A/N: MEH I HAVE EXAMS NEXT WEEK *cries like a little baby* I probably won't update next week because of that, but if I get some time, I'll of course write a chapter :)

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Chapter 48:

"Jeremy!" I shouted loudly. "Jeremy, get your ass back or I'll make your life miserable!"

Elena eyed me weirdly, because I was acting as if it was my own brother who'd disappeared in the middle of the night.

I shrugged and kept looking for him in the dark forest, careful not to activate any hidden traps as we searched for him.

"Evie!" Damon called, waving at me to come closer.

I dashed up beside him and noticed that he was nodding towards where Shane had gone, finding it suspicious that he was looking for his satellite phone even though he'd told us it didn't work.

"Bad vampire cop, good vampire cop?" he suggested.

"Sure. I want to be the bad vampire cop." I said, grinning.

Damon pouted. "But you suck as the bad vampire cop."

"No, I don't. Let's just catch him in the act, yes?"

I walked into the tent and pointed dramatically at Shane, something I'd always wanted to do when accusing someone of doing something.

"I thought you said the satellite phone didn't work?" I said.

Damon rolled his eyes and grabbed the phone from Shane with one hand while pinning him to the wall by his neck with his other hand.

"Oii, I wanted to do that!" I exclaimed, pouting.

My brother had the nerve to ignore me and started questioning Shane about the satellite phone and wanted to know where the cure was, because he didn't trust him.

"It's in the bottom of the well!" Shane finally answered. "But let's find Jeremy first and then we can go there."

Damon didn't trust Shane at all, so he told me to go help Bonnie finding Jeremy while he had a "friendly" conversation with him.

Just in case something would happen tonight, I quickly hugged Damon and then went outside to find Bonnie.

She'd just cast a spell when I found her and was following a trail of fire that led into the woods, so I followed her at a safe distance in case someone would attack her.

She seemed almost as if she was possessed, which worried me as her powers had no limit and if she suddenly turned on us, we would most likely end up dead.

As Bonnie eventually reached a well of sorts, I decided to stay behind and watched her from afar, because I could hear that someone else was there.

Shane along with an unknown man – a witch it seemed – had arrived with a tied up Jeremy and was discussing something about a hatchet that had been thrown earlier to save Jeremy.

I went to send Damon a message, but remembered that I had no signal and just hoped that Damon was aware of that someone else besides the witches was on the mainland.

The witch – Massak – didn't seem overly fond of being near Silas' grave, though, and after receiving the tombstone, he turned around to leave.

I figured it'd be best if he became less of a threat, so I snuck up behind him and broke his neck before he could attack me.

Katherine wouldn't have so much trouble getting to the well either then.

Waiting until Bonnie and Shane had gone down into the well, I then followed them carefully and wondered briefly if I was walking into a deathtrap.

Who knew what Silas was like, if the caves underneath the well were filled with more traps and if there was even a cure down there?

It might just be a lie to hide the fact that Shane wanted Silas to be freed.

However, it was a chance I had to take to protect my husband, so I jumped down into the well and hid in the dark shadows as Bonnie was opening the crypt with the help of Jeremy's mark.

I was surprised to find Shane lying on the ground, his leg obviously broken and injured, because I could kill him for Damon if I wanted to…

I shook my head at the thought.

I was starting to sound like Klaus now or even worse – like Kol.

Shane hadn't done anything to me besides being a pain in the ass, so I went to creep past him when I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine.

Someone was standing behind me and touching my shoulder in a familiar way that made me unable to move at all.

I knew who it was, but it pained me to turn around and look into those familiar eyes.

"Evie, look at me…" she said kindly.

Taking a deep breath, I forced myself to turn around and found myself staring into my mother's eyes.

She was dressed in the clothes she died in, but didn't look sick at all or like she was dead. It was as if someone had brought her back to life for me.

"I have missed you so much, Evie. I wish I could be there for you like Philippe has been."

"But how is this possible, mom? I felt you… am I dead?" I asked worriedly.

"No, you are not. But I am. It is because of Silas that you can feel me. He can bring me back, Evelina. You merely have to free him." she answered.

It was tempting to do as told, but I reminded myself that my mother was dead and that it was too unnatural to bring her back.

What wouldn't the consequences be? There were always consequences when it came to bringing the dead back to life.

"I'm sorry, mom. I can't do it. I want to, but… I just can't take that risk."

"There is nothing to be afraid of. Silas is a good man and will not harm anyone. I know it may sound too good to be true, but it is the truth. I assure you. Would I ever lie to you, Evie?"

