Chapter 11 The Plan
Damon's POV
I wanted to scream. I wanted to kill something. I wanted to do anything then feel this pain in my undead heart. The pain burned like ngọn lửa, chữa cháy inside of me. I have never felt so guilt ridden in my entire life.
Elena. I can never forgive myself for what i did. I can't forgive myself for being so weak and not being about to protect the two most important people in my life. I hated myself for it. I don't deserve someone like her.
I looked out into the damp, wet thickens of the woods. The leaves cluttered together in a wet hump and the wind blew harshly around me. I stared out into the dark abyss, watching the darkness crawl around me.
"I hate him." My daughter's words repeated like an endless record in my head. She has every right to hate me. I treated her so terribly. I don't deserve her hoặc Elena, who had foolishly tried to tell me that it wasn't me who did that to her. If I hadn't been so weak then none of this would've happened. I feel so powerless when he has control over me, I hate it. I hate Klaus with a burning passion that I have never felt towards anyone. Not even Katherine.
I gasped in shock as I was being pulled violently out of my mind and shoved to the ground. I glared daggers as I looked up into the amused face of Klaus, hand on a stake. I closed my eyes as ngọn lửa, chữa cháy engulfed my body.
Elena's POV
After putting Delena to sleep, I walked back into the living room where Katherine, Stefan, and Bonnie stood. Bonnie was flipping through her spell book and Stefan and Katherine were watching her intently. "Anything yet?" I asked, sitting tiếp theo to Stefan.
He shook his head. "No not yet. Bonnie is still trying to find a spell to remove the burn but it is not easy. According to legend, Klaus's mark is nearly impossible to remove. It took all of Emily's power to remove it from Katherine's body and she died in the process. But with two witches on our side, it should be a little easier."
I blinked in confusion. "Two witches?"
"My cousin Lucy is coming over. She's going to help us." Bonnie replied as she flipped to the last page and found what she was looking for. "Here it is. The spell that will free Damon from Klaus's control."
I stood up and quickly walked over to her, looking down at the book then back up at her. "Are bạn sure that this will work?"
Bonnie nodded, looking at all of us with dead serious eyes. "It will work. This is the same spell Emily used to get Klaus out of Katherine's mind. With the combined effort of Lucy and I, we can't fail."
I nodded, wishing I could be as optimistic but I found little strength to do so. Bonnie took my hands and looked me in the eyes. Her brown eyes were so full of determination and confidence I couldn't look away. "Elena, Damon will be back soon. I promise Emily and I will get Klaus gone for good."
"Thanks Bonnie." I replied while smiling.
A loud knock at the door grabbed our attention as Bonnie went to answer it. I sat down besides Stefan and Katherine and waited for Bonnie. After a few minutes, she walked in with Lucy trailing behind her. Lucy smiled as she greeted us and stood tiếp theo to Bonnie, looking at the spell that was on the page. "Well, this is going to be hard to do but with two Bennett witches it should be easier."
"What exactly are bạn going to do?" I asked nervously. I was still worried about this. I knew I shouldn't be. I was thêm worried about the aftermath then anything else. How would Damon act towards us? Will our lives return to normal? But thêm importantly, will I be able to look at him the same way I used to? No, there was no doubt in my mind that I would never give up on him, after all we have been through. He loved me and I loved him. I wasn't about to let Klaus destroy that.
"We need to get him trapped first. A room will do just fine. Then once he's in the room we have to get him still and perform the spell. It may take awhile and Damon has to be completely still for it to work. Which means, we need an abundant amount of vervain and stakes. Once we remove the mark, Damon will be free of Klaus."
I nodded, taking all of this in. There was so many things we had to do, but luring Damon into a room while under the control of Klaus is the hardest task. He won't come easily. I had to improvise. We had to get rid of Klaus. "When do we do this?"
"Tonight." Lucy replied adamantly, looking over at Bonnie who nodded.
"Let's do this." Katherine đã đưa ý kiến while looking over at Stefan. "He needs to pay."
Stefan nodded, making eye contact with me. I smiled. We were going to make Klaus pay.
The sky darkened noticeably as Lucy, Bonnie, and I made our way towards the boarding house. I exchanged a worried glance at Bonnie but Lucy just smiled encouragingly at me. "You can do it Elena."
"Ok." I turned around and barely rapped on the hard wood door. I tensed as I heard footsteps and jumped back as the door slammed open, revealing Damon. He looked pissed.
