Twisted Love
Season Four
Catch Me If You Can
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Returning the bar in the middle of no where everyone was staring intently at each other whilst the new vampires peeled themselves off of the floor making their way over to humans that had been compelled to give them their blood in order to turn them into bloodthirsty full vampires leaving the Hunter little to no choice.
"No way." Jeremy hissed at the hybrid, he wasn't going to play by Klaus' rules, he wanted to get the cure was his family, sure, but if he was going to have to kill vampires he was going to do it on his terms. "I'm not doing this."
Klaus couldn't help but smirk from where he poured himself another glass of bourbon. "What makes you think you have a choice?" He questioned lifting his glass up to his lips taking the liquid down in one long swig before looking back over at the Hunter.
"You have to kill vampires to complete the Hunter's mark." Damon informed him, it wasn't the most nobel or righteous way they could have gone about this, but he had to admit the thought had crossed his mind, he never went about it thinking that Grace would end up being mad at him, if he was being honest Klaus had really taken a bullet for him. "Mark equals cure. You're in a bar full of almost vampires, so get you hunt on."
"Screw you." Jeremy hissed over at the vampires that was supposed to be looking out for him, he knew that Damon had the agenda of wanting to get the cure for Grace but he figured he was going to do this all the right way. "You said I wouldn't have to kill any innocent people."
The raven-black haired vampire rolled his eyes as he glanced over at the teen. "Jeremy, they're not people-"
"Enough!" Klaus growled as he stood up holding a newly filled glass of bourbon in his hands looking down at the Hunter with a hard look on his face. "Have at it, or else." He threatened darkly making everyone a little nervous at what he would end up doing.
I don't take orders from you, dick." Jeremy hissed back at him taking the human next to him by surprise, he knew that the Hunter was strong but he was in no way strong enough to take down the Original. "Hunters can't be compelled." He added thoughtfully the hybrid couldn't compel him to do his bidding so he was going to have to go about this whole ordeal the old-fashioned way.
"You're right. I can't compel you." Klaus muttered as he chuckled walking towards the teen a dark shining to his usually bright orbs. "But if your consciences is getting in the way, then allow me to make it easy for you. Because, I can compel them." He reminded him in sure voice making the Hunter's blood run cold in his veins. "I'm gonna give you a two-minute head start. Then I'm gonna send every vampire in here after you. You kill them, or they kill your friend... Matt." He glanced over at the blonde human who stood there deadly quiet until that moment.
"Wait a second!"
"No, no." Damon shook his head as he looked up at the Original eyes wide this hadn't been in their arrangement. "You turn them, he kills them." He pointed between both the hybrid and the Hunter. "That was the deal, Klaus." He added in a hard voice.
"I'm taking artistic license." The hybrid deadpanned giving the younger vampire a smirk as he glared back at him, it was just like Klaus to go back on his word and do whatever he wanted to make sure this all ended up in his favour.
"You know he can't take them all on at the same time." Damon pointed out accurately, he was right the Hunter couldn't even take him down, how was he planning on taking down this bar full of newborn vampires, granted they weren't as strong but in a group he didn't stand a chance.
"With you as his coach, he'll be fine." Klaus grinned back as he knocked back another glass of bourbon earning a deathly glare from the icy-blue eyed vampire. "It's Matt I'm worried about." He added almost pouting over at the human who looked a little more than nervous at that moment.
"Ah..." Damon tried to make a plan in his head as he looked around at the newborns that were walking around the room trying to figure out what was happening. "Jeremy, go get the weapons out of the car. I'll be right behind you." He assured him and immediately the Hunter sprinted from the room. "Both of you." He glanced over at the human who was quick to follow as long as he was far away from the vampires that were going to be thirsty for any kind of blood they could sink their fangs into.
"If I hear the engine start, I'll kill Matt myself!" Klaus mused loud enough for both of them to hear, he was leaving the three of them with no option.
Both Matt and Jeremy had somehow got split up in the winding forest, branches scratching uncomfortably against the humans exposed skin as he continued to launch himself through the trees and brush trying to get as far away from the bloodthirsty vampires as possible. Stopping behind a tree he took deep breaths in trying to remain as quiet as possible.
When he thought it would be safe enough he stuck his head around the curve of the tree to see if he could see anyone there either Jeremy or a vampire. When he saw no one he creased his eye brows he was more than certain a newborn had chased him. A second later he felt a piercing sharp pain in his neck and a heavy body pressed against his.
He called out as the vampires continued to drink his blood, unable to push the ridiculously strong girl from him when suddenly she jolted forward and went limp her fangs retracting from his neck and he lovely bronze skin turning grey as she fell to the floor, the blonde noticed an arrow sticking from her back as he slid down the tree.
The Hunter rushed over quick as possible holding a piece of clean fabric to his bleeding neck trying desperately to keep the human from bleeding out. "Are you ok?" He asked frantically, he didn't want his friend dying because Damon had made some stupid deal with the insane hybrid.
The blond nodded slowly trying to wet his dry mouth as he looked up at the starry sky. "Yeah, I just need a second..." He whispered but Jeremy knew they couldn't stay out here for any longer they both needed to get to the Lake house and protect the place until morning which was when the newborns would burn up in the sun.
"We don't have a second. They can smell your blood." He reminded him as he continued to hold pressure to the gaping wound that was soaking through onto his hand. "We need to go." Just as he finished his sentences there was a rustling noise behind then standing up swiftly the Hunter pointed the bow in front of him taking deep calming breaths.
As the noise got louder he was surprised when a pair of icy-blue orbs were looking down at him glowing in the moonlight filled with anger and frustration. "Don't hesitate!" The vampire hissed as he pushed the bow to not he pointing directly at his chest. "You're lucky it was me. Otherwise you two'd be dead."
"You set us up." Jeremy accused, yes, Damon had known about the hybrids scheme to turn that little town into vampires for the slaughter but he didn't know that he was going to make it a life or death situation, although he knew that Klaus never played clean.
"I was trying to get this thing over with. You're the one that pissed off Klaus." He informed him in a rough voice. "Now you have to fight your way out." He ordered it was the only way they were going to be able to grow the Hunters mark.
"Alright." Matt whispered from the floor as he pushed up to his feet, the wound seemed to slow down the pour of blood which couldn't be good. "Where are the other vampires?"
"They're newbies." Damon stated as he looked around him to see if he could hear any of them approaching. "They're still trying to figure out how to track, which means you have two seconds to get ready to fight." He warned them both.
The teen turned back to his friend and announced. "They Lake house is this way. IF we get there, they won't be able to get inside." He wasn't going to kill them, he'd made up his mind.
"Wait, you want to run?" Damon quizzed creasing his eye brows, just like a Gilbert to be nobel and put everyone else before them, growling a little he turned and leaning against a tree.
The Hunter glared over to him as he replied. "They're going to kill Matt." He wasn't going to let anyone else die on his watch.
Damon seemed to hesitate as he stood there in the bitterly cold night looking around him before sighing heavily. "Fine. Get out of here. I'll slow them down." He was angry he needed to kill something...
Without another moment to waste both of them took off towards the Lake house, they could hear a set of heavy footsteps following but it suddenly stopped. Behind Damon has ripped the heart out of the vampires chest and thrown it to the floor carelessly as the protective instinct in his body kicked in.
"Jeremy! Where are you?!" Matt called as he was running no longer able to see his friend as they dashed as quick as they could turns the Lake house.
"Keep going. We're almost there." Jeremy's voice came from the other side of the brush slightly in front of him the blond noticed, he was so caught up in running he hadn't noticed the vampire step out from beside him and trip him so he fell hard on the floor.
Matt was breathing hard as he tried to get his head straight but before he knew it the vampires as him caught by his ankles dragging him back and flipping him over and then dropping on him trying to get at his delicious human blood but before his fangs could reach his neck there was a loud crunch that filled the air and then the weight was lifted.
Looking up he half expected to see the raven-black haired vampire but the small brunette was standing there eyes wide as she helped him to his feet. "Are you ok?" She breathed looking at him to see the blood dripping from his neck. "Oh my God..." Grace whispered as Jeremy approached from behind.
"Get to the house! Hurry!" Jeremy ushered in a loud voice and the three of them continued to run to the house and finally make it there all breathing hard as they open the door and file inside.
"Jeremy, what's going on?" Grace quizzed in a low voice, one minute she had been showering and trying to forget her awful day and the next she was pulling a feral vampire off of her friend.
"They're coming." The Hunter whispered as the girl looked over her shoulder to see a group of vampires standing out the front, her first initial thought was to go out there and kick all of their asses for messing with her family but she knew she had to stay to protect them also sighing heavily she slammed the door shut pressing her back to it.
They stayed locked inside the house until the early hours of the mornings as the sun rose up in the sky. Grace had been so worried about her boyfriend being out there on his own she'd resorted to doing anything to keep herself busy so she didn't have to think of it. She had cleaned the wound of Matt's throat.
"Sun's up. They're all gone." Jeremy noted as he looked out of the back door over the beautiful sparkling Lake. They all turned when they heard a noise coming from the front door and the raven-black haired vampire entered the room.
"What the hell were you thinking?" She stood up and crossed the room to be standing there in front of him. "I trusted you with him when I left you were alone with him, I didn't think you'd try to turn him into a serial murderer. All I asked you to do was to teach him how to fight." She added in a soft voice shaking her head.
Damon couldn't help but roll his eyes. "He's not the best student in the world."
"Wait. Now this is my fault?" Jeremy growled from where he stood behind him, how dare the vampire try to turn it so that this was all his doing when Damon and Klaus had been the ones to plan him killing all those innocent people.
