Hello everyone!So here is the Gilbert Sister story that I promised you! I am very excited for this story and if you have any ideas or suggestions for this story, please review! And also check out my other story, The Salvatore Sister!
Character Profile:
Was in the car with Elena and her parents when they drove off the bridge. She and Elena are both adopted, and their birth parents are Isobel and John Gilbert.
Appearance: Identical to Katherine and Elena. Has curly hair and wears outfits like Katherine's
Relationship Status: Single, Likes Damon, but has a weird bond with Stefan. Dated Tyler before her parents died.
The Return
I walked up to my front door with my keys in one hand and my phone in the other. "I looked everywhere." I sighed. "What do you think, someone stole it?" My best friend, and sister's boyfriend asked. "Yeah, someone definitely took my stuff." "Want us to pick you up?" He asked me. I knew he was with Elena, so I replied, "Yeah I just gotta check on Jeremy before I go to the hospital. Can you guys meet me there?" "You bet." "Okay, thank you Stefan." "Your welcome, Erin." Stefan hung up and I walked inside my house. I looked up the staircase and called, "Jeremy? You up?" I heard a noise in the kitchen and I walked in to see mine and my twin sister, Elena's, biological father wounded on the floor.
I gasped and ran to help him. I put a towel over his wounds and dialed the phone. "911 what's your emergency?" "Hi. I-I need an ambulance to uh 2104 Maple Street." John was breathing heavily and was staring at something. "What?" I asked. "Behind you." I gasped and turned around to see nothing. I picked up the knife that was on the floor just in case. I stood up and looked around the house for anyone. I heard movement behind me, so I turned around. The vampire ran out the door of the house and I was a little shaken as I realized who was upstairs. "Jeremy." I breathed and sprinted up the staircase. Bursting into his room, I found him on the bed unconscious. I yelled his name and started shaking him. "Please, Jeremy wake up!" My brother gasped and awoke.
The ambulances came and pulled John out on a stretcher as Stefan walked through the door. The paramedic stopped him and I gave him the clear to let my best friend in. He embraced me and we then jogged up the stairs. "What happened?" Stefan asked me. "He said that Anna gave him her blood and then he took these pills now, I mean he looks fine, but then again so do you. So, I just- I don't know." I rambled on as Stefan looked at Jeremy. "I feel fine," Jeremy complained. "Should I call a paramedic up here, what should I do?" I questioned Stefan.
"No, no he's fine." Stefan concluded and I immediately felt relieved. "You mean I'm not a vampire? Damn it!" Jeremy snapped. I stared at him, my jaw dropped open. "Don't say that Jer, why would you want that?" Jeremy gaped at me, "Did you hear about Anna, about what happened tonight? She's dead." "Jeremy, Jeremy. Come here, sit down." Stefan pushed my brother onto the bed and held his face in place so that he was looking into Stefan's eyes. "I am so very sorry about Anna, but it's very important that you listen to me right now. With every passing moment, Anna's blood is leaving your system, so if you try to kill yourself right now, you could really die." I could tell that Jeremy was not listening at all to what Stefan was saying, so Stefan slapped him a little.
"Hey, do you understand me?" Stefan raised his voice at my brother. "Stefan," I warned him. "Yeah, I understand." Stefan then let go of Jeremy's face and said, "Good." I glanced at Jeremy and asked Stefan, "What about the pills he took?" "He didn't take enough to die, so the blood actually healed him of that." It was silent for a moment before there was a knocking at the door. "Miss Gilbert?" The paramedic said. "Um, I'll be right there." I assured him. Stefan faced me and stated, "You need to be at the hospital." I sent him a questioning look and started, "But-" "No, no. I'll stay here with Jeremy." I nodded, thankful that Stefan was willing to stay with my brother and watch out for him. "No, I don't need a babysitter." Jeremy argued, I rolled my eyes and stated, "Yes, you do."
I found Bonnie and Elena in the hallway of the hospital. "Guys, how's Caroline?" I asked them. "Not great...they don't know if she's going to make it." I put my hand over my mouth and Elena and Bonnie both hugged me. I retracted myself from them as Elena turned to Bonnie, "Is there something you can do? Like a spell or something?" My twin asked. "She doesn't know how. Do you?" I heard a voice behind us say. I turned to see Damon walking towards us. Bonnie looked down and replied, "No. I don't." Elena put her hands on her head and I rubbed her back. "no, you don't. Because it took Emily years to learn a spell like that." Damon rubbed it in to Bonnie.
