Two months had passed since Stefan and Bella had disappeared, but that wasn't the only heartbreak everyone had felt. John had been involved in a car accident and died. Jenna had been killed by a hunter while she was out hunting.

Elena couldn't escape the tragedy that seemed to surround her. She had been trying to stay afloat and focus all her energy on finding Stefan, but according to Damon each lead she had was a dead end.

Except Damon was lying; each lead he found and checked out was evidence that Bella and Stefan had been there due to Stefan's signature and Bella's scent. He didn't want to tell Elena that it was Stefan who was committing these horrendous crimes since all the while she believed it was Klaus. He wanted to find Bella and Stefan, but they always seemed to be a step ahead of him

.*.*.*.*.*.

In the course of the two months they had joined Klaus, Bella and Stefan had lost a part of themselves…the humanity in them. Stefan would feed so hard he would blackout and rip apart his victims and then he would feel remorse and put them back together. Bella tortured people to get what Klaus wanted; Klaus realized early on that his daughter was more creative than he was and used that to his advantage. Bella and Stefan were the perfect muscle for Klaus; better than any witch or vampire he worked with.

With Bella enjoying the torture she did and Stefan being a full-fledge ripper, there was something that invaded their bodies and after their task was done a heat would burn and the only way to cool it was with sex. Klaus had termed it Bloodlust sex; he thought it was clever seeing as by the time they were done with their duties they were covered in blood and still felt a thirst. There was nothing sweet in the act as it had been with Elena or Damon…this was pure animalistic dominance. The closest a human could compare it to would be a drug filled haze of sex, but that was minor to bloodlust sex. It was only after they had calmed that they felt any remorse but that was short lived; Klaus knew they felt this and he made sure they were occupied again with someone else to hunt.

.*.*.*.*.*.

"Where are we heading?" Bella asked, standing next to the car as Klaus walked towards her.

"Near the border my dear," Klaus said and stroked her cheek, "Care to join him?"

"I'm full actually," Bella said and looked away.

Klaus knew what was happening and dropped his voice low, "If you want me to stay away from them, I suggest you go in there and help."

Bella eyed him defiantly for a minute and then pushed herself off the car and walked toward the house.

Klaus pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number.

"Yes sir?" A timid female said, answering on the first ring.

"Have you found anything yet?" Klaus snapped.

"Not yet," the woman replied, "We're working on it."

"Well work faster." Klaus hissed, "She's pulling away too much and I can't keep her occupied all the time."

"We will sir I promise." The girl said and Klaus hung up.

.*.*.*.*.*.

Bella walked into the house and found a blonde girl bloody and ripped. She sighed, stepped over the body, and followed the screams that came from the next room.

"Stefan," Bella said, crossing her arms. "Is there any place in here that doesn't have blood on it?"

Stefan stopped feeding and smiled a bloody smile and dropped the other girl who was still alive.

He walked purposefully towards Bella, "Oh come on, it isn't that bad…yet." Stefan raised a blood finger and traced it over her bottom lip, "Join me…she's delicious."

Bella was fighting an internal battle…give into her animalistic side or stay in control. She had been able to stay in control for a little while and it was slowly building up, but her animalistic side was too strong. She licked the blood off the bottom of her lip and gave in.

.*.*.*.*.*.

Elena walked into the Salvatore house.

"Morning," Damon said, appearing behind her in a towel.

"I see Andie's here." Elena sighed and narrowed her eyes disapprovingly.

"I get lonely." Damon said shrugging.

Since Stefan and Bella had disappeared Elena and Damon had been butting heads on not only finding them but Andie as well. Elena was extremely pissed the first day she came here a week after they disappeared to find Andie in bed with Damon. She couldn't wrap her head around the whole scenario and it only pissed her off.

"Caroline's mom found another lead." Elena said, handing him a piece of paper. "Tennessee."

"Don't you mean another dead end," Damon said, pouring himself a glass of bourbon.

"This could be a break." Elena said annoyed.

"You're right Elena this could be the break, the one that tracks them down." Damon said condescendingly.

"Ya know what if you don't want to check it out then I'll go." Elena said and headed for the door.

Damon blurred in front of her and snatched the paper from her hand, "No, too dangerous." He said and headed for the stairs, "Besides don't you have a party to get ready for?"

Elena left and Damon came back to his room where Andie was getting dressed. He opened his closet door and there taped on it was a map with newspaper clippings and reports.

"Another lead?" Andie asked.

"Yep, in Tennessee. Care to go for a road trip?" Damon asked.

"Tempting, but I can't…work, but I can maybe get you an address." Andie replied and left.

"What are you two doing?" Damon asked himself as he looked at the map and then shut the door.

.*.*.*.*.*.

"So we are here why?" Bella asked stepping out of the car.

"We are here to see a wolf." Klaus said, smiling as he walked into the bar.

Bella and Stefan followed and compelled the rest of the customers to pay no mind to what they were doing and once that was done they joined Klaus at the bar.

