Growing Pains Part II

Arabella groaned as she felt the bump in the back of her head as she slowly woke up. Whoever had hit her in the back of the head hadn't exactly been gentle. Her throat was burning and she realized that she was breathing some foul order. Vervain. Her eyes opened and she saw that she was trapped in a cage in what looked like a barn.

There was a blond girl in the cage in front of her. "I thought I killed you."

"Who are you?" she looked around. "And where am I, am I still at the Young's place?"

Rebekah's eyes creased in confusion. "They thought you were a vampire so they locked you in here with us, why are you acting weirder than usual?"

"Rebekah," Arabella heard Stefan's wheezing tones from the cage next to her. "Arabella… Arabella, she's in transition. You killed her when she and Matt went off the bridge, she's in transition."

A cold smile appeared on Rebekah's face and Arabella felt an unfamiliar anger swell up inside her chest. Oh, she wanted to wipe that smile off her face. "I see poor, defenseless, innocent Arabella Gilbert is in transition without a drop of human blood, that is a problem."

"Just ignore her." Stefan said as Arabella tried to pull apart the bars, but they were tightly bound together.

Rebekah simpered. "Has anyone done the math or shall I? I say that you have three hours before I get to watch you die all over again," she smirked as she saw that Arabella was getting paler and paler. "My day got a whole lot better."

Arabella watched tiredly as the sun seemed to set and the day became dark. The three hours were up, she was sure. She had run out of time. Every single nerve in her body was screaming. "Stefan," she manages to wheeze out. "I need blood, I'm dying."

Stefan managed to stand up and started hitting the railings. "Let us out! You think that we're afraid of you? Let us out!"

"Shut up!" Rebekah snapped from her own place.

An officer holding a gun came towards them. "You want more vervain, keep it down."

"Listen to me, Arabella is going to die if we don't let her out."

The office looked down at Arabella and then back at Stefan. "Not my problem."

Stefan scowled as he forced himself to move forward. "I said let her out!"

The officer shot Stefan twice with the wooden bullets before he left the barn again. "Stefan," Arabella croaked. "You said that I was a wolf, and that now I'm a hybrid I can control my transformations. What if I turned into a wolf, ripped that guy's throat out and keep myself from dying?"

"No, Bella, no," Stefan hissed. "You won't know if you'll be strong enough, do you even remember how to transform into a wolf?"

Arabella's feet trembled slightly. "I have to try." She closed her eyes, she didn't even know if she was doing this right. She suddenly felt a bone in her leg break. She screamed. She felt herself breaking another piece of bone, her hands curled slowly turning into claws. She felt as if her teeth were suddenly spilling out of her moth. Her green eyes turned amber and she could feel her heart bumping inside her chest.

Once she was transformed into a wolf, Arabella felt different, more relax. Realizing that she had had no time to lose, she pounced towards the cage, breaking it. Her eyes searched for the guard. There he was, just outside the barn and she could hear his blood, pumping in his body. She arched her body towards him and then sank her teeth into his neck.

Damon was smacking Matt across the face and Matt staggered. "Go ahead and kill me, you can't hate me as much as I hate myself."

"Oh, yes I can," Damon put his boot on his throat. "It should have been you."

Damon felt someone pull him away and saw Arabella flashing her fangs at him, she was covering her body with a cloth. "Leave him alone!"

Matt staggered inside the barn thanks to Damon's attack and Arabella rescued him. Stefan tried to give him some blood, but Matt pushed him away. "Just stop it!"

"What the hell is your problem?"

"Just stop saving me," Matt snapped. "Honestly, I wished that you would have just let me drown. Arabella is a vampire I'm going to have to live with that for the rest of my life."

Stefan scowled at him. "You don't have to live with that, you get to live with that. Arabella sacrifice her life for your own. So every morning that you get up, you better earn it."

"You were going to kill him," Arabella told Damon as they walked back towards the car, clinging on the sheet. "I couldn't let you do that. I wanted Matt to live, not for you to kill him."

Damon scowled at her. "It's a little hard to keep track on all of your choice lately, Arabella."

Arabella sighed, annoyed. "I remember some things, some of the highlights of my transition. I remember everything that you wanted me to forget. Like how I knew Klaus before I came to Mystic Falls and like you and I met the day of the accident. You compelled me to forget that this is not the life I wanted. Why didn't you tell me?"

"Would it have made a difference?" Damon snorted. "Arabella that night I would have saved you, not Matt. Because then you would be alive, you would get to have everything you always wanted. To be a doctor, to have children, to be married. Now all of that is gone."

"How dare you save Caroline over me?" Rebekah demanded as she entered the parlor of the Mikaelson home where Klaus was storing the blood bags that he had gotten from Arabella before she had died. Apparently, she was a hybrid now, a hybrid with amnesia and Klaus couldn't have planned it better himself.

"Hello, brother, I thought you were dead so pleased that you're not," Klaus said sarcastically. "Now Rebekah, don't pout I needed to save Bella's little friend she won't like me any better if I let her friend die. Now hurry up along we have some hybrids to make."

Rebekah screamed. "So you can make your hybrid family, you don't know anything about family."

"I know how easily they can be silence with a dagger."

Rebekah vamped towards the blood bags and picked one up in each hand. "I mourned you," she said. "My heart broke thinking that I would never see you again. I even killed your precious, stupid Arabella since she got you killed."

Klaus gave her a stony look. "You killed Arabella? How could you, Rebekah. You know how I felt about her. I was determined to make her my family."

Rebekah started laughing hysterically. "Please as if pure, precious Arabella would ever be interested in you, Nik! You want your family, this is your family!" she squeezed the blood bags spilling blood everywhere.

Klaus vamp speed towards her, grabbing her neck. "You know what Rebekah I don't care, from this moment on you're not my family. You are nothing!"

Klaus snapped her neck and left Rebekah lying down on the floor.

"Hey," Damon said as he climbed up the roof of the Gilbert House where Arabella was sitting watching the sunset. "What are you doing here?"

Arabella turned to him and said simply. "Watching the sunset." Since she was a hybrid she didn't need a daylight ring. She looked back. "Have you calmed down yet or are you still pissed off?"

Damon sat down next to her. "A little bit of both." He threw her a crooked smile. "Heard you turned into a wolf today, you're getting back to your old self."

"No really," Arabella said. "I don't even know what my old self was. I guess I'm just going to have to trust my instincts."

-End of Chapter Two-

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