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Chapter 29: Crying Wolf
She bounces down the steps of the porch, hugging herself as she does. Damn it's cold out. She should've grabbed a jacket before coming out here. "Adele..." Spinning around, she sees Tyler standing there in the yard. Having called her a couple minutes ago, asking if he could talk to her, she had pointed out to him that it was close to 4 in the morning but he insisted that it was important and even though she's not happy with him, she went outside anyways.
"What do you want Tyler?" She asks softly as he comes forward.
"I just…I mean…I'm sorry." She raises an eyebrow at him, that's a pretty lame apology is she's ever heard one. "What I did…it wasn't right. Your my best friend and I almost didn't let you out when you we're hurt and I didn't help you when they we're restraining you."
"No Tyler. It wasn't. You listened to them, you basically picked them over two people you've known your whole life."
"I just…I don't know what to believe. Everyone is telling me different things, not to mention you didn't tell me the truth about Mason."
"And last night was exactly why. Mason did things Tyler, things I couldn't believe he would do. He almost got Stefan and Damon killed and he was helping someone who wants to hurt Elena. I had no control over what Damon did, that was all him."
"I am sorry Adele. I really am."
She nods. "I understand that, but you need to get your thoughts together and I need time to be able to forgive you."
~x~
Her eyes travel around the room. It's huge and roomy and she could get use to staying there. Glancing at the clock she sees she has almost two hours before she has to leave and Damon is in the shower giving her the perfect chance to snoop around a bit. Getting up off the bed, she starts with the pile of books.
A few minutes later and she's standing in front of his dresser mirror examining the bite mark on her neck when her eyes catch sight of something in the corner. A wallet sized photo shoved into the frame. Slowly she reaches up and plucks it out. It was a photo of a girl, a young girl, 16 maybe 17. She looks oddly familiar like she's seen her around the town and if this is who she thinks it is and knowing how small this town is, she probably has seen her around.
She's beautiful too and not the kind of beautiful where it's because you've packed on a load of make-up, no this was natural beauty, natural beauty that immediately causes a ping of jealously on her part. This picture makes her wonder if there's anything else of this girls that he has, if so that might answer her question on who she is.
Opening the drawer right next to her, she's taken back by the clothing. It's obviously not guys clothing but girls, the drawer is full of girl's clothing. Taking out the first piece of clothing, a cropped white t-shirt that makes her wonder how small this girl is. The tag on the back says the shirt is a medium but when she picks up the tank top under it, the tag says small. She picks up a bra next, a white and black bra. While the straps are black, the cups and the band are white and there's black lace covering the cups. The size says 34C and Andie isn't about to pick up the panties to see their size. Putting everything back besides the picture, she moves to the closet and opens it to reveal more woman's clothing mixed in with Damon's.
Sighing she closes the closet. When she took a shower, she didn't question the vanilla scented body wash, she figured it was just a stroke of luck since she didn't have to use Damon's and smell like a guy all day. She looks back down at the photo.
"What is that?" She jumps. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't hear the shower go off or Damon come into the room in only a towel. She holds the picture up.
"Is this her?" He doesn't say anything at first as he walks up and takes the picture from her. "Yes." He answers finally as he puts it back where he had it. He stares at it for a minute resisting the urge to run a finger along it before turning away.
"She's…young." Andie comments and Damon looks up at her.
"In the sense of appearance maybe but you don't know her. She's so much more than just a young and pretty face. She's intelligent, beautiful, stubborn, sarcastic, and kind of mean but she gets me. She's the only person who actually understands me." Andie doesn't say anything for two reasons. One because she's not sure if he would hear her anyways, he seems to be in his own little world and two because she's not sure what to say. She feels…jealous. Sure she might've just met this guy yesterday and he's…a vampire but she likes him and she knows as long as this girl is standing in their way, he'll never talk about her with that look like he would do anything in world for her in his eyes.
This girl has no idea what she has standing right in front of her.
~x~
A loud ringing causes a stabbing pain to shoot through her head and she groans echoing the two other groans from two of the other girls in the bed. Adele had decided she would sleep at the end of the bed, with a pillow and a blanket instead of squeezing in-between Caroline and Elena or Caroline and Bonnie. She was more comfortable like this anyways.
With Caroline pushing her and Adele kicking her they successfully knock Elena off of the bed, Caroline telling her to go away because the phone that is ringing is hers. Adele just wants to go back to sleep but Elena answers the phone in the room and while Bonnie shushes her and Caroline calls her name, Adele takes her pillow and throws it at her. "Leave!" Elena crawls from the room slowly, but they can still hear her causing Adele to sigh. Fine, she's up.
Rolling off the bed, she stands up, grabs her bag and leaves the room, stepping over her sister's legs and goes for the bathroom. Once in there, she throws her hair into a pony tail, brushes her teeth, and changes into a jogging outfit before packing up and leaving the bathroom where Elena is waiting. "I'm leaving." She announces.
"So I am." Adele mutters walking past her and Elena sighs shaking her head. Though last night Adele was nothing but civil with her, she was still slightly hostile, obviously still upset with her.
Adele pokes her head back into Caroline's room. "I'm leaving." She calls getting muffled groans from the two girls still in bed and she laughs softly before making her way to the front of the house.
~x~
She started jogging from the park and into the woods. She liked jogging in the woods; there we're more turns, stuff that could pop out into her path that she has to avoid. She finds it more of a work out then just jogging down the street but she's made sure to stay completely clear from the part of the woods she was held in last night.
From the moment she started jogging, she's had the suspicion that she was being followed, but she hadn't slowed down to confirm those suspicions, if anything she just keeps speeding up.
She trying to keep distance between her and whoever it is, she thought maybe she could lose them but so far she hasn't, so she takes a different approach. Speeding up once more, she puts a pretty good amount of distance between them before ducking behind a tree big enough to shield her from view.
