof now as the wind whipped around us even stronger now. I felt my body lifting even with her arms wrapped around me and I grabbed hard for the armrest that my wrist was tied to. We seemed to be falling and spinning at the same time and then it seemed we leveled off for a moment but the next noise was the groan and snap of one of the wings as it was torn off the hull of the plane spinning us more out of control at a faster rate! Oh dear God!

I didn't want to know more. I shut my eyes, my head pressed against hers, feeling her arms wrapped tight around my neck. My thighs were clenched hard around her waist, praying I wouldn't be torn up and out of her arms from the force of the free fall. I heard her whimper my name into my mouth and I opened more, tasting all of her that I could as my arm stayed locked around her waist.

We probably had maybe seconds left.

I gave myself over to just the sensation of her tongue, her mouth, her body so tight to me pushing out all the fear, the screams, the wind pulling on me so strongly, her tears that I could feel and not see on her cheeks as our eyes both stayed shut.

And then there was nothing but blackness as I screamed her name, but I couldn't even hear my own voice in the roar of the wind. I felt the air whooshing around me like the seats had been ripped from their bolted position on the floor before we were jolted violently up and the back down hard before I felt nothing but emptiness as it proceeded to swallow me whole…

I woke up sputtering and coughing as water hit my face, startling my body into action. I looked around blinking rapidly and trying to focus my eyes despite the blood I felt dripping down my face. I lifted my arm, swiping the blood away as my vision cleared. I could barely recognized the plane at all. There was nothing normal around us; just bent metal and twisted seats. The overhead lights were sparking, the sizzles falling into the water that was spreading on the floor.

I lifted my head from where it had been laying...on the floor? How did I get to the floor? My arm was twisted behind me at an awkward angle, the cuff still securely in place. Every inch of my body ached, every muscle protested me doing any moving but I didn't give a frigging damn about me and I needed to find Elena.

I looked around more trying to gauge where I was from where we had been as we were crashing. I had no idea how long I had been out, hours? There were suitcases and cargo it looked like, scattered all around me and there was a wide hole where there used to be a wall. It looked like the cargo compartment had broken open littering all the luggage around where we had been sitting.

Crawling around I could see the water running on the floor more, soaking my knees as I pulled myself up. I wanted to cry out for her but I was scared that some of the convicts could be loose and then god knows what could happen if they heard me. My chest tightened in fear knowing I had to find her first. Her life depended on it.

There was no sounds in the cabin other than the rushing of the water that looked to be spurting through the cracked hull. We must have landed in the water I gathered as I could see bright blue sky high above me from where part of the roof had been torn off. As fast as we were free falling there would have been no way we would not have exploded on impact if we had hit land.

"Elena!" I hissed out frantically and groaned moving my weak arms to push more cargo out of the way. My wet hair whipped back and forth as I crouched down pulling harder at more suitcases and boxes and overturned seats.

Then I caught sight of a small flash of brown hair that floated up to me as the water kept rising.

Elena!

I pulled harder at everything near that small strand of hair from of my brunette beauty. I uncovered an arm and then saw her head in the tipped over seat. My wrist screamed at all the moving I was doing nearly dragging the heavy chair with each reach of my still confined arm, to dig her out of the debris. I cursed not being able to use both hands freely. I saw blood on her head once I had turned the seat around so she was facing up and not hanging over the water pooling on the floor. My breath was in my throat, my heart aching in fear as I grabbed for her head shaking her, and checking her pulse. The erratic beating in my chest got more painful and stronger as I searched her neck for that precious little clue to whether I had lost her or not.

My body just fell back in relief as I found her pulse! It was weak but there! She was alive!

I looked up to heaven my trembling lips moving silently in thanks to the higher power that had not taken her from me. I felt tears just start pouring down my cheeks in relief and dripping down her already wet body. I pulled the buckle off her, dragging her from her seat and cradled her in my arms, my tears soaking into her hair as I knelt down burying my head against hers. She was alive! I could hardly believe we had survived!

