Same as before. I'm trying to fix it but if all the paragraphs run together or seperate suddenly, I am truley sorry!!


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Damon and Elena returned to the boarding house in silence. Damon was getting ready to tell Elena exactly what had happened when he sensed a presence outside the door. He flung it opened, and saw no one, until he looked down.


'Pitiful'. He thought seeing his brother there on all fours, in obvious pain. 'Why won't he just embrace his true nature?' Damon shook his head, and reaching down, grabbed Stefan under the arm. With one smooth movement, he lifted Stefan to his feet and pulled him into the boarding house. He set Stefan down on the bottom step and stared at him. "What in the hell happened to you?"


Stefan almost lost his balance sitting on the stair, until Damon grabbed him and leaned him against the wall. "What in the hell happened to you?" he said to him again.


Still clutching his stomach, he looked down toward the floor as he spoke. "I don't know what is happening to me. I keep feeling this pain and dizziness in my head that is so bad, I have been losing consciousness," he said, still in obvious pain. "When I am unconscious, I have these hallucinations. Hallucinations that have become more and more vivid each time." He looked into his brother's eyes and knew Damon wanted to ask him a question but, didn't. "They're about Katherine."


At the mention of her name, he saw Damon's face change. It was almost as if he had known what Stefan were going to say before he even said it. Stefan felt the dizziness come back again and started to fall from the stair once more. He felt Elena's hand reach out to stop him and then a stronger one as he felt himself being lifted up and brought upstairs.


Elena stood back from the two brothers, not saying a word, stiffening slightly when she heard the name Katherine. It was probably just a normal reaction, but she felt chills running up and down her spine.


*This is all happening again,* she thought, almost numbly, averting her eyes from Damon and Stefan and wrapping her arms around herself as though she was cold, even in the warm summer weather.


Normally, she would have taken charge in a situation like this, would have voiced her opinion and been the first to start formulating a plan. But just right now, Elena felt more content to let Damon take care of it.


Bonnie turned off the phone when she heard Caroline hang up. Turning to Matt she asked him if he could pick up the glass but he had already started. She gave him an appreciative smile and turned back to her sister. She was relieved to see Caroline run into Mary's room. "Hey, can you stay with her till I get done calling the boarding house. "Be right back." Taking the phone out into the hallway she dialed the boarding house number and waited as it rang. "Come one Stefan, Elena, anyone." 'Damon please be there too.' she thought to herself silently.


Damon felt like leaving Stefan lying there. Katherine obviously was having a worse affect on his pathetic animal eating brother. But he already knew that Katherine was a force not to be reckoned with. He lifted Stefan easily over his shoulder and carried him up the stairs. He dropped him on the bed, a bit roughly when the phone started ringing.


Elena seemed to be a bit lost in her own world. Damon couldn't blame her. She'd died twice and come back, and now the cause of her first death was somehow wreaking havoc on her boyfriend.


The phone kept up it's insistent ringing. Mrs. Flowers was probably out shopping or doing whatever little old eccentric ladies do. "What?" Damon said snatching up the phone in the hall outside Stefan's room.


Bonnie's eyes widened as she heard Damon answer the phone. "Um, Damon did you and Stefan find Elena? Because if you did you might want to come back to my house. Mary had a vision about some girl's eyes. Whatever or whoever is out there my sister can sense her too. She's frightened; she's not even talking now. She's just got her eyes closed. I'm worried about her." she stopped talking and looked in on her sister. "Caroline and Matt are here. Damon, she through her brush through her window screaming about eyes." She leaned against the doorway watching as Matt handed her sister a glass of water and Caroline attempted to comfort her. "I think it's best if we all stick together at least for tonight. I have no idea where my parents went but the whole days been out of the ordinary." In a hushed voice she turned away from the doorway and added. "Caroline says she pregnant... and that it's Tyler's."


Caroline kneeled beside Mary. She rubbed her shoulder affectionately. What a day! She saw matt give Mary the glass of water and smiled. Good guy. She rubbed her hand through Mary's hair in a soothing matter. She smiled at her.


"You'll be ok. Everything will be fine," she cooed.


"No! You don't understand!" Mary insisted.


