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Chapter 37: Why Sacrifice?
Sakura went to talk to Katherine, with Damon and Stefan. Mostly wanting to make sure nothing went wrong.
"Please, come on in. There's room for all of us," Katherine smirked and licked her lips at Sakura, showing how hungry she was.
"I rather poke my eyes out," Damon remarked and Sakura couldn't help but laugh.
"Hmm, they are such pretty eyes," Katherine stared at him.
"But they aren't for you," Sakura stepped in front of him.
"We're here for the moonstone," Stefan jumped in.
"Feel like tossing it over?" Damon asked nicely.
"Tell you what, get your little witch to hocus pocus me out of here and you get whatever you want," Katherine pointed at Sakura as she swayed her finger.
"I thought you liked it in here. Nice and safe where Klaus can't get to you," Stefan glared at her.
"I've time to reconsider," she pouted a bit.
"Meaning you're hungry," Damon rolled his eyes.
"I'm starving, Damon," she looked hungrily at Sakura, "And dirty but above all, I'm bored. At least running from Klaus was not boring, so here's the deal: you get me out of here, you get the moonstone and I'll disappear from Mystic Falls forever. Let me know what you decide," she showed them the moonstone and walked away deep into the tomb.
"I could just go in and take it..." Sakura was immediately cut off.
"No!" Both Stefan and Damon said.
The went to Elena's in order to explain things. "You don't believe her, do you?" Elena asked as they finished explaining. Sakura opened her fridge and started to rummage through.
"No, of course not. We just want the moonstone," Damon stated.
"Hungry?" Leilani had been at Elena's house already.
"Starved, not much here though," Sakura looked over at Elena.
"According to Rose's friend Slater, there's the way to destroy the spell that Klaus wants to break," Stefan informed them.
"No spell, no sacrifices, so ergo you live," Damon put it simply.
"How do you destroy it?" Leilani asked.
"By releasing it from the moonstone," Stefan replied.
"How do you guys even know this is gonna work?" Elena asked.
"'Cause we have a crafty witches on our side," Damon bit his lip.
"Sakura and Bonnie," Elena looked at her.
"Bonnie agreed to do anything she could to help us," Stefan stated.
"And Sakura's always in," Leilani giggled. Sakura looked over at her after taking a bite from an apple she found on the counter. She glared and rolled her eyes.
"It's Katherine who has the moonstone. She's not going to give it to you," Elena stated as a matter-of-fact.
"We're going to get it from her," Stefan said sitting down at the table.
"Well, what he means to say is we will pry it from her cold dead hands if we have to," Damon added, he moved beside Sakura and stole her apple.
"Hey," Sakura growled as he took a bite.
"Bonnie just needs to find a way to release the seal long enough for us to get in, get the moonstone and get out in time for her to return it," Stefan explained.
"I can do it," Sakura sighed.
"I don't think that's a good idea," Damon said as he took another bite.
"Whoa, seems like you guys have already all planned out," Elena frowned.
"Yup, we're awesome," Damon threw away the apple core.
"Except for one thing. I don't want you to do it," Elena crossed her arms.
"Plan is in motion regardless," Sakura stated honestly.
"What about Klaus?," Elena growled.
"We'll find him right after we get the moonstone," Stefan explained.
"Is that before or after that he kills everyone that I care about, including you guys," Elena thumped her hands on the table as she stared at them angrily.
"Elena, if we can dispel the moonstone, we can save your life," Stefan stated.
"Don't forget, it's not just your life in the mix here. Sakura and Leilani are in this mess too," Damon added.
"I know, everybody keeps saying that," Elena stormed out.
"Sorry guys," Leilani said as she chased after Elena.
"Well she didn't take that too well..." Sakura trailed off, "Might have to keep an eye on them."
"Add you to that list," Damon smirked and Sakura glared at him.
"I might be able to lower the tomb spell long enough for you to get in there and grab the moonstone from Katherine, with Sakura's help," they had gone to the Salvatore house with Bonnie and Jeremy.