"Stop talking." Damon insisted as he held a finger towards him only earning a loud scoff from the teen but the older vampires eyes never left his little lovers. "Look, I know you're angry, but my way was the easiest, fastest and safest way to complete his mark to get you the cure." He argued in a strong voice.
The younger vampire laughed loudly and shortly. "I don't give a damn about the cure if it means that I have to put the people I care about at risk, Damon." She hissed back to him as he shook his head moving away from her.
The blue-eyed vampire rolled his eyes as he looked back at the brunette. "Hey, there would have been no danger if he hadn't gone all bleeding heart."
"He killed someone." She reminded him in a firm voice. "These were innocent people-"
Damon growled from the back of his throat again. "The mark grew, didn't it?" He quizzed and she threw him a dirty look from where she stood.
She couldn't argue with that logic, he had done what they set out there to do, it was a very dangerous and crude way of doing it but Damon was right. "Ok. Look. We need a plan. There's a group of compelled vampires out there, and as soon as the sun does down, they're gonna come after Matt, so we have to find a way to protect him."
"Yes, I know." The raven-black haired vampire wandered over to Jeremy putting his arm around his shoulder. "But there will be no problem when big Jer and I here go on a hunting expedition." A small smirk emitted from the brunette across the room. "Grace, I know, its tragic. I get it. But we also agree that he had to kill them. Now, we have added incentive." His eyes flickered over to Matt. "So you take the least valuable player home; Jeremy and I will finish this."
A breath laugh came from Grace. "I'm sorry? Are you saying that I should leave him here with you? No. You take Matt home and I'll go with Jeremy." Her stubbornness kicked in as she fought to be the Alpha with Damon. "Look, it's not like I'm some vulnerable vampire anymore, Damon. I can fight. I've been trained." She didn't particularly want to remind him of that, but she knew she had to. "I can take care of this, I just need you to trust me."
There was a heavy silence that filled the room as they all waited for Damon to come to his decision he put his head down shaking his head. "I want you to call me every hour and if you don't I'm coming back." He informed her as she ran across the room and hugged him tight. This was bound to get her mind off of everything she had been through the day before.
Back at the Salvatore boarding house, Stefan walked from his bathroom running a towel through his hair looking over at his girlfriend who was sat on the bed reading through an old tattered book he gave her a thoughtful smile as he threw the sopping wet towel to the ground wandering over to her to pull her into a loving morning kiss.
She giggled giddily looking into his lust filled forest green eyes as she cupped his cheek pulling him into a heated kiss using her other hand to usher him onto the bed flipping him over so she was straddling his waist, grinning down at him for a short moment before crushing her lips against him.
They both didn't expect it when the door behind them slammed open and a set of heels entering the room, the older vampire pulled away placing his girlfriend delicately beside him on the bed to see Rebekah standing there arms crossed over her chest. "I know you were daggered for a little while, but knocking is still a thing." He informed the Original in a deeply sarcastic voice.
She picked up a leather journal from the table next to her and began to flick through it. "So is writing in your diary. I'm just checking for doubts. You can never be too cautious when it comes to love... Never know when someone is going to stab you in the back." Her eyes flickered up to him.
"Right. Well, we all need each others help so we're not gonna force a dagger into your back for a while." He flashed her a cocky grin which she just snarled at.
"Until we find the cure, right?" She teased but neither of the vampires answered only pouring themselves drinks. "Hey, I'm talking to you." She stated in an agitated voice, it wasn't like she wanted to worked with the two of them it was that she had no choice.
"Oh, we know you are. We're just ignoring you." Elena answered in a snide voice from where she sipped delicately at her glass of bourbon, she still hadn't got used to the taste but it did seem to help her get through the day.
The blonde couldn't help but roll her eyes shaking her head. "Look, we're at a bit of a disadvantage in this whole race for the cure. Team Klaus has Jeremy the Hunter, Team Shane has Bonnie the witch-"
"If you're here to remind us of our last place status then we're very well aware." Stefan informed her in a low voice as she took a step towards them both.
"Actually I have a plan." The Original informed them both and the looked over interested. "The cure is buried with Silas, the ancient evil guy my brother Kol is afraid of. Shane was so eager to prove his existence that he gave away that he has one of the keys to resurrecting him, his headstone."
"I see." Stefan muttered as he nodded his head. "You wanna steal it." He announced and a wicked grin spread across the girls face as she stood there arms crossed over her chest.
"Yes, and then Team Shane will have to join Team Rebekah, and Team Klaus will be left out in the cold where he belongs." She added making all the vampires look at each other in a silent unison.
At Whitmore college in Professor Shane's office a single candle was lit on the table as Bonnie and Shane both attempting to meditate but the witch was so annoyed at herself for falling into the trap of using expression magic, no matter how many times Shane would say 'it's neither good nor bad' it still didn't make her feel anything better that she was the one that almost got April Young killed.
"You know, just because your eyes are closed doesn't mean you're meditating." Shane's voice pierced her bubble of thought and she sighed heavily keeping her eyes closed trying desperately to relax. "Come on, use your breath. Use your breath to calm your nerves." He told her in a voice which was almost tranquil.
"Great." The witch muttered as she opened her eyes looking across at the Professor. "So now, I can't even meditate right? What else can I fail?" She quizzed shaking her head a little.
Shane sighed heavily as he moved to sit forward in his chair. "Bonnie, you didn't fail-"
"I did an expression spell that almost killed April." She was so hung up on the fact it had almost happened, she never wanted to be one of those witches, yeah she wanted to be able to protect herself but she never thought she'd be doing that kind of dark magic.
"Exactly!" He announced pointing his finger at her which made her stare back at him confused. "Almost. Failing would have been actually killing her. You got like a... D minus." He informed her but she didn't find his sense of humour amusing at a time like this.
"It's not funny." The anger flowed through her make the flame on the candle in the centre of the desk ignite to a higher flame, she didn't even mean to do that which was what had scared her the most. "I have all this power now, and I'm worried I won't be able to control it." She added shaking her head looking down at her hands.
"Bonnie?" Shane's voice came from across the table but she still didn't look up at him. "Look at me." He whispered leaning across the table to look deep into her hazel eyes with a hypnotic gaze. "I'm here with you. You don't have anything to worry about. You are strong; you are focused. You are in complete control." She words flowed through her feeling as if they were actually real and overpowering.
The flame extinguished when suddenly the door behind them flew up and Sheriff Forbes and one of her main deputies walked into the room making both the Professor and the witch jump back in surprise. "Sheriff?"
"Bonnie, I'm gonna need you to go." Liz informed her in a stern voice but the witch wasn't going to move until she found out why she was here at Whitmore college bursting into Shane's office like that.
"What the hell are you doing?" Atticus growled as the Sheriff walked towards him with a frown on her face, ever since April had informed them of the accusation of him blowing up the town council the new mayor had put APB out on him.
"We need to ask you a few questions." The Sheriff answered as her deputy lifts him from where he was sitting placing his arms behind him back and putting handcuffs on him which only made he looked around bemused.
Shane laughed a little as he questioned. "Are you serious? I'm sure I can answer without handcuffs. Come on, this isn't even your jurisdiction." He informed them as the cuff tightened around his wrists uncomfortably.
"Then I guess we better get you to Mystic Falls ASAP." Liz answered in a snarky voice which only made the Professor glare back at her before the deputy lead him from the room in all of his arrested shame.
"Wait! Why are you doing this?" Bonnie quizzed angrily as Sheriff Forbes was about the leave the room he hadn't done anything wrong in her eyes and now the Mystic Falls PD was arresting him out of the blue.
The blonde sighed a little from where she stood. "That's something you should ask your dad..."
Turning a corner the brunette pulled her car into the small parking lot outside of the now abandoned bar both the vampire and the Hunter climbed out looking around for any danger that might have lurked around outside of the bar but it all seemed pretty desolate and almost too quiet.
Most of the newborns were probably smart enough to decide to head in for shelter when they skin began to sizzle under the sun but some of them were probably torn apart by the rays before they even got a chance to figure out what was happening, which just seemed depressing.
"Do you really think they went back to the bar?" Jeremy quizzed in a skeptical voice as he glanced around at his surroundings, being a Hunter now some of his senses were a lot more keen including his vision and his hearing.
Grace nodded her head as she moved around to the trunk of the car popping it open to reveal all the weapons and ammunition Jeremy would be using to take down these baby vampires once and for all "I'm fairly certain. Where else are they gonna go? It's all cabins and vacation homes; they can't get in anywhere." She informed him logically and he just nodded his head.
She reached into the trunk and pulled out a revolver placing it into his hand which he slips into his back pocket as a secondary weapon before the vampire reached in again and pulled out a good old-fashioned crossbow. "Alright, there you go." Grace nodded her head as she pulled a quiver of arrows out.
"Fine." Jeremy nodded his head taking in a deep breath. "Let's get this over with." He placed the bow facing down on the ground as he pulled the firing string back so he could put the arrow into place.
"I know this isn't going to be easy and Damon didn't go about this the right way, but just go one at a time, only shoot for the heart, don't hesitate and don't miss." She told him in a caring voice as she handed him an arrow over.
"Thanks, by the way." Jeremy muttered as he rubbed the back of his neck lifting the crossbow up to have it slung around his body giving her a kind look. "I didn't really wanna head here with Damon so thanks for coming instead."
Shutting the trunk she glanced over to him with a soft smile on her lips. "You're family, Jer. I'm just trying to keep you alive." She giggled as little as she handed him over the quiver and he chuckled a little. "C'mon." She ushered him towards the front entrance of the bar.
