Chapter 9

"What do you mean she is gone?" I say angry as Stefan and I walk out of car.

"Anna took her last night; I think they also have Bonnie. Damon won't help."

"What did you expected?" I look up to see Bonnie's grandmother house.

I kick the door and I see Ben screaming once the sunlight hits him and Elena looks at us

"Sofia! Stefan!

"Let's get you girls outside." I tell them as I look at Stefan as he moves to Ben, I knew he was going to treat him not killing him. Stefan was good enough for that. "Are you girls ok?"

"Hum-hum." Elena says and Stefan comes outside.

Elena has in the bathroom as Bonnie, Sheila, Stefan and I were sitting at the table talking.

"How did you know where we were?" Bonnie asks to her grandmother.

"Many things can fuel a witches power. Worry. Anger. After Stefan told me they had taken you, I had a lot of both. Simple locater spell was easy after that."

"I'm sorry. About all of this."

"Not as sorry as they're gonna be." Shelia and I say at the same time and we smirk at each other.

"So what do we do now?" Elena asks coming in and sitting next to Stefan.

"Well, for now, you need to stay here." Stefan tells us and I gave him the 'are you serious' look.

"A prisoner, in my own home? I don't think so." The elder woman says.

"I can't protect you if you leave the house."

"We'll protect ourselves."

"I am with Shelia."

"By the way how is your leg?" Stefan asks me and I turn to him confused. "You kicked a door it might have hurt."

"I thought it was you who kicked it?" Elena says to her boyfriend and turns to me shocked. "You kicked door!"

"Moving on. We need to let him have Katherine back. He's not going to stop until he gets her. If we help him, maybe that ends it."

"No, Sofia! He doesn't deserve to get what he wants."

"What other choice do we have?" I say looking at the group. He loves her, he is not giving up, I knew that, I understood that.

"Witches being pulled down by vampire problems. As much as we tried to do to stay out of it. I'll open the tomb. You get your brother's girl and destroy the rest with fire. Then this will be all over."

"We still have to get Damon to agree."

"He already agreed once." Elena says to Stefan.

"Yeah, and then we double crossed him. So now he's angry."

"He's hurt because we betrayed him. There's a difference. I think I know what I have to do." I tell them and Stefan and I share a look.

"Thank you for the help." I say sarcastically as Damon turns to me as I enter the living room. "Elena is safe."

"I'm gonna have to change the locks. You stage a jailbreak?"

"Almost. Stefan helped."

"Ah, brother. Ever the white knight."

"I convinced Bonnie to help you."

"I doubt that."

I walk close to Damon and speak. "I'm not gonna say that I'm sorry we got the grimoire without you last night, because I'm not."

"Well, at least you're honest."

"I was protecting the people I love, Damon. But so were you, in your own, twisted way. And as hard as it is to figure, we're all on the same side, after the same thing."

"Not interested." He says walking the opposite side I was walking before.

"Yes you are, because you were willing to work with us yesterday." This make him turns around.

"Fool me once, shame on you."

"Okay, when we were in Atlanta, why didn't you use your compulsion on me?" I tell him and that makes him walk closer to me and I knew this is where I had to go.

"Who's to say I didn't?"

"You didn't. I know you didn't. But you could have. Every time we were together. I don't have a vervain necklace or drink it." Ok there is a high change that compulsion won't work on me but there is still a shoot. I need to start wearing vervain. "You and I... we have something. An understanding. And I know that my betrayal hurt you, different from how it is with you and Stefan, but I'm promising you this now, I will help you get Katherine back."

"I wish I could believe you." At this I get close to him

"Ask me if I'm lying now." I tell him and we both knew I was talking about compulsion. He comes closer to me and puts his hands in my face.

"You know Anna won't stop, by the way, no matter what I do." I try to not smile at his respond.

"Then we'll deal with it."

"I didn't compel you in Atlanta because we were having fun. I wanted it to be real. I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it." He says with his eyes fixed on mines.

Sheila lights the torches. Bonnie stands next to her as Stefan, Damon, Elena and I watch from the entrance the scene in front of us.

"Air. Earth. Fire."

"Water."

"That's it? Just water from the tap?"

"As opposed to what?" I ask her and I see Sheila smile.

"I just figured maybe it would have to be blessed or mystical or something."

"What's that?" I heard Stefan ask Damon.

"It's for Katherine. Gotta have something to get her going. Unless your girl's offering a vein to tap."

"She isn't." I tell Damon.

"Admit it - you can't wait to get rid of me."

"I can't wait to get rid of you." I tell him and Stefan nods.

"Hmm."

"We're ready." Bonnie says getting our attention. Where it goes.

"What are they saying?" Damon asks us while Bonnie and Sheila are reciting a spell in some strange language.

"Sounds Latin."

"I don't think its Latin." I tell them boys and they look at me. "I can speak a bit and it doesn't sound like it." I see the surprise in both of their faces. "What, a person can't speak Latin?"

Suddenly the torches flare up. Elena grabs onto Stefan's arm.

