Opal POV
It was dark in the tomb with 25 other vampires for who knows how many years. Endless pain, hunger and suffering all courtesy of one Katherine Pierce the conniving whore who stole my husband from me due to her compulsion.
*flashback*
"Why are you really doing this Katherine? What do you have to gain by making my husband love you through deception and lies. You even went after his brother." Katherine just laughed in my face before she said, "I should have killed you sooner but Damon just wouldn't stop loving you. He even broke my compulsion a few times just so he could run back to you. It's fine though when they come for me to be put in the tomb I will switch with you after turning you." After she finished she pushed her bleeding arm in my mouth and snapped my neck.
I woke up while she was talking to a guard at the entrance she bit his arm and shoved it in my face just so I would become like her. She then snapped my neck again leaving me trapped inside my now very crowded prison.
What Katherine didn't know was that I was also a witch but I was different than Emily I siphoned my magic I didn't have my own. The reason Damon kept breaking her compulsion was because I kept siphoning the magic away from his mind. I wish I was stronger so I could have saved myself and my baby. I had just told Damon I was pregnant before she took me from him. I had barely managed to place a protection spell around my baby before she snapped my neck. Now I am a vampire with my own magic to siphon. Before the desiccation process started I put all my power into a spell to place my baby into a hibernation state until I'm able to get the nutrients I need to allow them to grow again. I will wait no matter how many years I need to in order to protect mine and Damon's child.
*end flashback*
Damon POV
It was finally time to open the tomb again. I was chomping at the bit in order to rip the head off the conniving snake. She took my world away when she stole Opal from me. Compelling me over and over to forget her. Opal tried to save me by siphoning the magic from my mind and it worked for a short while until Katherine would compell me again. As soon as my transition started the memories from her last compulsion came flooding back and I just wanted to die. I was going to be a dad, Opal was pregnant with our child and Katherine took her from me. I need to get that bitch to tell me where she left her body so I can at least give her the burial she is owed as my wife. Once Katherine tells me what I want to know I will rip her heart from her chest and feed on it myself. Once all that is done I will be able to join Opal in death finally.
I had been weeks of me torturing Stephan until he and Elena offered to help me get into that tomb. I almost killed Lexi but then thought of Opal who would have loved her and couldn't do it. I had to find some random druggie and change them to take the heat off of Stephan and myself. Bonnie and Elena were kidnapped by Anna who thinks I am in love with Katherine. What's funny is that Stephan believes I loved Katherine as well it's like he forgot about Opal's existence. Well he might have actually since I married her in Texas at her families plantation with her brother Major Whitlock as witness. When I brought Opal home father only accepted her because of her brothers accomplishments. He kicked us out of the house almost as soon as we got back though. I bought us a small house in town with my soilders pay and made sure she was safe before I had to go back to the battlefield. She never really interacted with Stephan or my father before Katherine killed her, right before father killed Stephan and I. It's been over a century and I can still feel her loss as if it were yesterday.
It was finally time the Bennett witches were going to open the tomb and I would get my revenge. The door to the tomb opened and I grabbed Elena and dragged her in with me. She was loud and clumsy, her presence was enough to cause them to begin to groan. None of them could move due to years of desiccation so she was safe unless she fell into someone's mouth. I chuckled at the thought of it but pushed it to the side so that I could concentrate on the task at hand, revenge. I had begun to lose hope I had checked every body in the tomb 25 vampires and no Katherine. In frustration I threw the blood bag against the far wall bursting it open. I glanced over to the wall only to be stunned by what I saw. It was dark so I pulled the torch over to get a better look and it was Opal. She was desiccated but she was here, I had found her. I heard Stephan calling for me so I scooped her into my arms and pulled her to my chest hiding her face in my shoulder and ran for the entrance. I passed Stephan, Elena and Anna with Pearl in her arms as I flashed passed them thanking Bonnie and Sheila as I went.
I practically flew to the boarding house with Opal safely in my arms. I placed her gently on my bed and ran to the blood bags grabbing 10 knowing that she is going to be weak. I fed her one as she started to gain her color back she downed a 2nd with my help as well but managed to hold the 3rd one herself. She was still very weak but no longer looked like a skeleton with skin. By the 7th bag she was looking more like herself and I could no longer hold in my tears. She just put down her blood bag and grabbed onto me for dear life as she sobbed into my arms. We sat there together for what felt like forever before she looked at me with a tear streaked face and said, "Hello husband I've missed you." I smiled down at her and kissed the crown of her head before I said "I've missed you more, I thought you were dead, I thought I lost you and our child. I went into that tomb to make Katherine tell me where she left your body. I was going to bury you in the family cript as my wife and then kill myself so I could join you in death. You have no idea how happy I am to find you alive. To be able to hold you again is my greatest wish come true. I just wish we still had our child, I'm so sorry I failed you both my love."
She smiled up at me and cupped my face in her hands before she said, "I am fine, we are fine" she placed a hand to her abdomin and continued "Katherine messed up, she didn't know I was a witch much less a siphon witch. I managed to place a protection spell around our baby before she killed me. After she forced my transition I siphoned my vampire magic to cast a suspension spell on the baby. It has held until you fed me the first blood bag. We still have our child love, they will start to grow now that I am healthy again." I am not ashamed to admit when she said our child was safe I balled my eyes out with relief and joy. I looked her in the eyes while tracing the ring I had placed on her finger all those years ago and said, "I will keep you both safe this time I promise. I have spent the last 145 years thinking you were taken from me. I refuse to let anything like that happen again. I'm so happy to have you back with me my love." With that said I kissed her with all that I had.