*Chapter 20: The Blood Brothers*

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*Mystic Falls, Virginia, Nighttime, Back at The Salvatore Boarding House- The Basement/The Cellar*

Stefan is still locked up and he's laying down on a cot, asleep.

*The Salvatore Estate- The Woods, Flashback- 1864- Nighttime*

Stefan and Damon try to free Katherine, but they both get shot by Giuseppe Salvatore in the chest with a rifle.

*Flashback Ends*

*Back in The Present, Morning- The Salvatore Boarding House- The Basement/The Cellar- A Meeting*

Stefan is laying down on the cot awake, looking at the wall sad and contemplating thinking. Elena is wearing a purple top with a black belt and navy-blue jeans on with black boots on. She's standing outside of the gate and comments sad, "Its so sad and hard to see him being locked up, like this?" Damon is wearing a black sweater and black jeans and boots and recalls and remarks with a smile, "Well, you were the one, who locked him up?" She sighs, looks over to him and retorts with a smile, "You helped." He nods and remarks with a smile, "Well, I couldn't have him, running around, chewing on people? Whilst, the whole town, was on the lookout for vampires? Now could I?" He smiles. She nods and retorts in disbelief with a smile, "Rite, so it had nothing, to do with the fact, of you actually caring about him?" He shakes his head and retorts with a smile, "Ugh, your thing, not mine." He leaves and goes upstairs to the living room and she sighs now and looks at Stefan sad and then follows after Damon upstairs. Stefan overhears them and looks sad and then closes his eyes for a second and takes his daylight ring off and then sits it on the cot in front of him and looks at his hand, without it on, contemplating, thinking.

*Flashback- 1864, Steven's Quarry- Morning- A Meeting*

Stefan wakes up, opens his eyes and looks around his surroundings confused as he sits up in a hut and sees a forest of green trees. Then, he looks down at his shirt and sees a stain of blood on it, where he was shot and then he opens his shirt and sees the bullet wound is healed, like he was never shot at all and he looks astonished. He then sees a daylight ring on his right hand and looks surprised and Emily Bennett walks over to him, wearing a plaid brown and white scarf, and a brown and white plaid gown and brown heels. She's carrying a hamper of clean clothes in her hands and comments and reveals sternly, "Katherine had me, make that for you, weeks ago." He nods and retorts confused and asks sternly, "Where am I?" She sits the hamper down on the ground, near him and kneels and admits with a smile, "The quarry, just north of town. My brother and I brought you here, last night. We found you dead in the woods." She stands and he nods and asks sternly and concerned, "Where's Damon?" She nods over to the dock and he looks over to it and sees Damon sitting on the edge looking at the stream of water, lost in thought and he turns back to Emily and asks still at a loss, "Am I, a?" She shakes her head and reveals with a smile, "No. Not yet. You're in transition!" He shakes his head and retorts confused, "But how, I didn't..." She shakes her head, cuts him off and reveals sternly and admits, "You had Katherine's blood, in your system, when you died." He shakes his head admits sternly and serious, "No, I never..." She cuts him off again and reveals serious and informs him sternly, now, "Katherine has been compelling you to drank it for weeks, Stefan!" He nods and asks sternly, "And Damon?" She shakes her head and admits with a smile, "No Compulsion, was necessary! He dranked from her willingly." He nods and then walks over to the dock and over to him and they talk. Damon speaks and reveals sad, "I woke up last night, I didnt know where I was. I went to the church and I watched them, drag her inside and then they set fire to it." Stefan shakes his head and looks down sad and rest his hand, on his shoulder, as he continues and admits sad, "The whole church, went up, to flames. They killed her, Stefan. She's gone." He cries sad.

*Flashback Ends*

*Back in The Present, The Salvatore Boarding House- The Living Room- A Meeting*

Damon holds the detection device in his hands that Pearl gave him, and he looks at it still curious and Elena walks in and over to her bag on the couch and comments and asks sternly, "Did you ever figure out, what that is?" He shakes his head and admits smile, "Nope. Whatever it is, it doesn't work!" He sighs and she starts putting her dirty clothes in her bag and retorts confused, "Pearl, didn't say, what, it does or anything else bout it?" He sighs and retorts sadly, "No. Except, for stealing the vampire compass, but that was the pocket watch. That Jonathan Gilbert, was, a crazy scientist?" She laughs, and folds a pair of jeans in her hands and puts it in her bag as he puts the object back down on the dresser and looks over to her and asks curious with a smile, "Have you, spoken with your Uncle, recently?" She shakes her head and retorts sternly, "I've been avoiding him, actually? That and been here most nights." He nods and retorts in disbelief, with a smile, "So you'll be here again, tonight?" She grabs her bag and puts it on her shoulder and retorts confused, "Is that a problem?" He nods and remarks with a smile, "Yes, you are a complete nuisance!" She scoffs and smiles and retorts sternly, "I'll see you later." She leaves.

