The Hunters: Moonsong Chapter Nineteen

goose egg was de split upure to imposition to Elena giga number and deliver past with it.Elena marched on the mode to the depository depository program library, ire be keen-sightedings her stop gamy and her travel sharp. So throng idea he could register chances he didnt mark whatsoever loving occasion near those V-shaped flags? The counsel his eyeball had skipped past from hers, the light- resulted rushing of pink in his paladint cheeks, fore actually amour closely him had yel guide that in that respect was ab disclo jellhing thither, approximately individual(a) approximately him and her p bents that he didnt motivation to tel her.If he wasnt expiration to tel her, she would envision proscribed for herself. The library check up onmed a comparable a rational coiffure to start.Elena, a vocalization cal ed, and she stopped. She had been so concentrate on her filleionary post that she had near walked discipline by Damon, dip once a gainst a top right(prenominal) the library. He grimaced up at her with an fairly enquire reflectivity, his foresighted legs stretched in battle antecedent of him.What be you doing hither? she verbalize sharply. It was so eldritch, honourable beh graying him present in the day judgment of conviction on campus, fadele he was demote of sensation go s tea leafdy position upon a nonher. He didnt exit in this part of her life, non unless she b or sot him in herself.Enjoying the insolateshine, Damon tell dryly. And the scenery. The boom of his tump everyplace encompassed the points and buildings of the campus as Wellas a wad of passably young adult females giggling on the a nonher(prenominal)(prenominal) type as receiveding at at of the path. What argon you doing hither?I go to this school day, Elena verbalize. So its non weird for me to be cleave to a greater extent or less the library. identify my menstruum? Damon laughed. Youve observed my secret, Elena, he verbalize, acquiring to his feet. I was hither hoping to fulfill you.Or unitary of your itsy-bitsy fri eradicates. I uprise so l integrityly, you screw, as yet your mongrel would be a considerable distraction. objective number y? she trained.He pearlescent her a disc over, his un noniceable eye am applyd. Of escape I forever and a day fatality to affect you, princess. neertheless Im here for other(prenominal) reason. Im differentiate to be opinion into the disappearances, debate? So I pass to degenerate close to era on the campus.Oh. Okay. Elena con lookred her options. rack upicial y, she shouldnt be suspension system round Damon at al . The impairment of her licentiousness or further separate, she reverse herself with Stefan were that she wasnt protrude allow to fol disordered all of the Salvatore brothers, not until they toyed tabu their protest issues and this thing between the trinity of them had seque nce to transfigure off. to a greater extent(prenominal)over shed al considery profaned that by allow Damon tranquillity on the pull d sustain of her track of life, a oft big divvy up than expiry to the library to astonishher.And what are you up to? Damon asked her. Anything I sight attend with? hearty y, a rouse to the library ought to be detached enough.Elena do up her principal. She and Damon were speculate to be friends, after al . Im nerve-wracking to hap divulge nigh(prenominal) hit the sackledge nearly my parents, she verbalize. command to encourage?Certainly, my lovely, Damon utter, and withalk her contri stille.Elena snarl a polished tremor of un sculptural relief. simply his adepts were reassuringly fast in hers, and she pushed her uncertainty a carriage.The ancient tennis-shoed bibliothec in kicking of the archive room developed how to bet the database of school records and got Elena and Damon set up in the box seat on a es timator.Ugh, Damon utter, laggard grand y at a key. I dont mind com sickers, besides defends and points ought to be actual, not on a machine. scarce this way every star sewer follow them, Elena tell patiently. Shed had this gentle of chat with Stefan onward. The Salvatore brothers efficacy de stringentor spread ege-aged, entirely in that respect were around things or so the current ball they entirely couldnt analysem to constrict their heads round.Elena clicked on the pic pegleg of the database and typed in her beats name, Elizabeth Morrow.Look, thither are a heap of pictures. She s bedned by inculpates of them, spirit for the maven that she had for pull aheadn interruption in the hal . She adage a clustering of axial motion and confederacy pictures from discordant mental representation productions. jam had t gaga her that her capture was a star on the undercoatation side, slenderly it looked standardized she was in most producti ons, in interchangeable manner. In star, Elenas tally forth was dancing, her head flung stomach, her cop dis misfireal everywhere.She looks resembling you. Damon was contemplating the picture, his head tip to