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⤿ 𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘋𝘗𝘈'𝘚 𝘓𝘐𝘛𝘛𝘓𝘌 𝘚𝘗𝘠🪦 ˖ ࣪. ࿐
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ┆𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰
❪ ﹆ ━ 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 ⋆⭒˚.⋆ ❫

❝𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘.❞ 𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗦 out a glass of blood to the blonde vampire sitting on the couch in his living room.

"I'm still shaking." Caroline takes a sip just as Stefan comes in.

"What happened?" He asked.

"Go ahead. Tell him." Damon says to her, "You're gonna love this."

"I saw Katherine today." Caroline tells them.

"Where?"

"At the Grill. I just stopped by to gawk and....quasi-stalk Matt." Caroline says, making Anastasia have to hide her amused grin from the blonde.

"She wants to do it in public." Stefan says after Caroline finishes explaining what had happened during her encounter with Katherine, "Killing Mason threw her off guard."

"She's running scared. What she did to Jenna was desperate. She's out of tricks." Damon said.

"We can't underestimate her." Anastasia says, "We have to play this smarter than her."

"Can we just give her the moonstone so she'll leave?" Caroline asked the three older vampires.

"No, Katherine's not getting dick. I've had it." Damon walked around the couch, "I'm gonna go to the masquerade ball and I'm gonna kill her, tonight."

"You're not gonna to kill her." Stefan tells him older brother.

Anastasia raised an eyebrow at her uncle.

"Don't give me that goody-goody crap." Damon turns to Stefan.

"You're not gonna kill her." Stefan repeats.

"And why are we not letting him kill the bitch?" Anastasia asked.

Stefan smirks at his brother and niece, "Because I am."

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"HEY, COME ON it." Caroline opens the door to reveal Bonnie standing on the opposite side of the wooden door.

"I got Stefan's message." Bonnie walks in with her grimoire in hand.

"Hey, you brought the grimoire. Thank you." Stefan tells her.

Bonnie notices Alaric and Damon talking as they stand in front of a table that had all kinds of weapons on the table. "What's going on?"

Jeremy and Anastasia walk into the room, hand in hand as Jeremy holds a box on one arm.

"We're gonna kill Katherine." Jeremy tells her as the couple walks past her.

"I can explain." Stefan says at the expression on Bonnie's face.

"We're gonna kill Katherine." Stefan copies Jeremy, both of them walking over to the table as Alaric starts to teach them about the weapons that he had brought.

"This works with compressed air. The trigger mechanism is up here." Alaric showed them one of the smaller weapons that you could hide up your sleeve. "I have two of these in a different size. For you, I recommend this. It fits nicely under the jacket sleeve. You use the trigger when you're ready." He pretends to stake a vampire, causing the Salvatore's to look at one another. "You wanted me to show you how to kill a vampire."

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"HEY, WHERE ARE we going?" Jeremy looks over his shoulder as Anastasia pulls him up the stairs, looking to see if anyone was watching them.

Anastasia stopped at a door just past her uncle's and turned to her boyfriend with her hand on the knob, "Welcome to the room of Anastasia Salvatore."

Jeremy smirked, "I'm not supposed to be in here, remember?"

"Oh, shut up." She laughs, pushing the door open so that she and Jeremy could walk inside.

"Wow." Jeremy looks around the large bedroom, spinning around to take it all in.

The bedroom walls were painted a white color, with purple curtains that matched the covers resting on her bed which sat in the middle of the bedroom. On one side of the bed was a white two drawer nightstand that held a lamp on the top of it. On the other side of the bed were two chairs, matching the white colors of the wall and a small round table in the middle that had a stack of books in the middle, a candle resting on the top.

Above the bed, there was an enormous photo of Anastasia sitting in a field of sunflowers with her back turned so that you couldn't see her face. But she wasn't the only one in the picture. A male sat next to her, head tilted back as if he were laughing at something she had said, arm draped across her shoulders.

