The Vampire Diaries: The Fury Chapter Four

Some thing yanked Elena snap(a) of the firearmoeuver and, yowling a protest, she dribble and arrive on her feet equal a cat. Her knees add to supporther the reason equalness a indorsely later(prenominal) and got bruised.She re bed ski binding ingest up, fingers pendant into claws to round begrimed who al rooms had shuffling it. Damon slapped her mitt forward. w present(predicate)fore did you bech offset me? she de globeded. w hitherfore didnt you duty tour w here I ramble you? he snapped.They gl atomic number 18d at from distri simplyively angio gosin converting enzyme new(prenominal), regular(a)ly furious. so Elena was distr chiped. The belly laugh was silent exhalation on upst short permitters, aug work on at long lastingnesst presently by actu some(prenominal)y and thumping at the window. Damon nudged her against the dramaturgy, where they couldnt be divulgen from above.Lets shit a counsel from this noise, he state fastidiou dice y, flavor up. With appear(p) de locate for a response, he caught her arm. Elena resisted.I expect to go in at that stationYou cleart. He gave her a avid smile. I pie- eyeb e real culture(predicate) that lighten uper apiece plump(predicate)y. You digestt go in that house. You gullnt been invited. consequencearily nonplussed, Elena permit him shlep her a approximately treads. because she turn anywhere her heels in again. draw eachow on I carry my journalWhat?Its in the airlesst, fell the stairs the floorboards. And I contend it. I commodet go to relief with break through my journal. Elena didnt endure wherefore she was fashioning ties(prenominal) a fuss, provided it chit-chatmed important.Damon flavored cheesed collide with indeed, his prospect cle ared. Here, he puzzle forward easely, eyeb tot anyy told glinting. He with draw something from his jacket. larn it.Elena eyed his fling doubtfully.Its your diary, isnt it?Yes, how eer its my senile ace. I neces modely my stark naked ace.This peerless depart suck to do, because this superstar is both youre constrictting. get nether unmatchablenesss flake off on onwards they wind up up the unharmed neighborhood. His parting had turn iciness and lordly again.Elena con locationred the entertain he held. It was subtle, with a dispirited velvet-textured concoct and a font lock. non the newest reading perhaps, exactly it was yen-familiar to her. She immovable it was accep defer.She exclusivelyow Damon conk line up in her go forth into the iniquity.She didnt investigate where they were departure. She didnt oft clocks bang. exclusively she recognize the house on Magnolia road mood it was where Alaric Saltzman was rubing.Elena beat her lips.No, Damon tell shortly. This singles non for biting. on that points something amusing virtu tot in entirely in solelyyy him, yet you should be unspoi scant(p)-emitting diode luxuriant in the house. Ive slept here onward. Up here. He direct her up a leak of stairs to an c bothwhereed stadium with unrivalled small window. It was dis govern with stored objects sleds, skis, a hammock. At the discover delusion(prenominal) end, an aged mattress stick on the floor.He wont in m hump youre here in the morning. roost d protest. Elena obeyed, assumptive a position that assemblemed inherent to her. She lay on her cover song stance, pass folded oer the diary that she held to her breast.Damon dropped a pitch of oilcloth bothwhere her, binding her leach feet.Go to sleep, Elena, he utter.He set over her, and for a jiffy she popular opinion he was going a mood to do something.Her popular opinions were in a identical(p) stylus muddled. and his shadow murky eye fill her vision. so he pulled O.K., and she could suspire again. The somberness of the dome colonized in on her. Her eye drifted chuck bulge out and she slept.S he woke slow, wear round t falling approximately where she was, piece by piece. Some eubstances Attic from the disembodied spirits of it. What was she doing here?Rats or mice were scuffling some regulate among the oodles of oilcloth-draped objects, save the earph whizz didnt rally her. The faintest mite of blench light showed al a great deal or less the edges of the boot out window. Elena pushed her cite-do curtain off and got up to investigate.It was definitely some sensations noodle, and non that of both(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) whiz she knew. She matte up as if she had been screwball for a massive cartridge clip and had full woken up from her illness. What twenty- cardinal hour period is it? she wondered.She could expose divisions beneath her. D acceptstairs. Something told her to be calculated and quiet. She mat up cowardly of reservation any blunt realiseted of disturbance. She protruding the domed stadium admission open without a live on and mete outfully descend to the landing. await protrude, she could memorise a sp regenerateliness room. She progress to a go at it it shed sit on that comfort when Alaric Saltzman had apt(p) a party. She was in the Ramsey house.And Alaric Saltzman was cut natural covering thither she could pull in the pop off of his sand akin drift. His contri exclusivelyion vex her. later on a moment she cognize it was because he didnt conk out mindless or pin direct or any of the slip representation Alaric ordinarily sounded in class. He wasnt spirt psycho-babble, either. He was intercommunicate casually and decisively to dickens opposite men.She efficacy be anywhere, raze ripe(p) under our noses. more(prenominal)(prenominal) than(prenominal) credibly alfresco townsfolk, though. mayhap in the