Dear Diary
I spent all night looking for him and had no success. I have no idea where he is and I don't know why Anna took him. That's not like the girl that I remember from 1864. I probably shouldn't even be writing right now, but it's one way that I can keep my sanity.
Leah was sleeping. Having your neck broken hurts long after it happens. I found Damon is the study. He was reading the book.
"Anna took Jeremy." I told him. It didn't seem to elicit a reaction in him. It wasn't the first time I had told him.
"Yeah, I got that from your six hundred voicemails." He replied, not looking up from the book.
"Damon, I searched every street in town and every building." I explained.
"That's not my problem." He declared.
"Please, tell me what you know." I begged. "You were with Anna last night. You must know where she is. Just tell me where to find her."
"Nope." He responded. "You can go."
"You know you used to be the one person that I looked up to more than anything." I explained. "But your choices have made me despise you. I'm sorry for Katherine getting taken."
"Apology accepted." He declared.
"So if you know anything, please tell me." I begged once again. "Tell me."
"I say this sincerely." He told me as he got up and closed the book. "I hope Jeremy dies."
He walked out of the room. Well he's not going to be of any help. I have to come up with some other idea. It was at that time that I noticed that Leah was awake. I decided that I could use her help.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"Jeremy was kidnapped last night by this vampire that I knew in 1864." I explained.
"Why did they take him?" Leah inquired.
"Because her mom is inside the tomb." I replied. "She was my friend."
"What's her name?" Leah asked.
"Anna." I told her. "I spent all of last night looking and found nothing. I was going to go out again soon. I'm going to need your help. You're better at compelling people than I am."
"Are you sure that you need to compel people?" She asked me. "Don't you know a witch that you could have do a locator spell? I think that would work better than random shots in the dark."
"I don't know what to do." I remarked as I began to cry. I couldn't lose Jeremy. I couldn't.
"Hey, it's going to be okay." Leah told me as she gave me a hug. "Wow you smell really bad from running around all night. Why don't you take a shower and we can leave after that."
I nodded and headed to my bathroom. I really hoped that he was going to be okay. I couldn't help but notice that Leah was kind of right. I did smell pretty bad. I took my clothes off and got into the shower.
Once I got out, I dressed myself in a black top and a black and white skirt that kind of looked like it had been designed by Jackson Pollock. I don't know why I buy some of the stuff that I buy. I also added a long black coat which I left unbuttoned. I decided that I would forego stockings, even though I could probably some. I knew that I needed to go find Leah. I could tell that Damon wasn't in the house anymore. I needed to be prepared for a fight, even though I didn't really want to fight Anna. She was my only real friend and she never compelled me.
I went into the kitchen where I could see that Leah had changed out of her pajamas.
"You ready to go?" She asked.
"Yes." I answered before my phone suddenly started to ring. It said it was Jeremy. "Jeremy? Are you okay?"
"He's fine." The voice answered. It wasn't Jeremy. It was Anna. "Tell me you have the grimoire and he'll stay fine."
"Anna. Why did you take Jeremy?" I asked.
"I needed someone to keep you to help me. So do you have the grimoire?" She asked. She sounded more driven. I then heard Damon walk up behind me.
"I can get it." I told her. I don't know how I could get it from him. I may have to break his neck and steal it.
"So that means that your brother has it." Anna deduced. "I have the witch, so why don't one of you meet me in the very public town square and we can discuss how fun it's going to be to work together."
She hung up and I looked at Damon. He didn't look he was interesting in helping me out.
"Go ahead. Grovel again." Damon instructed. "I enjoy watching it. Though, I still don't care about your boyfriend."
"So do you want to start looking again?" Leah asked me.
"You know, even with all that she's done, I don't want to hurt Anna." I told her. "I know why she's doing this. She and her mother were some of the good ones, unlike Katherine. Pearl probably didn't deserve to be in the tomb."
"We need to focus on saving Jeremy." Leah reminded me. "If we have to kill your friend to get him back then that's what we have to do."
"I just hope that it doesn't come to that." I replied as we went out the door. I figured that it would be a good idea to talk to her grandma. I knocked on the door once again. "Sheila, I need your help. This is my friend, Leah. Jeremy and Bonnie have been kidnapped and I need you to do a locator spell to find them."
Sheila looked pretty angry. She grabbed something of Bonnie's and began to chant a little. I hoped that she would be able to tell us and that Bonnie and Jeremy were still together.
"She's in a hotel." Sheila told us. "Room 14."
The two of headed to the hotel and I kicked the door open to Room 14. The bartender from the Grill was there. He was being burned by the sun. I opened the shades.
