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Chapter 9: Never Wake Up
Liv Parker heard that there was some kind of craziness about threats of a serial killer back home. She hadn't put too much thought into it. Hell, nothing bad ever happened in Mystic Falls. Maybe a prep rally hosted by Caroline Forbes while Liv went to hide under the bleachers to share a drink with friends and make fun of the cheerleader. Other than that, nothing much, until now.
Driving from Portland, Oregon to Mystic Falls, Virginia in three days had left Liv wanting her bed. That's why when she showed up, she had greeted her older brother, Kai, with a sneer and smack to the back of the head before going into her childhood room and falling, face down, in bed. She slept from six in the morning till six in the evening. "Hey, Livvie," Kai called, poking his head into her room.
Liv's head moved upward, she glared back at her brother, wiping a line of drool off the side of her mouth. "Ugh. What?" she groaned, wanting to go back to sleep.
"I'm headed out to a party. Want to come?" Kai had inquired, leaning against the doorframe, his long legs crossed at the ankle, his usual smug smirk in place.
"Are you kidding me?" Liv sat straight up, glaring at her brother. "No. You're not going anywhere tonight. I did not drive all this way so that you can go out and get yourself killed!" She got to her feet and then felt the floor moving up to meet her face.
Kai moved so quickly she barely had time to register his arms encircling her, holding her up. "Hey there, sis, maybe you should get some more shut eye," he told her.
Rolling her eyes, Liv gripped his t-shirt in her fists. "You're not going out tonight. We can watch whatever stupid teen flick with Jennifer Love or whatever bimbo who wants to run around in half her clothes, you want to. Just, please, promise me, you won't go out there!" Liv begged Kai. He was all she had. After their twins died in a car wreck three years ago, she had clung to her older brother, when she wasn't trying to kill him.
"Liv, I'll be fine," Kai replied, laughing and pulling his shirt free from her grasp. "You know it's just some grand hoax to keep teens from drinking and engaging in the usual random sexual encounters that will leave this town with more kids running around." He laughed, moving over to check himself out in her mirror. "Man, I look good tonight. Think I'm going to try my chances with Bonnie Bennett. Bet she's going to want some protection from the big, bad thing in the dark, right?"
Sighing, Liv ran a hand through her hair and followed Kai down the hall. "Why don't you invite Bonnie to come here? She's probably right next door. Just go over, knock on the door and invite whoever is over there, over here. We can have our own party," Liv continued in vain, as Kai began to whistle on his way out the door. He walked to the street, stopping to cross his arms over his chest and smirk at her, while she argued with him.
"I'll be fine," Kai said, rolling his eyes before he got into a car with some other guys, probably his friends from college who she had not met yet. "See ya, Liv. Remember to lock the doors!" Kai called, waving good-bye.
Liv let out a frustrated sigh, watching other cars picking up other teens and then turned to head inside her house. It looked like she had a long night ahead of her. She walked into the house and slammed the door behind her. Didn't matter, since she had the whole place to herself. Deciding to give herself a pedicure and take a bath, Liv walked upstairs and lost herself for the next hour. It wasn't until she received a call from Tyler Lockwood that she had even thought about the stupid party at The Falls. She walked over to her window, watching Elena Gilbert and Co. getting ready to leave. Typical.
"Hey, Liv, what are you doing, right now?" Tyler asked, sounding a little drunk.
"Watching some people I can't stand go to a party I have no intention of going to," Liv replied, folding her arms over chest and walking away from the window.
"Oh, yeah, party's totally lame. I'll probably swing by your place later. Cool?" Tyler asked and Liv rolled her eyes. You hook up with a guy, one time, after senior prom and he thinks he owns you.
"Sure," Liv replied with as much sarcasm as she could muster which was not enough for Tyler.
"See ya then," Tyler replied, hanging up.
Liv checked the clock for the one millionth time, hoping that Tyler would show up before she grabbed a hoodie and headed over to the Gilbert's. She knocked on the front door and it took awhile but Jeremy finally answered, with a meat cleaver. Sweet. What had her life come to? "What are you doing with that thing?" Liv wondered what Jer was on when she elbowed past him and into the living room.
"You scared the hell out of me," he snapped and she felt the same way but didn't tell him that. They conversed for several more minutes before the doorbell rang and Liv tensed before running up the stairs. Entering Jer's room, she found a baseball bat and figured that would do.
Running back down the stairs with the baseball bat, she came to stand behind the door. "On the count of five," Jeremy told her. They counted down when someone else spoke up.
"Five," they said and Liv screamed when Jer tried to kill Tyler with the meat cleaver. She almost wished he had for scaring them. Dropping the bat, she threw her arms around Tyler, relieved he was okay. "Thank God, you're okay."
"The back door. It's unlocked," Tyler announced, causing Liv to grab the bat again. Everything else happened so quickly, she could barely keep up.
