“What?” Stefan 说 when words failed to leave both Damon and my mouths. She was still staring at me.
“I can’t believe it. How is this possible?” she 说 to herself. I was at loss. What was she TALKING about? Stefan slowly walked towards her and knelt beside her.
“Katherine, we need 你 to tell us. What are 你 talking about? How is Elena…you?” he asked gently. She seemed to calm down and she walked over to the bar. She shakily poured herself a large neat 伏特加 and downed it. She slammed the glass down and stared at the fire.
“A few years before I came to Mystic Falls in 1864, Emily and I were travelling in North Carolina. We had a run in with some idiotic young 吸血鬼 who were impossibly strong. They were three men and they got…obsessed with me. To tell 你 the truth, I was scared of them. For some reason they were stronger than me - an older vampire. I fought them off but only just managed to survive. One of them was amazing at tracking, and they all followed me. Emily couldn’t kill them, even though her magic was powerful. It seemed as though they had some sort of protection charm keeping them safe. Eventually we thought we’d 迷失 them, and Emily told me that she could help me get away from them 由 leading them off my scent. I asked her how, and she 说 it was dangerous.” She looked away from the fire. Damon, Stefan and I were listening intently. Where was this strange story going? How did it link to me? She continued.
“I told her I’d do anything to get them off my back. So she set up a ritual. It involved removing part of my soul and locking it away. That part would be used to lure the 吸血鬼 away and leave me free to escape. I lay on a cold stone floor whilst Emily prepared the spell. Then she chanted and I felt as though I was dying. Like part of me was being ripped out. Which it was. The part of my soul which Emily used…was my humanity.” She whispered the last word. I suddenly felt a twang of sympathy for Katherine. She had had to lose her humanity to save herself from being attacked and possibly dying.
“You have no…humanity?” Damon choked. She looked at him sadly and nodded slowly. “Which means that you’re not capable of sympathy 或者 kindness or…love?” He glanced away. “You never loved me. Not even in 1864. 你 couldn’t…” She was suddenly at his side and holding his chin in her hand. She looked him dead in the eyes.
“I tried Damon. I tried so hard to 爱情 you. I wanted to, terribly. I knew that my humanity would have loved 你 更多 than 你 can ever know. And my humanity does, I see…” And she looked at me. Damon gasped. Stefan gasped. I gasped. I was Katherine’s humanity.
“How….” I 说 slowly, trying to get my head around what Katherine was telling me. I was her humanity? I was her SOUL? “How…” I 说 pathetically again. She sat down on the sofa and held her empty glass tightly. She looked up at me.
“When Emily removed my humanity, she locked it away. She told me that the only way I could ever get it back was if it was…born again. Then she would chant a spell and my souls would be united.” She stared sadly at the floor. “But Emily has gone. Her spell has gone. There’s no way I can get my humanity back…” Damon’s mouth stopped hanging open and he fumbled out his words.
“So, Elena is…you? She’s what 你 were like when 你 were human? What 你 would have been like if those 吸血鬼 hadn’t attacked you?” He rubbed his eyes and ran his hands through his hair. “So if 你 were to 加入 back with your humanity…what would happen to Elena?” He asked quietly, his face dropping as he guessed, just like I had already.
“Her body would die but the soul would remain. Like a ghost.” I shuddered.
“W-w-would I lose myself?” I asked, frightened. What if Katherine managed to do it? What if she managed to get her humanity back? Would she still remember everything that I had been through in my life? Would I be alive as her? I didn’t want to die.
“I don’t know,” she answered thoughtfully. “Well I don’t think so, seeing as 你 are actually part of me.” Amazingly this 评论 didn’t make me feel any better.
“Oh my god, this is way too much…” I 说 faintly and I fell backwards onto the chair behind me. Damon rushed to my side.
“Are 你 ok?” he asked softly, brushing my hair out of my face. His eyes were full of worry.
“I’m ok. Well, I guess I’ve been better. How is Isobel involved in all this though?” I asked Katherine.
“My soul was protected in a 圣女魔咒 locket. If anyone opened it the soul would enter them. I always thought that the soul would just reside in their body, like the body 表演 as a host, but it seems to me,” she 说 as she circled me, staring at me intensely, “that the soul took on the form of myself as a baby, and the person who opened the locket carried the baby. The locket could only be opened 由 a human. I kept the locket with me searching for someone to help me get my humanity back, a suitable human who would be happy enough to die, 或者 so I thought, to make room for my soul. It was until one fateful 日 that my locket got stolen. A band of travelling vampire’s allowed Emily and I to 加入 them, but one night, one of them 偷了 my locket whilst I was sleeping and the 下一个 morning they were all gone. And they had taken my humanity with them. Of course none of them could open the locket, but it was devastating thinking that I may never get it back. I searched for them for years alongside Emily, who did everything in her power to try to find them. Eventually we ended up in Mystic Falls, where I met 你 two,” she said, pointing at both Stefan and Damon and grinning. Damon’s face softened suddenly.
“Katherine, I’m so sorry. Now I understand everything. 你 didn’t 爱情 me because 你 literally COULDN’T 爱情 me, and 你 can’t help but be the way 你 are. That must be terrible.” He walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder, but she brushed it away instantly.
“I don’t need your pity, Damon,” she retorted. The fact that she couldn’t use most human emotions and experience most human feeling crushed me 更多 than I thought it would. It was like something was aching horribly inside me. I clutched my painful chest and breathed slowly. Damon was back at my side and he held my arm.
“Elena, what’s wrong, are 你 ok?” he asked again.
“I just had a weird pain in my chest,” I breathed as I composed myself. He held me in his arms. Katherine cleared her throat.
“Anyway,” she began. “The locket must have travelled from vampire to vampire 或者 something. I’m not quite sure. But one 日 Emily had a vision. She came to me and told me what she had seen. She 说 “…Isobel will save your soul.” She didn’t say anymore on the subject apart from that one little sentence. I never knew what she meant…until now.” She was in front of me in a blink, but stopped abruptly as Damon put his arm out to stop her coming any closer.
“Isobel was your mother, wasn’t she?” Katherine asked. I nodded and she sat down in the chair 下一个 to me. Stefan, who had been quiet for a very long time, also sat down. We all sat in silence for a while, taking in what each of us had learned in the evening of events. I was dumbfounded. All this information was a lot to take in. And thinking about the fact that I was only Katherine’s humanity made me feel…not completely human. It just made me feel like a kind of “storage box” for her soul.
“You do realise that I’m going to want my humanity back,” Katherine 说 finally, looking at the floor. Damon, Stefan and I tensed and we all glared at her. She looked up and put her hands up. “But don’t get all worked up about it! I need a witches spell to get my humanity back and I don’t know any witches anymore so,” I relaxed a little.
“Even if 你 do get a witch to help you, I won’t let 你 touch Elena,” Damon 说 angrily. Stefan nodded. Katherine narrowed her eyebrows.
“I know 你 both 爱情 her and want her to be safe, but I’m sure that if I’m united with my humanity we’ll be the same person. We ARE the same person. She’s just me out of my own body. I need her. I need my humanity. I want to feel again. I want to 爱情 again…” she stroked Damon’s face. “I know in my 心 that 你 would have been the man that I loved. I would have loved 你 so strongly that words can’t even describe. My 心 aches to think that I may never get to feel that love.” Damon relaxed and stared into her eyes. I knew he still loved her. She looked at me. “I envy you. I envy 你 so much it hurts. 你 get to feel love. I miss love…” I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. She seemed so desperate. But I didn’t know what would happen to my soul if I gave it over to Katherine. I could lose all my memories and thoughts and just become a part of Katherine. But I did know that even if that happened Damon would fall for Katherine again because her humanity would return, making her like me. Damon stood up.
“Katherine. Thank 你 for telling us everything. But I think it’s time for 你 to leave.” She stood up also, and nodded.
“I’ll leave, but don’t think I won’t be back,” she replied, smiling.
“I know 你 will,” Damon said, and suddenly she was gone. We all breathed out heavily at the same time.
“I think I need to go out and, 你 know…” Stefan 说 as he raised himself from his chair. He disappeared too and left Damon and I standing idly in the centre of the room. Damon slowly turned to me and wrapped his arms around me.
“Don’t 你 ever think that if Katherine gets her humanity from you, that I’ll just 爱情 Katherine again immediately. I will never let her take you, Elena. You’re the girl I 爱情 and I never ever want to lose you,” he 说 softly as he kissed the 最佳, 返回页首 of my head. I leant my face up to his.
“I never want to lose 你 either,” I replied quietly and pressed my lips firmly against his. When we broke apart he held my face in his hands.
“I know a way that I can protect 你 from Katherine ever getting her humanity. And it will mean that 你 and I will never have to leave one another. I want 你 forever, Elena.” I stepped back as I realised what he was getting at.
“Damon…are 你 saying….” I gasped. He nodded.
“Yes, Elena. I think I should turn you,” he replied.
I backed away slightly.
“Damon…what? 你 want to turn me…?” I was in shock. He grabbed my arms.
“I NEED to turn you, Elena. There’s a difference. Once you’re a vampire you’ll be safer from Katherine. And also, it means that 你 and I can be together…forever,” he 说 as he smiled gently.
