I had been home for a few hours now. As soon as we got inside, Finn took me to bed so I could rest. Curled up in my bed, facing away from the door with a blanket pulled tightly around me. I could hear them all talking downstairs. They weren't exactly being quiet.
"Has she said anything about what happened?" Elijah asked his brothers.
"She hasn't said much of anything since she got home. Actually...I think she hasn't spoken at all." Finn spoke up.
"I'm going to murder him." Klaus growled out.
"I vote to let Hilda kill him." I heard Kol speak up.
"Where is Rebekah? She might be able to get her to talk. Girls talk right?" Klaus questioned.
"She's with her new mate, Fern or Danial. Whatever she is forcing him to go by." Kol laughed out.
"Poor boy." Elijah.
"Didn't he say something about Hilda being able to heal?" Finn asked.
"She can. She mentioned something about it before." Elijah started. He was always the one to listen more. "She feeds off of magical creatures when she is beyond angry or to heal."
"Then let heal her?" Klaus questioned. I heard footsteps, like someone walking to the stairs.
"She said something about her humanity when she mentioned it though." Finn brought up.
"I don't care. I'll make her turn it back on. She needs to heal." Klaus growled. Footsteps starting coming closer. The door creaked open slowly. "Love?" Klaus tried. I heard him walk around the bed, kneeling in front of me to see my eyes. His eyes instantly holding sadness. "Why don't you heal?" He questioned. I narrowed my eyes at him, shaking my head. I pulled my hand away from the edge of the bed as he went to place his hand on mine. "Why are you being stubborn?" He growled.
"I can't control it." I whispered lowly. I knew he heard me though.
"What do you mean? You used it on the Hero Salvatore." He stated, confused.
"I didn't mean to...If I didn't notice- The fear in his eyes.." I spoke quietly. The image of his fear filled eyes flashing in my eyes. "I would have killed him if I didn't snap out of it."
"That's what this is?? You're afraid of killing us?" He asked, standing up. "Get up." He demanded. I looked up at him, knitting my eyebrows together. He grabbed the blanket from on top of me, ripping it to the floor. "Get.Up." He growled. I heard footsteps running up as Klaus grabbed my arm, yanking me up.
"NiKlaus! What are you doing?!" Elijah shouted, zooming to stand between Klaus and I, throwing him away from me. Klaus stood up and growled.
"She won't heal herself because she is afraid of killing us. I'm only trying to encourage her to live." He growled out. Finn came up behind me, wrapping his arms tightly around me and pulling me to his chest.
"You could have hurt her!" Elijah snapped back. Klaus snarled in return.
"She's hurting herself."
"Where are you going?!" Elijah asked.
"To find someone for her to heal from. I don't know if you can see it, but she's Dying, brother. Whatever that asshat did to her, is killing her." I felt Finn tighten his grip on me. I jumped as I heard the front door slam shut. Elijah turned with a sigh, his eyes meeting mine as he climbed into the bed with us, pulling me to lay my head on his chest as Finn just held my back.
"You're going to be alright, Astin. NiKlaus will fix this." Elijah whispered, stroking my hair gently.
"He's right." I whispered softly. "I'm dying." I felt both of my mates tense up.
"You're not going to die, little Elf." Finn whispered, burying his face in my back. "We won't let you."
"Have you fed?" Elijah asked, glancing down at me. I shook my head at him. "It might help, Elskan."
"I don't want to." I muttered. "It hurts-" I whimpered. I could feel the iron spreading still, although my body felt numb, I was screaming on the inside. Elijah and Finn tightened their hold on me. I heard someone come into the room, a smell of blood following.
"I heard someone hasn't eaten." I heard Kol declare, holding two bags of blood. Finn pulled away from me as Elijah helped me sit up. Kol got in the bed in front of us, holding one of the bags out to me. I grabbed it slowly, my body felt heavy. A feeling of exhaustion rushing through me. Finn moved closer again, letting me use him a bit to stay up even though Elijah was quite literally holding me up. I met eyes with Kol as I bit into the blood bag, taking a few gulps before pulling back quickly as it came right back up. Elijah jumped, shocked, rubbing my back, not knowing what to do. "What is wrong?? What's happening?!" Kol exclaimed, moving to hold my hair out of the way. Blood was all over the bed, but it looked darker than normal.
"Blood has iron..." Elijah muttered. "But it never bothered you before." He stated confused. "Kol, come sit on this side." He ordered, getting up carefully. Kol obliged happily, curling into the bloody mess I was, not a care of getting messy. Finn lifted his head to look at his brother.
"Where are you going, Brother?" He asked. Elijah looked up to look at me, before meeting Finn's eyes.
"I'm going to go interrogate our guest." He answered, leaving the room while rolling his sleeves up.