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Chapter 43: She's Still Here?
"Sakura," Leilani called out in a sing-song voice, as she wandered into the Salvatore boarding house. "Sakura?" Leilani popped her head into the kitchen to find no one. "Sakura?" Leilani made her way into the living room and library, to no avail. Leilani sighed as she headed upstairs, to Sakura's room. "Sakura?" Leilani slowly opened the door, peeking in at first. Not seeing anyone she opened the door fully. She walked in to find that she wasn't there, but her coat was laying on her bed. "Where could she be?!" Leilani complained.
"How about you try Damon's room," Leilani looked at the doorway.
"Elena?!" Leilani rushed up to her and pulled her into a hug.
"Ugh, stop..." she squirmed.
"Elena?" Leilani pulled back and eyed her suspiciously, "You're not Elena are you?"
"I like you, you catch on fast," Katherine smiled at her slyly.
"What are you doing out? I thought you were stuck in the tomb," Leilani looked at her puzzled.
"Let's not worry about that, weren't you looking for Sakura?" Katherine pointed out.
"Right, Sakura..." Leilani carefully walked by Katherine, "Where is she?"
"Try Damon's room," Katherine suggested again.
"Right, right Damon's room. Wait, this early? You sure?" Leilani looked back to see that Katherine had vanished. Leilani sighed and walked up to Damon's door. She knocked, but got no response. Leilani opened the door, but quickly looked away, "I'm so sorry, I didn't know you two.. Um..." Leilani slammed the door, "I saw nothing, I know nothing."
A moment later Sakura came out of Damon's room alone. "Hey Leilani, you okay?" Sakura asked, biting her lip nervously.
"I'm um... Fine, really. Just wasn't expecting that, that's all," she laughed nervously.
"So, what's up?" Sakura asked.
"School? Forgot about it I guess? Also wondering how you are, I barely see you these days," Leilani sighed.
"Leilani!" Elena showed up, happy to see her. She rushed up to her and gave her a hug.
Damon came out of his room, "Hello girls."
"Good morning, Damon," Elena said.
Damon pushed her against the wall, "What are you doing here? I told you to leave."
"What is your problem?" she asked.
"You're wearing her clothes? Like that's going to work," Damon spat.
"You think I'm Katherine? Why would you think that? Katherine's in a tomb! Isn't she?" she freaked out.
He released her and took a step back towards Sakura, who was giving him a curious look. "What the hell's going on here?" Stefan freaked out.
"I don't know, you tell me. Is Katherine in the tomb or not?" Elena questioned them. Stefan rushed up to Elena and pushed her against the wall, startling them, "What are you doing?!"
"How could you do this?!" Stefan growled.
"Stefan, you're hurting me!" Elena struggled.
"Stop it, Katherine!" Stefan yelled.
"Stop what? It's getting really easy being you," Katherine showed up behind them.
"What is she doing here?" Elena questioned them.
"When we killed Elijah, it broke the compulsion and freed the bitch from the tomb," Damon grumbled and leant against the wall by Sakura.
"How's that possible?" Stefan frowned.
"He's an Original. They have all sorts of special skills," Katherine pointed out.
Elena turned to Katherine, "I don't want you here. Get her out of here."
"You need me, Elena. You all do," Katherine crossed her arms and looked at each of them.
"Like hell," Stefan was ready to attack.
"We all want the same thing... Klaus dead. Yet here you all are, running around like chickens with their heads cut off," Katherine was trying to make a point.
"I don't need your help and I don't want it," Elena glared at her.
"And that's incredibly stupid of you. You know where Klaus is? When he's coming, what he looks like?" Katherine obviously knew more then them.
"If we keep her on a leash maybe she can help," Sakura laughed and Katherine looked at her as if she wanted to rip her head off.
"If you know something, say it or get out," Damon rolled his eyes.
"Fine. Then I'll just go to the grill and have some lunch... maybe Aunt Jenna's free for a bite," Katherine smirked. "Maybe even this one," Katherine said referring to Leilani.
"Any ideas on how to get rid of the body?" Damon asked Sakura.
"Burn it?" she suggested.
"Let's do it," Damon smiled. He dragged Elijah's body into the fireplace and they waited to see if anything would happen.
