Chapter 15 – What happens in Mystic, stays in Mystic

The rest of the night was a big blur. I remember dancing with pretty much everyone although I was mostly in Damon's arms, I remember drinking with Lexi, Caroline and Rosalie, I even have a few glimpses of playing pool with Lexi because, like all the other vampires in my life, she refused to not let me play.

I don't remember however going home with Damon and I certainly don't remember losing my clothes and finally sleeping with him. I slept like a baby and only woke up when I felt my body being violently pulled and the feeling of cold underneath me.

I popped open one eye, suddenly alert and saw that I was in a closed space. It was small, smelled musty with scents of death and pure evil hanging in the air.

The underworld.

I had only been down here once when Cole said I had to know my enemy in order to kill him so I had fixed us potions and he gave me the grand tour. Beltazor was dead and he was human but he remembered the place fairly well so we were undetected. Using that very same knowledge I hid in the rocks and watched as the room was occupied by two people, one large armchair, almost like a throne, a large cauldron and a big slab that resembled a table.

"I want answers"

The man shouted. He was tall with dark hair slinged back and fiery eyes. He was dressed in a dark cloak and spoke with a deep accent that seemed British. His voice sent tremors of fear inside me as my brain began going through of demons trying to rank him.

"It's been a year and you have given me nothing"

The man shouted again. On a smaller, less throne like, chair sat a woman looking bored. She was also in her mid forties, looking elegant and clad in a cloak of lighter color.

"Relax Mikael. The chips are falling on place, you know that. Soon she will be ours and we will rule"

The man, Mikael glared at her and she looked down correcting herself

"You will rule everything"

"I better will"

The man spat and sat on the throne. His eyes traveled to where I was hiding and I held in my breath hoping he wouldn't see me

"seer"

He shouted and to my immense surprise Alice appeared. She was wearing the same scrap of fabric that first witch I killed for the nexus. Her golden eyes burned red and she looked fearful.

"Yes Master?"

"Do you have any progress? What have you seen?"

Alice took a breath she didn't need and walked to the cauldron. I took a hesitant step towards it too hoping my naked skin wouldn't attract too much attention to me.

"She keeps thwarting my plans Master. I have seen that you will succeed though and I always am right"

She announced. In the black liquid of the cauldron I could see myself wearing the same dark cloak as her Master pledging an allegiance with my blood. Then I was standing on a beach at nighttime with the moon heavy and perfectly round above us assisting a blond guy in some sort of ritual. The last scene showed the woman dead by Mikael's feet with me in her place and a dark choker around my neck. On our feet all of the people I ever cared about were dead but I was smiling an evil smile. Mikael smiled and dismissed Alice who was gone in an instant. Then he called on Carlisle who appeared with a shimmer. His eyes were also red and he was dressed in a dark grey cloak.

"Are you successful?"

"Yes Master"

Carlisle replied obediently

"Edward has the doppelganger safe; the fool thinks he loves her. We are merely waiting for Niklaus to take notice and show up"

"Very well. He shall be there soon"

With a wave of his hand he dismissed Carlisle and turned on the woman who had an evil smile

"And then the brothers will rule"

Mikael threw his head back and laughed. The woman however smiled and looked at me straight in the eyes and spoke to my mind

"Protect them. The brothers in arms will need you girl"

I nodded unconsciously as my brain finally registered the identity of the man.

He was the Source

I woke up from my own scream as a pair of hands kept shaking me

"Bella, Bella wake up"

Many voices were calling out to me but the moment my eyes opened they found a pair of icy blue eyes that looked alarmed and I flung myself at him holding on for deal life not noticing our bodies colliding. Damon's arms wrapped around me tightly and he tried to sooth me as our bodies melted together and I wept on his bare shoulder. Someone wrapped some sort of cloth around me as I fought to regain control.

Taking a few deep breaths I opened my eyes and saw Stefan lingering by the open door dressed only in a pair of boxers that had Donald duck on them. I blinked.

"Are you alright?"

Lexis's soft voice asked me from her perch on our side. I nodded automatically

"Bad dream"

I lied. She narrowed her eyes at me but nodded leaving the room with Stefan. I made no move to extract me from Damon's arms and he made no move to set me down either. He rocked us until I felt him inside me and gasped

"Don't think, just feel"

He half growled in my ear and for the first time in the two months I had moved here I took someone's advice. I just felt shutting my brain completely.

When we rode our highs we were laying on the bed still entwined.

"What did you see?"

He whispered. I looked at him and relayed everything that I had seen during my dream? Vision? Astral projection? He took it all in with his expression hardening.

"You have friends to protect you. I will protect you"

He vowed. I shook my head with awry laugh

"A vampire is like a fly against a witch Damon. You'll be killed"

He tried to argue but my examples of how easy it would be to kill them all shut him up. For a moment. Then he tried to show me how easy it is for a vampire to kill an unsuspecting witch. In the end we agreed to disagree.

"Take my mind off of it?"

"Yes?"

He rubbed his hands over mine

"Make love to me"

"With pleasure

We spent the day in bed alternating between talking and making love. If Phoebe still had her powers, I'd think she had seen us and that's why she insisted on that dress. The same dress that laid on the bedroom floor torn in shreds.

"Stay"

Damon pouted

"The human needs to eat"

I pouted back and stole his black shirt from the floor. It missed all of the buttons but two. Seems like he was not the only one eager to get us to bed. He put his jeans back on and we went in the kitchen to make something to eat and Damon grabbed himself a drink. My throat was peppered with love bites and a few actual bites from the night before.

Raiding their fridge, which was strangely stocked, I made a large omelet with yellow and green peppers and some French fries and began to eat. Damon claimed he didn't want to eat but he ended up stealing my fries.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god"

Someone screeched. I winced and put my head in my hands

"Caroline if you don't shut up I'm gonna snap your neck"

I growled and someone laughed. I threw a glare at Damon who was innocently eating my fries

"Nice jammies Bella"

Rosalie joked making me blush. Damon's shirt may be reaching to my mid-thigh but it IS Damon's shirt. The man in question smirked

"Jealous Blondie?"

Rosalie looked about to kill him but Lexi interrupted her

"You got married?"

"No!"

I replied immediately. She grabbed my right hand

"You sure about that?"

True rough, when I looked at my hand a beautiful ring sat on my ring finger. It was delicate in the shape of a flower with a small diamond sitting in the middle of it. With trembling eyes I looked at Damon who looked equally freaked out and sure rough a flower-less version of the same ring sat on his finger.

Feeling my omelet making its way up inside me I dashed to the downstairs bathroom to empty my stomach.

"I'd have the same reaction if I woke up married to you"

Lexi snorted. I heard a crack as Damon snapped her neck