Weeping Willow

Bloodlines Part Two

Chapter Twenty Two – Bloodlines Part Two

Willow and Stefan had gone back to his after things didn't go so well with Bonnie and were trying to think of another way to find her, but came up with nothing,

Willow was currently looking at Katherine's picture and realised that her last name was Pierce and Elena's was Gilbert. It didn't really make that much sense to her; Elena was a Gilbert and Katherine was a Pierce so how could they be related. "Stefan?" He looked up at her, he looked frustrated, "How are Katherine and Elena related?"

It was a good question that he didn't have the answers to, "I don't know."

Willow leant on the desk, "I think she's safe with Damon and I think rather than worrying about where they are I think we should find out about her family."

He sat there and rested his chin in his hands. Maybe she was right, but Damon was unpredictable and the only reason that she thought that Elena was somewhat safe with him was because he'd rescued her from Logan. It wasn't a good enough reason for him though, but she was right; there was no point in them sitting around trying to think of a way to find Elena and maybe doing something productive maybe a good idea. He nodded and they began to discuss ways in which they would go about finding out about Katherine and Elena's relation to one another.

"Come on, there's gotta be another way." Damon insisted. He was currently talking to Bree to see if there was another way to get the tomb open. He had clearly taken Willow's advice.

Bree rested her legs on the table and asked, "After all these years, it's still only Katherine? How do you even know she's alive?"

He sighed and looked and stroked her arm with his little finger, "Well, you help me into that tomb and we'll find out."

She looked at his hand on her arm and then moved it, "I already did, 20 years ago, remember? Three easy steps: comet, crystal, spell."

Damon gritted his teeth, "There's a little problem with number two. I don't have the crystal."

Bree shrugged, "That's it, Damon. There's no other way. It's Emily's spell."

"What about a new spell with a new crystal that overrides Emily's spell?"

Bree only stared at him, "It doesn't work that way, baby. Emily's spell is absolute; you can't get into that tomb."

Damon swallowed. He couldn't believe this. No, he wouldn't. There had to be another way, he wasn't about to give up on Katherine.

Willow had just come back to the Salvatore Boarding house from Elena's house and she handed Stefan Elena's birth certificate. It took her forever to find this piece of paper. She searched through Elena's (hopefully she wouldn't be pissed at her for this), through Jenna's, but made sure not to move anything that much and to keep deadly quiet because Jenna was down stairs and was the one who let her in. Her excuse was that she had left her phone her when she stayed down her house before and needed to find it.

She reluctantly went into her parents' room. She felt awful doing this, rummaging through their things. But she had managed to find it; it was in a box filled with photos of Elena and Jeremy and other family members and a few that she was in when she was about 5 years old.

The birth certificate had made it all the more confusing because it read that Grayson and Miranda Gilbert were her birth parents. If she and Stefan were confused before now they were completely lost.

Willow groaned, "What do we do now?"

An idea came to him, "We could check the hospital records. To check if her mother was ever admitted for any appointments while she was pregnant with Elena."