《Beastly》25
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Beastly
Chapter 25
The broken
The four of them where now stood by the boats as Bethan phoned Caroline.
C. Tell me your not serious
B. I wish I wasn't when everyone got back looking for Jeremy, Shane and Bonnie where gone, Damon stormed off and now me Rebekah and Elena are playing Stefans angels.
C. I'm so sorry I wish I was there to help
E. Maybe there is something she can do from home
C. Anything tell me
E. Shane's looking for the cure, we think we can find him, we have pics of Jeremy's tattoos we can't translate the maps.
B. But by the special swordy thing and google maps maybe you can caroline.
C. You need the sword.
"He's not going to give up the sword" Rebekah spoke to Stefan who let out a laugh.
"if anyone can do it it's Bethan" he responded knowing the brunette ability to wrap men around her finger.
"he's not going to give up the sword" Rebekah stood by what she said.
"You do realise if Bethan wants something she gets it right?" Stefan smirked at the Gilbert girl.
B. Klaus I know your listening in and I know that Elena and Jeremy both killed your brother but please don't let mine die.
C. Don't worry Bethan I'll find it.
B. Thanks Caroline
C. Love you bye.
"You really think your little sob story is gonna work on klaus?" Rebekah asked the youngest of the group.
"right now klaus thinks he's in my good books, after I freaked out and went to him, he's gonna do anything to make me happy" the green eyed Gilbert smiled sweetly shrugging her shoulders.
"are we sure she's not related to Katherine Pierce" Rebekah asked Stefan but Beth got in the quick
"positive I have better hair" Rebekah could help but smile. Rebekah watched as stefan and Elena where smiling at each other
"no matter what he says it will always be Elena you know that right?" Bethan asked the original not wanting her to be hurt by the allure of Elena.
"do you really think he'll go running back to her?" Rebekah asked or more liked hoped Bethan would say no.
"I do, if it came down between him, you and Elena to have the cure, he'd pick Elena every time. The love those two share it's a strong bond" the werewolf tried to comfort the blonde giving her a sad smile.
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"I've had something like that once" Rebekah though back to a guy called marcel.
"I've never had that, the way Tyler risked his life break the sire bond for Caroline. Bonnie risked loosing magic all together to bring Jeremy back to life, the fact stefan and Damon would rip out their own hearts for Elena" Rebekah wanted that, more than anything to have someone to love her like the boys loved Caroline, Elena and Bonnie. That's when Rebekahs phone rang.
C. Hey it's Caroline we have the translation of the tattoo emailing it over to you now.
B. Got it thanks.
K. Actually it was me
R. Nik you helped?
K. You sound surprised little sister
R. Shouldn't I be i mean you don't want me to be human, you don't want us to find the cure
K. Maybe I realised the longer I stand in your way of getting what you want, the longer you continue to hate me, maybe I want my baby sister to find some happiness
R. Fool me once shame on me. Fool me 100 times
K. No more fooling, no more games. I hope you get to live and die as you wish
B. You know something we don't what is it?
K. Oh you mean the fact there is only one dosage of the cure so Rebekah If you want it you have to find it first.
The line quickly went dead, Bethan was keeping this info to her self in case time arose to warn Stefan and Elena, the four walked to what looked like a quarry.
"All we have to do is go down and across advantage team vampire." Rebekah read off the map tilting it different ways to see if it was true.
"Yeah werewolf over here" Bethan reminded them all raising her hand in the air.
"it's okay I got you, elena go first" stefan instructed and they watched the doppelgänger jump down.
"You ready?" He asked the teen smirking slightly as Bethan gulped looking down.
"just don't drop me" she warned as stefan jumped down with Bethan in his arms planting her firm on the ground, Bethan went over and hugged Elena
"I hate this" she informed her sister. The werewolf watched as stefan went over to read the map with Rebekah.
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"Remember that summer when we where kids and we where obsessed with the elf princess films?" Bethan asked hoping her sister would catch on she was talking about how they learnt the 'elvish' language.
"Yeah we spent weeks watching them on repeat" Elena said not really understand and Bethan look her in they eye.
"Do olk react na gith control lat breathing nalkruska jiak tell lat kigiji ka atigat ku tug ni dose ro ul mikog" Bethan whispered into her sisters ear she pulled back watching the vampires face drop.
"Are tye tanca?" Elena asked her werewolf sister who nodded slowly, Bethan quickly took a look at stefan and Rebekah.
"Jiak promise lat khe liwo be latuk" Bethan looked Elena straight in her doe brown eyes and the elder Gilbert nodded. Elena gripped onto her sister hand. God help Rebekah if she though she could go against the Gilbert's.
(Translation- basically I used a elvish translation app so here is what that conversation is
Bethan- Don't react keep your breathing steady there is only one dose of the cure.
Elena- are you sure?
Bethan- I promise you it'll be yours)
Rebekah snapped stefans neck and went speeding off causing the girls to rush to there sides and help him.
"There's one dose I can't take it above everyone else, besides it's to late" elena confessed but her sister disagreed.
"maybe not, Bonnie and Jeremy aren't gonna hand it over, and I wouldn't get in Bonnies way if I was you" the werewolf reminded her sister having faith in her brother and friend.
"Maybe its a blessing in disguise, even if I got the cure I wouldn't be the same person" elena confessed looking down at stefan.
"I need to deal with that"
"just think we thought our family was screwed up when we found out we was sisters, now your a vampire, I'm a werewolf and Jeremy's a hunter" that actually caused Elena to laugh as they thought about their screwed up lives.
"We need to figure out how to get Jeremy and Bonnie and find Damon" Elena stated and the three scurried up. The three finally found the entrance to the tomb and Damon tied to the post.
"You need to go get the cure leave me" he told them and Bethan shook her head no.
"we're not leaving you" Bethan said to her friend trying to find away to untie him.
"no we are not you to go get the cure I'll help Damon" Stefan instructed the girls as they starting walking away from the Salvatores Damon called out to Bethan.
"and if you see Vaughn kill that son of a bitch Bethan" the Gilbert girls nodded and Elena Jumped them down the rabbit hole.
The two girls went into the tombs when Bethan tripped and hurt her ankle.
"Elena go, now" she told her sister As she checked her ankle.
"I can't leave you" elena responded the vampire was refusing to leave her baby sister.
"your not werewolf healing will kick in and Stefan and Damon will be on there way go. Get your life back" Bethan instructed her elena nodded kissing the top of her sisters head before running off. Bethan sat and waited for a Salvatore when Stefan came along.
"hey what happened?" He asked crouching down to the brunette.
"I hurt my ankle coming down it's mostly healed now but it still hurt" she informed him, stefan helped her up as they walked through the tunnels looking for Elena, Jeremy and Bonnie.
"Wait do you smell that?" Bethan asked it was a familiar metallic smell.
"its blood" stefan confirmed the Werewolf's thoughts, the carried on walking around when they found Elena.
"Oh my god Elena what happened" Bethan yelled running over to help her
"she's here" the doppelgänger spoke barely above a whisper leaving stefan and Bethan confused.
"who's here?" He asked wondering who it possibly could be.
"Katherine" both Stefan and Bethan where in shock there's eyes. The three started to rush to the bottom of tomb finding a dead Jeremy and injured Bonnie, the girls collapsed to their knees balling their eyes out. Their little brother dead.
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