worry . It must be a cat or something .” Caroline could easily see that Elena ’ mother ’ s hands were shaking . “ Mom , you ok ?” said Elena . “ Do you remember the story about Jack-o-Devil ?” said Elena ’ s mom . Elena shook her head , meaning no . Elena ’ s mom started talking : “ Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack . He loved his family more than everything . One day , they ( Jack and his family ) decided to go on a Halloween trip . Everything seemed to be ok . But while the driver was driving the car , he crashed . The only people who survived was Jack and the bus driver . Because of his anger , Jack killed the bus driver . Then he got in the prison . But a month ago , he escaped by a wizard or a witch . He wanted everyone to call him Jack-o-Devil . He started kidnapping people , especially parents so little children can understand how he is the feeling . That Jack feels about his family . He wants everyone to be equal with him . He wants nobody to have a family . Now he is stronger than he used to be . I think he is back . That is because …” Elena ’ s mom started crying . “ What ?” Said Elena . “ Your cousin is missing .” They all looked back to Elena . She just stood there and started crying . She ran outside of the room . “ Elena !” Shouted Bonnie . But it was too late . Elena disappeared . Elena ’ s mom was crying . Caroline and Bonnie were thinking about a solution . Then Caroline realized his backpack in the room which was at the end of the corridor . “ Give me a second please .” said Caroline and she ran to the end of the corridor . She opened her backpack . She checked out if there was anybody listening or watching her . When she was sure , she took the mirror out . There was a pumpkin and a signature below the pumpkin picture . She had a lump in her throat , her mouth went dry . She looked at the signature . She couldn ’ t believe , she didn ’ t want to . Jack was here , he could be anywhere , or he could be anyone in this party . Caroline took the mirror and she tried her best to hide that she was scared . She was sure of something , Jack must be someone who was new , and of course Jack is a he . These information makes it easier . One option to choose . Jack was Klaus . But Caroline didn ’ t know how to prove this to everyone or to herself . She hoped the mirror could help her . This time , the mirror showed something Caroline wanted . There was a hint . “ Better than nothing !” Said Caroline , she was trying to be positive . “ Each mirror shows the truth and no one can change who they are …” Caroline stopped . She might have the answer . The only thing she must do was to show the mirror to Klaus . That looked easy . But where she could find Elena and Rebecca ? She forced herself to think harder . She had a plan … First she decided to find Elena and Rebecca . For this part the mirror helped her . The mirror even turned into a magical glasses . When she looked through the glasses , she noticed that see saw everything differently . There was an orange path . She was looking from Jack ’ s eyes . She slowly started walking . She didn ’ t realize the two eyes watching her . After walking a little , Caroline reached to a scary-spooky house . It was also old . She took a deep breath and she opened the door . Her fingers were shaking . This was difficult for her because ; when she took out the glasses , she couldn ’ t see anything except the oak trees . Put she put on the glasses , there was a scary-spooky house exactly where she is standing . She decided to believe the glasses , the mirror . She started walking . After she examined everywhere she started climbing the stairs . She smiled big enough to show all her teeth . There were Rebecca and Elena . They were tied up . Caroline untied the ropes . Now they were free . They hugged each other . Everything was good till the noise coming from downstairs . The noise wasn ’ t coming closer . It was a sound of a girl . It was Bonnie . Caroline breathed a sigh of relief . They went out of the house . “ How did you find us Bonnie ?” said Caroline . “ I followed you till here , but there is nothing here !” said Bonnie . Elena , Rebecca and Caroline laughed . “ What ’ s so funny ?” said Bonnie . Caroline showed the glasses and she started telling her story starting from that day , where she found the mirror till how can they beat Jack-o-Devil or Klaus … “ Help me !” yelled Caroline trying to make everybody focus on her . “ Help please !” now everybody seemed to be nervous . “ There is something bad here . He is trying to catch me !” Klaus was looking really confused . After a second everybody started running to help Caroline . But when they arrived the place where was the noise is coming from , there was nothing except some long vines . Now everyone was confused . They rebound by the noise coming from vines . There was an enormous mirror standing where the vines used to be . “ NO !” screamed Klaus . He was turning into Jack . Now his handsome face replaced by an ugly-scary-spooky face . “ Go Elena !” shouted Caroline . Elena and Rebecca threw the net on the devil . For protection Bonnie jumped on the monster . Jack couldn ’ t escape . Jack was sorry . He promised that he won ’ t be a bad guy again . None of the people believed . Jack got a little bit mad . Maybe more than a little . “ You guys wanted this to happen .” he was still in the net . He threw some sparkles , ( which was orange ) so nobody could see anything . When the sparkles went away , Jack was gone . Everybody seemed happy . “ Ok , who wants to continue to party ?!” said Elena . Everybody went inside to continue parting . Everyone thought he was gone . But he was not . He was waiting for the right time ...
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