Sure enough after a couple minutes, she hears the sound of twigs snapping and leafs crunching under feet and she holds her breath. The person stops just in front of the tree she's behind. "Shit…" She hears them mutter and it's a guy, that she is sure of, she's also sure they now think they've lost her, it would be easy for her to sneak away, but she lets curiosity get the better of her and hopes to hell it doesn't come back to bite her in the ass.
She slowly circles to the other side of the tree and peeks out, his back is turned away from her but she has a huge sense of recognition as she studies him. Anger makes her blood boil and she steps out from behind the tree to stand behind him, she waits for him to turn around and when he does, his eyes widen and he jumps back a step startled. Seeing his face and knowing she was right about whom it is, her eyes narrow.
"Justin right?" She asks her voice void of all emotion and the guy nods, still slightly startled. She takes a moment to look at him. She was right he had to be at least 6'3 and lean. He didn't look much like a vampire hunter with a plaid button down, dark jeans and black boots. Under any other circumstances she would have thought he was pretty hot but now she's just angered and annoyed. "Why are you following me?"
He recovers quickly and sends her a small smirk that just annoys her more. That smirk just tells her he's an arrogant and snarky bastard. "It was technically your idea." She's confused, what the hell does that mean?
"If you really want to track me, do it the old fashion way and send someone to stalk me," Oh you have got to be kidding. If she knew James would take that to heart, she would have gladly taken the tracking device.
"How long has this been going on?" She sighs.
"Not long. I wasn't following you yesterday but the day before that, you really didn't do much. Between you and I this assignment has been pretty damn boring."
"That's because you missed all the fun, if you would've stuck around yesterday you would have been in for a real good show."
He scoffs. "Of course, all the fun happens when I'm not there."
Adele rolls her eyes. "Why did he send you? Your stalking skills suck."
"That's not true, I happen to be part ninja. You just have a keen sense for your surroundings."
"One of my best qualities." She finds herself joking and she wants to slap herself. At the moment, he's the enemy and she's not to get comfortable around him no matter how easy it seems to be.
"I'm sure you have many remarkable qualities." He teases and she rolls her eyes again crossing her arms.
"You didn't answer me. Why did they send you?"
He shoves his hands into the pockets of his jeans. "My outstanding personality of course."
"Okay…" She sighs with a small smirk while looking around. "Is there any way I'm going to be able to tell you to get lost and you actually get lost?"
He pretends to think about it for a moment before shaking his head. "No but I could let you go and count to 10. We can turn this into our own personal game of hide and seek." This time she laughs.
"Maybe later. I have places to be. If following me around is all you have to do today, you might as well be my date. Let's go." She turns around and begins walking back the way she came. She can hear him jogging to catch up to her.
"Wait what?"
~x~
They reach the edge of the woods that leads them back into civilization with little to no difficulty, going the wrong way once when Justin swore they we're going the wrong way and just to shut him up, she followed him and laughed at him when she was right. "I've lived in the town my whole life; I've been jogging through these woods almost as long."
"Yeah about that, how can you stand living here? It's so small."
"I'm guessing you're not a small town guy." She says throwing a smirk to him over her shoulder as they get closer to her Mustang.
"I was born in New York City and raised in Chicago. What do you think?" He retorts and catches sight of the car there making their way towards. "Is that your car?"
"Yes, that is my baby. With the help of my dad I build it, from the ground up."
"That's pretty bad-ass I'm not going to lie."
Adele unlocks the door. "I like to think so. I'm guessing that over there is yours?" Justin looks over to the black Ford F250 and nods. "A gift…" He doesn't sound exactly thrilled but he doesn't elaborate just shrugs it off and turns back to her.
"Well, go back to where ever you're staying, change into something more presentable and meet me at the Lockwood Manor." She quickly gives him directions before adding a "It's a huge white house, truly you can't miss it." And they go there separate ways. She's only agreed to let him follow her around; in the off chance she can get answers from him. James mentioned he was one of their best recruits. He must know something.
~x~
She's leaning against her car when she sees him finally pull up behind her car and turn off the engine of his truck. Through the windshield she can see he's on the phone. The all business expression on his face gives her the impression that he's talking to James. After a couple minutes, he ends the call and slips from the truck making his way over to her.
It would seem he traded his plaid shirt for a black button down, leaving the first two buttons undone. It looks like he might have taken a shower as well, seeing has his hair was now flat and damp, making it hang slightly in his eyes.
"Get lost?" She teases seeing as she's been waiting for a good 10 minutes.
"Yeah I wish I could say that was my problem but no. I couldn't figure out what you meant by more presentable. I stared at my duffle bag for like 20 minutes before deciding to actually change." Adele snorts. She thought she was bad with picking out clothes to wear.
"Don't laugh. I don't usually do this. By the way, I'm cutting our day together short. I have to leave in like 30 minutes."
"I thought you had to stalk me?" She pouts playfully causing him to shake his head.
"Well apparently James needs me for something else a couple towns over, says it's real important and you know he can't get off his lazy ass and do it." Justin rolls his bright green eyes and Adele is just now noticing now bright they truly are.
"I thought you guys we're like a society? Doesn't he have others to send off?"
"I'm the closet to the town." Adele nods as they begin towards the house.
"What is it he wants you to do?" She asks causally like she's just trying to make conversion and a slow one sided smirk forms on his lips.
"Wouldn't you like to know."
~x~
Andie had noticed her a few minutes ago, but she still had no idea who she was but now she know as Jenna calls out the girls name taking her attention away from the small group that has gathered around her, seeming very interested in the small back and forth banter that seems to be going on between her and some guy. Upon hearing her name the blonde turns, links her arm through the guys and comes over to them.
Adele Gilbert, Jenna Sommers niece. Jenna's talked about both her nieces and her nephew plenty of times and she's always spoke very highly of them but she never mentioned that one of them had been the object of affection for the guy she's been drooling over since she's arrived in town. It was just her luck when she found out Jenna knew him on a pretty personal level and she could only guess how but now she knows that to.
