The Henderson's Residence

Jack ended the frantic call from Damon. He had to meet Damon and Cayllum at Amy's house right away. Zoe was kidnapped on the street in broad daylight just four houses down from her home. A man who worked in the garden of the Hetherson's saw everything but couldn't hear what was said. According to him he assumed that Zoe knew the woman although he did find it a little strange when the two little toddlers walked back home but thought that, that is how rich people behave and do things around here. Luckily, he identified the woman. It was Amy just as Damon suspected.

Jack started his car as he looked at the Henderson's home with narrowed eyes. There was something off about the house that worried him. It was too quiet and why are the curtains still shut. And then he saw it. In that split second, he saw it. A figure by the curtains.

... The woman who was watching Jack the whole time from inside the Henderson's home did not smile when she saw his car speeding away down the street disappearing around the corner. She saw the quick look Jack gave in the direction of the house. By now Damon must know the twins have been kidnapped and summoned his hellhound Jack to help him search for them. Amy wasted precious minutes and time is important. Caroline was already passed out on the backseat of Kate's car. She still has to move Stella and Kate's bodies and then it's time for Bonnie to join her friends.

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Jack bring his car to an immediate stop right around the corner from here his car can't be seen from the Henderson's home. He hopes Cayllum can be of help to Damon but he that is Jack can't leave now. There was something going on in the Henderson's home and he was going to find out what it is.

Amy's House

"That bitch is dead." Damon seethed the minute he stopped his car in front of Amy's house. He was out of the car in seconds with Cayllum hot on his heels.

Cayllum was about to knock on the front door when Damon kicked the door open. Amy's front door flung wide open. There was no one in the living room or kitchen. Quietly they made their way down the hall guns in hand to the bedroom. It was empty. Damon motioned for Cayllum to open the trapdoor.

"Damon if we find Amy do not kill her let her first tell us who is the master behind all of this." Cayllum said with a pleading look. Damon looked at him eyes dark and cold. "Do not tell me what to do Cayllum. I don't take orders from you now open that fucking door." Damon said in a cold voice. His gun deadly secure and ready to shoot in his hand.

The first thing they heard was soft sobs and Amy's voice trying to comfort Zoe. "It's going to be okay everything is going to be fine. We will get you out of this." Amy said in a helpless voice.

They made their way down the steps Amy unaware of their presence were standing in front of Zoe. Cayllum quickly grabbed a confused Amy from behind and threw her to the ground taking her hands and holding it tightly together behind her back. There was no escape for her. Damon rushed over to Zoe who was sitting in a steel chair head hanging low. He slowly lifted her head up tears clouded his vision when he looked in her sad hurt emerald orbs. "Princess its daddy your safe." Damon said and kissed her softly on her head.

"Is that really you daddy? I knew you would find me you always do." Zoe said in a soft hoarse voice as fresh tears welled up in her eyes.

"I will always find you no matter what Princess no one can take you away from me. Did she hurt you? Are you hurt?" Damon said.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry. Oh God please forgive me.' Amy cried out. "Please don't hurt me. She made me do it."

"Okay let's get you out of this chair." Damon said and turned to Amy who was still held down on the ground by Cayllum. "Where are the keys to the unlock the steel straps of this chair Amy?" Damon barked in a hard voice.

"I do not know." Amy cried out. "I was only told to put the twins in the chairs and sit with them until I get the call to free them that's all. I swear I was not going to hurt them."

Damon looked at the empty chair next to Zoe in sheer horror. So, these chairs were meant for his small boys. Strapped like animals in a half dim lit cold room where no one would hear their cries and now his daughter was in one of them. What kind of monster does something like this? Damon never felt this overwhelming fury rage in his life.

"Cayllum, you and daddy and Amy. You all have to go." Zoe said as tears rolled down her face.

"No, we are going to out of this thing. Cayllum come and help me here." Damon called out over his shoulder. Damon was pulling hard on the steel strap around her waist and the two steel straps on each wrist.

"No Daddy please listen." Zoe said in tears. And that is when Damon and Cayllum heard it both turning pale in the face their eyes wide with panic.

Tick … tick … tick … tick … the sound of the bomb strapped under the chair Zoe was trapped in.

