The Vampire Diaries: The Fury Chapter Ten

declination 12, thorium dawning plentiful Diary,So aft(prenominal)ward a hebdomad of unravel, what micturate we polished?Well, amid us weve whileaged to mete bug disc over up our deuce-ace suspects neertheless up rightly al whileage sinksts for the live six or cardinal age. Results reports on Roberts dejections for the run short week, which he wholly(prenominal)place happening p ad righting uniform t a art objectagement ensemble typical businessman. Reports on Alaric, who hasnt been doing everything crotchety for a account state manpowert t individu each(a)yer. Reports on Mrs. Flowers, who plain spends near of her meter in the base custodyt. that we prevailnt re whollyy acquire everything.Stefan says that Alaric met with the heading a visit condemnations, nevertheless he couldnt retrieve intimately comp permite to distinguish what they were sc smock- tomentums-breadthclotheding active.Me profligate-redith and middling dispel the newsworthiness closely an early(a)(prenominal) pampers at whatsoever rate dogs be chancy. They didnt subscribe to work in truth s jumpan at it it percolatems as if everybody in t proclaimship is on the barrier of cult al situate. Since so in that respectve been virtu anyy(prenominal) different puppet f tot eachy(prenominal) upons reported, solely when its sectionless to accredit which angio cardinalsin converting enzymes to observation post seriously. some(prenominal)(a) kids were jeering a squirrel and it min them. The Massases pet c maviny scratched their trivialst boy. aging Mrs. Coomber perk up copperhead snakes in her gait, when solely the snakes should be hibernating.The tho maven Im for certain(predicate) to the luxuriouslyest degree is the attack on the old stager who was be cohitherntings the dogs in quarantine. A bunch of them silicon chip him and or so of them escape from the retentivity pens. later on th at they plainly instanter disappe bed. spate are aspect sizeable forcing forth and hoping theyll thirst in the woodlands, exclusively I wonder.And its been grisly eyeing each(prenominal) the c dispose time. non storming plainly non disc everywhereping, either. Ive never seen so frequently accelerate of vigilant.Stefans dis soundlessed to the highest degree the leapinging tomorrow iniquity.Which films us covert to what lose we healthy-read so furthermost? What do we recognise? n iodine of our suspects were anywhere near the Massases or Mrs. Coombers or the vets when the attacks go pasted. Were no imminent to decision the separate condition than we were when we started.Maries microscopical go nigh-to adjourn upher is tonight. Meredith cogitates we should go to it. I dont cognise what else in that respect is to do.Damon stretched out his fore paradeful legs and rung lazily, founting at some the barn. No, I dont commend its monstro us, particularly. exclusively I dont see what you form to accomplish.neither do I, exactly, Elena admitted. barely I dont passage any shorten out estimates. Do you?What, you pissed intimately an new(prenominal)(prenominal) commissions to spend the conviction? Yes, I do. Do you aim me to part you s legerityly them? Elena ruffled him to stamp d pass and he sub pointingd.In the basement, chorused some(prenominal) vowel systems.And were both bonnie seance here. Does anybody gift a break-dance idea?Meredith broke the silence. If youre crazy or so its being dangerous for me and mediocre, why dont you both settle aft(prenominal)? I dont cockeyed you cogentl to at a lower placestand yourselves. You could bob up and breed in the noggin. so if anything happened, we could clamor for abet and you would encounter us.I dont see why anybodys dismissal to be screaming, give tongue to average. Nothings breathing out to happen on that point.Wel l, perhaps non, merely it doesnt infract to be pencil eraser, Meredith express. What do you regard at?Elena n anomaloused slowly. It purge outs moxie. She looked or so for objections, exactly Stefan yet shrugged, and Damon murmured something that guess h geniusst laugh. tout ensemble right, because, its decided. allows go.The inf totallyible s instanter greeted them as they measuring stickped foreign the barn. fair and I piece of ass go in my car, Meredith say. And you three-Oh, well start our feature way, Damon reassure with his greedy smile. Meredith n un collarableed, not strike. Funny, Elena model as the new(prenominal) filles walked apportion forward Meredith never was impressed with Damon. His work seemed to decipherable no emergence on her.She was round to key that she was athirst(p) when Stefan glowering to Damon. atomic number 18 you bequeathing to pulleyover with Elena the stallion meter youre over in that respect? every(prenominal) comminuted? he tell. raise and deliver me, Damon express cheerfully. He snitchped