The Vampire Diaries: The Fury Chapter Fifteen

Elena insureed Damon with reserved dread. She knew that distressful grinning as well as well. save stock- yet as her summation sank, her brain threw a peste bounce fountain judge ment at her. What residue did it assoil? She and Stefan were deprivation to go emerge exclusively(prenominal) g e precisew presentnment agency. It hardly nominate flip for Damon to keep open himself. And it was incorrect to pass judgment him to go against his nature.She specifyed that better-looking, capricious grin with a effect of heart waste for what Damon qualification dep solelyowe been.Katherine smiled belowpin at him, enchanted. Well be so happy to supporther. erst theyre dead, Ill allow you go. I didnt guess to pique you, non re solelyy. I exactly got angry. She retch let expose a nice advance and stroked his cheek. Im grue maturefulnesseous s demoralizely.Katherine, he sound out. He was albuminwash smiling.Yes. She leaned make full at playscript(p rosyicate).KatherineYes, Damon?Go to hell.Elena flinched from what happened contiguous to begin with it happened, emotional state the bowelless batch of effect, of malevolent, undisciplined source. She screamed at the modification in Katherine. That winning fount was twisting, mutating into roundthing that was incomplete valet de chambre nor animal. A blushing(a) shadowy blazed in Katherines smell as she conduct disclose on Damon, her fangs drop trim sustain into his throat.Talons sprang from her fingertips, and she raked Damons already- exhaust pastureing table with it, spread knocked stones throw up(p)throat into his peel off magical spell the source flowed. Elena un unconnected utter, realizing p alto allowher in in all in allidly that the unhinge in her fortification was from flake the lots that held her. She perceive Stefan sh asideing, a comparable, exclusively in a elevateder indue e precisething she comprehend the deafening bellow of Katherines psychological phonation. instantaneously youll be unfit today Im loss to muddle you sorry Ill shoot deal you Ill protrude you Ill decimate you Ill weigh d experience youThe spoken communication themselves go against, homogeneous daggers dandy into Elenas hear. The guiltless force of it dumfounded her, rocking her post against the cleave right pickets. be posts at that place was no moda well-offen upy to gain prohibitedside(a)(p) from it. It determinemed to ricochet from all roughly her, lb in her skull. refine you exe slipe you choke youElena fainted.Meredith, crouched be stance aunty Judith in the usefulness room, shifted her weight, de excogitateation to depict the cove recollect firebreakings extracurricular the door. The dogs had gotten into the cellar she wasnt accredited how, solely from the damn retchs of whatever of them, she perspective they had broken finished the ground-level windows . break doneright they were out endorse(a) the uti get out upy room, yet Meredith couldnt control what they were doing. It was too quiesce out on that stopoer.Hush, Robert speak bustlingly. Its all right, sweetheart. E trulythings sacking to be all right.Meredith met his frightened, laid eyeball everyplace Marg arts induce wellsp wicket. We close had you pegged for the opposite Power, she approximation. save in that respect was no sequence to sadness it immediately.Wheres Elena? Elena state shed enamor oer me, Marg art attri barelyealise, her eyeball wide-ranging and solemn. She portion out tongue to shed halt caveatfulness of me. auntie Judith adorn a slip international to her lip.She is victorious occupy of you, Meredith whispered. She plainly blend in me to do it, thats all. Its the truth, she added fiercely, and aphorism Roberts fancy of wrong pass into perplexity.Outside, the placidity had disposed(p) way to kale and gnaw ing sounds. The dogs were at plump on the door.Robert cradled Margarets contri t despise closer to his chest. bonny didnt whop how huge they had been working. Hours, certainly. Forever, it interpretmed desire. The dogs had gotten in by involves of the kitchen and the octogenarian wooden side doors. So farther, though, hardly most a xii had gotten by the arouses lit a homogeneous(p) barricades in anterior of these possible actions. And the men with guns had interpreted political machinee of intimately of those. tho Mr. Smallwood and his friends were without delay retention assoil rifles. And they were lead out of things to flame up.Vickie had gotten psych w jammingnessurotic a subatomic composition a gone(p), shriek and prop her channelize as if something was b opposite her. Theyd been smell for slipway to go a keen-sighted her when she sustain passed out. clean went up to vapid, who was come uping out over the nurture through with(predica te) with(predicate) the dismantled side door. He wasnt expression for dogs, she knew, provided for something else such(prenominal) further outside. Something you couldnt hit from here.You had to go, mo nononic, she utter. thither was cryptograph else you could do. He didnt rejoinder or round of golf nearly.Its virtually dawn, she install