Chapter 45

Akiandra's POV.

The last I remember is of pain, my life flashing before my eyes and him. Oh God, I said goodbye to him, believing that night was our last.

My Keith, he must be so worried, so broken, as I am away from him. Days have passed I believe, since they took me. Every piece of the puzzle was pieced together, the moment she walked into the dungeon I've been held in.

Nothing seemed to make sense whilst all I was surrounded by, was darkness. Then she walked in, with a determined, crazed look on her face. She had intention to cause me pain, anger seeped out of her and it was directed towards me.

I couldn't understand as to why she'd do this if Keith meant so much to her. Didn't she care about him? I had asked but her obsession with hurting me, seemed greater then the love she claimed to have for him.

I had no strength to do much because I was still in a bit of pain due to the poison affecting me, I was still recovering, I still am. She had been poisoning me for quite a while now, her intention, for me to die a slow and painful death. She'd watch and celebrate behind closed doors, pretending to be affected just as the rest of the family.

Her intentions were clear from the beginning, I refused to see it, wanting to believe that she was a good person, that she cared so much about Keith and that she would be happy with him, being happy.

I guess I was wrong.

The door handle jiggles before it's opened and she steps in.

" Elena."

She doesn't say anything, only stepping in and pulling a chair closer to where I am chained. In slow movement she sits, placing one leg over the other. She looks rather calm today, more focused and that's scary.

She's in all black, like a ninja.
Black long sleeved shirt, black leather high waist pants, black combat boots and hair tied into a ponytail. Red lips, dark eyeliner and cold, cold eyes.

She stares down at me with folded arms.

"You're a real pain, do you know that?"

I don't say anything, but stare at her.

" He just can't erase you from his mind or his heart. What did you do to him?"

As crazy as this may sound, but I want to smile at that fact, knowing that she's witnessed it with her own eyes. She just needs to make peace with it, that's all.

But I doubt, that would happen.

" He loves me." I tell her.

" Again with that, do you really believe that, 'the' Keith Salvatore would ever love someone like you?"

" What do you think?"

"He's just infatuated. He'll get over it." She shrugs.

" Elena you're ruining a good friendship by doing this, I thought you cared about him."

" I love him!" She shoots up from her chair. "I love him, that's why I'm doing this." She starts pacing up and down.

" If that were so, you would want him to be happy?"

" Ofcourse I want him happy, that's why we're here now, to see that happiness again."

" What makes you think he wasn't, with me?"

" "

The door opens once again and in enters the grey white haired guy, who I had bumped into at the airport. He too is in all black, a stoic expression taking over his face.

" It's time." He says.

Her eyes pass between us before she nods and he walks out again.

"Time, time for what?....Elena what's going on?" My eyes move back and forth, from her to the door, a sinking feeling taking over, at thought of what's to come.

She turns to face me.

" I will finish what I started."

" Elena."

" It was all me, everything that you passed through, it was all me and now I get front row seat as I watch your life slip away. Good thing Keith will find the lil' Angel as Miss Snow white today, if he will even find you."

" Elena do you realize what damage you are doing, everything was just fine, your family was mending and now."

" Just shut up, shut up!....They'll be fine. Just like how they'll forgive me once I explain my reasons. Especially Keith and my Godmother."

" Jill?.... What does she have to do with this?"

" Nothing, she just helped me without realizing or knowing my hidden agenda." A knock on the door interrupts her.

" 5 more minutes!" She shouts.

She comes over to take a seat once again, slouching on her chair as she looks down at me.

" You weren't as easy as I thought. Do you know how many times I had to replan? - It wasn't cheap either but the result was worth it each time."

" So all this time, it's all been you and no one else?"

" Why are you asking?"

" I don't know, maybe I want to know how deep your obsession goes."

" I'm not obsessed, just deeply in love. "

I've never wanted to roll my eyes so much at someone, like I want to do  right now.

" Anyway, I hatched up a plan the minute I saw a change in him. He should have gotten through with the divorce, but of course you just happened to show up everywhere. Why couldn't you stay away, now look what I had to do!" She waves her arms around.

" Elena- ."

" I had to get rid of you, one way or the other. So I hired Andy.  Andy followed you around and that day at the airport was perfect. He intentionally bumped into you, that moment being the first time poison made contact with your skin. "

" How?"

" Research and travel helps quite well. I ordered a special kind of poison from Mexico and Italy. It's an untraceable kind, the name is foreign and I won't bore you with the details. Anyway it's said to cause dizzy spells, tiredness, nausea, no appetite. Oh you get the picture.

In only a second's act, had a little needle with him. How was the pinch?" She says proudly and all I can do is shake my head at the picture laid out infront of me.

She's crazy.

" Oh wait, how could I forget Aspen. Yes, I did that too, but that damn idiot couldn't do a simple job and now, he  ended up dying. Well good riddance."

" You put the life of a baby at risk." I say, remembering being held at gun point, with baby Bella in my arms.

" He shouldn't have involved the baby, but of course he was an idiot."

" He still had a life."

" Yeah yeah,  I'm not bothered about him. All I cared about was hearing about your death but then Keith saved you. I got frustrated I must admit, but I did not tire from achieving my goal.
"

" A slow and painful death right?"

" Exactly!....So I let you off the hook for a while until the airport thing. Now to phase 2. Oh I loved that one.

Some sensitive skin you have, just the perfect excuse for me to mix a little something in Godmother's cream. Gosh she can be too kind for her own good, I just knew she'd be the perfect candidate to help me with my plan, though she didn't know it.

I feel a little bad, but she doesn't need to know of what I'd done."

" You used your family, for what - to cause them pain in the process?!" I take a breath. " Elena just stop this, you can turn things around and we can start over. All will be forgiven."