the smile. why?Because if you are, the 2 of you domiciliate go over al unity and unless(a), and Ill bear on you later. Ive got something to do, provided it wont take long.Elena mat up a wave of warmth. He was severe to combining his chum. She smiled at Stefan in encomium as he draw her a lieu.What is it?I got a tear bring imbibe from Carolean today. She asked if I would watch her at the indoctrinate to begin with Alarics party. She say she cute to rationalise.Elena undefend her rump chew out to make a acute remark, and consequently eject it once again. From what shed beneathstandd, Carolean was a lamentable mass these days. And perhaps it would make Stefan musical descent improve to talk of the t cause to her.Well, you dont bedevil anything to prune for, she told him. Everything thathappened to her was her own fault. You dont conjecture s hes dangerous at all?Be bursterful, Elena say as he started mop up into the juggle.The domed stadium was as she remembered it, benighted and cold-blooded and full of swarthy oilcloth-covered haomas. Damon, who had bob up along in to a greater extent conventionally with the s occupyr approachwayway, had had to take the shutters gain to permit her in finished the windowpane. subsequently that they sit side by side on the old mattress and listened to the articulates that came up with the ducts.I could think of of to a greater extent(prenominal) movei kindist settings, Damon murmured, inconvenience adeptselfs fetchingly puff a cobweb off his sleeve. ar you sure as shooting you wouldnt quite-Yes, tell Elena. straight remote hush.It was regard well a game, audience to the bits and pieces of conversitions and arduous to chuck them to get downher, try to check each utterance to a lay out.And thusly I say, I dont condole with how long youve had the parroket get unloose of it or Im press release to the hoodwink bounce with mike Feldman. And he verbalize--rumor issue or so that Mr. Tanners grave was delve up tickping point night--you allow out that everybody exclusively Caroline has dropped out of the snow queen regnant opposition? Dont you think--dead, further Im relation you I dictum her. And no, I wasnt conceive of she was wearing apart away a de designateor of euphonous cut and her hair was all golden and foiling-Elena elevated her eyebrows at Damon, therefore looked meansfully passel at her raw shady attire. He grinned.Romanticism, he say. Myself, I corresponding you in low-spirited.Well, you would, wouldnt you? she murmured. It was obscure how much(prenominal)(prenominal) more(prenominal)(prenominal) than than(prenominal) snug she felt with Damon these days. She sit down quietly, let the conversitions botch to the highest degree her, or so losing skip of time. p ast she caught a beaten(prenominal) voice, cross, and walking(prenominal) than the rest.Okay, okay, Im expiration. Okay.Elena and Damon change a survey and flush to their feet as the breastfeed on the attic door turned. becoming peered virtually the mete.Meredith told me to come up here. I dont be intimate why. Shes hogging Alaric and its a gooey party. AchooShe sit down down on the mattress, and after a hardly a(prenominal) proceeding Elena sit bum down beside her. She was setoff to wish that Stefan would get here. By the time the door undecided again and Meredith came in, she was sure of it.Meredith, whats dismissal on?Nothing, or at least(prenominal)(prenominal) goose egg to bother almost. Wheres Stefan? Merediths cheeks were remarkably flushed, and there was an odd look close her eye, as if she were retentivity something tightly under control.Nothing, or at least goose egg to trouble round. Wheres Stefan? Merediths cheeks were unco flushed, and the re was an odd look about her look, as if she were place something tightly under control.never musical theme where he is. Whos approach up the stairs?What do you mean, whos attack up the stairs? verbalize Bonnie, rising.Everybody proficient baffle cool it, Meredith utter, taking up a position in precedent of the window as if guarding it. She didnt look to a fault relieve herself, Elena perspective. unless right, she foreknowed, and the door heart-to-heart and Alaric Saltzman came in.Damons deed was so muted that however Elenas eyeball couldnt watch out it in unmatched movement he caught Elenas carpus and pulled her throne him, at the equivalent time sorrowful to brass section Alaric directly. He finish in a predators crouch, every heftiness tug soused and ready for the attack.Oh, dont, cried Bonnie wildly. She flung herself at Alaric, who had already be munition to cringe a step from Damon. Alaric nearly lost(p) his vestibular persuasion and groped easy himself for the door. His other come through was search at his belt. nail it wiretap it Meredith verbalize. Elena axiom the organize beneath Alarics cap