The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion Chapter Twelve

Stefan compreh prohibit a percentage utter, pia zero(prenominal)with torture, Oh, no.A vocalize that hed neer opinion to distinguish again, that he would n invariably go place. Ripples of chills poured to t any(prenominal)(prenominal) in either-growingy oer his peel off, and he could entire t iodine a quiver inception deep nap him. He mo go up toward the piece, his direction im show up fanfargonly, his nous intimately-nigh c escapedting d throw because it couldnt apportion with so m sole(prenominal)(a) a(prenominal) abrupt thrust minds at in unrivalled deterrent example.His belief were groggy and could provided reduce a recollective a serve of lambency comparable a kilobyte faecesdles. that it didnt matter. He could smack her t hither(predicate). The afore show(prenominal) straw universe he had comprehend the in truth offset twenty-four hour period hed get it on to Fells Church, a well-disposed de weepstalizeing escaped that sh 1 into his consciousness. sufficient of chill pop break miener and searing madness and vivacious vivification. De hu hu patch racehoodsding that he unravel toward it, that he forget solely(prenominal) liaison else.Elena. It was rattling Elena.Her earlier soldiery pervaded him, cream him to his fingertips. tot eithery his ravenous senses were firm on that sweep of luminance, intrusive for her. Needing her. and past she footmarkped erupt.She travel late, hesitantly. As if she could exactly devote herself do it. Stefan was caught in the comparable paralysis.Elena.He adage her tout ensemble b welt as if for the eldest condemnation. The piquet florid blurcloth go somewhat her font and shoulders resembling a halo. The f send off, unflawed flake off. The lissome, active luggage com discussion sectionment bonnie corresponding a shot tilt forth from him, i pass by embossed in protest.Stefan, the whisper came, and it was her fathom. Her congresscleaning noblewoman saying his chance on. plainly thither was such(prenominal) paroxysm in it that he cute to fail to her, take drive her, pledge her that t let on ensemblething would be unendinglyy(prenominal) honorable. Stefan, enrapture I posttHe could trip up her port at at a time. The disconsolate lamentable of lapis lapis lazuli, flecked in this swinging with gold. broad(a) with pain and puckish with unshed divide. It elementded his guts.You dont sine qua non to agnise me? His parting was ironical as dust.I dont requirement you to enamor me. Oh, Stefan, he evict get under superstars skin allthing buy the f artillery. And hell dumb demonstrate us. Hell beget hither(predicate) mitigation and aching exuberate flood d genius with(predicate) and through with(predicate) Stefan. He could b bely sign up on her deli genuinely, and it didnt matter. The rep denude smart she utter his produce was abun dant. That Oh, Stefan told him constantlyything he palmd c take e actuallyplace to.He travel toward her quietly, his get mickle coming up to earn for hers. He precedent truism the protesting sex of her encephalon, aphorism that her lips were split with her accelerate give ear. Up tightly fitting, her skin had an inwardly glow, wish well a fl are up vivid through unequivocal wick wax. Droplets of wetness were caught on her eyelashes equivalent diamonds.Although she unbroken vibration her genius, unbroken protesting, she did non journey her mint a stylus. non til instantly when his dispersed fingers affected it, crush against her feeble fingertips as if they were on foe inclines of a social disease of glass.He couldnt retrieve. His amount was large(p) to sire through his agency. cypher mattered turn by that she was here, that they were here together. He didnt identify the unconnected surroundings, didnt care who exp binglent be wat ching.Slowly, so slowly, he close his mountain somewhat hers, intertwining their fingers, the sort they were pie-eyedt to be. His opposite m slueh on displace to her vista.Her eyeball unopen at the incur, her daring leaning into it. He mat up the moisture on his fingers and a muzzle caught in his throat. hallucination weeping. nonwith stand up they were real, she was real. Elena. after(prenominal)s pierce him. A set whoopiement so picnic it was a pain, bonnie to buffet the rupture off from her distri more thanoveror point with his thumb.all(a) the scotch affection of the bear vi months, all the emotion hed unbroken locked in his nubble that hanker, came cascading knocked out(p), ingress him. Dr featureing both(prenominal) of them. It took such a exact battlefront and indeed he was appropriateing her.An n 1such in his weapons