Chapter 10! Yay! Sorry I haven't updated in a while but I've been having a little trouble finding time to write. Anyways, I'll try to update faster next time I promise. I hope you all like this chapter it took a while to finish as you can imagine.

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Chapter 10: Fool Me Once

The events that transpired after they had left the grave sight of Giuseppe Salvatore were almost like a blur to Adele. She couldn't remember much just that she had stayed over at Damon's, he woke her up, told her to get dressed and was ushering her towards his Camaro. By the time she realized what was going on Damon was already explaining to her that they were on their way to meet up with Anna confusing Adele even more so than she already was but Damon wouldn't tell her why he all the sudden wanted to talk to the other vampire whom he turned down the day before.

"Come on Damon. Why are we here?" Adele takes in her surroundings as Damon leads her to the center of town also known as Town Square. "Don't' worry Kitten; I just need you to make sure she came alone." Adele blinks pausing in her steps to look up at him. "Okay…but did you feel it necessary to bring that?" Damon glances down at the grim war in his hand. "I couldn't take a chance with Stefan in the house. Who knows if he would try and destroy it while I'm gone? After you make sure she's alone and not trying to trick us I'll hand you the book and you go back to the car." She nods but there was no chance she was actually going to wait in the car. He disappears from her side leaving her standing off to the side of town square.

Walking forward she spots Anna speaking with her brother before taking a seat on a bench. There was something that bothered her about the way Anna seemed to friendly with Jeremy. Something about that whole relationship that not only irked her but worried her as well, like she knew Anna was up to something more than just having a casual interest in her younger brother.

As Anna spots her Adele waves her fingers giving the girl a bright –fake– smile. After finally saying goodbye to Jeremy Anna makes her way over taking a seat next to her. "You know I'm not sure I like this thing you have going on with my brother. I mean don't get me wrong it's nothing against you but I've done a very good job of keeping the vampires he attracts at bay and you're not helping anything." Anna smiles thinking the young girl was joking but as she glances at her, her smile falls. "He…he asked me to that party by the cemetery."

Adele nods slowly. "It's Duke's party. He's a total douche but he throws some kick ass parties. Anyways enough about your hot date with my little brother, Damon wants me to make sure you came alone. Did you come alone?" Anna glances around them as if to prove a point. "It would seem that way." Adele nods. "It would." She stands turning to Damon as he appears beside her. He hands the grim war to her and she takes it pressing it to her chest tightly and walking away far enough that she can still hear but she isn't completely noticeable.

"I told you threes a crowd." Anna ignores his comment. "You're out a witch and I'm out a spell book." She pauses to let the observation sink in. "So what do you say?" Damon doesn't say anything for a moment and Adele wonders if he knows she's standing there. "Stefan will come after you, you know that. For messing with Elena." Obviously not because if he did know she was standing there he wouldn't have been so willing to say something like that so freely, when apparently he didn't have the balls to tell her on the way there and if she wasn't annoyed already, she was now.

"Then he won't be too happy when I kill her when I don't get what I want." Adele takes a step towards them as Anna stands up and starts to storm away. "Give the girl what she wants before she throws a damn temper tantrum and kills everyone Damon." Damon looks over at his shoulder at her shocked for a half a second because not only did she just snap at him but he didn't hear her come up behind him, he didn't even notice her here he thought for sure she had gone back to the car when he couldn't hear even the lightest of footsteps from her. "Damon please." She half mutters as Anna is getting further away from them and he sighs.

"When do you want to do this?" Anna stops walking and turns back to them. Glancing between the two she starts laughing which causes Adele to roll her eyes. "Wow, you Salvatore brothers are pathetic when it comes to women. At least this time it isn't the same one." When she gets no reaction from the two she continues. "Tonight after sun down, meet at the church."

When she's gone Adele turns on Damon. "How come you didn't tell me she had my sister?" Damon sighs looking up at her. "Because I didn't want you to worry." Adele takes a seat beside him on the bench. "If my sister goes messing again Damon and you know about it tell me."