"Aunt Jenna, this is Justin. I met him in Florida during the summer. He's visiting and I decided I'd show him around and what better place to start then the Historical Society's High Tea?"
The guy mutters something under his breath that only Adele heard as she sends him a playful glare. Jenna smiles at him before turning back to Adele. "Was he a friend of your…fiancé?" So she did have a fiancé. Like Andie mentioned to Damon before, she's young and Andie wouldn't expect anyone that young to have a fiancé. Adele's eyes flash with…sorrow before it's gone and replaced by a relaxed smile, she also noticed the way the guy tensed at the mention of fiancé, maybe he didn't know she had a fiancé either.
"No, he wasn't." Adele answers quietly.
"Okay. Well this is Andie Star. She's the new news reporter." Her blue eyes turn to her and she sends her a welcoming smile that Andie tries to return.
"It's nice to meet you." Adele mummers and Andie nods her agreement.
"It's nice to meet you as well; Jenna's told me all about you."
"I hope all good things." Adele teases looking at her Aunt who nods with a smile.
"Of course, I never mentioned how big of a pain in the ass you can be." Jenna jokes back and Adele laughs.
"Oh I see how it is. I'll remember that the next time someone asks me if you're a responsible guardian." Jenna makes an "Oh" face before they both laugh. Deciding not to stick around any longer, Andie turns to Jenna.
"I'll see you later Jenna." Jenna nods at her and a second thought has her stopping and smiling at Jenna. "And once again, thanks for introducing me to Damon. He's so…amazing." It was a small jab at the blonde, kind of Andie's way of saying he was now hers but all the blonde does is smile at her in return as she glances at her before walking away.
~x~
"What did she mean by that?"
"She kind of asked me to introduce her to Damon when she realized that I knew him. When he blew her off at The Grill yesterday, I swear I didn't expect him to call her. Don't be mad at me." Jenna says in a rush, she hadn't wanted to introduce the two in the first place on account of Adele but Andie had practically begged.
"I'm not mad Aunt Jenna. Damon and I aren't together; he can do or date anyone he wants."
Damon had noticed Adele, some random guy –that he's not even going to worry about at the moment– and Andie standing across from each other and had instantly started listening in, catching there whole conversion, including Andie's thanking Jenna for introducing them and noticing Adele's lack of a reaction which annoys him slightly.
So engrossed in listening in on them, he almost misses Elijah turning to Carol and asking, "Who is that, over there talking to Jenna Sommers?" And he turns to glare at him.
"Oh that's her Niece. Adele Gilbert. Now that I think about it, if you really want to know some interesting things about the town, I'm sure she can help you as well as her Aunt. Why don't I introduce you?"
"That would be lovely." Elijah answers with a smile that turns to a smirk as he catches Damon's glare.
"Adele!" Carol calls out which causes the small blonde to turn and look at the three. Damon is impressed that she manages keep such a warm and inviting smile on her pretty face as she begins over to them, the random guy still on her arm.
"Hi Carol." Adele lets go of the guys arm to move over and hug Carol softly before moving back to the guy's side. "Carol this is Justin, he's visiting from Florida." She lies smoothly; smooth enough to convince them all that is where he's actually from.
Carol gives the guy a nod much like Jenna had before turning all her attention to Adele. "I would like you to meet Elijah Smith. Elijah this is Adele Gilbert, anything you want to know about the town, you can ask her." Adele turns her smiling face to Elijah and she lets him take her hand and place a small kiss to the top of it that makes Damon's blood boil and his fist clench. He wants to rip the original's head off right where he stands for looking at her in the way he is. It doesn't even matter that Adele has once again taken the Justin guys arm, all that matters to him is getting that look out of Elijah's eyes, the look that says he's fascinated by the girl standing in front of him.
So consumed by his murderous thoughts, he doesn't realize they've sparked a conversion. "…Well I'm a bit of a history freak. It's one of my best subjects."
"And you're a very beautiful history freak at that." Adele's laugh is what truly brings him back to the real world, but it doesn't relieve the anger. If anything her laughing at something this guy says just fuel's it more.
"Why thank you."
"You know Adele; I'm a history lover myself. We should get together some time and…talk." And Adele doesn't miss a beat, telling him that his suggestion was a good idea when it's anything but.
"Well that all sounds good but right now, I think you and I need to have a…talk." Damon cuts in and Adele turns her blue eyes to him. He sends her a tight smile and she sighs. "Come on Justin, you have to leave in like 10 minutes, let's go show you the rest of the house."
~x~
"Who was that?" Justin asks as she pulls him into a different room. She glances back to see the two men still standing there.
"Damon Salvatore…" She answers and Justin sends her a look that tells her, he already knew that much. Of course he does.
"Elijah. He's an original." Suddenly Justin stops, pulling her back when she tried to keep going. She looks up at him startled.
"What are you doing mixed up with an original?" He asks and all the teasing, all the light humor is gone from his tone. His green eyes are sharp and his expression is emotionless.
"Do you know something about them?" Adele asks quietly, glancing around to make sure no one can hear them.
"I know of them, only a handful of us have ever encountered one. But I do know that their dangerous. Even James knows to keep his distance what with no way to kill one. Which is why I ask, what are you doing mixed up with one of them?"
"Ask James. If what he claims is true and he's been keeping a close eye on me over the years, he should know the answer to that." With that she begins walking again, and with a sigh Justin follows her.
Spotting Alaric she starts over to him, until she notices John. "Oh great." She mutters, her steps wavering slightly as she juggles the idea to still go over there around in her head. She takes a few more steps over, just so she can hear what their saying.
"I don't think you should sleep over anymore. It's inappropriate with the children in the house and that ring that Isobel gave you…that's mine. I'm going to want that back."
