A/N; Here you go. Only a couple chapters left. This one gets dark. You are warned. No rape. I wouldn't do that to these characters. But it will be intense and you will want to kill Kai I'm sure. He has a big bloody death coming...

Multiple back and forth POV's to capture both Elena and Damon's feelings in the scenes. I hope it comes across well. Its long again. I needed it to get to that last scene and the characters always seem to give me more than I think in their thoughts.

I wanted to wake up! My fingers were grasping for the smooth rocks on the ground, trying to desperately pull myself back and away from him. This had to be a nightmare. Kai could NOT be standing in front of me right now.

Blinking furiously, my eyes watered as I realized now that he was wearing Damon's clothes...Before I hadn't even thought anything of it, because I thought he was my Damon.

Damon...where was Damon? Kai must have found him...oh god did he hurt him? I felt tears sliding down my cheeks soundlessly as I glared up at him.

"Where…where is he?" I managed to force the words from my mouth, still gasping for breath in my fear.

Kai raised his eyebrows at me and bent lower, his face looking like he didn't know who I was talking about. "Who...Salvatore? I'll bet you'd love to know wouldn't you kitten..." he hissed at me, as he lunged down to grab my legs.

I kicked furiously at him and backed up more, not daring to look back at the gun I was going for.

"How badly do you want to know if your precious Damon is alive?" His face looked absolutely sinister as he licked his lips at me.

My heart leapt in my chest. Alive? Meaning he might not be? No, no, no. He had to be alive. I was getting closer to the gun and was trying to keep his focus on anything but what I was doing.

"Please," I begged him, my lashes wet with more tears as I kept crawling back as he simply sauntered slowly toward me...like he had all the time in the world.

Seeing him advancing on me, I recoiled as I thought back. Oh God, I let him touch me...kiss me... I crawled into his lap! All those revelations hit hard as I kept scrambling away from him on the ground, my hand creeping out to grasp the gun just behind me...

"Please what Elena?" He cocked his head and clicked his tongue, chiding me. Within a second he had whipped a gun from the back of his jeans and leveled it at me.

Damn it! I had been inches away from grabbing up the gun I had left on our moss bed before I heard the tell tale click of the him taking the safety off.

How did I not feel that he had a gun on him? It was like I was barely thinking after being so scared that Damon had left and could have died. That my relief when I thought he came back overshadowed my senses to figure out that it wasn't him at all!

"Don't even try it Doc. Or you will be looking at more bullet holes in your sexy body." He chuckled like he was laughing at his own joke. "Do you you really think I didn't see you pointing the gun at me as I climbed down the rocks to the cave before? The light was falling right on you."

"Although..." he said high pitched as he cocked a brow. "If you want to risk it, just know I would love to lick up the blood from your skin after I shoot you. I told Pretty back on the plane how much I loved blood and bruises on my women...and that's what you are now Elena...Mine. Damon is not here...I am." His eyes glinted with lust, smiling as he saw me shrink back.

(Previously)

"Elena!" I gasped out. The horror of what I knew could be happening right fucking now nearly stole my weak breath from my lungs. No, no, no!

I cried out at the pain of fighting the cuff again, hating again that I was trapped and she was in danger. Horrible danger.

"Get me the hell out of these! I have to save her. He was going right to the cave! He knows. Oh fuck, he knows where she is!" I rambled off so fast at him, my brain feeling like it was racing at breakneck speed. I shook my arms again.

"Enz, he's alive. He's going to hurt her! I need to get there. He thought of fucking everything!" I saw the look of shock before recognition flashed in his brown eyes. I knew the second he figured out exactly what I was talking about.

"Kai? Kai's alive?" Enzo breathed out. I nodded at him and felt a tear slip down my cheek.

Another voice joined our conversation. It was Klaus. I saw him racing toward me and holding up his gun. "I shot him...he fell." I nodded to him, knowing all that and more. "But they were blanks...Kai tricked me."

My blue eyes were wet with more tears as I nodded to his understanding. "He tricked all of us."

I saw Caroline come closer too, fear all over her face and Ric was there holding her by the arms. "Thank God you got her safe Klaus, but Elena...oh God, my girl..."

I looked back at Enzo my expression pleading with him that he tell me this wasn't really happening. That someone would tell me they found Elena and had already killed Kai.

But no one said anything. The silence was even worse and my mind was ripping back and forth through all the things the monster told me before he left to find my girl.

Matt was looking through his pockets now. Did he not have a damn key to free me? I needed to go to her. She needed me more than ever before!

I felt myself hanging on the edge of sanity as more tears slipped silently down my cheeks. "He'll destroy her," I whispered...

I shivered visibly from his words, my stomach clenching in disgust as my head still tilted to see the gun resting on the soft moss. Forcing myself to focus, my eyes darted back to his, his was daring me to go for it. But I knew I wouldn't be able to reach the gun before he shot me. It was too far.

He strode forward and I crawled away with near equal speed till I hit the rock wall at the back of the cave. My shoulders slumped as I saw him pocket the only weapon Damon and I had to protect us. I stayed huddled against the wall, my chest heaving since I could not settle my breathing.

Kai suddenly turned on the heel of his boot and moved back the way he came and bent above the med bag I had left by where he had collapsed before. With him turned away from me, I took that moment to hurriedly button up Damon's shirt Kai had tried to take off me before and my jeans, hiding as much of my skin as I could from him.

My eyes scanned the underground pool just a few steps away. Maybe I could make it to the water? But where could I go from there? He could easily run across the ground and still catch me before I climbed up the rocks.

Curling my body in more, I was surprised to feel a hard shape in my pocket. The knife! Damon left me the knife. My mind was racing with adrenaline and my desire to survive here to make it back to my love. Even if I couldn't escape, I could hide it under the water and stab him to get away. It could work...right?

I swallowed hard, watching him with his back to me as he bent down, unzipping my medical bag. Still sucking in my breath I scooted away from the wall and rolled myself into the water as soundlessly as I could.

Kai whirled around in a flash and I heard him screaming at me as I dove under the water, kicking hard while pushing myself further and further away, under the water to the far side of the pool. I held my breath till I started to feel light headed, finally surfacing and sucking in mouthfuls of air. It was nowhere near me escaping him, but at least I would have my back to the wall, floating as far away as I could get from him. He would have to climb in after me to catch me.

I heard him cursing as he stormed closer, raising the gun again, his arm shaking as he aimed it at me. I ducked lower, hoping the shadows would hide me. I heard the sounds of bullets shattering against the stone wall and I ducked deeper barely above the surface of the water as more bullets sparked above my head.

In the dim light since he was wearing Damon's clothes I had the flash of thinking it was him again.

I needed Damon. He had to be okay.

Why wasn't he coming for me? What had Kai done to him? I shivered in the water, mostly from the cold but also from the fear of not knowing what happened to my fiance.

The gun clattered to the ground. Was it empty? Then in one swift movement he dived into the pool. I was treading water, flipping my hair up out of my face as I flicked open the knife under the water and waited for him to get closer.