"Mmm, burning flesh. If you're trying to get the dagger back, you're wasting your time. He's indestructible," Katherine came up beside them.
"No kidding. How do you know so much about Original vampires?" Damon inquired.
"Spend 500 years running from one," Katherine explained simply, "Where's your delicious friend?"
"Somewhere that isn't here," Sakura glared at her.
"Oh yeah, didn't she wanted you to come to school? Skipping I assume then?" Katherine walked around them slowly, "I assume that's where she is then."
"You better not try anything," Sakura warned.
"No, no, wouldn't want the Fenrir getting loose," Katherine smirked.
"You know..." Sakura glanced at Damon who looked just as surprised.
"So when I told you my plan to kill Elijah, why didn't you warn me that I'd die if I used a dagger on him?" Damon frowned.
"Oh, there's so many rules. It's all very confusing," Katherine sighed.
"Did you know I would die?" Damon asked seriously.
"Did Elijah tell you his plan? Did he have a dagger to kill Klaus with?" Katherine suddenly stopped pacing around them, "What's going on?"
"You knew he would die?" Sakura snarled.
"You're doing this, aren't you? Let me go," Katherine demanded.
"Why are you still here?" Damon stood in front of her.
"One, because I can't move. Two, because you haven't forcibly removed me," Katherine replied. Damon pulled the poker out from the fireplace and pointed it at Katherine, "You wouldn't."
"Oh, I would," Damon smirked.
"I concur," Sakura smiled.
"You guys are so sadistic, practically made for each other," Katherine rolled her eyes.
"Aw, I'm so glad you think so," Sakura smiled, walked up to Damon and kissed him.
"I'm gonna be sick," Katherine complained. " Damon, be smart. I want Klaus dead just as much as you do. More. If I wasn't be honest about helping, I'd be long gone by now, ok? You can hate me. But we want the same thing. And you know... I always get what I want," Katherine smirked at them. Damon threw the poker aside. "Didn't matter who paid the price. Of course I knew that you'd die," Katherine laughed. Suddenly she was thrown across the room into the wall, "What the hell?"
"Don't think I'll let you act like that," Sakura held her hand up, picking Katherine up.
"What are you doing, I can't breathe," Katherine struggled to say. Suddenly she started to scream, "Stop!"
"Sakura?" Damon looked at her and she didn't respond to him at all. "Sakura!" Damon pulled on her arm, dragging her to him and Katherine dropped to the ground. "Are you okay, what happened?" Damon asked.
"I don't know, she sais about killing you and... I zoned out, I don't remember," Sakura looked over at the hole in the wall where Katherine was.
"Well if you've forgotten, I'm already dead," Damon joked.
"You know what I mean," Sakura sighed.
"Yes, and I love how much I obviously mean to you," Damon held onto her cheeks and kissed her forehead, "But I don't want you taken over by the Fenrir. I don't even know if they are a guy or a girl." Sakura pushed him away, "I'm kidding, but you aren't you if they take over. So try not to kill anyone! If you really need them dead, just ask me." Sakura shook her head while trying to hold back a smile. "Alright, how about you help me find out where a bunch of witches were massacred in this town a couple centuries ago, through the Gilbert journals Miss Skipper," Damon smiled.
"You're the reason for that," Sakura commented.
"Sure I am, Skipper," Damon laughed. "Let's go, work to be done," Damon dragged her to their library.
They started organizing the journals when Katherine walked back in, "What you up to?"
"I'm surprised you came back," Sakura scoffed, not bothering to look over at her.
"Yeah, I thought you would of scurried away by now. And it's none of your business anyways," Damon frowned at her.
"We're pouting now? Are those the Gilbert journals?" Katherine rolled her eyes. Neither of them responded to her. "How am I supposed to help you if you won't tell me what you're up to?" Katherine spat.
Damon sighed and turned to her, "Can you tell me where a bunch of witches were massacred in this town a couple centuries ago?"
"No," she answered.
"Then you can't help," he stated.
Katherine tried to take the journal from him, only to be pushed into a chair. "Back off," Sakura growled, her hand still up using her powers.
"If it's any consolation, I'm glad that he's not dead," Katherine was trying to simmer Sakura's anger. "Emily Bennett told me about the massacre. It was a big deal in witch folklore. When a witch dies violently, they release a mystical energy marking the place of their death with power," Katherine informed them.
