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Chapter 14: Fool Me Once

I woke up and looked around, a guy was sleeping on the chair across from the bed, and I tried to creep past him but he woke up.

"I wouldn't" He said.

I was terrified.

"Don't try to escape, Don't even move, do you understand?" He said trying to compel me.

"I understand" I lied.

I ran to the door and opened it, but Anna was standing. "Seriously?" She asked.
"I told her not to move, I did that eye thing you taught me"

"And forgot the lesson about the vervain! She's friend's with a vampire Ben, duh!"

"Who are you? What do you want?" I demanded.

"What does it matter" She said.

She forced me into the bathroom and shut the door, I stood for a minute, looking around trying to find anyway to escape, but then I spotted her.

"Bonnie? Oh my god!" I said rushing over to her.

I managed to wake her up.

"Bonnie?" I asked.
"Aj?"

"Oh you're okay!" I said hugging her.

"My head..."
"Come here" I said.

"Oh my god, Ben's a vampire"

"Shhh" I said. I guestured to my ear "They can hear us"

I turned on the shower and started talking.
"Oh my god I'm so stupid" Bonnie said.
"No, he had us all fooled" I said.

"What's going on? Why are we here?" She asked.

"It must be something to do with the tomb and Emily's spell book" I said.

"Spell book?" Bonnie asked.

"Damon said it could be used to open the tomb" I said.
"Why didn't I know any of this?"

"I was trying to keep you out of it, hoping it would never come to this"

"Come to what?" She asked.

"They need a witch to break the spell and let the vampire's out"

"No way"

"I know"

Ben came in.

"You're wasting your time, I'm never going to help you" Bonnie snapped.

He grabbed me "That's why she's here, motivation for you to behave" He said "You should never have been so desperate, you made it too easy"

The look on Bonnie's face made me angry and I tried elbowing him in the gut.

But he threw me from the room and I was face to face with the girl again.

"Well Well" She said "April Gilbert, you really are Elizabeth's doppelganger, you must have Damon reeling"

"Who are you?" I demanded.

"I'm Anna, your brother may have mentioned me, I mean we're like, practiacally dating" She said.

She turned and looked outside.

"Bonnie's not gonna open that damn tomb" I said.

"Oh I think she will" Anna said.

"Do you really want Elizabeth out that bad?" I asked.

"Trust me, nobody wants to see that girl again. Except Damon, the love struck idiot"

"Then what is it?" I asked "Or who is it?"

"My mother's in there, Elizabeth or Katherine couldn't keep to themselves, just had to toy around with The Salvatore brother's, then they got caught, so did my mother, I watched Jonathan Gilbert take her away"

"I'm sorry" I said, I knew the feeling of wanting my mom back.

"You really mean that don' you? Yeah, I think we'll skip the "Dead mom" bonding so you can start serving purpose"

"Which is what?"

"leverage" She said "This belong to you?"

"What?"

She held up my phone and it was ringing. I went to grab it but she pulled it back. "Ah-ah" She said.

She answered it.

"She's fine. For now. Tell me you have the grimoire and she'll stay fine" She said "Which means your brother has it and I have the witch so one of you better meet me in the very public town square in 30 minutes, so we can safely discuss how fun it's going to be to work together"

She hung up and and went over to the bathroom door.

"I'm leaving" She said.

He came out with Bonnie and threw her to the bed.

"Keep them buttoned down" She said "Compulsion wont work, just use violence"

"I got that"

She left and I looked around.

"Is there a drink here?"

"Are you offering?" He smirked "There's water on the nightstand"

I drank it and then gave it to Bonnie, who threw it on him and set him on fire. We ran for the door but he grabbed me...again.

"Come back in, shut the door"

"Don't hurt her"

"Don't make me"

Bonnie came back in and shut the door.
"Lock it"

"Witches don't have an eternal life right? SO you guy's can die right?"

"Yep. We can die"

"Ah, sucks"

Suddenly the door was kicked open, and there stood Stefan, saviour Stefan. He opened the curtains and the light shone through hitting Ben.

"Stefan!" I cried.

"Get outside!"

Bonnie and I ran out, waiting on Stefan.

-LATER-

Bonnie, Elena and Stefan went to Bonnie's Grams and I went to the boarding house. I went in and saw Damon put his coat on.

"I'm gonna have to change the locks, you stage a jailbreak?"

"Stefan" I said.

I knew what he had said...but I promised myself that I'd help him, just to get him away from here, to keep him away.

"Ah, brother. Ever the white night"

"I convinced Bonnie to help you" I said.
"I doubt that"

"I'm not gonna say I'm sorry for getting the grimoire last night, because I'm not"

"Well at least you're honest"
"I was protecting the people I love Damon, But so were you, in your own twisted way, and as hard as it is to figure out we're all on the same side, after the same thing" I said.

"Not interested" he said.

"yes, you are" I said "you were willing to work with us yesterday"

"Fool me once, shame on you"

"Okay, when we were in Atlanta why didn't you use your powers on me?"