Across from the end of the bed, pushed up against the wall next to the door, was her dresser. Photos, a jewelry box and another candle sat on the top of it with the large flat-screen TV mounted to the wall above it. There was also a large bookshelf to the other side of the room, one that held all of the books that she had collected over the years, including all of her spell books. Next to the bookshelf, on the left side, was a door leading into the large walk-in-closet that contained all of her clothes and shoes. And on the right side of the bookshelf, another door that leads right into the gigantic bathroom.

"This is bigger than Elena and I's rooms put together." Jeremy looks over at her as she leaned against the dresser with her arms crossed over her chest, watching her boyfriend take in her bedroom. "How come we don't stay over here?"

"And have both Uncle Stefan and Dad come in every five seconds? No, thank you." She shakes her head, moving to wrap her arms around his waist and looking up at him, "Besides, I like your bedroom. It's small and smells like you."

Jeremy raises an eyebrow, "It smells like me?"

"Yeah. It's comforting." She shrugged her shoulders.

"Anastasia Eloise!"

"Come on." Anastasia rolled her eyes as she pulled her boyfriend back out of her room, closing the door behind them. "Let's get downstairs before the big bad vampire has a meltdown."

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"ARE YOU SURE you guys don't want me there tonight?" Alaric asked the group of teenagers as he packed his stuff up to leave the boarding house.

"No, I need you to stay with Elena." Stefan tells him, "I don't want her to know about this."

"Okay. Well, I'll make sure she doesn't leave my sight." Alaric tells them..

"Alright, if anybody wants to back out, I'll understand." Stefan looks around at the others.

"Yeah. Cold feet speak now. I don't want this going wrong if someone chicken's out." Damon says, "Caroline."

"I won't." Caroline stands her ground, "Look, she killed me. Fair's fair. As long as there's no werewolf running around."

"Oh, I took care of Mason." Damon says, making Anastasia look over at her dad in confusion. "Don't worry that pretty little head of yours, daughter."

"As long as Tyler doesn't kill anyone, he won't turn." Jeremy tells them.

"Bonnie? Are you with us?" Stefan asked the Bennett witch.

Bonnie takes a long pause before speaking up, "But no one gets hurt."

"Except Katherine." Damon says, "Tonight Katherine gets a stake through her heart."

Everyone looks around at each other in agreement.

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"DO EITHER OF you see her?" Damon asked as he stood outside the Lockwood mansion with his daughter and brother, all of them dressed up for the Masquerade party.

"No. You're sure you can do this?" Stefan asks his brother.

"Who are you talking to?"

"Oh, I had the chance to kill her and I hesitated." Stefan mocks his brother.

"Well that is the fork in the road between you and me, my friend. I don't hesitate."

"You spent 145 years loving her, it could happen." Anastasia tells her father.

"I won't hesitate."

"Okay."

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"I THOUGHT THIS room could work." Jeremy tells Bonnie as the two walk into a room upstairs, the boy carrying a black duffel bag in his hand.

"It's perfect." Bonnie says as Jeremy takes a crossbow out of the bag while she sits on the couch and pulls out her grimoire.

"Is that the spell book I read about in my family's old journal?" Jeremy asked, "Ana has dozens of those."

"It's my ancestry, Emily's." She tells him, "The spell I'm doing here is similar to the one that sealed the vampires into the tomb."

"Can you do all the stuff that's in there?" Jeremy asked after hiding the duffel bag in one of the closets.

"I mean it takes practice. I've worked on some small spells with the help of Ellie. Spells that only do good." She tells him, "I don't want to know too much. I don't particularly enjoy any of this, in case you haven't noticed."

"Yeah but you're one hundred percent witch, that is so cool." Jeremy says.

"It's anything but cool. Did your family journal tell you what happened to Emily? Or what about my Grams? It never ends well for people like me."

"If you feel that way, why help?"

"Because I don't want anyone else getting hurt and I don't know how to stay out of it." Bonnie tells him, "Besides, your girlfriend is part witch, part vampire. She's way cooler than I am, even if I don't like vampires all too much."

Jeremy chuckles with a nod, "Yeah, she's pretty badass."

