Chapter 3

"As the hunter is hunted down, she slays her enemies on sacred ground."

-Boadicea

Anna had been listening to the group when she saw Bonnie walk back up into the room. She didn't know why but lately she had been a bit suspicious of the witch. She didn't know what exactly it was but she didn't trust her completely. Bonnie had came to stand next to Anna as Damon continued to talk. "What's he talking about?"

"We have no idea?" Jeremy said walking to stand behind the two girls. "Alright Bonnie's back so can we get back to business."

"Did you find anything Bon?" Anna watched the witch stutter for a minute before she answered.

"Uhh, no. I have to go back later and try again."

"What's wrong?" Damon asked concerned.

"Nothing he's just locked down like a vault."

"Alright well. Until then I guess we just have to wait." Alaric said. "Jeremy could you help me with some of the stuff from my car."

"Sure."

"Stefan, come on. Maybe there something in the library that will help Bonnie get in his head." She watched as Stefan and Elena made their way upstairs.

"I need something to drink. You want anything." Anna shook her head no and Bonnie answered.

"Yeah a coke would be good." As Damon disappeared into the kitchen, only Anna and Bonnie were left.

"Where are you going?" Bonnie had asked.

"I'm going to make sure he's tied up tight."

"I don't think you need to do that. I mean he was okay when I left." Raising an eyebrow she looked at the witch then turned around. She felt her fangs start to protrude and touched her face to feel the veins. There was blood nearby. She spun around to face Bonnie, who was the only other person in the room.

"Are you okay?" The witch asked looking at her face.

"I smell blood. Are you bleeding?" She watched as the brown-green eyed girl checked both arms.

"Oh it looks like I am." Anna controlled herself and walked over to her. She could see the stain soak through her shirt but Bonnie never rolled up her sleeve.

"Do you need a band aid?"

"No it's just a little scratch."

"That's a lot of blood for a little scratch."

"I'll be fine." Anna shrugged her shoulders and went back down into the basement.

"You know what I could use a band aide." Bonnie said and Anna stopped.

"Are you sure? I thought you just said you'd be fine."

"I will be but a band aid would help."

"Alright I'll get you one." Bonnie waited for Anna to turn around and go upstairs to get one but she was still making her way downstairs.

"Where are you going? The band aids are up stairs?"

"Damon and Stefan keep some down stairs too, I'll just grab you one."Anna answered not even turning around to face Bonnie.

"Anna." Bonnie looked pleading and the vampire's eyes grew in confusion as she ignored the witch and continued making her way down. Anna disappeared down into the cellar. When something grabbed her and threw her back up the stairs and into a wall. As quickly as she had fell she was back up and taken in what had just happened. The vamp that was supposed to be locked up was standing in front of her with a wicked smile on his face. She turned to see Bonnie across the room as Damon came out of the kitchen and stood beside her.

"What the hell?" He said speeding towards the man who just as easily grabbed him and threw him. Anna then saw Stefan appear at the bottom of the steps with Elena coming behind him a few seconds later.

Bonnie and Elena rushed to Anna, "Are you okay? What happened?"

"Talk about that later. We need to get him tied back up." Elena agreed as she reached for something wooden. Anna was the oldest vampire; the one they had caught was only a few years younger than her, so she was surprised when he had tossed her aside like a beach ball.

They were all being taken out by this one vampire Damon, Stefan, and Anna. They couldn't seem to get close enough to grab him as he was throwing them everywhere. She was standing up against the wall again when she saw Bonnie still standing in the same spot but now Alaric and Jeremy were next to her. She was talking to them as they rushed over to help everyone else.

Stefan and Damon went for him at the same time but he had leaped out the way. "Bonnie?" At the sound of her name Bonnie finally did something. Even though it was as simple as knocking him down she had missed and knocked Stefan and Anna down. Anna had thought that was odd because she had never done it before. Finally Alaric had gotten a vervain filled tranquilizer. It didn't really do that much but it slowed him down so that they could finally catch him.

Damon had taken him and sat him in the chair and placed another vervain shot in his arm. "What the hell was that?" he finally asked.

"I have no idea I was going to make sure he was tightened up and see if I could get him to say anything and then the next thing I know I'm being hurled into the wall."

"How'd he get out?" Alaric asked coming to assist Damon with the Vamp. The sound of him choking alerted everyone.

"How about we ask him?" He slapped the man once more to awaken him out of his stupor. He shook to get out of the chair.

"He seems stronger than the last time we bought him in." Stefan said looking to his brother.

"How'd you get out of the room?"

"Like I'm going to tell you?"

"It would be smart of you to do that?" Alaric said standing by the brothers.

"If you put me in there again I'm going to get out."

"You think so." The man just smiled at Damon who smirked back.