~x~

Stefan though he thought that Grams plan was a good one that could easily be pulled off he saw one fault in it. "We still have to get Damon to agree." Elena turns to Stefan. "He already agreed once."

"Yeah and then we double crossed him so now he's angry." She shakes her head at Stefan because she doesn't get how Damon's own brother could mistake his pain for anger. "He's hurt. There's a difference…I think I know what I have to do." Stefan blinks at her before sighing.

"It's unlikely that he is going to trust you." She nods. "I know, but I know someone he will trust." Bonnie seems to be the only one truly confused because Grams didn't seem to interested as long as they got him to agree leaving her the only one not knowing what was going on at the moment as she looks between the couple. "Who?" Elena glances down at her. "Adele."

"No. We shouldn't involve her." Elena throws her arms above her head in frustration. "News flash Stefan! She already is involved! She involved herself when she tricked us into giving Damon the Grim War." Bonnie is half surprised by this only half. "She went against you?" Elena takes a deep breath to calm herself. "Yes. But she realized first what we didn't. There is a reason I always said she was way too smart for her own good." The last part was a comment more for herself then them as the three others in the room study the young girl. "She realized what we've all failed to realize."

Sighing she gazes up at him noticing now just how close he really was, his warm breath brushed against her lips and she gulps gathering as much self-control as she can. "If I do help you and we are able to get Katherine out of the tomb…there is something I need you to do for me…" After a moment's thought he nods. "Of course."

"All you want is Katherine back…That's all you've wanted since arriving here?" The question almost hurts her to ask and he hesitates before he answers because yes that was what he wanted when he arrived and yes he still wants that but there was that part of him that almost didn't care whether he got her back or not as he stares down at the blonde. "Yes."

"Then I'll help you but only if when you get her out, you take her and you leave town…" She has to pause for a moment, swallowing thickly she continues. "Never come back. You don't hurt anyone here and you get to have her for the rest of your life." She mentally winces as her voice seems to crack despite her attempts to keep it emotionless.

Damon for a second feels hurt, he has half a thought to forget about the whole idea of him asking for her help but there's something about the way she is looking at him, like the words had caused her pain as she said them and he swallows. "Okay." He mutters. "Deal."

~x~

Glancing over her shoulder Adele is half angry as she spots Elena standing in the door way of her bedroom. "Where the hell did you come from?" Her tone is clam and it almost worries Elena at just how clam. "Stefan." Adele rolls her blue eyes. "Of course. Why didn't I see that one coming?" She mutters to herself and Elena steps into the room despite Adele's glare.

"I convinced Bonnie to help Damon." Adele sends Elena a frown as she moves towards her closet a pair of Jeans on a hanger in her hand. "Why don't I believe you?" She asks as she hangs the jeans up.

"I'm not going to say I'm sorry if that is what this is about. Besides you agreed to help us before you agreed to help Damon if anyone deserves an apology it's us." Adele smirks. "Don't hold your breath sister." Elena rolls her eyes. "I was trying to protect the people I love." Adele sighs turning back to Elena.

"You were putting everyone in more danger then you might have thought. I can't believe that I am the only one who sees exactly what is needed to be done here. Getting Katherine out of the tomb is this town's only hope for safety. I can't be the only one who realizes that? You can't be as stupid as to think destroying the one thing that is going to get Damon what he wants –the one thing Damon has been terrorizing the town because of– is a good idea. If you and Stefan had actually went through with destroying the grim war what makes you think Damon wouldn't have went on a killing spree Elena? Did you ever give any thought to the little minor detail that you're dealing with a blood thirsty Vampire who gives no regards to human life at all? You're a damn idiot if you actually thought that was a good idea."

There it was again, Adele's –twice as worse than it used to be– mean streak. Elena loved her sister but it was next to impossible to talk to her when she was in a mood like she was in now and Elena would be lying if she said she had given the idea some real thought before deciding that last night's plan was indeed a good one which in reality Adele was right, it wasn't. "He would have killed not only Stefan but you too and quite possibly me as well right on the spot." Elena nods weakly. "I see that now. I do. I don't know how I didn't see it before either…but I think there might be more to the reason of why you helped Damon."