"How? It took both of you and your grams last time and look what happened to her," Jeremy argued.
"I'm aware of what happened. I've learn a few new things," Bonnie stated.
"And I'm stronger now," Sakura put her hand over her tattoo.
"Guys..." Jeremy trailed off, obviously worried.
"How will you get it?" Bonnie asked Stefan.
"She hasn't been feeding. She's weaker, we're not," Stefan answered, making it sound simple.
"You wouldn't be underestimating her, right?" Bonnie sounded worried.
"I'll make sure things go right," Sakura assured her.
"It's a plan. Is it perfect? What plan is?" Stefan tried to sound optimistic.
"Let me do it. I've got my ring, I could get in, get out and no spell necessary," Jeremy suggested.
"No!" Sakura said immediately, "Too dangerous for you. She could kill you repeatedly because of that ring."
"Why didn't we think about that? Why are you even here?" Damon poked at him.
"Maybe I can help better the plan. Do you have anything that belongs to Katherine?" Bonnie asked.
Damon and Sakura turned to look at Stefan with a raised eyebrow. Stefan nodded and headed upstairs to his room. He came back down quickly with a picture in his hand, "This belonged to Katherine. I found it with her things after I thought she was dead but it was hers," Stefan handed the portrait to Bonnie. She put it in a bowl and put a few drops of water on it. A fire started as she cast her spell.
"What is this?" Damon asked confused.
"I can turn the metal into ash, blow the ashes on her and it will incapacitate her for a minute or two. Long enough for you to get the stone and get out," Bonnie explained. She turned around and Sakura glanced at her, seeing her nose bleed.
"Don't push yourself," Sakura whispered after coming up beside her. Bonnie quickly wiped the blood away.
Bonnie took the ashes and put it on the table. "We should get the torches," Stefan suggested.
"Alaric's stakes are in my trunk. Bonnie?" Damon checked with her first.
"Go ahead. I'm almost done," Bonnie said.
They left and Damon dragged Sakura with him. "Is everything going to work out, can Bonnie do this?" Damon asked as they headed outside to his car.
"It has to. Alone she might not be, it's rough for her. I'll be there though, to make sure everything is okay, including Bonnie," she tried to assure him.
"Make sure you're okay," he turned to her after opening his trunk, "Don't go doing anything stupid."
"Don't you know me at all?" Sakura crossed her arms.
"That is exactly why I'm saying it!" Damon laughed.
"What?!" Sakura glared at him, "What are you insinuating?"
"I'm not insinuating anything, I'm outright saying that you have a tendency to do stupid things. Run into fights without thinking about the consequences. All you're thinking about is whoever you're trying to save. It's like you don't care if you die in the process..." Damon's voice trailed off. Sakura had taken a step back, with a stunned look on her face. "Based off your increased heart rate, you really do have a death wish, don't you?" Damon seemed actually hurt. He turned away, not sure what to say.
"I don't have a death wish, not sure I can die with this thing..." Sakura looked at her tattoo, "If I sit back and do nothing, stay safe, while my friends get hurt, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Sure I just rush in, but better off me, then most of them. I can handle it."
Damon went up to her, grabbed her shoulders and looked straight into her eyes, "Hello, vampire boyfriend! Let me protect you!"
Sakura wanted to take a step back, but Damon had a good hold on her. Sakura looked down, not knowing how to respond.
"Everything okay here?" Stefan came out of the house.
"Yeah," Damon let go of Sakura, "Ready?"
"Let's roll," Stefan walked up beside Sakura and comfortingly squeezed her shoulder, "This is going to work."
The three of them headed to the ruins and waited for Bonnie. "Sorry I'm late. I grabbed the grimoire from home," Bonnie came rushing in.
"Jeremy couldn't take the pressure, uh?" Damon said noticing his absence.
Sakura thought about it for a moment and looked at Bonnie with a raised eyebrow. Jeremy would definitely come. She knew how much he wanted to help. "He said he'd be here," Bonnie swallowed hard noticing Sakura's stare.
