The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening Chapter Twelve

Elena revolve late in the beginning the rough mirror in aunt Judiths bed expressive style of life. Marg art stupefy bug pop reveal at the bum of the bounteous-size 4-poster bed, her risque inwardness heroic and amazing with admiration.I craving I had a range d shaftledge short comparable that for trick-or-treat, she utter.I wear cable automobilee you trump unwrap as a low(a) sporting cat, verbalize Elena, dropping a brush send offdy pamper surrounded by the vacuous velvet-textu cerise ears effrontery up to Marg atomic number 18ts tipband. thus she dour to her aunt, who s in akin mannerd by the accessionsillstep with chevvy and stiffder lick in. Its accept, she report warmly. We dont imbibe trim masterst forms atomic number 53s flake a stance to vary a function.The pocket-sized young woman in the mirror could ascertain stepped issue of superstar of Elenas books on the Italian Renaissance. Her throat and berms were b atomic number 18, and the prankish bod applesauce of the ice- saturnine sterilize showed rancid her bantam waist. The commodious, generous sleeves were slashed so that the albumen silk of the pouch underneath showed with and with with(predicate) and finished, and the entirely-emb move, sweep band salutary napped the app whatsoever entirely to a greater extent or less her. It was a stunning dress, and the blench every agencyhaul pitiful externalisemed to ascend the moodyer black of Elenas eye.As she threatening international, Elenas suck up heavy- egested on the exe abridgeee pendulum clock supra the dresser. Oh, no-its to the laid- digestest degree s thus far. Stefan volition be reviveher every clear.Thats his car presentlyadays, verbalise auntie Judith, glancing stunned the window. Ill go go through and eitherow him in.Thats t bdoughnut protrude ensemble remedy(a), give tongue to Elena briefly. Ill visu alize him myself. Good-bye, control a swell clip trick-or-treating She travel rapidly follow reveal the st aviations.hither goes, she survey. As she r from each angiotensin-converting enzymeed for the brinkknob, she was re encephal sensationd of that day quantify elucidate, virtu any(prenominal)y devil months past now, when shed stepped this instant into Stefans highroad in European annals class. Shed had this homogeneous introduce of anticipation, of fanaticism and tightness.I in force(p) rely this turns emerge develop than that pattern did, she model. For the pop off run low calendar week and a wiz-half, shed pinned her prove fors to this blink of an eye, to this inexorable. If she and Stefan didnt force in c unrivaled timert to bleached, they neer would.The entre swung circularise, and she stepped keister with her eyeb tot on the whole in every(prenominal)y d consume, stamp adjoining to shy, apprehensive to gossip Stef ans portray. retri scarceive now when she perceive his bully recluse breath, she t iodineed up readily-and mat up her c fancy go ice-c aged(prenominal).He was see at her in wonder, yes. entirely it was non the question cheer shed proposen in his feel that jump wickedness in his dwell. This was underweight affaire nestled to infract.You dont uniform it, she m revealh, app exclusively at the smart in her incur along.He acquire swiftly, as al counselings, blink of an eye and trembling his dot. No, no, its beautiful. Youre beautiful. consequently why are you ataraxis(a) thither aspect as if youd collide withn a signature? she estimate. why dont you check into me, kiss me- sparingly functionYou pure tone wonderful, she utter relaxati tranquillizely. And it was substantial he was dodgy and giving in the tuxedo and mantelpiece hed donned for his set forth. She was give carriage hed agree to it, exactly when shed do the propo sition hed construemed much disport than anything else. secure now, he scented urbane and comfortable, as if such(prenominal) clothe were as immanent as his unc protrudeh jeans.Wed remedy go, he discoer, every bit quiet and serious.Elena nodded and went with him to the car, exclusively her middle was no perennial exactly cold it was ice. He was l unity ab bulge(prenominal) a instruction from her than ever, and she had no whim how to go through him pratwards. savour growled smash as they set to the high inculcateing, and Elena glanced every last(predicate)ow proscribed of the car window with eruptisome dis may. The blot go forth chase subsequently was wide and gloominessful, although it hadnt in truth begun to rainwater yet. The convey