Okay so here it is. The first chapter of the remake of my story Fire Bomb, the name of the story may change in the future just a heads up. I'm not taking down the other version at this point but I will sometime in the near future. So tell me what you think please.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC.
Chapter 1: Friday Night Bites
Caroline reaches a hand up slowly to the nightstand next to the bed hoping not to wake the sleeping form next to her. "Caroline…" Caroline glances over her shoulder at the male behind her and smiles softly. "Let me just see who it is." The male raises an eyebrow but nods and lays back placing his arms behind his head and staring up at the ceiling. Caroline picks up the buzzing phone from the nightstand and brings it towards her, laying back. She sits up, surprising the male next to her as her eyes were bugging at the phone. "Who is it?"
Caroline doesn't answer as she pushes the talk button and places the phone to her ear. "Hello…" Her voice is slow, almost hesitant. "Hey." The male glances at Caroline as she lets out a shirk of excitement. "Oh my god! I haven't heard from you all summer!" There's a laugh from the other end and the male sits up listening closely. "I decided I'd check in…I would have called Elena but I decided I'd have a better bet with calling you, you are after all the eyes and ears of the town." The voice was female, diffidently female. Sweet, the voice was sweet, but there was a husky edge to it that had him close to shuddering.
Caroline let out a laugh as she stands, grabbing her clothes from the floor. "Well I have a new boyfriend." There's a soft gasp from the other end of the phone and the male keeps his eyes on Caroline as she walks towards the bathroom. "What's his name?" Caroline smiles. "Damon…Damon Salvatore. He's the older brother of Elena's new boyfriend Stefan."
"So he's older? Is he cute?" Caroline glanced back at Damon before closing the bathroom door. "He's more than cute." Caroline giggles as she slips back into her clothes. "Shouldn't you be at school?"
"The day is already half over; I'm just going to have Damon drive me for Cheerleading practice." The girl on the other end sighs. "Whatever you say Caroline."
~x~
Her combat boots beat against the steel bleachers as she climbs to the very top passing by some girlfriends of the some of the football players. They gap as she passes them by before turning to one another and she can hear just the beginning of their conversion. "Oh my god…that's Adele Gilbert." "Who's Adele Gilbert?" "Elena Gilbert's twin, Caroline Forbes and Tyler Lockwood's best friend and Michael Landon's ex, she left after her parent's funeral. I can't believe she came back…"
As the conversion drafts out of ear shot Adele can't help but roll her blue eyes. It was amazing how something as simple as a person returning to their own home town could turn someone else's world upside down. Her return would be all over the town by the end of football practice Adele was sure of it, whether or not people believed it was beyond her.
She had decided to stop in if not only for a minute, just to check up on everything. Caroline had filled her in completely and now Adele was just witnessing part of it. Like how Caroline gets dropped off for cheerleading practice by Adele could only guess Damon Salvatore before she kicks Elena to the curb and Elena comes over to watch her boyfriend come out onto the field but Elena never notices when her boyfriend's eyes find her sitting at the top of the bleachers and that was when she figures it's time to leave, because she didn't really want anyone to see her. He had watched as she made her way from the bleachers and before she has the chance to disappear from sight she turns back to him and arches a waxed eyebrow.
~x~
Right side of the house, first window on the 2nd floor, Adele stares up at it. She located it now all she needed was a way into it. The window directly under the 2nd story window is the window that looks into the kitchen which is where her sister and her sister's best friend are preparing a restaurant delivered dinner for god knows what reason.
Getting caught sneaking into her room was not part of Adele's plan tonight; all she wanted was to get into the room and sleep. If Elena caught her there was going to be bitching and moaning and more bitching and Adele was in no mood. So peeking through the see through curtain to make sure Elena and Bonnie's backs were turned away Adele boosted herself up onto the window seal of the window as silently as possible. Standing up straight she reaches up, her finger tips just grazing the window seal of her bedroom window and she curses because it would turn out she's not tall enough, because being tall enough would be too easy.
Peeking back into the window she sighs with relief when their backs are still turned before standing up straight and looking up at the window seal. Taking a leap she grasps the window seal with all the strength in her hands, her knuckles turning white. Using her lower body strength she swings her right leg up her foot catching the window seal and as if that wasn't dangerous enough she uses her other foot to climb the wall as she pushed herself up. Finally getting herself safe or safeish on the window seal she takes a minute to catch her breath before reaches for her the window, hoping to god no one had come into her room and locked it at some point while she was gone.