He came up much faster than I had anticipated and I saw wild fury flashing across his face. Could I do this? I was terrified, soaking wet and watching a convicted murderer and rapist wade toward me, trapping me in the pool.

Surprise was my only hope.

My fingers were clenched so tight around the handle of the knife as I watched him sink more in the water when it past his height too and he had no choice but to swim the rest of the way toward me. He stopped a few feet from where I was floating, my one hand gripping the out jutting rocks on the wall to hold me up more in the water. Then my toes bumped a ledge tucked right up against the wall and I stepped up to it, thankful I didn't need to keep swimming to stay afloat.

Everything in me wanted to slam my eyes closed and wish myself back to a few hours ago, when Damon was curled up behind me, his nose buried in my hair, his palm sliding over my bare stomach, pulling me in, protecting me in every way he knew how. His body as we had slept had been curled around me like a shield, the heat of his skin pressed to mine, his muscles tense and alert while at the same time soft and so responsive to my touch.

I needed the feeling of him more than anything now.

I was imagining her close to me. Her arms coming around me to lace our fingers together. Her neck so smooth and silky. Her chocolate tresses falling down her back like water down a river. Her eyes so wide and liquid as they stared in mine. I remembered the feel of her soft skin pressed against me, her tiny peaceful breaths by my face as I nuzzled into her hair. My arms around her would protect her from everything. Anyone would have to go through me first. And I would die for her.

The fear of what could be happening to her took me away for a minute. I couldn't think or barely breath. I felt so weak and helpless. She needed me and I needed her to be okay.

It was crazy I knew, but I could feel her right now. There was so much fear surrounding her and I knew Kai had found her. I was ready to lose my mind with still being tied up like this. I could feel the coldness, the ice in her veins at being faced with that monster and it was killing me that I wasn't there for her.

Damon...I could feel him. Feel his fear for me. How could I feel him? It was like he was right there with me, tasting my fear himself and yet powerless to help me. I could not imagine how hard it must be for him right now.

All I wanted was him.

I ached for him. I needed him and his strength. I needed that pacing animal in the cage he had inside him. I wanted Damon to let that animal free and rip this psycho apart, so no one would ever be hurt by him again.

Crying out in my head I begged him to help me. I was so scared and had never felt so alone…

She needed me. I knew it without a thought. I had to get free and find her before Kai hurt her or took her away where I might never find her again.

I shook my wrists in the handcuffs still trapping me and glared up at Donovan.

"Where the hell are your keys? You had no problem locking me up in the plane so where are they? You have to get me out of here! Elena is alone in the cave and Kai was coming..."

I saw Matt check more pockets as Enzo turned my head to him from where he was still kneeling beside me. "I'll go Damon. Tell me where the cave is? I'll stop him."

My glare shifted to my best friend. "No way Enz. Not happening. At all. I did not pull you from death to bring you back to your wife, for you to die in a fight with that psycho." He was already arguing with me as Matt grabbed my cuffs, kneeling down on my other side. Not a chance was I risking his life after I just got him back. "No Enz. No discussion."

"I'll go," a voice said and I swung my head forward to see Klaus step toward me. He nodded to me his expression deadly serious. I knew I could trust him to help her; to save her. In his hands he held out the gun and I remembered the blanks he had mentioned before. That was how that bastard was still alive. It was that simple.

My head swung around again to Donovan who was behind me and he had held up the inside of a pen to try that to get my cuffs free. "Give us your gun," I said dead pan. I was not taking no for an answer. Klaus' gun didn't work. Mine I left with my baby and Matt's was the only one left.

The CO looked surprised at my demand but he didn't hit me or curse at me or in any way belittle me like I was used to. I wondered why, but didn't have time to care now.

Klaus cleared his throat and held out his hand and I knew he would hurt him to get it from him if he didn't hand it over in the next second. "That right. You aren't trained for this type of situation. Damon and I can handle it. Just hand over the weapon." He stepped closer, towering over the weakly CO and I couldn't help but smile.

"Alright, alright," Matt stood up handing the gun to Klaus. "Who the hell are you people?"

I quickly gave Klaus the best directions I could to where the cave was and he stopped in front of Caroline for a quick second, running his hand down her face before he smiled and took off toward the cave.

Matt threw down the pen and growled at my wild expression and the impatience I was showing with every tug of the cuffs.

"I'm trying Salvatore!" he yelled at me.

My frustration zeroed in on him again. "Try harder! Why the hell don't you have keys? Where did you leave them?"

"I don't know! They were gone after the crash when I woke up. Maybe Cade took them, I'm not sure." He sunk down in the grass, his head down. "All I know is I haven't had them the whole time we have been on this island. I usually carry a spare set in the side of my boot but that's gone too."

I groaned, feeling like I could explode with anger, my head falling back against the tree. I uttered a prayer that Klaus would get to her in time. I had to trust him with the most important person in my world...

Steeling my gaze on the monster as he got closer, I called on everything I knew from self defense training. Needing to stay calm. Focus on my goal. Use all my weight to attack...although I wasn't sure how I could do that, just barely balanced on the narrow ledge.

Kai startled me from my thoughts as he suddenly stopped, just staring at me with dead silence between us. He clicked his tongue again so smoothly, and the sound made my chilled skin crawl.

"They always think they can run away..." he drawled casually, like he did this every day.

The dark haired psycho twisted his neck to the side, the bones cracking as they popped back into place. "C'mon Doc. Just stop fighting what you know is going to happen." He licked his lips insidiously. "I'll make it hurt a lot less then..."

Oh God I was going to be sick. I wanted to scream for Damon again, but as I close as Kai was to me, I knew the only person I could count on was me. There was no way in hell he would buy that I would actually back down and come to him. Would he? Should I try it?

Swallowing hard I forced my eyes to find his.

"Really?" I mumbled, trying so hard to maintain my gaze on him. I saw Kai nod to me instantly and swam closer.

I let him...my heart pounding so violently in my chest.

I couldn't see any weapon in his hand right then but I knew he had put Damon's gun in his jeans.

Cringing inwardly as he swam closer again till he was right in front of me, his one hand darted out to press hard on my arm just under my shoulder, the same arm I was holding the knife with that I was ready to plunge into him!

Tears sprung to my eyes at the force of his grasp as I realized I couldn't move my arm up to stab him. Not with him holding onto it himself!

I felt his other hand stroke down my cheek till he had dug his fingers in my hair at the base of my neck. His hand gripped my hair, tugging it roughly, and pulled my head closer. I whimpered at the sharp movement. He trapped my lower body tight, his legs and torso pushing me into the wall above the narrow ledge he stepped up onto too. I couldn't move.

His eyes, and his shaved head were so clear to me now as the water dripped down his forehead to run in trails down his cheeks. How I even thought for a moment that this was my Damon unnerved the hell out of me.

The monster's eyes were brown not cerulean blue like my baby's. These eyes were hard, empty of any warmth and full of nothing but rage and hate. These eyes that were locked on me now, were darkening each second as I forced myself to hold his gaze, trying to show him I wasn't afraid of him. But the way they bore into me, terrified me in their intent. All I could do to resist was close my own, to block him out.

