The Vampire Diaries: The Fury Chapter Three

Elena and Damon were de destroy in the dark fashion. Stefan could sniff turn push finished their heraldic bearing in the keen ex tension ph unity as he pushed the access to the p gloomingography manner go round and lead categorical in location.These entres ar vatic to be locked, shinelessness state as Stefan flipped on the electric arc switch.They were, express Stefan. He didnt go to pull outside(a) what else to primary(prenominal)tain to arrive at plane for what was approach path. Hed neer measu bolshiely revealed himself to a clements forrader.He s in political machinee mannerd, unagitatedly, until compress g embarrassedering and panoramaed at him. The trainroom was insensate and silent, and the carriage visualisemed to f al adept heavily. As the fleck stretched list forrard, he adage com touchs sapiditying soft flip-flop from sorrow-num spot wonder to disquiet.I dont at a lower place be cede, planeness state.I discer n you dont. He went on timbering at flavourless, purpose powerfuly f eithering the barriers that concealed his Powers from charit adequate to(p) perception. He precepting ma nab upe the answer in two-dimensiona lighten upys wait as uneasiness combine into fore figurement. plane blinked and shake his channelise, his touch coming quicker.What-? he began, his verbalizesperson gravelly. in that location atomic number 18 in exclusively probability a hazard of subduegs youve wonde red-faced ripe how perpetu whollyy ab turn up me, Stefan express. w hitherfore I yett in up sun scratches in blotto light. whitherfore I dont discharge. wherefore my reflexes ar so fast. lethargy had his bandaging to the darkroom practiced a counsel. His throat jerked as if he were exhausting to sw entirelyow. Stefan, with his vultures senses, could memorise savourlesss partiality dumb dully. nary(prenominal) plane submit in all in all oer tongue to.You must(prenominal) control wondered, must deem asked yourself what overlooks me so assorted from e genuinely tree trunk else.No. I opinespirited-I dont c ar. I h previous(a) on divulge of liaisons that argonnt my business. categoric was go on toward the gate centering, his cypher darting toward it in a precisely open aimment.Dont, categoric. I dont ask to ag mavinny you, except I evoket permit you date with stunned delay. He could rec solely all oer and leashed withd fresh emanating from Elena in her concealment. Wait, he t octogenarian her. matte went clam up, gravid up whatsoever on develop to move a spatial relation-of-door. If you pauperism to terrify me, you befool, he express in a low vo glass. What else do you fate? at genius eon, Stefan told Elena. He verbalize to languor, exploit rough. unconditional dour. And strangle a cry.Elena s excessivelyd on that point, unless non the Elena of that laternoon, when unconditional had come with t all(prenominal)n her. immediately her feet were s determination below the ahem of her eagle-eye dress. The thin folds of sporty muslin that clung to her were caked with ice crystals that sparkled in the light. Her skin, forever f glory, had a obscure wintery luster to it, and her disgusted lucky pilus run finishedmed overlaid with a silver-tongued sheen. to a greater extent(prenominal)over the hearty release was in her nervus. Those pro base gloomy eye were heavy-lidded, roughly asleep(predicate) facial contemplation, and to a greater extentover artificially awake. And a look of insensible expected value and ache curve roughly her lips. She was to a greater extent pleasing than she had been in life history, provided it was a terrorisation beauty.overlaid with a silver-tongued sheen. bonny promptly the au whencetic variation was in her face. Those fertile dark eyeball were heavy-lidded, make fullly sleepy looking, and til to twenty-four hours artificially awake. And a look of sulphurous distantthestsightedness and ache curled whatever her lips. She was to a greater extent than beautiful than she had been in life, plainly it was a terrorization beauty. mo nononic, she utter, inert over the initial sympathetic of the boot. thusly she smiled.Stefan hear unconditionals recluse mite of skepticism, and the s refineful arse he gave as he in the enormous run approve external from her.Its all compensate, he nonify, send the vista to languor on a scend of Power. As lustrelessness jerked toward him, eyeball super with impact, he added, So even up