Love Sucks - The Vampire Diaries - Damon Salvatore

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The drive up was mainly quiet. I know Stefan heard the fight but I didn't want to talk about it. It was the right thing to do, leave. I wanted to leave long ago, but Stefan convinced me to stay. This was not the life I had asked for, and not the life I wanted. I just wanted simple.

"So, are we gonna talk about - "

"Nope" I interuppted him.

"OK." Stefan nodded and pursed his lips, not pushing the matters further.

We reached Jades house, but no lights were on. "That's strange. I told her we were on our way." We both got out the car and walked up to the front door. It was quiet, too quiet. I looked behind us and there was no one out in the street, "It was really busy when Klaus and I came up. Where is everyone?"

"The doors slightly open." Stefan pushed it gently, "Hello?"

"Please, come in" I heard Jades voice from the kitchen. I relaxed a little hearing her voice and stepped over the threshold. Stefan followed. We walked round to the ktichen but couldn't see Jade.

"Jade?" I shouted out, "We've got the necklace."

Ebony came in to the room from the other entrance, holding a tape recorder, "Brilliant" she smiled. Behind her I could see Jade tied to a chair, bound and gagged. Her head limp. "Hand it over."

"What's going on?" I asked, taking a step back.

"Give me the necklace." she said forcefully.

"Why would we give it you?" Stefan asked, pushing me behind his back

"You have it, don't you vampire?" Ebony smirked. She started chanting and Stefan fell to his knees, holding his head.

I ran out the room and managed to get upstairs to the bathroom, locking the door behind me. I grabbed my phone out my pocket and quickly dialled Damon, "Damon, help - "

The door slammed opened and Ebony was stood there holding a knife, "Come on now Livvy, let's go see mummy dearest and your boyfriend."

"Liv? Olivia!? Hey!" I heard Damon on the other end of the phone but I couldn't talk.

Ebony grabbed me by my hair and pulled me up, I screamed in pain as she took my phone, looking at the screen before holding it up to her ear, "Hello, Olivias phone. How may I help?"

"Put Olivia on the phone now!" Damon shouted

"Oh sweetie, I wish I could" I smirked, dragging me down the stairs by my hair. Tears started to stream down my face with every knock on the step and pull. She threw me in to the kitchen where I stumbled and fell by the chair Jade was tied to. "She's going to be a little busy. Then, a little dead."

"Why?" I could just about hear Damons voice before Ebony put it on speaker, placing it on the kitchen side and grabbing another chair.

"Because she's still linked to Crystal. Just a tiny bit. But that tiny bit is enough to mean I can't destroy her jewel." She wrapped her hands tightly round my wrists, tying me to the chair next to her mother. "Have you noticed a shift in her moods? Maybe she's got a little bit more outspoken? A little more sassy?"

I thought back over the past few days, realising that I had. My confidence had grown a little each day, I was able to stand up to Damon at times and argue with him without feeling scared...

"That's Auntie Christie; a bitch" Ebony sighed and wiggled the ropes on my wrists and ankles to make sure they were tight. I finally had time to look round the room and saw Stefan laying on the floor by the wall, unconcious.

"What have you done to him!?" I shouted over to Ebony who had jumped up to sit on the kitchen side

"He's fine. Sleeping off a headache. But he soon wont be." she picked up the knife in one hand and the phone in the other, "So, Damon? She called you. Are you the boyfriend? If so, why aren't you here instead of this one?"

"If you hurt either of them - "

"Ah, your brother? Younger, I'm guessing" Ebony smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I get that feeling for my little sisters. They never asked for this life, none of us did. So why should we live it? I had to watch my roomate kill my friend, all because she was werewolf and that's what werewolfs do; they kill people." She jumped back down off the side and walked to stand in front of me, "No magic, no werewolves to kill others I love. No vampires, no witches, no magic. No problems. My sisters get to grow up happy and safe." she raised the knife to my chest, "No you, means I can destroy the crystal. Because, if the person is alive and linked to the jewel, it can't be damaged. And as she's still a little bit connected to you; I kill you, I can destroy the jewel and slowly but surely magic and the supernatural die."

"Don't you hurt her!" Damons voice came from my phone

"Too late. I've started the ritual." Ebony walked over to my phone, picking it up and holding it closer to her mouth, "She'll be dead soon." and with that, she hung up and stabbed the knife through the phone.

Over at the Salvatores....

Damon was racing over to his brother and girlfriend....ex-girlfriend...? Girl, woman, female! that he loved. As he sped along the roads, he dialled Bonnie.

"I don't have time for this Damon!" Bonnies voice came through the phone

"Oh you do!" Damon filled in Bonnie with what was happening, "So you better make time! Because Olivias life depends on this. And if that wasn't enough, you're life depends on it too. If magic dies, so do you."