Authors Note

First, I would like to congratulate grapejuice101 for winning the title contest and I would also like to thank everyone that entered. You all had amazing titles, it was so hard to choose. Secondly, we finally made it guys! After five long months of waiting we made it to the fourth season of The Vampire Diaries and this season sure started out with a bang. Now here I am, starting my fourth story and I am so excited to see where this season takes us. For those who read my last story Love Is So Poisonous just remember that anything I wrote after The Departed was AU and that this story begins where the show does. Well I'll stop my yapping so you guys can get onto the chapter. Without further ado, I give you Bleeding Heart.

disclaimer I don't own the Vampire Diaries, I only own Audrey and anything else you don't recognize

Chapter One- Growing Pains

Audrey's P.O.V

I woke up with a gasp and found that I was in my room, laying on my bed. I sat up as I felt the bed shift under me and I looked up to see that Damon was sitting at the foot of the bed, leaning towards me.

" Damon?"

" I'm right here." Damon said calmly, " You've been in and out for hours."

" You're alive." I said with a smile before wrapping my arms around him. I let him go before kissing him but he didn't kiss me back. I pulled back and I could tell by the look on his face that something was wrong, " What is it? What happened?"

" You were in an accident." I heard someone say and I looked over by the window to see Stefan

" Oh, my God." I said, looking back at Damon as my memories began to come back , " Matt, is he…"

" Alive?" Damon finished my question in an angry tone, " Ask Stefan, the hero."

" He's fine." Stefan told me

" Thank you." I said with a sigh of relief, " I thought that I…How did you…"

" Save you?" Damon said, " He didn't."

" What?" I asked Damon

" When Jeremy brought you to the hospital before all of this happened, your injuries were worse than anyone knew." Damon explained, " Meredith made a choice. She used my blood to heal you. And when Rebekah ran Matt's truck off the bridge you had vampire blood in your system, Audrey."

" Oh, my God." I said, " Does that mean that I…Am I dead?" Neither brother said a word, " No. No, no, no! That wasn't supposed to happen!"

" Maybe it doesn't have to." Stefan said from across the room, " I talked to Bonnie. She said she's stronger than ever. There might be something that she can do to help you."

"No, the only thing that is going to help is for you to feed and complete the transition." Damon told me

" We have all day until she has to feed, Damon." Stefan said to his brother, " That's a day to exhaust every possible way out of this."

" There is no way out of it." Damon snapped, " We all know the drill. You feed or you die. There is no door number three."

" I was ready to die." I said as tears began to fall down my face, " I was supposed to die. I don't want-I can't be a vampire. If there's something Bonnie can do than we have to try."

" We will." Stefan said as Damon remained silent, " We'll try everything."

" It's your choice, Audrey." Damon said angrily, " As always."

Without another word, Damon got off the bed and walked out of the room with Stefan right behind him.

After Damon and Stefan had gone downstairs I got out of my bed and went to stand in front of the big mirror hanging on the wall. My head was pounding, my gums hurt, and on top of everything I could hear this high-pitched buzzing sound coming from my lamp. I looked at my teeth in the mirror but they looked the same as before. The pain in my head got worse as the buzzing noise continued. As I looked at the lamp something caught my eye and I looked up to see Jeremy and Elena standing by the door.

" Jer, Elena." I said before running over to them and hugging them both

" Are you okay?" Jeremy asked, " I watched Vicki go through this." As he was talking I could still her the buzzing and I turned to look back at the lamp, " She was a mess. Her emotions were all over the place. All of these old memories came flooding back."

" I'm fine." I assured him, turning to face him and Elena again, " I'm not Vicki."

" No, you're not. You're you." Elena began, " You act okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."

" I said I'm fine, okay?" I snapped and her, " I'm sorry. Have either of you talked to Bonnie?"

" Yeah." Jeremy said, " She said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirits to bring me back. And they listened."

" Yeah but the consequences were horrible." I reminded him

" And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire?" Elena asked

" We need our cousin, Audrey." Jeremy said, "Not another one of them."

" We're going to find away out of this." I told them, " Everything's going to be okay."

" I hope so." Jeremy said before he and Elena walked out of the room

As soon as they were gone the buzzing from the lamp got louder. I walked over to the lamp, pulled off the shade and crushed the light bulb with my hand, which finally stopped the buzzing.

