The Sacrifice

The Last Dance - 2

Elena and I walk up to Bonnie and Jeremy carrying our lunch trays in hand.

"Hey, Jer. How are you doing? Are you okay at the house alone with John?" Elena asks her brother.

Jeremy sighs. "It's not ideal." He gets up as I sit down, pulling out a sketch book because I owed Caroline some art work for the decade dance.

"You haven't heard from Jenna, have you?" I asked looking up at him.

Jeremy shakes his head. "It looks like she's staying on campus. Look I'm...I'm late for class."

He leaves and Elena sits down with us.

"What's going on?" Elena asks Bonnie, referring to her brother.

Bonnie shakes her head. "I told him he had to dress up tonight and he got all uptight."

"Oh." I say and laugh, I pull out several different pens, biting one in between my teeth, That would be Jeremy.

"Hey, Elena, there you are." Dana exclaims as she rushes over

"Okay. This is going to sound freaky, but this totally hot guy just asked me to ask you if you're going to the dance tonight." I frown at Dana, looking at Bonnie and Elena. "Tell him she has a boyfriend." I say.

Dana smiles. "You could at least meet him. He'll be at the dance tonight. Look for him. His name is Klaus."

We all tense up and Elena lowers her arm, I pull the pen out of my mouth and look at Dana in surprise.

"I'm sorry, what did you just say?" I ask, silently hoping I didn't just hear that.

Dana repeats herself. "His name's Klaus. I know the name's stupid, but I swear he's hot."

Bonnie looks around us. "Where is he? Is he here?"

Dana shrugs. "I don't know."

"She's been compelled." I realize.

Dana smiles. "But he wants to know if you'll save him the last dance. How cute is that?"

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"So we go to the dance, we find him." Damon says, a very very, stupid plan.

"Really?" I question, crossing my arms. "How are we going to do that? We don't even know what he looks like."

Damon lifts a hand. "Something tells me he's not going to be sixteen and pimply."

"He could be anywhere at any time. He compelled somebody at school." Stefan points out.

He looks at Elena, Bonnie and me.

"I guess it's not as safe as you guys thought, huh?" He says, and I huff, making a face at him who makes one back,

Someone knocks on the door and Alaric enters.

"There you are." Damon says turning to him,

"Sorry I'm late." Alaric apologizes.

"Hey, I need you to put me down as a chaperone at the dance tonight. Klaus made his first move." Damon shares.

Elena speaks up. "Okay, so we find him and then what, hmm? What's our plan of attack?"

Bonnie glances at us all. "Me. I'm the plan. He has no idea how much power I can channel. If you can find him, I can kill him."

Alaric chuckles. "That's not going to be that easy. I mean, he is the biggest, baddest vampire around."

Damon nods. "Alaric has a point. I mean, what if he..."

He rushes at Bonnie but she throws him on the other side of the room with her powers, without touching him.

Stefan's eyes widened. "Well, I was impressed."

Bonnie looks as Damon stands. "It doesn't matter if he's an Original. I can take down anyone who comes at me. I can kill him, Elena. I know I can."

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When I got home, I took out an easel from the storage closet and dug into my room for paints. I ended up painting a piece of the 60's. What I liked about the 60's was all the color, it really is beautiful, it's basically a painter's dream world.

I opened my closet to pull out my outfit when I noticed something wrong. I locked my door and pushed aside the clothes on the rack, seeing my bow in a different position than when I last left it. I frowned, huh.

I reached under my bed and pulled out a large box. I opened it and inside were loads of crossbows, arrows, my quiver, automatics, stakes and etc. of weapons. I have exactly 24 arrows, I picked them up and counted.

23

Did Matt? No, there's no way, Caroline compelled him. But what if?

I put everything away and snuck into his room, he was in the shower so I wouldn't have to worry. I dug around in his room but didn't find anything. You know what, he must have found one , before Caroline compelled him. Guess I'll just have to make due with 23.

I went back to my room and showered, I changed into a burgundy mini dress with peace and love sign prints and long bell sleeves, fringe detailing boots, vest with fringes and a Kelley thread leather headband with a white daisy on the side.

I added a long Peace sign necklace which thankfully was longer in length then my locket so they wouldn't cross each other and my hair was curled from the bottom up. Ooh, I just realized, Lexi's mode ring is perfect for this. I usually take any jewelry off in the shower.

You know what I probably shouldn't wear this near Stefan, I wonder how many times it's changed color around him. I should probably look for a color key.