Wee! Chapter 21 done! Yay! So I'm thinking we can reach 120 reviews before I post the next chapter, or you know more. ;p
I hope you enjoy and just in case I can't update before next Tuesday, I just want to say Happy Holidays! (:
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC's.
Chapter 21: Plan B
She feels hot, hot but comfortable as her eyes flutter open slowly and when they finally focus she closes them again because man is it bright. Maybe that's why it's so hot. Whatever, she's comfy and safe and she doesn't want to move. That's all she knows at the moment, well that and the real reason she's feels so hot and safe. Damon is still sleeping curled into her back with his arms tightly wrapped around her mid-section keeping her from moving away from him and with a leg swing over hers, she's completely trapped.
After a few minutes of lying there not wanting to move she hears a groan from behind her and smirks. "You left the curtains open." She mutters and the next groan is louder. "It's too bright." He whispers as he buries his nose into her hair, inhaling her scent. "What time is it?" She asks opening her eyes again to look at his bedside clock. "10:23 holy crap, I've got to go."
"Hm…no. Your warm." She laughs turning around in his arms to bury herself in his chest. "I volunteered to help set up that Masquerade thing at the Lockwoods." She says, her voice muffled by his shirt. "Mason is going to be there." He says more than asks and Adele sighs. "Yes, I would assume." He makes a sound, an unhappy and annoyed sound. "I don't want you near him, he's dangerous and when he sees we're and alive he'll know you had something to do with it. He'll know where you stand."
"I don't stand anywhere Damon."
He rolls over pinning her underneath him catching her by surprise as she blinks up at him. He moves, so he can brush his lips against her neck as he speaks. "So if Mason was 2 seconds away from killing me…you wouldn't do anything?"
"I didn't say that, you know that's not true." Her voice is a breathless whisper as the brushes of his lips turn into small kisses. "Of course I know that. You are after all in my bed, not his." She doesn't say anything as his lips trail over her jaw to rest above her lips. "That means that you do stand somewhere."
~x~
Adele takes the steps up to Michael's apartment two at a time. After untangling herself from Damon as quickly as possible, knowing if she didn't she wouldn't be able to pull herself from his bed she had decided to see what Jasmine and Michael we're up to, though she figured Michael was at work so maybe she could drag Jasmine with her to the Lockwood's.
As she reaches the door she swipes the key from the top of the door frame down and lets herself in, something she's done more times than she can count.
As she closes the door behind her, she hears the sound of nails clicking against the wooden floors and the sound of bare feet running after it. Adele stops when she spots the white bull dog skidding around the corner; at least it looks like it used to be white. "Willy! Come back here! You need a bath! Your Daddy is going to kill me if he sees you!"
The puppy runs over to her, wedging his way between her legs to look up at Jasmine who comes running around the corner after him. Willy gives off a small half bark half snort as Jasmine stops staring at Adele. "Whatcha doin'?" Adele asks a grin lacing her lips. Jasmine huffs throwing up her arms in a show of frustration. "He knocked my juice off the table and it spilled all over him and now he's purple! He needs a bath before Michael gets home!" Adele laughs causing Jasmine to glare. "Grab the dog!" She snaps and Adele bends down scooping the sticky dog into her arms.
~x~
"This is the 7th time we've washed him! Face it Jazzy, you stained him!"
"I didn't do it! He did it. He knocked into the table with his fat butt!"
They both look up at the sound of the front door opening. "He's home!" Jasmine yells grabbing the dog out of the tub and plucking the drain plug from the drain. Adele grabs the towel wrapping it around the puppy before they bolt from the bathroom. "What do we do?" Jasmine whispers harshly and Adele quickly places the dog into the bedroom before closing the door just as quickly. "Jasmine?" They hear him call from the living room and they both make their way into the room smiling at him.
He's not at all surprised to see Adele. "I thought I'd find you here. What are girls doing?" He asks eyeing them both. There smiles we're just a little too big for comfort. "Nothing…" Jasmine's smile widens and he looks around. Almost everything seemed to be in place...Almost. "Where's Willy?"
"…He's taking a nap…in your bedroom. So I'm going to kidnap Jasmine now, we volunteered to help set up the Masquerade party yesterday." Adele mentions and Jasmine looks at her. "We did?" Adele sends her a glare and Jasmines eyes widen as she looks back over to Michael. "We did." She nods.
Grabbing her hand Adele runs for the door as Michael makes a b-line for his bedroom. Just as they get the door open they hear his bedroom door swinging open and Willy give off an unhappy bark. "Why is he purple?" Michael's deep voice booms from the back of the apartment and both girls shirk closing the door as fast as they can behind them.