After successfully finding it unlocked she pushes it open just enough to slip into the dark room. She closes the window and locks it up before turning around. Slowly she starts to count her steps, moving left three steps when she hits the number 4 and stopping completely when she hits the number 14. Reaching out her hand grazes the light switch and she flips it on smirking.
One day a few years back she had spent the day memorizing the lay out of her room by counting each step she took in the room. After that day she had successfully been able to walk around her entire room with no help from the lights, being able to dodge everything in her path, her bed, her dresser, her bed side tables. It made it easier to sneak in and out of the house at night when her parents thought she was asleep.
It had to be a good two hours or so later when she was finally settled into bed looking up at the glow in the dark stars she had put up there on the ceiling so many years ago. She smirks thinking back to that day Caroline had helped her do that.
Thinking of Caroline Adele thought maybe she should give her a call and tell her she was home, let someone know she hadn't left for good because Adele was sure that's what everyone was thinking when she had announced her leaving after her parent's funeral.
There was only one problem with that…she couldn't find her phone. She searches the room, retracing her steps from when she had come in to when she had gotten changed. A thought struck her and she almost groans walking up to the window and unlocking it, sliding it open and popping her head out looking down.
Below she could just barely make out the IPhone sitting in the grass. She licks her bottom lip as she stares at it, it must have fallen out of her back pocket when she kicked up her leg to hook her foot onto the window seal. She should have remembered to seal the phone in her front pocket so she could make sure something like that didn't happen.
She sighs and leans back into the room. She figures she has two options here; she can climb her small self-back down to the ground and retrieve her phone before climbing back up to the window or she could walk down stairs right in the middle of Elena's dinner party grab the phone and walk back up the stairs, but she knew how that would end, in screaming and door slams…that was if Elena caught her. Smiling just slightly she walks towards the bedroom door deciding that it had been too long since she played ninja.
Slipping out the bedroom door as quietly as she can she looks down each side of the hall seeing no one she crept towards the stairs where the sound of voices drifted from below, male voices at that. She pauses just at the top of the stairs and frowns. "That's not a problem…because I've been invited in and I will come back tomorrow night and the following night and I'll do with your little…cheerleader whatever I want to do, because that is what is normal to me."
That is what is normal? What kind of people did Elena have over? Adele sighs softly brushing it off before taking her first couple of steps down slowly, she slightly peeks her head out from behind the wall and her blue eyes widen slightly as two pairs of eyes are looking back at her. Other than the two other pairs of eyes there was no one in the living room. She slowly came out of hiding, leaning slightly over the railing to see if she could see Elena.
The boy on the couch was moving to stand and Adele shook her head, mentioning with her hands for him to sit back down. She pressed a finger to her lips before pointing slightly towards the kitchen. "I think she wants us to be quite and to not move." Damon whispered and Adele tapped her nose. "Who is she?" Damon looks at his brother and Stefan slightly shrugs. Adele races down the rest of the stairs, making no sound as she opens the front door slips out closing it behind her.
Stefan and Damon look at each other puzzled for a moment before a sound human hears could never pick up on makes them turn back to the door as the girl slips back in. She takes a step towards them and Damon finally gets a good look at her. She's small, about Elena's height but she's less hour glass shaped, just a tad but less curvy. That didn't mean she didn't have curses, no definitely not Damon thinks as his eyes travel down the length of her body, she's curved in all the right places and tan…man was she tan. Her almost beach blonde hair was straight, falling just past her mid back. Her eyes are a color Damon had never seen before, blue, clear blue but with a tint of red or…reddish pink was it?
Her somewhat pouty lips are parted slightly as she glances towards the kitchen. She looks back at them and her eyes meet both of theirs before she speaks and Damon recognizes the voice immediately, it was sweet with a husky edge to it, and no one notices the shudder that runs through his body as she speaks directly to them. "You didn't see me…I was never here." She speaks softly, loud enough for them to hear but not loud enough to draw any attention from the kitchen. There's no need for compulsion with a voice like that. Stefan thinks to himself and Damon is having similar thoughts but what gets him is that he finds he has a sudden need to follow her, to go wherever she was going and that has to stop.
~x~
There's screams and cheers from half-drunk girls and boys and Adele smiles slightly thinking back to last year when she was on the cheerleading squad. She had been half way to drunk by the time kick off rolled around and Caroline and Tyler Lockwood were shoving water down her throat in an attempted to sober her up in time for the game. No one noticed her state though when she managed to preform quite well when the game started. A part of her missed that but that was all in her past now and she had no intentions of going back down that path.
