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I avoided Elana as much as possible not that she was talking to me anyway. By Saturday I'd finally decided to bite the bullet I knocked on her door.
"Come in," I heard her from the other side when she saw me her face turned sour, she nodded to Stefan and said "as you can see I'm busy."
"I came to apologize, I know that finding our mom is important to you so I'm here to help." I sat down on the bed, "So what do we know?"
She looked at me trying to gauge if I was being truthful she sighed before finally speaking, "Jenna found some of Dad's old appointment books which led to a spiral and eventually led her to a girl named Trudie Peaterson one of her friends we found an address for her but nothing for Isobel."
"So what she just disappeared?" I asked I noticed Stefan shift uncomfortably at the question.
"Poof thin air. Jenna also told me that Alaric's wife was from around here and her name was Isobel."
"Was?"
"She's dead."
Seeing Stefan's reaction I knew I needed to talk to him he was hiding something. "I'm going down to the grill want to go?" I asked them.
"No, I've got some stuff to do but we're going later for the fundraiser." Elana said.
"Yeah I actually better get going I have a few things to do before." Stefan said giving Elana a quick kiss before walking out, I followed behind him shutting the door. I grabbed his arm. "You know something."
"No, I don't know anything for sure."
"Stefan, I don't care about this the way Elana does, you can tell me. If you don't just tell me I'll just use my witchy ways to find out."
"You need to talk to Damon." He said before pulling his arm away and walking down the stairs.
I pulled out my phone and sent Damon a text
Need to talk to you, where are you?
He replied almost instantly
The grill talking to the sheriff.
When I got to the grill I found Damon sitting at the bar, Liz had just walked away. "More animal attacks?" I asked walking up.
"Nope, apparently I am one of Mystic Falls most eligible bachelors Liz asked me to be part of the fundraiser." He said setting his glass down.
"Hello, girlfriend right here." I pointed to myself.
"Relax it's already rigged for you to win."
"Well that hardly seems fair to all the desperate women trying to win a date with you."
"I don't want a date with them." He said giving me a look that made me shiver before remembering I was in a mission. I looked around before stealing his newly refilled glass. "Hey" He said as threw back the shot and set it down.
"Compell yourself another, I have something I need to ask you and I need you to swear not to lie to me."
"Scouts honor."
"Does the name Isobel Flemings mean anything to you?"
Damon coughed on his new drink, "Why?"
"So it does?"
"Again I ask why?"
"Because that's Mine and Elana's birth mom."
Damon stared ahead for a second before finishing his drink and throwing some money down, "Come on." He grabbed my hand and led me outside, we walked across the street to the town square. "I turned her, she sought me out, begged me. That explains why Stefan has been sniffing around." I didn't know what else to say, Elana would probably lose it if she heard about this she already hated Damon. I looked down at my shoes, Damon stepped forward to wrap his arms around me. I put my hands up to keep him back and the familiar feeling of a vision hit.
Alaric charging at Damon with a stake,
Damon fighting back,
Alaric on the ground dead.
My knees buckled Damon caught me before I hit the ground. "Hey, hey, I got you." He locked his blue eyes with my green ones pushing a piece of hair out of my face, "what did you see?"
"Alaric is going to try and kill you."
"When?"
"I don't know, they aren't time stamped." I spat, the wind picked up around us throwing leaves around.
"Is that you?"
I closed my eyes and nodded. "My Magic's been a little off since the tomb I had a nightmare last night and when I woke up all of the candles in my room were lit. I meant to look and see if there was anything in my book about it but it still at your house."
"Come by after the fundraiser, I need to find Stefan." He kissed me on the cheek and walked towards his car.
I went home intent on telling Elana what Damon told me but she wasn't home I waited as long as I could before I had to leave again for the auction when I walked in Damon was talking to Liz. I saw Elana talking to Kelly Donovan before disappearing into the crowd, fuck it I'll tell her later.
I threw a twenty down in front of Caroline. "Buying your dates now?" She sneered.
"Nope, just trying to keep skanks like you off my boyfriend." I said with a smile.
"Says the boyfriend thief." She said tearing off my tickets and slamming them on the counter.
"Good comeback, time to find some new material." I walked away and found a spot to sit waving at Jenna and Elana.
Elana mouthed I need to talk to you
I motioned me too before turning to pay attention to mayor Lockwood who was just finished up with Alaric's interview which did not go well.
"And last biut not least we have Damon Salvatore, we don't have much on you."
Yeah cause he's a vampire fooling all of you I laughed to myself.
"I'm tough to put on a card." He looked at me and smirked.
"Do you like to travel?"
"Oh yeah L.A. New York actually I was up near Duke for a while. Isn't that where you went to school Rick? Matter of fact I think I met your wife."
Suddenly I wished telepathy was a power I possessed.
"Yeah I had a drink with her she was... delicious."
What the fuck I watched Elana walked out and Stefan follow behind her, I got up and walked out when I reached her I put my hand on her arm "Hey-"
"Don't, don't you even come out here and defend him."