"Alright then how about this we ask you some questions and if you cooperate we will let you go." Stefan mentioned trying to get him to cooperate.

"How am I supposed to believe you?"

"You're not." Damon said getting another grin from Stan.

"Then I'm not talking." He looked around at all of the people that had been working together to hold him when his eyes landed on Bonnie's. Anna didn't know what was happening but it looked like the two were having a conversation. She then finally saw Bonnie move from the area of the room she had been standing in and towards the group.

"How about I give you my word?" Bonnie said getting a WTF look from Damon. "He doesn't trust you so why don't I just ask him."

"Why should he trust you?" Anna said getting looks from everyone that said they agreed.

"I have a feeling Stan will work with me."

"Fine, ask him the damn questions." Damon said taking a seat.

"What exactly do you do?"

"I'm a procurer, meaning I get things for creatures or tell them where to find it. Sometimes I even do small jobs for customers."

"Have you ever procured a human from this town?"

"Maybe…No. But I may have told someone about a human from this town."

"I know that vampire procurers like you usually have workers and clientele." Anna added in her own knowledge of the job.

"Nope now-a-days I work for anybody who has the money to pay me."

"So all of them bring you money so that you'll go get or do what they ask of you?"

"Precisely. Though some of them bring me jewelry, rare artifact, money, or anything else I can trade in for money." Alaric crossed his arms over his chest as he asked the next question.

"How many workers do you have and how many do you communicate with often?"

"About 6 workers but I only talk to 4 most of the time."

"And how many have you seen in the last week or two?"

"Four." Bonnie looked at Stan trying to figure out where this conversation was headed. She wasn't expecting anybody to ask him these types of questions. Hell she wasn't expecting him to get caught.

"Why does that matter?" she asked.

"Well Alaric found out that the demon we were looking for was already killed. He found his body behind some club named Crossroads."

"Well not his entire body. His head was missing." Bonnie's heart was about to start pumping ridiculously fast but she controlled it. They weren't really getting anywhere. They could never find out she did it.

"What is Crossroads?" Elena asked. Stefan moved over to his brother and answered the question for her.

"A bunch of supernatural creatures hang there. It's about 15 miles away." Bonnie could feel her heart drop, so she tried her best to continue keeping it steady. "We asked some questions and it lead back to him. We asked around and it seems one of his workers took him out."

"That's good right." Bonnie said. "I mean we were going to kill him anyway. So we don't need him anymore we can let him go."

"Not exactly. I was talking to Anna and she told me something about his kind." Alaric said facing the girl who then began to speak.

"They usually put off this image of them being respectable creatures who will work for anything but that's not what they are." Awwww shit, Bonnie thought. "Procurers are like a gang or the mob with their own sections and turfs. Underneath all that is a different operation, they hire demons to kill whomever they need dead."

"Which can be humans sometimes." Jeremy finished for her.

"I haven't hired a demon to kill any human."

"So in your entire career as a procurer, you've never had a human killed?" It was silence as they waited for him to answer. They knew that his answer was no.

"Not innocent ones. They deserved to die." Stan said from his chair.

"Doesn't matter, humans are humans. So like I was saying when they get into fights it's mostly because they are trying to expand their business. Which then creates gang like wars." Anna finished facing the vamp in the chair. "If we take out his operation and demolish it before it gets started we can save a lot of lives. That means killing everyone who works for him because before you know it this town will be full of supernatural's ready to kill any and everything."

This plan to get him out of here was spinning out of control, quickly. Bonnie was trying to think of a Plan B this whole time after her Plan A failed so miserably. Her friends knew so much and it was screwing with her thoughts. She had to get it back on track. "What if the people that work for him aren't evil?" She asked.

"Let's see what type of workers he has shall we. Alright give me the information of all five." Stan looked to Bonnie who still seemed to be cool under the pressure.

"I have a contract with my workers."

"Do you want to die quickly or slowly?" Damon whispered now moving towards him.

"Some of them are my friends and I care about them."

"We can torture you until you tell us?" Anna knew this was going to turn ugly any minute now.

"Just tell them what they need to know?" the voice of the witch said.

"Would you like names?" He asked.

"Yes." Damon said.

"We don't need names we could find them on our own." Bonnie said.

"It would be easier if we had names." Anna alleged and she knew everyone had agreed with her.

"Fine." Bonnie said and Anna had to admit Bonnie's behavior was growing more suspicious every time she opened her mouth.

"Okay, but these workers of mine are pretty powerful. That being one of the reasons I hired them in the first place. I would actually rather have you kill me then one of them." He said and Anna realized he had, again, glanced over to Bonnie who was staring intently back at him.

"Just come on" Jeremy said getting tired of the man stalling.

"Balthazar."