She stood and walked to the broken window. "Out there! They're watching! She's out there!" She pointed in a panic out the window. The saber-like shards of glass bit hungrily into her arm. She acted as if she didn't feel her flesh slice.


"You don't understand!" She shook her hands, splattering blood on the floor and wall. "They know! They knew all along!"


She froze. Mary grew as pale as a cadaver. "She has to get out! She's not safe. Not safe."

"Who's out there, Mary?" Caroline approached Mary's side. "Who? And who is not safe. Please tell us, we can help you." She kept her voice steady. She didn't want Mary to pitch herself out the window. Caroline nibbled her lower lip and looked at matt with pleading eyes. She nodded her head for him to move closer to Mary. She put a protective hand on Mary's arm. She waited for matt to lunge in and grapple Mary from the window.


Matt watched as Mary walked to the window and babbled about someone being out there. 'Who?' he wondered. He saw her cut herself and ran to the bed ripping pieces of sheet off and quickly bandaged Mary's arm before she lost any more blood. "Who's not safe Mary?" he asked in a soft gentle voice. He looked at Caroline for help. 'She's going nuts.' he thought sadly. "Caroline can you get a wet clothe and wipe up this blood?"


Damon leaned his shoulder against the wall as he spoke. "Well that's wonderful." He looked back at the bed where Stefan lay. "I don't think Stefan's going anywhere. He's completely flipped his wig." He shook his head. He could hear Mary yelling about the eyes in the background. Freaky humans. Human girl's anyways.


"Elena's here, I'm going to have her stay with Stefan, and I'm going to the crypt. Ta!" Damon hung the phone up before Bonnie could yell at him and returned down the stairs.


"Stay here with your little boyfriend." Damon said taking Elena by the shoulders. "And don't you dare open the door for anyone. If Mrs. Flowers comes home, have Stefan try to tell her the same thing."


Damon drove his car the short distance to the cemetery, turning the wheel sharply, and skidding to a stop. He got out and walked towards the condemned old church, towards the crypt. "KATHERINE!!!" He called out into the damp night air.


Bonnie stared at the dead phone. 'He's going to the crypt?!... Oh no.' She was slowly putting it all together. A dark power suddenly popping back up, her sister seeing a girls eyes, Elena coming back from the dead. 'If Elena could come back then... oh no Katherine!' She dropped the phone on the floor and ran into her sister's room. "Matt, Caroline, you stay with Mary." She noticed the bandage of Mary's arm and winced. "Don't let her go anywhere and don't let anyone in. I'll be back."


Before either of them could protest she was down the stairs and out the front door. 'There is no way he's going at this alone.' She remember what happened to Stefan the last time he tried to go at something alone he had almost been killed and so had Damon. It was obvious that Stefan wasn't going to be much help. If anything she could be a distraction for Katherine.


'Yeah Bonnie, sacrifice yourself for an undead guy that's still probably hung up on your best friend.' she thought grimly as she hopped in her car, started it and peeled out of her driveway heading toward the graveyard. She parked behind Damon's car and got out. 'Calm down Bonnie, you can do this. Katherine should be child's play compared to Klaus.' She couldn't help the surge of hope that swelled in her chest. 'Oh please let us be wrong.' She made her way towards the old church. Standing a little ways away from it she hide in the trees. She saw Damon walk up calling out Katherine's name and winced. 'I might be a fool being out here but so is he.'


Matt shook his head as Bonnie bolted out the door and down the stairs. 'Be careful Bonnie, please.' He silently sent out to her. Walking Mary back to the bed he sat her down. Once again handing Mary the glass of water she gave her a smile. "Come on Mary, you've got to calm down and drink some water." 'She probably needs something a little stronger than water.' He thought sadly. The way things went in Fell's Church was enough to drive anyone to drink. He glanced at Caroline over the top of Mary's head. 'I wonder what wrong with Caroline. She ate a lot at dinner then threw everything up in Bonnie's yard. I followed her home and here she is back here helping me out with Mary.' He had to admire her for that, she felt like crap and yet here she was giving her support.


Damon heard the car pull up and sure enough, it was Bonnie. Out of the corner of his eye he saw her head towards the trees. Did she honestly think that she could hide from him? "Go home, Bonnie." He yelled over his shoulder at her. He broke a piece of dead limb off of a nearby tree. Pulling a lighter out of his pocket, he lit the end, and fire sprang to life.