Bonnie and Stefan started towards the tomb when Damon's phone rang. Bonnie and Stefan continued in, but Sakura stopped to wait, "Not a good time Rose." Sakura glanced at the others then back at Damon, "Why, what did you do?" Sakura raised an eyebrow, "Tell me!" After a few minutes he hung up and turned to Sakura, "We have to go to Richmond."
"What about..." Sakura glanced in the direction of the others.
"Bonnie will be fine, I have a bad feeling about this, let's go," Damon grabbed her arm and led her to his vehicle. Sakura came along willingly, partially wondering if he wanted her along, just to keep an eye on her.
They headed to Slater's apartment in Richmond. "Let me go in first," Damon had an evil smirk. Sakura rolled her eyes and shadow walked through the wall, waiting to see what he had planned. She saw Elena drinking some water when Damon appearing in front of her, "What are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here?" Elena looked at Rose and saw Sakura coming up behind Rose.
"You called them?" Elena asked.
"Them?" Rose then noticed Sakura beside her. "I'm sorry, Elena," Rose looked guilty.
"You said that you understood," Elena sounded hurt.
"She lied," Damon said simply.
"Maybe she understands but doesn't agree," Sakura suggested, Rose turned and smiled at her briefly.
"Damon Salvatore!" Alice, Slater's girlfriend came into the room.
"Get rid of her," Damon commanded.
Sakura put her hand up and used her powers to push her back in the room she was in. Rose glanced at Sakura then went in with Alice.
Damon turned back to Elena, "Come on, we're leaving."
Elena crossed her arms and frowned, "No!"
"I said we're leaving," Damon repeated himself.
"I'm not going with you," Elena stated.
"Elena," Sakura sighed.
"You do not get to make decisions anymore," Damon practically growled at her.
"When have I ever made a decision? You and Stefan do that for me but this, this is my decision. Leilani understands! Why can't you guy?!" Elena was getting pretty upset.
"Leilani? Where is she?" Sakura looked around the room suspiciously.
"Whose going to save your life while you're making decisions?" Damon was getting angrier.
"Damon, back off a bit," Sakura pulled him away and stood between them, "Come on Elena."
"Not you too!" Elena exclaimed, "You're not listening to me!. I don't want to be saved. Not if it means that Klaus is gonna kill every single person that I love!" Elena was trying to make her point.
"Get your ass out the door before I throw you over my shoulder and carry you out myself," Damon tried to take a step forward, but Sakura stopped him.
"We're not going to win this Elena," Leilani said coming out of the room Rose and Alice were in, "Hey Sakura."
"Hey..." Sakura suddenly dropped down on one knee.
"Sakura!" Damon and Elena knelt down beside her.
"I'm okay," Sakura tried to push them away, "It's Bonnie, she's channeling me."
"Channeling?" Elena stepped back, Leilani now beside her.
"Borrowing some magic, in a sense," Sakura explained while Damon helped her up. Sakura grabbed hold of her chest in pain, "I hope Bonnie doesn't overdue it, by this feeling, she's using a dangerous amount of magic."
Damon helped her to the couch, "I'll fix Alice then it's time to go." He disappeared into the back room.
"Are you okay?" Leilani sat down beside Sakura.
"It stopped," Sakura seemed worried.
"Isn't that a good thing?" Leilani asked.
"I'm not sure, was just so sudden. I'm worried about Bonnie," Sakura frowned.
"Time to go. Alice is sleeping and won't remember a moment of this horrible stupid day," Damon came out of the back room and noticed everyone was overly quite.
"Someone else is here," Sakura stated out of no where. As if on cue, the door burst open and three men came in.
"We're here to meet the doppelganger," one of them stated immediately.
"Thank you for coming," Elena stepped forward.
Damon grabbed his arm when he brought it up, "I will break your arm." Damon looked into the man's eyes, "There is nothing here for you."
"Elijah," Sakura stood up.
The last of the three men dropped to the ground dead, with Elijah behind him. Elijah stepped towards the other men and Rose ran out of the apartment. "I killed you. You were dead," Damon frowned.
