Rowan Gilbert

Pawns on the board

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Rowan was hanging out at the Salem witch house with Bonnie and Sheila. The witches were directing the construction workers and viewing the progress of the renovation. It were quite fast, after all money can buy shortcuts. Rowan had paid the company extra money to try and speed up the process. The foundation of the house was still intact so it was the finishing and other aspects that required renovating. According to the company, the building is meant to be done by the end of March. While having a discussion on possible changes in certain room, Rowan suddenly received a phone call from Elena, who was meant to be working on a school project with Stefan. "What's up pup?"

"Rowan, it's Isobel! She showed up and took Jeremy!" The younger yelled into the phone. Rowan nearly dropped her phone in fear.

"What?!" The older sister screamed, making everyone at the site stare at her. Rowan gestured for the Bennett's to follow her and they went a little further from the construction site. Rowan placed the phone on speaker and asked Elena to elaborate on her statement.

"Anna called a minute ago, apparently she left Jeremy for a few minutes," Elena began to explain. "When she came back a girl was compelled to tell her that Isobel says 'he's with me tell the girls I want the device.'"

"Oh, that bitch is dead!" Rowan growled as Sheila and Bonnie tried to calm her down. Rowan was seriously considering murdering that woman. If it weren't necessary to the plan that she survived, she would've been in that tomb, desiccating and dying a slow and painful death.

"That's not all, she gave us till Founder's day Rowan," Elena interrupted with panic clear in her tone. "She said if we don't give her an answer, she'll cause a massacre during the festival." Rowan got caught off guard by that. She was surprised by these turn of events, as she remembered Katherine being the cause of chaos during the festival. The vampdoppel had tricked Jenna into inviting her in and kissed Damon. This time Jenna would know when a supernatural was in front of her. This either meant Katherine was going along with her original plan of using Mason to get the moonstone, or she had something else in mind.

The thing was, Katherine was an immaculate planner, who felt the need to have every step planned out. So if something were to disrupt those plans, she panicked. Rowan counted on this since it tended to happen often in the series. Isobel's threat caused a little confusion, so Rowan either relied on her knowledge from the series or she had to prepare for every possible outcome. The latter was the choice to go, even if the prior gave her a little less stress. "Okay, we need to go with the plan, now!" she directed her order to the phone.

"Roger that," Stefan's voice came from the other line. Rowan smiled and turned to the two witches. Bonnie looked ready but grams sighed.

"I know you don't like this. If you want you can be left out but this is happening," Rowan said respectfully to her mentor. Sheila nodded with a sigh but hardened her face communicating to her pupil that she was willing to go through with the plan. The plan was for the gang to lure Isobel once again into a meeting. They needed her cornered to talk to her about Katherine. Rowan hoped to have her persuaded into joining so they could all work together. Since Rowan made a mistake the previous time, she decided to let the others handle this. Instead, the Gilbert-witch concentrated on tracking Jeremy. She took a few of his things and started performing a locating spell. Rowan was unsure of how prepared Isobel was for her witch powers this time. Rowan only hoped Isobel didn't get a witch herself.