❪ 𝓢𝑰𝑿 𝓕𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝓤𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑹 ❫ ⚰️ ˖ ׁ ⁩ 𓂃
𝚃𝚅𝙳  ⸻  ✸ 🔮⭑.ᐟ
❝ 𝖨𝖬𝖯𝖤𝖭𝖣𝖨𝖭𝖦 𝖵𝖠𝖬𝖯𝖨𝖱𝖤 𝖣𝖮𝖮𝖬 ❞

✦ ╮ 𝟑𝟕. ❝ 𝖪𝖭𝖮𝖶 𝖳𝖧𝖸 𝖤𝖭𝖤𝖬𝖸 ❞ ── .✦

❝𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗟 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗗 up at the doorstep. ❞ Stefan tells his niece and brother as the two walk down the stairs in their house.

"What's she doing here?" Damon asked.

"I don't know." Stefan says, "That's what Anastasia and I are gonna find out."

"I don't think that you should tell her that I'm here." Katherine says as she joins the Salvatore.

"What? Why?" Stefan asked.

Anastasia shot her Uncle a look, "Why would we care what she wants?"

"It's better if she and John not know that I stayed in town after I got out of the tomb." Katherine said.

"You're the one in cahoots with them." Damon tells her, "You made a deal with John that almost got me killed."

"I did what I had to get out of the tomb. Now I'm reconsidering my alliance." Katherine turns towards around.

"What do you know?" Stefan interrupted.

"I know that I want Klaus dead, which puts me squarely on team you. Besides, if you three ever need me to swap places with Elena again, the less people know that I'm here. Think about it, Stefan. Come on. Be smart."

"Tell you what....," Stefan turns to his brother, "Why don't you, uh, call Alaric and let him know that his wife just showed up on his girlfriend's doorstep. Eloise, let's go."

Anastasia follows her uncle out of the front door, but not before using her magic to pop a blood vessel in Katherine's head.

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"AH, THIS IS BAD." Elena says as she, Stefan and Anastasia sat in her bedroom. "Between Isobel and Jenna and now Matt, this is disaster bad."

"Yeah."

John walks into the room, "Elena, can you come downstairs, please? I need to talk to you."

"I have nothing to say to you." Elena tells him.

"Please. It's important. Both of you also, Stefan, Anastasia." John says.

The four of them walk out of Elena's room and down the stairs as Isobel comes out of the kitchen.

"I asked John for a do-over." Isobel tells her daughter.

Elena looks at John, "You invited her in?"

"She has information about Klaus." John tells Elena, "Please, just listen to her, okay?"

Elena looks towards her boyfriend.

"Alright. What do you know?" Stefan asked.

"Since I was last here, I've been doing everything possible to find Klaus. We knew our best chance was to find him before he could find you." Isobel starts.

"Best chances at what?" Stefan questioned.

"Keeping Elena alive." John answered.

"You don't get to talk, okay, not after everything you've done." Elena spits at her father.

"Were you able to find Klaus?" Anastasia raised an eyebrow, already knowing the answer.

You didn't find Klaus, Klaus found you.

"No." Isobel answered. "Nobody knows where he is but there are rumors that are flying around. That a doppelganger exist."

"Which means any vampire that wants to get in favor with Klaus will be lining up to capture you." John tells them.

"I'm not buying any of this." Elena says as she looks at Isobel, "The last time that you were here, you made it clear that you didn't give a damn about me. Now all of a sudden I'm suppose to believe that you want to help?"

"Isobel's been helping all along. Klaus had been obsessed with finding Katherine for centuries. All it would take was any one of those 1864 tomb vampires to spread the word around that Katherine was still alive and it would bring him straight here to Mystic Falls, where you were bound to be discovered, so we killed them."

"And almost killed Stefan, Damon and Anastasia in the process." Elena stated.

Isobel moves towards Elena, "I have a safe house that I can take you to. The deed is in your name. No vampire can get in without your permission, not even me. Let me help you."

"You wanna help? Then get the hell out of my house."

彡☆

DAMON PUSHED OPEN THE DOOR TO THE APARTMENT WHWRE LUKA AND HIS DAD HAD BEEN STAYING.

Holding his arm out, he steps over the threshold with Bonnie and Jeremy following behind him. "Yep. Everybody's dead."

"We should pack up the grimoires." Bonnie tells the two, "They spent years collecting them. I wanna make sure they're safe."

Damon looks down at Luka's dead body, "You know, we could just get another match and cremate him."

"Don't be disrespectful. Not to him." Bonnie says to Damon.

"Fine, I'll bury him." Damon said to her.

"What exactly are we looking for?" Jeremy asked as he looks around the room.