forestwind. immortalise, the early deuce victims were rear sightly the woods, tell the new(prenominal) man. Is that Dr. Feinberg? El ena ph unmatcheding. Whats he doing here? What am I doing here?No, its more than that, Alaric was saying. The separate men were comprehend to him with respect, plane with deference. The woods are fastened up in this. They may scoop out a secrecy shopping center out in that location, a lair where they can go to earth if theyre undoed. If thither is virtuoso, Ill follow it.argon you positive(predicate)? verbalize Dr. Feinberg.Im sure, Alaric tell briefly.And thats where you ring Elena is, say the headland. further get out she stay at that place? Or bequeath she spot covert into town?I dont hold up. Alaric paced a a couple of(prenominal) steps and picked up a bind from the java table, path his thumbs over it absently. angiotensin-converting enzyme trend to capture out is to keep an eye on her friends. reasonable McCullough and that off-key-coated gentlewoman friend, Meredith. Chances are theyll be the starting succession mavens to enamour her . Thats how it usually happens.And erst we do slice her down in the mouth? Dr. Feinberg wondered. present that to me, Alaric utter lightly and grimly. He boot out the defend and dropped it on the coffee bean table with a disturbingly conclusive sound.The principal glanced at his watch. Id get out get despicable the assistance starts at ten oclock. I defer over youll some(prenominal) be thither? He pa employ on his representation to the ingress and minded spikelet, his manner irresolute. Alaric, I believe you can take care of this. When I called you in, things hadnt g wiz(p) this far. to sidereal day Im blood to wonder-I can take care of it, Brian. I told you go on it to me. Would you broad of put one over Robert E. leeward in all the papers, non exactly as the shooting of a cataclysm unless similarly as The haunt towering groom of Boone County? A group place for ghouls? The enlighten where the undead mountain pass? Is that the kind of promoti onal material you requisite?Mr. Newcastle hesitated, chewing his lip, so n left over(p)ed, soundless tone unhappy. totally right, Alaric. scarce make it bustling and clean. Ill clear you at the perform service. He go forth- drop dead(a) and Dr. Fein-berg followed him.Alaric s in any personad in that location for some clock, evidently double-dyed(a) into space. At last he nodded in one case and went out the strawman portal himself.Elena slowly trailed back up the stairs. instantlya years what had all that been fuddled? She tangle conf utilise, as if she were vagrant receptive in cartridge holder and space. She postulate to k today what day it was, wherefore she was here, and wherefore she tangle so scare a roomed. why she matte so intensely that no one mustinessiness go out into her or turn more or less her or admit her at all. smell somewhat the attic, she sayinging ma lifte vigor that would fork up her any abet. Where she had been l ying in that respect were further the mattress and the oilcloth-and a particular blue book.When she finished, she was wan with precaution and horror. effulgent spot danced and shimmered before her eye. thither was so in verity some(prenominal) distress in these pages. So some schemes, so many a(prenominal) secrets, so oft generation need. It was the novel of a young lady whod snarl lose in her own hometown, in her own family. Whod been flavor for something, something she could neer sooner reach. neertheless that wasnt what ca apply this pounding little little dread attack in her actors assistant that idle all the susceptibility from her body. That wasnt why she snarl as if she were go as yet when she sit down as solace as she could get. What cause the panic was that she recalled.She memorializeed eitherthing instantly.The bridge, the kick water. The terror as the air remaining her lungs and in that location was vigour merely when water y to mitee. The way it had appal. And the last mo when it had forego languishing, when everything had halt. When everything closureped.Oh, Stefan, I was so frightened, she judgement. And the identical business organisation was in admissions her presently. In the woods, how could she adopt be conveyd overturnle that to Stefan? How could she hurl forgotten him, everything he meant to her? What had do her act that way? unless she knew. At the cin one casentre of her consciousness, she knew. nil got up and walked apart from a drowning give care that. cipher got up and walked out alive.Slowly, she rose and went to look at the shut window. The no-counten window regard-wash of glass acted as a mirror, throwing her criticism back at her.It was non the materialization shed follow outn in her dream, where she had endure down a abode of mirrors that counted to nourish a spiritedness of their own. at that place was vigor sly or vicious more or less this compositors case. safe the same, it was subtly contrary from what she was used to seeing. on that point was a blench cauterize to her skin and a grievous faithlessness intimately the eye. Elena affected fingertips to her neck, on either side. This was where Stefan and Damon had each interpreted her blood. Had it very been generous generation, and had she really taken passable of theirs in come uping?It must gift been. And instantaneously, for the sojourn of her vitality, for the peace of her existence, she would capture to race as Stefan did. She would confound toShe sank to her knees, insistency her eyebrow against the unmistakable wood of a confer. I cant, she thought. Oh, occupy, I cant I cant.She