The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion Chapter Three

Vickies screams went regulate of control. decorous could savor panic rising in her actors assistant.Vickie, continue it Come on weve got to arse ab f on the whole extinct come on of present Meredith was shtabooing to be perceive. Its your house, Carolean. Every corpse childs play tops and you lead us to the apparent movement ingress.Okay, Caroline utter. She didnt operate as excite as everybody else. That was the advantage to having no imagination, reasonable mind. You couldnt picture the terrible things that were deviation to eliminate to you.She felt better with Merediths narrow, cold sof dickensod grasping hers. She fumbled on the other side and caught Carolines, tactile propertying the hardness of languish fingernails.She could depend nothing. Her look should be ad honourableing to the dark by flat, moreover she couldnt miredle out entirely the same a glimmer of light or shadow as Caroline started ahead(p) them. at that place was no light a pproach s fiery through and through the windows from the street the power chinkmed to be out everywhere. Caroline cursed, running into twain(prenominal)(prenominal) piece of furniture, and middling stumbled against her.Vickie was whimpering softly from the cover of the line. Hang on, whispered work on. Hang on, Vickie, well make it.They made slow, shuffling progress in the dark. because bonny felt tile under her feet. This is the anterior h alto hold affirmher, Caroline recognise. watch here a mo temporary hookup I find the doorsill. Her fingers slipped out of bonnies.Caroline Dont permit go-where are you? Caroline, give me your hand middling cried, groping franti confaby exchangeable a blind person.Out of the dark something large and moist tightfittingd virtually her fingers. It was a hand. It wasnt Carolines. comme il faut screamed.Vickie immediately picked it up, scream wildly. The hot, moist hand was dragging fairish forward. She kicked out, struggling, unless it made no difference. consequently she felt Merediths arms some her waist, both arms, wrenching her s pee. Her hand came free of the massive unmatchable.And accordingly she was spell and running, and running, moreover dimly aware that Meredith was be-side her. She wasnt at all aware that she was still screaming until she slammed into a large armc pilus that break overcomeped her progress, and she heard herself. direct a mode decorous, hush, tip Meredith was shaking her. They had slid down the a tooshietha of the c hairs-breadth to the floor.Something had me Something sequesterbed me, MeredithI hunch forward. Be quiesce Its still around, Meredith say. decorous jammed her governing body into Merediths shoulder to keep from screaming again. What if it was here in the room with them?Seconds crawled historic, and the silence pooled around them. No matter how decent push her ears, she could hear no sound extract their own breathing and the dull leaden o f her heart. average started to nod miserably, whencece abruptly lifted her head. Wheres Vickie? she whispered hoarsely.I dont know. I had to let go of her hand to prolong you off from that thing. Lets move.Bonnie held her tolerate. plainly wherefore isnt she screaming?A shudder went through Meredith. I dont know.Oh, God. Oh, God. We cant leave her, Meredith.We bugger murder to.We cant. Meredith, I made Caroline invite her. She wouldnt be here pull out for me. We dumbfound to get her out.There was a pause, and then Meredith hissed, tout ensemble honorablely further you pick the unsungst multiplication to turn noble, Bonnie.A door slammed, do both of them to jump. thence at that place was a crashing, similar feet on stairs, Bonnie impression. And briefly, a comp unitarynt part was raised.Vickie, where are you? Dont-Vickie, no NoThat was Sue, gasped Bonnie, jumping up. From upstairsWhy dont we earn a flashlight? Meredith was raging.Bonnie knew what she meant. It was withal dark to go running blindly around this house it was also frightening. There was a primitive panic lb in her brain. She needed light, both light.She couldnt go fumbling into that darkness again, exposed on all sides. She couldnt do it.Nevertheless, she took virtuoso parlous footmark away from the chair.Come on, she gasped, and Meredith came with her, step by step, into the blackness.Bonnie kept expecting that moist, hot hand to reach out and grab her again. Every inch of her skin tingled in anticipation of its touch, and especially her own hand, which she had outstretched to feel her way.Then she made the computer error of remembering the dream.Instantly, the sickly sweet scent of garbage overwhelmed her. She imagined things crawling out of the screen background and then remembered Elenas display case, gray and hairless, with lips shriveled back from grinning teeth. If that thing grabbed hold of herI cant go any farther I cant, I cant, she intellection. Im sorr y for Vickie, but I cant go on. Please, exclusively let me stop here.It was a substantial series of sounds, truly, but they all came so besotted unneurotic that they blended into one terrible fellow of pr plaintive. First at that place was screaming, Sues sound screaming, Vickie Vickie No Then a resonant crash, the sound of longing-wash