Twisted Love
Season Two
The Sacrifice
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Elena was fast asleep in her bed and didn't realise that Jonas Martin was in the bathroom watching her, a noise echoed from below her and she jolted awake. Walking from the bedroom she peered around the corner to see an empty hall way, stepping out she was caught surprise by a half naked Alaric standing at the top of the stairs with a bowl of ice cream in his hands.
"Elena!" His eye's were wide with shock and embarrassment.
"I heard something." She avoiding looking at his naked, slightly hairy chest.
Jenna suddenly arrived behind him with a horrified look on her face "That was us. I'm sorry."
Jonas stepped out from the bathroom into Elena's bedroom, this was a perfect time to get what he wanted from the girl and leave before she even knew he was there. Grabbing her hair brush from the dressing table, he pulled out a few strands of hairs from it, placing them in a zipped bag.
"We didn't think anyone else was up." Alaric informed her from where they continued to stand in the hall way.
"But here you are." Jenna's voice was full of awkwardness.
Alaric stared down at Jenna for a couple of seconds before looking back up at Elena's who eyes were fixed on her feet.
"We were just-" He stopped himself "Chunky Monkey?" He held the bowl towards her.
"I'm not really hungry. At all." She replied a sharpness to her voice.
"Well, I'm naked." Alaric nodded awkwardly "So I'm gonna go." He scurried away into the bedroom leaving Jenna behind.
"I'm really, really sorry." Jenna told her scratching the back of her neck.
"It's ok, Jenna." Elena breathed out a small smile appearing on her lips "Don't worry about it."
"I know he's been staying over a lot. Are you sure it's ok?" Jenna asked.
"Seems like things are good." Elena nodded happy for her Aunt.
"They are extremely good." Jenna confirmed a small blush creeping over her cheeks.
"Then I'm extremely ok with that." Elena laughed a little "I may have to tell Grace."
"Why?" Jenna moaned.
"This is just too good to keep to myself." Elena laughed as she walked back into her bedroom and closed her eyes as she lay back down on her bed.
Grace was running around the Salvatore Boarding house hearing Damon's heavy footsteps chasing her, diving behind a couch she kept her breathing low and quiet pulling her knees into her chest.
"Gracie." Damon sang as he walked in the room "I know you're in here, sweetheart. I can hear your heart beat, I can hear you breathing."
Grace heard his footsteps getting closer and popped out to see he was facing away from her, she pounced on his back and tore into his neck with her fangs. She had finally beat him.
"Ah." Damon laughed as she licked at his wound lovingly "You're getting better at sneaking up on me." He approved.
"Thanks." Grace giggled a little seeing the wound had already healed.
Damon quickly turned Grace and slammed her back against the wall digging his teeth into her neck making her call out, that had been another lesson, never let your guard down.
"Ow." She complained "No need to be so rough." She pouted.
"It's better rough." He brushed his bloody lips against hers wrapping her legs around his waist as she continued to press her back against the wall.
"You going to see Elena today?" Damon asked pulling away from her lips for a second before diving in for some more passionate kissing.
"Yep." She nodded pulling away from him sucking his bottom lip gently before letting it go and climbing down from his tall stature.
"Good, I have something to do, so get going?" Damon smacked her butt leading her towards the door.
"What?" Grace turned to him looking up into his crystal blue eyes.
"None of your business, now get going." Damon shooed her from the house to see Stefan standing there waiting "Ready?"
"Wait for Grace to go to Elena's, then we go." Stefan told him.
When it was safe for the brothers to leave the house they walked down into the tomb, Damon and Stefan both opened the door waiting for the two girls to appear and sure enough, they did.
"Please, come on in. There's plenty of room for all of us." Katherine purred.
"I'd rather poke my eyes out." Damon replied shortly.
"Hmm, they're such pretty eyes." Fayth cooed.
"We're here for the moonstone." The younger brother cut to the chase.
"Feel like tossing it over?" Damon asked.
"Tell you what, you get you little witch to hocus pocus us out of here and you can have whatever you want." Fayth winked.
"I thought you liked it in there. Nice and safe where Klaus can't get to you." Stefan told her smugly.
"We've had time to reconsider." Katherine told him.
"Meaning Fayth decided it was time to come out and you're just following orders." Damon replied.
"Oh, you know me too well." Fayth's eyes flashed with humour "We're starving, Damon and dirty and above all, we're bored. She's boring. At least running from Klaus wasn't boring so here's the deal: you get us out of here, you get the moonstone and we disappear from Mystic Falls forever. Let us know what you decide."
After Damon and Stefan had finished talking with their ex's they went to the Gilbert house knocking the door, Elena opened it smiling at them both.
"Can we talk?" Stefan asked.
"Why?" Elena asked.
"We went to see Katherine and Fayth." Damon answered.
"Come on it." Elena moved to they could come in.
Grace sat up on the counter Damon at her side whilst Elena and Stefan stood the other side of the kitchen. The boys told the story of them down in the tomb and what the girls had said to the.
"You don't believe her, do you?" Grace scoffed.
"No, of course not." Damon answered "We just want the moonstone."
"According to Rose's friend Slater, there's a way to destroy the spell that Klaus wants to break." Stefan informed the two girls.
"No spell, no doppelgänger, ergo you live." Damon glanced across at Elena "You can thank me later." He winked at Grace.
"How do you destroy it." Elena ignored his flirtatious comments to Grace.
"By releasing it from the moonstone." Stefan replied to her.
"How do you guys even know this is gonna work?" Grace asked breaking her gaze from Damon's bright blue eyes to look across at the other two.
"Cause we have a crafty witch on our side." Damon told her.
"You discussed it with Bonnie?" Elena asked slightly surprised.