Adele passes by the crowd of people, football players and cheerleaders, making her way over to the tailgaters. Hoping up onto the truck her brother was on, the boy next to him almost jumps out his skin when he notices her. The couch was saying something she wasn't listening to as the guy hands her a cup and Jeremy turns as she steps up to him. "Holy fuck…" He's speechless for a moment as he looks at her. "Adele…What the fuck are you doing here?" He laughs as he wraps one arm around her, the one not holding the bottle of alcohol.
"I live here Jer." He smiles. "I know that…but you left…" She raises an eyebrow a smirk curving her lips. "For the summer, didn't I explain that?" He sighs and nods. "But no one expected you to come back…I mean there was a rumor going around yesterday that you had but no one believed it." She frowns. "No one?" He nods and she sighs looking out over the crowd not too far away. That just shows how much faith people had in her.
Adele sits and Jeremy soon follows her led smirking as he watches his older sister grab the bottle from his hand and pour some into her cup before handing it back. "So Jer, what's been going on with you?" Before he has the chance to answer Adele takes in the way he tenses as he spots Tyler Lockwood who spots him as well. Adele's not blind; she sees what's about to happen and in a desperate attempt to stop what was sure to be a disaster in the making she jumps from the tailgate of the truck and places her hand on Jeremy's shoulder stepping out in front of him. "Jeremy don't." She pleads as Tyler is approaching.
"Don't look so down…you can have her when I'm done." Adele turns around to look at Tyler fully intending to tell him off and his eyes widen just slightly as he notices who she is. Adele ducks in time as Jeremy's fist comes flying towards Tyler. She stumbled out of the way of the fight just barely making it to the side lines as Tyler practically body slams Jeremy where she was just previously standing. "Tyler stop it!" She yells but Tyler being the asshole that he is doesn't listen.
The fight draws attention and Adele runs a hand through her blonde hair as she watches the people surround. She was seriously considering trying to break the fight up herself before she noticed Elena's boyfriend walking up. "He's down! Enough!" Stefan reaches out and his hand catches Tyler's wrist midair.
Tyler stands his faces a mask of disbelief and anger as he looks at Stefan. Tyler slams his fist into Stefan's gut but he doesn't even flinch and Adele frowns. Out of the corner of her eye she can see Jeremy grab the broken bottle from the ground. "Jeremy no!" Her voice is echoed as Stefan pushes Tyler off to the side taking the broken bottle to the hand and Elena makes it over pushing Jeremy back towards the truck.
Adele watches as Stefan looks down at his bleeding hand and she notices how the bleeding stops and how he squeezes his hand shut looking around as if he was hoping no one saw. By the time she looks back over to Elena she notices Jeremy walking away. Grabbing a six pack from the back of the truck she pushes pass Elena. "Adele…?" Adele didn't turn as she heard her name being called by Elena, so much for keeping a low profile.
~x~
Dropping the six pack into his lap Jeremy looks up and sighs as Adele slides down next to him. "Are you here to bitch me out?" Adele laughs softly and turns to her little brother. "No…" He glances at her. "I just want you to listen…" He nods slightly. "I know losing mom and dad was hard on you…it was hard on all of us. I ran, you turned to drugs and Elena…I don't even know what's going on with her. You might feel like there's no place you belong but you belong here Jer, because people here love you they care about you. If you're going to throw your life away be my guest but don't expect us to watch."
Adele gives him a small smile before standing up and dusting off her shorts. "Clean the blood off your face as well." She says as she stuffs her hands into the pockets of her leather jacket and walks away.
She mirrors his steps as he makes his way towards his car. The football game had been canceled due to an animal attack on Mr. Tanner and Adele had spotted Tyler walking from the locker rooms. She knew he knew someone was following him but he wasn't giving anything away.
As the round a corner Adele freezes when Tyler suddenly turns. She smiles as he drops his gym bag to stare at her and she takes a step towards him. "Hi Ty." He let out a breath. "Holy shit…I thought I was seeing things back there." She shakes her head closing the distances between them. "When did you get back?" She arches an eyebrow smiling. "You didn't hear yesterday?" He shrugs. "I did…I just thought it was a rumor." She nods sighing because she was really getting sick of people saying that.
She frowns as she looks up at him. "Are you going to give me a hug or what man?" Tyler laughs lightly as he pulls her to him and she smiles wrapping her arms around him tightly taking a deep breath because man…did it feel good to be home.
There was a pounding at her bedroom door that night; Adele lay back in bed staring up at the glow in the dark stars a small smile on her face. "Adele! I know you're in there, open the door!" Adele took a deep breath her smile widening as she let it out. "You can't ignore me forever Adele!" Adele rolled her blue eyes, of course she couldn't ignore her forever and she wasn't planning on it. She was just tired and she didn't feel like having the conversion she played over and over in her head, because she knew how it would go.
