Hey adorable, wonderful, sweet, and absolutely loyal readers of mine,
Let's see if you can find the MCMU character I have hidden in here and yes Gabe Turner is one of the references. Well at least his face and physique is from Seb Stan in CA:WS. ;) I like to hide little bits like this and Iris Winchester being Natasha Romanoff. I will occasionally sneak someone else' physique or their face.
Anyways back on track now. A great big thank you to all of you newer followers and Favorite-ers that have enjoyed reading Rayen's story. I would love it if y'all would write a review then maybe it will come faster to me wanting to write for all of you to get excited. And yes, I need to feel like y'all get excited when you realize that this story has been updated. ^. ^ I would also love to thank those that have been with me since the beginning or since the first couple of chapters.
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I am so sorry, but the death of her and Klaus's child in the previous chapter needed to happen not only because she's a 17 year old that lost her mother, older, cousin, and in the passed her father. She isn't as grown up as I write her out to be, she just doesn't have the correct mental health just yet. But it's also so that other things can work out in the future between them. Please don't kill me. I promise I have a plan for her and Klaus to regain a child that they just lost.
Your writer,
Beautiful Dreaming Warrior
P.S., I don't own any of the Vampire Diaries cast or their canon actions. I only own those that you don't recognize. MORE REVIEWS = FASTER REACTION TIMES FOR ME TO UPDATE.
P.P.S., I have update this chapter because I just read some inconsistencies within it that I didn't see the first couple times.
Previously on Divine Beauty:
He takes a deep breath and looks up at me with tears in his eyes, "I am really really sorry. Although my magic and yours healed your wounds it um... couldn't save your baby... baby boy." My jaw drops and tears well up in my eyes. "I am so sorry. I was too late to save him." He says as tears start falling down my face as I stare at him in despair over the unplanned death of my unborn son. That stupid slutty bitch of a were-mutt killed my baby boy.
"N-no. No. That's not possible. My... my baby isn't a vampire." I stutter out as I stand up and try to get out. "I've never had anything with a vampire. Wh-why is is this happening to me?" I sob out as my legs trip over one another before he catches me and I start sobbing in his arms. "I I haven't even held him or named him yet." I sob and he wraps a towel around my body. He's shushing me as he cradles me to his chest as we sit on the bathroom floor. The pain feels as though someone has ripped out my heart and stepped on it multiple times with a dulled heel. My body shaking with each sob as my heart breaks into a million little pieces before someone grabbed them all and threw them in all different directions. My body hiccups as I hear him humming a little fall of rain.
"And you would live 100 years, if I could show you how
I wont desert you now," I hear him whisper sing as I cry and I lick my tears off my face.
"The rain can't hurt me now," I respond as he rocks me to the beat of the song.
"This rain will wash away what's past." He sings in his low voice.
"And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace, at last," I close my eyes tighter as he rubs my arms and I put my hand on my bump that will no longer grow.
"The rain that brings you here, Is Heaven bliss
The sky's begin to clear, and I'm at rest
The breath away, from where you are
I've come home, From so far." He sings as I feel that he is crying as well.
"Hold your breath, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
I'm here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close." He kisses my temple like a brother would to try and calm me down.
"And rain will make the flowers grow." He sings as I fall asleep once again from crying.
Greta's POV:
I wake up to the sounds of something being thrown and broken. I sit up and run to the sound to see Klaus zooming around his art studio breaking everything that has to do with pictures of the faceless child being held by Rayen. His chairs, easels, and canvas's ripped shattered, and or in the fireplace being burned. I hide around the corner as I barely miss a chair being thrown behind me. I peek my eyes out as he lets out a loud heart wrenching roar that I have never heard come out of his mouth.
"Klaus?" I ask softly as he goes as stiff as a board.
"Leave me be witch." He says with a hoarse voice before he walks out with his vampire face out for everyone to see.
"Klaus. Please don't leave just tell me what's wrong." I say and just as he reaches the door he zooms back and pins be against the wall by my throat. I gasp lightly as I see his face fully now while I grip his wrist tightly. All I see in his eyes is pure unbridled rage is only try to mask his complete and utter despair as his tear tracks are dried and can't be seen unless you were this close to him.
