The second I saw the sun come up, I skipped my daily routine to go to the Bennett household. After knocking once, Grams appeared in the doorway. I sighed softly and gave her a soft smile.
"Angie. Why, it's nice to see you again." Grams started out, surprised to see me at her doorstep.
"It's great to see you too, Grams." I told her, "Is Bonnie home?"
"No. She's not. I don't know where that girl went. Probably still out on her date." Grams stated. I had an odd feeling about that. "Um, Grams can we talk for a sec?" I asked her. "Of course, child. What's on your mind?" Grams asked me a bit concerned. I sighed softly before putting my hand out for her to touch. She grabbed it briefly, but pulled back fast looking up at me shocked and in disbelief.
"Angie?" Grams nearly struggled out, "Oh no, no, no. Baby, how? Who did this to you?"
"I did it to myself. It happened when I left. I thought it was the only way to stop the pain. To turn it off. But I never found the courage to do it. I'm sorry." I admitted to her. Grams held her head up high eyeing me for a moment. "Why did you show me who you are? I could have just invited you in and never know the truth." Grams asked me. "I guess I'm getting tired of lying." I chuckled slightly, before saying seriously, "But, really, I just wanted to talk to you without pretending I'm human for once."
"Okay. What is it?" Grams asked me, crossing her arms staying behind the boundary in her house. "I wanted Bonnie's help for something. Now, before you criticize me, yes she knows what I am, and yes I want her to use her magic. But I'm NOT abusing her magic. I'm just asking for a favor. Just one little favor, that's all." I informed her.
"What must she have to help you with?" Grams asked me.
"I want to open the tomb." I admitted.
"What tomb?" Grams asked, but I'm sure deep down she already knew what I was talking about.
"The tomb that's at Fell's church. It's filled with around 27 vampires that haven't fed in over a century." I explained more to her.
"Have you lost your mind child?! These vampires are over 100 years old. You can't go about letting them out into town." Grams reminded me.
"Listen Grams, you didn't hear me out. I have a plan, okay? I have a plan. But I'm gonna need Bonnie for it. So yeah, it's more like two favors. One to take down the spell on the tomb to let them out and two for my plan. I promise no harm will come to Bonnie." I told her. "I know better than to know you would ever harm Bonnie. I believe you, but she's not doing it alone." Grams informed me. "Um, are you sure you want to... you know?" I asked her, making certain this was what she wanted. "Yes. Do you really think I'd let my grand baby perform a difficult spell on her own? And while we're at it, do you mind go checking on Bonnie? I've called her 5 times last night, but it goes straight to voice mail. And I don't know that boy she's with. Just.. let me know she's well." Grams asked of me.
"I promise." I told her, before leaving the Bennett house. Once I got down the street, I sped off towards my next destination.
The Boarding house.
After going into the house, I looked around for Damon.
"Damon? Damon, you in here? Damon, didn't you here me?" I called out, until I found my way into the library and saw him reading a book in peace. "A deaf man would hear you." Damon quipped, without even so glancing at me. I rolled my eyes, before walking over to stand in front of him. His eyes were still on the book. "You know I work better when given eye contact?" I told him. "And I work better when given less lip." Damon muttered out. I shook my head slightly, placing my hands on my hips.
"So what are we going to do about that whole, burning the tomb vampires thing?" I soon asked him. "Relax, Angel, we have the whole day to see that one through. First we need a witch." Damon told me.
"Check. We have Bonnie and her Grams' on board. Well, I still need to get Bonnie's approval, but Grams' in." I informed Damon.
"We need a fire torch." Damon stated.
"Check and check. I mean, no fire torch, but I have matches and I'm sure I can find some gasoline somewhere." I informed him. Before Damon could even continue, Stefan soon walked into the library, with an anxious look on his face.
"Anna took Elena." Stefan went straight to it.
"What?!" I asked out surprised by the new info.
I knew something was fucking wrong with that chick!