I pressed my ear to her chest just treasuring that beautiful sound. I felt her body moving and nearly jumped off her to give her room to breath. I checked all over her, feeling her body for anything broken and I couldn't find anything. My protecting her in the seat I hoped had spared her any injuries. Her eyelids fluttered and her coppery eyes opened, squinting in the bright daylight that was flooding in the cabin from the broken windows and open roof. "My God baby," I breathed out hardly having any words for how I felt as I leaned my head back down against hers.

"Damon?" she whispered, her voice so weak. "Are we?" She blinked and I smiled down at her.

"Alive?" I smiled just as tiredly back at her, but so thankful she was okay. "Yes baby, we are alive. I was so worried about a head injury since I saw the blood on your head and knew we must have slammed into the roof somehow but thank God you are talking and remember me." My tears blurred my vision as I let out a long breath.

My girl reached up a shaky hand reminding me of the weak way I reached for her myself when I heard her calling me, kneeling beside me and shaking me awake after Matt had beaten me. I moaned at the feel of her hand on my cheek and I shut my eyes as tears slipped down my cheeks.

But my relief was short lived as in the next moment I nearly jumped back and I saw Kai limping by the mangled halfway upright doorway, swishing the water with his feet, his eyes darting back and forth! He had blood dripping down his arm, the sleeve nearly soaked with blood. Oh shit!

I pulled her down farther to the floor, arms tight around her. My heart was like a jack hammer in my chest. I shrank back deeper more thankful than ever for the cargo and debris that had fallen all around us. I was curled up, against the back of the outer wall of the plane with Elena in my lap hidden behind the mountain of luggage, my body full of adrenaline, blue eyes just peeking through the debris to see the monster just pacing like a tiger.

But he was now a fucking uncaged tiger, no bonds, no chains! How the hell could I keep my baby safe now? I don't know if she knew why I had pulled her down so quickly. Her fearful eyes were locked on mine.

"No! I am not leaving without that bitch!" Kai screamed out. "She is mine and I am going to fucking love tearing her apart till she is screaming and covered in blood!" I heard him snarl out to someone I couldn't see from where I was. He was holding something to the wound in his shoulder and had blood dripping down from his forehead too. I instantly felt Elena stiffen in my arms and I knew she had heard him too. "I'll see how much she likes me stabbing scissors into her!"

"Oh yeah," the other voice said, that voice as slippery and venomous as a poisonous snake. "I can't wait to hold Salvatore down while you make him suffer! Can you just imagine the look on his face!"

I held my hand over her ears by now but she wrenched them away. As scared as she was, it looked like she wanted to know what we were up against. I was totally terrified and completely proud of her at the same time.

"Pretty loves her," I heard Kai mocking me and laughing his eyes dark with lust. "He was all over her before he got taken away and I hope beaten nearly to death so it would be easier for me to destroy both of them."

I cringed not wanting to hear any more, my eyes pleadingly on Elena as I saw tears slipping down her cheeks, and felt her body shaking in my arms. The other man was Mason Lockwood. He wanted a piece of me as much as he did Elena. A lump caught in my throat and my blood just froze in my veins as I watched them both from our hiding spot. I could not contain the shiver I felt as my ears could not unhear what the evil that monster wanted to unleash on us. Christ! I would die before I let that happen!

I bent lower, laying Elena down on the floor in the steadily rising water, putting my finger to her lips to make sure she stayed totally silent. I felt her fingers reaching out and clinging to my jumpsuit no doubt not wanting me to go anywhere. I just needed to keep her as far from the monsters eye lines as possible. She had to know I would fight till my last breath before I let anything happen to her. I would never leave her.

What the hell else could I do now though? I pulled as quietly as I could on the cuff still locking me to the chair knowing I couldn't even run with her to keep Elena safe. This was a fucking nightmare! How did that psycho even get free of his cuffs?!

