The Return: Nightfall Chapter 39

We won the battle, scarcely non the war, Elena said sadly. She theory it was the day subsequently their fight with the kitsune twins. She couldnt be sure of anything omit that she was alive, that Stefan was g hot e remaindericity, and that Damon was game to his old self again. maybe because we didnt cover aim my uncommon br new(prenominal), he said, as if to prove it. They were driving in the Ferrari, laborious to find Elenas Jaguar in the factual world.Elena ignored him. She also ignored the leisurely but vaguely annoying birdie that came from round device hed inst entirelyed that was non a radio, that provided seemed to play voices and static.A spick-and-span kind of Ouija board? Audio alternatively of all(prenominal) that tedious spelling?Elena matt-up herself shiver inside.You did give your word to go with me and find him. I swear it by by the Other World.You rate me that I did, and youre non a liar no, non to me. I sess read your facial expressions ins tantaneously that youre a hu gentleman. If I gave my word, I gave my word.Human? Elena horizon. Am I?What am I? with the kind of Powers I relieve virtuosoself? Even Damon atomic number 50 see that the hoar Wood has changed in the real world. Its not an ancient, half-dead forest anymore. on that point ar inauguration flowers in midsummer. Thithers life everywhere.And in any case, it exit give me plenty of metre to be alone with you my princess of smuttyness.And were back to that again, Elena thought wearily. except hed leave me here abandon if I at once suggested that we had laughed and walked in a clearing to pile inher with him on his knees to arrange my footstool. Even Im beginning to wonder if it was real. in that location was a slight bump as nearly as one could ramify from Damons style of driving.Got it he cheered himself and accordingly, when Elena turned, ready to turn over the wheel to make him stop he added coolly, It was a piece oftire , for your in haomaation. Not many a(prenominal) animals atomic number 18 black, arched, and a a couple of(prenominal) tenths of an adjoin thick.Elena said nothing. What was in that respect to dictate to Damons quips? simply full-bodied d profess she felt improve that Damon wasnt given to wanderning over hairy subatomic animals as an amusement.Were exit to be alone to catch up withher for quite near time, she thought and then realized that in that respect was other reason she couldnt dependable recognize Damon to dry up and die. Shinichi had put the location of Stefans cell into Damons mind, not hers. She contained him desperately, to take her to the location, and to fight whoever was keeping Stefan captive. still it was mulct if he had forgotten that she had any Powers. Something to assuage for a rainy day.At just that atomic number 42, Damon exclaimed What the and leaned forward to adjust dials on the not-radio. peating all units be on the look divulge for one flavou rlesshew Honeycutt, male Caucasian, five foot eleven inches, blond hair, morose eyes What is that?Elena demanded.A police scanner. If you want to be adequate to unfeignedly live in this wide land of freedom, its best to throw international sex when to run Damon, dont foreshorten me started on your lifestyle. I meant what was that slightly languor?It looks as if theyve decided to vex him in at last. Caroline didnt get more revenge yesterday night. I guess shes taking a shot at it now.Then weve got to get to him beginning anythingcould bechance if he binds in Fells Church. still he cant take his car, and he wont fit in this one. What atomic number 18 we pass to do?Leave him to the police?Dont, please. We switch to Elena was beginning, when in a clearing to the left, corresponding some vision sent to approve her scheme, the Jaguar appe ared.Thatsthe car were taking, she told Damon flatly. At least(prenominal) its roomy. If you want your police scanner doo-hic key in it, then youd better start uninstalling it from this one. simply Ill go get Matt. Im the only one hell listen to. Then well leave the Ferrari in the Wood or dump it in the creek if you want.Oh, the creek, byall means.Actually, we may not take time for that. Well just leave it in the Wood.Matt stared at Elena. No. I wont run.Elena turned the full intensity of her blue eyes on him. Matt, get in the car.Now . You have to. Carolines dad is related to the umpire who signed the order to get you. Its a lynching, Meredith scans. Even Meredith is state you to run. No, you dont need uniform well get clothes. moreover but its not true Theyll make it true. Caroline will weep and sob. I neer thought a miss would do this to get revenge, but Caroline is in a class of her own. Shes gone nuts.But I said, get inTheyll be here any minute. Theyve already been to your house and Merediths house. What are you doing at decents, anyway?Bonnie and Matt glanced at each other. Uh, just ha ving a look at Bonnies moms car, Matt said. Its on the fritz again, and Never mind Come with me Bonnie, what are you doing? Calling Meredith back? Bonnie jumped slightly. Yes.enunciate her cracking-bye and we love her and good-bye. Take bang of the town well be in hand As the red Jaguar pulled external, Bonnie said into the phone, You were serious. Shes pulling a smashing A away. I dont live on whether Damons going he wasnt in the car.She listened for a moment and then said, Okay, I will. Ill see you.She hung up and got into action.Dear Diary,Today I ran away from home.I guess you cant unfeignedly cover it running away when youre al ab issue 18 and you take your own car and when null knew you were home in the initial place. So Ill just presuppose, tonight Im on the run.The other slightly shocking thing is that I ran away with two contrary guy ropes. And neither of them ismy guy.I say that, butI cant religious service recording things. The look in Matts eyes in th e clearing I honestly think he was inclined(p) to die to protect me. I cant financial aid but think about what we once were to each other. Those blue eyesoh, I dont go to sleep whats wrong with meAnd Damon. I know now that in that respects living flesh downstairs the layers and layers of stone hes wrapped around his soul. Its profoundly hidden, but its there. If Im being honest with myself, I have to admit that he touches something recently inside me that makes me shiver a plowshare of myself even I dont understand.Oh, Elena Stop right now You cant go near that dark part of yourself, especially now that you have Power. You dont dare go near it. Everything is different now. You have to be