Heya, so here is the next chapter. Please, please, please, review. Really hope you like it! x

After what felt like an incredibly long, thoughtful silence, Lucifer asked a question, "So… what's the plan?"

"Erm…" Damon began. "Well. The witches have been trying to find Malachi and Bonnie but something has been blocking their spells. Elena had a sort of trance-like dream. She saw Bonnie."

Darla interjected, "She couldn't tell where she was but it has left me certain that I can trance to find her." Darla certainly sounded confident. "I plan on joining auras with Elena and Meredith. I hope that she will draw them towards her, the way she called Elena to her."

"I see… Well that seems sensible." Lucifer didn't want to make it too easy for them so he didn't tell them that he already knew exactly where they were. He didn't tell them that Malachi was only hiding her a few towns over. Time was of the essence for Damon, but Lucifer was working to his own time scale. He wanted them to be almost too late. He needed Damon to be angry, ravenous for revenge, if they had any chance of defeating Malachi without Lucifer having to get his hands too dirty. He didn't want Dieu on his back again. God could be such a bore. Always implementing new stupid rules. "Well… let's get to work. You should go do that. Damon and I need to determine a plan to save his Bonnie. So Damon, what do we do when we know where she is?"

"We go get her and I'm going to kill that bastard for ever laying a finger on her." Damon said darkly.

"I see. But how?" Lucifer persisted.

"I don't know."

Lucifer smiled. Perfect. "Right. Well obviously the humans can't help. They would just get in the way. We leave them here. Meredith is strong, she'll protect them."

"What about the witches? Won't they be useful?" Damon asked at the same time as Stefan saying, "I'm not leaving Elena."

"Stefan she will be safer here and you will be too busy to protect her. She will just distract you. Damon, I'm not sure. It might be worth taking Darla along, just in case."

"We think Malachi has a witch. We think that is how he is blocking Darla's location spells." Sage intercepted.

"I see. Ok, so we take the witch. We will all come in from different entrances. Stefan you and Sage will search for a back entrance and Damon and Christian will take the front. I will come in last – after all, I am the only one who will surprise him. We'll attack Malachi and then worry about Bonnie once he's dead. If we get distracted by her, he will kill you all."

No one replied. It would take a lot to ignore Bonnie. Damon didn't think it was possible. He knew that everything inside of him would be pulled towards her the second he saw her. They all stood in the living room thinking about what they would have to do. Suddenly the door opened wide, "It's time. We've found her!" Darla came in running. "She's not far from here. We also have an idea."

Elena and Meredith followed closely behind. "We want to give Bonnie our auras. It will give her the strength she needs not to change. We've done it before… We've all done it before… when she has done a spell too big for her."

"You're not coming. You'll be safer here love." Stefan interrupted.

"No! We have to… Bonnie needs us." Elena snapped. She wasn't used to being told she couldn't do what she wanted.

Lucifer smiled. Perhaps there was something in what they were saying. If they joined auras with Bonnie, she'd have the power to help defeat Malachi. Hell, she'd certainly be angry enough. "I don't see why they can't come. It may even be a good idea."

Damon looked at Lucifer suspiciously. He knew Lucifer well. There was a reason he had suddenly changed his mind. Damon had no idea what it was but he was suddenly nervous because he knew that eventually he'd find out and chances are he wouldn't like it. Damon looked at his brother and saw that Stefan was just as concerned as he was. Damon shook his head, they didn't have time for this. If they wanted to risk their lives, that was their choice. "Right, where are they?"

"A few towns over. An old deserted warehouse. It won't take more than an hour."

"Right. What are we waiting for?" Everyone heard the urgency in his voice and jumped to action. Mrs Flowers waved them all goodbye as they jumped into the Damon and Stefan's cars. Lucifer travelled with Damon in the Ferrari. Sage, Meredith sat in the backseat. Meredith had been the only human with the courage to sit so close to Lucifer. Elena took the front passenger seat besides Stefan, as Christian, Darla and Matt got into the back.

Damon sighed. Finally they were on their way. He drove faster than he would normally drive and that was saying something. Before they knew it they were out of Fells Church and racing towards Bonnie. No one spoke. There was a nervous tension in the air, within the car. Lucifer seemed to be the only person immune to it; he sat humming to himself, perfectly at ease.

Darla broke the silence a few times to give a quick instruction to Damon. "Turn left… Take the right… This is the town…" The closer they got the more Damon tensed. His entire body seemed to turn to stone. He also increased his speed. The trees began to disperse as they came into the town. "It's just round the corner. We should park up. We want to surprise him…" Darla suggested. Quickly, Damon pulled the car into a parking space on the side of the road. He looked in his mirror and saw his little brother copy his action. "Ok. It's time."