Chapter 32: 2.17

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Arielle spent the next day in bed; Caroline was spending the day trying to break Tylers sire bond, along with Bill. Rebekah and Marcus were doing whatever it is they do.

So Arielle wasn't hanging out with anyone. She wanted Elijah back. She was getting bored without him; especially in Mystic Falls.

She tried multiple locator spells on the original, but they all came up blank, "Ugh! Where are you!?" she groaned annoyed, standing up from the ground.

She took out another map and set it on the floor; she grabbed a small knife and cut her hand, letting her blood fall on the paper.

Just like the last ten times she did this

"I'm gonna kill you, whenever I find you." she muttered, setting the knife aside and getting ready to start the spell.

Her chanting started, low at first, but with each word she raised her voice a little. When she stopped, she saw the blood in the same place it started at.

"Are you kidding me!?" she yelled. She threw herself back and layed on the floor feeling defeated.

A gust of wind hit her arm causing her to sit up and look at the blood being moved on its own, "What the hell?" she muttered to herself. Her blood finally stopped in the middle of the woods, she groaned, obviously they put him in the middle of the woods.

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Arielle walked through the woods, trying her best to follow the map in her hands. She finally arrived to an old house making her confused. She felt the power coming off the house, different, ancient, anything but whatever she's felt before.

She carefully walked into the house, the door closing itself behind her, causing her to jump in shock, "Ugh! Dead witches." she muttered to herself.

She went to walk forward but stopped feeling an agonizing pain in her head; she dropped to her knees and held her head, "I'm sorry, you dramatic bitches." she groaned. After a moment the pain stopped and she sat down and caught her breath.

She stood up and muttered a few curse words as she walked along the house. She walked down some stairs that led her to a basement.

"𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦." she sung to herself, walking around the basement. She got to a room that was 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑦. Or atleast what the dead witches wanted it to look like.

She could feel the power coming off the room, and she knew it wasn't the witches, "So you lead me here but you won't show me what you're hiding? Real classy." She heard muttering and after a couple moments coffins appeared scattered among the room.

4 𝑐𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑠

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑘𝑎𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠

She smiled and looked at the air, "Thank you, I guess." she opened the coffin that had '𝐸.𝑀' embroided on it and smiled seeing Elijah; she removed the dagger and used it to cut her palm, letting her blood drip down into his mouth.

After a couple moments, she set the dagger down and walked away from his coffin; he was taking 𝑤𝑎𝑦 too long. She knew Klaus kept his siblings in the coffins:

𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑛, 𝐾𝑜𝑙, 𝐸𝑙𝑖𝑗𝑎ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑘𝑎ℎ.

Although, Rebekah wasn't in one of these coffins, so she was confused on why there were four. In the months she spent with Klaus looking for wolves, she'd seen the coffins, but she never really questioned it.

Did she find it crazy?

𝑌𝑒𝑠

Did she comment on it?

𝑌𝑒𝑠

Did she ever try to figure out why he lugged around an extra coffin?

𝑁𝑜

She just assumed it was an extra.

But now, it didn't feel like an extra. She felt as if Klaus kept that "𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑦" coffin for a reason. She had a gut feeling that coffin wasn't empty; she saw the way Klaus loaded his coffins everytime they moved; the coffin that had nothing embroided on it always got the special treatment.

She shrugged it off as something that was normal to him, but looking back on it now she felt that something was off. Especially since all the coffins had some sort of initials on them.

𝐸𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒

She pondered with her own thoughts; debating whether or not to open the extra coffin. If she did, she'd find out who's in there, assuming it was a person. And if she didn't, she'd be very bored until Elijah woke up.

𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟

She walked towards the coffin and went to open it; as she touched the lid, her world went dark.

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𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝒻ℯ𝓁𝓉 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑.

"𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜, 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒."

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑙𝑓 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑑 𝑢𝑝, "𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢?" 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒.

"𝐼'𝑚 𝐸𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟."

𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒, "𝐴𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑖𝑘𝑎𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛?"

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑, "𝑌𝑒𝑠." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑, "𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠."

𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑, "𝑌𝑒𝑎ℎ. 𝑈𝑚, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒?"

"𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡."

"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒?" 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑, 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔.

𝐸𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑, 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑑, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑖𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟."

"𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦. 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ?"

𝐴 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑠, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒."

𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠, "𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠?" 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝑊𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠? 𝑂𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔? 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚."

"𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠' 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒.

"𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦.." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, "𝑆𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑦, 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑚 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒?"

𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟; 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ.

"𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢." 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, "𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒."

𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ, 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟.

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛

𝑆𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, "𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝓂ℯ 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒?" 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦.

"𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑. 𝑌𝑒𝑠."

"𝐿𝑎𝑑𝑦, 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑦, "𝐼'𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘. 𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑠? 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐴𝐵𝐶'𝑠, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛."

𝐸𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑗𝑎𝑤, "𝐼'𝑚 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟, "𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒."

"𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒, '𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑎𝑖𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑑, "𝑃𝑙𝑢𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒?"

"𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼'𝑑 𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐, 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑: 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼'𝑑 𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒."

𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡, "𝑁𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑑, "𝐼 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛, 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡."

"𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜—"

"𝐿𝑎𝑑𝑦! 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜!" 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑, "𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑘𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑."

𝐸𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑, "𝐴𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔; 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑, 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒.

"𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡.

𝐸𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑, "𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔."

𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑, "𝐵𝑦𝑒, 𝓈ℴ 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒.

𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑝 ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡, "𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔?!?!" 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛.

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑙." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 ℐ 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑑." ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑒, "𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚."

"𝑁𝑜, 𝑛𝑜, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝐵𝐼𝑇𝐶𝐻!"

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Damon walked down into the basement with two compelled men behind him. His face churned into confusion seeing Elijah's coffin open.

He quickly sped to it and saw his dagger next to him, he looked around and saw Arielle's unconscious body, "Looks like you beat me to it." he muttered.

He bent down and saw dry blood on her face, "You two morons," he called out to the men, "Get this coffin out of here and take it to the location I told you." he ordered.

The men nodded and took Esther's coffin out of the room. Damon picked up Arielle and quickly sped out of the house.

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𝑨/𝑵: 𝒊'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒊 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑲𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒔. 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑 𝒄𝒖𝒛 𝒊 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆

𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑, 𝒍𝒎𝒌 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌

𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒆𝒄 1, 𝒊'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒖𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌. 𝑰'𝒎 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒄 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝑴𝒊𝒌𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒅𝒌 𝒚𝒆𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚'𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒓𝒏. 𝑺𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒚𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕.

𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒖𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊'𝒎 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒔𝒐 𝒊 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎

𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔, 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒚𝒚𝒚