"Yeah, I got that from your 600 voicemails." Damon sarcastically stated. "Um, why am I just hearing about this? Why didn't you call me, Stefan?" I asked him. "Look, all night long, every single street in town, I've been searching for her. What if your blood hasn't passed out of her system?" Stefan informed us both. "Well, then at least you know you'll see her again." Damon stated as if that would make the whole situation any better. "Will you stop being such a dick for once?" I snapped at him in disbelief of his reaction of Elena's abduction at the moment.
"Please. What do you know? You were with Anna, you must know where she's living. Just tell me where I can find her." Stefan pleaded to Damon. He finally looked away from his book to look up at his brother. "Nope. You can go. Really." Stefan sighed looking over at me. "Angie, you were with Damon. Did you two ever found out where Anna was staying at?" Stefan asked me. For a brief second I looked over at Damon who gave me a look in return. I shook my head, crossing my arms slightly. "No, I stayed at the Grill with Jeremy the entire time." I lied.
I knew exactly where she was, of course. The kicker is, in order to get Elena back do I have to negotiate with the chick? I'll soon find out, I guess... Right now, I don't think telling Stefan would be the right way to go. He'd just jump to conclusions and go straight for her without thinking outside the box. Like, how many people are at the apartment. Who's guarding Elena? Are they vampires? How strong are they? Are there any weapons in the location or area? And so and so...
"You know, Damon, all I can remember is hating you. There might have been a time when that was different, but your choices have erased anything good about you. But see, I also know you have just as much reason to hate me. This all began with me. Katherine got taken away from you because of me. And I'm sorry." Stefan apologized. After Damon got up and placed the book down, which I saw was Emily's grimoire, he looked up over at Stefan.
"Apology accepted." He accepted.
"So, please, just tell me what you know." Stefan begged him again, "It's Elena, Damon. If you know something, tell me."
"I mean this sincerely. . . . . . . . . . . . .I. Hope. Elena. Dies." Damon stated honestly, before walking out of the library. I felt bad for Stefan and shook my head before leaving the library as well.
"Did you have to be so harsh?" I asked him. "Would you rather me be foolish enough to trust him again after the little incident last night? I thought so..." Damon stated. "Damon, I get why you can't trust Stefan right now, but this is Elena we're dealing with. My sister. I won't handle the fact of her dying if that ever occurs. We have to get her back." I told Damon. "Well, don't let me stop you from killing yourself over her." Damon stated, moving aside to let me pass.
"Fine. I will." I said, before speeding out of the boarding house. Once I got near the Grill, I pulled out my phone to dial Jeremy.
"Angie?" Jeremy asked out.
"Hey, Jer. What's up?" I started out conversation.
"Nothing much. Why you called?" Jeremy asked me.
"Why? I can't call my little baby brother to see how he's doing once in a while?" I asked out.
"No, but you're not the type of person to call just because. Is there a catch?" Jeremy asked me.
"No catch. But I hear you've been dating this girl named Anna, right?" I started out.
"There's the catch. And no, I'm not really dating her. We just hangout." Jeremy informed me.
"Well, then, why don't you just call her up at ask her to go meet up with you at Town Square?" I told him.
"Okay, but why?" Jeremy asked me suspiciously.
"Because I ship you." I joked. I could honestly picture him rolling his eyes in disbelief.
"I don't even know what that means." He started out.
"Does it matter? The point is, go hangout with her, instead of sitting around being moppy all day." I informed him.
"Fine. If you say so.." Jeremy gave in.
"Great. I'll talk to you later. Bye." I said, before hanging up. After that, I sped off towards the direction I knew where the motel was.
After a good 15 minutes, I finally reached the destination. I watched Anna exist the apartment. I waited a good 3 minutes. Once she was out of sight, I sped closer towards the building. I could hear two heartbeats and sense a vampire in the presence. From that I could tell it was Bonnie and Elena.
