‧₊˚ ✩ CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ⁺◟༉ . . .ꜜ
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EARN IT
❛fool me once part two❜

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Soon enough we were in the tomb. Grams was lighting the torches at the tomb. Bonnie stands next to her and Stefan, Damon, and Elena watch from the entrance. I smile seeing Damon going over to him and hugging him.

"I'm sorry I had no idea they were going to do that," I told him making him smile down at me.

"I know Cupcake," he tells me making me smile as we looked back at grams.

"Air. Earth. Fire," Grams says.
"Water," Bonnie says as she holds up a water bottle and Sheila takes it, sprinkling the water on the floor.

"That's it? Just water from the tap?" Elena asks making me look at her confused.

"As opposed to what?" Grams asked her.
"I just figured maybe it would have to be blessed or mystical or something," Elena tells her as Grams smirks at Elena.

Damon then pulls out a blood bag and unravels it.
"What's that?" Stefan asks his brother.

"It's for Katherine. Gotta have something to get her going. Unless your girl's offering a vein to tap," He looks back at Elena, who looks at him, unamused. Stefan sighs.

"Be careful with that Damon. If one of the other vampires gets it, it won't be good," I tell him making him nod at me as Bonnie looks up at us from the ground.

"We're ready," Bonnie says as she and grams are reciting a spell at the tomb, their eyes shut and hands interlocked.

"What are they saying?" Damon asks.
"Sounds Latin," Stefan says as I shake my head at him.

"I know Latin. That isn't it," I told them making both look at me.

"How many languages do you know?" Stefan asked me making me smirk. After a few more seconds of the witches reciting the spell, the torches flare-up. Elena grabs onto Stefan's arm as Stefan pulled Rosie back into his chest.

"What's happening?" Elena asks as the
door to the tomb creaks open. Sheila and Bonnie stop chanting and lookup.

"It worked!" Bonnie asks excitedly making me smile at her.

"Of course it worked," Grams told her.

"We have some fires to build," Damon tells Stefan making him nod.

"I'm gonna go get the gasoline, I'll be right back," Stefan tells Elena making her nod. Stefan then looks at me but I don't meet his eyes. Still upset with him. Stefan sighs as he ascends the stairs out of the tomb. Damon looks from Bonnie and Sheila to me.

"You ready?" Damon asks me making me nod already knowing what he wanted. Meanwhile, everyone else looks confused.

"What?" Elena asks him as Damon looks at Grams and Bonnie.

"You think I'm gonna go in there by myself so you can seal me in?" Damon questions them making me roll my eyes as he grabs my arm.

"Don't take her in. I'll bring the walls down," Grams told him.

"You'll bring the walls down if I don't. You think I trust you?" Damon asks her making her glare at him.

"As much as I trust you," Grams told him making me smirk.

"Alright stop it. It's fine I already told him I would. I'll be okay," I told them with a smile as Damon grabs a torch from the circle.

"May I?" Damon questions as he grabs the torch. I shake my head at him as I smile at Bonnie and grams and follow follows Damon into the tomb.

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Stefan runs over to the gasoline and starts to gather the cans up. Suddenly, someone speaks to him.

"Dark down there?" Ben asks him making Stefan straighten up, looking at Ben. Jeremy, unconscious, lies at Ben's feet.

"Thought I told you to leave," Stefan tells him with a glare.

"I considered it. Then I thought, screw you," Ben tells him.

"Hey, hero," Anna calls out making Stefan turn around to her.

"I'm going down there to get my mother," Anna tells him making Stefan shake his head.

"I can't let you do that," Stefan tells her.
"Well, Ben's about to make a main course out of Elena's and Rosie's little brother. So, you can stop me or him. Your choice," Anna tells him as she vamp-runs into the tomb.

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As Damon and I were in the tomb I heard whispers throughout the tomb.

"What is that Dames?!" I yelled at him making him look towards me.

"They can sense Elena and them out there. Now, where is she?" Damon says as he Damon walks away as I was looking around making me lose him.

"Damon!" I yelled looking around.
"That dumbass left me here!" I yelled as I start looking around for the exit.

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Anna descends the stairs into the tomb. Bonnie looks over at her.

"Hey, you're not going in there!" Bonnie yells at her.
"You think you can stop me?" Anna questions her.

"Bonnie...," Grams calls her making
Bonnie step aside. Anna grabs a flashlight from the ground and runs into the tomb. Bonnie turns and looks at Sheila, angered.

"Why did you let her go in?" Bonnie and Elena ask her.

"Because she isn't coming out, baby. None of them are," Grams told her making Bonnie tense and look at her.

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Above the tomb, Stefan and Ben are in a tense conversation.

"Do you really think that she cares about you? Hm? You're disposable," Stefan tells him.

"I don't care. She already gave me what I want," Ben tells him making Stefan roll his eyes.

