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"What?" Elena said "Oh, no, oh, Meredith, I’ain, and Meredith looked over at her, holding out the bag with the stave in it

"There’s a smal black box in my desk with little bottles of different poison extracts inside it," she said "Wolfsbane, vervain, snake veno with exactly, so you’d better fil the hypoders Be careful," she added

Elena’s mouth dropped open, and then, after a few seconds, she closed it fir her cheeks with the backs of her hands Meredith knew that her e - mourn later, act now - had been received and that Elena, as always, would ith her

Elena put the stave on her bed and found the box of poisons in Meredith’s desk Meredith watched as Elena figured out how to fil the tiny hypoderers pul ing the them cautiously open Once she was sure Elena knehat she was doing, Meredith went back to sharpening her knife

"They must have come after Samantha on purpose She wasn’t a chance victim," Meredith said, her eyes on the knife as she drew it rhythainst the whetstone "I think we need to assu hier" She shuddered, re her friend’s body "Samantha’s death was brutal"

"A car tried to runto investigate so weird in the library, but I don’t know if that’s why I couldn’t get a look at the driver"

Meredith paused in her knife sharpening "I told you that Sairl on cahtful y, "but I didn’t tel you one thing, because I wasn’t sure I’m stil not sure" She told Elena about her i the momentary impression of paleness below the hoodie, of alers faltering on the staff

"Zander?" she asked

They both looked at Bonnie’s unmade bed

"She real y likes him," Meredith said slowly "Wouldn’t she know if there was soesture around her head, trying to indicate Bonnie’s history of visions

"We can’t count on that," Elena said, frowning "And she doesn’t reht for Bonnie," she continued "He’s so - I , and friendly, but he seems off somehow, doesn’t he? And his friends are jerks I know it’s a long way froh to do so like this, but I don’t trust him"

"Can you ask Stefan to watch hi a break fro, but this is important, and a vampire would be the best one to keep an eye on hiht distantly Why shouldn’t Elena cal hiainst her thu the sharpened knife down, she reached for another

Elena wasn’t answering, and Meredith looked up to see her staring hard at the stave, herto me," she said in a little burst "I don’t think - I don’t know if he’d help us" She closed herto talk about it

"Oh," Meredith said It was hard to i what Elena wanted, but it was also clear that Elena didn’t want to ask hiested reluctantly The older vampire was a pain, and she didn’t real y trust hi sneaky

Elena sucked in a breath and then nodded briskly, her mouth set "No, I’l cal hiate Zander"

Meredith sighed and leaned back against the wal , letting the knife drop onto her bed Suddenly, she was terribly tired Waiting for Sao, but it stil wasn’t even lunchtiain

"We have to talk to her about Zander, don’t we?" Elena asked quietly "We have to ask her whether he ith her al last night And we have to warn her" Meredith nodded and closed her eyes, letting her head rest against the coolness of the wal , then opened thees of Samantha’s death would come back to her if she let herself pause for even a moment She didn’t have time to rest, not while the kil er was out there "She’s not going to be happy about it"