Where Have You Been {Vampire Diaries fanfic}

Chapter 12

Mystic Falls VA

“Wow what a town,” David chuckled as they drove down Main Street.

“Mystic Falls is the happiest place on Earth,” Damon said as they drove to the boarding house. Damon didn’t know how they were going to get dopey, Jess wanted to take care of it. Everyone but Stefan went to Abby’s just to get out of town. It took a while to convince Elena to let Jess and David get Jeremy, but somehow Stefan convinced her to stay away.

Stefan was waiting on the porch of the boarding house. The front door was boarded up and there was caution tape everywhere. He paced back and forth waiting for his brother to arrive and hoping the counsel was bothering someone else. “What the hell is this,” Damon asked as he got out of the truck.

“The notice says our house has been seized by the city,” Stefan informed his brother.

“They can’t do this,” Damon said going to rip the plywood off the door.

“Don’t touch that,” David told Damon as he slapped his hands in a scolding gesture.

“What is with your family and hitting?” Damon asked looking between David and Jess.

“That’s Cyprus,” Luckey said giving him a blank stare.

“So,” Damon said narrowing his eyes at her.

“Why don’t you just throw vervain in your face?” she asked poking out her eyes at him.

“Can you dumb it down for us?” Stefan asked David.

“That’s Saharan Cyprus and it packs a punch if you cut yourself with it, and this was laced in vervain,” David informed them as he inspected the wood.

“It was nicely coating too. You can tell it soaked all the way through by the coloring almost as if they were watering it ever day with vervain,” Jess added looking over the boards.

“It’s nice that the wood meant to kill us fascinates you,” Damon said with a sarcastic smirk.  “Can you just get us inside so we can save baby Gilbert?” Damon asked.

“Please,” Stefan added for him.

Jess turned and put her palm up towards the door. Damon watched her closely as her eyes narrowed and then the door blew up. “That wasn’t exactly what I was hoping for,” Damon said looking down at the pieces of wood and glass that were once his front door.

“In is in,” Jess said sitting her bookbag on the table and taking out some papers. “I did you get the papers from Elena?” Jess asked Stefan.

“Yes I did, and she says thank you for helping Jeremy and Bonnie,” Stefan smiled at her.

For a moment they held each other’s gaze and being his observant self-Damon noticed the look they shared. His teeth clenched together at the sickeningly sweet sight. “Okay lovebirds enough gazing and more saving,” Damon said taking the papers from Stefan and giving them to Jess.

“Is that Elena’s report card?” Damon asked.

“Yeah, I need something with a real signature from her parents and Jenna. I need to make sure this will hold up in court if it comes to that, but I’m sure it won’t,” Jess said taking out a huge magnifying glass with its own stand.

“Do you us that thing to make model airplanes?” Damon joked.

“No, just scaled down hovercraft,” Jess said in a monotone voice, which got a chuckle from Stefan.

“And there we are. Now all we need is to figure out what they did with Jeremy. My guess is a group home or a foster care,” Jess said as Damon looked over the documents.