~x~
Family Ties
Adele smiles as she steps up to the Lockwood family, Carol's eyes widening. "Adele!" She shirks as Tyler and Mayor Lockwood smile. Adele returns Carol's tight hug before turning to the guys. "It's good to see you back and safe Adele." Adele smiles softly at Mayor Lockwood. "Come on, I'll show you to the drinks." Carol took her hand and led her towards the back. "That is a lovely dress by the way, where did you get it?" Adele smiles. "It was a gift."
Damon spots the blonde has he's walking towards Stefan and Caroline. She was just past the dance floor, talking with a few others. He hardly notices when Elena asks Stefan to dance and they walk off leaving him with Caroline his eyes locked on the blonde across the dance floor. After a few minutes of watching her he turns to Caroline. "Who is that?" Caroline glances at him before turning to look. "Oh that's Adele Gilbert." Caroline took a sip from her glass her eyes widening as she looks back over. "Oh my god! Adele!"
Caroline rushes threw the dance floor, over to the laughing blonde as she throws her arms around her. "You're alive!" Adele's laugh fills the night air, and the sound was almost angel like. "I called you not too long ago…of course I'm alive." Caroline nods pulling away. "I know but I was still worried, I heard the rumor about you being back and I got SO excited, but you know how rumors are I couldn't be too sure they were true, I was going to call you and ask but that whole thing that happened with Mr. Tanner…" Adele smiles softly up at her best friend. "What?" Caroline asks her grin wavering slightly. "Nothing…I just missed you and your obsessive talking."
Caroline smiles before turning and glancing up at Damon as Elena and Stefan are walking up. "Adele…" Adele's blue eyes glance over and she sighs. "You've been avoiding me haven't you?" Adele nods. "No of course not." She smirks at her sister as Caroline snickers. "You think your real funny. Do you really think you can just waltz back in here and be treated the same?" Adele raises an eyebrow at her sister. "You wonder why I was avoiding you…" She mutters and Caroline is seeing the change in Adele. "Elena…can you…." Caroline doesn't finish her question before Elena cuts her off. "How can you even come back here and act like everything is normal? Like nothing happened?"
"I'm not acting like nothing happened Elena…" Elena cut her off. "Yes you are." Adele stepped forward a slow, quiet growl rumbling through her chest that made everyone around excluding Damon take a step back. "I'm not acting like nothing happened Elena. Mom and Dad died, there dead, gone and I've come to terms with that. I'm moving on, like I know mom and dad would have wanted. Just because there gone Elena doesn't mean the world stops spinning, it's time to move on Elena. Get over yourself." Her once sweet voice was emotionless, and there was an edge of darkness to it that had Damon wanting to know this girl even more.
As the blonde pushes past Elena everyone is left staring after her. Elena glances around her as eyes turn to her before straitening her back with her head held high and walking off in the other direction. Damon found that once again he is tempted to follow her and when Caroline calls his name he realizes that he had acted without thinking as he started in the direction the blonde (they said her name was Adele) had gone.
When he found her she was sipping from a glass of wine standing just at the end of the bar. Making his way over, he ordered a drink before turning to her and he almost took a step back as he found her blue eyes were watching his every move. "May I help you?" She asks and for a second he forgets how to speak.
"Caroline's boyfriend right? Damon Salvatore?" Damon nods and gives her a lazy grin. "That was harsh back there…" She scoffs facing forward. "I didn't say anything that wasn't true, she knows me…she knows my temper but she chooses to push me." Damon nods picking up the glass the bar tender sets in front of him taking a sip. "So you and Elena are…" Adele turns to fully face him. "Twins…" Damon doesn't miss the bitter tone of her voice as she explains to him that she's older by 4 minutes.
"You don't sound too thrilled about it." She sighs. "No offence, but I'm not talking about this with you. I can tell just by the look of your face that you are a drama starter." She finishes off the glass of wine in her hand before placing it on the bar and walking away. Damon smirks as she watches her; he could tell already…she was going to be fun.
~x~
Adele pauses in the door way of the bathroom as she spots Elena and Caroline reapplying make up. She started to turn around to walk back out but was stopped as Elena looks at Caroline. "What is that?" Out of curiosity Adele turns back to watch Elena reach for the scarf around Caroline's neck but Caroline shrugs her off. Adele frowns; she didn't even notice the scarf earlier, since when did Caroline wear scarfs?
