Chapter 3. Season one Finale. But how it would have gone if Erin was in the show. :)
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They both stood there staring at each other awkwardly for a few seconds knowing they had two sets of ears on them at the moment. Erin looked at both of them. "Girls, come here please." They walked over obediently smiling. "Anything said or done in this room stays in this room." They nodded. "Alright now...go watch some TV." She said not knowing what else to do.
"You know that wasn't necessary." Katherine said disapprovingly.
"I'm sorry I felt awkward with two people standing and staring at me. Ohh and speaking of awkward, please find your clothes!" She stressed.
Katherine didn't want the device, so why did Isobel want it? Erin was trying to figure this out when Katherine emerged from the bedroom wearing black leggings, a black tank top, studded belt, high heels, and a red cropped leather jacket. "Nice, I see you picked you up some clothes as well this morning."
"Enough of the small talk, I want to know about this vision. What did you see? What was said?" She sat down at the bar.
Erin closed her eyes replaying it in her head. "The device looks like some kind of watch, its a Vampire weapon, but it is spelled by Emily and well-that is all they said about the object. Ohh, and apparently Damon has it and Isobel wants it."
"Is that all you can give me?" She said bored.
"Look, I don't get to pick and choose what I see."
"But you can pick and choose what you remember."
Erin's eyes shot wide. The paper from the book, its image was swirling around in her head. She ran and grabbed the menu and flipped it over grabbed a pin out of her purse and began writing and drawing the image. "That is what I saw." She said pointing at the page and pushing it in front of her.
Katherine looked at it carefully. "No..."
"What?" She said worried, eyes wide.
"Isobel can't get this! But why would she even want it? It would kill her if she tried to use it."
"What does it say?" She growled.
"It simply states what it is for, and then the spell to reverse it. The spell is written how it sounds." She pushed the paper away when she saw Erin's face drain again. "You have got to be kidding me." She went to her and scooped her up carrying her to the bed.
Katherine sat there impatiently wondering what was going on. Why was Isobel going behind her back?
"They are going to de spell it if they can get Damon to give it to them." She was still in her trance but she was talking to Katherine. "Isobel has Jeremy. If she doesn't get it tonight she is going to...oh my gahd." Katherine knew this wasn't good. "Damon is going to give it to them. I just know it." Erin was out of her trance. "That bitch plans on manipulating him; apparently that is what she always does." She groaned and jumped out of bed. "I mean I get it, Jeremy, but seriously, it's not a fucking sport." She stomped to the living room.
Katherine followed. "Don't call anyone, don't text anyone, and stay put. I'm going to go drop in on our friend Isobel." And then she was gone.
"Ms. Erin? Would you like your massage?" Sally sang from the couch.
"Please just Erin," she looked at the girl lovingly. "Sure, I guess I kinda need it. How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine, don't worry about me. Just lay as you were before and I'll turn you into jelly in no time." She wasn't kidding either. Erin fell asleep quickly.
When Katherine showed up to Isobel's place John was on the floor beaten and Jeremy was sitting in a chair scared. There were two men standing in the room, hired muscle.
Katherine considered setting them free but decided against it because she knew that Damon would end up giving Elena the device and then Bonnie would de spell it and then they would give it to Isobel. So her number one priority was finding Isobel to find out why she went behind her back. She was about to leave when she overheard Jeremy and John start to talk about Vampires. She was half tempted to go in there and kill John herself. He wanted the device to kill all the vampires in Mystic, to protect Elena. If only you knew, you pompous bastard. You get rid of the few vampires she has on her side and you are basically sending her to her death. We are the only ones that can keep her alive, She thought to herself.
She turned around and left she had to find Isobel.
Erin had awoken from her nap about an hour ago. Since then she had run a mile or two on her treadmill, taken a shower and had a blood bag. She was happy to find out that Katherine had stocked her fridge with blood bags. She was done with the masseuses but she didn't want to send them away, she enjoyed the company. They ended up playing card games and charades and just random things. Sally and her were becoming good friends, but Erin knew she could never tell her everything so they couldn't really be friends. This saddened Erin and she looked both of them in the eyes, "you gave Maria Cortez and her friend a massage today and we kept you around in case we wanted another one. You were great. That is all you will remember when you walk out that door." Sally gave her a hug and then walked out the door. Almost instantly after she shut the door another vision came.