"You want to know what's wrong?! What's wrong?" He chuckles sardonically before he growls and uses his other hand to punch a howl next to my head. "The problem is that Rayen got bit by a werewolf and since the child growing in her had vampire blood running through his tiny little body." My jaw drops as tears of my own try to escape my eyes knowing that my best friend just miscarried their first child. His eyes well up in tears as he loosens his hand slightly. "Our... baby was..." He chokes up before starting again, "poisoned because of a mutt trying to kill Damon." The hope that he once had in ablaze in his eyes these passed weeks has been snuffed out. "Now clean up this mess before I get back or it'll be your head." He drops me to my knees and I rub my neck as he slams the door behind him.
"Oh my god." I gasp out as I wave my hand quickly cleaning everything in his art room up before I see a little blue blanket with a Celtic symbol for protection embroidered into the corner of it with the dark blue lettering of, 'Rohan' on it. I cuddle the blanket to my chest and I let my tears fall down my face wishing that I could be there for her.
Rayen's POV:
Next Day
After he let me cry myself to sleep again he helped me get dressed before he drives me to the hospital and he walks in with me. The doc confirms that I miscarried and they have me set a date for me to have a C section to give birth to my dead child. We do it for the day that Melody gets into town and then he takes me home as Dr. TC prescribes some meds to help me. He returns the memories that Nik told Greta to take and I am severely pissed off at him for telling her to do that. SO I'm not talking to him. He helps me around the house today and he helps me send back all of my maternity clothes.
"How are you handling everything?" He asks as he looks over to me as he helps me fold up laundry that I haven't folded up. I lick my lips as I look over at him to see he's pitying me.
I sigh as I sort my clothes into dressers after he folds them, "Honestly? I'm not handling it Jamie. I lost mine and Nik's child because I was careless and I just regained memories that I should've had since the beginning."
"Yeah I know." He says as he passes me a pile of my shorts and I put them away before I look up at a picture from my trip. It's of me and Nik dancing at a cocktail party. "Also, Iris is going to be taking my place here with you and she's getting Melody from the airport for us." I smirk.
"Iris? You mean Anya? My third favorite inner circle sparring partner?" I ask as I turn around and I put the rest of my clothes into their designated drawers.
"Yep." He says just as his phone rings. "Hello?" His eyes widen. "Are you serious?" I tilt my head and he shakes his head no. "Yeah, no. I'll get the next flight and join you guys."
"Something wrong with Hades?" I ask using his nickname and he looks at me before nodding.
"Yeah, I've gotta go. Are you feeling okay now?" He asks and I walk over giving him a big hug letting his head rest on the top of mine.
Time Jump
After I take a shower and change into a matching pair of black and white lace lingerie before I look at myself in the mirror and put on my corset before I put on tank top to hide the lines of it. I walk into my closet and slip on a long sleeve before I pull on a pair of pants with leather heeled boots. I look at myself in the mirror and my face is kind of pale before I put some makeup on to try and hide what's happened. I curl my hair and put on a leather jacket. Ring Ring. My phone rings and I pick it up.
"Hello?" I ask as I grab my keys and walk down to the kitchen. I see a little blue bottle with a cork top on the island next to a note. I smile and read it, 'Made you this elixir to help your body with losing your baby and it will help you lose the baby bump in small doses.'
"Can we have some girl time at the Grill?" I hear Care ask and I open the bottle before taking a sip of the elixir.
"Of course. I'll meet you there in five." I say before I hang up and slip the elixir bottle into my corset. I see Riptide laying in his hammock with a half empty bowl filled with tuna meaning that Maddox fed him. I smile and lean up to kiss his forehead before I leave with my board. I take my time gaining more magic as I close my eyes using my magic to guide me and I walk into the grill meeting up and sitting down with Caroline.
