Never Let Me Go (Book 8, Vampire Diaries)

Chapter 15__We're Planning a June Wedding

When Kai had told Bonnie and me that Katherine was controlling Hell now that Cade was dead, of course I had told Damon, and then we had to call an emergency meeting at the boarding house between Damon, Stefan, Caroline, Bonnie and me, while we talked to Matt, Alaric and Dorian over the phone, who were at the Armory. Dorian, who had once kidnapped Stefan and nearly killed him because Stefan had killed his family in a Ripper binge a few years back, but didn't have the heart to finish the job and let him live, but had files given to him by Matt that linked Stefan to dozens of murders just in Mystic Falls over the last few decades in case Dorian decided to have Stefan locked up.

"All right, professor," Damon told him. "How do we get rid of the queen of Hell?"

"Are you sure Katherine's in our world?" Alaric asked.

"When Cade crossed planes after the eleventh ring of the bell, other souls could step through, too," Bonnie told us. "Same way Kai did. Katherine would have jumped at that chance."

"Then why haven't we seen her yet?" Caroline asked. "I thought by now, she'd be strutting around, making demands, or trying to get us all killed."

"Maybe she's bidding her time," I told them.

"Or putting her own plan together," Damon told us.

"Either way, you're gonna need a new weapon," Dorian told us.

"Is that Dorian?" Stefan asked.

"Yeah," Alaric answered. "I've asked Dorian to take point on our research front."

"This doesn't mean you and I are cool," Dorian told him. "I still have those files on you, so I'm here to hold you accountable for the rest of your God-given life."

Stefan looked at Bonnie, clearly speaking to more than just Dorian about more than just his family, but about Enzo too. "I hope that you do."

Bonnie looked down.

"So what have you guys come up with?" Caroline asked.

"Cade was killed with the dagger that was made from his bones," Dorian told us. "It was fused into glass by a white hot flame. First things first, though, I don't suppose you know where Katherine's bones are."

"Huh, whoever thought she'd have done us a favor?" Damon asked. "We've got every last one of Katherine's bones in the cave underneath the old church, leftover from a Traveler barbecue she had when she tried to possess Elena."

"But fusing the bones into glass?" Bonnie asked. "How do we make that kind of weapon?"

"Would putting the bone in a metal dagger do the trick?" Matt asked. "My parents are in town. I can ask my dad for help."

"Parents, plural?" Caroline asked.

"Unexpected family reunion, so now I got two nightmares to deal with," Matt told us.

"Gossip later, townies," I told them. "Damon and Stefan will go on bone fetching duty."

"Dorian and I will research an alternative to fight her," Alaric told us.

"See, if Katherine's back, that means Hell still exists," Dorian told us. "We need to figure out a way to break her link to Hell."

"These psychic dimensions are tied to emotional trauma," Bonnie told us. "Cade created his when he was burned at the stake. I created mine... when I saw Enzo get murdered." Stefan looked at Bonnie sadly. Bonnie looked down, sighing. "I'm just saying, maybe there's a way to destroy the dimension itself. Destroying Hell destroys her."