[Paris' outfit is the same as the one she's wearing in the previous chapter.]

꧁ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ꧂
ᴅᴇғʏɪɴɢ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ʜᴇʀsᴇʟғ

❝Beautiful, isn't she?❞

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     BONNIE FELT WEAKENED after she did the spell to remold Camila's body. She could barely keep her eyes open. Paris notices the exhaustion Bonnie feels and she turns towards her friend.

"Bonnie? Bonnie, hey. You need to stay awake." Paris whispered.

Both her hands held Bonnie's cheeks, shaking her slightly for her to remain awake. Bonnie's eyes weakly looks at her as dried blood stained her lips and chin.

Aurora finally finished adoring her loved one, since she glances at the two friends before she nears them, specifically Bonnie.

"You have one more spell to do, love. Get up." Aurora said as she grabs Bonnie by the arm roughly for her to stand up, but Bonnie struggled to find her balance.

"Stop! You'll kill her!" Paris protested. However, Aurora ignored the revolting teen. She proceeded to drag Bonnie towards Camila's body and plopped her in front of it.

"Here's the deal, Bonnie. You have to fulfill the last part of the spell, and that is to bring Camila back. Take her spirit that is currently residing in Paris' body and place her inside this one. Are we clear?" Aurora said as she wears a mischievous grin.

Bonnie scans the spell from the bottom part of the page and she widened her eyes at it before she glances up at Aurora again.

"This is dark magic. Dark magic almost killed me!" Bonnie exclaimed.

"Well then, let's all hope that you finish the spell before you die." Aurora said.

Paris hates herself right now for being unable to help her friend. She felt useless. And she hates feeling that way. A weak human like her doesn't stand a chance to a thousand-year-old vampire like Aurora. She could only wish for Damon and the others to move quickly and find them.

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"She's been alive for a thousand years yet she didn't bother to put up a cloaking spell? That's plain stupid." Damon said with a grimace as he kept his hand firm on the steering wheel while Stefan is on the passenger's seat and Alaric and Lucien at the back.

"Unless she does want us to find her. After all, it is Aurora we're talking about." Lucien replied from behind them as he leans back and looks outside the window.

"Or just plain dumb." Damon said.

"What's she like anyway?" Stefan asked, keeping his eyes ahead of him.

"Psychotic." Alaric simply answered. Although he is telling the truth. While Alaric answered Stefan's question short, Lucien elaborated.

"Aurora's been... mentally ill for centuries. Her brother Tristan kept her from the world so that she won't draw attention to herself. However, judging by our situation at the moment, Tristan failed to do so. So, now here we are. Driving towards the next state hoping that Aurora hadn't had a psychotic break yet and rip off Paris' bloody arms off." Lucien explained with frustration.

Lucien spent centuries with the de Martels. He almost knows how their mind works. Especially Aurora, even though how damaged it can be.

"She fancies mind games. It's her favorite." Lucien added before any of them commented on his description of Aurora.

"My hatred for this woman just keeps growing." Damon stated as they pass the signage of Philadelphia when they entered the city. The eldest Salvatore is now overflowing with concern as he imagined Paris' current state. Worst-case scenarios flashing in and out of his head. He just hoped that it's not too late yet.

Stefan holds the map in which Meredith's blood is used to trace Paris' whereabouts. At first, the map of Virginia was useless since they found out that they're not in the state anymore. So they tried another locator spell in a more larger scale wherein it showed that Paris is currently at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

They had another witch, thanks to Lucien, do the locator spell considering that Bonnie was nowhere to be found. Lucien asked one more favor to locate the Bennett witch and it turns out that she as well is in Philadelphia. Thus, they concluded that Paris and Bonnie were both captured by Aurora for a more complex purpose.

"What is she planning that she had to abduct even Bonnie?" Alaric said, his eyebrows furrowed the entire ride.

"All I know is she's after the serum." Lucien answered.

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"Phasmatos Tribum, Nas Ex Veras, Raverus En Phasmatos Ex Sonos. Resistamus Et Veram Vatus. Raverus Phasmatos Ex Sonos." Bonnie chanted. Her voice clearly shows that she's forcing herself to do the rather powerful and complicated spell. She's dealing with dark magic, and she knows better than anyone that if one uses dark magic, there are always consequences.

"You're a powerful vampire. You could've snatched yourself a witch more capable to do your bidding!" Paris seethed.

Aurora snickered at the human's argument as she finds it amusing to see her struggling and in misery. This was why Tristan had to lock her up. Her mind works in a very twisted way that made Tristan afraid for her well being since she couldn't just behave for the life of her.

"Where's the fun in that?" Aurora responded.

"Phasmatos Tribum, Nas Ex Veras, Raverus En Phasmatos Ex Sonos. Resistamus Et Veram Vatus. Raverus Phasmatos Ex Sonos." Bonnie repeatedly chanted as Paris stares at her with worry.

She could hear Bonnie taking very deep breaths as if she was having a hard time breathing, and it concerned Paris even more. She's been chanting the same incantation over and over again but nothing seems to be happening, well, until now.

Paris abruptly gasps as she felt her whole body throb in pain. A shriek leaves her mouth as she plummeted to the ground, her face starting to sweat resulting in strands of hair sticking to her skin.

"Phasmatos Tribum-" Paris rolled over so that her back was on the floor, all while sobbing due to the level of agony that she's experiencing. "-Nas Ex Veras, Raverus En Phasmatos Ex Sonos-" Her back arched from the ground as she lets out a throaty scream. "-Resistamus Et Veram Vatus. Raverus Phasmatos Ex Sonos." Bonnie continued chanting, Paris desperately gasping for air as she did.

