There always a point when you’re putting puzzle together that you get to the end of it and there is one piece to fit in it before it’s complete. That’s what I felt like was happening in my mind. All of the things I had learned over the past two weeks or so had been like putting a puzzle together. My past, my present and my future all converging into one big picture. The four of us were racing towards Mikhail or well the vibrations that I was picking up on. It was leading us toward the big gathering room that Sasha and I had been in when we told them the idea about there being a spy. Something I wish I had only shared with Mikhail and the others now. 

“Are you sure it’s coming from there?” Victor asks and I nod my head. Eris beside us is wearing a very tight expression, “I can feel that Sarafina is in there as well.” We come to a stop outside the building and Victor set me down so I am standing on my own two feet. I take a step forward towards the door but Victor grabs onto my wrist, “You can’t just waltz in there Elena. We need to have some kind of plan.”

I pulled my hand free from his grip and my eyes flashed silver, “I do have a plan. I’m going to rip them all apart.” My own certainty about this feeling made me nervous. Victor looked a little shocked by my words and I’m sure the hardness in my eyes. 

I go to start forward again but I am hit with a piercing pain in my shoulder and I wince stumbling back a bit in surprise. I look to my shoulder and it doesn’t seem like anything is physically wrong. , “Elena what’s wrong?” The boy asks me putting his hand on my arm inspecting me for injury. When I am gripped by another wave of piercing pain in my leg I know that it’s not me who is being hurt. Whoever had Mikhail was hurting him and I could feel the pain through our mate bond because it had been getting stronger everyday. I know my eyes are silver again and I am shaking with pure rage that someone is hurting my mate. “It’s Mikhail. They’re doing something to him.” The boy let go of me and raced off towards the door and I watched in surprise  as the door flew open and a vampire came flying out at us. Sasha comes out of the door next jumping at the vampire with a stake in hand. I watched the tiniest smirk appear on her face as she stabbed it through his heart. 

“You never change—“ Eris comments beside Victor in a dry voice. 

“Sasha how did you—“ She rips the stake free from the now mummified mass, interrupting me, “Dante found us and brought us here. So glad you could join us.” She comments quickly as she raced back off into the building and I stare after her in surprise for a moment. I move away from the Victor and Eris running in after Sasha the boy following right behind me. The scene inside the building was complete chaos. 

The wolves were fighting against the vampires and a couple of rogues. Everyone seemed more blood thirsty then usual and I remembered that the full moon was tomorrow night. They had put this into the plan on purpose knowing that the playing ground would be more even that way. My eyes raked over the chaos looking for Mikhail or any signs that he was there and then I spotted a door new the back of the room that was a jar. He must be through there. I took off full speed toward the door. Ignoring the fighting around me, weaving in and out of them. The boy followed closely behind me but when a rogue jumped into my path way effectively blocking us I felt my wolf surge with anger. The boy put his hand on my shoulder, “I’ve got this you go get him.” He says to me. 

I watch as he moves away from me shifting into his brown wolf. He glared into the rogues face with wild eyes and then he release a loud roar in its face before snapping his teeth out at its legs. This was distraction enough and the rogue turned its attention from me and I quickly pushed myself through the door my wolf was in a frenzy to get to her mate and I felt the urgency through every fiber of my being. I ran down a small hallway that let to a set of stairs that led down and I assumed it was another underground set just like Victor had been in. 

I tried to descend the stairs more cautiously understanding that while I wanted to safe my mate I also was alone and depending on who was down here It might be something I wasn’t capable of winning. I pressed my back against the wall when I got to the bottom of the stairs trying to use the darkness as cover. 

“I’m going to tear your heart out of your chest when I get out of here!” I hear Sarefina threaten and I sighed a little thankful. If she was alive then that meant if I could break her free she might be able to help me. I hear someone laugh, “I’m not afraid of you Fairy. I have the protection of the vampire king somebody I know even you fey fear. What do you have? Some half demon girl and a couple of worthless dogs.” The woman’s voice sounded familiar to me but I couldn’t place it. I started to hedge my way in closer to get a better look and that’s when I felt my heart drop. Mikhail was hanging from chains and by the looks of it they were made of silver. Sarafina was in a giant cage and she sat in the middle of it careful not to touch any of the bars. 

The woman she was talking to had her back to me but I could tell she was a vampire. I felt my eyes flash silver thinking that now was the best time to attic while the enemy was unaware but as I got into a crouch. I felt something cold press to the back of my head, “I thought I sent somebody to kill you.” The gun cocked and I stilled completely, “Apparently you just won’t die.” The Alpha’s voice is harsh and he presses the gun harder into my skin, “Go! Move!” He forces me to move forward into the room. 

The vampire spins around with a small hiss and then I know who she is immediately. She is the girl from the ambush, the one that had been trying to kill Mikhail. My eyes flash silver and she meets my gaze with a cocky smirk, “Looks like my day just keeps getting better.” I growl low in my chest but shut up quickly when I feel the metal of the gun digging into my skin. Sarafina and I make brief eye contact and I can tell she’s surprised to see me. I look away from her and focus on Mikhail who is hanging completely unresponsive and I feel worried about what they had done to him. Catching me looking at him the vampire made her way over to him, “Did you come here for this?” She asks as she pulls a silver dagger from under her jacket and my eyes widen, “I heard that Silver is really painful for you guys. It’s like someone putting acid into you. I wonder if that’s true?” 

She watches with a sadistic glint in her eyes as she stabs it into his leg. Mikhail’s eyes pop open and he lets out a growl of pain. I feel the pain as if it is my own and I hunch forward, “Stop it!” I say as she pulls out another and I know she plans to stab him again. “Katherine!” The Alpha barks from behind me and she frowns at him but she put the dagger back in its hiding place. I can feel the wetness on my face as I stair up at Mikhail feeling helpless to save him. His chest is heaving in and out and it seemed like the fresh pain had brought in back into consciousness. He lift his head a bit and our eyes met and there was surprise for a moment and then rage, “Let her go!” He growled. 

He pulled against his chains and I could see they were burning into his flesh as well as feel it. The gun was pressed now to my temple and Mikhail stilled his movements but I could still feel the rage pouring off him as he looked to the Alpha, “why are you doing this? If your problem is with me then just kill me, don’t worry about her. She’s harmless what is one rogue going to do against you?” He tries to persuade. 

The Alpha lets out a laugh, “But you’re not a harmless rogue are you sweetheart?” He says down to me ignoring Mikhail. 

“You know I was rather surprised when I first saw you in the woods, Elena. It was like staring at your mother all over again. She was something else your mother—“The way he talked about my mother sent a chill down my spine, “But in the end she was just as pathetic as the rest of them, begging for her life.” I felt my wolf’s desire to tear into his flesh but I knew that right now I wasn’t going to win that way, “Just so you know I plan to make sure you stay dead this time.” He cocked the gun as I stared up into Mikhail’s eyes that looks like they were full of horror. Was this it? Was I going to die in front of my mate just like that? 

I heard him pull the trigger. 

Click. 

Click. 

Click. 

It was jammed. I let my wolf take over and I reached up quickly with my hand grabbed a hold of the gun turning my eyes toward the Alpha as they flashed silver, “You’re were right.” I growled and then I gripped the gun tighter pulling him close to me as I twisted my body. I pressed on the pressure point on his wrist and made him release the gun as I drove my elbow up into his face as hard as I could. I released my hold on him and he stumbled back a bit and I turned to face him my body going into a crouch barring my canines at him. 

“I’m not a harmless.” And then I roared loud and long.