~x~
"Losing Caroline was bad enough; I didn't think I'd lose you to." Adele wedges her way in between Elena and Bonnie, grabbing as many candles from the box on the table as she can hold. "You didn't lose Caroline. Caroline is still Caroline, vampire or not. You are just too stuck up to see that." Adele doesn't wait to see if she has anything to say, she just walks away, back over to Jasmine who was watching the whole thing. "Who was that?"
"Bonnie, the vampire hating witch AKA my sisters best friend. I don't get it personally, not every vampire in the world is bad. Plus she has some internal hate for Damon, if she had it her way, he'd be dead right now but she doesn't get it her way, she gets it my way and my way is Damon alive."
"All witches have their own views on Vampires." Adele rolls her eyes. "I don't hate them obviously but most witches do. I believe you just have to meet the right ones."
"I don't think I've ever asked you…where are you from?" Jasmine shrugs. "A small town in Utah, both my parents we're witches, my mom and dad we're all about teaching me about witch craft. I started practicing at a young age, but my mom was more about dark magic then my dad and he was not happy about it, so he left. My mom tried to force me into dark magic and I didn't want to do it, so when I turned 15 I left, I found my way to River and together we found Tony and the rest of them. I was with them ever since."
~x~
"I need to talk to you, both of you actually." Adele turns but Damon is already walking away with Stefan and Bonnie trailing behind him. Adele glances at Jasmine but she shrugs. Adele sighs as they both follow.
Damon leads them all off to the side where Bonnie finally stops walking to say it was as far as she would go and to tell her what this is about. "Yes, what is this about?" Adele asks and Damon turns to her.
"Do remember our little trip to duke? When Vanessa told us about the curse of the sun and the moon?" Adele nods slowly. "Well Mason came into town looking for a Moon Stone. This moon stone could be the key to unlocking the werewolf part of the curse there for allowing them to shift whenever they want, which gives them even more leverage to be able to kill us. Not only that but Bonnie here saw a vision of Mason and Katherine kissing when she touched Mason earlier. We need to get that moon stone from Mason before he gives it to Katherine if that is his plan which I'm positive it is."
"Wait a second…" Everyone turns to Stefan. "Who is this?" He asks pointing to Jasmine, Damon smirks at him.
"This is Jasmine. She's a witch. She's with Adele. Hopefully we won't need her." Damon turns to Bonnie. "We need a favor." Bonnie snorts. "Like that's going to happen." This causes Damon to roll his eyes. "So predictable, this is why I brought him."
"Bonnie, I know how you feel about helping us out, but you're the one who linked Mason with Katherine. We finally have an opportunity to get the upper hand on both of them. So just hear us out." Stefan explains all the while Adele and Jasmine watch the exchange between the three quietly.
"I'm listening." Bonnie finally says just as Stefan's phone goes off. "I have to fill Elena in on what's going on. Can you play nice? Please?" The question is directed at Damon who nods as Stefan walks away from them.
"All you have to do is touch Mason Lockwood again. See if he gave Katherine the moon stone." Bonnie smirks. "My visions don't work like that; I don't get to ask questions." Jasmine's eyebrows rise but she stays silent. "How inconvenient." Damon all but snaps before turning to Jasmine. "This is why I have you here. Can you do it?"
"If I can't do it what makes you think she can?" Bonnie asks before Jasmine can reply and Damon glares. "Maybe she's better than you."
"Guys…" Jasmine smiles up at them as they turn back to her. "What Bonnie saw wasn't exactly a vision. We're witches we're not visionaries. What she saw was more likely a memory, one that involved him and Katherine."
"What does that mean?" Damon asks and Jasmine sighs.
"It's possible for a witch to pull images from someone's memory, if you're looking to see if Mason has given the stone to Katherine, or your just trying to find out where he put it, it could be possible to pull those images, if Bonnie was able to see Mason and Katherine together she should be able to the pull the information you want."
This causes Damon to smirk down at her before turning to Bonnie. "And that little thing you both can do, where it feels like my brain is on fire. What is that?" That smug look Adele always wants to slap off of Bonnies face appears as she looks up at Damon. "An aneurysm, your blood vessels go pop, but you heal quickly, so I do it over and over again." He turns away from Bonnie back to Jasmine; he likes Adele's witch much better than Elena's that's for sure.
"Is it vampire specific?" She shakes her head. "If you're wondering if it will work on Mason the answer is yes." Adele speaks up causing Damon to turn to her. "She had to do it to him yesterday. Don't ask." She mutters when he raises an eyebrow.
"I'm not going to help you hurt him." Bonnie says and while this would usually cause Adele to roll her eyes in annoyance, she only looks between them because while deep down she knows Mason isn't the same person he used to be, she still didn't want see him get hurt.
"Mason Lockwood is a werewolf, Katherine is evil. There the bad guys. Really? You're going to play morality police with me right now. Let me put it to you another way, there a threat to Elena and you witch are going to get over yourself and help us."
