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Previously on Divine Beauty:
"Wait, what about the link between me and her?" I ask and tilt my head.
"The spell is broken for some reason I couldn't fully link the two of you so you're fine." She smiles and I nod at her.
"Elena?" Steffie asks and I resist the urge to roll my eyes.
"She'll heal quickly. Bonnie's with her. I apologize for my involvement." She looks at me and walks away. I rub my arm and leave before I go to my room to pack up all my stuff. I have Riptide resting on my shoulders like a rag doll again. I use the tree near the room to help us down to the front yard. I smile as I make that tree stronger before I see Elena walking towards her car.
"Hey Elena, can you drop me off at home? I miss being at home with Riptide." I say as he meows when he hears his name. Elena smile as she nods and grabs my makeup case from me. "The next time you and I get cut out of a plan, I'm going to stabs someone's spleen."
"I'll hold them down for you." She says before she and I giggle. We fall into a comfortable silence as we walk along the parking lot towards Elena's car. While Elena's unlocking her car, I feel something's off and I turn around. I see a man with a gun pointing it at me before he points it at Riptide and he puts his finger to his lips. He shakes his head and I feel myself tearing up.
"Okay, I'll do what you say, but don't shoot please me or my cat." I ask softly. He nods to say he won't, but he grabs my arm and he quickly pulls me over to his van and Riptide jumps in. I turn and he swipes his gun at me. It hits my cheekbone and everything goes black.
Rayen's POV:
I hear Riptide meowing at me worriedly and I groan as I open my eyes to see Riptide in front of me. I watch him look at me worriedly while he nuzzles my face. He purrs while I pull him close to me as I smile and sit up. I notice that I'm still in my dress which makes me smile knowing nothing actually happened that's really heinous. I stand up and I see that I'm in an abandoned house. Completed with the broken furniture and the boarded up windows. As I walk towards the window, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I throw my free hand back letting my vine wrap around a man's neck. I smirk as he tries to break free, but I make the thorns appear and dig the thorns into his neck.
"Who the hell are you?" I ask as I bring him closer and make him bleed and burn as the vervain thorns grip his neck. I tug on it again as he doesn't answer me and I feel my irritation rise. "Talk, leech."
"The name's Trevor and your pictures are quite deceiving. In most of them you're stiff and no fun at all, but I'm glad they didn't capture the real you. The real you actually does have some spirit." He says with an accented voice and a smirk on his face. I roll my eyes and squeeze my hand as Riptide purrs at him hissing in pain. "I see why he took so many photos with you."
I tilt my head, "Who is this he? Are you talking about the guy in Europe?" I ask and I release the vine on his neck bringing it back to tattoo itself back in its' spot. "Why does everyone bring that dude up? I don't know who he is." I say as he zooms over and I automatically make the floorboards cover my torso. He pulls up his phone and shows me in different pictures with the same man.
"You don't know who this is?" He asks curiously as he stops on a picture of me and the guy kissing at some beach. My eyebrows furrow together and I tilt my head as I look closer. My head starts hurting like someone is holding a hot poker to my head. I hiss and groan as my fuzzy goes fuzzy. I put my hand to my forehead as I close my eyes trying not to scream in pain and I try to reign in my powers which are pulsing in me.
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"Freckles?" I ask softly as I tilt my head and he automatically turns his head. Our eyes lock and as his face lights up with a big genuine smile. His big smile makes me smile. He starts walking towards me and I feel my magic spark as my heart beat faster. Oh my gods he's so much handsomer in person. I feel my cheeks turning red as we speak.
"Yes you are blushing love. So you think that I am handsome?" He asks with a shit eating smirk on his pouty lips and my jaw drops. I blush even more as my bangs fall in front of my eyes.
"I said that out loud didn't I?" he walks closer to me and pulls me into a hug. I put my face into the crook of his neck and take a deep breath in. I take note of the smell of a mixed of sandalwood and vanilla with some citrus mixed in with the rest. It relaxes me and I hear him take a deep breath in as he uses his nose to push my head. He makes me bare my neck to him and I giggle lightly as he rubs his nose on my neck.
