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The next day, the four of them returned to the forest. They reached the site of Loraine's spell, but when they arrived, they saw that the pentagram was scratched off the ground and all her things were gone.
Katherine and Stefan made a run around the woods, but found no trace of her.
"Nothing," Stefan said. "No sign of Loraine at all."
"She probably made a break for it after what happened last night," Katherine pointed out.
"So that's it?" Jenny asked. "She just gets away with this?"
"You can't win them all," Katherine said.
"Now what?" Serena asked.
"You two go back and stay in the apartment," Stefan instructed. "Katherine and I will look around, see if Loraine's still in Chicago."
"No you don't," Serena protested. "We all look together. Jenny will go with Katherine, and I'll go with you."
Katherine looked to Stefan. "It is better to have more sets of eyes."
Stefan sighed. "Fine."
They then headed back into the city.
"This is pointless," Jenny said as she and Katherine walked the streets.
"Come on, we just started looking," Katherine said.
"She's probably gone by now, its a waste of time," Jenny complained.
"Well, let's just hope the two lovebirds are having better chances than we are," Katherine said.
"Do you actually think that they'll still be together?" Jenny asked, a little surprised.
"Don't you?" Katherine asked back.
"Yeah I did, but that was before Serena got kidnapped and almost turned into a werewolf," Jenny said.
"I think that they can still make it together," Katherine said.
"How can you possibly know that?" Jenny asked.
"I've seen how Stefan cares about her," Katherine replied. "And after what Serena did to me last night, I can see that she cares about Stefan too. I'm sure they'll be fine."
"I wish your right," Jenny hopefully said.
"Are we going to talk about it or not?" Serena asked. She and Stefan have been going around for hours and he had been avoiding all her questions.
"There's nothing to talk about Serena," Stefan replied. "After we stop Loraine, I'm compelling you and Jenny to forget everything that's happened."
"What happened to having my own decision?" Serena asked.
"That was before you were taken and you almost died," Stefan said. "My life is too dangerous for you. I'm making the decision for you."
Now, Serena was furious. "Stefan you do not-"
However, Stefan quickly covered her mouth and they backed up. He then pointed across the street and Serena saw Loraine driving in a van.
"Let's go." Stefan and Serena then quickly followed the the moving vehicle.
They reached the van, which stopped in an abandoned building.
"Call Jenny and Katherine," Stefan said.
"What about you?" Serena asked as she pulled out her cellphone.
"I'm going in after her," Stefan replied.
"Stefan no!" Serena shouted. "You'll get yourself killed!"
"If I don't go now, she will have the chance to get away and do the same spell to someone else a month later," Stefan said. "I'm not going to let that happen again."
Before Serena could say anything else, Stefan headed to the building.
"Be careful," Serena said as she dialed Jenny's number.
As Stefan made his way through the building, trying to be as quiet as he can.
"So you have the nerve to follow me," Loraine's voice echoed through the building.
"I'm going to find you," Stefan said.
"And you'll do what?" Loraine mockingly asked. "I'm a powerful witch. I can easily kill you in a second."
"So why don't you?" Stefan asked. Loraine did not reply. "See I'm guessing that after you every full moon, you exhaust all your magic. Otherwise, you would have killed me all ready."
On the highest floor of the building Loraine walked around, irritated that Stefan had figured out her limitations
"You still won't be able find me!" she shouted as she continued to pace. However, the moment she turned around, Stefan was right in front of her.
"You shouldn't let your heart beat so fast then," Stefan said before he attacked Loraine. However, Loraine thrusted her hand through his stomach and he immediately felt searing pain.
"You forget that I still have my werewolf strength," Loraine said. "And just in case," she said before pulling her hand out of Stefan.
Stefan fell to the floor and clutched his stomach, which was still burning in pain. He saw that in Loraine's bloody hands, she was holding vervain.
"A little extra for the trouble you caused for me last night," Loraine said before she kicked Stefan right down the stairs and back to the lowest floor.
"I truly am sorry," Loraine started to say, "but you really should not have interfered." She then broke a floorboard and pulled out one of the pieces. "Farewell."
But before Loraine could deliver the fatal blow, she was hit from the back with a chair. Stefan could see Loraine collapsing to the floor and Serena going towards him and pulling him up.
"Are you okay?" Serena asked.
"I'll be fine," Stefan replied weakly. He dug through his stomach and pulled the remaining vervain out. His wound soon started to heal. "I thought I told you to wait outside."
"I wasn't going to let you go in alone," Serena said. "After I called Jenny and Katherine, I decided to go in too, and from what I can see, it was a smart decision."
Stefan was still in pain to argue. "Let's just go."
However, before Serena could pull Stefan up, she yelped in pain and started to collapse.
"Serena!" Stefan pushed past his pain and caught Serena before she fell. He saw that she was stabbed on her back with a knife and that Loraine had recovered from her knock out.
"This girl has become a thorn on my side!" Loraine said, irritated.
Stefan tried to stand up, but he could barely move. There was no way he could protect Serena and fight Loraine at the same time.
"It's time to put an end to you both!" Loraine raised another knife, preparing to kill them. However, she was quickly shot in the arm and she dropped the knife and was knocked back.
Stefan saw Jenny enter holding the wolfsbane-filled shotgun. "Sorry for the late entrance."
"Your just in time actually," Stefan said. Jenny then helped Serena and Stefan slowly got up and fed Serena his blood, healing the wound on her back.
As Loraine slowly got back up, she was face-to-face with Katherine. In her weakened state, Loraine now felt an emotion she hasn't had in a long time: fear.
"Goodbye Loraine," Katherine said with a twisted smile. "I'd say it was nice knowing you, but I'd be lying." She then jammed her hand through Loraine's chest and ripped out her heart, causing her to drop to the ground, dead.
"And that's the end of that," Katherine said and dropped Loraine's heart. She then helped Jenny with getting Stefan and Serena up.
"What are we going to do about her?" Jenny asked as they got outside, talking about Loraine's dead body.
"After we bring Stefan and Serena back, I'll take care of it," Katherine simply answered
They then continued to head back to the apartment.