Chapter 16
Stefan's POV
This was bad. How had Damon gotten his memory back? And from the way he was glaring at me and Elena, it was obvious that he was thinking the worst.
"Well, are you two going to say anything, or just stand there?" Damon snapped, clearly impatient.
"We don't know what you want to hear Damon", Elena answered tightly, glaring at him. When Damon glared at her more fiercely than ever, I stepped in front of her, in case he tried anything. But when he saw my protective stance, he snorted.
"Relax, I'm not going to hurt your little human girlfriend", he said, refocusing his attention back on me.
But something caused me to look up at the clock, and I realized that Bonnie had been gone for almost an hour, which was long considering that the Gilbert house wasn't too far from here.
"Elena, do you have any idea where Bonnie could be?" I asked.
"I talked to her over the phone. She seemed upset", Damon interrupted nonchalantly, as if it hadn't crossed his mind until now.
Elena glared at him. "What did you say to her?"
Damon shrugged, and came over to sit in one of the armchairs. "I just told her the truth. I don't like being used, you both should know that by now", he said coldly.
"You think Bonnie was using you?" Elena asked in disbelief. "What in the world made you believe that?"
"Katherine…" Damon began, but Elena interrupted.
"Yeah, because the last time you listened to Katherine, everything went so well", she said sarcastically.
I knew Damon wanted to say something to her, but I stopped him. "Damon, you're an idiot if you think Bonnie used you just because Katherine told you that. If you haven't noticed yet, Katherine has been after Bonnie for days now. She probably told you that to make sure that you won't try and stop her from getting her", I said, and my concern for Bonnie's safety went up even higher at this thought.
I pulled out the now useless invention that we were going to give to Isobel. "I'm sure you know by now that this invention was meant to be a weapon against vampires. When I told Bonnie what it could do, she took of the charm to protect you", I hissed.
Damon's expression softened slightly, but it quickly went back to normal. "That still doesn't change the fact that she tried to mess with my head."
"She only did the spell because I asked her to", Elena finally spoke up. When she saw that she had both of our attention, she continued. "I wanted her to do the spell because I was tired of watching Katherine tear you and Stefan apart. She didn't want to do it, because at the time, she didn't want anything to do with you, but I eventually talked her into it. So it has nothing to do with whatever you convinced your delusional mind to believe."
Damon looked like he was thinking for a moment, but then shook his head stubbornly again. "That still doesn't explain why she didn't undo it when she realized that she took more than just my memories of Katherine."
"That was my fault", I said, and they both turned to look at me in surprise. I suddenly realized that I hadn't even told Elena about the conversation I had with Bonnie over the phone when I asked her not to give Damon his memory back.
"I asked Bonnie not to give you the memories back, and it wasn't for the reason you're thinking", I said flatly.
"Then why did you do it?"
I turned away from him when I answered. "Do you remember when I had to teach you how to hunt? We had fun Damon, for the first time in forever, we seemed like brothers again, and I knew it would all go away the minute you remembered everything. That's why I asked her not to undo the spell."
For a while, everyone was silent, but then Elena finally spoke up. "I'm going to call Bonnie, make sure she is ok", she said, pulling out her cell phone.
"No", Damon said, turning towards her. "Let me do it."
Elena narrowed her eyes when he reached for her phone. "Why can't you use yours?"
"Because she won't answer it if she seems my name on the caller ID. If you picked up on anything during this conversation, she probably isn't too happy with me", he answered, sounding annoyed as he took the cell phone from her.
I watched as he dialed Bonnie's number, and I knew another reason he wanted to do it in the first place was to avoid having to talk to me after what I said.
Both Elena and I watched as he waited for someone to pick up, but when someone finally did, his expression was a mixture of shock, and anger. "Katherine, where is she?" he growled into the phone, and Elena's eyes widened in horror. Katherine somehow got a hold of Bonnie's phone.
After another few moments of silence, Damon suddenly growled. "Listen bitch, if you hurt her…", but he was cut off when she hung up on him.
"Katherine has Bonnie somewhere in the Old Wood. I'm going to go look for her", Damon said, standing up. Then he looked at me. "Are you coming or what?"
I nodded, and stood up, but then I remembered the invention. I was supposed to meet Isobel today to give it to her.
"Elena", I said quickly turning towards her. "You need to call Jeremy and ask to talk to Anna. Tell her to come and pick up the invention and meet Isobel where we last met her", I said, handing her the invention.
Elena couldn't deliver the invention because she was a wanted runaway. Besides, I didn't trust Isobel alone with her.
Elena nodded reluctantly, since she and Anna weren't exactly on good terms with each other, but right now, that was the least of our problems.
With one final nod towards Elena, I followed Damon out the front door.
Bonnie's POV
I woke up, and found my hands and feet tied, and a grinning Katherine looking down at me.
"Katherine", I murmured flatly, and she smiled. "It's about time you woke up", she said.
I looked around at my surroundings, and saw that we were still in the Old Wood. I could still see my car, sitting on the ground only a few feet away from us.
I looked towards Katherine, and tried hard to hide my fear. "What are you planning on doing with me?"
She looked at me as if she was questioning my intelligence. "Isn't it obvious? I'm going to kill you", she said, as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world. After a brief pause, she continued.
"But you do know it doesn't have to end like that right? Just agree to join me, and we can work something else out."
I shook my head quickly. "No chance in hell, but I would like to know one thing before you do it: why?"
"Why I want to kill you?"
I already knew the answer to that, but I thought I could buy some time. Maybe Stefan would realize I was missing, and he and Anna would come looking for me.
"Hmmm I guess it would only be fair if you knew", she said, stalking closer to me. "I want to end the Bennett line", she said flatly.
"Why?"
"So that there will be one less powerful family line in my way of course", she said cheerfully. "But the only problem with that is there is always a chance that you witches can reincarnate."
I didn't like the way this conversation was going, but I didn't say anything. "But you see vampires don't reincarnate"
That was when everything clicked. The reason Katherine hadn't killed me yet, and the reason she was now clutching a wooden stake. She was going to turn me into a vampire, and the kill me. So that there would be no chance of me ever reincarnating after I died. But I wasn't going to go down without a fight.
Katherine sighed, as if she had read my thoughts, and now pitied me. "You'll give in eventually, they always do", she murmured right before she cut her won wrist with the stake.
I tried to fight against her as she grabbed my chin, and forced my mouth open, but she was too strong, and I could do nothing but struggle as her blood ran down my throat.
But after only a few moments of this, I heard an achingly familiar voice call out.
"Katherine, put her down", Damon's voice growled.
Katherine paused momentarily to look towards the Salvatore brothers. "So you came to save your witch? It's too bad that you're a little late "she said before grabbing me around the neck and twisting.
I heard a sickening snap before my entire world went black.
A/N: Ok, I think there will be two more chapters, and then this story will be over. Thanks for reading!