Beautified

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Beautified
Chapter 8
Old friends

Bethan awakens in the trunk of an SUV with her wrists bound as it drives down the country roads of Louisiana. She tries to kick out the back window to escape, but the driver stops the car and gets out to check the trunk. When he opens it, he tries to grab her, but she fights back by kicking at him. It's revealed that the driver is Tyler Lockwood

"Seriously?" Tyler asks annoyed "Tyler?" Bethan was in shock

"You don't wanna fight me, Beth. You know you can't beat a hybrid." He uses zip-ties to bind her ankles so she can't run away

"Ahh! Let me go, you backstabbing half-breed piece of shi--" she yelled but was cut off by Tyler

"Shut up!" He pulls His ex girlfriend out of the trunk and throws her over his shoulder. As he walks down the road, his hybrid face comes out as he angrily drags His 'friend' into the Bayou.

Tyler has brought Bethan to some encampments in the Bayou, and drops her on the front stoop of a little shack

"What is this place?" She asks "The armpit of Louisiana." Tyler pulls a knife out of his pocket

"What are you gonna do with that?" Beth asks scared

"Depends on you." He simply put it He cuts the zip-ties on her ankle
"Hey, you attacked me, remember? You ambushed me, in my own backyard." Bethan spat

"It's not your backyard, it's Klaus'! You're shacked up in that mansion with that psycho. A long way from the girl I knew from mystics fall who'd do anything to kill him" he yelled at her

"Tyler, I'm sorry, but a lot has happened since the last time I saw you." Bethan said

"You mean that you're pregnant? A hybrid baby, yeah, I know all about it. I've been roaming around the Bayou, asking questions. Let me tell you what I learned!" He spoke

He pulls down Bethan's sweater-sleeve so we can see the birthmark on her shoulder

"This crescent birthmark means you come from a big-shot family. Some kind of royalty for the werewolves of this region. And right here-" He gestures around him

"this is all that's left of them." They both look around, and see more shacks and tents made of blankets. Bethan spots a blonde girl standing nearby, watching them "hey!" She shouts The woman is startled and immediately runs away

"Help me!" She begged
"They can't help you! They're in the woods, hiding, because they were persecuted for decades by vampires." Tyler told her Another werewolf, Dwayne, appears "Is that her?"
Tyler sighs "Yeah, Dwayne. Get her inside." Bethan was beyond scared "Tyler? Tyler!" She yells but gets no reply.

Bethan is alone in the shack, zip-tied to a fire stove, when Tyler walks in and joins her

"Tyler, there's been a wolf watching me lately. Protecting me, like it instinctively knows that I'm part of it's pack." She pauses a beat