One moment, Blair was up in her attic bedroom while Damon was going to track down some liquor for her. (Taking just an aspirin wasn't going to do the trick). The next moment, Anna was right in front of her. Blair hated to admit it, but she felt like she jumped fifty feet because of it. "Dammit, Anna! What the hell do you want?" She didn't have to ask how Anna had gotten into the house because odds were, Jeremy invited her in.
Anna looked as if she was going to regret what she was about to say, "I need you to come with me. I would rather you come willingly...I don't want to hurt you."
Blair crossed her arms, "And why would I come with you?"
Anna was straight to the point with her answer, "Because if you don't, then Andrea will take Elena instead."
That was the one thing that cinched Blair's willingness. She held out her arms in a 'get this over with' way. Anna reluctantly did as she was ordered to do and took Blair out through the window.
Blair didn't put up a fight the speedy way back to the different motel or while she was forced to stay put. She wasn't going to just sit on that bed and do nothing so she finally convinced one of the captors, Ben, to get a deck of cards. Long many poker games short, Ben owes her fifty bucks.
"You're being very...cool about this," Ben couldn't help but comment as he shuffled for a game of Go Fish this time.
"I've lived, I've died, I'll live again. It's a never ending cycle so why bother putting up a fight anymore." Blair picked up her cards as they were dealt and shook her head. "I cannot believe we're playing Go Fish."
Ben narrowed his eyes at her a little because he didn't believe her, for one thing.
Blair caught this and sighed, "Dude, your crew kidnapped me. You're in no position to judge."
"Fair enough," Ben replied, "Got any threes?"
With a shake to her head, she answered, "Go fish." After a few more inquiries about cards, she asked, "So, where is my evil past life?"
Ben gathered up the cards at the end of the round and didn't answer the question. Instead, he made another comment, "You're a lot different than her. I thought you two were the same."
Blair couldn't help but laugh at that. As in hysterically laugh. When she finally caught her breath, she explained, "Yeah...nooooo, we are not the same. The second I died when I was Andrea, I 'poofed!' into another body and Andrea...became, well, a monster. I don't use that word lightly." After taking the cards from him to deal this time, she asked, "You feeling bad enough to actually let me go?"
Ben sighed, "Not gonna happen. It wouldn't make a difference anyway because, as I'm sure you know, the uber vamp would go right after that sister of yours."
Blair rested her head back on the headboard, "Touche, Ben. Touche."
At some point during that night, Blair fell asleep and when she awoke the next morning, Anna had joined them. "So," Blair asked through a yawn, "is Andrea going to show up or what? I'm just dying to see her." Her mock excited tone was almost nauseating to create.
"Have you gone to the bathroom, yet?" Anna asked, receiving a weird look from Blair in reply.
Blair went into the bathroom and saw Bonnie, unconscious in the tub. Feeling a surge of anger go through her, she ran back out into the other room. "Bonnie has been here the whole time! You son of a bitch, what did you do to her?!"
Anna had to stop Blair from attacking Ben. But instead of compiling, Blair fought back this time.
"Dammit, Ben! I played Go Fish with you!" Blair wanted to kill him for harming Bonnie, but she couldn't. Especially when Anna used her strength to shove Blair into the bathroom and locked the door.
Blair cried out in anger then rushed to check on her friend. "Bonnie? Bonnie, can you hear me?"
She wasn't getting much of a response so she soaked a towel and wet Bonnie's forehead. Now she was getting a reaction out of her.
Bonnie's eyes started to open, "Blair?"
"Ten points for Witchy Obvious," Blair teased with a smile.
"You're mean," Bonnie groaned in reply then winced, "Ow, my head." Blair helped her into more a sitting position as she exclaimed, "Oh my god! Ben is a..."
Blair cut her off, "A vampire. I know. Well I know now. I didn't know before your date with the guy."
"And here I thought you knew everything." Bonnie had to get her own jab in since Blair had one of her own. After receiving a sarcastic 'ha ha' look from Blair in reply, she asked, "What are we doing here?"
"Oh just another day in Mystic Falls. An evil uber vamp wants to open up a tomb with Emily's spell book and since you're a witch and I'm whatever, here we are." Blair slid to the floor next to the tub and asked, "What?" when Bonnie looked at her with a 'I can't believe you look'.