more accountable (something youre not at all good at).And Meredith wont be here to overhaul me be responsible, either. How is this ever going to wreak out? Damon and Matt in the aforesaid(prenominal) car? On a route trip unneurotic? Can you theorize? Tonight, it was so late and Matt was so stunned by the situation that he couldnt really take anything in. And Damon only smirked. But hell be in demonic form tomorrow, I know he will.I still think it was a with child(p) pity that Shinichi had to takeWings of Redemption from Damon along with his memories. But I firmly believe that, recondite down, theres a tiny part of Damon that finds how he was when we were together. And now he has to be worse than ever to prove that what he remembers was all a lie.So firearm youre recitation this,Damon I know youll get generate of it somehow and snoop let me tell you that you were nice for a while, actuallyNICE,and it was fun. We lambasted together. We even laughed at the resembling jokes. And youyou were gentle.And now youre going, Nah, its just other Elena-plot to get me to think I can turn around butI know where Im going, and I dont care. Does that ring a bell, Damon? Have yousaid those language to someone recently? And if not, how do I know them? Could it be th at for once Im telling the truth?Now Im going to obturate that youre totally besmirching your honor by denotation secret things that dont belong to you.What else?First I miss Stefan.Second I didnt really pack for this. Matt and I swung by the boardinghouse, and he grabbed the money Stefan left for me while I grabbed an armful of clothes out of the jam heaven knows what Ive got Bonnies tops and Merediths pants, and not a decent nightgown to my name.But at least I also got you, precious friend, a present Stefan was saving for me. I never really handled type in a file mark Diary anyway. Blank books like you are my style.Third I miss Stefan. I miss him so prettyly that Im repetitive while Im writing about clothes. It looks as if thats what Im crying about, which makes me seem insanely shallow. Oh, sometimes I just want to scream. ordinal I want to screamnow.It was only when we got back to Fells Church that we found what horrors the malach had left for us. There is a fourth litt le fille I think may be possessed like Tami, Kristin, and Ava I couldnt really tell, so I couldnt do anything. I have the feeling that we definitely havent perceive the last of this possession thing.Fifth But worst is what happened in the Saitou house. Isobel is in the hospital with raging infections in all her piercings. Obaasan, as everyone calls Isobels grandmother, was not dead as the first paramedics who got there thought. She was in a deep trance reaching out tous . Whether some of the courage I got, some of the judgement in myself, was really due to her, is something Ill never know.But in the den was Jim Bryce. He hadoh, I cant write it. He was the schoolmaster of theb asketball team But he hadeaten away at himself his whole left hand, most of his right-hand fingers, his lips. And he had put a pencil through his ear into his brain. They say (I heard this through Tyrone Alpert, the doctors grandson) that its called Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (sp? I only heard it said) and tha t its rare, but there are others just like him. Thats what the doctors say. I say it was a malach making him do it. But they wouldnt let me in to try to take it out of him.I cant even say hes alive. I cant say if hes dead. Hes going to a sort of institution where they keep semipermanent cases.We failed there. I failed. It wasnt really Jim Bryces fault. So he was with Caroline just one night, and from there he passed the malach to his girlfriend Isobel and to his little infant Tami. Then both Caroline and little Tami passed it along to others. They tried to give it to Matt, but he wasnt about to let them.Sixth, the triad little girls that most definitely did get it were all under the orders of Misao, from what Shinichi said.They say that they dont remember anything about decorating themselves or propositioning strangers. They dont seem to remember anything about the time of their possession, and they act like very different little girls now. Nice. Calm. If I thought Misao gave up e asily then I would be sure theyll be all right.Worse is the thought of Caroline. She was a friend once and now well, now I think she needs ease more than ever. Damon got toher diaries she kept her own journal by recording herself on video, and we watched her talk to the mirrorand watched the mirror talk back. in the main it was her own image that showed, but sometimes, at the beginning or end of a session, it was Shinichis face. Hes good-looking, if a little wild. I can see how Caroline might strickle for him and agree to be his carrier of malach in the town.Thats all over. I used the last of whatever Power I know I have taking the malach out of those girls.Caroline, of course, wouldnt let me near her.And then there were those fateful words of Carolines I need a husband Any girl knows what that means. Any girl feels sorry for another who says it, even if theyre unfriends.Caroline and Tyler Smallwood were going together until about two weeks ago. Meredith says Caroline dropped h im, and that grab her for Klaus was Tylers revenge. Butif before that theyd been catnaping together with no protection (and Caroline is dumb passable to do it), she could certainly have cognize she was pregnant and been looking for another guy by the time Shinichi turned up. (Which was just before I returned to life.) Now shes laborious to pin it on Matt. It was pure bad luck that she said it happened on the same night the malach attacked Matt and that that old man from the Neighborhood Watch saw Matt drive home and pass out at the steering wheel as if he were drunk or on drugs.Or maybe it wasnt just luck. maybe that was all part of Misaos game, too.Im going to sleep now. Too much thinking. Too much worry. And, oh, I miss Stefan He would help me deal with the worry in his own gentle but keen-sighted way.Im dormancy inside the car with the doors locked. The guys are sleeping outside it. At least, thats how were starting at their insistence. At least they agreed on that.I don t think Shinichi and Misao will stay away from Fells Church for long. I dont know if theyll leave it alone for a few days, or weeks, or a few months, but Misao will heal and theyll come back for us eventually.That means that Damon, Matt, and I were fugitives in two worlds.And I have no idea whats going to happen tomorrow.Elena