But I had my answer almost instantly as Julian came into view!

Damn, fucking, hell! One of the guards had let him free! I could not remember the last time I had cursed so much in my head.

Julian was holding a shirt or towel it looked like to his head and he had a huge gash on his forehead. His sleeve of the dark blue guards uniform was torn too and he had a large tear in it by the shoulder his skin soaked with blood.

I saw another man step past Kai and recognized Brady. Seriously, did no one die in this fucking crash! I had no idea how I could stop Kai from getting to my precious girl let alone all three of them if I was handcuffed to the damn chair!

Brady too looked relatively unharmed. He leaned against the wall by the door and it was then that I saw a sharp piece of metal sticking out of his leg. As deep as it looked that it was lodged, he should be bleeding out, but it must have just missed his major arteries. I watched as he grabbed for the shard and pulled, sliding it out inch by inch till he tossed it on the ground and let out a deep breath. He ripped off his shirt in one swipe and tied it around his leg before standing back up like it hardly affected him. He cracked the bones in his neck and cocked his head to the side before whirling around right toward us!

I startled back, my eyes averted quickly thinking he had seen us. I curled up further into the shadows despite the bright sunlight streaming through the plane. He looked puzzled and stepped toward the door and I held my breath, Elena tight against my chest. Had he seen me?! He stared back toward the mess for another few seconds before turning back around and my breath just fled from my lungs. That was close.

I looked to where Matt had been as we had been falling and saw no one there now. There was no sign of him at all. He had been unconscious so how would he have gotten away? It was just like him to have magically gotten away when I was still trapped her with the one woman these men had fantasized about defiling in ways I did not even want to think about.

Next I looked around for anything that I could use to pick the lock, trying to block out the voices of the men looking for us. I had luggage all around me and there had to be something that would pick a stupid handcuff! I saw Elena watching me as I felt around in the water and then saw her medical bag just floating in the shallow water. It was already open and I could see a syringe just laying on top in a plastic seal. I grabbed for it and ripped it open with my teeth and saw another one tucked under the first one and handed it to her, motioning for her in a stabbing motion to which she nodded rapidly at me in understanding. We finally had a weapon...if we could get close enough. And maybe the syringe could open the cuff.

I watched her stuff more supplies in the bag zipping it back up. If we could get out of here we needed to bring it with us. I felt like hell from the last beating and that was hoping we wouldn't meet any more danger on the way out.

I could hear more yelling from past the doorway and it sounded like the three cons were having some kind of game to decide who to let out of the cuffs. I couldn't hear it exactly but it sounded like Kai would only let them out if they promised he agreed to let him...oh God.

If they agreed that Elena was all his!

Okay, there was no holding this back. I was literally shaking. I was going to be sick. Turning away from Elena's shocked expression and gagged as quietly as I could grabbing for a damp blanket beside us and puked up everything I had eaten, before wrapping it up and throwing it away. I felt my stomach clench painfully as I longed desperately to change what was happening. I would even happily walk right into that prison in Bulgaria and never see her again, as much as that would tear at my soul...just to spare her the sick things that these monsters had in mind for her.

I pulled harder on the chain on my wrist, twisting the needle from the syringe in it. Damn it this had to work! I felt her hand on my wrist and looked up into her wide but soft brown eyes. I could see it in their murky chocolatey depths...she trusted me. She had faith that I could get her safe. I could not let her down.

I bent down and went to work again on the cuff but it didn't work. What else? I grabbed for a pen I saw just tucked in the side of Elena bag and ripped it apart with my teeth and pushed the inner piece into the lock, moving it back and forth just so...

