Chapter 18

"Mr. Salvatore, don't make me blush,"

I heard a woman say behind me. I turned around and saw the girl who looked like me.

Isabella.

She turned around and started walking backwards in the garden. "If you do that one more time, I swear, I shall run to my father and call you a mad man"

I heard a chuckle coming from her direction. "Miss Giordano," I heard the man say. He stepped into my view and smiled at Isabella. I could feel my mouth drop. When she said Mr. Salvatore, I thought she meant Damon but…I was wrong. Walking into my view, following Isabella…was Stefan. "I feel like the happiest man alive when you tell me that I was the one to make your cheeks so rosy red"

Isabella gave him a smile. "You should be careful, Mr. Salvatore, you wouldn't want your brother to think you are deceiving him by spending more time with me. He may think you are starting to have feelings for me" Isabella smiled, turned around and started walking more into the garden.

Stefan walked behind her, inches from her. "What if I am, Miss Giordano?" he whispered in her ear.

Isabella's smile disappeared as her eyes opened wide. She turned around and looked at Stefan. He was still inches away form her. He leaned in for a kiss but she stopped him by putting her hand on his chest. "Mr. Salvatore, this isn't right…I'm engaged to your brother. Your own flesh and blood"

"But I love you, Miss Giordano"

Isabella gave him a small smile. "I cannot admit the same for you…but you would surly have your head cut by my own father if he were to find out about this. I beg of you, Mr. Salvatore. Stop this. I will be married to your brother within a week and soon I shall be part of your family"

"Isabella!" I voice came within side the house.

"I must go" she said as she walked around Stefan and walked into the house. Stefan stood there as if his heart just shattered into a million pieces.

My eyes opened slowly. I rose from the bed which I was laying on and looked at my surroundings. In front of me was a man passed out in his chair. Beside me, laid Elena. I slowly started shaking her body, trying to wake her up.

Elena started waking up. "Wha-" she started saying.

I put my index figure over my mouth tell her to be quite. I pointed over to the man still passed out in the chair. I mouthed to her, 'Stay'. She nodded to me quickly. I rose up from the bed, slowly. I slowly walked over the guy's leg stretched out and walked to the door.

I turned around and told Elena to walk over. She got up and walked over the guy and stood beside me. I carefully slid the top lock open and then went to unlock the one on the bottom.

"I wouldn't" I heard someone say. I turned around and came face to face with the guy who was passed out in the chair. He grabbed Elena by the arm and threw her to the bed beside me. He then looked at me straight in the eye. Don't try to escape," he was trying to compel me "Don't even move. Do you understand?"

"I understand" I said softly. He smiled and turned around started walking to the fridge. "Come one Elena!" I screamed as I opened the door and walked out but there was that guy from last night standing right in front of me.

She grabbed my arm and pulled me inside. Her eyes, along with her mouth, popped opened as she walked inside and looked at the guy. "Seriously?" she screamed at the guy. She started pushing me in the room further.

"I told her not to move!" the guy said. "I did that eye thing you taught me"

"You forgot the lesson about vervain. She a wizard and dates a vampire Ben, duh!"

She then pushed me against a door. "Who the fuck are you?" I screamed. "What the hell do you want?"

"Doesn't matter? Ben! Get the other one" She opened the door behind me and pushed me in. Then Elena came flying in towards me.

I pushed Elena off and tried to open the door but it wouldn't open. I looked for my wand but couldn't find it on me. I turned the light on. Elena tried to pull the ply wood off the window but it wouldn't budge. Elena and I then looked at the bath tub and their laid Bonnie. She was unconscious.

"Bonnie" Both Elena and I said at the same time. We tried waking her up but she wouldn't wake up. Elena quickly got up and grabbed a towel and ran it threw the tap water. She then ran back to Bonnie and started rubbing her forehead with the towel. Bonnie slowly started to regain conciseness.

"Bonnie" Elena said.

"Elena? Alex?"Bonnie asked.

"You're ok"

"Aw, My head…"

"Come here" Elena said as she tried helping Bonnie up.

"Oh, my god! Ben is a-"

"Shh," I said as I pointed to my ear. "They can hear" I whispered.

