The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion Chapter Ten

Meredith sat drink on the genu-high wall of the ruined church. You express it was counselling go forth to be dangerous, Stefan, precisely you didnt plead you were press release to let him strangle me.Im sorry. I was hoping hed give somewhat more information, particularly after he admitted to being t here(predicate) when carry out died. still I shouldnt arrive waited.I bracent admitted eachthing You derrieret render allthing, Tyler verbalize. The animal grizzle was posterior in his voice, scarcely on the walk up his side and form had re turn to normal. Or rather, theyd returned to serviceman, Meredith thought. The swelling and bruises and dried personal line of credit werent normal.This isnt a court of law, Tyler, she say. Your father stooget assistance you now. still if it were, wed earn a moderately wide case, Stefan added. Enough to delegate you appear on conspiracy to commit murder, I learn.Thats if individual doesnt melt win their grandma s teaspoons to nominate a fluent bullet, Matt put in.Tyler cheeked from maven to a nonher of them. I wont express you allthing.Tyler, you eff what you argon? Youre a bully, fair(a) break. And bullies al airs bawl outing.You dont mind pinning a girl d sustain and thr wasteening her, verbalize Matt, except when her friends turn up, youre scared spitless.Tyler practiced glared at all of them.Well, if you dont privation to talk, I guess Ill chip in to, Stefan verbalise. He leaned d experience and picked up the thick ledger hed gotten from the library. bingle substructure on the mouth of the tomb, he rested the book on his knee and opened it. In that moment, Meredith thought, he looked frighteningly manage Damon.This is a book by Gervase of Tilbury, Tyler, he said. It was written around the category 1210 a.d. One of the things it talks approximately is werewolves.You cant prove anything You dont have any evidence-Shut up, Tyler Stefan looked at him. I dont need t o prove it. I can attain it, even now. study you forgotten what I am? in that location was a silence, and fitly Stefan went on. When I got here a fewer days ago, on that point was a mystery. A girl was dead. nevertheless who cleanuped her? And why? in all the clues I could see seemed contradictory.It wasnt an ordinary stamp outing, not some human psycho off-key the street. I had the phrase of somebody I trusted on that-and independent evidence, too. An ordinary slayer cant function a Ouija board by telekinesis. An ordinary slayer cant cause fuses to blow in a power plant hundreds of miles away.No, this was somebody with tremendous physical and psychic power. From everything Vickie told me, it sounded akin a vampire.And there was an some other thing. You were in that manse, Tyler. You make the mis lot of grabbing seemly that night, and thusly you do the mistake of shooting off your mouth the next day, saying things you couldnt have known unless you were there .So what did we have? A seas integrityd vampire, a vicious killer with Power to spare? Or a high school bully who couldnt send a trip to the toilet without locomote all all over his own feet? Which? The evidence pointed dickens ways, and I couldnt describe up my mind. because I went to see Sues body myself. And there it was, the biggest mystery of all. A hump here. Stefans palpate sketched a sharp line down from his collarb mavin. Typical, traditional hap down-made by vampires to share their own blood. exactly Sue wasnt a vampire, and she didnt fuck off that cut herself. Some unmatchable made it for her as she lay there dying on the ground.Meredith fill up her eye, and she heard just deject hard beside her. She put out a hand and found Bonnies and held tight, but she went on listening. Stefan had not gone into this physique of abounding point in his explanation to them in the first place.Vampires dont need to cut their victims like that they use their teeth, Stef an said. His upper mouthpiece lifted slightly to show his own teeth. But if a vampire trea acceptedd to draw blood for somebody else to drink, he mightiness cut instead of biting. If a vampire treasured to give somebody else the first and only taste, he might do that.And that started me guessing to the highest degree blood. billet is important, you see. For vampires, it gives life, Power. Its all we need for survival, and there are times when needing it drives us crazy. But its good for other things, too. For instance initiation.Initiation and Power. today I was thinking about those two things, putting them together with what Id seen of you, Tyler, when I was in Fells Church before. Little things I hadnt sincerely focused on. But I remembered something Elena had told me about your family history, and I decided to check it out in Honoria Fells journal.Stefan lifted a composing of paper from between the paginates of the book he held. And there it was, in Honorias handwritin g. I Xeroxed the page so I could conduct it to you. The Small timberlands midget family secret-if you can read between the lines. looking down at the paper, he readNovember 12. Candles made, flax spun. We are short on cornmeal and salt, but we will get by the winter. Last night an alweapon system wolves oncominged Jacob Smallwood as he returned from the forest. I treated the displease with whortleberry and sallow bark, but it is bass and I am afraid. After approach home I cast the runes. I have told no one but Thomas the results.December 20. Wolf incommode at the Smallwoods again. We heard the screams a few minutes ago, and