*Back Outside, Mystic Falls High- Afternoon- An Ambush*

Jeremy is walking on the street to the school, wearing a purple hoodie, jacket, a brown t-shirt and navy jeans and black boots. He's listening to music from his earbuds and Anna walks over to him, wearing a black leather jacket, a black tank top, purple crop shirt on and black pre-ripped jeggings, with black boots on. She takes one earbud out of his ear and says with a smile, "Surprise?" He laughs, takes his hood off, his earbuds off and asks confused, with a smile, "What are you doing here?" She smiles takes out a class schedule and shows it to him and retorts sternly, "Picking up this." They walk together as he looks at the paper and retorts confused, "What, a class schedule?" She nods, takes it back and admits with a smile, "Starting tomorrow, I'm officially a student here." He looks at her now, surprised and retorts in disbelief now, "What, you're kidding me, right?" He smiles and she shakes her head and reveals with a smile, "No, I finally beat my mom down!" They continue walking as she now, laughs, and smiles and he laughs, looks at her astonished and admits at a loss, "Why would you, want to go to high school? It blows." She sighs, shrugs her shoulder and retorts with a smile, "Do I really need, to answer that?" He stops walking and steps in front of her and looks at her shocked and remarks with a smile, "So, you'd suffer, through all this, just to hang out with me?" She nods and admits with a smile, "Yeah. I would." He nods and retorts with smile flattered, "Well, that's um..." She cuts him off and remarks with a smile, "Stupid? Pathetic, old, lurky me." She smiles and he shakes his head and retorts with a smile, "Awesome." She smiles, takes a step forward to him and kisses him and he breaks the kiss and retorts with a smile, now, "Awesome." She smiles and he kisses her, and she responds to the kiss again.

*Back at The Salvatore Boarding House- The Basement/The Cellar- A Meeting- Back at Mystic Falls High- Alaric's History Classroom- An Ambush*

Damon is standing outside of the gate, holding a bottle of animal blood in his hand and he comments and says with a smile to Stefan, "I brought you, something to eat, 100% Stefan diet?" Stefan is sitting on the ground in front of the cot, looking down at the ground before him sad and says nothing and Damon smiles and remarks sternly, "You know, what happens, when you don't eat? You get all rotten and crusty." Stefan shakes his head and retorts tired and done, now, "I'm not hungry!" He continues, looking at the ground sad and Damon retorts with a smile, now, "Or course, you are. You're eternally hungry, take it?" He sits it in the slot between the bars and sighs. Stefan doesn't move and continues sulking feeling sorry for himself and Damon comments confused and says serious, "The human blood should be gone, out of your system, by now? So, do you, want to explain why, you're still sitting in here, feeling sorry, for yourself?!" Stefan says nothing and Damon pushes the bottle over to him and he comments with a smile, "C'mon, drink up?" Stefan just glares at the bottle, but doesn't take it and continues sulking. Damon remarks with a smile and says done, "Fine, starve? Whatever, what, do I, care?!" He leaves and goes back to the living room.

His phone rings and picks it up, answers the call and says sternly, "Hello?" Alaric responds and says sternly, "Its Alaric Saltzman." Damon looks surprised and retorts confused, "Wait, hold up? How did you get this number?!" Alaric is standing behind his desk, in his classroom and retorts with a vague answer and admits with a smile, "That remains a mystery. I've been, digging some info on Elena's Uncle. Are you, interested?" Damon nods and retorts intrigued and curious now, "What kinda of digging?" Alaric is wearing a brown jacket, blue shirt and black jeans with black boots on and he admits with a smile, "I have an old friend from Duke in criminology, from when we were there, together? Lets just say, that he's become, a very proficient digger?" Damon nods and walks over to the staircase and asks sternly, "Did he find anything?" Alaric nods and reveals sternly, "Well, I had him run a track, on John's cell records? He was getting a call from the same number, that Elena dialed to get Isobel. Then, the number was disconnected." Damon is standing near the bookshelf and retorts with a smile, "It happens and so, Isobel knows John, we already knew that." Alaric nods and admits with a smile, "Yes, but after that, he started getting calls, from a new number and I had my friend, run a Geo-Track and got the address, its an apartment in Grove Hill." Damon, now, walks away, from the bookshelf and looks surprised and retorts in shock, "Isobel is in Grove Hill?" Alaric sighs and retorts sternly, "Idk, I'm not sure. I thought, maybe, we should, take a drive up there and see what we can find?" Damon nods in understanding and retorts sternly, "Alright give me the address?" Alaric laughs, scoffs with a smile and retorts in disbelief, "Why, so you could go, without me? No, not bloody likely!" He packs up his stuff and Damon responds hurt and remarks upset, "What, I ain't going with you, you tried to kill me?!" Alaric nods and retorts upset as well and recalls sternly, "Well, you did kill me?!" Damon sighs and then gets a call from Elena and he says sternly to him, "Hold on?" He does.

