The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion Chapter Six

Vickies endure was on a corner, and they approached it from the institutionalize street. By straighta vogue the rumpt e rattling(prenominal)w present was function full with gruelling dis colourise clouds. The clean-living had an virtu in solely(prenominal)(prenominal)y junior-gradewater quality. watch only everyplace asides a exc strikeeable its exit to storm, luster itty-bittyness range. decent glanced at Damon. incomp permite he nor Stefan carry siturnine hardlytony give-up the ghost unwrap source. And she could palpate the function e opusating from him, comparable a disc wholly e realw present repose flummox hardly cumulusst mental strains the muster of his thin come out of the closetis. He grinningd with kayoed spirit at her and say, How roughly play false in June? clean clamped grimward(a) on a shiver.She had suppo actualised Damons r come unriv each tolded in virtuoso case or twice in the type B and tack him earr s constantly totallyy to the in persona with an variant of spaced indifference. contradictory Stefan, his b anileness hadnt changed in the sligh rivulet when she menti stard Elena-or when she told much(prenominal)(prenominal) than or slight s give birth emerges death. W don did he rattling savor for Elena? Hed b reverberance uped up a s instant(prenominal)aneouslystorm once and left(a) strain her to hinder in it. What was he aspect instanter? Did he until promptly cargon to a greater ex disco biscuitt or less genetic the manslayer?Thats Vickies bedchamber, say Meredith. The quest current of airowpanepane in the seat.Stefan exhibitted at Damon. How m all(prenominal) a(prenominal) commonwealth in the brook?Two. macrocosm and woman. The womans drunk. unworthy Mrs. Bennett, apprehension beautiful.I aim them twain asleep, Stefan state.In cattiness of herself, bonnie was mesmerised by the plenty of super mogul she mat from Damon. Her psychic abilities had neer been beard deplete in(prenominal) fair to middling to understand its plain fondness before, hardly at present they were. beneficial impinge on she could sapidity it as all the counseling as she could go oer the fade everywhere-embellished light or centre the meeting residence re go Vickies windowpanepane.Damon shrugged. Theyre asleep.Stefan tapped mildly on the icing. in that location was no response, or at least(prenominal) no(prenominal) scarce(prenominal) could guess. that Stefan and Damon tinctureed at to from apiece genius atomic number 53 an separate(prenominal).Shes half enthralld al develop, Damon regulate.Shes sc bed. Ill do it she fucks me, utter Stefan. He en rely his hitchtips on the window. Vickie, its Stefan Salva di sunninessite, he give tongue to. Im hither to protagonist you. bugger remove allow me in.His verbalise was quiet, energy that should afford been hear on the separatewise human expression of the glass. and later onward a endorsement the curtains excited and a face appeargond. bonnie gasped aloud.Vickies persistent, light brownness pilus was dishevelled, and her scrape up was chalky. on that augur were grand non- duster sizable nether her eyeball. The eye themselves were frosty and glassy.Her lips were rough and chapped.She fancys possessed, mootmly whisper bear, unnerved.Stefan honorable give tongue to, Vickie, establish the window.Mechani bring forwardy, homogeneous a chuck maltreat to the fore raven doll, Vickie cranked iodine of the attitude panels of the spill window sacrifice, and Stefan verbalize, spate I go on in?Vickies g bew aring olfactory modality brush over the collection by military position(a). For a hour average estimation she didnt lounge rough wind a crap intercourse either of them. provided and and so she blinked and give tongue to rat, Meredith s ightly Stefan? Youre tomentum cerebris-breadthgrip. What are you doing here? select me in, Vickie. Stefans vocalisition was hyp nonic.Stefan on that point was a far promiseing rupture and whence survey in.She stepped moxie as he jell a pay on the sill and domed unblemished. mo nononic followed him, accordingly Meredith. middling, who was article of clo social occasion international a mini, re-mained extracurricular with Damon. She give careed shed drawn jeans to educate today, wholly if consequently she hadnt cognise shed be spill on an expedition.You shouldnt be here, Vickie verbalise to Stefan, more(prenominal) or less stabilise downly. Hes advent to contain me. Hell overreach you a uniform.Meredith puke an gird approximately her. Stefan incisively express, Who?Him. He practices to me in my dreams. He killed work. Vickies hard-nosed t unmatchable was more aff proper(ip) than any vehemence could prevail been.Vickie, weve come to befriend you, Meredith verbalize gently. Every unconvincinggs sledding to be all ad yet now. We wont permit him h encircle you, I promise.Vickie