Rescue me

Chapter 10 - Leave/Live

The Salvatore school was awfully quiet, the events at the soccer field had sounded the alarm for the students and everyone was in their room, waiting for further instructions. Everyone except Jo. She was at her dad's office, anxiously prowling around his desk, in desperate need of news concerning her sister. Suddenly, she heard a knock on the door and ran to open it, hoping for some developments. It was the first time she felt disappointed seeing Jade on the other side of it.

"Hey." Jade's tone denoted pure concern for the girl in front of her, who returned quickly to the office, waiting for the phone to ring or something. "I was worried about you and I just wanted to make sure you're okay." she continued, ignoring the fact that Josie had completely dismissed her.

"Nothing about this is okay. My sister is captured by one of the most powerful beings to ever exist and God knows what he is going to do to her." the brunette yelled, misplacing her anger onto the girl.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean-" Jade apologized. "I just didn't want you to be alone right now, since your father is not here."

"That's right. Everyone is out there, putting themselves in danger and I'm here doing nothing. I'm completely useless." the siphon broke down, not able to control her emotions.

"Hey, you're not useless. You're needed here. Someone had to stay behind. Don't worry, Hope and Dr. Saltzman got this, I'm sure everything will be fine." the vampire tried to console her.

"Don't worry? Are you listening to yourself? Lizzie could die at any moment if she's not already gone and you're here telling me to calm down? I don't want to calm down, I want my sister back." Jo returned furious.

"I-" Jade exhaled "I'm just trying to be there for you."

"And it's not helping. I guess you're just as useless." Josie spat out dead serious.

Heavy silence soaked the room as the ginger strived to process the words coming from the cold stranger across the desk.

"You're upset." she finally spoke with a steady, almost professional voice. "Maybe I should come back later."

"Don't." 

Jade took a last glimpse of Josie's expressionless face, as she was clearly refusing to look back at the vampire, before the first left the office.

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"I don't want to come off as needy but I would really appreciate if you could go a little faster." Lizzie suggested for a third time, as Hope was trying and inevitably failing to break her free.

"And I don't want to keep repeating myself by saying that this thing is impenetrable. Just give me a minute." the tribrid begged for some peace and quiet.

"That's what she said."  she shrugged cheeky.

"Really?" Hope raised an eyebrow, unable to comprehend how the girl could crack this kind of jokes- or any joke at this point.

"Sorry. Force of habit." the blonde raised her shoulders again.

"Well, I don't want to be the one to kill the mood-"

"You usually are."

"But I've tried everything I could think of." she continued, ignoring the comment. "I've done five different spells, tried bending it, melting it, breaking it in half. Nothing worked. Have you tried siphoning it's magic?"

"Well, duh. I'm a siphoner. I siphon things."

"So, what's the problem with this one?"