Liz had called Damon, Stefan and me to meet her at the hospital.
Damon and I were standing together in the waiting room.
Stefan walked toward us.
"You just missed the doughnuts," I told him.
"Yeah, I was with Elena, burning off a few thousand hate-filled calories," Stefan told us. He looked at Damon. "What happened to you helping me?"
"Help?" Damon asked. "Yes. Prolong the inevitable? Waste of my time."
"Mm, you're avoiding," I told him. "How unexpected."
"I'm not avoiding," Damon told us. "Elena's only goal is to end Katherine's life, and that's not gonna just magically disappear with pilates and a juice cleanse."
Liz approached us. "Hey, guys, thanks for coming."
"Hey," Stefan said.
"Why were we invited?" Damon asked.
"Well, the hospital has kept the blood banks empty ever since they were raided last month," Liz told us. "We thought at the very least it would help keep the vampire population away."
"And it didn't?" I asked.
"See for yourself," Liz told us, leading us into a patient's room where a body lied on a bed, its wrists bloodied.
"Whoa," I said.
"There are four other victims in this wing, each one almost completely drained of blood," Liz told us. "You think it's Silas?"
"Or a doctor with some very questionable bedside manners," Damon told her.
"But five victims?" Liz asked. "That's a lot of blood, and it's not like he can take it with him."
"Unless he's fueling up for something big," I told her, exchanging looks with my brothers.
"Big?" Liz repeated. "Any details would be helpful, considering I'm dealing with five grieving families out there and a psychic killer on the loose."
"Silas wants Bonnie to do a spell to drop the Veil from the Other Side," Damon told her.
"I have no idea what that means," Liz told us.
"It's an invisible wall that separates our plane from the plane of all dead supernatural creatures," Damon explained. "Now, Silas wants that to go away so he can take the Cure, die, and not have to spend an eternity in a supernatural purgatory."
"And when do you suppose Silas plans on doing this?" Liz asked.
"Next full moon," I answered. "Tomorrow night."
****
After dark, the lights had powered off completely.
So, surrounded around a desk, we had flashlights to look at a map in front of us.
Liz markered the places with a marker as she spoke. "The power outages originated at three different places in town: the Young farm, the Lockwood estate, and a blown transformer off Old Miller Road."
I picked up the marker and connected the dots. "Well, these are the locations of the Silas massacres. It's the Expression Triangle. Bonnie must be doing the spell."
"So much for needing a full moon," Damon said.
"And there's something else," Liz said. "One of the power company guys has a daughter who goes to school with Bonnie. He saw her leaving the Young farm an hour ago... with Elena."