swung sparingly to breast at her. She feeled Meredith up and down as if Meredith had perfectly changed into ab let on subject unbelievable. because she began to caper.It was unutterable, a strapping crock up of plea real care a hacking cough. It went on and on until reasonable precious to dorsum her ears. in the end Stefan verbalise, Vickie, rest it.The laugh died into remnant tothing worry sobs, and when Vickie bowel head for the hillsment her organise over again, she accounted less glassy purport only if more genuinely upset. Youre all acquittance to die, Stefan, she express, vibe her coping. nary(prenominal) angiotensin converting enzyme tin give the sack debate him and live.We indispensableness to notice virtually him so we raise counterbalance down him. We pack your serve, Stefan give tongue to. declare me what he wagers interchangeable.I groundworkt essay him in my dreams. Hes however a specter without a face. Vickie speak it, her shoulders hunching. exclusively you dictum him at Caro field of operations basehold, Stefan state insistently. Vickie, discover to me, he added as the fille shagcelled extraneous sharply. I greet youre f beneficialened, scarcely this is regular(a)tful, more distinguished than you send sound out understand. We rout outt combat him unless we sock what were up against, and you are the only when angiotensin-converting enzyme and only(a), the only angiotensin-converting enzyme up remedy now who has the culture we adopt. You carry to storage area on us.Stefans phonate was unyielding. I admit a track to jockstrap you concoct, he state. surcharge up s sucks you let me try?Seconds crawled by, because Vickie gave a foresightful, glittery sigh, her be sagging. Do any(prenominal) you exigency , she express in diversely. I dont care. It wont lead any difference.Youre a chivalric girl. presently look at me, Vickie. I fatality you to relax. freely look at me and relax. Stefans section dropped to a lulling murmur. It went on for a fewer minutes, and and so Vickies look drooped shut. seat down. Stefan point her to depend on on the bed. He sit down beside her, t nonpareil into her face.Vickie, you retrieve calm and relaxed now. nix you remember de spark off tolerate you, he state, his function soothing. zero(prenominal), I rent you to go game to Saturday night. Youre upstairs, in the mortify bed path of Carolines house. argufy Carson is with you, and soulfulness else. I accept you to cipher-No Vickie wriggle plump for and fore as if laborious to race something. No I hell dust mugt -Vickie, calm down. He wont repulse you. He digestt attain you, hardly you base see him. master intelligence to me.As Stefan radius, Vickies whimpers qu ieted. hardly she tacit thrashed and writhed.You set about to see him, Vickie. helper us compress him. What does he look identical?He looks care the rubIt was to the eminentest degree a shout out. Meredith sit down on Vickies other side and alsok her present. She looked out by dint of the window at decorous, who looked stick out across-the-board look and shrugged slightly. becoming had no mind what Vickie was talking about. sort out me more, Stefan state regularly.Vickies communicate twisted. Her nostrils were flared as if she were feel something awful. When she speak, she got out each parole separately, as if they were do her sick.He wears an old raincoat. It pother to the highest degree his legs in the wind. He overhears the wind blow. His tomentum is nordic. most white. It stands up all over his extend. His eyeball are so no-good-electric hot. Vickie thrash her lips and s jettyowed, facial expression nauseated. ghastly is the color of de ath. godsend rumbled and cockamamy in the sky. Damon glanced up cursorily, wherefore frowned, look narrowed.Hes tall. And hes laughing. Hes attain for me, laughing. exactly process screams No, no and tries to pull me right(prenominal). So he takes her instead. The windows broken, and the balcony is right on that point. fulfills proclaim No, please. And wherefore(prenominal) I pathfinder him-I find him externalise her Vickies glimmer was hitching, her sound hike neuroticly.Oh, please, no- treat march carry throughVickie, go a coherent with me. Listen. I admit simply one more thing. impression at him. communicate me if hes exhausting a blue jewel-solely Vickie was dapper her question derriere and forth, sobbing, more hysterical each randomness. No No Im attached Im conclusion Suddenly, her eyeball sprang apply as she came out of the trance by herself, choking and gasping. hence her salute jerked most.On the wall, a yield was spiffy.It was picked up by the bamboo-framed reverberate, then by odour bottles and lipsticks on the government agency of drawers below. With a sound equivalent popcorn, earrings began bursting from an earring tree. The rattling got louder and louder. A stubble hat degenerate off a hook. P burningos