He laid the limb against Honoria's tomb, and easily slid the lid to the side. After a slight hesitation, Damon picked up the makeshift torch, "Here goes nothing," he breathed. Then in a blink of an eye, he jumped over the edge and landed at the bottom.


The stench was terrible. Damon's lips sneered. He used the torch to look around the crypt. "My God." he whispered as the dead girl came into view. She had been ravaged. The town had screamed Vampire when they saw what Katherine had done to the old man under the bridge last year. What would they think if they saw the way the poor girl was torn up.


Damon shook his head, turning away from the corpse. There was no other evidence to suggest that Katherine had been here. But the dead girl certainly wouldn't have come down here alone. He walked over to the gate where Katherine had tied he, Stefan, and Elena. You could still see the faint outline of blood on the ground. He peered through the gate to the hall beyond it.


'What was back there?' He asked him self. He grabbed the gate and with a quick jerk flung it open. "Katherine," he called out.


Bonnie heard him tell her to go home but didn't heed his warning. 'He's probably afraid I'll get in the way.' She thought sadly and she figured he was probably right but no one deserves to die alone and she always said she'd go young and beautiful. 'Yeah I got my hair fixed just for an occasion like this. Carpe' Diem...' She ran toward the church and into the crypt. She glanced down the and could barely make out the light of Damon's torch and he once more called out for Katherine. Glancing around for a stick or something to weld she saw the ax. 'Bless you Stefan for leaving it.' she thought as she grabbed and swung her legs over the side, taking the ladder down.


The crypt was just like her, Matt and Meredith except now it had a freshly dead girl hanging on the wall. Blanching she controlled the urge to vomit. 'Geez Bonnie's it's not like you haven't seen a dead body before.' She told her self grimly. 'Ok Mr. Bad ass, here comes your back up.' She made her way down the hallway keeping a decent distance away, making sure to keep glancing back. 'Someone's got to watch your back, gung ho dead boy.' She gripped the handle of the ax and gasped as she came face to face with Damon. She knew his was pissed and she tried to give him her cutest smile. "Thought you might need this," she said gesturing to the ax in her hand. "If it really is Katherine were up against again then you're going to need all the help you can get. I'd rather die fighting than be taken by surprise." She tried to sound brave but her voice shook a bit.


Damon shook his head. "You pesky little humans don't listen worth a damn." He turned and started down the corridor. "Come on." He told her holding the torch out in front of him, and unconsciously reaching back to take her free hand.


"Have any idea where this might lead?" He asked her as they walked slowly, cautiously through the darkness.


She squeezed his hand and glanced behind her. "Probably somewhere near town. She was using this way before to get in and out of town, oh and to Elena's house." The area in front of them looked dark and foreboding and she gripped the handle of the axe tighter. "Mary cut herself on the glass from the window before I left. Matt bandaged her up but she looked pretty bad when I left her with him and Caroline." She said in a whisper, her breath coming in short intervals. 'Calm down Bonnie, if she's around she'll certainly sense your fear, Damon probably does already. I won't be much help if I hyperventilate and pass out.'


She took comfort in Damon's hand in hers. 'Whether he wants to admit or not he's worried about me, I just hope that doesn't make him sloppy when it counts.' "Promise me something would you?" she asked him softly... "If it happens to where you feel obligated to save me and put yourself in harms way, don't. You know just in case you get a chivalrous streak." She didn't wait for him to laugh at her and call her silly. "I mean, I'm just human, just Bonnie, my usefulness meter lasts about 5 minutes but if that's enough time for you to get away and warn the others then do it. You're a lot faster than me." She was aware of the fact that she was babbling and cursed herself under her breath.


"You won't have to worry about that." Damon said sharply. "I don't run." They followed the tunnel, and Damon could hear the rushing water above their heads. He knew that this was the way Katherine had traveled. She was so powerful she couldn't cross running water, so she went under it. Damon on the other hand, just took the long way.


Not too much time they reached the end, and Damon dropped Bonnie's hand. Up above them there was a trap door like mechanism. "Shall we?" He asked her. There was no telling what was on the other side. He figured if they went through it, they wouldn't pop up in the middle of Town Square or anything. But it wouldn't be past Katherine to have them stick their heads out in the middle of a tiger's cage.


