↳-Hard Times -༉‧₊˚✧

Valerie, Lexa and Caroline take me downstairs in the basement. After they explained that Danie turned off her humanity, I figured she would embrace her ripper side. Again because I couldn't stay back and had to get revenge on that little piece of shit. We reach the cell door and I see her placed on the bed. She's sleeping now. Lexa opens the cell door and approaches her with a syringe.

"What are you doing? I think she has enough in her system"I tell her realizing that it has to contain vervain.

"You never saw your daughter in action while she's full on ripper. Trust me it's safer for everyone if she's as weak as possible"Lexa tells me and injects my daughter who lightly tries to squirm away. God, I hate seeing her like this.

"Can I have a moment?"I ask the girls and they nod going back upstairs while I enter her cell and sit next to her on the bed. I stroak her blond hair and get some out of her face.

"Hey baby, I'm sorry"I start and squeeze her hand."I know I never should have left, it was stupid of me that there would be no consequences but know this my little baby I will do anything to get you back" I tell her and leave the cell locking it behind me.

Upstairs we're all discussing how tu turn back her humanity.

"Guys maybe if she sees her dad it will just snap back, like when you saw your mom" Caroline says but I don't think that's it.

"But she knows I'm alive it was a shock because I thought she died" I say back.

"Okay then we will think of something else okay. Nut we are saving Danie" Caroline says and I smile glad that she likes her.

"I might have a good idea" Lexa tells and we all listen to hear what she has to say.

After she told us what she's planning we hear a silent groan coming from downstairs. I sped downstairs and saw that na baby had her eyes open. There was a moment of joy in her eyes and I could swear I saw her lips turn up into a smile before it disappeared.

(When I was writing this part I couldn't get out the song Saturn from my head so listen to it while you read if you can)

"Get out of my head Lexa. It won't work this time"She tells Lexa thinking she's inside her head. I want to reassure that she isn't and that it's me, the real me and not some conjured up version of me. Watch as Danie breathes on the makeshift bed. I know she's hurting right now and I know she doesn't care but I still do.

"Get. Out" Danie says her voice full of rage and violence. I wipe away the tear that escaped my eyes. This was the plan, to let her think that Lexa's inside her head. I hate it. I hate it so much but what other choice do we have? Let her kill others so that she's consumed by guilt for the rest of her immortal life? Why is it so hard to love someone?

When I get upstairs I'm met with a worried face from Caroline.

"Stefan you don't have to pretend you're okay" She tells me and embraces me. I bury my face into her neck as I let out a few quiet sobs that only she hears. I hate it. I hate that she's suffering. I hate that I caused it and most of all I hate that I can't help her. Caroline keeps going through my hair with her hands trying to calm me down she keeps telling me to let it out. Because the longer you hold it in the bigger the explosion. And I feel like I might explode.

Lexa told us to inject Danie with a vervain syringe every 2hours to keep her weak but that seems cruel also wouldn't that be too much? Too much vervain can get a vampire killed. So instead we switched it with Caroline a little to every 4 hours. I injected Damon with one dose of vervain and he was out for 3 days. When it's Caroline's turn to go downstairs, I go with her. She opens the cell but instead of seeing my daughter laying on the makeshift bed, it's empty. What!? How is that possible? I see Caroline getting her neck snapped and a wooden stake probably ripped from the bed goes through my stomach. My breath gets got up in my throat as I try to process what's happening.

"So it really is reality. Huh. Well I guess this isn't the welcome you've expected" She tells me and runs off and I fall back with the stake deep in my stomach. I can feel the splinters moving inside everytime I move. One wrong move and one of them is gonna take a stab into my heart. I don't even know how long I was starring at the ceiling of the cell or if I didn't pass out but the next thing I know is that I hear Caroline's voice.

"Stefan!?" She shouts when she sees me. She runs to me and grabs the stake as I brace myself for the pain that is about to come. "Just try to stay still I'm gonna get this out" She tells me trying to calm me down. Well not the furst time I'm in a situation like this. She rips the stake out and groan and breathe heavily. She lets out a breath before realizing there might be splinters. "Do you feel a splinter in there?" She asks me and I nod answering. "Yes"

"Okay, I'm gonna get them out. Hold on a little longer" She keeps telling me these soothing things like it's gonna take away the pain. And I have to admit at one point I did get lost in her dreamy voice. It was like a lullaby gently singing me to sleep. And I was like a tired child who wants to let go and cuddle into the blanket. Hearing her voice was like listening to an angel talk. Her beautiful blond hair was in her face that even this moment wasn't all filled with worry but with love too. My eyes seem to have gotten very heavy and I start to close them when my angel's voice brings me back.

"Stefan!? Hey Stefan! You have to stay awake. I promise it'll be over soon" She tells me and keeps searching for the splinter that is still stuck somewhere in my chest. Suddenly a loud groan escapes my lips and I see Caroline placing a fairly large piece of wood next to her on the ground. I can feel my chest healing meaning there's no more wood stuck in there. "See you did it"She tells me and I smile at her. Then I can't fight it any longer and my eye lids close and the blackness takes over sending me into deep sleep.

Caroline's Pov

"Stefan? Stefan?" I call his name desperately wanting and answer. He looks like he's just passed out. Please let him be just passed out. I can't handle it if he's gone not now not ever. I move him upstairs on the couch and put a blanket over him. He needs rest. Then the realization hits me. Lexa is going to kill us. We are so dead. Before I even have a time to come up with a possible explanation as to why is my boyfriend passed out and why is his ripper daughter missing. Valerie and Lexa return. Not hearing a heart beat from downstairs. Lexa's eyes hold a special kind of anger and disappointment. I hate that word.

"How did she get out?"She asks and I'm about to answer when I realize I don't know what to say. So the only thing that I cant think of is."We should probably wait for Stefan to wake up" Lexan and Valerie look worried for a second. And look over Stefan who's sleeping on the couch with a bloody hole in his shirt.

"Let me guess you underestimated her didn't you?" She asks us sighing and I nod. "We totally did, but in our defense you wanted to pump her every two hours that sounds a extreme"

"Because I know her. Because this exact thing happened 70 years ago in 1930" She screams and runs off probably trying to find Danie.

The next day in the morning Stefan wakes up and he's immediately questioned by Valerie. Talk about worried women. We hear the door open and all of us assume it's Lexa but who we see, is not who expected. Danielle. I thought she would be in New York by now, as far away from here as possible.

"Hello parents" She says and that awfully reminds me of someone that I don't want to think about.

"What are you doing here? You made a pretty good point you don't want anything to do with us when you stabbed me"Stefan says to his daughter who just smirks. "You have no idea how many things I plan to do"

Hey sorry for skipping on an update but I couldn't load the inspiration. Anyway I really hope you like this chapter. Honestly it didn't turn out as bad as I wanted to and even gave a little cliffhanger at the end. 😁. I learned that from my friend usernamelost_x. So blame her😂. For those of you who are still in school hang out last weeks I hope .d for those of you that school ended. Enjoy summer.