"I was so stupid!" Bonnie said.

"No," I said. "He had all of us fooled"

"What's going on? Why are we here?"

"It must have something to do with the tomb and Emily's spell book"

"Spell book?"

"Damon said that it could be used to open the tomb"

"Why didn't I know about any of this?"

"I was trying to keep you out of it," Elena said. "Hoping it would never come to this"

"Come to what?"

Elena and I looked at each other and then looked back at Bonnie. "Bon," I said. "They need a witch. A witch needs a spell to let all the vampires out"

"No way"

"I know-" I started saying but then the guy, known as Ben, burst threw the door and glared at us. I glared back.

"You're wasting your time," Bonnie said. "I'm not going to help you"

Ben smiled and walked up to us. "That's why she's here," He said as he bent down and grabbed Elena. I tried to push him off but couldn't. "Motivation for you to behave"

I glared at him. "And what about me?" I asked. "Why did u bring me here?"

He gave me a quick glare and smiled back at Bonnie. "You know, you shouldn't be so desperate. You made it too easy" He pulled Elena up "She wants to talk to you" He said as he pushed Elena into the other room. "And you" he said as he grabbed me and pushed me into Elena.

There, on the table, sat the curly haired girl from last night. She smiled at us. "Well, well…Elena Gilbert. You really are Katherine's doppelganger. I'm surprised you don't have the Salvatore boys reeling"

I glared at her.

"Who are you?" Elena asked.

"I'm Anna. Your brother may have mentioned me…I mean, we're, like, practically dating" She said with a smile.

"Look!" I said. "We know what you want with Elena but what do you want with me?"

She smiled. "You'll see…soon enough" Elena and I looked at each other. "Wow," Anna said. "I just…can't believe how much you look like her. Two twins from my past standing in front of me again"

I glared at her. "You knew Isabella?"

Anna didn't say anything.

"Bonnie's not going to open the tomb" Elena said as she sat on the bed. I sat beside her.

"Oh, I think she will" Anna said as she was staring out the window.

"Do you really want Katherine out that bad?"

"Trust me," she said this time looking at us. "No one I know wants to see that girl again….Except Damon, the love struck idiot"

"Then what is it?" I asked. "Or better yet, who is it?"

"My mother's in there. Katherine couldn't help herself. She just had toy around with both of the Salvatore brothers then when she get caught, so did my mother. I watched Jonathan Gilbert take her away"

"I'm sorry" Elena said.

"You really mean that, don't you? Yeah…I think we'll skip the dead mom bonding so you can start serving a purpose"

"Which is what?"

"Leverage. This belong to you?" She asked as she held up my phone. I got up and tried to grab it but she pulled it away. "Ah, ah" she said as she started punching some numbers into my phone. I then heard mumbling coming form the other line. "She's fine, for now. Tell me you have the grimoire and she'll stay fine" More mumbling. "Which means your brother has it and I have the witch. So…one of you have better meet me In the very public town square in 30 minutes So we can safely discuss how fun it's going to be to work together"

She hanged up the phone. She then knocked on the bathroom door. "I'm leaving," she said to Ben. Ben came out while grabbing hold of Bonnie. "Keep them buttoned down. Compulsion won't work. Just use violence"

"Right. I got that," Anna then walked out of the door. Ben pushed Bonnie on the bed beside us. "Sit! Behave!"

I glared at him. "What are we, a bunch of dogs?"

He glared at me. He then looked back at Bonnie. "So, you're the key to this. Literally. The one who opens the door. Tell me, how long have you been a witch?" he said as he sat down.

"Do you have anything to drink in this crap can?" I asked.

"Are you offering?" he said as he walked up to me and smiled. I glared at him and backed away slowly. "There's water on the nightstand" he said as he walked away.

I turned around and grabbed the glass. I was about the take a ship when Bonnie stopped me. "Hey," she said. "Can I have a sip?"

I glared at her and slowly passed her the cup. She took the cup and threw the water on Ben. Then Ben was set on fire. Bonnie, Elena and I immediately got up and ran to the door.

I was almost there when Ben grabbed me and wouldn't let me go. "Come back in! Shut the door!" he screamed.