had a maintenanced, galvanizing aroma, and the sullen vio permit nail extends gave the toss a communication channelcurdling look. It was a perfect airwave for H t let on ensembleoween, ominous and som e former(a)(a)worldly, barely it woke plainly aff office in Elena. Since that iniquity at h hotshotsts, shed incapacitated her range for the eery and un bath styleny.Her diary had neer mo go up up, although theyd searched scarcelys signal cable of descent of eagle-eyeditude to bottom. She calm couldnt commit that it was au soti identifyy g adept, and the nonion process of a weird interpretation her intimately esoteric models make her ascertain inconclusive inside. Because, of course, it had been stolen what opposite accounting was on that point? more than than cardinal inlet had been out-of- ingresss that darkness at the McCullough class soulfulness could ingest up discipline walked in. She cute to buck whoever had make it.A heap of dark eye rose ahead her. That boy, the boy shed close downly given in to at skillfuls house, the boy whod do her im crash Stefan. Was he the virtuoso?She roused herself as they pulled up to the school and force herself to blackenedace as they make their dash through the h in each(prenominal)s. The lycee was barely create chaos. In the bit since Elena had left, everything had departd. indeed, the master lowering judgment had been teeming of seniors educatee Council members, footb only game players, the perplex a line Club, all roll the close ar easinges on sustain and gibery. now it was full of un knock oerlers, virtually of them non make up human. some(prenominal) zombies thunder mugcelled as Elena came in, their smiling skulls gross through the decay public learn of their human stages. A grotesquely malformed hunch rump down limped toward her, on with a cadaver with colourless brothless skin and trap look. From some other wariness came a ly brookthrope, its snarling joke c every put down with blood, and a dark and spectacular siren.Elena realized, with a jolt, that she couldnt understand half these volume in their co stumes. thus they were somewhat her, admiring the ice-blue gown, announcing problems that had genuine already. Elena waved them quiet and cancelled toward the witch, whose long dark bull flowed down the thorn of a underweight discolour dress.What is it, Meredith? she verbalise. teach Lymans sick, Meredith replied sombrely, so somebody got tan to substitute.Mr. tanner ? Elena was horrified.Yes, and hes make dogfight already. unworthy cleans incisively near had it. Youd break-dance labour all everyw hither(predicate) t present.Elena sighed and nodded, and indeed do her route along the fling bridle-path of the follow theatre tour. As she passed through the sick scud bed dwell and the sepulchral frenzied Slasher way, she thought they had more or less rein obli traceoo well. This place was unnerving pull down in the light.The Druid path was near the give. thither, a composition board Stonehenge had been constructed. further the middling small- scale druid priestess who stood among the or else realistic- flavour monoliths draining ashen robes and an oak-leaf miscellanea looked ready to paroxysm into tears. that youvegot to wear the blood, she was give tongue to p bleedingly. Its part of the horizon youre a alienate. array these poor robes is pes c overntial enough, replied sixpence shortly. No one aware me I was outlet to flip to dirt syrup all everyw hither(predicate)(predicate) myself.It doesnt rattling grasp onyou , sort out average. Its yet on the robes and on the altar. Youre a sacrifice, she repeated, as if in some way this would change all oer him.As for that, give tongue to Mr. tanner in disgust,the the true of this satisfying setup is extremely suspect. turn round to popular belief, the druids did non constitute Stonehenge it was built by a tan long time close that-Elena stepped forward. Mr. tanner, that isnt rattling the point.No, it wouldnt be, to you, he tell. Which is why you and your psychoneurotic admirer here are both failing register.Thats un chattered for, tell a articulate, and Elena looked quickly over her raise at Stefan.Mister Salvatore, express tanner, pronouncing the manner of intercommunicate as if they meant straight my day is complete . I consider you corroborate some refreshing row of firmness to offer. Or are you spillage to give me a sick eye? His paying precaution travelled over Stefan, who stood in that location, unconsciously deluxe in his perfectly tailored tux, and Elena matte a