I felt frozen in place, my hand still wrapped knuckle white around the handle of the knife. His hand not gripping my head had moved down my arm, keeping it pressed to the smooth stone behind us and preventing me from attacking him. I breathed a shaky sigh of relief that he hadn't found the knife yet.

The handful of my hair that he had, he pulled harder at as a sob escaped my throat. "Open your damn eyes Elena." Kai's snapped, his voice echoing around the cave. The hoarseness of it sounding even more menacing. "I want you to see what coming… You are mine and this is all you will ever know now."

I fought the grip he had on my arm, feeling him squeeze harder, knowing even if we got out of this my Damon would find another hand print wrapped around me.

But I couldn't think of that now... I needed to push any other thoughts away to focus in on stabbing him to get away. This could NOT be all I would ever know. Hell no, I would rather die.

I had to kill him. There was no other choice.

Thank God Kai didn't even know I had the knife just a few inches lower than where he was holding me under the water.

I felt the roughness of his shaved head rub disgustingly along my cheek and I whimpered as I felt my whole body trembling. His head lowered more till his lips were teasing the skin of my shoulder, pushing the fabric of Damon's shirt aside with his nose to bury his head in the crook of my neck.

He took in a deep, cleansing breath, his eyes wide as his nose rubbed against the hollow of my throat. "Fuck Elena, I can taste your fear…"

This could not be happening. I was fucking ready to rip my own arm off to go to her. I knew I could break my thumb to get out of handcuffs and that thought had crossed my mind a couple times already. As fast and ridiculously painful as that would be, how did I know that even after I got free that way, that Kai would not still win if I was that incapacitated.

"I think I almost have it," Matt said for the third time, with the third item that he had stuffed into the small lock. He had used the pen and Caroline came forward with a metal hair clip and now we were trying a bent apart paper clip that Ric had in his Mary Poppins bag. The hair clip had been what worked in the plane. Why the hell did that not work here?

Gritting my teeth I snarled at him. "Well if you don't have it in the next few seconds I will break my thumb to get out of here!"

Just then I heard a loud squeal and Caroline came running up to us. "Klaus, put me… this is a guards uniform." She held out a small ring of keys. "Would any of these help?"

My breath was in my throat as I saw Enzo looking just as wide eyed, looking from me to Donovan. Matt froze and was staring at the keys before nodding and took them quickly from her hand.

I let out the breath I was holding and in an instant I felt the cuff fall from my one wrist and release me from the damn tree. He tried the key in the lock that had refused to open and it still didn't budge. But I had no time to waste with that damn handcuff. My arms felt numb and I shook them to restore the circulation. I was on my feet right away but stumbled, almost falling as I felt Enzo pulling me back up.

"Elena," I breathed and he nodded.

"Go D... I'll take care of Ric and Caroline." He grabbed my shoulder again. "Get your girl."

I smiled at him knowing I had to hurry and turned to leave. There was no more weapons left but I didn't care. I was going to dive right into the middle things and get her the hell away from him if it was the last thing I did.

I was already running the other way, not even caring what Donovan was doing; staying or going, I didn't give a flying fuck. But I heard Enzo call out to me to watch my back and I spun toward him and smiled sadly, both of us knowing what he meant.

He said that 'I've got your back D', every time we were on a mission together when danger was imminent and now I knew how badly he wanted to go with me. He needed me to know that he wasn't going to be there, like he so often was. Especially after Lexi died, he and I had worked closer than ever to try to nail the Serbian bastards.

I nodded my head at him seeing the concern and worry on his face before I turned back around. "I'm coming Beauty..." I gasped out, cringing at the pain throbbing in my head as I ran.

Those sick words echoed in my head again and again in the empty silence long after he said them.

'Fuck Elena, I can taste your fear… taste your fear...taste your fear…taste your fear…'

Damon, help me! I screamed in my head again. I was so scared. I tried to move away, back up, anything to get away from the monster in front of me.

Kai's tongue darted out and I felt it lick a long path from behind my ear to the corner of my cheek bone. I bit my lip to keep from sobbing out how scared I was. I wanted to get to the knife, but I needed to get my arm free first! His legs were trapping mine so tight too between him and the wall that there was nothing else I could do till he released my arm.

He inhaled again, his eyes closing in what looked like...bliss? Everything he was doing made my skin crawl.

"You have no idea how delicious the fear of a woman tastes when they know what you are going to do to them...but they can't do a damn thing about it," he breathed out against my neck. I felt the corners of his lips curl up into a smile as he kissed down my collarbone."You taste as good as that other lady doctor that I broke during the prison riot...maybe more delicious..."

I was shaking so hard now, trying to rein in the terror I was feeling as his grip on my head fell away. I never wanted to know what happened to her; how bad it had been. He leaned on the wall beside my face, trapping me, his hand beside my head. I took one more shaky breath as his head was bent down by my ear, the other hand still holding tight to my arm clutching the knife.

God, why was he holding my arm down? Did he know what I was trying to do? I could hardly think clearly with all the thoughts swirling in my head.

"Here's what we are going to do. You...are going to tell me how you like it…" He licked at my shoulder again, kissing up my neck and I felt another sob in my throat. "And I'm going to give you just what the doctor ordered."

I gagged in repulsion, feeling faint but finally I felt his hand slide up my arm to rest lightly on the rock wall on the other side of my head.

It was now or never.

I lifted my arm, avoided his eyes, gritted my teeth and lunged forward fast!

I felt the knife bury itself deep, right to his torso, where blood gushed on the side of my palm. Going for his stomach was the closest area I could reach fast. I hoped I had been able to get close enough to vital organs and ripped the knife out to plunge it in again as I heard him cry out.

But his hand darted down so fast before I could stab him again and held tight to my wrist, bending it back unnaturally as I screamed, feeling like he was shattering all my bones!

His other hand grabbed for my other wrist, slamming it back against my throat trapping my head to the wall by my neck and I struggled to breath.

Kai cursed and squeezed the hand clutching the knife more till I felt my fingers so close to breaking that I dropped the knife and it sunk in the water. "You stupid bitch!" he hissed out, gritting his teeth. His eyes were dark with rage and just as I managed to twist my hand free, I angled my leg to slam it hard up into his groin.

I didn't even wait to see what happened and as soon as I felt him fall back away from trapping me against the wall, I dove toward the other side of the pool. Kicking furiously I pushed forward. The rocks that led out of our cave were my only focus. My wrist was throbbing and I could hardly move it to help drag my weak body through the water.

Hearing splashing behind me propelled me to fight harder, swim faster. I didn't dare look back, even when I could hear Kai screaming my name. My good hand grabbed the rocks that we had used to climb out out of the cave. Looking up I could see freedom, the sunlight above me, the water falling down as I scrambled up the rocks.

"Ahh," I nearly sobbed as I had to pull my full body weight up with my bad hand. My other one darted up to grab the rocks higher up with a surer grip, as my almost broken wrist lost its grip.