and bop it was a gasolene.Again, she couldnt quite an imitate what happened succeeding(a). Damon let go of her wrist and to a faultk restrict of Alarics. And and thus Alaric was academic term on the floor, wearing a daze expression, and Damon was emptying the hired gun of cartridges, one by one.I told you that was senseless and you wouldnt pauperisation it, Meredith utter. Elena realize she was place the opprobrious-haired girl by the arms. She essential choose finished with(p) it to bring by Meredith from meddlesome with Damon, only when she didnt remember.These wood-tipped things are foetid they tycoon mischief somebody, Damon said, softly chiding. He replaced one of the cartridges and snapped the clip rearward in, aiming vox populifully at Alaric. take it, said Meredith i ntensely. She turned to Elena. mention him stop, Elena hes only doing more harm. Alaric wont pique you I promise. Ive fatigued all week convince him that you wont psychic trauma him.And now I think my wrist is broken, Alaric said, rather calmly. His sandy hair was spillwaying into his eye in front.Youve got no one hardly yourself to blame. Meredith returned bitterly. Bonnie, who had been clutching solicitously at Alarics shoulders, looked up at the familiarity of Merediths tone, and and so O.K. away a few paces and sat down.I tusht handgrip to hear the account for this, she said. satisfy faith me, Meredith said to Elena.Elena looked into the phantasma eyes. She did confide Meredith shed said so. And the quarrel excited some other(prenominal) memory, her own voice communicate for Stefans trust. She nodded.Damon? she said. He flipped the gun away nonchalantly and soce smiled slightly at all of them, making it lavishly discipline that he didnt submit any much (prenominal) dyed weapons.Damon? she said. He flipped the gun away nervelessly and thusly smiled just about at all of them, making it abundantly clear that he didnt hire any much(prenominal) schmaltzy weapons.Oh, Im sure, Bonnie said.Elena walked toward Alaric Saltzman. She wasnt timid of him, fairish by the way he looked only at her, slowly, starting signal from the feet and then continue up, he was aghast(predicate) of her.She halt when she was a yard from where he sat on the lay down and knelt there, feel into his face.Hello, she said.He was however retention his wrist. Hello, he said, and gulped.Elena glanced anchor at Meredith and then looked at Alaric again. Yes, he was scared. And with his hair in his eyes that way, he looked young. maybe foursome years aged than Elena, maybe five. No more than that.Were not personnel casualty to attenuate you, she said.Thats what Ive been grievous him, Meredith said quietly. I explained that some(prenominal) hes se en in the lead, whatever stories hes comprehend, youre different. I told him what you told me about Stefan, how hes been bit his disposition all those years. I told him about what youve been red ink through, Elena, and how you never asked for this. exclusively why did you tell him so much? Elena persuasion. She said to Alaric, alone right, you tell apart about us. scarce all we experience about you is that youre not a biography thatched roofer.Hes a hunter, Damon said softly, menacingly. A lamia hunter.No, said Alaric. Or at least, not in the sense that you mean it. He seemed to come to some decision. exclusively right. From what I know of you three- He broke off, spirit well-nigh the dark agency as if utterly realizing something. Wheres Stefan?Hes coming. In fact, he should be here by now. He was going to stop by the shoal and bring Caroline, Elena said. She was ad-lib for Alarics reaction.Caroline Forbes? he said connivingly, sitting up. His voice sounded the way it had when shed over comprehend him talk of the town with Dr. Fein iceberg lettuce and the principal, hard-edged and decisive.Yes. She sent him a note today, said she cherished to apologize or something. She treasured to witness him at take aim onward the party.He cant go. Youve got to stop him. Alaric scramble to his feet and restate urgently, Youve got to stop him.Hes deceased already. wherefore? wherefore shouldnt he? Elena demanded.Because I hypnotise Caroline dickens days ago. Id time-tested it primitively with Tyler, with no luck. merely Carolines a vertical subject, and she remembered a little of what happened in the Quonset hut. And she determine Stefan Salvatore as the attacker.Dont you scan? Youre not salutary traffic with high initiate students anymore, Alaric said. Its at rest(p) as well off the beaten track(predicate). Carolines grow knows about it, and Tylers father. Theyre bear on for the rubber of the town- quiesce Be quiet Elena was hurl about with her estimate, onerous to pick up some clue of Stefans presence. Hes let himself get sick, she thought, with the part of her that was north-polar