A/N- This is the second part of the fic. So if anyone is interested in this story please let me know, coz I didn't get many reviews for the last chapter, so if you want me to continue leave a review saying so or I'll just concentrate on my other stories. This one is shorter coz I wanted to end that way! Give me ideas on how to go ahead on this if you have any coz I haven't thought of it. I'm not so sure that people are liking it so I'm slightly confused. REVIEW tc...

Stefan/Caroline/Damon

This love

Chapter 2

Caroline twirled around a full 360 degrees taking in her surroundings, it was all posh and swanky and much more Damon's style than Stefan, but hell she hadn't seen him in 7 years maybe his tastes changed. She collapsed onto the plush and oh so soft leather couch exhausted and watched as Stefan climbed in and settled in the seat opposite her, watching her like she was a deranged dog who was going to go loco on the unsuspecting townsfolk or in this case, the petite stewardess.

"So... a private jet?" she asked and he smiled

"Fastest thing I could find" he replied nodding at the stewardess to let her know that they were ready to take off.

As soon as the plane took its flight she launched into her well rehearsed speech

"Maybe we shouldn't tell Klaus the deal exactly like that" she started and he looked at her confused so she ploughed on "Maybe not blurt out to him 'I'll join you if you save Caroline'..."

"Then what do you suggest?"

"Just tell him that I got bitten and we would like his blood and are prepared to pay for it" she suggested and he cocked a brow

"We're not buying drugs Caroline... and this is not some pimp this is Klaus, let me do the talking" Stefan said sternly and she sighed

"At least see if there is any other way than you having to give yourself over to Klaus Stefan" she pleaded

"He will want only that..."

"What if he wants something else?"

"Like what?" Stefan asked angrily, he didn't like the fact that she was trying to hard to save him. Couldn't she just take the blood and leave him be in his misery.

"I don't know Stefan" she screamed back "At least try... just don't give yourself over on a platter"

"Why do you care so much?" he snarled at her and she threw her hands in the air

"When did I ever act like I don't care about you?" she said exasperatedly

"The second you fell in love with my brother" he hissed back, his eyes darkening as he clenched his hands into fists and slammed them on his thighs

A small 'Oh' left her mouth as she fell back on the couch, bending her body as back as much as possible and closing her eyes in pure disbelief. This was not happening; this is what she was always afraid of, that look in Stefan's eyes the disappointment that she hadn't waited for him. Then she felt herself get angry, he had told her to forget him, to not look for him... to just pick up the love she felt for him and shove it aside. And now he had the audacity to be angry at her for doing exactly as he said

"You broke me..." she said softly trying to control her tears "You told me that I had to let you go... you have no right to judge me for how I chose to mend what you broke"

"You didn't have to make it so easy" he said looking down at his feet afraid to look her in the eyes

"You think it was easy?" she said with a sarcastic laugh and he jerked his head up at her crazy laughter "You have no idea... no idea how hard it was Stefan... I loved you more than anything, you were my everything and you just left me..."

"I had to leave..."

"Whatever... the point is I was alone and Damon was there and if you think I jumped into his bed the next month then I am disgusted by you Stefan" she said seriously and he shook his head

"That's not what I meant..." he said sincerely "I know you didn't just get with Damon like that..."

"It took me a year and half... yes Stefan that long" she replied laughing when he looked shocked at her reply "It took me that long to not be completely consumed by... or the lack of you. And I fought Damon the whole way too"

"Why?" Stefan asked curiously

"Why... why?" Caroline barked "Coz I didn't what to be that girl who was in love with two brothers... I didn't want to be another Elena..."

"You were nothing like Elena..." he butt in her

"I didn't want to fall for Damon... but I just couldn't help fall in love with I had no control, I didn't want to hurt you or him and I knew I would hurt both you if I fell for him" she confessed staring at her fingers

"Because you won't be able to choose" he offered and she scowled at him and made a noise of disbelief

"I said I'm not Elena and I won't be. I made my choice, when I was with you I loved you with all my heart and I cared about Damon and now that I'm with Damon I love him with all my heart and I... I-I care for you..." she stated stuttering a bit and he picked up on her uncertainty

"No... You love me" he asserted and she scrunched her eyes close tightly choosing to ignore to endorse or ignore that fact

"And this..." she said waving a hand between them "It hurts both of you... and that kills me"

"It's all my fault" he said shaking his head, self-contempt dripping from every letter "If I had more control..."