I sighed, tired of all the drama and fighting. "I can take down a vampire, that spell was easy to learn." Bonnie goaded him. Damon turned to me with concerned eyes, "I can give Caroline some blood." I shook my head, "No, no way." I refused. "Just enough to heal her, she'll be safe here in the hospital, and it'll be out of her system in a day. She'll be better, Erin." I stared back at him, "It's too risky, I can't agree to that!" "Do it." Both Bonnie and Elena answered. My head snapped towards them as they gave me desperate looks, "This is Caroline. Okay? We can't let her die." Elena said. "Do it," Bonnie ordered Damon.
Damon pointed at Bonnie and offered, "If I do this, you and me, we call a truce." Damon smirked, but it dropped when Bonnie replied, "No, but you'll do it anyways, for Erin." Woah! Getting super awkward in here! I looked at both Bonnie and Elena and nodded, giving them the signal that I was okay with it. Bonnie then walked away from us, and Damon glared at Elena like he did not want her there. Elena would not budge though, she knew where she was not wanted. Damon gave up and turned to me, "Look, I know this is the last thing you want to do right now, but we should talk about what happened tonight." I nodded and told him, "Yeah, one of the tomb vampires got into the house and almost killed John."
Both Elena and Damon were taken back by this and exclaimed, "what?!" Damon then continued and asked, "When? what are talking about, after I left?" I furrowed by brow in confusion and questioned, "You were there?" I looked at Elena and she just shrugged. "C'mon Erin you know I was." Damon said. "When were you at the house?" I questioned him, totally confused at what game he was trying to play with me. "Really? Earlier...on the porch...talking...cathartic feelings...we kissed Erin!" I rolled my eyes and looked at Elena who was partly intrigued at the conversation, "Alright Damon, I don't have time for this." I started to walk away with Elena, but Damon grabbed my arm. "If you want to forget about it, fine. But I can't."
"Elena, Erin. I came as soon as I got your message, how's John?" Jenna interrupted our little pow wow. "Where have you been?"Elena asked her. Jenna looked confused as I nodded. "At the fire department, I had to fill out a report. I told you earlier, Erin." She accused me. I looked at her like she had three heads, "No you didn't." "Yes, I did." "No, Jenna you didn't." "Yes I did." We looked at each other stubbornly, I swore she did not tell me this, I did not even see her when I went to the house. "Oh...you've got to be kidding me!" Damon exclaimed. He gave me a 'we'll talk about this later' look and walked away. Elena and I both told Jenna that we would come back later, and we followed Damon out of the hospital and to the car.
The car ride was silent and we raced home. I walked into my house to find Stefan on the floor. "Stefan?" Elena asked. "Elena, Erin." He stated, I looked around at my trashed living room which I probably would have to clean up. "What happened?" I asked. Damon answered my question by saying, "Katherine happened." I was wide eyed as he said that, and my worst nightmare came true.
"Did she say what she wanted?" Damon asked. "No," Stefan responded. I had just informed Elena of what happened with Jeremy, so she decided to tell him everything. I knew that Jeremy and Elena needed some time together to mend their broken relationship, so I let Elena tell him. "Woman certainly knows how to make an entrance." Damon muttered. Stefan put on his brooding face and asked, "She said she fooled one of us at least, what does that-what does that mean?" "She pretended to be Erin too when I showed up earlier tonight." Just then, Elena entered the kitchen and told us all that she informed Jeremy of everything that happened. We can't lie to him anymore.
"I just thought with all the tomb vampires gone, things would get better." I whispered, knowing that they all could hear me. Stefan tried to comfort me by side hugging me and saying, "Me too." "Katherine's been in this house, which means she's been invited in. What are we gonna do?" Elena asked, with panic and worry in her voice. "Move." Damon concurred. I rolled my eyes and mustered up some attitude, "Very helpful, thanks." "If Katherine wants you dead, there is zero you can do about it, you will be dead. But you're not, so clearly she has other plans." Damon replied. "We need to find out what those plans are and not provoke her in the process." Stefan said, clearly meaning Damon. I removed myself from Stefan's embrace and sat down at the table.
"What happened tonight when you thought she was Erin?" Stefan questioned Damon. Damon, with his mouth gaped like a fish, finally came up with an answer. "To risk another frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead...We kissed." Stefan's jaw clenched and confusion set into me, "And you thought it was me?" I asked him. "What do you mean you kissed?" Stefan said in a deadly tone. "You know, when two lips puck and they go *smooching sound*" Stefan flashed towards Damon, but Damon appeared right next to me. "Don't be obvious Stefan, your girlfriend is right there."