As both of them headed towards the bar loud thudding music could be heard from the inside, they glanced at each other before walking cautiously into the building, Grace was slightly in front and Jeremy had his crossbow pointed in front of him, they both stopped when they saw a large blood smear on the ground trailing backwards.
"Something's not right." The young vampire kept her voice low as they following the large blood stain back towards a large box storage room. The door was slightly a jar and the brunette used her foot to kick the heavy door open slowly to reveal a large pile of bodies they both stared at it in shock. "Looks like someone already took care of our newborns for us..." She muttered taking a timid step towards them.
"What the hell happened?"
"I confess." A joking British accent came from behind them and both of them turned quickly to see Kol standing there holding an almost empty bottle of bourbon in his hand, Jeremy already had the crossbow pointed at him angrily. "I did it."
"Kol?"
"Jeremy, good to see you, mate." Kol's snide voice remained as he walked a little further into the room but neither the younger vampire or the Hunter moved as he chuckled looking at them both. "Sorry about the mess. Ugh, it was a little crowded when I arrived, and I prefer more intimate gatherings. We three need to have a little chat." He took a long swig from his bottle. "Care for a drink?"
"He's underage and I don't like you." Grace told him in a hard voice which only made the Original grin widely as he took another couple of threatening steps towards them. "So let's just cut to it." She added she had honestly had enough of the Mikaelson's for a lifetime but still her days were being bombarded with them.
Kol smirked directly at Grace. "You know, I was talking to my brother not too long ago and he couldn't help but brag about his new little sired vampire." She gritted her teeth as she looked up at him radiating anger. "He also couldn't help but brag about his plan to complete Jeremy's Hunter's mark. It was easy enough to track down this low. They're were all hiding in the showers. Now, killing young vampires is easy."
"Why?" Grace shook her head looking up at him as she took a step in front of Jeremy a deep brooding look in her eyes. "What's it to you either way?"
Kol growled a little. "Because, you fools, in your zeal to find the cure, you risk waking someone very dangerous."
"Oh... You must be talking about Silas." Grace smirked nodding her head, she had never really know the Originals to be scared of anyone and perhaps they all should have been taking that as a warning but she was not giving in to Kol.
"What do you know of him?"
"Nothing. Don't want to know. Not our problem." Grace answered she honestly didn't give a damn about the cure everyone else seemed to want it for their own selfish reasons or for other reasons that seemed to affect their lives positively but she just wanted her life to go back to normal without all this searching or anything else getting in the way.
"Isn't it?" Kol questioned and she just shook her head. "A few hundred years back, I came across a group that worshipped Silas. His followers told me that he would rise again, and when he did, he would trigger the end of all time. You know, being an immortal, you can see why I'm opposed to time's ending. So I murdered them all." He informed them both rather nonchalantly as they glanced at each other cautiously. "And now, here you are willing to risk raising him in your search for the cure. I can't exactly sit back and let that happen, can I?"
"Listen, I couldn't give a damn about the cure at this point consider the bunch of psycho's it's made us into, but I really don't think my friends or family are just gonna back off the cure because you were told one too many scary bedtime stories, you idiot." She growled back at him but he only smirked again.
He gave her a slight push on the shoulder as he tried to get to Jeremy who was standing behind her. "Jeremy, we were mates in Colorado. You're a smart lad." He paved the Hunter with compliments. "Why don't you call of this imbecilic treasure hunt?"
Jeremy remained holding the heavy bow pointed at the Original "I'm not calling off anything, mate." He mocked him as the older vampire moved around the room trying to hold back his impulsive anger.
"Well I could kill you." Kol remarked naturally and this sparked a protective streak in Grace who stepped forward again. "But then, I'd have to deal wit the Hunter's curse. And I, I don't particularly feel like being haunted for the next century. Better idea. I'll just rip off your arms." He smirked as he went to rush for him but Grace jumped in the way just in time and he slammed her back against the hard wall of the storage box.
"Jeremy, run!" She screamed knowing that she was no fighting match for Kol but it gave Jeremy enough time to run from the room before he would try to kill her. Launching her to the floor down by the dead bloody bodies of the newborn vampires he was growling breathing hard.
Back at Whitmore college in Professor Shane's office, Rebekah, Elena and Stefan were all rummaging around the draws and closets trying to find the tombstone to give them an advantage in the race for the cure. It had been a long time of searching and it felt as if they had looked through every nook and cranny at least four times but still that had yet to find anything.
"Well. Headstone's not here." Elena informed her as she threw a stack of papers back onto the table hoping that she might be able to find a note to where it was but there was no sign of anything.
"Alright, don't get all bitchy on me. We'll find it." Rebekah rolled her eyes as she walked around the room. "Oh, you're all bottled up. You need a release. Maybe we can find you a voodoo doll or something, we'll put ridiculously long brown hair on it and make it's eyes all wide and doe like and call it Grace." She muttered making the brunette glare over at her as she moved to one of Shane's draws reaching inside pulling out a stack of papers to reveal a bottle of Shane's herbs. "Ah, this should do the trick. Exactly what you need." She grinned as she flashed them the herbs. "The Professor's stack of herbs."
"We're not interested, Rebekah." Stefan told her in a firm voice as he continued to search the blonde couldn't help but scoff loudly.
"What happened to you? You were so much fun in the 20s." The Original remarked in a snide tone which only made the brunette feel a pang of jealousy in her stomach as she looked between the both of them.
Stefan scoffed as he rolled his eyes glancing over to the blonde who was still holding the herbs firmly in her hands. "I was a psychotic killer with no emotions in the 1920s."
"You may have been a killer, but you were dar from emotionless, Stefan." Rebekah reminded him glancing between the brunette and her boyfriend who still seemed in denial. "You had a blast." She grinned a little. "I know you remember. The jazz, the booze, our little table at Gloria's... Don't make me compel it out of you."
"C'mon, Stefan." Elena was quick to step forward and take the herbs off of the blonde if they were gonna have a little fun she was going to have to try to keep up with them both. "We can all have a little fun..." She shrugged her shoulders.
"Thank you." Rebekah nodded at the youngest vampire. "So now that we've established that fun is, in fact, possible, maybe you'd like to start having some?" She grinned at him cocking her hip out to the side. "Don't worry about the Professor. He won't be back anytime soon; I made sure of that."
Back in Mystic Falls over in the police station, Shane and Liz were both in an interrogation room sitting at a table. She had told him the reasons why she had arrested him about the accusation of the orchestration of the murder of 11 council members and Pastor Young.
"You're accusing me of orchestrating a mass murder?" Shane blurted out looking over at the Sheriff. "Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?" He had a fair point, this man who had hardly been in Mystic Falls five minutes ending 12 people's lives with no motive.
"It's Mystic Falls." Liz argued as she rolled her eyes, she had seem so much messed up stuff when someone tells her that she was sure this guy could have been responsible she had to follow-up on it, especially considering he was the Professor of Occult studies at Whitmore college. "It's actually one of the least ridiculous things I've heard."
Just outside of the interrogation room watching the live action on a TV screen Bonnie sat there with her father arms crossed over her chest, she wasn't happy that they had dragged Shane into all of this accusing him of all these outrageous things.
"He already explain this Dad. Pastor Young came to him for help. He was crazy." Bonnie tried to level with her father but she could only see the good in Shane, only believe that he would want to help people not blow them up in a crazed suicide attempt.
Rudy couldn't help but roll his eyes as his daughters naïvety. "No, he was grief-stricken and Shane took advantage of it." He answered in a stern voice.
"And somehow talked him into killing a house full of people?" Bonnie scoffed as she looked over at her father. "It doesn't make any sense." She added shaking her head looking back down at the screen to see Shane looking away from Sheriff Forbes.
"I've met people like this, Bonnie." Rudy explained glancing across at his daughter. "They're fast-talking, they're charismatic, they're manipulators. They prey on the weak-minded." Like his daughter for one who had been manipulated and twisted by the supernatural ways of Mystic Falls she had been all too happy to trust Shane.
"Mmm." The witch nodded her head as she narrowed her eyes a little taking the hint that her own father was calling her weak-minded. "And you're worried that he's doing it to me. That's why you brought him in, isn't it?" She scolded in a dark voice.
"No." Rudy answered quickly shaking his head. "We brought him in because April Young told us what he did." He informed him with information he probably shouldn't have been passing around but his daughter looked up at him wide-eyed. "Rebekah Mikaelson confirmed it. He confessed to her." He added and the teen couldn't help but scoff shaking her head of course one of the Mikaelson's had to be involved in this.
Standing up from her chair she looked over to the door that would lead into the interrogation room. "I'm going in there."
Rudy stood up also giving her a stern fatherly look from across the room. "Bonnie, no, you're not."
"If he's gonna tell anyone what he did, it's me." She argued in a sure voice, he trusted her and she trusted him more than anyone in her life at the moment. "Unless of course you think I'm too weak-minded." She added in a snide tone before taking off into the room opening the door to see Sheriff Forbes turn around and giving her an impatient look.
"Bonnie, now is not he time." She tried to usher her back out of the room but Rudy came up behind her with a tired look on his face, maybe if she just tried they would be able to move on with the interrogation faster.
"Let her talk." Rudy assured her as both of the authority figures rose and walked from the room shutting the door firmly closed behind them.
Bonnie took a seat opposite her teacher with a frown on her face as he joked. "I think your Dad's confused about the format of a parent-teacher conference." But the witch wasn't in the mood for joking this was a serious situation with serious accusations against him.
"I'm so sorry." The witch whispered shaking her head a little. "Rebekah told them you confused. I know she's lying." She added she was sure the Original would do anything to barge them out-of-the-way in the race for the cure.