"Well she has to be here somewhere!" I heard Kai yelling again. "Pretty does not get to keep her for himself! They are both mine!" I felt her curl more into me as I stopped fighting with the cuff long enough to push her further back against the wall. Her nails were digging in my arm she was so frightened and I didn't blame her one bit. I had seen Brady and Mason walking closer to where we were hiding but there was a half a wall and twisted metal and who knows how many seats just scattered around us along with the luggage. It looked like we were in the bottom of a blender and I prayed that they would not try to push their way through the mess. Did anyone but Matt even know where we had been as the plane crashed?

Enzo! Oh god! Where was my buddy?

I straightened up more still keeping as much to the shadows at the back of the plane as possible. Elena shook my arm as I was still trying to unlock the cuff from the chair. The pen snapped under my impatient twisting and I cursed under my breath. She started pointing to the water that was creeping higher and higher as I watched the cons pace. I strained to look past them and saw a body on the floor as well as another one draped over the seat. How many people had died? Not enough I thought looking back seeing Kai in the doorway again. I heard him mumbling to someone that I could not see, his face lit up like the Joker.

Then there was the crack of a gunshot and I reeled back to see a man drop from his seat blood pouring from his head. It wasn't a guard, the man had the orange jumpsuit on and now was lying in a pool of his own blood! I couldn't see from where I was who had just been killed. Then I heard the tell tale sound of cuffs being unlocked and Brady and Mason just dragged the body up off the floor. And before I could react they just tossed it through the doorway and at us!

I almost jumped out of my skin as now I could see the face of Wes Maxfield through the blood caking his face. His body was jerking in spasms as I watched his eyes close. He looked like he had still been alive when they threw him at us and then there was the briefest of moments where he looked like he had seen me through the luggage before his eyes closed and his head fell back.

I felt Elena just damn near hyperventilating now in my arms, but I could not let them find us.

"Bloody hell!" I heard a familiar and very British voice call out. "He was on our team!" Klaus Mikaelson hissed out as I saw him shove Kai none too gently. Kai immediately leveled the gun in his hand at him, his eyes daring. There was the stare down of the century going on between them as Brady and Mason leveled their own weapons at Klaus and Klaus seemed to find a posse of his own as Kol and Markos also came up behind him. Holy shit! It felt like we were front and center for a turf war! How did they get their hands on that many weapons?!

Elena was again trying to get my attention and I saw the water rising still more and we would not be able to hide for much longer unless we chose to drown! Couldn't we just get a little break here Damn it!

My desperate expression back at her I'm sure didn't help as I held up my hand showing her that I still had not gotten the cuff off. Then she was moving, her hand up into her hair and she pull out a bobby pin. Would that work? It had to. I had no idea what else to try. I took it from her fingers, kissing the top of her hand before digging back at the damn lock. I saw the tears sliding down her cheeks as she watched me twisting and pulling at the cuff attached to my wrist. It still did not budge.

Please God, just a little help, I begged silently looking up. I thought then to try the other cuff, the one attached to the chair and began to feverishly work on that one. My mind was so focused, picturing every little grove and dip hidden with that wretched metal. I felt for the spot where I was sure the release was and felt a 'click' and just like that the cuff fell free of the chair! I was overcome with relief!

It was time to run, to get her as far from here as I could. I didn't even know where here was. We could be in the middle of the goddamn ocean for all I knew! I leaned back closer to her still huddled by my side and we were almost laying down now but the water nearly up to our chests. "Elena," I gasped out my eyes so wide. I was exhilarated by my freedom but at the same time so lost and powerless with the cons that close and armed with guns and so much hunger for revenge. They could start killing each other and who knows if a stray bullet would find us, find her.

I pulled her fully in my arms, with no handcuff preventing any more movement and cupped her face, looking deeply in her eyes. Shutting out the yelling and cursing of the convicts so close to us, I just breathed and gathered my strength to make a run for it.