"She agreed to do anything she could to help us." Stefan smiled.
"It's Katherine and Fayth who have the moonstone. They are not gonna give it to you." Elena told them firmly.
"We're gonna get it from them." Stefan assured her.
"Well, what he means to say is we will pry it from their cold dead hand if we have to." Damon smirked.
"Bonnie just needs to find a way to release the seal long enough for us to get in, get the moonstone and get out in time for her to return it." Stefan informed the two girls.
"Whoa." Grace nodded "Seems like you guys have it already planned out."
"Yep, we're awesome." The raven haired vampire boasted.
"Except for one thing." Elena spoke up "I don't want you to do it."
"What?" Grace looked at her.
"What are you talking about? Elena, we don't have a choice." Stefan told her.
"What about Klaus?" Elena asked.
"We'll find him right after we get the moonstone." Stefan told her.
"Is that before or after he kills everything that I care about, including the three of you." Elena looked at the two boys and her twin.
"Elena, if we can dispel the moonstone, we can save you life." Stefan reminded her.
"I know, everybody keeps saying that." Elena sighed as she walked from the room.
"Elena." Grace called after her.
Bonnie and Luka were at Mystic Falls High standing outside in the court yard talking about their past with Magic.
"So your Grams waited until you were in high school to tell you that you're a witch." Luka noted.
"She brought it up before but I just thought she was drunk. In my defence, she was." Bonnie joked.
"So then you're like new." Luka shrugged.
"Newish." She nodded "I still have some growing pains."
Luka cocked an eye brow intrigued "Like?"
"Physically it's becoming a lot harder. I have a bad reaction to it sometimes." She noted a little nervous telling him her weakness.
"Your nose bleeds?" Luka guessed.
"Yeah and I pass out sometimes." Bonnie nodded.
"It's because you're trying to do too much on your own. You need help." The warlock told her kindly.
"From what?" Bonnie tilted her head.
"From nature, the elements. Just things that you could draw extra power from. Have you ever channeled another witch before?" Luka asked curiously.
"What is that?" Bonnie asked tilting her head to the side.
"Say we put our energy together, we can double our strength. I'll show you, watch. Let me see that bracelet." He noted tot he pretty charm bracelet laying on her wrist.
She unclipped the bracelet and nervously placed it into his open hand, reaching to his neck he unclipped the dog tags that lay there placing them into her hand.
"Now, I want you to stand very still and concentrate." Luka instructed.
"I don't get it." Bonnie creased her eye brows.
"I know." Luka smirked.
"What are we doing?" Bonnie asked.
"We're channeling. The personal items will act as a talisman. Now concentrate." He reminded her and both witch and warlock closed her eyes, within seconds Bonnie reopened hers.
"What is that?" Bonnie asked feeling a surge of power run through her.
A smile appeared on Luka's lips as he eyes remained closed and the wind began to pick up, paper and leafs blowing viciously around them, but Luka pulled back and stopped the act.
"Pretty cool, huh?" Luka grinned and Bonnie laughed.
"What's with that weather, huh?" Jeremy walked over to the two laughing.
"It's global warming, man. I don't know." Luka smirked knowingly at Bonnie "I got to go. See you later Bonnie."
"Bye Luka." She smirked as he walked away.
"The guy is weird, huh?" Jeremy looked at Bonnie for agreement.
"No he's not." Bonnie smiled down at Luka's necklace in her hands, her phone began to ring and she looked at her.
"What is it?" Jeremy asked.
"It's Damon." She replied.
Elena and Grace both walked in the Salvatore Boarding house, the taller twin looked at lot more calm than her smaller vampire twin. Walking around the house they began to look for Rose, they found her draining a blood bag in only her silk night dress.
"Oh." Elena blushed away.
"I thought there was no one else here." Rose told them.
"Actually we came to talk to you." Elena informed her.
"Then I should probably get dress." Rose noted as she left the room.
After Rose had got dressed into day clothes Elena told Rose the two girls plans and Rose shook her head in disbelief, it was a crazy stupid plan for them both.
"It's a bad idea." The older Vampire told her.
"No, it's not." Elena replied firmly "From what Stefan told us your friend Slater obviously has more information about Klaus. You and Damon just gave up before you got it." She scolded.
"Because somebody blew up a coffee shop with us in it." Rose hissed.
"There's more to learn." Elena told her "We just have to find a way to learn it."
"Why are you coming to me with this?" Rose eyed them both suspiciously.
"Because you owe me." Grace spoke up finally "One word from me and Damon and Stefan could have killed you for kidnapping me." She smirked her eyes flashing with a dare.
"Or maybe it's because you know that they wouldn't want you doing this. And their moonstone caper gives you a chance to sneak away." Rose cocked an eye brow
"We're having a disagreement, ok?" Elena replied sharply "They're willing to risk everyone that I love and I'm not."
"So why are you here?" Rose looked at Grace.
"Protection." Grace replied simply "I don't agree with this, and Damon would kill me for letting us both do this, but she's my sister and I need to be there for her."
"You know Stefan is just trying to protect you." Rose looked at Elena "And Damon is just trying to protect you." She glanced across at Grace.
"And you've proven that you couldn't care less whether Grace is protected or not, and I doubt that's any different for me, so we're back to you taking me to Slater." Elena crossed her arms over her chest.
"What exactly do you hope to achieve by this?" Rose questioned.
"How would you like to be able to walk during the daylight?" Grace asked.
"I've been in the shadows for 500 years, what do you think?" Rose replied bluntly narrowing her eyes slightly.
"I think I know a witch who's willing to do whatever it takes to help, if you're willing to make a deal." Grace smirked knowingly.