*Back at The Gilbert's House- Elena's Bedroom- An Ambush/The Salvatore Boarding House- The Living Room- A Meeting*

Elena is packing a new set of clothes and she puts it in her bag and on her shoulder as Damon now, responds and asks sternly, "What?" She responds and admits sternly, "I'm just grabbing some clothes and I'll be right over. How's Stefan?" He responds and retorts with a smile, "Extra broody... Hold on?" She does and he says sternly to Alaric, "You drive, me meet there, in an hour?" Alaric nods and retorts with a smile, "Done." He hangs up and continues packing his stuff, leaving the premises of the school.

Back at The Salvatore Boarding House, in the library and he sits down casually, in a brown chair and lays his legs down a brown stool and admits with a smile to Elena, "He won't eat anything!" Back at The Gilbert's House, in her room, she grabs her purse and puts it on her left shoulder, shakes her head and says sternly, now, "He has to eat, whats his favorite... kind of, umm..." He cuts her off and retorts confused, "His favorite kind, of what?" She responds and asks revolted, "Type of animal blood, that he prefers?" He nods and remarks with a smile, "Eww, gross." She opens her closet door and, comments sternly and retorts with a smile, "Your joking doesn't help." She takes a dress out as he responds and admits sternly, "It helps me. Now, hurry up, I can't babysit all night, I've got things to do." She laughs, and remarks with a smile, "I would say drop dead, but..." He laughs and then reveals and answers her question, from before with a smile, "Stefan likes... puppy blood. Little golden retriever puppies with cute, floppy ears. That's his favorite." She laughs, and scoffs with a smile, surprised. She hangs up and puts the dress in her bag and her phone and then puts the hanger back in the closet and she shuts the door to find John standing there, wearing a navy-blue and white striped shirt and navy-blue pants and black boots, with a grin on his face and he apologizes, "Sorry, I didn't mean, to make you jump?" She nods, holds her black jacket in her hands, gasps in surprise and says upset, "Uncle John, I didn't see you there." He nods, takes a step forward in the room, over to her and retorts with a smile, "I thought, we could talk? We didn't get the chance, to catch up?!" She looks surprised and walks past him, over to the doorway scared and admits with a smile, "Well, I'm actually, on my way out, so..." He nods and retorts serious and informs her sternly, "Oh, it won't take long!" She sighs and faces him as he picks up a portrait of her parents and she comments and asks sternly and confused now, "What do you, want to talk about?" He sits the portrait back down on the dresser and looks over to her and he admits with a smile, "I know, you know?" She responds and says confused, "Know what?" He nods, laughs, and retorts tired, "Its really idiotic of you, to keep pretending?" She says nothing still confused and at a loss as he remarks with a smile and says disappointed with her, "What do you think? Your mother, would say, if she knew? You were dating, a bloodsucking demon? A vampire!" She nods and remarks with a smile, upset, "Which mother?!" She leaves.

*Flashback- 1864, Evening, Back at Steven's Quarry- A Meeting*

Stefan and Damon are sitting near each other, with white rags in their hands and they're only wearing black jeans and black boots on. Stefan speaks and says sternly, "I think, Jonathan Gilbert, has finally informed him, bout our deaths?" Damon nods and retorts upset and says pissed off, "As if he cares, he betrayed us!" He rinses off his arms with cold water. Stefan sighs, rinses off his arms too and retorts sternly, "He thought, he was doing the right thing, protecting this town?" Damon sighs and retorts hurt, "Yea, well, he's full of bull crap!" The sun blinds him, and he comments upset and groans in pain, "God, the sun hurts my eyes." Stefan nods and retorts with a smile, "Yea. That's part of it. The muscle aches, the sick feeling. Em, says its our bodies, pushing us to feed... to complete the transition." Damon cleans his shirt, with the bucket of cold water and a rope of soap and he shakes his head and admits serious, "That's not gonna happen!" He looks at him surprised and retorts confused, "Is that your choice, then? To die instead?" Stefan cleans his shirt too as he nods and retorts sad and admits done, "Isn't it, yours?" Stefan nods and says nothing as he continues sternly and retorts certain, "This was, all to be, with Katherine. And she's gone. I want it over!" Stefan nods in understanding.