Bonnie looks over at Jeremy with a soft smile on her face, "You really love her, don't you?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I do." Jeremy says, "I don't know what I would do if anything were to happen to her."

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STEFAN STOOD ON the dance floor by himself as he noticed Katherine coming down the stairs before she was suddenly behind him.

"Dance with me." She tells him.

"No." Stefan declines.

"Fine then tell me who I should kill. Him? Hmm, she looks delicious." Katherine eats a strawberry.

Stefan gives her a look before he offers her his arm, leading her out onto the dance floor.

"It's a beautiful night." Katherine says.

"Why the charade?"

"How's Jenna?" She asked, "I certainly didn't expect her to survive that. Lucky girl. Clumsy. How does one stab oneself?"

"Katherine?"

"Uh?"

"I don't want anyone to get hurt tonight." Stefan tells her.

"Okay. Then give me the moonstone and nobody will." Katherine says as the two continue to dance.

"Well, you see, I don't have the moonstone on me. So, you and I will have to go get it together." Stefan tells her.

"Hmm. I have a better plan. You go fetch it and I will try not to kill anyone in the meantime." Katherine says.

"My way or you don't get it."

"Hey, Stefan." Amiee walks over to the two, "I can't find Matt. Oh my God, Elena! You look so pretty. I love that dress. You look gorge."

Katherine smiled, "Thank you. I love your necklace."

"Oh, thanks." Amiee reaches up to touch the necklace around her neck.

"Oh, it's twisted. Here, let me, here we go." Katherine walks up behind Aimee and the human girl gasps as Katherine snaps her spine, "Paralyzed from the waist down." And snaps it again, "And dead."

She throws the body into Stefan's arms.

"The moonstone, Stefan. Tick tock."

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"I PUT THE body in the trunk for now." Stefan tells Damon and Anastasia as the three stood in the room where they were going to trap Katherine.

"We'll dump her body when we get back." Damon said.

"This is exactly what I didn't want, Damon." Stefan says to his brother, pacing the room.

"Stefan, it's collateral damage."

"Right, which is why we need to call it off."

"What? Who's hesitating now?" Anastasia glares at her uncle.

"Hey!" Damon walked over to his brother, "Don't do this to us! This woman ruined our lives, she destroyed us! Tonight it ends. We can do it together. We got your back. Alright?"

"Alright."

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"WHICH ROOM IS it?" Katherine had Caroline by the hair as they walked up the stairs.

"It's that one."

Katherine goes into the room Caroline pointed her towards, "Where is she?"

Behind her, Caroline's sobs turned into chuckles. "I did it! I really didn't think I'd be able to fool you but I did it!"

Katherine rushes over but finds that she can't exit the room. "What the....? Stefan."

"Hello, Katherine." Stefan comes out of his hiding place.

"Goodbye, Katherine." Caroline gives her a wave before leaving.

"You don't really think that you can kill me with that now, do you?" Katherine asked, noticing the stake he was holding in his hand.

"No, but they can."

Katherine lets out a small scream of pain as she grabs her head, Anastasia and her father coming out of their hiding spots, Damon shooting a stake at Katherine that went into her back.

"Ooh, talk about a literal stab in the back." Anastasia pouted.

The older vampire pulls the stake from her back, trying to stake Damon but Stefan's quicker and grabs her from behind, both of them falling to the floor as Anastasia gave her another aneurysm. Damon moves to stand over her, arm raised in the arm as he's ready to kill her.

"Stop!" Jeremy appeared in the doorway, "You're hurting Elena! Everything you're doing to her is hurting Elena!"

Damon turns his head to look at the boy in confusion and surprise.

Katherine smiles as Stefan lets go of her and she stands up, "You think you three is the only ones with a witch on your side? Wrong and something tells me that my witch is better than your witch."

Anastasia glares at the vampire, and suddenly Katherine is on her knees and holding her head in pain.

"Anastasia! Stop!" Stefan yells, worrying for the human girl that was being hurt because of Katherine.

