The Owl Gilbert

2:18: One More Dance

I'm at the Salvatore Boarding House with a Lawyer, Elena and Bonnie, signing papers. "Please sign here." Lawyer says and lifts the paper up with his left hand. "And here." He says, putting his hand down as I sigh and he offers me the pen with his right hand, and I take it with my right. "Ok." I say, smiling and sign the first page. "So this place is all yours? They just gave it to you?" Bonnie asks as we look at her and the paper flips. "For now. As sole owner, he's the only one who can invite a certain type of person in here, if you know what I mean." Elena says and the page flips. "Your own personal safe house." Bonnie says and I nod. "That's the idea." I say. "Wouldn't want to clean it." She says, looking around and I laugh along with Elena.

I walk to the door with the Lawyer and open it with my right hand, and see Stefan and Damon walking towards me, and see the Lawyer offer his right hand, and I shake it with my right as we smile at each other. "Thank you, Mr. Henry." I say as we release and he walks out, and I turn around, laughing, and stop, and turn around at them. "Oh, yeah." I say, smiling, as is Stefan. "I totally forgot." I say, walking over to Stefan. "Stefan. Would you like to come inside my house?" I ask, laughing. "I would love to. Thank you." He says, smiling and walks in, and kisses Elena's right cheek, and I chuckle. "What are we, seven?" Damon asks, smiling as I look at him. "One of us is. If I let you in, do you promise to obey the Owner of this house?" I ask. "No." He says, smiling. "Seriously, Damon. My way or the highway. You promised. Elena and I call the shots." I say and he rolls his eyes. "No lies, no secret agendas. Remember?" Elena asks. "Yes, Elena. Sure." He says, smiling. "Then please, come in." I say, smiling and he walks past Stefan as I look at him. "Shut up." Damon says and I begin to follow them, and Bonnie hands me my gray jacket. "Thanks." I say, smiling. "Yep." He says. "Wait, where are you three going?" Stefan asks as we look at him and I'm putting my jacket on, as he approaches us. "To school." I say. "Huh?" He asks. "No, no, no." Damon says as we look at him, as he approaches us. "We didn't create a safe house for you to leave it." He says as I zip up my jacket. "Yeah, guys, Klaus is out there. We know that." Stefan says, smiling. "Right. But where? No one knows. Look, I really appreciate what you guys are doing." I say and look at Bonnie, and back to them. "And I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that I'll be safe here, but I'm not going to be a prisoner liked inside a tower." I say and Stefan looks at Damon, and so do I. "Tsk. Your way, Adam, Elena." Damon says, fake smiling. "Don't worry, I'm ready. If he shows his face, I can take him. I know how." Bonnie says, and we look at her. "The way I see it, next to Bonnie is the safest place that I can be. Come on." Elena says and we walk to the door, and I open it with my right hand, and walk out, and so does Elena and Bonnie. "Wait. I'm coming." Stefan says.

We're in Dad's classroom, sitting down, and the bell rings. "Hello, class." Dad says, walking in. "Ahem. What.. are we learning today?" He asks, flipping through his notebook. "With the Decade Dance tonight, we've been covering the Sixties all week." Dana says. "Right. The Sixties." Dad says, tossing his notebook down and I run my right hand through my hair, and put it down, and pull out a pencil from my right pocket, and look back at Dad, and he turns to the chalkboard. "The, uh, ahem.. the Sixties." He says and writes, The Sixties, on the board with his right hand and chalk, and puts his hand down. "I wish there was something good I could say about the sixties, but.." He says and sets the chalk down, and looks at us. "Actually, they kind of sucked. Except for the Beatles, of course. They made it bearable." He says, walking around. "What else was there? The Cuban Missile thing, the-- we walked on the Moon. There was Watergate." Dad says. "Watergate was the Seventies, Dad." I say, smiling and everyone looks at me. "I-- I mean, Mr. Saltzman." I say. "Right." He says, smiling, extending his hands out and claps them together. "It all kind of mushes together up here, the Sixties, Seventies. Thank you, Adam." He says and looks back at the chalkboard.

I'm at the Salvatore Boarding House with Elena, talking with the brother's and Bonnie in the Living Room. "So we go to the dance, we find him." Damon says. "Really? How are we going to do that? We don't even know what he looks like." Stefan says. "Something tells me he's not going to be sixteen and pimply." Damon says. "He could be anywhere at any time. He compelled somebody at school." Stefan says, sighing, looking at Bonnie, Elena and I. "I guess it's not as safe as you guys thought, huh?" He asks and there's a knock on the door as we look at it, and it opens, and Dad walks in. "There you are." Damon says and Dad closes it with his left hand, and walks over to us. "Sorry I'm late." He says. "Hey, I need you to put me down as a chaperone at the dance tonight. Klaus made his first move." Damon says. "Ok, so we find him and then what, hm? What's our plan of attack?" I ask. "Me. I'm the plan. He has no idea how much power I can channel. If you can find him, I can kill him." Bonnie says. "That's not going to be that easy. I mean, he is the biggest, baddest vampire around." Dad says. "Alaric has a point. I mean, what if he--" Damon says and dashes towards Mark, and gets thrown to the other side of the room, over the couch and I gasp. "Well, I was impressed." Stefan says, looking at us. "It doesn't matter if he's an Original. I can take down anyone who comes at me. I can kill him, Elena. I know I can." Bonnie says as we look at her and smile.