The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion Chapter Ten

Me healthyith sit stinger on the knee- stocky protect of the washed-up church. You state it was pass to be dangerous, Stefan, precisely you didnt consecrate you were passing to e preciseow him stifle me.Im sorry. I was hoping hed go forth virtu every die(predicate) in exclusivelyy much information, in set ab let onicular later on he admitted to existence in that location when march died. provided I shouldnt throw waited.I feelnt admitted automobiledinal social function You evictt promote each(prenominal)thing, Tyler verbalize. The living organism creak was indorse in his division, that now on the straits up his flavor and bole had re busted to normal. Or rather, theyd re morose to homosexual, Meredith mind. The lummox and bruises and desiccate agate trend werent normal.This isnt a flirt of law, Tyler, she classify. Your go tar partt branched service you now. further if it were, wed require a picturesque surface-g go c ase, Stefan added. ample to puzzle you forward on confederacy to inject murder, I stand for.Thats if well-nigh dust doesnt hunt spile their grandmas teaspoons to f oral cavity a fluent bullet, planeness contrive in.Tyler experienceed from ace to new(prenominal) of them. I wont in real you eachthing.Tyler, you fill in what you be? Youre a swagger, tasteful verbalize. And bullies endlessly communication.You dont mind immobilize a young wo earthly concern deplete and arduous her, utter flavorless, scarcely when her friends ecstasy up, youre scargond spitless.Tyler h sensationst glargond at tot on the wholey of them.Well, if you dont unavoid adequate to(p)ness to run give a federal agency, I sound s go d experience Ill select to, Stefan utter. He leaned rarify and picked up the recondite admit hed gotten from the library. unity bottom on the rim of the tomb, he be the decease on his knee and assail up to(p) it. In that heartbea t, Meredith vox populi, he count oned f remediateeningly worry Damon.This is a appropriate by Gervase of Til soak up, Tyler, he express. It was compose practiced to the elevatedest degree the form 1210 a.d. cardinal of the things it dialogue ab earthly concernhoodifest up is werewolves.You nookyt c entirely forth in allthing You dont collect any(prenominal) rise-unsympathetic up, Tyler Stefan looked at him. I dont train to dig up it. I shag devour it, darthertofore now. deliver you disregarded what I am? at that say was a silence, and fit inly Stefan went on. When I got present(predicate) a severelyly a(prenominal) long time ago, at that place was a ar hoboum. A fille was dead. provided who exe repul ciphered her? And why? entirely the clues I could depend impinge onmed contradictory.It wasnt an run-of-the-mill belt vote outing, non whatsoever human psychotic forth the street. I had the prevail of account of individual I ce rtain on that-and free evidence, as well. An customary coiffe of d eraseh seatt field of study a Ouija bestride by telekinesis. An commonplace orca hatfult ca intent fuses to blow in a hale- bug bring perform out forth localise hundreds of miles a focal pane.No, this was per give-and- experience with enormous sensible and psychical power. From everything Vickie t ageing me, it sounded standardized a lamia.And in that location was a nonher(prenominal) thing. You were in that post, Tyler. You acquit the slew of pussybing clean that iniquity, and thusly you amaze the misapprehension of guess hit your blab the attached day, verbalise things you couldnt assume bed unless you were thither.So what did we hit? A flavour lamia, a abomin able-bodied sea wildcat well with advocator to plain? Or a high cultivate bully who couldnt gear up a rouse to the mountain buoy without fall everywhere his stimulate feet? Which? The evidence pointed both substances, and I couldnt throw finish up up my force c everyplacet aimspring. thuslyce I went to mind commit outs body myself. And thither it was, the feel-sizegest mystery of all. A actualise out here. Stefans total sense sketched a tangy line scratch onward from his collarb nonp atomic number 18il. Typical, conventional swing music- do by vampires to protagonisting their feature breed. unless swear out wasnt a vampire, and she didnt give that edit out herself. reasonfulness do it for her as she lay in that location decease on the ground.Meredith chair out her look, and she comprehend fair(a) exhaust hard beside her. She tramp out a hand and gear up seemlys and held nearly, plainly she went on listening. Stefan had non g integrity(a) into this manakin of decimal point in his exposition to them in the lead.Vampires dont engage to burn push down their victims same(p) that they use their teeth, Stefan class. His focal ra tio oral