Cassie Gilbert
Chapter 2 The Night Of The Comet Part 2
Salvatore Boarding House (Damon's P.O.V)
"Yeah, we should probably go... It was nice to meet you, Damon." Elena turned her head to me and her brown eyes looked at mine cautiously. I smirked and took her hand and kissed her knuckles.
"Great meeting you too, Elena." I told her, my eyes switched to Cassie and I saw jealousy in her eyes. Her and Elena looked exactly like Katherine, but Cassie looked like her even more so because her hair was wavy like Katherine's. When I let go of Elena's hand I saw Stefan glaring daggers at me over her shoulder, I sent Cassie a grin and she turned away, I used this opportunity to cut across the living room silently and stand behind her. When she turned back I was right there, I looked into her fiery dark eyes and I decided to play with her a little bit, "Lovely seeing you again so soon, Cassie." I stared at her and began to compel her, "Come back soon, won't you?" I told her. Cassie's eyes glazed over and she nodded.
"I will." She nodded and I smirked and kissed her cheek.
"Great." I whispered in her ear and I felt her relax a little next to me, Elena pulled her sister away from me and dragged her over to the door, I looked over to see Stefan in their way but he wasn't paying any attention to them, he was looking at me with complete and utter hatred, I grinned at his reaction.
"Stefan... Stefan?" Elena looked confused at him, Cassie lost interest and looked back at me. She still had a dreamy look on her face and her eyes were a little unfocused, I smiled and waved at her, she waved back and was dragged from the room. I heard steps on gravel and the sound of a car engine pulling away from the house.
"Great gals. Whoo. Don't get me wrong, Elena's great... But Cassie? She's got spunk. You, on the other hand, look pooped. Did you over-exert yourself today? Let me guess...hospital." I taunted my younger brother, this was, hands down, the angriest I had ever seen Stefan.
"Someone had to clean up your mess." Stefan's eyes flashed angrily and I shrugged nonchalantly.
"Well, were you successful? Did the powers of persuasion work? Remember, if you don't feed right, none of those little tricks work right." I tutted and shook my head.
"How long were Cassie and Elena here?" Stefan changed the subject, I notice his eyes darken a little at this.
"Were you worried Stefan? Scared we may be doomed to repeat the past? Isn't that why you play your little game of 'I'm a high school human'?" I used my fingers to make quotation marks in the air.
"I'm not playing any game." Stefan denied with a shake of his head.
"Of course you are. We both know the closest you'll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it." I said with a shrug.
"What kind of game are you playing, Damon?" Stefan crossed his arms, "I know you're already playing around with Cassie, you compelled her right in front of me. I know that you know that I'm gonna do everything in my power to protect everyone Elena loves." Stefan announced firmly, I sniggered at his seriousness.
"Hmmm, I am playing games with Cassie, but I'm pretty sure she likes playing the game too. I mean, you saw how happy she was, she had to be dragged out of here." I gestured to the door where Cassie and Elena had left through minutes earlier.
"She didn't look happy, Damon, she looked confused. You messed with her head she probably won't know why she acted the way she did because of you." Stefan told me sternly.
"Well, when she next turns up. In which I'm sure she will because I told her too," I gave him a wink and he glared at me, "I'm sure she will be more than happy to see me, and if she had any confusion I'm sure I can clear it up for her." I said with a smirk, Stefan shook his head and walked away.
Gilbert House (Cassie's P.O.V)
"He's on the rebound and has raging family issues." I was sat on the counter watching Jenna and Elena unload the dishwasher.
"Well, at least it's an ex-girlfriend. Wait till you date a guy with mommy issues or cheating issues. Or amphetamine issues." Jenna grinned as she put away plates, I rolled my eyes and went to drawl a snappy remark but Elena stopped me with a look. The front door opened, signalling Jeremy coming back, Jenna snapped into action and ran out of the kitchen and into the doorway leading to the hallway, Elena and I followed closely behind. "Jeremy? Jeremy, where were you?" She asked my younger brother, who was clearly stoned off his ass, as he trudged up the stairs.
"More stoner stories? Look, Jenna, I get it, you were cool. And so that's... That's cool." He slurred and held his thumbs up, before putting his hood up and resuming his walk up the stairs.