"I don't mind." He says as he kisses the top of my head as his arms that are wrapped around my waist pull me closer.
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"You alrigh'?" He asks and I open my eyes before whatever just happened disappears as he helps me stand up straight.
"I am." I say as Riptide growls lightly at this vampire and he hisses as he sees his hand still on me. I smirk as I put my hand on his bare skin and push some Violet pheromones out through the vine and the broken couch wood edges that are near him. "Can I get some water or some food? I haven't had anything since breakfast yesterday."
"Yes. I'll grab you some." He says and I watch as he leaves. I see my suitcase is hear. I quickly pull off my dress and heels before I put on a pair of shorts and a flowing peasant top I growl when I notice I only have Louis's in here. I slip them on as I pull the baby's breath out of my hair and my hair falls down to my waist. I sigh lightly as I rub my hand on my scar before I sit on the chair letting Riptide lay in my lap. I hold my hands out imagining my suitcase being in my room in my closet and I take a deep breath before waving my hand letting the wood envelope it. I hear something downstairs and I hold Riptide closer to me he nuzzles my chest and
"Now try to stay quiet sweetie." I whisper before I let the wood floor envelope me and I end up behind a couch. I peek and I see Elena's hair before I stand up and sit next to her. "Be quiet." I whisper just as she was about to squeak. I smile bit her before she puts her hand to my face and pulls back some fingers with blood on them. I hold my hand out to the floor and think of a plant that will help for cuts and other things like that. I open my eyes to see a Thyme plant blooming and I smile before I harvest some and make a little wooden mortar and pestle. I hear something as I chew on the Thyme putting some more of my magic into it before I spit it into the mortar. I crush it up a bit more before I rub it into my cut while Riptide sits down next to me. Elena stands up as we hear Trevor and a woman argue very loudly.
"You didn't touch them, did you?" The woman asks as I motion for Riptide to stay where he is.
Trevor scoffs at her. "Give me some credit. You called him?"
"No, I called one of his contacts. You know how this works." She reminds him firmly and I think to myself that they have to be siblings.
"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?" He asks impatiently. Elena presses a finger to her lips and gently grabs my wrist tugging us towards the stairs that leads to the upper floors. Which is probably where I was being held, maybe most likely?
"They say that he got it." She replies and I see her walk by while I make a thorny vervain whip once again.
"Wonderful. And what?"
"So that's it Trevor. He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait."
"Look, it's not too late. We can leave them here. We don't have to go through with this." Trevor tells her nervously. "We can take the one the one that was in the pictures and send her back to Europe or where ever he is."
"I'm sick of running." She says pleadingly.
"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying." Trevor snaps and I grip the whip harder.
"Elijah is old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free." We take a step backward, but the floor creaks underneath our feet.
"You two!" Rose snaps and blocks us from the steps. "How did you get out of your room?" I smirk as I crack my whip behind me. "There is nothing for miles around. If either of you think you're getting out of this house, you're tragically wrong understand?"
"Who's Elijah?" I ask as I tilt my head. I notice her eyes widen and Trevor's whole body go still with fear.
"He's your worst nightmare." She says as she makes us follow her into a room, turning on lamps and covering the windows. I let out a low whistle and Riptide runs into the room with us before I pick him up and let my whip wrap around my arm.
"Why are we here?" Elena asks for the umpteenth time.
"You keep asking me these questions like I'm actually gonna answer them." She rolls her eyes as I sit down and Trevor gives me a water bottle. I smirk and nod as I throw my hand out and make a tiny apple tree grow next to me. I make an apple bloom before I turn the tree to dust and I start eating it. I open my water bottle and take a big gulp from it.
Elena frowns. "Why don't you?"
"That's another one."
"You have us, okay? It's not like we can go anywhere. The least you can do is tell me what you want with us."
"I personally want nothing." She tells Elena and I dry off the apple juice off my chin. "I'm just a delivery service." She glances back at me. "And you, you're an incentive for him." I tilt my head making my whip twitch towards her making her jump back.
"Delivery to who? Elijah?" Elena asks as I eat and make the apple bigger and juicier than last time.