"Allow me to introduce my associate and my daughter, Stefan Salvatore and Bella Swan." Klaus said as they joined him, "This is Ray Sutton and he is going to tell us where his pack is."

"The hell I am," Ray said standing up.

Stefan placed his hand on Ray's shoulder and pushed him back down into his seat.

"Ray you don't wanna do that." Stefan said.

"Stefan and Bella have already compelled everyone in the bar." Klaus said smiling.

"Now we can do this the easy way which is you just tell us now where they are or we can do this the hard way and my dangerous beauty here," Stefan said smiling and grabbed Bella's hand and kissed, "Has some extremely creative ways of making you talk which all involve Wolfsbane."

"Which will it be?" Klaus taunted and Ray swallowed hard.

.*.*.*.*.*.

Three hours later, Ray was strapped to the wall and Stefan was throwing darts at him soaked with wolfsbane.

"Make this easy on yourself Ray," Stefan said as he pulled a dart out.

"I'm getting bored." Bella said with a sigh, "Can we get on with it."

"Patience my daughter," Klaus said from across the room, "Have another drink."

Suddenly a woman approached Klaus and started talking to him, "Sir you told me to let you know if we saw anything suspicious, the Salvatore's older brother was at the house today."

"Thank you," Klaus said, "You keep watching for me."

The woman quickly left the bar and Bella and Stefan blurred to Klaus.

"Damon's on our trail?" Bella asked, narrowing her eyes.

"Yes and he's getting close." Klaus said and looked at Stefan, "Looks like I'll have to take care of him."

"No," Stefan said, "Let me I'll send him a message that will make him back off."

"How can I trust that you'll come back?" Klaus asked.

"I'll go with him," Bella said, "You KNOW I'll come back."

Klaus stared at the two for a moment and sighed, "Fine, but Bella send those other meddlers a message and let Stefan take care of Damon."

"Alright," Bella said.

.*.*.*.*.*.

Elena was trying to enjoy her party, but Jeremy was getting high and she was just having trouble pretending. Damon was calling Andie, but she wasn't answering, Alaric was drinking his pain away and realizing he wasn't a good role model, Caroline was pissed Tyler brought a date, and Matt was trying to deal with everything he had found out.

Elena finally had enough and went upstairs, followed by Caroline.

"Elena you can't do this." Caroline said.

"Do what?" Elena asked.

"Let Stefan consume your life." Caroline said.

"It's not just Stefan," Elena said, "Bella's out there too."

"I know and I miss her too and I'm worried, but we can't just stop living and let finding them consume us. They wouldn't want that." Caroline said.

Elena walked past Damon's door as Caroline continued talking and saw his closet door open and walked in.

"Elena," Caroline said following her, "What's all this?"

"Klaus' victims," Elena said studying the map, "Damon was looking for him."

"Why wouldn't he tell you?" Caroline asked.

"I don't know." Elena said and went down stairs to find Damon.

Caroline continued to look at the map when she heard a creaking behind her, she whipped around and froze.

"Bella," She stuttered.

Bella smiled a wicked smile, "Hello Caroline," she replied.

.*.*.*.*.*.

"Hey have you guys seen Damon?" Elena asked looking at Alaric, Matt, Tyler, and Jeremy.

"He left to go get Andie." Alaric said.

Tyler tensed, "Something's wrong. Where's Caroline?"

"I last saw her upstairs in Damon's room," Elena said.

Tyler started running up the stairs and everyone followed.

"Caroline," Tyler said, seeing Caroline standing still.

"Tyler," she said, tears coming down her face.

Tyler made a move for her, but a voice stopped him.

"Wouldn't do that if I were you Tyler." Bella said from the chair and everyone looked at her shocked.

"Bella," Elena said, "You're here, you're safe. Is Stefan with you?"

"He's talking to Damon." Bella said, "Nice party by the way. Sad I didn't get an invite."

"Why can't Caroline move?" Tyler asked.

"I didn't come here for her; I came here to send you a message." Bella said and stood up, "Let Stefan and I go."

Bella walked over to Caroline and let her wolf side out and bit her. Caroline screamed and then Bella threw her out the window.

"Don't worry the party guest are compelled." Bella said.

Tyler made a move, but Bella caught him by the throat, "Not the wisest move pup." She said and threw him into the wall.

She attacked Alaric next and snapped his neck along with Jeremy's too. She then knocked Matt out and that just left Elena.

"Bella, why are you doing this?" Elena asked, "We're friends and you care about Damon."

Bella blurred and pinned Elena to the wall, "TO make a POINT; Let Stefan and I go. Don't look for us, don't wait for us to come back because we aren't going to." Bella said and pushed some of Elena's hair behind her ear, "You know I feel sorry for you, Stefan had to hold back with you, but he doesn't have to with me. I know a side of him that you will never know and let me tell you, it's euphoric. Take my advice Elena otherwise the next time I come back….heads are gonna roll. You've already lost your parents, Isobel, John, Jenna do you really want Jeremy to be next?" Elena didn't reply and Bella smiled, "Didn't think so. Enjoy your party Elena and remember since it is your party you can cry if you want to."