Back at Mystic Falls High, Tyler was outside playing basketball with all of his friends on the basketball court when Matt walked over to him.
"Hey man, how are you doing?" Matt asked.
"Good and you?" Tyler questioned.
"I'm pissed at myself for picking a fight with you." He admitted "and I'm feeling guilty for what happened to Sarah. I mean, I've been dodging you for days because I didn't know what to say to you." He told him honestly.
"Don't worry about me, man." Tyler shrugged.
"I'm really sorry. Please know that." Matt smiled sincerely before walking away over to Caroline.
"Matt." She called him.
"Hey." Matt smiled.
"How are you?" She asked.
"I've been better." He admitted "I got to get to class." He walked away from her.
"You two still on the outs?" Tyler stated as he walked towards the blonde vampire.
"Looks like it." She noted "You realise there is a full moon soon?"
"Vampires don't have enough problems?" He teased "You want to take on mine?"
"Have you even thought about it? The whole wolf thing?" She hushed her voice "Do you know what you're gonna do?"
"I have a plan." He replied smugly.
"Well...?" She pried.
"Kind of private." He informed her slowly.
"I'm student council vice president, head of prom committee, not to mention I single handedly organised the towns cleanup campaign and you're really gonna turn down my help?" She scoffed rolling her bright silvery eyes.
At the Salvatore Boarding House, Bonnie was sitting in the parlour room with her grimoire open on the table in front of her, whilst Stefan sat next to her and Damon and Jeremy were across the room waiting.
"I might be able to lower the tomb spell long enough for you to get in there and grab the moonstone from Katherine and Fayth." The witch confirmed.
"How?" Jeremy asked "It took both you and your Grams last time and look what happened to her." There was clear concern in his voice.
"I'm well aware of what happened." Bonnie shot him a look "I've learnt a few things."
Jeremy sighed heavily "Bonnie-"
"How will you get it?" She ignored the younger boy and looked straight at Stefan.
"They haven't been feeding. They're weaker, we're not." Stefan stated as he looked across at Damon who was nursing a glass of blood.
"You wouldn't be underestimating them, would you?" She cocked an eye brow.
"It's a plan." Stefan stated "Is it perfect? What plan is?"
"Let me do it." Jeremy spoke up "I've got my ring. I could get in, get out and no spell necessary."
"Gee thanks 16 year old child. Why didn't we think about that? What are you even here?" Damon spat.
"Maybe I can help better the plan. Do you have anything that belongs to Katherine or Fayth, or better both of them?" Bonnie asked and the brothers look at each other.
Rose leads both the girls to an unknown apartment that was in Richmond, she told them that this is where they would find Slater as this was his apartment.
"Slater?" Rose called as she knocked the door, but no one responded "Slater, it's Rose. Open up!" She turned to the girls "He's not home, sorry."
"Uh uh." Grace shook her head "No. We didn't come all the way out here for nothing." She scowled as she kicked opened the door "After you." She looked at her twin and Rose.
"You're gonna pay for a new door." Rose scowled as she walked into the house followed by Elena then Grace, they were all taken by surprise when they saw Slater's dead body laying on the floor with a stake deep in his chest.
"I don't think he's gonna be much help." Rose noted.
"This is just typical." Grace muttered walking over to the computer desk rustling through papers with Elena "Looks like whoever blew up the coffee shop found him and killed him for his information."
"Yeah, probably to stop him from helping people like us. The guy was a vampire almanac. Knowing too much information just bit him in the ass." The older vampire noted opening the windows to let the sunlight pour through.
Elena creased her eye brows as the Vampire without a daylight ring stood directly in the sunlight without getting burnt "What are you-"
"Tempered glass, UV rays can't penetrate." Rose informed them shrugging a little.
"That's handy." Grace muttered under her breath.
"I used to just come here and watch the day." She pressed her fingertips to the glass
"I'm sorry about Slater." Grace whispered as she ran her hands over a photo of Slater and a unknown woman
"Any luck?" Rose turned to see Elena on one of the computers
"It's password protected." Elena informed the two "I can't get in."
"Then this is pointless, let's just go-" There was a rustling sound from behind them "Stay here." Rose ordered as she walked towards the noise, opening a door to reveal a scared human girl with long locks of black hair and bright red lips stick to contrast with her pale complexion.
"Alice?" Rose asked.
"Rose!" Alice jumped into the older vampires arms beginning to cry, the twins glanced at each other confused to who the woman was.
Back at the Salvatore Boarding House Stefan walked into the library where Bonnie, Damon and Jeremy were waiting.
"This belonged to both of them." Stefan handed her a picture "I found it with Katherine's things after I thought she was dead but it was both of theirs." He nodded.
Bonnie placed it into a bowl, sprinkling a couple drops of water over it and it began to burn intensely, the witch closed her eyes and recite a spell she had learnt from Emily's grimoire.
"What will this do?" Damon asked once she had finished.
"I can turn it into ash, blow the ashes on her and it will incapacitate them both for a minute or two. Long enough for you to get the stone and get out." Bonnie informed them as blood trickled from her nose again, she quickly wiped it away before anyone could notice.
Caroline and Tyler were walking through the woods heading towards the old Lockwood estate ruins where he was planning to perform his transformation.
"Matt's bumming pretty hard." Tyler informed her slyly.
"I know." Caroline nodded "It's better this way."
"I get it." Tyler sympathised with her.
"You do?" The blonde looked across at him.
"Yeah." Tyler nodded "You can't be honest with him. It's not really fair to be with someone and not really let them know who you are. I get it." He glanced around "Right over there. There's a cellar that goes to our old property."
"I know." Caroline replied.
"You do?" Tyler creased his eye brows.
"I know that is is the old Lockwood property." Caroline lied as they approached the ruins.