"How...how are you so calm? We've been kidnapped by crazy people and you're just all...'eh, whatever' about it. What the hell, Blair?!" Bonnie, herself, was freaking so she couldn't get why Blair wasn't reacting differently.
"I'm all 'eh,whatever' about it, because I've been through worse. Which you know," Blair pointed out.
"Okay, yeah, well, I haven't so can you please not be so freaking calm!" Bonnie took the wet cloth from Blair and plopped it upon her face, enjoying the cool sensation for the moment.
"Bonnie, one way or another I will get you out of here without any more harm coming to you. You have my word." Blair took the cloth away and held Bonnie's hand in hers. "You have my word."
"They want me to open the tomb, don't they?" Bonnie sounded really scared about that.
Blair nodded, "Yeah, I think they do." Just then Ben came into the room and said to Blair, "She wants to talk to you."
Blair got to her feet and looked at her friend in an 'I got this' way before going over to Ben and kicking him right in the crotch. "That's for hurting my friend and making me play Go Fish." She walked into the other room and saw Andrea sitting on the dresser and Anna was nowhere to be seen.
Andrea stared long and hard at Blair before saying a word. "Well, if it isn't my copy of a copy. You enjoying your stay?"
This was so...surreal to say the least. Not to mention infuriating. Blair clenched her fists at her side, "Would it matter either way?"
Andrea shrugged, "Nope." She hopped down from the dresser and appeared right in front of Blair, "We are going to have so much fun."
"Oh, you have no idea. When I kill you, I'm going to throw a party." Blair was not going to be intimidated by this soulless monster in her past life's meat suit.
Andrea laughed, "You're funny. I can't be killed. Many have tried, all have failed. One of the perks of being an incarnation vampire." She was very proud about that.
"Oh, Andrea, so stupid you are. The one thing that can kill you is the one thing you need alive for this little plan of yours. And even if you kill me, I will keep coming back until you die." Blair smiled wickedly at the woman and for a brief moment she would swear a flicker of fear crossed Andrea's face. A moment that would have been missed if she blinked.
Andrea showed off her vampire side and snarled at Blair, "You just keep coming back, my little copy of a copy, and I will enjoy every time I get to kill you over and over again. But you're right, I need you alive...for now, so I can't have my fun that way. I do, however, have another idea." Andrea grinned wickedly and pulled out Blair's cell phone. When Blair tried to get it back, Andrea said, "That Bennett in there isn't the only witch in town. Try it again and I will rip her throat out."
Blair believed Andrea's threat and stepped back. Watching as she made the call on her cell phone.
Andrea hummed a little tune as she waited for the voice on the other end of the line to speak, "Well, if it isn't Damon Salvatore. How lovely to hear you speak." She giggled then got down to business, "If you want my copy of a copy to survive the night meet me in the town square." Andrea ended the call and looked right at Blair, "Do you think he will love you even after seeing this face?" Not giving Blair a chance to answer, she shouted, "I'm going out!"
When Ben and Bonnie came out of the bathroom, Andrea disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Andrea sat on a bench in the town square and waited for the man she had only heard stories about to appear at her side. When Damon sat down, she looked at the man who she was apparently once in love with and yet felt...nothing for him. "Where's Blair?" he demanded to know.
Andrea, while she may not feel anything for this man, was still going to have her fun with him, "What? No reunion kiss?" She slid her hand up his thigh, only for him to forcibly remove it.
"I don't care what you look like, you are not the woman I love." Damon couldn't possibly make those words any clearer.
Andrea laughed and took her hand from his grasp with ease. "I could easily become that woman again. I would even be willing to share you with Katherine. I am sure she would love to get what she's always wanted. Oh, wait, no...that'd be Stefan, whoops."
"Where is Blair?" Damon wasn't in the mood for games and wanted her back.
"She's safe, for now. As long as nothing stands in my way of the tomb opening tonight then she will be returned to you." With a wicked little grin, she added, "In one form or another." Before Damon could inquire further, Andrea was gone.
When she returned back to the motel room, the door was wide open and Ben was huddled between the beds to hide from the sunlight.
"It was Stefan!" He cried out, "There was nothing I could do! Anna was working with them."