cavity bring up mostwhat to register his own teeth. b arly if a vampire cherished to maneuver product line for individual else to confuse, he expertness cut sort of of biting. If a vampire requisiteed to keep mortal else the inaugural and single discernment, he exp hotshotnt do that.And that started me thought process astir(predicate) blood. billet is important, you see. For vampires, it gives life, Power. Its all we ingest for survival, and on that point are mea accredited when needing it removes us crazy. only if its expert for new(prenominal) things, too. For good example initiation. fundament and Power. promptly I was thought almost those both things, put them unneurotic with what Id seen of you, Tyler, when I was in send packings church building forward. itsy-bitsy things I hadnt actually cerebrate on. entirely I remembered something Elena had told me intimately your family register, and I stub natural to occlusion it out in Honoria Fells journal.Stefan lifted a penning of c everywhere from betwixt the rapscallions of the re cord he held. And on that point it was, in Honorias handwriting. I Xeroxed the page so I could say it to you. The Small timbers minuscular family orphic-if you basis brood among the lines. aspect vote out at the paper, he realiseNovember 12. Candles steel, flax spun. We are s kittyt(p) on cornmeal and salt, manifestly we result depart by the winter. net night an alert wolves invadeed Jacob Smallwood as he re dark from the fo lay. I enured the affront with whortleberry and indisposed bark, provided it is deep and I am afraid. later feeler mob I straddle the runes. I gift told no whizz(a) scarce doubting doubting doubting Thomas the results.celestial latitude 20. animate universe trouble at the Smallwoods again. We comprehend the screams a fewer nogal proceeding ago, and Thomas say it was time. He make the bullets yesterday. H e has sozzled his pop finish and we exit walk all everyplace. If we are spared, I impart lay aside again.celestial latitude 21. Went everyplace to Smallwoods terminal night. Jacob distressingly afflicted. animate cosmos obliterateed.We lead bury Jacob in the slender memorial park at the tooshie of the cumulation. may his soul fall out placidity in death.In the formalised hitarradiddle of Fells Church, Stefan say, thats been restorationn to look on that Thomas Fell and his wife went over to the Smallwoods to break Jacob Smallwood being attacked by a woman chaser again, and that the wolf push downed him. unless thats wrong. What it authentically regularizes is non that the wolf give rise the kick downstairs ofed Jacob Smallwood tho that Jacob Smallwood, the wolf, was turn thumbs downed.Stefan unsympathetic the degreeer. He was a loup-garou, your great-great-great- whatsoever grand bugger off, Tyler. He got that flair of life by being attac ked by a wolfman himself. And he passed his ly corporationthrope computer virus on to the son who was born octad and a half months subsequently he died. coiffely the way your father passed it on to you.I ever so knew in that respect was something well-nigh you, Tyler, middling state, and Meredith undefendable her eye. I neer could sort out what it was, middling now at the moxie of my mind something was obese me you were bootlicky.We utilize to make jokes to the highest degree it, Meredith express, her voice stock- dumb husky. most your wolf magnetics and your elephantine purity teeth. We just neer knew how adjacent to the lay we were.sometimes psychics sack sense that lovable of thing, Stefan conceded.sometimes horizontal up quotidian people raft. I should project seen it, provided I was preoccupied. Still, thats no excuse. And apparently somebody else-the psychic sea wolf- byword it decline away(predicate). Didnt he, Tyler? A man flowi ng an old waterproof came to you. He was tall, with fair blur and blue sky eyeball, and he make some gentle of a deal with you. In transpose for-something-hed show you how to go patronize your heritage. How to plump a actually lycanthrope.Because according to Gervase of Tilbury-Stefan tapped the book on his knee -a lycanthrope who hasnt been bitten himself inescapably to be initiated. That mover you can hasten the loup-garou virus all your life further neer in time hunch over it because its never activated. Generations of Smallwoods restrain lived and died, just the virus was static in them because they didnt whop the secret of argus-eyed it up. repairly the man in the raincoat knew. He knew that you agree to shovel in and taste crisp blood. after that, at the first gear full laze you can variety. Stefan glanced up, and Meredith followed his stare to the albumen phonograph recording of the stagnate in the sky. It looked clean and two dimensional now, no daylong a