"Then you wouldn't have left..." she finished his sentence for him putting her legs up on the couch and crossing her arms in front of her chest.

He laughed softly and glanced at her a long time before saying what he had wanted for so long "But if I hadn't left Damon and you probably..." he trailed off leaving her to contemplate the implication.

His question was met only by silence, a stoic silence as she stared ahead of her barely twitching a muscle. She didn't want to answer that question; she didn't know how to answer that question.

"Aren't you happy I left Caroline" he asked in a demanding voice staring at her with those numbing grayish green eyes and she sighed and looked down at her lap.

"I don't know" she took the easier route. Without quite saying the words, he was asking her to choose between him and Damon. If he hadn't left she wouldn't have seen that side of Damon that left her with no choice but to fall hard for him. She finally understood Elena's plight, though the brunette used it to her advantage and Caroline would never do that yet, she could see how hard this was. But Stefan decided that he wasn't going to let it go... he needed to know, here she was telling him in very many words how crazy in love she was with his brother but at the same time not saying that she no longer cared for him.

"Me or Damon Caroline?" he asked firmly

She turned to give the filthiest look she could muster and returned back to staring into space, clasping her hands together tightly no doubt controlling the urge to want to wring his neck.

"I need to know Caroline... I couldn't stop following you, even though you were with... I just had to be near you... and from the looks of it, you knew and didn't mind" he pressed and she sighed and turned to look at him so seriously that he knew that she was going to answer him, it would either break his heart or make it soar into the clouds.

"Klaus is hot right?" she said and he blinked "I think I'm done with Salvatore's, yes I think I'll fall in love with Klaus... I can tell there's a smoking body below those beige and grey t-shirts" she added adamantly hugging herself tighter and throwing a smile at Stefan as if to say 'does that answer your question'

He burst out laughing shaking his head at her answer. Only Caroline would say something like that... but he was glad in a way, despite his desperation he really wasn't ready to know the real answer yet.

"Just answer me this honestly Care" he said softly and she turned to look at him expectantly, she could never say no when he used her pet name "Would you still have loved me?" he added a little shyly

"Without a doubt" she replied in an instant

He closed his eyes and sighed deeply as he hung his head. This was the answer he was afraid of.

"My my my... I thought it would be decades before I see your face again Stefan" Klaus commented happily as his minion ushered in Stefan and Caroline into his sprawling estate.

Stefan merely grunted in response and put a hand out to keep Caroline steadily behind him.

"This must be the lovely Caroline" Klaus continued unperturbed by Stefan's rudeness and taking a step towards their direction. Stefan immediately stepped sideways in front of Caroline and Klaus pouted and chuckled

"Do you think you can protect her from me by standing in front of her?" he mocked and Stefan had to control his eye roll.

Caroline decided that she wasn't going to play the damsel in distress anymore, people had always underestimated her and right not she saw right through Klaus. He may be the devil himself, but he was still a man and more importantly he was about a million years old... respect was very important to them.

She stepped in front of Stefan before he could hold her back and extended her hand out to Klaus "Caroline..." she said and he raised a brow but shook her hand nonetheless and even bent down to kiss her hand softly.

"I have heard a lot you Caroline" Klaus said as he let go of her hand, in his silky British accented voice "Granted though, they were tid-bits from the mouth of a very heartbroken and drunk Stefan... though I got the gist about you darling" he added a wink jokingly giving Stefan a pointed glare and Caroline smiled in response

"So what brings you to my humble abode" Klaus asked conversationally turning around with his arms wide indicating his very non humble abode "The last I heard you and the other Salvatore were heading towards wedded bliss, or did you manage to change that brother" he added wickedly turning his gaze from Caroline to Stefan who growled at him

"Don't call me that..." Stefan snarled

"How did you know..." Caroline asked confused but Klaus cut her off

"That you and the other brother were sickeningly mushy, well my men have been following you for years sweetheart" Klaus said sweetly and Caroline looked at Stefan perplexed and he lowered his head to look at his feet.

"Keeping you safe and very much alive was one of Stefan's terms" Klaus said sensing Caroline's confusion and she whipped around to look at him astonished but Stefan gave her a not 'now look' so she dropped it. Her mind suddenly jumped to that one time in Medellin when some blonde vampire had saved her and Damon's life.