Third Person P.O.V

" Audrey doesn't want to be a vampire." Matt said to Caroline while the two were standing in his hospital room

" She doesn't want to be dead and she's not. This isn't your fault, Matt." Caroline told her friend

" This is all my fault." Matt snapped, " I was driving. I was saved. She's a vampire because of me."

" Shh! Cool it on the 'V' word." Caroline said quietly, " I'm a fugitive, remember? I'm supposed to be halfway to Florida by now."

" If the councils after you then why are you here?" Matt asked the blond

" Because I don't know where to go." Caroline said sadly, beginning to cry, " Tyler's dead, and everything's different now."

Matt wrapped his arms around Caroline, trying to comfort her. As they were hugging Caroline hear someone coming towards the room and used her vampire speed to get out of the room. Suddenly a man burst through the door and looked around the room only to find Matt.

" Can I help you?" Matt asked the man

" Sorry." The man said before looking around the room one more time, " All good here." he said into a walkie-talkie as he left

After leaving the hospital, Caroline went back to her house to grab some things before she hit the road. As she was walking towards the front door, her phone began to ring and she quickly answered it.

" Mom! Hey." Care answered

" Caroline, where are you?" Liz asked her daughter, " And tell me it's far away"

" Where am I? Good question." Caroline said as she walked out the front door, " Uh, just a whole lot of boring highways. Why? Is everything okay?"

As she turned around to lock the door, Caroline was ambushed by one of the council members who stuck a syringe full of vervain in her neck.

" Caroline, what's going on?!" Liz yelled over the phone

Audrey's P.O.V

Stefan, Aurora, and I sat around the kitchen table. I picked up a sandwich that Stefan had made me ,took a bite of it and found it to be the worst this that I had ever eaten.

" It's disgusting." Stefan said, seeing the look on my face

" No." I lied, trying to spare his feeling, " It's um…"

"It's disgusting." Aurora said

" Yeah, I'm gonna puke." I told them before spitting the sandwich out into a napkin, " I never thought I'd be saying this, but I can't stop thinking about blood. Along with some really inappropriate things about Damon."

"I should have saved you first." Stefan said, " You shouldn't be going through with this right now."

" In all reality she probably would be thinking dirty things about Damon anyway." Aurora said, earning a look from Stefan, " Okay, I'll be quiet now."

" If you had saved me, then Matt would be dead." I said to Stefan as he grabbed a drink, "What do you think I would be going I'd be going through then? Stefan, listen to me. You did the right thing." I told Stefan as I got out of my seat, " You did what you always do; you respected my choice."

" And what am I supposed to do if Bonnie can't figure out a way to help you, huh?" Stefan said angrily, " Because then you have another choice to make. Either let yourself die or be a vampire."

" Well, then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." I said seriously. I was silent for a minute before I started to laugh, " Oh my God, did-did I just say 'cross that bridge'?"

" You laughing." Aurora said coming over to me, " I pretty sure you don't actually think that's funny."

" I can't stop though." I told them as I began to laugh harder

" Your emotions are a bit heightened today." Stefan said, then taking in my laughter, "A lot heightened."

I continued to laugh but at some point I began crying. As I was crying, Aurora wrapped her arms around me.

" Hey. It's okay." Aurora said, trying to calm me down, " It's okay."

" I'm sorry." I said as Aurora pulled away

"Listen to me." Stefan said, " No mater what happened, we're here for you. We can help you."

I nodded before I looked out the window, squinting my eyes because the sun was so bright.

" Why don't you back upstairs where it's dark?" Aurora suggested, " We'll clean up."

I began to walk away, holding my hand up to block the sun. I headed up to my room and when I walked into my room I saw Damon sitting by my window.

" Damon, I thought you left?" I said

" Cute PJ's." Damon told me, causing me to look down at the t-shirt and jeans that I was wearing

" I'm tired, Damon." I heard myself say and I looked over towards the bathroom to see myself standing there in pajamas. It was then that I realized this was an old memory from the night after I had been kidnapped by Rose.

Damon stood up and walked over to my pajama clad self before holding up the vervain filled necklace Stefan had giving me two years ago.

" I brought you this." Damon said

" I thought that was gone." the other version of myself said, " Thank you."

I tried to take the necklace from Damon but he pulled it back. Suddenly the memory stopped and Damon and I disappeared. I looked around the room and when I turned back to where I was looking before, the memory continued.