"According to Luka's dad, one of these contains a spell that'll let me harness the energy that's left behind when a witch dies violently." Bonnie tells them. "I'm going to convince Anastasia to do the spell with me."

"I didn't know you and father witch were so close." Damon said.

"We weren't but when he gave me my powers back, he gave me a message." Bonnie stated, "If I can find the spot in town, where the old Salem witches were burned, I can harness their energy to use when I need it."

"Great. We'll have to put that on our list of things to do today." Damon says, "Harness ancient dead-witch power."

Bonnie looks up at Damon, "You know where the witches were burned?"

"Did I forget to mention that?"

"Are we gonna have to read through every one of these books till e find the right spell?" Jeremy asked as he looked through one of the spell books.

"Not exactly." Bonnie looks at the shelf closes her eyes and raises her hands. All of the books fall to the ground, but one of the fell open and she picks it up from the floor, "It's this one."

"Great. Grab the rest. Let's go."

彡☆

ANASTASIA, STEFAN, DAMON AND ELENA SAT AROUND THE LIBRARY.

"Do you really think that Isobel's telling the truth that the word's gotten out about the doppelganger?" Elena asked the two vampires and the hybrid.

"Look, I don't trust a word tat she says, but I think we'd be stupid to ignore the warning." Stefan tells his girlfriend.

"You know, you should just stay here." Damon tells Elena, "It's better for us to keep an eye on you."

"What, in a house that any vampire can enter?" Anastasia raised an eyebrow at her father.

"No. Her house is safe." Stefan said.

"Well, then we'll stay there." Damon said.

"Uh, no." Anastasia shakes her head, "I'm staying my pretty ass right here."

"So is that the plan?" Elena asked, shooting a smile in Anastasia's direction. "Neither of you will let me out of your sight again?"

"Let me know when you have a better one." Damon said.

"Fine. Then one of you three bodyguards are gonna have to come with me to the Lockwood luncheon."

"That's be me." Stefan said.

"Not the two of us." Damon points between he and his daughter, "We have witch stuff to attend with Bonnie."

"Does that mean that you're taking her to the....,"

"Shh.." Anastasia cuts the human doppelganger off as the vampire one walked into the room.

"Don't get quiet on my account." Katherine leans on the back of the couch, "If you have a plan to combat the impending vampire doom, please do tell."

The four stay quiet, Anastasia holding her middle finger up in the air towards Katherine.

"Seriously, what is the plan to get us out of this mess, hmm?" Katherine asked, "I delivered you a moonstone, a werewolf, and the dagger to lure and kill Klaus, and right now all you have is a moonstone. Or so you tell me."

"No, we have it." Damon said.

"Where is it?"

"In a very safe place."

"I've been honest with you. Time to return the favor." Katherine tells them.

"Let me be honest with you." Anastasia turns to look at the older vampire, sending a aneurysm to her head, causing Katherine to cry out in pain. "Don't mistake the fact that we haven't set you on fire in your sleep for trust."

Elena looks at Katherine and smiles as she stands up straight, sending a murderous glare in the hybrids direction.

"Fine. Be that way." Katherine says before leaving.

彡☆

"IS THIS THE SPOT EMILY BENNETT WAS KILLED, TOO?" Jeremy asked, his hand intertwined with Anastasia's as they walked through the woods, Bonnie and Damon behind them.

"Founders thought it was poetic burning her where the other witches burned." Damon answered.

"How do you two know where the witches were burned?" Bonnie asked the father and daughter

"Cause I tried to save her. Emily was just my key to getting Katherine back before I knew what a nasty little bitch Katherine was." Damon says, causing Jeremy to laugh as they stop in front of an abandoned and run-down house where the witches used to live.

"You sure it's the right place?" Jeremy asked.

Damon nods his head before the four of them walk into the house and walk around. Suddenly, Damon is unable to move after stepping next to a window where the sunshine rained down into the old house.

"Whatever witchy prank you're playing, don't. It's not funny." Damon tells Bonnie.

"I'm not doing anything." Bonnie tells him, turning to Anastasia who holds her hands up in surrender.

"I can't move." Damon tells him before his skin starts burning. "Oh, my ring's not working. Either of you, do something."

Bonnie closes her eyes and concentrates before Damon is able to move once more. "I don't think the witches like you being here."

"I guess this is the right place." Jeremy says.

"I'm gonna go wait outside." Damon says before leaving.

Jeremy turns to his girlfriend, "How come nothing happened to you?"

"I'm part witch, they love me." Anastasia shrugs, "Plus, most of them were friends with my mom growing up."

彡☆

"CAN YOU HAND BONNIE THAT GRIMOIRE?" Anastasia asked her boyfriend as she held another one in her hands.

"Are you guys sure about this?" Jeremy looked between the two girls, his question directed more towards Anastasia than it was to Bonnie.