She can feel her blood pressure start to rise. Who the hell does this guy think he is? Children? "Alaric!" She calls out before she can stop herself and both adults turn to look at her. Alaric smiling when he sees who called his name and just to piss her father off she runs into his arms letting him hug her tightly before pulling back to look at John, the smile she's wearing falls. "Hello John."
"Adele, I've been meaning to find you. I think we should talk."
"I would say no simply because I don't have anything to say to you, but it's not that. I just don't want to talk to you and by the way. Elena, Jeremy and I are not children; Alaric staying over is not that big of a deal. We like having him over, he's more of an uncle to us then you ever were."
"Adele…" He ignores her uncle comment completely. "I know you're mad about what I did to Damon and you have every right to be, but I'm here to help Elena. I'm here to help you save Elena. You're my daughters and I know I'm not your father, Grayson was a better father then I could ever be which is why I left you and your sister with him and your mother. I knew they could give you what I couldn't but that doesn't mean I don't care because I do, I care more then you're willing to believe. I just hope one day, one day I can prove that to you." Before she can say anything –not that she really knows what to say to that– he walks away from them, leaving her with a whole whirlwind of emotions.
Turning around, she finds Alaric glaring in the direction John had disappeared before he looks back down at her and his eyes soften. "I don't believe him. I can't believe him." Alaric nods, pulling her into his arms. "I know. You have no reason to." She nods against his chest, pushing back the stinging in her eyes. Sometimes, times like these she missed the wall. She missed feeling emotionless.
~x~
"Everyone has family problems." Justin's brushes off Adele's apology for him having to witness the exchange between her and John.
"I'm guessing that's code for you having family problems to." He stops as they reach the front door of the Lockwood's and turns to her. "More then you could probably guess." He nods and she sighs.
"Well…tell James I said hi." She smirks and he laughs before he becomes serious and she frowns, even if she did just meet him she already felt uneasy when he comes so serious.
"I just want you to know that if it we're up to me, I wouldn't even bother you with this but it's not up to me. All I do is follow orders and that's what I'm doing now. Following orders."
"I understand. I do. But there is something I want to ask…"
"I wasn't there." He cuts her off.
"What?" She asks frowning.
"In Florida, that whole thing that went down with Braxton, I wasn't there. Personally I had no problem with him which I guess is probably why he kept me off that…plan but like I said before I don't call the shots."
Adele nods, that had been exactly what she wanted to ask. She figures, it had been on his mind as well to clear the air on that matter but there was still so much she wanted to ask, so much she needs to know.
"I'll see you some time tomorrow." So lost in her thoughts she looks up just in time to see him walking away.
"Justin wait!" Running after him, she catches up with him as he turns back to her. "Give me your phone." He raises an eyebrow not exactly understanding but does as she says and she quickly opens up a text window, puts in her number and sends a blank text to her phone. "I'll text you if anything interesting happens and you miss it." He smirks understanding perfectly.
~x~
She's walking towards the backyard when Elijah steps in her path from walking out of a side door, Richard Lockwood's office. "Miss. Gilbert, I'm looking forward to our talk in the near future." He walks away before she responds and she frowns. Why does everyone keep doing that? Shaking her head, she glances into the room and sees Damon, leaning over the desk his hands pressed against his neck stained in blood and she rushes into the room.
"Damon." Coming up beside him, she puts a hand on his back. "Are you okay?" He straightens up.
"Yeah. I'm fine."
"What happened?" She asks examining his neck but of course there's nothing there.
"He stabbed me with a pencil which is exactly why having a talk with him is not allowed." Adele's not sure what he means by that until there conversion early when she was first introduced to him comes back to her and she rolls her eyes.
"I only said that to be polite Damon, Carol was standing right there I could just say "No way, you evil original bastard" that would have made me look like a bitch."
"Sometimes the situation calls for being a bitch."
"Yeah well not that one." Damon sighs, deciding not to push on the matter, but he has a feeling Elijah took that conversion a little more serious then Adele.
"Who was that guy you we're with? Your date?"
"No. He's a friend visiting from Florida. I did have more friends than just…them you know, but what about you? Did you come here just to start something with Elijah or did you come here to show support for your new girlfriend?"
"Jealous?" He asks and she rolls her eyes crossing her arms.
"Not likely. I told you, if you find someone you like, go for it. I don't care." He doesn't say anything back, he just stares at her and she stares back not willing to be the one to look away first.
"Damon…Adele…" Breaking eye contact, both of them turn to the door way to look up at Alaric.
"Let's get out of here. I could use something stronger then tea." Damon grumbles grabbing Adele's arm as he passes.
"Why do I have to go?" She asks pulling her arm away from him.
"Because I'm not leaving you here with him running around."
~x~
She leans back against the arm of the couch, resting her feet in Alaric's lap as she takes a sip of the drink in her hand and gazes down at the pictures on her phone that Elena just sent her.
The text connected to the pictures read: Found this secret room in the cabin, looks like Mom and Dad had a whole double life.
The pictures of various weapons made to kill vampires hanging on walls didn't exactly shock her, she suspected something like this since her meeting with James, because what other reason would her parents hang around someone like him?
"Today was a bust." Damon groans from the chair.
"Yeah, how's the neck?" Adele locks her phone and sets it beside her, looking up to Damon for his answer to Alaric's question.
"Sore."
"Yeah that Elijah is one scary dude…" Alaric says and Adele snorts.
"But he has awesome hair." She adds causing Alaric to laugh.
"Hey you want another one?" He asks standing up to take Damon's glass and Adele shakes her head when he turns to her. She has to drive and while Alaric might be okay with the risk of ruining his car, she is not.
"He's going to be hard to kill." Damon voices his thoughts and Adele nods her agreement but stays otherwise silent.
"Yeah, I'd think twice about trusting that dagger and some ashes to do the job. You're going to need more info."
"What dagger and ashes?" Adele asks looking up at Alaric who had been the one to say the statement.