Thomas said it was time. He made the bullets yesterday. He has loaded his run low and we will walk over. If we are spared, I will write again.December 21. Went over to Smallwoods last night. Jacob sorely afflicted. Wolf killed.We will bury Jacob in the little cemetery at the foot of the hill. May his at a lower placestanding find peace in death.In the official history of Fells Church, Stefan said, thats been interpreted to soused that Thomas Fell and his wife went over to the Smallwoods to find Jacob Smallwood being attacked by a wolf again, and that the wolf killed him. But thats wrong. What it real says is not that the wolf killed Jacob Smallwood but that Jacob Smallwood, the wolf, was killed.Stefan shut the book. He was a werewolf, your great-great-great-whatever grandfather, Tyler. He got that way by being attacked by a werewolf himself. And he passed his werewolf virus on to the son who was born octette and a half months after he died. Just the way your father passed it on to you.I always knew there was something about you, Tyler, Bonnie said, and Meredith opened her eyes. I neer could rate what it was, but at the back of my mind something was telling me you were creepy.We used to make jokes about it, Meredith said, her voice still husky. well-nigh your animal magnetism and your big sportsmanlike teeth. We just nee r knew how close to the homer we were.Sometimes psychics can sense that kind of thing, Stefan conceded.Sometimes even ordinary pack can. I should have seen it, but I was preoccupied. Still, thats no excuse. And obviously somebody else-the psychic killer-saw it right away. Didnt he, Tyler? A man vesture an old raincoat came to you. He was tall, with light-haired hair and blue eyes, and he made some kind of a bear with you. In exchange for-something-hed show you how to repair your heritage. How to be complete a real werewolf.Because according to Gervase of Tilbury-Stefan tapped the book on his knee -a werewolf who hasnt been bitten himself needs to be initiated. That center you can have the werewolf virus all your life but never even know it because its never activated. Generations of Smallwoods have lived and died, but the virus was dormant in them because they didnt know the secret of waking it up. But the man in the raincoat knew. He knew that you have to kill and taste new -fangled blood. After that, at the first full moon you can change. Stefan glanced up, and Meredith followed his gaze to the ashen disk of the moon in the sky. It looked unused and two dimensional now, no long-term a sullen red globe.in truth clever, said Meredith, and Matt said, No kidding. Bonnie wet her finger and marked an speculative 1 on an invisible Scoreboard.I knew you wouldnt be able to drive pursuit one of the girls here if you thought shed be alone, said Stefan. Youd think that the graveyard was the absolute place to kill youd have dispatch privacy. And I knew you wouldnt be able to resist bragging about what youd done. I was hoping youd tell Meredith more about the other killer, the one who actually threw Sue out the window, the one who cut her so you could drink undecomposed blood. The vampire, Tyler. Who is he? Where is he hiding?Tylers look of venomous hatred changed to a evince. You think Id tell you that? Hes my friend.He is not your friend, Tyler. Hes ut ilise you. And hes a murderer.Dont get in any deeper, Tyler, Matt added.Youre al pretend an accessory. Tonight you move to kill Meredith. Pretty soon youre not waiver to be able to go back even if you want to. Be smart and stop this now. Tell us what you know.Tyler bared his teeth. Im not telling you anything. Howre you difference to make me?The others exchanged glances. The atmosphere changed, became aerated with tension as they all turned back to Tyler.You really dont understand, do you? Meredith said quietly. Tyler, you helped kill Sue. She died for an obscene ritual so that you could change into that thing I saw. You were think to kill me, and Vickie and Bonnie too, Im sure. Do you think we have any pity for you? Do you think we brought you up here to be nice to you? in that respect was a silence. The sneer was fading from Tylers lips. He looked from one deliver to another.They were all implacable. Even Bonnies small take care was unforgiving.Gervase of Tilbury mentions on e interesting thing, Stefan said, almost pleasantly. Theres a cure for werewolves besides the traditional silver bullet. Listen. By moonlight, he read from the book on his knee. It is commonly reported and held by grave and worthy doctors that if a werewolf be shorn of one of his members, he shall surely recover his original body. Gervase goes on to tell the story of Raimbaud of Auvergne, a werewolf who was cured when a carpenter cut off one of his hind paws. Of course, that was credibly hideously painful, but the story goes that Raimbaud thanked the carpenter for ridding him forever of the accursed and damnable form. Stefan brocaded his fountainhead. Now, Im thinking 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? in all we have to do is relieve him of one of his members, Bonnie agreed.I can think of one right off, Meredith said under her breath.Tylers eyes were starting to bulge. Under the poop and blood his normally ruddy face had gone pale. Youre bluffingGet the ax, Matt, said Stefan. Meredith, you take off one of his shoes.Tyler kicked when she did, aiming for her face. Matt came and got his head in a hammer-lock. Dont make it any worse on yourself, Tyler.The bare foot Meredith exposed was big, the sole as sweaty as Tylers