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Chapter 3: Where Trust Lies
She walked through the halls of the empty house , nothing but the sound of her heels clicking against the floor rang through the house.
She hesitated before opening the door, slowing letting the sunlight in. Warmth no burning, she smiled to herself as I the warmth of the sun touched and caressed her skin again.
Confident she strode forward to her sleek silver car, opening the door sliding inside feeling the smooth leather of the seats.
Closing the door she switched the car on, revving it making sure that in her absence it hadn't lost it purr.
Stepping her foot over the gas she lurched the car forward, moving at high speeds slightly drifting at each corner.
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With a wide grin plastered on her face she knocked on the wooden door excited to see her best friend after so long.
She could hear it the fast footsteps of her friend quickly approaching the door. The heartbeat was there to making her breath in and out heavily but she stopped short as the door swung open sending her friends sent wafting through the air.
In the spite of fear of letting her friend see her like this; veins revealed and fangs extended she ran as the door creaked open.
"Hello. Hello?" Elena called "Stefan, Bonnie?"
"Damon." She choked out
Taking calm breaths Caroline felt her veins disappear under her skin and her fangs retract. Walked slowly Caroline approached the house stepping into the view of Elena sticking her head outside searching for someone familiar.
She stood within Elena's sight and wait for herself to be seen. Catching her gaze Elena squinted her eyes and suddenly her eyes grew wide with shock.
Walking closer to the house Caroline watched her best friend stare at her with unbelieving eyes. Gaining confidence with each step Caroline's wary walked quickly turned into a full on strut to the house.
"Care?"
"Elena I'm s-"
"Care what are you doing here?"
"What do you mean?"
Elena gestured to the blaring star that sat miles and miles away shedding sunlight on them.
"Ugh Elena ring. That protects me form the sun." Caroline stated, "do you really think that I would be stupid enough to walk to into clear sunlight without a sun ring?"
"No, no, no, no, no that is not what I meant." Elena said staring out the door every few minutes.
"Am I bothering you or something?" Caroline huffed
"Huh?"
"Because every minute you look out the door as if you were expecting something or someone to come. " She pointed out bluntly
"I'm sorry Care it's just that I've been waiting for Stefan to come all morning."
"Oh sorry he didn't tell you about that? Forgetful vampire." I told him that I was gonna come here and he agreed, he said that we deserved so girl time you know, privacy. He said that I should be around more people to get better so I thought why not Elena." She smiled
"What? Why me Caroline! Stefan and me had plans! Way not Bonnie!"
"Why not Elena I missed you! Did you not miss me?" Caroline said heartbroken taking her best friend's silence as confirmation.
On the brink of tears the blonde flitted to the only place she could go The Salvatore Boarding House.
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She knocked on the door quickly, feeling frantic. Her head hung low facing the floor, letting her salty tears drop from her eyes onto floor.
Relieved to hear the door creak open she lifted her head seeing the one person she could talk to.
She smiled weakly at him as tears ran down her eyes.
Quiet he lead her inside the large home, leading her into his living room. Her lips turned up at the thought, living yah right.
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He navigated through his home on autopilot. He didn't know what it was this feeling. He had felt it before but couldn't quite put his finger on it.
Either way he wasn't gonna leave her all alone like that.
Why do I care, he thought to himself. In his hands was his favorite and strongest liqueur he poured one for himself and one for Blondie. He handed her the glass and shot him a questioning glance.
"It's liqueur it helps the cravings. She nodded and chugged the drink ."How are the cravings?"
'Hard. Bunnies don't taste good." She confessed
"Yah well to be honest its gonna get much worse. Fast. Why are you drinking Bambi blood anyways?"
"I don't know Stefan I guess."
"of course but whatever. "He sighed
"Caroline what is it that brought you to my door crying and panicked?"
'Can I have more first?"
"Sure." He stood up, flitting out of the room, soon returning with the whole bottle of liqueur in his hands.
"Here" He poured the drink into both glasses and sat down , for once he was patient.
"I have nightmares." She gulped
"So-"
"I die in each one." She glared "Its not the fact that I die that scares me. It's the way."
Damon threw her a confused look.
Caroline took a few more gulps as tears streamed down her cheeks. " I get. Murdered and sometimes I can feel it, the pain. The vervain drenched stake driving through my heart over and over. Nowhere to run.
"Why didn't you talk to Bonnie about this?" He noticed her flinch at the very mention of the witch's name.
"Caroline was Bonnie in this dream. "He asked slowly
"Yes." She choked out "She is the one who kills me."
"Caroline what about Elena?"
"She didn't care. She never missed me, she just wanted to be with Stefan." She said in a monotone.
"Caroline. Caroline!" he yelled as she drifted into space
"Blondie! "He slapped her across the face. Waking her up from her near off mode (emotion off)."
He held her face in his hands looking into her eyes. Instinctively he held her close as she sobbed crying rivers of tears all over his favorite chair. But he didn't care.
Why didn't he?
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"Come on Blondie let's get you to bed" he said lifting the blonde off of the couch.
"Noooo mom" She mumbled
" I'll call her. Just sleep," He said flitting to his spare room, gently tucking her in.
Blurring to his room (snatching up the liqueur on the way) he dialed Liz's number.
"Hello"
"Hi this Damon I just want to let you know that Caroline came over and fell asleep on the couch. I moved her to a spare bedroom but she too tired to go home. Can I bring her in the morning?"
"Oh thanks Damon sure bring her up in the morning."
"Goodnight Liz."
"Bye."
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He sat in his room quietly and remembered her bawling her eyes out to him. It broke his heart nearly more than Katherine did.
Flashback
She remind in his arms crying asking why no one cared. She feared it, death I knew it and I could tell that she did too.
Her head laid upon my lap, her legs outstretched across the couch.
"Why are you doing this?"
"I don't know." He answered, and he really hadn't, but something inside told him that he was lying and that he cared.
He held his tongue and watched over her as she slowly drifted to sleep.
Flashback End
Still deep in his thoughts, he hear the front door swing open. Blurring to the door he pushed Stefan outside.
"What Damon." Stefan sighed
"Someone's sleeping."
"Okay Damon I won't let your precious human hear me." Stefan exasperated
"Not human, Vampire." He clarified
"What?"
"Blondie. Don't ask just don't wake her up or your dead." He threatened
"Fine whatever."
Good, thought Damon.
Closing the door behind him he blurred up to his room once again looking through stuff that he had collected over the years. One thing caught his eye as he walked past his bookshelf.
An unnamed Journal.
Even with the lights dimmed he saw perfectly.
A supernatural handbook, he thought
He flicked through the book and made sure to make marks and different pages and chapters . Finally he got to the page he had been looking for the beginning page about vampires.
He read over all the vampire characteristics and flicked through the chapter.
He stooped short as he read the one thing that caught his eye The Originals.
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