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Chapter 9:
Pearl was waiting at the Grill as agreed and had already ordered something to drink for both of them much to Cosette's joy. She could really need a drink after hearing that Yaotl was looking for her, but she was most of all happy about seeing her old friend alive. Pearl seemed surprised to see Cosette when she walked inside, but it was only because Cosette looked a few years younger than Pearl remembered. She still got up to greet her and while they hugged Cosette noticed that Damon walked in and found a seat nearby at the bar. She smiled weakly and turned her focus back to why she came.
"Your daughter told me that you had an interesting encounter in 1864…" she said as they took a seat at the table. She took a sip of the red wine and could taste the sweet taste of human blood. The smile on her lips widened and she gave a secretive nod to Pearl, who understood perfectly what she meant by doing so. "The young man who came to your apothecary… how did he look?"
"Like you described Yaotl. Dark hair, brown eyes, bronze skin, and he even have a tattoo your true name written in Nahuatl on his wrist," Pearl said and took a sip of her wine glass. "He looked about 22-23, so whatever happened to him then he never aged since you last met him. I only looked away for one minute and then he was gone, so I never had the chance to ask if he was who I thought he was. But I think he's looking for you, because he regrets his decision."
"That's a little too late to do. He made his decision and that can't be changed now. I don't care even if he finds me, because I moved on a long time ago."
That was a lie, but Cosette couldn't admit that she still missed him and had unanswered questions she needed him to answer, so she could finally move on and forget about him. She meant it when she said that he made his decision and couldn't just change that after 1000 years. She did give him a chance to change his choice and run away with her and even though he did say yes, then it was only so he could lure her in the direction of the temple where the king's guards stood ready to capture her.
"Do you have any idea of what he's turned into? Could he have become a vampire or…?" Pearl asked worriedly.
"Maybe… I'm not sure. But he can't be a vampire, because they were first created about 50 or 60 years later. However, if he made a deal with a shaman, then he might have become a creature like me or something else just as powerful…" Cosette answered and sighed.
She looked towards Damon's direction and frowned when she saw a woman with big breasts talk flirtatiously with him. She wanted to transform into a wolf and bite her head off, but that would without a doubt cause too much of a scene and she would most likely get herself shot by the police. She decided to use her powers instead and made the cup of coffee in the woman's hand explode. She jolted up from her seat and quickly went to the women restroom to dry her coffee soaked shirt.
Damon frowned and turned his gaze towards Cosette with a grin on his face. Cosette smirked and turned her gaze back to Pearl, who had her eyes on someone special. She turned her gaze towards the direction Pearl was looking at and saw an unfamiliar man, who was talking with the mayor's wife.
"Who is he?" she asked curiously.
"Johnathan Gilbert," Pearl answered without taking her eyes off him. "He's in the Council and Elena Gilbert's uncle. We need to keep an eye on him."
Cosette nodded understandingly and now knew who she had to get the ring from. She wondered whether or not she should introduce herself just to check if he knew what she was. She left the table before Pearl could protest and went up to the table, which immediately seemed to catch both Mrs. Lockwood's and John's attention.
"Hello, I've heard that you are the mayor's wife. It's an honor to meet you," Cosette said, trying to sound like an excited normal girl. "My name is Cosette. I just moved here a few days ago."
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Cosette," Mrs. Lockwood said, smiling brightly and offered her hand to shake. Cosette shook it and when she touched her hand she was able to enter Mrs. Lockwood's mind. She could see everything the woman knew about vampires and luckily for Cosette, she didn't know anything about what she was. She also saw something about a contest where a lucky girl would become this year's Miss Mystic Falls. "This is Johnathan Gilbert."
"Oh, yes I've heard about you. You're Elena's uncle, aren't you?" Cosette shook his hand too and was pleasantly surprised to see that he didn't know what she was either, but he was suspecting that she was a supernatural being of some sort. Cosette turned her attention back to Mrs. Lockwood. "Mrs. Lockwood, I was wondering if there's still time for me to enter the Miss Mystic Falls pageant..."
"Ah, yes. Of course. Are you related to any of the founding families?"
"No, I'm not, but that won't be a problem, will it? I mean, the only relation I have to a founding family is that my mother used to be a good friend of yours. Her name is Penelope Wolfe." Cosette placed a thought in Mrs. Lockwood's head of that she once had a childhood friend named Penelope Wolfe and that made her shake her head to her question.
"The course begins tomorrow, but I will personally enlist you. Please say hello to your mother from me. It's a long time since we've talked."
Cosette smiled, thanked Mrs. Lockwood, and walked back to the table Pearl was seated at. She could tell that Pearl wasn't sure of whether she should be concerned or happy about what she just did.
