A.N. Thank you all for the reviews it means a lot, knowing that people are enjoying my story. For Erik and Charles they still have the same age as in the X-men moves but they appeared to be young, something it will be explain later on the story.
Chapter 22
"I have been gone for not much more than two weeks and while I was gone, Jenna stabbed herself because Katherine made do it. Sheriff Forbes found out about all of us thanks to Mason but Caroline was able to erase her memory after her mother being in the cell for days and Damon tortured Mason until he found out where the moonstone was and that he was working with Katherine only to kill him in the end."
"Pretty much all of that." Stefan tells me as I sit in the couch of their living room after visiting Jenna at the hospital.
"You forget Elena and Stefan broke up."
"Thank you Damon for pointing it out." I say sarcastically. "Well I need a drink or a couple of them."I say preparing a glass. "So what is the plan?"
"What plan?" Stefan asks me.
"The plan we have for Katherine you know the all stake her, rip her head off, something poet?" I ask the boys taking a drink.
"Here." I say offering the blonde a drink as I drank the other one, because I needed it.
"I'm still shaking."
"What happened?"
"Go ahead, tell them. You're gonna love this." Damon says to Stefan and I send him a dirty look. The poor girl was scared and he was making jokes.
"I saw Katherine today."
"Where?"
"At the grill. I just stopped by to gawk and... quasi-stalk Matt."
"Skip the teen drama and get to it." Damon says after a while and I was glad he did. It was boring me.
"Then I had to pretend to use the bathroom even though I didn't really have to go because I'm a doofus."
"What was the message?" I asked Caroline holding her shoulder for support and trying not to pressure her but let's face I wanted to know it sooner as possible.
"Tell Damon and Stefan that I want the moonstone or I will rip this town apart until it rains blood."
"Tell him the rest of it."
"Tonight, at the masquerade ball."
"She wants to do it in public." I say looking at them scared of what Katherine was planning to do.
"Killing Mason threw her off guard."
"She's running scared. What she did to Jenna was desperate. She's out of tricks."
"We can't underestimate her. We have to play this smarter than her."
"Can we just give her the moonstone so she'll leave?" Seriously Caroline?
"No, Katherine's not getting dick. I've had it. I'm gonna go to the masquerade ball and I'm gonna kill her, tonight."
"You're not gonna kill her."
"Don't give me that goody-goody crap."
"I am with him on this one Steff."
"You're not gonna kill her."
"Really?"
"Because I am." Stefan says and Damon and I look at each other smirking and proud of Stefan at the same time.
"Hi Alaric, Damon." I say as I see the two men at my door. "Can I help you?"
"Came to pick you up. Come on time to get going."
"One seconds. Oh Alaric be free to come inside after all you have been invited." I say knowing how much Damon wanted to be invited in as both man looked at the two large bags.
"Traveling?"
"No, it's my present for Katherine. You can open it Alaric. I am getting my dress." I tell them as I walk into the bedroom and once I return I see Alaric's shocking face.
"How did you have all this weapons?"
"I like to be prepared. Let's go."
"Hey, come on in." I tell Bonnie as everyone was already at the boarding house.
"I got Stefan's message."
"Hey, you brought the grimoire, thank you." I say taking them into my arms as I let her walk inside the boarding house.
"What's going on?" the which asks Stefan and I.
"We're gonna kill Katherine." I simply tell her because there was not much more to say.
"I can explain."
"Please." She says to the vampire like the answer I have her was unacceptable.
"We're gonna kill Katherine."
"This works with compressed air. The trigger mechanism is up here. I have two of these in a different size." Alaric says as we walk into the table and I get another weapon putting it on my arm.
"For you guys I recommend this. It fits nicely under the jacket sleeve. You use the trigger when you're ready." I tell them as I show them how it works as I touched Damon chest but not exactly killing him as everyone looks at me shocked probably because of my movements.
"You wanted me to show you how to kill a vampire. Now let's see the rest."
"Are you sure you guys don't want me there tonight?" Alaric says as we all recap the plan.
"No, I need you to stay with Elena. I don't want her to know about this." I tell him knowing very well my sister would suspect something.