"Baby, I am so sorry," I whispered into her neck, my head low. It sounded just like how she had cried into my hair how sorry she was that I had been hurt by Donovan before. Back then I just kissed her ear whispering so softly that I wasn't sorry at all. When I said it I meant about how close we had been, almost kissing. When she likely had meant her almost getting me caught looking like I was taking advantage of her. This time my pleading apology was for fear of not being able to get her past these lunatics and safety away. I didn't even know if there was a place to go or if we were in the middle of nowhere.

My mind was racing, full of fight or flight as the chair that had trapped me before was starting to float beside us. If we waited much longer then who knew how much more could float away and give away our hiding spot. She smiled sadly at me and leaned into my palm. I pulled her in closer to me with just the lightest touch as my hand slid to the back of her neck and her mouth met mine as I heard the softest whimper of my name from her lips. I wanted, no I ached, to feel her lips on mine once more before we made a run for it.

I knew kissing her before had helped as we were crashing and now I just wanted the same thing. I wanted to sooth her and ground me. She had heard these creeps say so many terrifying things and knowing she was their main target must be nearly paralyzing for her. I wanted to take that burden from her, to let me take her fear, for her just not to think for a few minutes and just relax.

And I need to feel the calm I felt in her presence, in her closeness. I prayed they couldn't hear us as the water swished as I felt her hands slide up my body and her fingers almost made me gasp out loud as I felt her find her way under my t-shirt and tank top till she was touching the smooth expanse of my stomach under the water. My muscles twitched under her gentle caresses as I bit back a groan of pleasure. Her hands were greedily gripping at my waist, pulling me closer as my mouth opened more to let her in. We kissed leisurely, her hands splayed out over my bare chest, tracing every contour and dip in my skin.

My hands were tugging on her hips, as I started sucking slowly in a path down her jaw to the hollow of her throat. She threw her head back, her hair dipping into the water as I felt her skin so hot and salty under my probing tongue. Her loose flowing top was floating in the water, her white tank top so stuck to her skin that I could see her nipples straining through the fabric. My mouth was down teasing, licking her skin in the valley between her breasts before I lifted up. I felt her whole body tremble in my arms as I looked back up in her eyes.

"Baby," I breathed out feeling almost light headed from the pleasure. It was helping me forget our impossible situation. How absolutely devastated I was that I had no idea how to get her out of here without a hail of bullets after us.

I could make her feel good, that I knew how to do. Every part of her felt damn good under my tongue and my exploring hands. I could make her forget the nightmare that was just a few feet away from us as I struggled to block out the angry voices of the men fighting for the Alpha position. My hand cradled her tiny waist as I kissed my way back up to her mouth, capturing her lips in mine in the most hunger-filled, sensuous kiss.

"I won't let them hurt you beautiful," I promised her, my lips against the shell of her ear. With all my heart I vowed those words. I felt her nodding her head against me. I saw the water rushing almost at her neck now I knew there was no more time. I pulled myself up to sitting not wanting to stop kissing her but knowing I needed to focus now and get us out of here. But how could I do that with the men still right in the doorway?

Then Kai lifted up his hands, his gun tilted away from them. This pissing contest was over I thought. I wondered why he hadn't just shot them to get his way. Be the king and make his minions bow to him. But no, now he told even Brady and Mason to put their guns down.

Kai cackled, his iconic screechy laugh, the sound just echoing in the small enclosed space as the water was rushing nearly by their knees. "Enough!" he hissed out. I started to move against the wall, staying low but still pushing more boxes and cases out of my way as I made our way closer to the door.

"We can all have our chance for revenge, for lust, for power. There is no way we can't just take turns gentlemen." Kai's voice was melodious and his grin wicked. "Bring him."

I turned my head, already knowing before I saw him.

Oh no, Enzo!

I was crouched near the door, my back against the side away from them as Elena was standing beside me, her one hand clutched in mine and her other held the empty syringe with a vise like grip, her bag of medical supplies hanging off her shoulder.