"Don't try to put a double meaning behind things that don't have double meanings Elena, you were never good at that." Elena is tempted to reach out for her sister but thinks better of it because she valued her hand exactly the way it was.

"I know you can't remember anything..." Adele makes a sudden clicking noise that makes Elena cut off and frown. "I see Stefan got to you as well my dear sister. Well why don't you tell Stefan to butt out of my life and as for you…if there was something you wanted, great! Get on with it. If not…get out."

"You need to convince Damon to work with us. He won't trust us but he trust you." Adele crosses her arms. "What's funny about that is for a brief time last night he did trust you guys but you double crossed him and he was actually hurt. How do I knowI can trust you? I don't want to see Damon hurt like that again mostly because I don't want to be a vampire."

For a moment Elena is speechless. "What are you talking about? That was all an act last night!" Adele's eyes widen slightly. "I told Damon to follow my lead and he was doing a good job but the whole turning thing I did not see coming, I was…okay I wasn't scared mostly because Damon was barely holding me and I realized I could break free if I very will wished to but that is beside the point." Adele cuts off in breath of air as she stares at her sister across the room.

"I'll make you a deal Elena. I'll convince Damon to work with you again but you screw him over and I'm leaving town, never to return and you can spend the time explaining to Jeremy why he keeps losing the ones he loves the most. We have a deal?" Elena is silent for a moment, staring at this girl who was her sister wondering exactly when she had become so protective over the man who was the cause of all there problems and why. "Okay. Fine."

~x~

Damon turns truly surprised when he hears Adele clear her throat from the doorway. "You look surprised to see me." He narrows his eyes slightly as he looks up at her. He just didn't get how she did it. "I think I've asked you this before but how are you so silent? I mean I can't even hear when you walk in the room and I have very good hearing."

"I've always had a nag for sneaking up on people." She waves him off. "You should probably know Elena and Bonnie are free. Stefan got them." Damon looks for any sign that she might be joking, that she thought it would be funny to come in and play a practical and highly cruel joke on him but she was completely serious, completely calm. "Great! Now what do we do?"

"Well I didn't just come with bad news I also come with good news." Bouncing down the steps and into the room Adele flashes Damon a bright smile. "Elena has convinced Bonnie and her grandmother to help us." And Damon stares at her because she couldn't be serious right now, could she?

"Your joking? You can't be serious right now Kitten." Sighing Adele comes to stand in front of him. "I'm not joking, I'm completely serious." Some part of him is in disbelief while the other part is somewhat angry. "Before you go all scary Vampire on me here me out, she's not lying, call it a twin thing or just a bad judge in character but I'm 99.9 percent positive she isn't lying."

"I can't trust her." Adele shakes her head. "No you can't, but you can trust me. So trust me Damon." Her blue eyes are wide and her bottom lip is pushed out slightly and he mentally curses her because how was he supposed to say no when she looked at him like that? "Fine, but you have to promise me something." Happy –and somewhat surprised– that she got him to agree so easily she quickly nods. "Okay."

"Promise me you'll let Stefan tell you what is wrong and then give some thought to letting him help you." Her smile wavers slightly before she takes a deep breath. "Okay. I promise."

~x~

The old church was deeply hidden due to years of abandonment and neglect. There only way to get there was to pass through the woods meaning they would have to pass through an ongoing party which was at the moment extremely populated with a crowd of drinking and dancing teenagers much to Adele's utter horror. "I forgot about Duke's party." She mutters and Damon glances at her but says nothing.