My mother had lied to me before about certain things, so of course it was hard trusting her even though every inch of me wanted to do it.

"Evie, who are you talking to?" a familiar voice asked.

For a moment, I dreaded that Elena and the others were here, but it was just Katherine and from the strange look on her face, it was clear that she couldn't see my mother.

"No one," I answered, ignoring my mother's presence. "Did anyone see you?"

Katherine shook her head. "The professor is busy talking with his dead wife. I think Silas is making him hallucinating. Did you see someone too?"

Oh… "No, I was just… err… talking to myself. This place is creeping me out."

She nodded in agreement and went quiet for a while, because she was listening for something.

"They're still trying to get the cure from Silas. I should break your neck so no one becomes suspicious."

"Oh, yay! Neck-breaking time…" I sighed and told Katherine to wait a few minutes before doing it.

I snuck past the hallucinating Shane and went into the crypt where Bonnie and Jeremy were trying to pull the cure out of Silas' grip.

Silas seemed to be completely immobilized as if someone had left him in a freezer for too long, which I assumed was because he hadn't had any blood for centuries.

The box wasn't that big and could hardly contain that much, so if there was a cure inside it, then it only seemed to be meant for Silas.

One dose of that cure meant that they had to use it either on Klaus or the person who mostly craved being human.

Rebekah could easily steal the cure from them, but I had a feeling that if she got the cure she would use it on Klaus anyway.

And that meant that Klaus would grow old and die while I remained a vampire.

Before I could even make a decision, I felt someone drive a stake into my spine and my entire body went numb.

An unknown man armed with weapons a vampire hunter would have, walked into the room and then proceeded to stab Bonnie in the back.

"Jeremy!" I cried, hoping to warn him before he too was injured by the stranger.

Jeremy tried getting to Bonnie, but the guy grabbed his hand and cut it open, making him bleed into Silas mouth.

Whoever he was, then he wanted to take the cure so he could shove it down Silas mouth, which I had nothing against, because that meant that, the cure couldn't be used on Klaus.

But Katherine still wanted her freedom and she didn't care about what she had to do to get it, so she went to kill the hunter.

Jeremy quickly revealed that the hunter was one of the Five, so she knocked him unconscious instead and then went on finishing what the hunter had started – only she was giving Silas Jeremy's neck.

Killing Jeremy or putting him in danger wasn't a part of what we'd agreed, but I couldn't keep her from doing it when my body was paralyzed.

"Katherine, stop it! He's gonna die!" I hissed.

"Sorry, my friend, but he's the only human here with lots of blood. I would've used the witch if she wasn't dying right now." Katherine said calmly.

She grabbed the cure and ran for her life, but had the decency to pull the stake out of my spine before she left me.

I quickly rushed to Jeremy as he fell to the ground and bit my wrist open, hoping it wasn't too late to save him, because it would all be my fault if he died.

I shouldn't have involved someone like Katherine in this plan.

She stopped at nothing to get what she wanted the most.

But Jeremy wasn't breathing or healing up, making me realize that it was too late to save him. I couldn't believe that because I didn't have the guts to steal the cure myself, Elena was now all alone like I'd once been.

She had no family left because of Klaus and I.

"Jeremy! Jer?" The sound of Elena's voice broke my trance-like state and I quickly moved away from Jeremy as his sister rushed to help him.

"I'm sorry, Elena. It's… it's all my fault. I tried saving him, but it was too late," I said, my eyes brimming with tears. "Silas drained him."

Elena shook her head defiantly and showed me the resurrection ring on Jeremy's hand.

"It'll bring him back. He'll survive this. We just have to wait!" she said, tears trickling down her cheeks.

I truly wished that was the case, but Jeremy wasn't a normal human which meant that the ring wouldn't work on him.

We both knew this, but Elena refused to accept the fact that her little brother was gone.

"Evie? Elena?" Damon said as he too entered the cave.

I sighed heavily and nodded towards the hunter and Jeremy. "Katherine killed them both and took the cure."

Damon nodded understandingly and sighed heavily at the sight of Elena looking so worried about her brother.

"Damon, I need to tell you something. I–"

"Do it later. Will you please help me finding Bonnie?" he interrupted.

I frowned, looking around in the crypt and wondered how Bonnie could've disappeared when she was here only a few minutes ago – bleeding and suffering on the ground.

But I followed Damon out of the crypt while Stefan stayed behind to help Elena and helped searching for Bonnie.

Knowing that all Elena had left was her friends now, I had to find Bonnie for her.

She didn't deserve to lose anyone else and I sure as hell didn't deserve to go unpunished for what Katherine did.

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