Darker Times

Kathryn's POV

My relationship with Tabitha is going great and I have never been more happier with anything in my life like I am right now, even then we can't even celebrate our love for one another. It has been hard to try and be happy when everyone is just sad and gloomy, especially Elena. Jonathan's passing was hard for everyone but no one feels it more than Elena. I can't even begin the pain in her heart knowing that she has lost her mate. That's the thing with werewolves, you only get one mate, that one person especially made to love you, your true life partner, there's no second chance love here.

No one should have to go through that kind of pain, especially at her age, she's too young for such. I have only but truly loved one person in this life. You should believe it when someone says that there is a thin line between love and hate because they are right, that person knows exactly what they are talking about. I didn't know what love felt like until I met him. He was my first, my only and he has ruined me for every man out there. I have never been able to open my heart up to love another man, that's why I love Tabitha. It's for that love that I was able to find my way back home, a way back to my magic after it was snatched away from me. 

Elena helped me to get my magic back, she has been there for everyone who needed her help, even the ones who didn't deserve her help, that's the kind of person that she is and that is why we have all tried to help her out. She doesn't know this but we too have been making our research and even though we are hopeful, we don't have anything solid just yet. I had a vision, one that scared me to death. I saw Elena in her most darkest form. She was nothing like the white witch she is right now.

It's like something in her snapped, she had become this evil person, what scared me the most was what I saw her doing in that vision. She killed everyone and everything in her path. She destroyed everything. I got scared and I realised that we were headed down a dark path, as if that's not enough, I fear that she might be changing because of she doesn't have Jonathan with her. She said that she still feels his presence around her, that is good. It means that we can still bring him back. 

Even though we love her and we want to support her, we can't control the way other people feel, Jonathan was more than just a husband, he is an Alpha and his pack has a lot to say. They have been asking the we have a memorial service for Jonathan, they want to say goodbye to their Alpha, just like they said goodbye to everyone that we lost in the fight. Everyone says that we all need to move on, that we all need to look to the future. I agree but from where I am standing, the future doesn't seem so bright for any of us.

It has been a few days where I keep on have disturbing visions about Cole. He is planning something, I know him, he is coming back for us. Elena told me not to worry about Cole but I think that she's too blinded by grief to see reason, to realise that we should be focusing on other things as well. We should have went after Cole like I had suggested, we could have gotten him at his weakest and we would have been able to kill him. I know that we will not have peace, none of us will never be truly free as long as he was alive. He has been around for thousands of years, it's time for him to go. 

"Kathryn.... Kathryn are you in there?" I heard Elena's voice, she was standing outside the bedroom door. I am not even sure if I should let her in after what she did to me earlier on. I still can't believe that she took it that far.

"Yes... I'm in." I said and put the Grimoire under the pillow, I have been trying to find a way to find Edward after Elena hid him. I know that it might seem heartless of me but we can't have someone like that living amongst us. Edward has to go. We all sat down as a house and we discussed it, we didn't tell Elena because we know that she wouldn't approve. I know this because she could have easily killed him, especially since he killed Jonathan but she didn't. At first I tried to understand because she told me what she did. I told her that a linking spell was dangerous. 

I told her not to do it but I should have known better, known that she would never listen to me, the only person she listens to is herself. She wanted so much to save Jonathan, I knew what she knew, that Jonathan was going to die, we didn't talk about it but we knew. The whole point of her keeping Edward alive was so that his life could be linked to Jonathan's. I know it's hard for her but even we have seen that the spell did not work like it was supposed to. Jonathan should have been up by now. I watched her as she came into the bedroom and sat down.

"I'm sorry for what happened earlier on, I didn't mean to go into your head like that." She said.

"I know... I can't say that I blame you." I said.

"I went out to the willow tree, I don't know but I felt like going there, I tried to do a summoning spell and I failed. I couldn't even hear him." She said with tears running down her face.

"If you couldn't summon him it means that he has not passed on to the other side... Elena this is good." I said and I stood up.