The Professor leaned forward so he could only speak to her and the microphone in the room wouldn't be able to pick up on what he was saying. "You know, the truth is, she's not." He admitted in a low tone which made the teen look at him wide-eyed.
Over at the Gilbert house Damon pulled up outside checking his phone every five seconds to see if his girlfriend had rung but he had heard nothing from her and was beginning to get a little worried but it was true what she said, she had been taught to fight and trained by an Original so her fighting skills were good but so was her sneaking skills.
"Still no word?" Matt quizzed as they both walked up to the porch of the house, Damon glanced up at him creasing his eye brows. "From Grace or Jer." He couldn't help but be concerned too, these people were his friends no matter what had happened in the past he had known them his whole life and he didn't want to see anything bad happen to them.
"Nope. Nothing." Damon muttered as he opened the door for him and the human walked inside giving him a thankful smile before closing the door behind him hearing the lock twist immediately, there was obviously still some tension there after everything that had happened between the two of them, but honestly it was no love lost for Damon.
Sighing the vampire walked back to his car digging his phone out of his pocket again dialling his girlfriend, no matter how busy she could have been she still made a deal with him and he had trusted her enough for her to have to keep that deal. Tapping his foot against the ground he leaned carelessly against his car looking back at the Gilbert house for a long minute.
"Hello, this is Grace's phone but I'm afraid she's a little tied up at the moment..." A gut wrenching British voice spilled down the speaker which made Damon flinch as he pushed off of the car standing in an almost protect stance although there was nothing he could do from where he was.
"Kol." He hissed as he searched his pockets for his keys frantically trying to find them. "I swear to God if you lay a single finger on her I'll rip your heart out myself." He threatened although the threat seemed empty as the Original just chuckled down the line. "What the hell are you doing there? What do you want with her?"
"Actually it's not her that I wanted. I originally wanted my brothers Hunter but that idea flew out the window when this young vampire got involved. Now I have another plan which does involve you." He informed him, the younger vampire was about to tell him to get lost but he knew that he had Grace and that he was going to use that against him. "Now, I'd suggest you get down here and try to save her before it's too late, don't you agree, darling?" He was now talking to the brunette whom sounded muffled and weak. "The clocks ticking, mate." With that the line went dead.
The raven haired vampire was really left with no options, he didn't want Grace to get killed just because he had given her enough free will and be unlucky enough for the impulsive Original to get involved with everything. He knew what he had to do and he didn't like it but as he stood opposite the hybrid informing him of what was happening he could see Klaus' eyes darkening.
"Are you kidding me!?" Klaus hollered angrily after hearing that Grace had been capture by his younger brother. He wasn't sure whom he was more angry at Kol for hurting what he thought belonged to him or Damon for being stupid enough to leave the brunette in charge of something so important. "You left her in town to help the Hunter kill the vampires?!" He nodded again. "Alone!?" Another nod. "I thought you cared about her, not wanted to get her kill!"
"I would never want anything to hurt Grace. Ever." Damon informed him as he took an intimidating step towards him but it didn't seem to work on the hybrid who was radiating with anger. "She was broken and lost when she came to visit me last night. I gave her a reason to want to keep going, I gave her a purpose when she thought she didn't have one. So she didn't end up an emotionless bitch with no humanity because believe me, Klaus, she's one bad family moment away from flipping it." He informed him and the hybrid began to pace the room.
Letting up a heavily sigh Damon looked over at him with hopelessness in his bright blue eyes as the hybrid took a minute. "Listen, whatever our differences are and however much I hate to admit it, we both know we have deep feelings for Grace and we both want her to be safe." The vampire reminded him as he restrained from any unwanted additions to his statement. "You need to call your brother and try to talk him down for a while. For Grace." He knew by adding that he had Klaus eating out of the palm of his hand.
"Idiot." Klaus muttered angrily as he pulled his phone from his back pocket but never breaking intense eye contact with the raven-black haired vampire. "Begin to drive down there and I will talk to my brother, see if I can get him to hold off on torturing her. After all, it seemed like it was you he was more interested him." He added making the younger vampire nod and walk from the room quickly shutting the door behind him.
Dialling his brothers number he waited for him to answer as he did he heard a delicate cooing coming down the speaker. "Shh, darling, shh. I'm trying to talk to your sire-master. Shh..." He muttered, the older brother could almost hear the heavy smirk on his face as he held back a growl.
Klaus knew that he couldn't give his younger brother the satisfaction of knowing how that him hurting Grace would be affecting him, so he knew he had to play it cool and act as if he didn't care. "Little brother. Just two days home and I'm told you've already gone and made a mess." He smirked a little as he paced around the room.
"C'mon, Nik. I was just having some fun." He announced as he continued to stalk around the brunette who sat tied to a bar chair with frayed ropes, weakly looking up at him through almost angered chocolate-brown eyes and being gagged up a dirty rage. "The newborns were just the start, they were a good chase but your little sired vampire is so much more fun to play with..."
"Those vampires were for my Hunter." The hybrid growled at him as he clenched his fist tight an angered look on his usually calm face. "And Grace is mine, so I suggest you back off, brother. You've had whatever sick fun you wanted, now let her return home so she can lick her wounds." He announced as he heard a loud chuckle coming from his brother.
"Don't you mean so you can lick her wounds." Kol answered hearing a small growl coming from the tied up vampire who struggled against the ropes which didn't seem to move and were tied far too tight almost cutting off all the circulation to her wrists.
Klaus chose to ignore his brothers crude comments and continued. "Avoid anymore trouble, or you'll find yourself back in a box." He threatened darkly but this only made the younger brother chuckle in a low voice as he leaned back casually against the wall looking directly at Grace.
"Hey. No need to be nasty about it."
"On the contrary, I find nastiness to be essential whenever my siblings try to sabotage me. Listen closely, Kol." He ordered as the hybrid stared intently at one of his paintings trying to extinguish his anger. "Stay away from the Gilbert boy and stay away from what is mine. You understand?"
"Fine..." Kol breathed out rolling his eyes before a sickening smile pulled over his face as he heard his lips. "I won't touch either of them. You have my word." With that the younger brother hung up as he heard the roar of an engine cut off. "Show time, darling." He smirked down at the brunette whom just looked back up at him weakly.
Climbing from his car Damon scanned his surroundings for a quick moment before venturing forth towards the bar, the music had died down to a soft thudding by now but still there was no noises heard from within as the raven-black haired vampire approached pushing the door open to see the bloody mess inside.
He hadn't quite decided if the silences of the bar was a good thing or bad, but what he did know was that it made him feel uneasy as he glided across the room following the trail of blood, he prayed it wasn't Grace's. Moving towards the storage box at the back of the bar he walked inside to see a little figure tied to a chair breathing shallow head down.
"Grace." Damon whispered as he crossed the room lifting her head to look into her half hooded eyes, he pulled the gag from her mouth hanging it loosely around her neck and she coughed a little as he got to work on the ropes that were still digging painfully into her wrists. "Don't worry, Gracie. I'm gonna get you out..."
Her eyes went wide as she looked behind him, he followed her fearful gaze to see Kol standing in the doorway a heavy smirk on his lips as he held a new bottle of bourbon in his hands. "Actually, mate. Neither of you are going anywhere..." He informed them both as he took a long swig from the bottle and then zipping across the room to snap his neck.
Grace screamed as she watched her boyfriend drop to the floor with a loud thud. "Damon!" She hollered and this only made the Original smirk more as he looked up at her through his dazzling eyes. "You ass!" She hissed.
"You know, I like it a lot better when you couldn't speak." He informed her in a soft voice leaning down to pull the gag up around her mouth again to stop her from talking again but her eyes were fixed on Damon's lifeless body as Kol began to haul him around cutting him with a knife to bleeding him of the vervain in his system, the brunette screamed into the gag in protest but the Original would only smirk and continue. "There. I think that should about do it..." He muttered watching as more blood seeped from the wound.
It seemed like centuries before Damon finally woke up but when he finally opened his eyes the small girl next to him let out a breathy sigh into her cloth gag looking over at him through tortured chocolate-brown eyes. "G-Grace?" He whispered looking over at her when suddenly the impulsive Original walked back into the room holding a wooden stake throwing it back and forth in his hands playfully.
His eyes seemed to brighten up when he saw the raven-black haired vampire growling venomously at him. "Ah, good. You're awake, took your time..." He muttered as he cut the ropes from around his wrists looking directly into his eyes compelling him with a sickening gleeful look on his face. "Don't move until I say so." He whispered looking deeper into his tranquil orbs. "I want you to take this stake and stab your lovely girlfriend wherever you wish..." He ordered and without a second though he took the stake and violently darted it straight into her stomach she called out leaning her head back in pain.
"Gracie. I'm so sorry..." He whispered as he slipped the bloody stake from her gut, she was breathing hard against the gag looking back up at him nodding, she knew that it wasn't really him doing this, she understood. "You asshole!" He growled towards the Original who couldn't help but laugh at his fun and games. "If you're going to kill one of us, then just kill me." The brunette moaned in protest but the vampire stood his ground.
"I'm not going to kill either of you, I just wanted to make sure you could be compelled." Kol answered in a sure voice smirking a little as he stalked around the two of them.
"I'm gonna rip out your spleen." Damon hissed loudly as he rubbed Grace's arm softly trying to sooth her as her wound continued to heal over, it was an uncomfortable process and she could still feel the sore pricking of the healing new skin as it continued to close and stop the internal bleeding.
"You ought to be thanking me." Kol announced looking down at them both to see the deathly looks in their eyes. "I mean, I didn't end up killing your girlfriend why I very easily could have. Plus, do you really want that cure found? Sure she'd be unsired from Klaus but who's to say those feelings aren't real, hmm?" He quizzed earning a deep growl from the older vampire in front of him.