Damon is very aware that he could just ask Jasmine to do it, ask her to go through with his insane plan and dismiss Bonnie and they can go back to ignoring each other like there so good at but he can't bring himself to do that. All he really wanted her here for in the first place was because he had a feeling Bonnie was going to say she couldn't do what he was asking and he also had a feeling when he first found out Jasmine was a witch that she was more powerful than she looked, she would know more about what he was asking of Bonnie and she did. Now he was letting her off free.
He doesn't want to involve the young witch because his plans usually turned bloody and this girl means a lot to Adele. He wasn't even planning on involving Adele.
"He meant that as a question. With a please on the end." Damon's eyes never leave Bonnie as Stefan shows up back beside him. "Absolutely." He mutters. Bonnie looks between them. "I can't pull images from someone's head. I don't know how to do that."
"I do." Jasmine speaks up before looking at Bonnie. "I can show you." Damon almost curses. Now there was no way to keep the two from his plans.
~x~
"You know, my plans usually go haywire. It's not the best idea to involve yourself with them." Damon speaks not taking his blue eyes away from Adele who is with Bonnie waiting for Mason Lockwood to make an appearance. Their plan has officially been set in motion and he was waiting patiently off on the sidelines with the raven haired teenager and his younger brother, who was very invested in his phone at the moment, most likely texting Elena. "Oh, believe me, I've heard all about your plans. Correct me if I'm wrong but they usually end in someone getting hurt?" Damon shrugs a shoulder. "Or dead." He adds.
"Is this about not wanting Adele in on this?" He doesn't say anything. "She'd find out anyways. She has a way of doing that and she would involve herself if not for a personal benefit, to make sure you aren't the one who ends up dead." It didn't take an expert to figure out how much Adele cares for the vampire standing next to her, Jasmine had noticed it that night in the boarding house when Adele cut open her still healing hand.
There silent for a few moments, before Damon steals a quick glance at Jasmine. "So…you two we're living together over the summer?" Jasmine nods. "I found her sad and lonely in North Carolina, she didn't know where she was going so I brought to Florida with me, she became part of our little family overnight. She's not hard to love." Damon snorts a laugh. "You don't have to tell me that." He mutters his attention back on the blonde who is inspecting her nails.
Jasmine as if knowing what he's thinking turns to him. "He loved her a lot, enough to sacrifice his own life for her." She didn't need to tell him how much someone could love the blonde. He knew the feeling, but it was just the mystery of who has also known the feeling that bothers him.
"Who? Who loved her? That's what I want to know." There both oblivious to Stefan watching them.
Jasmine sighs. "It doesn't really matter anymore, does it?"
"To her, it does." He looks over at her and she shakes her head. It's not her place to tell him.
"His name was Tony. Tony Braxton. That's all I can say."
"How much did she love him?" He didn't want to ask but he needed to, he needed to know. He just couldn't bring himself to ask Adele herself. Jasmine stares at him for a moment, weighing her answer. "Enough to throw away everything." Damon knew that that meant basically in other words she was planning on changing, on being with this guy forever. He swallows looking back over to the blonde who's now standing getting ready to follow through with their plan. That answer is what he was afraid of. He doubts she could ever love him like that.
~x~
Adele's eyes move to Damon once again. She's waiting impatiently for Mason to appear, so Bonnie and her can make it look like their struggling with a heavy wooden table when in reality the table wasn't that heavy. This has to be the 4th time she's looked over there, just to see him in deep conversion with Jasmine. The conversion didn't look like a pleasant one from the look twisted into Damon's handsome features, but it didn't look like either of them we're an any danger being with each other, not that she expected them to be. She trusts them. That and she trust Stefan to make sure nothing happens.
Bonnie's dark eyes watch as the blonde her best friend calls a sister stares over to the Salvatore brothers and that other witch but she knows that she's mostly focused on Damon who Bonnie knows for a fact has been watching the blonde like an overprotective rapid dog, ready to pounce and kill anything that dares touch her and she wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what happened if someone tried to hurt her, Bonnie can bet he wouldn't think twice about killing the person even if that person was her.
Bonnie has never been fond of Adele. When she met the girl way back in 1st grade, Adele had called her a freak and stole her favorite sparkly pink crayon to give to Caroline who she was inseparable with, Bonnie knew from that day forth her and Adele we're meant to be nothing more than mutual enemies and while back than Bonnie had been bigger than her, because Adele was a small child, a really small child Bonnie never fraught the girl back when she tried to start stuff because Adele, Bonnie swears was bred to be an evil child and she knew how to get want she wanted.
Thankfully as Adele grew older, she grew out of that stage. She calmed down and waited for trouble to find her instead of being the one to start it, not that it took long for trouble to ever find its way to the older Gilbert twin. By the time 7th grade rolled around Adele was the most laid back girl in school, she never got into trouble on purpose. Bonnie can't help but roll her eyes at the thought.
