Krystal and Stefan were on the road already, they each had a full gut with human blood, Stefan was feeling the urge to rip out someone's neck, every time they drove through a city he was knocking his daylight ring against the hard plastic arm rest.
"Hey, its okay, remember breathe, listen to some music and just chill out, if you want to help in this fight against whoever it is that is coming, you will have to be at your best, and that means controlling the blood thirst, animal blood makes you weaker, I wont have you being my backup on just animal blood, I cant protect you and fight," Krystal explained, Stefan nodded.
"So you are considering letting me help?" Stefan asked,
"Yeah, only if we can get you some control over that," Krystal explained,
"Right, moderation," Stefan hissed out. Krystal reached over and put her hand on top of his, he gently rubbed her hand,
"You can do it, I know you can," Krystal explained.
"Thank you," Stefan seriously,
"Its what friends are for, I'm surprised your brother hasn't already got you to control it, you're what 165?" Krystal asked,
"166 actually," Stefan replied.
"Just relax, focus on something else," Krystal explained, he turned his thoughts to Kate and the nice house that they would eventually get somewhere close to Mystic Falls, He imagined Kate's face lighting up from playing with her new puppy, him helping with her homework, or helping her play some sport. Eventually he started dreaming, falling asleep from the lull of the car.
Half way to Krystal's grandmother's house
Stefan had switched over to driving, Krystal was showing him the directions to the place,
"So, would it be alright if I moved in with you and Kate when we get a place?" Stefan asked,
"Um, I don't know, I would like for you to, but mainly for a roommate at this time, I don't know when I would want to take the risk of having a relationship with you," Krystal explained, Stefan nodded,
"Well maybe when we get back to your parent's place you could share some memories with me, about your life, about how you wanted your future to be, and when we get back to Mystic Falls I'll let you read my journals, they are every event that has happened in my life, it's the best way to find out about my past up until this point, but I can tell you some about how I wanted my future to be now," Stefan explained.
"Okay, go ahead," Krystal listening, Stefan shared what he had imagined his human life future would have been like, and she shared hers. By the time they had shared some of their life events with each other and what they had imagined their human future to be like they were pulling into her grandmother's driveway. It was a medium sized house, Krystal got out as Stefan cut the engine, he stood by her side in front of the house, he heard her take a deep breathe and swallow hard as she made her way onto the porch. She knocked,
"Might want to stand back," Krystal taking a step away from the door, not knowing how her grandmother's reaction would be like. Her grandmother opened the door and glared at Krystal and then Stefan,
"Hi, granny," Krystal softly, her grandmother threw her hand up and threw Krystal and Stefan ten feet off the porch, slowly they started to stand up,
"This is going well," Krystal mumbled,
"She seems pissed," Stefan dusting himself off, they walked back toward the house, her grandmother narrowed her eyes at Krystal and Stefan, Stefan was sent to his knees, curling up into a ball as the older woman continued to pop his blood vessels in his head, he grunted in pain, Krystal held her head as she received something along the lines of a mild migraine,
"What?" her grandmother completely confused, which stopped her attack on Stefan, he slowly stood in his place, wondering why Krystal wasn't sent to her knees,
"Impossible," her grandmother muttered out. Krystal looked at Stefan,
"What did she just do to us?" Krystal asked him,
"A witch has the power to pop our blood vessels in our heads, but because we heal in minutes they keep doing it over and over again until we back off, didn't you feel it?" Stefan confused,
"I had an oncoming migraine, that's it though," Krystal confused,
"Come here child," her grandmother beckoned her, Stefan started to follow, he got until he hit the stairs to the porch and there was a force field up, not allowing him to come any further. Krystal was already on the porch,
"He wont hurt you granny, he's my friend," Krystal strongly,
"You have never had good judgment with your friends, now be quiet," the older woman hissed, she held Krystal's hand, closing her eyes as she focused everything on Krystal,
"Oh my, this truly is possible," her grandmother pulling away.
