Written 2012 by VeGirl

The alarm on my iphone awoke me with its chiming. I groaned and reached for it on the floor next to Damon's bed. When I didn't find it right away; I reached a little further and fell of the bed. I hit my head in something hard and groaned.

Why had I even put the alarm on, anyway?

"What's going on?!" Anna's voice was loud and clear.

"Anna?"

"Emma?"

We turned the light switch and both realised we were back in our hotel room.

What the hell, this could not be happening again!

Anna's phone chimed. It was a reminder that we were due at the airport in two hours.

"What is this? Why are we in our hotel?" Anna's voice was alarmed.

I whined. "It happened again?"

Anna looked confused at me. "I had this amazing dream that we met the Salvatore brothers and everyone, even Klaus." She started to tell me about events I already knew about. Her expression was puzzled, wondering why I wasn't amazed over the dream.

"And Klaus' brother Kol took you and Klaus and I had to come save you. I know!"

"How do you know about my dream?" She looked confused, but then she deduced. "It wasn't a dream?" We just stared at each other, unable to grip what was happening.

I pulled out my phone and scrolled through my friend's numbers, but neither Damon's, Stefan's or Elena's number was listed in it. My heart just broke, again.

We had to get downstairs to the breakfast room to get something to eat, even if we could hardly get anything down. My stomach was in a knot, but my eyes were all dried out, no tears threatened to fall down my cheek.

Not a single word was shed between us during this horrid breakfast, just confused and despaired looks. We didn't get a word out until we got back in the room again.

"Emma, tell me this wasn't just a dream!"

"Why would I, that's what you told me." I really tried not to sound snarky, but I don't think I succeeded.

I could hear the sadness in my own voice and I saw Anna's eyes fill with tears, which made my own sadness punch a hole in my stomach and I had to bend over and concentrate on my breathing before I could straighten up again. I was thinking about what happened the last time this twisted time-warp fantasy drove me crazy, when all I could do was to crawl into a foetal position on the bed.
This time was worse, this time my heart just stopped.

Feeling all numb, I did my best to pack the suitcase, after a search on the internet like a maniac, to find out that there were no Salvatores living in this little town. No Elena Gilbert, No Caroline Forbes or Tyler Lockwood; there wasn't even a Klaus Mikaelson listed.

This time Damon would not be coming to scoop me up in his arms. This time I had to take the flight home to Sweden. This time it was for real.
I would never see Damon again.

My tears started to fall down my cheeks now but I wiped them away with an angry movement. I had to realize; this time it looked like it was all a dream after all. It looked like I had never met Damon and Alaric in that bar, I had never met Stefan and Elena in the Mystic Grill, and I had never ended up in that idyllic little house by the little lake.

Well, the part about us being able to bring Lexi back from death had seemed to be unreal anyway, hadn't it?

The hotel phone brought me back from my brooding thoughts as the reception called that there was a taxi waiting.

Anna and I hurried to pack the last items and rushed down to the taxi which drove us to the airport. We checked in our bags and I kept looking back, hoping to see Damon rushing up to me until we reached the place of no return.

My heart might have stopped dead in my chest as we walked through the security checkpoint.

I didn't even look at Anna as we walked like two zombies through some of the tax-free shops, while people around us were excited to find bargains on their way to explore a foreign country.

A couple of candy bags, some magazines and sodas were all we bought even though we realized we wouldn't even open them during the flight.

We found our gate in the haze of our minds and sat down in the waiting area. I leaned my head against Anna's shoulder and she put her arm around me. I knew she was sad like me, but she was really my friend, my true friend as she did all she could to ease my pain.

After an hour of purgatory they called our flight number and it was time for us to board the plane.

I looked once again over my shoulder in a last attempt to hopefully see Damon rushing toward me and once again scoop me up in his arms, but I had to give up and with feet heavy as if the world lay on my shoulders I took the last steps in this country. I knew I would never in my life go back here, that would just break my heart and I would surely die.

Our seats were in the middle row but I didn't mind, it was not likely that I would look out in amazement as the plane lifted from the ground, more likely that I would just stare into the seat in front of me for hours to come.

We were in a daze the entire flight home, I can't even remember if the weather was good or bad or who sat next to me besides Anna. We couldn't talk it off; we weren't even able to sleep. It was the longest flight ever in mankind, well, at least that's what it felt like.
We had asked each other several times what was going on, but neither of us had any answers, so we just gave up.

"Was it really just a dream?"

Our eyes met many times throughout the flight with that question, but we had nothing to say. Tears were just filling my eyes and I had to once again blink them away.

I had to leave this reality that I thought would hold my future.

Anger filled my soul as I thought about what I had been robbed of. When I got home I planned to break all of my DVD:s that reminded me of anything vampire or diaries related at all; I thought and angrily wiped my cheeks again from the tears that streamed down.
The next second I knew I could never do anything like that. I would treasure those DVD-boxes like they were made of gold, for that would be the only thing that would make me caught a glimpse of my love ever again.

Eventually, an eternity later, the plane landed, we got our carry-on and got out of the plane. Apparently we had pre-ordered a little something from the tax-free-shop, so Anna and I came walking with bags and plastic bags heading for the baggage-retrieval.

If this was an entire different time, she and I would joke about the word and say it was a new dog breed, the 'Baggage Retriever', related to Golden Retriever, we would come up with qualities specific for this new breed, in a joking mode.