She recognized the room she was in, it was the parlor of Damon's house. Stefan, Elena, the witch, and Damon were there and they were discussing the device and Jeremy and how they planned on de-spelling it. Damon didn't trust her, which was understandable; hell Erin didn't even trust her.
Apparently, Damon had tried to kill her once upon a time and that was why they didn't trust each other. The witch who she had come to learn is Bonnie, proved her power by picking Damon's favorite book off of the wall. It was cheap and wimpy, it looked like something Chris Angel would have done, but he would have done it better.
The book was Call of the Wild by Jack London. That's an odd book, she thought.
Elena played her part flawlessly, flirting with Damon and pulling the innocent card. Erin couldn't stand her. Damon gave in eyeing her carefully. Erin knew he didn't want Jeremy hurt but he didn't want to end up hurt himself, let alone dead. Erin cringed at the thought of Damon dying. She really missed him and loved him. But she still couldn't trust him. Even after their talk he was still looking at Elena the same way. Erin wasn't going to give in. She still wanted to be mad.
Damon gave the device to Elena. Surprise, surprise. She immediately gave it to Bonnie who sat it on the table and chanted Erin listened to it but kept looking at Damon who wasn't looking at anyone he was staring into the fire and was deep in thought. He was so beautiful, perfect; if she could she would have walked over right then and kissed his stressed lips. She wanted to comfort him.
The lights began to flicker and the fire blazed, that's stupid. Then it was done, and the images faded away.
Katherine came home a little later to find Erin curled up in bed with a puffy face. "What happened?"
"Nothing" Erin said rubbing her face. "I don't want to talk about it."
Katherine sighed, "maybe so, but if you don't it is just going to hurt worse. You need to talk about it."
Erin sat up and looked at her ancestor that everyone had made out to be Satan reincarnated. She couldn't see it though, she respected her, and she cared for her. "I had another vision. Damon gave Elena the device."
"We knew that was going to happen Erin."
"I know." She sniffled. "He gave it to her though. How can i compete with her? She's beautiful and she has a kind heart, even if it is manipulative at times. She has the whole good girl act down pat. Me? I'm fat, honest, and I keep fighting with everyone. I'm a bitch! There is no way he can love me." she buried her face in her hands.
"Erin, I have had the privilege of getting to know you these past few days and i have seen you stand up for yourself, kick ass, look out for your own safety on you own, and still care about the people around you. Not to mention your strength, you have been hit with one thing after another and you are still here, you are a champ. I am so proud to call you my...great great great great greatgreatgreatgreat" she laughed, " granddaughter. Damon would have to be a complete idiot not to see that. We both know he's not though, he loves you, and he hates that he loves you, but he does. You sitting here crying about it isn't going to solve anything. You need to call him." Katherine actually wanted them to work it out.
She handed her her phone. Erin looked at it knowing Katherine was right. She needed to call him. But she wanted to make up in person. She picked up the phone to dial when yet another vision smacked into her consciousness. "Okay, this is getting old." Katherine said as she saw the vision over take her. She watched Erin closely. She saw her sharp intake of breath and the tears gently roll down her cheeks. She brushed them away knowing this was not good.
Erin couldn't believe that when Isobel said that Damon loved Elena he didn't deny it. He looked away embarrassed. He really does love her. He knows he can't have her but he loves her. She came to after Elena was wrapped in Stefan's arm and Damon walked away awkwardly.
Erin opened her eyes and didn't even look at Katherine. She walked right past her and went straight to the exercise room and jumped on the first machine she saw and went crazy.
Katherine followed her in there. "I don't even want to know. How about i just tell you about what happened while I was out today. I went to see Isobel but she wasn't home John was on the floor he had been beaten but he will survive, unfortunately. Jeremy was fine he was only scared out of his mind. Your father though, i almost snapped his neck." Erin looked at her alarmed and curious. "He wants the device too. He wants to kill every vampire in Mystic in order to protect you two."
"That's stupid! One of his kids IS a vampire! And if he gets rid of you or Damon i am fucked as well as Elena." She said as she switched to a new machine.
"I know, that's what i thought. I left them there and went to find Isobel. I found her in town shopping. I told her to get lost and leave town. Her services were no longer needed. Although I may have slapped her around a little bit in the process for going behind my back. So she is gone." Katherine said with a smirk and dusted off her hands.
"Yea not so much" Erin sighed. "She just got the device from Elena in the park."
