The Original Hybrid

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

October 15th, 1864

Less than one month into being a vampire and I have already almost been killed eight times.

I have now given up on leaving the house. Emily Bennett and Annabelle bring me people to feed on, and Katherine has surprisingly stayed in hiding with me. She says she is only here to help me glide into the transition of going from human to vampire. She was not planning on killing me; only my brothers. So now she feels as if she owes it to them to keep me safe from harm.

 The only problem with Katherine and I staying here in Mystic Falls is that word got around that she killed me the same night as my brothers and father. Yet I stupidly went into town the next day. Now the entire town knows I am a creature of the night, and day thanks to Emily, so the council has been hunting me down, and they are doing a very good job at it! Every so often a wooden bullet will fly through a window or a stake will be placed strategically outside the window to shoot inside while I am getting into bed.

Katherine and I are getting tired of having to watch our every move. She has said that she is leaving as soon as I have gained enough strength to be able to hold her off, and apparently I am already close. I can easily hold off Anna’s attacks and it has only been twenty days of training with the infamous Katherine Pierce.

Both of my brothers have disappeared.  Emily tells me Damon left the night after he turned, but she does not know where he has gone to. A woman appeared at my old home a few days ago and Annabelle saw the woman escorting Stefan to her automobile. I did not get to say goodbye to either of them.  

“That is it!” Katherine screams from downstairs after I hear glass shatter. She appears in my doorway with a wooden bullet lodged inside of her palm. She pulls it out and throws it with so much force that it splits the wood on the bed frame above my head. I resist rolling my eyes at her moodiness.

“We’ve got to find some kind of way to protect you so that I can leave here,” She says and this makes me listen more closely. Find a way to protect me. Is there any way to really do that?

I hear the door open from downstairs so I set my journal on the nightstand and stand up. Katherine and I both race towards the top of the stairs, and I am relieved to see Emily, Annabelle, and someone that I do not recognize. “Dinner time Kariana!” Annabelle calls, apparently not having seen us watching them.

“Emily, we need to talk,” Katherine commands, and both of their heads snap up to look at us. “Now.”

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“How do you never feel any guilt for killing these people, Annabelle?”

She looks up from the book that my father wrote a long time ago and stares at me with a blank expression before setting it down on the table.

“I was raised this way, Kariana. I learned that it is just a part of our life cycle. We hunt, we feed, we kill. It is just in our nature,” Annabelle answers before standing up and grabbing an arm of the now dead man that I just fed on. I haven’t been able to control my cravings, but Katherine says that it will take time.

Suddenly Emily and Katherine have appeared and are helping Annabelle by picking up the body’s limp legs and helping carry him to the pile outside. They all come back inside after a few minutes and sit in the empty seats surrounding me.

Emily is the first to speak. “I know a spell that can protect you from anything, Kariana.”

I am intrigued by what she has to say, so I listen carefully. According to Emily, she knows a spell that can make me immortal, but I will have what she calls an Achilles heel. The only way that anyone will be able to kill me is by removing my head from my body and bringing it far away before it can reattach itself (I did cringe when Katherine explained this part in great detail). Emily described me as being the most powerful creature on Earth, so I must have a fatal flaw. Even if it is a very specific flaw. Anna and Katherine were jumping at the idea, but I was a little bit more hesitant. Emily said that I must be brought to the brink of death so that she can perform the spell, and then I should magically be healed and never harmed again.

“Kari, you will be immortal,” Annabelle tries to convince me, but I shake my head. “But what if I die in the process of trying to become immortal?”

“Look, Kariana. If you do not do this, you will be dead in no time. This entire town is out to get you and I at the moment. I refuse to leave until you are safe. I owe that to your brothers. With this spell, you will be safe for an eternity!” Katherine’s words repeat in my head, but I am still a bit unsure.

“Well, why won’t one of you do it first?”

“You are special, Kariana. I am not sure how, but I can sense it. It is just a feeling, but I think that the spell will only work on you… And Miss Katherine and Miss Annabelle do not need immortality.” Emily sighs when I shake my head again. I open my mouth to protest, but she cuts me off. “Plan B, Miss Katherine.”

Then an all too familiar feeling comes back to me. Katherine’s hand wraps around my neck before I hear the crack, and then everything fades away as I slump back numb in the wooden chair.