It wasn't till Adele met Michael, who had been Bonnie's friend first, that she grew back into her wild tactics, not necessarily starting the trouble but influencing it yes, because Michael is a very smooth talker and had a thing for trouble as well and he could talk them both out of any sticky situation the couple found themselves in. Bonnie was convinced that for the first year of their relationship Adele was just using him, but it became clear very fast when Adele punched one of her close friends at the time square in the jaw because the girl decided she wanted Michael as well that Adele was not just using him.
The two dated for a good 3 and a half years before Adele broke it off, about a month or less before her parents died and then she disappeared and as bad as it sounds Bonnie wasn't at all disappointed.
But as luck would have it she would come back, meaner than ever and Bonnie would be back to wanting to punch the girl at least twice a day but she always thought better of the idea because Adele had grown into herself quickly, she wasn't weak and she knew how to throw a punch much better than Bonnie did due to Adele having more experience in fighting than she did. It was safe to say Adele Gilbert, her best friend's twin sister scared the living hell right out of her and that would most likely never change.
Which would than bring her to Damon Salvatore the forever 24 year old vampire. A guy who she hasn't known long and a guy she wishes she'd never met. He's another one who has a thing about getting himself into trouble. He seeks it out and thrives off the mess he can create out of everyone else's life. It's like he lives to destroy everything he touches though he tries to cover it up by "doing good" by the town. He might have everyone else convinced he's a good guy, but Bonnie knows better.
While Bonnie can act like she's not scared of the guy, in all truth he terrifies her. She knows that at any moment, when she's not paying enough attention to stop him he can attack and kill her if he very well pleases just like she knows if Adele very will pleases, even though she's human she can do the same and whenever Bonnie is around the two she can just imagine them coiled like snakes ready to strike out at her. The two in Bonnie's mind are a match made in hell.
~x~
Jasmine watches as Mason Lockwood finally after what seemed like hours of waiting comes walking out the Lockwood house. Adele who is standing at the bottom of the truck is directing Bonnie on where to go with the table. Glancing over Jasmine takes in Damon's tense form; he wasn't this tense a moment ago.
The second his icy eyes caught sight of Mason, he straightened up. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't in the least bit worried about Mason being around Adele. The guy showed his true colors yesterday and Adele was part of the reason his master plan didn't fall through, he had to know that by now and Damon can see that he might as his eyes rank over the blonde who is trying to help Bonnie get the table from the truck. "How did you girls get stuck doing that all by yourselves?" He can hear him asks as he moves closer to them.
"All the guys bailed." Adele answers shortly and Mason's eyes fall back on her with what seemed like caution. Oh yeah. He knows. "Something about draft picks. I don't know I don't speak that language." Bonnie says trying to break the high tension in the air. Damon's eyes stay locked on them.
"Well let me give you a hand." Adele takes a step back as Mason reaches up to bring the table down easily. After a moment he gives off a half scream half groan reaching up to grab at his head. Damon jumps forward, practically jogging over to them and when he reaches them he hears Bonnie mutter a quick sorry before he brings his knee up slamming it into Mason's jaw, knocking the guy out hopefully long enough to carry out their plan.
Adele bends down digging through his pockets till she finds the keys to his bronco. She shakes them when she finds them, letting them jingle softly to let Damon and Stefan know she's found them before jogging over to the driver side of the truck. Opening the door she climbs into the large truck, waiting for the rest of them.
Once they have Mason in the back with Bonnie and Damon and Jasmine in the front, Adele peels out of the driveway quickly and smoothly. Jasmine grabs the dashboard as Adele pushes on the gas, speeding down the road and in the direction of the boarding house. "Geez, Adele. Could you drive any faster?" Bonnie speaks up her voice dripping with sarcasm and Adele glances at her through the review mirror. "Wanna find out?" She snaps back and Bonnie glares.
"Just be glad she can drive this big ass thing." Jasmine mutters and Adele sends her a smirk.
"Of course I can drive it, who do you think was brave enough to teach me how to drive when I was 12?"
~x~
Swiftly she parks the Bronco in front of the boarding house and turns the engine off as Damon leaves the truck to drag Mason out. "Kitten grab the bag, you girls follow me." He orders and Adele rolls her eyes, sliding from the truck as well. As they disappear from her sight, Adele pops open the tailgate.
As she's pulling the heavy bag towards her, she feels her phone vibrating in her pocket. Thinking that maybe it's Stefan checking in, she stops taking it out. It's a blocked number.
Frowning Adele answers. "Hello?" There's nothing but a few seconds of silence and then the dial tone. Adele's frown deepens, probably just a wrong number. Grabbing the bag, she slings it over her shoulder before slamming the tailgate to the truck closed and making her way into the house.