Bonnie knew that she had offended him and she was sorry she had opened her big mouth. Before he could make a move to open the trap door she placed her now free hand on his shoulder. "I know you don't run, that's not who you are. I just meant that well..." She shook her head trying to find the right words. "If we were to be in a situation like that I just would want you to survive no matter what." She dropped her hand from his shoulder and looked away. 'Now is not the time to get emotional Bonnie.' she scolded herself silently then regaining her composure she nodded up to the trap door. "After you."


Damon climbed up the short ladder until he could reach the door. He pushed it easily and set it off to the side. He cautiously pulled himself out and crouching
took a quick look around. Nothing. "It's alright, come on up." He called down to Bonnie.


They were out in the woods, not to far from the old house where Katherine had dumped Stefan in a well. Damon chuckled; they all thought he had done it. They should have known that he had better taste than that.


"Where could she be?"


Bonnie climbed out of the hole and standing up dusted the dirt off her jeans. She looked about and a the realization of where they were showed on her face. "Hey this is where we found Stefan last winter." She glanced at Damon and shrugged. "There is no telling with her." A thought hit her like a cold blast and she had to keep herself from shivering. "Do you think that she can still go into Elena's old house after she's died and come back? Is the invitation still there?" She tensed as she pictured little Margaret and Elena's Aunt Judith in their house. Sure they had Robert but he wasn't any help against a psycho like Katherine.


Katherine was obviously doing a good job of masking her powers. She had been following Damon and bonnie for some time now, disguised as a kitten. The fuzzy little ball of fur sat on a tree branch outside the house.


"Oh, this is too easy," she thought.


She sent a thought down to Damon: *Are we having fun yet? I'd thought you would find me by now...Isn't this fun, though?*


Bonnie felt the dark power again, a wave of dizziness hit her and she grabbed on to Damon to prevent herself from crashing to the ground in a dead faint. "She's here somewhere, don't you feel it?" She looked up into his face to see his _expression. 'We're not prepared for this.' She couldn't prevent the wave of fear that passed through her. 'There is no way we're prepared for this.'


Damon put his arm around Bonnie to steady her. He nodded. "She's close." He whispered, "too close. I should have been able to sense her." The voice that echoed through his head was loud and clear, as if Katherine had been standing right beside him. His eyes darted around the halfway cleared area. He saw a squirrel scurry away; whether from him and Bonnie or Katherine, he couldn't be sure.


"How in the hell are you back?" Damon called out with both his mind and voice. "I saw you die last time Katherine, there's no way you could have faked it this time." All the while he talked, he kept Bonnie pulled tight against him.


Oh, you know, that's for me to know and you to find out! And yes, you did see me die," She said mentally to Damon. Then she decided to let Damon know just how close she really was. "Oh, who is this cute little girl? Is she as fun as the last one you had? Am I going to get to play with her too?"


Katherine remained in the tree, although, masking her power and staying in animal form was draining her severely.


Bonnie felt Damon stiffen beside her. Normally she would have been ecstatic for a gorgeous guy like him to pull her close but knew he did it to protect her. "What is it Damon, is she talking to you?" She looked around the woods and saw nothing except for the house and the well. 'Damn that girl, why did she come back, how did she come back?!' She knew she should run to find the others but to risk it would be suicide and she wasn't leaving him here, not with her. She narrowed her eyes in determination and spoke in what she hoped was a clear brave voice. "Show yourself you psycho bitch! You're not welcome here."


Damon narrowed his eyes even further. He felt his muscles tense up. Katherine was way to close for comfort. *You stay away from her* he sent out as forcefully as he could. *You come near her or Elena, or anyone, I'll kill you again Katherine, I swear to it. And you won't be able to find your way back.*


He almost laughed as Bonnie herself lashed out at Katherine. 'Crazy kid' he thought. "Why hide, Katherine?" He said to where Bonnie could hear as well. "Are we afraid?" Damon knew he was flirting with Danger, but at the moment, he was too angry to care.