The Henderson's Home

He was right it was too quiet. No sound of the television, no radio but most important of all Stella's loud voice was missing. There was nothing and no one. Cautiously he made his way through the open window of the basement. This is the only problem Jack have with this town. People are always leaving their windows wide open but this time it served a good purpose. Jack made his way up the stairs carefully taking one step at a time. The house was quiet and any noise he makes now will alert this unknown intruder of his whereabouts. He has to avoid that at all cost. He was not familiar with the layout of the Henderson's house and a house this big have a lot of places to hide. He slowly opened the door and waited a few seconds before stepping out gun loaded and ready.

He could feel he was not alone. There was someone with him in the house. Slowly Jack walked down the short hall to the front of the house with his back against the hall. His senses on high alert. He first checked the kitchen. There was a stack of Kate's recipes books on the kitchen table and a cup of coffee but no Kate or Stella. The living room was next. Jack saw the high heels of Stella first. His eyes grew wide when he saw the rest of her body on the floor. Kate next to her. He rushed over to the women on the floor and gently pressed two fingers on the pulse in Stella's neck. She was alive but in a deep comatose state, so was Kate.

A warm sharp tingling feeling shot through his whole body. He immediately knew what that meant. He was so concerned over Stella and Kate's wellbeing that he let his guard down for a split second and that was enough for his assailant to shoot him in the back of his head. He fell over Stella's body as dark red warm blood dripped down his neck.

The woman approached Jack with a satisfied smile. "You should have made sure I was dead before you threw me into that grave Jack." Melinda said before spitting on Jack's body with a look of pure rage on her ugly mutilated face.

Amy's House

Cayllum was frantically searching through Melinda's notes and journals for clues or anything that can help them defuse the bomb while Damon was by Zoe's side holding her hand and trying his best to stay calm and strong for her. Amy was sitting in a corner her hands tied behind her back staring straight ahead of her with empty eyes.

"Hey don't worry we are going to get out of this thing and I was thinking, I know how much you love Aslan and sending him away now that his basically part of the family is not right. We can keep him I will buy a piece of land for him to live on and in time we can get him a girl let him start his own family." Damon said with a soft smile.

Zoe smiled through her tears at her dad.

"I cannot wait to see your face when you tell Aslan's puppy up and hold him in your hands high up in the air just like they did with Simba. You will be his grandmother and the twins will his grandfathers." Damon said and laughed softly.

A sad smile came over her face. "Daddy if I don't make it can you please."

"Don't you dare say it Zoe. You are a Salvatore and we always fight to the end. We don't give up. Trust me when I say this, I will get you out of this dead trap. You got so much to live for there is no way in hell I will walk out of here without you." Damon said with tears in his eyes. "Be strong stay strong Princess okay."

"I found something this must be it." Cayllum said and rushed over to them with a piece of paper in his hands.

"What did you find?" Damon asked relieved.

"Just as I expected. It's a three-lock riddle bomb." Cayllum said and handed Damon the paper. He then bends down to take a closer look at the bomb under the steel chair.

"Say something that makes fucking sense and what the fuck am I looking at?" Damon said hard. He quickly took in a deep breath to calm himself. He was on his last nerve and the sound of the bomb ticking the minutes away was making it worse.

Cayllum got up quickly on his feet and took the paper from Damon and said. "Okay, for every riddle we answer correct and pin in the correct number a strap will unlock. There are three straps Damon, one around her waist and the other two around her wrists. Trust me Damon I have seen this chair before. That's the only way we can get Zoe out before the bomb goes off."

Damon grabbed the paper from Cayllum and looked at the writing on it. "Fucking hell." Damon said. His eyes wild with shock and fear.

"There are five minutes left what's the first riddle Damon?" Cayllum said. He too was close to breaking point but he knew he had to stay strong not for him but for the girl he loves.

Damon took in a deep breath and looked down at the piece of paper in his hand. "Okay, First think of a person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next tell me what' the last to mend, the middle of middle and the end of end. Finally give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard word. Now string them together and answer me this, which creature are you unwilling to kiss?" When Damon was done reading the riddle, he looked at Cayllum helplessly. "What the fuck is this. What the fuck did I just read?" Damon said softly as their hopeless situation dawned on him.

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