"That's what you saw? That bitch. I'm going to kill her." Katherine turned around and walked out the door.
Erin kept working out she went on sweating out all her stress out her skin fir the next 4 hours.
"Because he loves you." Isobel said calmly like it was news to everyone. Damon was stunned, was he that obvious? Of course he loved her; she was the kinder version of Katherine whom he had been in love with until a few weeks ago. He found out just how twisted she really was. He noticed Elena turn around to look at him and he looked away. Yes, he loved her but he wasn't in love with her. You can't be in love with someone who doesn't love you back. The one he loved was lord knows where and refused to talk to him he had called her 24 times and on the 24th Katherine had answered and refused to tell him where they were. Erin really didn't want to see him. How could he convince her that he loved her more than Elena? He should have known better than to tell her he had no feeling for her, he should have stressed how he did have some feelings but not even a fraction of what he had for Erin. Damon had a problem with expressing how he really felt.
Isobel turned and left and Elena turned around and ran to Stefan. He held her tight and Elena saw him staring at her over his shoulder she buried her face in Stefan so that Damon couldn't see her.
Damon was hurt. He couldn't take this anymore, the rejection. He turned and walked away.
He went to the boarding house and poured himself a drink. Stefan came through the opening and Damon could sense the jealousy rolling off of his brother. "Go ahead. Let it out, purge."
"At risk of sounding like a jealous boyfriend-"
"Don't worry, you do."
"History will not be repeating its self, Damon."
"What are you talking about? Elena and i are just friends. She may be the only friend i have." He said thinking about how he hadn't talked to Alaric all day Erin wasn't talking to her and now John was his enemy. He didn't want her to be his only friend. She wasn't good enough. He needed his old trio back. He wanted Erin and Alaric even if Erin was only a friend.
"I'm just telling you." Stefan concluded.
"That's cool then I'll just let you tell her about John, considering you're so good at the whole telling people bit." He took a drink from his glass waiting to get a reaction from his brother. Stefan looked at him confused. "Okay ill spell it out for you. John and Isobel dated back in high school. Isobel gets pregnant and she ends up at none other than John's brother's delivery room. What role do you think John played in all this? Go on I'll give you a minute." He raised his eye brows smiling looking at his wrist. "You get it? Tick tick."
"You think John is Elena's father."
I know he is. "That is a paternal test for John, Elena, and Maury Povich." Damon said walking out of the room. He decided to take one more stab at his brother before he left the room. "And if after you tell Elena she needs a shoulder to cry on or someone to talk to, tell her i am here for her." He winked and walked out. He drowned his sorrows and went to bed.
Erin woke up the next morning and found a text from Katherine. "Can't find Isobel. May not be coming back today. If you need me you know how to get a hold of me." Erin stretched and went straight for her small gym. She hooked up the radio in the corner because she wanted to hear something new. She worked out all day literally 8 hours passed. She was happy that she wasn't getting anymore visions. She was running her 10th mile when the radio played a Shakira song. She found she knew the words but didn't understand why. She couldn't speak Spanish. The song ended and Erin went to get a blood bag when it occurred to her. That was the chant that Bonnie had used to remove the spell. Erin thought that was funny until it hit her. The spell was never removed! "Oh my god!"
She picked her phone up to call Katherine when she realized that Katherine was a vampire, the device would hurt her too so she couldn't help. Erin grabbed her jacket and purse and shot out the door. She had no idea where she was going. All she knew was that she had to save Damon.
She drove into Mystic and saw a big festival thing. This had to be where they were. Elena was always in the middle of things. She was about to get out of the car when she realized she was way underdressed and probably smelled. She hadn't showered. She dug around in her car and found deodorant and lotion. That would do. Then she let her hair down and braided it to the side. It was meant to look messy so she would be able to get away with it.
She got out and noticed that cops were grabbing people and dragging them off. They would definitely lead them to the vampires. She was sneaking behind a cop when she heard John talking about burning the vampires in a basement. She sprinted and saw Stefan in an alleyway with Elena. She stopped and made a b line for him.
"You. How?" He stuttered looking at her. He could remember her face perfectly, but he had though she was dead.
"Damon found me and saved me. And I plan to return the favor." She eyed his neck. She needed all the power she could get, and this way she wouldn't feel bad about it.
"What?" He said confused as Elena stood to the side. She had no idea who this person was.