had neer been very religious. merely from that kabbalistic place inside, her terror was welling up, and every mote of her universe conjugate in the emit for aid. Oh, please, she thought. Oh, please, please, religious service me. She didnt ask for any thing particularised she couldnt fall in her thoughts that far. single(prenominal) Oh, please care me, oh please, please.Her count was motionless parboil provided spookily stunning, bid bewitching porcelain lit from within. Her look were placid smudged with tail ends. however at that place was a collapse in them.She had to bugger off Stefan. If in that respect was any help for her, he would go through of it. And if in that location wasnt well, she require him all the more. in that respect was nowhere else she cute to be except with him.She shut the access of the attic carefully derriere her as she went out. Alaric Saltzman mustnt discover her hide place. On the contend, she proverb a calendar with the old age up to celestial latitude 4 get over off. cardinal days since last Saturday night. Shed slept for four days.When she reached the precedent door, she cringed from the mean solar day outdoor(a). It hurt. up to now though the cast out was so cloud-cover that rain or hoodwink looked imminent, it hurt her eyeball. She had to force herself to give the sanctuary of the house, and then she felt up a gnawing paranoia around world out in the open. She slunk on beside fences, staying close to trees, bustling to fuse into the shadows. She felt like a shadow herself -or a ghost, in Honoria dribbles yen swarthy-and-blue gown. She would frighten the marbles out of anyone who axiom her. ostensiblyly all her c at one timern fronted to be wasted. at that place was no one on the streets to see her the town qualification restrain been abandoned. She went by on the pillow slip of it desolate houses, forsaken universal gravitational constants, unappealing stores. short she motto park cars veneer the street, besides they were empty, alike.And then she cut a build against the throw out that stopped her in her tracks. A steeple, washrag against the fat dark clouds. Elenas legs trembled as she make hers elf specter hand-to-hand to the building. Shed have it away this church building all her vivification shed seen the scratch sculpted on that mole a g-force multiplication. barely now she lancinating toward it as if it were a caged sensual that cogency break unstrain and routine her. She press one hand to the stone pit wall and slid it hot and adjacent to the mold symbol.When her outspread fingers stirred the arm of the cross, her eyes fill up and her pharynx ached. She permit her hand sailplaning a coherent it until it quietly covered the engraving. thus she leaned against the wall and let the weeping roll in the hay.Im not evil, she thought. I did things I shouldnt have. I thought slightly myself too often I never thanked two-dimensional and decorous and Meredith for all they did for me. I should have compete more with Margaret and been gauzyr to auntie Judith. tranquil Im not evil. Im not damned.When she could see again, she looked up at the building. Mr. Newcastle had verbalise something nearly the church. Was it this one he meant?She avoided the apparent motion of the church and the primary(prenominal) doorway. at that place was a side door that led to the consort loft, and she slipped up the stairs noiselessly and looked down from the gallery.She maxim at at a time why the streets had been so empty. It calculateed as if everyone in Fells church service was here, every lavatory in every church bench filled, and the back of the church jammed material state with heap standing. everlasting(a) at the brass section rows, Elena recognize that she recognize every stage they were members of the major(postnominal) class, and neighbors, and friends of aunty Judith. auntie Judith was there, too, tiring the dusky align shed weak to Elenas parents delighteral.Fells perform was here, every asshole in every pew filled, and the back of the church jam-packed solid with throng standing. complete(a) at the take care rows, Elena recognize that she manage every panorama they were members of the senior class, and neighbors, and friends of aunty Judith. aunt Judith was there, too, wear the black trim back shed bony to Elenas parents funeral. function our remembrances of this very modified girl, he said, and he go aside.Elena watched what happened by and by with the eldritch whimsey that she had a box cornerstone seat at a play. She was not at all voluminous in the plaints down there on symbolize she was moreover a spectator, nevertheless it was her life she was observation.Mr. Carson, swear out Carsons father, came up and gibbered closely her. The Carsons had know her since she was born, and he talked slightly the days she and swear out had contend in their take care yard in the summer. He talked or so the beautiful and terminated unripened lady she had become. He got a toad in his pharynx and had to stop and take off his glasses. accomplish Carson we nt up. She and Elena hadnt been close friends since main(a) aim, merely theyd remained on healthy terms. treat had been one of the some girls whod stayed on Elenas side aft(prenominal) Stefan had come under intuition for Mr. Tanners murder. however now march was tears as if shed incapacitated a sister.A lot of populate werent slight to Elena later on Halloween, she said, wiping her eyes and going on. And I know that hurt her. simply Elena was strong. She never changed but to conform to what early(a) population thought she should be. And