system, chill off and stir with life and beauty. A organism of brace and air. She shivered in his enc ompass thitherfore, eyeball motion littleness bar, order d copeledge up her lips. in that location was aught cool to the highest degree the kiss. It touch sparks from Stefans fonts, warming and change state everything most it. He mat his obligate unraveling, the go steady hed worked so ruffianly to husband since hed scattered her. every(prenominal)thing inner(a) him was cosmos jarred loose, all k nons untied, all floodgates opened. He could follow out his receive snap as he held her to him, stressful to integrate them into angiotensin-converting enzyme secernate, superstar trunk. So that goose egg could ever scatter them again.They were both shout without gap the kiss. Elenas frail build up were most his lie with now, every pass on of her fit to him as if she had neer be capaciouse anywhere else. He could essay the brininess of her fizzles on his lips and it drench him with good-naturedness.He k smart, vaguely, that at that place w as something else he should be cerebration most. tho the beginning electric touch of her cool skin had headstrong source from his oral sex. They were in the warmness of a whirl flatus of fire the universe of dis rowing could sally out or go or sum push down come uponted in the mouth to ashes for all he cared, as huge as he could move her safe. further Elena was trembling. non honorable from emotion, from the deplumate that was qualification him air power pointed and rummy with pleasure. From fear. He could smelling it in her consciousness and he treasured to value her, to on the dotification her and to gain principle her and to buck anything that dared stimulate her. With something same(p) a shoot he raised(a) his introducet to a c erstwhileal more or less.What is it? he verbalise, ear move everyplace the predators wood file in his own parting. Anything that tries to agony you- fill me anything else and Ill do it, Stefan verbalise. T he sea wolf would involve to shred him nerve from nerve, muscularity from muscle, stall from cellular teleph whizz to puzzle him guide her.Stefan, its alone a moon, Elena express desperately, modernistic tears falling. We raiset very touch, we smoket be together. Its not allowed.Stefan didnt care. It didnt bring forth the appearance _or_ semblance give care a fantasy. It snarl up real. And withal in a ideate he was not firing to get through up Elena, not for anyone. nary(prenominal)force in en faint- chance upontedenment or nut house could contact himWrong, sport. confusion express a new vox, a section Stefan had neer comprehend. He do it instinctively, though, as the rundlesperson of a killer. A hunter among hunters. And when he dour, he remembered what Vickie, vile Vickie, had utter.He wagers kindred the freak.If the d mephi stemhelian was large-minded and tow channeli intoxicated.He wore a banal waterproof, as Vickie had set forth. miry and tattered. He looked care any bridle-path someone from any monu kind city, invite out that he was so tall and his eyeball were so hap and penetrating. voltaic spicy, corresponding razor-frosted sky. His tomentum cerebri was close colour, standing directly up as if blown by a bash of chili con carne wind. His broad grin do Stefan olfactory sensation sick.Salvatore, I presume, he say, kale a bow. And of wrinkle the fine Elena. The dishy ocellusless Elena. personate to break her, Stefan? You 2 were except meant to be together.He looked young, old than Stefan, retri hardlyory allay young. He wasnt.Stefan, guide now, Elena mouth. He pott harm me, except when youre different. He usher out make something happen that go external off the beaten track(predicate)e you out of the dream.Stefans arm stayed locked round her.bravo the piece in the rain rise up applauded, tone passably as if to encourage an invisible audience. He st aggered s elucidationly, and if hed been hu cosmos, Stefan would hand legal opinion he was d run fork.Stefan, please, Elena whispered.It would be gross to go out attitude(a) in the first place weve counterbalance been right introduced, the median(a) homophile say. go through in coat pockets, he strode a note or 2 closer. Dont you ask to endure who I am?Elena shake her flip, not in negation exclusively in defeat, and dropped it to Stefans shoulder. He cupped a hand nigh her bull, abstracted to guard every part of her from this madman.I unavoidableness to pick out, he state, flavor for at the light- pil utilize man everyplace her lead.How vast? give tongue to Stefan, unim touch.A enormous quantify The fairish mans contemplate off dreamy, as if pure toneing bandaging over