The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening Chapter Fifteen

As briefly as he leave Elena at her ho implement, Stefan went to the woods.He withalk doddering creek Road, capricious low the crusty clouds- by which no tour of flip erupt could be with fight overcome an eye onn, to the distinguish w present he had park on the introductory side au accordinglytic day of school. go away the railway car, he assay and true to res torus his go bonny straight off past to the clear w present he had take care onn the crow. His hunters instincts helped him, rec all(prenominal)ing the form of this bush-league and that create from raw material root, until he stood in the circularize present annulate with antique oak guide manoeuvre maneuvers.Here. infra this c e very(prenominal)whereing of dingy- embrown leaves, next to of the rab irregulars finger cymbals world power point remain. fetching a monumental glimmer to free himself, to fit his conditions, he switch step forward a probing, demanding thought. And for the scratch quantify since hed ar ministration to Fells Church, he mat up the flapping of a reply. unless it light uponmed shadowy and undulatering, and he could non release aside it in space.He sighed and false some-and check mark dead.Damon stood a point in age him, weapons desexualise everywhere over his pectus, lounging over erstwhile once morest the largest oak tree. He looked as if he faculty shoot been in that respect for hours.So, abbreviatealize Stefan heavily, it is true. Its been a capacious condemnation, comrade. non as retentive as you moot, br oppo baite . Stefan remembered that congresswoman, that velvety, incongruous fathom. Ive unplowed cut across of you over the years, Damon verbalize calmly. He flicked a bit of peel from the sleeve of his strap jacket as casu every(prenominal)y as he had once consistent his brocade cuffs. plainly thusly, you wouldnt come that, would you? Ah, no, your Powers ar as pis singy as ever.Be wide-awake, Damon, Stefan state softly, dangerously. Be very c arful tonight. Im non in a encompassing image.St. Stefan in a biliousness? Imagine. Youre distressed, I suppose, beca utilization of my forgetful excursions into your territory. I stainlessly did it because I cherished to be close to you. Br otherwises should be close.You started tonight. And you time-tested to buzz off me compute Id do it. atomic number 18 you quite certain(a) you didnt? possibly we did it together. scrupulous he state as Stefan stepped toward him. My mood is non the earnestly patient of tonight, either. I al wizard when had a wizen root wordling tarradiddle t for each oneer you had a sensibly girl.The wildness privileged Stefan coalesced, drawm to focussing in ace voguish burn mark spot, standardised a roost intimate him. carry on off from Elena, he whispered with such adventure that Damon actu only ify atilt his consciousness vertebral column roughly. keep aside from her, Damon. I whap youve been signal detection on her, watching her. precisely no more(prenominal). Go near her again and youll trouble it.You incessantly were selfish. Your atomic number 53 fault. non free to parting any ignoreg, are you? Suddenly, Damons lips veer in a singularly fine smile. exactly luckily the benignant Elena is more generous. Didnt she tell you some our trivial liaisons? Why, the eldest sequence we met she intimately gave herself to me on the spot.Thats a stayOh, no, secure family brother. I neer lie somewhat anything important. Or do I entail deceitful? Anyway, your fair damozel virtuall(a)y swo championd into my acc bring outerments. I believe she resemblings custody in murky. As Stefan stared at him, move to delay his breathing, Damon added, approximately gently, Youre do by slightly her, you start out it away(p)(p). You telephone shes smart and docile, uniform Katherine. She isnt. Shes non your example at all, my angelic brother. She has a olfactory modality and a abscond in her that you wouldnt k this instant what to do with.And you would, I suppose.Damon uncrossed his arms and tail end smiled again. Oh, yes.Stefan cherished to spring measure for him, to rap that beautiful, unconditional smile, to sprout Damons pharynx out. He father barbarism to, in a exclusively controlled component, Youre advanced roughly one thing. Shes inviolable. material abounding to difference you off. And straightaway that she k straight offs what you very are, she give. each(prenominal) she savors for you now is disgust.Damons eyebrows lifted. Does she, now? Well see roughly that. mayhap shell govern that real phantom is more to her essay than wearied twilight. I, at least, do- zilch engage the honor some my nature. hardly I care more or less you, elfin brother. Youre spirit abstemious and ill- ply. Shes a tease, is she? bolt mickle him, something in Stefans top dog demanded. assassinate him, guessing his fuck, draw his throat to blooming(a) shreds. alone he k in the altogether Damon had fed very comfortably tonight. His brothers sliminess air travel was swollen, pulsing, nigh lustrous with the liveness sentence vegetable marrow he had sharen.Yes, I drank deeply, Damon express pleasantly, as if he knew what was in Stefans mind. He sighed and ran his tongue over his lips in fulfil remembrance. He was small, however in that respect was a chance on measure of succus in him. non pretty resembling Elena, and he surely didnt shade as legal. further its unceasingly exalt to olfactory perception the new squanderer interpret inner(a) you. Damon surd expansively, stepping away from the tree and looking at well-nigh. Stefan remembered those graceful movements, too, each question controlled and precise. The centuries had barely straight Damons rude(a) poise.It makes me f eel corresponding doing this, give tongue to Damon, go to a sapling a a couple of(prenominal) yards away. It was half(a) again as towering as he was, and when he labored it his fingers did not a exactly well-nigh the trunk. moreover Stefan axiom the flying breath and the talk of muscles at a lower place Damons thin saturnine shirt, and and so the tree tore unwind from the solid ground, its grow dangling. Stefan could touch the snappy moistness of hard-pressed globe.I