She throws the bag down in one of the chairs in the room. "The bag you requested." She mutters turning to watch Damon and Bonnie spread out a sheet under the chair Mason is now slumped into. "He's not going to be out much longer." Bonnie speaks up standing in between Mason's legs. "I'm surprised he's been out this long." Jasmine says as she stands behind him. Damon moves for the bag which Adele is still standing next to.
Unzipping the bag, Damon's eyes widen as he turns to look up at her. "Looks like someone is used to being chained up." He pulls the pile of chains from the bag. "Help me out here Kitten." Adele sighs taking half of the chains and following him over. While he takes one side Adele takes the other, helping him to chain his ankles. "What are you doing?" Damon asks the witches as Jasmine directs Bonnie to place her hands on Mason's head. "You're looking for a Moon stone and I'm going to teach Bonnie how to find it."
"Oh good. Find out if he gave it to Katherine, find out where she is and Find out what they're going to do with it once they get it." He directs towards Bonnie who glances up at Jasmine. "If you know how to do this, why don't you just do it."
"Because this is a simple and very useful trick all witches should know how to do. The fact that you don't and you're a Bennett witch is sad and you need to learn this. Now don't focus on me. Focus on him, focus completely on him and what you want to know. Imagine his memories are like a filing cabinet and you're looking for a specific file. Ask the question you want to know."
Adele stands watching Bonnie and Jasmine and Jasmine isn't in the least bit surprised how fast Bonnie catches on, she is after all a Bennett and they are known to be very powerful. "Somewhere small, dark. There's water." Damon stands.
"Like a sewer?" He asks slowly.
"A well, no that can't be right." After a moment she nods. "Yeah, it's a well." Adele racks her brain. There's no wells in Mystic Falls, expect for one on the edge of the old Lockwood property. Adele glances up at Damon her eyes flashing and he narrows his eyes at her reading it from her expression that she knows exactly what Bonnie is talking about. Jasmine gazes between them frowning. The two looks like they we're having a conversion only they could hear, it's kind of creepy.
Adele's thoughts are interrupted as she gasps trying to jerk back but Mason's fingers are wrapped so tightly around her wrist, keeping her in place that she's sure to have bruises. Damon springs forward quickly releasing her wrist and she backs up. "Alright lets go." She breaths out rushing towards the door. "I'll stay here." Jasmine calls after her but Adele doesn't answer, she's already out of the room by the time Bonnie finally moves to go after her.
"Hey." Adele stops short spinning around to look at Caroline.
"Hey." She breaths as Bonnie comes up between them looking at Caroline with wide eyes. "How's your mom?" Bonnie asks her voice unsteady. Caroline smiles softly. "I'm going to take her home tonight."
Bonnie moves to step towards her but thinks better of it and moves back. "Caroline, I…" She trails off looking Caroline over before shaking her head. "Never mind." She turns to Adele. "We have to go."
"Did you find that moon stone thingy?" Adele nods pulling out her phone to send a quick text to Stefan, informing him on the where a bouts of the stone. "It's in a well, that well on the edge of the old Lockwood property. You know the one I pushed Tyler down when we we're kids just because I thought it would be funny, which it was." Caroline laughs. "I remember that." She mutters softly and Bonnie looks back at her. Yeah, she was an evil child.
"We really have to go." Adele mutters after a moment of silence. "I'll go with you." Caroline offers looking at Bonnie and Adele knows this isn't her place to say anything. Whatever was going on between Bonnie and Caroline was between Bonnie and Caroline.
"No." Bonnie's response seems just a little too quick. "That's okay." Adele can't help but sigh. She just didn't understand what Bonnie's problem was. Bonnie looking at the deep frown that comes across Caroline's face as her eyes drop to the ground suddenly feels guilty. This is Caroline; they've been friends for years. "Yeah okay." She finally says and Caroline perks up.
"Alright let's go!" Adele finally snaps rushing them both from the house and back to the truck.
~x~
"We we're 11 and we we're playing down by the well, it was back when they didn't keep a like door thing on the well." Caroline explains looking back to Bonnie who had asked about the Tyler incident Adele was speaking about before. "I thought he just fell in. That's what he said when they got him out."
"He lied." Adele says as she takes a sharp left turn that would lead her closer to the old Lockwood property. "He was leaning over the well trying to look down into it so I thought "Hey, I wonder how funny it would be if I pushed him?" so I pushed him and he fell. It was funny as hell and I didn't get in trouble, so bonus. He spent two hours down there until the fire department got him out."
"And he just lied for you? Told everyone he fell?" Adele nods. "He got her back." Caroline mentions a smirk playing on her lips as Adele rolls her eyes. "Let's not go there." She would rather not relive the day she spent locked in an unused closet in the Lockwood Manor. It wasn't one of her fondest memories.