"No Bonnie, Elena!" I screamed. "Just go! I'll be fine!"

"You walk out that door, I'll kill her so fast, you won't even see a thing"

Bonnie and Elena slowly walked back inside. "Don't hurt her" Bonnie said.

"Don't make me! Lock it!" Bonnie did as he said. We all then sat back on the bed. Ben then started asking more questions. "Witches don't have eternal life, right? So you guys can die"

"Yeah, we can die" Bonnie said.

"Ah! That sucks" He then looked over to me. "What about Wizards? Can they die?" I didn't say anything. "Huh?" he bent down and was face to face with me.

I glared at him. "You can go burn in hell" I said as I pushed his face away.

All of a sudden, the door burst open and there stood Stefan. Ben screamed like a girl and started running towards the bed.

Stefan then opened the curtain. "Stefan!" I screamed in excitement"

"Get outside" he said.

Bonnie, Elena and I quickly got up and ran out the door and ran to Stefan's car.

We were finally safe.

Stefan took us to Bonnie's grandmothers.

A witch.

We walked up the steps of the house when an old woman was standing there in front of us. "So, you're the wizard" she said while staring at me. I nodded slowly. She gave me a smile. "Hm," she then turned to Bonnie. "Come on, let's get inside" she said as she opened the door and walked in. We all followed her. She invited Stefan inside and we all sat in the living room.

We all sat in the living room. "So what do we do now?" Elena asked as she took a seat beside me.

"For now, you need to stay here" Stefan said as he sat on my other side and put his arm around me.

"A prisoner," Bonnie's grams said. "In my own home? I don't think so"

"I can't protect you if you leave the house"

"We'll protect ourselves"

"We need to help him get Katherine back," I said. "If he doesn't get what he wants, it'll never end"

"No," Bonnie said as he gave me the look like I was crazy. "He doesn't deserve to get what he wants"

"Bonnie, do we have a choice. If we don't get what he wants, more and more people could die"

"Witches being pulled down by vampire problems," Grams said. "As much as we tried to do to stay out of it. No doubt for your wizards," Grams said as she looked at me. "I'll open the tomb," she said this time looking at Stefan. "You get your brother's girl, and destroy the rest with fire. Then this will be all over"

"We still have to get Damon to agree"

"He did agree before" I said.

"Yeah, and then we double cross him. So now he's angry.

"He's hurt," Elena said. "There's a difference"

There was a pause.

"I know a way to fix that" I said.

"How?" Stefan asked.

"Just trust me"

Stefan and I drove to the Boarding House to talk to Damon…or well…for me to talk to Damon. We stopped in the drive way. I turned to Stefan. "Stay here, I know what I'm doing" I said.

"Do you have your wand on you?" he asked.

"No, I left it at the house but that's ok. If I don't have my wand on me, he knows he can trust me" Stefan gave me a nod. "Be back" I opened the door and walked out. I walked to the front door and walked straight in.

I found Damon by the fireplace holding a really big, old book. When he saw me walk in, he gave me a glare. "I'm going to have to change the locks," he said. I gave him a small smile. "Did you stage a jailbreak?"

"Stefan" I said.

"Oh, brother…Ever the white knight"

"I was able to convince Bonnie and her Grams to help you"

"I doubt that"

"I know what you're looking for is an apology but…it's not going to happen. I don't regret getting the grimoire without you because…I just don't like you" I said with a smile.

"Well, at least you're honest"

"I'm only doing this to protect the people I love but, somehow, your doing the same… in some weird, sick way. So…it means were on the same team here and. That means…we're after the same thing"

"Not interested"

"Cut the crap, Damon! Of coarse you are because it was just yesterday you already had the pom poms ready cheering for our side"

"Fool once, shame on-" he said as he started walking away but I cut him off.

"Yeah, yeah! I know the saying. Damon, do you remember when you 'kidnapped' Elena and I? Why didn't you compel us?"

Damon placed the book in his had on the table and walked up to me with a smile. "Who's to say I didn't?"

