"Those poor children," Bonnie said wiping at her eyes with a Kleenex. Thanks to her hormones and the constant need to have a good cry she was never to far without them. Damon had banned her from watching the news for this very reason.
"What did i tell you about watching the news?" Damon asked leaning over the couch and taking the remote from her hand.
"No don't turn it off. Its the children Mason killed."
Damon swallowed the lump in his throat as he peered at the screen. One by one the faces of the dead children flashed across the screen. Like a movie reel he saw their smiles as they laughed at their favorite cartoon and there cries as he teared into their throats. "I'm sorry."
"Baby, I see our little one is rubbing off on you too." Bonnie smiled reaching up and rubbing Damon's hands comfortingly. "I know that you probably wish you could have done more."
"No, I don't. I did enough." Damon snapped harsher than he intended as they flashed a picture of the loan surviving boy.
Bonnie glanced back at the screen. "Maybe, we should all go to the funeral and pay our respects."
"I think that would be a great idea." Caroline exclaimed carrying Emma in on her hip.
"Getting a bit morbid there, mate." Enzo chuckled carrying in her groceries. "Only you could find a reason to be chipper about going to a child's funeral."
Caroline frowned. "Go upstairs to your room and play, Ems." She kissed her little girl on the forehead before she ran up the stairs. "Thats not what I meant. I just meant like its our fault they were targeted in the first place. We should care enough to pay our respects for their grieving parents and pray for their souls."
Enzo looked at Damon and said what he was sure his mate was thinking. "Some of our prayers wont be heard."
"It doesn't hurt to try," Elena said appearing in the doorway. "I rushed over as soon as Caroline said you guys were finished."
"Tell me again why Stefan, didnt go with?" Damon asked glad for the distraction.
"They make parents volunteer for the after-school program. We did rock, paper, scissors for it and Stefan loss," said Caroline picking up the discarded bags and carrying them into the kitchen.
"So is this official. Does everyone want to go to the funeral?" Elena asked looking around at everyone.
"Sure," said Damon through gritted teeth.
"You don't have too. If it scares you," Bonnie mumbled so that only Damon could hear as she rubbed her stomach. Worried that his fear somehow stemmed from their own baby worries.
"No, I need to go."
"I'll call the station and get the details," said Elena noticing that they had already missed the information. Since the weather man was now on talking about the forecast. She left the living room and headed up the stairs for a little more quiet.
"Elena, wait -"
"I found away to track the angel," Alaric said breathlessly running into the room with Stefan on his heels. "We've been over thinking things."
"How so?" Caroline asked coming back into the kitchen after hearing all of the commotion.
"We're assuming because he's an angel that he has to be resting in some mystical angelic place. But we know of none in this plane or the next. So maybe thats not where he is."
"He has to hide in the shadows just like the rest of us," Stefan chipped in.
"I find it highly unlikely that will find this angel at the Four Seasons because if you look around this aint exactly hiding, mate." Enzo snorted.
"Lets assume that this is his first foray on Earth. If he needs a quiet place to hide and recuperate there's only one place he can go."
"The cemetary," Bonnie spoke up.
"Exactly," Alaric said almost giddy.
"Even if that's true how do you expect us to kill him?" Enzo asked wanting to get to the fun part.
"We cant. At least I don't know how, but we can trap him until we figure it out."
"An Angel as a hostage. Theirs a special place in hell for all of us," said Enzo sitting on a chair across on the side of the couch.
"This is for Vanessa and those dead children," Caroline spoke up going to Stefan's side.
Enzo looked at Damon out of the corner of his eye who seemed to physically cringe at the mention of the children.
"This is for our children. Emma and Bonnie's unborn child. It could have just as easily been them," Caroline said clutching at her chest.
"It never could have been them. It would never be them. I promise," said Damon.
Enzo got up and stood at his friends side. "Easy now."
Damon snapped out of his anguish to look at his friend. "Yeah."
"No one would let that happen, Damon. But Veronica's life is at stake and this Angel has proven that he will stop at nothing to win his prize," Alaric said.
"How are we going to trap him?" Bonnie asked grabbing Damon's hand.
"Well thats where you come in. I need you to tell me if there was anything he was afraid of or tried to avoid? Nothing is too small or insignificant." Alaric said waiting.
"Nothing, he was normal up until the day i . . . i lost Damon." Bonnie said raking her brain although the memories were already beginning to feel like it was so much time ago. "He was a typical guy."
"Any foods he wouldn't eat or places he wouldnt go?" Caroline asked hoping to jog a memory.
Bonnie shook her head. "I dont remember."
"It's alright. Don't let them push you," said Damon coming around the couch to sit beside her. Draping his arm around her shoulders.
"No ones trying to push her Damon. We just want answers," Stefan said annoyed at his brother.
Bonnie nodded and cleared her mind thinking back to the moments when she first met Mason. Waking up in his apartment, his bed. "Mirrors, he didn't have any around the house. Not even in the bathroom. He said he just wasn't one of those superficial guys who cared about looks."
"And you took him at his word?" Alaric finished.
"Why shouldn't I." Bonnie said feeling like a fool. "I joked that women just didn't work that way and I asked if i could get a mirror for the bathroom at least. He said yeah. Their wasn't anything i would ask for that he didnt give me. But then he stopped using the bathroom."
Enzo laughed out loud. "You mean he soiled himself."
"No, I mean he would come home with excuse's that he showered at school or used the bathroom at work. I mean that I never saw him actually go into the bathroom after that. But i was going through other things." Bonnie said looking at Damon. "I didn't actually have time to count how many times he showered. I didn't really care about what happened to him. Maybe I would have noticed these things before if I had've."
"But there are mirrors everywhere. Especially in the school bathrooms," Caroline shrugged looking at Bonnie doubtfully.
"But as she just said. She doesn't really know if he used them. For all we know Angel's don't go number 2," Alaric said thoughtfully.
"Oh no," Enzo said shaking his head. "This plan thats forming sounds like a big If and i'm not running into this Angels den without some certainty that I will come out alive."
"I hate to agree with anything Enzo says, but he's right. What exactly are we supposed to do walk in with hand mirrors and wave them around. Hoping that he will melt like the wicked witch of the west."
"The abandoned Carnival that's supposed to be torn down this week," Stefan said remembering having rode past it and the thousands of questions that it gave Emma. "There's an old hall of mirrors there. We can trap him there and figure out away to move him once he's incapacitated."
"How do you suppose to get him there from the cemetery that's across town?" Enzo asked still not completely sold.
"By pretending to give him what he's looking for. Will use Veronica as bate," Stefan said.
"Now you're speaking my language," Enzo smiled slyly. If things go awry he can always shove the girl into the box with the angel and this whole nightmare would be over he thought to himself. Maybe his friend could sleep more peacefully he thought looking at him.
"Where is she now?" Alaric asked curiously.
"Jeremy's keeping her company about town, but we can call them when we're ready," Stefan offered.
"Wont we have to convince her to do this?" Damn wondered.
"Oh allow me. I could use some practice on my convincing skills," offered Enzo.
"No, let Elena do it and will reconvene in front of the cemetery at sundown. It goes without saying, but bring extra mirrors just in case," Alaric said standing up to leave as he had somethings to do back at his apartment.
Elena walked down the stairs. "Sorry about that guys, but i had elevator music blaring in my ears as they had me on hold. But the funeral is this Friday."
"Good, when we pay our respects we can let the parents know that the killer is truely among the dead," said Bonnie a hardness in her voice.
"Do we have a plan?" she asked looking at Stefan.
"We have a plan."