"Elana-"
"No he's a psychopath."
I noticed a man staring at us "ELANA." I yelled she looked at me and I nodded to the gentleman.
"That's the man that was outside Trudie's house."
Stefan rushed us inside, Elana ran to the bathroom locking the door behind her. When she finally came out Damon was walking towards us. "Elana." I said before she brushed me off.
"Did you enjoy that? Taunting Rick? Did I forget to mention when we talked earlier our mother," she pointed between us, "her name was Isobel." She pushed past him and walked towards the door with Stefan.
Damon looked at me, "You didn't tell her?"
I stared at him with a mixture of anger and disbelief, "I didn't have time. What the hell is wrong with you? How is this my fault and you picking at him in front of the whole fucking town hours after I told you he was going to try and kill you." I went to step around him to go find Elana I'm sure Stefan was telling her what I already knew. Damon put his hands on my shoulders, "Don't, Damon I need a minute." When he didn't move I felt more anger Damon pulled his hands back as if I had hurt him a light above the bar exploded. I took the distraction as my way to escape, when I walked out on to the sidewalk I walked towards Elana the man was speaking to her.
"She doesn't want to know either of you. Do you understand?"
"Yes." Elana said clearly shaken up.
"Then my job is done." He stepped back and was plowed down by a truck.
"Was he talking about Isobel?" I asked.
Stefan nodded and I continued, "Elana that's what I was trying to tell you Isobel isn't dead Damon turned her." Elana acted as though she didn't hear me and walked up to the now very dead messenger from our mother, I watched her pick up his phone before Stefan rushed her to the car. I followed them back to our house and up to her room.
"Are you not going to talk to me?" I asked.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I was going to but you kept screaming at me about Damon, it's not my fault you don't listen."
"I stand by what I said Alexis. He may not have killed her but he's not a good person, how do you not see that?"
"Because I know what I got myself into I'm not going to judge someone based on things in the past, people change Damon hasn't done anything to hurt me."
"Clearly people change." She replied I knew she was talking about me.
"You know what, fuck you Elana." I turned to walk out of the room.
"Yep just leave that's what you do best."
I didn't respond I took a deep breath knowing if I lost control I could hurt Elana and as mad as I was at her that was not on my list of things to do.
When I pulled up at the boarding house I saw Damon's car in the driveway I needed to find my book and figure out what was going on with my magic. I walked in not seeing Damon in the living room I walked to the library where I was greeted with my vision of Rick dead on the floor.
"What the hell happened?" I said walking over to him.
"He attacked me, I killed him." Damon responded.
"Yeah I see that."
"Better question why did you burn the ever loving shit out of me at the grill?"
"What? I didn't, well I didn't mean to. You wouldn't let go of me and I needed to find Elana. Your shit talking with Alaric didn't help either."
"I make snide comments and piss people off that's what I do Alexis!"
"We see how fucking well that works out!" I waved my hand towards the corpse on the floor.
"What the hell are you guys yelling about? Oh." Stefan said walking in seeing Alaric, "What the hell did you do?"
"Why do you always assume it's my fault?" Damon asked acting hurt. "Maybe Alexis killed him."
"Oh fuck off Damon, I don't get my jolly's from killing history teachers." I sneered.
"I took no pleasure in killing him." Damon replied pouring himself a drink, he looked to Stefan who was now circling Ricks body. Stefan bent down and Rick gasped and sat up, "What the hell happened?"
"Damon killed you, how are you alive right now?" Stefan asked.
"Is he in transition?" I turned to Damon "did you give him blood?"
"No, I like the people I kill to stay dead." He quipped.
"No... it's the ring." Alaric said looking at his hand. "Isobel.."
I walked over to him, startled he tried to scoot away. "I'm not going to hurt you, can I just see it?" I asked holding out my hand, "I don't even need you to take it off." I crouched down next to him.
"Of the three of us she's the one least likely to hurt you." Damon nodded.
Alaric put his hand in mine as soon as I touched the ring it burned me, "Shit!"
"What?" Damon and Stefan asked at the same time.
"It's an Emily Bennett special I can't touch it, like the crystal."
"How do you know it's from Emily?" Damon asked walking towards me.
"I don't know I just assume the feeling I got, it was the same when I touched Bonnie's necklace." I shrugged my shoulders, "Looks like you're on your own with that." I turned to Damon. "Well now that one crisis is over I need my book, because even though I'm not exactly thrilled with you at the moment I really don't want to kill you."
"I can help with that." Rick groaned out getting off the floor.
"Obviously." Damon laughed rolling his eyes.
I grabbed the collar of Damon's shirt and pulled him with me. "Hey this is John Varvatos."
"You say that like I know what it means."
"Expensive." Damon said through gritted teeth, I swear I heard a small laugh from Stefan.
"Consider it payback for the ass you made out of yourself at the grill."
Damon followed me anyway, "I've said this before but you are sexy when you're mad." He went to wrap his arms around me I caught the faint sent that is Damon.