"What is it? What's wrong with me?" Krystal pressing the need to know,
"My child your father was wrong when he thought you were broken, you never needed to be fixed, you just always needed to embrace your gifts, maybe then you could have foreseen that night that you took your parent's life, you should have kept them out of it," her grandmother harshly. Krystal refused to let her insane grandmother tear her down like this,
"I know I shouldn't have involved them, but I wasn't able to stop them from protecting me, if I had foreseen it earlier I couldn't have done anything about it, they would have still been killed by that bastard! If I had ran he would have killed them and then come after me, I wasn't strong enough to fight him when I was alive," Krystal snapped out.
"If you had ran, he would have ran after you, leaving your parents alone, until you were killed, then you would have been able to go and kill him," her grandmother explained,
"I couldn't have known that, I couldn't take that risk," Krystal strongly,
"And yet you thought you could run from him," her grandmother laughed.
"Are you going to help me or continue to break me down? I feel awful for getting mom and dad killed, but I turned to save Cadence, and you're going to stand here and keep punishing me for what I am still punishing myself for?" Krystal screamed out, tears made her way down her cheek.
"You could have been strong enough to kill him when you were alive, then none of this would have never become, but you chose to run away from this gift, and this is the consequences," her grandmother pointed out,
"I never wanted this, I wanted to be normal, to have friends, to even have a boyfriend who cared about me, I never had any of it," Krystal cried out.
"My child, you and I are not normal, and because of your strong bloodline, a witch may never have the power to bring you down," her grandmother explained, Stefan was dumbfounded as was Krystal.
"What are you saying?" Krystal backing up,
"You come from a long line of the most powerful witches this world has ever known, and because of that, you are half witch, not as powerful as you could have become, but a powerful one indeed, and you are half vampire, you could be used as a weapon if the wrong person knows about this information," her grandmother eyeing Stefan.
"I trust him grandmother," Krystal strongly as she stood in front of Stefan,
"Yes, I know," her grandmother moving her aside, the old woman trusted enough that she took Stefan's hand and closed her eyes focusing on him now, reading into his fates and future. She gasped as she pulled away,
"Oh my, oh my indeed," her grandmother sharply,
"Come in, both of you," her grandmother commanded, Krystal glanced at Stefan and he glanced at her, they both walked into the house and her grandmother shut the door and locked it, she glanced out the windows, as she started to burn sage for a protection spell, no one would be able to hear them inside.
"What is it?" Krystal asked,
"You are right to trust this vampire," the older woman explained, Krystal was confused,
"What did you see?" Krystal asked,
"All will be revealed with time, what matters is your battle with him is not over, he is coming, he is stronger, and you are not ready to fight him, only if you let your gifts in will you have the strength to protect those you still hold dear," her grandmother explained. Krystal was confused,
"I know it's a guy, I just don't know…no," Krystal's eyes widening, she jerked up sending the chair she was sitting in to the nearby wall,
"No, that's impossible, he's dead, I-I killed him, h-he c-cant…." Krystal falling to her knees as she sobbed out. Stefan rushed over to her, holding her,
"Shh, its okay, I'm here," Stefan softly,
"Your words of comfort cannot comfort her, you will do well to stay, train with her, she will need your help, only then can you have the family you so desire," her grandmother seriously. Stefan turned to her,
"Family," Stefan stunned, she nodded as she turned her eyes to Krystal, pointing out to him that it was with who he wanted a family with.
"I'm here, I don't have anywhere else to be," Stefan seriously,
"You will give up the opportunity to be in your unborn child's life?" her grandmother asked,
"Yes," Stefan seriously,
"No, he wont fight, I wont allow him to lose his life," Krystal harshly as she shook.
"My child, that is not the outcome of this fight, though he will miss the birth of his son if he stays and trains with you…and if you want to give her the humanity back," her grandmother explained,
"So, its possible?" Krystal trying to stop her sobbing,
"Yes, it is quite simple, I am surprise the Bennet witches haven't found it yet, but in order to perform the spell, Krystal will have to do it, it may take a few months for her to learn her gifts, but she will be able to complete the spell with no problem, though there is one trick to the spell…you have to have Elena's human blood to complete the spell," the older woman explained. Stefan's hope of getting Elena back to human was dashed, where were they going to find that kind of blood, Elena was a vampire,
"How much blood are we talking about?" Stefan asked,
"Not much at all, you'll have to make her drink it and hold it down, when a vampire tastes their human blood they normally will throw it back up, but the risk of her having the baby will be over," her grandmother explained. Stefan pulled his phone out,
"You will do well not to mention where you got this information from, or who," the older woman explained, he nodded as he walked into the other room to call Damon.