“Damon, being a vampire won’t keep me safer from Katherine. She can still take my humanity and then I’ll be exactly like her,” I told him anxiously. “But to be with 你 forever is something I want dearly, but I don’t know if I can leave my family and 老友记 behind. Give me time.” He nodded and pulled me into an embrace. He held me tightly and kissed my hair. I kissed him and he kissed me back. Soon we were ripping each others clothes off and he carried me upstairs. We fell onto his 床, 床上 and he ran his hands softly up my sides, sending excited chills shooting through my body. He ran his hands under my tee-shirt and I shivered with the excitement. He pulled it off and threw it to the floor. He kissed me all over and kept returning to my lips every once in a while. We kept at it for ages and my back kept arching as my pleasure reached it peak. He ran his hand down my back slowly and my body tingled. I 魔发奇缘 my hands in his hair and then slid them over his face and down his chest. He sighed and I rolled over so I was on 最佳, 返回页首 of him. I ran my hands over his chest again and kissed it passionately. He stared into my eyes and stroked my hair. I moved my lips back to his and we breathed out heavily as we kept going. He rolled back on 最佳, 返回页首 of me to make me the main focus of our activity and decided to go at it faster. This time was actually better than our first time, which had been absolutely incredible. I sighed heavily as my back arched again. He smiled as kissed my neck; my chest; my stomach. I grabbed his shoulders but the sweat made my hands slide over his back. He sighed too. We went on for what seemed like hours. I wondered why Stefan hadn’t come 首页 but I quickly threw thoughts of Stefan from my mind and turned back to the situation at hand. Finally, after an amazing, amazing few hours, we rolled onto our backs and breathed out slowly. Damon propped himself onto his elbow and gazed at me lovingly. He brushed my bedraggled hair out of my face and his touch was gentle and kind. I moved myself closer to him and tucked my head beneath his chin. He stoked my hair and whispered lines of a 爱情 poem in my ear.
Feelings that once were hidden
Are now expressed to you.
Days that once were stormy
Are now the brightest blue.
Times that once were lonely
Are now filled with pleasure.
All that once was mine alone
Are now things we both treasure.
Nights that once were cold
Are now comforting and warm.
Fears that once were very real
Are now gone with the storm.
A 心 that once was broken
Can now finally mend.
A person once alone in life
Can now call 你 a friend.
Dreams that once were longed for
Are now all coming true.
The 爱情 I once thought was gone
I have now and forever in you.
His words made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The words seemed to fit our relationship perfectly. Katherine being the reason for ‘a 心 that once was broken’, and he had accentuated the word ‘forever’ when he had spoken it. I’d heard all his 爱情 for me in that poem and I grabbed his face and pulled his lips down to mine. He kissed me back and then smiled my favourite smile of his. I touched his face and smiled back. Oh, how I loved him. Suddenly there was an awkward, urgent cough at the door. I snapped my head around to see Stefan, his eyes wary and desperate.
“We have a big problem,” he 说 anxiously.
“Every time. Every bloody time…” Damon muttered angrily as he yanked on a new pair of tracksuit trousers he had pulled out of a drawer. He glared at Stefan who gave him a guilty look. Damon threw me one of his shirts. I tugged it on and fumblingly did up the buttons. Stefan was pacing impatiently as we hurriedly got dressed.
“So what is it then?” Damon snapped. Stefan stopped pacing.
“There are new 吸血鬼 in town. Three males,” he 说 worriedly. Damon tensed.
“How do 你 know?” Damon asked, suddenly not as mad at his brother.
“I saw them hunting in the woods. They’re vicious and they’re a threat. We need to do something,” Stefan replied, running his hands through his hair. Damon nodded.
“We’re going to have to deal with them tomorrow. For now Elena needs her rest…” he turned back to me, smiling smugly, and I gave him a sarcastic smile back. He was right though. Today had been a really busy day, from hikers with near-death experiences, Damon and Stefan’s fight, Katherine’s reappearance and the amazing sex with Damon…I smiled to myself as I recalled the 前一个 few hours. Stefan left the room muttering to himself and Damon sat down on the 床, 床上 下一个 to me. He cradled me in his arms for a while, then I rang Aunt Jenna telling her I was staying at Bonnie’s, and then I rang Bonnie to tell Aunt Jenna I was there if she rang. After that Damon tucked me into 床, 床上 and got under the duvet 下一个 to me. I kissed him for a while too and finally I turned away from him and closed my eyes. I felt his cool, bare chest against my back as he wrapped his arms around me. He placed his face on the back of my head. He began to hum a beautiful melody and soon enough I was fast asleep.
My eyes blinked open slowly. I felt Damon’s chest beneath my head rising and falling. I glanced up and saw that he was still sleeping. He looked so peaceful. So…beautiful. And calm. I stroked his face. Sunlight was pouring in through a break in the curtains and it made the room warm and soft. I wrapped my arms around Damon and closed my eyes again. I wasn’t in a rush to begin the day. Then I felt Damon 移动 beneath me and looking up I saw his eyes open gradually. He squinted down at me and smiled widely. I kissed his lips tenderly.
“Good morning,” I whispered quietly as my lips left his.
“Good morning to 你 too,” he 说 gently as he brought my lips back to his again. Our mouths moved together and we passionately made out for a good five 分钟 或者 so. When we broke apart I flung my legs over the side of the 床, 床上 and spotted my clothes from the 前一个 night piled neatly on a chair 由 the door.
“Did you-” I began to ask Damon as I pointed at the pile, but he shook his head. It must have been Stefan. It must be hard for him to see Damon and I together but I just couldn’t help that. He was going to have to learn to live with it. Suddenly Damon’s arms were around my waist and he kissed my neck affectionately. I tilted my head to allow him to explore my neck and he took the invitation with keen enthusiasm. I breathed out a sigh.
“We need to get dressed. We need to find out about these vampires, Damon,” I 说 quietly and he pulled his mouth away from my neck.
“You’re right, but leave that to Stefan and I,” he 说 softly. “But right now I’m going to have to take 你 home.”
“Wait, what about Katherine? She’ll follow us and then-” but he cut me short.
“Elena, Katherine wants to stay here. And she won’t go making a scene if she wants to remain in town. You’re safe…” He 说 the last two words with less enthusiasm. He smiled weakly and released me from his arms. I quickly pulled on the clothes from yesterday and made my way with Damon downstairs. As we rounded the corner into the living room, my eyes took in the scene. Katherine and Stefan were talking furiously and Katherine was waving her arms in despair. Their heads snapped around as they saw us.
“Damon, Elena,” Katherine began. “The problem Stefan told 你 about last night has just got a whole lot worse.”
“What do 你 mean? What’s happened?” Damon urged. Katherine hung her head solemnly.
“The new 吸血鬼 in town are the same ones that were obsessed with me back in the 1850’s. The exact same ones.” My jaw dropped and I gasped.
“Why are they here? Why now?” 说 Damon as he tensed up and clenched his fists.
“My guess is that it’s because I’m close to my…humanity, which is, FOR NOW, Elena,” she said, accentuating the words ‘for now’ and staring maliciously at me. I took a step back. Damon placed himself as if he was ready to protect me from anything. His eyes were wide.
“Katherine, 你 need to leave. That way both 你 and Elena will be safe,” he 说 anxiously.
“Damon, they now know where we both are. They won’t just go away if I leave. They’ll track both Elena and I down. And they are strong. Like, impossibly strong. If I had my humanity, I’d be completely and utterly frightened right now. Just like her,” she smirked, pointing at me. Damon spun around and saw me, a pale, wide-eyed girl reclining from the 吸血鬼 slowly. He put out his hand to me but I ignored him. I was indeed frightened. These were 吸血鬼 that Damon and Stefan couldn’t beat. If they fought, they would die. I couldn’t lose them.
“No, Damon. I-I can’t…this is all far too much this time…” And with that, I pathetically fainted on the floor.
I heard someone distantly calling my name.
“Elena, Elena! Are 你 ok? Please, wake up!” And I felt a hand shaking my arm, and another hand holding the back of my head. Slowly, the voice got louder and my eyes flickered open. I saw Damon’s distraught and worried face hovering over mine.
“Damon, I-I’m sorry…” I mumbled, but he shushed at me and stroked my hair.
“You’ve done nothing wrong. How are 你 feeling?” he asked softly. I nodded feebly and tried to sit up, but my back ached from the sudden fall when I had fainted on the hard wooden floor. He lifted me in his strong arms and placed me down on the soft, comfortable sofa. He knelt beside me and searched my face with his grey eyes. His beautiful grey eyes. I suddenly remembered the news about the other 吸血鬼 and groaned. Damon shook me gently again but I batted him away with my hand mumbling – lying – ‘I’m fine…” He looked unsure but glanced back at Katherine.
“How can we get rid of them? I mean 你 can’t take away another piece of your soul,” he 说 worriedly to her. She put her hands over her face and looked like if she could cry, she would. Suddenly I felt overwhelmed. I felt that terrible aching feeling in my chest again and suddenly I felt very strange. Words that weren’t mine poured from my mouth.
“I’m so sorry that I have caused this. I should have never come back here. Now I’ve disrupted your lives and I never meant for that to happen. I’m so scared, not just for me, but for us all,” and my mouth snapped shut. The three 吸血鬼 in the room were staring at me, their eyes so wide they looked like they were going to fall from the sockets.
“Wha-what did 你 just say?” Katherine choked. Damon’s mouth was hanging open, as was Stefan’s. “You just…talked my words. The words that I’m incapable of saying. How…-” They looked as bewildered as I probably did. What had just happened to me?
“I don’t know…” I replied. Damon stared at me, dumbfounded.
“It must be the connection between both of you,” he looked at both Katherine and I. “The souls are interacting. It must be the fact that you’re so close to one another…” he mused, still staring at me.
Katherine sat opposite me with a confused look on her face. She glanced up and stared hard at my face.
“Those 吸血鬼 won’t find us straight away, but when they do…” I shuddered along with the other three. “What can we do?” she 说 as she buried her face in her knees.
“I think I know someone who can help us,” Damon 说 wonderingly. “Katherine, I think it would be much easier if you…stayed here, rather than come with us,” he added. She stood up angrily.
“Why? I have every right to walk outside!” she 说 as she clenched her fists.
“Katherine, 你 look exactly like Elena. It will cause complications,” Stefan piped up. His face looked drained and worried, just like Damon’s.
“I don’t care. I’m coming with you. I promise I won’t be seen.” She said, pulling on her jacket. Damon’s eyes rolled and he too grabbed his black leather jacket. Their dark clothes seemed to make them match and they looked really good with each other. I saw their gazes meet and Damon smiled suddenly and looked away. So did Katherine. I knew I couldn’t help that they had a history, but it still bugged me.