"For centuries now," Elijah stated bored, and looked at the other men. "Who are you?" Elijah asked the one Damon had a hold of.
"Who are you?" he asked back.
"I'm Elijah," he replied.
"We were going to bring her to you, for Klaus. She's the doppelganger. I don't know how she exists, but she does. Klaus would want to see her," he explained.
"Does anyone else know that you're here?" Elijah asked.
"No," he answered.
Stupid, Sakura rolled her eyes.
"Well, then you have been incredibly helpful," Elijah ripped both the men's hearts out and threw them on the floor.
"Umbra Ferrum," Sakura summoned her swords and was in the front lines beside Damon right away.
Elijah looked at them individually then left, without doing anything. They all looked at each other in confusion.
Damon drove them back. Elena got out at her house, "Thank you for bringing me home."
"Well, your ride left you. I didn't want to leave you stranded," Damon sighed.
"She was just scared. She didn't mean to run," Elena tried to explain Rose's actions.
"Yes she did. She's been running for 500 years," Damon said, knowing how hard it was to change your ways.
"I can't believe Elijah is alive. Why do you think he killed those two vampires and just let us go?" Leilani asked getting out of the car.
"He needs us alive, and Damon protects us," Sakura said, still sitting in the front seat, leaning her on the car's window sill in thought.
"What you did today was incredibly stupid," Damon got out of the car and leant against it.
"Actually the only thing that was stupid was that we got caught. I don't question why you and Stefan and everyone else tries so hard to save me. You shouldn't question why I would try to save all of you. Goodnight, okay?" Elena turned away.
"We just want to figure out a better way. Besides, they won't settle for just you," Sakura explained.
Jeremy opened the door. "What?" Damon asked, still feeling frustrated.
"It's Stefan," he replied.
"You guys go, I'll talk with Jer," Leilani headed in.
"Stefan! Stefan!" Elena rushed ahead of Sakura and Damon.
"Elena stop," Sakura bound her with magic, not wanting her to go inside the tomb.
"Stefan's in here! How could you guys let this happen?" Elena was hysterical, "Let me go Sakura!"
"What are you talking about? We were too busy saving you from your crazy kamikaze mission!" Damon retaliated.
"You didn't have to go after the moonstone in the first place!" Elena yelled.
"Yes we did, we need it Elena," Sakura said staying calm.
"What? Let go of me! Let go of me!" Elena tried to struggle, "Please!"
"Elena, you're a flight risk, go home," Sakura told her, "Don't force me to make you."
"Sakura!" Elena whined.
"Go home Elena," Sakura walked up to her, "I won't let you in there, no matter what." Sakura released Elena, who pushed her slightly while she walked away angrily.
"Thanks," Stefan came up to the entrance of the tomb.
"Of all idiot plans... I'll find a way to get you out," Damon told him.
"We will," Sakura corrected him, "I could always try to open the tomb."
"No," Stefan and Damon said simultaneously. "Bonnie tried, and it didn't go to well," Stefan explained.
"I'm not Bonnie," Sakura sighed.
"It's alright. I'll head myself. Bonnie has the moonstone. Work with her. Try to figure out how to dispel it," Stefan told them.
"You martyr yourself into a tomb and we have to partner with a semi competent witch? Wonderful," Damon rolled his eyes.
"Keep Elena away from here," Stefan added.
"Yeah 'cause that will be easy…" Damon sighed.
"We'll try, but this is Elena we're talking about," Sakura stated, knowing how stubborn and sneaky she could be.
"Promise me. No matter what happens, you'll protect her," Stefan looked back and forth between them.
"I always have and always will," Sakura replied.
"I promise," Damon sighed.
They turned to leave and Sakura stopped and looked back, "Don't let Katherine get to you."
"I won't," Stefan smirked.
They walked back to Damon's car, "Do you really think he's going to be okay in there?" Damon asked.
"He's going to have to be," Sakura answered.
"By the way, based off of how ready you were to charge Elijah. I told you so!" Damon tried to rub it in.
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