"What's going on Stefan, have you found anything or not?" Damon harshly,
"I have, it will be a few months before we can complete the spell, if at all," Stefan explained,
"What, what is it?" Damon hissed,
"You've got to find Elena's human blood, it wont take much, but you need to find some," Stefan explained.
"Where the hell am I going to find something like that?" Damon asked,
"I don't know, but you cant let her know about the blood until we are there, it takes the blood and a spell to give her back her humanity…and Krystal is the only one who is strong enough to do it, Bonnie wont be able to perform the spell," Stefan explained. He knew Damon had screwed things up in the past but he had no choice but to trust him not to screw this up,
"Don't screw this up Damon, if you do, I will never forgive you," Stefan hanging up on him. Damon stared at the phone,
"How could Krystal perform a spell? Stefan is off his rocker," Damon mumbled, but he had to keep this to himself, he knew he couldn't trust Bonnie not to perform the spell, she would do it despite the fact she would lose her own life in the process. No this was something he had to keep to himself, Bonnie was there with her mother trying to find a spell,
"Listen, I've got to go out, can you keep your mouth shut if I tell you something?" Damon asked,
"Yeah, sure," Bonnie shrugged, he wrote down on a piece of paper,
You cannot tell Elena
Bonnie nodded,
Stefan and Krystal found something that will make her human, but its going to take a while and that's only if I can find her human blood
Bonnie gasped,
"But we looked there's nothing," Bonnie confused.
"Well you must have missed something, because they found it, I have to go, I'll be back later," Damon explained, he rushed out to his car and drove off. Bonnie lit the paper Damon had wrote on and turned it into ash, Damon went to the hospital and found Dr. Fell.
"Hey, I need to talk to you," Damon whispered, Dr. Fell was instantly worried it was about Elena,
"Is she okay?" Dr. Fell asked,
"Yeah, can we go somewhere more privately," Damon asked,
"Yeah," Dr. Fell leading the way, they went to her office.
"What's up?" Dr. Fell asked, Damon was standing an inch away,
"We need a tube full of Elena's human blood, tell me you took some when she was admitted with that brain hemorrhage before she was turned into a vampire," Damon still whispering. Dr. Fell thought for a few minutes,
"I think so, I don't know if I have it still or not, why do you need it?" Dr. Fell asked,
"Better not ask, it can help that's all you need to know," Damon explained. Dr. Fell led him out and into the room where she kept some blood in the fridge, she pulled some vials out. She started looking through them,
"Here," Dr. Fell handing it to him, he took it, he read the label, Elena Gilbert, this one tube held what was left of her human blood, he would guard it well, it was going into the vault at his place, no one knew the combination to and it didn't have any keys to it. Hell, no one even knew about it accept for him and Stefan,
"There's another one here too," Dr. Fell explained,
"You keep that one in case my plan A fails, you kept it well hidden, do not throw it away," Damon putting the vial he had safely in the inside of his coat, he would hold it next to his heart till he got it home. Dr. Fell nodded,
"You don't tell anyone about this, not even Bonnie, or any of her family members, got me?" Damon seriously.
"I promise," Dr. Fell explained,
"Thank you," Damon seriously,
"Yeah," Dr. Fell replied, he left the hospital and got in his car, he picked up the phone, and called Bonnie,
"You need to take Elena to your house for a few hours," Damon seriously,
"Alright, we are heading to the Grill anyway," Bonnie explained.
"Good, do not let her come home until I call," Damon explained,
"Alright," Bonnie replied, he hung up and got back to the boarding house. He lined the walls of the safe with dry ice, then he put a tiny crate that held more dry ice and the blood. He shut the safe back and nailed the picture frame into place so no one could remove it, he sighed as he sat down on the bed, he looked at his phone, he called Stefan,
"Hey, I found some, its safe, you just hurry with whatever tricks you both have up your sleeves," Damon hanging up.