"Enough of this trip down memory lane, we're here." She turns the key and the engine cuts off.
~x~
Her heels dig into the dirt making it difficult for her to rush through the many trees. It was days like this when she dreaded the fact that it felt like her town was built in the middle of the damn woods. Every which way you turned there are trees.
Finally getting fed up with it, she stops pulling the heels from her feet before continuing on, catching up to Bonnie and Caroline quickly. Caroline stops short causing Bonnie and Adele to stop as well. "What?" Adele asks looking up Caroline. "Something's wrong." She mutters before taking off and Adele groans. "Great." Her and Bonnie take off after her, weaving their way through trees. "Do you know where you're going?" Bonnie breaths out a couple feet behind Adele. "Yes." Adele all but snaps but it doesn't faze Bonnie, at least not anymore.
They reach the well, just to find Caroline hooking Elena up to a chain. "What are you doing?" Adele snaps once more, pulling Elena back to the edge of the well. "Stefan's down there, the well is full of vervain." She explains and Bonnie frowns. "Okay…just be careful."
"Wait…" Elena looks at Bonnie. "We can't wait!"
"Maybe Adele should go down; we all know she's stronger than you and…" Bonnie trails off as Adele scoffs.
"Well that's no secret but this is good for Elena. Be careful." She warns again and Elena nods. "Okay lower me down." Caroline nods, and while Bonnie and Adele help Elena into the well Caroline starts to lower her down.
A little under half way down Caroline almost loses hold of the chain, causing the chain to slip through her hands slightly and Elena lets out a soft scream as Adele and Caroline grip the chain hard pulling it tight. "Holy shit." Adele breaths as Caroline apologizes. "It's okay. Keep going." With Adele's help this time Caroline begins to lower her once more.
When they hear the splashing of water, they know Elena's at the bottom so they let go of the chain to look over the edge. "What's going on down there?" Caroline calls and Adele grabs the chain after seeing it move. "Pull him up!" Elena calls back and Caroline grabs the chain as well, yanking hard.
As Stefan nears the top of the well Adele lets go of the chain to help Bonnie pull him up and over. They move him off to the side. "Okay Elena, I'm ready for you." Adele jumps over Stefan to get back to the well. "No! Find the moon stone!" She yells down to Elena and Caroline looks at her. "Adele…"
"We did not just go through all of that to come out with nothing. The moon stone is obviously down there why else would the water be laced with vervain." Caroline sighs looking back down. She's right they need to find the stone.
"Hurry up!" Adele yells down but Elena doesn't yell back. They can hear her splashing around and they wait for what seems like hours. "Hold on!" Elena finally yells. "I think I found it!" Adele sighs in relief that is until Elena screams. "Elena!" She yells looking down into the well. "What's going on?" Caroline yells after her.
Elena's screaming stops. "I got it! Come on! Bring me up!" Caroline moves to the chain and yanks as Bonnie and Adele wait to help her out. When she finally comes up she shoves the box at Bonnie who hands it to Adele before helping Elena over the edge. Adele barely pays attention to Elena as she drops down besides Stefan and cuts open her hand with a rock to give him much needed blood. Her eyes are focused on the box as she opens it up, revealing a smooth oval shaped misty white stone.
~x~
Damon finishes washing his hands, having had to wash Mason's blood from his hand where he had ripped the werewolf's heart out. "Adele has the stone." Damon glances over his shoulder to Jasmine standing in the doorway of the bathroom. "So it was in the well?" Jasmine nods. "Yeah a well filled with Vervain, looks like Mason didn't trust this Katherine very much."
"With good reason." He mutters drying his hands on a towel before turning to her. "Do you have a ride home?" Even before he asks he can hear the motor of what sounded like a motorcycle. "I'll take that as a no." Jasmine frowns. "Your rides here."
"Oh. Right, I forgot you have super hearing." She laughs slightly walking away and towards the front door with Damon not too far behind her. Before she opens the door she turns back to him. "Listen Damon about what I said earlier, it's true. She loved him enough to throw away everything and I know what you're thinking, that she can't possibly ever love you like that but…she cares about you a lot. You just have to give her time." He doesn't say anything, because he's not sure what to say. He knows she's right, but it still doesn't stop him from believing that she won't ever love him like that. Nothing in his life has ever worked out that good for him before. So lost in his own thoughts he had barely realized the door closing behind her as she slips from the house.
Jasmine sends Michael a smile as she watches him pull his helmet from his head. "Hey, thanks for coming to get me." She mutters as she reaches him and he sends her one of his dazzling smiles. "No problem."
"So you're not mad about earlier?" She asks hesitantly and it causes him to laugh. "No. I was more shocked than mad when I saw him. He is after all purple and when I left he was white."
