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Chapter 11

"I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door, and annihilate the idiot that attacked us last night."

"Yeah. And then what? We turn to the rest of that house of vampires and say, "Oops. Sorry?"

"I can't believe you made a deal with her." Elena can't because I kind of do. It's Damon after all.

"It was more like a helpful exchange of information. And it's not like I had a choice. She's... scary. Besides, she's gonna help me get Katherine back."

"Of course she is." I tell him sarcastically. "And Damon gets what he wants, as usual. No matter who he hurts in the process."

"You don't have to be snarky about it."

"I woke up this morning to learn that all the vampires have been released from the tomb. I've earned snarky." I tell him frustrated.

"How long are you going to blame me for killing Alaric, and you missy over there for turning your birth mother into a vampire?"

"I'm not blaming you, Damon. I've accepted the fact that you're a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities."

"Ouch." He says pretending to get hurt by my words which he of course wasn't.

"This isn't being very productive. We're gonna figure out a way to deal with Pearl and the vampires. Yeah? Hmm." Stefan tells us as he embraces Elena and Damon leaves the room. Then they both stare at me.

"I'm sorry. He just makes me so cranky."

"I know. He makes everybody cranky."

"So, what are we going to do?" I ask my sister's boyfriend.

"Damon and I are gonna handle everything, I promise." He tells us and I do not agree with this.

"Well, what about me? I can't just sit here and do nothing."

"She is right sitting and do nothing is not something Sofia does and I am helping too." Ok now I don't agree with the idea.

"That's exactly what you're gonna do, because that's what going to keep you safe."

"Which means nothing if you're not safe, too."

"What do you mean? I'm perfectly safe. I have Damon, the self-serving psychopath on my side." He says to Elena but he then smiles at me.

"Well, that's comforting."I tell him and I decide to leave the couple alone.

I walk into the balcony feeling the cold rain in my face as I close my eyes and let me face raise.

"Do you know inside is warmer or do you want to get a cold?" I turn to see Damon leaning against the balcony door.

"I can't remember the last time I was sick. I just love the rain and the thunder."

"Really?" He asks surprise and I hear a lightning and I smile.

"I remember when I was younger my dad and I used to come outside when it rain, fair enough, we spend most of the time outside. But when it was a tempest my mother would tells us to get inside and lock the door because she hated it. I would laugh at her and that would piss her off." I say and I stop talking once I realized what I said.

"How did he?"

"Died. He was a SEAL. I am sure you can imagine how." I say but I knew very well there was much more to the story then just that. "Where is Stefan?"

"Went out to hunt Bambi." He tells me and I roll my eyes. "But he should be here by now." He tells me seriously and I look at the clock.

"You're ignoring me" Damon says as soon we enter the Gilbert's house.

"The 6 missed calls? Sorry. My phone is dead. Sofia?"

"Is Stefan here?" I ask her really wanting to focus on the main problem.

"No. Why? Something wrong?"

"He went out in the woods and didn't come back. I can't get him on his phone. I figured he was here with you." Damon tells her and I noticed the concern in his voice.

"It's going straight to voice-mail. Where could he be?"

"You're not going to like what I'm thinking." I tell them as they both looked at me.

I waited for Damon in the car and as soon as I saw him I got the umbrella and went to him.

"What happened? Where is he?"

"They have him. I can't get in."

"Why not?"

"Because the woman who owns the house is compelled to not let me in." Damn they were smart.

"I can get in." I say and I was about to walk to the house when he stopped me.

"You're not going in there."

"I'm going!"

"You're not going in there." Sense there was no way I was getting in, for now, I changed the subject.

"Why are they doing this? What do they want with him?"

"Revenge. They want revenge."

"We gotta do something."

"I know."

"We can't let them hurt him. We gotta get him out of there." He puts his hands on my face and for some reason I didn't felt the cold.

"I know. Sofia, I know. But I don't know how to get him out."

"I might know how."

"You can't hurt me." I heard him saying as Damon's voice was listen again.

"Oh, I can hurt you, all right."

"Mr. Saltzman. We need your help." I tell him not waiting Damon to screw it over.

"Stefan's in the house. Damon's a vampire so he can't get in. We need you. I would go, but..."

"But your life is valuable. Yours, on the other hand is..." He tells me and I give him a disapproval look.

"Stefan told me about your ring." Elena says and of course Stefan did tell her.

"What about it?"

"Let me recap...You tried to kill me. I defended myself. You died. Then according to my brother and Sofia, your ring brought you back to life. Am I leaving anything out?"

"Yeah. The part where I try and kill you again. Only this time, I don't miss."

"Mr. Saltzman. Please. It's Stefan."

"I'm sorry, Elena. But it's not my problem."

"That's a shame. Because the woman in charge of the crowd can help you find your wife." Was he serious?

"You're lying." The teacher says to him felling it was bluff.

"Am I? Why don't you ask her for yourself? Coward. Come on, Elena. Sofia." He says as he and my sister start to leave but I stay.

"I think he is telling the truth." I tell as I try to look into his mind, making him believe in Damon's bluff enough to make him agree but don't change is own opinion.

"Wait. I'll go."

Alaric pulls out his arsenal of vampire weapons and Damon and I look at it next to each other and if front of the teacher as Elena sat on a table next to us.

"Teacher by day, vampire hunter by night."

"I've you to thank for that." I nod at the teacher, he was right.

"What are these?"

"Those are tranquilizer darts they must contain something inside." I tell her and they all looked at me shocked.

"They are filled with vervain." Alaric tells.

"Just get me in. I'll get Stefan out."

"That's your plan? You're just gonna take them all on yourself?" I tell him, it was a stupid ass plan.

