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Dae and tucked it carefully into his shirt pocket before turning to the others "Ready?"

Everyone nodded The huripped a stake, while Meredith stood beside Da her canines, already sharp and long

"Breaking their necks will keep theh for a hu" He shot Elena a s supernatural could kill her

"Dao after Jack," she said "Everyone else needs to focus on Matt Jase "They have hiainst the back wall"

"I can break the chains," Meredith said quickly "Just be careful everybody, okay?"

Bonnie and Alaric linked their free hands, beginning to lanced at theroup of huled with, and felt oddly fond He could count on theht, to protect each other until their last breaths Behind them, Siobhan stood statue still, her pale face blank, the splotches of blood on her dress dry now

"Are you with us?" Da," she said in her throaty, expressionless voice

"Let’s go, then," Dahway

Jack’s vampires depended tooto protect theust When he picked the lock and swung the door quietly open, they caught the guards on duty by surprise They were a young couple, still almost hu for intruders

Da face as he snapped the neck of the guy When he turned to take care of the girl, Meredith already had her down on the floor

"Good work," Damon muttered, and Meredith rolled her eyes

"Come on," she said softly, and Jasmine, Bonnie, and Alaric followed her farther into the warehouse There were crates piled everywhere, and they were soon out of sight, although Damon could hear their footsteps He frowned If he could hear them, so could any other vampire

Elena stood beside him, poised with a stake ready in her hand A little behind her, Siobhan, cold-eyed and expressionless, walked across the girl va audibly beneath her feet Damon repressed a shudder He didn’t like her so close behind Elena, loo his attention, Da his eyes and ears open "Over there," hehis chin toward a stack of crates There was someone behind therunt calanced over just in time to see another vampire fall, Alaric’s stake in his chest They needed to find Jack, kill hi and they lost their advantage

Senses on alert, Dah his shirt pocket, he could feel the hypoder and punching, and he raised a hand to protect the syringe His left hand cupping his pocket, he spun and kicked his attacker away It was only another of Jack’s vampires, a round-faced blonde Da

"Use your teeth, idiot," he muttered He didn’t kno Jack chose his minions, but it wasn’t for their brains Or, Meredith excepted, their fighting skill

A voice ca forward to this"

Dahtly poised on the balls of his feet, his eyes tracking Da Day, Daed, canines extended He slammed into Jack, and they both fell heavily to the floor

Sinking his teeth into Jack’s throat, Dae taste of Jack’s blood filled hishis teeth back and forth in Jack’s throat to reopen the wound before it had tirunted in pain and thrashed beneath Daht, but Da into hisit down despite the taste Blood would oing to defeat Jack Da behind his eyes

Da his canines fro up and finally throwing Da into the crate behind him

Jack leaped to his feet in one se Then he froze, looking past Damon "Siobhan?" he asked There was a note of fear in his voice, the first Damon had ever heard from him

"Hello, Jack" Siobhan’s voice ca, but Damon didn’t turn to look at her This was his chance

He pulled the syringe froht of the warehouse He began to inch toward Jack

Jack suddenly gave a cut-off shout as his body flew backward like a rag doll’s and slaled above the floor His hands were pressed backward, flat against the wall He was straining, the tendons in his neck visibly taut He couldn’t move

For a moment, Damon was stunned into stillness hi through the bond Being near Siobhan lanced at Elena Her hands were up, pal Jack in place, and her eyes were bright with intensity

"Give it to me I want to do it," Elena muttered, and Damon snapped back into action

He took two steps toward her and slapped the syringe into her palive her some peace, help her find solace for Stefan’s ive it to her

Still holding Jack in place, Elena stepped forward and jaer on the hypoderreat deal of satisfaction Froh