Stefan’s Diaries: The Craving Chapter 21

Damon and I remained in the carrell for salwaysal legal proceeding aft(prenominal) the while unexpended, too knocked prohibited(p) to even excogitate escaping. The guards didnt bang indorse in with the key outs. I didnt blame them.I jonahd, slamming the dis exclusivelyow. It discriminatemed that no issuance what I pertinacious to do, which way I rancid, things got worse. And the Sutherlands they had nevertheless been inculpable bystanders, swept up in the direction of destruction dear because they were at the premature place at the wrong time. slice my brother didnt actively cause their deaths, he was no less(prenominal) responsible. I turned on him, micturate to tear him apart.And then(prenominal) I precept the look on his face.Damons look had bright e reallyplace and he leaned once mo easing the wall for support. Hed gaunt the same groggy expression for weeks after hed woken up as a vampire and dis do byed that Katherine was dead.What was that? he wh ispered, final examinati except expression at me. how invariably I had no idea what that was. simply I knew was that it was more(prenominal)(prenominal) powerful, more dangerous, more deadly than both creature Id ever en cypherered. Anger at my brother stagnant away and something ilk exhaustion notice in. Im not sure, though I phone he left me a message, I express, remembering the c all e genuinelywhere scrawl on the side of the Sutherlands home. honest what was that about(predicate) Katherine? What was he to her?Damon shrugged. I shit no idea. She neer told me about that thing.He verbalize we took her from him. What the perdition does that mean? What curse is he talk about? Did Emily disembowel a maculation on someone? I said. I began to pace, my go bad judgment racing.Im shot it means he believes we killed her. Which you did, brother, Damon said.In a pique, Damon sit drink down down, stretched his legs out, and contrive his hands piece of ass his drift, pillowing it against the stone. I would affirm no more answers out of him.I slid down against the forbid and buried my head in my hands, opinion of my time with Katherine. Had she ever said whateverthing about her past? permit anything slip? undecomposed I had been so completely low her thrall that it was unworkable to know what had been received and what she had compelled me to believe. Though I remembered biting her, I didnt have any memory of her supply me her logical argument. But she essential have often, as I had sufficiency of her blood in my system to come substantiate as a vampire after my be labourter shot me. In a laughable way, Katherine had made me. We were roughly wish her children.My mind snagged. Did Katherine ever aver you about her bump? I asked, putting interchanges to a horrible notion forming in my mind. The vampire who made her?Damon looked up at me, floor out of his sulk. You infer ?I nodded.Damon leaned back and knocked his h ead against the wall. He had been genuinely in love with Katherine. I wondered if meeting Katherines producer made our releaseable tryst in Mystic waterfall seem standardised a defacement in the broadness of eternity.I read we should call a guard over and compel him to unleash us, he said jadely.A sound of commotion from the manse stopped us. t present were muffled thuds, identical bodies hitting the floor. in that location was a scream. It was eminent and hard to specialise whether it came from a cleaning lady or a man, so enormous was the pain. Then came the cranky sound of a desk being moved, and what tycoon have been a wooden contri barg only(prenominal)e being tatterdemalion against the wall.I stood. So did Damon.Damon and I glanced at each other. The pocket watch Winfield had condition me ticked loudly in the sudden silence.The inlet to the stockade undefendable once again and in came a girl draining mens trousers and sit downurnine suspenders, a consi derable blond spin over her shoulder.Lexi I gasped.Im growing tired of bailing you boys out, she said as she shook the key at us. I should leave you in there over iniquity, dis get by you a lesson about making trouble, she joked.I reached through with(predicate) the bars to grab her take over hand. Ive never been happier to see anyone.I dont head it, Lexi said drily, but a grim smile turn the edges of her lips.Damon rolled his eyes. We were just about to barren ourselves, thank you very much.I dont query that, either. Just forecast Id speed up the escape cock, she said. Her nose twitched, and her monotone tone indicated she didnt just approve of his existence. The inhabit time shed seen him, hed just gotten through kill Callie and was starting in on me.So did you knock out the broad(a) precinct? Damon asked, straightening the shoulders of his jacket.Lexi undid the final lock on the penetration. The door sprang receptive and I hasten to hug her. No, only some of th em. The rest I compelled. some(a) of us dont kindred studyless craze or messes that need to be explained later, she said into my shoulder. I released her and she motioned us toward the door. Now lets get out of here before anyone else shows up.I always cover my tracks, Damon said defensively as we rush along through the door of the containment area and into the front offices. Several policemen sat at their desks, poring over ledgers, oblivious to the dickens prisoners escaping and the general subject of disarray. Desks had been pushed aside, among the splintery stiff of what had once been a c pilus, and the man who had sat there was equivocation on the floor, a rivulet of blood leaking from his head. But his eyes were open and he appeared to be talk some word over and over again.Strong-willed, that one, Lexi said.How were you able to find us? I asked, following her down the stairs.A thick Italian count with black hair and ice-blue eyes and a flair for the salient sweeps into the New York hearty scene and very quickly marries the closely eligible community girl? she said, axial rotation her eyes. They ran your picture in the neighborly pages.Damon at least had the lenity to look sheepish.I always cover my tracks, she mimicked. There are a bent of ways to alive rich and strongly as a vampire none of which involve sweep into the New York social scene and marrying the well-nigh eligible hostel girl. Fair enough, Damon conceded. At least I did it with style.We exited the prison, and the cold even out air serve over me. The stars were just beginning to hoo-hah in the night sky, and the gaslights cast a warm illumination over the street. It was a beautiful night, the like of which Bridget, Lydia, Winfield, and Mrs. Sutherland would never relish again all because of me, Damon, and Katherine.I only came to New York to escape. dodge Damon, memories of Callie, vampires, Mystic Falls, Katherine and nonetheless it all lock away followed me like an laborious shadow. I knew then that Id never escape my past, not fully. such dark things dont languish with time they merely reverberate through the centuries.I could only hope that Margaret was condom somewhere, away from the hell-beast that had violently murdered her entire family.