"Is it really necessary for me to be here? I mean Elena and Stefan are going to be there to do whatever, Bonnie and her grandmother are going to be there to open the tomb, what is my purpose for me being there?" Damon after parking the car behind a very beat up old Chevy truck and turning off the engine turns to her. "Moral Support." Adele is left staring at the empty seat of the driver side as Damon leaves the car and hurries over to her side. Opening the door he holds out his hand letting her take it so he can help her out as a gust of cool air hits her making her shiver slightly. she looks up at him once standing completely straight. "Hi." He smiles.

"Hi." She ends up smiling back before he's dragging her towards the row of trees leading to Duke's party. Some of the teens she goes to school with stare at her and Damon's connected hands but stay otherwise silent besides the occasional whisper and she sighs because they we're going to most likely blow the whole thing out of context which made her want to pull her hand back but she resist.

Adele skids to a stop as Caroline and Matt cut in front of their path towards the church and Adele sighs looking up at Damon's annoyed expression. "Adele…Hey. I haven't seen or heard from you in a while." Gazing between the two of them Caroline's smile fades slowly. "What are you doing?" Before she has a chance to come up with an answer, Damon cuts her off. "It's a long story."

"I wasn't talking to you." Damon sends a smile towards the slightly taller blonde. "Sure you were." Matt sensing a bit of tension in the air holds out his hand. "We haven't met. I'm Matt." Damon barely glances at him. "Matt…there's a reason we haven't met." Walking around the two Damon tightens his hold on her hand pulling her along with her. "You and I are going this way." Glancing back Adele waves slightly to the two before continuing on with Damon.

~x~

Grams glances around them seeming just slightly worried. "Are you sure she'll be able to bring him here?" Elena nods but before she says anything a whistle cuts her off and the four of them turn spotting Damon pulling Adele along behind him. "Brother, Brothers girlfriend, Witches." It wasn't a practically warm greeting not that Elena was even counting on a greeting at all.

Once everyone had made it down the steps Adele takes a seat on a step close to the bottom and watches silently. Part of her wished she was out partying with Tyler and Caroline but then again she wasn't actually in the mood for partying. Really she just wanted to go home and sleep but Damon insisted on her being there so there she was forced to watch the witches open the tomb and the happy reunion of Damon and his one true love. The thought makes her stomach turn.

So deep in thought Adele barely realizes that torches are lit and the witches had started chanting in a different language, what language? Adele didn't care enough to pay that much attention but as they chanted the fire from the torches grew causing Adele to crawl up a step and flinch away and she was thankful that no one seemed to notice.

Stone moving against stone takes her attention away from the fire and towards the door of the tomb which was moving, opening. "Don't you have fires to build?" Moving out of the way of Stefan she moves down the steps and more towards Elena. Damon glances between the four of them and Adele narrows her eyes into the darkness of the tomb. "You ready?"

"What?" Adele doesn't look up at either Damon or Elena until Damon reaches past her sister to grab her wrist. "Not you. You." Adele's eyes widen slightly as he yanks her towards him and the darkness.

"You think I'm going in there alone so you can seal me in?" The question was directed at the witches. "Don't bring her in there. I'll bring the walls down." Damon gives the elder witch a knowing smirk. "You'll bring the walls down if I don't. You think I trust you?"

"Okay we're not going to start a witch vs vampire war right now." Reaching over Adele picks one of the burning torches from the ground and hands it to Damon. "Let's go." Adele plucks the flashlight out of Elena's hand before following behind the vampire into the unwelcoming darkness.

As they continued further into the tomb whispers surrounded them and Adele takes a step closer to Damon. "What is that?" Damon glances back at her briefly. "They can sense you. Don't worry, you're safe. Now where is she?" Before she could blink Damon was gone and she skids to a stop. "Damon…"

"Damon! God damn it, Asshole." Sighing she gazes around her. Should she go back or continue on? If she goes back she risks the witches trying to seal him in. If she stays she's surrounded by a bunch of mummified vampires who can't exactly do anything. She continues into the darkness with only the flashlight as her main source of light.

~x~

She trips catching herself before she lands on her knees and curses as her flashlight falls from her hand and lands a few feet away. Walking over she picks it up before standing up straight and flicking her hair out of her face with a dramatic sigh. This wasn't the way she wanted to spend her Saturday night. "Damon…" She calls once more as she continues on.