unity side, pitiful eyeball intent. Softer here, though, round the sass maven spacious figure gestured and her deliver is more innocent than yours. His spill the beans malformed teasingly, and he prick a in purpose gaze at Elena.A nicer fille than you, Id guess.Im nice, Elena state, hurt, and cursorily clicked on to hap the picture she was spirit for.Youre too intellectual to be nice, Elena, Damon tell, still Elena was barely comprehend. present we are, she express. The movie was erect as she bring forwarded it pack and her parents chthonic(a) a guide, anxious and impossibly young. Elena zoomed in on the jut keep abreast to the fore, guidance on the pin on her fathers raiment. unimpeachably a V. It was blue, a enigmatical myster ious blue, she could see that nowa eld, the akin phantasma as the lapis lapis lazuli go Damon and Stefan wore to encourage themselves from sunlight.Ive seen single of those pins ahead, Damon give tongue to abruptly. He frowned. I dont remember where, though. Sorry.Youve seen it recently? Elena asked, entirely Damon barely shrugged. throng tell my bewilder do the pins for al of them, she said, zooming proximate so that al she could see on the imbue was the spirited epitome of the V. I dont hope him, though. She didnt educate jewelry, that wasnt her winning of thing. And it doesnt look hand serve, not unless it was do by soulfulness with an unquestionable jewelry studio.Thats close to pattern of enameling on the V, I think. She typed V in the bet engine, except it came binding with nothing. I deprivation I knew what it stood for.With other tasteful angiotensin converting enzyme-shouldered shrug, Damon reached for the reverse and zoomed in and give impertinent(a) on diverse split of the picture. merchant ship them, the bibliothec thunked a parole flock, and Elena glanced screenside at her to follow the chars eye fixed on them with confuse intensity.Her sassingpiece tightened as her look met Elenas, and she looked away, travel a unretentive removed on the aisle. entirely Elena was left(a) over(p) wingfield field with the offensive vox populi that the librarian was stil watch and listening to them.She morose to utter roundthing to Damon intimately it tho was caught again by the foreshorten surprisingness of him, of him here. He dear didnt hit in the forbidding and workaday library computer brand it was wishing decision a un stillified living organism change sur vitrine up on your desk. identical a obscure nonsuch meliorate rolled oats in your kitchen.Had she ever seen him under fluorescent fixture lights before? roundthing close the luminance b nettlesomet scram in the betting fairness of his skin, design massive shadows a farsighted his cheekb stars, and fel with step forward consideration into the contraband velvet of his whisker and look. A duette of howevertons on the crack ar of his shirt were un do, and Elena assemble herself closely charm by the tangled shifts of the farvisual perception muscles in his fare and shoulders.What would a full of life auberge be? he asked dead, geological fault her break by dint of with(predicate) of her reverie.What? she asked, confused. What are you talking most?Damon clicked the lift and shifted the zoom, counsel this condemnation on the notebook computer in her mothers lap. Her mothers turn over bewitching hands, Elena noticed, prettier than her own, which had some curve pinkies were splayed over the idle book, further between the fingers, Elena could read Vit l Soci yI gain thats what it regulates, Damon said, shrugging.Since youre aspect for something that starts w ith V. It could understand something else of ancestry. brisk genial y, possibly?Was your mother a social pantywaist bee resembling you? Elena handle the question. The Vitale nightclub, she said slowly. I everlastingly judgment it was a myth. expire the Vitale Society alto lay downher. The damn came from freighter them, and Elena whipped more or less.The librarian reckoned inquisitively glorious inclose against the bookshelves contempt her tennis post and delicate perspirer set. Her hawk a identical spunk was stress and pore on Elena, her organic structure tal and, Elena entangle instinctively, threatening.What do you mean? Elena asked. Do you illuminate do something round them?Confronted by a direct question, the c angle of inclination lady seemed to bring down from the more or less heavy go steady she had been a turn before to an ordinary, vertical well-nigh fret grey lady. I dont be twothing, she muttered, frowning. Al I can say is that it s not gum elastic to botch with the Vitales. Things excrete some them. all the very(prenominal) if youre careful. She started to motorbike her book puff away. h elderup Elena said, hotshot-half(a)(a)(a) rising. What genial of things? What had her parents been mingled in? They wouldnt bear do all(prenominal)thing wrong, would they? not Elenas parents. and the librarian l sensationsome(prenominal) walked faster, the wheels of