"Oh! No, no, no!" Jenna grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl and threw it at Jeremy, it came into contact with his shoulder and hit him. Hard. Jeremy turned around, a sad, confused look on his hooded bloodshot eyes.
"Ow! Why? Why... Why did you do that?" Jeremy moaned and rubbed his shoukder lazily.
"Listen up! Quit ditching class or you're grounded. No discussion." Jenna snapped and I heckled, she turned her fiery gaze on me and glared. "And you! Behave in class and stop dressing like you're about to go clubbing, or I swear to God I will lock you in your room and throw away the key!" She yelled at me, I raised my hands in objection.
"What the hell?" I asked her angrily, Jeremy leant against the wall and shrugged.
"Wow... Harsh, Jen. Parental authority, I like it. Sleep tight." He drawled and walked up the stairs, I glared at Jenna before running up the stairs after my brother, slamming the door to my bedroom loudly.
"You should have seen her earlier with Stefan's brother, Damon. One moment I had to hold her back because she was about to hit him, the next moment she was waving and giggling with him as he kissed her cheek." I heard Elena tell Jenna as they were still at the foot of the stairs.
"Damon? I've never heard of him, is he new in town?" Jenna's voice floated up to me, I sighed and walked over to my bed and pulled back the covers. I pulled off my clothes and stripped down until I was in my underwear, I heard a caw and saw the crow on the tree outside my window, I sighed and glared at the creepy stalker bird and shut the curtains. I dived into bed and shut my eyes, willing for sleep to come and take me into oblivion.
I felt refreshed after my power nap from earlier, it had granted me enough energy to go out and answer Elena's text on helping out with the comet night. Sure, I had arrived late but that was only because of my continued refusal to drive and Jenna was too annoyed at me to give me a lift, but as I was walking over to the town square the crow had followed me and I had changed my route quite a few times in order to be safe from it's beady gaze. I saw Bonnie and Elena handing out leaflets and they looked in a serious conversation, nevertheless I strolled over. "Isn't it? The timing is wrong, anyway." Elena was saying to Bonnie, I frowned at them.
"Timing for what, for you to tell Jenna what I do everyday when I'm not in school or at home?" I know it was a low blow but I was annoyed at my twin for telling Jenna my business, I don't do it to her, so she shouldn't do it to me.
"No actually, but if you started to try in school and not acting peculiar around strange hot guys who you've apparently 'run in to', then I wouldn't do it so much!" Elena replied hotly, I rolled my eyes.
"Oh please, you're just annoyed because you went over to see Stefan and he wasn't even interested in you!" I shouted back, Bonnie was staring at the laces on her converses awkwardly and people were starting to stop and stare in the direction of me and Elena. "Oh and please, do stare away, I love an audience when I argue, don't you?" I called to the crowd, my tone laced with sarcasm. The on-lookers all snapped back into what they were doing and averted their gaze from us, I smiled in satisfaction. "Now, where were we? Oh right we were back to hearing reasons why you can't put yourself out there." I smiled sweetly at my twin, she scoffed and stormed away, making me shrug. Bonnie smiled grimly at me and trailed after Elena.
"Hey, I got some candles. And could you, by any chance leave the family fighting at home?" Caroline handed me a bundle of candles, I merely shrugged.
"Well that depends. Can Elena not go around telling Jenna my business?" I asked Caroline back, Caroline shrugged uninterestdly and lit one of my candles, I saw Matt looking at Elena longingly and I walked over and gave him a candle and lit it. "Go." I told him, he nodded and walked quickly in Elena's direction, I smiled and turned back to Caroline.
"Have you, by any chance, seen a really hot guy around lately?" Caroline asked, images of Damon appeared in my mind and I thought them off with a mental stick.
"I, uhhh, no. No I haven't... What's he look like? I assume this is the hot guy from the Grill the other night." I smirked and nudged her and Caroline Forbes actually started blushing.
"It is and he's fairly tall, with dark hair and amazing blue eyes, quite slim but not that weedy guy slim, it's more of a hot surfer boy slim." She added and I couldn't help but laugh.
"Hot surfer boy slim?" I laughed and shook my head, then went over Caroline's description and my head snapped up. "Wait, do you know his name?" I asked her.