"Take them back to Sheila's house." I told Leah. I then looked at the bartender, who was in a fetal position to stay out of the light. "When the sun goes down, leave town. If I see you again, I will kill you."
I don't know if he was smart enough to listen, but I was glad that Jeremy and Bonnie were safe now. I don't think that this was over.
When we got there, I gave Bonnie some time alone with her grandma. She had invited Leah and I in, knowing that she could trust us.
"So what are we going to now?" Jeremy asked.
"I think it would be best if you just stayed here out of harm's way." I told him.
"A prisoner in my own home? I don't think so." Sheila replied. I wasn't talking to her.
"We need to have some sort of plan." Leah deduced. "Just because we rescued Bonnie and Jeremy doesn't mean that they're going to stop. Why don't we just open this tomb?"
"Damon still has the grimoire, but maybe we can get him to give it up if we get Katherine out of it." I responded.
"That's probably the best idea." Jeremy agreed. "I also kind of want to let Anna get her mother out of there. You didn't see how sincere she was about it. She tried to hide it, but she's just a girl that wants her mom back."
"Neither one of them should get what they want after what they've done." Bonnie remarked angrily.
"It's safer just to open it." Jeremy proposed. "We can stop the others from getting out."
"Witches being pulled down by vampire problems." Sheila commented. "As much as we try to stay out of it, we just get pulled back in. I'll open the tomb. You get your brother's girl and destroy the rest with fire. Then this will be all over."
I don't think Anna would be very happy with that result.
"How are we going to get Damon to agree?" I asked. "It seems like he doesn't want to hear anything that comes out of my mouth right now."
"Let me try." Jeremy suggested. "I might be able to break through to him. We got him to agree once."
"We kind of betrayed him." Leah pointed out.
"Just let me try." Jeremy requested.
I decided that I would stand close-by to listen to what they were saying without being close enough for Damon to see me.
"Did you stage a jailbreak?" My brother asked.
"Sara got me out." Jeremy responded.
"Ah, my sister, she'd be a very good white knight." Damon replied facetiously.
"I convinced Bonnie and her grandma to help you." Jeremy remarked. He didn't seem to be in the mood for jokes.
"I doubt that." Damon responded.
"I'm not telling you sorry for going after the book without you because I'm not." Jeremy stated.
"Well at least you're honest." Damon admitted.
"I think we really bonded in Atlanta. You didn't compel me." Jeremy said.
"How do you know?" Damon countered.
"I just know. You could have but you didn't." Jeremy replied. "We want to help you with this. We realized that you're willing to do anything to get Katherine back and we don't want to see you do that. I think that you should accept some help."
"I wish I could believe you." Damon replied.
"Then compel me." Jeremy suggested as I heard him taking his bracelet off. Okay, that's a bad idea.
"You know I'll kill you if you betray me again." Damon responded. I guess that got through to him. "I didn't compel you because we were having fun. I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it."
That night I found out that there was a rather ill-advised party at the cemetery. Seriously, who throws a party in a cemetery on a cold night at the end of December? Now there was even more incentive to make sure the rest of the vampires don't get out.
I had to get a few things ready for everything. I had a flamethrower ready.
"Leah, do you think you can keep the people from the party from coming back here?" I asked. "We can't have some drunk teenager wandering into the tomb."
"You want me to be the lookout?" Leah asked in surprise.
"Someone needs to do it." I replied. "Just trust me."
"Are you sure that Damon is coming?" Sheila asked before there was a whistle and Damon walked over with both the book and Jeremy.
"Yes." I answered.
"Hello, Sister, Witches." Damon greeted, not making much eye contact.
"Are you okay?" I asked Jeremy.
"Let's just do this already." He remarked. "Where's Leah?"
"She's in charge of keeping people at the party from coming here." I explained. "I imagine most of them are able to be compelled."
We went down the steps that I think a spell had created. Inside Sheila was getting the ingredients of the spell together.
"Air, earth, fire." She stated.
"Water" Bonnie added as she produced a bottle. Sheila began to spread it across the ground.
"So, it's just water from the tap?" Jeremy asked.
"As opposed to what?" The woman asked.
"I thought it had to be blessed or something." Jeremy responded.
"I told you holy water didn't exist." I reminded him as Damon pulled out a bag of blood. "Why do you have that?"
"It's for Katherine. I have to have something to get her going, unless you boyfriend wants to offer." Damon replied. "Admit it. You can't wait to get rid of me."
"I definitely get wait to rid of you." I told him. I would be happy getting up when I want and not having to worry about bringing Jeremy over.
The two of them then began to cast the spell. I would have to go inside to get all of the stuff that I needed. I don't know why I didn't just bring the flamethrower in here to begin with.