"Did you come here to play 20 questions or is there an actual purpose?" Klaus asked again in a bored tone and Caroline looked at Stefan who nodded slowly gulping hard

Taking his cue, she slowly lifted her top a little and showed the bite to Klaus who simply smiled and shook his head and turned to look at Stefan incredulously

"How do you always mange to end up in these scenarios Stefan?" he mocked and Stefan couldn't stop the small smile that crept up on him. He was so right; he always ended up in some drama like this

"So you want to me heal her and in exchange..." Klaus began looking expectantly at Stefan but Caroline was too fast for him

"And in exchange we'll do whatever you..." she began

"Not we" Stefan pressed in a growl "I... I will come back and do as you say" he added turning to face Klaus determinedly

Klaus merely stared at him and clasped his hands together, walking back a few steps resting his back on his study table and looked at Stefan with an amused smile.

"What..." Stefan asked angrily

"I do not want control over you Stefan" Klaus said seriously and Stefan snorted but he ignored it and continued "I wanted you to be my friend... like you were at one point"

"I was never your friend" Stefan snapped back and Klaus sighed

"You can say it, but we both know that's it's not true"

Caroline was just utterly lost staring from one man to the other

"Even if I was your friend... I can never be your friend ever again" Stefan said haughtily

"Why not?" Klaus inquired and Stefan laughed

"Because... you ruined my life. You took away any chance I had of being happy, when you awoke that monster I had worked so hard to suppress and and... Because of that, because of you I had to leave..." Stefan mumbled angrily running a hand through his hair, while Klaus just looked amused "And I lost everything" he concluded sadly glancing at Caroline and she looked down at her feet, knowing that he was talking about having to walk out on her.

"Is that so?" Klaus asked simply

"Yes... That's so" Stefan spat back

"Well I guess I'll have to do something about that now won't I" Klaus said somberly placing his hand out to Caroline asking her to come over and Stefan nodded at her again and she moved to Klaus's side and winced when he lifted her shirt up suddenly running his smooth fingers over the bite

"Nasty little things aren't they..." Klaus commented but placed her shirt back but kept his hand put around her waist and she closed her eyes in anticipation, anything could happen now... it could all end now.

"You say I'm not your friend Stefan" Klaus said menacingly as he bit into his wrist and tilted his head to look at Stefan in mock hurt and thrust his wrist into Caroline's mouth and Stefan sighed in relief...she was going to live, she was going to be fine.

"You say I ruined your life... by making you lose your precious Caroline" Klaus continued as Caroline fed on his elixir feeling it healing her aching body. When he was sure it was enough he pulled his wrist away and she whimpered slightly, it tasted so sweet.

"I'll show you how good of a friend I am Stefan" Klaus added still holding onto Caroline's waist and moving his other hand to tangle in her hair and force her to look at him and smiled a wolfy grin at her... and she gulped in fear as Stefan's eyes widened "I ruined your life... well then it's just fair that I fix it too then" he added and Caroline got lost in his baby blue eyes forgetting everything else

Stefan screamed as he realized what Klaus was going to do, but he was too late it didn't take Klaus even a flick of a wrist to send Stefan flying across the room as he got to work on Caroline.

A week

Seven days

168 hours

10,080 minutes

And many more agonizing seconds Damon had waited for Caroline and Stefan to return. But they were yet to be back, and now he was just about starting to lose his sanity. The first day he got drunk, and was very silly and rude when she called to speak to him before going to meet Klaus promising to call once they were done.

But she never did and that scared Damon so he never dared to call back just got numbingly drunk again. Good thing alcohol was cheap in Andaman.

Then the guilty conscience took over and he started to contact witches to help search for them, no one was able to... so he got drunk again.

A day back Stefan had called him from his phone not Caroline's and Damon had been to chicken to pick it up. He figured his brother was calling either to tell him that the plan didn't work and that Caroline was dead or that she was fine but she wanted to stay with Stefan. Both ways Damon would end up doing the same thing... so he jumped the step of calling Stefan back and directly got drunk.

At the 10,081 minute he was lying in their bed twirling a bottle of bourbon when he heard the front door click open and anger surged through his body. Anger at everything and he sped out screaming all the way determined to vent his frustrations through

"It has been an entire fucking week..."