"I am really sorry about that. It wasn't actually my fault though. I wasn't the one to knock the glass off the table." He shrugs a shoulder holding out his helmet to her. "What's done is done. He'll just stay purple for the next couple of weeks. It'll come out." Jasmine takes the helmet from him.
"How are you so cool about everything? It's like nothing fazes you." He blinks at her a frown lacing his lips and his eyes flash with something Jasmine doesn't catch before he's back to acting like nothing matters. "After a while you just learn to deal with whatever." Jasmine shakes her head. "What does that even mean?" She whispers and he mentions for her to get on the bike. She sighs pulling her hair into a pony tail before pulling the helmet over her head and swinging a leg over the bike. "Hold on tight." He calls over his shoulder and after wrapping her arms around his lean waist she does as he starts the bike once more and she closes her eyes. While she never liked sport bikes before, she was starting to get used to this.
~x~
Adele walks into the kitchen of her house, the moon stone very present in her back pocket. She smiles at Alaric. "Hey. How are you?" She shrugs. "Fine." He nods slowly. "Have you been taking your pain meds?" She rolls her eyes picking up a carrot from the salad in front of her and popping it into her mouth as Elena walks in as well to help set out the dishes for dinner. "No. I don't need them. All they do is make me want to sleep."
"You should still take them, if the pain…"
"The pain is not that bad. Ric don't worry about it." He nods and sighs deciding its best not to fight her on it. She's so stubborn; she reminds him so much of Isobel in ways like that its almost scary. "Who is she talking to?" Elena asks suddenly and Adele turns to see Jenna on the phone. "I don't know." Alaric answers. "Everything go okay today?" Elena nods. "There we're a few hiccups but yeah."
"Of course, I understand." The three turn to Jenna as she closes in on them. "Elena it's for you." She hands the phone to Elena and completely ignores Elena's question of who it is as she walks back over to the counter. Elena shrugs it off placing the phone to her ear. "Hello?" Adele watches as her eyes widen and she looks up at her and Alaric. Adele frowns, a million thoughts of who it could be running through her head, but only one stood out as Elena walks a couple feet away. "Katherine." She hears her mutter confirming her thoughts.
There's not much Alaric and Adele can do besides watch Elena talk to Katherine and whatever there talking about, can't be anything remotely good by the look of Elena's face not that Adele was thinking talking to Katherine would ever be about anything good.
Adele sighs turning her head over to look at the other side of the kitchen when her eyes catch sight of Jenna holding up a knife pointed down at herself. "Jenna no!" She yells but it's too late, Jenna plunges the knife down and into her gut. Both Alaric and Adele spring forward as Jenna falls, Alaric falling to his knees as well as Adele. Elena had dropped the phone running over to them as well.
Elena's hand moves to pull the knife out. "No, don't touch it!" Adele snaps and Elena draws her hand back as Adele pulls out her cell phone, dialing 911 all the while cursing Katherine.
~x~
Her phone buzzes in the back pocket not holding the moon stone and she digs it out just to find that the number is once again blocked. Sighing she answers it. "Hello?" And just like last time there's a few seconds of silence before the dial tone.
"Adele!" She turns her eyes finding Jasmine running down the hall towards her with Michael behind her. "Hey." Adele is able to mutter before Jasmine pulls her into a bone crushing hug. "Is she okay?" Adele pries herself away from her slowly. "She's going to be fine. She got lucky."
"What happened?" Michael asks after pulling her into a hug as well. "She…walked into a knife. Her and Alaric we're making dinner. It was a freak accident." Michael raises an eyebrow. "I'd say." He mutters and Adele only smiles slightly up at him. "How's Willy?" Adele smirks and Michael rolls his eyes. "Purple, thank you very much."
"It'll come out." Jasmine says and Michael huffs and Adele knows he's only pretending to be upset. Michael was barely ever upset. "It'll take weeks for it to come all the way out. He's going to get teased every time he walks outside." Jasmine smiles up at him. "At least now he'll know how the planet feels."
"That's not going to stop him from barking at it."
Despite herself Adele laughs as Jasmine rolls her eyes. "Didn't you say you have to work tonight?"
"Did you agree to restock Mrs. Myers store again?" Adele asks softly and Michael throws his arms up. "What was I supposed to say? She's like 90 something years old and nobody else will agree to help her. I feel bad for the old lady." Mrs. Myers happened to be the woman who owns the store right next to the shop Michael works at in the town over, she on numerous occasions has asked Michael to restock her store for her when it closes, because her husband is dead and her children just won't do it and Michael being the softy that he is, always agrees.
"I should go, her store closes in like 10 minutes. Are you okay?" He asks softly and she nods. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you." When he disappears through the doors Jasmine turns on Adele. "What really happened?"