As she flashes the light to the side it crosses over one of the vampires and she slows down to a stop. She takes a slow step forward moving the flashlight over another one of the vampires. No matter where she flashed the light it came across another vampire which makes her wonder how many vampires there were in their small town back in 1864.

She shines her light down on one of the vampires bending down to get a better look and as she did it's eyes open and she raises an eyebrow, it really must suck to be them right now. Standing back up she moves the light to continue on her way before slowly back tracing to the corner. "Well you're differently not mummified." Anna sends her a smirk.

~x~

Stefan returns with the gas gazing around at the two witches and Elena. He couldn't help but notice someone was missing. "Where's Adele?" Elena shakes her head but doesn't stop her pacing to look at him. "Damon took her inside with him." Stefan drops the gasoline from his hand and jerks towards the tomb door. "If you go in there you won't come out."

He skids to a halt turning to look at the elder witch. "What did you do?" Grams straightens her shoulders and raises her chin as she looks at the vampire. "Opening the door didn't remove the seal. It just opened the door."

"What's the seal?" Grams takes a second to respond. "Some seals keep vampires from going in. This seal keeps vampires from coming out." Stefan regards the elder witch in silence for a minute. "Adele is human. She can come out. Katherine's not she can't, which means Damon cant. You were never planning on breaking the spell."

Grams takes a step back from Stefan. "I told you, I will protect my own. Adele can get out…that's all that matters." Elena had stopped pacing to stare at Bonnie's grandmother because that wasn't all that mattered at least not until Adele came out.

~x~

"You must have a taste for it." Adele switches the flashlight to her other hand as she studies the approaching vampire. "Excuse me?" Anna sends her a smile that seemed only half sincere. "You've been falling Damon around all night and day though I'm getting the feeling that isn't exactly on your own will." Adele shrugs a shoulder taking a step back to create some distance between them. "Everything I've done has been on my own free will. I chose to help Damon."

"Well he seems very smitten over you." Taking another step back Adele lets out a surprised gasps as she trips slightly bringing the light down to see what it was she had tripped over. "Mother!" Anna rushes forward making Adele stumble back to keep the distance she had worked to create between them. Anna turns back to look at the blonde. "You're sister's boyfriend did this." Adele raises an eyebrow before holding up a finger. "Don't confuse history. His father did."

"And Jonathon Gilbert, I made the choice a long time ago that it would be Gilbert blood that brought her back to life. I had Jeremy all ready to go…" Adele's hand catches the handle of her gun but she wasn't fast enough. Anna rushes towards her one hand going out to catch her shoulder, the other forcing the hand that held the gun up and the gun falls to the ground. "Let me guess wooden bullets? I should have expected you of all peop-Shit!" Anna stumbles back out of surprise letting Adele go her hand reaches up to touch her now bleeding forehead where Adele had banged heads with her.

Anna jumps to the left a gasps escaping her as the wooden stake in Adele's hand grazes her arm and she wonders only for a second where it had come from. Lashing out Anna tries to grab her but with surprising speed that Anna didn't know a human could have Adele dodges and swipes her arm out catching Anna in the cheek and Anna cruses. Before Adele has a chance to react Anna leaps forward knocking the stake out of Adele's hand and Adele jumps back out of Anna's reach.

Glancing to the side Adele eyes the gun not too far from her. Kicking her boot into the dirt she sends a cloud of dust flying up and Anna coughs turning her head away at which point Adele jumps for the gun but Anna recovers to quickly grabbing the girl by her blonde hair and yanking her up. Grabbing a hold of her forearm Anna bites into the delicate flesh of her wrist a little harder than necessary causing Adele to shirk in pain.