"Dark down there?" The bartender asked as I came outside. He had Elena's unconscious but still alive body at his feet. I guess he wasn't smart enough to leave. Now he was going to die.
"I thought I told you to leave town." I responded.
"I considered it, but then I thought fuck you." He replied.
"So we meet again, Sara." Anna said from behind me. "I'm going down there to get my mother. You can try to stop me, but if you do my friend will make a meal out of Jeremy's sister.
"I don't want to stop you." I remarked. She had already run off. I knew I had to stop him. I honestly think Anna was more deserving of getting her mother back than Damon was of Katherine because as far as I could tell, Anna hadn't killed anyone since coming to town. Most likely both of would get what they want regardless of whether or not they deserve it.
"Do you really think that she cares about you? She's just going to throw you aside as soon as she gets her mother out of there." I explained. "She didn't even care enough to get you a ring to make you immune to sunlight."
"I don't care. She's given me the gift of eternal life." He replied.
"You're so pathetic." I told him. "You're stuck to being around at night."
"You know I've heard about you." He remarked as he walked closer to me. You don't feed on people. You're not as strong as me. You're just a weak little girl."
He charged at me and I clotheslined him. It was actually kind of fun to do.
"Was that the best you got?" He taunted.
"No, this is." I replied as I pulled the flamethrower and set him on fire. He screamed as the fire overtook him. I knew that I would have to resolve things with the tomb. I don't know if I had enough left to kill the other vampires.
"What's going on?" Leah asked. "I heard screaming."
"I want you to take Elena home." I instructed. "I have to see this through."
I went back down the stairs to see that only Bonnie and Sheila were outside. I think Damon, Jeremy, and Anna were all in the tomb.
"Where's Jeremy?" I asked.
"Damon took him inside." Bonnie remarked.
"I'm getting him out." I declared.
"Sara, if you go in there, you won't be to come out." Sheila told me.
"What did you do?" I asked angrily.
"Opening the door didn't remove the seal. It just opened the door." She explained.
"You're locking my brother in there?" I responded. Even with everything that Damon did, he didn't deserve that and Anna definitely didn't deserve that. "You need to remove the seal."
"I told you that we protect our own first." Sheila replied.
"They can't move." I replied. "The vampires can't move. Only the ones that are brought out can."
"Jeremy can get out. That's all that matters." Sheila replied.
"No, that's not all that matters." I argued. "Damon is my brother. He may be the worst brother in the world, but doesn't belong in there. Get him out."
I then heard Jeremy scream and without second thought ran into the tomb as they began to try the spell to remove the seal.
I found Anna holding Jeremy's wrist to Pearl's mouth.
"That's enough." I remarked. "You've given her enough to come back."
Anna obliged and handed Jeremy to me. I hugged him tightly.
"Thank you. I'm sorry for what I had to do." Anna replied as he mother slowly regained color.
"Anna…" Pearl called to her daughter. It couldn't help but feel happy seeing that.
"Come on, we need to find Damon." I told Jeremy as I noticed the two of them heading toward the stairs.
"She said that she had Elena ready to go or something." Jeremy replied.
"Leah is taking Elena home." I told him. "Right now we have to find Damon and get him out of here."
We went further into the tomb to find my brother. One thing that I couldn't help but notice was that none of the vampires were Katherine. Where was she?
"She's not here." Damon remarked. He then through the blood bag at the wall. "SHE'S NOT HERE!"
"Damon we need to get outside." I replied. "I don't know if they can keep the door open."
"How could she not be in here?" Damon asked. It was like he was losing his mind.
"She's not here, Damon. I don't know why, but we can't stay in here." I remarked.
"Come on, Damon. We have to leave." Jeremy added. Damon began to walk toward the door. I hoped this wouldn't cause him to go over the edge. I hoped that this wouldn't be like Elena seeing Vicki killed and he wouldn't decide that there was nothing else to live for. I can say that I hate my brother all that I want, but it's not true. No matter what he does, no matter who he kills, I know that I will always love him.
We exited the tomb at the right time because I don't think the witches would have been able to keep it up for much longer.
Once we were outside, I gave Damon a hug. He had worked so hard to get Katherine out, only for her not to be inside.
After I got home, I briefly talked with Jeremy on the phone before I noticed Damon staring at the fireplace.
"Damon, please tell me that you're not going to do anything stupid." I stated. "I know how much getting Katherine out of that tomb meant to you, but I can't lose you."
"She doesn't care about me…" He replied. "She's been alive this whole time and hasn't shown up…"
"I care about you Damon. I love you, Damon. I can't lose you." I told him.
So Sara has revealed the true reason that she can't kill Damon. She really cares about her brother and isn't afraid to admit it. But she's also still very badass. Please don't forget to review.