"I wish I did, I mean, I saw him earlier and I went over to talk to him, but then he just sorta..." She trailed off.
"Vanished." I finished for her, Caroline nodded and I shrugged, "Well maybe that's fate telling you to stay away from dark haired blue eyed guys. I always saw you with another blonde guy, really." I advised her but she shook her head.
"No! You haven't seen this guy, Cassie! He's hot, and I mean hot!" Caroline whined and I groaned inwardly.
"Ok, fine, Care. But don't say I didn't warn you." I told her and walked away to The Grill, I glimpsed my twin angrily blowing out her candle and walking away from Stefan. I winced and made a mental note to ask her about that later, as I was crossing the square I froze when I saw him, he was staring at me on the other side of the road and I stared back. A car passed in the road and when it was from my line of sight Damon was gone, I shivered and quickened my pace towards The Grill.
Matt, Tyler, Caroline, Elena, Bonnie, Stefan and I were sat around a table in The Grill waiting for the sky to darken to allow the comet to be seen. Tyler and I still weren't talking, and Stefan and Elena seemed to be going through a rough patch so the mood around the table was bordering on the edge of tense and relaxed. The barmen had recognized me from the other night and had served me alcohol, I was well on the way to becoming too intoxicated to make it across the room without tripping over something; Elena and Matt were giving concerned glances but I shrugged it off: I was happy, after all. Jeremy came over to our table with a worried look etched onto his features, nevertheless I jumped up and threw my arms around him. "Jeremy! My lil' baby bro!" I announced and hugged him hard, he froze and untangled himself from me, pushing me away so I stumbled back into a chair. Stefan steadied me and I looked at my brother with a hurt expression on my face, shrugging Stefan's supportive hand from my shoulder.
"Hey, has anyone seen Vicki?" Jeremy ignored me and asked the group, everyone exchanged a look and shook their heads.
"You're her stalker, you tell us." Tyler took a cheap shot and I frowned.
"You shut your mouth, Tyler. Leave Jeremy alone." I glared at him but Tyler simply raised an eyebrow at me.
"Whatever, Cassie. I'm not going to listen to a drunken mess, like you." Tyler snapped and I jumped back.
"Ouch, dude," I slurred, "Your words hurt me deep." I held a hand over my heart and rolled my eyes.
"I can't find her anywhere." Jeremy continued, a frown appearing on his forehead in concern.
"She probably found somebody else to party with. Sorry, pill pusher, I guess you've been replaced." Tyler shrugged and took a sip of his drink, Elena turned to Tyler frowning.
"What's with the pill pusher?" Elena asked him.
"Yeah, you tell 'im, Elena!" I punched the air, proud of my twin.
"Ask him." Tyler told my sister, his head nodding towards Jeremy. Elena raised an eyebrow and turned to our brother with crossed arms.
"You wanna do this right now?" Jeremy rolled his eyes at our sister.
"Are you dealing?" She asked him, her voice cold and stern.
"She's never gonna go for you." Tyler piped up.
"Shut up. I can't think of anyone who would go for you." I snapped at him.
"Well you did, Cas. You went for me lots of times." Tyler winked at me and placed a hand on my butt, I jumped away and hit a pillar.
"Don't touch me, Lockwood." I cried angrily, rubbing my arm where I had hit it against the hard wood.
"Vicki already went for me. Over and over again." Jeremy looked at the older boy with a triumphant glint in his eyes, everyone looked at Jeremy in shock.
"Yeah, right." Tyler turned his attention from me and snorted at Jeremy.
"You slept with Vicki Donovan, I mean... Vicki Donovan slept with you?" Caroline stuttered, her big blue eyes blinking, trying to process it.
"There's no way." Tyler shook his head in disagreement.
"Hey hey, if he said he did, he did. Ok?" I looked at the group, everyone but Stefan rolled their eyes at me.
"You're drunk, Cassie." Elena told me, and mimed zipping her lips shut, I raised an eyebrow but stayed quiet all the same.
"I didn't even have to force her into it, either." Jeremy raised his eyes challengingly at Tyler.
"What the hell is he talking about, Ty? I mean, I know what you tried to do with Cassie the other night." Matt looked at his friend angrily, everyone but Jeremy and Tyler's heads snapped towards Matt.
