Chapter Seven
Stefan was hitting his edge. He knew he shouldn't have been here. The smell of the witches' blood would tempt him too much and he still didn't have these things under control. He just about wanted to slaughter everyone in that diner they found Diana in.
"Stefan?" Elena asks. She was leaning on the rail of Melissa's porch, far away from Stefan and Damon. It was as if she was trying to keep her distance from them. "You would tell me if there were something wrong, right?"
He gives her a curt nod and clenches his jaw. He wished Bonnie would hurry up with the walk through of the house because he needed Elena's attention elsewhere. He didn't want her to worry about him when she needed to get herself under control.
Damon knew what was going on, Stefan was sure of it, but he was going to focus on Elena. He wouldn't step in unless Stefan tried killing someone.
Stefan hears Bonnie approach and tries focusing on something other than the sound of her heart pumping blood. She opens the front door and reveals herself with a small girl at her side. Stefan guessed it was Melissa because she looked an awful lot like Bonnie. They both had the same hazel green eyes.
"This is Melissa." Bonnie introduces her.
"Wow, you guys look so much alike." Elena breathes.
Bonnie frowns, but has a hint of humor in her eyes. "Not Doppelganger alike, I hope." she jokes.
Melissa wondered who the people Bonnie brought with her were. She knew that the girl, Elena was her friend, but she noticed that Bonnie looked tense around her. As for the guys, Damon and Stefan, Bonnie didn't seem tense around them, just bothered by their presence, especially Damon's.
Melissa wasn't sure why, either. Damon did resort to a lot of dry sarcasm, but she was used to it. He was like Faye in a lot of ways.
Once they all were sitting in Melissa's living room, Bonnie starts talking business. "First things come first, you have a huge problem. Correction, we have a huge problem." she explains. "John Blackwell isn't dead."
Melissa was sure that her eye balls bulged out of her skull. She had been told John Blackwell was dead and even Adam confirmed it. He was there. "H-How is that possible?" she stutters. "Cassie said that she and Diana killed him with the crystal skull."
"Whoa, wait." Bonnie demands. "They killed him with the skull? Why didn't Diana tell me that?"
"Diana? How do you know Diana?" Melissa questions with surprise.
"Answer my question!" Bonnie says, eagerly. "Did they kill Blackwell, using the skull?" Melissa nods, shocked by the harshness of Bonnie's tone. She watched as Bonnie face morphs into something close to concern, except it was more than that. "Where's the skull, now?"
"Diana said that some guy named Adam hid it, don't you remember?" Damon answers. "Now, do you mind explaining what your witchy little mind is going on about?"
She purses her lips, "I know where Blackwell is." Bonnie reveals.
"Where?" Damon groans. "Quit trying to build suspense and get on with it."
"He's inside the crystal skull."
Cassie walked up to her house, with Diana following. They hadn't talked much the entire walk, which really wasn't even that long. Melissa's house wasn't far from Cassie's. It was just Diana giving Cassie a few soothing words to calm down. Though, they didn't work.
Cassie's nightmares had come to life. Her fath-… John Blackwell was still alive.
She didn't know how to handle that information, except for maybe crying in her room all night. Not only would she have to deal with the other Balcoin children, but now she had to deal with him, as well.
The only good out of this situation was Diana's return. Cassie was happy to see her and she didn't even care that she left. She was just happy that she was back.
Diana and Cassie enter the house. When they reach the dining room, they see Adam sitting at the table with the crystal skull in front of him. "Adam?" Cassie asks, surprised. Then, she notices the skull. "What the hell is that doing here?"
Adam didn't answer Cassie, his eyes were on Diana. "You're back." he chokes out.
"You were supposed to hide that skull, Adam." Diana says in a frightened tone. "Why is it here?"
Adam doesn't get to answer her because the skull glows a brilliant bright light, that leave the skull and kits Adam, causing him to fly back and crash into Cassie's living room.
Both girls scream.
Jake was sitting in his room, scanning Cassie's Book of Shadows. She had let him borrow it after the spell they cast a few days ago to find Diana. He didn't think it would work, but he just wanted to give Cassie some hope.
His eyes shift to his phone as he grows tired of looking at spells that would be no help to them. He wished Faye would call. He needed Faye to call. What she had said was true and he needed to fix that. He needed to make up for what he did. There was no other option.
He regretted everything he did to her. It wasn't right. He took out all his grief on her, she didn't deserve that.
He reaches out to grab his phone and call her when he hears screams come from Cassie's house. He drops the phone on the desk, making the battery pop out, and rushes out of the house to their aid.
I feel that this is a tad bit short, but wanted to leave you guys with a cliff hanger. Didn't revise because I have to do the dishes, sorry. Feedback is love... Thanks for reading! I love you guys!