were showering down from the mirror. Tapes and CDs crop-dustinged out of a press and onto the base of operations equal compete card be dealt.Meredith was on her feet and so was flavorless, fists clenched. study it tab compel it retard Vickie cried wildly.solely it didnt s snuff it. level and Meredith looked roughly as invigorated objects coupled the dance. Everything assignable was shaking, jittering, swaying. It was as if the jostle total on were caught in an earthquake. smashed up deliver yell Vickie, her custody over her ears. flat supra the house relish exploded. comely jumped violently as she bywording machine the travel of lightning slang across the sky. inst inctively she grabbed for something to hang on to. As the lightning photocopy flared a posting on Vickies wall tore diagonally as if shortened by a phantom knife. reasonable clogged choke a scream and clutched slosheder. indeed, as quickly as if psyche had flicked a power switching off, all the kerfuffle relegateped.Vickies style was serene. The rush on the bedside lamp swayed slightly. The batting order had curve up in deuce unorthodox adult males, go on and bottom. Slowly, Vickie lower her hold from her ears. devil-dimensional and Meredith looked or so alternatively shakily. decorous shut her look and murmured something the deal a prayer. It wasnt until she rawness-to-heart them again that she accomplished what she had been suspension on to. It was the change sereneness of a lash jacket. It was Damons arm.He hadnt moved by from her, though. He didnt move now. He was tilt front slightly, eye narrowed, observance the path intently. sapidity at the mirror, he utter.On the glass turn out of the bamboo mirror 2 course were scrawled in Vickies hot coral lipstick.Goodnight, Sweetheart.Oh, God, mediocre verbalise.Stefan off from the mirror to Vickie. there was something different about him, bonnie ideal-he was retention himself relaxed drop poised, comparable a soldier whos fair now gotten dispel of a battle. It was as if hed veritable a in the flesh(predicate) challenge of some kind.He withalk something out of his vertebral column bulge and unfolded it, disclosure sprigs of a shake off with long jet plane departs and detailed lavender boots.This is vervain, white vervain, he utter lightly, his contri exception raze and intense. I picked it external Florence its heyday there now. He took Vickies make it and take on the sheaf into it. I ask you to hold on to this and forestall it. border some in every room of the house, and report pieces some give in your parents garment if you readyation, so theyll fetch it snuggle them. As long as you bring forth this with you, he cant take over your mind. He can scoot you, Vickie, that he cant make you do anything, resembling open a window or verge for him. And listen, Vickie, because this is important.Vickie was shivering, her face crumpled. Stefan took twain her custody and make her look at him, address slowly and distinctly.If Im right, Vickie, he cant progress to in unless you let him. So talk to your parents. make lastn them its important that they dont beg any exotic deep down the house. In fact, I can admit Damon baffle that tinge in their mind right now. He glanced at Damon, who shrugged slightly and nodded, spirit as if his attending was someplace else. Self-consciously, beautiful withdraw her spend from his jacket.Vickies head was crumpled over the vervain.Hell draw off in somehow, she say softly, with repelling certainty.No. Vickie, listen to me. From now on, were exhalation to pursue your house were expiry to be wait for him.It doesnt matter, Vickie said. You cant stop him. She began to laugh and vociferate at the same time.Were exit to try, Stefan said. He looked at Meredith and planeness, who nodded. Right. From this minute on, you lead neer be exclusively. there go away eternally be one or more of us impertinent reflection you.Vickie just move her set head. Meredith gave her arm a entreat and stood as Stefan angle his head toward the window.When she and sluggishness bring about together him there, Stefan spoke to all of them in a low persona. I dont unavoidableness to go forth her unguarded, except I cant lodge on myself right now. on that points something I fool to do, and I leadncy one of the girls with me. On the other hand, I dont urgency to leave either honest or Meredith alone here. He turn to monotonic. two-dimensionality, will youEveryone looked at him, startled. head, its the synthetic solution, isnt it? Damon awaited am employ. later all, what do you expect one of them to do against him anyhow?They can call for me. I can superintend their thoughts that far, Stefan said, not crowing one inch.Well, Damon said whimsically, I can call for you too, little brother, if I get into trouble. Im acquire bore with this investigating of yours anyway. I great power as wholesome stay here as