"I know you didn't and for some reason, you didn't," I walked up closer to him. "Damon…I know you and I…have some sort of…friendship. I'm not saying we're friends I'm just saying…we're not…enemies anymore. I don't have the urge to set your body on fire anymore. I know I betrayed you. It hurt…I know. It's happened to me before. Damon…I swear, I. Will. Help. You. Get. Katherine"

Damon rolled his head and looked back at me. "I wish I could believe you"

"Are you serious" I rolled my eyes and took my necklace off and place it on the table. "Ask me now. I have no necklace, no wand on me, nothing. Ask me"

Damon stared at me for a minute. "You know I won't stop, anyway. No matter what I do"

"Fine, then we'll deal with it"

Damon picked up the necklace and put it around my neck. I stared at him straight in the eye. "I didn't compel you in, Atlanta because we were having fun…I wanted it to be real," he then put his hand down but he didn't look at me. "I'm trusting you," he then looked back at me. "Don't make me regret it" he then turned around and walked away.

Nightfall, Damon and I headed for the church to go meet Damon, Bonnie, Elena and Grams. I was surprised at first by the amount of people there.

Then I realized why they were all there. "Oh god," I said. "That's right, the Duke party is tonight. Completely forgot. I hope they stay clear of the church"

"Your hope, not mine" he said.

I glared at him.

"Alex," Matt said as he stood in front of us. "Hey"

I was about to respond when Caroline jumped in. "Oh my god, Alex. Where have you been?"

"Long story, no time to tell it" Damon said as he gave Caroline a smile.

Caroline glared at him. "I wasn't talking to you"

"Sure you were"

"We haven't met. I'm Matt" Matt said as he extended his hand to Damon for a shake.

"Matt, there's a reason we haven't met," Damon grabbed my arm and started pulling me away. "You and I are going that way"

I looked back at Matt and Caroline. "I'm sorry, guy" I said as Damon pulled me away.

We walked deeper into the forest until we couldn't hear noised from the party anymore. Damon then whistled. We walked around and rock and there Stefan, Bonnie, Elena and Grams stood.

"Brother, human, witches" Damon said as he walked down into the tomb.

"Everything ok?" Stefan asked as he walked up to me.

"It will be when this tomb is open," I said. I looked over at Bonnie and Grams. "Are we ready?"

"I guess so" Bonnie said.

"Do you need my help at all? Maybe my magic and your magic might work together"

"We'll be fine," Grams said. "It's a lot stronger when it's two witches work together"

I gave them a nod. I looked over to Stefan and gave him a nod. He nodded hesitantly back. I took a deep breath before walking down the stony stairs to the tomb.

Bonnie and Grams made their way down the tomb and set up for their spell. Damon, Elena, Stefan and I watched. My heart was racing 100 miles per hour.

"Air," Grams said as she set one of her poles on fire. "Earth,' she set the other one. "Fire" and again.

"Water" Bonnie said as she passed a bottle of water to Grams. Grams took the bottle from Bonnie and started sprinkling it in front of her.

"That's it?" Elena asked. "Just water from the tap?"

"As opposed to what?" Grams asked, not taking her eyes of the water she was still sprinkling in front of her.

"I just figured maybe it would have to be blessed or mystical or something" Elena said with a small laugh.

Grams gave her a smile before focusing back on the spell. Damon stood there watching. At one point, he took something out of his pocket and started uncoiling it.

"What's that?" Stefan asked as he pointed his flash light at the object in Damon's hands.

"It's for Katherine," Damon said as she looked at him with a small smile. "Gotta have something to get her going," Damon then turned to me. "Unless your girl's offering a vein to tap"

I glared at him. "I swear," I said. "If that bitch tried to get one drop out of me, I'll go Buffy all over her ass"

Elena let out a small laugh. Damon glared at me and looked back at Bonnie and Grams.

He then leaned over to Stefan. "Admit it," Damon whispered to him. Stefan looked at him. "You can't wait to get rid of me" he said with a small smirk.

A small smile appeared on Stefan's face but disappeared when he looked back at Damon. "I can't wait to get rid of you"

"Hmm" Damon said as he looked back at the witches with a smile.

"We'll I can't wait," I said. Both Stefan, Elena and Damon looked at me. "Until your gone, Damon. I"ll throw this huge party that your gone from my life forever and for the day I can finally wake up happy in my life" I gave Damon a small smile. Damon glared at me and looked back at the witches.