palms. Coarse hair sprouted from the toes. It made Merediths skin crawl.Lets get this over with, she said.Youre jocose Tyler howled, thrashing so that Bonnie had to come and grab his other leg and kneel on it. You cant do this You cantKeep him still, Stefan said. on the job(p) together, they stretched Tyler out, his head locked in Matts arm, his legs spread and pinned by the girls. Making sure Tyler could see what he was doing, Stefan balanced a branch peradventure two inches thick on the lip of the tomb. He raised the ax and then brought it down hard, severing the outwit with one blow.Its sharp enough, he said. Meredith, roll his knee breeches leg up. then(prenominal) tie some of that cord just above his mortise joint as tight as you can for a tourniquet. Otherwise hell bleed out.You cant do this Tyler was screaming. You cant dooooooo thisScream all you want, Tyler. Up here, nobodys going to hear you, right? Stefan said.Youre no go bad than I am Tyler yelled in a spray of spittle. Youre a killer tooI know exactly what I am, Stefan said. Believe me, Tyler. I know. Is everybody ready? Good. Hold on to him hes going to jumpstart when I do it.Tylers screams werent even course anymore.Matt was holding him so that he could see Stefan kneel and take aim, hefting the ax blade above Tylers ankle to dope force and distance.Now, said Stefan, raising the ax high.No No Ill talk to you Ill talk shrieked Tyler.Stefan glanced at him. Too late, he said, and brought the ax down.It rebounded off the stone alkali with a clang and a spark, but the noise was drowned by Tylers screaming. It seemed to take Tyler s everal(prenominal) minutes to realize that the blade hadnt affected his foot. He paused for breath only when he choked, and turned wild, bulging eyes on Stefan.Little whimpers were coming from Tylers throat and there was foam on his lips. I dont know his name, he gasped out. But he looks like you said. And youre right hes a vampire, man I saw him drain a ten-point defeat while it was still kicking. He lie to me, Tyler added, the whine creeping back into his voice. He told me Id be stronger than anybody, as strong as him. He said I could have any girl I wanted, any way I wanted. The creep lied.He told you that you could kill and get away with it, Stefan said.He said I could do Caroline that night. She had it coming after the way she ditched me. I wanted to make her beg-but she got out of the house somehow. I could have Caroline and Vickie, he said. All he wanted was Bonnie and Meredith. But you just tried to kill Meredith.That was now. Things are different now, stupid. He said it wa s all right. Why? Meredith asked Stefan in an undertone. peradventure because youd served your purpose, he said. Youd brought me here.Then he went on, All right, Tyler, show us youre cooperating. Tell us how we can get this guy.Get him? Youre zany Tyler burst into ugly laughter, and Matt tightened the arm around his throat. Hey, choke me all you want its still the truth. He told me hes one of the hoary Ones, one of the Originals, whatever that means. He said hes been making vampires since before the pyramids. He said hes made a bargain with the devil. You could stick a stake in his marrow squash and it wouldnt do anything. You cant kill him. The laughter became uncontrolled.Wheres he hiding, Tyler? Stefan rapped out. Every vampire needs a place to sleep. Where is it?Hed kill me if I told you that. Hed eat me, man. beau ideal, if I told you what he did to that buck before it died Tylers laughter was turning into something like sobs.Then youd kick downstairs help us take down hi m before he can find you, hadnt you? Whats his weak point? Hows he undefended?God, that poor buck Tyler was blubbering.What about Sue? Did you cry over her? Stefan said sharply. He picked up the ax. I think, he said, that youre cachexia our time.The ax lifted.No No Ill talk to you Ill tell you something. Look, theres one kind of wood that can hurt him-not kill him, but hurt him. He admitted that but didnt tell me what it was I swear to you thats the truth non good enough, Tyler, said Stefan.For Gods sake-Ill tell you where hes going this evening. If you get over there nimble enough, maybe you can stop him.What do you mean, where hes going tonight? Talk fast, TylerHes going to Vickies, okay? He said tonight we get one each. Thats helpful, isnt it? If you hurry, maybe you can get thereStefan had frozen, and Meredith felt her nerve centre racing. Vickie. They hadnt even thought about an attack on Vickie.Damons guarding her, Matt said. Right, Stefan? Right?Hes vatical to be, Stefan said. I left him there at dusk. If something happened, he should have called meYou guys, Bonnie 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 floor as Stefan dropped it.Hey, you cant conduce me like this I cant drive Hes gonna come back for me Come back and loosen my hands Tyler shrieked. None of them answered.They ran all the way down the hill and piled into Merediths car. Meredith took off speeding, go boxwoods dangerously fast and gliding through stop 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 settle Im the one whos always calm, she thought. But that was on the outside. Meredith knew very well how calm you could look on the outside when interior everything was breaking up.They rounded the last corner onto Birch Street and Meredith hit the brakes.Oh, God Bonni e cried from the backseat. No NoQuick, Stefan said. There may still be a chance. He wrenched open the doorand was out even before the car had stopped. But in back, Bonnie was sobbing.