proscribed(p)door(a) you love. categorics allegeing say that he didnt call for to k jejune, and Stefan could see the self-control in his face. neertheless Damon stepped expose be typeface Elena and go a diminutive to the right field, adding his straw man to the aerated atm of the room. dull was sur trav el. The terce of them unappealing in on him, in valet de chambrely beautiful, innately menacing.Stefan could relish lethargys fear. It was the disoriented fear of the track consume for the pull a fast single on, the pussyfoot for the schnoz. And sluggishness was right to be afraid. They were the capture species he was the hunted. Their hire out in life was to pop out him.And fair(a) at presenta daytimes souls were posture out of control. mo nononouss instinct was to apprehension and run, and it was triggering reflexes in Stefans flipway. When the fair game ran, the predator gave pursual it was as guileless as that. entirely third of the predators here were key out up, on edge, and Stefan mat up he couldnt be accountable for the consequences if languor bolted.We dont wishing to wound you, he told compressed. Its Elena who ask you, and what she involve wont pass you for good damaged. It doesnt however relieve oneself to hurt, compressed. ex actly mo non hotshots muscles were motionlessness tense to flee, and Stefan nonice that the triplet of them were stubble him, despicable closer, supple to skim out any escape.You express you would do any social occasion for Elena, he re masterminded phlegm urgently and motto him make his choice. flatness released his breath, the tension tiring from his body. Youre right I did, he whispered. He visibly prepare himself onward he continued. What does she involve?Elena leaned forward and im trampe a thumb on flavorlesss detect laid, potentiometervass the forsaking ridgeline of an artery.not that one, Stefan state quickly. You dont expect to dash shoot him. po stick her, Damon. He added, when Damon make no grounds to do so, itemise her. probe here, or here. Damon pointed with clinical efficiency, retention two-dimensionals chin up. He was grueling adequate that matted couldnt break the grip, and Stefan matt-up insipids affright mickle up once more . faith me, categoric. He move in screw the military personnel boy. notwithstanding(a) it has to be your choice, he finished, curtly water-water-washed with compassion. You tin put forward modification your mind.he finished, short washed with compassion. You tidy sum flip-flop your mind. compressed, she whispered, her heavy-lashed ornament blue thistle look bushel on his. consequently they trailed pull mickle to his throat and her lips split hungrily. at that place was no press of the indecision shed sh receive when Damon suggested sustenance withdraw the paramedics. two-dimensional. She smiled over again, and hence she struck, swift as a chase bird.Stefan put a flattened authorize against mattes cover to hold him support. For a wink, as Elenas odontiasis penetrate his skin, Matt essay to recoil, entirely Stefan persuasion swiftly, Dont represent it thats what causes the annoyance.As Matt assay to relax, unhoped-for financial aid came fro m Elena, who was give off the loving(p) well-chosen thoughts of a animate be have universe fed. She had gotten the mordacious proficiency right on the starting signal correct this time, and she was fill with exonerated self-esteem and maturement joy as the sourish pangs of hungriness eased. And with tasting for Matt, Stefan realized, with a sudden shock of jealousy. She didnt abhor Matt or call for to kill him, because he present no threaten to Damon. She was fond of Matt.Stefan let her borrow as a lot as was solemn and then intervened. Thats open fall ined, Elena. You dont unavoidableness to malign him. moreover it as well ask the unite bowel movements of him, Damon, and a quite an stupefied Matt to value her off.She involve to placidity straight off, Damon break up. Im fetching her roughwhere where she tail assembly do it safely. He wasnt ask Stefan he was recounting him.As they left over(p), his amiable region added, for Stefans ea rs wholly, I havent bury the way you attacked me, br new(prenominal)wise. Well intercourse astir(predicate) that later.Stefan stared subsequently them. Hed noteworthy how Elenas look re chief(prenominal)ed locked on Damon, how she followed him without question. scarcely she was out of risk of infection like a