"Okay. Well, I'll make sure she doesn't leave my sight."
"Alright, if anybody wants to back out, I'll understand." Stefan says to the team as I look at everyone faces trying to see doubt and uncertainty. The plan had to work and for that everyone needed to be in their places and do a great job.
"Yeah. Cold feet speak now. I don't want this going wrong if someone chicken's out. Caroline."
"I won't. Look, she killed me. Fair's fair. As long as there's no werewolf running around."
"Oh, I took care of Mason." Damon says as I gave him a dirty look for that, because it wasn't really necessary kill Mason and he knew it very well.
"As long as Tyler doesn't kill anyone, he won't turn."
"Bonnie? Are you with us?" I ask the witch as we all looked at her waiting for an answer.
"But no one gets hurt."
"Except Katherine." I say trying to hide my smirk.
"Tonight Katherine gets a stake through her heart." Damon says finishing the last part as he looked at me and I nod trying to hide my smile and happy face because it kind looks bad.
"Need any help with that?" Damon tells me waking into the room as I tried to put the necklace he gave me on and before I noticed he was by my side putting it on.
"What is with the belt?"
"Want doesn't it look good on me?" I ask him smirking as I started at the mirror. I was wearing black mini dress with a long sleeve and a corset belt all in black just like the high hells that almost made me a bit taller than Damon. (look in my polyvore account)
"You look ready to kill someone." He says holding my arm as I pulled away for a bit felling the pain in it. I wasn't only wearing a long sleeve to hide my knife. Helping Raven escape didn't come without a little wounds and I didn't wanted them to be noticed so I obviously had to cover them up. "You're ok?"
"Perfectly fine."
"Do you wanna talk about your two weeks vacations?"
"Nope."
"You're sure."
"Damon, I am sure." I say turning to him as I saw some concern in his eyes but I ignore linking my arm with his offering him a seductive smile. "Now let' go."
"Do you see her?" I ask the boys as I stand between the two still holding Damon's arm since apparently I was "posing" as his date. That what he told but I am sure he just wanted an opportunity to fail at getting me into his bed again or he wouldn't say I was his date with his typical smirk.
"Nope. You're sure you can do this?"
"Who are you talking to?" Damon asks.
"Well, me it's not. I wanted to be the one doing it. You guys were the ones who pulled me away for the actually fight." I say a little irritated about it actually.
"I had the chance to kill her and I hesitated." He says looking at Damon. So this is what they are talking about.
"Well that is the fork in the road between you and me my friend. I don't hesitate."
"You spent 145 years loving her, it could happen." I tell him as he looked at me not pleased. I knew it was a low blow but I needed to be sure.
"I won't hesitate."
"Okay." I say noticing the determination in his eyes.
Bonnie and I follow my brother upstairs into the room where Stefan and Damon were supposed to fight Katherine
"I thought this room could work.
"It's perfect Jer." I tell him opening the bags with the weapons as I put them in position while Jeremy talked with Bonnie.
"It's that the spell book I read about in my family's old journal?"
"it's my ancestor, Emily's. The spell I'm doing here is similar to the one that sealed the vampires into the tomb."
"Can you do all the stuff that's in there?" He asks as I looked at the large book.
"I mean it takes practice. I've worked on some small spells. Spells that only do good. I don't want to know too much. I don't particularly enjoy any of this, in case you haven't noticed."
"Yeah but you're 100% witch, that is so cool."
"It's anything but cool. Did your family journals tell you what happened to Emily? Or what about my Grams? It never ends well for people like me."
"If you feel that way, why help?"
"Because I don't want anyone else getting hurt and I don't know how to stay out of it." You and be both Bonnie. You and be both.
"Well guys I'm getting downstairs. Be careful." I tell them both before living the room and into the party getting the first glass of champagne I could find.
"Care for a dance?" Damon asks me as I look around and let him take me to the dance floor. "You look extremely hot today."
"And you compliment me won't make me tell you were I was the last couple of weeks.
"Well according to your sister you were visiting friends."
"See you knew where I was." I tell him sarcastically but not far from the true, ok pretty far but they were still my …. Friends.