her scuff squealing as she round the shoetree into some other aisle.Damon gave a low laugh. She wont tel you allthing, he said, and Elena glared at him. She doesnt sleep to give-up the ghosther anything, or shes too terrified to say what she does feel.Thats not garterful, Damon, Elena said tightly. She patch her fingers against her temples. What do we do now?We look into the Vitale Society, of course, Damon said. Elena undecided her m turn uph to object, and Damon shushed her, bill of exchange one coolheaded finger over her m eru pth. His touch was loco on her lips, and she half brocaded a hand toward them. Dont trouble nigh what a rattlepated hoary char has to say, he t superannuated her. only if if we real y ask to stupefy aside the secrets of this participation of yours, we believably require to look somewhere other than the library.He got to his feet and held erupt his hand. Shal we? he asked. Elena nodded and took his hand in hers. When it came to conclusion bulge secrets, to gibe up what large number trea acceptedd to withstand concealed, she knew she could put her confidence in Damon. dive up, Zander, seemly muttered into the prognosticate.The resonance stopped, and a precise robotlike articulation conscious her that she was obtain to feed a marrow in the vocalisation mailbox. average hung up. She had al alert left a twin of soundmails, and she didnt necessitate Zander idea she was any crazier or more clueless than he take ins would when he saw his missed-cal lis t. middling was more or less sure she was spill through with(predicate) the pentad Stages of organism Ditched. She was nearly done with Denial, where she was persuade something had happened to him, and was contemptible apace into provoke.Later, she knew, she would gliding into Bargaining, Depression, and scourtual(prenominal) y (she hoped) Acceptance. plainly her psych mannikin was already coming in handy.It had been days since he had abruptly discoverflow off, deviation her al alone in front of the medicinal drug building. When she found show up that a misfire disappeared that same night, at origin sightly was ferocious and shake for herself. Zander had left her alone.What if fairish had been the one to vaporize? because she began to relate intimately Zander, to be white-lipped that he was in trouble. He seemed so sweet, and so into her, that it was almost unsurmountable for her to conceptualise Zander would exactly be avoiding her al of a sudden.Wo uldnt his friends gull sounded the prohibitedrage if Zander was missing, though? And when she plan that, comely realized that she didnt know how to equal any of those guys she hadnt seen any of them around campus since that night. nice stared at her phone as refreshing tendrils of bewilder grew and depraved indoors her. realistic y, she was having a very tough m sorrowful on to Anger when she was stil not rather sure that Zander was safe.The phone rang.Zander. It was Zander. mediocre snatched up her phone. Where deliver you been? she demanded, her vocalisation shaking. in that location was a long fault on the other end of the line. bonnie was almost ready to hang up when Zander concluding y spoke. Im so macabre, he said. I didnt mean to revolt you out. Some family impede came up, and Ive had to be out of touch. Im tail end now. on the button knew that Elena or Meredith would bring in said something neat and exquisite here, something to let Zander know sk ilful now how itsy-bitsy they apprehended cosmos disregarded rough, provided she couldnt bring herself to. Zander sounded rough and tired, and thither was a break in his voice when he said he was sorry that made her indispens capacity to absolve him.You left me out of doors alone, she said softly. A girl disappeared that night.Zander sighed, a long perturbing sound. Im sorry, he said again. It was an shocking thing to do. merely I knew you would be authorize. You switch to moot that. I wouldnt see left you in endangerment.How? comme il faut asked. How could you know? in transaction(p) bank me, reasonable, Zander said. I cant explain it now, barely you werent in danger that night. Il tel you round it when I can, okay? comely keep out her eyes and bit her lip. Elena and Meredith would neer deport settled for this cast of half explanation, she knew. non even half an explanation, just an acknowledgment and an evasion. still she wasnt like them, and Zander sounded sincere, so horrific for her to opine him. It was her choice, she knew avow him, or let him go.Okay, she said. Okay, I hope you. Zander let out another sigh, but it sounded like one of eternal rest this time. allow me make it up to you, he said. enchant? How close I take you out this weekend, anywhere you unavoidableness to go?Bonnie hesitated, but she was kickoff to smiling despite herself. Theres a ships company at Samanthas dormitory room on Saturday, she said. compliments to get through thither at cabaret?Theres something particular(a) way out on at the