" I just have one thing to say." Damon told me, still holing my necklace

" Why do you have to say it with my necklace?" I asked him

" Because what I'm about to say is probably the most selfish thing I've ever said in my life." Damon said

"Damon, don't go there." the memory version of myself warned him

"No, I just have to say it once." he said, getting closer, " You just need to hear it. I love you, Audrey. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. And why you can't know this. I don't deserve you. You deserve some far better than me."

Then he leaned in and kissed my forehead.

"God, I wish you didn't have to forget this." Damon said, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear, "But you do."

This time the memory disappeared for good as I touched my neck where the necklace used to be.

Third Person P.O.V

Rebekah is standing in the Mikaelson Mansion, looking down at an old picture that Klaus had drawn. As she continued to look at them a few tears began streaming down her face. Suddenly she drops the picture and angrily throws the rest of the pictures off the table. Rebekah quickly wipes the tears away as she hears Damon come up behind her.

" You should know better than to sneak up on a lady." Rebekah told him

" Good advice." Damon said, " Have you seen one?"

" Tragic about Audrey." Rebekah said as she turned to look at Damon, " Not to make a grey cloud greyer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance."

Rebekah turns back to the now empty table and Damon immediately ran at her holding the white oak stake. Rebekah grabbed his wrist just in time to save herself before pushing him back into a dresser, causing Damon to drop the stake. All of a sudden, someone shoot off wooden bullets, effectively hitting Rebekah in the back. Damon got up and ran out of the house while Rebekah was shot again. She turned to look where the bullets were coming from but before she could find the shooter, she was shoot in the heart with a wooden arrow. Rebekah begins to turn gray before she fell to the ground, temporarily dead.

Audrey's P.O.V

I was standing in my room, looking at a picture of me, my mom, and my dad when I heard a crash downstairs.

" Aurora? Stefan?" I said as I walked down the stairs

" Audrey, don't move." Aurora said and I looked up to see her and Stefan surrounded by police officers and Pastor Young.

Third Person P.O.V

Damon was standing in the Gilbert house, picking up things that were knocked over when the Pastor and his goons took Stefan, Audrey, and Aurora, when Liz Forbes enters the house.

" They're gone." Damon informed her, " Whoever nailed Rebekah took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything."

As the two are talking, Meredith walks out of the kitchen and into the living room

" I can't." Liz said, " The council locked Carol and me out of our offices. Files, computers, everything."

" So the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a backup plan, Liz?" Damon snapped

" Damon, relax." Meredith said to him before turning to Liz, " When Caroline called to say she got away; did she know where they were planning to take her?"

" No." Liz replied, " Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape."

" Perfect." Damon said sarcastically, "We've narrowed it down to nowhere."

The trio stopped their conversation when they heard a knock on the door. They look over at the door to see Matt walk in.

" Hey, is Audrey here?" he asked

Suddenly Damon ran at Matt, grabs him by the throat, and pushed him against a wall.

" In what world are you the one that gets to live?" Damon asked him angrily

"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault." Meredith yelled as she tried to pull Damon off of Matt

" Let him go, Damon." Liz ordered him, " Now."

Damon finally let go of Matt and backed away as Matt tried to get his breathing back to normal.

Audrey's P.O.V

I sat at the table of a small house, biting my fingernails, as Pastor Young turned the gas stove on.

" Do you still want to chef?" Pastor Young asked me, " I remember how you would always make some elaborate dinner for my daughter when you'd baby sit. She still loves to cook because of you."

" Why did you bring me here?" I asked him

" My deputies can watch out for us here." Pastor Young explained, " No vampires have been invited in. Look, Audrey, I know it sounds crazy, but years ago it was your parents who were advocating having an emergency plan like this. I never thought we'd actually have to use it."

As he was talking I could her the ticking of the clock across the room and it was even more obnoxious than the buzzing of the lamp. It took every one of restraint I had to not grab the clock and throw it at the wall.

" Audrey?" The Pastor said, " Audrey, are you okay?"

" Where are Stefan and Aurora?" I asked him, composing myself

" They would never hurt me." I told him, " You have no idea what you're talking about."

" Well, I know that wherever you go, Salvatore vampires, usually Damon, seem to follow." Pastor Young said, " You hungry."

" No." I replied sharply

" So, we'll hold Stefan until Damon comes looking for you two." Pastor Young as he began to cook something, " We'll use Rebekah to lure her siblings back into town. You'll give us the white oak stake then we will exterminate the entire vampire race for good."

