"Why are you here?" I asked, trying to figure out exactly how he had appeared. Ah well, there would be time to think of that later. "Who is dying?" I was almost afraid of the answer.
Stasy looked down for a moment before looking back into my eyes with an incredibly serious look that was at odds with the almost insanity on his face a moment before. "Bonnie"
"Oh, my god..." Damon sat down with a thud on the chair against the wall.
"Where is she?" I restrained myself only barely. Inside, I was dying as she supposedly was. How did this boy know about it if I didn't? Had he been the one to hurt my Bonnie? I clenched my fists to my sides.
"Kalliope has her." Stasy looked away once more.
"Who the fuck is Kalliope?" I griund out from between my teeth. Damon though, Damon had a strange reaction to this news that meant nothing to me. He started and got this look on his face as if he was sick. "Klaus's lover." He said quietly.
It was my turn to be in shock. Bonnie had briefly mentioned Klaus to me in one of our discussions as being almost invincible. I couldn't remember much beyond that and that he had been an Original.
Stasy laughed then. "He was more than her lover. After being together for two hundred years, they were probably common-law."
"How do you know all this?" I asked pushing my fears to the back of my mind for the moment.
"They lived for a hundred years together until they had a child." He went on seemingly unhearing me. "That would be me." He took that opportunity to bow to us.
Damon turned even paler than he already was, but it really made sense after the original shock wore off. His extreme power, the things he could do... Only one thing was bothering me.
"Is Kalliope an Original?"
"Yes." Stasy grinned. "I guess that would make me a miniOriginal, you know, I don't think there's a word for it.
"Where is Bonnie now?"
"With Kalliope.... In the Shadow World." Stasy's wild blue eyes met mine in sympathy. Shock floored me. I couldn't believe Kalliope's gall in taking the only human I loved to kill her in my home world. I really did love her, I realized with a start. I had to find her. I loved Bonnie.
"Why are you telling us this?" I asked in what I hoped was a calm voice.
"I agreed with my mother at first. That Bonnie should die." Stasy held up a hand to restrain me when I would have gone for his neck. "Calm down Julian. I thought she would just drink from Bonnie. But what she has done is worse. Kalliope has gone completly insane. Klaus is partially responsible for that. He treated her like shit. I believe he was in love with Katherine and could not love her because of it. Getting himself killed while trying to avenge her death destroyed Kalliope."
"Also, my baby sister Acacia was born only sixteen years ago, and Kalliope now has no one to help her with Acacia. She may seem old by your standards, but Acacia really is a baby in our world." Stasy seemed suprised at himself for saying this much to us and a strange emotion entered his expressive eyes.
"Very sad." I said snidely as now anger filled his eyes.
"Do you want me to take you to Bonnie?" He folded his arms across his chest and glared at me. He had a point there, I could get us to the Shadow World, but beyond that.... Finding anything there even with the elder's help was difficult. But, the elders weren't about to help an outcast Shadowman like myself. That made it impossible. I needed Stasy if I ever wanted to see Bonnie alive again.
God, it was awful to think of Bonnie as not being alive. She shone, that was really the only word for it. She was more alive than anyone else I had ever met.
"I'm coming with you." Damon spoke for the first time in our little exchange.
"I don't think so." I said right back vehemently.