We all left the house silently and piled into my car. All of us apart from Katherine, that is. She darted off through the trees when Damon had told her where we were meeting. I sped off and headed for the high school. As I pulled up a few jocks sprinted past the car laughing and chatting loudly. Saturdays were football practice. I saw Matt walking with Caroline who was literally skipping beside him. They stopped in the middle of the parking lot and kissed passionately for a few moments. I smiled. It was great that Matt had someone. Being alone without his mum 或者 Vicky must have been hard. As they disappeared out of the lot, we piled out of the car and ran inside the school. It was empty and quiet. We stood around for a while until Katherine’s face peered around the door.
“All clear?” she whispered, and Damon nodded. She smiled and walked in, closing the door softly behind her. We walked swiftly down the corridor and Damon knocked on the classroom door. I heard a muffled ‘come in’ from behind it and we entered the room.
Alaric Saltzman looked up from his 台, 办公桌 and watched as Damon, Stefan and I walked into the room. Katherine stood outside.
“What do 你 guys want now?” he asked, putting his eyes back to the papers he was marking.
“We need your help with a little “vampire extermination”” Damon said, crossing his arms and sitting on a desk. Alaric looked from Damon to Stefan to me and shook his head.
“No way. I can’t keep getting involved in all your vampire problems. I have papers to grade so if 你 excuse me…” But Katherine stepped through the door.
“No, excuse me. This is bigger than just a vampire problem. If 你 want everyone in this town to survive then I suggest 你 help us.” Alaric’s eyes widened as his head snapped back and forth between Katherine and I.
“How- how?” he said, confused. I calmed him down and Damon filled him in on who Katherine was and why she looked like me. He also told him about the three new vampires. Alaric sat there letting the large amount of new information pile into his brain. He seemed shocked the whole time and kept looking at Katherine and I, puzzled. Finally he managed a nod and rubbed his eyes.
“Wow…I guess I should help you, huh…” I nodded urgently.
“We need you, Alaric. 你 have that ring which keeps 你 from dying. And 你 have weapons that can help us destroy them. Please,” I begged, and he seemed to be deciding. Eventually he nodded.
“If it means keeping this town safe, and Elena safe, then I’ll do it,” he said, worry strung in his every word.
“Ok, we need some of your…ammunition…” Damon asked, and Alaric pulled a heavy-looking brief-case from under his 台, 办公桌 and lay it on the desk. He unlocked it and revealed a mixture of darts, stakes and a large gun used to shoot stakes. Katherine looked impressed as she ran her hands over the items.
“Wow, 你 certainly know what you’re doing,” she 说 in awe. He smiled weakly up at her and then handed us all armfuls of ammo.
“So how do we lure these 吸血鬼 to kill them?” he asked anxiously. Katherine cleared her throat.
“One way is to let Elena and I go into the woods and us being so close and alone should lure them.” My eyes widened in fear. I would be alone with Katherine. And three blood-thirsty male 吸血鬼 desperate for me. Shuddering, Damon put his hand on my shoulder.
“We’d be close 由 Elena, and then we’d kill them,” he reassured me, “but I don’t trust her with you,” he 说 at Katherine. She smiled.
“There is another way. If 你 let me be united with my humanity they’ll go straight for me and then 你 could kill them…” But Damon slammed his fist on the table.
“NO! No way. 你 are NEVER getting your humanity back, Katherine!” He growled massively and she recoiled, ever so slightly. The terrible ache hit my chest again. Katherine seemed to double over for some reason as words spilled from my mouth.
“Please Damon! I want to 爱情 again! I want to FEEL again! I feel like my 心 is being ripped out because I desperately want this. I need to be whole again, I can’t be half a soul for all eternity!” Tears spilled from my cheeks as I spoke, feelings that weren’t mine washed through me – sorrow, desperation, need…lonliness. This episode was worse than the last. I felt…like someone else. Katherine was on the floor, clutching her chest and groaning. Damon was holding my face in his hands, asking desperately if I was ok, and Stefan was with Katherine, shaking her gently. She gasped and spluttered but pain was all over her face. She stared at me.
“I…need…you…” she breathed. I knew she was right. She needed her humanity. Being in such close quarters with me was taking its toll on her. I was channelling her desired thoughts and words and feelings. I thought to myself that maybe…maybe if I did 加入 with Katherine I’d be the dominant part of the soul. Maybe…maybe it was something that we both needed.
“I know 你 do, Katherine. And I think…I think you’re right…” I whispered. Damon grabbed my shoulders and looked me dead in the eyes.
“No! Elena! 你 can’t!” he cried.
I shook my head.
“Damon, I think this is something I need to do, for me AND Katherine. I don’t know how to explain it really, it’s just that being around Katherine’s made me feel as though there has been a part of me missing. I never noticed it before. And part of me knows that I won’t lose myself. I can do this, Damon,” I replied.
“Please, Elena,” he pleaded. “I can’t risk losing you! It’s too dangerous. 你 could be 迷失 forever and just become a part of Katherine.” He looked close to tears. I stroked his face.
“Damon. Humanity over-rules any other part of the soul. I’ve seen that in 你 and in Stefan. You’ve proved that 爱情 conquers all. And I’ll be with 你 again as one with Katherine. It’s what she wants. I can’t 熊 to see her like that. I feel her pain. I LITERALLY feel her pain. It hurts me, Damon.” I looked at the floor. He placed his hand on my shoulder.
“Elena…If this is what 你 want…Then you’re on your own. I can’t 熊 the thought of losing you. But if it’s your choice to leave me…then I guess I have to accept that.” A solemn tear rolled down his cheek.
“Damon…please…I don’t want to leave you, I want what’s right. A soul shouldn’t be 分裂, 拆分 apart, it’s not natural!” I reasoned desperately, but he shook his head and stepped away.
“I can’t 熊 the thought of 你 destroying yourself Elena, no matter what 你 think about humanity being dominant of the soul. You’ll be a part of Katherine, 你 won’t be completely Elena. And it’s the complete Elena that I love.” And with that, he disappeared. Stefan raised himself from Katherine’s side as she sat up. Alaric walked over to me and put his arm over my shoulder.
“He’ll see that you’re right in the end, Elena. I think you’re right. So what do we do?” he asked Katherine and Stefan.
“We need a witch,” 说 Katherine, with a smile spread across her face. She threw her arms around me and hugged me.
“Thank you. Thank 你 so much,” she whispered in my ear. “I owe everything to you, Elena.” She pulled herself away and smiled at me even more.
I sat there, staring. I didn’t know what I’d just gotten myself into, really.
“Right. We need…a witch. So I guess we’re going to have to leave town and start looking for one, stat,” Katherine mused.
“No. I know a witch,” I 说 softly. She snapped her head up and stared at me, and so did Alaric.
“You know a witch?” Katherine looked amused. “Well that saves us some time.” She smiled happily and literally skipped over to the door. “Come on then, we don’t have any time to lose!”
“I have to talk to her first,” I called after her, and she re-entered the room.
“So you’re 老友记 with this witch? Wow, you’re even 更多 like me than I first thought. In with the vampires, buddies with witches…” she smiled at me again. She really was thankful to me. I needed to go through with this. I owed it to both of us.
Bonnie waved at me as she walked through the door of Mystic Grill. She slid they chair out and sat down opposite me. I smiled gently and she beamed.
“Hey Elena!” she 说 as she took off her jacket. I managed to say “hello,” back. I was aware of how much I would be asking of her. She probably wouldn’t be willing to risk losing her best friend. Her face dropped.
“Are 你 ok?” she said, taking my hands. Suddenly she gasped and her grip tightened on my hands. I winced for a 秒 then realized she was having a vision. I waited until she came too but she stood up and glared at me.
“I would never help 你 to do that Elena. I will never ever risk it. I’m sorry,” she 说 desperately. I widened my eyes. She had seen what I was going to tell her. I stood up too and grabbed her arm.
“Please Bonnie, just hear me out,” I pleaded but she shrugged me away.
“No, Elena. And who is that? Katherine? The girl Damon wanted so badly? She’s BACK? I can’t deal with vampire problems Elena. Not now. Not ever.” And with that she ran out of the Grill. I chased after her and she rounded the corner. She kept glancing behind her and decided to take a turn down an alley. As I rounded the corner after her I saw he against the wall. Katherine had her 由 the collar. Before I had time to speak and Bonnie had time to scream Katherine ripped off Bonnie’s vervain filled 项链 and threw it to the floor. Then she forced Bonnie to look into her eyes.
“You will do everything I say. 你 will help me get my humanity back, witch. And 你 will forget about me, and what I’ve just done,” she 说 in a dreamy, melodic voice. Bonnie nodded in a hypnotic fashion and Katherine let go of her. She fell to the floor. I rushed to her side and when Katherine saw me she smiled.
“I guess when things need to be done you’ve just got to do them yourself.” She patted my shoulder and walked away down the alley. I looked back at Bonnie who was groaning and holding her arm.
“Ah, I think I sprained it...” she looked around. “What am I doing out here?” she asked. I stroked her hair.
“You were walking with me when 你 tripped and fell, Bonnie,” I replied. She looked slightly unsure.
“How did we end up in the alley?” I gulped. But she shook her head. “Never mind,” she 说 as I helped her to her feet.
“How’s your arm?” I asked her worriedly, glancing around for any signs of Katherine.
“I think its ok actually. It just hurts,” she replied, rubbing her arm tenderly.
“Come on, I’ll take 你 back to my house,” I 说 as we walked.
As we neared the porch, a voice called my name from behind us. We span around and saw Stefan at the end of the pathway.
“Bonnie, why don’t 你 go inside?” I said, and she nodded in agreement. Soon I was standing with Stefan and he looked into my eyes.