Then Pastor Young put a giant steak in front of me, I looked down at it and began to breathe heavily.

" Is something wrong? Are you okay, Audrey?"

I looked up at Pastor Young's neck.

" Yeah." I lied as I heard his heartbeat loudly along with the ticking of the clock

" No, I've got to get out of here." I said before getting up and running out of the house

As soon as I got outside the sun blinded me and I tried to shield my eyes and I continued to run.

" Get her." I hear Pastor Young say but I keep running

I stopped when I saw a man standing in front of me and before I could go around him he hit me in the face with the back of a rifle, knocking me out.

Third Person P.O.V

Caroline and Tyler, who was still being controlled by Klaus, were running through the woods after they had just escaped from the Council. Much to Klaus's surprise, Caroline slammed him into a nearby tree and started to make out with him.

" I never thought I'd see you again." Caroline said, when she wasn't busy kissing him, " I don't get it. How are you alive?"

" This is going to sound incredible, but I..." Klaus tried to explain ,but Caroline kissed him again before he could finish, " But..."

Klaus gave up on trying to explain and decided to just go along with the moment. Caroline pushed him up against another tree and continued to kiss Kyler as she helped him take off his jacket and shirt.

" Easy love." Klaus said, " Wrong time, wrong place, wrong equipment."

" But you're miraculously alive." Caroline said, " We're fugitives on the run. All signs point to hot hybrid sex."

Caroline begins to kiss Klaus again, this time removing her own jacket and shirt. After a few moments she stopped and pulled back.

" Did you just call me love?" she asked Klaus

" I don't know, love?" Klaus said with a smirk, " Did I?"

" What the hell did you do to Tyler?!" Caroline asked, pushing away from Klaus

" That's what I enjoy about you." Klaus said, " So much more than a pretty face."

" Oh my God, Klaus. You're disgusting."

" And you're a glorious kisser." Tyler said, earning a slap across the face from Caroline, " Listen, I didn't have to risk exposer to save you."

"Oh, you do one semi-decent thing and now you're my hero?" Caroline said, putting her shirt back on, "Oh, I need to go sanitize my mouth!"

"Your mouth was all over me. I was an innocent victim." Klaus said

" Put Tyler back!" Caroline told Klaus

"Gladly. Then maybe I'll take you up on your offer of hot hybrid sex." Klaus said before attempting to walk away

" That's never going to happen, Klaus." Caroline said, stopping Klaus, " Especially after what happened to Audrey."

" I'm not the one to blame." Klaus said, facing Caroline again

" Yes, you are." Caroline said, " You could have just left her alone and none of this would have happened."

" Just collateral damage, love." told her before walking away

Bonnie, Elena, and Jeremy are in the basement of the old witch house, Bonnie chanting some spell while Elena and Jeremy pace back and forth.

" The spirits aren't listening." Bonnie told the siblings when she finished chanting

" Was that it?" Elena asked her friend, " Is that all we can do?"

" There's something else I could try." Bonnie said

" What? Do it." Jeremy said

" If the witches won't help me save Audrey, then maybe I can go to the Other Side and get her myself." Bonnie said, getting to her feet

" The Other Side?" Elena said, " The Other Side is for dead people."

" She's still in transition." Bonnie began to explain, " Not fully dead, not fully alive. Maybe her spirit still exists on both sides."

" Even if it does, how can you get there?" Jeremy questioned the which, " You're not dead."

Bonnie didn't say anything and Jeremy and Elena realize what she means.

" No!" Jeremy said, " No, Bonnie."

" I was able to stop your heart to stop Klaus'; I'll do the same thing to myself. Witches have free reign on the Other Side. I will find Audrey and I will bring her back with me."

" Assuming you wake up!" Elena snapped

" I'm stronger now." Bonnie argues, " I found a new source of power."

" A new source of power?! What kind of power is going to let you kill yourself and bring someone back with you from the dead."

" Do you want Audrey back or not?" Bonnie snapped and neither Gilbert said a word

" With your vervain and Alaric's weapons; they could be anywhere." Liz said to Damon, back at the Gilbert house

" Come on guys, think." Damon said, " It takes a lot to hold a vampire. Reinforced steel, iron doors."

" The Pastor has a cattle ranch." Matt remembers and all eyes are on him, " Those pens could easily be modified."

