A/N- Thanks to all of you for sticking with me as I've been writing this and all the reviews, favorites, follows and now this story has even been added to a community. If you want to check it out, they have a whole bunch of awesome Delena stories. And to anyone else who was still wondering, yes, this story is a slow burning Delena story. I am a Delena shipper myself and I wanted Elena's relationship with Damon to develop slowly as it does in the show. There will be much more Delena to come in the future, so don't worry.
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Elena walked with her two best friends, one new, one old, by her side through the corridors of the empty school. Being as it was the weekend, it wasn't actually a bad place to keep someone prisoner, especially a teacher. They had split up with Damon, who was going to get a dagger from one of Klaus's sibling's bodies.
They were there to face Klaus. It was them he wanted to get to, and them who would be able to keep him talking long enough for Damon to sneak behind him and use the dagger. Being the only human in the group, he was the only one who could actually dagger Klaus without dying himself. Of course, they knew that daggering him would only have a temporary effect on him, even if they left in his body, but it was better than nothing. Elena was thinking that maybe they would be able to drain him of his blood and lock him up, sedating him with vervain so that he couldn't escape and then they could just leave him to rot.
The three girls walked down the eerily empty hallway in the dead of night. Elena made a mental note to her self to never visit any school during the night ever again.
As the girls approached the end of the hallway, Klaus walked out into the middle, dragging a defiant history teacher behind him. The teacher had been tied up and gagged, given only enough leeway to walk into the hallway with Klaus.
The girls stopped walking about ten feet from them, not wanting to provoke any type of violent response.
"Do you have what I asked for?" Klaus asked, pulling Mr. Saltzman up.
"Not until you hand him over." Elena replied.
Klaus shook his head, giving a laugh of amusement. "I am not handing anyone over until I see the moonstone."
"Why do you need it so much?" Elena asked. "I mean, you had it for years long before I stole it from you. How come you didn't use it then? What is it for?"
"Let's just say that I need it to break a curse a witch set on me many years ago." Klaus explained. "I didn't use if before because I was still gathering some of the other ingredients. Some of which were quite hard to find. But I have everything I need now. Except the moonstone. Now hand it over."
Elena's eyes scanned the hall. She was hoping that Damon would have gotten the dagger already. She knew stalling Klaus would only work so long. "What type of curse?"
"Back before I was one of the original vampires, I was still much more powerful than most people." Klaus hesitated, remembering. His voice grew louder as he continued. "But that side of me was stolen from me when we were turned into the first vampires. I don't want to have to be one or the other. I want to be both. I want to be powerful."
Damon had finally appeared in the hallway behind Klaus, a dagger in his hand. He started creeping up behind the Original Vampire. Caroline continued the conversation. "So someone took something from you? That's why you want the moonstone? To get it back?"
"Not something." Klaus said, as if she was an idiot. "A part of me. It was who I am. My birthright."
"Well, well, well," said a voice from behind Elena. "What do we have here?" Elena whirled around and a felt her stomach fall to the floor.
"Elijah?" They had not planned on any of the other originals being awake.
There was a commotion behind Klaus and Elena turned back to see Damon, having dropped the dagger standing there with his head being held back, neck exposed with Klaus's sister's teeth hovering about an inch away.
"It seems," Elijah said to his younger brother. "That these people you have been making deals with are not trustworthy." He gestured to Damon. "This one was about to kill you.
Klaus noticed Elena's face of shock. He smiled. "You didn't really think I didn't know what you and your friends were really up to, did you?" Elena just glared. He spread his arms out wide. "I have spies everywhere."
Damon struggled to escape Rebekah's grip. "Elena." he said and she meet his eyes from across the room. "Run."
It was one word. But it was one word that set off a number of actions. In that moment, Damon kicked in Rebekah's knee and she doubled over, giving him a chance to run himself. Lexi ran at Elijah, throwing him against the wall. Caroline was by Alaric's side as fast as she could, helping him hobble towards the front doors of the school.
Which left Elena to fight both Klaus and Rebekah all by herself. She threw punch after punch, getting one of the in the face just to have the other kick her in the gut. She threw her legs out and swung them around to knock Rebekah over, but the Original saw it coming and jumped up. SHe grabbed Elena's hair, practically pulling it out of her head as she dragged her to her feet. Elena aimed another punch at Rebekah's face, but Klaus kicked her from the side. She was thrown against the lockers on the wall. She felt her head crack against the wall and slid to the ground.
Elena started to black out. She looked around, desperate to make sure her friends were alright. She saw the silhouette of Damon and Caroline carrying the teacher out the front doors as Lexi finally managed to snap Elijah's neck, putting him down for at least a few hours. She glanced back toward Elena, but Klaus and Rebekah stood in her way and the sun was starting to peak over the tips of the trees outside. If she didn't leave now, she would have been as good as dead. The two blonde vampires, the eldest Salvatore and the new history teacher pushed out the front doors of the school. Elena smile. She had succeeded in her mission to rescue an innocent. She closed her eyes, and passed out.
As the front doors to the school closed behind the ragtag group, Katherine stepped out of the classroom to the side where she had been hiding, just fast enough to catch the sight of her twin sister crumpling to the ground.
"That was so much more entertaining to watch then I thought it would be." She said.
Klaus turned to her. "Yes, well I'm glad we were entertaining to you. Couldn't have possibly given us a hand?"
Katherine walked over to him. "I gave you all the information you needed to take them down. What they were planning, who was in on it, when it was going down." Klaus watched her, amused. "Now, I want my payment. My freedom."
"Did you really expect me to just grant you your freedom from me for just a little information? You escaped my grasp once before, I won't let you do it again."