"Oh, please. Nothing is happening to Elena right now." Anastasia spat, angry that she wasn't staring down at a dead corpse of the girl that took away a small part of her life. "I'm older and stronger than her witch. Meaning, I could take you down and nothing would happen with Elena."

"Jeremy, go check on Elena. Make sure she's okay." Stefan tells the boy who looked over at his girlfriend with worry, "Go!"

"Sta-,"

"I'm fine." Anastasia tells her boyfriend, "Go check on your sister."

Jeremy runs off.

"Let's all make sure poor Elena is okay. Just a little bit more pressure." Katherine uses the stake in her hand to cut into her palm. "This is really gonna hurt." She raises the stake.

"Wait!" Damon stops her.

Katherine smirks, taking a seat on the red velvet couch, "Okay. So, how about that moonstone?"

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ANASTASIA GLARED AT the entrance of the room, mad at herself that she let Bonnie use one of the spells that also trapped her.

"The four of us together just like old times. The brother who loved me too much, his daughter who adored me, and the one that didn't love me enough."

"And the evil slut vampire who only loved herself?"

"Think again bitch." Anastasia turned to Katherine, a pout on her lips, "Did you really think I followed you around because I liked you? Even at four years old, I couldn't stand you."

Katherine's smirk fell from her lips as the three turned to look at Anastasia.

"Who do you think actually told old Giuseppe Salvatore that you were the vampire roaming around in Mystic Falls?" Anastasia asked.

"Ana, what are you talking about?" Stefan looks at his niece with a confused look.

"Anastasia." Damon calls his daughter's name, "What are you talking about?"

"Uncle Stefan wasn't the one that gave Katherine away to Grandpa." Anastasia smirked, sitting down in one of the chairs opposite of Katherine, "Let me see if I can remember what it was he used to call me when I'd tell him what I knew? Ah, 'Grandpa's little spy'."

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"WHERE IS THE moonstone?" Katherine asked the three Salvatore's.

"What do you want with it?" Stefan asked her.

"Does Elena enjoy having both of you worship at her altar?" Katherine asked the brothers.

"That was really desperate." Anastasia rolled her eyes.

"Katherine, don't you think we can see right through you?" Stefan asked her.

"So it doesn't bother you that Damon's in love with your girlfriend?

"Oh, stop it."

"Or what? You'll hurt me?" She gets up. "Come on, Stefan. Everything that I feel, Elena feels, so go ahead. Or better yet, kiss me, Damon. She'll feel that too."

"You know, this whole Mason thing has me a bit confused. Why a werewolf? The moonstone can break a curse that would help them destroy all vampires so what's in that for you?" Stefan asked.

"Sorry about your pet wolf, probably should have kept him on a tighter leash." Damon smirked.

"I'll have to remember that for next time." Katherine says, "He's not the only witch in town."

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"DAMN IT! WHERE is that witch?" Damon asked, wanting nothing more to be out of the room with Katherine. "Ana, can't you get us out of here?"

"I've tried."

"We could play charades." Katherine tells him.

"You bargained the moonstone." Stefan says, causing the other three to turn to him.

"What are you mumbling about over there?" Damon asked his brother.

"When you struck a deal with George Lockwood, to help you fake your death, you told me that you gave George something that he needed." Stefan spoke to Katherine, "It was the moonstone, wasn't it?"

"Good for you, Stefan. Two plus two. And it would have worked except that people found out that I wasn't in the tomb." Katherine looks at Damon. "Thanks to you, by the way. Have I mentioned how inconvenient your obsession with me has been?"

"You and me both, honey."

"Why do you need it back?" Stefan asked, going back to the moonstone.

"I love you in a suit, so dashing." Katherine ignores his question.

"What were you doing with it in the first place?" Stefan questioned.

"You're wasting your breath, Uncle Stefan." Anastasia sighed.

Stefan doesn't pay attention to his niece, "Unless it wasn't yours to begin with. In 1864, you faked your death. Who were you running from, Katherine?"

Anastasia's face lights up as she pulls her phone out of the pocket of her dress, unlocking it and scrolling through her photos.