" It's remote, it's secluded." Meredith adds

" Well, guess what?" Damon says to Matt, " Looks like you get a chance to prove how sorry you really are. Lets go."

With that, Damon and Matt leave the house.

Audrey's P.O.V

When I came to. I looked around and saw that I was in some kind of cage. I sat up, holding my head which was pounding again.

" I thought I killed you." Rebekah said from the cage across from me

" Where am I?" I asked

" They thought you were a vampire so they stuck you in here with us." Rebekah said in her usual bitchy tone

" Where are Aurora and Stefan?" I asked her

" Over her." I heard Aurora say from the cage to my right

" Audrey, I'm right here." Stefan said from my left

" Are you okay?" Aurora asked me

" I didn't feed." I told her

" Ahh, I see what's going on her." Rebekah started, " You died with vampire blood in your system and you didn't feed and now you're locked up in here without a single drop of human blood in sight. That is a problem."

" Just ignore her." Stefan told me

"Has anyone done the math or shall I? I'd say that you've got less than three hours to feed before I get to watch you die all over again."

I tried to break through the bars but I was way to weak. After a minute or so I just gave up.

" My day just got a whole lot better."

Third Person P.O.V

Bonnie and Jeremy are sitting on the floor, hand in hand, as Bonnie started chanting a different spell. Elena is standing next to them when they begin to hear the witches spirits whispering. Jeremy and Elena looked at Bonnie to see her nose bleeding.

" Oh my God." Elena said as Bonnie continued her spell

" Bonnie. Bonnie, open your eyes." Jeremy begged her but she didn't listen to him, " Bonnie, we can't let you do this! Bonnie, you're dying!"

Bonnie's chanting got louder as black veins began to appear on her arms.

" What the hell is that?" Elena asked her brother

Bonnie starts hyperventilating before falling to the ground. Jeremy ran to her and checked her pulse but she has none.

" Bonnie, no!" Elena yelled, " Bonnie! Bonnie, wake up! Bonnie! Wake up!"

Audrey's P.O.V

" Audrey." I hear someone say and I slowly look up to see Bonnie

" Bonnie?" I ask her in confusion, " What are you doing here?"

" You can see me?" Bonnie asked in shock ,kneeling down in front of me

" Yeah." I told her

" I think your friend has lost it." Rebekah said to Stefan and Aurora, " She's talking to herself."

Bonnie takes my hands in hers and pulls me to my feet.

" Aurora, something's happening." I called out to Aurora

" We're going home." Bonnie told me

" No!" someone said from behind me, causing Bonnie to let go of me and I fell to the ground, too weak to stand.

I turned to look who was talking to see Ms. Shelia.

" Grams?" Bonnie asked, " What are you doing?"

" You can't be in here." Shelia told her, " You stay away from this sort of darkness."

" Audrey needs me." Bonnie said

In the blink of an eye Shelia was standing right in front of Bonnie.

" She is not your problem to solve." Shelia said angrily, " Now, go! Before they keep you here."

" Grams, please." Bonnie begged

" This magic is dark, Bonnie." Shelia told Bonnie, " It's not nature's plan. Touch it again and the spirits will unleash their anger in ways that will make you suffer. Stay away! Go!"

With that both witches disappeared.

Third Person P.O.V

" Bonnie, wake up!" Jeremy yelled at Bonnie's unmoving form, " Come on. Open your eyes."

Suddenly Bonnie's eyes open and she sits up.

"You're awake." Elena said from next to the witch, " You're alive."

" I couldn't do it." Bonnie told them, " It didn't work."

Audrey's P.O.V

" What happened?" Aurora asked me after Bonnie and Me. Shelia had left

" It was Bonnie. She tried to save me but it's too late. I'm out of time." I told her, " I need blood. I'm dying."

Suddenly I heard Stefan get up and start yelling.

" Hey! Anyone, hey!"

" Will you shut up?!" Rebekah told him

" You think we're afraid of you?" Stefan continued as though Rebekah hadn't said anything

The door to the barn opened and an officer walked up to Stefan's cage.

" Do you want more vervain?" the officer asked, " Keep it down."

" Listen to me." Stefan said, " Audrey is going to die if you don't let her out of here."

" Sorry, not my problem." the officer told Stefan

" She's innocent. Let her out." Aurora piped up but the officer ignored both of them as he began to walk away

" Let her out!" Stefan yelled and the officer immediately turned around and shot him in the stomach.