"Poor, Ty." I say as Care nods agreeing with me as we walk out of our two hour girl time. Our topics alternating between the attack on Damon, John Gilbert being back in town, and talking about Care helping out Ty with his transformation. I haven't even told her about me losing the baby or the baby's gender.
"I know and I feel so bad!"
"It wasn't your fault, Care. Maybe he and Steffie will work something out." I put my hand on her arm.
Caroline nods as she puts her arm around my shoulder. "If he won't listen to Stefan, he might actually listen to you. We should go over there and check on him." I shrug my shoulders as we head over to her car. "So, did you find out the gender of your baby?"
I tense up slightly gripping the wood of my board harder, hoping that I'm not warping it with my powers. "Oh yeah, um doc TC told me I was going to have a boy." Care squeezes and pulls me into a hug me tightly and I feel her body tense up as if she's realizing that something's off. She pulls away and she takes a look closer at me before her eyes widen with her jaw dropping to the ground.
"Hey! Hey!" We turn to see Mattie running towards us and I whisper slightly.
"I'll tell you later." I get wrapped up in a hug and I smile as I can feel myself getting more relaxed. "Hi, Mattie."
"I haven't seen you in a long time. Where have you been?" He asks and I pull away as he and I smile.
"Dealing with my mom's business trying to sell it so I can concentrate on colleges." I say as he kisses my temple before he turns to Care.
"I haven't seen you around much."
"I'll meet you at the car." I whisper seeing that I'm not needed for this conversation and I head to the car to let them to talk.
"I'm not avoiding you, I swear." I hear Care telling Mattie.
He smirks at her. "Yeah, you're avoiding me a little."
I see her head duck down meaning that she's blushing. "Okay, maybe a little." She admits to him lowly.
"Can we talk later? I mean, I'm heading to work right now but maybe after, to clear of this weirdness."
Care smiles. "Yeah, yeah, I'd really like that. I'll just swing by when you're closing?"
Matt returns her smile with his own and for some reason my body feels like it's getting hotter. "Sounds good."
"Bye." Caroline waves as she walks over and he waves back to the both of us. She walks over to me as I lean against the car and I look around curious at what this feeling is. I pull out the elixir and take a sip of it once again before putting it back in my corset. I let my whip coil in my hand ready to appear if I need it soon.
"Excuse me." I hear Care ask as a blond woman walks up with a smug swagger in her walk and I tense up slightly.
"Caroline right?"
"Yeah."
I turn to see that the woman's eyes have landed on me before widening slightly. "And you're Ray. Damon's girl."
"Not Angel's girl." I snap back and I see her body tense up at my cold demeanor obviously hearing that I'm the nicer one out of our group.
"I'm looking for Tyler. You both haven't seen him, have you?"
"Not today. Sorry." I say as I get my whip ready and I see Care tensing up.
"Not since earlier. Sorry." Care replies shortly and she looks at me then to the car. My eyes widen slightly realizing she wants be to get into the car before something happens. I nod slightly before I grab a hold of the handle.
"I know you're lying." She says lowly as I open the door.
I can actually feel Care rolling her eyes. "Really? How? Is that one of you little wolf tricks?"
"Actually, it is."
"You're Jules." I hear Care say and I drop my board in shock before it feels like my veins have ice running through them. "You're the one who bit Rose."
"That's right." Jules smirks as she looks at Care completely unaware of me. "Was she your friend?" I turn back around as I feel my magic crackling in me wanting her blood to spill and stain the ground. I can feel my magic sparking throughout my veins and my body shaking in fury. "Are you upset that your friend died or that I was aiming for Damon?"
"You're the mangy mutt that bit me?" I ask with poison lacing my words as Care stops me from going after her. The both of them look at me and I see their faces pale in terror before I see that the plants all around me are glowing with my power. I reach out and grab the collar of her shirt bringing her inches away from my face. "You made me lose my baby boy." I whisper in her ear as I look deep into her eyes. In her eyes, I see terror and the fact that my eyes are glowing you can't even see my pupil or sclera and or the whites of my eyes.
