Omg I reached and passed 100! Thank you so much for reviewing!

Also thank you for those that are PM-ing me, I appreciate every mail you send.

Another thanks for the new readers that added my story on alert and favorite, there were so many! It is also my favorite story to write.

As I said on chapter one, there might be some stories which deal with human\vampire companions, however I am not doing any spin offs, this one's just my plot and very loosely based on Shadow Souls. :)

Enjoy,

~Amy

Elena had lost count. She didn't know for how long she had been there, and she most definitely didn't know for how long she was going to stay. Her room was locked, and sometimes she could hear Damon's voice. What scared her, though, was that she didn't see him in a very long time now and she didn't hear from him either.

He promised that he wouldn't leave her alone, but then there she was locked up in a bedroom upstairs, often hearing cries of pain coming from the other poor humans that were being fed on unmercifully. She didn't know how many times she would cover her ears with her pillow each night, praying for the innocent.

She too wasn't in a nice situation. Duncan and Vladimir were making her life impossible, especially Duncan. He intimidated her so much, the way he looked at her and the way he treated her sent shivers up and down her spine.

The door shot open and Vladimir appeared, tossing a bag at Elena. "Make yourself presentable," He ordered. "You'll be taken to the Dark Dimension at sunset."

Her breath caught in her throat as the words escaped from Vladimir's mouth. She didn't think it would be this soon. No, she wasn't prepared for this, she wasn't prepared at all.

When she didn't move, Vladimir grabbed her arm and hauled her upwards.

"Where is Damon?"

"He's in the room next to you, knock yourself out…it is your last day, after all."

When Vladimir vanished Elena walked to the room next to her and her face paled as she saw Damon's face, they clearly had tortured him. She ran to him, and he wrapped his arms around her tightly as her tears stained his shirt.

"Did they hurt you? Are you okay?" Damon was kissing every inch of her face now. "They wanted me to stay away from you, Elena. They threatened that if I came near you they would do what they did to me…on you."

Elena shivered as she saw the stake marks on Damon's body. He sounded weak and tired, and his handsome face looked sick.

"Why aren't they healing?"

"They put vervain with the stake," He managed to explain. "Vervain slows down the healing process. And I'm not drinking blood, either."

"You have to take some of mine," Elena said, giving him her wrist.

"No, Elena. I had promised you that I would never hurt you again."

"Damon, I trust you. You need it."

After a few more moments of hesitation, he brought her wrist to his lips, and after he kissed it gently he dug his fangs in her skin. A bite on the wrist was more painful, as Elena clearly noted, however her blood seemed to be doing the trick. He backed away after no longer than five seconds.

"Thank you," He said, kissing her head.

Elena braced herself for the worst as she closed her eyes.

"What's the matter, princess?" He asked with huge concern in his voice.

"They are taking me away tonight," Elena managed to choke out, tears welling up from the corner of her eyes.

Damon's widened, and Elena feared that he was going to explode. His voice came out as a loud growl, and in a second he had her pinned to the wall. His hand rose to touch her cheek, and as he bored his eyes to hers Elena stood frozen.

"No one is going to take you away."

"Damon, Vladimir-"

"You are not always right, Damon," A voice came from behind him and Damon turned around to see Vladimir. "The girl will be taken to the Dark Dimension. And as requirement by the law, you are to stay here. You fought against a vampire, Damon. Usually that would've lead you to your death, but those with greater authority than me forgave you this once. However, they insist that you'll stay with us-meaning that you need to change to the Damon we knew."

"I am not going to let you take Elena away from me…"

"You really do love her don't you?" He spat, his eyes narrowing in disgust. "What if I tell you that Katherine is very much here?"

With that, Damon stopped frozen in the middle of the room.

"Where?" He roared.

"Katherine wasn't in the tomb, and that's a fact," Vladimir stated with a devilish grin. "However a few years ago she was indeed caught almost exposing us and she was brought here."

Damon was breathing loudly now, and Vladimir flashed him the same grin. "Let's make a deal," He said, "You'll become one of us and I'll set Katherine free. She is locked in a safe place, of course only her corpse, two years without blood is too much for a vampire. However, this girl here has to go."

Elena shivered as Damon was clearly lost in thoughts. Would he really choose Katherine over her?

"Screw you and your deal," Damon spat. "I don't have any desire to see Katherine ever again. Now leave me and my girl alone, or I swear to God I will kill everyone in this house including you."

In an instant, Vladimir pinned Damon down and his perfect white fangs appeared. "Bringing up Katherine was just a gesture of kindness," He groaned. "I want you here, Damon, and you'll stay here. You seem to forget who you are talking to, and I know that this isn't you. And now that you refused Katherine… it just keeps confirming that the sooner this girl leaves, the sooner you'll recover from this insanity."

Vladimir grabbed Elena and pushed her forwards. "You can't possibly tell me that you feel something for this measly human?"

Damon tried to get up, but he pushed him again.

"You should only see them as a source of food and entertainment," The other said, trailing the vein along Elena's neck with his finger. "Why don't we share her, Damon? There's enough blood for us both. Aren't you tempted?"