"Payback is a bitch. She looked at Elena you will not scream and you will not try to stop me." She said before turning around and digging her teeth into Stefan's neck knowing time was not on her side tonight. She felt her skin buzzing with power so she let go and sped away. She spotted John instantly and was in front of him.
John grabbed her arm "Erin, what the hell are you doing here?" He whispered.
"Saving the man I love. I just want you to know that I will NEVER forgive you for what you have done." She pulled out of his grasp and punched him in the face knocking him out. She sped behind the building and ran inside. It was already on fire. "Damon!" She screamed running down the flaming stairs fast enough to where the flames barely registered on her skin. Please don't be too late. She found Anna at the bottom of the stairs with a steak in her chest. "NOOO! ANNA!" She started crying afraid of what she was going to see next. She heard coughing a few feet away.
"Erin?" He choked. He was almost positive that he was dead. There was no way she was there.
"Damon, ohh my god. I'm so sorry." She leaned down picking him up. She sped up the stairs and outside to find Elena, Bonnie, Alaric, and Stefan standing there arguing about how they were going to get Damon.
Erin laid him down on the ground ignoring all the stares. She brushed the hair out of his face and the soot off of his skin. He opened his eyes and he looked at her disbelieving. "You ran through fire to save me!" He whispered.
Erin giggled. "Had I known there would have been fire I wouldn't have come. But ehh I was in the area." She shrugged.
Damon reached up with his hand and cupped her cheek. "I love you, too." He smirked pulling her down to kiss him. They smiled happy to have each other back.
"What the fuck is going on?" Elena cried. Her voice was saturated with so many conflicting emotions. She was confused, jealous, angry, and sad. She had no idea who this girl was in front of her, why she had attacked her boyfriend, why Damon loved this fat girl more than her, and what made her better than her.
Erin sat up looking around suddenly realizing that she had some major damage control to attend to. She spotted Alaric, "Ric, I need you to take Damon to my place." He looked at her nodding. She looked him in the eyes and compelled him to go to the hotel. She still wanted her place secret but she wanted Damon to be with her.
Stefan said trying to play the savior, "Where are you sending him?"
Then Elena threw in "How do we know we can even trust you?"
Erin laughed out loud helping Damon to his feet with him draped over her shoulder. She knew he wanted to hold onto his dignity as much as possible so she wanted him to walk to the car. They walked past Elena following Alaric to the car. Ric opened the door and Damon climbed in, Erin turned to face Elena, Bonnie, and Stefan when Damon reached out and grabbed her hand wanting to make sure this wasn't a dream. She smiled back at him and he mumbled "I hate you." Weakly and she squeezed his hand grinning. She shut the door and turned to Alaric.
Elena watched this strange girl interact with Her friends. Damon really cared for her, so she thought but then he said i hate you, Elena couldn't help but feel those words seep into her skin. It sounded sweeter than I love you ever could. Then the girl turned to Alaric.
"Thank you, Ric." She said warmly she called him Ric, they were definitely close. Then Elena gasped when Alaric leaned forward and wrapped her in a warm hug. "So good to have you back Erin. Its been lonely around the apartment without you."
Elena couldn't take it anymore; she stepped forward and got in Erin's face. "Who are you?"
Erin let Alaric go completely. She turned and faced Elena head on. "Hi Elena, you don't know me, my name is Erin."
"Yea, I caught that much." She said crossing her arms.
"Well then I don't know what else to tell you. You want me to tell you my whole life story?" She laughed. She knew she couldn't tell her who she was. Isobel was still a danger.
Elena felt stupid, of course, "well at least tell us where you are taking Damon." She demanded.
"No. I'm sorry I can't do that." She turned to Alaric, "I'll be right behind you. There is blood in the fridge," Alaric did as he was told but then she jumped and leaned in through the window. "And if you see my Great Grand Mother don't freak out. She's kinda staying with me." Alaric looked at her panicked. "Just tell her to call me."
Elena was getting impatient, and Stefan stood there afraid that Erin was going to out him. Bonnie had walked away a while ago. "And why not?"