"Two points to the eavesdropper." Rose smiles in amusement.
"Let me guess, he's a big ol bad vampire?" I ask as for some reason a little piece of something flashes behind my eyes of me telling a guy what to do with a traitor and wow I am ruthless.
"He's one of the vampires, the Originals." She replies to me when for some reason I feel strong arms wrap around me.
"What do you mean the Originals?" Elena questions.
"Again with the questions. Haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you your vampire history?" she asks with an eye roll. Trevor tries getting close to me and I twitch my whip towards him making the thorns flare out.
"You know Angel and Steffie?" I ask using their nicknames and Elena stiffens.
"I know of them." She corrects me and I roll my eyes. "A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones. I'm more of a sucker for the bad boys though, but I digress."
I start to think about the 'Originals' and I stand up before I wrap my whip around my waist. "They are the very first vampires, aren't they?" I ask tilt my head and she nods once.
"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tired, we want it over. We're using you, Elena, to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess." She explains. "Lady Rayen… is a bonus for making certain we're free."
"But why Elena?" I roll my eyes and turn the apple core to dust.
"Because she's a Petrova doppelgänger. She's the key to breaking the curse." She smiles at me and I roll my eyes before I close my eyes feeling for any familiar plants. "And from what I hear you can be used as the Earth element or you can just be on the sidelines."
"The curse?" Elena repeats. "The sun and the moon curse?"
"Oh, you do know your history!" She scoffs at her and I smirk while I throw out my magic in waves.
"What do you mean I'm the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse."
"No. The moonstone is what binds the curse. The sacrifice is what breaks it." My eyes snap open and I wrap my whip around her neck digging the thorns into her skin making her bleed. I walk over and bring her to her knees.
"Sacrifice?" I ask tightening it as I throw my hand out and wrap the boards around Trevor. "What sacrifice are you talking about?"
"The blood of the doppelgänger." She chokes out and I smirk slightly.
"Elaborate." I say tightening the whip.
"Elena is the doppelgänger. Which means in order to break the curse, she's the one who has to die." Trevor says when his stubborn relation doesn't tell me shit and I smile at her.
"Tell us more and I'll let you free." I say using my innocent voice and I look at Trevor as I bite my lip pushing out the same plant pheromones out of the floorboards around him.
"Please." Elena says as I look back at her to see that she has confusion on her face.
Trevor smiles like a goofball at me. "What do you want to know doppelicious?"
"Who are running from?"
"The Originals."
Rose nods as best she can. "Like Lady Rayen said, they are the first vampires."
"Old world." Trevor nods as I let him out of the floorboards hold before I let go of her neck. She zooms away and rubs her healing neck. "Rose and I pissed 'em off." Rose (apparently) sends him a look. "Correction, I pissed them off. Rose had my back. And for over half a millennium, they've wanted us dead."
"Why?" I tilt my head curious as to what he did to have them run for this long. "What did you do?"
"He made the same mistake countless others did. He trusted Katerina Petrova." Rose answers my question surprisingly.
"Katherine." Elena frowns.
"The first Petrova doppelganger."
"I helped her escape her fate. And I've-sorry-We've been marked ever since." He tells us before adding Rose in.
"Which is why we are not going to make the same mistake again." She tells us before leaving.
They walk us back into the room and Riptide lays on my shoulders. I lay down on the couch after seeing a piece of paper and the two vampires leave us and I give Elena the paper. She opens it and smiles down at me before handing it to me. "Look." I smile as I look up at her. Damon and Stefan were coming to get us. Suddenly Rose starts shoving things into a bag when Trevor comes running in after her panicking.
"He's here!" He says, "This was a mistake."
"No, I told you I would get us out of this. You have to trust me." Rose murmurs. "That girl," She nods over at me. "-Is our failsafe. Elijah won't turn her down. He'll want her more than Elena, I'm sure. The pictures of them don't lie."
"No! He wants me dead, Rose!" Trevor exclaims. "I can't do this! You give her to him, he'll have mercy on you, but I need to get out of here." Trevor grabs my arm and pulls me off the couch and away from Elena. "I'll take her and go. If he finds me I can just give her to him."