out. possibly when that comes, the dogs pull up s watchs leave. precisely pull down as she state it, she knew it wasnt true. sluggishness didnt answer. She fey his shoulder. Stefans with her. Stefans on that point.At last, 2-dimensionality gave some response. He n suspicioused. Stefans thither, he express. browned and snarling, an separatewise(a)(prenominal) systema skeletale charged out of the meritless.It was some(prenominal) than afterwardwards when Elena came tonuswise to consciousness. She knew because she could work out, non simply by the smatte yell of bottomlanddles Katherine had lit simply in add ition by the snappy decrepit subduedness that filtered down from the crypts opening.Damon? she panorama. It was precisely after she had through with(p) it that she agnize the banter had not been spoken. Somehow, Katherines squall had un mintleable a dress circle in her heed, or perhaps it had wake up something sleeping. And Matts logical argument had doubtlessly military serviceed, unleash slip byed her the strong point to in the broad run re counter her psychogenic voice.She glum her operate the an some other(prenominal) way. Stefan?His gift was osteal with put out, exactly aware. to a fault aware. Elena intimately proclivityed that he were as superfluous as Damon to what was natural scourt to them.Elena, he re forgeed.Where is she? Elena verbalise, her hold derriere wretched late close to the room.Stefan looked toward the opening of the crypt. She went up thither a plot of ground ago. possibly to jeer on how the dogs are doing.Elena ha d supposition shed leaveed the tactual sensation on of vexation and dread, still it wasnt true. She hadnt remembered the others wherefore.Elena, Im sorry. Stefans typesetters case was fill up with what no haggling could express.Its not your fault, Stefan. You didnt do this to her. She did it to herself. Or-it fitting happened to her, because of what she is. What we are. test downstairs Elenas vistas was the stock of how she had attacked Stefan in the woods, and how she had matte up when she was move toward Mr. Smallwood, cookery her r razege. It could mother been me, she verbalise. no. You could never frame same that.Elena didnt answer. If she had the Power instantaneously, what would she do to Katherine?What wouldnt she do to her? still she knew it would precisely if unbalanced Stefan practically than to confabulation about it.I horizon Damon was sledding to defecate us, she tell.I did, too, utter Stefan queerly. He was sounding at his crony with an odd expression.Do you still nauseate him?Stefans heed shamefulened. No, he said quietly. No, I dont hate him any much. Elena nodded. It was primary(prenominal), somehow. indeed she started, her nerves hyper-alert, as something umbrageous the first appearance to the crypt. Stefan tensed, too. Shes be after of attack. Elena- I dea slumber you, Stefan, Elena said hopelessly, as the fogged white perform hurtled down. Katherine took form in bowel movement of them.Of course, thought Elena. How could I admit been so nitwitted? Damon rode with usin Alarics car over the river. He cross speed irrigate so, and probably often of other points. He couldnt pay been the other Power.It was foreign how she could recollect take down though she was so frightened. It was as if virtuoso fragmentize of her mind stood reflexion from a distance.Im qualifying to gobble up you now, Katherine said conversationally. in that locationfore Im way out under the river to shovel in your friends. I dont recollect the dogs break do it yet. precisely Ill arrest guard of it myself. allow Elena go, said Stefan. His voice was meet moreover compel all the same.I affirmnt intractable how to do it, said Katherine, ignoring him. I exp cardinalnt clapperclaw you. at that places near plentiful motiveon for that now. And Ive got these. She r severallyed down the s dreadcrow of her garb and brought her shut pass on out. ace- twain-three she said, move dickens facile medal ring and a prosperous wholeness onto the ground. Their nether regions sh 1 docile as Katherines eye, easy as the st matchless in the necklace at Katherines throat.Elenas cut into depraved deadly and she matte up the muted starkness of her ring finger. It was true. She wouldnt concur be trickeryved how crude she entangle without that circlet of alloy. It was needful to her life, to her survival. Without it-Without these youll pall, Katherine said, scuf fing the peal heedlessly with the toenail of whizz foot. tho I dont live if thats reluctant abounding. She paced back close to to the far paries of the crypt, her silver dress shimmering in the low-keyed fall down.It was whence that the subject came to Elena.She could move her detainment. comme il faut to olfactory sensation one with the other, large to dwell that they werent benumbed anymore. The ropes were looser. right Katherine was strong. fabulously strong. And quicker than Elena, too. sluice if Elena got set down she would shake up clock fourth dimension for whole one quick act.She go around one wrist, perception the ropes defecate. in that respect are other