Insatiable (Satisfy Series, Book Three, The Vampire Diaries)

Ch. 11: Our Town

I was waiting for Damon with Stefan standing next to me in Damon's room.

Damon came out of his bathroom, just out of the shower, whistling. "Good morning."

"You're late," Stefan said. "We were supposed to meet Bonnie at the witch house in ten minutes."

"Relax, brother," I told him with a smile. "You don't want your hair to fall out."

"Would you please take something seriously for two seconds?" Stefan replied. He looked at Damon. "And would you hurry up? We have work to do." He looked at me. "You know, Klaus isn't gonna spontaneously self-destruct." He looked back at Damon. "Why are you all chipper?"

"No reason," Damon said. "Be with you in a minute."

*

Damon, Stefan and I walked up to the witch house.

"You didn't say anything to Elena about the coffins, right?" Stefan asked Damon.

"No, I said I wouldn't," Damon answered.

"I know what you said," Stefan said.

"Then why are you asking?" I asked in boredom.

"Because protecting the location of Klaus' family is my number one priority right now. And the fewer people who know the better."

Damon stopped walking, making us stop.

"What?" I asked.

*

Damon was inside, telling Bonnie to stay quiet.

A hybrid walked out of the house, looking at Stefan, transforming.

I pulled his heart out of his back as Damon walked out of the door. "These hybrids, really bringing the neighborhood down."

I threw the heart on the ground.

*

I was fiercely hitting the locked coffin with a shovel.

"You're wasting your time," Stefan told me. "It won't open. Did you bury the body?"

"Yeah," I answered, letting the shovel fall. "Any sign of our little hybrid buddies?"

"Nope, just the dead one."

"All right, Klaus has six siblings," Damon said. "Rebekah is now with Klaus. There was one dead kid in the old world, one dead kid in the new world, which leaves Elijah and two others. Three sleeping Originals, four coffins. So, who is in the locked box?"

"No idea," Stefan said. "But whatever is in here, Bonnie seems to think will help us kill Klaus. So, the sooner she can get this open, the sooner we will know if she's right."

I turned around, talking up to the witches. "Oh, you think if the spirits of a bunch of dead witches that can make four coffins invisible would have figured out how to open one." I tilted my head toward the ceiling toward the spirits. I didn't get any feedback. "Fine, don't help."

"You know, none of this is gonna do us any good if Klaus' hybrid friends find our hiding place, right?" Stefan asked. "They need to go away."

"Oh, yeah, that's a great idea, Stefan," Damon said sarcastically. "Why don't you just ask them to pack their bags and take a long rest while we are at it. How about try to keep the peace? Don't attrack attention to the the real thing we are trying to hide."

"Well, I'm not gonna play defense when I have what Klaus wants. He does what I say, or I dump his family to the bottom of the ocean."

"And then he kills you and everyone you know, like, I don't know . . ." I trailed off. "Us!"