Disclaimer: If I owned Twilight, The Vampire Diaries or Moonlight I would be a very happy girl. Unfortunately I don't and I just play with their characters
BTW: This is the sequel to 'Vampires Unmasked'. It can be read alone but it would make more sense if you read that one first.
Part 3
After booking his flight - he took a long shower, shaved and headed first to the station to inform his deputies they would hold the fort down for the next week and left for the airport.
He landed in the airport outside Mystic Falls, Virginia just as the sun began to set. He moved to the car dealership straight away to pick the sleek, fast, black car he had rented and headed to town. He decided against calling Liz preferring to surprise her and using the GPS in his car headed to the police station.
He walked inside to find almost everyone crying.
"What the..."
he walked up to a weeping deputy
"Where is sheriff's office?"
The young lad (couldn't have been more than 20) simply pointed to a door on the other side of the lounge area they were now. Charlie thanked him and walked pass the desks to the office. Everyone ignored their tears and watched him like hawks as if he was walking naked with a spotlight trained on him.
He knocked lightly on the almost open door and a sweet voice told him to come inside. He opened the door to find Liz sitting on a small coffee table hugging tightly a young woman in her thirties with caramel colored hair who was weeping while a teenage boy next to her sat upright clearly in shock.
Liz felt a breath or relief pass through her at the man that stepped into her office. She had just finished telling Jenna Sommers how her niece was found dead. She ordered a deputy to take Jenna and Jeremy, her nephew, out for a drink and then home when the cleaning crew had finished. Once they were out of the door, she threw caution and her image to the wind and fell in the waiting arms of the silent stoic man in the corner.
"hello to you too."
Charlie joked
"hey"
"what happened?"
"my animal killings just solved themselves"
Charlie kept one arm around Liz and reached to close the door with his other arm. Its bad enough that the walls were paper thin, they didn't need prying eyes as well. He led the sobbing yet strangely calm Liz to sit on the leather couch in front of the desk.
"What happened Liz"
"Apparently we were wrong. There were not vampire killings"
"What were they?"
"Normal, serial killer"
Liz motioned to the open folder on the coffee desk. Charlie looked at it, a girl around seventeen years old. she didn't look older than Izzie, he shook his head. Was that what Isabella said she did?
"she killed them?"
"yes, she left a note and all and killed herself. Poor thing. Her parents died a few months ago leaving her and her brother and now I had to tell her brother and aunt that she not only committed suicide but she also killed ten people that we know about. I even feel bad about the vampire she framed and we killed. Well that vampire is missing but still"
"I know something about that"
"the missing vampire?"
"yeah. its not missing, after a while they tend to incinerate, ours did"
Charlie thought fast.
Liz seemed relieved.
"I'm sorry I dragged you all the way here"
She said in a small voice trying to ignore the little voice in her head telling her that 'no, she's not sorry at all'.
Charlie heart the regret in her voice but also the crushed hope. he smiled
"Wanna grab dinner?"
Her blinding smile was all he needed to decide that bringing the black striped suit was in fact a great idea
Part 4
Liz and Charlie met up 2 hours later at a restaurant. it was small, in the outskirts of town, overlooking the lake. Liz kept fiddling with her short hair, clearly nervous. Charlie looked equally nervous playing with his wrist watch.
"This is gonna be a disaster"
Lexi said to Bella. They were sitting together on the hood of Bella's rental car. The brunette vampire chuckled and shook her head
"I know. His first attempt to get laid in eighteen years and it's gonna be an epic fail"
"Should we do something?"
"Can I remind you, you're on the run?"
Lexi laughed and took a long swing of her beer enjoying the sun.
The couple on the table were eating their dinner making aimless chit chat, about how Liz knew that she knew Elena growing up and yet at the same time she didn't. She didn't have any distinct memories, trying to ignore the pink elephant in the table. Suddenly the waiter tripped and bathed Liz's sugar colored dress in rose wine. The waiter swore and started apologizing, Liz gasped and Charlie grabbed a wad of paper towels and patted her to help her dry.
"Charlie?"
"Yeah?"
"The wine is on my lap"
"And?"
"You're patting my breasts"
Charlie got beet red realizing he was coping a feel and took his hand away. Liz leapt up and kissed him soundly. The waiter returned a moment later with a new bottle of wine courtesy of the owner. He smiled and snapped a picture of the couple tweeting it.
When the couple came up for air they broke in laughter. from his corner of his eye Charlie saw a winking Isabella before she got in a car and drove away.
Bella and Lexi were laughing the whole drive back to town. They made a pit stop at the morgue, only it was on fire.
"Stefan what are you doing?"
Lexi demanded
"Ending this?"
He said in a questioning tone. Bella rolled her eyes.
"I'm outta here. Keep an eye on the human for me"
Bella said in her business tone. She missed Josef.
"oh and... heads up!"
she called tossing Lexi a small velvet pouch. inside was Katherine's daylight bracelet. Lexi laughed happily and Bella blew her a kiss over her shoulder. It was a well known fact that Lexi loved being a vampire and hated the human life . As she drove out of town and to the airport she received a text from Charlie.
"Thanks kiddo xxx"
"Thanks kiddo xxx"
Charlie sent a text message to Bella before throwing Liz to her bed and joining her for what he hoped to be the first night from many many more.
the end