Bella jumped out the window she threw Caroline through and saw her on the ground withering in pain. Her werewolf toxin worked faster than Klaus' did. Suddenly a small part of Bella came back remembering this was her friend, someone she had saved and she bent down next to her.

"I'm sorry Caroline," Bella said and bit her wrist forcing her blood into Caroline's mouth and her bite healed. "Take my advice and stay away."

"Bella," Caroline said standing up, "Let us help you."

Suddenly Caroline watched Bella's eyes change back to the cold hard blue stones they were and she grabbed Caroline.

"I don't need any help Caroline." Bella said and threw her into the house.

Bella disappeared into the woods and about two miles from the boarding house she stood by a mustang waiting.

"Took you long enough," Bella said as Stefan came into view. "Was the message delivered?"

"Perfectly clear." Stefan said and kissed Bella hard.

They drove back to Tennessee and walked back into the bar.

"You two are back." Klaus said.

"Did you doubt us?" Stefan asked.

"No," Klaus said, "You still feel for your brother."

"I feel nothing." Stefan replied and downed a drink.

"You never stop caring about family." Klaus said and walked back over to the pool table where Ray was strapped down.

.*.*.*.*.*.

Stefan walked out of the bar and Bella followed.

"Stefan," She said following him down the road a bit.

Suddenly Stefan turned and wrapped his hand around Bella's throat and pinned her to a tree nearby, "DID YOU HURT HER?" Stefan hissed, his fangs bared.

Bella allowed her fangs out as well and moved, pinning him to a tree. "No," she said as she felt her humanity coming to the surface as did Stefan. "I told her to stay away. I didn't do any permanent physical damage. What did you do to Damon?"

"I killed Andie," Stefan said.

Bella released him and stepped back as Stefan slumped to the ground.

"I can't stop, but I don't want to anymore, but if I don't keep going he'll kill them." Stefan said.

Bella sat down next to him, "You know this won't last long." She says and pulls out her phone. "We need to hold on to our humanity as much as possible until we figure a way to get away from him." She gives him the phone and stands up, "I'll buy you some time."

"What am I supposed to do?" Stefan asked.

"Call a birthday girl who's missing you; like I said this feeling won't last long." Bella said and blurred back to the bar.

About ten minutes later Stefan appeared back in the bar and walked over to Bella and Klaus.

"Care if I borrow her for a minute?" Stefan asked Klaus and nuzzled Bella's neck.

"I think we're done here for the night." Klaus said wiping blood from his mouth, "Why don't you kids go paint the town…I would suggest the color red."

Stefan and Bella walked outside and after they were a few miles away Stefan stopped, "Now it's your turn." He said handing her the cellphone.

Damon walked into the house and up to his room where Elena was waiting for him;

"Why did you lie to me?" Elena asked angrily.

"Not now." Damon said walking pass her.

"Answer me Damon," Elena said, "You knew this entire time that these were Klaus' victims, but you kept telling me they were all dead ends."

"Wake up Elena," Damon snapped, "These aren't Klaus' victims there Stefan and Bella's."

"Stefan's," Elena repeated.

"Yea and he added one more to the list tonight." Damon said.

"Who?" Elena asked.

"Andie." Damon replied.

"Bella came here while you were gone." Elena said, "She told us to let them go and stay away."

"I got the same message from Stefan so just give it up Elena; Stefan and Bella are gone and they are not coming back." Damon said.

"They aren't gone." Caroline said coming in, "Bella healed me before she left and when I looked into her eyes it was her."

"You see Stefan they are still in there somewhere they just need our help." Elena said.

"Whatever," Damon said, "Get the hell out."

Caroline and Elena left leaving Damon who started to drown his pain in brandy.

Ring, ring, ring,

"Who is it and what do you want?" Damon asked harshly.

No one replied.

"Look if this is some kind of prank I will find you and rip your heart out." Damon sneered. He heard a small laugh; a familiar laugh. "Bella," he said, "Bella is that you?"

No reply.

"Bella," Damon choked.

"I'm sorry," Bella said, "Let me go Damon; we did this for you all."

"Come back," Damon said, "Please come back."

"I can't." Bella said.

"I'll find you. I promise and you know I always keep my promises." Damon said.

The line went dead.

A/N: Alright you all here you go the first chapter of the sequel. Does it live up to what you were hoping for?

I'm warning you now this chapter is going to be a bit darker and more adult so this is your one and only warning. If you don't like that or oppose it I suggest you don't read further than this chapter.

Thank you to my wonderful Dark-Supernatural-Angel for helping me out with this and my other stories. If you guys haven't checked it out yet she made a video for Buried Secrets 1 and it is amazing so I suggest you check it out. Here's the link;

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