So finally decides to write a second chapter and i am quite honestly tempted to write a third but it depends on the response i get from this one LOL so review please :-)

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++You feel so low, you can't feel nothing at all
And you flashback to when he said forever and always++

A black crow is perched outside her window again, the third time this week, and Caroline can't ignore the chill that runs up her entire body when she notices it. It's been a week since she last saw Damon, but she knows, somehow, that he's never really left her. The phone rings making her jump three feet in the air, out of some strange suspicion of the bird watching her from the tree outside, she closes her window tight before answering.

"What?" She bites out when she noticed Tyler's number on the screen.

After she left the Halloween party last week Stefan and Elena had called Damon back to wipe Tyler's memory of the attack. For the most part, she'd been avoiding him at school and dodging his phone calls, hoping he'd get the hint, but he obviously was thicker than she assumed.

"What the hell Caroline?" He asks at her tone, genuinely confused. "Why are you being such a bitch to me lately? I've been trying to talk to you all week but you keep blowing me off."

Caroline sighs, because yeah he's right, she has been extra moody lately, but it's only because she's been so distracted by the lack of attention from a certain tall dark and dangerous vampire.

"Listen," Tyler continues before Caroline has the chance to interrupt, "I don't know what happened between us at Halloween but I wanted to apologize. Some guys from the team told me I was all over you... I must have been really wasted. I don't remember any of it..."

Caroline tries not to feel too guilty at his confusion but something strikes her as odd, "Wait, you mean you don't remember hooking up with me? You weren't even drunk then."

"That's what I'm trying to tell you! I think someone must have slipped me something… the last thing I remember was getting into my costume at home and then waking up in the woods all messed up with Elena and Stefan and that weird Damon dude helping me."

Caroline tried not to give anything away, but her heart started pounding fast in her chest, Damon really really likes her, why else would he erase Tyler's memory of what happened between them, "It's totally fine Tyler, you weren't yourself. I understand."

"Friends?" Tyler said.

"Yeah of course." Caroline agreed, hanging up the phone.

She raced back to the window opening as wide as it would go, "Damon?" She called out into the darkness but the crow was gone.

---

The Mystic Grill was reasonably busy and Caroline could barely make out the faces of her friends sitting down across the other side of the room.

As she made her way towards them she bumped into a gorgeous, tall blond girl.

"Sorry!" Caroline squeaked stumbling backwards slightly, the girl didn't move though and for a slender looking girl she sure was sturdy.

The girl silently appraised her for a minute and Caroline began to feel uncomfortable under her hazel gaze.

"Lexi! I see you've met my friend Caroline," Stefan Salvatore called out, walking towards the two girls.

The taller girl's face lit up in response and she turned back to Caroline with a wide, "Oh so this is Caroline!"

"Nice to meet you," Lexi pulled her in for a hug and the hairs on the back of Caroline's neck shot up.

Caroline pulled back a little dazzled, "Y-you too."

"Stefan has told me so much about you, about you and you-know-who…" Lexi said her face turning serious, "I am so sorry he treated you like that."

"Oh so you're a…" Caroline whispered, and pointed to her teeth.

"Yes," Lexi laughed, "But I'm a vegetarian like Stefan. So you have nothing to worry about."

Caroline smiled back, feeling completely at ease with this girl, 'vegetarian' or otherwise.

"Lexi's my oldest friend. I called her to help us with our Vicki problem," Stefan said.

"Ahh got it." Caroline winked at him.

Lexi suddenly became extremely tense and her eyes alert, Caroline slightly surprised, swore she heard a low growl emitted from the delicate pink lips.

"What's he doing here?"

Stefan and Caroline turned around to see Damon slide into a stool at the bar.

Vicki soon appeared beside him but he ignored her and focused his attention on the drink he ordered.

"I cannot believe he brought her here! I asked him to do one thing and he can't even do that right." Lexi said and her tone was deadly, "Stefan, you shouldn't let him roam around doing whatever he wants to whomever he wants," Lexi tilt her head in Caroline's direction and spoke as though Caroline was a little kid who couldn't comprehend the conversation they were having. "He's already caused enough damage."