When they ran out of the house, Liv pulled out her phone, desperately punching buttons, waiting for him to pick up. "Come on. Damn it, Kai. Pick up the damned phone!" she yelled as they climb into Kol's car and he gunned the engine. He finally picked up and she sighed is relief. "Kai, you need to come home. Right now!" she yelled into the phone before they saw the killer getting up and heading toward them. You'd think smacking someone over the head with a baseball bat would stop them for at least five minutes. "Kol, we need to go!" she screamed at Kol.
"I'm trying but the car won't start!" Kol screamed back at her. Trying to get the car to started but it wouldn't move.
"Okay. Plan B. Who else has a car?" Liv asked them and they all look at each other.
"Kol was my ride," Tyler pointed out and Liv rolled her eyes when Elena look-alike tries to attack Jeremy from behind. Liv took the bat she still had with her and smacked the woman in the back of the head, watching her go down, hard this time.
"I have had enough of this bitch!" Liv snarls, shoving her unruly hair behind her ear.
"Me, too!" Jeremy said, watching her closely.
"While she's out, you want to try the car again?" Tyler asked Kol who went ahead and got behind the wheel. The engine starts up and they sigh in relief. "What do we do with her?" he asked, looking at the girl who had tried to kill them, mere minutes ago.
"We can take her to the Sheriff's station," Jeremy suggested.
"Great plan, mate. Load her in the trunk," Kol told them. Jeremy and Tyler, tossed her in the trunk and then they got inside the car. It didn't take long before they were in front of the building and Liv called Kai again, getting out and walking away a couple of feet. This time the call went to voicemail. She cursed her brother but left a message anyway to let him know what they were up to in case he went home.
Turning around, her eyes rounded when she saw the girl who looked like Elena, with another knife, where did she hide it? she wonders when the knife sliced through Kol's arm, making him yell in pain. Jeremy hauled off and punched the woman in the side of the head. She dropped to the ground and Tyler kicked her knife away.
"I don't like hitting women but I also don't like them trying to kill me and my friends," Jeremy said, grabbing the woman and dragging her into the building.
Liv got behind the wheel, peeling her hoodie off and handing it to Tyler who got into the backseat with Kol. She glanced in the rearview mirror to see Ty wrapping the hoodie around Kol's wound before she starts the car. They needed to get to the hospital and soon. Her thoughts were a mess when they arrived at the hospital and she helped Tyler with Kol, walking into the ER.
Liv felt relieved that they were in the hospital until she came across Bonnie Bennett who looked pale and scared. Their eyes met and Bonnie started to cry. This made Liv's heart begin to pound. She all but forgot about Kol on her way to Bonnie's side. "Bonnie, what's wrong?" she demanded, staring at the older girl.
"Kai. It's Kai. He was… He was…" Bonnie started to sob while Liv felt the world spinning. No. She could not lose another sibling. Not tonight.
"What happened?" Tyler asked, coming over to Liv's side, keeping her from falling on the floor. She felt so damned tired. All she wanted to do was go to sleep and to pretend this whole nightmare never actually happened.
"I was driving and found Rebekah, running away from one of the killers. We drove to Jeremy's but he wasn't home. Kai came over, looking for you," she looked at Liv before sucking in a deep breath, trying to calm down. "When we were driving away, someone shot at the car… and… and," she started to sob again.
"They shot Kai," Liv ended dully, shaking her head, feeling her eyes fill with tears.
"He's in surgery. They don't know if he'll be okay or not," Bonnie said quietly, trembling. "Rebekah's who knows where as are Elena, Damon and a ton of our friends. I don't know where most of our friends are," she moaned.
"I'm over here, love," Kol called to Bonnie who went over to him. They started to talk when a nurse took him away to look at his wound.
"I have to check on my brother," Liv said, hurrying over to the elevators. Tyler came with her and she spoke to a nurse who told her that the doctor would be with her shortly. In the meantime, Tyler grabbed them coffees and they waited. When a blonde doctor walked by and then started talking to an orderly about some new patients on the psych ward, Liv did not pay attention.
"That was weird," Tyler whispered to Liv.
"What was weird?" she asked absently, sipping her drink.
"I think they were talking about Klaus Mikaelson," Tyler told her. Liv felt confused. "Let's follow them," Tyler suggested. Liv wanted to wait to see if the doctor would come out with news on Kai but decided to follow Tyler. They went upstairs and found they could not get onto the psych ward without a keycard.
Liv popped a button on her top and then began to flirt with the first male orderly who came her way. Soon she had a key card and they threw on scrubs that Tyler had found in a closet. She slid the card and Tyler grabbed a wheelchair. Entering the ward, they kept their heads down, peering inside each room. She spotted not just Klaus, but Stefan, as well. "Stefan's here, too," she whispered to Tyler.
"We should take them down one at a time," Tyler told her.
Liv nodded, feeling exhausted but she entered Klaus' room anyway, waking him up and getting him the hell out of there. Soon she returned to collect Stefan. Both of the males wanted to know about Caroline but she had not seen a glimpse of the cheerleader in question. Maybe she hadn't been looking hard enough. They got Stefan and Klaus out to a car where Bonnie and Kol were waiting for them.