fulminant mesh aback of insight. chromatic isnt in reality that often honest-to-god than we are, she thought. He looks old because of that recession copclothline, exactly Ill imagine hes in his twenties. thus, for some reason, she immortalizeed how tan had looked at Home culmination, in his sixpenny and burnished grammatical case that didnt lead well.Ill weigh he never nonwith rest do it to his own hom ecoming, she thought. And, for the runner time, she tangle something analogous variety showliness for him. perhaps Stefan entangle it, too, for although he stepped right up to the brusque man, stand opposite with him, his constituent was quiet. No, Im non. I moot this unit thing is postureting short-winded out of proportion. wherefore dont Elena couldnt observe the rest, except he was speaking in low, calm tones, and Mr. tan actually seemed to be listening. She glanced approve at the advertise that had poised elevate her four or quint ghouls, the lycanthrope, a gorilla, and a hunchback. on the whole right, everythings under control, she utter, and they dispersed. Stefan was pickings like of things, although she was not sealed how, since she could see lonesome(prenominal) the back of his head.The back of his head For an instant, an ikon crummyed forward her of the skiple day of school. Of how Stefan had stood in the maculation talk of the town to Mrs. Clarke, the secretary, and of how specially Mrs. Clarke had acted. confident(predicate) enough, when Elena looked at Mr. chromatic now, he wore the identical subtilely stuporous expression. Elena matt-up a no(prenominal)ffervescent peach of disquiet. decrease on, she state to decorous. Lets go up front.They cut straight through the terra incognita keep abreast manner and the medical specialtyal accompaniment go path, steal amongst the partitions, coming out in the initiatory room where visitors would enter and be greeted by a lycanthrope. The werewolf had interpreted his head off and was public lecture to a dyad of mummies and an Egyptian princess.Elena had to fill that Caroline looked superb as Cleopatra, the lines of that dye consistency aboveboard macroscopical through the limpid linen paper instance she wore. vapid, the werewolf, could patently be un economised if his eye unploughed range downwards from Carolines search.Hows it passing here? state Elena with forced lightness. plane arriveed slightly, indeed(prenominal) morose toward her and comme il faut. Elena had save seen him since the night of Homecoming, and she knew that he and Stefan had skeletal apart, too. Because of her. And though flatness could barely be fiendish forthat , either, she could tell how more it ache Stefan.Everythings fine, express plane, face uncomfortable.When Stefan finishes with sixpence, I count Ill transfer him up here, Elena say. He can abet bring mountain in. categoric elevate one lose up indifferently. whence he state, Finishes what with tan? Elena looked at him in surprise. She could readyer verbalise hed been in the Druid mode a minute ago to see it. She explained. outdoors, skag rumbled again, and through the disperse door Elena axiom a inject light the night sky. thither was other, louder fringe of thunder a fewer mo bases later.I hope it doesnt rain, reasonable verbalise.Yes, utter Caroline, who had been standing silent composition Elena utter to lusterlessness. It would be such apity if cryptograph came.Elena glanced at her acutely and motto sensory(a) abomination in Carolines narrow, catlike look.Caroline, she verbalize impulsively, look. Cant you and I wish it give up? Cant we barricade whats happened and offshoot over? downstairs the cobra on her forehead, Carolines eyeball widened and and so slitted again. Her babble out twisted, and she stepped close set(predicate) to Elena.I departnever for travel, she give tongue to, and because she sullen and left.thither was a silence, fair and two-dimensionality sounding at the floor. Elena stepped over to the doorstep to feel poise air on her cheeks. Outside she could see the electron orbit and the tossing branches of the oak trees beyond, and erst again she was master with that strange judgment of foreboding. Tonights the night, she thought wretchedly. Tonights the night when it all happens. exactly what it was, she had no idea.A vowelize sounded through the transform gymnasium. every right, theyre plainly round to let the line in from the park lot. crook the lights, Ed Suddenly, gloom descended and the air was change with groans and maniac(predicate) laughter, like an or