As soon as his eyes landed on me, a wicked smile formed on his face. I put on a Công chúa tóc xù face to try and not appear like I was scared. "Hello Damon, hoặc should I say Klaus."
"Elena." he breathed out, eyeing me hungrily. "It's been too long."
I nodded, letting a dark smile vượt qua, cross my face as well. He stared at me in confusion before a pained look crossed his face. "What the hell?" He glared at me steely as he held his forehead in pain.
I smiled. "If bạn want the pain to stop then I suggest bạn come with me. If bạn don't then the pain will continue."
"You little-" he gasped out as he groaned, almost dropping to his knees. "Alright, I'll go with you. Then I'm going to enjoy tearing bạn apart piece bởi piece."
"If bạn say so." I grinned at him as I walked off of the Salvatore property and a couple blocks down the street. I could feel Damon's breath hitting my face every step but I ignored it and kept walking until I reached an old abandoned warehouse. The áo, áo khoác was a faded gray color and it looked a bit rusted, like no one had lived in it for atleast a year. It was perfect.
Damon eyed me suspiciously as I opened the warehouse door and quickly walked inside, turning around to face Damon. "Well, aren't bạn going to come inside?"
A sneer spread across Damon's face and he laughed evilly. "You seriously think I'm that stupid to fall for an obvious trap?"
I let a small smile vượt qua, cross my face as Stefan appeared behind Damon with a stake gun. "Actually yes, I do."
The sound of air whooshing and Damon's screams filled the quiet sky. Stefan quickly grabbed a vervain dart and stabbed it into Damon's stomach, causing him to drop to the floor. I watched as Katherine reached down and helped carry Damon inside and laid him down in the middle of three candles that formed the outline of a triangle. Lucy soon came out with Bonnie and grabbed Damon's wrist with the mark. I watched as they coated it in white powder and gently laid it down onto the ground.
Bonnie opened the spell book and stood bởi Lucy, linking their hands together. I watched as the flames rose dramatically. The white powder ignited on Damon's skin and suffused the mark, slowly growing thêm intense bởi the second.
Klaus screamed in agonizing pain as he fell to the floor, his control over Damon slipping away quickly. Damon's eyes snapped open and broke the chains that held him bound to the tường in half, walking over to the fallen Klaus and kicked him hard in the face, knocking him backwards. "Payback's a bitch, isn't it?"
Damon's smirk soon faded to one of confusion as Klaus threw his head back and laughed insanely. "You seriously think that bạn have won? Fool, this is only the beginning of your pain! bạn may have gotten rid of me but no one will forget the horrid things that bạn did! They will haunt bạn forever. Every time bạn look at them bạn will become crippled with explicable amount of pain. bạn may be able to erase their memories of what happened, but bạn can't erase your own. No matter how much bạn try to block them out they will still be there, reminding bạn of the monster that bạn really are."
Damon growled as he glared at Klaus. He knew that he was right; he would never escape the horrors of what he did. He had been too weak and let Klaus get to him. His eyes narrowed as he gripped Klaus's neck. "Get the hell out of my body!"
Klaus screamed as a white light enveloped his body. Damon let go of his neck and watched as he sizzled and burned. Rotting flesh dripped off and fell as Klaus was slowly being destroyed. Damon continued to watch until his body completely dispersed into nothing but ashes. "At last, it's over." Damon closed his eyes as he could feel himself regaining control of his functions. But even though Klaus was gone, his words remained stuck in Damon's head. How would he redeem himself after what "he" did? Damon didn't know how he was going to get his family back, but he wasn't going to give up without a fight.
Elena's POV
The ngọn lửa, chữa cháy on Damon's wrist died down, dissolving into nothing. The mark that Klaus left was no longer there. Tears of joy filled my eyes as I turned to Lucy and Bonnie who were smirking triumphantly. "It's done." They whispered.
My gaze reverted back to Damon who seemed to be coming to. His eye lids fluttered open, revealing the vast pools of blue that I always loved to get Mất tích in. He slowly started to get up, wincing in pain from the vervain that Stefan injected in him. I wasted no time in running over to him and tackling him in a hug. Tears leaked from my eyes and ran down my face, splattering onto Damon's chest. He just pulled me closer to his body and breathed in my scent, seemingly enjoying it. "Shhh." he hushed me softly, rubbing my back up and down in a soothing manner.