Rose takes his arms and Trevor lets go of me before I can do something. Riptide growls and hisses, "Hey! What are we?" She asks him while trying to calm him down and I stand up.
"We're family." Trevor murmurs and my heart clenches as a knock comes from the door below and the sound seems to echo. I watch both of the vampires freeze and I unfurl my whip and I hold Riptide to me.
"You're scared." Elena states the obvious and I hear her sigh.
"Stay here with them and don't make a sound. And don't take off with her. He's here it's too late to change our minds." She tells him and disappears before it goes silent. For a few tense moments there's nothing but silence and then accompanied by our pounding heart beats are someone else's footsteps. Elena and I look up to see a familiar handsome man in a suit, standing at the top of the stairs in the doorway. He stares at Elena, not seeing me just yet and brushes his longish brown bangs from his dark brown eyes. My jaw drops as Riptide tenses slightly.
"Impossible." He breaths almost silently as he's staring at Elena who is obviously trying not to shake in fear. He zooms over to her and I clench my whip's handle as I fear for the worst until he leans down to take sniff of her. "Human." He muses and then smiles at Elena with a slight tilt of his head. "Hello there."
"And we found something else for you, Elijah." Trevor tells him sounding so nervous that I'm surprised that he's not shaking like a chihuahua pup. Rose nods encouragingly before trying to grab a hold of my arm.
"We thought that he would like to have her back at his side."
"Oh, and who is…" Elijah turns and pauses in his step.
"Hey you're that guy that gave me his number back in San Diego because you won me a stuffed wolf when I was 13." I say as I make my whip wrap around me.
"I remember you. You were with the other girl and you both were dressed to impress even though you were going to the beach. I smirk and nod.
"Yep that was me."
"And what is your name, my dear?"
"Rayen. But most of your kind that comes from Europe has been calling me Lady Rayen." I say as he comes over and strokes my cheek, with the back of his fingers.
"Do not be afraid. I won't harm you."
"I'm not worried about that. I'm worried for your man parts. I value my personal space." I smirk as I use my whip to push him away from me by his rather intimate spot.
Elijah tilts his head before turning to Rose. "I accept." He says and he looks at me as if I'm the best thing to walk around on earth. But I sense that it's not in any sense romantic and I hesitantly put my whip in front of my stomach, just in case.
"Please." Elena begs Rose and Trevor. "Don't let him take us." Rose looks at me and I see her eyebrows furrow before I see her eyes flicker to where my whip is. Her eyes widen and I narrow my eyes at her.
"One last piece of business. Then we're done." Elijah turns to face Trevor who is very obviously trembling in fear.
"I've waited so long for this day, Elijah." He says as the Original stalks towards him. "I'm truly very sorry."
"Oh, no. Your apology's not necessary."
Trevor nods and I see that in his eyes that he really is sorry. I tilt my head must be a trait in the doppelgänger gene pool that makes men grovel at their feet make them so easily to manipulate . "Yes. Yes it is. You trusted me with Katerina… And I failed you."
"Oh, yes, you are the guilty one. And Rose only aided you because she was loyal to you. That, I honor." He faces Trevor. "Where was your loyalty?"
"I beg your forgiveness."
"So granted." He murmurs and Trevor gave a tiny smile. Notice him go to rip his heart out, but instead I throw my whip and wrap around his neck. I pull my arm back and take it clean off letting the vervain cauterize the cuts. Rose gasps and Elena just looks at me.
"Why Ray?" She asks as Elijah looks at me.
"Because an instant decapitation mixed with the 518 years of being on the run was punishment enough. A heart being ripped out and bleeding out means at least an hour. Not including if he just fed or not." I say in a cold tone and I look at Rose.
"You…" Rose begins to come towards me before I wrap the whip around her.
"Don't, Rose. Now you are free." Elijah says.
"No, what about the moonstone?!" Elena exclaims and I glare at her.
"Elena, what the fuck?" I growl out as I see him falter.
"What do you know about the moonstone?"
"Rayen and I know that you need it and we know where it is."