"John gave it to him, says it will kill an original."
"And you believe him?" Adele exclaims.
"I'm out of sources." Deciding to change the subject before the two can start an argument, Alaric comes back around to hand Damon's cup to him before taking his seat where Adele puts her feet back in place on his lap.
"What's up with you and this news chick?"
"She's got spunk huh?" Damon's eyes briefly meet Adele's who only smirks at him before he looks back to Alaric, the idea that she really doesn't care irks him big time.
"Just don't kill her, please."
"Yes Damon. Please." Adele mutters looking down at her phone as it buzzes. It's only a text from Jasmine asking if she's okay so she ignores it for now.
"If I did who would report her death?" Damon jokes.
"Just don't do it, alright? She's friends with Jenna and it's bad enough that I'm lying to her about everything else. I hate the lies." Adele has nothing to say to that because truth be told, she's not fond of the lies either. Lately she's been wondering if keeping the truth from her loved ones was really the best idea. It just always seemed to back fire on them. Alaric yanks his phone from his pocket. "I got to go. I got to pick Jenna up. Don't worry I'll show myself out."
"Wait, I should go to. I want to stop by Michael's." She lets Alaric take her hand to help pull her off the couch, putting her glass on the table.
"So I'm alone then? You're just all going to leave me?" Damon asks watching them.
"Why don't you call Andie? I'm sure she'll be happy to keep you company." And there it was the first real sign of a reaction to his dating the reporter girl and he sends her a smirk as she leaves the room with Alaric.
~x~
Alaric is about to say something to her, something in regards to Damon and Andie she's sure, but before he can an arm grabs ahold of her waist, pulling her back into a hard chest and a hand covers her mouth when she goes to scream, pulling her further into the shadows of the side hall way. Alaric jumps back in surprise, though he doesn't have time to react as someone else appears and shoves a knife hard into his gut, he stumbles back, and purposely knocks over something that hits the ground and shatters. It would definitely alert Damon that people are in his house and one just abducted Adele.
Adele struggles against the man holding her to no avail as the man was two times her size and much stronger than her and her panic is causing all logical thinking to come to an abrupt hold. "Stop fighting." He whispers harshly into her ear and she cringes. "We're not going to hurt you…yet."
Hearing obvious signs of a struggle from the room she was taken from, she stops fighting. Who the hell are these people?
The man holding her moves forward, making her walk and they come back into the main hallway where her eyes find Damon right away, laying on the ground looking up at them, his eyes meet hers briefly before he passes out and her eyes leave him to look beside her. Jules. Everything now makes sense.
Jules catches her looking and sends a smirk her way. "Nice to see you again. Don't look so worried, we're not going to kill you…yet but we are going to make you watch as we torture the location of the moonstone out of your little boyfriend here before we kill him. Unless you want to tell us where it is right now and save us the trouble."
The man holding her takes his hand away from her mouth and Adele smirks at her. "Screw you, bitch." And just to get her point across –her point that she wasn't about to tell her anything– she spits in her face before laughing but gasps when Jules back hands her. After a few seconds of staring at the ground, she starts to laugh again, flipping her hair and looking back at Jules, licking the blood from her now spilt lip.
This just angers Jules more who orders her to be tied up with ropes and put on the couch with a gun pointed at her, ordering the guy to shoot her if she tries to run. Adele notices as the guy holding her is following his orders that there are three other guys along with Jules. She struggles when the guy comes near her with a piece of duct tape, but she can't get far from him with her hands tied behind her back and her ankles tied together, so he manages to get the tape over her mouth, sort of crocked but on none the less.
Adele watches as one werewolf drags Alaric's body into the room and puts him on the floor in front of her, followed by Jules who sets up a chair from the dining room table in front of the fireplace and across from her. Another one of the werewolf's carries Damon into the room and drops him into the chair where the last one pulls something out of a bag, something that looked like chains, a collar looking thing, and small wooden nails.
After securing him with the chains, he puts the collar around Damon's neck before shoving the nails into small holes in the collar pushing them into his neck and Adele closes her eyes whimpering slightly. She's just glad he's not awake to feel that, though she knows he'll be awake soon.
"Open your eyes; you're going to watch this." When Adele doesn't, Jules knocks the end of the shot gun in her hand, into the side of her head but only hard enough for her to open her eyes.
After a few starched out minutes that felt like hours, Damon begins to stir and with a groan his eyes open landing directly on Alaric's dead body before they move up and meet hers before noticing the guy holding a gun to her head. His head rolls back onto the chair as he groans, his eyes catching the man standing beside him, holding chains which makes him realize, he's wrapped in chains unable to move. "Morning sunshine."
Adele's eyes follow the guy as he moves to stand in front of Damon, making sure not to block her view. "I saw this movie once, some torture porn flick…" If she wasn't tied up with duct tape over her mouth and being focused to watch them torture Damon, she would have made a snarky comment to that.
"Anyways…they had this collar device that was really cool so I just modified it some with some wooden nails and when I pull…" The guy pulls causing the nails at the back of his neck to dig in painfully, Damon groans instead of outright screaming which is what he wanted to do, but his eyes meet Adele's who fighting against getting up and yelling but the tape muffles her words which Damon is sure there not nice words, so he tries to push back as much as the pain as he can, hoping to give her some piece of mind.
"So I hear you have the moonstone." Adele's eyes snap over to glare at Jules. Man if she could move without being shot, she'd kill the woman where she stands. Damon starts to laugh which causes Adele to look back at him. This was no time to laugh.
"Only if you knew the irony of this moment right now." He sobers up and when he speaks again, his voice is rough and laced with pain. "Let me tell you how this is going to go, you're going to torture me, I don't talk, someone is going to lose a heart. Last time it was your boy Mason." Adele is screaming in her head for him to shut up as the guy holding the chains wraps them around his hands one more time, stepping closer.