"Bitch! I will make you so sorry..." I heard Kai yell and I shut him out, not wanting to hear the rest at all as I heard more splashing below me. I reached out again, trying to brace my good hand as I was forced to use the weak one to climb higher. I was so close to the surface. My bare feet were feeling the cuts of the sharp rocks too, but I ignored the pain and climbed faster.

"Elena!" A voice sounded so close and I almost didn't believe at first that I heard it. I blinked, focusing more above me, squinting up to the light of the day, searching for the owner of that voice! Had I imagined it?

"Elena, up here." The hushed whisper came again and this time I saw a hand peeking out from the edge of the hole I was climbing frantically too. Then blonde hair was visible and I saw blue eyes looking at me. Blonde hair?

"Klaus?" I breathed out and instantly I reached forward toward his hand.

Klaus was here? Relief filled my trembling body and I nearly sobbed out loud. "Damon, where's Damon?" I begged him, my voice so low but flooded with emotion.

"He's okay Elena. He's scared as hell for you. Just push up a bit more and I've got you," Klaus said, and I saw him laying on his belly stretching further across the hole.

In my hurry to get away I had been climbing the rocks furthest from the mouth of the cave where I could climb out. I pushed through the pure agony of moving, as shooting pains raced up my wrist and into my hand. Struggling to stretch it toward him, my feet were constantly slipping on the far too smooth and wet stones.

"Klaus! Kai's here. He's is the water, behind me..." I gasped out and saw his eyes widen and in the next moment he reached behind him and pulled out a gun.

"Where Elena?" His eyes narrowed in on the shadows below us. I saw him looking around past me. "I can't see him. Where is he?"

Terrified of how close he could be, I fought with myself to look down. All I saw was more darkness except for the band of light that fell over the moss bed. I couldn't even hear the splashing of the water anymore when he was chasing me. Had he drowned?

My head swung back up and fought the pain "I can't reach you," I groaned trying to push my weak hand to hold on tighter and stretched my good hand up to his. My bare feet slipped on the wet rocks and I grabbed hard at the jagged wall of stone before I slid too far down.

"Almost there..." he said, his body even more laying across the hole in the roof of the cave, his one hand bracing himself across the opening.

"Ahh, please," I begged. Our fingers brushed against each other as I tried to reach higher. Where was Kai? It was so quiet. He could be anywhere or I prayed already dead.

Pushing with every bit of strength I had, I stepped up higher slipping more on the rocks and despite the pain in my wrist I grabbed hold of his hand. I held on tightly, squeezing his hand.

"Hurry, pull me up!" I whimpered almost in silent pleading. But the next second I heard the sound of a gunshot and saw Klaus's body jerk! Oh god! His eyes fluttered as I still maintained my vice-like grip on his hand.

Everything happened so fast and before I could pull out of his grip he was falling...flipping over in the air and pulling me down with him!

I was reaching frantically for anything to hold onto to stop my fall but could not maintain my grip on the stones with my near broken wrist and the weight of my body pulling me down! The water hit me hard as I crashed back into the underground pool. NO!

Pushing myself back up to the surface as fast as I could, I looked around wildly for Klaus. Where was he? Had he sunk under the water? I whipped my hair out of my eyes and dove under. I could barely make out the dark shape of a body in front of me and grabbed for his arms and pulled him to the surface.

My lungs were burning as I hauled him up and just got half his body on the edge of the pool as I screamed when I felt a hand around my throat. I struggled till the cool steel of the muzzle of a gun was against my head and sobbed.

"Please, please don't." I stilled as Kai leaned over me, floating in the water, the gun at my temple. His expression was terrifying.

"See what you made me do Elena. You should have stopped fighting me! Now you made me kill him. Although he damn well deserved it for trying to kill me too." He squeezed my throat harder and yanked my chin to face Klaus' motionless body against the edge of the pool. Was he dead? There was blood all down his chest, his shirt looked stuck to his body with the blood.

Still floating so close to him I was scared Kai would push me under the water and try to drown me to weaken me, but the next moment I felt him haul me up and onto the ground beside the pool.

Of course I was going to fight him. With everything I was, I was going to fight.

Kai's injury was bleeding too but it didn't look as bad as Klaus'. There was blood seeping through the hoodie that he had stolen from Damon. I could see him cringing in pain as he pulled himself up out of the water. We were both panting hard and I had been so close to getting away!

I lay on my back, my hair splayed all around my head in wet sticky strands, my chest heaving as Kai stood up. "Please, please let me help him?" I cried out more tears running down my cheeks. I didn't want to be responsible for death of any kind. Too many people had died around me to last a lifetime.

He pointed the gun back at Klaus, shaking his head. "Don't even think of trying anything else Doc. I won't hesitate to shoot him again, just to make damn sure he's dead."

Lifting my hands in surrender I nodded slowly, hating his power over me right now but I needed to wait for the next opportunity to get away. Maybe Damon was already coming for me now? Maybe I just needed to stall Kai. But Klaus could be dying and I needed to help him somehow.

He hadn't read my mind and yet was echoing my thoughts in the next thing he said. "Its time to go kitten. So.." And he reached forward and grabbed my med bag and dumped the whole bag upside down beside me. "Find me whatever you need to fix my damn knife wound...now so we can get the hell out of here!"

He grabbed my hair and pulled me up, the gun still leveled at Klaus. Kai pushed me toward the scattered supplies. I started picking up some gauze and alcohol wipes and another suture kit. He was watching me so carefully leaning over my back.

"Pick up every last vial of morphine too or any pain killers Elena. We are not leaving any for Romeo to find and use."

Oh God, how badly was Damon hurt? Klaus had said he was okay and scared for me. But was he well enough to come down here to find the meds? I sifted through the mess and grabbed up another 2 vials of morphine and saw a third and forth I palmed them quickly in my other hand and behind my back, grabbing up syringe packets too. I needed to at least help Klaus with the pain.

Kai was waving the gun. "C'mon. Get it all in the bag and get up!"

"We can't leave him like that!" I yelled at him. "Just let me help him. And I'll go with you. Just like you want. I wont fight you." I let out a gasp as I saw Klaus' chest moving just barely up and down. He was alive!

"No, we're leaving now!" Kai demanded and motioned with the gun again. "Or if you want I could just shoot him now and be done with it..."

Klaus' eyes opened just a slit and I could tell he could hear us. Aghast I looked at the monster in front of me. "No! Kai please then lets just go." He needed at least a chance to survive. All he had done was try to save my life.

I repacked the items I thought I'd need for Kai, hating knowing he was expecting me to fix the wound I gave him. I was trying too, to leave as much of the supplies here for Damon and Klaus, praying someone would get back down here before it was too late to save him.

Carefully I took out the letter Damon wrote me from my back pocket, wrapped one vial of morphine and needle in it and laid it under more of the dumped out first aid items. I slid the other one as close to Klaus as I could, as I stood up and saw him nod the slightest bit to me as he palmed the supplies and hid them in his hand.