"Well, I'll be a little stealthier than that, hopefully and I already told you Sofia, you are not going." He says and I see Elena talking one of the darts.

"Whoa. What are you doing?" I tell her taking the dart from her hand.

"I'm going with you guys." She was inside, she had too to even think about it.

"No. No. No. No. No way."

"And Damon and I agree for the first time today."

"You need me. I'll get in. You could distract them, and then I'll get Stefan out." She must be crazy. She was zero training to do this type of things.

"You'll get yourself killed. You're not going in there." I tell her going straight to the point.

"I'm going."

"No you aren't Elena, you staying home. I am going."

"I already."

"Don't give me more scrap Damon I know what I am agreeing on and I can defend myself."

"So, when you get me in, get out as quickly as you can. I know how to sneak around where they can't hear me. You'll basically just be in the way."

"Damon, now is not the time to be the lone ranger."

"Fine. Sofia, you can drive the getaway car. You're not going in the house."

"What about me?" Elena asks and both of us look at her like she insane, because right now she must be. "You can't stop me. It's Stefan we're talking about here. You don't understand."

"Oh, I understand. I understand. He's the reason you live. His love lifts you up where you belong. I get it."

"Can you just not joke around for 2 seconds?"

"I can't protect you, Elena that goes for you too Sofia. I don't know how many vampires there are in there. That's how long it takes you to get your head ripped off. I have to be able to get in and get out. I can't be distracted with your safety. Or this will end up a bloodbath that none of us walk away from...Including Stefan. I know. I get it. I understand." He says looking at me with intensity.

"If we're gonna go, let's go." Alaric says and we look away.

Elena and I waited in the car just long enough so that I could get out without Damon noticing me. I took my bag and Elena looked at me.

"What are you doing?"

"To get Stefan back to you." I say taking the gun from the bag and I heard Elena gasps.

"Where did you get that?"

"It's nine." She looks at me shocked but I ignore it. "We don't have much time. The gun is light so it won't be hard to shot. You only get two shots and only used it if you need it. Promise you won't get out of the car until I say so."

"Ok but the gun?"

"Don't worry. I gotta go. Once we got over with this we are eating hot chocolate." I say getting out of the car and walking in direction to the house.

I was able to pass by the porches without being noticed and I hide one I heard an unknown voice. I ran pass the door and went downstairs. Where I saw the door I try to open it but it was locked so I broke the windowpane and unlock it. I watched very carefully was I saw a man standing as guard in the end o the hallway so I prepare the vervain syringe and once I got a clean shot I through it at the same time Damon snape his neck and looked at me.

"Are you insane?"

"See that in his neck straight in the vein." I point it to the syringe and he looked at me surprised.

"Nice shooting."

"I know." I say passing him and I could almost see the smirk on his face. He so didn't knew what I could do it was almost refreshing.

We enter in the cell where Stefan and another man are hold prisoners Damon is about to kill him but Stefan stops him and turns to me.

"You shouldn't be here Sofia."

"She was supposed to stay with your girlfriend and not go all Buffy."I decide to not even comment Damon's statement as he approached the ropes."

"Wait there is vervain of the ropes."

"Sofia, pull that."

"See you need me." I say walking to the ropes as did what it was asked.

"All right, let's go. Clothes on." Damon tells Stefan hurry to leave.

"Wait." Stefan says and looks over at the other man as we both got him free.

"What? Guys, come on. We have to get out of here."

Stefan was weak to leave and I knew it was going to be hard.

"Can you get him in the car?" Damon asks me.

"Yeah." I say trying not to show Damon that I could actually do it more easily than he thought.

"All right, go."

"What about you?"

"You rescue, I'll distract. Go."

Once I got out and walked with Stefan to the car I gave Elena the sign and she got out.

"Go take him. I will be right back." I tell her as she put her arms around Stefan and almost falls. See lack of training but right now we had no other choice.

I saw Alaric killing the vampire and Damon coming to meet him when I saw another vampire so I throw the dart and he felt on the grown, once again they both looked at me shocked.

"I told you I could take care of myself."

"Let's get the hell out of here." Damon says and when we open the door we see more vampires. "How many of you have left?"

"One." Alaric says and they both look at me but I sign a no.

"Damn it." Damon says.

Pearl and Anna went up 'saving' us and we got back home in silence the entire road but I could see Damon's and Alaric's were thinking about what they just saw me do (not that is was that much) but I don't want to deal with the questions.

Damon and I both walked to the bar where I saw Alaric as we both sat next to him.

"That was fun. Oh, don't look at me like that. I know you hate me. Guess what? Everyone hates me. But you can't deny it. We were bad ass." Alaric them punches him and I let a little laugh escape.

"You so deserve it." I tell him as he looked at me with a dirty look.

"Goodnight Sofia."

"Night Alaric." I tell him and he leaves as our drinks are served.

"You were pretty bad ass too."

"I know."

"We make a good team."

"We do." I say not wanting to believe what I had said.

I walk back in my room and I saw looked at the pictures in the bed table and hold it one of them. The one with the 10 years old with a man holding her from the behind, both with simple clothes and you could see the florets behind them.

*1995*

"Careful with the balance, imagine the target direction and let it go." He says and I hit the abdomen of the dummy.

"Damn it."

"Focus on your breathing but you were good angel." He tells me and I hug him as much as 10 years old could since he was very tall.

"Thanks daddy."

*end*

"Thanks daddy." I say putting the picture in the place and I look over at the one from my graduation with the green cape and Nate with my cap in his head with his arm around me as lean relaxed in his chest and I close my eyes felling the sadness again. "I need to hit something." I say to myself and go into the other room for a little practice.