Choosing One Original

Chapter 5: Torture

Chapter 5: Torture

LUCINDA'S POV

We were at the town picnic and when I say we, I meant the whole gang except my mom.

She said that she wanted to stay home and relax. I told her it was fine and that I'd call her if I needed her.

Right now I'm kinda pissed. Katherine is here. Well not here at the picnic, but here in Mystic Falls. And that means that she knows that we're here and she hasn't made any attempt to contact us whatsoever.

Damon and I were at a lemonade stand under the shade.

"So Damon...how much are your feelings for my mother?" I asked.

Damon started chocking and trying to catch his breath. I smirked at him.

He regained his breath and just stared at me. "Well, you didn't answer my question." I said after a while of waiting for him to respond.

"Why are you asking? Does she like me? Did she tell you to a-" I interrupted him.

"Damon, she doesn't even know that I'm asking you this. I'm only asking you this because I think you do and I keep telling her that you do and I'm trying to find out what her feelings for you are, and if I know what your feelings are for her then maybe I can tell her and then she will tell me her feeling for you." I said gasping for air at the end.

"Well why does it matter to you our feelings for each other?"

"My mother has been alone for....well....a very long time, and I don't want her to be alone anymore. I mean her best friend is me, a sixteen year old, come on you've got to admit that's a little sad since she's twenty-two. I just want her to be happy...with people her own age."

After I was done talking Stefan came up to us.

"Me and Elena just broke up." He said.

"Oh God. I did not see that one coming." I said completely and utterly shocked by the news. Damon had the same look of surprise on his face.

Just then, a little girl with brown hair in pigtails came up to us and she gave a cup of lemonade to me and Damon and ran away. We both took a drink out of it. I started to cough while Damon started choking. There is only one thing that makes vampires act like this.

Vervain.

I composed myself faster than Damon did because I'm older and have built up tolerance for vervain over the years. I looked over to Damon who was still doubled over but staring straight ahead, and heard him say something with a scowl on his face.

"Mason Lockwood."

I looked over to where Damon was looking but I didn't see anything. Ugh I can't believe Mason is here, and wherever Mason is Katherine isn't too far behind.

All of the sudden, Damon was moving in the direction Mason headed. Having no choice, Stefan and I followed him.

We followed Damon's sent all the way to a cellar in the woods. Stefan walked down first, then I did.

"Damon!" Stefan said surprised to see him in the middle of the floor bleeding from his leg.

I heard three heartbeats, and looked around the cellar. A woman with short blonde hair came out of the shadows. She had a police uniform on and a gun pointed towards us. Behind us were two male police officers pointing their guns towards us.

"C'mon Liz we're friends." Damon said.

"No, my friends don't lie to me" she replied then shot all of us multiple times in the chest.