AN: There is a bit more Daroline in this chapter than in the past one
Disclaimer: I still don't own TVD
"What are you doing to do?" Caroline thinks about the fact that he didn't really have a reason to help
"The only thing I can do" He smiles gripping the stake tightly and pushing her bangs out of her face "I'm going to kill you"
"Please don't" Caroline begs "I don't want to die"
"Yeah but you're already dead" Damon tries to reason
"No I'm not. Don't say that" the new born vampire starts to panic, she can't be dead she is only seventeen she still had a whole life ahead of her. A big house with a picket fence and 2.5 kids, if having 2.5 kids was even possible. "Okay just help me" she is begging him now
"Okay" Damon nods as she continues to beg him to help her he hugs her tight and positions the stake to plunge in through the back of her heart and kill her quickly
He is quickly ripped away from her by his younger brother Stefan causing Damon to roll his eyes.
"Get away from me" She screams at Elena pushing her away "You killed me"
"No no no, Caroline that wasn't me" Elena tells her "You know that. That was Katherine"
"No" the blonde yells "Then why does she look like you? And why, why did she do this to me?"
"Stefan we need to get her out of here" Elena tells the youngest Salvatore
"Sorry Caroline, come with me" Stefan reaches out his hand to take the blonde's
"She will die" Damon calls out to the group "It's only a matter of time"
"Yeah, maybe so but it's not going to happen tonight" Stefan tells him sternly
"Oh yeah it is" Damon smirks picking up the stake and flashing towards the newly made vampire. Elena jumps in the way though saving her friend.
"Damon, she's my friend" Elena pleads and Damon looks the brunette up and down "You fed her your blood and now she is a vampire. Just give her a chance"
"Whatever happens it's on you" Damon points between his brother's girlfriend and Stefan as he backs away.
"C-caroline? No you're not. You can't be" Bonnie walks up touching her and sees it through the magical connection. Her friend Is dead and a vampire.
"Bonnie" Caroline starts to cry again "oh god Bonnie" the little witch runs away from her though avoiding her touch. Elena pushes her blonde best friend towards Stefan as the older vampire drags her away to get cleaned up.
-YANA-
Stefan takes her helps her in to a bathroom and Caroline walks towards the sink looking at herself in the mirror. "It's alright come here" he grabs a paper towel wetting it down and starting to clean the blood off her face
"She hates me, Bonnie hates me" Caroline cries "And Damon wants me dead"
"No no, she is just in shock we all are. Okay?" he continues to wipe the blood from her mouth
"And what about Matt?" she cries "What am I supposed to do now with Matt"
"Shh. Shh, take a deep breath" the Salvatore tells her "Let's just get this blood cleaned up, come on"
She starts roughly scrubbing the blood off her hands "I-I'm… I'm a murderer" the blood just doesn't seem to want to come off "I'm a monster"
"You're emotions are heightened right now, once the transformation's complete it will be okay, I promise you." He tries to reassure her
"Gah" she spins away from the mirror covering her face with her hands "Why does this keep happening to my face?"
"Caroline look at me" Stefan tells her but she doesn't listen "Caroline, Caroline look at me. Look at my face, look at my face. Shh shh look look" he let's his face transform in to his vampire face showing her that it is okay for her face to do that "You see, you see that?" she nods "When you feel the blood rushing you tell yourself that you're going to get through it. That's you're going to be alright. You're strong enough" she shakes her head but he grabs her face "Yes, yes. No matter how good it feels to give yourself over to it you fight it off you burry it. Watch me, watch me" he lets the veins under his eyes leave his face "Try it"
Caroline thinks about it, she thinks about how much she doesn't want to be a monster and how she can do it. 'Caroline Forbes can do anything' she thinks to herself as her vampire face slowly disappears. She takes deep breaths with Stefan.
"That's good" he holds her face in his hands
"Why did Katherine do this to me?" she asks him and he just shakes his head
"I don't know" he sighs "I wish I did. Hey, hey, I promise you I will not let anything happen to you. Come here" he pulls her in to a hug knowing what it feels like to turn and want to let the blood lust take over your whole being.
They hear Damon, Elena, and Bonnie talking outside the bathroom as Caroline get's herself cleaned up with the help of Stefan. "Why can I hear them?"
"You're hearing is enhanced" he explains
-YANA-
"I can't believe this is happening" Bonnie says out loud to really no one in particular
"come on don't pout about it" Damon throws a shovel over his shoulder "We've got a body to bury" he walks towards Elena "I thought you were calling the shots. No" he sets the shovel on the bed of the truck "Sucks to be you buddy"
Bonnie looks over at him clenching her jaw and Damon falls to the ground screaming from an aneurism. The water turns on and shoots out the hose, running towards the vampire as the witch chants in her head.
"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt" Bonnie tells the man on the ground
"I didn't do this" Damon grits out
"Bonnie it wasn't his fault" Elena turns to her best friend
"Everything that happens is his fault Elena" the witch turns to the doppelganger
"Bonnie what are you doing?" Elena asks as the water slowly makes its way towards the vampire laying on the ground in pain. Then it ignites and the flames start to roll towards him.
