Written 2012 by VeGirl

"So tell me about Anna and Annora, already." I was annoyed.

Elijah and Klaus were exchanging looks before they looked at me. "Annora was involved when we got turned into vampires by our mother. We've only spoken of Tatia whose blood we consumed, but Annora was involved in the spell as well," Elijah explained patiently. "It's a little hard to explain how, but Anna might be the key in making us human again."

"What? Why would you want that?" My eyes flickered between the two siblings.

"We don't, but someone else might be able to do it to us..."

"But who would do that? Do you have any enemies?" I felt like some kind of detective-wannabe. Elijah must have thought the same and asked if I was working as a police, with those authoritarian questions.

"When you have lived for a thousand years, you are bound to get enemies." He had a patient smile and his dark eyes were sparkling as usual.

"At least with your personality..." I mumbled and glared at Klaus.

"Emma. We're trying to help you," Elijah reprimanded me and I was a little ashamed about my moody way against his brother.

But just a little...

"So, what do we know and what can we do?" I was trying to be practical.

They looked at each other and seemed to decide some silent conversation. "I'm not the one who has her, but I might have an idea... Where is Kol?" Klaus asked Elijah.

"I talked to Finn, maybe three weeks ago, he said Kol was heading back to Europe."

My eyes flickered between them again. "Who are Finn and Cole?"

"Kol!" Elijah corrected. "They're..."

"Acquaintances," Klaus cut in and got a questionable look from his brother.

Okay, they were definitely hiding something, and I was gonna find out! "Explain," I said sharply and they went on and on about some guys from their past and stuff that had happened. I could tell they were lying, but I pretended to believe them.

The most important thing was to find Anna.

"Emma, we'll do what we can, and we'll be in touch as soon as we know anything." Elijah was as respectful and forthcoming as usual. "Why don't you go home and I'll call you when we know."

We got up and took the car to the grill for some food before we got home to the boarding house. It felt like anticlimax to simply go home again, but at the same time I really needed the distraction at home.
Stefan and Elena sat in the study and asked how things had gone and we tried our best to explain what we had been told.

"Really? Anna is the key? No wonder both Rebekah and Klaus freaked out when they saw the photo."

The key?

"So someone could make the Mikaelson's human by sacrificing Anna?" Elena was just as shocked as I had been.

"Sacrificing?" I yelped. "I have no idea how, but she is apparently important enough to kidnap. Who would have thought?"

It was amazing enough that I had popped up in this world, and now Anna had appeared. The fact that she was supposed to be some kind of key person in a family that had existed in over a thousand years, that was just too weird.

"Annora seems to be Anna's ancestor," I said with a sigh, but we had already discussed it.

I got a phone call from Elijah when Damon was downstairs to get something to eat; or to drink, more correctly. He met me in the hallway. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to find Anna. Elijah and Klaus are taking me," I simply stated.

"I'll come with you."

"I'm sorry; I have to go on my own."

"You're not going anywhere with them!"

I looked into Damon's eyes and they told me he was afraid for my safety.
"I have no choice."

"I beg you not to go."

"I must... don't you get it?" I was devastated and pleading.

His expression changed to angry. "Then I forbid you!" he pressed his lips so hard together, that they were twisting and jerking.

"You can't forbid me! You don't own me!" Now I was getting mad. Good, it would be easier to go if I was mad.

"Emma, you could get hurt and I can't bare it! You know why? Because I love you!" He had my face delicate in between his hands. "I haven't said that a lot in my life... or after..."

How could he say that? How could he feel that, I didn't belong in this life. I was still upset that he wanted to hinder me from finding Anna, and blurted out; "Didn't you say that to Elena, just a few weeks ago?"

I regretted the words as soon as they came out and I saw him flinch. His longing and loving expression left his face immediately and he turned cold like a mask. He just turned and walked out on me.
"Damon, I'm sorry!" I shouted at his back, but he didn't stop.

Oh, crap! Now I'd really hurt him.

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