“Elena, what Damon said…about not wanting to see 你 risking your life…I agree. I can’t watch 你 do that to yourself either. I 爱情 you, even though it’s clear 你 no longer feel the same way towards me as 你 did before. So, while this idea is still in your mind, I won’t be around to help out with anything. And neither will Damon. When 你 realise what you’ve agreed to and decide not to do it, let me know,” I opened my mouth to speak but he put his finger on my lips. “No, Elena. Nothing 你 can say will make me change how I feel about this situation.” And with that he was gone. A tear ran down my face. I was hurting them. Both of them. They were scared of losing me. But they didn’t understand. I HAD to do this.
I went inside and found Aunt Jenna holding a hot/cold pack on Bonnie’s injured arm. As I walked in they both looked up and smiled at me.
“My arm’s better now,” Bonnie 说 to me. I sat down beside her and took the hot/cold pack from Aunt Jenna. I held it firmly against her arm.
“Elena, I have to go into town for a while. I’ll be back later. I hope your arm feels better soon Bonnie,” Aunt Jenna 说 as she grabbed her car keys from the 厨房 work top. When the door shut I searched Bonnie’s face for any inkling of her remembering what I’d told her.
“Elena, I’ll help you. I know I 说 I wouldn’t but I’ve…changed my mind. I see now that it’s…for the best,” she 说 calmly, smiling. It hurt me that this was the compulsion talking, not my best friend. If she hadn’t been compelled she would be totally against the idea.
Later that day, after Bonnie’s arm was nearly back to normal, I drove her home. As I drove away I was sure I caught sight of Katherine in the trees. When I looked back at the place I thought I’d seen her, there was no one there. She was following me. I shivered and put my foot down. When I finally got 首页 I fell onto my 床, 床上 and breathed out heavily. I opened my eyes to see Damon staring blankly at the floor. I gasped in shock. Eventually I calmed down.
“Damon….I’m sorry…” I 说 softly. He didn’t look at me.
“Why…why would 你 do this Elena…” he 说 quietly. I saw a tear roll down his cheek and I watched as it hit my carpet silently. I went to him and tried to hug him but he pushed me away and still didn’t look me in the eye. “What if I lose 你 Elena? What if it doesn’t work? What if…you die?” he choked the last two words and he wiped his eyes on his sleeve. He was truly upset.
“Damon…Damon, I’m sorry! I can’t explain it, but this is something I feel – no I KNOW – that I need to do,” I replied, tears beginning in my eyes. It crushed me to see him hurting this way, but this wasn’t to do with him. This was my problem, and I was dragging him down in it. He was hurting due to me.
“Are 你 willing to risk your family and your 老友记 losing you? They may never see 你 again, and 你 may never see them. Think of how many people 你 could be hurting!” And he slammed his fist on my side board, causing it to crack. He didn’t seem to care. “I won’t be a part of 你 killing yourself, Elena. I refuse to see it. Until 你 come back to me and tell me that you’ve changed your mind, 你 won’t see me again. I can’t 熊 hurting any 更多 than I already am,” I reached my hand out to him, unable to speak. He rushed out of my window and disappeared. I broke down into tears. He didn’t understand. No one did.
The 下一个 morning I had to rub the sleep that had formed from the tears last night. I glanced at the clock and saw that it was only seven. Everyone else would be asleep. My phone buzzed on the cracked side 表 beside my 床, 床上 and I reached over and checked the text. It was from an unknown number.
I have the witch at the old church outside the tomb. We’re doing this now.
I knew who it was from. She had Bonnie. I gulped and hurriedly pulled on my clothes. After twenty 分钟 I was ready. I crept out into the hallway and was about to go down the stairs when I stopped. I may never see Aunt Jenna 或者 Jeremy again. I crept silently into Aunt Jenna’s room and hugged her softly sleeping body. Tears began at my eyes again and I kissed her cheek. I then went into Jeremy’s room. He was sprawled awkwardly on 最佳, 返回页首 of the duvet and was snoring softly. I stroked his floppy hair and kissed his forehead. Tears rolled off of my face onto his grey 床, 床上 covers. I would miss him if this went wrong. Part of me didn’t want to go. But the over-ruling part of me wanted to do what I knew was right for myself. I left the house sadly, running my hands along memories stored in photograph’s and drawings from my childhood. I drove to the church slowly, taking in the sky; the birds; the houses; the trees. I needed Damon right now, to tell me it would be alright, but he didn’t want to even see me. Soon I was walking from my car on the edge of the forest to the church. It was a long walk, but finally I made it and saw Katherine pacing. Bonnie was sitting with her eyes closed on a stone wall. She opened them when Katherine stopped pacing. She looked solemn. Katherine smiled and took my hand.
“Finally, you’re here! Ok, let’s do this,” she 说 urgently, but before we went any further, she whipped out her phone and sent a text message.
“Who are you-” I began, but she shook her head.
“No questions,” she replied, “Bonnie was kind enough to work with me last night and I taught her the spell Emily used. We’re ready.” I nodded flatly, as I was kind of in a trance that this was happening right now. I gulped and followed them into the old church ruins.
I lay on the cold stone floor in the old church. Katherine lay with the 最佳, 返回页首 of her head opposite the 最佳, 返回页首 of mine, so I couldn’t see her. I could see that Bonnie was trying to stay strong but I could see it in her eyes that she was just as scared as I was.
“Are you…comfortable?” she asked awkwardly. I nodded weakly and she rifled in her pocket. She pulled out the piece of paper that contained the spell and placed it down beside me. She hovered her hands over my 心 and began to chant. I couldn’t understand her words. Soon, I began to feel strange. My head began to ache 更多 and 更多 and soon it was terrible. Then it became agonising. Then it became unbearable. Then, it became excruciating. I screamed and I could hear Bonnie’s sobs as she continued to chant. She was unable to stop due to Katherine’s compulsion. I couldn’t move; my hands were literally locked at my sides. My head felt like it was about to explode. My 心 beat faster and faster. I shook violently and it became harder to breathe. It was like I was being choked. I writhed and screamed, but soon I couldn’t scream any more, I couldn’t breathe. I tried to open my eyes but it was impossible. And then all of my pain disappeared. I felt warm and contented. I opened my eyes to see Bonnie with tears streaming down her face and shaking me. I reached out my hand to tell her it was ok but she didn’t respond. I began to rise up and soon I was floating above them. I felt so at ease and relaxed; all my stress and worry had gone completely. I looked down to see my lifeless, cooling corpse laying still. I was dead. My soul was just floating in mid-air. But it didn’t seem to matter.
“Witch! Hurry up! Continue the spell!” I heard Katherine order. Bonnie immediately and obediently obeyed due to the compulsion and began to chant something different. But before she began, I felt as though I was being pulled upwards, and I wanted to follow. A warmth consumed me and I closed my eyes. I wanted to let myself be taken further into the warmth.
“NOOOO!” I heard someone scream. I opened my eyes slowly to see Damon- my dear Damon – at the doorway of the church, eyes wide. He rushed to my dead body’s side and doubled over as he realised I was gone.
“WHAT HAVE 你 DONE!” He cried out angrily. He began to advance on Bonnie.
“NO! Damon, if 你 interrupt this now there’s 更多 of a chance that you’ll never see her again! Just wait!” Bonnie sobbed. He couldn’t seem to move. Tears ran down his face. The pull of the warmth was counteracted 由 another pull. I wanted to fight this one. I struggled but it was strong. I felt as though I was being pulled apart. I was being dragged towards Katherine. As I got closer and closer I grew colder and colder. I heard Katherine begin to scream. I saw her writhe and convulse as I neared her. She tried to 移动 but couldn’t. As soon as I touched her, everything went black.
My eyes flickered open. Had it all been a dream? Had it not worked? I took a deep breath of air and let it fill my lungs before exhaling again. I felt strange, and hungry. I was desperate for food. I sat up and saw Bonnie curled up in the corner of the tomb. I could hear her crying. I went to comfort her, but something beside me caught my eye. Damon was crouched over Katherine, sobbing. Why was he crying over Katherine? Wait…hadn’t I been lying there before the spell…? And Katherine hadn’t been wearing the same clothes as me…I looked down and saw that I was now wearing Katherine’s red tee-shirt and black trousers. And then it hit me. It had WORKED. It. Had. WORKED. I gasped, and Damon looked up from my old, dead body slowly. Tears were wet on his face, and his eyes were full of hatred and malice. He glared at me and his face turned vampire.
“You bitch. Look what you’ve DONE!” he roared and threw himself at me. He smashed me into the broken 墙 and parts of it tumbled around us. I tried to talk but he had my throat. Without thinking I pushed him away and sent him flying backwards. I gasped. I was strong…? Then I realisation smacked me in the face. If I was Katherine…I was a VAMPIRE. I threw my hand to my mouth and rushed to Damon’s side.
“Oh my God, Damon! Are 你 ok?” I went to help him up but he pushed me away angrily. He walked away and then stopped. He spun around.
“Di-did 你 just ask me…if I was ‘ok’?” he looked confused. I nodded, unsure of what he was getting at. “…I mean, 你 just CARED about me? My feelings…?” he 说 slowly. I nodded again, still confused. “That must mean that…that it…worked…” he 说 to himself, gasping. “…Elena…?” he 说 softly, looking at me, his head cocked to one side.
“…Damon…I can’t believe it worked either…And yes…it’s me,” I replied. He stared at me for a few moments and then his eyebrows furrowed.
“Elena may be in there somewhere, but how can I be sure that it’s not 你 Katherine, pretending that Elena’s the dominating part of the soul…” he glared at me again.
“Damon, ask me a 问题 that only Elena would know,” I asked. He thought for a moment, but all the while glaring at me.
“Where is my favourite place to escape?” he 说 questioningly.
“A beautiful hillside that looks down upon a valley. I don’t know exactly where it was because I fell asleep for most of the journey. I still can’t believe 你 made a picnic, as I honestly didn’t think 你 were that kind of guy and I-“ but before I could finish my sentence his lips were on mine. It was a desperate 吻乐队(Kiss) at first, as if it had been too long since we had last done this. After a while, it slowed and became passionate and loving. He held my face his hands. As we broke apart he held me close.
“Elena- Oh my God, my dear Elena…” he sobbed as he squeezed me tightly. “…I thought…I’d 迷失 you…” he breathed.
