A Month Later...

Elena wakes up in Damon's arms. She looks up at him thru her thick eyelashes. Damon was gazing out the window and hadn't even realized that she was awake.

"Damon?"

He looks at her with his ocean blue eyes.

"Hmm."

"How long are we going to stay here? Don't get me wrong but I do love it here. I'm just think that I'm getting a little home sick."

"As long as we have to. We need to get rid of the threat before we go home."

Damon's gaze returns to the window, his eyes darkening with anger. He became angered by what has come of their situation. He knew that they would never have a normal life and he had wanted that for Elena at one point. It killed him inside knowing that Elena wanted to go back home and was not able to. He wants to give Elena everything she could possibly want or need. He felt like a failure. There is just no way to find out how many people are out there looking for Elena. He vowed to Elena that he would get them back home to Mystic falls as soon as possible.

*Crash*

"What was that?" Elena whispered.

"Wait here, I'll check it out."

Elena crawled out of bed and threw some clothes on. Elena could hear more noises and became quite terrified. Just then the windows shatter. Elena takes a deep breath. She then slid under the bed with a little trouble because of her bump.

"Elena!" Damon yells.

She lifts the bedskirt to see a man coming through the window. She quickly puts it back down. She realizes her breathing is loud and cups her mouth with her hand attempting to cover the noise. She could hear footsteps around the bed. She could feel hands grasp her ankles and she screams as they pull her out from under the bed. She stands up as soon as she could and barely looks at her attacker. She gives him a right hook. Her fist connecting with his nose. He was shocked by her actions, not expecting it. Blood began to drip from his nose. Before he knew what had happened she hit him with her left fist, this time connecting with his jaw. He stumbled backwards.

She quickly looked around and saw another guy beginning to come through the window. She grabs the lamp on the end table and runs toward the window and smashes the lamp against his head causing him to fall backward and to the ground with a large thud. She looks back at the guy who appeared to be knocked out on the floor. Good thing Damon's been very persistent on teaching her how to defend herself. She hoped she would never need to use it but in times like this, it came in handy.

Elena grabs her coat off the door and throws it on. She was freezing and she knew it by her teeth chattering. She continues to run down the long hallway looking for Damon. She made it to the first living room where she found Caroline and Klaus. There were masked men everywhere through out the house. Klaus and Caroline were killing the men one by one which such ease. They were no match for the two of them. Klaus was clearly enjoying himself. Elena's feet had begun to sting. She finally looks down and sees that they're bleeding. She realizes that she cut them on the shattered pieces of glass from the bedroom. She simply shrugs it off and continues her search for Damon.

Elena feels a man grab her from behind. As soon as she felt it, she slammed her elbow in their gut. She turned around to see the man hunched over. She knees him in the face sending him flying backward. She could feel the adrenaline rush through her body as she started to run again.

"Damon!" she yelled calling out to him.

"Elena!" She turned the corner of the second hallway, running towards the voice. That's when she saw Stefan breaking a guy's neck. There were bodies as well as blood everywhere. Stefan jumps down from the balcony and lands right in front of Elena. He breaks open a glass case and hands Elena the sword.

"Really?" Elena asks.

"You know how to use it right?"

"I guess... but what the hell do I look like? I'm not Michonne off the Walking Dead!"

"You'll be fine just stay close," Stefan chuckles slightly.

"Stefan, I... I can't do this."

"Elena, get down!"

Elena ducks and Stefan punches one of the assailants who stumbles back. Elena looks around and decides the coast is clear as she makes a run for it.

'He can't be far.' She thinks to herself.

She couldn't explain it but she knew that she was close to him. She made her way to the main living room. She sees Damon. He was in trouble. His hands were tied with rope and a man was standing over him with a wooden stake.

"Damon!" Elena screams. The sword slips out of her hands and clangs to the floor.

To Be Continued...