"Rachel please…" Damon pleaded, trying to get his daughter to stay home.

"Daddy, I need to be there… I need to see that Jeremy is fine… he's my friend! I also really want to be there to make sure that everyone is fine… please daddy…" She looked at him with the puppy dog eyes she knew would sway his will.

"Fine…" Damon sighted.

He had always been powerless in front of the puppy dog eyes and her head tilt... Maybe he should ask Sheila is she could do something magical to cure him of this? She shook his head... his daughter would always know how to get him to agree to things she really wanted, how could he say no to her?

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They quickly arrived at the tomb to see that Anna really was there, holding Jeremy in a tight grip and that there was a party in the old cemetery, near the old church.

"We'll have to keep things discrete…" Stefan muttered as they walked past it.

"Looks like Tyler isn't too hurt by the break up after all… He moves on fast doesn't he?" Elena whispered.

Rachel of course heard her and looked down while Bonnie hit her friend on the side and Stefan just shook his head and frowned. Elena sighted and acted like nothing had happened as they all settled around the tomb.

"Are you alright Jer?" Elena asked from her spot behind Stefan.

"He's fine Elena… but he's been compelled not to speak to you and to stand by my side until I get reunited with my mother… Sorry, no contact allowed!" Anna smirked.

"Let's get started…" Sheila said as she and Bonnie were ready and started muttering ancient words together.

After a moment the flames flared up to the ceiling and a small pop could be heard around the big stone door.

"You can open it now." Sheila said, clutching her ancestor's necklace in her hand.

Stefan and Damon went to move the big door out of the way and before they could blink, Anna was pushing Jeremy toward Elena and, in vampire speed, she grabbed Rachel who squealed as she was being dragged into the dark tomb by the small vampire.

"Rachel!" Damon yelled.

"Daddy!" She yelled at the same time.

A couple of seconds later they could smell her blood and Damon, only listenign to his parental instinct, rushed inside, staked both Anna and Pearl, who was starting to wake up. He took Rachel in his arms, gave her a bit of his blood so she could heal and carried her to the door, helping her pass it as he was stuck inside.

"Daddy, no!" Rachel cried.

"It's okay baby… you're safe, that's all that counts… Call Sage okay, tell her what happened…" Damon said before he turned to his brother and said:

"Run back home, I've got a flame thrower in the basement. Bring it here, it's time to kill some vampires."

Stefan, who also had tears in his eyes, nodded and ran out faster than he ever had while Sheila and Bonnie talked among themselves in a ushered tone.

"There's got to be something I can do daddy… Please don't leave me… Don't stay in there daddy…" Rachel kept on crying, breaking Damon's heart and making him cry too as he watched her crumble to the floor.

"Rachel, it's okay… With the Medallion, Bonnie and I can open the tomb back up… We'll wait until Damon has killed the other vampires… By then the moon will be at its highest and we will have more power…" Sheila said comfortingly, bringing hope in the young Salvatore's eyes.

"Are you sure Sheila?" Damon asked her.

"I can do it." She replied.

"I don't want you to bite more than you can chew… I don't want you to die over this!" he said.

"My family owe you Damon… We both know that without you neither I nor Bonnie would have been born." Sheila reminded him.

"What do you mean Grams?" Bonnie asked.

"Emily, along with several other witches were dragged to a site to be burned as witches… Damon risked exposure to save the life of her children… our lives…" Sheila told her granddaughter.

By then, Stefan was already back in the tomb with the flame thrower. He gave it to his brother who rushed inside immediately and started killing vampires while the two witches did the spell to open the tomb.

It was all fast and soon, the barrier in front of the door opened. Smoke was starting to reach them and Stefan forced them all to go wait outside, even Rachel, who was worried sick about her father.

The next few seconds seemed like hours to Stefan and Rachel but eventually, Damon walked out and pulled his daughter into a big hug while he smiled at his brother.

"Let's all go back to the Boarding house, we'll order some pizzas… I think Jeremy needs to be brought up to date with everything." Damon said.

"I agree!" Jeremy said, glaring at his sister who had just asked Stefan to compel him to forget.

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While they all got back to the Boarding house for a little bit of celebrating, nobody saw a man walking out of the tomb.

He was barely able to move without hurting but was able to follow the smell of young blood… he found a girl sitting at the bottom of a tree and crying… He compelled her to tell him what year it was and a few others things before he drank from her, compelling her to think an animal attacked her before he followed the music and was able to feed on a few more party girls…

He didn't want to go up against the Salvatore brother's just yet, especially since they almost killed him along with the others but he was curious and decided to stay in town.

He knew very well that knowledge was power and he needed to KNOW what was happening in town to have a minimum of power.


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Lorelei Candice Black