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The ride home was filled with me swearing about Elana under my breath, and Damon just letting me get it all out when we got home Jenna was in the kitchen. "I'm home." I called out, dropping my bag by the door and walking in to the kitchen. "You're home early." Jenna said.
"Yeah I figured if I came home early you'd let Damon stay for a while." I said as I got some water. Elana and Stefan walked in shortly after us also coming in to the kitchen Elana looked like she was going to say something but seeing Jenna in the room made her stop.
Jenna pointed at the brothers, "Neither one of you are staying here tonight, I like you, you not so much." She laughed pointing at each of them. "Doors open out by eleven deal?"
Both Damon and Stefan nodded, I laughed inside knowing Damon would just sneak right back in. Elana pulled me to the side, "We need to talk please." I followed her upstairs. When we got to her room she shut the door, I was turned away from her when I asked "What Elana?" There was no response I turned around and she was gone. "Elana?" Someone grabed me from behind I felt a prick in my neck and the world went black.
Damon's pov
"Jeremy where did your friend go?" Jenna asked.
"Bathroom."
"Baby Gilbert has a friend?" I asked with a laugh.
"Yeah Anna." He replied "She's the weird girl I was talking about earlier."
"Anna?" Stefan whispered so only I could hear him, the look of concern made me decide it was time to eavesdrop on the girls. I heard nothing I smacked Stefan on the arm and motion towards the stairs. I ran to Alexis's room, nothing walking through the bathroom to Elana's room "Their both gone." Stefan said walking to the open window. "I'll go talk to Jeremy you see if you can track them down, I have a feeling this has something to do with that Anna girl."
"Did Pearl's daughter get rounded up with the rest, her name was Anna wasn't it?" Damon said and Stefan nodded.
Alexis's pov
I could hear noises but I was having a hard time getting my brain to communicate with the rest of me, when my eyes finally opened everything was blurry. After blinking a few times it was better I was in a bathroom that I didn't recognize, Bonnie unconscious next to me. The knob rattled I closed my eyes and pretended to still be out until I heard Elana, "oh my god Bonnie, Alexis." My eyes short open at the sound of her voice. "Are you ok?" She asked me before turning to help Bonnie wake up.
"Yeah as long as I don't have to move I'm fine." Everything felt heavy. Once Bonnie woke up Elana turned on the faucet to tune us out from our captors, Bonnie explained how her date with Ben ended up being the date from hell before turning to me and asking, "How did they get you two."
"Elana and I were talking I asked her a question and she was gone when I turned to look for her someone got me from behind." I leaned my head to one side. "Teeth marks?"
Bonnie leaned over "No it's a needle mark." Concern shot across her face and I felt my stomach drop.
"Vervain doesn't work on witches does it?" Elana asked.
"No, it's not vervain, well not only vervain." I looked to Bonnie again "I'm sure Sheila has told you about it so do you want to tell the story of should I do it." Bonnie looked at her shoes, "Quick version Emily needed help with a spell the spirits wouldn't let her do, she asked an elemental to help the elemental refused. Not wanting to take no for an answer she creates an elixir that would disable the elemental both physically and magically unless they were being channeled. The only problem with the elixir is that too much and it's fatal. I'm not hallucinating or puking my guts out so someone's good at stalking and math. The magical mute button."
"But why, what do they need us for." Bonnie asked.
"Emily's grimoire. I'd guarantee it." Elana said.
"What!"
"It has the key to opening the tomb, we found it last night."
Just then the door swung open and Ben turned off the faucet, "That's enough to chit chat from you." Grabbing Elana's arm he went to leave.
"We won't help you." Bonnie said.
"Well that's what little Elana is here for to make you more cooperative, and her" He said looking at me "bargaining chip." With that he pulled Elana into the other room and slammed the door.
Damon's pov
"Well we've been all over town and nothing." I said banging the steering wheel.
"We are going to have to find Bonnie she can use a locator spell." Stefan replied.
"Let's go find us a witch then." As we pulled in to the driveway of Sheila Bennett I knew this was going to be a fight. I knocked on the door and was greeted with a sour face. "Hi, I'm looking for Bonnie is she here?"
She went to slam the door in my face but Stefan jumped in, "Please wait, someone's taken Elana and Alexis and we need help finding them."
She eyed him up and down "wait here." She was inside several minutes when she came out she had a piece of paper, "They're here." She said handing it to Stefan, as we walked down the porch my phone started ringing.
"Hello?" I answered
"Your girl for the grimoire."
"Anna is that you?"
"Bring me the book I'll be in the town square." Then the line went dead.
"You go to the address Sheila gave us, I have a meeting in the in town." I said handing Stefan my keys.