"I've heard of him before." Stefan says "Isn't he one of the most powerful demons in the underworld."

"Yup."

"Doesn't he eat human hearts?" Jeremy spoke surprising most with his knowledge.

"That's what I pay him with. You know none of my employees actually get paid money. I get the money from the person who hired me and they get whatever they need, which is usually sick and twisted things but only the best for workers of mine."

"Sick bastard." Stan laughed as the others listened on.

"Next!"

"The next is a vampire about 500 years old. Her names Liz."

"Do you pay her with human bodies?"

"Yeah but she has a certain taste. Some people like men, others women, some teens, others Senior citizens. But Liz she loves the taste of Babies."

"I think I'm going to be sick." Elena said sitting down as Stefan rubbed her back."

"The worlds a pretty terrible place, sweetie if you didn't already know."

"Just finish the rest of the names."

"There's Big Bill, he's a demon and his request is actually quite normal. He gets paid in liquor, anything he asks for really Hennessey, Vodka, Bourbon, Gin, Jack Daniels, Scotch, and plenty of others. He's more like my bodyguard. I don't send him out."

"Sounds like my kind of guy." Alaric said looking at Damon who couldn't help but agree.

"He's with me 24/7. Well not anymore seeing as though you killed him." Damon gave him a smirk. "The next one I've been working with her for about 10 years."

"What does she want?"

"She's a demon as well."

"What's her name?"

"She never gave me one."

"So you have been working with her for ten years and don't know what her name is?" Stefan asked because to him that didn't make any sense.

"I don't ask question, as long as she gets the job done then I'm okay. If I needed to know her name I would know it."

"To me it sounds like a lot of evil people work for you." The soft voice of Elena's was finally heard as she moved to off the couch.

"I guess you can say that." Once again Anna didn't like the feeling she was getting from this guy.

"She just wanted…" Alaric asked again waiting for him to finish.

"Witches. Ones who don't know they are witches and preferably were missing parental figures in their lives. Though she doesn't kill them, she sort of befriends them. It's weird but like I said I don't ask questions."

"Alright he's not giving us anything."

"What do you mean? This stuff is gold." Jeremy looked at Damon.

"Well it sounds like we're done here." Damon was moving to pierce the stake through the vamps heart when he heard a scream.

"No!" Bonnie had said a little to alert. "Damon we promised him we weren't going to kill him."

"I didn't." Bonnie stopped because she knew fighting this anymore would make her friends even more wary of what was actually going on.

"So you're just going to let me die even after I did everything you asked me. There's still one more client left that you might need to know."

"I'm pretty sure we can find the last one by ourselves."

"Let's hear the last one." Bonnie pleaded. Her plan had gone to shit but she still had a trick up her sleeve.

"Okay."

"The fifth client is a servant of nature."

"I thought procures, especially vampire ones, didn't like to work with witches or warlocks." Anna spoke causing Bonnie to glance at her.

"We don't most of them are judgmental and self righteous but it's something about this one that I like."

"What do you pay them with?"

"Stuff."

"Okay I'm done with him." Damon began. "Let's just get rid of him and find the workers by ourselves"

"Because it would take longer. Be patient Damon." The younger Salvatore tried to calm his brother.

"Is there anything else you would like to tell us?"

"No?"

"Okay now you can kill him." Bonnie was about to pull out her hair, but she couldn't lose her control now. She could tell that Stan actually thought he was about to die.

"Wait." Damon stopped, annoyed that he wouldn't just let him stake him. "What if I can give you something else?"

"Like what?"

"Personal information about this person."

"What does this have to do with anything?"

"You might be surprised at what this info will do to you? I mean you do have to do the research before you go off and kill them. They are human after all." Bonnie had perked up and it hadn't gone unnoticed. She didn't know what exactly was happening but she had a feeling the witch was to blame for it.

"They actually do some sick things and are closer to you than you think…" When those words came out everyone looked around.

"We don't know her. She's no friend of ours." Bonnie hurried to say.

"How do you know it's a girl?" Elena asked Bonnie who had caught herself.

"I...I saw her in his head." She lied.

"Yeah Bon." Stanley had said "What did she look like in my head? Was she..." Bonnie couldn't help it he wasn't going along with the plan. She knew he must have stopped because he thought she was about to let him die but she wasn't. So now it's better him dead then opening a can of worms she didn't want opened.

The fury in her over boiling she couldn't help it when her eyes began to turn the black color and the wrath that she was about to release could be seen in those orbs. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I wasn't going to tell them anything." Stan had said fear growing in his own eyes. He looked to Damon who had watched bewildered at what was going on.

"Who is he talking to?" Stefan said. No one had moved their eyesight off of the man and Bonnie was grateful for that.