My best friend was dragged, bloody and it looked like beaten toward Kai. He stumbled, his hands cuffed behind him and fell in the doorway right beside where we were hiding. His head was inches from me and I saw he had caught my gaze and he looked like he seen Elena too, for just a split second. My buddy was great at cloak and dagger crap but this was risking too much. He was going to be a dad. I couldn't let him risk his life for us like this. But I swore I saw the hint of a smile. He wanted me to get Elena safe. He was somehow going to help us.

I didn't have time to think about it more when I heard Kai punch Enzo, his head snapping back his lip pouring blood.

"Tell me Boss," Kai jeered. "You have a soft spot for Damon. I can see it. I know it. You were the one that carried him to the infirmary that night when we almost finished the job! Tell me where he is or you die next!" Kai held the gun right to his temple and Enzo just shut his eyes.

Oh God, I wanted to help but I had no idea how I would overpower six guys, maybe more. Elena would be dead.

"You must not have cared much about little baby Maxfield like I thought," Kai smirked. Enzo pulled himself up and spit his blood into the water that was almost to his chest as he knelt on the floor.

"Maybe we should try someone else. May I?" Klaus looked to Kai for approval and Kai waved his hand at him and motioned behind him. I could hear whimpering, a woman's cries as I watched Klaus drag the blonde lady stewardess across the floor and threw her down beside Enzo.

I pulled Elena back, her head against my chest as I closed my eyes. Dear God no! How did they get their hands on her?

Klaus reached out and gripped the young lady by her hair forcing her down in front of him. "Tell him your name luv," he whispered almost low enough that I couldn't hear.

The woman was shaking and sobbing as I saw her look up to Enzo. "Jules," she gasped out.

Klaus looked back and forth at the others in the cabin. "And how old are you sweetheart? Be honest." She was whimpering and I saw Klaus tenderly pull the hair back from her face and tuck it behind her ear. "C'mon on luv. Don't keep us waiting."

"I...I'm 19," she cried out.

Klaus grinned, stroking her cheek. "Are you a nice person Jules? Do people love you? Would you have family and friends that would miss you if you were gone?"

I heard her gasp at that, as she hung her head down lower away from the cons stares. Kai looked like he was loving this, the other cons too had sick grins on their faces. I saw Kai was still grunting in pain and I watched him open a bullet he had in his pocket and pour it into his wound. His buddy Brady handed him a light and he took a deep breath and lit it as he collapsed nearly to his knees in pain. It sealed the wound I was sure, but it must have hurt like a bitch.

But once he was done he turned back to the trembling woman. Klaus was running his fingers through her hair and then buried his face in her neck, his wicked eyes sparkling in the light from the half open roof. I heard the woman whimpering and then answering him softly.

"I..I guess so. My parents, and my sister and...my.." she cried, her voice shaking.

"And do you have anyone special? Someone who makes your heart soar."

I cringed again, shutting my eyes, just squeezing Elena closer to me against the back of the doorway. I bent my head to see her more than panicked expression at me and I kissed her forehead nodding to her. It was like we could speak without words sometimes already and I was desperate to sooth the terror she must be feeling.

"Do tell darling," Klaus breathed out by her ear enough make her shake more at how close he was. The woman seemed to be unhurt other than some blood on her neck and some cuts and scrapes on her arms. I couldn't believe what was happening. They were going to kill her if Enzo did not give me up?!

"I do..my boyfriend and I'm...I'm pre...pregnant, please," she begged, her hands going over her belly protectively.

Oh no. I could see my best friend, just shut his eyes slowly as he must have been gutted by the thought of taking that away from this woman. How could I put him in that position?! I had to do something!

I saw Klaus pick up the gun from the table beside him and run the muzzle of it down the terrified woman's cheek, to her neck and down to her belly and he held it there as Jules cried out in fear for her baby. "How far along are you luv?" he mumbled against her ear as her body shook.

The woman, shut her eyes, tears sliding down her cheeks and I could see the gun pushed against the smooth dress and you could see a baby bump there. Not much but it was there.

