HI kids! I know I've been updating really early lately... I've just had a lot of free time. I'd like to thank everyone for all the reviews! Here's chapter eight! I hope you like it!
Chapter 8
Jeremy woke up in his bed and felt the memories of last night rush back into his head. Elena. The tomb. Elijah being alive? He shot out of bed and ran into Elena's room.
She was asleep in her bed. How? Were those memories just a dream?
He ran over to her and shook her awake. She shot up in bed looking terrified.
"Jeremy." She sighed relieved sinking back into bed.
"Elena, are you okay?" He asked her. He didn't want to straight out ask if the tomb had been real.
"Yeah. Yes Jeremy I'm okay. I just have a headache from everything that happened yesterday." She replied rubbing her eyes.
"So it was real? All of it? Elijah, and Katherine and you in the tomb?" He asked her.
"Yeah, why?" She asked him looking concerned.
"It feels like a dream. I couldn't remember anything until I woke up. Last night I didn't even know you were in the tomb. But now when I wake up, I know everything. Its so weird."
"Elijah must have compelled you not to remember last night until this morning. I don't know why he would do that though." Elena said gazing at the window deep in thought.
"I'm just glad you're okay Elena. Tell me if you need anything okay?" Jeremy walked into the other room to go and shower.
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Elena walked into the kitchen a half an hour later. "Jenna?" She asked, seeing her aunt in the kitchen, "I thought you weren't supposed to be home until tomorrow."
"I know. I came home because, A: I finished my assignment and B: Mrs. Lockwood wanted me to do some historical society thing. Your mom kept all the records so I was kind of stuck doing it." Jenna said back.
"Nice, I'm glad to see you." Elena said pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"So how was school yesterday?"
"Umm, well I went home early because I didn't feel good."
"How so? Are you coming down with something? Should I be worried?" Jenna asked Elena.
"No. Just a really bad headache." Elena said. She hoped she had thrown out her shirt from last night. What had happened to it?
''Well, I have to go sort through all your mom's historical stuff. There's some new writer guy who wants to write a book off some of her files. Isn't that exciting!" Jenna said.
"Yeah that is exciting." Elena replied. Her mind was wandering to her ripped and bloody shirt. "I have to go upstairs and check on something. I'll be back down in a minute."
With that Elena ran up the stairs and into her room. She looked around the floor for her shirt. It was right next to her bed. She picked it up and just looked at it for a minute. She heard the doorbell ring and decided to stuff it in a plastic bag before throwing it out.
"Oh! Hi, I wasn't expecting you to come so soon!" She heard Jenna's voice from downstairs, "I haven't even started to get out all the files yet."
Elena found a black plastic bag in one of her drawers and shoved the ripped and bloody mess of a shirt into it. Then she heard the voice.
"That's fine. I can help you sort through it if you want."
Elena froze in her tracks. Elijah.
"Okay, come on in." She heard Jenna say.
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Damon woke up on the couch in Ric's loft from his phone's dinging. Elena had been texting him.
"Ugg! What now?'' He asked himself rolling over.
Elijah's at my house. Was the first.
Damon Jenna invited him in! Was the second.
Damon, please come!
Damon hurry! Was the last one.
Damon was out of the apartment in a second.
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Elena sat on her bed chewing her thumbnail listening to Jenna and Elijah downstairs. They were still getting boxes out from under the staircase.
"Thanks so much for all the help Jenna."
"Oh, its really no problem. These files are all organized already. My sister was a neat freak. So is Elena."
"Elena? Who is that?" Elijah questioned her.
"She's my niece. I've been taking care of her and her brother ever since their parents died."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
Just then Elena felt a breeze come from the window she had left open. She freaked out before she saw it was Damon.
"Da-" She got out before he covered her mouth and put a finger to her lips.
"He's with Jenna?" Damon mouthed to her.
Elena nodded her head. They both listened downstairs.
"Well I would love to meet them." They heard Elijah say. Elena looked to Damon with panic in her eyes.
"Sure they're just upstairs." Jenna replied, "JEREMY! ELENA! GET DOWN HERE AND MEET SOMEONE!" She yelled up the stairs.
Damon motioned for Elena to go downstairs.
"Coming!" She heard Jeremy say. Elena took a deep breath and walked downstairs.
"Here they are." Jenna said to Elijah motioning to Jeremy and Elena. Jeremy jumped a little at seeing him.
"Hi. I'm Elijah. It's spectacular to meet you." Elijah said smiling at them.
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Katherine struggled with the chains that bound her to the chair. She knew she wouldn't be able to get out but she tried anyway.
Elijah had left last night right after he told her they needed to talk. Katherine thought that was stupid because he had just said, 'we need to talk'. Why couldn't that have happened last night?
Katherine had almost given up hope of survival until she heard the door upstairs open. Expecting it was Elijah she started to freak out.
But when the door to the cell opened she saw it wasn't Elijah. It was…
"Stefan?"
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Jenna made Jeremy and Elena help her and Elijah with the boxes for about half an hour. They sorted all the stuff about Mystic Falls into piles according to topic. They worked in total silence until Elijah said that he had to leave.
"Okay!" Jenna said. "We can help you load the boxes into your car."