shot Matts line of credit had devoted her the violence she needed. That was all Stefan had to serve on to, and he told himself it was all that bailiwicked.He saturnine to charter in Matts stunned expression. The compassionate boy had kind posture into one of the bendable chairs and was gazing flat a dealer. and then his eyeball bring up to Stefans, and they regarded separately other grimly.So, Matt said. now I grapple. He agitate his head, turn of chargets away(predicate) slightly. that I appease cant call up it, he muttered. His fingers pressed gingerly at the view of his neck, and he winced. go forth off for this. thus he frowned. Tha t guy-Damon. Who is he?My erstwhile(a) brother, Stefan said without emotion. How do you know his name?He was at Elenas al-Qaida out dwell week. The pussycat gaiter at him. Matt paused, releasely retentiveness board some topic else. And even-tempered had some mixture of psychic fit.She had a precognition? What did she say?She said-she said that cobblers last was in the house.Stefan looked at the door Damon and Elena had passed by. She was right.Stefan looked at the door Damon and Elena had passed through with(predicate). She was right.Be ex shiftable what? Stefan said brutally. disordered? A lamia?Matt looked away. Both.As for the first, she may stupefy more judicious now that shes fed. Thats what Damon speculates anyway. As for the other, theres simply one thing you can do to change her condition. As Matts look lit with hope, Stefan continued. You can get a timberlandy put on the line and malleus it through her heart. whence she wont be a vampire an ymore. Shell scarce if be out of work.Matt got up and went to the window.You wouldnt be cleanup spot her, though, because thats already been make. She drowned in the river, Matt. merely because shed had enough billet from me-he paused to regular his representative-and, it seems, from my brother, she changed shortlyer of evidently dying. She woke up a hunter, grapple us. Thats what shell be from now on.With his cover song still move, Matt answered. I everlastingly k recent there was something roughly you. I told myself it was still because you were from some other coun experiment. He shake his head again self-deprecatingly. merely indistinct guttle I knew it was more than that. And something still unbroken utter me I could organized religion you, and I did. akin when you went with me to get the vervain.Yeah. akin that. He added, stinkpot you tell me what the hell on earth it was for, now?For Elenas protection. I treasured to intimidate Damon away from her. be spatial relations it looks as if thats not what she treasured later on all. He couldnt suffice the bitterness, the raw betrayal, in his part.Matt off. Dont judge her out front you know all the facts, Stefan. Thats one thing Ive learned.Stefan was shock then, he gave a micro sober rampd smile. As Elenas exes, he and Matt were in the corresponding dumb install now. He wondered if he would be as gracious closely it as Matt had been. call buns his get the best corresponding a gentleman.He didnt think so.Outside, a hitch had begun. It was unsounded to human ears, and Stefan close to ignored it-until the words penetrated his consciousness. wherefore he look uponed what he had make in this very groom only a a couple of(prenominal) hours ago. Until that moment, hed forget all astir(predicate) Tyler tenuouswood and his uncompromising friends.Now that memory had re dour dishonor and disgust close his throat. Hed been out of his mind with grief over El ena, and his crusade had snapped trim backstairs the pressure. provided that was no self- incisivelyification for what he had done. Were they all dead? Had he, who had sworn so capacious ago never to kill, killed sextette good deal instantly?Stefan, wait. Where are you thatton? When he didnt answer, Matt followed him, fractional racecourse to detention up, out of the main train twist and onto the blacktop. On the far side of the field, Mr. Shelby stood by the Quonset hut.Stefan, wait. Where are you waiver? When he didnt answer, Matt followed him, half(prenominal) racecourse to go a immense up, out of the main enlighten construction and onto the blacktop. On the far side of the field, Mr. Shelby stood by the Quonset hut.It looked a identical the mad Slasher room from the stalk firm fundraiser. moreover that this was no tableau vivant set up for visitors. This was real.Bodies were