Elena was obvious, but Bonnie was because she never went home last night since her 'date'. And I'm sure the vampire with them could be male and most likely, Bonnie's 'date', but it's just a hunch.
Once I got my facts in order, I used my strength and sped quickly to kick the door down. The male vampire screamed in pain and quickly hid underneath by the side of the bed. I soon pulled open the curtains as well to be on the safe side.
"Angie?!" Elena called out in shock and surprise.
"Come on, girl's! Let's go! Get out of here!" I shouted out to them. Elena and Bonnie quickly dashed out the door. Once I couldn't see them much, I went over to the male vampire and crouched down over to him. "When the sun goes down, leave this town immediately. Do you hear me? If I ever see you again, I will kill you in the worst way possible." I threatened him, before speeding out of the motel. I stopped and decided to run up to Elena and Bonnie.
Once we seemed far off away from the motel we paused to look over at each other. "Are you guys okay?" I asked out, faking a pant. They panted out briefly trying to get air for their lungs. They both nodded softly. "We're okay." Elena told me, "How did you find us?"
"I looked around, asked around. Plus, it must have something to do with our semi-twin connection." I joked slightly, referring to the fact we're born on the same day. Elena shook her head and ran up to hug me. I hugged her back tight. Once she let go of me, I motioned Bonnie to let me hug her. She did and we embraced. I sighed in relief knowing that these girls were fine now with me.
"Okay, I'm going to text Stefan to meet us at Bonnie's place. Let's go there." I stated. They didn't need to be told twice, before starting to walk in the direction of Bonnie's house. I walked along with them, just in cause they wouldn't be abducted again.
After brief chit-chat at the Bennett household, I overheard all four of them agreeing to help Damon, whether willingly or not, in getting Katherine out. I, of course, had to explain to Stefan secretly in another room of how I knew where Bonnie and Elena were when I told him earlier I didn't. I admitted of lying and why I did so. He got mad, but held it back seeing we had much more important things to do than bark at each other. I even told him of how we need to burn the rest of the vampires, and he agreed.
So now it was dark out and we all went off to Duke's party, that was ironically close by the tomb. I as usual had to stay hidden from Elena for obvious reasons. At this point, I think I might actually tell her the truth once Damon and Katherine leave town. At least by then the truth's out and there's no more danger stopping me from admitting it to her.
After a short while, I soon went down to see everyone outside the tomb. But not everyone.
"Where's Damon and Elena?" I asked no one in particular in alert.
"She's inside with Damon. He took her for leverage." Bonnie informed me.
"What? She can't go in there!" I stated, ready to go in.
"No, Angie!" Grams called out for me. I paused for a moment to look back over at her. "Don't go in." She soon finished. "Why not?" I asked out, seeing no logic of just staying out here when my sister's in there.
Out of nowhere, Anna walked in. "What the hell are you doing here?!" I asked suspicious of her sudden presence.
"What? You think you can stop me, sidekick." Anna smirked, before speeding into the tomb past me. I curled my fist into a ball, but didn't do anything. "Why did you let her pass?" I asked Grams.
"Because she won't come out." Grams admitted to me.
"What?" I asked out.
"Opening the door didn't remove the seal on it. It just opened the door." Grams told me. "What seal?" I asked her, getting confused. "Some seals keep vampires from entering, like when you're not invited in, you're just not welcomed in. This one, however, keeps them from coming out." Grams explained to me.
It soon added up and made sense to me. "But Elena's human. She can leave, but Anna and Katherine can't. Damon won't leave either. You were never going to break the seal, were you?" I rhetorically asked her. "As I said before Angie. I will protect my own. Elena can get out. That's all that matters." She informed me.
"But what about the plan? Huh? I thought we all agreed to burn the vampires in the end?" I reminded her and wondered.
"We can't risk it, Angie. We can't." Grams informed me. I sighed softly, while turning to look back at the open tomb, taking a few steps away from it just in case if I accidentally got stuck on the other side of the border.
I really hoped Elena would be okay in there. I really hoped.
