DARKNESS

13: 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞'𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞

Chapter 13  : Bonnies Sacrifice

The next morning Iris and Damon are sitting on the couches downstairs in the library as Stefan walks in, "Isobel just showed up at the gilbert front doorstep" Stefan informs, "What's she doing here?" Iris asks, "I don't know. That's what I'm gonna go find out" Stefan replies as Katherine walks in and Iris rolls her eyes dramatically at the sight of her.

"I don't think that you should tell her that I'm here" Katherine suggests, "why, you already have too many haters huh?" Iris sarcastically asks. "No, it's just better if she and John not know that I stayed in town after I got out of the tomb" Katherine informs, "You're the one in cahoots with them. You made a deal with John that almost got me and Iris killed" Damon adds.

"I did what I had to get out of the tomb. Now I'm reconsidering my alliance" Katherine innocently states, "What do you know?" Stefan asks, "I know that I want Klaus dead, which puts me squarely on team you" Katherine replies, "Besides, if you two ever need me to swap places with Elena again, the less people know that I'm here, the better. Think about it, Stefan. Come on.

Be smart" she adds. "Tell you what. Why don't you, uh, call Alaric and let him know that his wife just showed up on his girlfriend's doorstep" Stefan suggests to Damon, ignoring Katheirne's plea to work together as he walks out.

"Alright come on," Damon says to Iris, "where we going?" she asks as she follows him out of the door, "meeting Bonnie and Jeremy at the Martins" Damona answers. "Hey, you heard about Matt and Caroline?" Damon asks, "huh?" Iris confusingly asks, "he knows she's a vampire, saw her vamp face when she was healing him last night and ran off" Damon explains, "shit" Iris breathes out as they get in the car.

Later on Damon, Iris, Bonnie and Jeremy walk into the Martin place to see Luca's burnt corpse on the ground. "We should pack up the grimoires. They spent years collecting them. I wanna make sure they're safe" Bonnie says, "You know, we could just get another match and cremate him" Damon offers, "Don't be disrespectful. Not to him" Bonnie orders, "Fine. I'll bury him" Damon says with a sigh. "What exactly are we looking for?" Jeremy asks, "According to Luka's dad, one of these contains a spell that'll let me harness the energy that's left behind when a witch dies violently" Bonnie explains, " I didn't know you and father witch were so close" Damon comments.

"We weren't but when he gave me my powers back, he gave me a message. If I can find the spot in town where the old Salem witches were burned, I can harness their energy to use when I need it" Bonnie explains, "Great. We'll have to put that on our list of things to do today. Harness ancient dead-witch power" Damon mutters.
"You know where the witches were burned?" Bonnie asks, "Did I forget to mention that?" Damon asks, "Are we gonna have to read through every one of these books till we find the right spell?" Iris asks, "Not exactly" Bonnie states as she holds out her hand and a book goes flying into Iris's hands. "It's this one" Bonnie says as she grabs the book from Iris, "Great. Grab the rest. Let's go" Damon urges.

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Later on Damon, Iris, Stefan and Elena are gathered in the Salvatore library "Do you really think that Isobel's telling the truth that word's gotten out about the doppelgänger?" Elena asks, "Look, I don't trust a word that she says, but I think we'd be stupid to ignore the warning" Stefan reasons, "You know, you should just stay here. It's better for us to keep an eye on you" Damon suggests.

"What, in the house that any vampire can enter? No. Her house is safer" Stefan argues, "Well, then we'll stay there" Damon compromises. "So is that the plan? Neither of you will let me out of your sight again?" Elela asks, "Let me know when you come up with a better one" Damon states, "Fine. Then one of you 2 bodyguards is gonna have to come with me to the Lockwood luncheon" Elena says, "That'd be me" Stefan says.