Chapter Three
As the fireworks exploded in the dark night, Damon stood still and watched the young Elena laugh. Damon thought about how the 18 year old Elena laughed. The difference was big. The 7 year old girl threw her head back, opened her mouth and let out a big laugh. The older Elena hardly ever laughed. She just smiled.
And Damon knew the difference between those two versions of Elena.
He and Stefan made this girl unhappy and unable to laugh. They both came into Elena's life and ruined it. And they didn't just destroy her life. They destroyed all their lives. Caroline's, Matt's, Tyler's, Jeremy's. If Stefan and Damon hadn't come into Elena's life, she would probably still be like the happy little girl and she would laugh the way she was always supposed to. But her life didn't turn out that way.
When Damon and Bonnie arrived home in the early morning hours Damon stopped before they came near front of the door. He held his hand out, motioning to Bonnie to hold on. He was hearing his brother and Lexi talking with somebody inside.
"What's going on?", Bonnie asked.
"Stefan and Lexi are talking inside, but there's somebody with them. I don't know who it is but it sounds familiar.", Damon informed her.
They went closer to the boarding house so that Bonnie could hear the conversation too.
Bonnie's POV
The ongoing conversation between these three people was everything but calm. I heard them talking clearly now so I could make out the owner of the unknown voice. I looked over to Damon and saw in his face that he knew too.
Katherine.
Bonnie didn't say a word and neither did Damon. She knew that he thought the same, but she didn't dare to speak. But after some minutes Damon broke the silence.
"So he knew she was alive. All this time", she could see the betrayal he felt in his eyes.
"I wouldn't be sure about that. Do you really think he would have risked everything if he knew? Maybe she made him forget..?", she just wanted to understand the situation.
"Bonnie, Katherine is not an original. She can't compell Stefan. Or Lexi"
"Shouldn't we just go in there and look what's going on?", Bonnie suggested.
They entered the house and watched the coversation.
After only seconds of listening, they both knew what they were talking about.
"I don't want to be seen by your brother, Stefan. He still thinks I died in the fire of the Fell's church and it should stay like this. Please, Stefan, don't tell him!", Katherine sounded like she was afraid.
For the little part of a second Bonnie knew what was going to happen. And she couldn't stop it.
Damon took a sharp piece of wood from one of the chairs and threw it directly into Katherine's back. But it hit Katherine on her right side and missed the heart.
For one second the room was quiet.
Then Katherine pulled the wood out oft her back and turned around, looking at Lexi who was standing behind her. She started to speak slowly, " You. Just. Tried. TO KILL ME!"
Lexi raised both hands to show she didn't do anything but Katherine reacted faster.
She threw the stake back in Lexi's direction and apparently she didn't miss because moments later Lexi looked at the blood on her shirt and Stefan shouted "NO!"
Then Lexi fell down onto the floor and closed her eyes.