Book 1: Time Of Our Lives

Chapter 65: Escaping

Chapter 65 :

Woods
Caroline gets out of her car and walks around to retrieve a signal on her cell phone. She finally gets a signal, but slips and falls down the bank of the river. She pulls herself up by grabbing what she thinks is a tree branch. Instead she sees it's the decomposing body of Vicki.

Caroline: Aah! Aah!

Pearl is talking to Anna in the restroom.

Pearl: Jeremy Gilbert? Is that what you've been up to?
Anna: He's my friend. What's the big deal?
Pearl: His family is the reason I was stuck in a tomb for over a century.
Anna: That doesn't mean he'll make the same choices.
Pearl: I want you to stop seeing him.
Anna: I've been on my own for a long time, mother. I can make my own decisions.
Pearl: Then stop acting like a child! As soon as Jeremy finds out what you really are, he will turn on you.
Anna: He already knows.
Pearl: What did you just say?
Anna: Jeremy knows. I heard him and Giselle talking about it earlier when I enter the grill. He likes it and he wants to be turn and I'm gonna give it to him so he can be with me and we could live together forever and nobody can stop us

Pearl slaps her. When they are exiting the Grill, Anna she sends Jeremy a text saying "I'll do it." Jeremy looked a bit confused a surprised he got a text from Anna wondering what that was about.

Miss Gibbons' Residence
Stefan and Harper are still trapped in the cellar.

Stefan: Uhh. Thank you. For trying to help me.
Harper: They just needed somebody to blame. Someone to punish.

Elena, Giselle and Damon enter the cellar.

Stefan: Elena... Giselle you two shouldn't be here...
Damon: They were supposed to be staying in the car.
Stefan: Unh! No. No. No. Not him.
Damon: Whatever. Let's get you down.
Stefan: There's vervain on the ropes.
Damon: Elena, pull that.
Stefan: Unh!
Damon: All right, let's go. Clothes on.
Stefan: Wait.
Damon: What? Guys, come on. We have to get out of here.

Stefan and Elena pull the stakes out of Harper's legs.

Stefan: Uhh!
Damon: Come on, we gotta go.
Stefan: The other one.
Harper: Uhh!
Damon: Can you get him in the car?
Elena: Yeah.
Damon: All right, go.
Elena: What about you?
Damon: You rescue, I'll distract. Go.
Giselle: what about me?
Damon: you do nothing, you're already in enough trouble as is
Giselle: (cross arm) this is so unfair

Frederick is getting suspicious. It's too quiet.

Frederick (motioning to the stereo): Turn that down. It's too quiet.

One of the vampires gets staked.

Frederick: Spread out. Now. You two, back of the house. Go. Check out both rooms. Cellar, now.

Woods
Elena and Giselle is carrying Stefan to the car.

Stefan: Uhh.
Elena: Can you make it?
Stefan: Uhh! Unh.

They fall down. Elena cuts herself on a rock.

Stefan: Ohh. You okay?
Elena: Yeah. Come on, keep going. Come on.

Elena and Giselle helps pulls Stefan up and they continue onwards.

Miss Gibbons' Residence
Frederick sees another staked vampire in the dining room. Damon catches him by surprise. They fight. Damon gets Frederick on the floor and starts punching him. Two vampires come up from behind and pull Damon off. Frederick leaves. The vampires and Damon start fighting. One of them approaches Damon from behind. Damon doesn't see him, but Alaric shoots at the vampire with a dart.