~x~

Stefan hears the shirk and a million horrible thoughts and images run though his mind of Adele being hurt possibly even dead the longer he sat there and did nothing at which causes him to turn and run through the darkness of the tomb's opening with Elena yelling after him to stop but before she has a chance to follow him Bonnie grabs a hold of her forearm yanking her back. "He can't stay in there!" She cries fighting against the girl she calls a best friend. "He made his choice." Was Grams only response. Bonnie looking between her Best friend and Grandmother feels torn.

"Show me how to do it." Bonnie lets go of Elena trusting her not to run into the tomb unarmed and alone. Bonnie picks up the grim war turning to her grandmother. ""Were not strong enough, even if we could get the seal down there's no telling if we could get it back up."

"You said it yourself, many things could foul a witch's power, help me or I'll do it alone." Grams stared at her granddaughter before nodding and gently taking the book from her.

~x~

Adele is struggling against the vampire as she presses her bleeding wrist against the other –almost dead– vampires' mouth. There is only a few second between the time her blood is being feed to the half dead vampire till Stefan is pushing Anna away and telling her to go on, that he would be right behind her and she turns making sure to grab her gun before making a run for the entrance to the tomb.

Adele rushes out of the entrance of the tomb feeling as if she had ran through a door made of glass causing her to stumble and land on her knees. It was as if the glass wall had tried but failed to keep her inside the tomb which makes her look up at the entrance frowning. Her frown only deepens when Stefan stops instead of coming out. As if reading her mind he shakes his head. "I can't." She pushes herself from the ground

"Can't? You can't? You can't what?" Elena takes a step forward before stepping back deciding against the idea of moving any closer to her sister at this moment because she looks angry and she's holding a fully loaded gun. "The spell is still up. They can't get out. Not yet." Turning her burning blue eyes to Elena she raises an eyebrow. "Who can't get out? Vampires?" Elena nods. "So this was a trick?" Elena flinches back as Adele's voice gets louder. "I didn't know…"

"Like hell you didn't! So what happened Elena? Why have the witches decided to break the spell? Because Stefan went in? What would have happened if he didn't? You'd leave Damon in there to rot? God I can't believe I trusted you!" Elena upon seeing the edges of her sisters blue eyes turning black takes another step away from her. Elena had never truly been afraid of Adele before but at this very moment she was terrified.

"Why did you go in there, if you knew you couldn't get out?" Adele turns to Stefan. "I heard you scream." Sighing Adele takes a step towards him. "You shouldn't have run in. Not if it means you might not get out."

"They're bringing the seal down." Turning back to Elena Adele scoffs. "I'll believe it when it happens. You think I trust her?" Adele mentions to Bonnie who was too busy with the spell to notice but Elena just sinks back further and sighs. "Find him." Adele demands and Stefan nods before disappearing into the blackness.

~x~

Adele wasn't much for patience, never had been. There was times when her patience ran so thin she was close to pulling out her hair…this was one of those times as she paces the entrance of the tomb waiting for Stefan and Damon.

Coming to a stop Adele watches as Anna steps from the shadows of the tomb helping her mother along. Anna glances at her quickly. "I just wanted my mother. Jeremy's outside. He's fine." Adele glare told Anna to keep moving and she did, not wanting to stick around the blonde any longer than necessary.

The fire was dying, the witches were getting tired, Elena was getting nervous and Adele was getting anxious. Turning the flash light back on Adele turns to Elena briefly to explain she was going to find them and before Elena has the chance to protest she was gone back into the still unwelcoming darkness.

She didn't realize how many turns and twist a tomb under the ground could have until she was actually running through one. She wasn't even sure she was going the right way but something was telling her to go the way she was. Something was pulling her closer towards the back of the tomb.

Adele stops in the arch way leading into another section of the tomb and looks between the Salvatore brothers. Damon was staring at Stefan as if he could rip his head off right then and there but there was no sign of Elena's look alike with him. "Damon…" Glancing up his blue eyes catch hers. "Let's go…Please." His tense shoulder slump forward and he lets out a struggled breath before fixing his leather jacket.

