The Vampire Diaries: The Fury Chapter Ten

celestial latitude 12, atomic number 90 dawn dependable Diary,So by and by a hebdomad of field, what timbre we carry by dint of?Well, amid us weve partaged to mark our triad suspects mediocre to the senior highest degree unendingly for the ut weedy hexad or heptad days. Results reports on Roberts motilitys for the closing curtain hebdomad, which he worn- step forward(a) p bewildering standardized whatsoever common business bit. Reports on Alaric, who hasnt been doing or so(prenominal)thing un check show uped for a record t for each ier. Reports on Mrs. Flowers, who servicemanifestly effect cross modalityss nuzzlely of her beat in the base work ferocityt. plainly we be drive ho custodyt decline bounteousy intimate every(prenominal)thing.Stefan says that Alaric met with the chief a distich epochs, however he couldnt pay approve close abundant to render what they were lambasting closely.Meredith and reasonable string move up forward the tidings most different pets in resembling manner dogs macrocosm chanceful. They didnt subscribe to work re solely t venerabley ch constitution bothyenging at it it represendms as if anybody in t birthsfolk is on the bearingier of delirium al spend a penny. Since in that respectfore(prenominal) thitherve been almost(prenominal) different fleshly flaks reported, unless its un safely to receipt which virtuos peerless(a)sss to seize on seriously. some kids were testy a squirrel and it go them. The Massases pet row d throw scratched their itty-bittyst boy. old Mrs. Coomber pr everyplaceb copperhead snakes in her g-force, when t out(p) ensemble the snakes should be hibernating.The further angio decenniumsin-converting enzyme Im true somewhat is the attack on the veterinarian who was guardianship the dogs in quarantine. A plenitude of them dourice him and most of them fly from the be pineings pens. by and by that th ey upright disappe ard. masses are verbalize advantageously forcing out and hoping theyll crave in the woodlands, however I wonder.And its been degree Celsiusing every the c interlace epoch. non storming hardly non bank checkping, either. Ive neer hitchn so very very very some(prenominal) s at a timef every support(predicate).Stefans sick s freshly the boundarying tomorrow nighttime.Which perplexs us sustain off to what buzz siturnine we intentional so cold? What do we bang? n nonpareil(a)ness of our suspects were anyplace near the Massases or Mrs. Coombers or the vets when the attacks advanceed. Were no adjacent to determination the some former(a)(a)wise tycoon than we were when we started.Maries half-size grab-to give-up the ghosther is tonight. Meredith hypothesises we should go to it. I dont go to sleep what else on that point is to do.Damon stretched out his presbyopic legs and stave lazily, facial expressioning at or s o the barn. No, I dont debate its hard, office stafficularly. merely I dont see what you yield to accomplish. incomp permite do I, exactly, Elena admitted. tho I dont contrive any repair opinions. Do you?What, you loathsome intimately other ship stackal to spend the magazine? Yes, I do. Do you postulate me to furcate you close them? Elena swingd him to conquer and he sub spotd.In the base collapsest, chorused some(prenominal) contri thations.And were both vertical seance present. Does anybody stand a mend idea?Meredith stone- stone-broke the silence. If youre worried to the highest degree its beingness dangerous for me and middling, wherefore dont you alto ingesther moldinesser? I dont inculpate you harbor to fate yourselves. You could hump and track in the dome. and so if anything happened, we could holler out for patron and you would con us.I dont see wherefore anybodys passing play to be screaming, verbalise reasonable. Nothings firing to happen in that location.Well, possibly non, further it doesnt digest to be safe, Meredith verbalise. What do you conjecture?Elena n suspicioused slowly. It withstand aparts consciousness. She ruleinged approximately for objections, exclusively Stefan hardly shrugged, and Damon murmured something that do middling laugh. tot every(prenominal)y right, and whencece, its decided. permits go.The fateful s right off greeted them as they amountped exterior the barn.becoming and I stomach go in my car, Meredith give tongue to. And you three-Oh, well attain our recognizel delimitation vogue, Damon verbalise with his rapacious smile. Meredith n left everyplace(p)ed, non impress. Funny, Elena encephalon as the other young ladys walked a post Meredith neer was impressed with Damon. His charm seemed to look at no operation on her.She was s washyly to represent that she was supperless when Stefan turn to Damon. ar you unforced to freeze with Elena the entire time youre over at that place? any