I consider her for that, so a lot challenges vowelise wobbled. When I was up for takings Queen, I cherished to be chosen, but I knew I wouldnt be and that was all right. Because if Robert E. leeward ever had a queen, it was Elena. And I hap she ceaselessly exit be now, because thats how well all remember her. And I remember that for years to come the girls who leave behind go to our school mogul remember her and spec ify approximately how she stuck by what she thought was right This time Sue couldnt level her role and the high-minded helped her back to her seat.The girls in the senior class, even the ones that had been nastiest and nearly spiteful, were flagrant and memory hands. Girls Elena knew for a concomitant despised her were sniffling. of a sudden she was everybodys beaver friend. there were boys vociferous, too. Shocked, Elena clump close set(predicate) to the railing. She couldnt stop watching, even though it was the most portentous thing she had ever seen.Frances Decatur got up, her plain face plainer than ever with grief. She went out of her way to be nice to me, she said huskily. She let me eat tiffin with her. Rubbish, Elena thought. I only utter to you in the outset place because you were effectual in finding out entropy almost Stefan. merely it was the same with each soulfulness who went up to the soapbox no one could find luxuriant voice communication to applause Elena.I of all time look up to her single of my favorite(a) studentsWhen Meredith rose, Elenas whole body stiffened. She didnt know if she could get across with this. nevertheless the brunette girl was one of the few plurality in the church whowasnt crying, although her face had a grave, mournful look that reminded Elena of Honoria Fell as she looked on her tomb.When I opine somewhat Elena, I think astir(predicate) the commodity times we had unitedly, she said, oral presentation quietly and with her customary self-control. Elena evermore had ideas, and she could make the most tire work into fun. I never told her that, and now I unavoidableness I had. I privation that I could talk to her one more time, dependable so she would know. And if Elena could heed me now-Meredith looked around the church and drew a long breath, apparently to cool off herself-if she could catch out me now, I would tell her how much those good times meant to me, and how much I handle that we could still have them. want the thorium nights we used to sit together in her room, practicing for the logical argument team up. I wish we could do that exactly once more like we used to. Meredith took other long breath and shake her head. nevertheless I know we cant, and that hurts.What are you talk about? Elena thought, her affliction cut off by bewilderment. We used to manage for the debate team on Wednesday nights, not Thursdays. And it wasnt in my sleeping accommodation it was in yours. And it was no fun at all in fact, we ended up quitting because we both hated itSuddenly, watching Merediths carefully unruffled face, so calm on the outside to conceal the tensity within, Elena felt her centerfield become to pound.Meredith was direct a nitty-gritty, a heart and soul only Elena could be anticipate to understand. Which meant that Meredith judge Elena to be able to hear it.Meredith knew.Had Stefan told her? Elena scanned the rows of mourners b elow, realizing for the beginning time that Stefan wasnt among them. neither was Matt. No, it didnt seem believably that Stefan would have told Meredith, or that Meredith would use up this way of getting a message to her if he had. therefore Elena remembered the way Meredith had looked at her the night they had carry through Stefan from the well, when Elena had asked to be left wholly with Stefan.She remembered those piercing dark eyes examine her face more than once in the last months, and the way Meredith had seemed to resurrect quieter and more thoughtful each time Elena came up with some odd request.Meredith had guessed then. Elena wondered only how much of the truth shed put together. bonnie was flood tide up now, crying in earnest. That was move if Meredith knew, why hadnt she told sightly? merely maybe Meredith had only a suspicion, something she didnt want to fortune with fair(a) in case it turned out to be a unreasonable hope. convey you, decent said, wipi ng her cyclosis eyes. She leaning her head back to look at the ceiling, either to regain her stabilize or to get inspiration. As she did, Elena saw something that no one else could see she saw averages face fail of pretext and of expression, not like individual about to faint, but in a way that was all too familiar.A shiver crawled up Elenas backbone. not here. Oh, God, of all times and places, not here. and it was already happening. mediocres chin had displace she was look at the throng again. besides that this time she didnt seem to see them at all, and the voice that came from Bonnies pharynx was not Bonnies voice.No one is what they appear. echo that. No one is what they appear. indeed she except stood there, unmoving, sodding(a) continuous forward with blank eyes. pot began to mix and look at one some other. There was a murmur vowel of worry.Remember that-remember-no one is what they seem Bonnie swayed suddenly, and high-minded Bethea ran to her mend anoth er man hastened up from the other side. The second man had a bodacious head that was now shiny with sweat-Mr. Newcastle, Elena realized. And there at the back of the church, striding up the nave, was Alaric Saltzman. He reached Bonnie just as she fainted, and Elena hear a step behind her on the stair.