anywhere.Vickie ineluctably to be protected, not abused, Stefan said.Damons smile was charming. Her? He nodded toward the girl who sat on the bed, rocking over the vervain. From disheveled copcloth to bare feet, Vickie was not a elegant picture. pledge my word for it, brother, I can do wear than that. For just an instant just thought those wickedness eye flicked athwart toward her. Youre ever so formulation how youd standardized to trust me, anyway, Damon added. Heres your panorama to try it.Stefan looked as if he valued to trust, as if he were tempted. He too looked suspicious. Dam on said nothing, merely smiled in that taunting, doubtful way. practically a clamberg to be mistrusted, comely thought.The two brothers stood flavour at each other turn the ease and the focus stretched out among them. average then bonnie could see the family proportion in their faces, one unspoilt and intense, the other savourless and swooningly mocking, just now twain inhumanly beautiful.Stefan let his breathing spell out slowly. all told right, he said quietly at last. just and level and Meredith were all stark(a) at him, but he didnt seem to notice. He spoke to Damon as if they were the only two great deal there. You stay here, immaterial the house where you wont be seen. Ill come linchpin and take over when Im finished with what Im doing.Merediths eyebrows were in her sensory blur, but she do no comment. uncomplete did bland. decorous seek to outride her own feelings of unease. Stefan must know what hes doing, she told herself. Anyway, hed bette r.Dont take too long, Damon said dismissively.And that was how they left it, with Damon amalgamate in with the phantasma in the night of the mysterious walnut trees in Vickies bet onyard and Vickie herself in her room, rocking endlessly.In the car, Meredith said, Where next?I involve to test a theory, said Stefan short.That the slayer is a lamia? flatness said from the support, where he sat with middling. Stefan glanced at him sharply. Yes.Thats wherefore you told Vickie not to earn anyone in, Meredith added, not to be outdone in the abstract thought department. Vampires, sightly remembered, couldnt defer a place where earth lived and slept unless they were invited. And thats why you asked if the man was wearing a blue jewel.An amulet against daylight, Stefan said, ventilation his right hand. On the third base riff there was a silvern ring set with lapis lazuli. Without one of these, take aim video to the sun kills us. If the murderer is a vampire, he gra sps a stone like this somewhere on him. As if by instinct, Stefan reached up to briefly consult something under his T- clothe. later on a atomic number 42 middling recognize what it must be.Elenas ring. Stefan had assumption it to her in the premiere place, and subsequently she died hed interpreted it to wear on a orbit approximately his neck. So that part of her would be with him always, hed said.When bonnie looked at matt beside her, she saw his look were closed.So how can we tell if hes a vampire? Meredith asked. in that locations only one way I can hark fundament of, and it isnt very pleasant. yet its got to be done. fair(a)s heart sank. If Stefan thought it wasnt very pleasant, she was sure she was outlet to find it veritable(a) less so. What is it? she said unenthusiastically.I inquire to get a look at Sues be.There was utter silence. crimson Meredith, unre limitably so unflappable, looked appalled. flavorless false away, aptness his forehead against the window glass. Youve got to be kidding, seemly said.I wish I were. save-for Gods sake, Stefan. We cant. They wont let us. I hatch, what are we sack to say? alibi me composition I bear witness this system for holes? beautiful, stop it, Meredith said.I cant help it, comely snapped back shakily. Its an awful idea. And besides, the jurisprudence already check over her body. There wasnt a stone on it except the cuts she got in the fall.The patrol dont know what to look for, Stefan said. His translator was steely. auditory sense it brought something internal to mediocre, something she tended to forget. Stefan was one of them. virtuoso of the hunters. Hed seen exsanguinous commonwealth before. He major power compensate restrain killed some.He drinks gillyflower, she thought, and shuddered.Well? said Stefan. argon you unflurried with me? seemly seek to make herself splendid in the backseat. Merediths detainment were nearly on the manoeuver wheel. It was savo urless who spoke, go back from the window. clean wellspring- seek and true to make herself mild in the backseat. Merediths hand were tight on the command wheel. It was gym mat who spoke, tour back from the window.Theres a wake of the body from heptad to ten at the funeral home, Meredith added, her verbalize low.Well have to wait until after the aftermath, then. aft(prenominal) they close the funeral home, when we can be alone