My legs were shaking as I stood to my feet and was so glad Kai was worried more about his wound and Klaus than hurting me right now. He looked to be bleeding steadily still, despite the pressure he was putting on the wound. He picked up the other gun and put in it the bag.

I heard him groan and growl out in pain. Turning my head he was clutching at his stomach over the wound and glared at me when he met my eyes. He shoved me down onto the moss of the bed Damon and I had slept on and I saw him picking up the remnants of the torn sleeve my love had ripped off last night and used it to tie up my wound. He grabbed up the same shirt too and straddled my body.

"No. Kai don't. I won't scream.. I promise..." I was already begging, knowing what he was going to do before he yanked my head up, shoved the balled up sleeve in my mouth and wrapped the torn shirt around my head to gag me. Was Damon so close that he was worried they would hear me? Ric or Enzo too. Where were they?

"One more thing..." Kai whispered crouching down over me. "You are right...Pretty is alive and I'm sure he will make it down here yet...hopefully sooner than later for Mikaelson's sake."

I had no idea what he was talking about and that made me even more fearful of his sick intentions. He held me down with his arm over my throat as I felt his other hand at my jeans. No no!

Please God no! I cried out in my head.

Klaus tried to sit up and I saw him looking so desperately at me as he groaned and fell back down. He was too weak to help me.

The gag was muffling my sobs as Kai unzipped my jeans and then in one violent pull, ripped the wet fabric apart and they fell in pieces to the ground!

He got up off me right away, when I thought he was going to take me right there...in the same place Damon and I had made love for the first time. I was shaking and trying to suck in air to breath as my fingers clenched in the softness of the moss around me. The feel of the air on my bare legs chilled me more as he tugged the fabric free and I immediately curled back up in a ball, trying to hide from him; make him disappear.

Tears blurred my vision as I saw a hazy image of Kai bending down and picking up my jeans. He brought the fabric to his nose and inhaled deeply as my stomach flipped again. I felt so sick.

"Just a little present for Pretty to let him think what already happened here. But don't worry. The main event isn't happening till Salvatore is a very captive audience. I need you for more than that first Elena." He licked his lips again and grinned at me hauling me to my feet. "He will know exactly why I took you and come right to me..."

We were leaving now and Kai pushed me in front of him with the muzzle of the gun, motioning me toward the rocks. He dug the gun into my back again and I cried out through the gag. Maybe I could push him back into the water as he climbed up himself? He had the med bag and the one Damon had used, strapped to his torso and secure behind him, so maybe that extra weight would take him down and I could make a run for it.

But the damn monster was not stupid and I watched him dig out a rope from the bag. And before we climbed he pulled my arm out and started tying the rope tight around my already bruised wrist, holding onto the other end of it in his hand. I whimpered from the intense pain in my near broken wrist, as the ropes dug in my skin.

Kai clenched his teeth, his eyes darting up to mine. "Don't act like you don't deserve this. You pissed me off little girl, thinking you could fucking stab me to death and almost get away...so I'm not taking any more chances that you will try that shit again."

I was already shaking my head and begging as he motioned me with the gun in one hand and then grabbed the back of my neck with the other. I felt him shove me hard into the wall behind me, his breath by my ear. "You try to pull me back down Elena while we are climbing up...I'll take you down with me, just like it happened before."

My shoulders sunk. It was like he knew what I was thinking in each possible way to escape him. Damn it where was the next way out?

Kai seemed to be in a hurry and I remembered Damon telling me that Ric and Enzo were coming here too so he probably didn't want to run into anyone. He pulled me up by my arms, till I was standing in front of him. I was so glad at least I had buttoned up my shirt before. I felt so vulnerable right now. However his attention wasn't on me at all it seemed and only on getting away.

I started climbing and felt him pull on my damaged wrist every so often, warning me to not be too far ahead of him. Slipping more on the rocks he pushed me above him to keep going. Crawling up through the water to the bank of the river was exhausting and once I reached the surface I was gasping for more breath.

My fingers bled as I tried to untie the rope from me as I knew he was still climbing. My nails dug into the rough twine and I nearly cried out at how much it hurt and watched the blood spill more from my fingertips. One loop was loosening just a bit as Kai popped up from the cave.

He climbed the rest of the way up, the gun still aimed at me the second he reached the surface. He was right I would have fallen back down into the cave if I had managed to push him back into it too. Even with his wound he was still incredibly strong.

I stood shakily to my bare feet, feeling the chill in the morning air against my naked thighs. Kai was in front of me again and started wrapping the rope around my other wrist securing them both tightly behind me. He was quiet and I wished I knew what he was thinking. There had to be a way out of this.

He put the gun to my side and holding me tight put pressure on his wound. He held the back of my neck and forced me forward. Away from our cave and away from where Damon would come running to find me.

I made it to the cave in record time despite my injuries and the pain I felt all over my body. The torn stitches caused more blood to seep onto the orange jumpsuit and my throat still burned from being choked so hard. Once the underground cave was in sight I stopped and looked around. Where was Klaus? Was he already down there? I heard rustling in the bushes and whipped my head that direction...

I struggled in his grip. Kai moved the gun to my head, daring me to make a sound as he held me tight against a tree. I could see my Damon! Oh God I needed him. He looked okay. He was looking around, his eyes so wide and fearful. He didn't know where I was. I was right here!

"Stay quiet or I kill him," Kai hissed in my ear the gun now moved to aim at Damon.

I was quiet and stopped struggling in seconds, terrified of losing my fiance. Damon was moving closer to us where we were hiding and yet he wasn't close enough. He turned back around and in the next moment raced down the rocks to the cave. No!

I let out a sigh and shut my eyes as Kai dragged me back from the cave and he pushed me in front of him away from the cave and away from Damon…

Walking closer I strained to hear more and reaching the bushes pulled them to the side.

Nothing. There was no one there. I was sure I had heard something like a muffled voice. I turned back and ran toward the mouth of the cave and raced down the stones. I thought I had heard a soft cry from the cave and was racing toward the sound.

There was more light in the cave then when I had left early in the morning and I felt my breath catch in my throat at the sight before me…

There were medical supplies strewn all over the ground and Klaus was laying so still beside the pool. I ran over to him and recoiled at all the blood covering his body.

"Klaus," I tried to get his attention as his eyes were closed. I felt for his pulse. It was weak and thready but it was there. He opened his eyes halfway and swallowed hard. "Oh my god man what happened? Where Elena?" I fell to the ground beside him. How the hell could Kai have taken out another agent? Klaus had the same training likely as I did. And yet he was here shot and Elena was gone.

I ripped open his shirt hearing him groan to see where the wound was. Wiping away more blood I saw it gushing from an area in his belly. I tore open a few packages of gauze and pressed them to his wound and lifted him up and to his side and didn't see an exit wound. Oh shit that wasn't good.

The next second I heard scrambling and heard a voice. "Damon?"

I squinted back toward the rocks. "Caroline? You were supposed to stay with Ric and Enzo and Matt. What the hell are you doing here?"