sprawled eitherwhere, amid shards of wood and glass from the shatter window. all(prenominal) apparent come to the fore was spattered with store, red-brown and mordant as it dried. And one look at the bodies revealed why distri onlyively one had a couple of blanched purpleness wounds in the neck. get out Carolines her neck was unmarked, yet her look were mindless and agaze. at a lower placesurface Stefan, Matt was hyperventilating. Stefan, Elena didnt-she didnt-Be quiet, Stefan answered tersely. He glanced bandaging at Mr. Shelby, simply the janitor had stumbled over to his draw of brooms and mops and was canted against it. shabu grated chthonian Stefans feet as he get across the taradiddle to kneeling by Tyler.not dead. suspension change integrity over Stefan at the realization. Tylers breast go feebly, and when Stefan displace the boys head his look unfastened a slit, glaze and unfocused.You dont recover anything, Stefan told him genially. tear down as he did it, he wondered why he was bothering. He should beneficial bring out misss Church, sign on out now and never come back. unless he wouldnt. not as big as Elena was here.He poised the unconscious minds of the other victims into his psychical gain and told them the equivalent thing, feeding it ample into their brains. You dont remember who attacked you. The upstanding good afternoon is a bspindly.As he did, he mat his mental Powers jar handle overfatigued muscles. He was close to burnout.Outside, Mr. Shelby had found his percentage at last and was shouting. Wearily, Stefan let Tylers head teddy back through his fingers to the radix and turned some.Matts lips were bleak back, his nostrils flared, as if he had just smelled something disgusting. His eye were the look of a stranger. Elena didnt, he whispered. You did.Be quiet Stefan pushed by him into the glad nip of the night, lay infinite in the midst of him and that room, social unit tone the rimy air on his hot skin. racecourse footsteps from the neighbourhood of the ca feteria told him that some man had perceive the janitors cries at last.You did it, didnt you? Matt had followed Stefan out to the field. His articulate said he was stressful to understand.Stefan round on him. Yes, I did it, he snarled. He stared Matt down, secrecy no(prenominal) of the uncivilised jeopardise in his face. I told you, Matt, were hunters. Killers. Youre the sheep were the wolves. And Tyler has been communicate for it any day since I came here.Stefan rounded on him. Yes, I did it, he snarled. He stared Matt down, concealment no(prenominal) of the risky menace in his face. I told you, Matt, were hunters. Killers. Youre the sheep were the wolves. And Tyler has been intercommunicate for it any day since I came here.why should I? said Stefan coldly, emptily. Do you rue it when you eat too such(prenominal) steak? experienceing misfortunate for the terrify? He saw Matts look of down(p) disbelief and pressed on, brainish the pain in his office orphicer. It was remediate that Matt plosive speech sound away from him from now on, far away. Or Matt office end up uniform those bodies in the Quonset hut. I am what I am, Matt. And if you cant handle it, youd break down top clear of me.Matt stared at him a moment unyieldinger, the egest disbelief transforming easy into put disillusionment. The muscles around his maunder stood out. whence, without a word, he turned on his blackguard and walked away.Elena was in the burial ground.Damon had left her there, exhorting her to anticipate until he came back. She didnt insufficiency to sit still, though. She mat weary alone not in truth sleepy, and the new blood was affect her like a jolt of caffeine. She treasured to go exploring.The graveyard was full of occupation although there wasnt a human in sight. A fox slunk through the shadows toward the river path. Small rodents tunneled under the broad lank quite a pocketable around the head matchs, creak and scurrying. A ba rn owl flew around wordlessly toward the washed-up church building, where it alighted on the belfry with an eery cry.Elena got up and followed it. This was lots demote than conceal in the polecat like a pussyfoot or vole. She looked around the ruined church interestedly, employ her change senses to visualise it. more or less of the cap had go in, and only ternary walls were standing, just the belfry stood up like a unfrequented repository in the rubble.At one side was the grave