Alexis's pov
"Thanks for not telling her the whole story." Bonnie said not looking at me.
"Which part, the one where Emily killed three elementals before realizing what she was doing wrong or-"
"Yes that part, what other part is there?"
"Bonnie that grimoire that Bree gave me it magically finds its way to the next Elemental like recycled magic, there's more then one at any given time but they are always where the magic is needed. Almost every one that's come from Mystic Falls has been killed by a Bennett witch."
"What?"
"Your grams left that out I guess."
"Alexis-"
The door opened and Ben was back, "You two, out here." Bonnie helped me out of the tub and to the bed in the other room, I still felt drugged my feet seemed to heavy to actually move, being able to lie down on the bed was almost a relief.
Elana looked at me with the saddest expression I'd seen from her in a while "I'll be fine, it wears off in a couple of hours." I said.
We weren't there long when Stefan busted through the door staking Ben through the chest before any of us really knew what was going on he ran over to Elana first, "Are you guys ok."
"Yeah let's get out of here." Elena replies coming over to help me up.
"What's wrong with her." He asked pointing at me.
"She's been drugged for lack of better term." She helped me put the door moving around and getting out of the cramped tub because by the time we made it to the car I felt way better.
"I have to take Bonnie to Sheila's, where am I taking you two?"
"I'm staying with you." Elana said first.
"Where's Damon?" I asked.
"He went to meet with Anna. He should be back at the house by now."
"Then take me there, my book is in Damon's room anyway there's something I need to look at."
When we got to the Boarding house Elana insisted on walking inside with me apparently afraid I was going to just keel over and die. When we walked inside I made it to the steps of the living room Damon pulled me in wrapping his arms around me. "You can go Elana." I said breathing in the amazing smell that was Damon. I heard the door shit as Elana walked out, "Stefan said you were drugged." He said pulling back. "You reek like vervain."
"Yeah there's a reason for that." I said shrugging out of his arms I motioned for him to follow me as I headed towards his room. I told him the same story I told Elana before grabbing my grimoire from the pile of books next to the bed, I flipped it open "This is exactly what happened." He took the book from me anger growing on his face the further he read.
"It's blessed brick dust, spirit witch blood, witch hazel and vervain." I said
"Vervain doesn't hurt witches." He replied looking up.
"It's there because the only way to survive a fatal dose is to bleed it out... until my heart almost stops."
"And you'd need a vampire to heal you." He said closing the book.
"Yeah." I wasn't looking at him when I continued. "A lethal dose presents symptoms so fast that the body doesn't have time to just work it out."
"Are there any survivors in that book?"
"Well not all of them died from that but nine got help in time, from that book. I don't know about the others, maybe some other regions of the world have better luck. Thankfully not a lot of people know about it, I'm not sure how the vampires that took us knew about it."
"Because Anna, knew Emily."
"Who's Anna?"
"The brains behind operation kidnap, her mother's in the tomb. Which by the way if Stefan can convince Sabrina, happens tonight."
"I'm going."
"No, you're not. After this ordeal the only place your going is home." He said his tone told me he wasn't up for an argument but I wasn't going down without a fight.
"Damon, I'm fine see." I pointed to a set of candles that were now lit. "Like I told Elana it wears off after a couple hours."
Damon eyed me I'm not sure what he was looking for but he backed down.
"I do need to go home and plead for forgiveness from Jenna she's probably going crazy right now."
"I took care of it. Your phone was in your bag when you two got snatched I grabbed it and sent Jenna a message this morning. You had a history test you forgot about but didn't want to miss." He said tossing me my phone. "Oh btw your history teacher he's a vampire hunter, might have to kill him."
"Leave Alaric alone." I said firmly. "And thank you for covering with Jenna not exactly sure how to tell her we were kidnapped."
"I will if he will."
I scowled at him earning a laugh the first smile is seen since I'd gotten to the house. "I need some food." I said.
"Well then let's go feed the human." He said throwing his arm over my shoulder leading the way.
Stefan and Elana made it back shortly after, finding us in the kitchen "Someone looks happy for almost dying today." Elana said.
"I'm always happy when food is involved." I replied.
"We got Bonnie to agree to do the spell her and Sheila will meet us at the tomb in a couple hours." Stefan said taking a seat at the table.
"What's the catch?" Damon asked.
"We get Kathrine and no one else."
"That's seems fair, but that Anna chick she doesn't seem like she's going to stop. I mean committing kidnapping and all." I said.
"I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Stefan said. Stefan and Elana left before we did when we got in the car Damon turned to me taking my hand and said, "You really don't have to go, say the word I'll drop you off at home."
"I'm going, considering the possibility of my limited life span I'm following through with this."