"This time, it'll be you." Jules says in a perfectly calm voice. "And your little…girlfriend over there will watch the whole thing before we kill her to." Damon shakes his head, ignoring the jabbing pain of the nails in his neck.
"You can have me but let her go. She has nothing to do with this."
"Not going to happen, Brady wants her dead, she broke his nose. He holds grudges. Just know that if she moves, she's dead. He'll shot her, so don't be thinking she is going to somehow save you from the fate you put on yourself when you killed Mason." Jules nods to the guy and he yanks on the chains, pulling Damon's head to the side and digging the nails in. Damon groans again, glaring at the guy as Adele screams into the tape.
"Where is the moonstone?" Jules ask and Damon turns back to look at her.
"What do you want with it?"
"That's not how this works. Tell me where it is." When Damon doesn't say anything the guy pulls on the chains again and Adele blinks back tears, if they didn't stop this soon, she was going to end up doing something stupid and getting herself killed. Damon catches her eye, sending her a look that tells her to stay put.
"I'm not going to let you break the cruse. If anyone's breaking the cruse it's going to be us, Brady and Tyler our on their way to pick up the doppelganger right now."
Adele's eyes leave Damon to look at Jules in surprise. What? No…she's wrong. Tyler would never. Jules eyes follow Damon gaze and they fall on the blonde who is bluntly staring at her. "What? You don't believe me? Maybe you don't know your best friend as well as you thought you did. I know he didn't know you as well as he thought he did. He knows everything you're trying to do with the cruse; he's the one who helped us find where you're hiding the doppelganger."
Tears sting her eyes as she stares at Jules, not being able to say anything due to the tape but if she could, nothing she would say would be remotely nice or lady like. If what Jules is saying is true and Adele wants desperately to believe it's not but if it is and Tyler is outing her sister to these...monsters –because that's all they've proven to be– then she'll never forgive him. He'll be officially dead to her, 17 years of friendship gone because he chose to trust people he just met over her.
Seeing the obvious distress in her eyes, Damon turns to Jules. "You might as well just kill me." He sighs and both girls in the room turn back to look at him as the guy pulls on the chains and Damon growls in pain. A tear rolls down her cheek as she watches him. Jules decides to take a different approach.
"You know what the great thing about buckshot is? It scatters through the body. Maximum damage." Damon doesn't say anything as Jules lifts the shotgun in her hand and points it at him. Adele jerks and all eyes turn to her as the gun is pressed hard against her temple. "Adele…" Damon's tone is a warning and she swallows nodding at him as a few more tears fall. He turns back to Jules as everyone turns back to him.
"Where is the moonstone?" Jules asks the gun steady in her hands.
"Get over it Hunny, you're never going to get it." Damon grins, though it doesn't reach his eyes and Adele stops breathing waiting for the sound of the shotgun.
"Looking for this?" Everyone jumps, turning to the new voice. Adele is slightly relieved to see Elijah standing there and for the first time since her sister explained to that that she made a deal with him; she actually thinks it might not be as bad as it sounded.
Elijah moves forward, holding up the moonstone that he holds in his hand. Adele wonders only briefly how he knew they we're in trouble before he's stopping just behind the couch and sending her a quick reassuring smile. The guy with the gun to her head doesn't move. If anything he pressed the gun harder into her temple. Elijah places the moonstone, on the table and moves aside.
"Go ahead, take it." And one brave and stupid werewolf actually tries, only to get his heart ripped out before he gets his hands on it. The now dead body falls onto the couch next to her and she moves away from it as fast as she can in her restraints. Two of the other guys including the one who's supposed to be watching her go for it at the same time but they end up with the same fate as the other guy. Adele grimaces as she watches there lifeless bodies fall.
Jules takes off leaving only the guy who had been holding the chains to Damon's collar, who drops to the floor and pulls his jacket over his head. Elijah moves towards him. "What about you sweetheart?" The guy stands, his eyes staring straight ahead and Adele would laugh at the terrified expression on his face if she could. "Want to take a shot?" He shakes his head and Elijah places a hand on his shoulder. "Where's the girl?"
"I don't know." Damon answers as if he hadn't noticed she was gone. Elijah shrugs a shoulder, his eyes falling back on the guy.
"It doesn't really matter." With that he takes his hand away and punches him, hard enough that he snaps his neck.
Elijah comes to her first and she winces as he takes the tape off her mouth before bending down to rip the ropes off her ankles. He mentions for her to sit up and she does letting him rip the ropes from her wrist. "Are you okay?" He asks as he notices her split lip, his voice is soft and she nods reaching a hand up to wipe at the stray tears on her cheeks.
Elijah goes to Damon and rips the chains from his hands and midsection before moving back to smirk at him. "You realize this is the third time I've saved your life now?" Damon doesn't respond just sends him a tight smile as he turns away his eyes landing on her once again. "I'm adding another small stipulation to my…deal with Elena." He picks up the moonstone before glancing back at Damon.
"You keep Elena safe and…you keep her safe." His eyes meet hers before looking at Damon. "Do that and everything will be fine." With that said, he's gone leaving the two staring after him.
Snapping out of it, Adele pushes off the couch rushing over to Damon. She moves the chains off of him before turning her attention to the collar. Damon watches as she slowly starts to take the stakes out. Though there's pain that comes along with it, he stays completely silent only studying her. Once she's got all the stakes out, she removes the collar carefully.
"Now do you understand why you can't have a talk with him?" He asks quietly and she moves back to look at him.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"That means that he's taking just a little more interest in you then he should be."
Adele scoffs, thinking he's being totally ridiculous. "He is not."
"Yes he is. You don't see the way he looks at you. I do." Damon argues standing up and Adele shakes her head.
"You are making a big deal out of nothing. I wasn't even planning on talking to him."
"Good. Let's keep it that way." His phone rings as he begins cleaning up the mess around them. Taking the phone out, he groans seeing it's Bonnie but he answers it anyways. "What?"