Stefan had been fading and out of consciousness since Damon had brought him upstairs. He snapped to when heard a door slam and a car drive away. With a sudden sense of concern he sat up and looked around the room. Relief filled him when he saw Elena standing by the window looking outside. Hearing him stir, she turned her gaze toward the bed and looked at him with fear in her eyes.


"Elena. God, I am so glad your safe. I searched all over town for you, wondering if you were okay," he paused and just looked at her. "I...um want you know that I am sorry for the way I behaved in front of you earlier with Damon. I don't know what got into me at all, but I know it wasn't appropriate to do. You deserve better than to be treated in such a way and for that I am truly sorry." He looked to the floor and than back to her. "You know that I love you and there is nothing in this world that I wouldn't do for you. All I want is for you to be happy and....safe."


Caroline wiped the blood up from the floor and walls with a washcloth. She had blood all over her jeans and new shoes. Oh well. She glanced up and smiled at matt who had been watching her. Right. Get your head out of the clouds girl. Matt will drop any thought of you like dead weight when he finds out your pregnant and might become furry occasionally. She kept thinking about how bonnie had just rushed out of there to track down Damon. Idiot. He's gonna get her killed and she doesn't even care. If Katherine is back all hell's gonna break loose and she's gonna suck them all in with her.


Mary had calmed down substantially. Caroline walked over. She felt Mary's head." She's burning up...she needs rest."


"I don't understand."


Mary's eyes focused on Matt. "We have to protect Elena, from Elena." Her face was flush with fever. She winced as she realized for the first time that her arm was slashed. She wandered into her bathroom and wrapped her arm in sterile gauze. "I need stitches. Can you drive me?" Mary pulled on a pair of shorts and slipped into her sandals. "Afterwards we need to go to the boarding house."


Caroline and Matt assisted Mary into Caroline's car and Caroline drove all three to the hospital where Mary was stitched up and cleaned. Caroline and Matt paced waiting for her. When she was done, they went right over to the boarding house.


They went right in and found Elena and Stefan sitting there.


Stefan and Elena had been in an embrace when Caroline, Matt and Mary walked in. They quickly separated and composed themselves. "Guys. What's going on? Is everything okay?" Stefan said as he looked at the frightened faces of each of them.


When she saw Elena, Mary stepped behind Matt and Caroline. 'Her. Must protect her, from...her.' She held her stitched and bandaged arm close to herself almost in shame. "Things are happening," she finally spoke up. "Bad things." Her arm throbbed as she nervously ran her right hand over the wrappings. She hardly remembered flinging blood across her room. She knew she slashed her arm. It was if she had watched herself do it from afar.


"Bonnie and her friend may be in danger, I still don't know his name. I know she is in danger." When she pointed her finger at Elena it almost an accusing finger. "Evil is afoot in this town again. This time it wants more than blood Stefan. So much more."


Stefan looked at Mary with a look confusion. "What do you mean? How do you know about this?" he asked her. "And what do you mean Bonnie and her friend? Why are they in danger? Where is she? And what happened to you?" Stefan started to feel panic rise in his chest again. He looked from Mary to Caroline to Matt, searching for an answer. "Tell me everything that's going on. And tell me quickly!"


Mary's throat was tight; she could feel the panic swelling in the room. The sensation was suffocating. "I keep having visions of these eyes. Normally they're in dreams, but tonight...tonight I was awake." She could feel everyone watching her. 'Why can't this all just be a bad dream?'


"The guy went to the cemetery, I think. Bonnie went after him. They aren't safe. I know it doesn't sound right, but I thought I saw Elena there with them, but I knew she would be here."


She put a hand to her forehead, "It's all hard to explain and I don't much understand it myself."


Matt looked from Stefan to Elena then to Mary. "Well after she got off the phone with your brother she told me and Caroline to watch after Mary and then ran out. She might have gone to the cemetery and she might have not... we don't know. We took Mary to the hospital to get stitches then afterwards she suggested we come here." He sat down on one of Stefan's trunks and looked around the room at his friends. "What the hell is going on Stefan? Why is Mary seeing eyes and thinking we have to save Elena from herself?"