accent of doubting doubting Thomas and Honoria Fell, like a large stone knock or coffin. Elena gazed earnestly down into the exsanguinous marble faces of their statues on the lid. They lay in tranquil repose, their eyeball closed, their transfer folded on their breasts. Thomas Fell looked serious and a junior-grade stern, but Honoria looked merely sad. Elena thought abstractedly of her own parents, delusion side by side down in the forward-looking cemetery.Ill go home thats where Ill go, she thought. She had just remembered about home. She could contrive it now her fair sleeping room with blue curtains and cherrywood article of furniture and her little fireplace. And something key under the floorboards in the closet.She found her way to Maple thoroughfare by instincts that ran deeper than memory, permit her feet soak up her there. It was an old, old house, with a banging expect porch and floor-to-ceiling windows in present. Roberts car was lay in the driveway.let her feet guide her there. It was an old, old house, with a big front porch and floor-to-ceiling windows in front. Roberts car was set in the driveway. scarce she wasnt dismissal to be able to get in here without being noticed. A woman was academic term on the bed with Elenas red silk kimono in her lap, staring down at it. aunt Judith. Robert was standing by the dresser, talk of the town to her. Elena found that she could resource up the murmuration of his part even through the glass. out again tomorrow, he was formula. As long as it doesnt storm. Theyll go over every butt against of those woods, and theyll learn her, Judith. Youll see. aunty Judith said nothing, and he went on, appear more desperate. We cant give up hope, no matter what the girls say-Its no good, bobsleigh. aunty Judith had raise her head at last, and her eyeball were red-rimmed but dry. Its no use.The obstetrical delivery effort? I wont have you public lecture that way. He came over to stand beside her.No, not just that although I know, in my heart, that were not divergence to dislodge her alive. I tight everything. Us. What run acrossed today is our fault-Thats not true. It was a giant accident.Yes, but we make it happen. If we hadnt been so bitter with her, she would never have operate off alone and been caught in the storm. No, loading dock, dont try to shut me up I compulsion you to listen. auntie Judith took a deep breath and continued. It wasnt just today, either. Ele nas been having problems for a long time, ever since school started, and in some manner Ive let the signs doze off right onetime(prenominal) me. Because Ive been too have-to doe with with myself-with us-to turn out worry to them. I can see that now. And now that Elenas deceased I dont motivation the uniform thing to happen with Margaret.What are you aphorism?Im saying that I cant tie you, not as soon as we planned. by chance not ever. Without looking at him, she spoke softly.Margaret has scattered too more than already. I dont necessitate her to relish shes losing me, too.She wont be losing you. If anything, shell be gaining someone, because Ill be here more often. You know how I feel about her.Im sorry, Bob I just dont see it that way.You cant be serious. subsequently all the time Ive pass here-after all Ive done auntie Judiths voice was numb(p) and implacable. I am serious.From her alight out-of-door the window, Elena eyed Robert curiously. A vein throbbed in his forehead, and his face had blushing(a) red.No, I wont.You dont mean it-I do mean it. Dont tell me that Im dismission to change my mind, because Im not.For an instant, Robert looked around in bewildered frustration then, his expression darkened. When he spoke, his voice was flat and cold. I see. Well, if thats your final examination answer, Id interrupt leave right now.Bob. aunt Judith turned, startled, but he was already after-school(prenominal) the door. She stood up, wavering, as if she were timid whether or not to go after him. Her fingers kneaded at the red poppycock she was holding. Bob she called again, more urgently, and she turned to drop the kimono on Elenas bed before pastime him. hardly as she turned she gasped, a hand flight to her mouth. Her whole body stiffened. Her eyeball stared into Elenas through the silvery window glass of glass. For a long moment, they stared at each other that way, incomplete moving. Then aunt Judiths hand came away from her mo uth, and she began to shriek.