"She doesn't have real feelings for him. They're all fake."
"I guess you'll never find out, because you'll never be able to find the cure. I bet you'd just love to rip my brother's head off, yes? Well, I have a better way you can get back at him... You're not gonna remember what I say, but you're gonna find Jeremy Gilbert, and when you do, you're going to kill him." He announced before turning to look over at the younger vampire he smirked a little walking over and pulling the ropes off of her wrists. "Snap her neck." He ordered before walking for the room as he walked across the bar he heard a loud snap followed by a soft thud.
The young Hunter had found his way back to the Gilbert house and had been greeted by Matt who was a little shocked to see him and surprised by his behaviour as he continued to load his gun as the human stood opposite him watching with a concerned look on his face, but he knew a visit from Kol was enough to get anyone spooked.
"Jer, it's over." Matt told him. "You can put all this away." He informed as he walked around the table to see the Hunter shove the magazine into a pistol at full speed, he had never seen Jeremy this worked up before.
"Ok... Well, Grace and Damon should be back anytime soon, he told me that Klaus was going to speak with Kol and he was going to let Grace go free so you don't need to go through all this..."
"Seriously? You still trust Damon?"
Matt scoffed loudly from where he stood in front of his friend. "No, of course I don't. I never did trust Damon, but I do trust Grace, she is our friend, Jer. She's our family and she'll do anything for you. And... And he seems to change when he's around her-"
"He was only doing all that so he could get the cure for Grace. He couldn't care less about me; he only wants the map."
"Well, you're my friend and I care about you." The human informed him making the Hunter sigh a little as he looked up at the blond.
"I know what I have to do, Matt. I really want to get the cure for Elena and for Grace and for anyone else who wants it, but... I just - I don't know how I'm gonna do this." He whispered looking down as the stake in his hand making the other human nod in understanding.
"Listen, I really have to get to work, I think that you should come with me... We can have a drink and talk." So he could keep an eye on him, not that he was going to tell Jeremy that, he didn't want the Hunter to think that he was concerned for him.
Back in Shane's office the room was lowly lit and smoke was filling the room as the younger Salvatore brother walked around the room looking at all the junk the Professor kept around, to him it all meant nothing but he was sure it all had some kind of story. Both the girls were sat at the desk talking quietly.
"So much random crap in here..." Elena muttered as she looked around to see her boyfriend inspecting an old styled knife keenly.
The blonde laughed a little from where he sat opposite her. "Crap, maybe. Random, no." She shook her head. "Looks like Shane has a bit of an afterlife fetish. Hopi prayer feathers, the Han dynasty soul vase..." She glanced over at Stefan to see he was still holding the knife in his hand. "And that is a Polynesian sacrificial knife. Brutal way to die, but at least you appease the Gods."
Stefan smirked a little. "Since when did you become such an artefact expert?"
"I enjoy other cultures, Stefan. I know that might be hard for you to understand, considering you're dating a child who only thinks about herself..." She smirked looking across at Elena whom zipped across the room taking the knife from Stefan and launching it over at her but the Original was too quick and caught it right before it could hit her. "Did you really expect me to start liking you because we're working together?" She scoffed a little and the youngest vampire narrowed her eyes. "I mean, I can understand why Grace wanted to erase every memory she had of you..."
The door suddenly opened behind them and the three were quick to disappear from his sight, he looked around for a moment before walking into the room spotting a shelf of books removing all the leather bound novels and tapping the wall as it made a hollow noise, sliding a panel back he reveal a large stone.
There was a loud whoosh of air and the man was slammed around looking down into a set of icy blue eyes that belonged to the Original. She tightened her grip around his throat. "Good. You found it." She announced with a perfect smile on her lips. "Question is who are you?"
Back at the Mystic Falls Police Station in the back interrogation room where Shane was sat alone looking down at his hands when suddenly the door creaked open in front of him and a very timid Bonnie walked into the room shutting the door firmly shut behind her.
"Told me dad to give us a minute." She informed him as she took a seat opposite him, the timid look was looking a lot more angry now but she still tried to hide it. "You can talk." She told him in confidence.
Shane's eyes flickered up to the room in the corner of the ceiling which was a little unsettling for him, she was asking him to admit to everything he had done. "Are you sure about that?" He nodded towards it but she just shot him a dirty look.
"Yeah. I don't lie. I'm not you." She informed him in a harsh voice which only made him roll his eyes.
"Look. I was always gonna tell you the truth." He informed her and she held back the urge to scoff loudly at his statement and he sighed heavily. "I just kept putting it off because I was worried how you'd react."
"Bad." She replied to him darkly narrowing her light brown eyes. "That's how I react to murder."
"I'm not a killer, Bonnie." He tried to explain but the judgmental look in her eyes told him that she wasn't going to trust him any more. "Pastor Young was depressed-"
"I've heard this." She rolled her bright brown eyes not wanting to hear the entire story of how he was a saint and he helped him. "Skip to the part where you convince him to massacre 11 people." She hissed at him.
"It wasn't a massacre." He replied to her shaking his head. "It was a ritual. It was something necessary to raise Silas and get the cure that your friends so desperately want..."
She began to think about her friends and the humanity they still had even though they were vampires, if they knew the trouble and pain this had all be causing they wouldn't want anything to do with it. "If they knew people had to die-"
"It doesn't matter if they die." Shane told her quickly impatience to his voice as she looked back at him confused. "Silas will bring them back."
Bonnie rolled her eyes. "You're crazy."
"I'm not crazy." Atticus replied in a soft voice. "I'm just passionate." He informed which only made her roll her eyes in a sickened way.
Standing up Bonnie had heard enough of his lies and bull so she decided to just leave but not before adding. "You're full on crazy." She told him in a cold voice before turning around and walking towards the door.
Do you remember our first session?" Shane quizzed as she placed her hand on the door handle about it twist it and walk out but this made her stop and look over her shoulder at him. "It was about your Grams, right? You thought every time you did magic you were causing her pain. Aren't you curious to what's happening to her now?" He quizzed knowing that he was tugging at her heart-strings. "Wouldn't you like to see her again?"
Her rich-chocolate brown orbs flickered open as she lay on her side on the cold ground of the large, icy cold storage locker. Pushing up off of the hard floor beneath her she sat on her knees for half a second trying to get her head straight trying to figure out what had happened and how she had ended up here in this state. Rubbing the side of her head she suddenly remember everything from Kol torturing her to Damon snapping her neck.
The Original had been clumsy not to compel her, or perhaps it had all been part of his sick twisted games all along, but now she knew she had an advantage to try to find her boyfriend before he could kill the Hunter thus ruining their chances of getting the cure, Damon ending up with the Hunter's curse which she knew from personal experience wasn't exactly a party and maybe most importantly lose more of her family than she already had.
Her car was still outside of the now abandoned bar in the almost empty town surrounded by vacation homes placed in the middle of no where. She was surprised to see her keys were placed in the front seat still, it all seemed far too convenient for her liking but she knew despite everything she'd have to get back to Mystic Falls as quick as she could.
Sitting in the car she pushed her key into the ignition turning the engine over with a prominent stutter which worried her, she hadn't kept her car in the best state and was beginning to wonder if it would even make the quick trip back but she had to keep hope alive as she pressed her foot down violently on the gas pedal taking off down the road, skidding around the corner way faster than the speed limit allowed.
Every now and then she would try to call Damon, but it seemed to go straight to voicemail which concerned her, when she tried Jeremy he didn't answer either which made her stomach turn fearfully. She prayed to God that the vampire hadn't already gotten to him. When she finally saw the sign for Mystic Falls she let out a heavy sigh picking up the speed holding her pressing her foot faster to the gas pedal trying to decide where to stop first, she knew Matt would be working, it seemed like a safe place to start.
Inside of the Grill, Matt was using an old rag to dry off a newly cleaned table stacking the plates and cups up onto a tray about to balance his way back to the kitchen but when he saw the raven-haired vampire approach he couldn't help but feel a little nervous tickle in the back of his throat as he stared back into his icy blue orbs.
Sighing heavily Damon questioned. "Don't you ever take the night off?" If there wasn't such an icy edge to the vampires tone Matt could have sworn he was trying to tease him but the dark look on his face told him otherwise.
"I took two days off to help you at the lake house, remember?" The human reminded him in a sour tone, those had turned out to be the worst two days off he could have taken, after being attacked by several vampires and then almost served up on a silver platter by the hybrid he had felt pretty damn betrayed. "I almost got killed."
Rolling his eyes the older vampire didn't want to have to deal with the human any longer as he began to scan the bar for the Hunter not being able to see him anywhere. "Where's Jeremy?" He quizzed in a rough voice feeling his fangs pushing uncomfortably against his gums unable to control them.
"He's in the back I think..." Matt answered shrugging his shoulders, he had been too busy trying to work to keep up tabs on the Hunter, but the older Salvatore brother made a small noise in the back of his throat as he stepped around the human and began to head towards the back of the Grill.
Just as Damon vanished from sight the door to the Grill opened and in ran the small brunette looking flustered and breathing hard looking around the room frantically searching each face for someone she knew, someone she could trust. Creasing his eye brows the human crossed the room placing his hand on her shoulder making her jolt and turn around to be looking at him through wide chocolate-brown eyes.
"Matt. Thank God." She whispered shaking her head a little before looking back up at him trying to calm her breathing to a steady rate. "Have you seen Damon anywhere? I've been looking for him but I can't find him." She informed him in a small voice and he creased his eye brows looking down at her.
