Esoterically Bound (The Vampire Diaries)

Chapter twenty three

|~Chapter Twenty Three~|

I woke up to the blare of the sun in my eyes. I groaned and sat up. The room I was in was dusty and looked about 1000 years old. Stefan was staring at me, making me scream.

"What are you doing Stefan?" I asked.

"Nope, wrong person, it's Silas."

I groaned and laid back down. As I peered at him, he was smiling.

"It's crazy, my blood heals you. I thought it wouldn't but it did." He sounded so amazed.

"Whoopee do! You can heal people...who cares? Anyway why did you save me?" I asked.

"I kind of sent Angela off the rails and I realised I have driven her too far. If anyone is going to kill you it's me. How about we cut to chase and make a deal. Help me find Katherine and you get real Angela back." He questioned.

"Why do you want Katherine?" I questioned back.

"She took the cure. The cure is running through her veins. Her blood is now the cure. I want the cure. So help me find her in exchange for Angela. Oh and fail to agree, Angela will be killed." He explained.

"So I have to agree then." I got up and walked up to him. I realised I was barefooted. "Where are my shoes?" I asked.

"By the bed."

I turned back around and slipped on my boots. I could feel his eyes on me, staring at me as I put on my boots. I searched my pockets for my phone, panicking when I couldn't find it. Silas waved it about when I looked up.

"So you don't call anyone for help. Oh just to let you know Damon called five times, Stefan five and Klaus 15. He's a bit obsessive isn't he?" He mocked Klaus.

"Leave him alone. No mocking, that's my rule." I declared.

"Who cares, what rules you make. I can snap your neck if you annoy me too much, that's my rule." We walked out the house onto a rotting wooden porch. We were in the forest outside Mystic Falls, I think. As got off the porch, I could smell the raw scent of blood from not near by.

"Where the hell are we?" I asked.

"The forest near Mystic Falls, where else?" He stared at the trees.

"What's that smell?" I asked.

"Oh that smell, I think your 'nice' friend is having himself a little snack." He laughed.

As walked further into the trees, the smell became stronger with every step.

"Why do you want the cure?" I asked as we walked.

"I am better as a witch, plus it means I can die and I get to re-join my true love one." He said.

"Wow lovely story so won't you let me just kill you?"

"Because I want to kill you." He speared apart some tree branches apart and we arrived at the road. I saw Silas's car across the road. He guided me across the road towards it. I stop in the middle of the road and looked out.

As I gazed out where the road disappeared out of sight. I could easily run away, far away. But I can't because there is no way I could pass a chance on getting Angela back. I won't let him get to Katherine, in case he kills her. How we didn't all know that she was literally a walking cure?

"Just gonna stand there all day or are you going to get in?" Silas broke out of my thoughts.

"Sorry," I got into the car and did up my belt. Silas revved the engine. "Right first of all we find Angela and then we find Katherine."

"No Katherine first, then Angela."

"Angela knows where Katherine is, she was using her as bate before, so we find Angela first." I explained in hope he would agree.

"Fine, where would Angela be?" He agreed.

"I don't know, maybe in town, maybe in New York, how the hell I am supposed to know." I said looking out the window.

"I am pretty sure, we find her easily if she was on a tracker, you know one of those things that put a chip in one thing and shows where that chip moves on another." He was explaining to me something I clearly knew.

"Shut up!" I shouted, clearly showing at I was annoyed at his attempts at witty remarks.

As he slowly drove into town and around the winding streets, I couldn't help but think where Angela has sleeping this few days. Where she got her food and where she could relax and feel homely. Yet she wouldn't of felt, Silas would of made sure of that. He would of made her forget the human feelings we all have, so she could be a killing machine. Yet I made a deal with him myself with choice, she didn't. I am such a fool but at least I will get what I want Angela.

He seemed to carry on driving out of town and onto the highway. I looked across at him confused as he did so.

"I want to ask you some questions about some things." He answered my stare.

"What do you want to ask?" I asked lifting my legs up to my stomach and I hug them.

"Why did you come to mystic falls?" He seemed to start with the most random question in the book.

"Because I did." I answered with the tone in my voice so that he knew I was lying to him.

"Fine then, a more easier question, why do you appeal to Klaus so much?" He tried to ask, in hope I would actually give an answer to this one.

"I am one of his protectors, I kinda have to." I answer, being about true as I could be towards the question.

"Right, why is Angela so important?" He asked.

"She is my best friend, and we promised that no matter what we would help each other in need not matter how big or small the problem is, we would help each other." I said.

"Wow, one of those stupid friendship promises. Last one, I think, if you could would you run away from this? Lead a normal life, have a family?" He asked.

"No." I didn't think about this one.

"Why?"

"This has always been my life, running, helping, fighting. I have never had it any other way. Maybe to my thirst for adventure or maybe it's the way I was born. This is my life and I am not going to change it, for no one." I stated.

"Alright then, let's go find Angela and Katherine." He said spinning the car around and driving towards to Mystic Falls.

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I caught a glimpse of hair as I walk through the busy bar. She was about to leave so I ran after her. Silas was outside waiting for me. She walked through the door and I swiftly followed her. As I was out the door, I could see her talking to Silas. I couldn't believe he was doing this. Her head slowly turned to me with tears running down her cheeks.

I walked up to them, Angela began walk towards me smiling. As soon as we reached each other, we were instantly in a hug. I began to cry too.

"I am so sorry, he told everything that compelled isn't true. Apart the last thing which I am so sorry for." She whispered.

"What is it?" I whispered back.

"This." She cried.

She stepped back and stabbed herself in leg and then in the stomach. We both screamed in unison;I caught her when she fell on her knees.

"How could you?" I screamed at Silas.

"I knew you would break my promise. She told me where Katherine is so don't worry. Everything is covered." He laughed.

"You promised me Angela and she is now dying!" I cried.

"Oh yeah so are you." He said walking up to us and stabbing me in the back.

I screamed again trying to get the knife out. I heard screams and voices from the entrance of the bar. People came running and tried to help us. I looked over at Angela and watched her cry in pain. Next I heard ambulance sirens and I slowly felt my eyes close as I passed out from the pain.