"What?" Elena looked at Matt desperately, her eyes glancing at me with concern.
"I was drunk that night, man, that's why I got so bad with Cassie. Ignore Jeremy, he's a punk." Tyler defended, I stayed quiet and looked down at my hands on the table, going red at everyone staring at me.
"You know what, how about all of you shut up and help me find my sister?" Matt looked at Bonnie and Caroline, they both nodded in agreement.
"We'll check the back." Bonnie jerked her thumb in the direction of the bathroom and Matt nodded appreciatively at her.
"I'll check the square." Matt replied and grabbed his jacket, Jeremy looked at the blonde boy.
"I'll come with you." Jeremy offered and tried to escape with him, but Elena shot out her seat and grabbed his arm. Bonnie and Caroline walked away from the table and I turned to talk to Stefan, but was surprised to see he wasn't sat there anymore.
"Oh, no, no, no. You are coming with me. So that's your game now, dealing?" I turned my attention and saw Elena looking at Jeremy with anger flashing in her eyes.
"I'm not dealing." Jeremy stated firmly.
"Liar." I rolled my eyes and earned a glare from my brother.
"Stay out of this, Cassie." He warned, I frowned and sighed.
"Oh whatever." I sulked and got up from my seat and stumbled off towards the bathroom, but stopped when I heard screaming. I pushed open the door that led to the roof and ignored the Authorized Personnel Only sign. I left my heels at the bottom of the stairs and belted up them towards the screams, I burst through the roof of the door and gasped at the scene before me: Damon Salvatore stood there holding Vicki Donovan by the arm, they were leaning dangerously over the edge of the building.
"What are you doing?!" I cried out and Damon turned, his eyes glinting when he recognized me.
"Well well, isn't it the lovely, bad timed Cassie Gilbert." Damon looked at me with a predatory look, I gulped and backed away slowly, in a second he appeared in front of me and I screamed in shock, he put a hand over my mouth. "Shhh! Stop screaming and don't run." Damon ordered me, I stared into his hypnotizing eyes and nodded, he smiled and took his hand away from my mouth and took hold of my wrist, I winced and tears fell from my eyes as he started to lead me towards the edge of the building.
"No, please stop. Don't." I cried and tried to escape his steely grip.
"Shhh, I got you, it's ok." Damon stroked my hair and then reached out and grabbed Vicki, we exchanged frightened glances and I felt dizzy at how close we were to the edge of the building. Below I saw Stefan looking up at us with a worried look on his face, he suddenly blurred and appeared behind us. I blinked: no one could possibly do that. "Not bad," Damon looked back at his brother with a bored look, "Have you been eating bunnies?" He asked with a mocking tone, finishing with the smirk I had begun to adore so much.
"Let them go." Stefan begged, tears still dripped from my cheeks and I looked back at him, petrified.
"Really?" Damon cocked his head, his hand let go of my arm and my brain screamed at my legs to run, to get away from the danger. But they stayed still, no matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't run. I felt Damon's hand move up and pushed my back slightly, in my drunken state I stumbled slightly towards the edge, I yelled and reached out and clung onto his leather jacket, my eyes snapped shut and refusing to look down at the ground again.
"No, no, no!" I opened my eyes again and saw Stefan stepping forward but he stopped when Damon looked at him with a sadistic grin. He turned and threw Vicki over to Stefan, she landed in his arms sobbing uncontrollably. He kept hold of me though.
"Ugh, relax. I wouldn't throw this one off a building." He rolled his eyes at Stefan and stroked my cheek, I flinched away and glared at him.
"Why would you do that? Are you insane?" I cried out and backed away from him, my heels hit the ledge and I screamed as I felt my myself falling backwards, Damon lunged and grabbed my wrist, pulling me back from the edge and into his arms.
"I'm not insane, but don't try that again." He told me sternly, I looked into his eyes and found myself nodding.
"What's happening? Why can't I scream for help? Or run?" I looked at Stefan with wild eyes, he looked sadly back at me.
"See, I don't need either of these girls dead but...you might need Vicki dead." Damon ignored my question and looked at his brother maliciously. Vicki looked up at this and shook her head, Damon sighed and cupped his hand under her chin, forcing her to look at his face. "What attacked you that night?" He asked her.