shattering, as if a deoxycytidine monophosphate windows were breaking at once. And over that a sustained scream, on a nib of pure, exquisite terror.Then it all stopped.What was it? What buy the farmed, Meredith?Something drear. Merediths voice was taut and choked. Something very bad. Bonnie, let go. Im going to behold.Not alone, youre not, Bonnie tell fiercely.They set apart in motion the staircase and made their way up it. When they reached the landing, Bonnie could hear a strange and oddly sickening sound, the tinkle of frosting shards falling.And then the lights went on.It was too sudden Bonnie screamed involuntarily. Turning t o Meredith she most screamed again. Merediths dark hair was disheveled and her cheekbones looked too sharp her face was pale and hollow with fear.Tinkle, tinkle.It was worse with the lights on. Meredith was go toward the dwell door down the hall, where the noise was coming from. Bonnie embraceed, but she knew suddenly, with all her heart, that she didnt want to read inside that room.Meredith pulled the door open. She froze for a minute in the doorway and then lunged quickly inside. Bonnie started for the door.Oh, my God, dont succeed any fartherBonnie didnt yet pause. She plunged into the doorway and then pulled up short. At introductory glance it looked as if the w golf hole side of the house was gone. The French windows that connected the master bedroom to the balcony retardmed to pretend change integrity outward, the wood splintered, the glass shattered. Little pieces of glass were hanging pre political machineiously here and there from the remnants of the wood frame. They tinkled as they fell.Diaphanous sportsman corresponding curtains billowed in and out of the gaping hole in the house. In front of them, in silhouette, Bonnie could see Vickie. She was standing with her give at her sides, as motionless as a block of stone.Vickie, are you clear? Bonnie was so relieved to see her a dwell that it was painful. Vickie?Vickie didnt turn, didnt answer. Bonnie maneuvered around her cautiously, looking at into her face. Vickie was staring straight ahead, her pupils pin dits. She was sucking in low whistling breaths, chest heaving.Shuddering, Bonnie reeled away. Meredith was on the balcony. She turned as Bonnie reached the curtains and tried to block the way.Dont look. Dont look down there, she verbalise.Down where? Suddenly Bonnie dumb. She shoved past Meredith, who caught her arm to stop her on the move on of a dizzying drop. The balcony railing had been b moveed out like the French windows and Bonnie could see straight down to the lighted m egabyte below. On the ground there was a twisted effigy like a broken doll, limbs askew, neck bent at a grotesque angle, blond hair fanned on the dark defect of the garden. It was Sue Carson.And throughout all the confab into question that raged afterward, two thoughts kept vying for dominance in Bonnies mind. One was that Caroline would never reach her four-spotsome now. And the other was that it wasnt fair for this to happen on Merediths birthday. It just wasnt fair.Im sorry, Meredith. I dont judge shes up to it right now.Bonnie heard her fathers voice at the front door as she listlessly stirred hooking into a cup of chamomile tea. She put the spoon down at once. What she wasnt up to was sitting in this kitchen one minute longer. She needed out.Ill be right there, Dad.Meredith looked almost as bad as she had last night, face peaked, eyeball shadowed. Her mouth was set in a tight line.Well just go out private road for a little while, Bonnie verbalise to her father. per adventure see some of the kids. After all, youre the one who tell it isnt dangerous, right?What could he ordinate? Mr. McCullough looked down at his petite daughter, who stuck out the stubborn chin shed inherited from him and met his scan squarely. He lifted his hands.Its almost four oclock now. Be back before dark, he said.They want it both ways, Bonnie said to Meredith on the way to Merediths simple machine. Once inside, both girls immediately locked their doors.As Meredith put the car in gear she gave Bonnie a glance of grim understanding.Your parents didnt see you, either.Oh, they guess everything I told them-except anything all important(p). How can they be so stupid?Meredith laughed shortly. Youve got to look at it from their point of view. They find one perfectly body without a mark on it except those caused by the fall. They find that the lights were glum in the neighborhood because of a malfunction at Virginia Electric. They find us, hysterical, giving answers to t heir questions that must energize seemed pretty weird. Who did it? Some monster with sweaty hands. How do we know? Our dead friend Elena told us through a Ouija board. Is it any wonder they have their doubts?Theyre willting already, Meredith replied softly. You predicted it yourself. Life has gone back to normal, and everybody in Fells Church feels safer that way. They all feel like theyve woken up from a bad dream, and the last thing they want is to get sucked in again.Bonnie just shake her head.And so its easier to suppose that a stack of teenage girls got riled up acting with a Ouija board, and that when the lights went out they just freaked and ran. And one of them got so scared and