After a few minutes passed, Stefan came in and Grams explained everything to him as she did to me. We both had no choice but to wait for Elena to find her way out. We were okay with the idea at the time until it happened...
We heard Elena's ear-piercing scream.
Stefan immediately jumped up and ran for her. "Stefan!" Bonnie and I both called out to Stefan to stop him, but he didn't stop. "You can't just leave him in there, Grams!" Bonnie stated.
"I agree with her for once! I'm fine with Anna and Katherine rotting in there for god knows how long, hell I might even be fine with Damon being in there too. At least he'll be rotting with Katherine. How fucking romantic! But I'll be damned if we leave Stefan in there. We can't leave him in there with them." I added with Bonnie.
"He made his choice!" Grams reminded us.
"No. Here. Just show me what to do. I'll do it." Bonnie said desperately, picking up the grimoire.
"We are not strong enough. Even if we were able to bring the seal down, there's no guarantee that we could get it back up again." Grams informed us. "You don't need to." I said, before picking up a fire torch. "I'm going to burn them all alive." I said, before speeding into the tomb.
Once I got in, I sped around until I finally spotted Damon in an empty part of the tomb with a blood bag in his hands. "Damon?" I called out.
"She's not here." He muttered out angrily.
"What?" I asked out, in disbelief.
"She's not here!" He yelled out, throwing the blood bag at the wall with force causing it to blow up and splat out blood across it.
"Damon, come on. We have to get out of here. Now." I told Damon, quickly recovering from the fact Katherine was never in the tomb.
Either way, from the little stories I knew about her, I knew she was in fact a bitch.
"It doesn't make sense. They locked her inside." Damon started thinking out loud.
"Damon, come on. If we don't leave now, we're never getting out of here." I warned him.
"How could she not be in here?" Damon asked out.
"I don't know, Damon! Maybe she escaped. Maybe she didn't want to be down here. Maybe...Maybe she planned the whole thing." I tried to explain the unexplainable at the moment.
"No!" Damon shouted out, angrily.
I knew he was just lashing out. I shone my fire torch in front of him, warning him that if he even thought about attacking me I'd burn him alive right then and there. "Damon, please! Don't make this any harder than it is." I told him. Damon looked hesitate, but soon sped off. Once he sped away, I followed him and soon dropped the torch to the ground so the others could burn alive. We got out just in time, before the seal went back down I think.
Bonnie looked a little tired but was relieved to see us. Grams looked exhausted, but was relieved she didn't have to continue the spell anymore. After we got out, and luckily, I didn't have to face Elena, I sped far out of the tomb to Duke's party and decided to go back home to wash off the evidence on my clothes and change.
After changing into a simple blue top and some regular jeans, I watched Elena help drag Jeremy into his room.
"Hey, is everything alright?" I asked out, pretending to be the older oblivious sister they've learned to recognize me as.
"Yeah, Jeremy, uh, kinda passed out at a party. A little help?" Elena asked me. "Sure." I chuckled out, helping her with Jeremy. Once we got him to bed, Elena quickly went downstairs to get him some aspirin.
"Hey, sleepyhead, how's your head?" I teased him warmly.
"Uh-it's alright. I just... I wish I knew how I passed out. I didn't drink that much, I swear." Jeremy informed.
"That's okay. I believe you." I said, with a soft grin. I was just glad he was okay. Lately it was kinda hard keeping in touch with my siblings. One goes into constant danger almost every week and the other one, I'm pretty much oblivious about. All I know is he's dating a vampire, who's the enemy at the moment. At least I trust Stefan with Elena. I barely knew him and knew he'd never harmed her. With Anna, however, is like the complete opposite.
"And you don't remember anything?" Elena asked him.
"The whole things pretty cloudy. I just... I know how this looks. I'm - I'm sorry." Jeremy told us both. "No, Jeremy, don't be sorry. You didn't do anything, okay?" Elena reminded him. "I agree with Elena. Back then I would have said, apology accepted, but now I know you've changed and wouldn't do that. I believe you. You have absolutely nothing to apologize for, other than not telling me you were going off to party in the woods." I teased him by the end.
