A/N- It has been 4 weeks of Damon being held captive. In this chapter, it will include Qetsiyah's blood in the rock thing and I know that Bonnie soaked it up or something when she was leaving the prison world, but let's just pretend that she brought it back to the real world, and it still has a lot of Qetsiyah's blood in it.
Disclaimer- I wish I own TVD because then I would be just staring into Ian's eyes the whole day, and then we wouldn't get anything done, and then no one would like TVD, so actually I guess it's a good thing I don't own it.
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Chapter 5- Strength In Magic

One Week Later

Everyone is on their toes on finding Damon, especially because they refuse to take "dead" as an answer. Bonnie and everyone else is grazing through the spell books looking for an uncloaking spell she could do in the Salvatore Boarding House. After hours of searching, Bonnie stands up, trying to grab everyone's attention from the books to her.

"If a witch can put on a cloaking spell that stays up for a month- maybe even longer, that person must be really strong. I think I could stop it from working, but only for a couple of minutes." Bonnie declares, after hours of searching. Stefan, Caroline, and Alaric stop rummaging through bookshelves, and they all look at Bonnie.

Matt decided not to take part in this because Damon and he weren't always on good terms. Everyone was disappointed at him on how stubborn he was. Matt put through pressure, found an alternative way to help. He is going to be watching the town. If anyone were acting suspicious, he would report back to them immediately. It's easy now since he's officially a sergeant of the police department.

"Yeah sure, but there could be more than one witch behind this," Caroline says, looking defeated.

"Let's say that it is a whole group of witches- a coven, then that would mean more power is put into the spell, so I most likely can't do it by myself, and even if I can, it would only last for seconds," Bonnie says, matter-of-factly.

"Seconds?" Stefan's voice peeps up from behind a stack of books.

"Yes. I would need a witch- or witches because I definitely won't have enough power to sustain it for longer than a second or two." Bonnie replies.

"We need more witches? How are we supposed to find a group of witches that are willing to help in Mystic Falls?" Alaric asks.

"Wait," Caroline's eyes light up enthusiastically, "do we still have Qetsiyah's blood in the rock?" Glances are exchanging in the book-filled room.

"Oh my god, yes! Yes! I brought it back with me when I came back from the prison worlds! Oh, my god! Caroline!" Bonnie's eyes light up like a chandelier.

"I put it in my Gram's house with all of her grimoires! I'll be right back." Bonnie declares, running outside to go in her car.


"Excuse me." Stefan says, emotionless. Alaric and Caroline both look at each other, knowing something was wrong with Stefan.

While they're waiting for Bonnie to come back, Stefan walks upstairs into Damon's room. He looks around the room. The bed is a huge mess; half of the comforter is on the floor, and there is a crack in the wall. Oh my god, what happened to Damon? Stefan sighs and sits down on the large and soft bed, staring at the cracked wall. The door busts open with Caroline standing by the doorway and Alaric leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed.

"Stefan-" Caroline starts.

"Don't... Just not right now. I can't hear it. It's my entire fault. If I didn't leave he would still be here." Stefan interrupts her, still staring at the wall

"No it's not your fault, god damn it. I lost my wife in our own wedding and she didn't even get to say her vow yet." Alaric says, his hatred for Kai growing more and more. It's a good thing that Damon killed him, or else it would've been human vs. witch/vampire, and the outcome would be pretty obvious.

"I'm sorry, Alaric. No one should ever go through that." Stefan says, finally taking his eyes off of the wall, but now staring at his hands fumbling together.

"That's because no one gets married to a witch whose coven tradition is to merge with their twin, and their twin is a psychopathic killer." Alaric lets out, angry with himself. He lets out a sigh and uncrosses his arms and walks to the stairs to go downstairs.

"Alaric..." Caroline starts, hesitating whether or not she should go coax him or Stefan. "Stefan, Damon's going to be fine. It's not your fault, and it never will be in a million years!" Caroline steps into the room, eyeing the wall but not making any commentary on it.

"But if I was here, this wouldn't have happened. I was being selfish for wanting to be alone when it's so clearly obvious that Damon should not have been alone." Stefan frowns.

"We're going to get him back. Don't worry! I mean like honestly I don't even like Damon," Caroline and Stefan both laugh knowing that half the people helping hate him. "But I'll help you get him back, you can count me on that." Caroline assures Stefan before their vampire hearing perks up, and they hear the door open.


"Bonnie! Bonnie!" Caroline screams as she runs down the stairs. Stefan is walking behind her. "You're back!"

"I got the rock!" Bonnie says in a singsong voice. She holds the rock above her head and waves it around.

"Yay! Congrats! Bonnie, you are so great!" Stefan mocks.

Bonnie and Caroline start laughing and even the brooding Stefan smiles at his comment. And in that moment, for a split second, everyone was actually happy.


"Bonnie, wake up! Hurry!" Cries Stefan. This is the only way to get Damon back. Bonnie has to wake up.

"Stefan! She just got her energy drained from that spell! Give her some time to get her energy up before she does another spell." Caroline scolds.

Stefan paces back and forth from the living room. He can't begin to imagine what kind of pain Damon must be going through.

Bonnie gasps out loud sitting upright, and everyone comes rushing towards her.

"Bonnie, please do the locator spell." Pleads Stefan.

"Wait!" Caroline yells, "Bonnie, are you okay? Can you do another spell?" she asks with sincerity.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Bonnie says, before continuing. "Okay, the cloaking spell is off, we need to hurry now. I need your blood, Stefan." Bonnie looks up with determination setting in her eyes.

She reaches for a knife next to her and holds it in her hands. Stefan takes the knife and cuts his palm. The blood drips down from his hands and onto the map. She starts chanting, and the flames on the candles rise, and then they burn out. The blood on the map is moving faster and the trail of blood on the map starts disappearing soon after. They sit there in the darkness, as the only voice in the room everyone can hear is Bonnie's. She opens her eyes, and everyone is on their toes. They have a glimmer of hope left in their eyes.

The blood stops inside the middle of the steep woods. What was a large pool of blood on the map, is now only a tiny dot.

"Damon's in the woods..." Everyone comes closer to look at the map.

"Why is the dot of blood so small compared to other times we did it?" Alaric asks, making everyone else wonder the same thing too.

"He's dying," Bonnie replies back, causing Stefan to sit down to steady his nerves, and shove his face in his hands.


I really hope you liked this chapter! It took me a while to get it finished. And also, this chapter isn't in Damon's POV because I'm going to be mean for a second and make you wait for Damon. Oh and also I have a bad way of writing in past tense and then changing into the present, so yeah...

***BUT I just wanted to say that I really appreciate everyone who reviews, favorite, and/or followed this story! I really like to write, and I have no idea why but I really like hurt fics on my favorite characters haha. Anyways, I just wanted to say thank you so much, and I really mean it, because you guys are ALL SO NICEEE! I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!***
-Angela