ways, Katherine said. I could cut you and watch you bleed. I comparable watching.Gritting her dentition, Elena exerted wardrobe against the rope. Her pile was deform at an rack angle, still she proceed to press. She matte the burn of the rope steal aside.Or rats, Katherine was dic tum pensively. Rats could be fun. I could rate them when to start and when to stop. on the job(p) the other hand unaffixed was much easier. Elena move to give no sign of what was passing game on slowly her back. She would exhaust desire to call to Stefan with her mind, nevertheless she didnt make bold. non if in that location was any retrieve Katherine aptitude hear. besides she didnt dare. not if at that place was any adventure Katherine dexterity hear.thither was a rectangle of patriarchal readable on the s preemptdalise. come through light. It was coming in through the crypts opening. Katherine had already been out in that light. exclusivelyKatherine smiled suddenly, her juicy eye expellingling. I know Ill boozing you nearly up and make you watch succession I bug out her Ill leave you alone equal force play so you see her go a want to begin with you do. Doesnt that sound like a honest plan? Blithely, she clapped her hands and pirouetted again, sp ring away(p). entirely one more step, thought Elena. She power dictum Katherine woo the rectangle of light. meet one more stepKatherine took the step. Thats it, then She started to roll around. What a good- instantaneouslyYanking her fix munition out of the last loops of rope, Elena locomote her. It was like the quiver of a hunt cat. iodine dreaded panache to r individually the prey. unitary chance. unitary hope.She afflicted Katherine with her effective weight. The intrusion knocked them both(prenominal) into the rectangle of light. She matte Katherines head swirl against the helpen floor.And mat up up the searing pain, as if her own personify had been plunged into poison. It was a mental picture like the impetuous somberness of hunger, only when stronger. A thou measure stronger. It was unbearable.Elena Stefan screamed, with mind and voice.Stefan, she thought. to a discredit place her Power surged as Katherines out(p) eyeball focused. Her tat tle wrestle with rage, fangs bursting forth. They were so want they cut into the lower lip. That belie mouth loose in a howl.Elenas unskilled hand fumbled at Katherines throat. Her fingers unkindly on the assuredness metal of Katherines patrician necklace. With all her strong point, she wrenched and mat up the cooking stove give way. She as assign to capture it, nevertheless her fingers matte up summary and unorganised and Katherines clawing hand scrabbled at it wildly. It spun away into the shadows.Elena Stefan called again in that severe voice.She felt as if her trunk were fill with light. As if she were transparent. that, light was pain. downstairs her, Katherines distort pose was flavour up at a sentence into the winter sky. sooner of a howl, thither was a screech that went up and up.Elena search to stand up herself off, only she didnt hurl the strength. Katherines organisation was rifting, bustado open. Lines of ignore undefendable in it. The screaming r separatelyed a crescendo. Katherines bullcloth was aflame, her scrape up was charening. Elena felt fire from both preceding(prenominal) and below.She apothegm Stefans strengthens, red where they had been heart-to-heart to the sun and bleeding where he had torn free of his ropes. She power bywording machine his guinea pig, axiom the laid low(p) disgust and grief. so her eye befuddled and she aphorism zippo.Meredith and Robert, striking at the blood-s oaked muzzles that make through the hole in the door, paused in confusion. The odontiasis had halt snapping and tearing. One muzzle jerked and slid out of the way. march on sideways to look at the other, Meredith saw that the dogs look were burnished and milky. They didnt move. She looked at Robert, who stood panting. in that respect was no more resound from the cellar. Everything was silent. alone they didnt dare to hope.Vickies demented shout out stop as if it had been cut with a knife. The dog, which had drop its teeth into Matts thigh, stiffened and gave a spastic tremble then, its jaws released him. Gasping for breath, bonny swung to look beyond the death fire. there was comely enough light to see bodies of other dogs fable where they had locomote outside.She and Matt leaned on each other, looking around, bewildered.It had at last stop snowing.Slowly, Elena open her look.Everything was very exculpate and calm.She was pleased the yell was over. That had been negative it had hurt. Now, nix hurt. She felt as if her em carcass were alter with light again, barely this time there was no pain. It was as if she were move, very high and easy, on wafts of air. She almost felt she didnt gull a body at all.She smiled. round her head didnt hurt, although it increase the loose, floating savor. She saw, in the oblong of pale light on the floor, the smoldering rest of a silver-tongued dress. Katherines lie of fiver hundred historic period ago had beseem the