"I don't know," Vicki shook her head, suddenly tired, "An animal." She answered, Damon shook his head, his other hand still in mine, I tried to get out of it but he twisted it round painfully until I cried out and stopped.
"Are you sure about that? Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you?" Damon pressed, Vicki looked confused and frowned as she thought deeply about it, sudden realization blossomed on her face.
"A vampire." She whispered and I couldn't help bit snigger.
"A vampire, really? Come on Vick, we all know vampire's don't exist." I chuckled, Damon looked at me.
"Oh, don't they?" He asked me.
"Damon don't!" Stefan protested, I looked at Damon's blue eyes and shook my head.
"No, they don't." I told him, he smirked and suddenly dark red pulsing veins appeared from underneath his eyes, the blue orbs darken and turned crimson. I jumped back in shock but was dragged back by Damon's vice like grip on my hand, he opened his mouth and I saw long fangs, he leaned in and bit into my neck. I cried out against the sudden pain and then it was gone, Stefan shoved Damon off of me and I fell to the floor, a hand flew to my neck and I felt blood wet my fingers. More tears fell down my face as I tried to get my head around the sudden impossible evidence that vampires did in fact exist, and I just got attacked by one.
"What the hell is wrong with you, Damon?" Stefan glanced back at me on the floor and then back to his brother, Damon's face was normal but red was stained around his mouth, I shuddered as I realized it was my blood.
"Nothing is wrong with me, I am a vampire so I act like one. Cassie will be fine, I'll heal her and then erase her memory, she'll never know what happened to her." Damon shrugged and I frowned in confusion.
"Erase my memory?" I echoed, I stood up on shaky legs and a sudden wave of dizziness overtook me and I fell again, only instead of the cold concrete ground hitting me I fell into someone's arms. I looked up to see Damon holding me carefully, I started shaking with fear. I was starting to feel extremely light headed about the sudden blood loss combined with the alcohol, when Damon had put me in standing position I suddenly jerked to the edge and proceeded to throw up over it. "I feel weird." I groaned and leaned against the metal vent hatch, Stefan looked down at me with concern and Damon shrugged and stepped over to me.
"Sleep now, Cassie." He told me, I looked at him confusedly but to my surprise my eyelids suddenly felt heavy, I closed my eyes and sleep overtook me.
Stefan's P.O.V
I walked across the car park of The Grill and head a scream from nearby, I looked up and, to my horror, I saw Damon standing on the edge of the building with Vicki and Cassie in each arm. I blurred and sped up to the roof, appearing behind my brother and the two girls, Cassie looked back at me shocked and Damon looked back at me with boredom. "Not bad," he said, "Have you been eating bunnies?" He adopted a mocking tone and finished with his trademark smirk.
"Let them go." I begged Damon, I glanced at Cassie and saw tears falling from her dark eyes.
"Really?" Damon smiled and his hand moved from Cassie's arm to her back and he pushed her slightly, intending her to inch closer to the edge, but in her drunken state she stumbled and cried out, turning and clinging onto my brother's leather jacket, I saw the him smile as he looked down at the dark haired girl who refused to let go of him, her eyes were snapped shut but tears still fell from them.
"No, no, no." I told Damon and moved towards him, but stopped when he looked over at me and shot me a sadistic grin. I relaxed a little when he turned away from the edge and threw Vicki towards me, she landed in my arms and was sobbing loudly. I waited for him to give me Cassie but tensed when I saw he wasn't going to give her to me.
"Ugh, relax. I wouldn't throw this one off a building." He rolled his eyes at me and stroked Cassie's tear stained cheek, she flinched away from his hand and glared at him. I prepared myself to jump in and save her if he attempted to throw her again.
"Why would you do that? Are you insane?" She cried out, managing to escape from his grip. Cassie backed away from my brother with a terrified look on her face, her heels came into contact with the ledge and she let out a scream as she fell backwards, almost tumbling over the edge unless Damon's hand hadn't suddenly shot out and grabbed hers. I thought I saw genuine fear flash in his face as he pulled Cassie back over the building and pulled her safely away from the edge.
"I'm not insane, but don't try that again." Damon looked down at the girl almost sternly, it was as if he actually cared about her. Cassie looked up at him and nodded.