Care distracts her and pushes me away, "Well, I have a trick too." She says as I watch her eyes darken and she goes after Jules and I see her go into her pocket to see her pull her out a pepper spray can and sprays it in her face. I quickly grab her arm and pull her away to see her skin bubbling. I growl and glare at Jules as I wave my arm back letting the whip uncoil. The bitch pepper sprayed Care with a vervain mixture.
"You bitch." I growl out and I start thinking about what legends say of werewolf plant based weaknesses. I make the whip dig into the ground and wrap around her ankle digging in to her skin using the plants that it says are their weaknesses. Care quickly wipes at her face off and she starts healing almost immediately. We stand up and I watch as Jules face scrunches up in pain as my whip starts burning her. I start walking towards her before I come face to face with a man who's holding a small pistol in his hand. Without a word he shoots Care in the head and I growl as he points it at me.
"Let her go or I will shoot you along with your little vampire friend." He says and I sneer at him before I pull my whip back into the vine tattoo. I look to Jules and glare at her before I get pistol whipped across the face making my world go dark.
No one's POV:
Caroline gasps as she wakes and she sits up while searing pain erupts from her head because of the pain she can barely register that she's in a cage. She cries out squirming on the metal floor until she is finally able to pry the bullet out of her forehead. She sighs in relief before she starts focusing on trying to get out of the cage and she looks over to see Rayen's board and jacket against the couch. She reaches for the door handle, but she whines slightly cause of it being too far away for her to reach. She then notices that the guy that shot her is creepily staring at her. Caroline shrieks and quickly back peddles to the far corner of her cage. Her eyes start darting around looking for Rayen.
"I see you got the bullet out." Jules' lover, Brady, murmurs to her. "That was…nasty." He says after choosing his words carefully. "I got a lot of wooden bullets, other toys. It's gonna be a long night, sweet pea." He shoots her in the arm and Caroline screams in pain as he smirks down at her.
"Where's Ray?" She asks as she sobs through the pain in her arm.
"Oh, is that what the little spitfires' name is?" He grins like a Cheshire cat and tilts his head. "Well, she's busy at the moment." Just then they hear scream coming from outside, but what they don't know is that it's from anger and frustration rather than pain. Her screams unnerve Care and she swallows nervously. She's trapped in this tiny ass cage with a guy that's shooting wooden bullets at her while Rayen's out there somewhere with the wolf that killed her unborn baby.
The door opens and Ray is dragged in with dried blood on the corner of her lip, hair a mess, a bruise on her cheekbone where it looks like she was pistol whipped. She looks up as Care can see she has a metal collar that's chained to her arms which are chained behind her back. She smirks as she turns to see Jules and she looks worse that what Ray looks. She's even limping which means that they were fighting and Ray despite being chained was winning. Jules pushes her and she trips over the steps and falls into the cage.
"Hey!" Care hisses. "Leave her alone."
"I'm making sure that Damon understands what he's done." Jules smirks trying to hide the fact that she's in pain and Ray snorts as she moves to lean against the cage.
"More like she was getting her ass kicked when she was trying to get info out of me." She smirks as she licks her lips and glares up at Jules. "She's lucky my arms are tied otherwise I would've made good on my promise." Jules growls before she grabs Ray's hair and slams her head into the metal bars knocking her unconscious. Ray slumps against the cage with a new cut above her eyebrow.
"Damn, Jules. Let's not kill the girl yet. We have to show her to her boyfriend, first." Brady smirks from the corner and Care scowls at the both of them.
"Trust me. You're lucky she's chained up otherwise Damon wouldn't even be able to hold her back from killing you and making it painful." Care glowers at them. "And Damon and her would never date. They're friends."
Rayen's POV:
Stupid mangy mutt. I think to myself as I start coming to and I open my eyes. I see Care in the cage and I growl. "Care help me sit up." I say softly and she crawls over pushing me up and I look at her seeing that they've been shooting her and using vervain, based on the various stages of dried blood and healing skin.
"Why didn't you tell me that your baby was half vampire?" She asks and I turn my head away as best I can from the limited movements of the collar.