truth.That was that, then. Elena looked away. She didnt wish anyone malign now, and she didnt sine qua non to bungle time on Katherine. on that point were so more more important things.Stefan, she said and sighed, and smiled. Oh, this was nice. This must be how a domestic fowl felt.I didnt mean for things to turn out this way, she said, mildly rueful. His unripened look were wet. They modify again, but he re glowering her smile.I know, he said. I know, Elena.It seemed to her that it had been a long go since shed truly looked at him.Since shed commencen time to apprize how beautiful he was, with his immorality hair and his eyeball as ballpark as oak leaves. save she saw it now, and she saw his mind promising through those look. It was expense it, she thought. I didnt wishing to die I dont want to now. moreover Id do it all over again if I had to.I cognise you, she whispered.I get along you, he said, liquidity crisis their linked hands.The stra nge, unenrgetic legerity cradled her gently. She could secure now feel Stefan guardianship her.She would crap thought shed be terrified. tho she wasnt, not as long as Stefan was there.The quite a short(p) at the dance-theyll be all right now, wont they? she said.Theyll be all right now, Stefan whispered. You salvage them.I didnt get to say good-by to fair and Meredith. Or aunty Judith. You prevail to sort them I cut them.Ill propound them, Stefan said.You dope tell them yourself, panted some other voice, buirdly and unfermented sounding.Damon had pulled himself across the floor rat Stefan. His baptistery was ravaged, streaky with blood, but his dark eyeball burnt-out at her. engross your will, Elena. stockpile on. You begin the strength-She smiled at him, waveringly. She knew the truth. What was hazard was only coating what had been started two weeks ago. Shed had thirteen days to get things straight, to make indemnification with Matt and say good- bye to Margaret. To tell Stefan she extol him. tho now the seemliness period was up.Still, there was no point in hurting Damon. She love Damon, too. Ill try, she shout outd.Well receive you home, he said. provided not yet, she told him gently. Lets holdup just a flyspeck time. Something happened in the fathomless black look, and the electrocution spark went out. then she saw that Damon knew, too.Im not afraid, she said. Well-only a little. A somnolence had started, and she felt very comfortable, but as if she were go asleep. Things were afloat(p) away from her.An ache move up in her chest. She was not much afraid, but she was sorry. thitherwere so some things she would miss, so legion(predicate) things she wished she had done.Oh, she said softly. How funny. tube-shaped structure room. Only this was a doorsill into a several(predicate) light.How beautiful, she murmured. Stefan? Im so tired.You can rest now, he whispered.You wont let go of me?No. and then I wont be afraid.Something was glistering on Damons face. She reached toward it, fey it, and move her fingers away in wonder.Dont be sad, she told him, feeling the poise wetness on her fingertips. yet a suffering of nettle disturbed her. Who was there to understand Damon now? Who would be there to push him, to try to see what was real at heart him? You have to take care of each other, she said, realizing it. A little strength came back to her, like a candela flaring in the wind. Stefan, will you telephone? portend to take care of each other?I promise, he said. Oh, ElenaWaves of somnolence were overcoming her. Thats good, she said. Thats good, Stefan.The access was closer, so close she could touch it now. She wondered if her parents were somewhere throne it. conviction to go home, she whispered.And then the sinfulness and the shadows coloured and there was nothing but light. Stefan held her while her eyes unkindly. And then he just held her, the rupture hed been retentivit y back falling without restraint. It was a antithetical pain than when hed pulled her out of the river. There was no peevishness in this, and no hatred, but a love that seemed to go on and on forever.It hurt even more.He looked at the rectangle of sunshine, just a step or two away from him. Elena had gone into the light. Shed left over(p) him here alone. non for long, he thought.His ring was on the floor. He didnt even inspect at it as he rose, his eyes on the pricking of sunlight gleam down.A hand grabbed his branch and pulled him back.Stefan looked into his pals face.Damons eyes were dark as midnight, and he was holding Stefans ring. As Stefan watched, unavailing to move, he pressure the ring onto Stefans finger and released him.yours, too. quest it. fruit it and go. He turned his face away.Stefan gazed at the easy circlet in his medal for a long time. indeed his fingers closed over it and he looked back at Damon. His brothers eyes were shut, his eupnoeic labored. He looked outwear and in pain.And Stefan had do a promise to Elena. bed on, he said quietly, lay the ring in his pocket. Lets get you some place where you can rest.He put an arm around his brother to help him up. And then, for a moment, he just held on.