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Prologue

Elena grimaced and yelled in pain when she felt her feet burning. They weren't actually burning. It was vervain. Why were her feet in a tub full of vervain? Then it suddenly hit her.

"Jeremy….." Elena yelled.

When there was no reply she frantically tried to loosen the vervain soaked ropes that were digging into her skin. Her arms, legs and abdomen were wounded tightly with the ropes. Vervain was soaking the fabric of her clothes and braising her skin. She felt pain, emotional and physical. Although what she saw next, hit her like a ton of bricks.

There they sat, Damon and Stefan, both in the same position as her. Their feet forcefully put to place in the vervain filled tub. They were in much worse condition than her. Numerous bullet holes could be seen all over their clothes and few stakes were protruding out of their legs, thereby confining them to the chair they were tied to.

Then she saw Livia, leaning on the kitchen counter, watching Elena with pure disgust.

She walked over to Elena, gave her a menacing look and moved forward to hit Damon with a lamp, waking him up.

"No!" Elena yelled but was too late as Stefan was awaken with a stake to his gut.

"What do you feel, Elena?"

"Please, Stop! I beg you, Please, don't hurt them!" Elena cried.

She ignored Elena's begging and picked up the broken neck of the lamp and stabbed Damon's shoulder with it.

Damon merely winced, he couldn't find his tongue. He couldn't speak. He couldn't find his voice. It finally hit him, his mouth was completely burned. Highly concentrated vervain had been pushed down his throat, making his vocal chords render useless for the moment. And due to high content of vervain in his body and lack of blood, his body wasn't able to heal itself.

Elena's eyes were misty, she was helpless. She saw the condition Stefan and Damon were in and couldn't stop the tears.

"What do you feel, Elena?" Livia asked again, this time, very slowly and darkly. Elena was without a doubt scared.

"I feel pain," Elena replied

"How much?"

"What?" Elena managed to choke out between her uncontrollable sobs.

"How much pain do you feel?"

"You are enjoying this? Seeing me in pain?" Elena asked scathingly.

In answer, Elena saw Livia take a knife from the kitchen platform and cut Damon's Index finger. The finger dropped into the vervain full tub and Damon's eyes shot into the back of his head due to the pain. He couldn't scream, he couldn't cry and it fucking hurt. The vervain, his throat and now his hand; he was in tremendous pain.

"NO! Please… STOP!"

Elena heard a stirring behind her and tried her best to bend her head sideways to get a glimpse of whoever it was.

Jeremy was lying there with blood flowing down his nostrils, Matt was half unconscious and Bonnie…

"BONNIE!" Elena screamed as she didn't hear Bonnie's Heartbeat.

"No, no, no, no, no…. She can't be dead… NO!" Elena cried.

Matt stirred and rubbed his eyes, adjusting his view. When he finally saw the scene in front of him, he bolted up and ran towards Elena.

Before Matt could reach Elena, he was forcefully stopped. Livia held his face in between her palms and concentrating on his eyes, she spoke,

"You will not move, you will not speak a word or even let out a noise until I say so. You will do everything I tell you to,"

Matt nodded and repeated her words.

Elena was still crying when she heard another movement behind her, It was Jeremy.

She couldn't comprehend the situation in front of her. Matt was compelled, Damon and Stefan were in the middle of a horrendous torture and Bonnie was dead.

"Bonnie's dead…" Elena whispered to herself, her best friend being gone, that all-too-familiar feeling of grief settling over her.

Jeremy was starting to awake.

Damon couldn't speak and Stefan due to his animal diet was back to being unconscious.

Livia walked towards Jeremy and pulled him upwards by the collar of his shirt and dragged him across the hall, in front of Elena.

She then proceeded to use the knife that was covered in Damon's blood and stabbed Jeremy in the chest, on the right side, conveniently missing the heart.

She wasn't going to kill any of them, not yet.

She waited for a few seconds, making Elena watch her brother bleed and yell in pain.

She then pulled the knife out, bit into her own wrist and pushed her blood down Jeremy's throat.

Elena relaxed a bit as she saw that Jeremy was healing. But before Jeremy was fully healed, Livia stabbed him again, this time, in the stomach.

Elena cried again, but she knew it was useless. Livia wasn't going to listen to her. This was just the beginning of what Livia had in store for them.

Livia was going to Raise Hell on them.

After what Elena did to her, what she took from her, Livia was nowhere near being done.