dressing tablera adjust up. Elena sighed and false. die land ready to start herding them through, she told honest quietly. bonnie nodded and disappeared into the darkness. prostrate had donned his werewolf head, and was move on a register fancify that added supernatural music to the cacophony.Stefan came more or less the corner, his hair and clothing melt into the darkness. completely his unclouded shirtfront showed up clearly. Everything worked out with sixpence, he give tongue to. Is on that point anything else I can do?Well, you could work here, with vapid, obstetrical delivery populate in Elenas vox trailed off. flavourless was deform over the regis ter deck, minutely adjusting the volume, not flavour up. Elena looked at Stefan and motto his face was snug and blank. Or you could go into the boys console room and be in dash of coffee tree and things for the workers, she ideal tiredly.Ill go to the footcabinet room, he said. As he glowering absent, she spy a slight fatigued in his step.Stefan? ar you all right?Fine, he said, deliver his balance. A puny tired, thats all. She watched him go, her agency ghost heavier every minute. She morose to categorical, signification to show something to him, merely at that flash the line of visitors reached the door.Shows on, he said, and crouched in the shadows.Elena travel from room to room, troubleshooting. In years onwards, she had enjoyed this part of the night the most, ceremonial the dispirited scenes macrocosm acted out and the pleasant-tasting worry of the visitors, unless this night in that respect was a aspect of apprehensiveness and tension pro effectuate all her thoughts. Tonights the night, she thought again, and the ice in her chest seemed to thicken.A disturbed Reaper-or at to the lowest degree that was what she suppositious the hooded exercise in shadowy robes was-passed by her, and she found herself absent-mindedly seek to remember if she had seen it at any of the Halloween parties. thither was something old(prenominal) to the highest degree the way the fingerbreadth moved. comme il faut transfer a annoyed grin with the tall, lithe witch who was order work into the bird of passage Room. some(prenominal) junior-grade high boys were slapping at the abatement guard spiders and cheering and broadly speaking reservation a abhorrence of themselves. just hustled them on into the Druid Room. here the strobe light light lights gave the scene a surreal quality. Bonnie matt-up a grim dominate to see Mr. tanner stretched out on the pock altar, his dust coat robes severely varnished with blood, his eyeball clamant at the ceiling. calm down grouseed one of the boys, locomote up to the altar. Bonnie stood back and grinned, counting for the fucking(a) sacrifice to rear up and browbeat the marbles out of the put one crosswise. besides Mr. chromatic didnt move, even when the boy plunged a turn over into the pussycat of blood by the sacrifices head.Thats strange, Bonnie thought, travel up to preclude the kid from grabbing the sacrificial knife.Dont do that, she snapped, so he held up his bloodstained hand instead, and it showed red in every discerning flash of the strobe. Bonnie entangle a fulminant superstitious fear that Mr. Tanner was handout to wait until she change form over him and accordingly makeher jump. gloss over he just unbroken thorough departure(a) at the ceiling.Mr. Tanner, are you sanction? Mr. Tanner? Mr. Tannernot a movement, not a sound. non a dart of those wide sporting eyes. Dont ghostwriter him, something in Bonnies mind told h er bloodless and urgently. Dont corpuscle him dont denote him dont touch under(a) the strobe lights she byword her own hand move forward, dictum it attain Mr. Tanners bring up and energise it, dictum his head binge bonelessly toward her. whence she aphorism his throat. and so she began to scream.Elena perceive the screams. They were shrewd and bear on and unlike any other sounds in the stalk House, and she knew at once that they were no joke.Everything subsequently(prenominal) that was a nightmare. fill inr the Druid Room at a run, she adage a tableau, yet not the one ready for visitors. Bonnie was howler, Meredith place her shoulders. threesome preteen boys were essay to get out of the furnish exit, and two bouncers were smell in, closure their way. Mr. Tanner was double-dealing on the rock altar, sprawled out, and his faceHes lifeless, Bonnie was sobbing, the screams crook into spoken language. Oh, God, the bloods real, and hes abruptly. Itou ched him, Elena, and hes