"I didn't even know. The father had me compelled by a witch, so no one could use me and the baby against him." I say being as vague as I can be and I lick my lips flinching as I run my tongue over a small split. "Speaking of which can you reach into my corset and grab the little bottle and open it for me?"
She nods and she pulls it out. "What is it?"
"My friend made this for me to help me lose what little baby weight I got and to help me clean up what the werewolf toxins did to my baby while my doc gets ready for the surgery to take him out." I say as I let a tear fall before I open my mouth and she pours the elixir into my mouth. I gag slightly at the after taste and Care pushes my hair away from my face. "I was going to name him after my dad." I whisper and she brings me close as possible. The big guy comes over and I roll my eyes as he makes me look up at him.
"Wow you're eyes are freaky." he says and I try to pull my head away from him.
"Leave her alone." Care growls and he keeps staring at me.
"How many vampires are there in this town anyway?" He questions Care as he holds my face still and I raise my eyebrow at him. I look over to Care seeing her glare at him as she stays silent before he turns his arm and shoots her in the face with a squirt gun that I'm guessing is filled with vervain. Just by judging by her scream in pain it can't be anything else. "No answer? Okay, I'll see what your friend has to say."
"You're such a pretty girl." He rubs my cut from where he pistol whipped me and I hiss slightly from the sting of it "Aww, what's the matter? Had enough?"
"Why are you doing this? She's practically my sister." I ask trying to seem like I'm innocent.
"Because she's a vampire. That's why." He replies as he pushes my bangs away from my blue eye and clips my arm chains to the side of the cage where I can't reach the lock. "Now how many vampires, sweetheart?"
"Go to hell." I bite down on the fleshy part of his hand right in between his pointer finger and his thumb. Brady growls and rips his hand out of my mouth before grabbing my neck. "Never call me sweetheart again."
"That wasn't a nice thing to do to me." He growls in my ear as he tilts my head making my collar dig into my neck and he kisses my neck. I growl and squirm trying to get away but he squeezes my neck. "You smell wonderful. How has Tyler not fucked your brains out?" He asks and I flashback to Armando's assault on me making me squirming even more as he starts massaging my thigh.
"Stop touching her, you freak!" Care yells as she reaches out and throws him despite the vervain coated bars. "Damon is going to rip your head off! Hell Tyler will rip your throat out."
He finally lets my neck go as he stands up he turns to Care and for some reason I see Armando in his place making my breathing go out of control. I watch him take out a thin metal tube before he places a few toothpicks into one end and then he blows them into Care's neck. Care cries out as he smirks and leaves as I try to get out of my mini panic attack.
"Ray-ray, are you okay?" I hear Care rasps out but her voice is too far for me and I try squirming out of the chains as my heart beats faster.
"Help." I rasp out as tears fall down my face and my scars from Armando's attack start hurting.
No one's POV:
After she wraps her ankle and cleans up her wounds Jules' brow furrows as she stops pacing and she looks out at the woods. "I know you're out there." She calls out and Stefan appears while holding onto Tyler's arm.
"Where are they?" He asks.
"Locked up tight." Jules replies with a small smirk on her face despite her face hurting.
Stefan narrows his eyes at her. "Let them go and I'll release Tyler. It doesn't have to get any messier than it already has. I'm not your enemy, Jules."
"It's a little late to be waving the white flag, don't you think?" Jules mocks.
"You need to leave town. No one else has to get hurt." He warns her and Jules scoffs at him.
"I'm not leaving without Tyler."
"Tyler is free to make his own decisions as soon as you release Belle and Caroline." Stefan tells her.
"My brother the peacemaker." Damon says mockingly as he steps out of the trees making everyone glance at him. "Since Stefan got here before me I'm gonna let him try it his way before I resort to my way, which is a little bloodier. So give us the girls." His tone is no longer playful like before.
"Let go of Tyler." Jules hisses with her eyes on Damon.
"Give us Poison Ivy and Caroline. Without a full moon it's not an even fight and you know it. We will take you." Damon smirks with a cool tone.
