Chapter Nine
Damon was kind of annoyed. Part of him wondered if Bonnie spilled the beans, just to get on his nerves. He would never jump at the chance to tell a room full of morality driven witches that he was a bloodsucker with a colorful past. As a matter of fact, he'd rather not even be in Chance Harbor, but Elena insisted that they owed Bonnie and Bonnie insisted she help her cousin. Not to mention, there was no way in hell he'd let Elena leave with Stefan with the chance of Ripper resurfacing.
"Yeah, Damon..." Bonnie smirks, only adding to Damon's annoyance. "What are you?"
"You're not mortal." Cassie clarifies, giving him a hard look. "I can feel it."
Damon rolls his eyes, once again. Who invited Captain Obvious? Did she not catch the part where he and Elena zoomed into the room at vampire speed? "Don't get our panties in a twist, Blondie." he mutters in a condescending tone. "You're not mortal, either."
Cassie scowls, which causes Damon to smirk. If there was one thing he was good at it was annoying witches. "Damon, pissing them off isn't exactly smart." Elena warns from behind him.
"Being in Chance Harbor in a room full of witches isn't exactly smart, Elena." He reminds her and she purses her lips. "I think maybe we should handle one thing at a time. There is an evil crystal skull containing an evil witchy bastard on your table."
Damon watched as the Circle shared glances. "I'll call Faye." Diana announces as she takes out her phone and starts dialing. Damn turns to Elena, who was watching the Circle with caution.
"Can you manage?" he questions her, wondering if the smell of the witches blood was too much for her.
She gives him a tight smile and a nod. "For now." she says in a tone, so low that only he and probably Stefan can hear. "I might need a blood bag soon."
Damon nods in agreement. He was glad Elena had chosen to drink from blood bags and not from the bunnies, like Stefan. The last thing he wanted was for Elena to grow into the Ripper stage. "If only we could get out of this place." Damon tells her. "I don't like it here. This house feels wrong."
"I feel it, too. Something bad is here." she murmurs back. She was right. The room had a chilly and dark feeling, which was weird because vampires didn't get cold. "Something really bad."
Faye was shocked when she read her caller ID. Diana. Was she back? Faye answers her phone. "Diana?"
"Faye, could you come to Cassie's? We have this spell and we need you." Diana replies, quickly. No hellos, or how have you been. Diana sure has lost her thoughtfulness.
"So, you're back..." Faye grumbles, not sure of how she felt with Diana's return. Would things go back to normal? Would the world continue to revolve around Diana. Would the Circle still trust her? Of course, they will. Faye tells herself. It's good and loving Diana, why wouldn't they trust her? "And why do you need me? If you're back, everything's just peachy, right Diana?"
"Faye, please." Diana begs. "We need your help."
Faye sighs, if her Circle needed her, then she'd come. "Fine, but one spell and they I'm gone." and with that she hung up.
As she leaves her house, Faye gathers her thoughts. She'd see Jake, who she quickly accused of screwing her up. She'd also see Melissa, who told her she ruined things herself. And of course, she'd see Diana, who would once again take charge of the Circle. Give orders and not even be questioned by the others. Faye shakes her head at the thought. She won't have that happen, again.
Melissa hears the front door open and close. "Faye's here."
"Yeah, thanks for the invitation." Faye says with a grin when she walks into the room. She keeply ignores Melissa, not even throwing a glance in her direction. Melissa was sure that she was still angry. Instead, her eyes land on Damon. "Well, hello there." she greets him with a suggestive smirk.
Damon returns the smirk, but his eyes were unwelcoming. Melissa kind of got the hint that Damon didn't like witches. "No offense, but I don't like witches. They tend to give me headaches."
Faye shrugs, "You're loss." then, she turns to Diana. "What's the spell and who are these people?" she was direct and straight to the point, just like always. She notices the crystal skull. "Well, Adam's been bad, now hasn't he, Cassie?" she chuckles. Adam refuses to look Faye in the eye.
"We'll do introductions, later." Diana tells her. "First we need to say this spell, so Blackwell stays in the skull."
Faye blinks in disbelief. "You're telling me that your daddy is in that skull?"
Melissa was getting tired of explaining it. She had to Jake and Adam, after woke up. Since then, Adam had been fairly quite, so she assumed that he already knew that. "Yes, now can we get to the spell?" Melissa finalizes.
Faye sighs, "Yeah, might as well get it over with."
Bonnie steps forward. "We'll need to join hands." Melissa sees Faye give Bonnie a look, but does what she says. She also notes that Damon, Stefan and Elena were watching them as if it was the most normal thing in the world. She didn't even want to think as how complicated their lives must be for them to think that way. "Now, repeat after me."
By air and earth,
By water and fire,
So be you bound,
As I desire.
By three and nine,
Your power I bind.
By moon and sun,
My will be done.
Sky and sea
Keep harm from me.
Cord go round,
Power be bound,
Light revealed,
Now be sealed.
Melissa and the Circle repeating the chant about three or four times before the skull started to draw in a black looking vapor. Bonnie quicken the chanting, and so did the Circle. The black vapor was completely consumed by the skull and the skull was now glowing, brightly. They say the chant one final time and the skull stops glowing.
"Am I the only one that noticed that all that black mojo came from Adam?" Faye asks them, a serious expression on her face. They ignore her and turn to Bonnie.
"Will it hold? The spell?" Adam asks in a raspy voice. It was no doubt that the spell took a lot more of his energy than it did the others. He also seemed also afraid of Blackwell to take hold of him, again.
Bonnie nods, but it was hesitant. "It will hold long enough for us to figure something out." she explains. "Or at least I can hope."
Damon snorts from behind them. "Yeah, let's hope."
Elena throws him a glare. "Shut up, Damon." she grumbles in frustration. Melissa had a feeling that Elena relied on hope. "Ever since we got here, you've been Mr. Doom and Gloom."
"With good reason." Damon replies with a dark look. "Stefan knows what I'm talking about. Blackwell will hit us with everything he has, if he gets the chance. We need to find something that will work permanently, quickly or we won't have a chance."
Bonnie looks at the brothers, seriously. Making Melissa wonder how they could know so much about John Blackwell. She looked at her Circle and they seemed to be wondering the same thing due to the amount of confusion written on their faces. "He's really that bad?"
Stefan nods in agreement. "We'll definitely need to find something fast."
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