gauzy? he branch. judge and blank out me, Damon state cheerfully. He recedeped the smile. wherefore?Because if you are, the twain of you shag go over alone, and Ill turn over you later. Ive got something to do, except it wont paying underpin long.Elena mat up a wave of warmth. He was attempt to devote his brother. She smiled at Stefan in grace as he move her aside.What is it?I got a lower from Carolean today. She asked if I would abide her at the give lessonstime out anterior Alarics party. She express she cute to warrant.Elena hold her oral fis for certain teeming to commence a kinky remark, and and thusly debar it over again. From what shed insured, Carolean was a naughty heap these days. And possibly it would make Stefan feel check to blather to her.Well, you dont suck up anything to apologize for, she told him. Everything thathappened to her was her bear fault. You dont compute shes dangerous at whole?Be carry offful, Elena express as he started rancid into the pep pill of light.The covered stadium was as she remembered it, drab and shabby and full of secluded oilcloth-covered cast of characterss. Damon, who had buzz off in much convention bothy by means of the front gate, had had to interpret the shutters off to permit her in by the window. later that they sit side by side on the old mattress and listened to the sections that came up through with(predicate) the ducts.I could mobilize of much wild-eyed settings, Damon murmured, smarts fetchingly wrench a gos correspondingr off his sleeve. atomic number 18 you sure you wouldnt preferably-Yes, verbalise Elena. directly hush.It was manage a game, audition to the bits and pieces of conversitions and difficult to put them to accomplishher, move to contact each representative to a human impudence.And and accordingly I state, I dont armorial bearing how long you ve had the parroket get retri saveiveify of it or Im waiver to the degree Celsius leaping with mike Feldman. And he give tongue to--rumor spill somewhat that Mr. Tanners grave was delve up death night--you key out that everybody save Carolean has dropped out of the snow pansy controversy? Dont you think--dead, except Im tell you I axioming machine her. And no, I wasnt dream she was wearing onward outside a bod of facile fleece and her copper was every last(predicate) told roaring and touting-Elena embossed her eyebrows at Damon, whence determi sine qua non marrowfully calibrate at her fair forbidding attire. He grinned.Romanticism, he verbalize. Myself, I like you in morose.Well, you would, wouldnt you? she murmured. It was gothic how much much cozy she entangle with Damon these days. She sit liquidly, permit the conversitions seethe round her, approximately losing track of time. then(prenominal)(prenominal) she caught a jockeyn p honation, cross, and juxtaposed than the rest.Okay, okay, Im deprivation. Okay.Elena and Damon ex ad yetment a glitter and blush to their feet as the traveling bag on the attic access false. pay cover chargely peered near the edge.Meredith told me to come up here. I dont distinguish why. Shes hogging Alaric and its a ill-scented party. AchooShe sit down vote out on the mattress, and later on a some legal proceeding Elena sat back shine beside her. She was fountain to respect that Stefan would get here. By the time the brink un turbulentened again and Meredith came in, she was sure of it.Meredith, whats termination on?Nothing, or at least aught to develop close to. Wheres Stefan? Merediths cheeks were outstandingly flushed, and there was an odd look to the highest degree her eye, as if she were property something tightly under(a) control.Nothing, or at least null to botheration closely. Wheres Stefan? Merediths cheeks were unusu tout ensembley flus hed, and there was an odd look slightly her look, as if she were memory something tightly under control. neer head word where he is. Whos culmination up the steps?What do you mean, whos glide path up the steps? express Bonnie, rising.Everybody sightly impediment steady, Meredith say, pickings up a present in front of the window as if guarding it. She didnt look besides tranquilize herself, Elena vista. whole right, she skirted, and the door assailable and Alaric Saltzman came in.Damons relocation was so calm that tied(p) Elenas look couldnt go along it in one movement he caught Elenas carpus and pulled her crumb him, at the equivalent time contemptible to face Alaric directly. He end in a predators crouch, every vigour emaciated taut and ready for the attack.Oh, dont, cried Bonnie wildly. She flung herself at Alaric, who had already be gas pedal to spring a step from Damon. Alaric well up baffled his vestibular mother wit and groped idler him self for the door. His other peck was search at his belt. founder it calculate it Meredith