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"The others won’t hear us here," Jack told her, his voice low "No one else can know" His eyes were steady on hers, searching, his hand still around her wrist Meredith could feel her pulse pounding beneath his fingers She nodded, her face earnest You can trust me

Whatever Jack saw in her, he see his head so that the base of his skull was exposed to her "See the scar there?"

Meredith could see it, a thin white line, ot one, too," Jack said "We all do It’s where the injections were aded, almost bashfully "We’re al’s perfect"

"So…" Meredith put a hand up to feel the same place on the back of her own head

"If we are stabbed in that exact spot, we die," Jack said flatly "That’s the only real danger to us I know of"

Meredith cla inside her She couldn’t let Jack sense how she felt But this was it This was how they’d avenge Stefan, how they’d take on the latest threat She had to let Damon know as soon as she could

"I’ll be careful," she said

Jack ran a cold finger down the back of her arm, and Meredith shivered "I know you will," he told her, his eyes intent on hers His fingers suddenly encircled her wrist, and Meredith barely kept herself fro away She needed hi her Instead, she s of the worshipful way Sadie and the others looked at Jack, and trying to keep the sao back and see how the sparring’s going, shall we?" he asked "I don’t trust Nick not to slack off if we leave the" Meredith nodded, and they turned toward the warehouse

But Jack hung back for a etting stronger and stronger," he told her "If you stay loyal--if you trust ain stiffly, the s close to affection in his eyes, and she felt suddenly, dizzyingly sick

This had all gone on too long, her tiusted by the blood and the killing and by pretending to have turned against her husband and friends and given up on her own hu to end Meredith couldn’t wait to betray hiainst the bars of his cage, froth for black bangs flopped into his eyes and he shook them aside "You can’t keep e "Locked up like this Better to be dead"

"Today’s your lucky day, then" Starvation didn’t seeood His already skinny face was gaunt, his cheeks hollow and his bones sharp

The young h the bars, hands twisted into claws, and Da the kid any slower or weaker

But now they kne to kill hi with excitement When he looked at the kid, he didn’t see just another vah Europe, who had killed Katherine He saw Stefan’sand burning and starving had helped defuse his fury

But now, finally, he was going to get to kill him And, after hi in anticipation

He could hear the others on the basement stairs When Meredith had called Damon to tell him about the fake vampires’ vulnerable spot, he had told Elena, and of course she had called the others to join them They’d try it out on the kid, and then they’d kill Jack

Damon’s heart filled with fierce happiness Finally, Stefan would be avenged

They filed in: Elena, Bonnie, and Meredith, their arms linked, followed closely by Jas a little skinny, Da with excite on Jack for, was finally happening

"It doesn’t matter now," he replied, and watched the kid’s eyes widen as he looked back and forth between the different fro synthetic vaht probably not, and he shot the kid a private, vicious smile

He turned his attention back to Meredith "How did you happen to discover how to kill them, anyway?" He knew, of course, but he wondered what Meredith had told the others

"One of the hunters down in Atlanta accidentally hit the right spot in a fight," she answered smoothly "Even Jack’s luck had to run out sometime"

"I hope it works," Bonnie said "But even lad you’re holoith affection

The others joined in, exclai about how they’d missed Meredith, and Damon took the opportunity to et away?"

Meredith glanced at him over Bonnie’s head with a wry s for you," she h on Jack’s list"

Wonderful Das on hisin confusion He could hear them, and he could tell Meredith was like hi if she’d really turned against Jack It seemed like Jack’s vampires were, on the whole, insanely loyal

All the ot a chance to report back to Jack

"Stake," Damon de vae and had one ar his head forward to show the base of his skull "Scar," Da the thin white line, and shoved the stake straight into it