When we got to there I immediately saw the giant bonfire and remembered the duke party going on tonight, "I hope they stay away from the tomb."
"I don't" Damon smirked.
"Seriously!?"
"Kidding"
We walked to the tomb Stefan was setting up gas cans assuming they were for the other vampires. Walking down the stairs I got the weirdest feeling like something terrible was about to happen, I brushed it off as insecurity because of Damon being reunited with Kathrine.
"Witches." Damon greeted nodding his head, when we got into the main chamber.
"Alexis you shouldn't be here, Bonnie told me what happened." Sheila said softly.
"Im fine." I spat.
Elana came down with Stefan and said, "We're all clear on the plan?"
"Yup, big witch and little witch open the tomb I get Kathrine and we burn the rest." Damon said.
Bonnie and Sheila joined hands, "earth, air, fire, water," Bonnie poured some water from a bottle.
"That's it? Just water from the tap?" Elana asked.
"What did you expect?" Bonnie's asked.
Elana shrugged. Bonnie and her grams continued chanting.
"What is that?" Elana asked. I shrugged my shoulders because I didn't have a clue. The torches flared up and then Bonnie said, "It worked."
"Alright come on Elana." Damon pulled at her arm.
"What?!" She and I both said.
"I'm not taking you as collateral, I actually like you." He replied looking at me.
"Absolutely not," I pulled Elana's arm out of his hand and said "I'll go." I walked through the door way, Damon took my hand and we started walking through the tunnels. It was cold, even with real light it would have been creepy. "I don't like it down here."
"You're the one ran in here all Indiana Jones."
I clutched his hand tighter. "If you leave me down here so help me god."
As we continues down Damon got more and more frustrated, we were reaching what seemed like the last room when I heard a scream. I let go of Damon's hand and turned around "That was Elana." When I turned back around I realized I'd been talking to myself, "God damn it Damon." There was only one room left and since I knew I wasn't a hundred percent, I needed Damon to help me find Elana.
When I walked in he didn't look at me. "Damon what the hell you just left me. Come on we have to go get Elana."
"She's not here." He mumbled.
"What?"
"She's not fucking here, a hundred and forty five years I've been waiting to get her out and she's not fucking here!" He threw the blood bag up against the wall.
"Damon, I'm sorry." I reached out and grabbed his arm. "But I'm going to need you to put a pause on this spiral we need to get out of here." I pulled on his arm and after a few seconds he came with me. We met up with Stefan close to the entrance, "What are you doing in here?" I asked.
"I came to get Elana, I heard her scream Anna got her brought her to wake up her mom. I took her out but I'm stuck."
Seriously, you came in here knowing you couldn't get out?"
"They are working on lifting the barrier but they won't be able to hold it long."
Damon still hadn't said a word, once we'd reached the entrance he let go of my hand "Go, before Anna comes looking for more for her mom." I let go of his hand and went to walk out, only I couldn't. "What the hell." I banged on the invisible barrier. "You've got to be fucking kidding me, Bonnie what is this?"
"It's not us if must be part of Emily's original spell."
"Well get me out of here."
"We're trying."
I could feel my heart beat through my chest I know every desiccated vampire could hear it to, I was freaking out hard. Damon snapped out of his daze and cupped my face in his hands making me look at him, "Hey, I'm going to need you to calm down."
"Alexis, we need to channel you." Sheila yelled.
I nodded, Sheila and Bonnie started chanting again. It started with a ringing in my ears which progressed in to feeling like my head was literally going to explode. I fell to my knees trying not to scream, blood coming out of my nose.
"It's down grab her and come on." Bonnie said.
The words had no sooner left her mouth when Anna and her mother pushed past us. Pulling me up to my feet Damon half carried me out, we walked up the stairs in silence when we got to the top Damon continued his rant, "I can't believe she's been out this whole time, this whole time I've put just about everything on hold." He threw down his bag."
I walked up to him and wrapped my arms around him, "Hey, I'm going to need you to calm down."
He returned my hug, not saying anything.
I looked up at him "Do you need a minute, I can have Elana take me home."
"No, I brought you out here I can take you home," he looked down at me "Are you ok?"
"Other then feeling like I could sleep for a month, yeah I'm fine." Neither one of us moved "Hey, I'm really sorry she wasn't in there."
"I need to make a pit stop." He said clearly not wanting to talk about it. We mad the short trip back to his car and pulled out on to the road. I didn't ask where we were going, but when he pulled into the motel I had been rescued from earlier that day I felt my heart speed up.
"I'm not going in there." I sounded as panicked as I felt.
"No, you're not I need to have a word with Anna."he replied before getting out and heading up to the room.