The Owl Gilbert

4:1: Awakened

I'm with Kol and Jeremy as we're watching Elena being sensitive to the lamp light and checking her teeth in the mirror, by the doorway. She looks up at us and sighs in relief. "Jer. Adam." She says as we run to her; Jeremy and I while Kol stand by the doorway and she wraps her arms around us both, us both hugging her waist. We release and she looks at us. "Are you okay? I watched Vickie go through this. She was a mess." Jeremy says. "Not to mention her emotions were all over the place. All of these old memories came flooding back." I say as Elena looks back at the lamp light and she looks back at us. "I'm fine. I'm not Vickie." Elena says. "No, you're not. You're you. You act like everything's ok so no one worries about you." Jeremy says as Elena looks back at the lamp. "You need help." Kol says from behind me as I can feel him standing there and he intertwines my fingers with his. "I said I'm fine, ok?" Elena asks, looking back at the three of us before blinking a few times. "I-I'm sorry, I-." She says before sighing and runs a hand through her hair, looking down before looking back up to us. "Have you talked to Bonnie?" She asks. "Yeah." I say. "She said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirits to bring me back. And they listened." Jeremy says. "Yeah, but the consequences were horrible." She says. "And yet they always bring me back for some reason." I say, smiling softly up at Kol. "And what could be more horrible of a supernatural conse than you turning into a vampire, Elena? I need my sister. Not another one of them." Jeremy says and looks at Kol. "No offense." He says. "Not too much taken, mate." Kol says and I look back over at Elena after Kol kisses my cheek. "We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be ok." Elena says, giving a small nod. "I hope so." Jeremy says before walking off. "It's going to be okay, Elena. You're one of the strongest people I know." I say, smiling softly as she takes my hands gently and lets them go before Kol and I walk off.

I'd be at the Grill with Kol, playing Pool as I'm Solids and he's stripes and we're sipping on cokes and eating cheese fries as it's his turn. "Have you heard from anyone today? It's been a few hours and it's a little quiet." I say as he makes two in a row and I playfully glare at him before he purposely misses one for me since I'm bad at Pool and he's going easy on me and comes over to wrap his arms around my waist and rests his chin on my shoulder, helping me with the pool stick. "Pull back and release." He says, leaving a small kiss on my neck, making me blush and shiver a little before helping me get one of mine in the hole and smile up at him. "We did it." I say and press my soft lips against his, resting my hands on his shoulder as we deepen the kiss a little and see Pastor Young and a few Deputies walk in and over to us. "Pastor Young, come to tell me how I'm going to hell for being gay?" I ask, seeing Kol step protectively in front of me. "Actually, no. For your lust for a vampire." He says before the Deputies shoot Kol with a few vervain darts, making him pass out. "Kol! Kol!" I exclaim as they start dragging him away and a Deputy holds me back as I try to kick and scream before they drag him out the door and feel I pass out after being thrown against a table.

