Damon walked up the stairs, lost in thought. He'd done everything to quench the thirst, even drained one guy, earlier today. But still just the thought of being in the same building as her, was almost impossible to stand. He hadn't felt like this since... But he was not going to give in. Not going to...
And then he heard the scream. He stopped dead in his tracks, as sensations overwhelmed him.
Ripped flesh. Blood. Pain. Terror. He ran.
Kirya only screamed once. But as the excruciating pain engulfed her, it was so overwhelming, that somehow her mind ripped it self away from her body, putting distance between it self and all the pain. She could hear how the vampire ripped at her throat though, even feel the blood drench her. Her own blood.
She saw the others watching, paralysed.
Yuki saw the terror in Kirya's face, and felt helplessly frozen to the spot. He could only watch as Klaus almost chewed his way through skin and flesh. Kirya who never seemed afraid of anything, never got fazed by anything. She was gonna die, he slowly realized. Klaus would not stop, and he, Yuki, could do nothing. Klaus was too strong.
Katherine heard him on the stairs. None of the others seemed to notice. Not even Klaus, with his supreme senses. He was too absorbed by the blood. So Kathrine put herself in position stepping slightly back from the others. She tried discretely to get their attention, but their full attention were on the bloodbath in front of them.
Fucking boys!
Her eyes found Kirya's. The girl was actually still alive and still conscious, if only for a few seconds more, by the rate Klaus was draining her.
Well it was worth a try. He was gonna be here within seconds, and they needed a diversion.
Holding the girls gaze she mouthed "Damon", nodding discretely in the direction of the door. Kirya's eyes widened, but then she slumped unconsciously in Klaus' grip.
Shit! Fucking worth-for-nothing human!
She just hoped Damon would bring the item, or they would all be dead.
She did not doubt that he would take on Klaus in a heartbeat, no matter his chances. He was Damon Salvatore after all.
As Damon burst through the door several things happened at once;
Klaus looked up at the defeated crowd in front of him, with a satisfactory look on his face. His eyes narrowed as Katherine hissed and threw herself forward.
Kirya, whose body hang limply in Klaus grip, came alive, jamming her elbow into his stomach. She caught him by surprise, but of course it didn't have much effect on him.
Damon was on him in that exact moment, growling furiously.
Kirya felt her heart skip a beat as she saw him covering the space between the door and Klaus in a blur. They all landed in a pile on the floor. Her head was dizzy and her eyesight began to dwindle. She was pushed away violently, hitting the cabinets.
She couldn't move. Didn't have any strength left.
I'm going to die, she realized oddly detached. At least I saw him one last time.
She didn't lose conscience right then though. She just laid and watched everything happen in front of her, registering what happened, but not being able to feel anything about it.
Katherine was fighting alongside Damon, but Klaus was obviously stronger and faster than any of them. He was laughing, Kirya could only hear him distantly.
Damon fighting with total abandon, retrieved something from his jacket. It looked like a dagger of sorts.
I thought he said himself that metal doesn't hurt vampires, she mused.
He threw himself at Klaus, death in his eyes.
Klaus was behind him faster than anything Kirya had ever seen. He grabbed Damon by the arm and broke it without hesitation. The crack as the bone splintered brought Kirya's hearing back. The dagger fell from Damon's hand and clattered to the floor. But he didn't stop fighting.
Klaus just laughed madly as he slowly started pressing his hand against Damon's chest. Damon roared in pain as Klaus' hand began pressing through flesh.
Kirya wanted to scream, wanted to do something, but along with her hearing the pain had returned, and the only thing she managed was a weak moan.
But now Yuki entered the fight, he threw himself, not at Klaus, but at Damon. Ripping him away from the originals death grip. Damon landed in a heap on the floor, out of the fight for the moment. Yuki faced Klaus.
Benjamin was frightened. When he had heard Kirya scream, he had bounced out of bed. Now peeking in through the door, he was pretty sure she was dead, lying all still in a corner of the room, blood all over.
The bad man had Yuki pinned down on the floor.
Ben was only a kid, but he knew one thing: He had never been treated better than he'd been here. Mr. Yuki had saved him from a gang of older kids, wanting to beat him up for stealing on their turf. And now the bad man was going to kill his only friend. He would have to live in the streets again, having to hide and steal.
Determinately he ran into the room. As he passed the moaning Damon on the floor, his foot hit something. He looked down. It was a long pointed knife. It almost looked like the one his dad had always threatened Ben and his mom with.
He grinded his teeth and picked it up.
Yuki knew it was over. For real this time. This was nothing like they had planned it, all their meetings about killing Klaus had wound up to nothing at all, and he felt the urge to laugh.
So stupid they had been to think, Klaus would not see through all their secrecy. And Yuki had been a fucking idiot himself, for going along. He at least should have known better.
Klaus was on top of him now, pressing him down.
"I'm gonna drain you, like a fucking blood bag, and then I'll eat your heart, Nakamura."
How ironic, Yuki thought as Klaus bit down. So this is how it feels to be at the other end of the food chain. He gasped as his life force was sucked out of him.
It stopped so fast, that he didn't even realized what happened. Klaus suddenly jerked back, his face full of horror. Then slowly his face turned ashen, his skin transforming into what almost looked like parchment, and the spark left his eyes as he tumbled over and away from Yuki.
Above him stood the boy, tears running down his face. The dagger, which had been covered in ash from the white oak, deeply sunk into Klaus back.
I hope it's not too hard to follow the POVs. I don't know if the editor here shows all the line breaks I put in to help separate them.
Today I'm gonna slip in a little sneak peek of next chapter :-)
Everything was chaos. Katherine was running for Damon, Alex for Katherine. Kirya, possibly dead on the floor. Weak from the blood loss, Yuki's surprise turned into an immediate and uncontrollable hunger. He launched himself onto the boy, fangs protruded...
Stay tuned, I am officially in a writing frenzy!