"That would be great. Thanks. Also thank you for letting me in your home." He said looking over to Elena.
They each grabbed a box and carried it out to Elijah's car.
When it was all loaded Elijah drove away. Elena looked up to her window and saw Damon looking at her out of it.
When she got back inside she ran up the stairs into her bedroom. Jeremy followed her.
"Why are you here?" He asked Damon.
"Calm down Jer. Elena texted me saying the big bad Elijah was here so I popped over." He said.
"He wasn't too subtle about telling us he can get back in was he?" Jeremy asked sitting down on Elena's bed.
"At least he had a cool car to come kidnap Elena in." Damon joked. Elena shot him a surprised look. "Come on, an Audi R8 GT Spyder? I've always wanted one of those."
"Damon!" Elena exclaimed, "This is serious! What are we going to do?"
"Well he obviously doesn't want to kill you or he would have already." Damon said bluntly. Elena looked at him with surprise and anger this time. "What? He's had plenty of opportunity to. Could have killed Jeremy, Bonnie, Stefan and I too."
"Damon!" She yelled at him again.
"Okay! What do you want me to say, Elena?" Damon asked.
"I don't know! I don't know what's going on! Why would he let you live? You killed him! I don't know why he didn't take me!" Elena said freaking out on him.
"I don't know the answers!" Damon said getting frustrated.
"Whoa, guys calm down." Jeremy said.
"I think I could answer your questions." Elijah said from the corner of the room.
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Katherine sat on the couch in the Salvatore living room with a glass of blood from their stock.
"Why did you save me? You were so intent on killing me what, two days ago?" She asked Stefan who was sitting across from her.
"I need your help." Stefan said, not surprising her. She knew he needed her for something.
"And what would this something be?" Katherine asked downing the rest of her glass of blood.
"I need you to help me lure Klaus away from Elena."
"Not going to happen." She said placing down her glass on a new coffee table. "I will not go within a hundred miles of him." She went to stand up but Stefan ran over and pushed her back down on the couch.
"Just hear me out okay? I have an actual plan. I'm not Damon."
"Fine. I'll listen but I'm not agreeing to anything."
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Elijah sat in Elena's desk chair and saw the shocked looks on Damon, Jeremy, and Elena's faces.
"Why are you here?" Damon growled at him, standing up from the window seat. He moved over in front of Elena and Jeremy protectively.
"Well, as Elena stated, you have no idea what is going on. You don't know anything about what I am doing."
"Well then why don't you tell us?" Damon said to him.
'Well I was going to until you asked what I was doing here and I answered you."
"Can you answer now then?" Damon asked him.
"Okay. What would you like to know?"
"Let's start with why you haven't killed any of us." Damon said. He wasn't backing away from where he stood in front of Elena and Jeremy.
"Well, long story, but long story short you will keep Elena safe. I need Elena to be safe right now."
"But I thought you wanted to use me for the sacrifice. What about the sun and moon curse?" Elena said to him.
"Let's just say I don't want to break the curse. That is Klaus, my brother."
"Weren't you going to bring me to Klaus the other day?"
"No. I was not. I was going to take you to keep you safe. I will not do anything for Klaus. Not anymore."
"Why not anymore?" Damon questioned him.
"Katerina. When Klaus had her, I fell in love. A common mistake I'm told." He looked over to Damon who nodded, "I told Trevor about the curse before Klaus could perform the ritual. Trevor told Katerina. She ran."
"Yea, Katherine told me about that. Then she had Rose turn her and kept on running." Elena said.
"Rosemary turned her! I knew I should have never let her go! Where is she?" Elijah said standing up.
"No! No, Katherine tricked her! It wasn't Rose's fault." Elena said trying to calm Elijah down and save Rose's life.
"Yeah and you won't find her anyway." Damon started, "She bolted last night when I told her you were here."
Elijah had calmed down and sat back in the chair. "Klaus doesn't trust me anymore. Not after that. He believed I told Katerina about the curse."
"So why did you try to take me then?" Elena asked him genuinely confused now, "If you don't want to help Klaus why take me at all?"
"Klaus needs to be stopped. He is a recluse." Elijah said simply.
"So you want to use Elena to draw him out?!" Damon said angrily, "Yeah, not going to happen."
"Just hear me out. I have a plan that will work if we implement it correctly."
"Damon just let him say what his plan is." Elena said from behind him. He turned around and saw the plea in her eyes.
Damon motioned for Elijah to go on. "I use Elena to draw Klaus out. He comes to Mystic Falls. Then I kill him."
"How do you propose to do that? We couldn't kill you."
"Witches. Witches can kill even an original. They created vampires and therefore can destroy them."
"And Elena will be protected?'' Damon asked.
"I will protect her and everyone she cares about up until Klaus is in Mystic Falls. My complete focus will be on killing him then. You can protect her then. Do we have a deal?"
"We have a deal." Damon said and shook Elijah's hand.
OH NO! They made a deal with Elijah! OMG AHSGDHAGEHEHAK!
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OMG AND THE NEW EPISODE IS ON TOMORROW! I bet that Jeremy kills Kol because I think his mark is completed in 4x13. I don't want him to though! KOL IS AMAZING!