Her whole body felt like it was burning from the inside. Another scream erupted from Paris' mouth, the loudest one yet and it trailed off as everything she was feeling finally dissipated.

When Paris screamed before everything subsided, Damon, Stefan, Alaric, and Lucien were already a couple of feet away from where Aurora is hiding them. The scream alarmed the three vampires, since Alaric doesn't have vampire hearing, he frowned when he saw the facial expression that the three had.

"What? What's going on?" Ric asked the three as he peeked at them from gathering the weapons he needed in the trunk.

"They're doing something to Paris. We need to get there. Now." Damon snarled, his eyes turning darker when he heard how much Paris was in pain.

Damon was going to attack without even a plan in mind and before he could commit that mistake, his brother stopped him.

"Wait, Damon. We can't just barge in there without a plan." Stefan told him.

Damon clenched his jaw while he glared at the manor where Aurora is holding Bonnie and Paris captive. Damon turned around to face the others before they all concocted a plan to save the two women.

Meanwhile, Paris' breathing is starting to get steady as she closed her eyes and focused on calming herself, still lying on the ground.

Bonnie opens her eyes as the spell finished, although, she suddenly collapsed to the floor, losing her consciousness beside Paris, who is still recovering from the unbearable despair she had just encountered.

The four men that are currently trying to rescue two of their friends, are now beside the manor, hiding as they peeked for a bit to see the entrance guarded with four vampires.

Alaric had taken out the pin from the vervain grenade he's holding and immediately threw it towards the vampires. As soon as the grenade made contact with the floor, the grenade exploded and burned the skin of the affected vampires, their screams signaling Damon, Lucien, and Stefan to attack while they are vulnerable.

Damon lunged at the vampire and decapitated its head by smashing his neck to the fence, Stefan kicked the other vampire to the ground and yanked a piece of the fence from the porch of the manor and staked him, Lucien caught the punch that the vampire threw at him and his eyes became red before he plunged his hand into his chest and ripped out his heart, and Alaric hits the remaining vampire on the face with his crossbow, sending the vampire into a daze, enough time to push the vampire against the wall and use one of his arrows to pierce through the vampire's chest.

The four of them share glances before they nod and step inside the manor. Once they walked inside, they are faced with another group of vampires, all of which are glaring at the intruders.

Damon looks at all the vampires in front of them and he smirked before the four of them attacked.

By the time the four of them had defeated the rest of the vampires, Aurora still stood beside Camila as she waited for her to wake up.

"Come back to me, my love." Said Aurora while she caressed the cheek of her lover.

The three vampires upstairs heard Aurora's voice coming from the basement, and they informed Alaric before they made their way towards where they heard the psychotic vampire.

They found two vampires guarding an open cell and when those two saw Damon and the others, they start to attack, however, Alaric's crossbow shot two arrows causing the vampires to fail at their mission.

The sudden thump of the two vampires guarding the cell they are in alarmed Aurora, averting her eyes from Camila and stared at the entrance for a while as she waited for someone to enter.

A whoosh of the wind was heard and the next thing Aurora knew, she was pinned against the wall with Lucien's hand wrapped around her throat, putting an amount of pressure enough to bruise her neck.

Damon, Stefan, and Alaric entered the cell and they immediately went for Paris and Bonnie who are still lying on the floor.

Stefan attended to Bonnie while Alaric to Paris, Damon was about to join them when his eyes caught the body of Camila resting upon a stone table. His eyes widen as his jaw drops at the sight of his former lover, not because he missed the sight of her, but because it threatened him.

"Camila?" Damon said while he stared at the body.

Lucien, Stefan, and Alaric heard what the raven-haired vampire said and they all turned to where he was looking, their eyes widening as well.

"Beautiful, isn't she?" Aurora managed to say under Lucien's grip. Lucien turned back to her and tightened his grip, his angry red eyes boring into Aurora's melancholic green ones.

"We need to get out of here." Stefan said while he looked at Camila's body. He averted his eyes from the body and focused on Bonnie. He lifted the witch up and carried her bridal style as Alaric did the same to Paris.

Just when they were about to leave, the four of them felt searing pain coming from their head and their faces scrunch up as they knelt to the ground. Lucien, being one of the people being tormented by the pain, groans and accidentally released Aurora.

Camila's eyes opened before she sat upright in a very graceful manner. A smile made its way to Aurora's lips as she stared at her lover, now in her own body, functioning.

"You're back." Aurora said, her smile not leaving her lips.

Camila's eyes landed first on Aurora and she smiled at her before she responding. "I couldn't have done it without you." Said Camila.

Her eyes wandered around the room, she sees three vampires groaning in pain, the human unconscious since unlike his vampire friends, he doesn't have healing abilities.

Her eyes were fixated on Damon, the one she pretended to be in love with just so he could be her pawn. Damon raises his head a little to take a glimpse of the now alive Camila in front of them, giving them aneurysm.

"'Til we meet again." Camila told Damon.

Then Aurora grabs Camila and uses her vampire speed to get them away from there, leaving three vampires recovering from the aneurysm and three mortals unconscious on the ground.

"Bloody hell." Lucien groaned, while they sat on the ground, stunned about the unexpected incident.

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Camila's back to life! Things will get a whole lot messier. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

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