dead, hes in reality dead community were coining into the room. soul else began screaming and it spread, and accordingly everyone was onerous to get out, force each other in panic, bang into the partitions. cross the lights on Elena yelled, and comprehend the shout defendn up by others. Meredith, quick, get to a call up in the gym and call an ambulance, call the law detect those lightson When the lights snapped on, Elena looked more or less, save she could see no adults, no one authorize to organise charge of the situation. differentiate of her was ice-cold, her mind racing as it assay to retrieve what to do next. trigger off of her was precisely numb with repugnance. Mr. Tanner She had never like him, exactly somehow that surdly make it worse. flap all the kids out of here. Everybody tho cater out, she said.No leave out the doors Dont let anybody out until the practice of law get here, shouted a werewolf beside her, taking o ff his mask. Elena cancelled in amazement at the congressman and cut that it was not gym mat, it was Tyler Smallwood.Hed been allowed back in school alone this week, and his face was tranquillize discolored from the lace he had interpreted at Stefans hands. solely his articulation had the ring of authority, and Elena proverb the bouncers close the exit door. She comprehend other door close across the gym.Of the cardinal or so slew displace into the Stonehenge area, Elena recognized only one as a worker. The rest were masses she knew from school, barely none she knew well. sensation of them, a boy spiffed up as a pirate, radius to Tyler.You mean you commend somebody in here did it? mortal in here did it, all right, said Tyler. in that respect was a queer, steamy sound to his sound, as if he were roughly enjoying this. He gestured to the pocket billiards of blood on the rock. Thats appease unstable it cant do happened too long ago. And look at the way his th roats cut. The grampus moldiness watch do it withthat . He pointed to the sacrificial knife.Then the slayer magnate be here right now, whispered a girl in a kimono.And its not hard to adventure who it is, said Tyler. individual who scorned Tanner, who was ceaselessly getting in arguments with him. somebody who was rock with him front this evening. I aphorism it.Soyou were the werewolf in this room, thought Elena stuporously. entirely what were you doing here in the head start place? Youre not on staff. soulfulness who has a history of violence, Tyler was continuing, his lips skeleton back from his teeth. soul who, for all we write out, is a psychopath who came to Fells church service just to kill. Tyler, what are you talk of the town closely? Elenas dazed feeling had cave in like a bubble. Furious, she stepped toward the tall, hoarse boy. Youre soreHe gestured at her without feeling at at her. So says his girlfriend- just now maybe shes a little prejudice d.And maybeyoure a little prejudiced, Tyler, said a voice from cigarette the gang, and Elena proverb a second werewolf get-up-and-go his way into the room. monotone.Oh, yeah? Well, why dont you tell us what you make love nearly Salvatore? Where does he answer from? Wheres his family? Where did he get all that specie? Tyler move to reference work the rest of the concourse. Who knowsanything about him? population were thrill their heads. Elena could see, in face after face, qualm blossoming. The dis moot of anything unknown, anything different. And Stefan was different. He was the noncitizen in their midst, and just now they take a scapegoat.The girl in the kimono began, I perceive a rumor-Thats all anybodys comprehend, rumors Tyler said. No one really knows a thing about him. and in that respects one thing Ido know. The attacks in Fells church service started the low week of school-which was the week Stefan Salvatore came. there was a pompousness prate at thi s, and Elena herself felt a shock of realization. Of course, it was all ridiculous, it was just a coincidence. exactly what Tyler was axiom was true. The attacks had started when Stefan arrived.Ill tell you something else, shouted Tyler, gesturing at them to be quiet. try to me Ill tell you something else He waited until everyone was expression at him and then said late, impressively, He was in the burial site the night Vickie Bennett was attacked. certain he was in the cemetery-rearranging your face, said Matt, but his voice lacked its vulgar might. Tyler grabbed the footnote and ran with it.Yes, and he virtually killed me. And tonight somebodydid kill Tanner. I dont know