“I can’t believe it. How is this possible?” she 说 to herself. I was at loss. What was she TALKING about? Stefan slowly walked towards her and knelt beside her.
“Katherine, we need 你 to tell us. What are 你 talking about? How is Elena…you?” he asked gently. She seemed to calm down and she walked over to the bar. She shakily poured herself a large neat 伏特加 and downed it. She slammed the glass down and stared at the fire.
“A few years before I came to Mystic Falls in 1864, Emily and I were travelling in North Carolina. We had a run in with some idiotic young 吸血鬼 who were impossibly strong. They were three men and they got…obsessed with me. To tell 你 the truth, I was scared of them. For some reason they were stronger than me - an older vampire. I fought them off but only just managed to survive. One of them was amazing at tracking, and they all followed me. Emily couldn’t kill them, even though her magic was powerful. It seemed as though they had some sort of protection charm keeping them safe. Eventually we thought we’d 迷失 them, and Emily told me that she could help me get away from them 由 leading them off my scent. I asked her how, and she 说 it was dangerous.” She looked away from the fire. Damon, Stefan and I were listening intently. Where was this strange story going? How did it link to me? She continued.
“I told her I’d do anything to get them off my back. So she set up a ritual. It involved removing part of my soul and locking it away. That part would be used to lure the 吸血鬼 away and leave me free to escape. I lay on a cold stone floor whilst Emily prepared the spell. Then she chanted and I felt as though I was dying. Like part of me was being ripped out. Which it was. The part of my soul which Emily used…was my humanity.” She whispered the last word. I suddenly felt a twang of sympathy for Katherine. She had had to lose her humanity to save herself from being attacked and possibly dying.
“You have no…humanity?” Damon choked. She looked at him sadly and nodded slowly. “Which means that you’re not capable of sympathy 或者 kindness or…love?” He glanced away. “You never loved me. Not even in 1864. 你 couldn’t…” She was suddenly at his side and holding his chin in her hand. She looked him dead in the eyes.
“I tried Damon. I tried so hard to 爱情 you. I wanted to, terribly. I knew that my humanity would have loved 你 更多 than 你 can ever know. And my humanity does, I see…” And she looked at me. Damon gasped. Stefan gasped. I gasped. I was Katherine’s humanity.
“How….” I 说 slowly, trying to get my head around what Katherine was telling me. I was her humanity? I was her SOUL? “How…” I 说 pathetically again. She sat down on the sofa and held her empty glass tightly. She looked up at me.
“When Emily removed my humanity, she locked it away. She told me that the only way I could ever get it back was if it was…born again. Then she would chant a spell and my souls would be united.” She stared sadly at the floor. “But Emily has gone. Her spell has gone. There’s no way I can get my humanity back…” Damon’s mouth stopped hanging open and he fumbled out his words.
“So, Elena is…you? She’s what 你 were like when 你 were human? What 你 would have been like if those 吸血鬼 hadn’t attacked you?” He rubbed his eyes and ran his hands through his hair. “So if 你 were to 加入 back with your humanity…what would happen to Elena?” He asked quietly, his face dropping as he guessed, just like I had already.
“Her body would die but the soul would remain. Like a ghost.” I shuddered.
“W-w-would I lose myself?” I asked, frightened. What if Katherine managed to do it? What if she managed to get her humanity back? Would she still remember everything that I had been through in my life? Would I be alive as her? I didn’t want to die.
“I don’t know,” she answered thoughtfully. “Well I don’t think so, seeing as 你 are actually part of me.” Amazingly this 评论 didn’t make me feel any better.
“Oh my god, this is way too much…” I 说 faintly and I fell backwards onto the chair behind me. Damon rushed to my side.
“Are 你 ok?” he asked softly, brushing my hair out of my face. His eyes were full of worry.
“I’m ok. Well, I guess I’ve been better. How is Isobel involved in all this though?” I asked Katherine.
“My soul was protected in a 圣女魔咒 locket. If anyone opened it the soul would enter them. I always thought that the soul would just reside in their body, like the body 表演 as a host, but it seems to me,” she 说 as she circled me, staring at me intensely, “that the soul took on the form of myself as a baby, and the person who opened the locket carried the baby. The locket could only be opened 由 a human. I kept the locket with me searching for someone to help me get my humanity back, a suitable human who would be happy enough to die, 或者 so I thought, to make room for my soul. It was until one fateful 日 that my locket got stolen. A band of travelling vampire’s allowed Emily and I to 加入 them, but one night, one of them 偷了 my locket whilst I was sleeping and the 下一个 morning they were all gone. And they had taken my humanity with them. Of course none of them could open the locket, but it was devastating thinking that I may never get it back. I searched for them for years alongside Emily, who did everything in her power to try to find them. Eventually we ended up in Mystic Falls, where I met 你 two,” she said, pointing at both Stefan and Damon and grinning. Damon’s face softened suddenly.
“Katherine, I’m so sorry. Now I understand everything. 你 didn’t 爱情 me because 你 literally COULDN’T 爱情 me, and 你 can’t help but be the way 你 are. That must be terrible.” He walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder, but she brushed it away instantly.
“I don’t need your pity, Damon,” she retorted. The fact that she couldn’t use most human emotions and experience most human feeling crushed me 更多 than I thought it would. It was like something was aching horribly inside me. I clutched my painful chest and breathed slowly. Damon was back at my side and he held my arm.
“Elena, what’s wrong, are 你 ok?” he asked again.
“I just had a weird pain in my chest,” I breathed as I composed myself. He held me in his arms. Katherine cleared her throat.
“Anyway,” she began. “The locket must have travelled from vampire to vampire 或者 something. I’m not quite sure. But one 日 Emily had a vision. She came to me and told me what she had seen. She 说 “…Isobel will save your soul.” She didn’t say anymore on the subject apart from that one little sentence. I never knew what she meant…until now.” She was in front of me in a blink, but stopped abruptly as Damon put his arm out to stop her coming any closer.
“Isobel was your mother, wasn’t she?” Katherine asked. I nodded and she sat down in the chair 下一个 to me. Stefan, who had been quiet for a very long time, also sat down. We all sat in silence for a while, taking in what each of us had learned in the evening of events. I was dumbfounded. All this information was a lot to take in. And thinking about the fact that I was only Katherine’s humanity made me feel…not completely human. It just made me feel like a kind of “storage box” for her soul.
“You do realise that I’m going to want my humanity back,” Katherine 说 finally, looking at the floor. Damon, Stefan and I tensed and we all glared at her. She looked up and put her hands up. “But don’t get all worked up about it! I need a witches spell to get my humanity back and I don’t know any witches anymore so,” I relaxed a little.
“Even if 你 do get a witch to help you, I won’t let 你 touch Elena,” Damon 说 angrily. Stefan nodded. Katherine narrowed her eyebrows.
“I know 你 both 爱情 her and want her to be safe, but I’m sure that if I’m united with my humanity we’ll be the same person. We ARE the same person. She’s just me out of my own body. I need her. I need my humanity. I want to feel again. I want to 爱情 again…” she stroked Damon’s face. “I know in my 心 that 你 would have been the man that I loved. I would have loved 你 so strongly that words can’t even describe. My 心 aches to think that I may never get to feel that love.” Damon relaxed and stared into her eyes. I knew he still loved her. She looked at me. “I envy you. I envy 你 so much it hurts. 你 get to feel love. I miss love…” I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. She seemed so desperate. But I didn’t know what would happen to my soul if I gave it over to Katherine. I could lose all my memories and thoughts and just become a part of Katherine. But I did know that even if that happened Damon would fall for Katherine again because her humanity would return, making her like me. Damon stood up.
“Katherine. Thank 你 for telling us everything. But I think it’s time for 你 to leave.” She stood up also, and nodded.
“I’ll leave, but don’t think I won’t be back,” she replied, smiling.
“I know 你 will,” Damon said, and suddenly she was gone. We all breathed out heavily at the same time.
“I think I need to go out and, 你 know…” Stefan 说 as he raised himself from his chair. He disappeared too and left Damon and I standing idly in the centre of the room. Damon slowly turned to me and wrapped his arms around me.
“Don’t 你 ever think that if Katherine gets her humanity from you, that I’ll just 爱情 Katherine again immediately. I will never let her take you, Elena. You’re the girl I 爱情 and I never ever want to lose you,” he 说 softly as he kissed the 最佳, 返回页首 of my head. I leant my face up to his.
“I never want to lose 你 either,” I replied quietly and pressed my lips firmly against his. When we broke apart he held my face in his hands.
“I know a way that I can protect 你 from Katherine ever getting her humanity. And it will mean that 你 and I will never have to leave one another. I want 你 forever, Elena.” I stepped back as I realised what he was getting at.
“Damon…are 你 saying….” I gasped. He nodded.
“Yes, Elena. I think I should turn you,” he replied.
I backed away slightly.
“Damon…what? 你 want to turn me…?” I was in shock. He grabbed my arms.
“I NEED to turn you, Elena. There’s a difference. Once you’re a vampire you’ll be safer from Katherine. And also, it means that 你 and I can be together…forever,” he 说 as he smiled gently.
