If We Had Met First

Chapter Twenty Five

She barely heard him as he laid out the plan to find the grimoire. Damon relayed the information that he got from Anna that the location of the grimoire would be in the journal of one of the founders. Since she was a Gilbert she was obviously in charge of finding her ancestors journal and going through it to see if there was anything of relevance.

After his little spiel of what everyone needed to do everyone dispersed to start. Normally none of them would listen to Damon like this but they all knew that his plan was their best bet to protect themselves and others from Katherine.

The room emptied quickly until only Damon and Elena were left. Damon seemed to notice this at the same time Elena did and turned to start walking out but before he could Elena called out his name. He stopped in his tracks and slowly turned to face her.

“Damon why are you being like this? You can’t just go from being with me to treating me like dirt.” Elena said.

“I told you Elena, you are deluding yourself into thinking that there is something good in me, a part of me that cares. My brother knows that it doesn’t exist, so do I and it is something you still obviously need to learn. I don’t care about you Elena, I never cared about you. The sooner you except that the better off you will be.” Damon said calmly, his eyes were like holes. They were completely empty and sent chills to her very core. He looked exactly like what he claimed to be, a monster with absolutely no emotion.

Once again he turned to walk away but before he could Elena grabbed his hand, “I don’t believe you and I never will. If you were the monster you claimed to be I would have been dead long ago you wouldn’t have let me live but here I am alive as ever. Damon I know that you feel, I’ve seen it in your eyes. Even if you or your brother don’t believe it I am certain that underneath this bad guy act there is something good in you.”

She wasn’t aware of the tears streaming down her face, or she just didn’t care anymore because she knew that this could very well be her last chance to get through to him.

“Just find the journal Elena.” Damon muttered before ripping his hand from her grasp and walking out of the room leaving her crying behind.

It hadn’t taken her long to dig up the box from the closet where her dad kept everything that had the journal of Johnathon Gilbert in it. She had retrieved it right when she got home and had spent the last two hours reading it.

He wrote about the demons that plagued the town and were killing the citizens, he also wrote about the founders plan to round them all up and have them burned in the church. There was even a part after that plan had been executed where he wrote about his own death.

The ring he wore on his hand that her father now wore was what had brought him back to life after he was murdered by Stefan Salvatore. Elena became furious when she read this, who was Stefan to talk about Damon’s past when his was just as bloody if not more so?

Finally she came across a part about Emily Bennet. Johnathon wrote that the founders had believed that he was the best man to keep the witches spell book. However he had been frightened that Emily’s spirit would haunt him and he only told Giuseppe Salvatore who was the father of Damon and Stefan about his fear. Giuseppe told Johnathon that he would take his secret to his grave.

Was he speaking figuratively or had Giuseppe said this because he intended to be buried with the grimoire. Even though she didn’t particularly want to talk to him after what had been said earlier Elena immediately called Damon.

“What do you want Elena?” Damon asked almost immediately.

“I found the journal and I’ve been reading it. Johnathon wrote something about Emily’s spellbook. He said that your father would bring the secret of it to his grave, do you think he could have meant that literally?” Elena asked.