"Bonnie stop it" Elena begs "Bonnie"
"I will stop it as soon as he promises to help Caroline and not kill her" Bonnie tells her still keeping her eyes on the raven haired man
"Bonnie stop it" the flames ignite him and he starts to burn "Bonnie stop it you're going to kill him"
"Not until he promises" Bonnie says
"Fine, fine I'll help Barbie just make it stop" Damon screams and the flames die down and then are completely extinguished
-YANA-
"Come on" Stefan puts his arm around Caroline's shoulder "Let's get you home"
"My mom is there, what if I try to kill her" Caroline pleads
"Fine, you can stay at the boarding house tonight" he smiles escorting her towards his house.
When they get there he takes Caroline in to the living room and sits her down "I need to go check on Elena, will you be okay for now? You can use my room it's just down the hall and borrow something to wear, I know it's guys clothes but it will have to be better than these bloody clothes"
"Yeah, go. She might need you we did kind of leave her alone with Damon. And thank you I think I will take a shower" Caroline shakes her head "Why?"
"Why what?" Stefan asks raising his eyebrow
"why does he hate me so much?" Caroline asks him "I mean I know I am kind of insecure and shallow but he spent months with me, feeding on me and compelling me."
"When Damon first came to town he had his emotions turned off and he did a few questionable things, we all do a few things to good people Caroline, it's part of being a vampire. I am sorry that it happened to you though" Stefan tells her
"You should go get your girl" Caroline tells him and he smiles leaving her alone.
She finds Stefans room easily and takes a quick shower before taking a pair of his sweat pants and a hood and putting them on. She hadn't worn sweats since before high school and it felt pretty good. She went back in to the living room and curled up on the corner of the couch.
She sees Damon walk in and pour himself a drink "What the hell are you doing here?" he asks
"Stefan told me I could stay here for the night so I don't kill my mom" She shrugs "I wouldn't drink that" she points to the glass "It burned when I drank it, Jeremy said he put something called vervain in it"
"Jeremy was here?" Damon asks
"Yeah, you don't seem to really lock your front door" she shrugs looking down at her hands "Are you going to kill me, now that no one is here to stop you I mean?"
"No, I made a stupid promise to the judgey little witch that I would teach you how to be a vampire and not kill you" Damon tells her "I am thinking about just letting Stefan do it but I feel like she would know"
She lifts the piece of wood that she has in her hand up "I thought about staking you" she raises it up twirling it between her fingers then throws it towards him
"You thought you could kill me?" Damon cocks his head
"Well it's only fair you did try to kill me first" She look up at him finally "But Stefan was nice to me and it wouldn't be nice to thank him by killing his only brother"
Damon bends down picking up the stake "With death you're wising up"
"My mom is going to hate me, and I'm pretty sure Bonnie already does" the blonde shakes her head "My father left me when I was just a little girl and now I feel like I'm going to lose everyone else"
"Look I don't do this Mentor thing very well" her sire looks at her "Sorry I don't have any cookies or milk to offer you"
"You're such a dick" Caroline hisses standing up and walking towards one of the rooms
"Wait" he sighs "My father hated vampires too"
"He did?" Caroline crosses her arms
"He was a vampire hunter. He hated them so much that he shot both me and my brother" Damon smirks holding up the stake "though in 1864 people knew how to widdle" Caroline laughs slightly "Did you do this?"
"Yeah I tried, it's a little harder than it looks" Caroline shrugs thinking back to how her dad had taught her how to do it when she was a little girl, back before he left both her mother and herself when she was 10.
"huh" Damon smirks a little and Caroline heads off to one of the guest rooms to lay down.
-YANA-
She had only been laying down for about twenty minutes before she heard a knock on the window. Rushing over she notices Matt climbing through the window
"Elena told me you were staying here to tonight" he tells her
"What are you doing here?" the blonde asks
"I came to see if today's basket case period had expired" Matt tells her
"you know you should just go because Damon is down the hall and Stefan will be back soon" she gestures towards the window
"No, no you have been dodging me all day" Matt tells her "I'm more insecure than you are now"
"What do you mean?" she asks hating the fact that that is how he saw her. First he calls her a neurotic control freak earlier (Which yes she was but still) and now he called her insecure
"It means that you almost died and it really freaked me out" Matt looks down at her "and it got me thinking you know cause I'm just. I'm not in a position where I can lose someone else right now" Caroline nods slowly "I realize that today I wanted to throttle you, I also thought that I might be in love with you and now it feels like you don't feel the same way"
She leans forward and kisses him, he was the first person to ever tell her that he loved her. But she didn't feel anything in the kiss. No sparks or fireworks. Nothing. He was right she didn't love him, she just loved the thought of him loving her.
"Look Matt, I almost died and it made me think about my life. And I realized that you are still in love with Elena. And that is totally fine but I can't be your rebound and I don't think that I love you. I think I just love the idea of you" Caroline tells him "And I think that it would be better to just cut it off now instead of stringing you along"
"Oh, wow. I just confessed that I love you and you broke up with me" Matt shakes his head "But I think you are right, thank you for being honest with me and not letting this get too far"
"I really am sorry Matt" Caroline frowns
"It's fine Care, I should go" Matt nods climbing back through the window
AN: From here on out it will go away from Canon and become my own little thing