Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Gilbert device

While still awake I looked around the room, the agony from the Gilbert device still screaming in my head. There were probably twelve vampires in the room, excluding Rose and me. I could make out the faces of many of the tomb vampires, only two not being among them. Those being Damon and Stefan Salvatore, another difference from the show as Stefan was not captured in it.

Just as I was about to get up and start my escape the scream from the Gilbert device got all the louder as the basement door opened. John Gilbert came down the stairs followed by five deputies, dragging the subdued Anna and holding the device that caused all this. The deputies unceremoniously threw Anna to the ground, John stood over her before starting to speak.

"I am going to let all these vermin burn, but you, Anna, I want to do it personally. You should have stayed away from Jeremy. Once I kill your mother, it's next. Then all the other vampires with her, then the rest of the cancer upon the earth that is vampires" he let out, hate filling his voice. He raised the stake and drove it down with full ****.

The stake stopped an inch away from Anna's heart as I controlled the blood in his hand pulling it up slightly. I dragged myself to my feet, fighting the scream of the Gilbert device, and John fell back. With another, the Gilbert device stopped mid-air, and with my magic, I pulled it onto its components. Pulling the stopwatch that was part of it into my hand, drawing it out of magic and slipping it into my pocket, while crushing the rest of it into dust.

The deputies who had been frozen up until now drew their weapons and started firing at me. I let them not do anything to resist for a moment, out of the corner of my eye, I saw John stand and approach the stake still on hand. His face filled with confidence as he drove the stake into my chest, it barely passed through my body and into my heart. The confidence on his face rapidly disappeared as a smile crossed mine, then I took him by his throat and threw him across the room.

I raised one hand at the deputies and directed their blood into their hearts, forcing their blood to expand their hearts until they ruptured, causing all of them to die painfully. The vampires on the floor had started to rise, "drink, drink deep from these vermin, regain your strength and leave. Kill no innocents, but if any try to stop you, show no mercy". As I spoke they started to do as I said, tearing the deputies apart before leaving, only Anna and Rose staying by my side.

John was the only human still alive, as I had hidden him with magic to allow me to deal with him myself. I pulled him back in front of me, forcing him to look directly at me. "What, how. Fuck it, kill me, you freak," he screamed at me in pure rage. "I will, let me just take something first" I said before grabbing his hand and tearing it off at the wrist. His screams filled my ears as I pulled his ring off his hand. "I just wanted to make sure you no longer had a way to come back from ****. Yes I know that this little ring allows you to come back from **** as long as it is a supernatural that kills you".

He opened his mouth to try and speak as fear filled his face, though no words had a chance to leave his mouth. Flames started to flow out of my hand covering his entire body, giving him the same agonising **** that he intended for me and the other vampires.

"We should leave" I said to Rose and Anna, leaving the building with both at my side. Once we left I turned back on the building and shot another gout of flame at the building. The fire should cover up the events that had happened and make it look like all vampires had been killed. "I should get back to my mother, make sure she is okay", Anna said, with a nod of confirmation. I watched as she left. "You should go and check on Lexi and Alexandria, they weren't planning on leaving the house tonight, but it would still be good to check", I said to Rose. With one thought, I pulled her in for a kiss, "I am glad you're okay," I continued before she sped away.

The attack ruined my chance of killing the mayor, although he may still have been killed under the assumption that he was a vampire. Being a supernatural, the Gilbert device would have affected him; in fact, he was incapacitated in the show. Though with all the changes my presence had made to the story so far I would still prepare for the chance that the mayor was still alive.

I walked back through the crowds heading straight back to Elena, Caroline and Jenna. I found them after a few minutes of searching, well I found Elena and Caroline. "Where is your aunt"? I asked Elena, who turned at the sound of my voice. "She went home. Why are you back? Is Rose okay"? She said, speaking all those back to back. "Okay, to find you and yes, it was a weapon designed to harm us, we are okay, though it's been destroyed. Oh, yes, and you should have this," I said while giving the Gilbert watch back to her. She nodded guessing the watch had something to do with the attack.