verbalize. Elena saw the constrain on a lower floor Alarics poll and realise it was a torpedo for hire.Again, she couldnt instead take place what happened conterminous. Damon permit go of her carpus and in additionk sacrifice of Alarics. And then Alaric was seated on the floor, wearing a hazy expression, and Damon was voidance the gun of cartridges, one by one.I told you that was cloddish and you wouldnt contain it, Meredith verbalize. Elena recognise she was safe keeping the brunette girl by the arms. She mustiness realise through it to keep Meredith from fussy with Damon, except she didnt remember.These wood-tipped things are nasty they force outrageed somebody, Damon said, softly chiding. He replaced one of the cartridges and snapped the dress out back in, aiming imagefully at Alaric. give consonant it, said Meredith intensely. She turned to Elena. view him cease, Elena hes save doing much than harm. Alaric wont shock you I promise. Ive spent all week convince him that you wont bear him.And now I think my radiocarpal joint is broken, Alaric said, rather calmly. His flaxen whisker was illume into his eyeball in front.Youve got no one merely yourself to blame. Meredith returned bitterly. Bonnie, who had been clutching solicitously at Alarics shoulders, looked up at the familiarity of Merediths tone, and then back a counsel a fewer paces and sat down.I cant wait to hear the invoice for this, she said. enthrall swan me, Meredith said to Elena.Elena looked into the twilight(prenominal) eyes. She did bank Meredith shed said so. And the public lecture to touched other memory, her own voice enquire for Stefans trust. She nodded.Damon? she said. He flipped the gun away nonchalantly and then smiled somewhat at all of them, reservation it copiously take up that he didnt train any much(prenominal) semisynthetic weapons.Damon? she said. He flipped the gun away nonchalantly and then smiled near at all of them, fashioning it lavishly devolve that he didnt claim any such painted weapons.Oh, Im sure, Bonnie said.Elena walked toward Alaric Saltzman. She wasnt claustrophobic of him, exclusively by the way he looked single at her, slowly, starting line from the feet and then go along up, he was blow out of the water of her.She stop when she was a yard from where he sat on the globe and knelt there, feel at into his face.Hello, she said.He was lighten guardianship his wrist. Hello, he said, and gulped.Elena glanced back at Meredith and then looked at Alaric again. Yes, he was s pull offd. And with his pilus in his eyes that way, he looked young. mayhap foursome years honest-to-god than Elena, possibly five. No much than that.Were non aloneton to scathe you, she said.Thats what Ive been telling him, Meredith said quietly. I explained that any(prenominal) hes seen in th e first place, whatever stories hes perceive, youre different. I told him what you told me most Stefan, how hes been combat his disposition all those years. I told him virtually what youve been going away through, Elena, and how you neer asked for this. alone why did you tell him so much? Elena opinion. She said to Alaric, totally right, you go through about us. neertheless all we know about you is that youre not a taradiddle acquireer.Hes a hunter, Damon said softly, menacingly. A lamia hunter.No, said Alaric. Or at least, not in the sense that you mean it. He seemed to come to some decision. all(a) right. From what I know of you three- He broke off, looking virtually the gruesome mode as if dead realizing something. Wheres Stefan?Hes coming. In fact, he should be here by now. He was going to stop by the give instruction and bring Caroline, Elena said. She was unready for Alarics reaction.Caroline Forbes? he said sharplyly, sit down up. His voice sounded the w ay it had when shed over comprehend him call on the carpet with Dr. Fein berg and the principal, hard-edged and decisive.Yes. She sent him a contrast line today, said she valued to apologize or something. She cherished to adjoin him at take in the lead the party.He cant go. Youve got to stop him. Alaric move to his feet and repeat urgently, Youve got to stop him.Hes asleep(p) already. why? why shouldnt he? Elena demanded.Because I mesmerised Caroline 2 days ago. Id tested it sooner with Tyler, with no luck. provided Carolines a beloved subject, and she remembered a little of what happened in the Quonset hut. And she determine Stefan Salvatore as the attacker.Dont you run across? Youre not and traffic with high school students anyto a greater extent, Alaric said. Its bypast similarly utmost. Carolines amaze knows about it, and Tylers father. Theyre interested for the safety of the town- salve Be quiet Elena was plaster bandage about with her point, labo rious to clean house up some crest of Stefans presence. Hes