I was still holding Elena against me waiting for the right moment to slip past everyone but I knew she could hear what they were saying and the psychological torture it was on the young girl.

"4 months," she whimpered, her head down. Then she screamed as Klaus threw her against Enzo nearly toppling him over as he stopped her fall with his hands still behind his back. I could see my best friend whispering to her over and over that he was so sorry.

Klaus laughed looking back at Kai and then to his brother Kol and they all shared a wicked look before Klaus held the woman by the back of her neck right up in Enzo's face and slid the gun back down to Jule's stomach, pushing it into her side. "Last chance St. John. The baby or Damon."

Enzo sat up on his knees, his eyes wide and full of terror and I could just imagine he was thinking of Bonnie and their baby. He was shaking his head slowly but I knew he had no idea what to do. He looked back my way discretely as I peeked around the corner. I saw the slightest nod and I knew he was telling me to run.

I took a deep breath and grabbed tight to her hand. Enzo was incredible at field work and I knew he was aware that distraction was the only thing that would work now. But would it be enough?

I watched him, knowing he would give me exactly that, so I could take Elena and run. But I didn't want to leave him there with those monsters. And that poor young woman. She was pregnant too! This was such a mess.

But right now my priority had to be getting my precious Elena out of there. I couldn't think of everyone else that could be hurt. I felt a tear slip down my cheek at the thought that I had to leave my buddy with this psychos.

I braced myself of the balls of my heels and nodded back to Elena that it was time. I didn't even know what was beyond the doorway past these 6 creeps but I had to try to get her out of there, before my buddy did break down and tell them we were right behind the door. I knew he would hold out as long as he could but Enzo I knew would do everything he could to save that poor pregnant woman too.

I didn't even have a weapon other than the empty syringe that I had tucked in my pocket when it didn't work to break my cuff. The cuff was still hanging down off my wrist and I pulled the other piece up and into my hand, making a sort of barrier between the metal and my fist.

Then it was show time. "You bastard!" I heard Enzo yell and then he threw himself forward his shoulders slamming into Klaus, his legs out kicking. Go time.

I pulled Elena behind me, wading as quietly as I could through the doorway and behind the men watching my buddy flip out. Two of them rushed him and I flinched as I heard the sick thud as one of them must have punched him in the face or worse slammed his head with the weapon.

He kept yelling at them, blocking out the sounds of our escape as I raced as fast as I could down where the aisle used to be. Now it was strewn with more chairs that had been ripped from the floor and I pushed them out of our way, still holding tight to Elena's hand in mine.

Enzo must have gotten clocked good cause he was quiet by now as I ducked Elena behind some floating chairs in what was the empty cabin between first class and coach. I was pressed right to the wall and could still partially see them behind us but thank God we had slipped by.

"Times up St. John," I heard Klaus snap loudly. I heard him cock the gun,

"Okay, okay!" my buddy cried out and I could hear the woman sobbing too, as she was practically in his arms even with them still tied up behind him. The woman was clinging to Enzo, her eyes up to his face pleading, begging for him to save her.

"I'll tell you!" I heard him snap at them. "Just leave her alone!"

Klaus walked back up to them and ripped the girl up from the floor and pulled her close. "I'm listening," he said as he nuzzled his face in her hair. She was still shaking.

"They are back there," he motioned with his head to the back compartment where we were had been hiding. "Matt had Salvatore tied up and beaten back by the bathrooms and the doctor ran to him and they are both there I swear."

Brady and Mason instantly strode through the doorway and started flinging things around. I saw Kai just fell down into a chair and looked like hell. I knew this was the best chance I had at getting away. The men were almost all occupied in the back. I even saw Klaus toss the girl down in Kai's lap and go toward the others. Kol joined him too and then sounds of metal being ripped up and chairs being thrown was the perfect mask to our feet wading through the water.