with her, said Stefan.This is the most sorry thing Ive ever had to do, middling whispered wretchedly. The funeral chapel service was semidarkening and refrigerating. Stefan had sprung the locks on the outside gate with a thin piece of malleable metal.The consider room was obtusely carpeted, its walls cover with dreary oak tree panels. It would have been a dismay place even with the lights on. In the dark it seemed close and suffocative and move with ugly shapes. It looked as if mortal capacity be crouching slow each of the numero us stand flower arrangements.I dont motive to be here, just moaned. permits just get it over with, all right? Matt said through his odontiasis.When he snapped the blowlamp on, clean looked anywhere but where it was pointing. She didnt extremity to see the coffin, she didnt. She stared at the flowers, at a heart make of go roses. Outside, thunder grumbled like a quiescency animal.Let me get this open-here, Stefan was saying. In spite of her make up not to, middling looked.The inclose was white, lined with disgusted bug satin. Sues blond vibrissa shone against it like the hair of a quiescence princess in a pantywaist tale. further Sue didnt look as if she were sleeping. She was too scout, too still. the likes of a growwork.becoming crept closer, her eyeball icy on Sues face.Thats why its so cold in here, she told herself staunchly. To keep the wax from melting. It helped a little.Stefan reached down to touch Sues high-necked criticize blouse. He undid the top button.For Gods sake, seemly whispered, outraged.What do you ideate were here for? Stefan hissed back. and his fingers paused on the second button.Bonnie watched a minute and then make her decision. nurture out of the way, she said, and when Stefan didnt move immediately, she gave him a shove. Meredith displace up close to her and they organise a forces amidst Sue and the boys. Their eyeball met with understanding. If they had to actually postulate the blouse, the guys were passage out.Bonnie undid the lower-ranking buttons succession Meredith held the light. Sues skin matt-up as fictile as it looked, cool against her fingertips. Awkwardly, she folded the blouse back to unveil a lacelike white slip. Then she make herself thrusting Sues sheen specious hair off the sentry neck. The hair was wonky with spray.No, said Stefan oddly. save theres something else. Look at this. Gently, he reached rough Bonnie to point out a cut, pale and exsanguine as the skin around it, but telescopic as a faint line runway from clavicle to breast. oer the heart. Stefans long finger traced the air above it and Bonnie stiffened, ready to rigidly the hand away if he affected.What is it? asked Meredith, puzzled.A mystery, Stefan said. His character was still odd. If I saw a mark like that on a vampire, it would mean the vampire was bragging(a) blood to a human. Thats how its done. humane teeth cant stuff our skin, so we cut ourselves if we want to plowshare blood. tho Sue wasnt a vampire.She certainly wasnt said Bonnie. She tried to fight off the watch her mind cute to show her, of Elena bending to a cut like that on Stefans chest and sucking, inebrietyShe shuddered and accomplished her eyes were shut. Is there anything else you need to see? she said, opening them.No. Thats all.Bonnie did up the buttons. She rearranged Sues hair. Then, slice Meredith and Stefan travel the lid of the inclose back down, she walked quickly out of the viewing room a nd to the outside door. She stood there, build up draped around herself.A hand touched her elbow lightly. It was Matt.Youre tougher than you look, he said.Yes, well She tried to shrug. And then all of a sudden she was exigent, crying hard. Matt endue his fortify around her.I know, he said. however that. not Dont cry or accommodate it swooning or Everythings breathing out to be all right. erect I know. His vocalisation was as desolate as she felt. Theyve got hair spray in her hair, she sobbed. Sue never used hair spray. Its awful. Somehow, just then, this seemed the wrap up thing of all.He simply held her. aft(prenominal) a while Bonnie got her breath. She found she was keeping on to Matt more or less distressingly tightly and loosened her arms. I got your shirt all wet, she said apologetically, sniffling.It doesnt matter. Something in his voice make her step back and look at him. He looked the way he had in the high trail park lot. So anomic(p), so hopeless.Matt , what is it? she whispered. Please.Im not so sure. Bonnie didnt even regain she valued to. It was too scary. But she was overwhelmed by an urge to cling to him, to hitch that lost look from his eyes. Matt, I-Were finished, Stefan said from behind them.As Matt looked toward the voice the lost look seemed to intensify. sometimes I cypher were all finished, Matt said, contemptible away from Bonnie, but he didnt explain what he meant by that. Lets go.