" Stop!" I shouted

" I said, let her out." Stefan yelled again once he got back up but the officer just shoot him again, in the leg this time.

Stefan fell to the ground and this time he stayed down

" Audrey?" Aurora asked after the officer had left, " You still with me?"

" Yeah." I replied, taking a ragged breath before continuing, " Yeah, I here. I'm okay."

" No you're not. I can hear you breathing." Stefan said, " Damon was right , you should have fed this morning. I'm sorry."

" Don't be." I told him, " You had hope. That's all I wanted you guys to have. Although I do wish that I could have said goodbye to Damon."

Third Person P.O.V

Damon and Matt pull up in front of the Pastors house and get out of the car.

" So, what, we just storm the place with zero weapons?" Matt asked

" Nah, we don't need weapons." Damon said, turning towards him, " Just bait."

Suddenly Damon runs to Matt and sinks his teeth into Matt's neck. After a few moments Damon drops Matt to the ground.

" Yoo-hoo!" Damon said, " Anybody home? Big bad vampire out here."

Pastor Young opens the front door and looks down at Matt, who is now on the ground bleeding and groaning in pain.

" Let him go." Pastor Young told Damon, " He's innocent."

" Well, that's the point. Give me Audrey and Stefan, he's all yours." Damon said, pulling Matt up, "Come on, Pastor. You know I'll kill him. I want to kill him."

" Go away!" the Pastor yelled, " You are not invited in and I'm not coming out."

Suddenly Damon is shot in the chest and he quickly falls to the ground.

Audrey's P.O.V

Sometime later I heard two officers walk into the barn.

" I got this." one of them said, "Bring the other one in."

Without saying anything the other officer leaves.

" Excuse me?" Rebekah said, " Hello, sir?"

" I thought I told you to shut up." the officer said, holding his loaded gun in his hand

" Here's the thing, my family we-we have money, castles, apartments, jewelry; just name your price and let me out." Rebekah told him

" I'd much rather watch you die." The officer said

Then Rebekah got up and ran towards the bars of the cage, freaking out the officer enough to make him fall back into the bars of Stefan's cage. Stefan grabbed the officer and slammed his head against the cage until he began to bleed before dropping the body in front of my cage.

" Audrey!" Stefan said

I looked down at the body and I could she the officers blood beginning to pool on the floor. I put my arm through an opening and the cage and tried to get to the blood but it was just out of reach. I kept trying until I finally got some of the blood on my fingertips. I pulled my arm back into the cage and licked the blood off my fingers.

Third Person P.O.V

Two officers walk up to Damon's body, pointing their guns at him. When the officers where standing right next to Damon, he jumped up and grabbed one of the officers guns. He stabs one of the officer in the chest with his own gun before breaking the neck of the other officer. Then Damon walked over to Matt and kicked him in the face.

" Go ahead and kill me." Matt choked out, " You can't possibly hate me more than I hate myself."

" Oh, yes I can." Damon told him, putting his foot on Matt's throat, choking him, " It should have been you."

All of a sudden, someone came out and pushed Damon off of Matt and to the ground. Damon looks up and see's Audrey hovering over him, the whites of her eyes now red and veins popping up underneath her eyes.

" Leave him alone!"

Audrey's P.O.V

" You were gonna kill him." I said to Damon as we walked back to his car

" Yep." Damon said, not even trying to deny it, " Guy just won't die."

" It was my choice to save him." I told Damon, " Why aren't you seeing that?"

" It's a little hard to keep track of all of your choices lately, Audrey." Damon said,

" What the hell is wrong with you, Damon?" I snapped, grabbing his arm

" What's wrong with me?" Damon asked turning to me, " I wasn't the one that was so willing to sacrifice herself to save the quarterback. You were just going to let yourself die. What about Elena, Jeremy, and Aurora? Were you even thinking about how they were going to take it?

" You and I both know that you don't give damn about them so what is it, Damon?"

" What about me, Audrey?" Damon snapped, " I love you so much and you were ready to die to save Matt. What was I supposed to do without you?"

" Damon…"

Damon shook his head as me before starting to walk away.

" I remember everything." I said, causing Damon to stop and turn back around, " One of the highlights of my transition. Remembering everything that you compelled me to forget. Like how you and I met first. You were a stranger that told me you wanted me to get everything I wanted from life. And I did, I got you."

