The Third Salvatore (TVD Season 1)

Chapter 26

Emma

"Please, no." I beg him.

Frederick snickers maliciously and grabs me by neck. "Your meat suit is just according to my liking, girl."

"Please don't hurt me." I mutter, gulping down my pride. Tears flow down my cheeks.

"Aw, are you crying, Emma? You don't think I'll be like Hardin, do you?" He huffs and tilts his head to my neck.

"Please, please.." I keep chanting like that someone's really listening.

"Or...maybe you don't know Hardin that well, huh?" He laughs.

"He was what do you people say- a Man-whore. Slutting up with Katherine, Annabelle, just any chick he encountered. Including mine. So..." He gives me an ominous stare.

"...give me one reason why shouldn't I skin you alive? He's going to eat you one day, anyway, why let you be his prized possession?" He finishes and plunges into my neck. I shreak in horror. My whole body shakes and I see darkness.

"No, no..."

"What is it? You don't like it, love?" I'm stunned hearing that voice. Its not Frederick but Hardin who pulls away from my neck, his face vamped up, my blood tricking down his chin.

"No, no..." I cry in horror.

"That's what I do, Emma. That's what I am." He smirks and bites into me again, biting and drinking ferociously...

"What the hell are you doing here?"

I'm jagged out of my nightmare with Elena's yelling. I rub my eyes and see Elena banging my bedroom door behind her.

"Breaking your sister's bed."

I jump at the raspy, male voice next to me. Hardin! Gosh I totally forgot he slept with me last night. No, dirty mind, not with me. He slept beside me.

Elena walks up to us glaring at Hardin. "She almost died and still you can't stop haunting her? Leave her alone!"

"Elena, it's fine." I tell her when Hardin sits up in the bed, giving Elena not-so-friendly looks.

"No it is not, Emma." Elena frowns at me. "It's his fault that you ended up there!"

I yawn. "It was no one's fault, Lena. Cut the crap. Night's over." I bite my lip and feel Hardin's hand slowly caressing my arm.

"They found Vicki's body, Emma. Matt's devastated. Jeremy's at his house. Police are the all over his place." Elena says crying.

"Damn." I mutter. "Jeremy. I need to be there..." I climb down the bed and head for the shower. Elena shakes her head when she sees me in towel.

"No! It's middle of the night. And you almost got eaten!" Hardin revolts getting down the bed.

"Yes, you don't want to hurt yourself anymore, Emma." Elens says sadly.

"I know what I want, thanks." I say. Hardin rolls his eyes. He opens his mouth to say something but his phone rings.

His puts up a finger at me and steps down the bed, taking the call.

"What?"

He grows pensive of whatever he hears. His mouth curls up in a smirk before he turns his back on us. I wonder who is it.

"I got to go. Things came up." He says turning around, hanging up the call. Dammit is it another Vampire attack?

"Everything's fine." He says ensuringly and strolls up to me. "You're not going anywhere, okay? I won't let you." He looks at me, eyes narrowed.