The Little Lockwood

Seven

EDITED

Elijah looks around as we walk up the stairs and into the main entry way by another grand stair case,

"Rose..."

Rose snaps back again her eyes angry at Elijah,

"I don't know who it is!"

Stefan's whisper is soft but we all hear it,

"Up here."

Elijah goes up the stairs with his super speed.

Damon comes from behind us and Stefan does too,

"Down here."

Elijah receives a stake in his hand from out of nowhere. He removes it hastily. Elena and Rose have disappeared from both of my sides, leaving me out alone with Elijah in the entry way. Elijah sees me standing alone and I shrug once, very unsure of what the Salvatore's have planned for our rescue.

Elijah walks back down the stairs towards me and grabs my arm, his grip firm,

"Excuse me. To whom it may concern, you're making a great mistake if you think that you can beat me. You can't. Do you hear that?"

In the other hand he breaks a wooden coat rack and turns the sharp end around and presses it into my back,

"I repeat, you cannot beat me. So I want the girl, I'm gonna count to three, or Debria will die. Do we understand each other?"

My heart thuds quickly, I try to transform but only my claws come out of my fingertips. I retract them and sigh in defeat. Annoyed at the wolfsbane inside of me. I wouldn't die from a stake to the heart but it would severely hurt and my healing process would suck from the wolfsbane.
Elena appears at the top of the stairs and we make eye contact, she's scared and crossing her arms suspiciously.

Elena pleads with him,

"I'll come with you, just please don't hurt my friends, they just wanted to help me out."

He goes up the stairs with his super speed leaving me alone now. He has the stake in his hand.

"What game are you playing with me?" Elijah questions her harshly.

She throws the vervain bomb she was hiding, in her crossed arms, in his face. It explodes loudly. His skin burns with the poison but he heals almost immediately. He goes toward Elena but Stefan arrives and shoots him with the compressed air weapon. It doesn't hurt him, Elijah takes all the stakes to the abdomen with ease, so Stefan throws the weapon and rushes at Elijah and tackles him.

They fall down the stairs by my feet and Damon yanks me out of harms way from wherever he was hiding. Elijah gets up immediately but Stefan stays on the floor in pain. He goes toward Stefan but Damon comes up at him from behind and stakes Elijah. He pushes him against the door. Elijah appears dead and is pinned to the door with the stake, dark grey veins crawling up his dead body eerily.

Rose sees it and leaves in a rush of fear and speed. Damon tries to follow her.

Elena stops him,

"Just let her go."

She smiles down at Stefan and goes down the stairs into his arms. They hug each other tightly.

Stefan coos over her and holds her face in his hands,

"Hey, come here. Are you hurt? Are you okay?"

The moment feels very private so I look away.

I look over at Damon who looks at the gentle exchange between the lovers and he shrugs. He sees me looking at him and he smiles at me gently.