“Damon, being a vampire won’t keep me safer from Katherine. She can still take my humanity and then I’ll be exactly like her,” I told him anxiously. “But to be with 你 forever is something I want dearly, but I don’t know if I can leave my family and 老友记 behind. Give me time.” He nodded and pulled me into an embrace. He held me tightly and kissed my hair. I kissed him and he kissed me back. Soon we were ripping each others clothes off and he carried me upstairs. We fell onto his 床, 床上 and he ran his hands softly up my sides, sending excited chills shooting through my body. He ran his hands under my tee-shirt and I shivered with the excitement. He pulled it off and threw it to the floor. He kissed me all over and kept returning to my lips every once in a while. We kept at it for ages and my back kept arching as my pleasure reached it peak. He ran his hand down my back slowly and my body tingled. I 魔发奇缘 my hands in his hair and then slid them over his face and down his chest. He sighed and I rolled over so I was on 最佳, 返回页首 of him. I ran my hands over his chest again and kissed it passionately. He stared into my eyes and stroked my hair. I moved my lips back to his and we breathed out heavily as we kept going. He rolled back on 最佳, 返回页首 of me to make me the main focus of our activity and decided to go at it faster. This time was actually better than our first time, which had been absolutely incredible. I sighed heavily as my back arched again. He smiled as kissed my neck; my chest; my stomach. I grabbed his shoulders but the sweat made my hands slide over his back. He sighed too. We went on for what seemed like hours. I wondered why Stefan hadn’t come 首页 but I quickly threw thoughts of Stefan from my mind and turned back to the situation at hand. Finally, after an amazing, amazing few hours, we rolled onto our backs and breathed out slowly. Damon propped himself onto his elbow and gazed at me lovingly. He brushed my bedraggled hair out of my face and his touch was gentle and kind. I moved myself closer to him and tucked my head beneath his chin. He stoked my hair and whispered lines of a 爱情 poem in my ear.
Feelings that once were hidden
Are now expressed to you.
Days that once were stormy
Are now the brightest blue.
Times that once were lonely
Are now filled with pleasure.
All that once was mine alone
Are now things we both treasure.
Nights that once were cold
Are now comforting and warm.
Fears that once were very real
Are now gone with the storm.
A 心 that once was broken
Can now finally mend.
A person once alone in life
Can now call 你 a friend.
Dreams that once were longed for
Are now all coming true.
The 爱情 I once thought was gone
I have now and forever in you.
His words made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The words seemed to fit our relationship perfectly. Katherine being the reason for ‘a 心 that once was broken’, and he had accentuated the word ‘forever’ when he had spoken it. I’d heard all his 爱情 for me in that poem and I grabbed his face and pulled his lips down to mine. He kissed me back and then smiled my favourite smile of his. I touched his face and smiled back. Oh, how I loved him. Suddenly there was an awkward, urgent cough at the door. I snapped my head around to see Stefan, his eyes wary and desperate.
“We have a big problem,” he 说 anxiously.
“Every time. Every bloody time…” Damon muttered angrily as he yanked on a new pair of tracksuit trousers he had pulled out of a drawer. He glared at Stefan who gave him a guilty look. Damon threw me one of his shirts. I tugged it on and fumblingly did up the buttons. Stefan was pacing impatiently as we hurriedly got dressed.
“So what is it then?” Damon snapped. Stefan stopped pacing.
“There are new 吸血鬼 in town. Three males,” he 说 worriedly. Damon tensed.
“How do 你 know?” Damon asked, suddenly not as mad at his brother.
“I saw them hunting in the woods. They’re vicious and they’re a threat. We need to do something,” Stefan replied, running his hands through his hair. Damon nodded.
“We’re going to have to deal with them tomorrow. For now Elena needs her rest…” he turned back to me, smiling smugly, and I gave him a sarcastic smile back. He was right though. Today had been a really busy day, from hikers with near-death experiences, Damon and Stefan’s fight, Katherine’s reappearance and the amazing sex with Damon…I smiled to myself as I recalled the 前一个 few hours. Stefan left the room muttering to himself and Damon sat down on the 床, 床上 下一个 to me. He cradled me in his arms for a while, then I rang Aunt Jenna telling her I was staying at Bonnie’s, and then I rang Bonnie to tell Aunt Jenna I was there if she rang. After that Damon tucked me into 床, 床上 and got under the duvet 下一个 to me. I kissed him for a while too and finally I turned away from him and closed my eyes. I felt his cool, bare chest against my back as he wrapped his arms around me. He placed his face on the back of my head. He began to hum a beautiful melody and soon enough I was fast asleep.
My eyes blinked open slowly. I felt Damon’s chest beneath my head rising and falling. I glanced up and saw that he was still sleeping. He looked so peaceful. So…beautiful. And calm. I stroked his face. Sunlight was pouring in through a break in the curtains and it made the room warm and soft. I wrapped my arms around Damon and closed my eyes again. I wasn’t in a rush to begin the day. Then I felt Damon 移动 beneath me and looking up I saw his eyes open gradually. He squinted down at me and smiled widely. I kissed his lips tenderly.
“Good morning,” I whispered quietly as my lips left his.
“Good morning to 你 too,” he 说 gently as he brought my lips back to his again. Our mouths moved together and we passionately made out for a good five 分钟 或者 so. When we broke apart I flung my legs over the side of the 床, 床上 and spotted my clothes from the 前一个 night piled neatly on a chair 由 the door.
“Did you-” I began to ask Damon as I pointed at the pile, but he shook his head. It must have been Stefan. It must be hard for him to see Damon and I together but I just couldn’t help that. He was going to have to learn to live with it. Suddenly Damon’s arms were around my waist and he kissed my neck affectionately. I tilted my head to allow him to explore my neck and he took the invitation with keen enthusiasm. I breathed out a sigh.
“We need to get dressed. We need to find out about these vampires, Damon,” I 说 quietly and he pulled his mouth away from my neck.
“You’re right, but leave that to Stefan and I,” he 说 softly. “But right now I’m going to have to take 你 home.”
“Wait, what about Katherine? She’ll follow us and then-” but he cut me short.
“Elena, Katherine wants to stay here. And she won’t go making a scene if she wants to remain in town. You’re safe…” He 说 the last two words with less enthusiasm. He smiled weakly and released me from his arms. I quickly pulled on the clothes from yesterday and made my way with Damon downstairs. As we rounded the corner into the living room, my eyes took in the scene. Katherine and Stefan were talking furiously and Katherine was waving her arms in despair. Their heads snapped around as they saw us.
“Damon, Elena,” Katherine began. “The problem Stefan told 你 about last night has just got a whole lot worse.”
“What do 你 mean? What’s happened?” Damon urged. Katherine hung her head solemnly.
“The new 吸血鬼 in town are the same ones that were obsessed with me back in the 1850’s. The exact same ones.” My jaw dropped and I gasped.
“Why are they here? Why now?” 说 Damon as he tensed up and clenched his fists.
“My guess is that it’s because I’m close to my…humanity, which is, FOR NOW, Elena,” she said, accentuating the words ‘for now’ and staring maliciously at me. I took a step back. Damon placed himself as if he was ready to protect me from anything. His eyes were wide.
“Katherine, 你 need to leave. That way both 你 and Elena will be safe,” he 说 anxiously.
“Damon, they now know where we both are. They won’t just go away if I leave. They’ll track both Elena and I down. And they are strong. Like, impossibly strong. If I had my humanity, I’d be completely and utterly frightened right now. Just like her,” she smirked, pointing at me. Damon spun around and saw me, a pale, wide-eyed girl reclining from the 吸血鬼 slowly. He put out his hand to me but I ignored him. I was indeed frightened. These were 吸血鬼 that Damon and Stefan couldn’t beat. If they fought, they would die. I couldn’t lose them.
“No, Damon. I-I can’t…this is all far too much this time…” And with that, I pathetically fainted on the floor.
I heard someone distantly calling my name.
“Elena, Elena! Are 你 ok? Please, wake up!” And I felt a hand shaking my arm, and another hand holding the back of my head. Slowly, the voice got louder and my eyes flickered open. I saw Damon’s distraught and worried face hovering over mine.
“Damon, I-I’m sorry…” I mumbled, but he shushed at me and stroked my hair.
“You’ve done nothing wrong. How are 你 feeling?” he asked softly. I nodded feebly and tried to sit up, but my back ached from the sudden fall when I had fainted on the hard wooden floor. He lifted me in his strong arms and placed me down on the soft, comfortable sofa. He knelt beside me and searched my face with his grey eyes. His beautiful grey eyes. I suddenly remembered the news about the other 吸血鬼 and groaned. Damon shook me gently again but I batted him away with my hand mumbling – lying – ‘I’m fine…” He looked unsure but glanced back at Katherine.
“How can we get rid of them? I mean 你 can’t take away another piece of your soul,” he 说 worriedly to her. She put her hands over her face and looked like if she could cry, she would. Suddenly I felt overwhelmed. I felt that terrible aching feeling in my chest again and suddenly I felt very strange. Words that weren’t mine poured from my mouth.
“I’m so sorry that I have caused this. I should have never come back here. Now I’ve disrupted your lives and I never meant for that to happen. I’m so scared, not just for me, but for us all,” and my mouth snapped shut. The three 吸血鬼 in the room were staring at me, their eyes so wide they looked like they were going to fall from the sockets.
“Wha-what did 你 just say?” Katherine choked. Damon’s mouth was hanging open, as was Stefan’s. “You just…talked my words. The words that I’m incapable of saying. How…-” They looked as bewildered as I probably did. What had just happened to me?
“I don’t know…” I replied. Damon stared at me, dumbfounded.
“It must be the connection between both of you,” he looked at both Katherine and I. “The souls are interacting. It must be the fact that you’re so close to one another…” he mused, still staring at me.
Katherine sat opposite me with a confused look on her face. She glanced up and stared hard at my face.
“Those 吸血鬼 won’t find us straight away, but when they do…” I shuddered along with the other three. “What can we do?” she 说 as she buried her face in her knees.
“I think I know someone who can help us,” Damon 说 wonderingly. “Katherine, I think it would be much easier if you…stayed here, rather than come with us,” he added. She stood up angrily.
“Why? I have every right to walk outside!” she 说 as she clenched her fists.
“Katherine, 你 look exactly like Elena. It will cause complications,” Stefan piped up. His face looked drained and worried, just like Damon’s.
“I don’t care. I’m coming with you. I promise I won’t be seen.” She said, pulling on her jacket. Damon’s eyes rolled and he too grabbed his black leather jacket. Their dark clothes seemed to make them match and they looked really good with each other. I saw their gazes meet and Damon smiled suddenly and looked away. So did Katherine. I knew I couldn’t help that they had a history, but it still bugged me.