"I'm not so sure about that, tough guy." Jules smirks back before giving a shrill whistle letting more werewolves come walking out of the trees surrounding them and making Stefan glance at his brother with a small worried expression. One or two wolves are okay, but not a dozen or so. As the look they can see that each of them has something to harm them with including stakes, crossbows, and gasoline.
"Let's try this again." Jules states. "Give us Tyler."
Damon glances at Tyler with a jerk of his head. "You heard her. Go. Get over there." Tyler sighs and walks over towards Jules and once he's safely over there, Brady steps forward.
"Which one of you killed Mason?" He demands as he looks at the Salvatore brothers.
"Uh, that'd be me." Damon grins.
"Boys, make sure that one suffers." Brady smirks evilly.
Damon turns to Stefan with a smirk, "We can take them."
"I don't know about that." Stefan mutters as he looks around.
"Well then..." Damon trails off before running straight for Jules. Although she's injured she jumps up and out of the way back flipping up onto the side of the RV. Tyler's eyes widens and then he slowly, slips inside the RV.
Rayen's POV:
I was able to calm down from my panic attack as Care sang to me as best she can. Care keeps reaching for the latch for the cage again, but from what I can tell it's too far for her to get to. i lick my lips and tense up as I hear the door open I brace myself for the creepy wolf's return or Jules'. I turn my head and smile as instead I see Ty.
"Tyler." I hear Care whisper and I see his eyes widen. "There's a latch. There's a latch on the door and I can't get to it." I see Tyler hesitate and I whine as I try to squirm. "Tyler? Tyler, please!" Care begs him for us and that's when he finally moves. He manages to get the door open and she crawls out shakily.
"Ty please help me this collar is killing me and my arms are asleep." I say as he comes over and he knocks over something and he sees a key. He quickly grabs it and uses it to get me out of my confines.
"Are you okay? Did they hurt your-" He puts his hand on where my bump would be and he furrows his eyebrows.
"I'll tell you later." I say as we go to the door and open it before and the feeling gets back to my arms. We walk out to see Steffie's lying on the ground with a stake in his back. It's making sure that he doesn't leave and Damon's lying on the ground as well and he's slightly curled up from the pain in his chest. The guy that was molesting me is standing above the older Salvatore with a stake raised in his hand. I hear a gunshot and Care cries out falling to the ground at Ty's and my feet. I start raising my arms letting my pent up magic build until I shoot a root into the molester's stomach, some wolves through their legs, and Jules I have her tied up with branches. Then out of nowhere the hostile wolves begin dropping to the ground, like flies, holding their heads in pain before going unconscious with Ty being the only one left standing.
"What's happening?" Care whispers as she looks up at me before I help her up and let her lean on me while she's healing.
"What the hell is going on?" Ty asks before a dark African american man comes out from the trees with his hands out as it looks like he's casting a spell over the wolves to make them unconscious. I smile as I watch Angel and Steffie get up from the ground and the both of them are staring at the witch warily. But I smirk inwardly seeing the family resemblance between him and Greta.
"Elijah made a promise to Elena and Lady Harjo." He nods at Stefan. "I'm here to see that it's being upheld. You need to go. Get out of here. Now." Angel walks over to us and wraps his arm around my waist to keep me steady.
"How is the baby?" He asks as Steffie takes Care's arm from around my neck before he and Angel helps us to get away from the scene.
"I'll tell you when I have food in my stomach." I say softly as Care looks at me sadly.
"When your friends awaken, give them a message: they need to get the hell out of this town." The warlock warns Ty before walking away and they take us to the boarding house. They make us some food and Care drinks like 5 blood bags before she's healed enough to go home. Steffie gives me a pair of his pj pants and Angel gives one of his shirts.
"So why can't I hear your baby's heartbeat anymore?" Steffie asks as he helps me make the couch my bed and I unfold a blanket for me.
"Because apparently the baby's father was a vampire and when we had sex the baby ended up being half vampire." I say as I lay down and cover up as Steffie crouches down next to me.
"Wait. You mean that when Jules attacked you got bit?" Angel asks as he comes walking in with some water and pain meds.