But not today.

Anna went through the pass control, and when it was my turn, the woman inside the glasscreeen was looking grimly at me. She checked and double-checked my passport. I was getting a little nervous; even though I knew everything was in order.

Eventually she gave it back and I could pass.
On the other side stood Anna waiting and I saw a couple of big guys in uniform heading her way at the same time, someone grabbed hold of me and they almost dragged us away as all the closest passengers were looking curiously.

They took us to a room and left us there, we were really confused, but glad we were together, and actually glad it was the Swedish police we had to deal with.

The door opened and our mouths fell open when Kol walked in with a wicked smile. "Did you really think you could get away that easy?"

My heart almost stopped and Anna stared at him with huge eyes as he smiled wickedly at us.
Kol identified himself with something looking like a police ID in a movie when the two policemen walked in and he picked out some sort of paper which said that we were wanted in the state of North Carolina. We tried to protest, and ask what we were wanted for, but the police told us to be quiet.
Our mouths really fell

open when we were being cuffed by the police, brought out to a black SUV and put in the backseat while Kol took his place behind the steering wheel.

"Where are you taking us, Kol?" I intended my voice to be authoritarian, but it was weak after all the stress and draining emotions during this horrific day.

He just looked at me in the rear view mirror with a crooked eyebrow.

My blood started to run cold as I realized how easy we would disappear. The highway down to the south of Sweden and then over the bridge to Denmark would only take a few hours. From Denmark it is really easy to get to the rest of Europe and it would only take hours for him to make us disappear into some east European country where no one would find us again.

"You can't do this, Kol!"

"Oh, can't I?"

"Please Kol; you have to let us go," I begged. "Our families will..."

"This wasn't a dream after all?" Anna's interposing voice was silent and I heard it, but I didn't really register it in the middle of my questioning of Kol's intentions. "This wasn't a dream; this was all real?" She demanded attention. "And now he's kidnapping us?"

"A little melodramatic, since we've already shared a bed together, pet," Kol commented.

Anna gasped, suddenly realising what I had been telling her was the truth.
"Why are you taking us?" she finally asked.

Kol was silent for a while, assumingly thinking about how much to tell us, and then he sighed and started to talk with an arrogant tone. "I'm sure my blabbermouth of a brother already has told you about Annora."

"Yes, but..."

"You are a threat to my life and thanks to your little friend Elena's blood; we could all die, all the originals."

"Yes, but nobody knows but you." I was trying to buy time.

"You know," he stated.

"But what can we do? We don't want Anna to die and besides, nobody here believe vampires exist." I know it was weak arguments, but I had to plead for our freedom with what I had.

"Your Salvatore boys knows," he said and I had nothing more to say.

Were they real in Anna's and my real life too; it seemed to be impossible, with all of these weird things that had been going on with reality's changing and all. I discretely tried to pick my phone from my pocket and glance to see if their names were in my contacts, but nothing. They were still missing.

Suddenly Kol exited the highway and I relaxed a bit; he was not taking us out of the country, which was relieving. But even though we must be in a town nearby, I had not been paying enough attention to where we were. I didn't recognize anything and tried to motion discretely to Anna who didn't know more than me.

He stopped in front of an old industrial building in the outside of the town and got out. He opened the door for us and motioned for us to get out.

It was a little hard to keep the balance with both arms behind the back and I stumbled on the gravelled ground, luckily I managed to stay on my feet though.
He had me by the arm and led us a little too fast, the lack of sleep and the tension of the day took its toll and I tumbled forward, scraping my knees on the concrete floor.

"Hrm..." I heard him moan a bit and saw his face go into vampire mode and I realized my knees were bleeding. Anna looked horrified, but all he did was helping me up and kept going.

He led us to a dark room with no widows and nothing but a couple of beds in. It felt dirty and I started to panic again.

"What are you going to do with us?" I pleaded.

"Perhaps I will just keep you," he said ominously while he took off the handcuffs and then he turned around and left us in this small room locking the door on his way out.

Anna and I hugged each other in silence, we didn't know what to say or do. We couldn't even cry, it felt like we had entered some kind of void between our reality and the one we had been living in for the last fortnight.

We sank down on the bed still clinging hard to each other. There we sat for what felt like an eternity; leaning against the wall behind us and clinging to each other. We didn't even have anything to say to each other, there were no words to comfort us.

Nothing but void.

Eventually we fell asleep and woke up abruptly when the door slammed open with a bang. From the dark we could see Kol's silhouette against the light behind him. Anna and I gripped each other, not knowing what would happen, but knowing it was going to be bad.

Suddenly he just jerked and fell on his knees and forward. Anna and I were startled and grabbed one another in panic. There was another man in the doorway.

As he took a step back, we saw who it was; Klaus.
"Hello my lovelies, let's go back home to Mystic Falls now, shall we."

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I hope you have enjoyed this story, it has been a pleasure to get all these encouraging comments and votes from all of you.

Thank you for that!

The third and final part of this triology is out here on Wattpad now, it's called Chasing Dreams and presents a whole bunch of new adventures for Emma, Damon and all of their friends.

I hope you'll try it out and I hope, I really hope you'll like it.

LOL (That means Lots Of Love, right?)

❤ / Veronica

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