Chapter 21
Finding a way to save Damon and Bonnie
Stefan was moping, Elena was getting back into school again, Jeremy was off the tracks, Rick was being an angry vampire, Caroline was moping over Stefan and Enzo was missing. Happy days in the Salvatore household. Matt had returned to mystic falls temporarily and Rebekah had moved away with Hope, but she was still close to them in case of an emergency.
Cassie sat down and took a deep breath. What was happening to her life? It seemed to be crumbling around her, leaving her with no stable thing to hold onto- except her plan of trying to get Damon and Bonnie back which was not currently getting very far. Hence why she had sat down with a sigh in the middle of the bed she shared with Stefan, books and grimoires spread around her. All she had looked through seemed pointless or at most unhelpful and potentially impossible.
Stefan debated outside the door whether to knock or just enter, but then he risked disturbing her whilst she worked. But he needed someone to talk to someone who wasn't Elena, who had recently had her memories of Damon wiped by Alaric to help her cope. Cassie heard him sign outside the door and flung it open by magic.
"Get your backside in here." She called annoyed with herself more than him, for she had promised to find a way to save Damon and Bonnie and was failing. Stefan entered as she flung her mother's grimoire onto the desk across the room.
"Find anything?" He asked concerned at her sudden temper. He leant against the doorframe, bourbon bottle in hand.
"Not as yet, dear, but I'm working on it. Slowly." She said through gritted teeth as she grasped her own heavy grimoire. Stefan moved from the door and sat down beside her in the empty space her grimoire had just created.
"Want some help?" He offered, holding out the bottle to her. She took it and sighed before taking a swig and handing it back to him.
"No, but thanks, I've got it." Cassie said returning her attention to the grimoire.
"Okay well I'm going to head to my family's crypt, I'll be there if you need me." He asked and rose from the bed again, it creaked as he did so.
"Sure. If I find anything I'm come to you." She smiled weakly as he left. She knew just how much pain he was in with Damon gone and without Lexi he felt like Nothing, worse than nothing maybe.
She skim read an old spell she had copied from her mother's grimoire, there was mention here of a device that could bring back the dead. It had, it said, belonged to her godmother, Aurelia an old Native American woman from the Gemini tribe but after around 1915, it had mysteriously vanished and was presumed lost. That being said, there was a detailed drawing in her mother's grimoire of the object and Stefan was a dab hand at machinery- perhaps he could build one? Perhaps they had a way to get Damon and Bonnie back after all.