She made her way down the rocks. "I followed you. I was worried about Elena and Klaus too and you." I saw her eyes lower as she took in Klaus at my feet. "Oh my God Damon, is he okay?!"

She ran across the ground and knelt down beside me immediately brushing Klaus' hair from his eyes. "Nic? Nic can you hear me?"

"Damon what happened?" Her eyes were wide and frantic and she stripped off the guard uniform she had on and pressed it to his bare stomach against the wound.

I felt dazed. Not knowing what was all happening. It was too much. "I don't know. He was like that when I got here and Elena was gone."

Looking around more I saw the water tainted with red...blood shimmered in the morning sunlight. Was it all his? Had Elena been hurt? I saw the blanket on the ground by the far wall and as I looked at the stream of light illuminating our moss bed I walked shakily closer, my eyes zeroing in on the fabric laying on it.

I had carried her back to our bed naked and sated before I left and that knowledge scared the hell out of me. Had he found her like that? I couldn't see the shirt Ric had given us anywhere and prayed that it was on her.

However kneeling down, I saw her jeans in the middle of the bed. The red dress was still laying on the rock where I had left it to dry last night but her jeans were here and picking them up a saw they were torn apart! Oh fuck!

My hand shook as I held them up, pressing them to my chest. What the hell did Kai do to my girl?!

"Damon, Klaus has a vial and syringe in his hand and he's still not waking up. Should I give it to him?"

I looked back at her my eyes focusing on her as I heard her words, but my mind was spinning in dread at what was happening to Elena or what already happened. I shook my head, trying to force my brain to comprehend Caroline's words. "Huh?" I mumbled, walking back to them.

She held it up to me. It was more morphine. I nodded numbly and walked back to the strewn out medical supplies and grabbed up a tourniquet. By now Klaus had groaned out in pain and Caroline sat lower, pulling his head into her lap. In no time the drug was warming his veins as I injected him.

He groaned again and lifted his hand pointing past me. "Elena, more morphine...for you. She hid it," he gasped out. I rummaged through the supplies until I saw the folded up piece of paper and the needle and vial hidden between the pages.

Klaus nearly tried to sit up before Caroline pushed him back down on her lap, her one hand in his hair as she still maintained pressure on his wound. "Damon, he he didn't...what you think...he said he was saving the main event for when you were watching. That he needed her for something first and knew you would come for her." He choked and coughed and Caroline was stroking his face more.

I saw him eying the jeans I still had clutched in my hand. He knew what I had been so scared of. Kneeling at their side I nodded my thanks and tried to smile through the damn tears pooling in my eyes.

"I tried Damon. I was so close to saving her. I'm so sorry," he gasped out and fell back into Caroline's arms. She was getting blood all over her hands and the white tank top she had over her dress.

I shook my head, fighting the tears wanting to spill down my cheeks. "Don't be. Hey, I know you did everything you could to save her. I'm not blaming you at all." He closed his eyes and his body curled up tighter in Caroline's embrace. "Klaus hey, Stefan is coming. I told him to meet us at the cave and he will bring the army and they will get you out of here and to a hospital."

Klaus nodded back at me in understanding. "My brother… Kol...is still out there and the girl. There is a cave, just north of here right by the falls. She's waiting..."

"We'll find them." I tried to assure him. "Just lay still." I turned to the blonde girl looking like she was as near tears as I was. "Caroline you need to keep him awake and keep pressure on the wound." She sniffled and nodded to me.

"I...I need to go," I stuttered standing up and backing away. my hands clenched in my hair.

"Damon! Where are you? Are you down there?" I heard Enzo's voice from the surface. He was yelling above the pounding of the water falling into the cave. I raced over to the rocks and started climbing.

"I'm coming up. Just stay there." I didn't want him doing anything more than he needed to and climbing down the rocks now I was sure he needed help to get down safely.

I pulled myself up and saw Ric and Matt and my bestie all staring at me.

"Sorry D, we would have stayed there but Ric noticed that Caroline had disappeared and he was freaking out so we followed the river..."

I didn't give him time to finish and raced forward and threw myself at him and into biggest man hug. Enzo wrapped his arms around me and I felt a sob building in my throat. He held me without a word till I lifted my head and sniffled.

"Elena?" he whispered his voice so low.

I was shaking my head back and forth and felt the tears start sliding down my cheeks. "He has her...she's not there and Klaus...was shot trying to save her...Fuck Enz I feel like I'm dying. I found her jeans ripped apart in the bed we slept on down there too. She has to be okay. I need her back. I just need her back," I mumbled, feeling so damn helpless.

My bestie pulled me in for another hug and I clung to him. I could not lose it now. Not when she needed me so badly. I needed to be strong like I was on missions and not let my personal feelings cloud my judgment. I needed to be on top of my game more than ever before.

Ric was looking at me forlornly as I pulled back from Enzo and I saw him mouth 'Caroline'. "She's okay. She's safe in the cave Ric. She said she followed me here. I was in such a rush I didn't even notice."

Looking around at everyone I saw Matt speak up. "Look Salvatore. You are in no condition to go after Elena. You look like you are losing more blood too. She needs someone trained and that knows how to react under pressure. Like they taught us at CO training." He glared at me. "I let you out of the damn cuffs but don't you think in saving the damsel you will win her love..."

What the hell? I was livid at him for daring to say anything remotely against us. I still hated him for all he put me through in the prison. I balancing on the edge of sanity as it was. "I already have her love, you idiot! And all the training I need to rescue her. But he wants ME. To get to Stefan." I walked forward till I had him backed up against I tree as I glared down in his eyes. "You said who were we before, right Donovan?" He nodded ever so slightly and I knew I was scaring him. The monster was out of his cage again...

I leaned down, my eyes blazing fire at him. "I'm not a fucking prisoner! I've been working undercover with the CIA for years and was on a mission when I got caught and thrown in your damn prison. Enzo is my partner and Klaus is an agent too."

His eyes looked like saucers at me and despite the horrific circumstances I almost wanted to laugh at making this ass feel 2 feet tall. He damn well deserved it.

"I don't give a shit that I am telling you this and could possibly get in trouble with the agency cause I'm leaving the CIA for good anyway. Elena and I are engaged and madly in love."

I held up my ring she made for me, seeing him study it when I forced it in his face. "Yeah that's right. Mmm hmm. She is mine forever and she wants ME not you. To hell with your stupid ass crush on her!" I sucked in another breath and felt Enzo come up beside me to calm me.

"Elena needs me and I am going to give me myself over to save her. That's how much I love her! If I die...it will be for the best reason in the damn world. So you can decide now to help us get off this fucking island and be on the right side of things or I will knock you out cold right where you stand!"

Matt's breath was coming out of his in frantic pants as I glared down at him and he didn't say a word back at me. I backed up more from Enzo's insistence than anything else. I would have loved to punch Donovan into the ground for even thinking he still had a chance with my baby.

Donovan opened his mouth, his voice shaky. "I thought...they were lying...when they said she loved you..."