Elena being who she is didn't take the hint and pulled up the scarf up revealing to them a bite mark that had started to burse. "Oh my god! Caroline what happened?" Caroline pushes Elena's hands away. "It's nothing okay?" Elena looks on in disbelief before she remembers how to talk. "That is not nothing, did somebody hurt you?"
"No! Okay…it's nothing." Adele wasn't the only one to notice that Caroline responded just a little too fast. Caroline leans forward, fixing her lip gloss as she mutters to herself. "My mother would kill me." And Adele's blue eyes widen slightly, because that statement just said it all.
Elena pushes the white sweater Caroline is wearing down revealing another disturbing bite mark and Adele's frown deepens. "Did Damon hurt you?" Elena's the one who voices what's going through Adele's head because Adele is just a bit too stunned to say anything. It was like a puzzle coming together in her mind.
"No…of course not." Caroline swallows thickly as Elena reaches for her again. "Just leave me alone Elena!" Caroline grabs her stuff and Adele steps out of her way as she's putting the pieces together. Stefan and Damon Salvatore should have died in 1864, Stefan's non response to Tyler's punch, the quick healing and the bite marks that may or may not be from Damon, plus it was rare for a mountain lion to stroll into the middle of town and attack only the couch of the football team and from what Adele as picked up the attacks started just after Stefan arrived in town.
Adele glances at Elena before going after Caroline. "Caroline!" Caroline stops because Adele was her best friend and if anyone would believe her it was her. "He didn't hurt me I swear." Adele nods holding up her hands. "Okay…he didn't hurt you. If that's what you say, then he didn't hurt you." Caroline nods. "He didn't." Adele smiles softly not wanting to scare her already frightened best friend. "Want to get a drink?" Caroline nods.
Adele places the drink in front of Caroline and Caroline looks at it before laughing. "Is it fruity?" Adele smiles and nods. "The bar tender wouldn't give me anything stronger, because in his words: he shouldn't even be giving me this." Caroline's laugh rises in volume and Adele laughs as well. "God I've missed you." Caroline mutters as takes a sip of the fruity drink in front of her.
A drink and a half later and Adele is frowning when Damon steps into the middle of them looking down at her. "I'm sorry to intrude but may I speak to Caroline real fast?" Just over Damon's shoulder Adele could make out the pleading look Caroline sends her way. "Well you know I kind of have questions…" Damon places a hand on her shoulder but snaps it back when the skin to skin connect sends tingles up his arms and she almost gasps at the same feeling. Her eyes are wide as she looks up at him.
For a moment he's not sure what to do, but touching her wasn't an option not at this point in time. "I have to talk to her first." He mutters and slowly his pupils dilate. "You're not going to follow us, you're going to turn in the other direction and walk away." Her eyes are still wide as she looks up into his icy blue orbs and she slowly nods.
He grips Caroline's arm in his vise like grip before dragging her away towards the back of the house and it takes Adele a couple seconds to snap out of her dazed state. A slow smirk forms on her pink lips as she watches them disappear. Her puzzle was just completed thanks to one Damon Salvatore but that was the least of her worries as she realizes that he just ran off with her best friend and he didn't seem to happy. Making sure the bottom of her dress wouldn't trip her she runs towards the back of the house.
She spots Damon dragging Caroline down the steps at the very back of the yard and she curses, before her eyes spot Elena and Stefan as Stefan is walking off and she curses louder because she knows that Elena probably said something to Damon and this wasn't going to end too well if someone didn't stop him, did she plan to be the one to stop him? If she very much had to which probably wouldn't end well for her but as long as Caroline was okay that didn't matter.
Her heels made it difficult to run in the grass but Adele has had enough practice to pull it off and she can see Damon and Caroline. It looked like she was a bit too late but as she spots Stefan walking up from the darkness and Damon letting go of Caroline as he fell to the side choking (It looks like at least) she almost sighs in relief because Stefan only checks on Caroline before disappearing with Damon.
Adele is frozen for a moment before she realizes that Caroline is standing up and she rushes forward. "Caroline!" She calls as she's coming closer and Caroline turns to her. "Are you okay?" Adele trails off as she reaches Caroline and Caroline nods. "Yeah…I'm fine." Adele swallows back tears as she watches tears fall down her best friend's cheeks. "Caroline…" Caroline nods once more. "I'm fine." Adele shakes her head. "Caroline you're shaking, come here." Adele brings Caroline to her and tightly wraps her arms around. "Everything is going to be okay." Adele's eyes cast a glance over to where Stefan and Damon had disappeared. Something terribly wrong was going to happen…Adele could feel it.
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