Elijah stepped forward. "Brother, please. You have already taken your revenge against her. And she has done what you asked even now. You should honor the deal you made with her."
Klaus turned to look at his brother. "And you expect me to believe that you are saying that for any other reason than the love you two shared over a hundred years ago?"
"Niklaus. Don't be mean." Rebekah taunted, looking up from Elena's fallen body. "It's not like you don't have some things you regret."
"I don't regret it." Elijah said, letting his gaze fall on Katherine for a moment before looking back at Klaus. "But that is not why I am asking you this. You made a deal with her Niklaus. She did what you want, now grant her her freedom."
Katherine saw Klaus grind his teeth and roll his eyes. She showed no emotion as she waited for him to decide her fate.
"Fine." He finally said. "You are free to live your life as you wish. I will no longer hunt you down. But only because I don't want to have to deal with my family nagging me to do it for the next few years."
Katherine couldn't help but smile. She was free. After one hundred and fifty years of running, she was finally free to do what she wanted to do without the constant fear of being discovered. She didn't even utter a 'thank you' before she was out the door.
Alaric woke to the sound of a door slamming and a string of curses coming from the same direction. Footsteps made their way closer to him.
"Damon, it's okay. We will get her back." said a sweet voice. She was obviously trying to calm down the man who had slammed the door, Damon.
"Oh yeah Caroline? How?" Damon replied. "According to Lexi here, he is immortal and ruthless. Right?"
A third voice, probably the one called Lexi, answered. "He is pretty much immortal, yeah."
"See, there you have it." Damon said. "She's gone." There was silence for a moment as they processed the situation.
Finally, the first voice, Caroline, spoke up again. "What if we gave him what he wanted?"
"What, you mean like the moonstone?" Lexi said. "We can't. And anyway, we couldn't even if we wanted to, we don't know where it is."
Damon spoke next. "Well . . . that's not exactly true." Alaric finally managed to pry his eyes open to a sight that would have been comical if it weren't for the seriousness of the situation. Both the girls were staring at Damon as if he had keep a very important piece of gossip from them.
"What?" Caroline said. "Do you know where it is?"
"Elena might have given it to me for safekeeping." Damon responded.
Lexi stepped forward, as if to accuse him of a crime. "Why? Why wouldn't she have given it to one of us?" She gestured toward herself and Caroline.
"Well," He started. "She was worried that one of you might try to use it as a bargaining chip to get the teacher to safety. She doesn't want Klaus to get it."
"Well now she is captured." Caroline said pointedly to Damon. "So I hope you're happy. But we can't just do the same thing again. We don't have another choice. Where is it?"
Caroline looked at him expectantly with her hands on her hips. He looked over toward Lexi in a desperate attempt for backup, but she just shook her head, as if to say that she was with Caroline on this one.
Damon sighed. "Fine. I'll tell you where the stone is, but then I get to do the bargaining."
Elena was thrown hard against the ground in the cell. She groaned and rubbed her elbow where it had hit the ground first before looking around her cell. It was bare, with nothing but four walls and a large door that had a small, barred window in it.
There was someone else in there with her, laying facing away from her, but she could hear a heartbeat. She scooted towards the other person. "Hello? Are you okay?" They didn't answer. She reached them and rolled them over so that she could see their face.
She gasped. "Stefan?" So that was where he had been all this time. None of them had known where he was, but they had just assumed he was out somewhere, maybe with his friends.
He was covered in blood and bruised all over. When she said his name, his eyes fluttered open. "Elena?" He asked. "Is this a dream?"
She smiled and stroked his face. "No. I'm really here." She assessed his injuries and the pain on his face and did the only thing she knew to help him. "Here." She quickly bit her wrist, drawing blood, and held it up to his mouth. "Drink." He obeyed, drinking what he could before she healed completely.
As the vampire blood began to take effect, he sat up. "Where are we?"
Elena looked around the cell. She wasn't sure where exactly Klaus had her locked up, but it was strong enough to hold a vampire pumped full of vervain. "I don't know." she answered truthfully.
"Well, how are you two lovebirds doing this morning?"
Elena was on her feet in an instant, trying not to show just how much effort it took to do even that while weakened by the vervain. "Rebekah. Who was dumb enough to wake you up?"
"Ha ha. Very funny." Rebekah replied. She put a key in the lock and turned it. She opened the door and stood in the doorway. "I think you should tell me where the moonstone is."
Elena gave her best defiant glare. "No."
Rebekah feigned a sad face. "I was afraid you would say that." She turned her attention to Stefan. "How about you sweetie? Surely your vampire girlfriend who just fed you her blood in order to heal your wounds told you where her most valuable possession was." Elena glanced toward the now open doorway just in time to see Klaus step into it, leaning against the frame while he watched his sister threaten their prisoners.
Stefan didn't say anything.
"No?" Rebekah said to him. "Then I guess I will have to use a more persuasive method with her." In an instant, she was directly behind him and snapped his neck. He fell to the floor.
"STEFAN!" Elena yelled. She ran over to him. "Stefan? Please don't be dead." she said, checking his body for any signs of life, although she already knew what she would find. She couldn't hear a heartbeat.
"That was almost cathartic." Rebekah remarked, half to herself and half for the amusement of her brother.
Elena glared up at Rebekah with hatred. "You killed him!"
Rebekah rolled her eyes. "You and me both know he won't be dead for long. Give it a couple hours, and then I get the chance to kill him for good." She grabbed Elena's face, forcing her to look Rebekah in they eyes. "Remember that next time you answer my questions." She threw Elena back to the floor and headed toward her brother at the door. They headed out of the cell and locked the door behind them.