"Uh, yeah. He was just in here looking for Jer... I told him that he was in the back." There was a flash of panic in the brunette's eyes as she continued to look up at the human with a startled look on her face muttering a thanks under her breath before turning to see the heavy crowd behind her cursing a little.
Shoving his way through the heaving crowd the bright blue-eyed vampire caught sight of his prey sitting up at the bar, the Hunter glanced over at him once wondering what was wrong and as soon as he saw a shift the vampires stance and a dark look in his eyes he knew something was most definitely wrong.
"Damon." A soft voice came from behind him and he turned suddenly to look at the small brunette in front of him, she reached up and stroked his face gently looking deep into his icy, torn eyes. "Damon, you have to listen to me; you can't hurt Jeremy. Kol has compelled you to want to kill him but you have to be strong, you have to fight this." She whispered almost hopelessly.
He gazed deeply into her desperate chocolate-brown orbs for a couple of long seconds, trying to fight the urge inside of him but he just turned away looking back over at the bar stool where Jeremy had sat to see he was gone now. Growling deep in his throat he moved through to the back room to see a metal panel had been slid across and the Hunter had made his way into the underground tunnels they all knew all too well.
"Damon, please, no. I can't fight you, you're too strong." She whispered as she caught his arm looking up at him. "Please you need to try. I'm begging you." She whimpered looking up into his eyes but within another second he had disappeared from her sight leaving her alone in the back room bewildered and concerned.
Jeremy was deep into the underground railway tunnels holding his pistol out in front of him a flashlight attached to it so he could find his way in the almost complete dark of the tunnels when suddenly he heard a voice coming from way behind him, it echoed around him and made him even more nervous.
"Jeremy!" Damon's voice called loudly bouncing off the walls. "Get out of here! Do you hear me? Don't stop. Kol compelled me. There's nothing I can do!" He added making the Hunter move a little faster pressing his hands to the wall to try to escape or at least find an exit. "You can't hide in here, Jer. If I find you, you're dead. Jeremy, are you listening to me? You better run!" He hollered as the Hunter continued to weave in and out of the endless tunnels. "I am coming to kill you. You need to go now!"
Back in Professor Shane's office, the blonde Original was torturing the unknown man by slicing his leg open with a knife, so painfully slow that each piercing of the skin seemed worst than the last. He tried his best to hold back his shouts of pain but he couldn't help it.
"All you have to do to make it stop is tell me who sent you..." Rebekah negotiates as she brings the knife up to her mouth to lick it off, it tasted disgusting and tangy which is when she knew it was spiked with vervain. "You're full of vervain, so I know you haven't been compelled..." He shrugged her shoulders.
Stefan voice came from behind her from where he was sat with his girlfriend, Elena was never one to agree to the idea of torturing someone, but the Original was right they had to know where this guy was coming from and whom sent him. "Or maybe someone compelled him before he ingested it."
"He was after the headstone. We need to know who sent him."
"Ok. Fine." The younger vampire rolled his forest green eyes. "So we take him home, wait till the vervain is out of his system, and then compel him and get whatever information we want." He suggested a more humane way of dealing with this man.
"That's not a bad idea." Elena spoke up nodding her head making the blonde roll her eyes gently before looking over at the human who was now grunting and groaning in pain, blood was seeping from his mouth down his chin which made them all wonder what was happening.
Stefan wandered over to him and grabbed the man by his cheeks, pressing his fingers hard against his jaw to make his mouth open to reveal the bloody mess inside. "He just bit off his own tongue..." He announced earning two looks from the women around him.
"So, he does know something..." Rebekah muttered nodding her head, before she could react the man snatched the deadly sharp knife from her hand and jabbed it violently into his own neck ending his own life before Stefan had the chance to even try to save him, the three watched him in shock.
"I guess he was compelled..."
"Was it my bastard brother or yours?" The blonde announced in a growl but the younger Salvatore brother shook his head gently.
Stefan sighed. "Maybe it's option number three. There's another team in the race."
Over in the Mystic Falls police interrogation room, the young witch was pacing back and forth looking over at the Professor every now and then. She knew that he knew exactly how to make her do something play on her guilt, tug on her heart-strings, use her family the things she held most dear to her.
"You're saying if I help you raise Silas you can bring my Grams back? Don't play on my guilt, Shane." She ordered in a deathly low voice, he had already lied to her once and she just didn't want to fall for it again, she didn't want to be played for the fool anymore.
"I'm not playing on anything." Shane answered in a soft voice as he looked over at her as she continued to pace. "This is the truth. You told me what happened. Your reckless use of magic is the reason-"
She had trusted him with that information and now he was going to use it against her to make her feel even more guilty. The one person she thought she would be able to trust not to judge her for using the dark magic she had used and here he was bringing it up as if it was something so casual. "Don't."
"... Is the reason those spirits are torturing her on the Other Side." He finished his sentence but this only increased the witches anger deep inside of her.
"Don't."
"Hurting her again and again and again." Shane knew he if he pushed the witch enough she would explode but this wasn't the reaction he was quite hoping for.
"I said don't!" She screamed at him angrily looking over at him with almost completely black eyes as the Professor felt a searing pain running through his hand, it felt as if the bones were twisting and snapping uncomfortably under the skin.
"Ah! My hand!" He growled as he raised his hand to look at it before looking over at the furious look on the witches face, there was a deep level of concentration yet it look overly easy for her to be causing this much pain. "You can't stop, can you? All this power that you're feeling, you actually like it, don't you?" He accused causing a sickening smile to pull across her lips, this only seemed to cause Shane more pain. "Look at yourself, Bonnie. Look at yourself, Bonnie!" He ordered.
The door swung open behind the witch but she continued to torture the Professor sitting across from her. "Bonnie, what are you doing?" Mayor Hopkins voice was startled and alarmed from where he stood in the door way.
Quickly the witch grabbed a glass of water from the table and threw it onto the floor to create a line of water which suddenly ignited into a roaring flame that Rudy wouldn't be able to cross, he had never seen his daughter like this before and he had to admit it was scaring him a little. "Get out of here!"
Rudy was trying his hardest to get through to her, he was her father and he knew her better than anyone, even this Professor Shane. "Bonnie, stop!"
Shane looked over at the mayor wide-eyed shaking his head still a numbing pain in his hand that was trailing up his arm towards his elbow. "You can't reason with her, Mayor. She's lost control."
"Bonnie, baby, baby. Please!" He pleaded with her watching as she didn't even acknowledge he was there anymore, his eyes shot across to the Professor whom just gulped and took whatever the witch threw at him. "Do something!"
Shane was quick to act using his own hypnosis against her. "Bonnie..." He breathed out quietly and she looked down at him her pupils were dilated and breathing was shallow rasps. "Bonnie, look at me. Now take a deep breath. I'm right here with you. You are in complete control." He could feel the power being pulled from the room as her expression began to die down. "That's it."
The fire finally finishes leaving a watery puddle on the floor as the witch looked down at Atticus who was looking at his hand in wonder, she had conjured up all that power so quickly it had taken even him by surprise. By pushing her buttons he had turned her into crazy powerful witch without even trying.
As a single tear slid slowly down her face she took off from the room avoiding her fathers touch as he watched her run away concerned, looking back at the Professor there was almost a look of awe on his face. "Your daughter... Is a prodigy. With my guidance... She could be one of the most powerful witches in the world... But without it - whew - she's a time bomb." He muttered, but Rudy wasn't sure if he trusted this man with the mental stability of his daughter.
Over in the corner of Professor Shane's room Stefan and Elena were talking quietly about what had just happened, he was comforting her rubbing her arm softly. Rebekah rolled her eyes when suddenly she saw an annoying flashing in the corner of her eye, looking over Stefan's phone was ringing, she smirked as she wandered over seeing Grace's number flash up, pressing answer she held the phone to her ear as she walked from the room.
"Ah, it's the unwanted Gilbert sister, how nice it is to talk to you again since our last meeting. How have you been holding up since the abandonment of your family, whose shoulder have you chosen to cry on, Niklaus's or Damon's... Or both."
"Rebekah." Grace hissed a little as she wandered through the seemly endless tunnels, of course after all of this both Elena and Stefan would have chosen to be working with her. "I really need to speak with Stefan, is he there?"
"Hmm, yes, he is here, but I don't imagine he is going to want to be speaking with you because he is currently with the one person who hates you more than you hate yourself, darling." She smirked hearing a short growl coming down the speaker. "But perhaps this is something that I can help with..."
Grace really was at her wit's end and unsure of who else to turn to, she knew that both Originals had worked together at one point and maybe the little sister could turn him around and make him uncompel her lover. "Kol has compelled Damon to kill Jeremy. They're somewhere in the tunnels, and I... It's one giant maze down here, and I can't find them, so if you still care about the cure then maybe you can come help..." She whispered, the blonde didn't answer she just stood there for a long minute. "Ok." She whispered before hanging up.
A heavy sigh came from behind the Original as she turned to see both Elena and Stefan standing there. "Well, this is a little awkward, isn't it?" She smirked a little as the younger vampire snatched his phone back.
Damon was pushing his way through the rocky tunnels as he tried his best to not want to kill the Hunter but there was nothing he could do, he was compelled. "Did you miss the part where I said I'm compelled?" He hollered loudly knowing Jeremy would be able to hear him. "Don't stop!" He added as he moved a little faster hoping that the teen would be able to find a way out of there soon.
A strange smell filled the air as the vampire continued to pace through the tunnels, it was metallic and delicious, almost making his mouth water and that was when he knew that Jeremy must have cut himself. "Seriously?" He called his fangs pushing through his gums again, now he knew the Hunter's location which was bad news. "You're being hunted by a vampire, and now you're bleeding?"
