Chapter Three.

But if you send for me you know I'll come,
And if you call for me you know I'll run.
I'll run to you, I'll run to you, I'll run, run, run.
I'll come to you, I'll come to you, I'll come, come, come. -Lana Del Rey


Damon didn't know what came over him, he flashed to her tomb and grabbed the stone, he hissed in pain when it burnt him.

"What the hell?" he cried out in anger holding his sizzling palms.

Bonnie ran up to the tomb and moved the thick vines and ivory growing over the stone tomb, Damon helped, tearing them away viciously, feeling the burn on his skin as he pushed with all his strength on the rock, the top eventually slid off and smashed, he cried out in agony after as his knees buckled.

"Damon get up!" Bonnie said in awe.

He looked up at her in annoyance, still panting.

"Whatever they cursed that with it was definitely Anti-Damon" he panted out and got to his feet.

He took a sharp intake when his eyes landed on her.

He felt like the earth stood still, her face, cheeks, eyes, nose, lips, everything he remembered was there, it was her.

As she lay there he drank her in, the dress she wore, the thick hair he remembered she would huff and complain about and tell him that he was lucky to have short hair, covering her face was a thin white veil, she looked like she was sleeping, he smiled and reached out.

He slowly pulled away the veil, everyone was silent, rage burned in Elena's eyes as she watched him, he stood there mesmerised by the sight, he couldn't hear a heartbeat and he panicked, she wasn't breathing!

"Bonnie, she isn't breathing!" he panicked, but Bonnie's eyes were fixed on something in the corner of the room.

An old looking woman stood there with watery eyes, alongside an elderly man.

"Oh he came back for her" she whispered to him, he smiled and took her hand.

"who are you?" Bonnie asked and they looked at her in shock.
"You can see us?" they asked
"yes, I'm the anchor" she said.
"Bonnie she isn't breathing!" Damon cried again and he touched her cold cheek, water filling his eyes.

"He has to feed her his blood, but make sure she doesn't bite him" the man said
"what? Bite him? How?" Bonnie asked and the woman chuckled as she closed her eyes.

"we can finally find peace" she whispered, the man raised his arms and their interwined hands with his eyes closed.

"Wait! No!" Bonnie yelled but they were gone.

"Who was it?" Stefan asked and she looked at Carina.
"Some old couple" she said.
"What? What did they look like?" Stefan asked.
"Like…" Bonnie's eyes wandered to Carina. "her" she said.
"How?" Stefan asked
"They said to feed her your blood but don't let her bite you" Bonnie said.

Damon put two and two together.

"She isn't human" he said and bit into his wrist before pressing it to her lips.
"Damon NO!" Elena cried Carina began to drink it and just as her fangs came out he yanked his hand away.

She began viciously choking with her eyes still closed, blood streamed out of her mouth as Damon's blood came back up, he grabbed her shoulders and hoisted her forward and she spat out his blood all over his shoulder and her dress before going limp again, he heart her heart begin beating again.

He paused when a second heartbeat was heard, a little fluttering noise like a moth cupped in someone's hands.

"What is that noise?" Caroline asked

All of their eyes went to her stomach.

Damon almost dropped her in shock.

"She is pregnant?" Elena choked surprised.
"We have to get her out of here" Stefan said calmly, Damon was frozen staring at her stomach, he swallowed dryly and then blurred out of there still holding her.

"Should I go after him?" Elena asked
"No" Stefan said and they all walked out slowly.

-.-.-

Damon laid her down on his bed like she was a porcelain doll, his brow furrowed and hands shaky, his mouth felt dry and his eyesight blurry.

This was her, Carina.

She was alive.

Not dead, she was there the whole time.

Gilt was in his beautiful blue eyes as he perched himself on a chair holding her hand tightly.

She was pregnant.

He reached his hand out and touched her small stomach where the fluttering was coming from.

Then a hand slid on top of his and he met the eyes he missed for a century and a half.

"Carina" he breathed, her eyes were swimming with tears as she closed her eyes and nodded.
"Damon" she croaked as they slid down her face, the crisp British accent and different pronunciation he never thought he would hear again.

He moved forwards and she leant her forehead to his.

"You're not real" she whispered, he looked at her confused, her trembling hands touched his cheek.
"I wish you was, I wish you could take this away, I wish you could be with me and our child. I love you Damon" she said crying and he breathed in a ragged gasp and realised he was too crying.
"They are trying to hurt me again" she said and bit her bottom lip.
"You wouldn't imagine the things they have done to me" she choked
"I am real" he whispered and she shook her head.
"No- No you are not, you are different, they haven't got you quite right… but I'll hang on, I don't know for how much longer but I will try for our baby, I don't know how long I have been here for but I know that he or she is growing, I can feel it" she whispered
"I am real" he protested still crying.
"They will be here soon, they always let me see you and then they hurt me, they hurt me so much" she sobbed, her hands tugging on his hair and he buried his face in her shoulder.
"I am real!" he promised and pulled away.
"Look at me Carina! I am real, I saved you! The year is 2014 and you was buried in a tomb underground for a century and a half!" he said, her eyes widened.
"2014?" she said slowly
"2014" he confirmed and smiled
"2014" he said again, she gasped smiling
"2014" she said clutching her stomach.

Just then the front door opened and slammed making her jump, voices filled the downstairs.
She recognised one.

Katherine.

Her lip curled and something ignited in her, she felt more hatred than ever.

