Forever

The Woman in the Woods

Shit shit shit.

Elijah was gonna kill me.

I really needed to work on my situational awareness because really, this was getting ridiculous.

And to top it all off, there was a burning sensation running under my skin. What the hell was that?

"Are you fucking kidding me?! She's one of them!"

"Keep your voice down. They're probably looking for her right now. She can't go anywhere until it gets dark anyway and we needed a distraction." That was same voice from the woods and I couldn't sworn I heard the other one before.

Dark?

Then I saw it, man, did they have to steal my daylight ring? I really liked it.

Would this finally be enough to get Kol to come back? A more hopeful part of my mind offered. Surely they would've noticed my disappearance by now.

"I don't like this. Klaus will know I was the last one to watch over her. Do you know what he did to Jaime?" That was Amy. So this was her doing.

"Calm down. Think of what you could do when you aren't forced to follow an Original's every order." The woman from the forest spoke again. "You're still a wolf and what kind of Alpha would I be if I let some vampires boss you around."

Okay, I could get myself out of this. Maybe I don't know how to use my new abilities but it couldn't be that hard.

I mean if Damon of all people could do it, then so could I.

Quick as I dared, I tugged against the chains that secured both of my wrists to the floor. They predictably rattled but why did it have to be so damn loud?!

"Oh great, she's awake." Amy ran toward me, stopping just short of the door and fidgeting.

"It's not too late, I saved Jaime." Lie. "I can help you if you get me out."

"He was tortured, I don't think you did much of anything." She scoffed.

Her hands were shaking and the woman from the woods was watching the interaction closely. Alright so we had an audience. "Right, okay I'll give you that, but he's not dead and that's saying something." Up until now I hadn't even known what happened to my friend. Klaus was rather tight lipped about it. "I have his ear, let me go and I won't even say anything. I'll make up some story, he knows I do dumb shit all the time, he'd believe me."

"Or you'd just tell him the truth and get half my pack killed in the process." The woman's eyes flashed dangerously. "And don't try and break those chains, you've got enough vervain in you to make you human."

Werewolf.

A trill of anxiety shot up my spine. "You think I want that? I spent months with your pack, I don't want them to die but they will if Klaus even so much as suspects their involvement in this." I made a vague gesture to the cabin. "Trust me, you do not want him in the vengeful mood."

Jenna flashed through my mind. She'd been one of Klaus' victims last time I upset him.

"How do I know I can trust you? You're their pet newbie vampire."

"First of all, that's offensive, and secondly no I'm not their pet newbie vampire. They're fucking overly protective and dramatic assholes is what they are. I literally just got Klaus to stop being mad at me for something that happened weeks ago and now Elijah's mad and Kol's on a killing spree and Rebekah's gone off to New Orleans to do god knows what. I'm barely keeping up with all their tempers."

Woah.

Where'd that come from?

"If that's true, then we definitely can't trust you."

"I don't actually care if you do, I'm just trying to keep Amy alive. I don't even know who you are." Seems brutal honesty was the route we were going anyway.

"She's right and he'll draw it out too. I've heard rumors that he rips hybrids apart limb from limb while they're still alive." Amy whispered fearfully. "Though none of us have ever lived to tell the tale except for Jaime, but he's in Louisiana."

"See, horribly gruesome death I'm trying to avoid."

"And somehow you're never harmed." The woman crossed her arms. "I still have connections, Klaus hasn't laid a finger on you and neither have any of the other originals."

Remember what Kol said. "Maybe it's just my shining personality." I pulled hard on the chains again but they wouldn't budge. "Bold of you to assume I haven't been harmed by Klaus himself."

Amy rolled her eyes. "When? Was it between your books and sight seeing?" She then threw a hesitant glance around, as if that would be the thing to summon Klaus.

"Try being tied to a tree and forced to watch as he brutally murdered my sister and aunt. He made it some sort of sick punishment." And I still wasn't over it. "Did you miss the times where he near constantly threatened the well-being of my friends and family? Because I sure didn't."

The woman crouched down in front of me. "That's why we need to work together to kill Klaus." When I tried to pull away, she merely grabbed my chin and forced eye contact. "You'll be on the inside, spilling all those secrets he won't even let his hybrids know."

"And if I refuse?"

"I'm sure your vampire friends would hate to have the bite of a hybrid, they don't need the full moon anymore."

So she didn't know Klaus' blood was the cure.

Noted.

"No."