"What's happening?" she asks a bit scared and the door to the tomb opens

"It worked!"

"Of course it worked."

"We have some fires to build." Damon tells his brother.

"I'm gonna go get the gasoline, I'll be right back."

"You ready?" Damon asks to Elena.

"What?"

"You think I'm gonna go in there by myself so you can seal me in?" he says graving my sister.

"Don't take her in. I'll bring the walls down."

"You'll bring the walls down if I don't. You think I trust you?"

"As much as I trust you."

"Enough. Both of you." I say getting everyone attention. "Look, he needs leverage. He needs to know that you're not going to shut the door when he gets inside. Since I can wait to get rid of him." I repeat the words of our previews conversation get it. "I'll go." I tell him and Damon nods.

"May I?" Damon asks getting a touch. "Let's go." He tells me and nod.

Once I get lost I call for Damon but instead I see Anna and I blink. She steps towards me and looks at me but was I walk I bump into someone. Pearl. When the girl sees her mother she kneels down next to her

"Mother! Mother. Your boyfriend did this, you know." She tells me caressing her mother's arm.

"His father did." I try to tell her that he is not by boyfriend but I don't think she will even listen.

"And Jonathan Gilbert. I made a choice a long time ago that it would be Gilbert blood that brought her back to life. I had Jeremy all ready to go but..."

"Do you have a knife?" I ask her and she looks at me confuse.

"No." She says and I give her my arm.

"Bit it." She looks at me shocked and even blinking. "Come on we don't have much time just make sure she doesn't kill me."

"Let her go!" Stefan appears and I turn to him as Pearl was still drinking my blood.

"No! I actually had the idea."

"She is drinking too much." Stefan screams and I feel my eyes closing but Anna stops her mother.

"Anna." I hear a voice coming and it was Pearl. The girl runs to her mother side and cries happily. "Annabelle."

"Let them both walk away Stefan." I tell him and Pearls looks at me.

"I feed on you." I nod conforming.

"Thank you." Anna tells me still with tears

"If Damon deserves to get Katherine you also deserve to get your mother. Just don't kill people in the town." I tell her and she leaves with her mother.

"We need to get you out or you will pass out." Stefan tells me.

As we walk to the door Stefan gets stuck and Elena walks to him.

"Stay there Elena." I tell her and she looks at me confused.

"Stefan, what are you doing?" She says confused

"It's gonna be okay. We'll fix it." Bonnie says.

"What is it?"

"I can't."

"Can't? Can't what?" Elena says scared.

"The spell's still up. We can't get them out yet." Bonnie says and I look at Stefan's face and I see the look.

"You know. You went in there not knowing if you could come back out?"

"Oh, my God." Elena says and I look at him shocked.

"I smell the blood and I listen to you conversation with Anna."

"Stefan." I whisper at him. He did it to save me. "We can't leave him in there. We promised him. Both of us." I tell Elena.

"I know."

"Even if we're able to break through the seal, we won't be able to hold it for long."

"Damon is still looking for her." I tell Stefan and we both walk to find him.

"She's not here." I hear Damon as we found him.

"Damon."

"She's not here."

"What?" I ask him.

"She's not here!" he screams and throws the blood bag at the wall making the blood splatters across it and he looks at us with hurt in his eyes.

"Damon, we need to get out of here." Stefan warns him.

"It doesn't make sense. They locked her inside." He says completely lost.

"If we don't leave now, we're not getting out."

"How could she not be in here?"

"It's not worth spending all of eternity down here. She's not worth it!"

"No!"

"Damon! Please." I say feeling weak and I feel Stefan's arms around me waist.

"What happen?"

"She gave her blood to Pearl. We need to get out." Stefan says and Damon nods.

"What happen?" Elena asks us once we got out and Stefan still had his arm around my back. "Are you ok Sofia?"

"I am fine." I say and Stefan lets go of me and I see the miserable look Damon had so I get to him and hug him. "I am so sorry."

I walk and I see Stefan and Damon both looking at the fire at the Salvatore's living room but Stefan was the only one who noticed me and I gave him a look to let me stay with Damon and he nod leaving. Once we were alone, I came and sat in the couch next to him.

"He's name is Erik." I tell him and he turns surprise to see me. "The guy who I did my dirty work to. I loved him like I never loved anyone. He has a brotherhood, a cause, I join years ago when he came cross me in college." I say and I drink a little from the glass. "For more than 5 years I watched a lot of people I care about die. It made me defend the cause even more" I take a pause to breathe deep and look at the fireplace. "We have this thing, he calls me for help, I help him and we end up sleeping together after that one of us leaves, we never talk about it. It was when a friend of mine, Nate, he died in my arms in a middle of a mission." I feel two tears falling down my face and Damon gives me his glass of bourbon and I drank it. "It was the last drop and once I found out my father had died I decide to give myself a second change. A new life. But the true is that I still care for him and he's out there."

"She is out there too, not caring." He says in the tone that I barely listened.