Slouched along the long Boarding House sofa, Ana hummed gleefully as she stretched her legs onto Damon's lap. They were reading up on information about the massacre, and so far, none of them were having any luck.

Upon seeing the way her sister was comfortably led, Katherine sauntered over and leaned over the armrest so she was behind Damon, able to read the book that he was reading.

Feeling Ana's heated gaze on the girl behind him, Damon smirked. "Can I help you, Katherine?"

"I'm bored." Katherine admitted, letting her chocolate eyes wander over the pages of Damon's book.

"Y'know, it's possible to be bored and not hit on Damon." Ana snapped, rising from her seat and giving her sister an unimpressed look.

His dark hair slightly dishevelled, Damon looked up at his girlfriend with raised eyebrows. "Aw, are you jealous? Don't worry, psycho isn't my type."

After rolling her eyes at Damon's comment, Katherine paused, pointing to a line in the book that Damon had in his hands. "Hold on... 'Emily Bennett was taken by the council today. They kidnapped her from her home and took her to the same location her ancestors were burned a hundred years ago.' So Emily died on the site of the massacre, too. Does it say where?"

Katherine reached to snatch the book, but Damon yanked it right away. "Nope. You know, this whole friendly, cooperative thing?" Humming in response, Katherine went back to leaning over the sofa as Damon continued "I don't buy it."

"You're not the only one." Ana agreed, giving Katherine the evil eye.

"I have no reason to lie to either of you." Katherine told them, looking between both vampires in the room. Exhaling, Katherine lifted herself from the couch, adding "I'm hungry."

"Go eat, then. I'm not sure if you've forgotten, but we aren't your servants." Ana snapped back, not getting a reply from Katherine as she wandered somewhere else in the house. The youngest Petrova couldn't help but feel slightly pleased that Katherine had finally left Damon alone.

Following the silence, Ana draped her arm around Damon's shoulder, sliding beside him on the sofa. "Ugh, I can't help but feel like she's the third wheel in this relationship."

"You think I like her company?" Damon asked, wrapping one arm around Ana and using the other to hold the book. "I don't. Unfortunately, she knows more about the witches in 1864 than either of us, seeing as I was too human to care, at the time, and you weren't even in Mystic Falls. But don't worry, we'll get some time to chill later."

A smirk began it's way onto Ana's face, but disappeared just as quickly when Stefan's heavy footsteps came marching into the room.

"We better. There seems to be zero time for relaxing in this damn house." Ana complained, slouching back into the couch and giving the youngest Salvatore a pointed glare.

"I assume you've forgotten that, unlike some people, I live here?" Stefan bit back, quirking an unimpressed brow at Ana, which she returned.

"I assume you've forgotten that, unlike some people, I couldn't care less?" Ana smiled sarcastically, but Stefan could only frown in response.

Stefan knew he wouldn't win a sass battle against the darling Petrova, so instead he pursed his lips and turned to Damon, holding up the books he'd been reading. "Nothing in any of these. You two find anything?"

"Do you really think we'd just be sat here if we did?" Ana asked, raising an eyebrow at Stefan.

However, Damon handed a book to Stefan and pointed to the section that he was reading, frowning deeply.

"That's too bad." Stefan replied, huffing very slightly, but enough that Ana picked up on it.

"Yeah, bummer." Damon agreed, watching as Stefan walked away with the book. Turning back to Ana, the dark-haired Salvatore smirked. "So, how about that alone-"

Before Damon could finish his sentence, the loud voice of Katherine rang throughout the house as she yelled for the eldest Salvatore. Damon quickly rose from his seat, whether Ana let out a long, exaggerated groan and rolled her eyes. "The minute I get my hands on her-"

"You won't strangle her, because she has information." Damon corrected, smirking at his girlfriend as the pair of them headed towards the basement. "She's probably just spilt a blood bag or..."

However, Damon trailed off when he heard choking coming from the cellar, and rushed in to find Katherine staked and no one else in the room. Yeah, this was definitely the work of some conniving witch alright.

"What the hell?" Ana cursed, rushing forward and attempting to rip the stake from her sister's stomach.

Meanwhile, Damon watched the exchange with his arms crossed. Once Katherine had the chuck of wood out of her stomach, he asked "What happened?"

However, as soon as Katherine got air in her lungs, she was more concerned with making sure Elijah stayed staked. Gripping onto Ana's arm and gesturing to Elijah's body, Katherine muttered "Ana..."

Damon followed Ana's gaze, the dark-haired vampire quickly realising that the stake in Elijah's body was slowly rising. As quickly as he could, Damon rushed to grab the flame thrower, careful to aim the flames away from where Ana was calming down Katherine.

At the sound of fire burning, Stefan rushed into the cellar and, upon seeing Damon whipping the flame thrower around like it was a sparkler, exclaimed "What are you doing?!"

"Shutting down a crazy, psychic witch attack!" Damon shouted back, not even turning his head away to look at Stefan. Nodding his head towards where Ana was trying to protect Katherine, Damon added "Get over there and do something about it. Go!"

Whipping her head around, Ana jumped up from where she was with Katherine and gave Stefan an urgent look. "Quick, I'll come with you. It's better to have two of us in case it's a coven of some sort."

With a huff, Stefan reluctantly let Ana follow behind him, though he warned her that she would not be playing her hideous rap music in the car.

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