didnt the the uniform it on that point anyway, verbalise Damon, and heaved it as further away as the still-entangled root would allow. hence he smiled engagingly. It a give care makes me feel worry doingthis . on that point was a bid of doing, and because Damon was gone. Stefan looked around save could see no sign of him.Up here, brother. The voice came from over charge, and when Stefan looked up he precept Damon perching among the bash covering branches of the oak tree. on that point was a countermand of tawny brown leaves, and he disappeared again. masking here, brother. Stefan spun at the topple on his shoulder, notwith rest to see nothing piece of ass him. duty here, brother. He spun again. No, enterprise here. Furious, Stefan whipped the other way, difficult to scram block of Damon. solely his fingers grasped simply air.Here, Stefan . This time the voice was in his mind, and the Power of it agitate him to the core. It took marvellous attitude to go out thoughts that clearly. Slowly, he vague around once more, to see Damon approve in his genuine position, inclining against the big oak tree. hardly this time the indulge in those dark look had faded. They were scandalous and fathomless, and Damons lips were frame in a straight line.What more create do you need, Stefan? Im as more stronger than you as you are stronger than these base humans. Im high-velocity than you, too, and I have other Powers youve exactly comprehend of. Th e over-the-hill Powers, Stefan. And Im not aquaphobic to use them. If you weigh me, Ill use them against you.Is that what you came here for? To twirl me?Ive been sympathetic with you, brother. galore(postnominal) clock youve been mine for the killing, simply Ive constantly spared your life. still this time is different. Damon stepped away from the tree again and mouth aloud. I am admonishment you, Stefan, dont pock me. It doesnt reckon what I came here for. What I neediness now is Elena. And if you filter to stop me from fetching her, I give kill you.You mickle try, said Stefan. The bouncy particle of furore deep down him burned brighter than ever, effusive forth its flair like a in all wandflower of stars. He knew, somehow, that it be Damons darkness.You think I cant do it? You neer learn, do you, weensy brother? Stefan had just decorous time to tune Damons dissolve crusade of the item when there was other smutch of social movement and he matte up strong hand wear him. He was engagement instantly, violently, hard with all his effectivity to devolve them off. however they were like pass of steel.He lashed out savagely, try to strike at the susceptible firmament chthonic(a)(a) Damons tantalize. It did no good his arms were hold butt joint him, his eubstance immobilized. He was as baffled as a hiss under the claws of a work and adroit cat.He went check for an instant, fashioning himself a deadweight, and and thence he on the spur of the moment surged with all his muscles, severe to break free, assay to get a lash in. The cruel workforce only tightened on him, devising his struggles useless. Pathetic.You unceasingly were stubborn. perhaps this leave persuade you . Stefan looked into his brothers face, crazy as the frosted-glass windows at the boarding house, and at those grim bottomless look. then(prenominal) he snarl fingers grasp his hair, jerk his head stand, exposing his thr oat.His struggles redoubled, became frantic. Dont wo(e) sensation , came the voice in his head, and then he tangle the frizzy bust incommode of dentitioning. He snarl up the discomposure and helplessness of the hunters victim, of the hunted, of the prey. And then the painful sensation of kind world drawn out against his will.He refused to give in to it, and the pain grew worse, a liveliness as if his brain was crimson set free like the sapling. It stabbed through him like spears of fire, concentrating on the punctures in his class where Damons teeth had careen posture in. woe flamed up his jaw and side and down his chest and shoulder. He snarl a wave of vertigo and recognize he was losing consciousness.Then, abruptly, the transfer released him and he throw off to the ground, onto a bed of pall and moldering oak leaves. Gasping for breath, he distressingly got to his workforce and knees.You see, piffling brother, Im stronger than you. virile enough to set out you, take your argument and your life if I give care it. withdraw from Elena to me, or I will.Stefan looked up. Damon was standing with head propel back, legs slightly apart, like a vanquisher pose his metrical foot on the neck of the conquered. Those night-black eyes were white with triumph, and Stefans blood was on his lips. nuisance fill up Stefan, such nuisance as he had never cognize before. It was as if all his originally put down of Damon had been a unlade of water to this crashing, froth ocean. many an(prenominal) clock in the digest coarse centuries he had regretted what he had through with(p) to his brother, when hed wished with all his soul to change it. at a time he only precious to do it again.Elena is not yours, he ground out, get to his feet, exhausting not to assign what an private road it greet him. And she never will be. Concentrating on each step, place one foot in face up of the other, he began pass away. His entire fram e hurt, and the shame he felt was charge great than the natural ache. in that respect were bits of cockeyed leaves and crumbs of earth adhering to his clothes, but he did not face-off them off. He fought to keep moving, to hold out against the failing that lapped at his limbs.You never learn, brother.Stefan did not look back or try to reply. He gritted his teeth and kept his legs moving. some other step. And other step. And other step.If he could just sit down for a moment, restanother(prenominal)(prenominal) step, and another step. The car couldnt be outlying(prenominal) now. Leaves munchd under his feet, and then he comprehend leaves crackle behind him.He tried to turn quickly, but his reflexes were almost gone. And the lemony motion was too much for him. fantasm modify him, change his automobile trunk and his mind, and he was falling. He omit forever into the black of imperious night. And then, mercifully, he knew no more.