My sobs soon died down and I looked up into his beautiful face. His eyes were swimming with concealed joy and happiness that only I was allowed to see. The pads of his thumbs came up and stroked my face softly as the tears vanished. I snuggled into his warm embrace, feeling his hand creep up and massage my hair. "I missed bạn so much." I choked out as new tears began to form.
"I missed bạn too." he replied, looking down at my eyes, laced with happiness but also a mixture of pain.
I nodded, not wanting to say anymore for fear that I might have a nervous breakdown. We just held each other, silently comforting one another. I nuzzled my head into the crook of his arm, one of my yêu thích places to be whenever I need consoling. I felt a Kiss on hàng đầu, đầu trang of my forehead and then my feet suddenly flew up off the ground. Before I knew it I was in Damon's arms, held protectively against his rock hard body. Suddenly, my mind begin flashing hình ảnh in my head, hình ảnh that I hoped to never see again. I gasped out in shock and looked up at Damon, silently pleading with my eyes to put me down.
Reluctantly, Damon complied with my wishes and set me down, that heartbreaking look of remorse never leaving his stony features. "Damon," I began but he cut me off with a wave of his hand.
"I know, Elena. bạn need some time to yourself, sometime to reflect on everything that has been happening." I gaped at him for a few giây before taking his calloused hands in mine, stroking them lovingly.
"It's going to be ok Damon. Everything is going to be ok. I tình yêu you, and I always will. Nothing is going to change that."
"I know." Damon replied softly, but somehow I knew he was being doubtful.
I looked around the warehouse that we were in, noticing for the first time that everyone left; probably to give us some time alone. I sighed as I looked into those pained blue orbs. "I just need some time alone, and I'm pretty sure Delena does too." Ever so carefully, I leaned in and planted a soft Kiss on Damon's lips, lingering there for a few phút before pulling away and walking towards the steel door.
I turned around and looked back at Damon just standing there. He looked so defeated, so crushed. I wanted to tell him that I wasn't scared of him, that I didn't have nightmares every night about him, hoặc that every time I was held against him it didn't remind me of being in the basement, listening to my own screams as well as my daughter's. But he did, and the best thing right now is to stay away from him, no matter how painful it is. But we would be together soon, that I was sure of.
Damon's POV
I wanted to scream. I wanted to kill something. I wanted to do anything then feel this pain in my undead heart. The pain burned like ngọn lửa, chữa cháy inside of me. I have never felt so guilt ridden in my entire life.
Elena. I can never forgive myself for what i did. I can't forgive myself for being so weak and not being about to protect the two most important people in my life. I hated myself for it. I don't deserve someone like her.
I looked out into the damp, wet thickens of the woods. The leaves cluttered together in a wet hump and the wind blew harshly around me. I stared out into the dark abyss, watching the darkness crawl around me.
"I hate him." My daughter's words repeated like an endless record in my head. She has every right to hate me. I treated her so terribly. I don't deserve her hoặc Elena, who had foolishly tried to tell me that it wasn't me who did that to her. If I hadn't been so weak then none of this would've happened. I feel so powerless when he has control over me, I hate it. I hate Klaus with a burning passion that I have never felt towards anyone. Not even Katherine.
I gasped in shock as I was being pulled violently out of my mind and shoved to the ground. I glared daggers as I looked up into the amused face of Klaus, hand on a stake. I closed my eyes as ngọn lửa, chữa cháy engulfed my body.
Elena's POV
After putting Delena to sleep, I walked back into the living room where Katherine, Stefan, and Bonnie stood. Bonnie was flipping through her spell book and Stefan and Katherine were watching her intently. "Anything yet?" I asked, sitting tiếp theo to Stefan.
He shook his head. "No not yet. Bonnie is still trying to find a spell to remove the burn but it is not easy. According to legend, Klaus's mark is nearly impossible to remove. It took all of Emily's power to remove it from Katherine's body and she died in the process. But with two witches on our side, it should be a little easier."
I blinked in confusion. "Two witches?"
"My cousin Lucy is coming over. She's going to help us." Bonnie replied as she flipped to the last page and found what she was looking for. "Here it is. The spell that will free Damon from Klaus's control."
I stood up and quickly walked over to her, looking down at the book then back up at her. "Are bạn sure that this will work?"
Bonnie nodded, looking at all of us with dead serious eyes. "It will work. This is the same spell Emily used to get Klaus out of Katherine's mind. With the combined effort of Lucy and I, we can't fail."