"You're just as reckless as I remember," Pearl said, chuckling softly. Cosette smiled brighter and giggled. "But I'll try to call you with my new strange phone if I hear anything about Yaotl. Until then I wish you good luck with the pageant."
Pearl gave Cosette another hug and left the Grill and Damon immediately occupied the empty seat opposite her. He looked like he had many questions, but Cosette was open to answer all of them. Even those about her least favorite subject, who was apparently looking for her.
"You're running for Miss Mystic Falls?" he asked with a raised eyebrow and chuckled.
"Yup! And you're going to be my escort. If you can dance, that is." Cosette said and giggled.
Damon snorted. "Oh, I can dance! But you seriously want to wear a dress, high heeled stilettos, and look like a princess?"
"Not really, no, but I think it's the perfect opportunity to earn their the Council's trust and get closer to a certain someone named John, don't you think?"
"I like your way of thinking. And if we're lucky we can get close enough to John to get his damn ring off and take him down before he gets to us."
Cosette nodded. "So… you want to be my escort?"
Damon didn't answer, but merely gave her a kiss on her cheek before he left. Cosette hoped that he was going to be there for her, because she couldn't imagine anyone else being there with her. She left the Mystic Grill and went shopping for an expensive and beautiful dress that she would most likely only wear to the ball. She never did like wearing dresses and especially to fancy parties where she had to act like a "lady" and have good manners.
While Cosette was out shopping and minding her own business, she noticed that an unfamiliar man was following her through town and wondered if someone had sent the man to follow her or if she was just starting to become paranoid.
But when the sun was starting to go down and Cosette was on her way home, she walked into an empty and dark alley and quickly hid herself, so she could check if she truly was being followed. The man walked into the alley as she expected and looked for her. She noticed that he was armed with a knife that had been soaked with wolfsbane. He thought that she was a werewolf and might have seen her somewhere else in her wolf form or changing from her wolf form to her human form.
Quietly, Cosette changed to her wolf form and prepared herself to attack him, but just as she was about to jump, she suddenly heard a sound coming from behind her and turned around to face a man she did know.
It was Yaotl and the sight of him made her freeze on the spot.
She completely forgot about the man behind her, but Yaotl suddenly moved his lingering gaze from her and transformed into a large, dark brown wolf. He jumped on the man behind her and swiftly ripped the man's head clean off. But when Yaotl turned his gaze back towards Cosette, she was already gone and running as fast as she could in her dog form back to the boarding house.
Cosette burst into the house and startled Damon, who was just about to pour himself a drink when she arrived. He swiftly caught the glass and watched as she ran up the stairs and into her room. Cosette dressed herself, but she didn't go downstairs to Damon. She sat like a statue on the bed and just stared blankly out in the air. She was stunned by the fact that she had just seen the man, who once betrayed her over a millennium ago. She knew that they were going to meet some day, but she didn't expect it to happen that fast.
The look in Yaotl's warm, dark brown eyes when he looked at her made the unresolved feelings inside her come back. She wanted to hug him and feel his lips on hers again, but she still remembered what he did to her. Pearl had been right about some things, though, because he looked just like she remembered, but now his hair just went to his shoulders and he of course had that tattoo on his wrist that Pearl talked about.
"Cosette?" Damon said worriedly.
Cosette looked up and blushed rapidly. She had completely forgotten about Damon and felt embarrassed for still being in love with her first love.
"I… I forgot my new dress," she said and chuckled dryly. Damon raised an eyebrow and walked up to her, because he could tell that something was wrong with her. "Do you think I could borrow one from Elena or Caroline?"
"Caroline, no, Elena, maybe," Damon said and chuckled darkly. He gently stroked her cheek and made her look into his eyes. "Did something happen after I left?"
Cosette opened her mouth to lie, but she couldn't get herself to do it. She sighed heavily and looked down at her hands.
"I... met Yaotl. I think he's a nagual too now and… he saved me from a werewolf hunter, who was going to kill me."
"Oh… Did he say something?"
Cosette shook her head. "I ran away. I don't want to meet him, Damon. I gave him everything and he threw it back in my face."
Damon muttered what something like a curse to Cosette, but she didn't blame him for being angry. She was angry too and wanted closure instead of living with all this confusion about her emotions.
"Just forget about him. He had his chance and now it's too late. I'm here, remember?" he said.
Cosette smiled and felt his lips press against hers. She felt a rush of adrenaline shoot through her body and instinctively sat on his lap, wrapping her arms around his neck. She pushed him down and enjoyed the touch of his soft lips against hers. A soft moan escaped her mouth when he rolled her under him and moved his hand delicately up under the fabric of her shirt…
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