Dangerous Minds

Chapter Twenty-Three

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Dangerous Minds: Chapter Twenty- Three

Elena

I'm a known criminal in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of God, I'm just as Tyler had said- a sinner.

He stares at me for a long time from across the table, Caroline seems to do the same. She fidgets in her chair for a moment, placing her hands underneath her chin as she looks me over. "You don't seem much different from when we were teenagers..." Her voice trails off, probably regretting her words almost instantly. Because, she and I both know that I'm a lot more different than I was when I was a teenager. Young Elena Gilbert died the day she got into the car accident on the bridge and then she died again for the last time when she had to give up her beautiful daughter. Needless to say, I'm a very different person now. A lot rougher around the edges and a lot less trusting.

"A lot of things have changed since then." Is all I say to her as she coughs out a breath and looks back at her husband, Tyler. My mind races as to how they had gotten together so soon after my disappearance from Mystic Falls. But, Caroline quickly clarifies things for me when she says in a soft tone. "Elena, Mystic Falls was a town in an uproar after everyone thought you were dead. I mean, my own mother created a search party for you and we looked everywhere. During that time, the people you left behind. Like, Tyler and myself grew closer and closer every day. Stefan had done a lot too...." Her voice trails off as I nod my head back at her, suddenly getting up from the table and inhaling sharply as my mind turns back to the business at hand. "I didn't come here to reminisce with the two of you about how things used to be. Honestly, I just want to ensure that you both understand what will happen with me staying here and if anyone finds out about it. I mean, you'd both be implicated in my crime, mostly with harboring a fugitive with can result in a number of years in prison."

"We've already been briefed on what could happen to us. Elena, we know about your past and we're on your side. Both Tyler and I think that what happened to you and Addy was completely unfair. Stefan's parents shouldn't have done what they did to you. They're to blame for all of this. His mother and his father took your little girl away from you and acted viciously towards you and him. Honestly, I don't understand why he even still speaks with them." Caroline says, leaning back into her chair as Tyler suddenly gets up, clearing his throat before he speaks. "I just want you to know that you and your daughter are safe here. Elena, consider this your safe house. We barely speak to Stefan anymore. Not since he joined the FBI. Which was years ago."

Katherine

"Pregnant?" Kol shouts after me, watching as I saunter out of the room and back towards the parking lot. We got our assignments and mine is to go through a paper trail of Elena Gilbert's past crimes, starting with her most recent heist in Italy just a few months before she fell off the radar.

"I'm going home to look these over." I tell him, trying to play it off as if I didn't say much at all in the conference room. But, Kol won't have it as he stands in front of me and slams my car door shut. I watch him lean against it instead, crossing his arms over his chest as he places his hand on to my flat stomach.

"Tell me that you want this baby. Katherine, please." I can see the helplessness in his eyes, he's worried that the stress of this job will be too much on me and that something bad could happen. But, by grabbing his hand and locking my eyes on to him, I reassure him that things are just fine. "I do want this little bean of ours, Kol. I promise that nothing bad will happen to me or our child." Leaning in towards his face, I leave a quick kiss upon his lips as we both hear a sudden rush outside into the parking lot and notice that a lot of familiar faces are geared up and leaving in a rapid speed. Kol and I stand against my car as we see Damon rushing past us and I shout out to him.