I nodded, wishing I could be as optimistic but I found little strength to do so. Bonnie took my hands and looked me in the eyes. Her brown eyes were so full of determination and confidence I couldn't look away. "Elena, Damon will be back soon. I promise Emily and I will get Klaus gone for good."
"Thanks Bonnie." I replied while smiling.
A loud knock at the door grabbed our attention as Bonnie went to answer it. I sat down besides Stefan and Katherine and waited for Bonnie. After a few minutes, she walked in with Lucy trailing behind her. Lucy smiled as she greeted us and stood tiếp theo to Bonnie, looking at the spell that was on the page. "Well, this is going to be hard to do but with two Bennett witches it should be easier."
"What exactly are bạn going to do?" I asked nervously. I was still worried about this. I knew I shouldn't be. I was thêm worried about the aftermath then anything else. How would Damon act towards us? Will our lives return to normal? But thêm importantly, will I be able to look at him the same way I used to? No, there was no doubt in my mind that I would never give up on him, after all we have been through. He loved me and I loved him. I wasn't about to let Klaus destroy that.
"We need to get him trapped first. A room will do just fine. Then once he's in the room we have to get him still and perform the spell. It may take awhile and Damon has to be completely still for it to work. Which means, we need an abundant amount of vervain and stakes. Once we remove the mark, Damon will be free of Klaus."
I nodded, taking all of this in. There was so many things we had to do, but luring Damon into a room while under the control of Klaus is the hardest task. He won't come easily. I had to improvise. We had to get rid of Klaus. "When do we do this?"
"Tonight." Lucy replied adamantly, looking over at Bonnie who nodded.
"Let's do this." Katherine đã đưa ý kiến while looking over at Stefan. "He needs to pay."
Stefan nodded, making eye contact with me. I smiled. We were going to make Klaus pay.
The sky darkened noticeably as Lucy, Bonnie, and I made our way towards the boarding house. I exchanged a worried glance at Bonnie but Lucy just smiled encouragingly at me. "You can do it Elena."
"Ok." I turned around and barely rapped on the hard wood door. I tensed as I heard footsteps and jumped back as the door slammed open, revealing Damon. He looked pissed.
As soon as his eyes landed on me, a wicked smile formed on his face. I put on a Công chúa tóc xù face to try and not appear like I was scared. "Hello Damon, hoặc should I say Klaus."
"Elena." he breathed out, eyeing me hungrily. "It's been too long."
I nodded, letting a dark smile vượt qua, cross my face as well. He stared at me in confusion before a pained look crossed his face. "What the hell?" He glared at me steely as he held his forehead in pain.
I smiled. "If bạn want the pain to stop then I suggest bạn come with me. If bạn don't then the pain will continue."
"You little-" he gasped out as he groaned, almost dropping to his knees. "Alright, I'll go with you. Then I'm going to enjoy tearing bạn apart piece bởi piece."
"If bạn say so." I grinned at him as I walked off of the Salvatore property and a couple blocks down the street. I could feel Damon's breath hitting my face every step but I ignored it and kept walking until I reached an old abandoned warehouse. The áo, áo khoác was a faded gray color and it looked a bit rusted, like no one had lived in it for atleast a year. It was perfect.
Damon eyed me suspiciously as I opened the warehouse door and quickly walked inside, turning around to face Damon. "Well, aren't bạn going to come inside?"
A sneer spread across Damon's face and he laughed evilly. "You seriously think I'm that stupid to fall for an obvious trap?"
I let a small smile vượt qua, cross my face as Stefan appeared behind Damon with a stake gun. "Actually yes, I do."
The sound of air whooshing and Damon's screams filled the quiet sky. Stefan quickly grabbed a vervain dart and stabbed it into Damon's stomach, causing him to drop to the floor. I watched as Katherine reached down and helped carry Damon inside and laid him down in the middle of three candles that formed the outline of a triangle. Lucy soon came out with Bonnie and grabbed Damon's wrist with the mark. I watched as they coated it in white powder and gently laid it down onto the ground.
Bonnie opened the spell book and stood bởi Lucy, linking their hands together. I watched as the flames rose dramatically. The white powder ignited on Damon's skin and suffused the mark, slowly growing thêm intense bởi the second.