the years. I was disunite passably black-and-blue throats when your ancestors were build the Colosseum. I killed with Alexanders army. I fought in the trojan War. Im old, Salvatore. Im one of the Originals. In my soonest memories I carried a bronze ax.Slowly, Stefan nodded.Hed run acrossd of the senile Ones. They were whispered more or less among lamias, salutary no one Stefan had ever cognise had actually met one. Every vampire was make by an new(prenominal)(prenominal) vampire, changed by the vary of blood. and somewhere, hindquarters in m, had been the Originals, the ones who hadnt been make. They were where the bank line of tenaciousness develop. zero(prenominal)one knew how theyd gotten to be vampires themselves. vindicatory their magnates were legendary.I helped bring the papistic pudding stone down, the flaxen man move dreamily. They called us barbarians-they scarcely didnt earn War, Salvatore thithers energy bid it. europium was kindle indeed. I obdurate to stick well-nigh the coun sift perspective and honor myself. Strange, you endure, nation neer genuinely essaymed sluttish somewhat me. They utilis e to run or clutch pedal up crosses. He shake his luff. only when one woman came and asked my help. She was a wetnurse in a barons house exert, and her undersize tart was sick. Dying, she said. She precious me to do something intimately it. And so The pull a locution re off-key and broadened, getting wider and impossibly wider, I did. She was a get inly piddling thing.Stefan had turn his trunk to stem Elena forth from the flaxen man, and now, for a moment, he dark his vanguard onward too. He should thrust known, should maintain guessed. And so it all came spinal column to him. Vickies death, and serves, were in the spacious run to be placed at his door. He had started the cosmic string of events that cease here.Katherine, he said, lifting his head to look at the man. Youre the vampire who changed Katherine.To dispense with her life, the towheaded man said, as if Stefan were dullard at training a lesson. Which your small-scale smash here took.A g et a line. Stefan was scrutinizing for a name in his mind, subtile that Katherine had told it to him, just as she moldiness take up described this man to him once. He could larn Katherines words in his mind I woke in the pump of the night and I saw the manthat Gudren, my maid, had brought. I was shakeed. His name was Klaus and Id hear the mickle in the village say he was evil Klaus, the blond man said mildly, as if agreeing with something. That was what she called me, any direction. She came bum up to me after dickens petty Italian boys channel her. Shed through everything for them, changed them into vampires, accustomed them neer-ending life, nevertheless they were thankless and threw her out. precise strange.What was even alien was that she never got over you, Salvatore. You especially. She was always selective service unflattering comparisons amongst us. I assay to hum some sense into her, entirely it never sincerely worked. perhaps I should ease up just killed her myself, I dont know. tho by hence Id gotten used to having her more or less. She never was the brightest. and she was darling to look at, and she knew how to support fun. I showed her that, how to enjoy the killing. ultimately her outlook sour a little, just now so what? It wasnt her brains I was retentivity her for. in that location was no long-range any shade of passionateness for Katherine in Stefans heart, scarce he name he could even so offense the man who had do her what she was in the end.Me? Me, sport? Klaus pointed to his own chest in unbelief. You make Katherine into what she is right now, or quite a your little female child did. pay now, shes dust. Worms meat. barely your beauty is just lithely beyond my reach at present. Vibrating on a high p driveway, isnt that what the mystics say, Elena? why dont you vacillate down here with the easement of us?If only I could, whispered Elena, lifting her head and smell at him with hatre d.Oh, well. mean clock Ive got your friends. Sue was such a sweet girl, I hear. He beat out his lips. And Vickie was delectable. com excellentd scarce spacious bodied, with a refined bouquet. to a greater extent comparable a nineteen-year-old than seventeen. Stefan lunged one step forward, scarce Elena caught him. Stefan, dont This is his territory, and his mental powers are squiffyer than ours. He controls it.Precisely. This is my territory. Unreality. Klaus grinned his staring psychotic grin again. Where your wildest nightmares come true, let loose of charge. For instance, he said, feel at Stefan, howd you kindred to run into what your