[Paris' outfit for after the ball is at the top.]

꧁ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ꧂
ʙᴀʟʟ ɪɴᴛᴏ ʙʀᴀᴡʟ

❝Expecting me to listen to you because it's you who's asking.❞

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PARIS, LUCIEN, AND STEFAN made their way towards an empty room provided by Tyler in order for them to execute their plan without the other guests knowing.

"Let's take this conversation upstairs, shall we?" Damon offered, pulling away from Camila's grasp.

"Sure. Although, I hope none of you are reckless enough to make a move against me. " Camila said as they walked up the stairs.

"Oh, don't you remember, Camila? Reckless is my middle name." Damon said before pushing Camila harshly towards the vacant room.

Camila held on to the nearest couch and gritted her teeth in anger before turning back to Damon.

"That's no way to treat a lady." Camila said, sending a glare towards Damon.

"You're not a lady. You're a devil incarnate." Damon said before grabbing Camila's neck and pushing her against the wall, causing Camila to struggle in breathing.

"Damon!" Paris yelled, Damon looks at Paris and sees that she's holding the anti-magic shackles which Alaric had acquired.

Paris, who is still Bonnie in Camila's eyesight, throws the shackles towards Damon and he successfully caught it.

Damon was about to put the shackles on her wrists when Camila managed to mutter a chant while out of breath. "M-Motus."

Damon was sent flying across the room, his body hitting the floor hard.

Camila turned to Paris, still thinking that she's Bonnie, with an angry expression before using her magic to levitate the brunette, her airways closing as she did.

"You have always been such a pain in the ass." Camila said with gritted teeth. She was ready to snap her neck when Stefan came out and started to bite Camila's neck, causing her to drop Paris.

Lucien approached her and gave Paris a gun filled with wooden bullets which are meant for Aurora but it seemed like she wasn't there. Paris gasped for air before she took the gun from Lucien's hand.

Camila gasped at the pain in her neck as Stefan punctured his fangs, drinking her blood. However, her pained expression turned into a stern one as Stefan widened his eyes and pulled away.

The younger Salvatore starts to choke on her blood, spitting it all out. Damon sees his brother choking and averts his gaze towards Camila, whose wound on her neck started to heal.

Paris shots Camila in the arm and she screeched at the pain. Lucien took it as an opportunity to get the shackles on her. He took the shackles and went behind her, his arm around her neck but Camila threw Lucien across the room as well.

Camila muttered a quick "Ossox." towards Paris, sending her to the ground with a loud scream when her bones in her right leg broke.

Damon vampire speeds towards the witch and kicked her midsection sending her against the wall and causing a few ribs to break inside her. Camila hissed in pain as she tasted blood in her tongue.

She chanted another "Ossox." towards Damon and he groans in pain as he felt his leg break.

Paris' breathing became uneven as she tried to place her bone back where it's supposed to be.

Camila once again stood up, earning a few grunts in the process due to the pain lingering in her arm and midsection. She saw Stefan about to make a move against her and she muttered "Vados." causing all objects near Stefan to explode, shards of glass punctured his face and neck making him grunt.

She twists her hand and Stefan's neck mirrored her hand's action, causing his neck to snap and his body to collapse to the floor.

"I'm surprised you didn't just use a protection spell." Damon said rather throaty as he restored his leg.

"And be a coward? I don't think so." Camila replied and she once again held her hand up and but before she could chant another incantation, Lucien throws a broken glass towards Camila's hand, another shriek leaving her lips as her hand became red as wine while she removes the glass.

"None of you should've done that." Camila said. Her left-hand lifts up and she sent all the vampires, excluding Stefan who is already unconscious, to the ground with an aneurysm.

Groans of Lucien and Damon and screams of Paris filled the room as they experienced unbearable migraines.

Paris' screams could slightly be heard from downstairs, therefore, Elena took it upon herself to hijack the speakers in the room and play some more upbeat music, much to Caroline's dismay.

Most of the people liked the change of music, thus, they grabbed partners and danced along.

Despite the loud music booming downstairs, Paris, Damon, and Lucien don't find themselves having fun considering their veins are continuously popping.

"Is this your way of avenging Paris? Three pathetic vampires and a witch who can't even use her magic? Paris must be ashamed of all of you right now." Camila said, increasing the level of pain.

"How about more motivation? Hm? Maybe if two of your friends are dead, you'll stop fighting me and hand me the serum so that nobody else dies." Camila added with gritted teeth, enduring the pain of broken ribs, a shot arm and a bleeding hand.

Camila glances at Paris and sees the gun she was holding beside her. "Motus." She muttered and the gun flew right towards her hand, gripping the gun tightly.

"Let's go with Bonnie, shall we?" Camila said as she aimed the gun at the brunette.

"No!" Damon yelled before Camila pulled the trigger and shot Paris in the stomach twice.

Paris no longer felt the pain of the aneurysm. Camila left her with the pain in her stomach as she bleeds rapidly.

Damon yells in anger as he tried to stand up but Camila only had to increase the level of pain in order for him to remain on the ground.

Camila twists her hand and Lucien's neck snapped, leaving only Damon to deal with. She slowly made her way towards Damon before crouching in front of him, hissing when she felt the pain in her midsection.

