Chapter 25

Damon pulled up to the boarding house right after Ric and motioned him over.

"Jenna" Ric whispered "Why is she here?"

Damon had compelled her to sleep not sure what they were going to tell her yet. He explained to Ric what he walked in on at the Gilbert house and Ric's face got angry.

"Not only does he plan on kidnapping my stepdaughter, he's killed my wife and now he';s terrorizing my girlfriend?"

"Um.. Ric what was that you were saying the other night about Jerry.."

"Bot now" Ric grunted hoisting Jenna up to carry her into the house. "You better explain this to Elena quick before we get in there"

Damon nodded slightly and hurried into the house.

"Damon" Elena said hugging his neck "I'm so glad your okay"

"I'm fine but Caleb paid a visit to your house" Damon explained. "He freaked out Jenna pretty bad"

"Oh my god where is she?" Elena said looking alarmed.

"Ric's bringing her in right now. I compelled her to sleep"

"You compelled her?" Elena glared at him angrily.

"Elena she was freaked out and I had no idea what you wanted to tell her. Clearly she could sense Caleb is not human."

Elena sighed heavily. "I think we should discuss this with Ric. We cant just compel this away. Were going to have to tell er something"

"Ric came in then carrying Jenna he brought her to the guestroom and returned.

"So" he said. "What should we do?"

"I think we should tell her the truth" Elena sighed.

"Are you crazy?" Damon asked "Tell her she's staying in a house with a witch, 3 vampires a vampire hunter and a werewolf to avoid a fallen angel turned vampire?"

Elena smacked his arm "Well not in those exact words.. maybe a watered down version of the truth?"

"I think an alternate truth would probably be a better idea" Ric chimed in.

"You mean a lie?" Elena huffed "We cant keep lying to her"

"Elena.. your Aunt is either going to think we are all crazy or she is crazy if we try to tell her the truth." Damon said.

"So what do we tell her? Like you said you think she knows Caleb is not human or senses it" Elena asked.

"I think we agree with her on that. We say we all encountered Caleb and we are all freaked out by him. Were staying here to try to keep you away from him." Damon said admiring himself for putting a story together quickly.

"And she's not going to notice you the blood drinking, the teen locked in the cellar and the exact replica of me roaming the house?" Elena challenged her eyes sparking a bit with anger and passion at the same time.

"She doesn't need to know Tyler's even down there. We can explain Katherine as your long lost twin. She found you after your mother died. We can all keep our blood drinking confined to the basement. Problem solved" Damon smirked. "I do love how you challenge me though Miss Gilbert so sexy when your feisty"

"Stop I'm being serious" Elena said firmly "I'm tired of lying to her. We should just tell her the truth and if she freaks out we compel her to forget"

"No I would have to compel her to forget. But compelling is dangerous on an unstable mind. If Jenna freaks out at the truth and loses it compelling her to forget could send her over the edge" Damon said in a softer tone

"Elena I don't want to risk that" Ric spoke up.

Elena sighed and nodded slowly she supposed they were right on this. For now but maybe once all of this was over and things had settled a bit. Elena could give Jenna at least a little bit of truth.

Katherine returned soon after Damon and listened in horror as they explained what had happened at Elena's house.

"He really is playing games" Katherine spat out. "Did you get your book Alaric?"

"Yeah... I did actually it's a book written about Angels and Demons a rumor spread that a 'real' angel had written the book. It was mysteriously banned soon after" Ric explained pulling up his laptop.

"If we can contact this author maybe he can help us"

"It seems like a long shot" Katherine pointed out.

"Well it's the only shot we got right now" Elena murmured. "Do you think you will actually be able to find him?"

"Not on there you won't" Bonnie said entering the room. "I could do a locator spell and we could go to him."

"Bonnie!" Elena exclaimed "That's a great idea!"

"But then we would all be out in the open with Caleb stalking us" Katherine pointed out.

"It's a risk we'll have to take" Elena said.

"Not you" Damon said "You will stay here where your safe."

"No way!" Elena said "I think we are all safer of we stay together"

"I agree with Elena on this actually. Leaving her alone and isolated is a very bad idea. We should all go. He isn't going to kill Elena we know that." Katherine said.

"But he could kidnap her" Damon pointed out.

"And kill all of us" Ric added shuddering a bit as the memory of what Isobel looked like after Caleb had killed her hit him.

"He's going to try to do that at some point anyway we have to fight" Elena said.

"Your right" Damon said pulling her into his lap. "We cant just sit in here forever we have to stop him somehow"

"Why don't we see if Bonnie can even locate him and then decide if we are going?" Stefan suggested smirking a little.

Bonnie took the book and went into the other room to call the spell. She hoped it would work the book was Ric's personal belonging and not the actual Author's.. but... she had a strange feeling this was going to work somehow. She sensed the good out there would be willing to heko foght the evil. It was the natural balance of the world. They had all come together the way they had for a reason. Ric finding this book at this moment couldnt be a concindnce.

She started the spell quickly foscusing her energy on the chant as he held the book. She got a sense of Alaric in the other room immediately and concentrated chanting harder... show me the original owner of the book.. the one who out the words into it.. she said out loud as she felt her power surge.

She suddenly felt blackness embrace her and could no longer see the Salvatore library she had been standing in. She came to to realize she was in a cathedral. She looked around taking on the sights as a young beautiful looking priest came to greet her.

"You called for me?" he whispered.

"Yes...your Gabriel.. the author..I was trying to locate you" Bonnie said unable to take her eyes off the man. He was almost to beautiful to look at his face flawless his eyes deep brown. His hair was dark brown and slightly curly. Inhumanly beautiful.. but he didn't have that evil aura that surrounded from Caleb. Gabriel's aura was light and soothing.

"Yes I am Gabriel. I knew you were trying to locate me. I assumed that meant you were in desperate need of help."

"Yes we are.. my best friend is being stalked by a fallen angel that was marked with the vapire curse" Bonnie pleaded.

"What is his name child?"

"Caleb" Bonnie said with a shudder.

Gabriel took a sharp breath.

"You know of him?" Bonnie asked.

"Sadly..yes.. you cannot take him on on your own" Gabriel said slowly.

"I thought we couldn't defeat him at all" Bonnie said "But my ancestor came to me in a vison with a spell book to bring back the dead. I believe he can be defeated and the book may be the key. We were hoping we could find another angel or someone that could guide us and tell us what to do"

Gabriel nodded slowly. "Are you in a safe house?"

"Yes" Bonnie said somberly.

"Don't leave to come to me. I will come to you. Return to your friends now child. Your strength is starting to fade."

"But I didn't tell you where we are" Bonnie said as she felt herself fading.

"I'll find you" Gabriel said in a soothing voice as the darkness enveloped her again. She felt herself fall to the floor.

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