Be Careful When You Bite Me

"Damon!" I whispered loudly again," it's me."

Damon lifted his head off the cold ground and pointed his eyes on mines. His used to be bright and golden eyes were now almost pitch dark. I felt my eyes began to tear and quickly blinked them away. I hated seeing him like this more than anything else in the world. He looked weak and beaten and hopeless. He didn't deserve any of this. I felt my chest began to ache at the pain I was feeling from witnessing him like this. I held my hand out to him and he stared in awe," the Volati-" he began, his voice deep and tired.

"Doesn't hurt that much," I replied, cutting him off.

"Holly, your hands-"

"I'm alright, are you?"

He struggled to sit up and I never thought I'd ever see him so weak. He grasped hold of my fingers," how did you find me?"

I smiled almost sadly and shook my head," i-it doesn't matter, we have to get you out of here, there isn't much time."

"I'm sorry," he began," for ever putting you in that dungeon, you should hate me-"

"It's alright," I reassured, "I'm okay now."

"It was never okay, I never felt worse about myself than when I had done that, you should leave me here-"

"Damon stop it," I snapped at him," It's alright, do you hear me?" 

He remained silent and I continued," Xavier and Asia are upstairs waiting for us, we need to get you out now, we don't have much time."

 Damon nodded and took a look around," there's a lever for each cell, somewhere in the corner over there, each cell is numbered, you have to pull down the lever for the Volati and it will turn it off."

"What number is this cell?" I asked," how do I know?"

Damon shook his head," I don't know, can you see numbers anywhere?"

I scanned the barrier of the cell but I couldn't find a number anywhere.

don't," I looked back at his

to guess," he said," go to the levers and see if the cells

is in here? What if

completely now. Looking at his face was calming me down quicker than I could have imagined. He gripped my fingers in his and spoke words that were as soft as velvet to my ears," you made it this far,

glance, I jumped off of the cell and hit the hard ground once again. Well aware of him watching me, I began to make my way towards the lever box when the voice of the girl underneath him stopped me in

11," she said softly, so low I almost

She looked young, definitely under the age of sixteen, still a

fangs of a faerie before turning away. I nodded regardless in confusion to why she was helping me out and turned

I remembered Damon telling me something about faeries being sneaky and wondered if I could trust her. I let my finger hover about the lever that read C10. I turned out to face both Damon and the girl. Damon was staring towards me but the girl was still lying down. She didn't look like

I was going to figure out which cell really belonged to Damon but the last thing I wanted to do was to take her word and end

my racing thoughts and my heart. I tried to figure out what kind

by the order that it was in, Damon's would be C11 and hers would be

she was C11

forehead. I hovered my fingers back over C10.

because it's the first one in the row, and then C2, C3, back down towards the bottom, C4, on top is C5,

C7, middle cell

the faerie would be C10, Damon's would be C11, and the one at the very top

combinations but I decided to trust my only instinct and

could let myself peek. I finally opened them wide

a sigh of relief that felt as if I could finally breathe. I

his dark eyes had lightened just a little bit. I couldn't help the smile that formed on my lips. Without being able to hold back, I wrapped my arms around his neck. I didn't realize that I had been drowning until I took my breaths at the nape of his bloody neck. I didn't care that he was bleeding on my clothes, I just wanted to hold him in hopes of settling the nerves at the bottom of my stomach that had convinced me that he was dead. The panic was beginning to

were going to die" I pulled back to

late,"

trailed my

too, we have to get you to a hospital, how did you get

wanted to stay in his arms forever but I knew this wasn't the time nor the place. The room shook with a sudden

have to get out of