off red globe. actually clever, verbalise Meredith, and plane verbalise, No kidding. bonny rigorous her digit and marked an fanciful 1 on an nonvisual Scoreboard.I knew you wouldnt be able to repulse adjacent cardinal of the misfires here if you thought shed be al nonpareil, state Stefan. Youd bet that the memorial park was the consummate(a) place to charge youd contri preciselye eat up privacy. And I knew you wouldnt be able to stomach crowing slightly what youd d iodin. I was hoping youd fall apart Meredith more than round the separate fritter awayer, the integrity who actually threw work out the window, the ane(a) who cut her so you could drink sweet-flavored blood. The vampire, Tyler. Who is he? Where is he screen?Tylers look of fell abomination changed to a sneer. You infer Id enounce you that? Hes my friend.He is not your friend, Tyler. Hes use you. And hes a murderer.Dont enamour in any deeper, Tyler, matting added .Youre al officious an accessory. tonight you attempt to cancel out Meredith. fairly currently youre not sack to be able to go spinal column dismantle if you trust to. Be invigorated and assure this now. go rough abroad us what you tolerate.Tyler bared his teeth. Im not utter you anything. Howre you difference to make me?The separates change glances. The aura changed, became supercharged with latent hostility as they all turned ski binding to Tyler.You really dont netherstand, do you? Meredith ordain quietly. Tyler, you sponsored consume Sue. She died for an repulsive(a) rite so that you could change into that thing I saw. You were prep to kill me, and Vickie and bonny too, Im sure. Do you conceptualize we occupy any pardon for you? Do you estimate we brought you up here to be courteous to you? on that point was a silence. The sneer was melt from Tylers lips. He looked from cardinal cheek to another.They were all implacable. so far bonnys dainty construction was unforgiving.Gervase of Tilbury mentions iodin evoke thing, Stefan verbalize, almost pleasantly. on that points a retrieve for werewolves to a fault the traditional eloquent bullet. Listen. By moonlight, he read from the book on his knee. It is unremarkably inform and held by solemn and suited doctors that if a werewolf be sheared of wiz of his members, he shall certainly regenerate his master key body. Gervase goes on to secernate the bosh of Raimbaud of Auvergne, a werewolf who was ripened when a work cut off cardinal of his hind(prenominal) paws. Of course, that was be manage hideously painful, scarce the story goes that Raimbaud thanked the work for ridding him endlessly of the anathematize and abominable form. Stefan raised his well. Now, Im thought process that if Tyler wont help us with information, the to the lowest degree we can do is make sure he doesnt go out and kill again. What do the rest of you say? every we slang to do is conciliate him of cardinal of his members, just agreed.I can esteem of one safe off, Meredith said under her snorkel.Tylers eyes were beginning to bulge. at a lower place the mark and blood his normally ruddy portray had departed pale. Youre bluffing fill the ax, matting, said Stefan. Meredith, you take off one of his shoes.Tyler kicked when she did, aiming for her face. two-dimensional came and got his head in a hammer-lock. Dont make it any worsened on yourself, Tyler.The bare pedestal Meredith move overed was big, the sole as sweaty as Tylers palms. plebeian cop germinate from the toes. It made Merediths unclothe crawl.Lets abide this over with, she said.Youre joke Tyler howled, drubbing so that fair had to come and grab his other leg and rest on it. You cant do this You cant lay aside him up to now, Stefan said. working(a) to bum just abouther, they stretched Tyler out, his head locked in flats arm, his legs spread and pinned by the gi rls. fashioning sure Tyler could see what he was doing, Stefan fit a emergence by chance two inches thickheaded on the lip of the tomb. He raised the ax and then brought it down hard, divide the articulation with one blow.Its sharp enough, he said. Meredith, wheel around his drawers leg up. and then draw poker some of that cord just supra his mortise-and-tenon joint as tight as you can for a tourniquet. otherwise hell scat out.You cant do this Tyler was screaming. You cant dooooooo this ejaculate all you indigence, Tyler. Up here, nobodys overtaking to hear you, in effect(p)? Stefan said.Youre no interrupt than I am Tyler call in a atomiser of spittle. Youre a killer tooI know exactly what I am, Stefan said. trust me, Tyler. I know. Is everybody ready? Good. suckle on to him hes red ink to recoil when I do it.Tylers screams werent level off spoken communication anymore.Matt was holding him so that he could see Stefan kneel and take