"Yeah, okay." Jeremy said.
"I've got to head on over to Bonnie's for a little bit, but is there anything that you need?" Elena asked him. "No, I'm just... I'm gonna crash." Jeremy informed us. "Okay, well. Jenna's here and I'll be back soon." Elena informed him, before leaving. I soon left too and followed up to Elena. "Hey, you know, maybe I should come too. I want check back with Bonnie. See how everything's doing." I told her. She nodded and we both went into her car, before driving off to the Bennett household together.
And may I add what an awkward car ride it is.
It's not like Elena knew what I was or was even suspecting it for the matter, but she was sending me a weird vibe throughout the whole ride.
Maybe I'm looking too much into things.
Or...
Maybe I'm not looking enough into things?
Once we got to the Bennett household, Bonnie welcomed us in. I helped Bonnie make tea for Grams as Elena was on the phone with Stefan. I even got a brief text from Caroline, telling me she was at the party with Matt and was on her way home. Ever since that night with Logan, Caroline has been safety cautious and had thanked me a few times for saving her life. Just to be on the safe side, she'd tell me where she was or were so I'd know if she'd possibly go missing again or not. It was just a little check in we'd do here and there. After a while, it became like part of our daily routine.
After replying to the text with a 'Okay, that's good.' and helping Bonnie finish with her tea, she soon took it to her Grams room. Elena was soon off her phone and looked over at me awkwardly. The tension was getting worse to the point I felt like staking myself.
"If you have something you want to say, I suggest getting on with it!" I nearly snapped out.
"Thank you." Elena soon blurted out.
I blinked a few times in surprise. "What?" I asked for her to repeat again.
"Thank you for coming after Bonnie and I earlier. I forgot to thank you earlier, so I'm thanking you now." Elena told me. I sighed softly and shook my head slightly. "It was nothing, really. I mean, when your sister gets into trouble, it's up to you to get her out of it right?" I chuckled out slightly. Elena sighed with relief, grinning at me in appreciation as if I was the best sister in the world to her.
Oh if only she knew of how much of a fat liar I was...
"Angie! Elena!" We both heard Bonnie cry out in the other room. In concern, we both dashed towards Grams room quickly to find a crying Bonnie. We stared at the scene before us in bewilder.
"Help! Wake up! She's not breathing! She's just not breathing! Please, wake up!" Bonnie sobbed out to her Grams, who lied peacefully on her bed. Elena ran out of the room to go dial 911, while I stayed to comfort Bonnie.
"I'm gonna fix it! It's okay, I can fix this!" Bonnie started to become hysterical when she took out the grimoire, looking like she wanted to resurrect her Grams back. Knowing this was both a bad idea and wouldn't work nor end well, I grabbed Bonnie by her upper arms and turned her towards me.
"No, Bonnie. Bonnie. Bonnie, look at me. Look at me, Bon." I tried consulting her. "No! NO! I can fix this! I can fix this!" Bonnie cried out. Tears slowly formed in my eyes seeing her as a fragile broken form. "No, Bonnie. Let her go. Just let her go." I told her. Bonnie sobbed and nearly broke down before me. I hugged her, just in time for Elena to come into the room. We both wrapped our arms around Bonnie trying to comfort her.
The rest of the night was a sad lose not just for Bonnie, but for everyone else that simply adored and honored Sheila Bennett.
A/N: Well, here's another chapter to make up for my absent. I'll see if working on my other chapters will be an option this week. :)
In all due respect, this was actually the quickest chapter of Abomination I've ever written. Usual it takes me from 3PM-9PM or 8 if I'm lucky. Rarely 7.
This one was like from 5PM-10PM. (I went out earlier, so forgive me XD)
Anyway, thank you for the reviews and following. They are fantastic motivations for me! :D Ciao!