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XXXV • INTO THE WILD

thirty-five. into the wild

Nova Scotia Island, Canada

Atticus Shane, the young Occult professor who has already been to the distant island one previous year ago in 2009, stands on the beach, looking on at the familiar island once again as the other passengers unload from the boats on the shore during morning. Him, Rosie, Stefan, Damon, Jeremy, Bonnie, Rebekah, and Elena form the group, joining him on the dry beach.

"Congratulations. We made it." Professor Shane declared to himself lowly, mentally reminding himself that he intends to be here for only Silas.

Unlike the rest of them, whose main objective is the precious cure.

The others continue to unload, each with varying expressions of uncertainty and curiosity on their faces as they take in their new surroundings. Damon is sharpening a knife on the beach when the Occult professor walks up to him.

"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?" Damon looks on at the awaiting woods with a jugdmental frown.

"Two hundred miles off the Nova Scotia mainland. If you recall, the whole point was to hide the cure on the world's most obscure, desolate island."

"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world." The icy blue-eyed vampire reminded him about the being who's over two thousand years old, alive as an immortal.

"Yeah, that too." Shane holds up a bottle of sunscreen and offers it to him.

Damon looks down at it before looking back at him, "Is that a joke?"

"Right." Shane puts the bottle of sunscreen back in his heavy back pack.

Stefan is tying a knot with some rope as his girlfriend closely watches him, while Rebekah is standing close by, glaring at Elena as she walks past.

Rosie casually mentioned it, "Careful, Rebekah. You may never know when she can pluck your eyeballs out just by giving her the evil eye."

"She killed my brother, tried to get you two to put a dagger in my back. She's lucky all she's getting is the evil eye." The Original blonde hissed.

The Gilbert girl stops in her tracks, "You know I can hear you, right?"

"You know I don't care, right?" Rebekah sassed, which makes Rosie smile.

Elena vamp-speeds towards the Original vampire, grabbing her neck and pointing the white oak stake at her chest. Rebekah quickly flips her over and pushes her to the ground while Rosie and Stefan watch the scene.

"Go ahead, try and kill me. But then you'd have to face your real problems. Like the fact that Rosie invited me here, herself. I guess she likes me again." Rebekah walks away, and the youngest vampire frowns up at Rosie.