AN: This chapter is dedicated to 'KyaraSalvatore' for the amazing review for previous chapter. I was seriously thinking about discontinuing the story for the lack of response. Anyway here the story goes...
Chapter 8: Rescuing Stefan
Season one... episode sixteen... episode name 'There goes the neighborhood'. That was the current timeline in the world of vampire diaries. The weather was terribly gloomy as expected and it has been raining since early morning. A lot of things would happen this day. Obviously I knew about them from beforehand. The tomb vampires are going to kidnap Stefan today as the sun won't show it's face until tomorrow. That was my main concern for the time being. I was preparing myself for this for a couple of days now. I have to stop it from happening, I meant the kidnapping of Stefan. The infamous kidnapping incident would turn Stefan into a blood thirsty monster when Elena would feed him her blood. I won't let that happen this time.
I have a plan made out that would stop it from happening from the very beginning. The tomb vampires won't even get a chance to get to Stefan in the first place. But even for that I have to wait for a while. I can't really go up to Stefan several hours before the kidnapping is supposed to happen and ask him to stay indoors. It would be a creepy thing to do. So, I was waiting patiently for the right time. Elena had gone over to the boarding house to meet Stefan. She must have found out by now that all the vampires got out of the tomb and roaming around the town for revenge. She also must be giving Damon a long snarky lecture. Damon had thought last night that he would get one lecture from me as well for whatever was going on in the town lately but well that never happened. I am not the kind of person to give someone lectures. Because, I myself receive many of them especially from Elena on a regular basis. And I know how annoying that is.
I was pacing restlessly in my room. I was impatiently waiting for the right time to go over to the boarding house. At that moment Jeremy suddenly came into my room. He started pleading with me to come with him and meet Anna again. Anna liked me last time. Well she pretended to like me at least. But I am not so sure about meeting her this time. Besides, I should focus on saving Stefan right now. But Jeremy was being stubborn and I had to agree with him. Besides, I thought that Stefan won't get kidnapped until noon. It won't disturb my plans if I go to the Grill for half an hour to hang out with Jeremy and Anna.
Besides, I did need to get close to Anna. If I wanted her to trust me enough to let me save her life, I had to be friends with her. So, that's how I ended up sitting in a table at the Grill. I glanced over at Jeremy and Anna. They were there talking to each other and warming up. I also spotted Caroline talking with Matt and kissing him in between their conversation. After some time, I walked up to Jeremy and Anna as I was asked to by Jeremy earlier. He wanted to make my meeting them a coincident for some unknown reason. Maybe because Jeremy promised Anna that he wouldn't tell anyone about her. I really hoped this goes well for the three of us.
"Hey Anna, nice to see you again." I said cheerfully. She smiled nervously at me in response. It got me confused and I looked at Jeremy with raised eye brows.
"Did you tell her?" I asked knowing that must be the case. Jeremy simply nodded his head. A moment or two passed in silence before I cleared my throat and decided to speak up again.
"Well then, I should probably make a confession to Anna and apologize to her." As I said that Anna looked confusedly at me.
"I kind of knew that you are a vampire from the beginning. Sorry for pretending around you." Anna seriously started gaping at me with wide disbelieving eyes as I confessed that.
"You knew I was a vampire and you still let your brother hang out with me." She asked clearly not believing it. I took a seat across from her and next to Jeremy.
"That's because I also knew that, you are not gonna hurt him and you feel something for him. Besides I really like you." I gave her a straight answer. Anna got over whelmed with emotions at that moment.
"You know I am sorry too. My intentions weren't good when I befriended Jeremy" confessed Anna and looked ashamed. I stopped her from saying more of it.
"I know. You wanted to get your mother out of the tomb and used Jeremy to get this done. But honestly I understand you. I mean I would have done the same thing. She is your mother after all. And I am sure Jeremy would understand it too. What do you say Jeremy?" He nodded immediately agreeing with me.
"Yeah, I forgave you for that. I think I would have done the same if I were you." Anna smiled at us genuinely as Jeremy also forgave her.
"You two are so different from others. You are kind and good" said Anna and she really meant it. I smiled at her softly.
"Well, I guess we are indeed different from others but I should warn you that don't think our sister Elena is like us. She is going to flip if she ever finds out about you two. You know everyone has an individual mind and different ways of understanding things." I obviously knew from the show that Elena wasn't very supportive of Jeremy and Anna's relation. So I felt the need to warn them.
"Don't worry, I have lived long enough to understand that." Her voice became sad for some reason. Jeremy got confused but I knew why exactly.