Caroline, a little miffed at being treated like she was a helpless little doe, straightened her shoulders and marched towards the older Salvatore, "I've got this," she called over her shoulder and could hear both Stefan and Lexi protesting but ignored them.

As she made her way towards Damon and Vicki she felt her confidence melt with each step and by the time she got to the bar all she wanted to do was turn around run back to the safety of Lexi and Stefan.

"Blondie," Vicki acknowledged her with a nod and wicked smile.

"Vicki," Caroline replied in a stiff tone, "Damon," she added but he didn't look up from his glass of scotch.

"Welllll," Vicki said, "This awkward... I'm just going to..." She pointed towards the pool table, slinking away, her hips swaying seductively as she went.

"Got yourself a new play thing?" Caroline spat, unable to stop herself.

Damon smiled slightly but it disappeared as soon as it came. Clearly Caroline's childish jealously amused him, and that's all she ever seemed to do, amuse him she thought angrily.

"What is wrong with you!" She said forcefully grabbing his arm to get his attention. This stirred something inside Damon as he moved, lighting fast as always, and pulled her close to him with his other hand. His vice like grip around her arm causing her to squeal, "You're hurting me".

Before she knew what was happening Lexi was at her side ripping Damon's arm from hers.

"It's time you leave Damon; you're not welcome here anymore."

Anger rose inside Damon quickly, and Caroline recognized the signs immediately, the veins around his eyes began throbbing and the point of his incisors became pointed.

"Who made you Queen? This is my town." He started enraged but his tone was ice cold.

Damon never let his emotions get the better of him, he liked to think he was in control, but Caroline could see him loosing it inside.

"Please Damon," Caroline begged lightly looking around at the innocent people obliviously having a good time around them, "Don't do anything stupid."

Damon's eyes, black as night now, which were piercing into Lexi's own dark hazel ones, wavered slightly.

"Fine."

He abruptly stood up and grabbed his coat. Brushing past Caroline, his hand trails across her stomach and her knees almost buckle in response.

After twenty minutes of sitting around with her friends and laughing and smiling and pretending everything was completely normal Caroline had had enough.

"I think I'm going to head home..."

Lexi, Stefan, Bonnie and Elena all move to stand and Caroline wills herself not to get bitchy with them. They are just trying to protect her and its sweet really, but it's getting to be a little annoying as well.

"Do you need a lift?" Stefan asks, "I'm going past your house to drop off Elena anyway."

Caroline wants to say no but she knows they will only worry if she does.

"That'd be great, thanks."

--

When she gets home she notices her bedroom light is on, and already knows that he's up there, waiting for her.

Her mother has nightshift and she's certain she turned off the lights before she left.

Slowly she makes her way upstairs and curses herself when she steps on a creaking step.

Her hand shakes when she reaches out for the door handle to her room and she tries to calm the erratic beating of her own heart.

Instead of waiting to sneak up on her like he usual does Damon is lying on her bed, reading Twilight.

"I never got to read this before... founder's day..." He explains uncomfortably but stops himself, "You said I had to read the first book." He finishes shrugging.

"Lexi really seems to hate you." Caroline mentions casually although she had been dying to find out why all night.

"Yeah she does," He agrees putting down the book and looking directly into her eyes, "Thirty years ago I killed a man she loved."

"That's awful Damon." Caroline frowns, and Damon smiles slightly rising up from her bed.

"I know," he replies completely apathetically. He's eyes are staring directly into her own, searching for something and it gives Caroline goose bumps.

"Everyone says I should stay away from you…" Caroline mumbles edging backwards towards the door.

"I know," he smirks, and he's suddenly so impossibly close that his lips graze hers when he talks.

"I should stay away from you," She continues, entranced by his cerulean eyes and no longer going anywhere. She waits for him to command her with them, kiss me.

But he doesn't.

So instead she does it all on her own, crazily and stupidly, she reaches forward and pulls him to her roughly.

I should stay away from you.

But I can't.