Anastasia's Story

Chapter 30

A/N: I just want to apologize for taking so long to update and tell you all not to assume ANYTHING when you read this. I don't want to get yelled at next chapter!This is a very short chapter but it is intense and is a central part in the Klaustasia relationship. Now please enjoy and vote.

Chapter 30

I was in so much pain that the screams came out more desperate and soon they didn't even come out at all. My eyes widened as I saw the amount of blood pooled on the floor. I wanted to pass out but Carmine had other plans- more cutting. I was so exhausted I wanted to give up and stop screaming pointlessly but I knew that it was my fight that would help me survive this.

"Maybe he'll show up and kill you willingly. He does have a thing for blood." She smiled inches away from my face as she leaned in to intimidate me. She licked the blood off of her knife and grinned. "Yum." I cringed.

I looked at her straight in the eyes and butted my head against hers and lunged as quickly as I could. My head was throbbing but my adrenaline began pumping as soon as I saw her angrily try and get up, I saw the knife inches away out of the corner of my eyes and reached for it, but my body was fighting me- it was in no shape to be pulling this off after hours of torture. I gritted my teeth and my tied up arms reached for the knife, fumbling for it and then finally grasping it. I immediately noticed Carmine on her upper arms about to push herself to stand back up. I swung my leg out and sweeped her, her head knocked into the stone wall and I knew now was the window of opportunity I had been waiting for. I used the knife to saw carefully through the ropes binding my torso to the wooden chair.

As I was about to begin cutting the ropes off of my hands I heard a moan of pain as Carmine started to wake up. I struggled to slip my legs through the space between my arms but it was worth it. Now my arms were in front of me as I stood up with the knife to face a very angry Carmine. I knew I was no match for her but she didn't have the kind of anger and determination that I had right now. She was a cold person whose only reason to live was revenge and I was a girl with a man who loved her, a family, and a currently bottomless need for survival. She ran at me and tried to get the knife from me. I tried elbowing her off of me but she was too strong so I saw her thigh and just stabbed- hard. I heard her huff of pain in my ear as she pushed me onto the ground and punched me in the face when I tried to get up. I was completely disoriented but I wasn't giving up that easily so I used all of the energy I had to stand up and run at Carmine to get that knife back but I had seriously miscalculated.

I looked down to my abdomen where she had slashed at me with the knife. I could barely stand anymore and I leaned on the stone wall. Carmine was about to come and try and tie me back up when the sound of footsteps caused her head to whip around in anticipation.

"I'm here for Anastasia. I brought what you asked for." I heard Klaus' confident voice in the silent room. I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach- I didn't want Rebekah to have to be sacrificed for me.

Klaus came into view as Carmine tried standing up straighter to deflect attention from her gashed thigh. "Forgive me if I don't take your word for it" she snidely remarked as she walked over to the coffin and opened it.

Just then, Rebekah jumped out of the coffin, apparently she had not been daggered by Klaus. As soon as Carmine realized what was going on she backed up towards me. Rebekah and Klaus were staring her down like predators about lunge at their prey but a faint smile appeared on Carmine's face.

"I would give anything to kill you Klaus, but you and I both know that I simply don't have the power to do that. I do, however, have the power to kill the love of your life as you did mine." Carmine glanced at me and then back at Klaus with a look of victory on her face.

As soon as Klaus heard this he flew towards her ready to snap her neck but he hit a forcefield of magic closing off my torture chamber from the rest of the basement building. He looked down angrily at the opaque purple separating him from me. The power she had stolen from her sister had in fact been put to good use.

She continued taunting him. "Do you see that gash on Anastasia's abdomen?"

Klaus looked worriedly at me but I reassured him, "Don't worry it's not fatal." I was applying pressure to the blood coming out of my flesh wound.

As soon as I said this Carmine turned around and threw the knife at me, piercing me straight in the abdomen just right of the gash. "But that is." she said wickedly as she turned back around to Klaus.

He was furiously trying to get through the forcefield as Rebekah softly pulled him back. "No!" he screamed, pain evident in his eyes.

"Now you know how I felt." Carmine looked at him with more hatred than I'd ever seen before.

Carmine began chanting something and slowly the opaque purple disappeared and as soon as that happened Rebekah and Klaus flew into the room. Rebekah snapped Carmine's neck as Klaus ran to me.

"You bitch." Rebekah uttered at Carmine's dead body.

Klaus had ripped the ropes off of my hands and was now cradling my head in his hands. His face just dropped as he saw the layers and sheer amount of tiny cuts in my skin, the dried blood in my hair and on my clothes, the slashes on my back, and the knife in my torso. My eyes were beginning to shut but he slowly kept talking me out of it, begging me to stay with him and not die.

He tried feeding me his blood but it was probably too late. My body was too far gone and the fatal stabbing had my body spent. The vampire's blood entered my bloodstream far too late and I could guess that I would die before it had a chance to heal me.

"What does this mean?" Rebekah asked slowly.

"I think it means she's going to be one of us." he remarked quietly as I fell asleep in his arms.