"What's happening? Why can't I scream for help? Or run?" Cassie looked at me with hysteria in her eyes, I felt sorry for the poor girl - Damon had been playing in her head for days now, she must be so confused.
"See, I don't need either of these girls dead but...you might need Vicki dead." Damon looked at me with a malicious look, ignoring Cassie's question completely. Vicki stopped sobbing and looked over at Damon when he said this, my brother sighed and reached out and cupped poor Vicki's chin, forcing her head to tilt and look up into his eyes. "What attacked you that night?" He asked the girl.
"I don't know," She answered Damon tiredly, "An animal." She told him, but Damon shook his head. Cassie was trying to escape from Damon again, but he twisted her arm painfully round until she cried out and stopped, I glared at him and clenched my teeth.
"Are you sure about that? Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you?" Damon asked Vicki again, she frowned in confusion and thought for a moment until the realization hit her.
"A vampire." The girl whispered, Cassie started sniggering.
"A vampire, really? Come on Vick, we all know vampire's don't exist." Cassie laughed at the girl, Damon glanced at me, slightly amused and looked down at Cassie.
"Oh don't they?" He asked the Katherine look alike, fear shot through me and turned my insides cold.
"Damon don't!" I called out to him in protest, but I was ignored as Cassie looked almost defiantly into my brother's eyes.
"No, they don't." She told him firmly, he smirked and his face began to transform, Cassie jumped back in shock but Damon dragged her back closer to him, he opened his mouth, displaying his fangs before he leaned down and bit into Cassie's neck. Cassie's cries of pain jerked me into motion, I sped over to Damon and shoved him off of her, the girl fell to the floor and her hand went to her neck to check it.
"What the hell is wrong with you, Damon?" I told him angrily as I glanced over at Cassie to see if she was fatally hurt, when I was satisfied she was fine my gaze snapped back to Damon, Cassie's blood was decorated around his mouth.
"Nothing is wrong with me, I am a vampire so I act like one. Cassie will be fine, I'll heal her and then erase her memory, she'll never know what happened to her." Damon merely shrugged his reply and I shook my head at him in disgust.
"Erase my memory?" Cassie echoed behind me, I turned to see her standing on shaking legs but she fell again, to my surprise Damon rushed to her aid and caught her before she hit the ground, she looked up at Damon and I could see from where I was standing that she was shaking in fear. As soon as Damon had carefully put the girl in an upright position she shot to the edge of the building and was sick over it, "I feel weird." Cassie groaned and slid down to the floor and leant against the metal ventilation shaft. I looked at the girl worriedly -she had gone through a lot tonight after all, Damon stepped over to the girl and looked into her eyes, compelling her again.
"Sleep now, Cassie." He told the girl in a soft, gentle voice. Cassie looked confused but soon the compulsion took effect and she closed her eyes and fell asleep. "Right," Damon stepped away from Cassie's sleeping form and looked at Vicki, "Back to the matter at hand." He smiled and blurred next to Vicki. "Who did this to you?" He gestured to the bandage on her neck, Vicki glared up at him.
"You did!" She told him angrily.
"Wrong." Damon shook his head.
"Don't." I told him again, but he ignored me.
"It was Stefan." He continued.
"Don't." I begged again.
"Come here." Damon's hands clasped the sides of Vicki's head and he compelled her. "Stefan Salvatore did this to you."
"Stefan Salvatore did this to me." Vicki repeated monotonously.
"He's a vampire. A vicious, murderous monster." Damon told her, a smirk slowly crept up on his face.
"Please Damon. Please don't do this." I begged him, but it was in vain.
"If you couldn't fix it before, I don't know what you can do now." Damon announced and ripped off Vicki's bandage, she whimpered and Damon pushed her to me. "Ugh! Your choice of lifestyle has made you weak. A couple of vampire parlor tricks is nothing compared to the power that you could have, that you now need. But you can change that. Human blood gives you that." Damon told me, I tried to keep my eyes off of Vicki's wound and looked at my older brother angrily. "You have two choices. You can feed and make her forget. Or you can let her run, screaming "vampire" through the town square." Damon told me in a nonchalant tone, as if this all meant nothing to him at all.
"That's what this is about? You want to expose me?" I asked him angrily, straining to let the blood lust kick in and feed from Vicki's neck.
