Danielle Gilbert ⚜ Klaus Mikaelson [4]

Memorial

Dani's PoV

I got a call from Stefan, asking me to come round the boarding house Asap.

I quickly rushed over and walk in to find Stefan taking out bullets from Tyler.

I watch as Stefan touches the bullet. It instantly burns him.

I roll my eyes, "give it here."

He looks up and hands it over to me.

To everyone's surprise the bullet burns me.

"Ahh," I yell , dropping the bullet.

I then look at the burn mark on my hand.

"That shit hurt," I complain.

"Are the bullets spelled?" Caroline asks.

Stefan shrugs, "I don't know. They're something."

I shake my head, "looks like we have a new enemy in Mystic Falls."

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I arrive at the church, for the funeral of the 12 people who died in the council in an explosion.

I walk in to see Elena rush out of the church and towards the toilet. I quickly follow her and walk into the bathroom to find her throwing up blood in the sink. She then moves to the toilet. And continues to throw up.

Shocked I quickly lock the door and start grabbing some tissues and handing them to Elena.

She cleans herself up and calls Damon, while I work on cleaning the sink. I wash away all of the blood. I turn to Elena and look at her.

I grab her hands and stare her in the eye, "calm down Elena. Everything will be fine. I promise. Damon will be here soon."

She nods.

"I'm gonna go outside, okay, I'll meet you by our seats," I inform her.

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Halfway through the ceremony, Elena starts choking up. I'm stood next to Damon. He whispers to me.

"There's a pool of blood upstairs, we can all smell it, your sister is hungry, but it's a trap," he informs me.

I nod.

Elena rushes back with Stefan by her side.

"The blood. Stefan, the blood, I can smell it. There's so much," Elena panics.

Stefan holds her hand tightly, "It's alright; just remember what we talked about. Focus, push back, come on you can do this."

Matt turns to them, "What's wrong with her?"

"She's hungry. She hasn't fed," Stefan tells him.

Matt sighs, "So, get her out of here."

Stefan shakes his head, "I can't. There's somebody watching us."

Damon is extremely pissed, "I'm gonna go rip his head off now."

Stefan snaps back at him, "You do that, Damon, and you risk exposing all of us."

Damon scoffs, "Well, I think the risk will be slightly diminished when I, you know, rip his head off."

Elena, "Stefan, I'm losing it."

Damon looks at us, "you have ten seconds."

Matt speaks up, "Wait, wait, wait, wait. Elena, feed from me."

We all glance at him shocked.

Matt nods, "It's okay, everyone will think you're upset. Just feed from me."

Stefan agrees and passes Elena over to Matt. She then hugs him tightly before biting him.

Elena pulls away, "Thank you."

Suddenly Tyler stands up at the podium, and starts talking.

Tyler:, "Back in first grade, I was a brat who couldn't be bothered with team sports. Didn't care much about anything that didn't affect me. But he was the one who made me understand how important it is to be part of a team; a community. Of giving yourself up for the sake of..."

A shot runs through the air, and hits Tyler straight in the chest. He falls to the floor and everybody screams loudly. Running out of the church.

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Later that night the whole gang is stood by the picnic tables outside of the school.

"Stefan, what are we doing?" Damon asks, annoyed.

Stefan sighs, "We're finishing the memorial we didn't get to have earlier."

He then hands us all a lantern.

Stefan looks up at Damon, "We need to start healing, Damon. We've all lost so much, especially recently. I think we're numb to it. We push it away, we make a joke out of it, ignore how we feel. We've never just let ourselves grieve."

"So, you're lighting lanterns?" Damon asks sarcastically.

Stefan nods, "Yeah. Yeah, we need to do this."

Damon scoffs, "What we need to do is find out who this hunter is and what he knows about the death of the Council. We have more important things to be doing right now than this."

Stefan shakes his head, "Not tonight, we don't."

Damon stands there pissed.

Stefan lights his, "This is for my uncle Zach and my friend Lexi and for Alaric."

Matt lights his.

Caroline lights hers, "This is for my dad. And Tyler's."

Jeremy then grabs the lighter and lights his, "This is for our parents. For Vicki. Anna. Jenna. And Alaric."

Damon gives Jeremy a look at refuses to take part.

"No way. I'm not doing that," Damon complains, before speeding off into the dead of night.

Bonnie then lights hers up, "This is for my Grams."

She passes it to me and I light mine up, "This is for My parents. For my adoptive parents. And for the old me."

We all look at Elena.

She takes the lighter from me, lights hers up, "This um – is for my mom, my dad, Jenna, everyone that you've all lost, everyone that this town has lost. And for me, I guess."

One at a time we all slowly release our lanterns, letting the fly off into the sky, disappearing into the dark blue, shining brightly like stars.