Something pricked her lower lips, Damon's eyes widened in horror as the veins in her eyes grew and the blue turned to a bright yellow.

She felt… thirsty.

Her mind fogged over and all she could think about was the alluring smell.

"You're… a hybrid?!" Damon yelled, just as the others burst through the door, her eyes landed on Elena who she thought to be Katherine.
"Damon!" Elena shouted and ran towards him, Carina hissed and lunged for her, she screamed.
"Katherine" she growled and then was yanked away from a terrified Elena.

Damon was restraining her and they all gaped in shock.

"Whaat?!" Katherine said her mouth full of Potato chips, the smell hit Carina full force and Damon struggled to hold her.
"Stefan get the blood bags!" Damon yelled struggling.

"Carina stop!" he cried

Tears were falling down her face.
"I… Can't" she struggled, Damon turned her around and pulled her into a hug cradling her head against his neck.
"Damon she will bite you!" Elena protested, he felt the tears soak through his shirt and she grabbed a handful of his shirt.
"Shhh" he whispered though her ragged breaths and strangled sobs.
"It's okay, we are going to get through this, and everything will be okay" Damon promised stroking her hair.
"My- mother, my family" she said heartbroken, Damon held her tighter, she loved her family dearly.
His eyes scanned the room, Caroline had tears in her eyes as she bit her wobbling lip.
"It's just so sad" she confessed wiping her tears away.

Stefan walked back in with 2 blood bags in his hands, his face relaxed at the sight, Damon extended his arm out and took the bag and slowly pulled back and ripped one open with his teeth.
"Here" he said and handed it to her, she took it and drank it with her eyes closed.

Then he sat beside her on his bed, she looked at Elena then Katherine in shock.
"Doppelgangers" Katherine said sighing, Carina mouthed an 'oh'
"That's Elena, and that is a very pathetic and human Katherine" Damon said pointing, Carina frowned.
"But, you love Katherine" she said and she scoffed.
"Not anymore honey" Katherine said
"No they moved on to my carbon copy, the dull and boring Elena" Katherine said jerking her thumb in Elena's direction, Carina's eyes followed.
"I am Damon's girlfriend" Elena said proudly, Carina felt a stab of pain, her eyes fell to her lap and her shaky hands played with the blood bag, it was all too much for her, Damon shook his head at Elena who mouthed 'What?' and Stefan's hand gripped his chin.
"Carina, if you don't mind me asking… how are you a hybrid?" Stefan asked and then she bit her lip.
"Of course you don't remember" she whispered looking down in her lap guiltily.
"Remember what?" Stefan asked.
-.-.-

"Miss Bird, follow me" Klaus said smiling, Carina nodded and took his arm and then he helped her into a carriage, Carina knew what he was, an original hybrid, he was a great family friend and their family would work together.

Carina and Klaus were chatting away in the carriage when it stopped, groaning and blood filled the air and Klaus told her to stay there as he shot out of the carriage and killed the men that approached him with a smile on his face.

The door beside Carina opened and a man dragged her out, she screamed as he slid the silver knife deep into her jugular, she let out a strangled noise, Klaus appeared and tore the man's head off.
"Carina!" he yelled and bit his wrist, he fed her his blood, he waited for it to begin to heal but he knew it was too late.

He removed his hand from her throat that was oozing blood as she let out one last choked noise, he closed his eyes and sighed through his nose.

Just hours later Klaus was cleaning up the bodies when he heard a carriage approaching, he walked over to where he left Carina to find her gone, she stood aimlessly infront of him with confusion over her face, it was now nightfall.

The carriage had stopped and out stepped a young man, aged 15 or 16.
"Carina? Is that you?" he asked
"Stefan" she said, her voice raspy.
"You are covered in blood" he said running towards her, he put his hands on her shoulders and her eyes fixed on the pulse in his neck, her eyes turned yellow and fangs and veins extended, Stefan was about to yell for help when she bit into his neck drinking his blood.
"Help" She choked into his neck, Klaus pried her off of him and Stefan held his neck in horror.
"Save him" she gasped, Klaus bit into his wrist and fed him his blood, Stefan's neck healed leaving no mark.
"Forget all about this, return to your carriage and go about your business" Klaus said and Stefan robotically turned around and walked back to the carriage.

"You just completed transition" Klaus said smirking at a shaken Carina, he rolled his eyes.
"It's okay, killing people is what we do" he said
"You are now so much stronger and powerful than before, you can live forever, you can be beside me and I will protect you and you will help me" he said cupping her cheek and smiling, he began to laugh, her eyes met his and she smirked and laughed along with him.
"Let's get you cleaned up. Love" he said

-.-.-

"And you became a hybrid because you drank human doppelgänger blood from Stefan" Caroline concluded.
"So you are like the second hybrid ever" Bonnie said and she nodded
"I am so sorry Stefan" Carina said sheepishly, he smiled at her.
"Don't worry about it" he said
"So how are you pregnant?" Elena blurted
"I- I don't know" Carina said.
"All I know is that…" she looked at Damon and sighed.
"It's Damon's baby?" Stefan asked shocked
"Yes" Carina said.

"I am carrying Damon's baby" she confirmed with a hand over her tiny stomach.

-.-.-

Well we met Carina and Carina met Klaus and the gang.

What gender should the baby be? And should I make her visit Klaus in New Orleans in the future?

And I am glad to be back!

See you next time!