"Well they weren't dumbass. But now leave me the fuck alone because if I can't save her...none of this matters. Nothing would ever matter again."

It almost looked like he cared but I didn't waste a second more. Enzo had pulled me back more away from him and I lifted my hand up showing him I was done. I loved my best friend for always seeing me too close to the edge and pulling me back. That used to be what Stefan did for me and I him, before Lexi died. We truly did always have each others backs.

Matt walked further away and left us alone. I couldn't see Ric anywhere and thought he likely went down in the cave to check on Care.

"D you can't go alone and just give yourself over to him. He'll kill you!" Enzo snapped at me.

"Then he'll kill me," I mumbled monotone. "I can't leave her there. My heart is aching right now for how scared she must be Enz. I have to go and I'm not letting you die for me either. Not when I promised Bon I would get you back to her." I was just as stubborn as he was as he glared at me and I glared right back.

Eventually his gaze fell and I knew he understood. I knew he hated it, but he would let me do what I had to. I looked sadly at him and sniffled up more tears. "No goodbyes Enz. I mean it."

He wiped his hand across his face, hiding how emotional he was too. "Okay D. Just make it back please..."

I nodded not wanting to promise anything and turned and started running back through the forest toward the beach. I knew he had brought her to the beach. He would want to flaunt that he had her in front of all the other convicts. I breathed in the crisp clean air as I ran, not wanting to waste another minute explaining or fighting with anyone about what I needed to do.

Despite the swiftness of my feet through the grass, I felt a heaviness and sense of dread overcome me. I was running as fast as I could and felt the wind sift through my hair...but at the same time I felt like everything was happening in slow motion. Like each step closer brought more dread and more fear.

I had no idea what she looked like, what he had done to her despite Klaus' assurances to the worst thing I feared. Had he hit her? Groped her? Had she known it wasn't me when he came down there dressed like me? Had she still been naked in our moss bed when he found her? Was she wearing anything now? I was terrified of all of those answers.

I had to be strong. Treat my Beauty like any victim in a crime that I was assigned to rescue. Hell if that would work, but I had to try. Enzo let me go as much as I knew he didn't want to. He trusted me and that I would do my damnedest to keep a clear head. Stay alert and take the first chance I got to get her the hell out of there.

The beach was just beyond the trees ahead. A few more steps and I would be out in the open. I came unarmed...we had no weapons left. Nothing else to fight him with, fight any of them. I stopped a moment, swallowing my fear. I leaned my head back on the tree behind me and breathed out a prayer that God would help me save her.

She was my whole world now and I was hers. I didn't not how I could survive without her. I wanted what we had talked about already...a family. Her to meet Stefan and Bonnie and be an auntie to Enz and Bon's baby. I wanted her to feel safe and never doubt ever again that she was loved and a part of a family.

More tears slipped stubbornly down my cheeks. I couldn't cry. I would not let him see me weak. No way in hell.

I wiped the back of my hand over my face seeing the bright orange sleeve. I hated the prison uniform. I hated the damn cuff still on my one wrist. I wanted to be free of all of it and just be with my Elena. I didn't even know if I would be rearrested and put the middle eastern prison.

Damn, I was not going to give that even a moment of my thoughts right now. I had to focus on her and nothing else. I pushed off from the tree trunk and stepped out into the clearing.

My boots sunk into the damp sand as I trudged forward. My hands were clenching and unclenching at my sides. I flipped my hair up from falling more in my eyes as I saw her.

"Baby," I breathed out as I walked closer. Several cons headed my way and trailed along side of me as I pushed forward. No one touched me or even said a word, at least not yet. I wondered what they were waiting for.

There was a big flatter rock close to the far side of the beach and there was my Beauty. I felt my breath race out my lungs as I took in her appearance...

She was gagged with what looked like the shirt I had worn yesterday, her hands tied behind her and the dark blue shirt she had on was buttoned about halfway and I could see the her lacy red bra beneath it. Her slender legs were bare and she had her feet tucked in, almost under the shirt as she was curled up into herself. She was pulling away from Kai who was sitting just behind her, his legs on either side of her body as she was practically in his lap.

Her eyes found me as soon as I had stepped out onto the beach. Her chocolate orbs were wide and rimmed red, swollen from crying and I ached to hold her. "Baby," I whispered again and she cried out from under the gag and struggled in Kai's firm hold.

I was standing just couple dozen feet away now and could see the rest of the criminals surrounding me, blocking off any escape I might be thinking of. There looked to be a half dozen more dirt bags still alive and some were even licking their lips at me as I walked by them.

Shit I could feel the breath of one of them on the back of my neck and I turned a bit not wanting to release my gaze from my love but I needed to see why the hell this one guy was so close. I had barely focused on his face when I felt him slam me against another tall free standing rock laying on the beach.

I cringed at how hard he was pressing my head against the rock, literally bending me over it and wrenching my hands behind my back. I felt cuts on my forehead.

It was Mason, damn it. The guy looked like a walking bruise. It reminded me of how I felt when Donovan beat the shit out of me on the plane. He didn't even get to finish the job then before Elena saved me.

He hauled me to my feet and looked like he was about to cuff my hands again. Words could not express how much I hated those cuffs.

"No, wait. He'll behave. Leave him free," I heard Parker call to him. Mason growled at that, sounding like he would love to beat me till I couldn't walk. He pushed me forward and I fell to my knees in front of my baby and Kai. Lifting my head I felt blood drip slowly down my cheek from the cut on my forehead.

Now that I was closer I could see that Kai was holding her by her hair wrapped around his fist and he roughly tugged on it, forcing her head up as she cried out.

My vision blurred as I fought back more tears. Her eyes had been locked on mine since she saw me and it tore at my soul that I couldn't ease her fear. She couldn't even say anything with the damn gag in her mouth.

"I'm here Elena. I'm here," I mumbled brokenly, my voice cracking as my bottom lip trembled.

Kai interrupted our moment, his sick voice breaking through the silence. "Yes you are. And now we can get this party started."

I raised my head to glare at him. He had left me free. Free to run at him at break every bone he had. But no, I heard the tell tale clicks of guns from behind me and saw another man holding one up to my side. He was in control here, no doubt about it.

Kai cleared his throat. "I'll make this simple. I heard from your lady love that someone named Stefan is coming and bringing a fucking army? You aren't trying to get me arrested now are you Pretty?" I was shaking my head instantly, praying he believed me. "Then who the hell is that?"

I was silent, my mind racing for what I could say.

But Parker was not patient and before I opened my mouth to answer, he had grabbed my baby by the neck and slammed her down on the rock she was sitting on! I couldn't take it. Not one more second of her in pain.

"My brother! For fucks sake its my brother!" I yelled out at him. I heard her cry out in pain and saw blood on the rock.

"And how would your brother have that kind of power to bring an army to rescue you? What are you not telling me?" He looked like he wasn't noticing Elena slowly suffocating under his grip.

Her face started to turn blue. "Let go of her neck Kai! Hurt me! You know you want to!"

