Hi readers, sorry this chapter was a bit late, but I've been really busy. So I hope you like it!
"What are you talking about, Elena?" Caroline asks, bewildered. "I'm Caroline, and that's Tyler…"
"Yeah…Hey guys." Elena turns away. "Let's go home."
"Are you sure you're okay, Elena?" Caroline asks again.
"Yeah, thanks Caroline. I'm fine." Elena says and smiles sweetly.
"Let's get to the car," Damon concludes and he and Stefan help Elena out of the forest.
"Elena! Oh my god! Are you okay?" Jeremy rushes to his sister's side as Elena walks in the front door of the Salvatore boarding house.
"Hey!" Bonnie yells as she follows Jeremy down the hallway. "We were so worried about you!"
"I'm fine, thank you" Elena replies without emotion. "I'm Elena," she turns to Bonnie and holds her hand out to shake.
"Um…Elena?" Bonnie says, reaching hesitantly for Elena's outstretched arm.
"I don't think we've met before," Elena says as she glances around the room, looking for help from Damon and Stefan as to this new girls behavior. "You're supposed to shake my hand…" Elena tells Bonnie nicely. "But I suppose they might not do that in…where are you from again?"
"Elena?" Bonnie looks at her best friend in wonder. "What happened out there, guys?" Bonnie asks Damon, Stefan, and Caroline worriedly.
"Oh my god, what if Klaus compelled her?" Caroline exclaims, frowning at the thought. "She remembers Damon and Stefan, but she didn't remember me or Tyler either…" Caroline tells Bonnie.
"Klaus is dead," Damon rejects Caroline's idea without thought.
"Yeah, we daggered him," Caroline explains.
"No he's not! I'm alive!" Tyler says out of the blue. "Klaus can't be dead. What kills a hybrid? Ripping out their heart or chopping their head off. What if the dagger can temporary kill an Original, but it can't kill the Original hybrid. Klaus is indestructible."
"Crap. I thought we had him. Stefan! Why didn't you think this through better!" Damon yells at his brother.
"Hey, I had nothing to do with the dagger. That was all Matt. How did he even know where we were?" Stefan wonders aloud.
"Rebekah," Damon groans. "They have a…thing. Rebekah still likes to toy with him. And he's just nice little human Matt who doesn't need to be compelled to do something for any blond psycho cutie."
Stefan holds his face in his hands and looks at the ground. "Bonnie? Do you think you might be able to figure out what's wrong with Elena?"
"I can try…" Bonnie looks around Elena worriedly. "But there's never a guarantee."
Elena looks around the room, confused, as Bonnie takes her hands and leads her to sit on the floor. "Guys…." Elena looks towards Damon and Stefan who both look back at her in bewilderment. "What is she doing?" Elena tries to whisper to them politely, but neither replies.
Bonnie and Elena sit down by the circle of candles on the floor. Bonnie starts chanting, her language of power rising throughout the room, making the candles burn brighter, the air cooler, the lights flicker. "Cayote mis asstra fesmatos que cieros…"
"What is going on," Elena asks Stefan and Damon again, trying to keep her tone polite, but obviously becoming agitated. Stefan and Damon just turn away from her, not being able to bear the thought of losing her.
Suddenly, Bonnie faints. Jeremy runs to her and shakes her limp body, but just as quickly as she went out, Bonnie sits up quickly, her sly smile completely disappeared from her face, replaced by troubled eyes.
"She's not compelled."
"Well then what is it?" Damon retorts.
"I don't want to be in love with a girl who doesn't remember me…" Stefan comments quietly.
"Well at least then you might have a chance!" Damon smirks and elbows his brother, who only looks even more in dismay. "Okay. Now isn't the time for joking, but I had to…it was just the perfect moment…" Damon apologizes and looks at his feet.
"You're still awful at apologizing," Stefan tells him. "But we need to focus on finding Elena. What did you see?" Stefan asks Bonnie.
"I'm not entirely sure what it was…but I think we have a problem. How does Klaus turn hybrids?" Bonnie asks, referring to no one in particular.
Tyler answers first. "Well, he has to find a werewolf, then he feeds it his blood and kills it. And then it needs to drink the doppelgängers blood."
"So he can only turn werewolves? Is there any way to make a person a werewolf besides having the gene in the family?" Bonnie clarifies.
"Not that I know of. Maybe a spell or something. Check your grimoire."
Bonnie grabs one of her grimoires of the table and flips through a few pages. "I can't find anything. Not in this one at least. The other ones I got from Luca are at home."
"Well, what did you see?" Damon asks, annoyed by the lack of information.
"You guys aren't going to like this," Bonnie starts, looking directly at Damon and Stefan, "but I think Klaus might have tried to turn Elena into a hybrid," Bonnie tells everyone, frowning at the thought.
"That's impossible…" Stefan mutters. "She's a vampire. They can't be turned into hybrids. Elena isn't a werewolf. What is he doing?" he wonders aloud.
"I'm not sure, but I could feel it. She feels…different. It's hard to explain, but I can sense when people are vampires or werewolves, and when I touched her I saw something…" Bonnie tries to explain to the rest of them.
"Saw what?" Damon shouts impatiently. "We can't help I you haven't told us!"
"Klaus. He was with her and a witch. Somewhere. I'm not sure exactly, but the witch was saying something, something I recognized. There was a symbol down in the cave, the one underneath the old Lockwood property that Mason's ghost showed you," Bonnie looks towards Damon. "And it was an image of Elena's necklace and a hybrid, but next to the hybrid was another hybrid. This hybrid was different. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think we need to check it out."
"Well that was really helpful information," Damon smiles and says sarcastically to Bonnie.
"What do you want me to say?"
"I don't know," Damon starts calmly, "something important!"
"Really?" Bonnie looks at him disappointedly. "Elena is losing her memory and you have time to chew me out for not seeing more? You aren't really in a position to be joking around like that."
"Fine! Then let's hurry up and get going! Jeremy, Tyler, you stay here. We're going to need Ms. Witchy to identify our symbols," Damon jerks his head towards the door and ushers Caroline, Stefan, Elena, and Bonnie outside.
Stefan walks up to Damon as the rest of them pile into the SUV. "You know, you don't have to be such a jerk to people."
"It's my job!" Damon snaps as he pats Stefan on the back and pulls him towards the car.
"You're going to end up alone and unhappy."
"If that were so, I would be living the dream, brother. I wouldn't have to pay for a second airline ticket for my girlfriend when I travel around Europe," Damon smirks and climbs in the driver's seat of the big, black, SUV, leaving his Stefan staring at him by the side of the road.
Well, I started this chapter about half a month ago and I've been so busy that I didn't finish it until now. I'm really sorry! I left it at a huge cliffhanger from chapter five, and this chapter was a bit slow, but there's much more to come!
Love,
The Salvatore/Somerhalder Fanatic