"Who's to say I didn't?"

"You didn't" I hesitated "I know you didn't. But you could have. You and I we have something, an understanding, and I know my betrayal hurt you, different from how it is with Stefan, but I'm promising you now, I will help you get Elizabeth back"

"I wish I could believe you" He said.

I took my necklace off and put it on the table and stared hard at him.

"Ask me if I'm lying now"

He walked over to me and stood infront of me.

"You know, Anna wont stop by the way, no matter what I do"

"Then we'll deal with it" I shrugged.
Damon picked up my necklace and put his hands around my neck, I got a tingly feeling. He put it back on.
"I didn't compel you in Atlanta, because we were having fun" He said "I wanted it to be real, I'm trusting you, don't make me regret it"

-TOMB-

"Brother. Witches. Elena" Damon said smugly.

"Everything ok?" Stefan asked.

"I just want this to be over with, I need sleep, are we ready?" I asked.

"Yes" Bonnie said.

They began and started talking, I tuned out, not really wanting to pay any attention. But when I saw Damon pull out a blood bag I began to listen.

"What's that?"

"For Elizabeth, something has to keep her going, less April's offering to tap a vein" He smirked at me and I turned away from him "Admit it, you can't wait to get rid of me"

"I can't wait to get rid of you" Stefan said.

"We're ready" Bonnie said.

"What are they saying?" Damon asked.

"Sounds Latin" Stefan replied.
"I don't think it's latin" I said.

"What's happening?" Elena asked as the tourches lit up.

"It worked" Bonnie said.
"Of course it worked" Grams said.

"Don't you have some fires to build?" Damon said to Stefan.

"I'm gonna go get gasoline, I'll be right back" He said, Elena went with him.

"You ready?" He said looking down at me.

"WHat?" I asked.

"I'm not going in there by myself, so you can seal me in" He said and grabbed me.

"Don't take her in! I'll bring the walls down" Grams said.
"You'll bring the walls down if I dont" Damon said. "think I trust you?"
"As much as I trust you" She snapped back.

"Enough. Both of you, Look he needs leverage" I said "I get it, I'll go in"

Damon grabbed the torch and looked at me "May I?" HE asked.

We walked into the tomb, and the further we went in, the more we could hear the whisperes.

"What is that?!" I demanded.
"They can sense you, now where is she?" He demanded and walked off. I couldn't see.
"Damon!" I hissed.

I walked around, still hearing it.

"Damon?" I whimpered "Damon/"

I fell and got back up, my flashlight beam landed on on of the mummified vampires and I began to panic.

"You must have a taste for it" A voice said, I whirled and seen Anna "You scream and shriek and even bother to escape, and you just come right back to it"

I then knocked onto something and turned.
"Mother! Mother. Your friend did this"

"His father did" I snapped.
"And Jonathan Gilbert, I made a choice along time ago that it would be Gilbert blood that brought her back, to life, I had Jeremy already to go but..."

I went to run and she blocked my way, and bit into my wrist, I let out a scream.

She threw me back and I landed next to her mummified mother and she began to drink the blood from my wirst.

"No, please don't!" I whimpered again.

"I'm gonna get you out" Anna said ignoring me.

That's when I saw Stefan.

"Let her go!" He snapped.

He pushed her away and grabbed me up.

"Go. Go I'm right behind you" He said.

I ran out of the tomb, and saw that Stefan wasn't coming out.

"Stefan what are you doing?" I asked.
"It's gonna be okay" Bonnie said.
"WHat is it?"

"I can't"

"Can't? Can't what?" I demanded.

"The spell's still up, we can't get him out yet"

"You went in there not knowing if you'd come back out? God Stefan..." I said.
"I heard you scream" He said.

"We can't leave him in there, I promised him..."

"I know"

Stefan vanished.
"Stefan!" ELena cried.

I followed him in, ELena's cries echoing around me.

"Damon we need to get out of here" Stefan's voice said.

I found them and I saw how upset he was...where was Elizabeth?

"It doesn't make sense, they locked them inside"

"If we don't get out now, we're not getting out"

"How could she not be in here?"

"It's not worth spending all eternity down she's not worth it!"

"NO!" Damon cried.

"Damon please" I said pulling his arm "Please"

He looked down at me, his eyes big and he looked like he might cry. He nodded and followed us out.

We got out and Stefan ran to Elena.

We all walked out of the tomb, all apart from Damon.

ELena ran over to Jeremy, to see if he was ok. He groaned.
"He's okay" Stefan said.

Damon walked out of the tomb, and I bit my lip, going over to him and embracing him in a hug. I put my hands around his neck and closed my eyes.

"I'm sorry" I whispered.

-LATE-

Elena called and said she was at Bonnie's grams house, I had given Jeremy pills for his head ache, but I couldn't quite get my mind off Damon, and Elizabeth...how could she not be in the tomb? Where was she...

All this time he'd been trying to get her out and she wasn't even there...what a bitch.