"Watch your step." He muttered as they walked into the ruins "I'm guessing this is where Mason was headed the night he turned. It's this way." He lead her inside past the cell like doors.
"Did Mason tell you about this place?" Caroline asked curiously.
"Mason bolted before I triggered the curse but I found these." Tyler ran his fingers over the deep claw marks in the wall.
"look old." The blonde noted.
"And these bolts and chains. I need new chains but the bolts could still hold." He informed her pulling with all his strength on the bolt that was attached to the wall to show it was still sturdy "I think that's what this place was used for full moons."
"What's this?" Caroline asked as she picked up at old diary from the floor.
"I have no idea." Tyler replied opening it.
"Wait it Mason's?" The blonde questioned waiting for Tyler to begin reading.
"August 31. My body is changing. I'm edge, angry, impatient. I get so mad I black out, I forget what I say or do. I'm not myself. Not since Jimmy's death. What's happening to me?" Tyler read aloud from his Uncle's diary, flicking through the page he looked up into a waiting set of silvery eyes "He chronicled everything. 'The full moon is tonight'." He read.
"Does he say what happened" Caroline asked.
A small memory stick was attached to the back of the diary, inspecting it carefully he handed it over to the vampire.
At the Salvatore Boarding House Bonnie was putting the ash onto a table in front of her whilst the boys were getting everything ready.
"Still gotta get torches." Stefan noted.
"Alaric's stake gun is in my truck." Damon informed him "Bonnie?" He glanced over at her.
"Go ahead. I'm almost done." Bonnie told the two and both brothers leave, leaving the witch alone with Jeremy.
Jeremy walked towards her "What are you doing? You're not strong enough-"
She placed her finger on his lips to keep him quiet "I'll be fine." She assured him.
"You could get hurt." He mumbled into her finger.
"And Elena could die. I'll be fine. I promise." She smiled sweetly.
"Here, I got this ok? Go get me something to put this in, alright?" He told her, she smiled and walked away, as soon as the witch turned her back Jeremy stuffed some of the ash into a pot for himself.
Rose was comforting Alice whilst Grace leant against the wall in the kitchen pinching the bridge of her nose whilst Elena prepared some tea for the hysterical girl.
"She found him a few minutes before we did." Rose informed the twins.
"How is she?" Elena asked.
"Overreacting. Big time." Rose replied.
"Her boyfriend just died." Grace hissed "In this case, there is no such thing as overreacting."
"Those tears are for her. She didn't care about Slater. She was only dating him long enough to see if he's turn her." Rose told her bluntly
Grace's eyes widened "What? Thats-"
"Sick. Yeah, I know." Rose nodded as Elena walked over to the other human handing her a cup of tea to calm her.
"Thank you." Alice sniffled "You look really familiar. Both of you do." She looked between Grace and Elena "Do you know Slater?"
"Not personally, no." Elena replied "We just know that he kept detailed records of all his vampire's contacts and we were hoping that he could point us towards Klaus."
"Doubtful." Alice replied drying her eyes "Klaus doesn't want to be pointed at."
"Do you know Slater's computer password?" Grace asked.
"Are you seriously asking me that right now? I just saw my boyfriend with a stake through his heart." She scowled at the younger vampire.
Grace sighed heavily "I understand that. Do you know his password?"
"Who do you think you are?" Alice hissed in a hiccup.
"I think I'm a vampire." Grace flashed her fangs "And if you know the password then I'll turn you." Alice's eyes sparkled with excitement as Grace retracted her fangs from view.
"Will you show us his files then?" Elena asked hopeful.
Alice quickly jumped up skipping across the room to sit at Slater's desk and log on to the computer, the three other girls gathered around her.
"Someone's been here." Alice noted "The hard drive is completely wiped out."
"Yeah, probably whoever killed him." Rose hissed.
"Lucky for you, Slater was paranoid. Everything's backed up on a mode server." Alice chuckled gently.
"Are you really going to turn her?" Elena asked Grace in a hushed voice knowing Rose could hear.
"Are you serious? She isn't going anywhere near my blood, I don't want that on my conscience." Grace muttered and Elena threw her a look "What?"
"Kristen Stewart. God, was he obvious." Alice rolled her eyes.
"These are all leads to vampires?" Elena asked.
"Slater was obsessed. Almost as much as me." Alice beamed at Grace.
"What about that one." Grace jabbed her finger at the screen "Cody Weber? They exchanged dozens of emails named Elijah, that has to be something, right?"
"She's got a point." Rose nodded.
"I could call him." Alice offered and Elena passed her the phone.
"Tell him that we're trying to send a message to Klaus: the doppelgänger is alive and she's ready to surrender." Elena informed him.
"What?" Rose looked at her.
"Elena, what? That is crazy. No way." Grace ordered her.
"Oh my God! I knew I recognized you!" Alice looked at them "You're the doppelgänger's."
"Get him the message please." Elena replied shortly before walking from the room Rose and Grace in tow.
"What are you planning Elena?" Grace asked. "This is madness."
"I'm getting Klaus's attention." Elena crossed her arms over her chest leaning back against the wall.
"If Klaus knows that you're alive, he'll find you and he'll kill you." Grace walked towards her and Elena didn't say a word.
"Which is exactly what you wanted all along." Rose muttered.
"No. Elena." Grace looked at her, but Elena continued to stay silent "I didn't come here so you can throw your life away to some stupid sacrifice."
"It's either me or our family, Grace." Elena told her sternly.
"So this whole charade is some suicide mission so that you could sacrifice yourself and save everyone else?" Rose asked.
Grace shook her head wildly "No, Elena. This is crazy. We have to leave-"
"Cody is on his way and he really wants to meet you." Alice said from the doorway.