"Well If I know something about your friends is that you weren't in a tea party."
"Or a barbeque." I add with a smirk as I Damon makes me twist and I felt the pain on my arm again. Damn it the painkillers weren't enough. Stupid ass nerves and muscles can handle a little fight and shooting.
"So now that you had some vacations have you thought of what you're going to do once mystic falls in peace again."
"I have work to do."
"Well I thought…
"Damn it." I say as I see Katherine killing a girl while talking to Stefan.
"I put the body in the trunk for now." Stefan says coming into the room where Damon is walking in circles making me even more frustrated.
"We'll dump her when we get back."
"This is exactly what I didn't want it, Damon."
"Stefan, it's collateral damage."
"Right, which is why we need to call it off."
"What? No way." I say making my presence noticed. We were not going to call off the plan, definitely not.
"Who's hesitating now? Hey! Don't do this to me! This woman ruined our lives, she destroyed us! Tonight it ends. We can do it together. I got your back. Alright?"
"Alright." Such a nice brotherly moment only if it wasn't because we were trying to kill they crazy ex.
"Ok boys time to put the plan in action and make sure it works or I will be pretty piss off."
"And take this for someone who knows it Steff, you don't want to see Buffy here pissed."
"Ok guys you know where the weapons are good luck."
"You sure you can make the scene disappear from everyone else so comes upstairs."
"Part of my amazing powers is that I can make people believe they are seeing something when it not really happening besides we won't need it. I am sure Bonnie's spell is going to work Stefan."
"Why do you keep dragging me into this? I don't want any part of it."
"Shut up!"I heard the two familiar voices. Looks like Caroline part is working.
"Which room is it?"
"It's that one."
"Where is she?" Katherine asks as I listen to Caroline laughs, look like she went into our trap the plan was working.
"I did it. I really didn't think that I'd be able to fool you but I did." She says living but not before stopping at room where I was hiding.
"How was I?"
"Perfect Caroline, you made me proud." I tell her winking at her.
I listen and saw the fight in the room at the same and Damon was about to kill her when Jeremy came.
"Jeremy." I stop him for entering the room as I entered myself.
"Stop! You're hurting Elena! Everything you're doing to her is hurting Elena!" Wait what? I say trying to move out of the room but as I expect it wasn't working.
"You think you two are the only ones with a witch on your side? Wrong and something tells me that my witch is better than your witch."
"Jeremy, go check on Elena. Make sure she's okay. Go!" I tell him as he runs downstairs.
"Let's all make sure poor Elena is okay. Just a little bit more pressure." She what she was about to do so I focus in Elena as I see her cut hand with the stake as I felt all the pain at the same time I bump into something sharp, maybe the table and I felt the stitches on my arm opening and I try to hold on to the pain.
"Sofia." I heard Damon's voice as I let my body get more into the room as I noticed him holding me.
"Oh, so nice of you. Getting inside your sister mind so that you feel the pain not her. Let's see. This is really gonna hurt." She says as I see her about to drive the stake through her stomach, better yet, into Elena's, as I prepare for the pain. I was not going to break right now and I am pretty sure she knew that.
"Wait!" Damon says making her stop as she smirks and I gave Damon a angry look. He was not supposed to let her win.
"Okay. So, how about that moonstone?" she says as I let go of Elena's mind as I felt Bonnie spell. I knew she was not going to feel pain anymore.
"You're ok." Damon whispers at me as I nod but we both knew I was lying.
"She looks pale Damon."
"My bag. There is a bottle of pills in them, bring it here … oh … and some band airs too." I tell him as with vampire speed he was already close to me as Damon and Stefan sat me on a chair and I took the knife from my arm as the three vampires looked at me surprised. "What? I never go anywhere without it." I tell them as I use the knife to cut my sleeve as noticed Damon's eyes popping.
"What the hell."
"I need to stitch the arm again."
"You need what. What the hell happened to you" Stefan says as I look at Katherine, who was in front of me and I roll my eyes as I see her smirk.
"Ran into some trouble during my vacations that it's all you need to ask. Now painkillers." I tell Stefan as he gave them to me and I saw Damon cleaning the blood from my arm. "What are you doing?"