"Are you worried about us?" Anastasia smirked as she moved closer to her boyfriend.

"Yeah, of course I am." Jeremy tells her, wrapping his arms around her waist to pull her closer to his body. "I'm worried about you the most, though."

"Hmm, that's sweet of you."

"Sure is." He mumbles as their lips brush against each others.

"Ugh, don't do that around me." Bonnie tells them, taking the grimoire out of Anastasia's hand, finding a letter.

Voices start whispering around the three.

"What is that?" Jeremy asked.

"The spirits of the witches who died here. We can feel them." Bonnie tells him.

"Alright. What are they saying?" Questioned Jeremy.

"We can't tell."

Both of the girls walk out of the room and down to the basement, Jeremy following behind them.

"Where are the two of you going?"

"Here. This is it." Bonnie said, "Help me set the candles."

The whispers began to get louder.

"What the hell are they saying?" Jeremy asked once again.

"Bonnie. I have the Flower covens magic, which is strong as hell." Anastasia tells her. "This is all you."

"What is it?"

"Nothing." Bonnie tells him before all of the candles light at the same time, "They're ready."

彡☆

ANASTASIA, WHO HAD BEGUN TO ROAM THE REST OF THE HOURS, HEARD BONNIE START TO SCREAM, CAUSING HER TO RUSH DOWN THE STAIRS.

"Bonnie? You're scaring me here." Jeremy says. "Bonnie!"

"Bonnie!" Anastasia gets closer to the witch as Jeremy is thrown against the wall by an invisible force.

Bonnie's screaming gets louder and all Anastasia can do is hold the Bennett witch in her arms.

Suddenly, the screaming stops and Jeremy is able to get up from the ground, rushing towards the two girls.

"You okay?" Jeremy asked her.

Bonnie nods her head against Anastasia's chest who still held her, "I did it."

Jeremy hugs the two girls, "It's okay."

彡☆

BONNIE AND ANASTASIA HUG EACH OTHER AS THE THREE OF THEM WALK OUT OF THE OLD WITCH HOUSE.

"Alright, well, there has to be something in the grimoire to help us translate that chant." Jeremy tells the two girls.

"It was just a warning." Anastasia tells her boyfriend.

"What kind of warning?"

"It's not important." Bonnie says after the two witches look at each other.

"It's important to me, okay?"

"It's a lot of power to have access to." Anastasia tells him, the three coming to a stop. "They're just telling her to be careful with it."

"Well, exactly how much power can you draw from a hundred dead witches?" Jeremy looked between the two of them.

"Show him."

Bonnie nods, closing her eyes and concentrating. The leaves around them starts flying around, the sky turns black and there's thunder and lightning.

"Bonnie." Jeremy touches her arm as his girlfriend smiles at the witch.

"The answer to your question." Bonnie locked her arm with Anastasia's, "A lot."

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"WE TOLD YOU NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THAT." Anastasia walked back into the living room of the Gilbert house where her boyfriend sat on the couch.

"A warning. That's all the two of you felt like telling me?" Jeremy turns to look at her, "This is some kind of warning, Stacie. It says if either of you use too much of your powers at once, it'll kill you. How much of it takes to kill an Original?"

"All of it."

"No, I'm not gonna let you do that." Jeremy shakes his head, "Elena'isn't gonna let Bonnie do that."

"Jeremy, do you think Bonnie and I were born with these powers so we could float feathers and blow out candles? There's a reason Bonnie was called to do this."

"No one's called to get themselves killed." Jeremy tells her. "Plus, Elena's not gonna let either of you die for her."

"That's why you're not gonna tell her." Anastasia said.

"Do you even understand what you're saying right now?"

"It's not just for Elena, Jeremy." Anastasia tells her boyfriend as she stands up, "It's for you. It's for everyone that Bonnie and I care about. If she's the only one who can put an end to this, then it'll be her decision, no one else's. Her's."

Jeremy watches as his girlfriend leaves the house, slamming the notebook in his hand down on the table.

彡☆

KATHERINE SLOWLY WAKES UP, SEEING MADDOX CASTING A SPELL ON SOMEONE SITTING IN A CHAIR.

There were two vases, one full of blood; the other one is empty and knocked over on its side.

She starts to get up and see's that Elena's necklace was gone.

The person in the chair, Alaric, opens his eyes and stands up causing the warlock to bend down in a bow. Katherine slowly gets up from the floor as Alaric turns around to look at her.

"Alaric?"

A smile crosses Alaric's face.

Katherine rushes over to the door of the apartment, but she's stopped by a invisible force that prevented her from leaving.

Alaric slowly walks over to her, speaking in a Slavic accent, "Zdravei, Katerina." He takes her face in between his hands, "I have missed you."

"Klaus."