Reflection [Damon Salvatore x Reader]

2. The Wait

The next day brought startling news. Jenna had been compelled to stab herself. She was alive, thankfully, and out of the hospital, but it was clear no one was safe from Katherine.

You were pretty sure she wouldn't be happy to learn you'd hacked into her cell phone account.

Not that you'd have to worry about Mason saying anything about it. According to Caroline, he was very dead. After hearing the news, your mind conjured Mason's agonized screams throughout the rest of the day. You couldn't concentrate in class.

You didn't feel like going to the Masquerade Ball at the Lockwood's, either. Instead, you retreated to your room to game once you'd finished your homework. You were halfway through a level when Caroline called after ten.

By the time you hung up, you were glad you'd decided to stay home. Tyler had killed a girl Katherine had compelled, triggering his werewolf curse. Elena had been linked to Katherine and suffered all the injuries Stefan and Damon had inflicted in their quest to kill her. Luckily, Bonnie had saved the day and convinced Katherine's witch to unlink them and disarm Katherine. Katherine had been caught. Finally.

Before going to bed, you hoped things would settle down now that Elena's evil vampire double was out of the picture.

When a worried Stefan and Jeremy approached you the next day right after second period, you realized you should have known better. "Have you seen Elena?" Jeremy asked.

You shook your head. "Not since yesterday. Why?"

They shared a look. "She's missing," Stefan said.

"Missing?" That wasn't like Elena. She always picked up when someone called.

Jeremy stepped closer, lowered his voice. "We were hoping you could find a way into her phone, like you did with Katherine. Get her GPS information."

"That'll take too long." You pulled out your mobile and strode for an exit that led outside. "What's her carrier?"

Jeremy, following after, told you. Stefan wasn't far behind.

You called information and got the number to their customer service line as you stepped into the sunlight. Dialing in, you waited with the guys, moving far enough away from the door that there shouldn't be much in the way of background noise. After a few minutes, the hold music went away and a man on the other end greeted you and introduced himself. "Hello, yes," you answered, doing your best to sound mature. "I need some help."

"What can I help you with?"

"My daughter's taken off with my car." Jeremy's brows shot up in surprise. "It's just teenage angst. But if you could turn on her GPS, I would really appreciate it."

"We're not supposed to—"

"I understand," you said, cutting him off. "But she's just sixteen. I don't want to file a police report on a sixteen-year-old girl."

There was a moment of silence before he replied, "Alright. But you'll need her password to log into the GPS tracker."

"I have it." You flashed Stefan and Jeremy a thumbs up. "Thank you so much." You listened to his farewell and hung up. "There." You pulled your laptop out of your backpack and opened it up on a nearby picnic table. "Now I just need to crack her password." You aimed a searching look at Jeremy. "Unless you know it."

Jeremy shook his head.

"This might take some time, then." You brought up a program that went through thousands of popular passwords and set it to run on Elena's mobile account.

"How long?"

"A few minutes if we're lucky." It was still running, which meant it wasn't any of the top thousand. "If not, then we could be looking at hours if I have to run a program that generates random combinations. And there's no guarantee that'll work, either."