He listens closely to what Bonnie is saying as he stares at Adele once again and Adele is suddenly worried. Whatever she was saying, it wasn't good for Damon to look like that. "So he was planning to kill her along?" He asks as he begins to move the chair he had been sitting in and Adele's eyes widen. "Got it. Loud and clear." Damon hangs up.
"What?" Adele asks and Damon hesitates before telling her everything Bonnie said from Luka and his dad working with Elijah to get his sister back to Elijah's plan to kill Klaus which requires Elena to die anyways.
Adele doesn't say anything as she looks back at him; forget her earlier thoughts about this deal being a good thing. Adele has a pretty good feeling, Elena is very aware of what this deal means for her and the thought angers her, it makes her so angry that her eyes take on that blackish hue and Damon sighs.
Without a word to him, Adele turns and leaves, Damon doesn't make any move to stop her, knowing it would be useless anyways.
~x~
As she's driving down the street, she dials Elena's number before putting the phone to her ear. She answers on the third ring. "Adele…Is everything okay?" Adele grips the steering wheel tightly before releasing it, trying to control the rage pumping through her veins.
"Did you know?" She whispers because she's sure if she tries to speak any louder she'll end up yelling.
"Know what?" Elena asks confusion evident in her voice.
"Did you know that your little deal with Elijah includes your death?" Her voice is louder this time, growing angrier by the second. Elena is silent, not sure how to respond. She can't lie, not when she knows she's been caught.
"Y-yes." She finally answers. "But I only…" Adele hangs up, throwing the phone into the passenger seat. In reality they we're the idiots for thinking that the deal would end any other way and they we're idiots for even believing Elena would be trying to save herself here.
She has another thought and reaches over picking up her phone, she looks through her recent text messages until she find the number she's looking for.
~x~
With quick reflexes and a stake ready to slip into his hand from a sling under his sleeve, Justin dodges the vampires attack. This was not how this was supposed to go tonight. They we're only supposed to capture the vampire in order to get answers about another vampire that James wants them to find, but damn it if Kyle didn't mess it up.
Kyle comes up on the vampire from behind but he's quicker than he is and spins around in time to throw Kyle across the room but it gives Justin that much needed spilt second distraction and he leaps forward, with a certain grace that only comes from years of training and as the vampire turns back to address him, the stake comes out plunging up under the ribs and into the heart of the vampire who lets out a surprised and pain filled gasps, his eyes widening as he stares up at Justin who shoves the stake in further to insure his death.
He lets the stake and the vampire go, letting the guy fall to the ground as his skin slowly starts to grey just as Kyle is standing up from the heap of broken glass he was lying in. "Well that was a bust." The older guy groans and Justin glares before his phone beeps from the pocket of his jeans. Taking it out, he glances at the name and smirks.
"Who is it? James?"
"No." Justin mutters opening the text.
So I told you I would text you if anything interesting happens, well here it is: I was forced to watch Damon get tortured with a gun to my head by a few werewolves and found out some news on my sisters future. I'm pretty pissed off right now. Care to offer a distraction? ~Adele
He shakes his head. He's quite shocked that she would be asking him for a distraction. Out of all the friends he's pretty sure she has, she's asking him to give her a distraction, the guy who is being ordered by his boss to stalk her and report back to him with whatever he finds out. He doesn't mind though, if he's being completely honest, he's likes the blonde.
"You got this? I have to get back to my other assignment." He speaks up to Kyle who raises his eyebrow at him and crosses his arm.
"So that's who it's from? The Gilbert girl James is disparately trying to recruit? You've swapped numbers with her?" Justin doesn't answer as he sends a text back to her that says he's 30 minutes away from the only motel in her small town of Mystic Falls.
"Didn't James warn you about getting close to her? You we're only supposed to be watching her from a distance."
"Well shit happens as you've demonstrated very nicely for us tonight. Thank you by the way for almost getting me killed." Justin snaps, putting the phone back into his pocket.
"Don't talk to me like that boy. James will have your head if you ruin this for him by getting too close to her."
"I know what I'm doing Smith, there's a reason James trust me more then he trust you. Now get this cleaned up, it's your mess anyways. You can be the one to break it to James that we didn't get the information he needs."
~x~
She was waiting about 40 minutes before his truck pulled up and she smiles pushing off her car as she waits for him to get out as he parks beside her. Once he's out, he mentions for her to follow him and she does. She follows him a couple doors down and into a motel room numbered 23.
Once he flips the lights on, she looks around. It's a pretty decent size with eggshell white walls and light colored wood furnisher which included a small table off in the corner, a dresser with a T.V on it, the queen sized bed frame and the small bedside table. The carpet was a sort of grey color and the place seemed relatively clean not that that surprised her any. It was the only motel they had in this town; they need to keep it clean if they want anyone to stay there.
"So what kind of distraction were you thinking of?" He calls as he moves to the bathroom, stripping off the black button down he's wearing and leaving him in just a white wife beater tank top and Adele's eyes travel over him. She watches as the muscles in his back flex as he walks and shakes her head, turning away to look at the other side of the room, this is so not the time to be checking anyone out.
"Any kind of distraction you can think of. I'm just…pissed. Since returning everything has gotten so out of control so quickly and I have no way to stop it at this point. I feel helpless."
"Pissed you say?" Turning back, she notices he's back in the room, crouching down to his duffle back that's by the closet. He was so silent; she didn't even hear him return to the room.
"Yeah." He stops digging through the bag to look up at her.
"Then I have the perfect distraction." He declares pushing himself up with a pair of black sweatpants in his hand. "I'm going to change. Be right back." She nods, suddenly confused and curious at the same time. What in the world does he have planned?
Her cell phone rings, and she takes it out expecting it to be Damon or even Elena but not Tyler and that's exactly who it is. She debates whether she should answer or not and decided at the last minute that she should.