Katherine was standing in the entrance to the tomb whilst her sister was sat in the back with the moonstone in her hand, Jeremy appears from the stairs leading down towards the tomb entrance.
"Look, Fayth." Katherine called and Fayth appeared next to her.
"This youngest Gilbert. This is an intriguing surprise." Fayth smiled evilly.
"I'm here for the moonstone." Jeremy stated determined.
"Yeah, the moonstone." Katherine nodded "It's very popular today."
"Just give it to me." Jeremy lowered his voice.
"naïve little Gilbert. If you want it, you're gonna have to come here and get it." Fayth teased.
Jeremy fires a stake at her from one of Alaric's air compressed weapons and Fayth removed it with a growl, quickly Jeremy threw ash in Katherine's face and both the girls fell to the floor unconscious.
"I kind of figured you'd say that." Jeremy murmured as he walks in and pats both the vampires down trying to find the moonstone, but it wasn't on them "Come on, where is it?" He growled as he walked deep into the tomb to find it on a rock.
As he went to leave the tomb he was grabbed and Fayth sunk her teeth deep into his neck, acting swiftly he launched the moonstone outside of the tomb out of the twins reach.
Just outside the tomb Bonnie joined Stefan and Damon as they approached the old church ruins, she had her grimoire in hand.
"Sorry I'm late." She apologised "I had to grab the grimoire from home."
"Jeremy couldn't take the pressure, huh?" Damon smirked.
The younger witch narrowed her eyes "He said he'd be here." as they went down into the tomb.
Damon's phone began to ring before he could walk down into the tomb, he looked at the caller ID, it said 'Rose'
"Not a good time, Rose." Damon told her.
"Don't be angry with me." Rose told him in a hushed voice, he could hear water running in the background, Rose didn't want a certain someone to hear this conversation.
"Why, what did you do?" Damon questioned.
"You need to get to Richmond immediately." Rose told him.
"Tell me." Damon walked in the opposite direction to his brother and the witch.
Bonnie and Stefan walked down to the tomb entrance to see that moonstone on the floor, Stefan creases his eye brows as he picked it up.
"What the hell?" Stefan whispered.
"Is that the moonstone?" Bonnie asked.
Katherine walked towards the barrier, blood layering her lips "I hate to interrupt but today has been full of surprise." She smirked as Fayth pulled Jeremy forward, he looked weak and really ill with deep bite marks covering his neck.
"I'm sorry." Jeremy slurred "I took some powder."
"Don't worry, I know that he's wearing his ring so no matter how many times we kill him, he'll just keep coming back for more. So, we're gonna be in the back playing with our new little toy and you guys just give us a holler when you get the tomb open." Fayth grinned as she walked away with Katherine and Jeremy.
At Jonas and Luka's house across town Jonas was sitting in the living room with Elijah as he looked at all the things Jonas had stolen from her room the night before, including hair, a picture and other personal items.
"So how exactly does the spell work?" Elijah questioned.
"Give my your hand." Jonas commanded and Elijah reached towards him, Jonas stabbed into his hand letting blood drip from it "Place it here." He ordered and Elijah held his bleeding hand out over a picture of Elena "Now take my hand." With his other hand Elijah took the warlocks. "Close your eyes, relax your mind and look for her." Both men closer there eyes and under his breath Jonas began to chant a spell.
Back at Slater's apartment Elena was looking out of the big UV protected window when suddenly she saw Elijah's face staring at her, a small scream fell from her mouth as she turned to see that Elijah was no where to be seen.
"What's wrong?" Grace walked in the room slightly curtained for Elena's pick-up in heart beat pace.
Elijah's eyes burst open to look at Jonas they retracted hands from each others, the Original Vampire's wound had healed now, the blood had ceased from falling from the open wound.
"You saw her, didn't you?" Jonas looked at him.
"I know exactly where she is." Elijah purred.
Bonnie was lighting torches just outside of the tomb entrance, Stefan kept looking around trying to find Damon, but the younger brother couldn't find him anywhere.
"Where the hell is Damon?" Stefan asked.
"We can't wait; we have to get him out of there." Bonnie told Stefan.
"They've fed, they have their strength back. Two of them against me." Stefan shook hi s head.
"We still have what's left of the ash." Bonnie reminded him "Do you think you can get close enough?"
"I don't have a choice." Stefan muttered.
"It's gonna take some time." She referred to the seal opening.
"How long?" Stefan questioned.
"I don't know, a while." The young witch replied vaguely.
"Just get me in there as soon as you can." Stefan sighed.
Luka walks into his house just after he got home from school, Elijah was long gone by now, but Jonas was still there.
"So how was school?" Jonas asked.
"Riveting." Luka rolled his eyes.
Bonnie opening Emily's grimoire to look over the spell one more time, before closing her eyes and beginning to chant the spell under her breath.
Luka feel like he had been punched in the gut suddenly, like someone was draining him of all energy he had, Jonas noticed this and supported his son.
"What's wrong?" Jonas asked concerned.
"Nothing." Luka replied bringing his hand up to touch his neck to feel that it was bare and his necklace was no longer there. Bonnie Bennet.
The witch continued chanting the spell, she was louder now and clenching Luka's necklace in her hand channelling the warlock, and using his powers as well as hers.
Caroline and Tyler walk into Caroline's house, her mother was at work so it was an empty house, grabbing her laptop Tyler sticks the memory stick in the USB slot waiting for it to load. A movie was on it, the vampire double clicked it and Mason appeared on the screen.
"It's September 15th, 2 hours from the first full moon since I triggered the curse." Mason informed the two.
"He taped his first transformation." Tyler noted watching the screen intently.