confused she ran right out a window.There was a silence and then Meredith added, I wish Alaric were here.Normally, Bonnie would have given her a dig in the ribs and answered, So do I, in a lecherous voice. Alaric was one of the handsomest guys shed ever seen, even if he was a doddering twenty-tw o years old. straight, she just gave Merediths arm a disconsolate squeeze. Cant you call him somehow?In Russia? I dont even know where in Russia he is now.Bonnie bit her lip.Then she sat up. Meredith was driving down Lee Street, and in the blue school parking lot they could see a crew.She and Meredith exchanged glances, and Meredith nodded. We might as well, she said. Lets see if theyre any smarter than their parents.Bonnie could see startled faces turning as the car cruised slowly into the lot. When she and Meredith got out, people moved back, qualification a path for them to the center of the crowd.Caroline was there, clutching her elbows with her hands and shaking back her auburn hair distractedly.Were not going to log Zs in that house again until its repaired, she was saying, iciness in her white sweater. Daddy says well baffle an apartment in Heron until its over.What difference does that make? He can follow you to Heron, Im sure, said Meredith.Caroline turned, but her spirt cats eyes wouldnt quite meet Merediths. Who? she said vaguely.Oh, Caroline, not you too Bonnie exploded.Her eyes came up and for an instant Bonnie truism how frightened she was. I cant take any more. As if she had to prove her words that minute, she pushed her way through the crowd.Let her go, Bonnie, Meredith said. Its no use.Shes no use, said Bonnie furiously. If Caroline, who knew, was acting this way, what active the other kids?She saw the answer-in the faces around her. Everybody looked scared, as scared as if she and Meredith had brought some afoul(ip) disease with them. As if she and Meredith were the problem.I dont believe this, Bonnie muttered.I dont believe it either, said Deanna Kennedy, a friend of Sues. She was in the front of the crowd, and she didnt look as uneasy as the others. I talked with Sue yesterday good afternoon and she was so up, so happy. She cant be dead. Deanna began to sob. Her fashion plate put an arm around her, and several(prenominal) other girls began to cry. The guys in the crowd shifted, their faces rigid.Bonnie felt a little soar up of hope. And shes not going to be the yet one dead, she added. Elena told us that the whole townspeople is in danger. Elena said Despite herself Bonnie heard her voice failing. She could see it in the way their eyes glazed up when she quoteed Elenas name. Meredith was right theyd put everything that had happened last winter behind them. They didnt believe anymore.Whats wrong with you all? she said helplessly, wanting to hit something. You dont authentically theorise Sue threw herself off that balcony deal are saying- Deannas boyfriend started and then shrugged defensively. Well-you told the jurisprudence Vickie Bennett was in the room, right? And now shes off her head again. And just a little bit earlier youd heard Sue shouting, No, Vickie, no?Bonnie felt as if the wind had been knocked out of her. You think that Vickie- oh, God, youre out of your mind Listen to me. Something grab bed my hand in that house, and it wasnt Vickie. And Vickie had nothing to do with throwing Sue off that balcony.Shes hardly strong enough, for one thing, Meredith said pointedly. She weighs well-nigh ninety-five pounds soaking wet. mortal from the back of the crowd muttered about unsound people having superhuman strength. Vickie has a psychiatrical record-Elena told us it was a guy Bonnie almost shouted, losing her battle with self-control. The faces tilted toward her were shuttered, unyielding. Then she saw one that made her chest loosen. gym mat Tell them you believe us. monotonous Honeycutt was standing on the fringe with his hands in his pockets and his blond head bowed. presently he looked up, and what Bonnie saw in his blue eyes made her mold in her breath. They werent hard and shuttered like everyone elses, but they were full of a forthwith despair that was just as bad. He shrugged without taking his hands from his pockets.Bonnie, for one of the offshoot times in her l ife, was speechless. level had been mazed ever since Elena died, but thisHe does believe it, though, Meredith was saying quickly, capitalizing on the moment. Now what have we got to do to convince the rest of you? manoeuvre Elvis for us, maybe, said a voice that immediately set Bonnies blood boiling. Tyler. Tyler Smallwood. smile like an ape in his overexpensive Perry Ellis sweater, demo a mouthful of strong white teeth.Its not as good as psychic e-mail from a dead Homecoming Queen, but its a start, Tyler added.Matt always said that grin was request for a punch in the nose. merely Matt, the only guy in the crowd with close to Tylers physique, was staring dully at the ground.Shut up, Tyler You dont know what happened in that house, Bonnie said.Well, neither do you, apparently. Maybe if you hadnt been hiding in the living room, youd have seen what happened. Then somebody might believe you.Bonnies coming back died on her tongue. She stared at Tyler, opened her mouth, and then clos ed it. Tyler waited. When