I slowly wake up to feel I'm in a wooden chair and someone shaking me gently. "Hm?" I ask, blinking a few times and look up at a dark, raven haired man. "Damon." I say, smiling softly up at him and look around the empty kitchen of my house. "The council. They took Kol at the Grill. Pastor Young and the Deputies." I say and see him give a small nod. "I know, they took Elena and Stefan, too. Alaric outed them all to the council." He says and we see Sheriff Forbes walk in. "They're gone. They nailed Rebekah, too and I barely made it out. Please tell me you have something. Anything." He says and I see Meredith walk in as well. "I can't. The Council locked Carol and me out of our offices. Files, computers, everything." She says. "I'm good but not that good at hacking. I probably can't get in, either." I say and everyone looks at me. "What? It was one class last semester." I say and we look at Sheriff Forbes. "So, the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a back-up plan, Liz?" Damon says, stepping forward and I sip on the water glass in front of me with the ice almost completely melted. "Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away with Kol, did she know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith asks and I look up at her before standing up after setting my water down. "Kol got out?" I ask and see him rush in. "Kol!" I say and run over to him, wrapping my arms around his neck and feeling his around my waist, resting his head on my shoulder. "I thought I lost you." I say, crying a little. "Not for too long, darling." He says, cupping my face with both hands, wiping my tears away with his thumbs before pressing his soft lips against mine and I kiss back, running my hands through his soft hair as he places his hands back to my waist. "No, just that she was in some vain vain in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape." Sheriff says as Kol and I look at her. "Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere." Damon says and we see Matt walk in. "Hey. Is Elena here?" He asks and I feel Kol step in front of me before Damon dashes over to Matt, grabs him by the hem of his shirt and slams him against the kitchen wall, starting to choke him with an angry look on his face. "In what world are you the one that gets to live?!" Damon exclaims as Meredith tries to take Damon's hands off Matt. "Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" She exclaims and he choked Matt more. "Let him go, Damon. Now." Sheriff Forbes says before Kol dashes over to Damon, pulls him off Matt and dashes somewhere; the living room. I walk in with Meredith, Matt and Sheriff Forbes to see Damon sitting on the couch with Kol's arms crossed, standing in front of Damon.

"With your vervain and Alaric's weapons, they could be anywhere." Sheriff Forbes says to Damon as he's walking around the room, looking at us. "Come on, guys, think. It takes a lot to hold a vampire. Especially Originals. Reinforced steel, iron doors." Damon says. "The Pastor has a cattle ranch. Those pens could easily be modified." Matt says. "It's remote, it's secluded." Meredith says. "And we used to go to the pumpkin patch he had growing up. I know where it is." I say and Damon looks at Matt. "Well, guess what. Looks like you get a chance to prove how sorry you really are. Let's go. Baby Gilbert, you're driving." Damon says and I leave with him, Kol and Matt.

We soon arrive to the the Young Farm after nightfall in Damon's car, tossing him the keys. "What a wild ride. I miss this old car." I say. "She's a beauty." Damon says as we all close our doors and start walking to the front of the house. "So, what, we just storm the place with zero weapons?" Matt asks and we loom at him. "No, we don't need weapons. Just bait." Damon says before digging his fangs roughly into Matt's neck as he screams while Kol holds me back and Damon tosses Matt on the ground. Matt slowly starts to stand up as Damon is walking around with blood on his mouth. "Yoo-hoo! Anybody home? There's a big bad vampire out here." Damon says, taking a step forward towards the door and we see Pastor Young open the front door and then the screen door with a look of shock on his face and then at Matt. "Let him go, the boy's innocent." Pastor Young says and Damon looks back at Matt and then back to Pastor Young. "Well, that's the point. Give me Stefan and Elena. And Rebekah, he's all yours." He says before picking up Matt off the ground by the hem of his shirt. "Come on, Pastor. You know I'll kill him. I want to kill him." Damon says, smirking. "Go away. You are not invited in! And I'm not coming out." Pastor Young says and we hear gunfire before I'm dashed back to the car with Kol.

I look out my window to see two gunmen with their guns pointed down at Damon. "We have to do something. We can't let them kill Damon or anyone else." I whisper to Kol before we see Damon dash up, take the guns and snap one of the guard's necks and shoves one of the guns into the other's chest, feeling Kol covering my mouth as I was about to scream from the sudden rush. "I think he's got it, darling." I hear Kol whisper softly in my ear before we get out and walk over to them and see Damon kick Matt onto his back, his foot to Matt's throat. "Go ahead and kill me. You can't possibly hate me more than I hate myself." Matt says and Damon has a look of anger on his face. "Oh, yes I can." Damon says, adding pressure and Matt coughs. "Damon, please!" I exclaim. "It should have been you." Damon says to him before getting thrown to the ground and hissed at by Elena with her vampire face, holding the hem of Damon's shirt. "Leave him alone!" She exclaims.