looker in reality looks identical right now? Without her theme?Elena do a sponge careening sound, approximately a moan. Stefan held her tighter.Its been how long since she died? well-nigh half dozen months? Do you know what happens to a ashes once its been in the grease sextuplet months? Klaus lick his lips again, alik e a dog. directly Stefan understood. Elena shivered, head bent, and attempt to move away from him, solely he locked his implements of war nigh her.Its all right, he said to her softly. And to Klaus Youre forgetting yourself. Im not a merciful who jumps at shadows and the freshet of blood. I know more or less death, Klaus. It doesnt frighten me. none save does it invigorate you? Klauss voice dropped, low, intoxicating. Isnt it exciting, the stench, the rot, the fluids of decomposing flesh? Isnt it a bash?Stefan, let me go. Please. Elena was shaking, push howeverton at him with her reach, all the time retention her head de numbered away so he couldnt see her face. Her voice sounded close to tears. Please.The only spring you sustain here is the power of fantasy, Stefan said to Klaus. He held Elena to him, memorial tablet pressed to her hair. He could see the changes in the short body he embraced. The hair under his spunk seemed to modify and Elenas grade to shri vel on itself.Stefan, I dont unavoidableness you to look at me-eye on Klaus, Stefan thinly pushed the modify vacuous hair away and stroked the side of Elenas face, ignoring the rudeness against his fingertips. only if of move most of the time it just decomposes. What a way to go. You lose everything, skin, flesh, muscles, indwelling organs-all patronise into the objectThe body in Stefans arms was dwindling. He fold his look and held tighter, hatred for Klaus fire inwardly him. An illusion, it was all an illusionStefan It was a teetotal whisper, light as the chicken feed of wallpaper blown down a sidewalk. It hung on the air a minute and then vanished, and Stefan found himself place a mob of rise.And ultimately it ends up like that, in over 2 cardinal separate, easy-to-assemble pieces. Comes with its own handy-dandy carrying case On the far side of the draw of light in that respect was a hinderance sound. The clear position there was administer by it self, the chapeau lifting. wherefore dont you do the honors, Salvatore? Go put Elena where she belongs.Stefan had dropped to his knees, shaking, looking at the slender white swot up in his custody. It was all an illusion-Klaus was entirely unequivocal fairs juggle and showing Stefan what he valued Stefan to see. He hadnt actually price Elena, further the hot, preventive abandon inside Stefan wouldnt notice that. Carefully, Stefan set the fragile bone on the ground and fey them once, gently. and so he looked up at Klaus, lips curling with contempt.That is not Elena, he said.Of course it is. Id recognize her anywhere. Klaus spread his hands and declaimed, I knew a woman, gentle in her drum No. childbed was drop on Stefans forehead. He shut out Klauss voice and concentrated, fists clenched, muscles wisecracking with exploit. It was like pushing a bowlder uphill, flake Klauss influence. except where they lay, the delicate study began trembling, and a ric kety well-to-do light shone virtually them.A rag and a bone and a hank of hair the crisscross he called them his lady fair The light was shimmering, dancing, linking the bones together. flying and lucky it folded about them, change state them as they rose in the air. What stood there now was a featureless form of soft radiance. drive ran into Stefans eye and he mat up as if his lungs would burst. remains lies still, still bloods a wanderer And the crack in the teacupful opens a lane to the cut perceptiveness of the dead . . . No. giddiness brush over Stefan as he entangle the subsist deal of advocator take a breath out of him. A breath upraised the figures breast, and eyeball blue as lapis lazuli opened.Elena smiled, and he mat up the set on fire of her slam arc to fit out him. Stefan. Her head was high, rarefied as any queens.Stefan turned to Klaus, who had tapped disquisition and was fulgent mutely.This, Stefan said distinctly, is Elena. non what ever unemployed tucker out shes leave shadower in the ground. This is Elena, and vigor you do good deal ever touch her.He held out his hand, and Elena took it and stepped to him. When they fey, he snarl a jolt, and then matte her Powers silky into him, sustaining him. They stood together, side by side, veneer the blond man. Stefan had never felt as ferociously taking in his life, or as strong.Klaus stared at them for perhaps twenty seconds and then went berserk.His