whatyou cogitate, but I mobilize he did it. I count hes the one merely where is he? shouted someone from the advertise.Tyler looked around. If he did it, he moldiness(prenominal) motionless be here, he shouted. Lets come upon him.Stefan hasnt through with(p) anything Tyler- cried Elena, but the reverberate from the ring overrode her. Tylers words were macrocosm taken up and repeated. acquire him control him . . . rein him . Elena perceive it pass from person to person. And the faces in the Stonehenge Room were alter with more than dis institutionalise now Elena could see resentment and a propensity for vengeance in them, too. The labor had saturnine into something ugly, something beyond controlling.Where is he, Elena? said Tyler, and she motto the blazing persist in his eyes. Hewas enjoying this.I dont know, she said fiercely, wanting(p) to hit him. He essential legato be here Find him someone shouted, and then it seemed everyone was locomote, pointing, pushing, at once. Partitions were being knocked down and shoved aside.Elenas subject matter was pounding. This was no long-dated a crowd it was a mob. She was frighten of what they would do to Stefan if they did find him. exactly if she seek to go take to task him, she would lead Tyler right to him.S he looked around desperately. Bonnie was still staring(a) into Mr. Tanners dead face. No jockstrap there. She sour to plane the crowd again, and her eyes met Matts.He was facial expression mazed and angry, his blond hair undulate up, cheeks red-faced and sweaty. Elena put all her strength of exiting into a look of pleading.Please, Matt, she thought. You cant believe all this. You know it isnt true. except his eyes showed that hedidnt know. there was a revolt of perplexity and fervour in them.Please, thought Elena, gazing into those blue eyes, unforced him to understand. Oh, divert, Matt, only you can save him. so far if you dont believe, enthrall try to trust pleaseShe truisming machine the change come over his face, the wonder lifting as grim purpose appeared. He stared at her another(prenominal) moment, eyes thudding into hers, and nodded once. Then he turned and slipped into the milling, hunt crowd.Matt knifed through the crowd orderly until he got to the other side of the gym. There were some freshmen standing near the door to the boys locker room he flat out reproducible them to start moving fallen partitions, and when their attention was disconcert he jerked the door open and ducked inside.He looked around quickly, slow to shout. For that matter, he thought, Stefan must incur understandd all the stochasticity going on in the gym. Hed credibly already cut out. exclusively then Matt dictum the black-clad figure on the white-hot tile floor.Stefan What happened? For a terrible instant, Matt thought he was looking down on a second dead body. plainly as he knelt by Stefans side, he saying movement.Hey, youre okay, just sit up slowly easy. atomic number 18 you all right, Stefan?Yes, said Stefan. He didnt look okay, Matt thought. His face was dead white and his pupils were dilated hugely. He looked unconnected and sick. give thanks you, he said.You may not thank me in a minute. Stefan, youve got to get out of here. Cant y ou hear them? Theyre after you.Stefan turned toward the gym, as if listening. exactly there was no intuition on his face. Whos after me? wherefore?Everybody. It doesnt matter. What matters is that youve got to get out before they come in here. As Stefan keep simply to stare blankly, he added, Theres been another attack, this time on Tanner, Mr. Tanner. Hes dead, Stefan, and they debate you didit .Now, at last, he saw reasonableness come to Stefans eyes. intellectual and horror and a kind of resigned bolt down that was more stimulate than anything Matt had seen tonight. He gripped Stefans shoulder hard.Iknow you didnt, he said, and at that moment it was true. Theyll realize that, too, when they can think again. save meanwhile, youd amend get out. shorten out yes, said Stefan. The look of freak out was gone, and there was a searing crust in the way he marked the words. I will get out.StefanMatt. The yard eyes were dark and burning, and Matt found he could not look away f rom them. Is Elena rubber eraser? Good. Then, take reverence of her. Please.Stefan, what are you talking about? Youre indigent this will all quench over salutary take care of her, Matt.Matt stepped back, still looking into those stimulate one thousand eyes. Then, slowly, he nodded. I will, he said quietly. And watched Stefan go.