An Elemental Difference - AIR - Book 1 (Stefan Salvatore)

Chapter 86 - Damon was right

MYSTIC FALLS HOSPITAL

"Please, Damon."

Damon scoffed on the other side of the call, "So it's your turn now? My answer is the same, no."

Aella basically had a mini tantrum in an empty corridor at the hospital at Damon's negativity, "It has to be done, Damon. Isobel has Jeremy. I told you when we discovered the device, the spell is easy to do; Bonnie can do this."

It was silent for a minute, and Aella believed she had gotten through to him, "I don't trust her or her behavior lately." Aella rolled her eyes as she glared down at the phone. "She told you that you were insignificant. I thought you believed that just like I do."

He was right; she was having strong feelings about Bonnie's choice of words. "But she wouldn't risk Jeremy. He's like a brother to her, to all of us."

"I don't trust words, Aella," Damon confessed to her. "I even question actions, but I never doubt a pattern. Bonnie has repeated time and time; she will not support helping vampires."

Aella felt sick; he was right, Damon was utterly right. And so she told him that, "You're right, Damon, you've been around as long as Stefan and know how to judge someone. And yes, Bonnie's choices lately haven't supported you, Stefan, or even me."

Aella blinked the tears away at her current relationship with her cousin, "But Bonnie is my blood, and we were raised to make the right choices. This is the right choice, and I trust her because if I don't say that... a relationship built up of love, honesty, and loyal family values is ruined. That's too much to throw away over a vendetta."

Tears ran down her face, and she wiped them away quickly, but Damon could hear the tears in her words, "Please, Damon."

It was quiet, too quiet as Damon thought her answer over. It was quiet enough that Aella checked if the call was still connected until he finally responded to her before hanging up.

"Fine."

Letting out a breath of relief Aella left the empty corridor and returned to where Caroline and Tyler were waiting for news on Matt. As she entered the waiting area, she saw only Tyler and took a deep nervous breath. The looks he'd been shooting her since she helped rescue Matt hadn't stopped. Caroline had been there to be a buffer, now, it was just the two of them, and it was time to talk.

"Where's C?"

Tyler looked up to her as she sat next to him. He raised from his bent-over position to sitting up straight as he answered her, "Matt was asking for her. The nurses remembered him when Vicki was in here and dropped the 'family only' rule."

"That's nice of them," Aella's smile was shaky.

Tyler's brows furrowed as he thought of his words, "Vicki? This all connects to her, right?"

'Oh boy,' Aella thought to herself. It seemed they were starting off with the most complicated stuff first. She rubbed her sweaty palms on her jeans, "It does, and it doesn't."

Tyler watched as she frowned to herself for a minute, then she turned her body towards his, "To put it bluntly, Ty. The supernatural is real." Tyler wrinkled his nose, "Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, Ghosts, Sirens... I think."

Tyler let out a sharp laugh, "You can't be serious."

Aella's eyes narrowed, and nose flared, "Would I taint Vicki's memory like that?"

"No," Tyler shook his head. "No, you wouldn't, but it's so hard-"

"-Hard to believe?" Aella snorted out, "Believe me, I know all about that. I've had to explain it to six people so far, and every single one of them had the same reaction."