Long Way Back From Hell (2nd revised version)

        It was a beautiful day in the Bayou, as explosions went off. Then, when they stopped, they knew the explosions were filled with wolfsbane. A few wolves were dead and a few had been wolfsbaned.

        When Elijah was helping Eve away from the trailer home that had been flipped during one of the explosions, he smelled an all too familiar scent mixed with the smell of blood.

        “Katerina.”

        He was instantly by the trailer home door, trying to get it to open to help her.

        “I’ll take care of Katherine. Go help Eve with the wolves. I’ll let you know if I need you to help with her,” Hayley told him, standing in front of him, looking at him.

        He did as she said to do, while Hayley found a gap big enough for her to go inside to help her.





        Once inside, it wasn’t hard to find her.

        She knelt by her head and felt for a pulse. Amazingly, she was still alive.

        She took her fingers away from the right side of her neck.

        She looked at her and around the area. She had to be careful so that the whole thing didn’t collapse on them both. There was wood barely holding up what was now the roof, but had been the floor before all the explosions. To top it off, Katherine was human injured. A long piece of wood was protruding from her left side, not far from her abdomen. Her right side had a long, deep gash. There was blood on either side of her head and a heavy pile of wood was weighing down on the lower half of the human.

        Hayley got to her feet and used her werewolf strength to get the pile off her.

        Afterward, she put her arms under hers and carefully drug her out of there.





        Once she had gently layed her down a ways away from it, she saw how much blood she had lost.

        “Jackson,” she called.

        Jackson came and knelt by Hayley.

        She took her Jacket off.

        “I need you to use this to apply pressure. I’m going to pull the woods out.”

        She did just that and he used Hayley’s jacket to apply pressure to both wounds. She could let her lose any more blood.

        “Elijah,” Hayley called.

        He was instantly knelt at his Katerina’s left side. He knew why he was needed, so he bit his wrist. He put it to her lips, making his blood go down her throat to heal her and save her life.

        After her wounds had healed, he took his wrist away, which instantly healed.

        Jackson set the jacket on the ground and went to help the wolves.

        “I’ll take her to the compound,” Elijah informed her.

        “Let me,” she replied

        “Very well then.”

           



        When she parked outside the compound, Klaus was there.

        She got out and opened the passenger’s side door where the human was still out.

        “What is the meaning of this, Little Wolf? What is she doing here?” Klaus growled, as he stood in front of her.

        She explained everything to him and then added, “Don’t kill her yet. Elijah had to give her his blood and I don’t think you want her to be a vampire again. Besides, Elijah would probably hate you if you killed her.”

        Klaus didn’t say anything about that, but he did say, “I’ll take her to her room.” He then gently picked her up and vanished upstairs, carrying her to Elijah’s room. He figured that that was where Elijah would want her to be.





        Once in his elder brother’s room, he gently layed her down on the bed.





        When she woke up, she saw where she was and who was seated on her bedside.

        She smiled.

        “It’s good to see you again.”

        “Why are you here, Katerina? You could’ve been killed,” Elijah replied.

        She sat up and then told him all that had happened to her, before assuring him that she was cured of dying of old age. She then told him, “I came back for you. You were right that day. I’ve lost everything good I ever had. I’ve decided to prove you right. I can be saved. I’m the same girl you have always loved, but I’m broken. I know that you alone can help me.”

        They smiled at each other.

        “Then I’ll save you,” he promised her. “No matter what the cost you’ll always be my precious, beautiful, Katerina.”

        A moment later, they were kissing.