"Are you going to say "eternal life"? You really that stupid?" Stefan tells him as Ben moves closer towards him.

"You know, I've heard about you. You don't feed. You're not strong enough to beat me," Ben tells him as he rushes at Stefan.

Stefan thrusts his arm, easily knocking Ben to the ground. Stefan picks up the hose connected to the gasoline can. Ben gets up and looks at Stefan.

"Is that all you got?" Ben asks him as Stefan smirks.
"No. I got this," Stefan tells him as he ignites the torch and sets Ben on fire. Ben screams and flails around, before finally falling to the ground, dead.

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Back in the tomb, I was still looking for the exit.

"Dames! You asshole! Where are you?" I yelled as I continued to hear the whispering around me.

As I was walking I tripped making me fall down. I turn my flashlight in and it lands on one of the mummified vampires.

The vampire's eyes open and are bloodshot with hunger. I scream and try to get up, looking for the exit. When my flashlight lands on Anna. Right in front of me.

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Stefan walks back down into the tomb and looks around. He sees Elena but not Rosalie.

"Where's Rosalie?" Stefans asks making Bonnie sigh.
"Damon took her inside," Bonnie tells him making him look wide-eyed

"What?!" Stefan yells as starts to run towards the entrance of the tomb, but Sheila grabs his arm.

"Stefan! If you go in there, you won't come out," Grams tells him making Stefan look at her.

"What did you do?" Stefan asks her as he looks towards the tomb.

"Opening the door didn't remove the seal, it just opened the door," Grams tells him making Stefan confused.

"What's the seal?" Stefan asked her.
"Some seals keep vampires from entering. This one keeps them from coming out," Grams tells him making him angry.

"Rosie's human. She can leave. Anna and Katherine can't. Damon can't. You were never planning on breaking the spell, were you?" Stefan asked angrily. He wasn't going to leave his brother in there.

"I told you. I will protect my own. Rosie can get out. That's all that matters," Grams told him as she steps away from him.

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Anna steps towards me, shining her flashlight on me.
"You must have a taste for it. You scream and shriek and even bother to escape, but then you just come right back to it," Anna tells me making me glare at her.

Anna looks behind me to see her mother and kneels down next to her, caressing her arm.

"Mother! Mother. Your boyfriend did this, you know," Anna told me making me roll my eyes.

"He isn't my boyfriend and their father did," I told Anna as she stands up and faces me.

"And Johnathan Gilbert. I made a choice a long time ago that it would be Gilbert's blood that brought her back to life. I had Jeremy all ready to go but I will guess Forbes blood will do," Anna told me as I gasp and turn around trying to run, but Anna vamp-runs in front of her, grabs me by the wrist, and bites down. Making me scream as loudly ad I could.

Anna starts to chock and pulls away as she was like Rosalie's blood was poisoned.

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In the ante-chamber, Stefan hears Rosalie's screams echo through the tomb and pain through his arm. Stefan dashes into the tomb. Bonnie and Elena chase after him.

"Stefan!" Both Elena and Bonnie scram as Grams
blocks Bonnie from entering the tomb.

"You can't just leave him in there, Grams!" Bonnie yells at her making Grams shake her head.

"He made his choice!" Grams tells her making Bonnie shake her head. 

"No. Here," Bonnie tells her as she picks up the grimoire and looks desperately at her Grams.

"Just show me what to do. I'll do it," Bonnie pleaded.

"We are not strong enough. Even if we were able to bring the seal down, there's no guarantee that we could get it back up again," Grams told her.

"You said it yourself, many things can fuel a witch's power. Help me or I'll do it alone," Bonnie told her making her sigh.

"He went in there to save Rosie. Our Rosie. Please Grams," Bonnie begs making Shelia sigh but nod.

"Come on," Grams tells her as they start getting everything ready.

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Anna pushes Rosie away as she chocks. She gets enough strength and goes towards her mother.

"I'm gonna get you out," Anna tells her as Stefan runs in.

"Rosie!" Stefan yells as he runs over to me grabs me and pulls me into him.

"You're okay. Go. Go. I'm right behind you," Stefan tells me as he blocks Anna.

"Anna," Pearl says as Anna rushes to her mother's side, caressing her face in her hands and crying happily.

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Bonnie and Sheila are looking through the grimoire as Elena circles them when Rosie runs out of the tomb.

Rosie, Stefan...," Bonnie starts to say when I shake my head.

"He's right behind me," I told them as the three looked at the entrance to the tomb. I turn around and see Stefan standing in the doorway.

"Stefan, what are you doing?" I ask him worried.
"It's gonna be okay. We'll fix it," Bonnie tells me making me look towards her.

"What is it?" I ask her as Stefan starts to speak making me turn towards him.

"I can't," Stefan tells me making me shake my head at him figuring out what he means.

"You idiot! You went in there not knowing if you could come back out?" I asked him angrily making him look down.