"Elijah wanted to know the site of the massacre," Damon explained.
"Violent death..." Sakura trailed off thinking back, "Guess that means..."
"Best not to mention it," Damon nudged his head towards Katherine.
"She already knows," Sakura sighed, thinking about Darien and Katherine.
"Yes. So... What was he going to do when he's found it?" Katherine inquired.
Stefan walked in, and Damon turned to him, "I don't know. What did papa witch and baby witch have to say?"
"Wasn't she gone or dead yet?" Stefan complained about Katherine.
"Almost," Sakura remarked, "Let's just say she's walking on thin ice."
Stefan smirked and pat her on the back, "Sounds about right."
"For the last time, I'm here to help. Can we skip the secrets, hmm?" Katherine frowned.
"Elijah had no weapon to kill Klaus but he believed that if a witch could channel enough power... They wouldn't need one," Stefan explained.
"Like the power you get from a spot marked with a hundred dead witches?" Damon sighed.
"We just need to find it," Stefan added.
Sakura rubbed her ring and wondered. "Not a chance," Damon whispered, putting his hand on her ring. "I'm not going to chance you tapping too far into those special powers of yours," Damon said firmly.
They each separated for a while to research. After a while Katherine started getting closer to Damon to see what he was reading. "Can I help you?" Damon sighed.
"I'm bored," Katherine complained. She tried to looked at his book, "'Emily Bennett was taken by the Council today. They kidnapped her from her home and took her to the same location her ancestors were burned a hundred years ago.' So Emily died on the site of the massacre, too. Does it say where?" Katherine tried to take the book from him.
"Nope. You know this whole friendly, cooperative thing?" Damon kept the journal away.
"Mm-hmm," Katherine mumbled.
"We don't buy it," Sakura came up beside him.
"You are always around, aren't you?" Katherine complained, "Besides, I have no reason to lie to you, Damon."
"Lie," Damon smirked.
"I'm hungry," Katherine sighed.
"You're the unwanted houseguest. Go feed yourself," he said referring to the blood bags in the basement.
"I'd prefer you're source," Katherine eyed Sakura.
"In your dreams," Sakura rolled her eyes.
Katherine left to get some blood and Stefan came back in, "Well, nothing in any of those. Find anything?"
"Nope," Damon pointed at the journal to show them, while not letting Katherine know.
"That's too bad," Stefan played along.
"Yeah, bummer," Damon overdid it. Stefan went back to what he was doing.
"Someone's here, I can feel it," Sakura frowned.
"What?" Damon looked at her questioningly.
"I don't know who, but they're supernatural," Sakura tried to focus.
"Vampire supernatural?" Stefan asked.
"No, witch type supernatural," Sakura frowned, "The basement! They're after Elijah!" Sakura rushed past the confused Damon, towards the basement. Damon followed her, not really sure what to think.
"Damon!" They heard Katherine call to him.
"Katherine?" They arrived to see her removing a stake from her side.
Sakura turned towards Elijah's body, that was sitting in a fire and blasted him with her powers and the fire exploded. "What happened?" Damon asked. "No, Sakura," Damon picked up a burning log and tossed it around, burning the place, "If they die, I'm the one that killed him, not you."
"What are you doing?!" Stefan heard the ruckus.
"Shutting down a crazy ass psychic witch attack! Get over there and do something about it. Now!" Damon growled. Stefan rushed out immediately.
"Pretty sure that kill went to me," Sakura said looking at her tattoo.
"Dammit," Damon grabbed a blood bag for Katherine. Before giving it to her he staked her in the side.
"What the hell?!" Katherine yelled.
"That's for not telling me the dagger would kill me. Next time... It goes in your heart," Damon growled and took hold of Sakura's arm to look at the tattoo.
"Is that how you treat someone who..." Katherine pulled out the stake, "Is trying to help you?"
"You wanna help? Start talking," Damon frowned as he looked at her, not letting go of Sakura.
"Little tight there," Sakura looked at him.
"I'd love to, but you're not going to like it," Katherine replied.
"Try me," Damon said, ignoring Sakura trying to get out of his grasp.
"Fine. John Gilbert and Isobel want you and Stefan out of Elena's life," Katherine spat.
"That's old news," Damon rolled his eyes.