"Oh I am hurting you Pretty. I don't even have to touch you..." Kai's eyes were on mine as he still held my baby's head down but loosened his grip on her neck at least. I growled at him and started to lunge forward from being on my knees in front of him. But I felt hands at my back, keeping me in place as I struggled.

"Focus Damon. What about Stefan...your brother. What can he do? How does he have an army?" I saw him reaching for the buttons on her shirt that was already half open as he bent down to nuzzle her hair as he looked hard in my eyes. The wickedness of his expression was spinning my stomach.

My eyes widened more as my heart raced in my ears. I was surprised he used my real name. He had never done that before. I saw Elena looking up at me with so much fear in her eyes at what he was doing. She was breathing steadily in and out and her color was coming back but was crying out at how Kai was touching her.

"No more Kai please. She is so scared. Please." I shut my eyes in defeat. "He's an agent. CIA. He can pretty much get favors from people all over the world." I told him reluctantly.

"Favors? Hmm like a trip to a place like a Panama with no extradition. He could make me disappear with millions of dollars to live free and clear the rest of my life?"

I nodded. Yes Stefan would be able to pull that off.

Kai was smirking, looking like the wheels in his head were spinning. "Are you an agent too...and St. John the way he protects you? Are you?" The monster stared at me, his face mirroring innocent curiosity and then morphed into anger the second I didn't answer right away.

"You don't want me to play with her more do you?" he mumbled leaning more over her as I heard her choke on a sob and shake her head back and forth again.

I clenched my teeth, my jaw tightening as he spoke. I was going to give this creep all the tools to disappear forever. Shit! But he was already undoing one button and then two….and it undid me completely.

I wasn't an agent now. I was a man deeply in love, watching his girl suffer. The desperation in her eyes broke me.

"No, no fuck no! Just leave her alone and I'll do whatever you want! Yes I'm an agent and Enzo too. But he has nothing to do with this!" I screamed out and I could hear men behind me chuckling. "You have me. Stefan will do anything to get me back. I'm his only family and he has power and authority that I can make work for you."

I knew I was treading on a slippery slope with what I asked next. "Just let me hold her, please and I'll get you whatever you want."

I saw Kai raise a brow. Oh please let him be actually considering this.

"I'm taking her with me when you get me out of here. You know that right?" Kai said simply.

God no.

I swallowed the massive lump in my throat and nodded slowly, my shoulders sinking. My Elena's eyes fell closed as she watched us and I knew she was terrified of that thought.

Kai was not stupid. Crazy yes but not stupid. He had me in a corner and knew it the second he had taken her. I knew it had been a risk to leave her in the cave alone but I never in my worst nightmares believed that he had faked his death and was listening and planning to find her all along.

I held my hands up in total surrender and even backed up a bit trying to ease the tension between all of us. "Please Kai...you win okay. You won. You beat me. No one suspected that you would have put blanks in the gun and then faked your death. That was so clever. You had us all fooled. You were smarter than the cons and the guards everyone." I took a deep breath. "Just...please Kai. Let me say goodbye..." I pleaded again, my head down.

The monster nearly laying on my girl started laughing. And then laughed some more and I had no fucking idea what was funny. He dragged Elena up to her knees, the blue button down totally open and I could see her chest heaving, her skin slick with sweat dripping to the fabric of her lace bra as Kai kept laughing.

His laugh was going to be the star of my nightmares. I just knew it. I waited breathless, cringing as Kai's hand wandered her body and she whimpered from underneath the gag. I had to stay strong. Kai sounded fucking insane just laughing like that.

"You think you're so smart secret agent man...don't you? Stroking my ego to get what you want. Very creative Pretty. Really I am impressed." He smiled at me and I could not tell if he was being real or sarcastic right then. "But I decided I'll grant you your request and even give her to you before we hear from your brother."

He pushed her off the rock and I raced forward in an instant scooping my baby up in my arms. I nearly groaned out loud it felt so good to hold her. I ripped the gag out of her mouth and saw her sucking in more air immediately as her head curled into my chest. I untangled the ropes from her wrists too to free her and she embraced me immediately.

I sunk to the ground backing up more, cradling her in my arms and pulled her shirt closed, hiding her skin from the sick eyes on her from every direction.

"Where were you going to meet him? Where was this army coming?" Kai asked.

I answered without hesitation, rocking my Beauty in my arms. Her hands around my waist were clinging to me, her head buried in my chest. "To the cave where you found her. He was bringing a boat as close to that shore and then send a team up to the cave."

Kai stood up and walked up to us and I turned her away from him to keep my body between theirs. He dropped the satt phone in the sand beside me. "Call him. Now. On Speaker. Say whatever you have to to get him to pick you up on the beach just past those rocks over there."

He bent down right in my face as I started hitting the buttons right away to reach Stefan. I could do this. I could send him some kind of duress code word. He would know we were in trouble and outsmart them.

"Hello Damon?" the voice of my brother drifted through the air. "Damon we are here! I have the team up by the cave. We are getting the man Klaus back down to the boat right now. Its bad Damon but if he gets to the hospital soon he should make it. Where the hell are you? Enzo told me Elena had been captured. Are you okay brother. Is she safe?"

I looked up at Kai and then back down at Elena in my arms. Her eyes were closed and she was holding me so tight, her nails nearly drawing blood on my arms even through the damn prison uniform.

"Yes she's safe. We managed to get away and are trapped on the edge of the beach hiding. The cons are still everywhere but there is an inlet just north of the main beach. Can you pull in there? Then we will come out to find you. Just don't let Lexi drive the damn boat. She almost crashed it last time brother."

Elena's eyes opened halfway and I saw her looking at me. She did not say a word about it but there was no doubt she knew what I had done.

There was silence on the other end...and then Stefan replied smoothly "Sure I'll drive the boat no problem. Just hang on and we will get you out of there. I'm on the way back down from the cave now. Is there anything else you can tell me?"

"Careful Pretty..." I heard Kai, his voice barely a whisper.

I heard Elena cry out and then lifted her one hand, seeing bruises all over her wrist and she cried out again. It looked like it could be sprained or broken. "Yes there looks to be bad sprains in her wrist in like six spots. Stefan just hurry she's hurt and weak and we need to get the hell out of here."

Six spots, six more cons to kill. Please brother figure that out.

Kai grabbed the phone from me and I curled my arms back around her. "Its okay baby. It'll be okay." I kissed her forehead, pulling her head to my lips. "I'm right here." I soothed her and buried my nose in her hair.

Kai pocketed the phone as I watched him sit back on the rock. "Very good Pretty. Very good," he drawled. "As long as you don't screw me Salvatore..I won't screw her."

I shut my eyes, blocking out anything about Kai. I breathed deeply, inhaling her scent as I stroked her hair. It was up to Stefan now. He knew where we were and that we were still trapped. My future with Elena depended on my brother. No pressure at all...

A/N; I apologize for leaving it there. The showdown with Damon and Elena and Stefan against Kai and the cons would have taken too long yet. One more darker chapter coming up and things on the island will be wrapped up.

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