Andrea grabbed Ben by his throat and held threw him up against the wall. Her hand twitched in front of his chest before she released him from her grasp. "I never should have left you alone with them." Andrea hissed and walked away from Ben. She then began to pace as her mind raced. "Without the book or the witch I will never be able to get that tomb open and I have to get it open." Andrea continued to pace then stopped suddenly. "I have an idea. A wonderfully wicked idea. If they want to open the tomb, let them and I will be right there when they do."
"Blair!" Damon exclaimed as he Elena rushed over when Blair and the others walked into the boarding house.
"We're fine." Blair looked at Anna who was the last to enter the house and smiled, "We have a plan."
After going over everything again, Elena was trying to wrap his mind around it. "Wait, you are going to actually open the tomb? Why?"
"Anna's mom is in there. We go in, get her out, and the others fry. That's the deal, right Anna?" Blair looked at the girl in question and she nodded in reply.
"How are you going to open it?" Damon asked. "I mean, no offense, Bonnie, but you're not the most potent potion in the Grimoire."
Bonnie shot Damon a 'screw you' look before Sheila, Bonnie's grandmother, walked into the room, saying, "That's where I come in. I will open the tomb."
Elena looked around the room, "Are we really doing this?"
Blair nodded, "We are. And when Andrea shows up, because I know she will, I will finish her off once and for all."
"Do you think she killed him?" Anna asked after a moment because Ben was in on this plan along with them.
Stefan shook his head, "I don't think so. She knows that you're not on her side anymore, but he stayed and told her that. She's going to need an ally and she thinks that's Ben."
Blair didn't think Stefan was right, but he wasn't going to say anything to the contrary. Instead, she stood and referred to the literal and not so literal, "Let's get ready for the party."
Blair had just finished her phone call with Matt, since he had been texting Elena asking where she was and why she wasn't answering and whatnot. She was just about to go downstairs to return the phone back to Elena when Damon stopped her in the hallway. "So you weren't just saying that. You and him are really a thing, huh?" Damon asked with crossed arms, leaning on the hallway wall.
Blair tapped the phone in her hand, "Yeah, we're something. It's new. Still trying to figure it out."
"Well that's just funny to me, because, one would think after what happened in Atlanta that you would want to figure that out first," Damon replied.
"Damon, I've made it clear that nothing will ever happen to us. No matter how many weak moments I may have, it doesn't change the fact that you killed three people that I loved. I don't think I will ever be able to get past that." Blair tried to walk past, but Damon sidestepped to keep her from going down the stairs.
"Let me make it up to you," He whispered, moving some hair behind her ear.
Blair almost shivered from his touch, in a good way. "I'm with Matt now." Her words were firm as she moved around him and walked down the stairs. As she did, she heard Damon ask, "Now is that because you really like the guy or because you need an excuse not to be with me?"
Blair paused halfway down the stairs and without looking at him she answered, "Both." and continued on her way.
The time came for them all to meet up at the church ruins. Blair made sure to steer clear from the nearby party in case she ran into Matt. She lied and said she wasn't up for going so making an appearance really would be bad. "We all set?" Blair asked, looking around at the group.
Stefan nodded, "The debris is clear and the torches are set. We can go down now."
"Let's get this over with." Bonnie muttered, rubbing her arms before they all made their descent to the underground level; to the tomb.
Sheila lit the torches as she said, "Air. Earth. Fire. Water."
Anna held onto Blair's arm in anticipation, making Blair smile. "What?" Anna asked, wondering what Blair was smiling about.
"Nothing. It's just...the last time you grabbed my arm like this was when I took you on that adventure." Blair winked, knowing that Anna would know what she was talking about.
"We took running with horses to a whole other level." Anna remembered that day clearly and laughed then the girls were shushed by the elder Bennett witch. They looked at each other with with 'oops' expressions before they started paying attention.
The Bennetts started their chant and the door finally opened. "It worked." Anna almost rushed right inside but grabbed Blair's arm. "Leverage. Just in case."
Blair rolled her eyes and said, "Keep an eye out for Andrea. We'll be back."
The girls walked into the tomb with Damon right behind them. "Did you really think I was going to let you go alone with her?" Damon asked with an 'as if' expression as they walked.
It felt like forever by the time they reached Pearl. "Mother!" Anna exclaimed, rushing to her.
Blair sprinted over and held out her wrist to Anna, "Just enough to awaken her, okay?"
Anna nodded and bit Blair's wrist before bringing it to Pearl's lips. When Damon felt Pearl had consumed enough, he pulled her away.