Stefan looked at Matt in disbelief. "What??? Damon and Bonnie went to the cemetery? What the hell is he thinking?" Stefan looked at Matt and then around the room ending with Elena. "Look, I don't know exactly what is going on but I think it may have something to do with Katherine Yes, Katherine. I have had strange hallucinations about her and this may explain why Mary is thinking we have to save Elena from herself. And this may also explain why my brother is at the cemetery right now" Stefan got up off of the bed, still feeling a bit light headed. He looked at each of them, "If I'm right and Katherine is there, then Damon and Bonnie are in serious danger." He stepped over to the window, looked out and then turned around as if he had come to a decision. "I am have to go and make sure they are okay. Damon may be strong but he is no match for Katherine. At least if there were two of us, we might have a better chance." He saw beginnings of protest on each of their faces but put his hands up to stop them.


"I want you guys to stay here. You will be safe if you stay here, together. Besides, it will only make things more complicated and difficult with more people." He looked to Elena, "This is my fight and has been for a very long time. I WILL finish what I started this time."


Caroline looked at Stefan in disbelief. He was really going. Off once again to play cowboys and Indians with some demon bitch. One of these days him and Damon aren't gonna be so lucky. Caroline walked over to Stefan before he left and looked into his eyes. She put a hand on his chest and them shoved him against the wall. She didn't know where the strength had come from, but she held him with one hand against the wall.


"You get Bonnie out of there." She said firmly. "If she dies I'll toast both of you and Damon." She looked at him as heat and a low growl resonated around the room. "I don't care if Damon or you frankly lives or dies fighting Katherine, that's between you 3 but bonnie comes home alive." She released her hold and stepped back. She saw the surprised look and looked at her hand. How did she do that? She looked at Matt, Mary, and Elena and bolted into the bathroom locking herself in.


She slumped onto the side of the bathtub and put her face into her hands. What is wrong with all of us? She thought madly. Mary seeing eyes and stuff. Stefan having visions of some dead vampire who now appears to be alive, her inhuman strength. Matt was the only normal one left in the lot.


Matt watched as Caroline into the bathroom and looked at Elena and Stefan. "Well that was interesting... I do have to agree with her about Bonnie. She doesn't know what she's getting into going after Katherine; she probably thinks she's helping Damon out. Hell he probably doesn't even care how much she likes him, and she does Stefan. You could tell that last winter when he showed up. She's got a soft spot for handsome guys." Matt couldn't control the envy in his voice. Standing up he looked at Stefan in the face and shook his head. "You are no where near strong enough to fight Katherine. You need to feed and I don't mean from rabbits." He looked at Mary and Elena. Mary had already lost enough blood that night and Elena hadn't even moved to offer. 'Stefan probably wouldn't drink from her anyways, that's what got her into trouble last time and the guilt is written all over his face.' Matt pulled the sleeve of his light cotton shirt and offered his arm. "Here take enough to get you through the fight." He said and stepped forward.


"What's the point? They're watching. They will know he fed. They can do what ever they want to us. The all-seeing eye. I understand now." Mary walked to the window in contemplation. 'How can we beat something on another plain of existence? They are far greater than we are.' She looked up at Stefan with great dread in her eyes. "We need more? More with your power." She paused when she saw the shock on their faces. She shook her head and waved her hands at them, "No, no, no. I don't mean vampires, I mean those with powers. We need Tyler and anyone who will unite. This sounds like out of a story book, but a tiny ant can not bring down a man alone, he needs an army." Mary sighed, her eyes seemed to dim. "I'll make some calls. Like I said
we need all the help we can get now."


"Ghostbusters?!" Matt didn't mean to sound scornful, but what was she talking about?!


Her eyes narrowed, almost snake-like, "Charms. I have a friend who can make charms. To defeat it, we must first keep it at bay. Do you understand now????"


Without out further hesitation Mary went downstairs and called Julia. A warder charm was just the start. They had to have faith in themselves first, but warding charm was the beginning after all.


Matt watched Mary walk out to make her phone call then turned back to Stefan presenting his arm. Attempting to put the old good humor back in his voice Matt raised a brow and grinned. "Well you gonna dine Matt al la Carte' or what?" Stefan was taken back from Caroline's sudden outburst and almost choked from shock when grabbed him and held him against the wall. He composed himself when Caroline ran into the bathroom and locked herself in there. 'I wonder if Katherine is playing with her mind too?' he thought to himself.