"Katherine, my sisters evil look alike. I guess she's been using Jenna as a spy for weeks without any of us knowing and Stefan and Elena we're only pretending to be broken up which of course Katherine found out about and now we also have the moon stone. She took drastic measures to a whole new level Jazzy."
Jasmine sighs as Adele crosses her arms. "Who were you talking to when we walked in?" She asks wanting to chance the subject. "No one."
"You didn't look too happy…"
"It was no one Jasmine. Literally, no one, a blocked number and when I answer it nobody says anything, all they do is hang up." Jasmine's face had paled even more so than it already was making Adele raise an eyebrow. "What?"
"It's them." Jasmine whispers.
"Who?" Adele whispers back.
"Them. Adele the hunters. They used to do it to me, whenever I got away from them. When they found me, they'd call the number I had at the time but they wouldn't say anything. It was like there way of saying, "we found you" it was always a matter of time before they came after me."
Adele shakes her head. "We have to go Adele; we have to get out of here." She can see the panic in Jasmines green eyes as well as the tears. "Jazzy, clam down, we're not doing anything right now. For all we know this could just be someone trying to mess with me. Just clam down. We'll figure this out." Jasmine takes a deep breath nodding slowly. "Okay, come on I'll drive you back to Michaels. I have to give Damon the moon stone."
~x~
She's walking up to the door when it opens and Elena slips out, her eyes glazed over, her cheeks wet, and mascara smudging under her eyes. She stops when she realizes Adele is standing there. "I broke up with Stefan, for good. That's it. She wins." With that said Elena pushes past her practically running to her car. Turning her head back to look forward Adele isn't surprised to see Damon standing there staring back at her.
"I brought you the moon stone." Damon nods moving aside to let her in. She walks past him, but doesn't go further than the door way. He closes the door before turning to her and she holds it out waiting for him to take it but he never does. "Keep it. I'll know it's safe if it's with you." Adele doesn't argue; she just stuffs it back into her back pocket.
"I'm sorry." Looking back up she frowns at Damon. "Sorry for what?" She sighs reaching up to itch her forehead. She does not have a good feeling about anything at the moment. "It's my fault." He whispers and she shakes her head. "Katherine…"
"I called her." Adele stops talking. "I provoked her. Stefan told me not to, but I did it anyways."
"It's fine Damon…."
"No Adele. You know you don't have to act like this." The shock of his words is visible in her features as she stares up at him. "What are you talking about? Act like what?"
"Act like all the shit happening doesn't faze you, act like you can take on the world alone and win."
"It's not an act Damon. It's what I believe. It's what I have to believe. I can't be like Elena. I can't break down and be like the world is ending then get up the next day and be ready to face it. I have to believe that I can take on the world alone and win. I guess you can say it's the way my mind is wired."
"You're afraid." He mummers, he can see it in her eyes.
"Of course I'm afraid Damon. My aunt almost died tonight because Katherine didn't get what she wants…and we all thought you were a psychopath." She breaks off in a laugh, a laugh that has no real humor behind it. "How am I supposed to feel now that I realize that everyone I love is in danger, everyone. She already got to Caroline, you had to kill Mason because he was involved with her, now she's gone after Jenna and I know Elena is on her hit list, the reason she hasn't killed her yet is a mystery to all of us. She ruined Elena and Stefan, she's messed with you. Who's next? Jeremy? Tyler? Alaric? Me? I don't think I can stand much more of this Damon. Too much is happening way to fast."
Adele's not sure where any of that had come from. For the most part it's true but her speech even to herself felt more like a goodbye speech than anything, like she was preparing Damon for something. It might have something to do with her gut telling her what Jasmine was saying earlier at the hospital might actually be true.
"What are you saying Adele?" He whispers, his blue eyes slightly wide. By the expression on his face Adele can guess he caught the hidden message as well. "I don't know. I don't know anything right now." She whispers back. "Well…I do know one thing and it's that that bitch has got to go." She breaths and Damon nods. "I know. Believe me I know. And I think I've got a plan." Adele nods.
"Do me a favor?" He doesn't say anything and she takes that as her cue to continue. "Keep Elena and me out of it, as much as possible. Just this one time, I want nothing to do with Katherine. And you know what…Jeremy too. I don't want him getting hurt and I know how determined he is to help."
Damon stares at her for a moment before nodding once more. "I'll try."
As you read, I put a part that was of Bonnie's POV because I know in earlier chapters I've expressed Adele's dislike for Bonnie but I never quite expressed Bonnie's own dislike for Adele and I wanted to do that here and I think I did pretty good. (:
Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed!
Previews for the next Chapter:
Damon and Stefan come up with what they think is a full proof plan to kill Katherine.
Jasmine forces Michael and Adele to attend the Masquerade ball with her.
Adele makes a decision regarding her and Jasmine.