"That's enough." Damon was firm with his words. "Let's get you out of here." He brought Blair to the door of the tomb and watched as she went out.
Blair turned around, "Damon, come on."
"He can't." Bonnie informed her, causing Blair's eyes to go wide.
"What? What do you mean he cant?" Blair whipped around to face Damon, "What does she mean, you can't?!"
"I wasn't going to risk you going in there." Damon answered, "And hey, at least now you don't have to worry about a choice."
"The seal is still up, we'll try to get it down long enough for Damon to get out but...we don't know if we can." Bonnie looked so guilty.
Blair looked at Damon and slapped him across the face. "How could you be so stupid?!" She turned around and pointed at the Bennetts, "You...you said..."
"We know, child. We know," Sheila answered. "And we will try."
Blair looked over at Stefan and Elena, "Did you know he'd be stuck in there?"
"He made his choice," Stefan answered, making Blair look at Damon once again.
"You are an idiot." Blair wanted to slap him or punch him or something, but she didn't. Instead she flung herself at him and held on in case the spell didn't work.
Damon didn't say anything and just held onto her in case this was the last time he'd ever get the chance to. The thought of Blair going into a tomb full of hungry vampires terrified the hell out of him. He wasn't going to risk it. He wasn't going to risk her. That's why he went in and he'd do it again to make sure she'd be safe.
The chanting went on and on from the Bennetts and finally, the seal lifted. Blair pulled Damon out and didn't let him go. "Don't you ever scare me like that again!" She shouted at him and slapped him once more, just because.
"No promises." Damon cupped Blair's face and brought his lips to hers. He didn't care about her consequences. He saw an opportunity so he took it.
Anna and Pearl walked out of the tomb as the Bennetts continued with their chanting. "She's not in there." Anna said as they walked past. "Katherine's not in there."
That caught the attention of everyone who was paying attention, as well as Blair and Damon to broke their kiss. Anna and her mother left without another word. The chanting stopped and the lights went out in the room outside the tomb.
"Katherine's not in the tomb?" Damon thought aloud, looking at Blair in question, "Then why the hell did Andrea want it open?"
"And where is she now?" Blair asked, without receiving an answer. Knowing she wasn't going to get one.
When they all left the underground room, they found Ben's body with a stake through his heart and a note. The note read 'This isn't over'. And that was it. "Bitch be crazy." Blair thought aloud, knowing the note was from Andrea, and not just because of the handwriting.
Damon wrapped his arm around Blair, "Let's get out of here."
She was all for that, so they each headed their separate ways.
Andrea watched Anna and Pearl and followed them back to yet another motel room. Once they had gone inside, Andrea stormed in with full form.
Anna gasped, "Please, Andrea, I'm so sorry I just..."
"Speak another word and it will be your last." Andrea pointed firmly at Anna, who just nodded in reply.
Andrea looked at the mother and daughter pair, "I still have uses for you. So don't worry. I won't kill either of you...yet. However, if either of you betray me...I will tear you limb from and and throw your pieces into the sun." Looking between the women, she asked, "Do we have an understanding?" After receiving slow nods from them in reply, she grinned, "Excellent."
Blair threw her jacket on the wicker chair in her attic bedroom and plopped on the bed. "How is Katherine not in there?"
"Question for another day," Damon, who had joined her, replied. He sat on the bed next to Blair and asked, "Are we going to talk about what happened or did it not happen and we have to go through this endless cycle of..." His dramatic spiel was cut off by Blair grabbing his jacket and pulling him close.
She moved her lips against his with such desire before pulling away. "Stop talking."
Damon grinned at this sudden turn of events, "Gladly." He guided Blair back onto the bed and moved himself over her to start their little repeat of Atlanta.
Blair was tired of feeling conflicted about every decision she had to make. She was tired of worrying about every single consequence, and she was tired of living but not feeling as if she was alive. So Blair acted. She gave into her desires and pushed everything else aside. Would she regret it? Probably, but that was a problem for another time. Right now, in this time, she was with Damon...and allowed herself to love every minute of it.
End Episode 14
A/N: Thank you for reading yet another episode of Personification, and I apologize for the shorter than normal length! And, as usual, special thanks to AlyAlyAly for putting up with my insanity and live commentary! XD