Stefan walked towards Damon and I shot up and got in the middle of them. "Hey, Stefan. He kissed Katherine, not me. I wouldn't do that." Elena stared at me and Stefan, trying to decipher what was going on between us. I sighed, "We don't have time for this guys." Elena nodded, agreeing with me. I looked at her with an unspoken communication that said 'later'. Stefan and Damon seemed to have the same thing, but Stefan just stated, "Later." "John must know something, there has to be a reason why she would kill him." Elena deduced, she really was good to have around. Nice thinking twin!
"She's Katherine! She loves to play games, and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what she planning before she wants you to know." Damon sneered, I really did not know what his true feeling for her were, or even his true feelings for me. "Actually, Elena's right. John could know something through Isobel." Stefan defended my sister, he really confused me also. "Your mother was involved with Katherine so maybe we could go to the hospital and get him to talk." Stefan offered me and Elena. "I have a better idea." Damon stated, and I turned my head to look at him. "And what's that?" I snapped. "I'm just gonna ignore the bitch...and you're especially feisty today, I like it." Damon winked at me and I rolled my eyes. He just had to put in a flirty little comment and the eye thing which I told him not to do a few hours ago.
"Is that smart?" Elena asked him. "If she thinks we're ignoring her, it'll lure her out. She'll make a move." Damon explained. "And then what?" Stefan asked again. 'Stake her, rip her head off, something poetic. We'll see." Damon said then walked out. I sighed and faced Elena and Stefan, "You guys go see John, I'll stay here." Elena seemed worried and asked, "Are you sure you're okay?" I nodded and breathed, "Yeah, I'm just processing."
I showed up at the Lockwood's to pay my respects and to see if Tyler was okay. He was still my friend after everything, and I wanted to be there for him. I stood by him while he greeted guests at the front door. We had a random conversation about the new Spiderman movie when we saw a black truck roll up to the front of the house. An incredibly handsome Mason Lockwood stepped out of the car. "So, the black sheep returns." Tyler announced. Mason looked questioningly at Ty and then asked, "Tyler? What happened to you? Last time I saw you, you were 12 years old." Mason said charmingly, I swooned. "Well that's 2 years older than the last time you saw me." The two macho men hugged it out, and then he noticed me.
"Erin? Little Erin Gilbert?" Mason asked me in shock. I nodded and blushed, "Hey Mason." I greeted him. Mason smiled and said, "Wow, you really grew up. So, where's your boyfriend?" I laughed and told him, "I don't have one. And thanks." Tyler rolled his eyes at our flirting and ushered us both inside. I could see Damon talking to Liz, but I ignored him. I really did not want to talk to him right now, so I spent some much needed time with my Lockwoods. We all talked and laughed, with the occasional flirting between myself and Mason.
I then looked over my shoulder to see Damon staring intensely at me with a weird look in in his eyes. Jealousy? No, he couldn't be jealous. He called over Liz who then looked at us as well. I shrugged and let them stare as Mason laughed at one of my jokes. Tyler then excused himself to go back to greeting, but I did not seem to mind. Mason and I kept talking for what felt like seconds, but it was actually for half an hour. I quickly realized what time it was and excused myself to go find my family because they were supposed to meet me here. I found Elena on the front porch with Damon, "Damon, I really want to know how you're doing." Elena told him. "Your sister and I kissed, I thought she kissed me back, doppelganger hijinks ensued, how do you think I'm doing?" Damon answered her. "I think you're hurt." Elena stated bluntly. Jeez, Lena, way to come out with it.
"No, I don't get hurt Elena." Damon argued. "No, you don't admit that you get hurt. You get angry, cover it up, and then you do something stupid." Elena elaborated. "You're scared." Damon implored. "You think Katherine's gonna send me off the deep end, don't you? I don't need her for that." Damon started to walk away after he was greeted with silence by Elena. Suddenly, he turned around and pried, "You know what? Why is it such a surprise that I would kiss Erin?" "That was not a surprise." Elena asserted, and Damon smirked, but it fell when she finished her sentence. "I'm just surprised that you thought she would kiss you back." Damon looked away and said, "Now I'm hurt."
Bonnie then came rushing towards me, "Erin!" I looked at her, concerned, "Bonnie, what happened?"
I looked around the property, trying to find Stefan and Katherine, but I came across with nothing. I ventured into one of the rooms and found Mayor Lockwood's office with Mason and Tyler in it. Mason was handing Tyler a flask when I grabbed it and took a swig. Tyler looked at me curiously, while Mason just looked amused. "Trust me, I could use this right now." Was all I said to them before attempting to head out. Tyler's voice stopped me, "Hey, Gilbert!" I turned around and Ty walked up to me. He hugged me and I wrapped my arms around him for the first time in a long time. Since we dated before my parents died. "Thank you for being here today, you're a good friend." I smiled at him and Mason, Tyler returned the favor and Mason winked at me. I laughed and left the room.