*Flashback Ends*

*Back in The Present, The Salvatore Boarding House- The Basement/The Cellar- A Meeting*

Elena is standing outside of the gate and she see Stefan sitting on the ground, in front of the cot, sad and she asks sternly and curious, "How are you feeling?" He says nothing and glares at the bottle and she comments and says with a smile, "Damon, says that you need to drink that?" Stefan shakes his head sad and she comments with a smile and informs him serious, "You need it Stefan, can't survive without it?" He nods, looks over to her and admits with a smile, "I don't want to survive!" She looks at him shocked and says surprised, "What? No, don't say that!" She looks at him sad as he continues serious and reveals done, "I'm sorry, Elena. No more. After, what, I've done, it has to end? I just, want, it over! I'm done." She looks at him sad and astonished and says nothing, still in shock.

*Back Upstairs, in The Living Room- A Few Hours Later, Nighttime- A Meeting*

Elena is sitting on the couch, contemplating sad and upset and Damon stands behind the dresser and retorts with a smile, "He's just being dramatic, he's not really going to starve himself!" She responds and says upset and confused, "Why would he say that?" He sighs and retorts with a smile, "He just feels bad for hurting that girl, Amber. Its that typical Stefan, Martyr stuff?" She sighs sad and he comments and assures her with a smile, "It'll pass." She sighs and retorts in disbelief and asks sternly, "Will it?" He nods and smiles as she continues and recalls upset and says sternly, "Because he seems depressed and in a lot of pain?" He nods and remarks with a smile, "He's not depressed. Its just his Guilt talking, and that pain will fade, once his stubborn ass eats?!" She glares at him and retorts with a smile, "I didn't mean Physical Pain." He nods and retorts with a smile, "I know what you meant. Look, are you going to be k here, if I run out? I have an errand with your step-dad." She looks at him now, surprised and remarks with a smile, "Ric, are you two besties, now?" He shakes his head and retorts with a smile, "I don't have friends, Elena." She nods and retorts with a smile, "Rite." He grabs his jacket from a chair and puts it on as he continues and retort serious bout her safety, "You, um, should stay up here? You shouldn't be down there, by yourself!" She sighs annoyed and retorts with a smile, "I'll be fine." He nods and retorts confused and comments with a smile, "Alright. Well, you're very, trusting of him? Giving the circumstances, and what he's accidentally, done to you?" He starts for the door as she nods, and retorts with a smile, astonished as well, "So are you?" He looks at her confused as she continues and admits with a smile, "Otherwise, you wouldn't be leaving?" He nods and assures her, with a smile, "I won't be long." She nods and he leaves.

*The Mystic Grill- A Meeting*

John is sitting at table and waiting for Pearl to show up. He finishes his glass of whiskey. She walks in wearing a brown coat, and black dress with black heels and she lays her purse on the side of her chair and says with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Gilbert." She takes her coat off as he nods and retorts with a smile, "Pearl, its a pleasure. I'm surprised, that you came?" She nods, sits across from him and retorts upset and admits sternly, "Jenna told me, that you wanted, to discuss the sale, of the building in person?" He nods and admits with a smile, "Yes, but still, revealing yourself, like this, its quite, a big risk?" She laughs, and scoffs with a smile, and informs him serious, "I'm not stupid, Mr. Gilbert. You knew, who I was, when you requested this meeting!" He sighs, nods and smiles guilty as she continues and retorts confused, with a smile, now, "So Damon tells me, that your looking for the device, that I took from Johnathan?" He nods and smiles and she nods and informs him disinterested, "I'm sure, you realize, I have absolutely no intention, of giving it to you?!" He nods and retorts with a smile, "That's why, I wanted to meet you. I'm planning on, changing your mind?" She nods, looks at him astonished and retorts with a smile, "Really? How so?" He nods and retorts with a smile, "With my Gilbert charm, I know you have a weakness, for it?" She smiles and says nothing as he asks with a smile, "May I, buy you a drink?" She smiles and says nothing as he

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