"Stop, you're going to distract me." I found the book and climbed up on the bed skimming through entries and Damon interrupting me every few minutes. "Watch tv or something when I find something I'll tell you." I said after the tenth time he asked.
I flipped through a couple more pages before coming across and elemental from the early 1900's "Well this looks promising," Damon leaned up as I started reading
An elemental has two sources for their magic,
Their emotions and their death element.
As our power grows we must be mindful of both,
We mustn't let it consume us, for our power has great purpose.
"Death element?" Damon asked.
"I drowned, so water water makes me stronger. There's a river that flows all around this town. As far as my emotions go it's been a long fucking week."
"That it has, any word on how to fix it?"
"There's a little ritual down here at the bottom, it's a calming ritual. Apparently it helps with the emotional overload, you going to be mad about me pouring salt on your floor?"
"In here yes, literally anywhere else in the house no. Ooh go do it on Stefan's bed."
"Wow, you are particularly dickish tonight aren't you."
He shrugged, "Im in a mood."
"Mmhm, well I need a bowl of water and a container of salt I can do it outside."
So Damon followed me into the kitchen and found the salt while I filled up a small bowl of water. "Oh I need a knife too."
Damon without asking any questions walked out of the room and was back a few seconds later with a small dagger type knife. I looked at it noticing how old it is, "I'd ask why you have this but you have so much junk I'm not surprised. I laughed he shrugged.
"You're not even going to ask what it's for." I continued.
"Well I assume you're not going to try and kill me or yourself with it so witch away." He said, we got everything set up on the back patio and Damon went to sit in one of the chairs.
"You don't have to sit here, I'm sure you're bored out of your mind. I just didn't want you to try to kill Alaric again he's gone now, so you're free."
"I'm staying right here." He leaned back in his chair to make his point. "You're vampire blood free right now and I'm going to make sure nothing happens to you."
I drew a circle of salt around where I'd be sitting then sat down in front of the bowl of water. Dipping my fingers into it and flicked a little water in each of the four corners, I cut my hand over the bowl cutting just a little too deep. I sucked air through my teeth and I hear Damon shift in his chair, "Ego control hoc est magicae non comedit me." I said as I watched the drops of blood swirl into the bowl. I repeated the words four more times as I flicked the mixture into the corners again.
"Ego control hoc est magicae non comedit me." I said one last time before I felt all the pent up energy almost dissolve, leaving me with a pleasant feeling where the pit in my stomach had just been.
I stood up and walked over to Damon my hand still bleeding pretty bad, "I need your help." I said sitting on his lap. I didn't feel angry anymore I figure it was in large part due to the spell putting my emotions back in check.
"I see that," he looked at my hand and I saw the veins crawl under his eyes he looked up at me before biting his wrist, I didn't take it right away. "It's going to close up."
"Have you eaten today?"
"Yes, couple of blood bags. Why?"
"Nothing, I've just seen you be around blood and your face not change. Mine seems to do it to you every time." His wrist had healed but instead of biting it again he bit his lip and pulled me in for a kiss, I didn't resist, sucking on his bottom lip I tasted the blood and a little hit of the bourbon he'd been drinking all day. When we broke away I leaned into him putting my head on his shoulder, he ran his fingers through my hair.
"It's all about controlling the bloodlust." He said after a couple of minutes. "I don't know what it is about you you're like a fine wine and everything else comes in a box."
"Well I appreciate you're restraint not finishing the bottle." I said laughing a little, "She compelled some guy to find us... Isobel. Just to tell us she didn't want to know us, then he walked in front of a truck." I felt Damon's arms tighten around me. "Who does that, write a fucking letter."
"I don't know that a letter would have gotten the point across, Maybe her switch is off."
I leaned my head up so I could see his face. "Her switch?"
"The good ole humanity switch, when being a vampire gets you down just turn off those emotions and revel in it."
"That sounds terrible."
"Only for everyone around you while it's off, turning It back on is the hard part."
"Speak from experience?" I laid my head back down.
"Yup Stefan too."
"Elana stole his cell phone, it fell out of his pocket when he got hit."
"Anything useful?"
"I don't know, me and Elana got into a fight and since my magic was out of wack I left." I sighed, "I probably should go I just took off and didn't tell anyone where I was." I tried to get up but Damon held me in place. "Seriously it's cold."
He let me up reluctantly and led me in the house I grabbed my book and headed home. When I got there I still wasn't ready to talk to Elana so I went straight to my room, I wasn't in there ten minutes when Elana busted through our shared bathroom.
"If you're here to fight you can march your ass right back out that door."
"I stole this." She heals out the cell phone she'd picked up from the accident.
"I saw, did you go through it?"
"Yeah there's just one number, but I haven't called it yet."
"Well call it." I said sitting down on the bed.
She pressed the button and put it on speaker,
Ring
Ring
*click* hello
Did you see them? Did it go all right? Was there a problem?
"Isobel?" Elana croaked our.
The line went dead.
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