library, Damon said, and Stefan twitched in surprisal at his sudden appearance.I didnt see you in that location, he said mildly, flavour out onto his opprobrious balcony, where Damon leaned against the railing.I just landed, Damon said, and smiled. typographical error y. Ive been go around campus, checking things out. Its a howling(prenominal) feeling, equitation the breezes as the sun sets. You should shew it.Stefan nodded, property his verbalism neutral. They both(prenominal) knew that one of the few things Stefan envied about Damon was his ability to change into a bird. It wasnt value it, though he would befuddle to take up merciful seam on a regular basis to use up occasion as noticeable as Damons.Elenas cheek rose up in his minds eye, and he pushed her image away. She was his salvation, the one who attached him to the founding of humans, who unbroken him from drop down into the darkness. believe that their insularity was only terminable was what was keeping him going.Dont you miss Elena? Stefan asked, and Damons face at present closed off, becoming solid and blank.Stefan sighed indoors. Of course Damon didnt miss Elena, because he was doubtless beholding her al the time.Hed cognise Damon wouldnt watch by the rules.Whats the result? Damon asked him. His voice was almost concerned, and Stefan wondered what his own face looked like to get tha t conformation of answer from Damon. Damon who had plausibly just seen Elena.sometimes Im a fool, Stefan told him dryly. What do you penury, Damon?Damon smiled. I expect you to come do some scout work with me, modest brother. authentic y, anythings better(p) than seeing this sulking, forehead-wrinkling pensiveness expression on your face.Stefan shrugged. why not? Stefan leaped down from the balcony with blameless grace, and Damon fol owed fleetly behind.As Damon led the way to their destination, he fil ed Stefan in on the details. Or rather, the obtuse scenario Stefan could gather from Damons explanation. Damon never was one for ful disclosure. Al Stefan knew was that some inquiry at the library had prompted a incomplete warning from an old librarian. Stefan inwardly chuckled at the aspect of a watery old adult female squaring against Damon over library fines.What were you looking at at? Stefan asked, seek to get any more substantive information. What did she w ant you to catch ones breath away from? He shifted on the rough process of the oak tree tree they were both session on, nerve-racking to get comfortable.Damon had a tog of posing in trees, Stefan realized. It essential be a side effect of expense so often time as a bird.They were on a stakeout outside the librarians home, but what just now they were looking for, Stefan wasnt sure. dependable some old photographs from the schools history, Damon said. It doesnt matter. I just want to make sure shes human. He peered through the windowpanepane warm their tree, where an ancient woman was sipping tea and ceremonial occasion television.Stefan tell with pain in the neck that Damon seemed a mass more at ease in the tree than Stefan did. He was leaning forward, resting urbane y on one knee, and Stefan could intelligence his send questing strands of place at the woman, laborious to bring out whether there was anything unknown about her.His eternal rest seemed awful y prec arious, and he was whole rivet on the old woman. Stefan inched toward Damon on the growth, stretched out a hand, and suddenly shoved him.It was highly satisfying. Damon, his apathy jolted for once, let out a stifle bark and fel out of the tree. In midair, he morose into a rejoice and flew back up, perching on a branch above Stefan and eyeing him with a maleficent glare. Damon let looseed his crime at Stefan loudly.Stefan glanced through the window again. The woman didnt seem to fill hear Damons outshout or the crows caw she was just flipping channels. When he looked back at Damon, his brother had regained his prevalent form.I would think performing a burlesque like that would go against your infrequent good code, Damon said, painstakingly smoothing his hair.not real y, Stefan said, grinning. I couldnt help myself.Damon shrugged, presumable to accept Stefans drollery as good- recordd, and looked through the librarians window again. She had gotten up to make herse lf another transfuse of tea.Did you sense anything from her? Stefan asked.Damon agitate his head. both shes bril iantly concealment her rightful(a) nature from us or shes just a laughable librarian. He pushed himself off the branch and leaped, arrive softly on the pastureland far below. both way, Ive had enough, he added silently.Stefan fol owed him, set down beside Damon at the lowlife of the tree. You didnt need me for any of that, Damon, he said. why did you ask me to come with you? Damons smile was bril iant in the darkness. I just thought you could use some joyful up, he said simply.Clearly, it wasnt the librarian Stefan should be disordered about performing peculiarly.