Chapter One

Caroline was perched on a stool at the bar. There had been a little party going on at the Grill and all the vampires in town were here. She watched as the Salvatore brothers drank their fill on a girl. She sighed softly.

The blonde knew that that was essential to their survival but it still made her skin crawl. They did it so effortlessly and part of her felt for the young girl. To them, that girl was just a warm blood bag and it made her sick. Her best friend appeared next to her. "Isn't this great Care?!" Elena said, a devilish grin crossing her face.

Caroline frowned at her best friend's words, her eyes never leaving the scene going on on the dance floor. "I don't get how you can see this and be okay with it… Your boyfriend is drinking that girl's blood," she replied. She turned her face towards Elena's, her eyes narrowing.

Elena's face dropped. "Stefan needs to do it to survive. No I'm not okay with it but he can only take my blood so many times a month," she replied softly.

Realizing she had hit a nerve, Caroline placed her hand on her friend's shoulder. "Hey… I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that." The blue eyed girl frowned. She hated seeing Elena so down about the actions her vampire had to do.

Before Elena could reply, Damon and Stefan appeared. Stefan wrapped an arm around Elena tightly and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Damon simply rolled his eyes and turned her attention to Caroline who was eying him down like a hawk. "Stop being so judgy. It'll give you wrinkles, Blondie."

She scoffed at his words. "Hard not to judge you when you two nearly sucked that girl dry. You disgust me Damon." She crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows at him.

Damon's temper flared up and she could see it in his eyes as they shifted in color and his fangs dropped down. Though she was petrified, she stared at him with a look of indifference. Stefan laughed and it was enough to distract Damon from sucking her dry.

"Play nice you two. It would be depressing for Elena to lose her best friend." Though Stefan was simply teasing, there was an air of seriousness around him. Elena's eyes were narrowed on Damon and Damon's face returned to normal.

"Fine," he answered. "But if she pisses me off again, I'll more than happily rip her throat out."

Caroline opened her mouth to say something but Elena shot her a look. Even though she was extremely stubborn, she shut her mouth and sat there in anger.

Stefan smiled. "Well then, let's get some drinks down here to lighten the mood." He brought the bartender over and despite Elena's protests, compelled him to bring them all drinks no questions asked. When the drinks arrived, Caroline chugged hers and asked Stefan to get her another.

He had laughed and got another one for her. She had come here because Elena didn't want there to be a third wheel, or in other words, she didn't want Damon to be alone. Caroline would never understand why the compassionate brunette had a soft spot for the blue eyed monster. Quickly, into the evening she had wondered why she'd come and now she was wondering why she'd stayed.

Standing up on her heels, she announced she was leaving and Elena began pouting. "No don't Care! C'mon we can have some fun." The blond looked down at her pleading eyes and scowled.

"You've been promising that all night, Elena! It. Hasn't. Happened. You had fun with your boyfriend. And me," - she scoffed at the brunette - "well, I've sat here wondering why the hell I've been sitting here all alone. Not one guy has even come to ask me to even dance. I'm leaving!"

She turned on her heels, and despite her friend's protests, she left the Grill. Walking down the street alone, she heard voices behind her. She didn't care whose they were and she continued to move along. Something moved in the corner of her eye and with inhuman speed, she found herself in an alley against the brick walls.

Are you kidding me?! she thought, Tonight is so not my night.

Even though she knew she was nothing against a vampire, she still whipped out the stake she carried in her purse. As quick as she possibly could she shoved in as close to it's heart as she could get. When the vampire stumbled back, she smirked. Caroline wished she could say something but instead she ran right into the arms of a man.

"Now I wouldn't have done that, love," he said in a British accent.

The blonde struggled against the man but he merely laughed.

"You always pick the prey with largest survival instinct, Bekah."

Caroline's blue eyes widened. She looked up at her captor as she realized he was a vampire too. He looked down with a smirk but when his blue eyes met her, something in his face changed. It was like something he had just saw as food earlier, had become something more.

"Just hand her over Nik. I feel like sucking her dry after what she just did to me," the female's voice rang out.

The man's arms gripped a little tighter over Caroline's frame in a protective manner. He was pressing her into him and she tried shoving him away. She had no idea why the vampire was suddenly protecting her, all she knew was that she needed to get away from both of them.

"I think we should keep this one alive." he replied.

The blonde vampire scoffed. "And why is that? She's just dinner."

The blue eyed vampire scowled. "She's more than dinner Bekah!" he barked, scaring Caroline into stopping her struggles. With his harsh tone, she had realized she was going to die and though part of her didn't wish to die, she accepted it. As she stopped, he looked down at her. Frowning, he couldn't place why she had stopped fighting against them.

Her eyes were doe eyes as when she looked up at him. The blonde was pleading for her life with those eyes and he dropped his arms. Surprised flooded through her and she stood there looking at him. The other vampire instantly lunged at Caroline but the light haired male stopped her.

"I said she wasn't dinner, Bekah," he growled.

The blonde didn't stop her advances. Instead she circled him and snapped at him, "I'm hungry, Nik and she looks tasty."

Knowing what the vampire meant, Caroline quickly ran out of there. Surprisingly she escaped their hands. As she burst out of that alley she heard Elena holler at her. She ran towards them.

"Run!" she barely gasped out. Her blonde hair was disheveled and her blue eyes were frantic. Her best friend stared at her before looking behind her. Quickly, both Elena and Caroline had been shoved behind the Salvatores. They quickly dropped into a fighting stance and stared at the vampires coming out of the alley after Caroline.

"Klaus. Rebekah," Damon snarled in a greeting.

The vampire Damon had called Rebekah scowled. "Of course the great Salvatore brothers are protecting my meal." She quickly lunged at them and was easily blocked by Klaus. She stared at him in disdain. "Are you serious?!"

Klaus barely regarded her. A grin crossed his face. "Stefan! Been awhile. I see you're still protecting humans. Such a pity that you learned how to control your bloodlust. You used to be so much fun."

Stefan snapped his jaws at him. "You won't lay a hand on either of them. Let that be known to your entire family."

The older vampire smirked at Stefan and his eyes glanced over Caroline. "I can assure you at least one of them won't be hurt. Let's go now little sister. We'll find someone else to eat." With that, Klaus was gone and with a glare so was his sister.

Caroline stepped in front of the vampires, her hands on her hips. "Aight. What the hell just happened?!"