hey guys, ok so thanks for the awesome reviews they keep this thing going! this chapter is for xTheUnforbiddenxs2 as i made you want to do damage to your laptop (dont blame the laptop) and also i didnt even realize until you pointed it out to me so... yeah, i'll try to tone it down in future and i hope this one passes the 'exclamation marks' test *crosses fingers*
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Ismene smiles to Klaus as he walks to the car from the farm house, women's screams echoing around the empty greenery, knowing Stefan was ripping them apart inside "having fun?"
The blonde chuckles lightly and nods "a bit, our old friend seems to still be brooding however"
"Well murdering his girlfriend didn't help, but hey maybe if he remembered us then…" she shrugs in suggestion
He leans against the car, pinning the brunette and says in her ear while playing with a twist of her hair "I think we should wait until he gets more into the swing of things. We can't expect him to forget ninety years of sanctimoniousness with only a few months of real food and some memories now, can we?"
Her head falls and his brow frowns at her pout, he leans in and brushes her hair back, bending so he can look up at her "come on now, none of that! Hay, how about we head into town and get you something pretty?"
Her eyes look to him, glittering slightly, her pout in place "can I eat the clerks?"
"As many as you want sweetheart!" he saying brightly to her
A beaming smile erupts on her face and she bounces on the ball of her heel, her hands clap together and their eyes meet "you're the best Nicky…"
He can't help his crooked smile at her nickname for him, only used in times of distress or want; she was a sweet little thing, even with blood dripping from her chin
Stefan grunts in annoyance in the back seat of the car, filled with suitcases "do you really need all this stuff?"
"I'm a girl Stefan; we have an addiction for pretty stuff. You'd think after nearly two hundred years you'd know that by now." She smiles from the front seat, eyes closed against the morning sun
The blonde hybrid looks to Stefan through the rearview mirror with a slight chuckle "she has a point Stefan…"
The youngest vampire rolls his eyes as Izzy starts singing along to the radio, Klaus smiling at her with a slight chuckle and Stefan, well he was just wondering what the hell these two were up to!
When they get to the bar it's far too easy to compel everyone inside and then wait for the werewolf, cornering him, trapping him without much effort and the brunette vampire sighs while downing the last of her cocktail then joining the men at the bar with a smile "looks like we get to play."
The wolf gives a sheepish stare when Stefan asks for the darts, Klaus and Izzy sharing a smile, after all this was Stefan, suffering was his thing, weather he was the emitter or the bearer.
Izzy smiles brightly as Stefan hands her a wolfsbane dipped dart and she skillfully throws it into the werewolf's lower-abdomen "oh, so close."
She sees a girl talking to the blonde hybrid, one of his many spy's and she cracks her neck as the two men start talking about the elder Salvatore "that guys starting to annoy me"
She takes a sip of her drink from the bar as Stefan says he'll deal with it and walks out, her eyes not leaving the frame of the door as a hand rounds her waist "I don't trust him!"
"He's not stupid Izzy, he knows we'll just come get him." His rich accent coving Ray's pained moans
"Still, he's all moody and mopey. I mean we've been torturing this guy for nearly an hour and he hasn't even smiled once, the old Stefan would be enjoying himself, this Stefan is boring and I don't like him." He pulls her back flush against his chest, leaning into her chocolate locks
Izzy's caramel orbs close and she relaxes into his touch "give him time love, I need you to stay focused and right now, we have what we need, so why don't you have some fun?"
Her eyes slowly open and she smiles up at him as he hands her the small jar of wolfsbane and a small silver whistle. She takes them and walks over to Ray, lifting his head and grins "you're not thinking of passing out on us now, are you Ray? Come on, we've only even done one of the five torture methods."
Klaus orders another drink and a cocktail for Izzy, who is pulling the darts out of the werewolf "we've done sharp, obviously… but we still need to do blunt, hot, cold and loud. Any preferences?"
She tilts her head at his silence and smiles "No, cool well let's try load"
She then gives a sharp blow and he groans loudly in pain, but she just giggles lightly "ultrasonic whistle, used for training dogs… this one is said to be inhumane, what are your thought's Ray?"
"Fuck you!" he spits at her
Her face falls and she quickly stabs him in the neck with a dart "no need to be rude Ray and besides… you're not my type"
Klaus sits at the bar, sipping his drink and watching the vampire with a smile on his face, thinking 'it's true what they say 'the darkest demons have the most innocent forms'
The day passes swiftly, between drinking, interrogating and torturing that is, but they got what they wanted from the boy, Izzy smiles down to him, moving a stray strand of hair out of his face "hey you should be honored, you're going to be his first! That's a pretty big deal."
She watches as Klaus makes quick work of feeding and killing the wolf, when Stefan walks in she can instantly see past his indifferent expression and into his guilt ridden eyes, Klaus calls him on his act, but the hybrids eyes sway to her as he speaks of family, how we never stop caring for them, but the blood makes it easier.
Her eyes fall down cast as her mind wonders to her mother, how she wasn't ready, even after all these years "go get the car, we have to get to that back before nightfall tomorrow."
Stefan nods and walks out like the obedient solider, the hybrid looking to Izzy with his big blue eyes "you need to stop over analyzing it sweetheart… I know you remember?"
She gives a bitter laugh and nods "yeah, I know… I just feel like I let you down."
"Ismene, don't be silly love, I know that if I told you kill her you wouldn't have blinked, but what good would that do if you still care about the wench? No, best to remind you about everything you lost because of her, how much you hate her, then we'll find her and you can rip her heart out! …if you can find it that is." He smiles his perfect smile at her and she nods
"Yeah, you're right… I'm just going to get some air, be back in a tick." She smiles up at him, but then moment she turns her smile dies and he notices, because five hundred years with a person does that
When she gets outside she breaks, thinking about Klaus's words and the truth in them, she would have killed Katarina, but she would have hated herself because even though she hates her, the women who destroyed everything she loved… in the eyes of a child, mother is god!
"Izzy?" a confused voice asks
Her head shoots up to find Stefan, his eyes similar to hers, red and puffy "Stefan, I thought you were getting the car?"
He nods lightly "I did Klaus is waiting for us… are you ok?"
She laughs at his seemingly genuine concern "me? I'm fine Stefan; I've been fine for the better half of a millennia, but… thanks, you're a good guy Stefan."
His brow frowns as she smiles up at him, her hand grazing his shoulder like their friends as she passes him, wiping her face dry as she struts to the car. There's something so familiar about it, the whole situation, but he just wonders about her, because unlike the hybrid she seems to care, he just wonders why she seems to care for him?