"Stitching you apparently. This may hurt."
"Please Damon, have you seen my arm." I tell him. Like stitching would hurt me.
"I am seeing it and I have to tell you. I saw better looking wounds in the civil war."
"I am taking that as a compliment."
"It wasn't one." I hear him murmur as I feel him starting to stitch me. "You don't happen to have a pair of scissors, do you?"
"In my belt." I tell him as he looks at me perplexed. "Belt Damon." I tell him since I couldn't open it my arm being held by him as he did it for me making Stefan hold my arm. "You're ok Stef."
"It's not the blood, it's just this is really bag."
"Please it will be as new in a few days." I say as Damon took off the belt and looked at him perplexed, again.
"What is this? Batman's belt?" He asks but I choose to ignore him. "And can I just say this was not how I expected to take your dress off tonight."
"And in spirit of my arm I am letting that comment pass without knocking you out."
"You really need the painkillers don't you?" Damon asks with a smirk knowing very well if I was good he was already in pain on the floor.
"The three of us together just like old times. The brother who loved me too much and the one that didn't love me enough." God why I needed to be in this place. Right, Elena connected to Katherine, failed plan and my arm.
"And the evil slut vampire who only loved herself." Damon says as I chuckle.
"What happened to you Damon? You know Sofia, he used to be so sweet and polite." Damon polite? That must be a new one.
"Oh that Damon died a long time ago."
"Good. He was a bore." She says as I chuckle making her smirk and Damon look at me confused.
"Oh, why don't you two stop antagonizing each other?" Please Stefan, at least it makes it less boring.
"Where is the moonstone?"
"What do you want with it?"
"Does Elena enjoy having both of you worship at her alter?"
"That was really desperate, Katherine." I tell as I turn to her and she just raises her shoulders at me.
"Don't you think that we can see right through you?"
"So it doesn't bother you that Damon's in love with your girlfriend?"
"Oh, stop it."
"Or what? You'll hurt me? Come on, Stefan. Everything that I feel, Elena feels, so go ahead. Or better yet, kiss me Damon. She'll feel that too but we all know she isn't the Gilbert you want to kiss is she, Damon?"
"You want to kiss Jeremy?"I ask him trying to make all this less tense for that I had my nerves on my arm. Well might as well start the interrogation. "You know, this whole Mason thing has me a bit confused. Not the part you sleeping with him, I mean, I did it too." I tell her as we both smirk at each other as the boys looked between us confused. Poor them, they had no idea of how Katherine truly worked or what happened with Mason. "Why a werewolf? The moonstone can break a curse that would help them destroy all vampires so what's in that for you?"
"Sorry about your pet wolf, probably should have kept him on a tighter leash."
"I'll have to remember that for next time. He's not the only wolf in town."
"Speaking of him do you really believe I would say anything to Mason?" I ask her as sat closer to her making the boys look at me like I was insane, once again, they didn't knew how to deal with Katherine.
"I was testing you. You passed it." She says as I stare at her. I knew it but what test exactly? "I wanted to know how far you were willing to go to help your family. I heard story I just wanted to see if they were truth."
"Normally that is not how I help saving my family."
"I knew but seducing Mason did the trick, he did tell you, didn't he?"
"Yeah he did."
"Wait you knew Mason was a werewolf before us."
"In my defense Damon I found out the same mooring you left for Duke." I tell him turning back to her. "So I passed the test." Ok, maybe I looked a little too proud of myself right now.
"Yeah, you are willing to go far from family."
"Well sleeping with Mason wasn't exactly I torture." I tell her smirking.
"Oh I know."
"Can you two stop acting like best friends?" Damon asks not amused at all.
"Ignore him. So you're a mutant." She says eyeing me up and down.
"Are you flirting with me?" I ask Katherine with a smirk as she winks at me. Maybe she did learn a lot about me that what I expected. "Because you look like my sister to it's strange."
"That can be solved. You can use your mind powers and we could lose a few clothes, maybe all, go a few rounds."