"Good luck," Liv called. "But I have to stay to see if Kai makes it through this."
Re-entering the hospital, Liv ducked into a bathroom stall to ditch her new clothes and then walked back out. She looked around for Tyler. Apparently he wanted to take his dear, sweet time. Her eyes moved to the desk where a doctor was talking to the nurse there. She pointed at Liv. "Ms. Parker?" he called.
Hurrying over to the desk, Liv waited for the doctor to speak. "Hello, I'm Dr. Wes. I operated on your brother. He has a lot of fight in him and is very lucky. We were able to remove the bullet and it looks like he will be able to recover all the abilities he had prior to the shooting," he told her and Liv let out a cry of relief. "However, he is currently in a coma. We believe that he will wake in the next twenty-four hours. If not, then we will have to discuss your options."
"My options?" Liv did not like the sound of that.
"Are your parents in the area, Ms. Parker?" Dr. Wes asked, sliding his hand into his pocket.
"No," Liv shook her head.
"I would call them. I would call them tonight," Dr. Wes advised. "It's always good for patients to hear their family members," he told her. "If you'll excuse me. I have other patients to attend to."
Feeling like someone had kicked her in the stomach, Liv tried not to cry. She looked around for Tyler but he had gone missing. Her legs moved toward an empty seat and she started to cry. When someone offered her a tissue, she thanked him quietly and then she looked up to find the male orderly who had been talking to the blonde doctor, grinning at her. "Hi there, if you ever want to see your boyfriend, you'll want to follow me," he told her.
The world began to spin when Liv got to her feet and he took her by the arm, easing her toward the elevator. To the common observer they it might appear that he was helping her, in fact, his grip stopped her from running away. Not that she could if she wanted to. The exhaustion had finally caught up with her. She felt herself being carried through the doors and then laid on a bed. Opening her eyes, Liv stared at Tyler who had a needle stuck in his arm and restraints, holding him down to the bed.
"What are you doing to him?" Liv asked as the blonde doctor appeared.
"It's not what I did. It's what I'm going to do. I've been playing with anti-psychotic treatments for awhile now. None of them seem to work. But you try, try again," the doctor said before grabbing the end of Tyler's bed and pushing her toward the bed.
"Get off of him!" Liv screamed, trying to get off of the bed when the orderly, held her down.
"Where are you going, sweetie? The party is just about to begin," he told her, his lips grazing her neck and Liv screamed, thrashing on the bed.
"Get off of me. Get off of me!" Liv screamed.
"Now, Brady. Don't be vulgar. You can play with her later. And the other one, too. I need help with my experiment," the doctor called and Liv felt relieved when he moved to get up.
"I'll be back to tuck you in," he said, placing his hand on her thigh, making Liv gag in response.
When they were gone, Liv looked around for something, anything she could use as a weapon. Stupid orderly had strapped her to the bed and it looked like she would be stuck for the moment. Knowing she would die here, Liv cursed every day of her life and then some. Jerking at the restraints, she tried to free herself; it was no use. After awhile, she heard sound from the hall. It sounded like someone gasping for breath because they were in pain.
The door opened and Caroline Forbes nearly fell down, clutching her side. Blood seeped into the hospital gown she wore. "Liv?" she cried, moving toward the bed and then letting out a hiss of pain.
"Caroline, can you loosen these for me?" Liv begged.
Caroline nodded, hissing again but she moved over to the bed and pulled the restraints. "Have you seen Klaus?" she gasped, her face pale from lack of blood. Her hand clutched her wound.
"Yeah. He's okay. Bonnie and Kol got him and Stefan out of here," Liv told Caroline who sighed in relief, smiling happily before sinking to the floor.
Freeing herself, Liv got off the bed and knelt next to Caroline. Looking under the gown, she found where someone had either stabbed Caroline or had removed her appendix. Liv's had blown when she was ten and she had the scar to prove it. "Caroline, wake up. We need to get out of here," Liv told Caroline who nodded but didn't move. Finally, Liv had to place Caroline's arm over her shoulder and half carry her out of the room.
Liv swiped the key card and they got down to the lobby where Hayley Marshall and Damon Salvatore were carrying Elijah Mikaelson between them. "I'll get some bandages, you keep an eye on Elijah," Hayley ordered Damon when Elena came in with a black eye.
"Hey, take her," Liv ordered Damon, holding Caroline out to him,
"What the hell happened to you guys?" Damon demanded, taking Caroline and setting her beside Elijah.
"Long story. I have to find Tyler," Liv told them.
"I'll come with you," Damon offered.
"Be careful," Elena cried, grabbing Damon and kissing him passionately.
When they parted, Damon and Liv went hunting for Tyler and the crazy doctor. They didn't find her, but they did find Tyler, in an OR. Liv slipped to the floor, screaming in silent horror as she looked at her boyfriend. Or what was left of her boyfriend. His internal organs lie on the table beside his body. "Oh, that doesn't look good," Damon said and then then they heard someone behind them.
"Oh, look volunteers," the blonde doctor cried, holding up a scalpel and they began to fight.
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