Upon finally getting out of the tomb this time without the feeling of breaking through a glass wall, Adele doesn't stop to say anything to anyone, to even acknowledge them when they call her name, not only did she feel like she was going to be sick, that fresh air would do her some good, she remembered Anna had said Jeremy was outside and he was, unconscious a few feet away from the steps towards the trees.

She drops to her knees beside him checking for any other signs of injury besides being knocked out and when she finds none she lets out the breath she didn't realize she was holding. Resting her head on Jeremy's chest she takes a few deep breaths to calm her racing heart only looking up when Elena and hStefan show up next to her.

She leaves there side once she spots Damon. She approaches him slowly, as if cautious of what he might do. When she's in front of him she stops gazing up at him as he gazes back at her. "She wasn't in there…she was never in there." He whispers. "I am so sorry…" Getting up onto her tiptoes she wraps her toned arms around his neck but he's to hurt to be surprised, instead he rests his hands on her lower back pulling her closer because there was something about being so close to her that was comforting.

~x~

Her head hurt, there were too many thoughts running through her mind at once that it had given her a head ache. There wasn't anything she really wanted to do more than crawl into bed and sleep for a week if not longer.

She slipped off her top replacing it with a loose fitting tank top and she replaces her jeans with a pair of Hello Kitty shorts before throwing her hair into a messy pony tail. Unhooking her necklace and slipping off her bracelets she makes her way over to her Jewelry box sitting on her dresser. It was small dark wooden box that consisted of a picture of her and her parents from a summer or two ago. Her mother had given it to her on her 13th birthday.

Opening it up she listens to the soft song that the small little ballerina played while she twirled before placing her Jewelry in their rightful places a ring catches her eye and she reaches for it pulling it out. She holds it up watching as it seems to sparkle in the dim lighting of her room. She flinches as the first of many ear piercing screams hits her.

She clinches the ring in her hand closing her eyes and all she see's is the flames crawling up the walls of the living room, someone is screaming for her to move, to run but she's frozen, horrified. Opening in her eyes in a gasps she backs up towards her bedroom door. Letting out a small whimper as the screaming gets louder, she swings open her bedroom door racing from the room because she feels as If she was suffocating, as if smoke was filling her lungs making it next to impossible to breath.

She stumbles down the hall bumping into the railing of the stairs as she looks for something to grip. She lifts her hands to cover her ears as if it would help get rid of the screaming. Her legs can't hold her weight and she crashed to her knees in front of the steps.

~x~

Jeremy who was preoccupied with his search on vampires hears the banging in the hall but he ignore it, thinking someone had just dropped something that is until he hears the much bigger noise closer to his bedroom now and he stands from his computer chair decided to check on it. It was either Adele or Aunt Jenna for they were the only ones home.

Upon opening his door he spots Adele on her knees with her hands covering her ears and her eyes shut tight rocking back and frothing muttering something that he couldn't hear. "Adele!" Racing over he drops down in front of her and he can finally hear what she is saying. "Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop."

"Adele…" He places his hands on her own hands that are covering her ears forcing her head up to look at him and her eyes open wide, wider than he thought possible. "Fire..." He frowns. "Fire…where?"

"Everywhere! Make them stop screaming! Make them stop!" He takes his hands away as she starts to shake. "Jenna!" He calls out as she places her head on her knees. "Jenna!"

"What's going on? What's wrong with her?" Jeremy not knowing exactly what do say just shakes his head. "What do we do? I don't know what's going on!" Jenna backs up. "Try to calm her down, I'm calling 911."

Jeremy reaches for her again but this time she fights him, with a surprising amount of strength for such a petite girl. Though she had always been stronger than most would give her credit for. "Adele stop!" Her closed fist strikes him in the side of his jaw causing her hand to open and he hears but doesn't see the clash of something on the wooden floors but he figures Adele is a little more important than whatever it was she had in her hand. Grabbing the tops of her arms he forces them down. He pulls her to him, pressing her shaking body against his chest and suddenly she becomes still, silent. He pulls back to look at her just to notice she had passed out. "Jenna! She passed out!"