"Why?" I asked him not understanding.
"I heard you scream," Stefan tells me making me freeze as I look at him with tears in my eyes.

"We can't leave him in there. We promised him. Both of us," Elena tells him making me look towards her to see her already glaring at me.

"I know," Stefan tells her.
"Even if we're able to break through the seal, we won't be able to hold it for long," Grams tells him making him nod as w back into the tomb to find Damon.

Damon is still searching the tomb for Katherine. Frustrated, he kicks the dirt on the floor. Stefan finds him and walks up to his brother.

"Damon," Stefan calls out to him.
"She's not here," Damon tells him making Stefan confused.

"What?" Stefan asks him as Damon pulls out the blood bag.

"She's not here!" Damon yells as he throws the blood bag at the wall. The blood splatters across it. Damon looks at Stefan with anguish.

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Sheila and Bonnie are reciting the spell to lift the seal as Elena circles around them and I just watch worried. The torches flare up making both Elena and me look towards the tomb.

"I think it's working," Elena says as Anna exits the tomb with Pearl, who is still weak.

"I just wanted my mother back. Jeremy's fine. He's outside. I won't touch him," Anna tells us as she Pearl leaves. The torches begin to falter.

"Bonnie, keep going!" Grams yells at her as Bonnie looks at Elena.

"They better hurry," Grams tells her making Elena nod.

"Stefan, they can't hold it much longer!" Elena yells as the torches extinguish themselves. Bonnie looks faint and Sheila doesn't look much better. I run up to them as Elena runs back into the tomb.

I pull them both up making them feel more powerful. Bonnie looks toward me wide-eyed.

"You need to let us go! Now! We are channeling you!" Bonnie yells as I shake my head.

"Will it help?" I asked them making grams sigh as she nods.

"Then take as much as you want. I don't care," I tell them as they both grab my hand and start to channel me instead of the flames making them feel better and more powerful.

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"Damon, we need to get out of here," Stefan tells his brother as he paces.

"It doesn't make sense. They locked her inside," Damon says to himself.

"If we don't leave now, we're not getting out," Stefan tells him but Damon wasn't listening.

"How could she not be in here?" Damon questions.

"It's not worth spending all of eternity down here. She's not worth it!" Stefan yells at him

"No! I need it! I need to know!" Damon yells as he
angrily pushes Stefan away and Elena rushes into the room.

"Damon! Please," Elena pleads but he doesn't listen.

"Damon! Get your stubborn ass out of there now!" Rosie yelled making Damon look down as Stefan looks at him and pulls him. Soon enough Damon, Stefan, and Elena leave the tomb.

Bonnie and Sheila are still chanting the spell to keep the seal down. They were channeling Rosie who was now feeling weak. With no sleep and still had a head injury. She thought she was about to pass out. She was pale and everyone could tell.

Bonnie and Grams continue chanting as Damon exits the tomb first, followed by Elena, who turns around and embraces Stefan when he exits. The door to the tomb closes and the torches die out.

Damon looks around and sees a white as snow Rosie.
"Rosalie!" He yells as her eyes roll to the back of her head and she starts to fall down.

Stefan hearing him looked up and then vamp-ran to her and caught her before she could fall.

"What happened?" Rosie asked as I seconds later. Coming back to both brothers sigh looking at her.

"Here and I am not taking no for an answer," Stefan tells her as he gives her his now bitten wrist. She sighs taking a sip.

Damon sighs looking down at his best friends before he exits the tomb, looking completely miserable. Rosie watching him gets up and follows him.

"I'm sorry Dames," she tells him as she wraps her arms around him holding him close.

"I'm sorry I left you," Damon tells her making her shake her head.

"It's okay," Rosie told him as she held him close.

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After hugging Damon he left to talk to Anna and Pearl. I was going to go with Grams and Bonnie but Grams made me go home.

I was drying my hair with a towel as I walked into my bedroom. I jumped seeing Stefan sitting on my bed.

"Hey," I called out as I went to sit beside him. He sighs not looking up.

"You were right. I did let her become between me and Damon. I let history repeat itself," Stefan told me making me sigh.

"What are you going to do about it?" I asked him making him sigh as he looks up at me.

"I want my brother back," Stefan told her making her smile.

"Then do it. Stefan's words are one thing actions are completely different," I told him making him sigh as I yawned.

"You need to go to sleep you had a long few days," Stefan told me making me sigh as I lay down in my bed.

"Fine but can you do me a favor?" I asked him making him smile at me as he nodded.

"Can you run your finger through my hair again please?" I asked him making him smile at me as he moved to sit beside me and start running her finger through my hair.

"This doesn't mean I figure you," I told him in a sleepy voice making him smile down at me.

"I know but I will earn your forgiveness back," he tells me making me smile as I fall asleep not knowing that at this moment the tomb vampires were escaping.

Authors Note: I saved Grams! If you have any questions let me know!