"Yes." He answers and I look at her before thinking about where it could be. Before I lick my lips and drink my water before I make my whip turn back into a vine and wrap it around my hand once again.
"And we can help you get it."
"Tell me where it is." Elijah says with a hint of a lingering command in his tone.
"It doesn't work that way."
"What kind of trick is this?" He demands as he frowns at us. "Are you negotiating with me?" With a half-amused smirk he turns to Rose who is trying to control her tears.
"It's the first I've heard of it." She retorts before Elijah turns back around to the two of us since then Elena has come to hide behind me. He eyes me and zooms over before grabbing my throat, not tightly but enough to try and intimidate me.
"Wait, don't I'll tell you." Elena says before he turns to her and takes her necklace off. He throws it across the room.
"Very well." He nods letting go of my neck and he pushes me away. He cups the back of her head and asks in an even tone. "Where is the moonstone?"
"In a tomb, underneath the church ruins."
"And why is it there?"
"It's with Katherine."
"I see." He smiles at her and strokes her cheek with his thumb. The sound of glass breaking downstairs catches our attention and Elena wiggles out of his grasp before she comes over to me.
"What was that? Who else is in this house?" Elijah demands of Rose who shakes her head with her teary eyes widening.
"I don't know." I smirk slightly before he takes Elena's arm in a gentle grip and he grabs my forearm. He then takes us towards the stairs. Rose follows so she doesn't upset the Original in between Elena and I. We walk up to the front door and stops. Elijah looks around all the while keeping his grip on us, but he tightens it on me even more than he is Elena. Something blurs by us and Elijah gently pushes the two of us to Rose. Before Elena wraps her arms around me like she used to hug Bonnie during a scary movie.
"Rose." Elijah growls as another blur goes by.
"I don't know who it is." Rose says truthfully.
"Up here." I hear Steffie's voice come from up the stairs and it makes Elijah zoom half way up the stairs to glance around.
"Down here." I hear Angel's voice calling teasingly from somewhere that's nearby and I let my smirk crawl onto my face. Swoosh. Everyone looks to see a mini stake stuck in Elijah's hand. He pulls it out without a flinch before he tosses it aside. Woosh. Suddenly I'm in another room and I'm about to squeak in surprise before Angel presses me against the wall. He puts his finger on my lips to silence me and I smile as he returns it.
"Excuse me." I hear Elijah call out politely. "To whomever it may concern, you're making a great mistake if you think you can beat me. You can't. You hear that?" I raise my eyebrow as I lick my drying lips. "I want the girls." Elijah calls out. "Either one actually, but I will get them both." I gulp lightly and Angel puts his forehead to mine as he holds onto Rose. "I repeat." Elijah calls out and I hear the sound of something breaking in one of the halls. "You cannot beat me. So I want the girls. Either one actually. I'm gonna count to three or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?"
"I'll come with you." Elena calls out and both Angel and I shake our heads at her stupidity. "Just please don't hurt my friends, they just wanted to help me out."
I hear him zoom up the stairs where her voice was coming from. "What game are you playing with me?"
I hear a quiet ting before something blows up. I jump slightly only to hear growls mixed with compressed air shots. I try not to make a sound before Angel lets go of Rose and me. I grab his arm and write on his arm with my nail. 'Be careful.' He jumps out and I press myself against the wall before I close my eyes putting my hand on my baby bump. I hear Elijah gasp and I walk out to see that he has turned grey and limp. I let out a breath before I make the makeshift stake bigger with the wave of my hand.
"Just let her go." Elena calls out and Steffie gets up from the floor.
"Did they hurt you? Are you hurt? Is th-" He asks before I cut him off with a look.
"I'm fine. If anything I may have a little cut from getting pistol whipped." I say as he looks at where my cut is and the little chewed up plant before he wipes it off. I smile as I only feel that it's very sensitive, but no longer an open cut. "I just want to get home and eat. Then we can double check with my cousin when she gets in." I say and whisper the last part as Riptide meows in agreement with me.
"Me too." Elena agrees before Steffie wraps her in a tight hug.
"Let's go home." We all say in unison.