"There's nothing..." Caroline looked at the diary entry for September 15th "He wrote about everything the next day." She flipped the page "I chose the garage. I could deadbolt the door. It was far from the so no one could hear. I bolted hooks to the floor for the carabineers." Caroline stopped reading "Like for mountain climbing?" She questioned.
Tyler looked at the laptop screen "Retractable cables." They continued to play the movie "What's he doing?" The new wolf asked as he drank a liquid awful looking liquid.
"It's wolfsbane." She continued to read the journal "I diluted wolfsbane with water to weaken myself but I could barely get it down without puking. It felt like I was drinking battery acid. Over an hour passed and nothing happened. It got so quiet I could hear my own blood pumping and that's when-"
On the movie Mason began to scream falling to the floor from the pain, he was thrashing around and Tyler looked shocked, almost scared.
"I kept thinking I'd black out and not feel it but I did. I felt all of it." Caroline read Mason's words.
Mason was on the floor, crying from the intense pain crashing threw his body, he began to cry out for help and both Vampire and werewolf cringed at the sound.
"How long is it?" Caroline asked squinting her eyes at the sight of the man in pain.
"3 hours in." Tyler fast-forward the movie and he was still in pain "4 hours." He moved it along and Mason was still in pain "5 hours." His voice broke "How long does this last?"
On the movie the camera had been knocked over and was face level with Mason, his eyes were glowing a bright amber gold colour and Tyler quickly got up as his uncle began to scream again.
"I can't." Tyler stuttered tears outlining his eyes "I can't do that. Caroline, whatever that was, I can't go through that."
"I can't believe we're actually going through with this." Grace muttered as she walked from the room.
"What are you doing here?" Damon's low growl came from behind her.
"What are you doing here?" Grace turned in complete surprise to see him and Rose appeared behind him with Elena at her side.
"You called him." Elena scowled at Rose.
"I'm sorry." Rose nodded mournfully.
"You said that you understood." Elena spat.
"She lied." Damon replied shortly looking at Grace intensely.
"Will you stop looking at me like that." Grace crossed her arms over her chest.
"Damon Salvatore. No way." Alice laughed.
"Get rid of her." Damon ordered Rose and she did leaving Elena, Grace and Damon alone.
"Come on, we're leaving." Damon grabbed Grace's waist tightly in his hands.
"Ow. Damon." Grace struggled against him "Quit it."
"No." Elena told him standing in front of them stopping them from leaving.
Damon growled at Elena "I said we're leaving."
"I'm not going with you." Elena told him firmly.
"You don't get to make the decisions anymore." Damon growled.
"When have I ever made a decision? You and Stefan do that for me, hell you do it for us. Now this, this is my decision." She told him.
"Whose gonna have your life while you're out making decisions?" Damon growled at her "You think Grace can protect you? Grace can't protect herself."
"I'm right here. I can hear you." Grace hissed still struggling against him.
"You're not listening to me." Elena stomped her foot like a 5 year old "I don't want to be saved. Not if it means that Klaus is gonna kill every single person that I love." Her voice lowered to a whisper
"Elena." Grace whispered trying to sympathise with her.
"That's it." Damon threw Grace over his shoulder, she screamed and kicked and punched him trying to get him to put her down, but he wasn't having any of it.
"Don't." Elena warned him and went to punch him, but her caught her hand clenching her fist, she winced in pain.
"Don't ever do that again." he warned placing Grace on her feet "We need to talk." he walked away from her.
"Thanks, Elena." Grace shook her head following the older vampire.
Down in the tomb Bonnie was still casting the spell whilst channelling Luka as they had boned and it made it easier for the spell to be lifted.
"Oh, Something's happening." Fayth and Katherine appeared at the entrance with Jeremy.
"Bonnie no!" Jeremy rasped "You have to stop her, she's not strong enough!" He looked at Stefan.
"Maybe she is." Katherine glanced across at Fayth who shrugged.
Luka was still at the table doing his homework, but was struggling, he was so drained from all the energy his was loosing due to Bonnie.
"What's going on?" Jonas demanded.
"It's Bonnie Bennett. She's channeling me." Luka stuttered.
"Why would you let her do that?" Jonas asked.
"You told me to bond with her so I bonded." Luka shrugged as he felt blood trickle from his nose.
Bonnie's nose was bleeding too as she continued to chant the spell, Stefan notices and walks over to her grabbing her shoulder trying to break her from the powerful spell she was casting.
"Bonnie. Bonnie." She was too lost in her trace.
"You've got to stop her." Jeremy called Fayth smashed her elbow into his face effectively knocking him to the ground.
"You need to stop. Bonnie!" He shook her.
Luka let out a breath as he fell to the floor weaker than he ever had been before, Jonas leaped to his sons aid.
"Luka!" He placed his palm on his sons head and using his powers Luka's eyes opened back up and he seemed to be fine.
Whereas in the tomb Bonnie fell limp in Stefan's arms, the younger brother seemed to be concerned for the unconscious witch in his arms.
Stefan laid her on the floor gently stroking her hair softly "Bonnie, Bonnie wake up please."
"Yes, please because we're still in here!" Fayth called.
Bonnie opened her eyes and the younger vampire let out a breath of relief "Are you ok? You alright?"
"It didn't work. I'm not strong enough. Even with help I can't do it." She vented.
"That's too bad, I'm still hungry." Fayth shoved Jeremy back against the wall and bit him, before her fangs could close in on his neck Stefan jumped in the tomb and threw Jeremy out, shoving Katherine against the wall Fayth smiled towards Bonnie who swept Jeremy up in her arms on the floor.
"What is wrong with you?" Damon asked as he paced the kitchen "I thought now we were together and we'd said 'I love you' to each other we didn't have any more stupid secrets, or stupid plans to turn Alice."