"No! I want you to remember who you are!" Damon shook his head.
"Why? So what, so I'll feed? So I'll kill? So I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again? You know what, let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls. Let them chain me up, and let them drive a stake through my heart, because at least I'll be free of you." I told him sadly, I saw the steely glint in Damon's eyes fade a little at this.
"Huh. Wow. Come here, sweetheart." Damon took Vicki away from me and she struggled, he looked deep into her eyes and she relaxed.
"What happened? Where am I? Oh, I ripped my stitches open." Vicki blinked and I looked at her closely.
"Are you ok?" I asked her, she nodded and gave me a look.
"I took some pills, man. I'm good." She told me and then left the roof as if nothing had happened.
"It's good to be home. Think I might stay a while. This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?" Damon broke the silence, I sighed and walked over to Cassie's unconscious form, but Damon sped over and beat me to it, I stiffened as he picked her up in his arms.
"What are you up to, Damon?" I asked him suspiciously.
"Relax, you have Elena. I have my Cassie, I'm just gonna make sure she gets home safely, you know how dangerous Mystic Falls can be at night." Damon smirked and I rolled my eyes.
"She's not your Cassie, Damon, she's a person. And deserves to be treated as such." I sighed and looked down at the Gilbert twin.
"Whatever, little bro. She needs healing and induced memory loss after she wakes up anyway." Damon shrugged and before I could reply he vanished into the night with her.
Cassie's P.O.V
I groaned and rolled over, I heard the rustling of crisp sheets and my eyes shot open. I was laying on top of a large double bed in an unfamiliar room, I sat up and was met with a pounding hangover across my forehead, I massaged my knuckles on my temples and blinked - everything that had happened when I was last awake came rushing back to me, I remembered Vicki on the rooftop with Damon... I got off the bed and stumbled a little, dizzy with confusion, my hand went to my neck and I recoiled at the wound that I felt under my fingers. I have to get help I ran quietly to the door and down the stairs, I gasped as I recognized the Salvatore Boarding House, crouching slightly, I bounded towards the front door and silently congratulated myself when I opened it. Then the door slammed shut and I let out a shuddering breath, I looked up and saw a hand holding the door closed, I shut my eyes but I knew he was behind me. "Leaving so soon?" I could hear the smirk in Damon's voice. I opened my eyes and looked back at him, trying to keep my voice even and bold.
"What do you want from me? I want to leave!" I told him, dodging around him and backing up into the living room, giving myself more space to run if I needed to.
"Cassie, we both know you saw some things tonight that you shouldn't have seen, I'm just going to help you." Damon looked at me and I shook my head.
"Don't touch me." I told him and shied away as he stepped closer, he rolled his eyes and grabbed my right arm in a steely grip.
"Now this," He said as I struggled against him, but he was too strong, "Won't hurt, you won't even remember being here." Damon assured me and I shook my head.
"What are you saying? Just let me go, I won't tell anyone! Please, just let me go." I pleaded and I saw a smile play on Damon's lips. His eyes suddenly darkened and veins pulsed beneath them, he opened his mouth and bit into his free wrist, I screamed and flinched back, but then the hand blurred and the wrist was on my mouth and the grip had left my arm but was restraining my head, I squealed and kept my mouth shut but then I made the mistake of looking into Damon's eyes.
"Drink." He told me, and instantly I opened my mouth and began to drink Damon's blood, after several seconds he took his wrist away and I coughed, disgusted, Damon's hand went to my neck and I flinched, expecting there to be pain from putting pressure on my wound, but there was nothing but the softness of Damon's hand stroking me. I shuddered at the touch and closed my eyes, enjoying the smooth touch. I heard Damon chuckle and my eyes snapped open and I moved my head away, flushing in embarrassment. "Well, this has been fun, Cassie. But I can't have you telling the town my secret, so you are not going to remember what happened tonight, you left to help search for Vicki but you couldn't find her, you eventually passed out in the parking lot and someone took you home." I nodded at Damon's words and closed my eyes as my mind blanked for a moment, when I opened them I was stood on the porch of my house. Sighing, I walked inside and proceeded straight up the stairs, I passed Elena on the landing but ignored her, I walked straight into my room and fell on the bed and sleep took me in moments.