Torn from Dawn: Vampire Dairies

Katherine: Chapter Fourteen

We pulled up to the Boarding House almost instantly, and the entire ride back to the Salvatore Estate, Jack wouldn't take his eyes off the box, ecstatic to open it yet scared for what would be revealed. "What do you think they're like?" I asked, and he then looked up from the box. "Don't know- hopefully kind, funny, like my Foster parents" he answered, yet he drifted off into the end, looking back into the past. "Katherine, I know you made a deal with Bonnie- I don't know what you bargained upon your behalf, but please, I'm begging you, please, don't take the box away" he begged, seeking pity, which I couldn't help but hand him on a silver platter. There was something unique, something pure and kind about him, that allowed him to break through my exterior, causing me to crumble before him. "I promise" I respond, causing those saddened, despairing eyes to light up, causing the sapphire blue iris' to gleam radiantly. "Thanks" he said kindly, then, he looks back down, only when I take the slightest if a second to look, a tear falls from his cheek. The silence turns into sobbing, only I then reach over an pat him on the back. "Jack, I know how you feel" I say, trying to comfort him, only he looks up and asks "How? I have lost everyone I love. My parents, my sister, Ben- everything I love has been torn from my causing me to fall right into the darkness of the night." I sighed, then explaining "I know exactly what it's like to have everything and everyone you love destroyed." He wiped away the tears and looked up. "Years ago, maybe a year after I was turned, I went back to my family in Bulgaria, only, the monster I'd once loved, slaughtered my entire family because I ran away from what he wanted from me." As I finished, we pulled up, he unbuckled his seatbelt, but I reached across and touched his hand, which caused him to hesitate and look up. But when I was in the darkness, I managed to find the dawn that was destined to break from the darkness."

He then looked right into my eyes, feeling as if he was looking right into my soul, he then leaned in, and as I did as well, our lips were millimetres from touching, but the door of the Boarding House flew open, and Damon appeared right outside my window, causing both Jack and I to pull back. "Good, you brought back the freak" Damon said rudely. "Says the walking dead dick head" Jack retaliates, but Damon scowls, only to look back at me and said "And you tried to make a move while at it." I sighed, then, I push the door open into Damon, knocking him down to the cement floor. I step out and walk for the house, Jack following, and once we step inside, everyone has a cup of coffee, and Elena and Jeremy rise the second Jack enters after me. "Where the hell have you been" Stefan asks, concerned. "Have you been crying?" Matt asked. Jack clears his throat, only he then explains "The people who attacked me in the forest were there, at home, and- they killed Ben." Elena walked over to him and hugged him, and he embraces her. Everyone takes pity on him, patting his back, and with all the pity that could brew into a storm, he doesn't cry. "Katherine saved me, yet again" Jack said, and all eyes were then on me. "Wow, worthy of a medal" Damon said as he walked in, brushing some dirt off of him. As Jack looked over to me, the box rose up into the air, and it then floated down to Bonnie. "Thank you, Katherine" she said, stroking her black hair away, but I respond "Deals off, Bennet." She looks up, her eyes stern, but Jack then says "Bonnie, you have absolutely no right to have my box." Bonnie looks over to him, and she says "You could be a threat to us all, so by all means, try and take it away, but you'll only be wasting your energy." I say harshly "Bonnie, the deal is off, which means Jack gets the box and he remains isolated." Jack looks up to me, then, he asks "You bargained my freedom for the box?" He seemed happy, almost as if I had touched his heart. I felt the warmth, a warm sensation binding us together faintly and slowly.

"But now, you will remain prisoner" Bonnie claimed, but Jack stood and said "You have no right to choose if I remain in this house or not, you bitch." Bonnie grew angry, the candles flames bursting up and the fire crackling loudly, only I step in and say "He can't remain locked up if he is no threat, Bonnie." The fire and flames end their enhanced burning, and I continue, seeing she is intrigued. "If Jack opens the box, the evidence shall show you he isn't a threat to anyone. If the box proves him right, he goes free, if otherwise, he remains hostage" I finish, then stealing Damon's bourbon yet again. "Agreed" Bonnie said, looking over to the box. "Okay, time to unmask the mysterious parents." Tyler answered. Jack then placed the silver box on the table, and he traces his fingers down the edges of the lid, staring under the 'M,' only, he tries to life the lid, but it doesn't even move. Jack examines the lid, only then, he notices the circular hole under the letter. He grabs the silver ring from his finger and pulls it off, then, holding it between the tips of his two pointer fingers, he places it inside the hole. He pushes it down, and as he does, there is a click, and Jack then inhales, holds his breath for what seems like forever, and when he exhales, he flips the lid, revealing its contents.