We all left the house silently and piled into my car. All of us apart from Katherine, that is. She darted off through the trees when Damon had told her where we were meeting. I sped off and headed for the high school. As I pulled up a few jocks sprinted past the car laughing and chatting loudly. Saturdays were football practice. I saw Matt walking with Caroline who was literally skipping beside him. They stopped in the middle of the parking lot and kissed passionately for a few moments. I smiled. It was great that Matt had someone. Being alone without his mum 或者 Vicky must have been hard. As they disappeared out of the lot, we piled out of the car and ran inside the school. It was empty and quiet. We stood around for a while until Katherine’s face peered around the door.
“All clear?” she whispered, and Damon nodded. She smiled and walked in, closing the door softly behind her. We walked swiftly down the corridor and Damon knocked on the classroom door. I heard a muffled ‘come in’ from behind it and we entered the room.
Alaric Saltzman looked up from his 台, 办公桌 and watched as Damon, Stefan and I walked into the room. Katherine stood outside.
“What do 你 guys want now?” he asked, putting his eyes back to the papers he was marking.
“We need your help with a little “vampire extermination”” Damon said, crossing his arms and sitting on a desk. Alaric looked from Damon to Stefan to me and shook his head.
“No way. I can’t keep getting involved in all your vampire problems. I have papers to grade so if 你 excuse me…” But Katherine stepped through the door.
“No, excuse me. This is bigger than just a vampire problem. If 你 want everyone in this town to survive then I suggest 你 help us.” Alaric’s eyes widened as his head snapped back and forth between Katherine and I.
“How- how?” he said, confused. I calmed him down and Damon filled him in on who Katherine was and why she looked like me. He also told him about the three new vampires. Alaric sat there letting the large amount of new information pile into his brain. He seemed shocked the whole time and kept looking at Katherine and I, puzzled. Finally he managed a nod and rubbed his eyes.
“Wow…I guess I should help you, huh…” I nodded urgently.
“We need you, Alaric. 你 have that ring which keeps 你 from dying. And 你 have weapons that can help us destroy them. Please,” I begged, and he seemed to be deciding. Eventually he nodded.
“If it means keeping this town safe, and Elena safe, then I’ll do it,” he said, worry strung in his every word.
“Ok, we need some of your…ammunition…” Damon asked, and Alaric pulled a heavy-looking brief-case from under his 台, 办公桌 and lay it on the desk. He unlocked it and revealed a mixture of darts, stakes and a large gun used to shoot stakes. Katherine looked impressed as she ran her hands over the items.
“Wow, 你 certainly know what you’re doing,” she 说 in awe. He smiled weakly up at her and then handed us all armfuls of ammo.
“So how do we lure these 吸血鬼 to kill them?” he asked anxiously. Katherine cleared her throat.
“One way is to let Elena and I go into the woods and us being so close and alone should lure them.” My eyes widened in fear. I would be alone with Katherine. And three blood-thirsty male 吸血鬼 desperate for me. Shuddering, Damon put his hand on my shoulder.
“We’d be close 由 Elena, and then we’d kill them,” he reassured me, “but I don’t trust her with you,” he 说 at Katherine. She smiled.
“There is another way. If 你 let me be united with my humanity they’ll go straight for me and then 你 could kill them…” But Damon slammed his fist on the table.
“NO! No way. 你 are NEVER getting your humanity back, Katherine!” He growled massively and she recoiled, ever so slightly. The terrible ache hit my chest again. Katherine seemed to double over for some reason as words spilled from my mouth.
“Please Damon! I want to 爱情 again! I want to FEEL again! I feel like my 心 is being ripped out because I desperately want this. I need to be whole again, I can’t be half a soul for all eternity!” Tears spilled from my cheeks as I spoke, feelings that weren’t mine washed through me – sorrow, desperation, need…lonliness. This episode was worse than the last. I felt…like someone else. Katherine was on the floor, clutching her chest and groaning. Damon was holding my face in his hands, asking desperately if I was ok, and Stefan was with Katherine, shaking her gently. She gasped and spluttered but pain was all over her face. She stared at me.
“I…need…you…” she breathed. I knew she was right. She needed her humanity. Being in such close quarters with me was taking its toll on her. I was channelling her desired thoughts and words and feelings. I thought to myself that maybe…maybe if I did 加入 with Katherine I’d be the dominant part of the soul. Maybe…maybe it was something that we both needed.
“I know 你 do, Katherine. And I think…I think you’re right…” I whispered. Damon grabbed my shoulders and looked me dead in the eyes.
“No! Elena! 你 can’t!” he cried.
I shook my head.
“Damon, I think this is something I need to do, for me AND Katherine. I don’t know how to explain it really, it’s just that being around Katherine’s made me feel as though there has been a part of me missing. I never noticed it before. And part of me knows that I won’t lose myself. I can do this, Damon,” I replied.
“Please, Elena,” he pleaded. “I can’t risk losing you! It’s too dangerous. 你 could be 迷失 forever and just become a part of Katherine.” He looked close to tears. I stroked his face.
“Damon. Humanity over-rules any other part of the soul. I’ve seen that in 你 and in Stefan. You’ve proved that 爱情 conquers all. And I’ll be with 你 again as one with Katherine. It’s what she wants. I can’t 熊 to see her like that. I feel her pain. I LITERALLY feel her pain. It hurts me, Damon.” I looked at the floor. He placed his hand on my shoulder.
“Elena…If this is what 你 want…Then you’re on your own. I can’t 熊 the thought of losing you. But if it’s your choice to leave me…then I guess I have to accept that.” A solemn tear rolled down his cheek.
“Damon…please…I don’t want to leave you, I want what’s right. A soul shouldn’t be 分裂, 拆分 apart, it’s not natural!” I reasoned desperately, but he shook his head and stepped away.
“I can’t 熊 the thought of 你 destroying yourself Elena, no matter what 你 think about humanity being dominant of the soul. You’ll be a part of Katherine, 你 won’t be completely Elena. And it’s the complete Elena that I love.” And with that, he disappeared. Stefan raised himself from Katherine’s side as she sat up. Alaric walked over to me and put his arm over my shoulder.
“He’ll see that you’re right in the end, Elena. I think you’re right. So what do we do?” he asked Katherine and Stefan.
“We need a witch,” 说 Katherine, with a smile spread across her face. She threw her arms around me and hugged me.
“Thank you. Thank 你 so much,” she whispered in my ear. “I owe everything to you, Elena.” She pulled herself away and smiled at me even more.
I sat there, staring. I didn’t know what I’d just gotten myself into, really.
“Right. We need…a witch. So I guess we’re going to have to leave town and start looking for one, stat,” Katherine mused.
“No. I know a witch,” I 说 softly. She snapped her head up and stared at me, and so did Alaric.
“You know a witch?” Katherine looked amused. “Well that saves us some time.” She smiled happily and literally skipped over to the door. “Come on then, we don’t have any time to lose!”
“I have to talk to her first,” I called after her, and she re-entered the room.
“So you’re 老友记 with this witch? Wow, you’re even 更多 like me than I first thought. In with the vampires, buddies with witches…” she smiled at me again. She really was thankful to me. I needed to go through with this. I owed it to both of us.
Bonnie waved at me as she walked through the door of Mystic Grill. She slid they chair out and sat down opposite me. I smiled gently and she beamed.
“Hey Elena!” she 说 as she took off her jacket. I managed to say “hello,” back. I was aware of how much I would be asking of her. She probably wouldn’t be willing to risk losing her best friend. Her face dropped.
“Are 你 ok?” she said, taking my hands. Suddenly she gasped and her grip tightened on my hands. I winced for a 秒 then realized she was having a vision. I waited until she came too but she stood up and glared at me.
“I would never help 你 to do that Elena. I will never ever risk it. I’m sorry,” she 说 desperately. I widened my eyes. She had seen what I was going to tell her. I stood up too and grabbed her arm.
“Please Bonnie, just hear me out,” I pleaded but she shrugged me away.
“No, Elena. And who is that? Katherine? The girl Damon wanted so badly? She’s BACK? I can’t deal with vampire problems Elena. Not now. Not ever.” And with that she ran out of the Grill. I chased after her and she rounded the corner. She kept glancing behind her and decided to take a turn down an alley. As I rounded the corner after her I saw he against the wall. Katherine had her 由 the collar. Before I had time to speak and Bonnie had time to scream Katherine ripped off Bonnie’s vervain filled 项链 and threw it to the floor. Then she forced Bonnie to look into her eyes.
“You will do everything I say. 你 will help me get my humanity back, witch. And 你 will forget about me, and what I’ve just done,” she 说 in a dreamy, melodic voice. Bonnie nodded in a hypnotic fashion and Katherine let go of her. She fell to the floor. I rushed to her side and when Katherine saw me she smiled.
“I guess when things need to be done you’ve just got to do them yourself.” She patted my shoulder and walked away down the alley. I looked back at Bonnie who was groaning and holding her arm.
“Ah, I think I sprained it...” she looked around. “What am I doing out here?” she asked. I stroked her hair.
“You were walking with me when 你 tripped and fell, Bonnie,” I replied. She looked slightly unsure.
“How did we end up in the alley?” I gulped. But she shook her head. “Never mind,” she 说 as I helped her to her feet.
“How’s your arm?” I asked her worriedly, glancing around for any signs of Katherine.
“I think its ok actually. It just hurts,” she replied, rubbing her arm tenderly.
“Come on, I’ll take 你 back to my house,” I 说 as we walked.
As we neared the porch, a voice called my name from behind us. We span around and saw Stefan at the end of the pathway.
“Bonnie, why don’t 你 go inside?” I said, and she nodded in agreement. Soon I was standing with Stefan and he looked into my eyes.
“Elena, what Damon said…about not wanting to see 你 risking your life…I agree. I can’t watch 你 do that to yourself either. I 爱情 you, even though it’s clear 你 no longer feel the same way towards me as 你 did before. So, while this idea is still in your mind, I won’t be around to help out with anything. And neither will Damon. When 你 realise what you’ve agreed to and decide not to do it, let me know,” I opened my mouth to speak but he put his finger on my lips. “No, Elena. Nothing 你 can say will make me change how I feel about this situation.” And with that he was gone. A tear ran down my face. I was hurting them. Both of them. They were scared of losing me. But they didn’t understand. I HAD to do this.