Stefan looked at Matt with pure appreciation for his friend. "I uh...I appreciate the offer Matt but...I don't know", he looked to Elena for her opinion on the matter. He saw a look of earnest in her face that told him that everyone was right and he needed to be as
strong as he could be; otherwise he was useless to them and to Damon and Bonnie. He turned to Matt and nodded in agreement, "I...okay".


He led Matt up the stairs onto the widow's walk and sat him down on a wooden chest. "I really don't think everyone down there needs to see this. I really do appreciate this Matt.", he said getting on one knee to kneel next to Matt. "Now, this might hurt at first but, just relax and it won't be so bad." He took Matt's arm and looked at the veins in his wrist, not looking at Matt, he lifted it to his mouth and began to suck.


Caroline relaxed a bit and emerged from the bathroom. She felt bad for what she did to Stefan but she knew what his mindset was. He'd get all worked up about Katherine and forget about everything around him. He must be the only guy on earth who is completely 100% emotionally driven. BRBR
Elena shot an incredulous look around the room as first Caroline seemed to freak out, ending in locking herself in the bathroom, then as Matt offered Stefan his neck and as Stefan looked her way for confirmation. She sighed in frustration, refusing to respond to the slight chaos in the room.


Taking a step away from the group, she went to the door that led to the steps downstairs and started down them, calling after herself. "The rest of you can throw ideas back and forth and guess about what's going on. But I'm going to go find Bonnie and Damon before they go and do something stupid."


Elena took the rest of the stairs downstairs two at a time, heading towards the crypt.


Closing the door, Meredith locked it, and then turned around. Alaric was just standing there, looking out of place. She laughed, "Hun, my parents aren't home. Don't worry, my dad's not going to chase you out of the house with a shot gun!!" Laughing at the mental image of her dad chasing Alaric down the street with a shotgun, she shooed him into the living room. "Okay, you have two choices. We can watch the movie in the living room...or up in my bedroom? And, while you're making the decision, I'm going to go make popcorn. Also, you can decide what kind of movie you want to watch."


She smiled encouragingly at him and when he still didn't do anything, she heaved a frustrated sigh. "Or you can just stand there." Flashing a flirtatious smile, she lowered her voice a notch, "I promise I won't bite...hard."


Alaric looked at Meredith in complete shock as she said this. "Well, this is a side of you I have never seen before", he said in mild bewilderment. "I think I like it", he returned her flirtatious smile. "We can watch anything you want, anywhere you want."


Meredith raised her eyebrow as if to say, "Anything...anywhere??" Alaric watched her reaction, "God you're beautiful," he said as he grabbed her in his arms and wrestled her to the couch. He started to tickle her until she was begging him to stop. "I kinda like it when you beg. Do it again", he said as he started to tickle her again. Meredith grabbed hold of his hands and pulled them away from her, then they just stared into each other's eyes. Alaric lowered his face to her's and kissed her hard. Harder than he had before!!!


Meredith gasped under Alaric's bruising kiss. "Ditto. As in, side of you never before seen." She grabbed his neck and pulled him down again. After a few more minutes of making out, she tried to turn. They ended up falling on the floor, with Alaric on the bottom. "Oomph!" She starts laughing hysterically. "You know, this would probably work better up in my room. Let's choose a movie, go get popcorn, and snuggle. And then..." she let it trail off, licking her lips suggestively. Wiggling up his chest so her mouth was by her ear, she whispered some ideas into his ear.


Alaric's eyebrows raised as Meredith whispered in his ear. "Well then, since you put it that way", he said getting up off of the floor and then helping her up. "After you, mon petit cherie", he motioned for her to lead the way and quickly followed her up the stairs.


Meredith ran up the stairs and remembered falling down them that morning racing to the door. She started giggling. When Alaric raised his eyebrow, as if to say, "What?" she explained. When they finally made it to her room, she closed the door and pushed him against it, hissing him hungrily.


"So, love...what movie do you want to watch?" Meredith glanced at him, mischievously.


Alaric kissed her back just as hard. "Why don't we make our own movie?" he said leading her to the bed. He lay her down and kissed her ravenously on the neck. Slowly he made his way down, moving his hands along the contours of her body.


Meredith giggles suddenly. "That tickles."