Erin was getting tired of her entitled attitude. Like she deserved to know everything and everyone owed her something. She was still playing the innocent victim but Erin knew better. It was time to put this bitch in her place. "Look Elena, I am not Stefan and I am not Damon. I am not going to tell you everything you want to know, all you think you should know, frankly you know too much. I'm not telling you anything because I can honestly say I don't like you. I know this whole innocent act inside and out. You cannot manipulate me. And from now on? You're not going to manipulate Damon either." Erin began to walk toward Stefan and Elena stared at her in shock hurt. "As for you? I am over what you did to me; I learned some things about myself thanks to you. Not to mention, it led me to Damon, or should I say him to me." She smiled.
"What makes you think you can just walk in here talking to us like you run things?" Elena spat.
Erin just looked at her, "ohh hunny if only you knew." She turned seeing John making a B line for her. "Great." She groaned. "See ya." She waved and darted behind a wall.
"Where did she go?" John growled.
"If you mean that fat chick with a superiority complex? She went-"
"Uhh, we didn't see. What do you want with her?" Stefan interrupted.
"You are not covering for her are you?" Elena said jealously.
"No, Elena it's not like that."
"I need to speak with her." John said innocently.
Elena looked at him for the first time, "ohh my god, what happened to your face!"
"Where did she go?" He asked again more venomously
"She did this to you?" She was stunned, "how is she going to talk about me being terrible for manipulating people and she's going around punching people in the face?"
John got tired of Elena's poor me attitude and walked away leaving the two love birds to argue.
Elena turned to Stefan, "I can't believe you covered for her." He went to say something but she cut him off. "I don't want to hear it Stefan I'm going to go get my things from the school and go home." She walked away.
Stefan wanted to know more about this Erin chick. He went off searching for her and ran into Bonnie.
"Stefan." She greeted.
"Bonnie." He said crossing his arms.
"You and your brother got lucky tonight. Had that girl not come to the rescue you both would be dead. You know I will do anything to keep Elena safe and that meant getting rid of you two. If you or Damon so much as spill one drop of innocent blood I will take you both out." She challenged.
Stefan was about to say something back when Erin stepped out behind Bonnie. "So, we finally meet." Erin said startling Bonnie she turned around to face her.
"Who are you?" She said raising her chin.
"Is everyone going to ask me that?" She groaned. "I am the bitch who ruined your homicide. If I were you, I would be extra nice to me right now. And listen up, if you try anything like that again witch, I will take you out." Erin was right up in her face. She felt invincible due to her high from Stefan's blood.
Bonnie did not like being threatened so she tried to give her an aneurysm. She couldn't believe that it wasn't working. "Don't threaten me." She said trying to sound intimidating.
"Too late." She shrugged. "Look witch bitch, as long as you stay out of my way, I'll stay out of yours. I am not going to hurt your precious Elena; I'm not going to hurt anyone for that matter. But I will protect those I care about, and if that means hurting someone, I will gladly do it." She smiled at Stefan over her shoulder. "TTFN, tata for now."
Erin had confronted all the people she wanted to and she was coming down off of her high. She needed to get to Damon.
Katherine had been out all night trying to find Isobel, but she was no where to be found. She heard about the attack at the festival and that it was John's plan from one of the tomb vampires. She was not happy and went steered clear of the carnival so she wouldnt fall victim to the device.
She decided to impersonate her Doppelganger so she could see John when he arrived home. She went to the school and grabbed Elena's things and headed to her house. When she go to the door she realized that getting in might be a problem. She decided to play drunk and started singing ad dancing on the porch knowing it would grab Jenna's attention. Sure enough, Jenna opened the door and looked at her disapprovingly. "Get in here! The neighbors are going to see you!"
Katherine stumbled through the door giggling. And crawled up to Elena's room. She had some time o spare so she got nosy and explored her room. She heard John enter and she went down stairs to the kitchen. John was in the fridge. "Jesus, you scared me." John said hand on his chest.
"Sorry." She said thinking of all the ways she could kill him. She picked up a pile of knives that were drying by the sink to put them back in the butcher block.
"They say that it was faulty wiring that caused the fire." He said conversationally. sitting down on the bar stool next to her.
"Is that what they are saying?" She said sarcastically knowing what really had happened.
"Yep." He took a deep breath looking around. "Anything I can do?"
"No thank you." She looked down at his ring that was in full view on the counter. She picked up a knife and cut his fingers off so the ring would not bring him back to life. He screamed and fell backwards against a counter.
"Katherine?" he whined.
"Hello John, Goodbye John." She stabbed him in the stomach repeatedly until she heard the front door open. She dropped him to the floor and headed back for the Hotel.
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