"What would your mother say about this? I know our ancestor Jonathan Gilbert betrayed her love and since then she is not a huge fan of Gilberts." Anna sighed out heavily as I said that.
"She wouldn't take it well. That's why we have decided to keep our relation a secret. I don't want her to know about us yet" said Anna with worry in her voice and I nodded in understanding.
"More reasons for you to consider turning me." Just as Jeremy said that Anna glanced at me with a nervous look. Even Jeremy realized that he made a mistake and his tongue slipped accidentally. They waited for me to get mad at them and lash out. However, nothing like that happened. My not being angry or shocked definitely puzzled them but I avoided their expressions and decided to tell them what I wanted to say.
"I know it's none of my business Jeremy but if you ask for my advice, I would say you should wait until eighteen. Being stuck as an underage for eternity will suck. Besides, there is no rush in it, right?" Jeremy looked more surprised than Anna when I said that. He kept staring at me as if he was seeing me for the first time.
"You are okay with me being a vampire?" Jeremy asked for making sure what he just heard, wasn't his own imagination.
"I am okay with your being anything as long as you stay my brother." I said and I really meant it. Jeremy instantly engulfed me in a hug. Anna smiled at us seeing the sibling love. Though she was more amused to see that we have got such an unique understanding between us. And she wished to be a part of that too.
"This is cool." Anna said that more to herself and sighed in contentment.
"I never thought you would take it so well Jacq. I knew you would understand me but I didn't expect you to agree with me so nicely." Jeremy spoke out his mind as we pulled away from the hug.
"Jeremy it's your life, your choice, your decisions. You make a wrong choice you would suffer, you take a right decision you would find happiness. It's our decisions and choices that make us who we are."
Yeah I know it's kind of heavy and deep but I needed to tell him this. After that we talked for a while longer. Anna and I really got along nicely. I think she kind of likes me too not just because I was Jeremy's sister and she was dating him but also as her friend. We were having a great time but I had to leave soon. Reason one Anna's mom Pearl would be arriving soon at the Grill and reason two I had a rescue mission to accomplish. However before I left the table, I noticed Anna's eyes suddenly landing on my locket. I had bought it when I first landed in this world to put some vervain in it. The locket was indeed very pretty.
"It's beautiful." Anna complimented and I smiled a little. She was supposed to notice Jeremy's wrist band this time but never mind.
"Thanks, I can get one for you, if you like it. This one's got vervain in it. You wouldn't be able to wear it." Anna got highly amused as I bluntly said that.
"You just told me that you are on vervain. Isn't that supposed to be a secret thing to keep from a vampire?" asked Anna with wonderment and I just laughed it off.
"What is vervain?" asked Jeremy clearly being clueless about it. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at that.
"My brother has so many things to learn. Jeremy if you are really thinking about turning, I suggest you acquire full knowledge about it first." Anna agreed with me instantly and completely.
"You should take Anna as your teacher from now on." I suggested to Jeremy and he blushed at that along with Anna. After that finally I was getting ready to get up and go to the boarding house.
"Okay guys, I gotta go. I will see you later." I gave both Jeremy and Anna warm hugs then made my way out of the Grill. Though, I heard Anna saying before I left.
"I really like her."
I was very happy about how smoothly the meeting happened. I was planning on hanging out with Jeremy and Anna again. At first I honestly was a bit worried about Anna's reaction towards me. But it went a lot better than I thought. Anyways I put that thought aside for that moment. It was time for me to go save Stefan. I had planned to keep him inside the house for the rest of the day. If Stefan doesn't go out, he wouldn't get kidnapped. I had several things planned in my mind that would help me keep Stefan indoors.
However when I went to the boarding house, no one was in there. I called Stefan on his cell phone, but he didn't pick it up. I called Damon but he also didn't pick up my call. But I got a text from him saying that he is with Alaric and busy right now. Why Damon is with Ric right at the moment? Does it mean Stefan has already been kidnapped by the tomb vampires? How the hell did that happen? It wasn't supposed to happen so early. Something went wrong. Something went terribly wrong. I sort of started panicking. I was pacing restlessly in the boarding house living room while trying to figure out what the hell happened. I already realized that things happened earlier than it was supposed to happen. But what am I suppose to do now? After I got a grip on myself, I started to plan something else to save Stefan. What's done is done but I won't let Stefan turn into a monster this time. I will go to save him myself. With that determination I walked out of the boarding house.