"In 1987, you were in Chicago, at a concert of all places with that wench, Lexi. Come one, Stefan, don't look so surprised." Katherine tells him, "Of course I checked up on you over the years. You were standing in the front row, dancing all night. You were watching Bon Jovi and I was watching you."

"Who were you running from?"

"Hey, Katherine. Take a look at my trip to Paris in the 80's." Anastasia walked closer to her.

"Now isn't the time to be showing your vacation pictures." Damon rolled his eyes at his daughter.

"Just look at the phone." Anastasia turns her phone around to show Katherine the photo, the older vampire looking at her in shock and disbelief, "It would be a shame if he found out where you were, wouldn't it?"

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"WE'RE MISSING THE party." Katherine says, turning her head as Damon pours two glasses of Whiskey sitting in the room, passing one to his daughter, "I'll have one of those."

"Right away Miss Katherine." Damon micks a servant as he hands her a glass also.

"Thank you."

Katherine takes a sip of the alcohol before Damon grabs her and pushes her against the wall. He goes to stake her but Stefan stops him.

"No, no! Damon, don't!" Stefan yelled.

"Yes, Damon, please."

"The second the spell is lifted, I'm gonna drive a stake right through your heart." Damon spats.

"God, you're hot. When did you get so hot?"

"Katherine." Lucy, the witch that was helping Katherine, walked into the room with the moonstone displayed in her hand, eyes glancing at Anastasia for a moment. "The spell on this room has been broken, you're free to leave."

"Thank God." Katherine shot Stefan a look as she walked towards Lucy with her hand held out.

"When I hand this over my debt to you is over." Lucy tells her.

"Done."

"I owe you nothing."

"I said done. Give it."

"I wouldn't do that." Damon tells her.

"Let her." Anastasia tells her dad.

Lucy handed the moonstone over to Katherine, but when the vampire touched it, she suddenly couldn't breathe any more

"You should have told me another witch was involved. Two, other witches. She's a Flower witch, and the other one is a Bennett witch, Katherine, but I'm sure you knew that."

"Wait, Elena." Stefan looks at Lucy.

"Elena's fine." Lucy tells him as Katherine falls to the floor, "The spell is broken. She'll heal quickly. Bonnie's with her."

Katherine continues to suffocate.

"I apologize for my involvement." Lucy turns to Anastasia. "Don't be a stranger, Anastasia."

"I won't. I promise." Anastasia smiles at her before Lucy leaves the family of three alone with Katherine, who was now unconscious.

"The two of you knew each other?" Damon looks at his daughter.

"Oh, Lucy and I go way back."

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"HEY, BONNIE." ANASTASIA smiles at the Bennett girl as she and Jeremy walk over to her, hand-in-hand. "I'm gonna drive Elena home, make sure she's okay. Jeremy here, is going to give you a ride back to your place."

Bonnie raises an eyebrow as she looks over at Jeremy, "When did you get your driver's license?"

"I'm not a kid anymore, Bonnie." Jeremy tells her.

"I'd love a ride home." Bonnie tells him, "I'll wait by Anastasia's car."

"Make sure you get her back safe." Anastasia wrapped her arms around her boyfriend's neck.

"I think I'm capable of getting Bonnie back to her house." He chuckled.

"Oh, I wasn't talking about Bonnie. I was talking about my car."

Jeremy let out a laugh, leaning down to kiss her. "I love you."

She smiles up at the boy, "I love you, too."

Jeremy looked over his shoulder once as he started to walk towards his girlfriend's car where Bonnie was waiting inside.

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"YEAH, JEREMY, I'VE got my car." Elena held her phone against her ear as she walked toward her car. "Tell Bonnie that whatever she did, I'm starting to feel better. Yeah, Anastasia told me you were going to drive her home. I just have to wait for her to meet me next to my car, then I'm just gonna go straight to bed. Okay."

Elena hangs up her phone right as a man in a mask comes up behind her and covers her mouth with his hand as he leads her away from her car.