"Don't you dare touch her," Damon roared, and a huge strength came over him and he pulled Elena protectively behind him. And then, in a brief moment, the stake Damon had been holding ended up in Vladimir's heart. The latter let out a big cry of pain as his corpse fell to the floor.

"Elena, you have to get out of here!" Damon said as he grabbed her hand. "You have to get away from here as fast as possible. Here," He handed her a bottle. "This is vervain. Use it on anyone who gets in your way."

"W-What about you?" Elena cried, still in shock.

"They will come after me, Elena, and they will take you away too. You have to try and escape, the first chance you get…"

Before he could even finish his words, three vampires kicked the door open and as they saw Vladimir's dead body it all happened very fast. Elena was yanked by her hair off the floor while Damon was sprayed with vervained water, and his cry filled the entire room. Without warning, Elena found herself next to Duncan.

"What's going on?" He demanded to the vampire that was carrying Elena. He practically threw Elena to the ground, and whispered, "Vladimir's dead. Damon Salvatore killed him."

At the same time, Damon along with three other vampires entered the room. Damon was kneeling on the ground now, his body burned with vervain and suddenly Elena felt herself being pushed so that she was near Damon. Without warning, Duncan came next to Elena and slapped her.

Even though Damon barely had the strength to hold his head up, he bared his teeth, until he felt himself being kicked in the stomach.

"This is all because of you," Duncan roared, "I lost my best friend because of you! Guards, I want you to deliver her to the Dark Dimension and make sure that she suffers! She killed our leader, our friend…"

"No," Damon gasped as they pulled Elena off her feet, "I'll take her place! I'll do whatever you want, just please…set her free! I killed him, Elena didn't do anything…"

"Damon, it's no use," Elena screamed. "I have to go. Otherwise you'll end up hurt…"

"I won't let you-"

But before he had a chance to blink, a wooden stake was in his chest, knocking him unconscious.

Elena let them practically drag her after them after Duncan took out his revenge on her, feeding on her again. Her neck was sore and she knew that she was about to pass out soon. She stopped fighting against them since they were only dragging her after them tighter, one of them grabbing her from her underarms in a bone crushing grip, obviously intending to hurt her.

Elena yelped as they threw her on the backseat.

"Hands!" One of them roared, but before she could even figure out why he had pulled her hands and handcuffed them tightly behind her back, and strapped her in. The doors were all locked, and tied like she was in the middle seat, she didn't have any hope of escaping. Darkness overwhelmed her and her eyes finally gave in to the darkness.

She woke up to a very loud and rough voice along with light tapping on her shoulder. One of her captors had carried her and now she was finally awake to see that they were in some kind of meadow. She stiffened as she felt the pain from behind her back and her captor seemed to realize because he removed the handcuffs. However, he continued to hold her tightly.

Finally they stopped and the man holding her easily tossed her around to the other one like he was passing a handball. He then started to chant words in what seemed like Latin and Elena gasped as a big hole on the floor appeared. It looked deep and black and Goosebumps appeared all over Elena's body.

"Hold her tight," He said as he jumped in the hole, and before Elena had time to scream, she was in the hole as well.

The place looked like a cave. It was dark, and it looked exactly like some sort of underworld. Elena shivered as the other dragged her behind him and then she could see a brown eyed man with brown hair.

"Human for the Dark Dimension?" he asked indifferently.

"Yes," Her captor replied.

"Three keys," The brown eyed said.

They continued to walk until Elena felt something heavy lay around her waist. To her horror, she saw a big silver plaited chain bounding her waist and her arms were now tied too.

"Sorry, humans enter this way in the dark dimension," the other replied, not sorry at all. He tugged at the chain and Elena yelped as she tried hard not to follow. But with one light pull, she was on her feet again, having no choice other than to walk.

When they seemed to reach the end of the long path they were walking on, the other vampire unlocked the door and Elena quickly found herself in another dark room.

"Keys?"

This time it was a red head that spoke.

They handed her the three keys and she smiled at the vampires. "You can pass now."

One of her captors, Steven, tugged at her chain again and she magically found herself into a very large hallway. There seemed to be lots of activity going on, but Elena's eyes widened in horror as she realized that they were all humans: They were being forced to work! There was even a pregnant woman struggling for breath and a small boy was with his father-What the hell was this place?

Shivers ran up and down her spine as lots of faces stared at her. She could've sworn that there were ones calling her Katherine. In a moment, the men were sniffing at her, and after they found out she was human, all of them started to yell, "Who does she belong to?"

"She's required here by the law. Her master disobeyed," Steven said as he ignored Elena's shivers and pleas to get the hell out of there. "And no… you can't buy her from me. Her sentence is public auction."

No. No. No.

The sentence brought very non-pleasant images to the poor girl's mind. She was young, how could it be? How could she be in this mess? This was not fair. Where was Damon? She needed him right now. His touch always seemed to soothe her.

Then a thought came through her mind…She was scared that she could die even before she was 'sold'. Because she feared that her heart wasn't strong enough to take that kind of news.

And she was right, because her heart stopped a little as she heard someone calling her name.

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