Zipping through the tunnels following the scent he stopped when he saw a jacket laying on the ground, it was Jeremy's. Picking it up he inspected it for a long minute anticipating it when the Hunter jumped out of the shadows, the raven-black haired vampire put him in a headlock gnawing into his arm before throwing him to the floor.
"Dumb move, Jer. You can't fight me in closed quarters." He reminded the teen looking down at him with almost completely black eyes, a dark demonic look on his usual carefree face.
"It was worth a shot." Jeremy answered as he pulled out his revolver and fired a couple of rounds into Damon's abdomen sending the vampire to his knees holding his stomach that was being splintered with wooden bullets.
Damon groaned in pain as he looked across at the Hunter. "You're gonna have to shoot me, Jeremy, in the heart." He commanded with a hurt look on his face, it wasn't like he wanted to die, he just sat no other way around this and the teen could take him down now that he was wounded. "I'm not gonna be able to stop myself. Jeremy, you are a Hunter. You know you want to."
Climbing to his feet the younger Gilbert stared down at him with a dark look on his face, but his mind kept flickering back to Grace, she would go completely off the rails without her lover and she would end up hating him for it.
"Do it." The gun was already aimed down at the vampire who had a hard look on his face as he stared down the barrel of the gun before looking up into the teens torn eyes. "Do it!" He growled as he was taken over by his compulsion unable to resist anymore, the last thing he heard was a loud bang filling the room and then nothing.
"Ow." Damon muttered when he finally woke back up, the Hunter had missed by miles firing a shot into his head, sure it would give him a head start but the vampire still wanted to kill him, even more so now. "Ugh. Stupid, idiot, borderline brain-dead moron!" He growled as he pushed himself up off the dirty floor. "That was dumb, Jeremy. You should've killed me when you had the chance..." He called his voice echoing in the tunnels around him.
He saw a sticky liquid on the floor of the tunnels and knew immediately that it was Jeremy's blood, still the Hunter hadn't bandaged his hand, it was a foolish move because now the vampire could get to him with ease.
Over at the Mikaelson mansion, the impulsive younger brother was wandering through the house aimlessly waiting to get word that Jeremy Gilbert was dead, as he was about to exit a room his path was blocked by his younger sister whom looked up at him through her dazzling bright blue orbs.
"Going somewhere? I would if I were you. If Damon kills that Hunter, Nik will not be please." She smirked up at him earning a sickening smile from her older brother.
"I told Nik I wouldn't touch the kid. I didn't." He informed her, he had been very clever in using someone else to do his dirty work and be using someone his older brother hated so much it was really the cherry on top.
"Oh. Well, that was clever. I'm sure he'll really appreciate it." The blonde answered in a thickly sarcastic voice as her older brother shoved past her about to leave but when he felt a sharp point pushing against his back he stopped actually looking afraid for that short moment.
"You've really dagger me?"
"If I do, Damon's compulsion ends and this is all over." Rebekah concluded, was she actually even considering this, she was becoming as bad as Klaus. Was the cure really worth losing her brother over, she wondered.
"And then you're no better than Niklaus." He growled out at her as she looked back at him with an angered look on her face, she really was willing to do anything. "Daggering siblings when you disagree with them - Look at what this family has become. I mean, Elijah won't even show his face, he's so disgusted by our bickering." He brought their moral older brother into it. "This cure has ruined us, and it hasn't been found yet. Just imagine what happens if it is."
"This family was ruined long before we knew about the cure." She hissed back but before she knew it her older brother zipped around to face her wielding the white oak stake pointing it directly at her heart. "Kol!"
"I won't let you raise Silas." There was a cold fear in his voice when he mentioned the name, obviously this was something that had gotten to the Original over the years and now they were all talking about risking raising him to get the cure for their own selfish needs.
A sudden flash of light broke the two apart as Klaus stood in front of his little sister a firm look on his face. "Enough of this foolishness. Put it down, Kol." He ordered but before he could make him the younger brother slipped from the room at vampire speed, the hybrid slowly turned to face his sister whom looked distort.
Her breathing was erratic as she looked up at her older brother with a taken back look on her face. "He was going to kill me!"
"Well, then I think you need a lesson in how to properly dagger a sibling." He teased trying to reach out to her again, so they could be brother and sister and look past everything but when her shocked face turned stoney and hard he knew that it wasn't going to be that easy, saving her life wasn't going to make up for everything he had done to her.
"Burn in hell." She hissed before turning, flicking her blonde hair over her shoulder and walking from the house on her own, she had never felt so alone and cold in the world.
Sprinting through the deep forest Jeremy had finally found a way out of the tunnels which he was glad about, but it seemed that his trail of blood had led the blood-thirsty vampire straight to him. The Hunter was frantically trying to bandage his hand with a piece of misplaced cloth, but juggling that and his weapons.
The scent of blood had led the older vampire from the tunnels into the thick forest on the outskirts of Mystic Falls. He continued to follow it when he suddenly heard a whoosh of air from behind him, he could smell her sweet, scared scent before he saw her pale face under the beautiful moonlight.
"Damon, stop..." She whispered as she took a couple of timid steps towards him, he was looking at her but his look wasn't meeting her eyes, so ashamed of what he was doing and unable to stop himself. "Please. I know you don't want to hurt Jeremy, so please stop." Her voice was almost nothing in the soft dancing wind around them.
His eyes flickered up to see the pleading look in her dark-brown orbs that were fixed on his face. "I can't." He whimpered shaking his head, she wasn't used to seeing him like this, so hopeless and deeply unhappy.
"Yes, you can." She took another couple of steps towards him reaching out and capturing his hand within her own, but he moved back away from her shaking his head. "You're strong enough to resist this Damon. Resist the urge to kill him. Resist the compulsion. I know that you are."
"Why, because Stefan did it for Elena?" He rasped out looking down at the ground. "Because our love is as epic as theirs?" he growled a little, she could feel a lump in her throat that she desperately tried to swallow over.
"Because I love you." Her voice cracked as she closed the gap between them looking up at his face which wouldn't look down at her for anything, she cupped his face with both of her hands and made him look into her eyes. "Because you love me. You've said it yourself you'd do anything for me. Because of this." Her hand slipped down to hold up the necklace that was holding her day-walking charm and the promise ring he had given to her. "So, please... Do this for me. For us." She hiccupped.
He was about to lean down and press his lips to her own when suddenly they heard a trickle of blood, followed by heavy panting and they both knew it was Jeremy. "I'm sorry, Grace." He whispered regretfully and within seconds he was gone from her arms zipping off into the close night air.
"Damon! No..." She whispered hopelessly as she pulled her phone out of her back pocket dialling a number she knew all too well. She wasn't really surprised when he answered after two short rings looking out into the dark forest she whimpered. "I need your help..."
Jeremy cocked his pistol as he leaned back against the tree that was now slick with his blood from where it had seeped through the makeshift bandage. "Jeremy." A voice came from the other side of the tree, he stepped out to point the gun at the vampire standing there in front of him fangs pushing through his gums, eyes dark.
The Hunter was so weak from his loss of blood that he couldn't even stand straight, his head was filled with a sickly dizziness which made his stomach turn uneasily. His head was spinning and he was pretty sure he was seeing double. "Shoot now." The vampire ordered in a low growl.
This time the teen didn't hesitate using his good had to fire a shot but it missed and hit the tree behind him as the vampire was moved away from the firing gun. He looked over weakly to see Klaus holding the younger vampire against a tree a deep growl in his throat as his grip tightened.
"You have no idea how long I've wanted to do this..." The hybrid mused before snapping his neck making the raven-black haired vampire fall to the floor with a loud thud. Jeremy glanced over to see Grace standing there with a guilty yet relived look on her face. "Is that all you need, love?" He wandered over to her placing his large hand on her shoulder as she looked up at him. "You did the right thing by calling me." He informed her in a lower tone squeezing her shoulder reassuringly.
Everything seemed to happen in a blur after all the commotion had happened. The brunette had dropped the Hunter back off at the Gilbert house before returning home to see both Stefan and Elena standing in the foyer, she really didn't have time to be dealing with both of them at the moment but knew she was going to have to.
"I need to go see Damon." She whispered walking past them into the cellar that he had locked her away in once upon at time. Walking into the room she sat him laying lifelessly on the floor, she had agreed to Klaus' decision to bled him out enough to make him weaker. She picked up a wooden stake that had been left on the floor running her fingers over it waiting patiently for him to wake up.
When he finally started to stir he looked around groaning in pain as she looked up at him, but she was quick to kneel down by his side with a supportive look on her young face. "Easy..." She whispered as she stroked his soft locks. "You lost a lot of blood." She informed him and he glanced up at her.
"So you bled me out?"
"Not personally..." She muttered shaking her head earning a hard look from him as she sighed putting her head down. "Klaus helped..." Suddenly all his memories flooded back, the hybrid was the one that had snapped his neck. "I wouldn't have been able to stop you from hurting Jeremy without him. You have to understand that I needed him to help me, help you."
He let out a breathy sigh as he tried to sit up but resorted to be resting on his elbows, which even then seemed like too much for him. "You didn't really leave me much of a choice, Damon. Kol's compulsion is still in effect, so you need to stay locked up in here. We don't have any vervain, so... This was the only way I could think of for weakening you."
"I'm sorry, are those your words or Klaus's?" He quizzed and a hurt look crossed over her face as she looked away shaking her head gently. "And I'm sure Klaus had a grand old time hacking and slashing my body to bleed me out..." He hissed but this time she stood up and walked over to the door about to leave. "What? So I don't even get any company now? Are visiting hours over?"