"Tyler…" She says quietly into the phone as she sits on the edge of the bed.
"I didn't do anything to Elena, I promise. I didn't know anything about the curse. All they told me was that breaking it could stop what's happening to me and I listened because I don't want to be like this, but when Stefan told me they had to kill Elena to break the curse, I didn't go through with the plan. You know I could never do that, to her and to you. I'm sorry I was even involved in the first place. I should've listened to you."
"Yes Tyler. You should've." She whispers.
"I need to see you. I need to say goodbye."
"Goodbye?" All her pervious anger towards him is forgotten.
"I'm leaving Adele. I'm going with Jules. I need to be with someone who can help me right now." Adele is silent for a minute, noticing Justin as he shows back up in the doorway of the bathroom and leans against the frame watching her.
"You're leaving? For how long?" She finally asks, her voice barely above a whisper and tears stinging her eyes for the second time that night.
"I don't know."
"Bu…this is your home. This is where your family is…"
"Please Adele, I have to. I need to learn how to get through this, I need help and Jules can give me that. She can help me."
Justin doesn't know who's on the phone; he doesn't know what the call is about but it's obvious how upsetting it is as he watches the blonde wipe at a stray tear on her cheek before sucking in a shaky breath. "Okay. I'm at the motel. You'll see me." And she hangs up, putting her hands in her lap as she stares down at the phone.
"Hey…" She looks up at him, blinking slowly. "Is everything okay?"
"No. Everything's not okay. This whole thing just sucks. Everything sucks." She says standing up and moving to the door. He follows her.
They lean against his truck, waiting silently for whoever it was on the phone to show up. He can see she doesn't want to talk at the moment so he makes no move to say anything and she's great full.
A truck pulls into the parking lot, and Adele straightens up rubbing her hands down her arms for warmth. The truck pulls to a stop and the passenger side door opens, Tyler stepping out and moving around the front. Adele takes off flinging herself into his open arm and hugging him tightly, tears squeezing out of her eyes as she does. Tyler hugs her back just as tightly, blinking back tears of his own.
Pulling away, she moves her hands to his face. "Promise me you'll come back."
"Adele…"
"Please Tyler. You're my best friend. I've already lost so much and on the verge of losing more; please don't let me lose you too." Tyler swallows back the lump forming in his throat. He knew it would be hard to see her and then leave. She's his best friend, the girl he went to with everything growing up, the first girl he ever had a crush on –though he got over that quickly– and the girl he thought of as his sister, but man if it wasn't almost impossible seeing the tears run down her flushed cheeks.
"I promise." He whispers and she hugs him again.
~x~
She watches them leave the parking lot before turning to Justin, who takes one look at her and opens his arms. She moves into them almost automatically, letting his warmth surround her to thaw the ice in her blood and letting his scent of Axe, Leather and the distant smell of cigarette smoke calm her raging emotions. He's extremely comforting and that is extremely dangerous but at the moment, she can't force herself to care.
Pulling away, she wipes at the last tear before looking up at him. "Do you smoke?" He snorts a laugh.
"You have no idea how stressful this job can be. It's either that or I become an alcoholic." She nods smiling slightly.
"So my distraction…" He nods turning around.
"Ah yes. Well we need to take you home to change first." He disappears into the motel room only to reappear a minute later, with his truck keys and his motel key, along with a jacket that he throws at her. Right away she slips her arms through the sleeves and pulls it close. "Get in." He mentions to the passenger side of his truck.
"What about my car?"
"Leave it here. It's not like it has anywhere important to be." She sighs giving the car a glance before moving around the big truck and jumping into the passenger side. He slips in beside, her turning on the engine right away and pulling out quickly. "So what do I have to change into?"
"Anything you can move easily and quickly in."
"What are you taking me to do?" She asks eyeing him and he sends her a smirk.
"You'll see."
~x~
"The park? Why are we at the park?" She calls jogging in an attempt to keep up with him. Once they've reached the middle of a clearing with nothing but grass all around, he turns and she skids to a stop before crashing into him.
"Justin…what are we doing here?" She asks again. After him driving to her house, she changed into a pair of sweatpants much like his, a sports bra, a tank top much like his also along with the jacket he gave her to wear thrown over it and a pair of sneakers along with a change of clothes for after. She went back out to the truck only for him to drive them to the park.
"We're going to fight." Adele takes a step back to fully look at him, trying to see if he's joking. While it's very dark out with only the moon as there source of light, she can still see him and she can see he's completely serious.
"What?" She finally asks and he laughs.
"Not actually fight…we're going to spar."
"You're serious." She laughs and he shrugs.
"I'm dead serious. You said your pissed well what better way to get that negative energy out?"
"Well, I could think of another way…" She teases and he laughs causing her to laugh as well.
"Let's just see how this works out for us first and if this doesn't work, we'll be sure to true that method out next." He teases back and she shakes her head with a smirk.
"Think of this as training." He suggests and she crosses her arms.
"You're not secretly trying to train me for your society are you?" His expression turns slightly more serious as he regards her carefully.
"No, I'm not."
She nods and uncrosses her arms, putting them at her sides. "Okay then. Let's do this." His smirk is back and she barely has time to dodge him, tripping over her feet and landing on her butt as he swings out a fist so fast she barely saw it coming. She laughs as she looks up at his grinning face. "You're so going to get it."
So…how was it? What did you guys think of Justin? I know I mentioned him at the meeting with James but now we actually know him, I mean we don't know much about him but we know him. Did you guys expect me to throw him into the story? I know I didn't expect me to throw him into the story. It was kind of a last minute thing.
James now as Justin following Adele around? What is James planning? What is his master plan? Is Justin the enemy? He doesn't seem like it but that doesn't mean he's not. :p
And what about Elijah? What's up with his interest in Adele? Hm. I guess you'll just have to wait and find out.
I'm thinking about 6 reviews if not more for the next chapter.
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~LetSparksFly