"What?" Grace looked at him.
Damon growled as he walked towards her "Well, first Rose told me that you promise Alice your blood for information, and second you came here to basically give your sister up-"
"I didn't know that she wanted to do that. I thought she wanted information on Klaus." Grace shook her head "Don't even think for a second I would have done this if I knew why she really wanted to come. And I'm not sure if your precious Rose told you this, but I was never going to give Alice my blood." She went to walk away.
"Don't." Damon stopped her grabbing her hand "Don't leave here angry."
"I'm not angry." her voice rose "She's right." Grace whispered calming herself "Not about her giving herself over, but about you and Stefan making decisions for her and me. I already had my human life taken away from me, don't let me loose my new one."
Damon sighed taking both of her hands "That's what I'm trying to prevent. You from loosing your life. I just want you to be safe. I know what would happen if you lost Elena and I'm trying to protect you, but it doesn't help if you go running off on suicide missions with older vampires you don't know."
"So if I had told you about today, you would have let me go?" Grace questioned cocking an eye brow.
"Are you crazy? No." Damon hissed shaking his head "You're lucky I don't drag you and your idiot sister out of here right now, but I have to sort a couple of things out first." He leaned his head down to be eye level with her "I'm not angry with you… well actually, I kind of am. Don't go running off again."
"You would never had known if Rose hadn't called you." Grace muttered looking down at her shoes.
"Grace." He gave her a look.
"Sorry." She put her head down and he put one finger under her chin pressing his lips against her.
Damon nodded and kissed her cheek and she relished in the touch of his lips as he moved her back against the counter just holding her for a second "You're forgive. For now." Damon whispered sweetly as he left the room, leaving her standing there breathing hitched and heavy.
Caroline closed Mason's diary when she started to get uncomfortable, Tyler sat across the room scanning her suspiciously.
"You know what?" She shook her head "I don't think we should read this anymore."
"Why? What did you read?" He walked towards her.
"There's a… a reason it's called a curse, Tyler." She muttered and he snatched the book from her hands looking at it.
"Unimaginable pain, I thought it would never end, it was the worse night of my life." Tyler read his Uncle's words as he closed the diary and sat on the couch.
The blonde looked for a bright side "But… he did say that the transformation speeds up over time. So if you can just get through this first time then-"
"Why are you helping me?" Tyler looked at her.
"What do you mean?" Caroline asked confused.
"Why do you care? We've never been friends before." Tyler stated.
"That's not true. I've know you my entire life, Tyler." Her bright silvery eyes flashed with kindness.
"We've never been close. Not like this." He motioned to them.
"I don't know. You just seem like you… like you kind of need it." She turned so she was facing him whilst still sitting down "I was alone when I turned. I had no control over my body or my urges and… I killed somebody." She admitted to him "I don't want that to happen to you. I don't want you to be alone." Her front door knocked, the blonde rose from her seat and walked to the front door to see on again off again ex-boyfriend "Matt." Her voice was full of surprise.
"I know I should have called, I'm sorry." Matt held his hands up.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I don't know but I was driving home from work and I just kind of found myself here." He shrugged.
"Are you ok? I've been worried about you." She smiled at him.
"I miss you." He admitted to her and Caroline's heart fluttered, Tyler peaked around the corner to see his best friend, walking towards the door the darker haired boy smiled.
"Hey." Matt creased his eye brows at him, he started to wonder what he was doing at Caroline's house.
"Hey." Tyler smiled.
Grace was sitting with Elena in the living room whilst glaring across at Rose, who ignored the daggers the twins were sending her.
"Time to go." Damon walked in the room "Alice is soundly sleeping and won't remember a moment of this horrible day." He growled.
Suddenly the door burst open and three men walked into the room, one of which Elena and Grace assumed must had been Cody.
"We're here to meet the doppelgänger." Cody told them.
"Thank you for coming." Elena stood up, but Grace stood in front of her and Damon gripped his vampire girlfriends arm with a lot of strength.
"I will break your arm." He threatened before looking back at Cody and his people "There is nothing here for you." Just as Damon finished his sentence one of the men fell to the floor dead and Elijah was standing there with the head vampires heart in his hand, Rose quickly made her escape as Elijah walked towards them.
"I killed you." Damon spoke up "You were dead."
"For centuries now." Elijah smirked before looking at Cody "Who are you?"
"Who are you?" Cody spat.
"I'm Elijah." A smug smile fell on the originals face.
Cody's eyes grew wide "We were gonna bring her to you, for Klaus. She's the doppelgänger." He looked at Elena "I don't know how she exists but she does. Klaus would want to see her."
"Does anyone else know that you're here?" Elijah asked.
"No." Cody shook his head.
"Well, then you have been incredibly helpful." He ripped Cody's heart out along with the other one.
Damon looked down at Grace who had a scared look on her face, placing both girls behind him Elijah threw them a quick smile before leaving the apartment with a brush of air.
Elijah continued to run until he reached Jonas's house, standing in the living room until Jonas himself arrived to greet him.
"Where is Luka?" Elijah questioned.
"Asleep." Jonas replied simply.
"Your shadow spell was successful. I was able to track that girl." he nodded "However, I did have a little run in with one of the brothers that killed me and the little vampire-doppelgänger."
"I assume they didn't live to tell about it." Jonas assumed.
"Actually I spared him. Both of them. They'd die before they let anything happen to her, the all would. She'll be kept safe." Elijah nodded.
"For now." Jonas muttered.
"That's precisely what we need her to be. Safe." Elijah made himself clear.
Jeremy arrives home from his traumatic event, Bonnie was helping him to sit down, both of them feeling a heavy wave of guilt as they remember that Stefan was stuck with Katherine and Fayth inside the tomb.