I got a text from Elena shortly after that said
Stefan and Katherine are by the lake, hurry up and get to them. Mrs. Lockwood won't stop talking to me!
-Lena
I sighed and quickly made my way over to the lake to see Stefan on the ground with blood all over his shirt. "We really need to stop meeting like this today." I told him, and he laughed. I used tissues from my purse to clean off the blood, but it wasn't helping that much. "You going to be okay?" I asked my best friend, he nodded and said, "It'll heal." I sighed and countered, "That's not what I meant." Stefan looked down and shook his head. "I was trying to figure her out, I was playing along. I let her get to me." I heard Damon's footsteps behind me, "I tried to track her, but she's gone." He then scrunched his eyes and looked away from Stefan's incredible six pack and complained, "Cover up, Fabio. We've got a crazy ex on the loose. Better watch out, looks like Katherine's trying to steal your sister's guy." Stefan defended himself and muttered, "That's not what's happening." "Isn't it?" Damon sneered and continued, "It's only fair since I went after your best friend."
I groaned, "Not this again! I am going to go check on Elena, Jenna and Jeremy. I'll see you guys when you're done." With that, I got up and walked away. I found them all together, talking to Mrs. Lockwood. I payed my respects and we all went home together.
I changed into my pajamas and walked out of my bathroom. I gasped, frightened for a moment before realizing that it was only Damon sitting on my bed. "You scared me." I stated the obvious. "Just doing my part in the neighborhood watch." He said numbly. "Thanks for looking out for us, for me." I murmured. "That's me, trusty bodyguard, calm in a crisis." Damon quipped, but it sounded different, he slurred his words. "Have you been drinking?" I inquired, wanting to hear what he had to say. Damon motioned with his fingers that he had been drinking, I sighed, knowing what that meant. "And you're upset, that's not a good combination." "No, I'm not upset. Upset is an emotion specific to those who care." I rolled my eyes, he did this all the time with me.
"C'mon Damon, that's a lie. You care." He then turned on me and started putting Elena's words into my mouth. "You're surprised that I thought you would kiss me back. You can't imagine that I'd believe you'd want to." I decided to interrupt him before he went too far. "Damon-" "That what we've been doing here means something." I stayed quiet for a moment and just let him continue because I did not know what to say. "You're the liar, Erin. There is something going on between the two of us and you know it. And you're lying to me, and you're lying to Stefan, and to Elena, but most importantly you're lying to yourself. I can prove it." He attempted to grab my face. but I said no.
I would not be someone's replacement, I was not Katherine. "Damon, don't. What's wrong with you?" I questioned him. "Lie about this, "He ignored my question as he tried to kiss me again. "Stop it, you're better than this, c'mon!" I exclaimed, trying to reach his good side. "That's were you're wrong." He kissed me again, but I tried pushing him back. "Listen, listen Damon! Look, I care about you! I care about you so much, but I can't do this! You're drunk and unstable. I will not be a rebound, Damon. I am not going to be your second choice because I am not Katherine, so don't make me out to be her!"
Just then, Jeremy walked into the room, "What's going on in here?" He asked. "Nothing, Jer. Go back to bed." I told him, not wanting him to be caught in the crossfire of what was an unstable Damon Salvatore. "No, it's not okay, Erin. He wants to be a vampire." Then, Damon holds Jeremy up to the wall and I called, "No! Damon, stop it!" "You want to shut it off? It's the easiest thing in the world! The part of you that cares just goes away. All you have to do is flip the switch and snap!" Damon snapped Jeremy's neck as he said the last word.
"NO!" As my world came crashing down, I could tell that Damon started to sober up. I ran to Jeremy's side, cradling his head in my chest like I did when we were little, and whenever he was sad. I tried shaking him to wake him up, but it did nothing. I balled my eyes out, but I was relieved to see the ring that lay on Jeremy's finger. He would come back. I called Stefan, he would know what to do. He came as fast as he could, entering my room and seeing Jeremy limp in my arms. I told him what happened and he snapped. "It was Katherine, she undid everything that was good about him." I shook my head in disagreement and sobbed, "There's nothing good about him. Stefan, not anymore. He's decided what he wants. He wants to be hated, it's just easier that way. He got his wish. I hate him, Stefan."
Stefan rubbed circles on my arm in a comforting manner and kissed my head. Finally, Jeremy woke up with a gasp. Immediately, Stefan grabbed his face like he did last night and said, "He's okay, he's okay." Relieved, I kissed Jeremy's head and hugged him. "Damon killed me, he killed me." Jeremy repeated. I tried to soothe him by saying, "It's okay, it's okay." And I just gave a relieved smile, my brother was alive.