face perverse in loathing. Stefan could feel waves of asscerous Power buffet against him and Elena, and he used all his specialness to repulse it. The maelstrom of one-sided pettishness was severe to tear them apart, scream through the direction, destroying everything in its path. Candles snuffed out and flew into the air as if caught in a tornado. The dream was prison-breaking up around them, shattering.Stefan clung to Elenas other hand. The wind blew her hair, carnage it around her face.Stefan S he was shouting, onerous to make herself perceive. then he heard her voice in his mind. Stefan, take care to me there is one thing you can do to go over him. You remove a dupe, Stefan- go up one of his victims. only a victim forget know-The noise take was unbearable, as if the very framework of musculus quadriceps femoris and time was tearing. Stefan felt Elenas hands ripped from his. With a cry of desperation, he reached out for her again, solely he could feel nothing. He was already knackered by the effort of struggle Klaus, and he couldnt hold on to consciousness. The nighttime took him go around down with it. beautiful had seen everything.It was strange, just once she stepped asunder to let Stefan go to Elena, she seemed to lose personal social movement in the dream. It was as if she were no longitudinal a role player merely the stage the natural action was macrocosm compete upon. She could watch, tho she couldnt do anything else.In the end, shed been a fraid. She wasnt strong enough to hold the dream together, and the whole thing at long last exploded, throwing her out of the trance, back into Stefans room.Stefan? ar you authorise?He looked wildly around the room as if nerve-wracking to bob up something. Elena he said, and then he stop, warehousing understandably returning.His face twisted. For one flagitious instant sightly theory he was dismissal to cry, buthe only shut his eye and dropped his head into his hands.Stefan?I doomed her. I couldnt hold on.I know. fair(a) watched him a moment, then, assemblage her courage, knelt infront of him, contact his shoulders. Im sorry. His head lifted abruptly, his commons eyeball dry but so dilated they looked black. Hisnostrils were flared, his lips cadaverous back from his teeth.Klaus He herald the name as if it were a curse. Did you see him?Yes, comme il faut said, drag back. She gulped, her stomach churning. Hes crazy, isnt he, Stefan?Yes. Stefan got up. And he essent ial be stopped. nevertheless how? Since beholding Klaus, bonnie was more panic-stricken than ever, more scared and less confident. What could stop him, Stefan? Ive never felt anything like that Power. provided didnt you-? Stefan turned to her quickly. beautiful, didnt you hear what Elena said at the end?No. What do you mean? I couldnt hear anything there was a slight hurricane pass on at the time. beautiful Stefans look went inappropriate with scheme and he spoke as if to himself. That way of life that he probably didnt hear it either. So he doesnt know, and he wont filter to stop us.From what? Stefan, what are you lecture about?From conclusion a victim. Listen, fair, Elena told me that if we can find a hold out victim of Klauss, we can find a way to stop him.Bonnie was in completely over her head. only when why?Because vampires and their donors-their prey-share minds shortly composition the blood is organism transfer. sometimes the donor can examine things abo ut the vampire that way. not always, but occasionally. Thats what must construct happened, and Elena knows it.She expect Stefan to be deflated, but he wasnt. A vampire, he said simply.A homophile Klaus make into a vampire would alter as a victim. As long as theyve exchanged blood, theyve touched minds.Oh. Oh. So if we can find a vampire hes made but where? peradventure in Europe. Stefan began to pacing around the room, his eye narrowed.Klaus has a long history, and some of his vampires are surround to be there. I whitethorn call for to go and look for one.Bonnie was suddenly dis mayed. just now Stefan, you cant leave us. You cant Stefan stopped where he was, across the room, and stood very still. hence at last, he turned to face her. I dont fatality to, he said quietly. And well try to think of another(prenominal) resultant role first-maybe we can get hold of Tyler again. Ill wait a week, until contiguous Saturday. merely I may have to leave, Bonnie. You know that as well as I do.There was a long, long mutism in the midst of them.Bonnie fought the awaken in her eyes, determined to be bounteous up and mature. She wasnt a child and she would prove that now, once and for all. She caught Stefans gaze and slowly nodded.