she didnt speak, he showed his teeth again.For my money, Vickie did it, he said, winking at Dick Carter, Vickies ex-boyfriend. Shes a strong little babe, right, Dick? She could have done it. He turned and added by choice over his shoulder, Or else that Salvatore guy is back in town.You creep shouted Bonnie. fifty-fifty Meredith cried out in frustration. Because of course at the very mention of Stefan pandemonium ensued, as Tyler must have known it would. Everyone was turning to the person next to them and exclaiming in alarm, horror, excitement. It was primarily the girls who were excited.Effectively, it put an end to the gathering. mountain had been edging away surreptitiously before, and now they broke up into twos and threes, arguing and hastening off.Bonnie gazed after them angrily.Supposing they did believe you. What did you want them to do, anyway? Matt said. She hadnt noticed him beside her.I dont know. Something similarly just standing around postponement to be picked off. She tried to look him in the face. Matt, are you all right?I dont know. Are you?Bonnie thought. No. I mean, in one way Im surprise Im doing as well as I am, because when Elena died, I just couldnt deal. At all. however then I wasnt as close to Sue, and besides I dont know She cute to hit something again. Its just all too much(prenominal)Bonnie thought. No. I mean, in one way Im affect Im doing as well as I am, because when Elena died, I just couldnt deal. At all. But then I wasnt as close to Sue, and besides I dont know She treasured to hit something again. Its just all too muchYes, Im mad. Suddenly Bonnie understood the feelings shed been having all day. Killing Sue wasnt just wrong, it was evil. Truly evil. And whoever did it isnt going to get away with it. That would be-if the world is like that, a place where that can happen and go uncorrected if thats the truth She found she didnt have a way to finish.Then what? You dont want to live here an ymore? What if the world is like that?His eyes were so lost, so bitter. Bonnie was shaken. But she said staunchly, I wont let it be that way. And you wont either.He simply looked at her as if she were a kid pressure there was so a Santa Claus.Meredith speak up. If we expect other people to take us seriously, wed better take ourselves seriously. Elena did fleet with us. She wanted us to do something. Now if we truly believe that, wed better figure out what it is.Matts face had flexed at the mention of Elena. You poor guy, youre still as much in love with her as ever, thought Bonnie. I wonder if anything could make you forget her? She said, Are you going to help us, Matt?Ill help, Matt said quietly. But I still dont know what it is youre doing.Were going to stop that murdering creep before he kills anybody else, said Bonnie. It was the first time shed fully realize herself that this was what she meant to do.Alone? Because you are alone, you know.We are alone, Meredith corrected. But thats what Elena was trying to tell us. She said we had to do a summoning spell to call for help.An easy spell with only two ingredients, Bonnie remembered from her dream. She was getting excited. And she said shed already told me the ingredients-but she hadnt.Last night she said there were corrupting influences distorting her communication, Meredith said. Now to me that sounds like what was contingency in the dream. Do you think it sincerely was Elena you were drinking tea with?Yes, Bonnie said positively. I mean, I know we werent in reality having a mad tea society at Warm Springs, but I think Elena was sending that message into my brain. And then partway through something else took over and pushed her out. But she fought, and for a minute at the end she got back control.Okay. Then that means we have to get on the beginning of the dream, when it was still Elena communicating with you. But if what she was saying was already organism distorted by other influences, then mayb e it came out weird. Maybe itwasnt something she actually said, maybe it was something she didWhat?Hair I asked her who did hers, and we talked about it, and she said, Hair is very important. And Meredith-when she was trying to tell us the ingredients last night, the first earn of one of them was HThats it Merediths dark eyes were flashing. Now we just have to think of the other one.But I know that too Bonnies laughter bubbled up exuberantly. She told me right after we talked about hair, and I thought she was just being strange. She said, Blood is important too. Meredith shut her eyes in realization. And last night, the Ouija board said Bloodblood-blood. I thought it was the other thing threatening us, but it wasnt, she said. She opened her eyes. Bonnie, do you think thats really it? Are those the ingredients, or do we have to start worrying about mud and sandwiches and mice and tea?Those are the ingredients, Bonnie said firmly. Theyre the kind of ingredients that make sense for a summoning spell. Im sure I can find a ritual to do with them in one of my Celtic sorcerous books. We just have to figure out the person were supposed to summon Something smitten her, and her voice trailed off in dismay.I was wondering when youd notice, Matt said, speaking for the first time in a long while. You dont know who it is, do you?