"Yeah she latched on when she was trying to get you for her revenge." I say softly before he hands them to me and helps me sit up to take them. "I can't wait to kill that mangy bitch of a mutt and make her suffer for killing Rohan Markus." They look up at me and I smile. "Yeah I was going to name him after my dad and Mark." I say as I close my eyes and lay down again.
"Go to sleep. We'll watch over you." Steffie says as he pets my hair and Angel turns the lights off before turning on some 80's music.
"She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart, he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short, but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said, 'I'll love her till I die.'
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby," I whisper sing along until I fall asleep to Brad Paisley's voice and I sigh softly as I hug the blankets to my chest letting my tears fall down my cheeks.
Damon's POV:
"She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart, he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short, but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said, 'I'll love her till I die.'
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby," I hear her whisper sing along until I hear her breathing evening out meaning she fell asleep to Brad Paisley's voice. I hear her tiny sigh as Stefan and I watch her hug the blankets to her chest letting magic filled tears fall down her cheeks before disappearing.
"You should go to sleep." I tell Stefan and he looks at me. "Go after the day we've all had. I'll stay up a little bit longer anyways just to make sure she doesn't have a nightmare. He nods and we both leave Poison Ivy to sleep, so she can sleep peacefully I lean against the door frame watching as she looks so innocent and I'm overrun with guilt. Her baby died because of me. All because I taunted the mutt. I scowl before John Gilbert walks into my home. I growl and roll my eyes, "What do you want?" I ask and before John could even form a word to answer me. "And make it snappy, Poison Ivy's sleeping."
John narrows his eyes at me. "You're sleeping with her?"
"Not your business. So what do you want?"
"We didn't finish our conversation."
"I'll bite."
He and I walk over into the study. "I've been thinking. Personal feelings aside, Damon, I think you and Stefan will do all that you can to protect Elena. So I come bearing gifts." John lays a cloth onto the desk top and unfolds it revealing a dagger with a tiny bottle.
I raise my eyebrow as I look over the supposed gifts. "What the hell is that?"
"This is how you kill an original." John answers me and he picks up the corked bottle of the cloth. "In this vial, is ash from a white oak tree that dates back to the genesis of the Originals. The dagger must be dipped in the ash and then plunged into their heart." John taps me on the chest with the tip of the dagger before I take it away from him.
"How do you know this, John?"
"Isobel." John replies with a nod. "She's very good at finding things, but of course you know that."
"Where is Isobel?"
"Let's just say if she accomplishes what she's attempting, Klaus will never set foot in Mystic Falls. Where Elena is concerned, you and I are on the same side." Damon grabs his arm and pulls him closer to me.
"And Ray? You haven't said a single word concerning her protection or the fact that she's sleeping here with us."
"She'll be safe as well even though I've heard the rumors." John says and I roll my eyes.
My eyes narrow at him. "You don't really care what happens to her do you?"
John shrugs at me. "I do care, but Elena is my daughter. I will do what's best for her and that may or may not include keeping the little Lady Harjo safe. Rohan and I were close at one time when he and Rebecca announced their pregnancy with her and yeah so I do care for her. She's a sweet girl, but she isn't my daughter. But you and your brother do seem to care for her a great deal, so I am confident you will keep them both as safe as you possibly can."
"I agree with that statement." I nod as I look over to the living room before John starts to walk off again, but I quickly grab his arm again. "Listen to me very carefully, John. If I find out that you done anything to put Rayen in Klaus' path, even if it's to keep Elena safe, I will kill you."
"Tell me, Damon is it easier to pretend that her miscarried baby was both of yours so you can try to hide your feelings for Elena?"
"Shut the hell up, John." I warn him knowing he's planning on trying to get info out of me cause of my guilt. "You don't know what you're talking about."
"I'm not denying that you enjoy being around her acting like the baby's father, but there will come a time. I don't know exactly when, whether it be sooner or later, but who will you chose to save? Rayen or Elena?" He asks as he leaves me alone to think about what he asked. Do I save Elena by giving Ray to Klaus or do I sacrifice Elena to save Ray?