"I'm home, okay? I don't need an escort to my room." Jeremy scoffed.
"I don't know. Between here and upstairs there's still time for you to do something stupid." Bonnie scolded him.
"I already feel bad. I don't need you to berate me." Jeremy threw her a look.
"Stefan is stuck in there and I don't know how to get him out. What should I be doing?" Bonnie asked sitting next to him on the couch.
"You should admit that you never should have tried this in the first place." Jeremy told her firmly.
"I didn't have a choice, Jeremy!" Bonnie spat.
"Yeah, well neither did I." The younger boy countered.
"Why did you have to get involve?" The witch shook her head.
Jeremy sighed "Because I didn't want you to get hurt."
"Look Jeremy… you can't feel that way about me." Bonnie looked away from him.
"Don't." Jeremy told her.
"What?" Bonnie looked back.
"Don't act like this is one sided like I'm some kid that has a crush on his sister's friend. You could have died today." He reached out and touched her soft, olive toned skin.
"And you almost did." She relished in his touch.
"That was a chance I was willing to take." He moved closer to her, as if to kiss her.
"I can't… I can't. I'm sorry." Bonnie stuttered.
Jeremy nodded "Yeah…"
Bonnie exchanged a quick glance at him before raising from her seat and leaving the house, Jeremy shook his head as he continued to sit there.
Later on that night Grace leads Elena up to her front porch with Damon trailing behind, he leaned casually against the outside table waiting for the two to finish.
"Thank you for bringing me home." Elena nodded.
"Well, your ride left you. I didn't want to leave you stranded." Damon smirked.
"She was just scared." Grace told him "She didn't mean to run."
"Yes she did." Damon told her firmly "She's been running for 500 years, Grace."
"I can't believe Elijah is alive." Elena announced aloud "Why do you think he killed those two vampires and just let us go?"
"If I had a dollar for every time some evil vampire surprised me." Damon shook his head.
Elena went to walk towards the door when Grace reached out and caught her wrist turning her twin towards her giving her a look.
Grace was trying to find her words "Why didn't you tell me what you really planned today? It was dangerous and stupid."
"Would you have let my gone if I had told you. And the only thing that was stupid was that we got caught. I don't question why you and Stefan and Damon and everyone else tries so hard to save me. You shouldn't question why I would try to save all of you. Good night." She walked towards the door but Jeremy was already there looking at Elena.
"What?" Damon asked.
"It's Stefan." Jeremy told her his voice full of sorrow.
The three of them raced to the tomb, Elena was first to arrive and soon joined by Grace, both of them sprinted down and Elena was tackled held against the wall.
"Don't even think about it Grace." Damon growled at her from where he held the twin against the wall, Elena would be in the most danger inside of there, Grace could at least have a chance of holding her own with the help of Stefan, Elena on the other hand wouldn't stand a chance.
"Stefan!" Elena called from where she was pinned.
"Stefan." Grace called in "How could you let this happen." She spat at her boyfriend.
"What are you talking about? I was too busy saving you both from your kamikaze mission." He growled turning to her releasing Elena.
"You didn't even have to go after the moonstone in the first place." Elena spat.
"It was the right call, Elena." Damon defended himself from where he was getting abused from both twins.
"The right call? How is any of this the right call?" Grace growled and Damon shoved her against the wall "Damon, let go of me! Let go of me!" Grace screamed against him as she thrashed against him, Elena watched and sighed heavily "Please."
"Are you done?" He asked the bruises she had placed on his chest from her vampire strength already healing.
Elena creeped towards the door and Damon zipped in front of her shaking his head, turning around Elena left the tomb and Stefan appeared at the door.
"Stefan." Grace shook her head.
"Of all the idiot plans." Damon hissed "I'll find a way to get you out."
"Ah, it's alright." Stefan shrugged "I'll handle myself. Bonnie has the moonstone. Work with her. Try to figure out how to dispel it."
"You martyr yourself in a tomb and I get partnered with a semi competent witch and a vampire girlfriend who doesn't listen to a word I say." He looked over at Grace who had her arms crossed over her chest.
"Keep Elena away from here." Stefan looked at Grace.
"Because that will be easy." Grace muttered.
"Promise me. No matter what happens, you'll protect her." Stefan nodded.
"I promise." Grace smiled.
As Grace and Damon arrived home after they had made sure Elena was securely in her room. The younger vampire walked straight into the shower room that was attached to Damon's room. The older raven haired vampire stood in the large doorway watching her for a second before unbuttoning his shirt revealing his toned body.
"I'm taking a shower." She informed him shimmying her short shorts down her pale, thin legs.
"That an open invitation?" He cocked an eye brow.
"If you want it to be." She bit her bottom lip removing her shirt letting it fall in a heap on the floor as she reached out and twisted the shower on letting the water splutter out.
Damon sauntered towards her and kissed her passionately moving her back against the shower wall removing the rest of their clothes letting the steam from the extremely hot water pool around them.
"I love you. I'm just trying to protect you." Damon told her lifting her up wrapping her legs around his waist.
"I know. I love you, too." Grace moaned peppering his neck with small kisses dragging her sharp nails down his pale back leaving red marks in their wake "I'm sorry I didn't tell you where I was going today."
"I know." Damon smiled looking deep into her smouldering chocolate brown eyes pressing a small kiss on the tip of her nose "I know." He repeated.
Alrighty, so here is another chapter up, I hope you all enjoy the protective Damon and the Damon/Grace scenes, I really love writing them :D
So maybe there will be another chapter up tonight, I also have two weeks off for Easter Holiday's now and I've finished my college work early so I can get loads of chapter out hopefully
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