"I'll spare you from the pain of losing Paris. I will reunite you with her." Camila told him.

She lets her head fall back as she looks up and lifts her hand, channeling enough power to give Damon a painful death.

However, Camila wasn't able to do so when her wrists were suddenly chained with the anti-magic shackles. Camila felt her magic muted as the shackles were put on. She brings her wrists down and looks at it with an aggravated expression before turning towards the person who did that.

She saw Bonnie with her bloodied gown, breathing heavily as her hand was placed over her wounded stomach.

Paris collapses once again to the floor as her chest rises and falls. Damon recovered from the aneurysm and quickly approached Paris to help her.

"For a mortal, you're hard to kill." Camila commented as she leaned on one of the cabinets in the room.

Paris rips the bracelet from her wrist, showing her true identity to the witch.

Camila eyed the brunette with her lips parted. "Paris? You were dead." Said the witch.

"I am." Paris simply said before hissing when Damon took out one of the wooden bullets out of her stomach.

Camila lifts her eyebrows in realization and grins before responding. "You're a vampire. That sucks." She replied.

Damon successfully removed the second bullet and Paris feels relieved as her wound finally closed up.

After a couple more minutes, Lucien and Stefan gasped awake. Elena went to Stefan and assisted him. Lucien quickly recovered due to his enhanced vampire abilities. He approached a bloodied Paris and felt disappointed that he wasn't able to dance with her. But he knew he wouldn't get the chance to. They were never there to have fun, they were there to accomplish a mission, and they have.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asked Meredith to her sister and Paris simply smiled and nodded at her sister.

"Alexis went home. I should go." Lucien told Damon and he nodded before Lucien exits the mansion and drives his Audi towards his house in Mystic Falls.

"We should also get home." Damon told Paris and Meredith.

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Paris laid on Damon's bed with furrowed eyebrows as she recalled what had happened earlier. Never in her life did she experience pain like that. To feel your bones dislocate. To feel like your head is about to explode. To feel two wooden bullets move inside of you.

"I'm sorry." Said Damon out of the blue after stepping out of the bathroom, fully dressed for a change.

"Why?" Paris asked.

Damon approaches Paris and sits beside her. Paris rests her head on Damon's shoulder before he spoke. "I wasn't able to protect you."

"I'm fine, Damon."

"You weren't earlier. You were lucky Camila didn't aim for your heart."

Paris opens her mouth to say something but she was interrupted by someone barging in the house, the door loudly swinging and hitting the wall.

"Damon!" They heard Lucien's rather angry voice downstairs.

Paris and Damon shared a confused and worried glance before speeding their way downstairs.

"What are you doing?" Damon asked as soon as they reached Lucien.

"Where's Camila?" He asked, his chest rising and falling due to fury.

"She's at the baseme-" Lucien didn't let Damon finish since he started to walk quite fast towards the stairs that would lead to the basement.

"Woah, wait, hold on. What happened?" Damon asked as he caught up with Lucien, blocking his path.

"Alexis is missing." Lucien said.

"Maybe she just went grocery shopping for you." Damon joked but Lucien didn't appreciate a second of it.

"Alexis wouldn't leave the house without telling me! So, I'm going down there and force Camila to tell me where the bloody hell is Alexis, or I will bloody rip her spine out." Lucien said furiously before walking past Damon and going to the basement.

Damon and Paris followed Lucien into the basement and already saw that the cell is open and that Lucien is inside.

"Where's Alexis?" Lucien asked with his hands balled into fists.

A weak Camila looked up at Lucien and she grinned at his question. "Right. The blonde seer. That might've been Aurora's important work that's why she wasn't able to accompany me." Camila replied.

Remembering what Camila had told Damon when he asked where Aurora was, it all made sense.

Lucien bent down to match Camila's level and grabbed her neck, his grip tightening. "Where is she?" Lucien asked with gritted teeth.

"To be honest, I don't know. I told Aurora not to tell me. Therefore, you can't force me to inform you of her whereabouts." Camila told him.

Lucien's anger only increased at her statement, making him tighten his grip even more around Camila's neck. The witch's grin disappeared as her throat began to close up.

"Stop it, Castle. We still need to know what she wants with the serum." Damon told Lucien.

Lucien strangled Camila for a couple more seconds before finally releasing the witch. She immediately gasped for air as her hand caressed her soon-to-be bruised neck.

Lucien stands up with his gaze remained fixated on Camila. Then Paris turns him around to face her, her hand placed on his arm.

"Lucien, hey. We'll find her, okay? We'll get her back." Paris told Lucien, trying to put him at ease.

"Stop doing that." Lucien said, his facial expression not changing.

"Stop doing what?" Paris asked with her eyebrows scrunched together.

"Expecting me to listen to you because it's you who's asking." Lucien simply said.

Paris was taken aback by his response, causing her to take her hand back.

"Alexis is my best friend, and if something bad happens to her, I will murder Aurora." Lucien turns to Camila who glared at the upgraded original vampire. "And you're next."

Lucien leaves the basement and soon the Salvatore Boarding House. Damon and Paris glanced at the witch bitch on the ground, while they wished that both Alexis and Lucien would be okay.

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I was binge writing. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.

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