When the clock strikes 12 [On Hiatus Indefinitely]

Chapter 9

Elena woke up in an empty room, on the floor. She looked like she had fallen asleep over there and she began to wonder what she was doing over there.

"Stefan? Damon!" She called out to the two people she cared about the most and waited. She strained her ears to hear the sounds or their replies and upon getting none, wondered where they were.

Her head turned to the door as she suddenly hear a pair of footsteps coming her way. As soon as the door opened, she gasped, repulsed by the vile creatures standing in front of her. Stepping back slowly, she looked around, wondering for a way out.

The creatures, however, seemed unaffected but her behaviour and bowed down before her, "Madame."

"Why...what are you doing?" Elena looked at them, confused by their actions.

"We are bowing down before you, the Wicked Witch of the West," they informed her.

"The Wicked..." she almost laughed but the memory of the storm and the book stopped the sound in her neck. Oh, no. She couldn't possibly have been sucked into that book, could she have?

Since she had known that Stefan was a vampire, though, she had accepted that anything thing was possible, no matter how impossible it seemed. So she accepted their explanation, and her own, and gracefully bowed down before them. "What are you here to tell me about?"

"We have captured them," the creatures told her and now Elena was confused. "Captured whom?"

"The intruders," they answered and when Elena didn't reply, they asked, "May we bring them in?"

She nodded her head and decided that since she was going to play her part, she might as well go all out. "Bring them inside," Elena held her head high and proud, her voice echoing through the silent room.

The creatures simply nodded their heads and walked out of the room, just to come in accompanied with familiar faces. She hid her gasp when she recognised who the intruders were. They were her own friends, all of them except for Caroline and Tyler. Those two didn't seem to be with the rest of the group.

Her friends were just as surprised to see that Elena was who these creatures had been calling the Wicked Witch of the West. Most of their eyes considerably widened, but a few seemd to find humour in it.

"Well, if the shoe fits...," Katherine said, and Sherry tried to hide her smile, she really did. The rest of them snickered and Elena raised her eyebrows at them.

"Those creatures outside, consider me a powerful witch, "Elena started to tell them, "You know that I can just call them inside and tell them to kill you right now don't you?"

The laughter quickly died out and the smiles on their faces were replaced by frowns. The group of intruders wondered if the beauty girl standing in front of them really was Elena.

But Elena couldn't continue to stay serious as she took in their horrendous expressions and immediately broke character, bursting into fits of laughter. She saw everybody relaxing, now knowing that she was indeed Elena. "I can't believe how easy it is to fool you guys!"

"You really did have us worried there for a second," Jeremy admitted as he hugged her followed by Stefan who kissed her while Damon politely waited his turn and then came all of her friends. Even Katherine mentioned how glad she was that they'd finally found Elena, it meant that they could all get out of this horrible place.

"What about Caroline and Tyler?" Elena asked them all, "Where are they? Are they here? Did you find them?"

She noticed the glances being passed from one person to another and knew that the answer that she was going to get wouldn't be good.

"You wouldn't believe us if we told you," Damon finally responded.

"I just found out that we got pulled into the book that we read every day and that I am the Wicked Witch of the West. Humour me," Elena stated.

"Alright," Damon looked over at Stefan who nodded his head to tell Damon to continue. He looked back at Elena and shrugged, "Just don't say I didn't warn ya."

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