So, while Damon and Elena were persuading Ric about helping them and making plans with him concerning rescuing Stefan, I made my own plan to actually get Stefan out of the house before he gets hurt too badly. Suicidal, and almost impossible, I knew that but I had to try. I knew the house location where they kept Stefan hostage. After I got there I entered the house through the basement way. Thankfully only one guard was sitting there outside of the closed doors. At least that was according to the show storyline. Stefan should be inside the room since it was being guard so carefully. I walked straight up to the guarding vampire. The old tomb vampire looked highly surprised at my presence there. But due to my good luck, he didn't attack me right away. He was more curious about my presence there than to eat me up. He wanted to know why I was there in the first place.
"I am here to feed the victim. Frederick wants him wake up soon so that he could torture him again. He also asked you to give me permission to enter." I acted as if I was compelled by a vampire, Frederick to be more specific. The vampire was standing right in front of me. He made me look at him and compelled me again.
"You wait right here while I will go to Frederick and confirm it because he said nothing about feeding the victim earlier." I nodded and repeated what he asked me to do.
"I will wait right here." But when the vampire turned around to leave I pulled out the wooden stake that I had with me hidden inside my jacket pocket. I stabbed the vampire with the wooden stake in his back. I used all the strength I had in me and drove the stake right through his heart. He fell on the ground instantly and turned grey. Hopefully no one heard his little groan of pain.
"Sorry for back stabbing you." I said and ran inside the room. In there I found Stefan as expected. He was hanging by the ropes that was soaked in vervain. It was Fredrick's way of torturing him. There was another guy in the same room tied down to a chair and he also had wooden stakes in both of his thighs. I knew his name, Harper. I freed him first because freeing him was easy.
"Help me please." Harper nodded to that right away. I quickly untied Stefan while Harper held him straight. Stefan was almost unconscious but he talked a little, well tried to.
"Help me get him out of here. I have a car outside." I said to Harper. This time I had Elena's car with me and I drove it up to this house to rescue Stefan. Harper helped me without asking about anything. After he put Stefan in the car Harper turned to leave but I had to stop him. I had to ask Harper to come along with me and offered him blood back at the boarding house. Which would heal him faster. I knew if Harper went back inside the house at that time he would either get killed by Fredrick or Damon when he would arrive here with Alaric and Elena. Harper refused at first but then I reasoned with him. I told him that I knew Anna and she is my friend and also told him that it's not safe for him to stay in the house while Pearl was away. After that Harper agreed to come along with me considering the situation. I drove towards the boarding house with a tired Harper and a semi unconscious Stefan. In the rush of getting back to safety, I completely forgot about informing Damon about not to go inside the house to rescue Stefan. Once we entered the boarding house Harper put Stefan on the couch. I rushed to get a blood bag for Harper from the Salvatore blood stock.
"He needs blood too" said Harper while he drank from the blood bag I gave him.
"He only drinks from animal. We can't break that. I have to do something else." I said while pacing impatiently. I was thinking of a way to get animal blood for Stefan. I wasn't exactly good at hunting animals.
"I can get animal blood for him." Harper said confidently and I looked gratefully at him.
"Would you do that?" I asked hopefully and he just nodded his head and went out in vampire speed. Mean while I tried to clean up Stefan as much as possible. Harper returned with animal blood sooner than I thought. I helped Stefan get some blood down his throat. After a while he woke up, finding enough strength and drank all the blood in one gulp. After that he was stable enough to talk clearly.
"Jacq, how did you get me out of there?" Was the first question Stefan asked me.
"Harper helped me." I said and Stefan relaxed a bit but then he became worried again.
"Where is Damon?" He asked with questioning eyes but I had to shake my head even though I knew about Damon's whereabouts.
"I have no idea where Damon is. I saw you getting kidnapped. Otherwise I wouldn't have known you were in danger." I said smoothly. A big fat lie but I couldn't give him a better explanation than that.
"He must have gone in the house by now to kill them. I have to go help him or they will kill him right away." Stefan tried to get up saying that but he was so weak. I could see that right through him.
"Relax Stefan. Damon's gonna be just fine. He will be okay." I said with assured tone of voice and looked at Harper. "Please find pearl and Anna and tell them everything that happened except that I saved Stefan. Okay." Harper got out fast without wasting a second. I sent a text to Damon from Stefan's cell phone saying that he is okay and at the boarding house. But Damon must have figured it out already. And hopefully he killed some of the tomb vampires with Alaric's help. I looked back at Stefan who was staring back at me with calculating eyes.
"I gotta go before Elena comes here. She can't know anything about me. okay." Stefan just nodded his head to that.
"Thank you Jacq. I don't know how you did it. And it was very stupid of you to do something like that but you did a wonderful job. You risked your life for me. I will never forget that." I smiled at Stefan and gave him a sisterly hug. I have been doing that a lot lately.