"Not the part where he offered me a deal. He knew that killing Elijah would get me out of the tomb, so he gave me a choice. Either I stay and help with Klaus, or he kills Stefan," Katherine explained.
"But he still tried to have me killed," Damon scoffed.
"Right. That was part of the deal. I could only save one of you," Katherine continued.
"So you chose Stefan. Of course you did," Damon was angry.
"I'd chose you if it's any consolation. Actually, I'd save them both," Sakura stuck her tongue out at Katherine, who returned the gesture.
"You wanted the truth, Damon. Would you rather I lie?" Katherine asked.
"Come on Sakura," Damon started to leave.
"Where are you going?" Katherine asked.
"Luka Martin's dead. His father's going after Elena," Damon stated.
"I'm coming with you," Katherine was up and ready.
"No, you're not," Damon turned to her.
"Wait," Katherine stopped him.
"I don't need your help. I don't want it, I have all the help I need right here," he said, referring to Sakura.
"I know what we can do, Damon. You have to let me do it. Besides, it doesn't seem like you want her killing anyone," Katherine sighed.
Katherine went with Stefan, pretending to be Elena to try and lure Jonas to them. They went to the bar which was set on fire, and bulbs burst, got Jonas's attention and retreated. Sakura and Damon waited things out with Elena, in her house where Jonas attacked Katherine thinking it was Elena.
"How did you guys convince her to do this?" Elena asked.
"We didn't. It was actually her idea," Damon explained, "Besides, I didn't want someone else having to do it."
Sakura sighed and looked at Damon, who hadn't let go of her the whole time.
"Wow. That's... Not good," Elena said, they obviously didn't trust her.
"No. No, that's not good at all," Damon agreed.
Stefan came down the stairs with Katherine, "Everything's taken care of."
"I'm guessing you're going to want this back. But your pretty little outfit is going to need a good dry clean," Katherine handed Elena her necklace back.
"You're going to have to get her out of here before Jenna gets home," Elena stated.
"Is that all you have to say to me?" Katherine sighed.
"This doesn't change the way I feel about you," Elena explained.
"I don't much like you either, if we're going to be open and frankly, I'd be happy to see you dead but if we're going to try to take on Klaus, we kinda need you to be alive. So I'm not a threat to you, Elena. If any of you are going to believe anything, believe that," Katherine tried to convince them.
Sakura went back to the Salvatore house with Damon, texting the day's details to Leilani who was at the grill with Caroline when things went bad, but made it outside safely. Leilani was also complaining that she was spending too much time with Damon. Sakura was laying on Damon's bed, beside him as he read Jonathon Gilbert's journal. Katherine walked in wearing lingerie. "You know what I can't figure out?" Damon said, not bothering to glance at her.
"What's that?" Katherine asked.
"How the town knew Emily Bennett was a witch. I mean, because according to Johnathan Gilbert, he was the only one who knew. I know he didn't turn her in," Damon glanced at her. Sakura looked up from her phone at Katherine. Katherine didn't answer, "Mmm, I should have figured as much."
"Oh, she was a loose end. I like mine tied up. You know what I can't figure out?" she asked.
"Do I care?" Damon rolled his eyes.
"Why you won't tell me where to find the site of the witch massacre," Katherine frowned as she walked closer.
"That's close enough," Sakura blocked her.
"Because I have no clue," Damon lied.
"You knew that Emily Bennett was the key to getting me out of that tomb and something tells me that you did everything in your power to make sure that she was safe, yet you have no idea where she was killed. Who's the liar now? You hurt me today," Katherine spat.
"Tit for tat," Damon said, knowing she's hurt him much more.
"You were mean and very rough and monstrous," Katherine complained.
"You deserved it," Sakura stated.
"Katherine, there are five other bedrooms in this house. Go find one," Damon sighed, tired of her.
Sakura released her, so she could leave. "I can't believe you chose 'her' over me," Katherine got upset.
"Such an easy choice to make though," Damon smirked. Katherine looked offended before turning on her heels and leaving. Damon set the journal down and took Sakura's phone out of her hands, "I'm so glad you're here," he kissed her.
Sorry for the delay, I've had a cold (likely the flu actually) for the past 3 weeks. Still not fully well, but I wanted to get back to writing!
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