"I understand that you're pissed for what I did to you, Damon, and getting Klaus involved wasn't particularly the smartest idea, but I had to do something before you killed Jeremy. Rest. You'll understand in the morning." The brunette whispered as she pulled the door closed locking it tight looking at him through the bars as he laid down on the ground. "I'm sorry." She whispered before walking away feeling a deep burning hurt in her chest.
As she got to the top of the cellar stairs she saw two faces looking at her, one looked almost understanding but the other looked pissed. She really didn't want to have to deal with her sister, she'd seen enough of her to keep her away for a lifetime. "I'm really don't have the strength to be dealing with you right now, Elena."
"Good, then you can just listen." The taller twin stepped forward to be standing directly in front of the older vampire. "I want to know why you didn't tell me all of this was happening. Jeremy is my little brother I deserved to know."
"I get it..." Grace nodded her head as she leaned against the wall looking completely drained. "I really do, Elena. He's your family and you deserved to know, but what could you have done to help our situation?" She questioned a hard tone to her exhausted voice. Grace was just sick of all this people turning against her, she wasn't the victim, she kept reminding herself. "I didn't want to worry you with the whole: my boyfriend is trying to kill your brother crap because you couldn't have done anything to stop it." She hissed at her.
The taller brunette took a step towards her. "Are you trying to punish me? For everything I did to you? I tried to apologise for that, Grace-"
"And what? I was supposed to forgive you just like that?" She looked up at her. "How do I even know you meant it, because it seemed everything you thought about me was pretty dark, Elena, and honestly I've wondered how long you've felt this way about me..." She hissed over at her as she pinched the bridge of her nose really trying to hold back. "Nothing is ever gonna be the same, no matter how much either of us apologise, what's been said has been said."
"You're hurt." Elena concluded as she nodded her head quickly looking down for a short moment before looking back up at her twin. "You're hurt and you're acting out. Grace, this isn't you."
"Yes, it is." She hissed as she took a threatening step towards her hurt and anger filling her gaze. "You've just never seen me what I don't want your acceptance and I don't want to answer to your every whim." She growled before turning around. "You know what? I think you should just leave." She walked through the house heading to her room emotionally and physically exhausted.
Over in the Mystic Grill, both Bonnie and her father were sat at a table in the almost empty bar, it was really only people finish off coffees and the employees getting ready to close up shop for the night. "I owe you an apology." The young witch announced as she clasped her hand around her coffee mug.
"You don't owe me anything." Rudy answered assuringly, he knew that she wasn't able to control herself and as much as it frightened him he knew he had to be there for his daughter no matter what because he never really had been before, she was the most important thing in his life and he needed to start showing her that. "I'm not happy to be right. I'm gonna get you some help."
"Help?" Bonnie tilted her head looking over at him. "Dad, I'm ok." She tried to assure it, but honestly she wasn't even sure if she even believed herself, especially after everything that had happened earlier.
Rudy couldn't help but scoff a little from where he sat opposite her, clearly she was in denial. "Are you kidding me?" His eye brows shot up.
The witch shrugged her shoulders a little trying to look past the deeply judgemental look on her fathers face. "I got angry, I admit, but I knew what I was doing." She told him in a firm voice.
"You lost control, and Shane said-"
She didn't even what to hear his name being mentioned, it flickered an unbelievable amount of anger in her. "Didn't we just establish that we couldn't trust him?" The witch reminded him with a hard edge to her voice. "He's trying to get under your skin." She added nodding her head.
"That only thing that got under my skin is what I saw, which is my daughter using dangerous magic!" His voice was raised but hushed enough that the people around him couldn't hear what they were talking about, not that they were paying much attention anyway, they were so busy with their own daily tasks. "And the fact that you don't think you need help means you need it even more."
Wandering up onto the Gilbert porch Klaus knocked the door twice waiting patiently for someone to answer. When the door finally opened he smirked down at Elena who had Jeremy standing protectively behind her. "Good evening, Gilbert clan." He greeted them with a professional nod.
"What do you want, Klaus?"
"I've come to fetch my Hunter. Seeing as how my brother's become a liability, Jeremy will be safer with me." He informed them both with a sickening smile thinking that he might get them to hand him over.
"I think I'll pass. I've killed enough people for you today." Jeremy answered in a harsh tone standing by his sister.
"You think you're safer here? You actually want to be around your sister after she booted Grace out of your family..." He announced making the Hunter look down at the brunette with a shocked look on his face. "Oh..." The hybrid chuckled darkly. "You don't know... Well, yes, it's true and Grace isn't particularly taking it very well." He announced earning a hard look from Elena. "Well, anyway. Clearly you don't know Kol. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants, so strange as it may seem, I'm your best bet."
Elena narrowed her eyes avoiding looking at her brother. "Sorry, but I think we'd rather take our chances."
"Fine. But when Kol does come - and he will come - be sure to let me know, preferably before he burns your nice little home to the ground. And as for your, Hunter, there's no shortage of people to turn or loved ones to threaten, so sleep well. We'll plan on finish our work tomorrow." He smirked before turning on his heels and walking away making the brunette slam the door shut.
Elena's phone began to vibrate in her pocket, she pulled it out and held it to her ear still not looking over at her younger brother. "Stefan."
"Hey, I just wanted to apologise again for not being there for your or Jer at the moment, are you guys ok?" He quizzed and she lied saying that they were fine and everything going great for them. "I just figure I should be here as extra security on Damon duty at the moment..." He announced and she agreed before telling him everything was fine, saying their goodbyes and hanging up.
"This is never gonna end." Jeremy hissed from where he stood at the kitchen table. "If Kol doesn't kill me first, then Klaus us just gonna force me to kill more innocent people. How many is it gonna take, 10, 100?" He quizzed looking torn and desperate.
The brunette seemed to come to a realisation at that one moment as she looked up at her brother. "If you kill one Original vampire, their entire sire line will die with them. That's thousands, maybe tens of thousands of vampires. Kol compelled Damon to kill you. You're gonna kill Kol instead." She announced with a dark look on her face.
A/N
Hey, another chapter done, so finally Grace stood up for herself and stopped looking for so much acceptance in her family, or at least in Elena, because in my mind to Grace family is the most important thing to her, which is right, it is why she holds everyone so close because she's so scared of losing them all.
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Answers and responses below :)
Damon's girl (Amanda) - I'm really glad you loved the update, yeah, I really do like making it different from what's actually going on in the real TVD and I also am in love with the love triangle. I totally get what you're saying about not wanting to go back and forth between both guys, I really don't think that would be very nice of Grace to do that to them both and I honestly don't think that she would. I also wanted to hurt Elena very much when she said all that stuff, so I was glad that Grace finally got her say in this chapter :)
Thenchick - Totally agree, Elena gets to go f*ck a duck sometimes and I am too anti-Elena at the moment, after what she has done to Grace, it's a no-no! ;)
xxxRena - Poor Gracie, indeed. No one deserves all of that, but Elena is really gonna get a taste of her own back stabbing medicine in chapters to come, trust me :)
smilin steph - Yeah, trying to decide which boy should be with Grace more is a little challenging as they both have their pros and cons stacked up against them but I think I know how I was this all to end :)
Nymartian - Mm-hmm, Elena really went all out and made Grace feel like crap, we never really got the answer to if Grace helped out Klaus but that doesn't mean it's not gonna be discussed in the next chapter ;) Drace scenes are always very cute to write
I3Elijah - Poor Grace, I agree :( Elena was totally out-of-order in what she said, I really want something magical to happen between Grace and Klaus is I guess we'll just have to see what I can conjure up ;)
Whitttyyy76 - Girl, I am totally with you, I am really Anti-Elena in the show and I think that it's coming off in my writing just a little ;) Which I'm not sure if good or bad because I feel like I'm turning people against her, but I just really don't like no humanity!Elena. I agree, treating Grace as if she wasn't her sister was a very harsh move, but I think Grace is really about to come into her own and just teach Elena a lesson.
SomebodyWhoCares - Poor Gracie :( I would love for Damon and Grace to take a little getaway, but at the moment it's just not the time for it unfortunately, but if he could do anything to stop her from hurting he totally would :D
David Fishwick - Aww thank you so much, honey :) I really enjoy Caroline and Tyler so I'd write their scenes all day long if I could. A lot of problems between Grace and Elena in this chapter were all caused by Rebekah yes, and now the sisters seem to be working against each other for the same thing which will be interesting :)
Kel107 - Thanks, girl. Really appreciate it :) I'm sure she'll see that being on Grace's bad side is a lot worse than having her with her :D
GingerDepphead - Thank you :D
Tvdlover87654 - Yes, I agree, we got to see into the complicated mind of Grace Gilbert for once, I mean, who better than to call you out on your worst fears than your own family, right? She's afraid and that's understandable because she's already lost so much in such a short time.
susl - No sisterhood between Grace and Elena and I think it's a very interesting dynamic to write and we'll finally see who people stand and who is loyal to who. I'll try to slip a couple of Klace scenes in because I think you may be my biggest Klace shipper ;) You seem to really stick by them through everything ;)
Annaelle - Hey, it's been a long time since I've seen a review from you, it's great to see that you're still reading the story, I sued to love reading your lovely long reviews and I remember you to be a big Drace shipper which I really love :) I definitely agree with what you say but I guess we'll have to see what I have in store for the love triangle ;) xx
TinyDancer365 - I know, I was crying too when Elena was saying all those things to Grace, but it's just gonna make her a stronger person, at least I hope ;) I guess we'll just have to see how Grace takes it :D
grapejuice101 - Elena was such a horrible sister in this chapter :( Soon she'll realize that it's better to have Grace with her than against her :)
Graciiee