In an instant Damon was standing right in front of me. He looked at me before bringing his lips down to mine. I wove my hands through his hair, bringing him closer to me. As we continued to kiss, we stumbled backwards until I was laying on the hood of Damon's car. Damon lips left mine, only to place kisses down my neck and collarbone and back up as I unbuttoned his shirt.

" Would you two get a room." Aurora said from beside us and we both pulled, me blushing and Damon smirking, " Seriously, you two are in a Pastor's front yard. Now make yourselves presentable before Matt and Stefan get out here."

" Okay, mom." I said sarcastically as Aurora walked to the side of the car

Aurora just rolled her eyes as she got in the back seat of Damon's car.

" I love you." I told Damon

" I love you, too." Damon said

I gave him a quick kiss before moving to sit in the passenger's seat.

Third Person P.O.V

Back at the Mikaelson Mansion, Klaus, now back in his own body, was packing blood bags full of Audrey's blood into a cooler when Rebekah walked in.

" How dare you save Caroline over me." Rebekah said, tears streaming down her face

" Hello brother." Klaus said, mocking Rebekah, " Thought you were dead. So pleased you're not."

" You left me!" She shouted

"I only had time to save one of you and you can't be killed." Klaus told her, "Rest assured, I had a worse day than you. I think it's time for us to move on; find some more werewolves."

"So you can create your hybrid family?" Rebekah asked, "You don't know anything about family!"

"Well, I know how easily they can be silenced with a dagger." Klaus warned her

Rebekah quickly grabbed one of the blood bags and threw it against the wall.

" No!" Klaus said, looking at the blood dripping down the wall.

When Klaus turned back to Rebekah she had the last two blood bags in her hands.

" Drop them." Klaus ordered her

" I mourned you!" Rebekah said, " My heart broke thinking that I'd never see you again."

"Put the blood down, Rebekah. There's a good girl."

" It's always been me!" Rebekah reminded Klaus, " Not Finn, not Elijah, not Kol, me! I loved you through everything and you don't even care!"

" Drop it!" Klaus yelled at her

"You want your family?" Rebekah questioned, before crushing the blood bags until they exploded, " Here's your family!"

Klaus rushed toward Rebekah and grabbed her by the throat.

"You know something, Rebekah, you're right. I don't care. From this moment on; you're not my family, you're not my sister, you are nothing." Klaus told her before breaking her neck and walking out of the room.

Audrey's P.O.V

When Damon and I got back to the Boarding House we went up the roof to talk.

" The whole council knows who we are now." I said, " Everything's about to change."

" Yeah, I'm working on a revenge plan as we speak." Damon said with a smirk, " We'll figure out a way to deal with that."

" You don't have to convince me that everything is going to be okay." I told him

" I know." Damon said, wrapping his arm around me, " Wish I could though. Wish that I could tell you that you'll never feel pain, that you'll never crave blood. But you will. It'll be the worst thing that you've ever lived through."

" I'm so looking forward to it." I said sarcastically and then seriously, " But at least I'll get to live. I'll be a cousin, a friend, and I'll be with you. Forever."

" I like the sound of that." Damon said and I smiled before Damon kissed me

" I'm gonna get though this." I told Damon, " Just like we get through everything; one day at a time." I looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was beginning to rise, " We should get inside before sunrise."

" Bonnie made this for you yesterday." Damon said as he pulled out a daylight ring, " Just incase."

" A daylight ring?" I asked and Damon nodded and he put the ring in my finger

" On day at a time, right." Damon said with a smile and I nodded

We kissed once more, then I rested my head on Damon's shoulder as we watched the sun rise.

Pastor Young faces his stove and releases the gas house from the back of it before turning to face the Council.

" Folks, by now, you know that the vampires have escaped." Pastor Young said as the council members pass around vervain, "And it won't be long before they retaliate against us. But fear not." the Pastor continued, locking the door, " For I have been chosen to lead us in a movement.

" What are you talking about?" One of the council members asked

" Hear me, loved ones. Soon you'll be free to pass through the gates." the Pastor said as he pulled out a lighter, " And we will all reunite in eternity."

" Seriously, Pastor, what's going on here?" the same council member asked

"Friends. We are the beginning." the Pastor finished before lighting the lighter, setting the whole house on fire.

Authors Note

Well I hope that all of you enjoyed the first chapter of Bleeding Heart. It would mean a lot to me if you reviewed and told me what you thought.

Audrey;D