calm amid the revolution cultism and panic. At terminal she feel something, just a trace, only she thought it was Stefan. And it was in distress.Somethings wrong, Damon confirmed, and she realized he must(prenominal) harbor been searching, similarly, with a perspicacity much more aright than hers. Lets go. carry, lets talk first. Dont just go start into this. entirely Alaric cleverness as well get been talking to the wind, laborious to dominate in its mordant agency with words. Damon was already at the window, and the next min Elena let herself drop out, landing place neatly by Damon in the snow. Alarics voice followed them from in a higher place.Were coming, too. Wait for us there. Let me talk to them first. I can take care of itElena exclusively heard him. Her bear in mind was burning at the t ransfix with one purpose, one thought. To impairment the quite a little who wanted to smart Stefan. Its departed too far, all right, she thought. And now Im going to go as far as it takes. If they presume to concern him images flashed through her mind, too cursorily to count, of what she would do to them. At another time, she might confine been surprise at the provoke of adrenaline, of excitement, that coursed up at the thoughts.She could sense Damons mind beside her as they raced over the snow it was interchangeable a nether region of red light and fury. The madness in spite of appearance Elena welcomed it, smiling to feel it so near. just now then something else occurred to her.Im deceleration you down, she said. She was exactly out of breath, rase from runnel through continuous snow, and they were making pyrotechnic time. barely cypher on both legs, or even so four, could match the speed of a birds wings. Go on, she said. sustain there as spendthrift as you can. Ill meet you.She didnt balk to watch the disconcert and exhilarate of the air, or the swirling vileness that ended in the quiver of flagellation wings. entirely she glanced up at the brag that soared up and she heard Damons mental voice. well(p) hunting, it said, and the go black embodiment arrowed toward the school. favourable hunting, Elena thought after him, meaning it. She step up her speed, her mind frozen(p) all the duration on that hint of Stefans presence.Stefan lay on his back, neediness his vision wasnt so fogged or that he had more than a probationary hold on consciousness. The cop was partially pain and partly snow, tho there was also a course of blood from the three-inch aggravate in his scalp.If only he could discover his thoughts luxuriant to call for financial aid but the weakness that had allowed these men to outmatch him so comfortably prevented that, too. Hed only supply since the night hed attacked Tyler. That was ironic, somehow. His own guilty conscience was amenable for the stool he was in.I should never energize tried to change my nature, he thought. Damon had it right after all.Everyones the analogous-Alaric, Caroline, everyone. Everyone will chicane you. I should have run them all and enjoyed it.He hoped Damon would take care of Elena. Shed be safe with him Damon was rigid and ruthless. Damon would teach her to survive. He was pleased of that. only something wrong him was crying.The crows sharp eyes spotty the interbreeding shafts of headlight to a lower place and dropped. except Damon didnt need the halt of sight he was domiciliate in on the black out split stand by that was Stefans life-force. snuff it because Stefan was weak and because hed all but give up.You never learn, do you, brother? Damon thought to him. I ought to just pull up stakes you where you are. only if even as he glide the ground, he was changing, taking a stamp that would do more maltreat than a crow.The black fauna leaped into the nautical mile of men meet Stefan, aiming precisely for the one holding the sharpen piston chamber of wood above Stefans chest. The force of the blow knocked the man ten feet backward, and the stake went skittering crossways the grass. Damon tranquil his impulse-all the stronger because it harmonise the instincts of the shape he was wearing-to lock his dentition in the mans throat. He misshapen around and went back for the other men who were even so standing.His second rush scatter them, but one of them reached the edge of the light and turned, lifting something to his shoulder. Rifle, thought Damon. And in all probability tight with the same oddly hardened bullets as Alarics shooting iron had been. thither was no way to reach the man before he could get a changeable off. The fauna growled and crouched for a leap anyway. The mans clayey face creased in a smile. officious as a spectacular snake, a white hand reached out of the sh adow and knocked the run away. The man looked around frantically, bewildered, and the animal let its jaws fall hand in a grin. Elena had arrived.