Klaus screamed in agonizing pain as he fell to the floor, his control over Damon slipping away quickly. Damon's eyes snapped open and broke the chains that held him bound to the tường in half, walking over to the fallen Klaus and kicked him hard in the face, knocking him backwards. "Payback's a bitch, isn't it?"
Damon's smirk soon faded to one of confusion as Klaus threw his head back and laughed insanely. "You seriously think that bạn have won? Fool, this is only the beginning of your pain! bạn may have gotten rid of me but no one will forget the horrid things that bạn did! They will haunt bạn forever. Every time bạn look at them bạn will become crippled with explicable amount of pain. bạn may be able to erase their memories of what happened, but bạn can't erase your own. No matter how much bạn try to block them out they will still be there, reminding bạn of the monster that bạn really are."
Damon growled as he glared at Klaus. He knew that he was right; he would never escape the horrors of what he did. He had been too weak and let Klaus get to him. His eyes narrowed as he gripped Klaus's neck. "Get the hell out of my body!"
Klaus screamed as a white light enveloped his body. Damon let go of his neck and watched as he sizzled and burned. Rotting flesh dripped off and fell as Klaus was slowly being destroyed. Damon continued to watch until his body completely dispersed into nothing but ashes. "At last, it's over." Damon closed his eyes as he could feel himself regaining control of his functions. But even though Klaus was gone, his words remained stuck in Damon's head. How would he redeem himself after what "he" did? Damon didn't know how he was going to get his family back, but he wasn't going to give up without a fight.
Elena's POV
The ngọn lửa, chữa cháy on Damon's wrist died down, dissolving into nothing. The mark that Klaus left was no longer there. Tears of joy filled my eyes as I turned to Lucy and Bonnie who were smirking triumphantly. "It's done." They whispered.
My gaze reverted back to Damon who seemed to be coming to. His eye lids fluttered open, revealing the vast pools of blue that I always loved to get Mất tích in. He slowly started to get up, wincing in pain from the vervain that Stefan injected in him. I wasted no time in running over to him and tackling him in a hug. Tears leaked from my eyes and ran down my face, splattering onto Damon's chest. He just pulled me closer to his body and breathed in my scent, seemingly enjoying it. "Shhh." he hushed me softly, rubbing my back up and down in a soothing manner.
My sobs soon died down and I looked up into his beautiful face. His eyes were swimming with concealed joy and happiness that only I was allowed to see. The pads of his thumbs came up and stroked my face softly as the tears vanished. I snuggled into his warm embrace, feeling his hand creep up and massage my hair. "I missed bạn so much." I choked out as new tears began to form.
"I missed bạn too." he replied, looking down at my eyes, laced with happiness but also a mixture of pain.
I nodded, not wanting to say anymore for fear that I might have a nervous breakdown. We just held each other, silently comforting one another. I nuzzled my head into the crook of his arm, one of my yêu thích places to be whenever I need consoling. I felt a Kiss on hàng đầu, đầu trang of my forehead and then my feet suddenly flew up off the ground. Before I knew it I was in Damon's arms, held protectively against his rock hard body. Suddenly, my mind begin flashing hình ảnh in my head, hình ảnh that I hoped to never see again. I gasped out in shock and looked up at Damon, silently pleading with my eyes to put me down.
Reluctantly, Damon complied with my wishes and set me down, that heartbreaking look of remorse never leaving his stony features. "Damon," I began but he cut me off with a wave of his hand.
"I know, Elena. bạn need some time to yourself, sometime to reflect on everything that has been happening." I gaped at him for a few giây before taking his calloused hands in mine, stroking them lovingly.
"It's going to be ok Damon. Everything is going to be ok. I tình yêu you, and I always will. Nothing is going to change that."
"I know." Damon replied softly, but somehow I knew he was being doubtful.
I looked around the warehouse that we were in, noticing for the first time that everyone left; probably to give us some time alone. I sighed as I looked into those pained blue orbs. "I just need some time alone, and I'm pretty sure Delena does too." Ever so carefully, I leaned in and planted a soft Kiss on Damon's lips, lingering there for a few phút before pulling away and walking towards the steel door.
I turned around and looked back at Damon just standing there. He looked so defeated, so crushed. I wanted to tell him that I wasn't scared of him, that I didn't have nightmares every night about him, hoặc that every time I was held against him it didn't remind me of being in the basement, listening to my own screams as well as my daughter's. But he did, and the best thing right now is to stay away from him, no matter how painful it is. But we would be together soon, that I was sure of.