"Why do you have this watch? It belongs to Jeremy, we lent it to Mayor Lockwood for the display in the town hall," Elena said. "It was a part of a device to subdue all supernaturals, well, all those with enhanced senses. I destroyed the rest of the device and syphoned all the magic out of the watch, so it's of no threat anymore," I explained to her. "Thanks for not destroying it", she said, a smile crossing her face.

"Are you okay? Is that how your shirt got those holes?" Caroline spoke up while checking me over. Looking down I remembered that I had actually been shot and staked, destroying my shirt. "Yes, I am fine, Caroline, though your concern is nice. I have something for you as well, I said, taking the Gilbert ring out of my pocket. This will protect you from any supernatural, as long as you're wearing it, it will bring you back from ****. Sorry Elena, since you're a doppelganger and as such supernatural, it would not help you", I said while slipping the ring onto Caroline's finger, noticing the blush that filled her cheeks.

A buzz ran through my pocket from my phone. Pulling it out of my pocket, I saw a message from Rose letting me know that Alexandria and Lexi were both okay. My house was outside of the area the Gilbert device affected, meaning that neither Lexi nor Alexandria was affected by it.

"Right then, I am off home. I shall see you both later", Elena said before leaving. One, she left, Caroline spoke again, "I heard you drank from Elena", she said suddenly. "If I did", I asked. "I am not judging, but perhaps I feel a bit left out", she said while running a hand across my chest. "I want you to drink from me, to,o," she said while walking towards an alleyway.

I followed the young blonde after a second of hesitation. When I arrived in the alleyway, she had already pulled her hair to the side, neck bare for me, and a lusty look on her face. "Go on, do it, bite me", she said while wrapping her hands around my neck. Listening, I brought my mouth to her neck and repeated my previous actions with Elena. I bit into the neck of another of my students.

Caroline let out a moan as my fangs buried into her neck and her blood filled my mouth. Hot, warm blood filled my mouth as Caroline's hands wrapped around my hair, dragging me further in. Pulling back for a moment I looked into her eyes before switching to the other side of her neck and bit into her again.

As moans left her neck, I stopped drinking, having had my fill. I descended back to her neck, licking the blood of each side of her neck, gaining more moans from her. I pulled back and repeated my previous actions with Elena, slicing my finger and feeding the young blonde my blood, healing the wounds at her neck.

I thought for a minute as Caroline leaned against me before speaking. "Care to commit a bit of larceny with me"? I asked gaining a slightly confused look from Caroline before she eagerly agreed. I held her hand and pulled her into my side before casting an invisibility spell on us both, before walking back to the town hall.

"What are we doing" Caroline whispered into my ear. "A few of the artefacts at the town hall are magic in nature, I think they would be better in my custody" I whispered back. Caroline responded with a slight laugh before we continued forward.

We were in front of the table holding the magically enhanced hammer. I put my hand onto it, pulling it off the table. The hammer seemed far heavier than its size would suggest. I looked it over, noticing the many runes all over its handle. From what I could tell the runes made the hammer heavier, more durable and a few other runes that mattered less. I slipped it into one of the pockets in my ruined jacket before moving to the table with weapons.

I looked them over, seeing only one that piqued my interest, a small steel dagger that had escaped my notice before. It was awfully familiar and far older than any of the others, on it lay the name Asmund carved into the hilt in runic script. I picked it up feeling the familiar weight of my old dagger, the one I trained with before I found my skill in magic. How they had it confused me, I thought it lost a millennium ago. I knew one thing, though: I would not lose it again, so I slipped it into my belt next to the still-hidden sword that sat there.

"Have you got what you wanted? If so, we should leave before someone notices they are missing", Caroline spoke. At my nod, we left. Caroline still pressed against my side, and we walked through the town, my invisibility still keeping us both hidden. "I should go", Caroline said again, "You can feed on me again in the future, if you want to," she continued shyly, adding the last bit. "Of course, you do t think I would just be satisfied with one taste, do you"? I responded, noticing the blush that rose on her cheeks and the smile that appeared on her face.

Caroline then left to go home, and I did the same. Glad that the day was over I started the walk home, thinking about how I had once again fed on a student and how I told myself I wouldn't. Though there was not much I could do to resist either the young blonde or the brunette doppelganger so I would not dwell on it any longer.