Chapter 7:
Emily opened her eyes slowly.
"Nice of you to join us." A cold voice rang out.
Emily looked round the room. She was dead how was still possible to have a headache. Her eyes landed on Lord Alderson. He was just how she remembered him. He was an old man in a young man's body. He was tall with short dark hair and dark brown eyes. He was a handsome yet terrifying man.
"My lord." Emily replied.
"The last time I had the pleasure of seeing you, you were burning alive." He laughed.
Painful memories flashed through Emily.
FLASHBACK
Emily sat curled in a ball in the corner of her cell praying that her family got away.
"I can make this all stop." A voice said.
Emily looked up and cringed when she saw Lord Alderson. There were few things she knew about this man but the one thing she was sure of was that Lord Alderson was trouble.
"I can make them forget about what you really are." He added.
Emily stood up slowly.
"You would get you see your baby girl again. Isn't that what you want?" he asked.
Emily walked slowly towards the bars.
"All you have to do is give me what I want." He added.
There was nothing in the world that she wanted more than to see her daughter but she knew it was impossible.
"You mean this necklace?" Emily asked.
Emily looked down at the necklace, it was stunning. It was a tanzanite purple crystal set in a crocheted gold filled wire on a delicate gold necklace simple yet beautiful.
"Give it to me." Lord Alderson demanded.
Emily smirked.
"You will never get this necklace." Emily spat as he opened the gate to get to her.
Emily whispered a spell and the necklace disappeared.
Lord Alderson threw her against the wall and Emily wince in pain.
"Where is it?" he demanded.
Emily laughed.
"You will never find it." She replied and he kicked her.
"I want her to hear the screams of her friends, burn her last." Lord Alderson ordered before everything went black.
When Emily woke she was tired to a wooden stake, forced to watch as her friends most of them not even witches burn before they finally got to her.
She screamed out in agony as the flames bit into her skin.
END OF FLASHBACK.
"You should be dead." Lord Alderson said bring her out of her thoughts.
Emily looked at him.
"I am dead." Emily bit back.
Lord Alderson approached her and she couldn't help but cringed as he touched her cheek.
"Then how can I still see you?" he demanded.
"How is it I can touch you." He added.
"It's a spell." Emily replied.
He grabbed hold of her cheeks and squeezed tightly.
"You said there was no spell to bring back the dead." He spat.
Emily tried to shake him off her face.
"There isn't, magic has to come to a balance you cannot bring back the dead." Emily explained and he loosened his grip.
"There has to be a way." He demanded but not really talking to her.
Bonnie closed her eyes pain pounded in her head and she couldn't work out why.
"You ok Bon?" Stefan asked.
She felt Damon's eyes on her, she had since they left but he didn't seemed to be talking to her.
"I'm fine." She lied, rubbing her forehead gently.
They remand silent as the approached the witches house.
"I think maybe I should go in alone, the witches don't like vampires." Bonnie commented.
"No, you're not going in alone." Damon replied instantly.
Bonnie looked over at him and he shook his head.
"Take Caroline with you." He added.
Bonnie wanted to argue with him and tell him she could take care of herself but she knew she had already pushed him too far.
Bonnie nodded and followed Caroline into the witches' house.
"So where this ring?" Caroline asked.
"Up stairs." Bonnie replied taking the lead.
Her head throbbed she wobbled on her feet.
"Bon you ok?" Caroline asked steadying her.
Bonnie closed her eyes until the pain past.
"I'm fine." Bonnie lied.
"Bonnie, if something's wrong I need you to tell me." Caroline asked.
Bonnie walked slowly up the stairs.
"Caroline I'm fine you don't have to worry." Bonnie replied.
"Damon's right Bonnie." Caroline pointed out.
Bonnie looked at Caroline as she reached the top of the stairs and she waited for Caroline to continue.
"Your life is important and I am sorry that it took Damon Salvatore to remind me that." Caroline explained.
Bonnie hugged her friend.
"It's ok." She whispered.
Caroline pulled away.
"It's not ok Bon, but it will be." Caroline promised.
Bonnie nodded and they continued walking towards the bedroom at the back of the house.
"How's Elena doing?" Bonnie asked.
She had missed her friend and she knew sooner or later she would have to deal with her anger towards Elena.
"She's ok." Caroline replied vaguely.
Bonnie turned and looked at her friend, knowing she was hiding something.
"Care?" she asked.
Caroline sighed.
"She's mad." Caroline replied.
Bonnie looked at her confused.
"Why?" she asked hoping she wouldn't regret the answer.
"Damon and Stefan haven't really been around." Caroline replied and Bonnie looked up at Caroline surprised.
"Think about it Bon." Caroline said.
"Damon has barely left your side and Stefan has had his head in books for weeks looking into what happened to you." Caroline added.
Bonnie new Caroline was right but it still surprised her to hear it out loud.
"How long will the spell last?" he demanded.
Emily smirked at him.
"24 hours unless I get sent back before that." Emily replied to him honestly.
She had no reason to lie to him.
"But the necklace," he said his mouth sprouting words his brain was processing.
"It can bring back the dead can't it?" He demanded.
Emily said nothing just looked at him.
"Tell me." He screamed.
"Or what?" she asked.
"Torturing me is pointless, killing me is pointless so what the hell are you going to do?" she demanded.
She could see she had him there as he glared at her, before his face turned deadly and he smirked, whatever was coming was not going to be good.
Damon paced outside of the witches house, they were taking too long.
"Bonnie is fine." Stefan said as he lent on a tree.
Damon glared at him before he continued to pace.