"I don't know but he looks scared as hell." Damon answered his brother.

She was angry now. He was going to betray her right in front of her face. After everything she did for him, she was helping him escape for Christ sake. Obviously she wasn't going to let him die but he was revealing things about her and now she was pissed. Then he wouldn't shut up, his pleas only grew louder. "Shut up." She said sending him flying against the wall and out of the chair with a swift of her hand.

He got up wiping his clothes off. He attempted to make a run for it but his body stopped in place. She made the inside of his body boil as she stared at him. Bent over in pain he collapsed.

"Bonnie!" Damon finally said as he stood with the rest of the shocked group. She looked over to him her guard down for a second and the next thing she knew Stanley held his hands around her throat. Squeezing as tightly as possible. Out the corner of his eye he saw the one she called Damon coming towards him, "Move and I'll rip her head right off her shoulders." He leaned over and whispered in her ear.

"I'm sorry about this. I can't have you killing me and sending back to the complex, can I?" Inside Bonnie couldn't help but laugh because that's exactly how she felt right now. Sending him to a complex reality, like hell. But then thinking about it she figured out what he was saying.

"Just let her go." Elena said the worry on her face showing.

"We'll let you live." Stefan said making sure nothing was going to happen to her.

"It seems like I'm already going to live you should be worried about her." Bonnie's eyes moved to Alaric she could see he was looking for a clear shot.

"Shoot him." She screamed.

"Bonnie we don't have a clear shot."

"I don't care." She said and waited for her friends to shoot but they wouldn't.

"You wouldn't want your friends to kill me before they find out the truth now would you." She used her power and forced Jeremy, Alaric, and Elena to pull the trigger and the wood went flying towards her. Damon had sped and grabbed her out of the way.

She turned back to see Stefan rushing to stake Stan but she beat him to it and made his body grow in flames. She could hear his screams as the fire exploded and went out taken his body with it.

"Bonnie are you okay?" Elena asked running by her side. "I didn't pull the trigger I don't know how the hell it happened."

"I did it." She said once Damon let her go. She stood beside him leaning on the sofa.

"Bonnie are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah." She said holding herself up on the sofa.

"Bonnie your nose is bleeding." Jeremy said standing over his sister. She looked down to see that one of the stakes had pierced her arm, right where Stan had bit her at earlier. But that wasn't the thing that was making her woozy.

"Bonnie?" She heard Damon's voice say before it went dark.

There was silence in the motel as the hunter began going threw her research. "I know we're missing something I just don't know what."

"We're not missing anything. I'm telling you. We have everything we need."

"Evan some of this doesn't make sense." Evan looked at her still searching through the papers. "Are you sure this is really him." The brown skinned women said moving closer to the man.

"Yes. After all this time we finally caught up with him."

"I'm not sure. What do you think Nate?" The hunter with smooth chocolate skin stood up looking over his fellow hunters.

"I trust your judgment. I just can't believe we're actually this close to defeating him."

"I think it time we went in for the kill then." The hunter stood up to look at Nate and Jasmine.

"Let's fill everyone else in." he said as Evan moved out the room. The huntress was about to follow as well but she had a feeling. She stopped and closed the door as her husband looked at her baffled.

"I can tell you're thinking of something. What is it?" he hesitated for a minute before he gave in.

"I think we should call her." Surprise formed on her face before it changed to that of someone who didn't agree with what he was saying.

"I don't think that's a good idea."

"Why? She should know about this, after what he did to her."

"None of us has heard from her since she left unexpectedly. Bringing her back isn't what we need right now. She abandoned us."

"She isn't like that. I'm sure she had a reason."

"She just left after that incident. I love her but bringing her back will only bring back the pain for the both of them…all of us. So let's just do this by ourselves."

"Don't you think she should be here for this, Jazz? Don't tell me that you think that."

"If she wanted to be here with us, then she would be here. That's what I think. I also think you should let her be."

"I…"

"Please Nate just forget about her." He hadn't answered and he hadn't planned on it. Nate could tell that she could feel that he wasn't going to agree on her with this and as she sighed he smiled victoriously.

"Fine if you think this is best."

"I do."

"Fine let's tell them." He grabbed her and spun her around.

"No," she paused in the waiting for him to explain. "I don't think they should know."

"What are we gonna do if she decides to come back, just hope they don't see her."

"We will cross that bridge when we get to it." He said.

"Fine I'll cover for you. So where do you think she went."

"I have a feeling she went back home." Jasmine moved to the picture that he had of her with her father in front of her house. He came and stood behind her as they looked at the picture.

"Well it looks like you're going to Mystic Falls."

A/N: So there you have it. Bonnie killed Stan…or did she. LOL. We also get a glimpse of the friends that are on their way to Mystic Falls to ask for some help.