I went inside and found Aunt Jenna holding a hot/cold pack on Bonnie’s injured arm. As I walked in they both looked up and smiled at me.
“My arm’s better now,” Bonnie 说 to me. I sat down beside her and took the hot/cold pack from Aunt Jenna. I held it firmly against her arm.
“Elena, I have to go into town for a while. I’ll be back later. I hope your arm feels better soon Bonnie,” Aunt Jenna 说 as she grabbed her car keys from the 厨房 work top. When the door shut I searched Bonnie’s face for any inkling of her remembering what I’d told her.
“Elena, I’ll help you. I know I 说 I wouldn’t but I’ve…changed my mind. I see now that it’s…for the best,” she 说 calmly, smiling. It hurt me that this was the compulsion talking, not my best friend. If she hadn’t been compelled she would be totally against the idea.
Later that day, after Bonnie’s arm was nearly back to normal, I drove her home. As I drove away I was sure I caught sight of Katherine in the trees. When I looked back at the place I thought I’d seen her, there was no one there. She was following me. I shivered and put my foot down. When I finally got 首页 I fell onto my 床, 床上 and breathed out heavily. I opened my eyes to see Damon staring blankly at the floor. I gasped in shock. Eventually I calmed down.
“Damon….I’m sorry…” I 说 softly. He didn’t look at me.
“Why…why would 你 do this Elena…” he 说 quietly. I saw a tear roll down his cheek and I watched as it hit my carpet silently. I went to him and tried to hug him but he pushed me away and still didn’t look me in the eye. “What if I lose 你 Elena? What if it doesn’t work? What if…you die?” he choked the last two words and he wiped his eyes on his sleeve. He was truly upset.
“Damon…Damon, I’m sorry! I can’t explain it, but this is something I feel – no I KNOW – that I need to do,” I replied, tears beginning in my eyes. It crushed me to see him hurting this way, but this wasn’t to do with him. This was my problem, and I was dragging him down in it. He was hurting due to me.
“Are 你 willing to risk your family and your 老友记 losing you? They may never see 你 again, and 你 may never see them. Think of how many people 你 could be hurting!” And he slammed his fist on my side board, causing it to crack. He didn’t seem to care. “I won’t be a part of 你 killing yourself, Elena. I refuse to see it. Until 你 come back to me and tell me that you’ve changed your mind, 你 won’t see me again. I can’t 熊 hurting any 更多 than I already am,” I reached my hand out to him, unable to speak. He rushed out of my window and disappeared. I broke down into tears. He didn’t understand. No one did.
The 下一个 morning I had to rub the sleep that had formed from the tears last night. I glanced at the clock and saw that it was only seven. Everyone else would be asleep. My phone buzzed on the cracked side 表 beside my 床, 床上 and I reached over and checked the text. It was from an unknown number.
I have the witch at the old church outside the tomb. We’re doing this now.
I knew who it was from. She had Bonnie. I gulped and hurriedly pulled on my clothes. After twenty 分钟 I was ready. I crept out into the hallway and was about to go down the stairs when I stopped. I may never see Aunt Jenna 或者 Jeremy again. I crept silently into Aunt Jenna’s room and hugged her softly sleeping body. Tears began at my eyes again and I kissed her cheek. I then went into Jeremy’s room. He was sprawled awkwardly on 最佳, 返回页首 of the duvet and was snoring softly. I stroked his floppy hair and kissed his forehead. Tears rolled off of my face onto his grey 床, 床上 covers. I would miss him if this went wrong. Part of me didn’t want to go. But the over-ruling part of me wanted to do what I knew was right for myself. I left the house sadly, running my hands along memories stored in photograph’s and drawings from my childhood. I drove to the church slowly, taking in the sky; the birds; the houses; the trees. I needed Damon right now, to tell me it would be alright, but he didn’t want to even see me. Soon I was walking from my car on the edge of the forest to the church. It was a long walk, but finally I made it and saw Katherine pacing. Bonnie was sitting with her eyes closed on a stone wall. She opened them when Katherine stopped pacing. She looked solemn. Katherine smiled and took my hand.
“Finally, you’re here! Ok, let’s do this,” she 说 urgently, but before we went any further, she whipped out her phone and sent a text message.
“Who are you-” I began, but she shook her head.
“No questions,” she replied, “Bonnie was kind enough to work with me last night and I taught her the spell Emily used. We’re ready.” I nodded flatly, as I was kind of in a trance that this was happening right now. I gulped and followed them into the old church ruins.
I lay on the cold stone floor in the old church. Katherine lay with the 最佳, 返回页首 of her head opposite the 最佳, 返回页首 of mine, so I couldn’t see her. I could see that Bonnie was trying to stay strong but I could see it in her eyes that she was just as scared as I was.
“Are you…comfortable?” she asked awkwardly. I nodded weakly and she rifled in her pocket. She pulled out the piece of paper that contained the spell and placed it down beside me. She hovered her hands over my 心 and began to chant. I couldn’t understand her words. Soon, I began to feel strange. My head began to ache 更多 and 更多 and soon it was terrible. Then it became agonising. Then it became unbearable. Then, it became excruciating. I screamed and I could hear Bonnie’s sobs as she continued to chant. She was unable to stop due to Katherine’s compulsion. I couldn’t move; my hands were literally locked at my sides. My head felt like it was about to explode. My 心 beat faster and faster. I shook violently and it became harder to breathe. It was like I was being choked. I writhed and screamed, but soon I couldn’t scream any more, I couldn’t breathe. I tried to open my eyes but it was impossible. And then all of my pain disappeared. I felt warm and contented. I opened my eyes to see Bonnie with tears streaming down her face and shaking me. I reached out my hand to tell her it was ok but she didn’t respond. I began to rise up and soon I was floating above them. I felt so at ease and relaxed; all my stress and worry had gone completely. I looked down to see my lifeless, cooling corpse laying still. I was dead. My soul was just floating in mid-air. But it didn’t seem to matter.
“Witch! Hurry up! Continue the spell!” I heard Katherine order. Bonnie immediately and obediently obeyed due to the compulsion and began to chant something different. But before she began, I felt as though I was being pulled upwards, and I wanted to follow. A warmth consumed me and I closed my eyes. I wanted to let myself be taken further into the warmth.
“NOOOO!” I heard someone scream. I opened my eyes slowly to see Damon- my dear Damon – at the doorway of the church, eyes wide. He rushed to my dead body’s side and doubled over as he realised I was gone.
“WHAT HAVE 你 DONE!” He cried out angrily. He began to advance on Bonnie.
“NO! Damon, if 你 interrupt this now there’s 更多 of a chance that you’ll never see her again! Just wait!” Bonnie sobbed. He couldn’t seem to move. Tears ran down his face. The pull of the warmth was counteracted 由 another pull. I wanted to fight this one. I struggled but it was strong. I felt as though I was being pulled apart. I was being dragged towards Katherine. As I got closer and closer I grew colder and colder. I heard Katherine begin to scream. I saw her writhe and convulse as I neared her. She tried to 移动 but couldn’t. As soon as I touched her, everything went black.
My eyes flickered open. Had it all been a dream? Had it not worked? I took a deep breath of air and let it fill my lungs before exhaling again. I felt strange, and hungry. I was desperate for food. I sat up and saw Bonnie curled up in the corner of the tomb. I could hear her crying. I went to comfort her, but something beside me caught my eye. Damon was crouched over Katherine, sobbing. Why was he crying over Katherine? Wait…hadn’t I been lying there before the spell…? And Katherine hadn’t been wearing the same clothes as me…I looked down and saw that I was now wearing Katherine’s red tee-shirt and black trousers. And then it hit me. It had WORKED. It. Had. WORKED. I gasped, and Damon looked up from my old, dead body slowly. Tears were wet on his face, and his eyes were full of hatred and malice. He glared at me and his face turned vampire.
“You bitch. Look what you’ve DONE!” he roared and threw himself at me. He smashed me into the broken 墙 and parts of it tumbled around us. I tried to talk but he had my throat. Without thinking I pushed him away and sent him flying backwards. I gasped. I was strong…? Then I realisation smacked me in the face. If I was Katherine…I was a VAMPIRE. I threw my hand to my mouth and rushed to Damon’s side.
“Oh my God, Damon! Are 你 ok?” I went to help him up but he pushed me away angrily. He walked away and then stopped. He spun around.
“Di-did 你 just ask me…if I was ‘ok’?” he looked confused. I nodded, unsure of what he was getting at. “…I mean, 你 just CARED about me? My feelings…?” he 说 slowly. I nodded again, still confused. “That must mean that…that it…worked…” he 说 to himself, gasping. “…Elena…?” he 说 softly, looking at me, his head cocked to one side.
“…Damon…I can’t believe it worked either…And yes…it’s me,” I replied. He stared at me for a few moments and then his eyebrows furrowed.
“Elena may be in there somewhere, but how can I be sure that it’s not 你 Katherine, pretending that Elena’s the dominating part of the soul…” he glared at me again.
“Damon, ask me a 问题 that only Elena would know,” I asked. He thought for a moment, but all the while glaring at me.
“Where is my favourite place to escape?” he 说 questioningly.
“A beautiful hillside that looks down upon a valley. I don’t know exactly where it was because I fell asleep for most of the journey. I still can’t believe 你 made a picnic, as I honestly didn’t think 你 were that kind of guy and I-“ but before I could finish my sentence his lips were on mine. It was a desperate 吻乐队(Kiss) at first, as if it had been too long since we had last done this. After a while, it slowed and became passionate and loving. He held my face his hands. As we broke apart he held me close.
“Elena- Oh my God, my dear Elena…” he sobbed as he squeezed me tightly. “…I thought…I’d 迷失 you…” he breathed.