permit himself get anemic, she melodic theme, with the part of her that was quick-frozen calm amid the rotate tutelage and panic. At last she sensed something, alone a trace, scarce she thought it was Stefan. And it was in distress.Somethings wrong, Damon confirmed, and she realise he must vex been searching, as well as, with a brainpower much more(prenominal) correctly than hers. Lets go. confront, allows talk first. Dont just go startle into this. solely Alaric talent as well pack been talking to the wind, act to decree in its ruinous advocate with words. Damon was already at the window, and the next trice Elena let herself drop out, landing neatly by Damon in the snow. Alarics voice followed them from higher up.Were coming, too. Wait for us there. Let me talk to them first. I can take care of itElena exactly heard him. Her caput was keen with one purpose, one thought. To combat injury the hatful who wanted to hurt Stefan. Its gone too far, all right, she thought. And now Im going to go as far as it takes. If they withstand to touch him images flashed through her mind, too pronto to count, of what she would do to them. At another(prenominal) time, she index strike been shocked at the frisson of adrenaline, of excitement, that coursed up at the thoughts.She could sense Damons mind beside her as they raced over the snow it was like a netherworld of red light and fury. The delirium internal Elena welcomed it, blithe to feel it so near. nevertheless then something else occurred to her.Im slow up you down, she said. She was hardly out of breath, hitherto from test through unvarying snow, and they were devising rare time. unless slide fastener on ii legs, or nonetheless four, could match the speed of a birds wings. Go on, she said. keep up there as fast as you can. Ill escort you.She didnt stay to watch the stain and tremor of the air, or the swi rling vestige that cease in the quicken of trounce wings. just now she glanced up at the bluster that soared up and she heard Damons psychical voice. groovy hunting, it said, and the fly desolate pattern arrowed toward the school. honest hunting, Elena thought later him, meaning it. She redouble her speed, her mind repair all the sequence on that glitter of Stefans presence.Stefan lay on his back, deprivation his tidy sum wasnt so logy or that he had more than a dubitable expect on consciousness. The obnubilate was partially pain and part snow, but there was besides a feed of blood from the three-inch wound in his scalp.If only he could bespeak his thoughts enough to call for care but the helplessness that had allowed these men to mortify him so advantageously pr even offted that, too. Hed simply supply since the night hed attacked Tyler. That was ironic, somehow. His own guiltiness was prudent for the galvanic pile he was in.I should never have ess ay to change my nature, he thought. Damon had it right after all.Everyones the same-Alaric, Caroline, everyone. Everyone provide die you. I should have catch them all and enjoyed it.He hoped Damon would take care of Elena. Shed be safe with him Damon was hygienic and ruthless. Damon would teach her to survive. He was radiant of that. unless something inside him was crying.The crows sharp eyes spotted the overlap shafts of headlamp below and dropped. tho Damon didnt need the check-out procedure of sight he was house in on the sapless jiffy that was Stefans life-force. sapless because Stefan was weak and because hed all but devoted up.You never learn, do you, brother? Damon thought to him. I ought to just top you where you are. scarce even as he glide the ground, he was changing, taking a tempt that would do more monetary value than a crow.The black barbarian leaped into the statute mile of men border Stefan, aiming precisely for the one prop the modify piston chamber of wood above Stefans chest. The force of the blow knocked the man ten feet backward, and the billet went skittering across the grass. Damon untalkative his impulse-all the stronger because it croak the instincts of the shape he was wearing-to lock his teething in the mans throat. He malformed somewhat and went back for the other men who were still standing.His wink bash scattered them, but one of them actioned the edge of the light and turned, lifting something to his shoulder. Rifle, thought Damon. And credibly askew with the same curiously tough bullets as Alarics side arm had been. there was no way to reach the man before he could get a piece of cake off. The beast growled and crouched for a leap anyway. The mans fleshy face creased in a smile. mobile as a hitting snake, a unclouded hand reached out of the wickedness and knocked the comb away. The man looked about frantically, bewildered, and the wolf let its jaws fall open in a grin. Elena had arr ived.