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Chapter 15

Bonnie ca her feet She was sure the apartain She’d given up on expecting Zander to be there

As she turned the corner toward her own door, she stopped in surprise There was so to push so under the door Bonnie’s heart thuh her body, and then she realized who it was

"Hey, Shay," she said, co closer "What’s up?"

Shay, Zander’s second-in-coe of the envelope she had been slipping through the gap beneath their door "Oh," she said "Bonnie I was just leaving Zander a note" Her fingers scrabbled quickly, pulling the envelope back out fro, she stuffed the envelope into her pocket

"Oh" Zander’s not hoive it to him" Bonnie reached out, but Shay stepped back, away from her

"Never mind," Shay said "I’ll tell him when I see him"

"But--" Bonnie gave up Shay was already turning, her blond bob swinging, and walking away down the hall She gave Bonnie a wave over her shoulder, not looking back

"See you later, Bonnie"

"Or not," Bonniethe door She tossed her keys on the hall table and kicked off her shoes before wandering toward the kitchen The apartht away that Zander once again wasn’t home, even if she hadn’t run into Shay

In the dilass of water, and then absently arranged the flower-shaped e, red The largest one held a note against the door

B: I’ll be back late Z

She glared at the note, and with a frustrated sweep of her hand, shoved the ainst the se Zander’s note fell to the floor The note told her nothing It was ale at all

And Bonnie wanted to talk to him, she needed someone levelheaded and laid-back--she needed Zander--to help her figure out what she should do

When she had used the va like a ind Back in high school, when Elena had been trapped by Klaus between life and death, Bonnie had used blood to suht Klaus back to life, and Klaus had brought Katherine, with blood

Bonnie knew blood was dangerous and full of Power She wanted herthat pulled on the growing, striving parts of nature Good uous Power you found with blood and violence

Still, though…

It was scary It was a really scary idea, one thatabout it But she couldn’t get it out of her head Blood ht be what Elena needed If she could reach Stefan, talk to hirief she carried

Bonnie crossed to the sink and ran herself another glass of cold tap water Gulping it down, she stared at the wall and tried to clear her mind It would be worth it, she told herself Blood wasn’t evil, after all, and she didn’t want to use it for an evil purpose This was ilass down in the bottom of the sink with a firm thump, Bonnie made up her mind She pulled her phone out of her pocket and called Elena

"Listen," she said when her friend picked up "Don’t take this the wrong way, but do you have anything with Stefan’s blood still on it?"

After she got off the phone with Bonnie, Elena eased the bedroom door open and peeked in Daainst his luminous pale skin With his eyes closed and his cheeks still slightly flushed fro as quietly as she could, Elena crept through the room and to her closet Damon shifted but didn’t wake as she opened the closet door He must be exhausted; his reflexes were usually as quick as a cat’s Elena was glad he didn’t wake She didn’t want hiht back Klaus? Bonnie had asked

Blood It was all about blood Feeling oddly breathless, Elena peered past hanging clothes, a pile of shoes, until she saw a cru shoved back into the corner Her chest tight with sorrow, she picked it up and tiptoed out of the rooently down in the passenger seat of her car and tried not to look at it until she got to Bonnie’s

When she arrived, she hesitated in the doorway, surprised Bonnie had used a e black pentacle across the kitchen table, with strange sigils carefully marked inside Black candles were placed at each point of the pentacle A brass bowl full of what looked like herbs and roots sat at its center Bonnie stood beside the table, shifting anxiously from one foot to the other, her s to come off," Elena said, numbly "You’ve ruined that table" For a moment, the old wooden kitchen table felt terribly important