"If you that worried maybe you should have gone in with her instead of Caroline." Stefan added.
He was starting to wish he had, but he was being stubborn and was too busy being mad at the little witch.
"It's taking too long." Damon said choosing to ignore Stefan's comment.
"They probably just talking." Stefan reasoned.
Damon nodded, he knew his brother was right but he could see the witch was in pain on the walk to house and it was starting to worry him.
"We got it." Caroline voice called from the house.
Damon looked over to find Caroline walking over to them with a very tired and pale looking Bonnie following behind.
"You ok?" he asked her.
Bonnie looked up at him confused.
"Just tired." She lied.
He could see the lie clear as day but whatever it was she didn't want to talk about it.
He nodded and followed her closely back towards the house.
After Bonnie tripped for the third time Damon picked her up in his arms and began carrying her.
"I can walk." She argued but even her voice sounded weak.
Damon said nothing just held on to her a little tighter.
Lord Alderson started at Emily.
Maybe he couldn't torture her but he could ruin the memoires of her mother.
"Your mother and I were loves." He told her softly.
Emily flinched.
"My mother would never have been with an animal like you." Emily argued.
He laughed.
"But she was." He told her honestly.
FLASHBACK
"What are you doing here?" Arabella asked.
Lord Alderson smirked and put his arms round her tiny waist, she fought with little effort to get out of his hold.
"You can't keep doing this." Arabella told him softly.
He breathed in her scent and kissed the tip of her ear.
"Matthew." She breathed his name deeply.
He loved it when she had his name like that.
He turned her round to face him and pushed her towards her kitchen counter his hands lifting her skits.
"We can't…" she began to protest but her mouth found his nevertheless.
She kissed him passionately and his hands continued to wonder until the found her undergarments. He pulled them down and she gasped into his mouth as he slid a finger slowly into her.
Her breath hitched as he began to move his finger inside her.
"Matthew," she called breathlessly as he added another finger.
He kissed her again as she pulled at her trousers.
"More," she begged pulling away.
He smiled at her beautiful swollen lips, knowing what she wanted.
He slowly took his fingers out of her and she moaned lightly, before he lifted her on the kitchen counter to get better access to her. She put her arms round his neck and her legs round his waist as he slowly entered her very wet core.
"Don't you know what you do to me?" he asked breathlessly as she arched her hips to meet him with each movement.
"Probably what you do to me." She replied as he captured her lips once again.
He loved his wife he really did. But there was something about Arabella that drove him insane and he just had to have her. This wasn't the first time and he knew it wouldn't be the last.
END OF FLASHBACK
Bonnie was extremely tired but when they got back to the house Emily was know where to be seen and she realised the pain she was feeling was Emily. Bonnie looked at the summoning spell again.
"Being too far from the caster will cause the witch uncomfortable pain, so the spirit must stay close to the caster." Bonnie read aloud.
"Why would Emily leave?" Caroline asked.
Bonnie shook her head.
"She wouldn't." she replied.
"Then where is she?" Damon asked reading the spell over Stefan's shoulder.
Bonnie shrugged her shoulders and sat down hard on the sofa.
"I don't know." She said tiredly.
Damon walked over to her.
"You're going to have to send Emily back." He said.
Bonnie shook her head.
"I can't just send Emily back without saying anything." Bonnie argued.
"You said it yourself Emily wouldn't just leave." He pointed out.
Bonnie sighed and closed her eyes before muttering the spell to send Emily back to the spirit world.
"I'm sorry Emily." Bonnie whispered slowly as she opened her eyes.
Damon gently touched her shoulder and she looked up at him.
"You ok?" he asked softly.
Bonnie nodded.
"Maybe you should wait till tomorrow till you summon Arabella?" Damon suggested.
Bonnie could feel her energy coming back to her but she nodded anyway.
Damon found Bonnie staring into space later that afternoon in the living room, while Stefan and Caroline went bunny hunting.
"You ok?" he asked taking a seat next to her.
Bonnie had been quite ever since the witches house.
She looked at him.
"Why haven't you been to see Elena?" she asked.
Damon's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't expected her to be thinking about him seeing Elena of all things.
"Do you want me to?" he asked.
Bonnie sighed and stood up.
"Do you want to?" she counted.
Damon followed her to the window and stood behind her as she stared out.
"What do you want me to say?" he asked.
Bonnie shook her head and Damon sighed.
"Don't you think we've been too busy for me to go and see Elena?" He asked and Bonnie sighed heavily and he knew he had said the wrong thing.
"Don't let me be the reason you don't go and see the women you love." Bonnie replied without looking at him and walking away.
Damon pulled her back to make her look at him.
"Do you want to know the truth?" he demanded.
He hated the sad look on her face.
She looked up at him, with a look of hope and something he didn't quite understand in her eyes.
"I didn't want to." Damon told her honestly.
If he was really honest he hadn't even thought about Elena all his thoughts had been about her.
"Why?" she asked.
Damon put his hand on either side of her face and forced her to meet his eyes. She really was beautiful right from the top of her head to the tip of her toes.
"Because nothing is more important to me right now then you." He told her softly.
Bonnie moved closer to him, her face now inches away from his. He found himself staring at her very kissable lips.
"But you love Elena." Bonnie argued.
Damon shook his head.
"I loved Elena, not anymore." He corrected.
Bonnie lifted on her tip toes wrapping her arms round his neck, Damon put his arms round her waist pulling her closer.
"And now?" she asked.
Her breath on his face.
"Now?" he repeated his nose pressed to hers.
"Damon." She breathed and Damon lost his control and captured her lips in a passionate kiss.