He came to a stop when he caught sight of the two of them in the living room and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Caroline was perfectly fine, she was cured. He merely nodded at his brother who was widening his eyes at him attempting to communicate something but Damon was too concentrated on Caroline to pay any attention to him. He walked straight to her putting his arms around her and pulling her in for a hug and she laughed as she hugged him back... he had missed that laugh.

She pulled back from their embrace with that same beautiful smile and kissed him on the cheek and that surprised him a bit but he didn't comment "I'm fine Damon... Stefan would never have let anything happen to me" she said softly trying to reassure him. And as happy as he was that she was fine, he didn't like the confidence with which she spoke of Stefan but he had more important things right now.

"Never do that again Barbie" Damon said seriously holding her face in his hands and she laughed again and nodded her head and he bend down to kiss her and she froze on his lips

"Damon don't..." Stefan said warningly from behind and Damon was beyond pissed at that but he was much more concerned with the fact that Caroline was completely frozen against his lips almost as if she didn't want to kiss him back

"Caroline..." he whispered unsurely pulling back from her to look at her intently and she looked visibly upset

"Please don't Damon..." she said pleadingly and he just blinked at complete loss for words "I just got cured and I just got Stefan back... can't we stop the games just for a while"

"What are you talking about?" he asked dazedly with a nervous smile... she was scaring him

"I have told you a hundred times Damon, we are just friends" Caroline said exasperatedly "I love Stefan... Stefan" she repeated enunciating his name

"No... no, no" Damon mumbled now on the verge of losing his mind "You love me" he added aggressively grabbing her face forcefully ignoring the wince of pain at the sudden movement

"Yes I do Damon... but" she said sweetly

"No... No but. There is no but Caroline. .me" Damon half screamed into her face and she shook her head furiously tears falling freely

"Damon please... I need to talk to you" Stefan insisted determinedly from behind and Damon just shook his head in desperation.

"Damon I'm tired and I've been through so much, I can't do this with you again. I told you I would always care for but it doesn't change..." she cried trying to free herself from him but he just held on tighter mumbling incoherently under his breath

"Damon let her go please... you're hurting her" Stefan said firmly and Damon let go at that and she just stumbled back a bit looking at him sadly before turning her gaze to Stefan

"I'm going to bed..." she said simply before giving another glance to Damon "Are you coming?" she turned looking at Stefan and saw as Damon flinched involuntarily

Stefan smiled at her and said something about needing a minute to speak to Damon; she just nodded and went inside.

As soon as Caroline shut the bedroom door Damon had Stefan pinned to the wall screaming and snarling his fangs in his face

"What did you do..." he screamed like a mad man and Stefan didn't even try to fight him back as he kept saying it wasn't him... but Damon wasn't listening he just kept yelling and screaming until Stefan raised his voice over his and yelled

"It wasn't me... it was Klaus"

That stopped Damon right in his tracks as he looked at Stefan questioningly

"He compelled her Damon... I'm so sorry I didn't want this. He-he compelled her to forget what happened with you and her over the last seven years"

Damon jerked his head up to look at Stefan with desperation and disbelief in his eyes and Stefan had to turn his gaze away from his brother.

"He-just..." Stefan mumbled as Damon slowly staggered back towards the couch "He compelled her to think that she waited for me these past 7 years and you were only her friend... and and that she never fell in love with you... so so that means..." Stefan shook his head clinging onto his hair worriedly unable to finish the sentence

"She's still in love with you" Damon finished his sentence for him in a hush as he fell onto the couch... his eyes brimming with tears and hopelessness

"I'm so sorry Damon... I tried to get him to change it... but but" Stefan tried to explain hastily but it was clear Damon wasn't listening to a thing.

"I'm just not meant to happy am I?" Damon whispered with a small dark laugh and Stefan closed his eyes when he felt the undercurrents of the intense pain hidden in his brother. This is not what he had wanted

Both brothers winced when they heard the soft and definite crying voice of Caroline calling for Stefan from inside. Stefan turned to Damon, wanting to explain so many things... but this was not the time so he mumbled another sorry and went into the bedroom, he had Caroline to take care of at this moment, she must be confused as hell.

Damon pushed his head between his hands as he repeated the same words in his head that had been occurring with too much frequency these past days

This is not happening. This is not happening. This is not happening.

But it was coz after all Damon Salvatore and love was a disaster waiting to happen.