"We're ready" Bonnie said looking at us. Grams and Bonnie stood up, grabbed each other's hands and started chanting.

Part way threw, Damon started talking. "What are they saying?"

"It sounds Latin" Stefan said.

"I don't think it's Latin" I said clutching onto Stefan's hand. Bonnie and Grams kept on chanting. Then, the fire poles around Grams and Bonnie grew bigger.

Elena and I jumped back. I then clutched onto Stefan tighter. "Stefan," I asked. "What's happening?"

After I said that, the door behind Damon started opening automatically on its own.

Bonnie and Grams stopped chanting. "It worked" Bonnie said.

"Of course it worked" Grams said, not taking her eyes off the door.

"We've got some fires to build" Damon said looking back at Stefan.

Stefan turned back to me. "I'm gonna go get the gasolin, I'll be right back" he walked pass me and ran up the steps of the tomb.

Damon looked at the witches. "You ready?" he asked as he reached his arm to me.

"What?" I asked him as I raised my eye brows.

"You think I'm going to go in there by myself so you can seal me in?" He said as he reached his arms around me and pulled me in.

"Don't take her in," Grams said. "I'll bring the walls down"

"You'll bring walls down if I don't. You think I trust you?"

"As much as I trust you"

"Children!" I said. "Enough!"

"Damon, please," Elena said. "Take me…not her"

Damon looked at her for a second.

"Elena, I'll be fine" I said.

"But Alex. You don't have your wand. What if something bad happened in there?"

"I'll be fine" I turned my head to Damon. "I'm only going in because Damon need to know that we won't shut the door on him when he goes inside. I'll be in and out of there as fast as we can"

Damon gave me a nod and let go of me. He then bent down and grabbed one the poles on fire in the ground. "May I?" Damon then turned around and walked into the tomb.

I, hesitantly, followed him. We walked further into the tomb. I couldn't walk straight. Without my wand, I felt useless and with vampires all around me, I felt even more useless. I kept on hearing faint whispers all around me. "What the hell is that?" I asked.

"They can sense you" Damon said venturing off further into the tomb. Great, now I felt even more useless. "Where is she?" Damon then ran off into the tomb.

"Damon! Are you stupid?" I screamed to him. I grabbed a flashlight that I stuck into my pocket earlier and turned it on. There was no point because it sucked. You could barely see anything with it. I walked further into the tomb, looking for Damon. I kept walking until I started tripping over some stuff. I then, right in front of me, there was this mummified corpse sitting against a wall. I turned around and there was more and more.

It felt like I was in a haunted house.

I then tripped on something and fell to the ground and landed right on a body. I stood up right away, but still looked at the body. Two red eyes then looked up at me. I immediately turned around and tried to look for the entrance but there, right in front of me, was Anna.

She stood there with a smile on her face. Pointing her flashlight straight at me. "You must have a taste for it," she said as she was walking up to me. I backed away slowly. "You scream and shriek and even bother to escape," I glared at her. "But then you just come right back to it," I then tripped over something and jumped back. I looked down and saw a mummified corpse of a woman. "Mother!" Anna said as she bent down to the body and tried to comfort it. She then looked back at me and glared. "Your boyfriend did this, you know"

"His father did" I said.

"And Jonathan Gilbert," she said as she stood up. "After we get out of here, we're all going back so my promise can be kept"

"That's why you took me," I said. "Someone asked you to kidnap me and take me. Who was it?"

Anna smiled. "A very, very old friend. You'll meet him soon enough"

"Him?" My eyes opened wide. Was Mason behind this? Or one of my old 'foes'

"Or her," Anna said. "Don't want to ruin the surprise" I glared at her. "Anyway, let's finish this so we can get out of this, dump of a town"

"Well, good luck getting your mom out, I don't think she can even move. My grandma could run laps around her"

Anna glared at me. "Made a choice a long time ago. That it would be Gilbert blood that brought her back to life. I had Jeremy all ready to go but…from what I hear. You know what the strongest blood in the world is," a smile appeared on her face. "Wizard blood" My eyes popped out. I turned around to run but then Anna stood right in front of me and tried to bite my wrist.