"Damn it! Where is that witch?" Damon says as I roll my eyes trying not to laugh at him and at Stefan's perplexed face I bet they didn't imagine the night turned out to be like this.
"We could play charades."
"You bargained the moonstone." I released it for the first time. God I am starting to going slow, Raven was right.
"What are you mumbling about over there?" Damon says turning to us.
"When you struck a deal with George Lockwood, to help you fake your death, you told that you gave George something that he needed. It was the moonstone, wasn't it?"
"Good for you, Sofia. 2+2...And it would have worked except that people found out that I wasn't in the tomb. Thanks to you, by the way." She says now to Damon. "Have I mentioned how inconvenient your obsession with me has been?"
"You and me both, honey."
"Why do you need it back?" Stefan asks her.
"I love you in a suit, so dashing." She says as I roll my eyes. Didn't work with me, maybe it will with Stefan.
"What were you doing with it in the first place?"
"You're wasting your breath, Stefan."
"Unless it wasn't yours to begin with. In 1864 you faked your death. Who were you running from, Katherine?" I ask her and she turned and smirk at me.
"Hot and smart. If I didn't' loved Stefan." She says as I roll my eyes. "speaking of years and love. Stefan, in 1987 you were in Chicago, at a concert of all places with that wench, Lexi. Come on Stefan, don't look so surprised. Of course I checked in on you over the years. You were standing in the front row, dancing all night. You were watching Bon Jovi and I was watching you."
"Who were you running from?"
"I love you." she murmurs to the youngest Salvatore as I roll my eyes.
"We're missing the party. I'll have one of those."
"Right away Miss Katherine." Damon says with a servant voice as I roll my eyes and I noticed Stefan checking my arm.
"I am fine Stefan, much better actually."
"Thank you." I hear Katherine say at the same time she is pushed against the wall by Damon.
"No, no! Damon, don't!" Stefan says trying to stop him.
"Yes, Damon, please."
"The second the spell is lifted, I'm gonna drive a stake right through your heart."
"God, you're hot. When did you get so hot?" She says pushing him away. "Is he better in bed too?" She asks me.
"Well he is hot treating to kill you. I give you that." I say enjoying this way too much as I noticed Damon trying to cover up a smirk appearing in his face.
"Katherine, the spell on this room has been broken, you're free to leave." I woman says in the door.
"Thank God." Katherine and I say at same time as we look at each other.
"When I hand this over my debt to you is over."
"Done."
"I owe you nothing."
"I said done. Give it."
"I wouldn't do that." Damon says warning her as I see Katherine struggling for breathe.
"You should have told me another witch was involved. She's a Bennett witch, Katherine, but I'm sure you knew that."
"Wait, Elena!"
"Elena's fine.
"The spell is broken. She'll heal quickly, Bonnie's with her. I apologize for my involvement." She says leaving as I see Katherine is unconscious
"You're ok?"
"Just glad this night as ended." I tell Damon as I see the sleeve of the dress on the floor. "Well it's looks like my dress is ruined."
"I think you still look hot." He tells me as I smile at him noticing him taking off his jacket and giving it to me.
"What are you?"
"You can't go out with your arm looking like that." He tells me as I nod smiling at him as we started at each other. "I have something to ask you."
"Shot. But not literally, I had enough switches for the month."
"When Katherine was going to stake herself were you really going to let it happen? I mean, knowing you would feel it."
"Better me than Elena right?" I ask him with humor as I felt his hands on my hair, it did felt nice. No, don't think like that, don't you dare to think like that.
"Sofia." He was about to speak and for the softness of his voice I wasn't ready to hear what he had to say.
"Well I should probably take Elena home."
"And I have to take care of Katherine." He tells me as I walk off the room holding into his jacket. "Sofia." He calls me as I turn to him still with a soft tone. "See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow Damon."
"Yeah Jeremy, I've taking Elena home. Tell Bonnie that whatever she did is making her feel better. Yeah, you can drive her home. I will probably stay with you guys to make sure. Bye." I say ending the call as I looked at Elena with a smile as we suddenly are attacked by men in masks and I try to fight them the pain in my arm wasn't letting me and we were taken.