A week, Jade was sure that is how long she had been chained to this wall. She hadn't eaten anything since she was brought down here, and her captor had only given her a few sips of water every couple of hours.
It was dark where ever she was, and cold. She had tried to use her magic to get out, but she could not even loosen the lock on her wrists. She saved Alaric's life just over a week ago and now she could not even help herself.
Suddenly the room was filled with light, as the door to her room was opened. Jade sunk against the wall as she was blinded, and fearful of whomever it was that was coming in. "Why are you keeping me here?" Jade whispered, her voice horse from a lack of moisture.
"I saw what you did, that night on the road." A voice sounded from the entry way. "I know you are friends with the vampires, and that you are something, something else."
"Please, just let me go." Jade pleaded, as she heard her captor get closer.
"I'm sorry I can't do that." As Jade's eyes adjusted to the light she found a man kneeling down in front of her. He looked familiar, normal and familiar.
"Please." Jade began as her eyes started to tear up.
"I saw you conjure that knife, how did you do that?" He questioned leaning in to get a better look at Jade.
"I...I..." Jade stuttered as she glanced between the man and the ground beneath her, when suddenly a force struck her cheek causing her head to whip to the side.
"Answer me!" He yelled leaning in even closer to her.
"I...I am a witch." Jade whispered, her check burning from where he had struck her.
"A witch?" Jade quickly nodded in response, fearful of being stuck again. "Can you do other things?" He questioned as he pulled away from her, and Jade nodded again.
"Can you bring people back from the dead?" He whispered so quietly that Jade almost did not hear.
"No." Jade softly.
"Well then getting revenge on their kind will just have to do." He spoke standing and heading back towards the door. "They will come for you, and I will kill them." Then with that he left the room slamming the door shut behind him and plunging Jade back into the darkness.
Meanwhile back at Whitmore, Damon stood with Bonnie in Jade's room, forcing her for the fourth time that day to try and locate Jade. Alaric sat on Jade's bed as Damon argued with Bonnie, again. Alaric was not sure how much more he could take of their bickering when Damon's phone rang causing them to pause.
Damon taking his phone out of his pocket moved away from Bonnie and put it to his ear, answering the call. "This better be good Donovan, I'm a little busy."
Alaric couldn't pick up what Matt was saying on the phone, but the look that came across Damon's face told him it was serious. "Well where is she then?" Another pause came "Well we will just have to bust her out before he can do that." Damon pulled the phone away from his ear and swiftly ended the call.
Standing Alaric walked towards Damon, "What's going on?" Damon just looked down and his phone and then to Alaric.
"He has her." Damon spoke averting his gaze over to Bonnie.
"Who has her Damon?" Alaric pushed for an answer.
"Crazy psycho guy, that nearly got us all killed a week ago. He's been holding her in some bunker under ground. He is going to drive her into Mystic Falls, apparently she wouldn't help him bring back his dead wife back to the land of the living."
Back at the bunker, Matt hung up his phone and Tripp grabbed it from him before Matt could even blink. "See now was that so hard?" Matt did not respond, he just continued to stare at where Jade was chained to the wall, her face bruised and her bottom lip split.
"You don't need to do this you know." Matt spoke looking back at Tripp. "She doesn't have anything to do with all of this."
"She has everything to do with this. See I always just thought it was Vampires. But a witches, makes me wonder what else is out there." Tripp walked over and grabbed a fist full of Jade's hair, quickly he pulled her head up so he could look at her.
"When your friends get here, I'll make sure to kill you first. Then they will know what it is like, watching your loved ones die." Then with that he let go and Jade's head fell from the lack of tension. Tripp then proceeded to head out of the cell and back above ground.
Once Matt could not see Tripp any more he quickly made his way over to Jade, attempting to open her restraints, but they were bolted tightly shut.
"Jade?" Matt whispered, "You need to get out of here, you need to use your magic." Jade just shook her head no in response. "Jade, he has the whole place booby trapped. He wants them all to come save you."
Jade's body shook with tears. She could not do it, she could not do anything. Her magic only worked it seemed to work in the weirdest situations. "I can not, my magic does not work." She whispered through her tears.
"I'll try and find something to break these chains. I will be right back." With that Matt quickly stood and rushed out of the room leaving Jade alone.
A few minutes later Jade heard screams coming from above ground, and as she looked up she saw Matt running back into the room with a large pair of metal cutters. Quickly he cut her chains from the wall, and helped her to stand up, wrapping her arm around his neck he proceeded to help her up the stairs and into the sunlight.
Once they emerged Jade squinted as her eyes adjusted to the light, and once they had she saw all of her friends laying on the ground around her in pain. Bonnie looked as though she was knocked unconscious, and next to her lay Caroline with a couple of wooden stakes sticking out of her limbs.
Quickly Jade scanned the area and found Tripp about to shove a stake into Damon's heart as he lay on the ground in pain next to Alaric's bloody body. "No!" Jade screamed watching as time seemed to slow as she watched Tripp attempted to bring the stake down, but he stopped, gasping for breath. Blood began to run from his eyes, and he screamed in pain till suddenly he stopped falling atop of Damon dead. Jade then fell to the ground crying and holding her head in her hands, as she rocked herself back and forth.
Damon heard Jade's cry's and with much pain and difficulty he pushed Tripp's lifeless body off of him and onto the ground. Damon then proceeded to pull the wooden stakes out of himself, groaning with each removal. Alaric who laid beside him began to come to as well, his broken neck healing, as he moaned.
Damon stood slowly and started to stumble towards Jade's quivering form. "I killed him, I...I killed him." Jade whispered through her tears. Once Damon go to her he dropped down in front of her and wrapped his arms around her.
As he held her, Damon watched as everyone came to stand around him and Jade. Everyone looked between Jade and where Tripp's body lay on the dirt, motionless.