Doomed

Mara's POV 

 "There are shreds of evidence? What kind?" I ended up demanding after a few moments had passed. 

It all felt unreal. Like a ridiculous thing. Not only was I being accused of murdering my only sister and only friend that I have in the entire world, but they also happen to be shreds of evidence that were pointing at me.

"Well, for one, she got bitten by a vampire with two souls, and everyone knows how dangerous the bite of a two soul vampire is." The guard started to explain and my mouth fell open the next moment.

She got bitten by a vampire with two souls?

But I didn't… do it.

It was one of the things that I had been grateful afraid of when it comes to myself around Layla, I was always scared about accidentally biting her, because from a very young age, the severity of an unintentional bite from me to another vampire had been drilled into my head, so I knew how dangerous I was to her since I could remember.

And I'd never hurt her.

Never, ever.

"I didn't do it," I said to the vampire after a few moments. The guard narrowed his eyes at me for a moment and then he rolled his eyes without saying a thing.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that? I didn't do it!" I snapped out at him almost immediately.

"He was looking at you that way because you were obviously telling a lousy lie." Another guard chirped in and I wished there was a way I could manipulate his mind into making him take off his gun and shoot himself at that moment.

"What? I wasn't telling a lie, I was being honest. I didn't kill her. I didn't do it." I argued back after a minute.

"But you did. You're a vampire with two souls instead of one, aren't you? You're the one that did it." A different guard started to speak and I felt like pulling my hair out of my head at that particular moment due to how frustrated I was feeling.

"That doesn't mean I was the one that killed her, there are a lot of two souls vampires out there, I'm not the only vampire with two souls in the world," I explained to all the guards who were interested in listening to me.

I just hope they were at least considering my request to take my explanations to lord Klaus and were not just listening to me because they were bored or remaining silent.

"You were the last vampire with two souls she made contact with, you were the one who did it." The first guard informed me and I groaned frustratingly in the next moment.

"The faster you admit it, the brisker your punishments are going to be." A different guard who had been silent the whole time spoke up from the left corner of the cage.

"But I didn't do it, I swear it," I whispered dejectedly. At this point, it didn't seem like they were even trying to at least consider my request to take my explanations to lord Klaus.

"Who did it then? You were the last vampire with two souls that she made contact with, it's very obvious that you were the one who did it." The first guard continued after a few moments and I stared at him dejectedly for a few seconds before digging my fingers into my hair and tugging on the roots as an intense feeling of frustration rolled over my whole body.

"That still doesn't mean I did it." I paused for a moment. "It could be anybody else, anybody but me," I whispered the last part out, feeling dejection so heavy as it settled over me like a thick blanket.

"But someone saw you do it." A different guard started to speak and I gasped in shock, feeling a hundred emotions run through my body in a single second.

"What? What did you say?" I asked in a ragged, shocked-filled voice as I stated at the particular guard that had previously spoken before.

"I said, someone, saw you do it. So I don't think it's of any use for you to obviously keep on lying when someone even saw you do it." 

I flinched a little as his words hit me like a slap, not because I suddenly started to feel guilty– but because at this very point, it was obvious that it hadn't just been a misunderstanding or a mix-up, and that it had obviously been someone who had planned to set me up.

Someone had done this on purpose.

Someone had done this to implicate me on purpose.

Who could it be? I asked myself internally as I lifted my head off my lap and stared at the guards once again.

"But I didn't do it, I swear to you. To all of you." I whispered earnestly, wishing someone at least believed me.

I just needed one person to believe me at least, it was better than a whole roomful of people being against me.

"You did it, someone obviously saw you do it." One of the guards spoke up after a moment. I remained quiet because I didn't know what else to say at the moment.

"Lord Klaus is really angry at you because you killed off his soulmate just like that, without any hesitation. Someone he was already engaged to."

Oh.

"They were engaged?" I asked quietly, feeling a weird painful twist in my stomach.

"Yes. I think Lord Klaus was already silently planning the wedding." The same guard supplied and I swallowed emptily, feeling the twist in my stomach get intense.

I didn't know they were already engaged, I thought they were still just dating.

I didn't even know Layla had found her soulmate until yesterday.

"He was also my soulmate," I whispered quietly, blinking a couple of times.

"He was?" One of the guards asked incredulously and I nodded my head.

"Yeah, he was. I got to know about him last night, and I knew he was my soul mate instantly – but he rejected me because he was already soulmates with my sister and I didn't know about that until yesterday as well." I supplied helpfully to him, as a low hum started to zing around in my head.

"Oh, so he rejected you?" One of the guards asked and I breathed out a small laugh as I shrugged my shoulders a little. "He did, because he had already found a soulmate, which was my sister."

"That's probably why you killed her." One of the guards concluded with a nod of his head and my eyes widened instantly in confusion.

"What?" I wheezed out in confusion.

"You killed her because you were jealous her soulmate turned out to be your soulmate and she found him first… it's all starting to make sense now." The first guard commented this time and my eyes widened in shock as I started to see the sense that they had all saw in all that I had just said.

Now that I was looking at it from a different point of view, it seemed like I had been the one to kill her because of jealousy… and is currently dying for a confrontation with Lord Klaus, so I could try to see if he'd accept me as his soulmate…

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

What the fuck was happening?!

"You guys, I swear I didn't do it," I whispered, voice cracking from the number of emotions that was clogging my throat.

All the guards snorted and rolled their eyes in unison, they all didn't believe me and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.

"She did kill her."

"She was the one that did it."

"Yeah, it's pretty obvious."

"How could she even kill her own sister just like that?"

"Girls are really desperate beings and could do stupid shits just to get what they want, she's a living proof."

"Yeah, and she obviously wouldn't get what she wanted to achieve by killing her sister."

"She definitely wouldn't, lord Klaus is never going to be able to look at her without wanting to hang her with some spike-filled silver chain dipped in liquid silver."

"You're probably right."

"She's pretty much doomed."

They all exchanged words around me like I wasn't in here at the moment, and one thing I was greatly sure of at this very moment, was that I really was doomed.

I was completely and thoroughly doomed.