Elena was clinging to my side and hadn't hardly said I word. I past the doorway to first class and nearly jumped out of my skin as Markos just stood in front of us!

I thought all the cons I had seen were in the back searching for us. Shit! I saw his eyes widen and his mouth open but before he could call out I leapt on him tacking him into the water! I pushed his head under the waist deep water and he jumped up almost immediately. He was no match for me. The man was like a frigging tank.

I clamped my hands around his neck, in the sleeper hold and prayed that could take him down before he threw me off his back! I felt dizzy as I was spun in circles and smashed into the nearby walls. My back ached, my muscled screamed as he nearly crushed me with his weight over and over but I felt his strength fading.

I saw from the corner of my eye that Elena was banging frantically on the steel door of the cockpit. Was there people trapped in there? She lifted a piece of metal that was floating in the water and as I was slammed again into another wall I saw her wedging it in the door.

Markos started spinning more erratically and I knew I had him. As long as no one else heard us. Just a few more seconds. But just as he was weakening in my arms I heard splashing coming our way! Someone was coming, they had heard us! Fuck!

I saw Elena's eyes find mine as she pulled at the door. I could hear pounding and yelling. Was the pilot trapped in there? If we could just get in there…

I heard Elena scream as the first person in sight was Kai. He pulled his gun out and I pulled Markos up in front of me and I felt one and then two, three and four bullets slam into his chest.

Markos fell into the water his weight pulling me down and into Kai's view as I saw him level the gun at my head.

"Damon!" I heard my love scream and I just felt my heart sink at the thought of losing her, at what they could do to her. Kai laughed stepping forward till he had the gun right against my head. I had nowhere to go.

"She's mine," he hissed out, blood on his face, his sick grin the last thing I would see…

The gun clicked. And then he pulled the trigger again. Still nothing. Kai took a split second to punch me send me careening back into the water.

I whipped my head back, throwing my hair from my eyes as I saw Elena come up behind Kai. In a smooth rapid movement she had slammed the empty syringe in his throat! But he threw his head back into hers before she could push the plunger and I called out to her racing forward. Kai grabbed for her and she dug her hand into the wound on his shoulder as he screamed out in agony his eyes blazing hate and venom at us.

Just as I was ready to leap on him, Kai grabbed for Elena his good hand darted out and curled around her throat! Oh hell no! Kai was squeezing Elena's neck just daring me to come closer. I froze, my hands up as Kai dragged her back.

"No, please," I begged, seeing her struggling to breath.

"Oh no, Pretty, she is mine," and I nearly threw up again as Kai's tongue darted out and licked up her cheek, making her whimper in fear. "All mine."

The next second I saw Enzo just slam himself into the back of Kai and it jerked Elena out of his grip and forward into my arms.

Just then I heard a creak and the steel door of the cockpit whipped open. "Get in here!" a voice said. I didn't need another invitation and pulled Elena back with me, my eyes torn seeing my best friend too far away for me to help him.

"Go Damon!" Enzo screamed at me as Kai had turned around and punched him in the jaw as Elena and I stumbled back. I heard more running and then Brady and Mason appeared at the doorway.

I looked so sadly at Enzo feeling like things were happening in slow motion as I raced into the cockpit and slammed the door closed. Elena was in my arms in a second as I leaned by head against the steel door and the pilot pulled a metal piece across the door bracing it against the banging from outside.

I closed my eyes as I heard the sounds of my best friend grunting and groaning and I prayed they would not kill him. He had to be okay. I needed him. Bonnie needed him. He could not die like that. He had saved us and Elena and I owed him my life.

A/N; Wow Enzo! Hero complex. What did you think? Was it too dark? It can get much worse yet now that the cons are free. Keep sending me your island romance ideas or thriller parts you would love to see. What did you think of Damon kissing her to ground himself before running. Both kisses kind of reminded me of the I had a really crappy day and I needed it parts. Yum.

Till next time. Please review. Love and hugs.