"What do you mean this is good?" She asked me.

"Okay so a couple of hundred years ago I met this witch, she told me about how she was brought back from the other side, we are going somewhere, go and pack your bags, we are flying out." I said to her.

"Flying out? Kathryn I'm confused." She said.

"I know that your are confused, I'll explain everything to you in the plane, we are going to Italy." I said.

"What's in Italy?" She asked.

"We are going to church honey..." I said.

"Church? What does the church have to do with this?" She asked me. 

"Not just a church... The church Elena." I said.  

"We should be running away from the church not towards it, they cannot be trusted by with the knowledge of us." She said. She was right. We cannot have human beings learning about our existence but we might not have a choice but to go.

"Elena the fifteen century was a horrific time for witches everywhere. The church was after everyone and everything they seemed ungodly, they didn't just bring witches at the stake no they took their Grimoires, Agliana Venucci was such the witch that was pulled from the other side.

There's a special Grimoire, the only one that will let you have direct access to other worlds, if we can have that Grimoire, we can look for Jonathan and we can pull him out as well. St. Peter's Basilica, present basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City (an enclave in Rome), begun by Pope Julius II in 1506, they took the Grimoire and they hid them there. They have been locked away ever since." I said.

"Alright then, I'll go and pack. Please call Mason and ask him to join us, Tabitha and Esmay will look after the house, I'll alert the pilot and tell him to get ready for us." She said.

"Elena... We are going to get Jonathan back." I said with a smile.

This was the first time I actually believed that everything was going to be alright in the end, that all was going to be fine again, I know it's wrong of me to even think about betraying Elena but we have to do what is right for the pack. That means that we have to kill Edward and so I am going to use this opportunity to get her to tell me where she hid him. I have to do this. 

I went out of the bedroom and I went downstairs, I saw Esmay sitting on the couch with a book in her hands. I must admit that she seems to be doing good, she has been feeding on animals and she has her hunger under control. She put her book down.

"I heard you talking to Elena... How is she? Are you really going bring Jonathan back?" She asked me.

"Yes we are..." I said.

"Isn't going to the Vetican a risk? You know that we can't use magic on concecrated grounds, how are you going to get it?" She asked me.

"I don't know but we will find a way..." I said.

"You didn't mention this to Elena did you?" She asked me.

"No and you are not going to do or say anything either. Look for the last month we have had to deal with a sad and depressed witch, I am not having that anymore, this will give her a chance to get some fresh air and this will give you and Tabitha a chance to look for Edward without the fear of having Elena getting into your mind. " I said.

"This is a bad idea, Cole will come back for us and if he finds out that we killed his own son, he will burn this village to the ground, if Elena finds out that we betrayed her, she will never forgive us, there is no win in this for us." Esmay said. I hate to admit this but I fear that she might be right. Elena will never forgive us but the world will be safe again.

"Just do as you are told, we have to do this, you know that, we all agreed that it was for the best." I said.

"No... I was out voted, I don't want to be the one to betray Elena again, not after what I did to her in the past, she has been nothing but good to me, good to all of us, she doesn't deserve this." Esmay said. She was right.

"I know... Can you go and get Mason, he is at the back." I said.

"Fine... I'll go and get him. " She said and stood up to go and get Mason. 

I have been having a strange feeling as of late, the feeling of something bad coming our way, I don't have to be a genius to know where the threat is coming from, even with the spell of a hundred cuts, I fear that Cole might actually take the rest of us out with him. Agliana Venucci was a French quarter witch who ended up in Italy, she was called the witch with nine lives like a cat. No one one could ever understand how she kept on coming back to life, it turned out that her life was anchored by something that kept her on this world. There was a spell she used to pull herself out, if we can find it, we can be able to pull Jonathan.

I am beginning to think that the reason why Jonathan is not fully dead is because he too might be anchored to something. We need to find out what it is that anchors him in this world. I just have to find a way to get into the Vetican without magic.