I grabbed the stake out of my sleeve and stabbed Anna in the stomach. She screamed in pain and fell to her knees. I smiled. "Stakes. Never leave home without it.

Anna gave me a smile. She pulled the stake out of her stomach and threw it to the ground. She then tried to grab me again. I reached into my other sleeve to grab a stake but in a second, Anna already latched her teeth to my wrist. I screamed in pain. Trying to pull my arm off of Anna but it was no use. Anna then released her teeth from my wrist and pulled me down to her Mother.

She put my wrist up to her mouth but the second my wrist latched onto Anna's mother, Stefan came in and pushed Anna away and pulled me off. He looked at me. "Go, go. I'll be right behind you"

I gave him a quick nod and ran out the tomb. "Alex!" Both Elena and Bonnie screamed at the same time.

I ran out he tomb, panting.

"Stefan-" Bonnie started saying but I interrupted her.

"It's ok," I said. "He's right behind me" I turned around and saw Stefan still inside the tomb. "Stefan, are you crazy? What are you doing still inside?"

" It's gonna be ok" Bonnie said.

I looked back at her. "What do you mean?"

"I can't" Stefan said.

I looked back at him. "What do you mean you can't?"

"The spell's still up," Bonnie said. I looked back at her. "We can't get them out…yet"

I looked back at Stefan. "You mean…you went in there and you knew you weren't able to get out?"

"I heard you scream"

My eyes started filling up with water. "This is all my fault"

"No it's not," Stefan said. "This is all Damon"

"We can't leave him in there," I said. "We promised him…I promised him"

"I know"

"Even if we're able to break through the seal," Grams said. "We won't be able to hold it for long"

Stefan gave me a nod as he back out and ran back into the tomb.

I turned back to Bonnie. "I want to help. Let me help you two. I'm a lot powerful then you think"

"No," Grams said. "If a witch and wizard join together in a spell, it usually becomes disasters…I should know" I gave her a show nod. Grams gave me a nod and looked back at Bonnie. They then grabbed hands and started chanting. I stood by the door. So did Elena. As Grams and Bonnie were chanting, the fire grew bigger.

Then, in the tomb, Anna came out with her mother. Both Elena and I backed out of their way. Anna looked at me. "I just wanted my mother back," she said. I glared at her. Anna looked at Elena. "Jeremy's fine. He's outside. We won't touch him" they then left.

Grams and Bonnie kept chanting but they looked like they were struggling. "They better hurry!" Grams screamed at me.

I looked back into the tomb. "Stefan! Hurry up! They can't hold it!" There was no response. "I'm going in" I said as I walked in.

Elena grabbed my arm. "No! Don't! I won't let you!" She screamed.

I shrugged her arm away and ran inside. I kept running when I saw a light at the end of the tunnel. There Damon and Stefan stood. "Damon!" I screamed. Damon looked at me. "Damon, I beg you, please, please come"

Damon put his jacket back on and we all walked back to the entrance. We walked out and at that moment, the door shut. I grabbed Stefan and wrapped my arms around him.

Stefan, Elena and I ran out of the tomb to find Jeremy to see if he was ok. We woke Jeremy up.

"He's ok," Stefan said looking at Elena. "He's alright"

Elena then turned around and so did I. Damon stood there in a…funny way. A way I've never seen before. Elena stood up and slowly walked over to Damon. She then gave him a hug.

"I'm sorry" she said.

Stefan drove me home. While Elena went to Bonnie's.

"You sure you want to stay here?" Stefan asked.

"I'll be fine. Elena's with Bonnie and I'll stay here with Jeremy to see if he's alright"

Stefan gave me a smile. "Ok" he then planted a kiss on my lips. I kissed him back. After we broke apart, Stefan walked down the porch and drove away in his car. I watched him drive away when I saw a shadow on the pathway.

I looked at the pathway and saw a white wolf standing there. It looked exactly like the wolf Mason transformed into before he ran into the forest. My eyes popped out.

"Mason?" I whispered softly. The wolf then turned away and ran down the street. I ran after it but it disappeared. I slowly backed away and ran back into the house.

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