The Sacrifice ~ The Vampire Diaries [2]

3x10 - The New Deal

Picture of Benny Bennet

Mystic Grill

Eliot and Benny are sitting at a table "I feel like I'm going crazy. Totally paranoid all the time" Eliot tells him.

"You have a right to be. Colette is still out there and she knows you tried to kill her" Benny reminds him.

"Why hasn't she made a move? There has been no sign of her. Nothing. Just my slow spiral into insanity"

"Join the club. Every time I close my eyes, I have that nightmare. On repeat"

"The same dream?" Eliot asks.

"Yeah! Four coffins, Colette is in one of them. It's weird"

"What if it's not just some dream? What if it's like...you know...witch dream?" Eliot suggests.

"It's just stress. I'll figure it out. And what about Stella? Has there been any sign of her?" Benny brush it off.

"She betrayed us Benny. The Stella that we know is gone" Eliot reminds him.

"How is Demi handling it?"

"Demi is... Demi" Eliot sighs.

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Demi and Althea are sitting at the bar. Demi has lots of different alcohol bottles in front of her. Althea is reading something. "Oh, I give you a choice. Bloody Mary or Screwdriver. Brunch in a bottle. Come on Thea, I can't drink all this by myself. I mean I can but then somebody's getting naked"

Demi looks at the male bartender, he looks back smiling "Oh man I can't believe you're making me drink alone" Demi complains.

"I'm busy" Althea tells her.

"It's the eve of Colette-ageddon. You're doing homework?"

"This may come as a shock, but I am not here to hang out with you. I'm here to see Jemma. Who is an hour late for her shift" Althea tells her.

"Kids today...Where are their values?"

Althea puts Jemma's mid-term paper on the counter which has the title "American History 201". It has an F grading on it "That's her mid-term paper. copied it straight off the internet. Didn't even try to hide it"

"Ohh, somebody's getting grounded" Demi teases.

"Did you say you are waiting for Jemma – as in Jemma Gilbert?" The bartender asks them.

"Yeah"

"She was fired last week"

"Oops" Althea looks away from the bar and sees Eliot at a table.

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Eliot is on the phone, leaving a message for Jemma. Demi is shooting darts "Jemma, the minute that you get this call me!" he hangs up. Demi gets a bulls-eye. "Unbelievable!"

"You are feisty when you are mad" Demi teases.

"It's not that I'm mad. I'm just – I'm worried"

"But why? She lost her job at the grill. She can survive, Eliot"

"She is spiraling. Ever since Benny broke up with her, she is moody, she is not really talking to anyone" Eliot lists off.

"It's typical teenager" Demi assures him.

"Who's seeing ghosts and has lost everyone that she cares about"

"Not everyone. She still has you" Demi shoots a dart. She goes to the dartboard and retrieves her darts.