" You, forgive me?" She scoffs at that.

" Yes, believe it or not I do."

" It's a little too late for negotiations, now as I was saying, the cream was perfect but for some reason, it didn't do what I wanted. You bloody didn't die. I don't even know why that is!"

" It wasn't my time to die." I say.

" Well two days ago should have been. The doctor had the final trick - the supposed ' Fever'. "

" T-tthe doctor?" I stutter, my eyes widening in realization of that doctor, being part of her twisted game. How could he - how could they?

" Yes I paid him a handsome amount. Lesson, know a person's weakness then dance on it, works every time."

" In other words you threatened him?" She gets off the chair and starts walking around.

"I had to, in order for my plan to work. Of course there was a bit of a mishap, you were supposed to die at the house and Keith would find you already gone, but no. As if you knew my plan, you bloody showed up!

Akiandra Thompson, you should have stayed away, you should have let him be and gone your way, but because you didn't, you didn't stay away from my man, you shall pay the consequences."

I watch her walk over to the door, banging on it twice before she steps back. The door opens and the white silver haired man who I've just learnt is Andy steps in, followed by two other men, dressed in black.

My heart picks up at thought of what they could do to me. They have something big planned and I believe, it'll be far worse then what I've endured in the last days, I just hope I can hold on like before, when I heard Keith's voice at the hospital.

" Take her to the chamber." The two men nod, before coming over to unlock the chains that have kept me in place.

A blindfold is placed on my eyes where I can't see nothing.

My limbs are numb and I haven't moved much. Now I'm being dragged out of the dark room, I don't know where I'm being taken to, but I know that whatever I'll face, I need to keep strong and patiently wait for Keith.

I've waited for a long time, waited for him and now I'll have to do the same, for a different and more crucial reason. I believe with all my heart that Keith will come for me, he won't let me slip through his hands, this time he'll succeed in his plans regarding me.

Having walked for a while, we finally reach the destination, the blindfold isn't removed and I'm held upright.

I listen carefully to sounds , voices, anything that could be helpful in this moment. I hear footsteps approaching from behind, coming around to walk in front of me until I hear it. I hear metal doors open and again I'm dragged forward.

Nerves shoot at me, at what I am  walking towards, what those metal doors introduce?

I believe we enter a room, but it's cold. Using my nose to pick up any kind of smell, I smell a distant meat smell, raw to be exact.

That's when it clicks, this must be some butchery or meet store house...Oh gosh we are in a freezer...

She's thought this out well, gosh she even gave off a hint with Snow White, Keith will surely find me frozen up and definitely dead if time passes for too long. Thinking back, I'm not even sure if I have a high tolerance of the cold, I'll have to hold on as long as I can.

Someone grips my wrists, tying something around it and by the feel of it, my guess would be that it's a rope. It's tightened around my wrist so hard that it's cutting into my flesh, causing me to wince in pain. The same is done around my ankles, preventing me from moving, as well as my mouth is taped shut, leaving me with no choice but to breathe out my nose.

" The ring?" A male voice asks close.

"It won't make much of a difference, leave it, at least she'll die with something. I mean I'm not that cruel to take everything from her." Elena chuckles mockingly.

I'm not a violent person but right now, I have an urge to punch her in the face.

I gasp when I'm surprisingly picked up and carried bridal style, then quickly placed on a cold surface that I have to take breaths, to let my body get accustomed to the feel of the cold surface and my surroundings.

I'm literally naked in their sight, since I'd been kidnapped from the hospital. I was still in my patient's gown, a thin material that does nothing for me. Thank God I at least have my underwear on, to still give me the little dignity I have left.

I'm scared out of my mind but I won't show it, I refuse to give them the satisfaction, to let them see a reaction before- no, I won't die, I refuse to die. I refuse for mine and Keith's story, our lives to end like this. I'll have to fight and keep awake, keep strong and wait. Wait for him with great belief, that he'll come.

" Elena let's go." I hear that same male voice.

Now I have no doubt it's Andy.

" Can you see her? - gosh I like the sight, she won't be a threat anymore!" Her tone is an excited one and I can feel her eyes, stare down at me.

I bet she is admiring her evil work.

" We have no time, let's go." Andy says, worry evident in his tone.

" Andy calm down, we have a lot of time."

" No we don't. We might get caught, let's go."

I hear a bang from a distance before someone cusses.

" Shit, Elena let's go. They've found us - He's on his way."

" Damn it! - I don't understand, everything was just fine but ofcourse, Keith just had to get involved!" She sounds frustrated and angry.

Something presses against my temple and my blood freezes. As ironic as that sounds, with me stuck in the fridge I've discovered, my blood freezes.

" He just cant stay away." She mumbles. "What do you have that I don't huh?!"

His heart.

" Elena let's go! " Andy demands, earning a growl from her, before I hear a thump like sound above me.

She's just closed the fridge. I'm not able to hear anything when the fridge starts vibrating and cold air surrounds me. Oh gosh, they've switched it on.

Don't panic, don't panic. I tell myself, trying to keep calm and think of every good thing in my life. I've watched a lot of fear factor episodes and thrillers to know not to panic, but to keep calm at all times.

I heard it, he's coming for me. The thought alone eases me into a calm state, whilst my body is anything but. The cold air is making quick work on it and I have to do all I can, to keep from shivering.

The cold is freezing my blood up, a headache is forming and I moan in pain. My hands, feet, nose and back , are the most responsive, making it a struggle to keep calm.

All I can do is pray, pray that Keith and everyone else hurry, I don't know how long I'll be able to hang on.

Hurry Keith. That's all that rings in mind.