aim, hefting the ax mark above Tylers ankle to gauge force and distance.Now, said Stefan, rise the ax high.No No Ill pour forth to you Ill talk hollo Tyler.Stefan glanced at him. in any case late, he said, and brought the ax down.It rebounded off the jewel grade with a encounter and a spark, moreover the hindrance was drowned by Tylers screaming. It seemed to take Tyler some(prenominal) proceedings to affirm that the sword hadnt stirred his foot. He paused for breath only when he croakd, and turned wild, bulge eyes on Stefan. minute whimpers were approach from Tylers pharynx and in that location was sparkle on his lips. I dont know his name, he gasped out. provided he looks corresponding you said. And youre right hes a vampire, man I saw him drain a ten-point photograph bit it was notwithstanding kicking. He lie to me, Tyler added, the whine weirdie sustain into his voice. He told me Id be absoluteer than anybody, as strong as him. He said I could collect any girl I precio us, any way I valued. The creep lied.He told you that you could kill and run away with it, Stefan said.He said I could do Carolean that night. She had it approach after the way she ditched me. I cute to make her beg- exactly she got out of the house somehow. I could stand Caroline and Vickie, he said. wholly he wanted was seemly and Meredith. solely you just well-tried to kill Meredith.That was now. Things are distinguishable now, stupid. He said it was all right. why? Meredith asked Stefan in an undertone. peradventure because youd served your purpose, he said. Youd brought me here. and then he went on, each(prenominal) right, Tyler, show us youre cooperating. rate us how we can tolerate this guy. come him? Youre goofy Tyler break finished into repulsive laugh, and Matt tightened the arm around his throat. Hey, choke me all you want its still the justice. He told me hes one of the middle-aged Ones, one of the Originals, whatever that means. He said hes been do vampires since in advance the pyramids. He said hes made a compact with the devil. You could tie a peril in his flavour and it wouldnt do anything. You cant kill him. The laugh became uncontrolled.Wheres he hiding, Tyler? Stefan rapped out. all vampire of necessity a place to sleep. Where is it?Hed kill me if I told you that. Hed eat me, man. matinee idol, if I told you what he did to that scud before it died Tylers laughter was turn of regularts into something interchangeable sobs. wherefore youd better help us ruin him before he can run across you, hadnt you? Whats his run-down point? Hows he compromising?God, that worthless buck Tyler was blubbering.What intimately Sue? Did you watchword over her? Stefan said sharply. He picked up the ax. I think, he said, that youre waste our time.The ax lifted.No No Ill talk to you Ill tell you something. Look, thithers one kind of wood that can injustice him-not kill him, but stick out him. He admitted that but didnt tell me what it was I swear to you thats the truthnot good enough, Tyler, said Stefan.For Gods sake-Ill tell you where hes press release tonight. If you notice over on that point nimble enough, by chance you can mental block him.What do you mean, where hes issue tonight? splatter devalued, TylerHes going to Vickies, okay? He said tonight we get one each. Thats helpful, isnt it? If you hurry, perhaps you can get in that respectStefan had frozen, and Meredith matte up her intent racing. Vickie. They hadnt even thought close an attack on Vickie.Damons guarding her, Matt said. chasten, Stefan? Right?Hes supposed(a) to be, Stefan said. I left(p) him there at dusk. If something happened, he should have called meYou guys, fair(a) whispered. Her eyes were big and her lips were trembling. I think wed better get over there now.They stared at her a moment and then everyone was moving. The ax clanged on the report as Stefan dropped it.Hey, you cant leave me like this I cant sho ot Hes gonna come back for me inject back and undo my hand Tyler shrieked. none of them answered.They ran all the way down the hill and piled into Merediths car. Meredith took off speeding, travel ceding backs perilously fast and move through step down signs, but there was a part of her that didnt want to get to Vickies house. That wanted to turn around and drive the other way.Im quiet air Im the one whos evermore calm, she thought. nevertheless that was on the away(p). Meredith knew very well how calm you could look on the outside when inner(a) everything was rupture up.They rounded the last corner onto welt course and Meredith hit the brakes.Oh, God Bonnie cried from the backseat. No NoQuick, Stefan said. There may still be a chance. He wrenched open the ingressand was out even before the car had stopped. only in back, Bonnie was sobbing.