"You will be okay. Just take some rest now" saying that I walked out of the door with much satisfaction.
Not long after I left, I got a text from Jeremy saying that they found Viki's dead body. Well Caroline did. It was buried in the mud just like in the show. Everyone was heading towards Matt's house. Tyler, Elena and Jeremy were already there and everyone else was going there too except for me. I stayed behind. I didn't want to go and face Matt because deep down I knew that I could've saved Viki but I didn't. So, I was just sitting in my bedroom and watching the rain while thinking about a lot of things. Hopefully Harper explained everything to pearl by now and she should understand that the rest of the tomb vampires want nothing else but revenge. They don't want to settle down and have a life. I should also talk to Stefan about his diet. He is pathetically weak. He shouldn't be like this. And I should get both Damon and Stefan start taking vervain as well. I was feeling quite excited at the moment because of my success in the rescue mission. My trail of thoughts broke when suddenly Damon appeared in front of me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, startled at his sudden presence in my bedroom. He looked extremely pissed off though and didn't answer my question right away.
"How is Stefan?" I asked again but he didn't answer that too and just kept glaring at me. I started to get scared.
"Do you have any idea, how stupid you were to get in the house all by yourself?" asked Damon with gritting jaws while seething with anger. I raised my eye brows at him, trying to look innocent. But Stefan obviously told him everything and there was no point in hiding anything from Damon.
"Stupid? Really? Stefan said I did a good job. And I obviously did a good job because Stefan's still alive, I am still alive and some of the bad tomb vamps are probably dead by now." I was trying to humor Damon and be funny about it but he was getting more pissed off at my nonchalant attitude.
"You like playing hero, don't you? Well let me say it out loud for you, you could have died down there." Damon practically shouted at me.
"Yes, but I didn't die so. And I loved the rescuing job. I am planning to do it again." I said as calmly as possible but with a bit of sarcasm in my voice. Damon suddenly grabbed my arms and pulled me closer him. Though he looked dangerous that moment, yet he was completely calm. He caressed my face softly, almost like a psychopath.
"I don't want you to get hurt Jacq. If I could I would have locked you up in a safe for the rest of your life. Please promise me you won't do anything stupid like this ever again." Damon was obviously very drunk and he can get very emotional when he is drunk. I knew that but it still amused me.
"Damon, I can't make that kind of promise. I prefer short exciting life rather than long boring life." When I said that, it fueled Damon's anger more and this time he grabbed my chin and brought my face closer to his. I could feel his breath on me at that moment which by the way was very intoxicating.
"Fine, but from now on you will find me next to you on your every exciting adventure whether you want it or not." Damon had no idea how much I would love that. But I knew for a matter of fact that it won't happen and frankly I can't let it happen. There was a long list of reasons behind that of course. Damon slowly leaned in and kissed my forehead and left in a blink of an eye. I let out a breath that I was holding for a while now. Well that went good, at least I am not having any broken bone in my body. Though I don't think Damon would ever hurt me like he hurts others. I don't know why for sure but I certain feel safe with him. Funny, I feel safe with someone who was a homicidal maniac just a few weeks ago. And I know for a fact that Damon is still very dangerous. But there is this strange connection that I feel with him. I really wish I could give it a name and sort it out. That night after I fell asleep I started dreaming about something very strange.
I was at the boarding house. However, I didn't know how I got here but I saw Damon and Stefan talking to each other in their living room. Their voices were unclear to me. I was standing so close to them and they were speaking loud enough but still I couldn't hear them properly. Then I realized that I was standing within their sight but no one was looking at me. As if I was invisible to them. Nothing was making any sense to me. All on a sudden Damon and Stefan started to fight with each other. Stefan was weak, he couldn't fight against Damon and fell on the ground with a loud thud. He struggled to get up as Damon was walking around with a glass full of red liquid in his hand. Obviously it was blood. Human blood to be more specific. He was saying something to Stefan, nothing so pleasant obviously. Because the next thing Stefan did, was launched himself towards Damon. He managed to knock Damon off balance and made him crash in the nearest wall. But what both of them didn't realize right away was that Stefan got human blood all over his face. Stefan realized it at first but instead of cleaning it up quickly, he poked out his tongue to lick off some blood from his bottom lip.
"Oh no!" I gasped out loud but no one heard me. Soon Damon realized too what just happened and they were looking at each other with stunned expression.
"What have you done!" I said to both of them but again my voice didn't reach them. This can not be happening.
AN: Okay so this is it for now. Let me know if you like it or not. Do you want me to continue the story? Please I really need you guys to response to the story.