A/N: Okay, so, when I first started writing this story I was all happy with Caroline just being friends with the Winchesters…but after today, when my friend made me watch some fanvids about Sam/Caroline and Dean/Caroline I knew I wouldn't be able to look at them as just friends again. So until I decide in the end who I really like Caroline with, they'll all be friends still. Anyway, I hope you guys like this chapter! xoxo, Avril
Chapter Six: Under Control
"Better?" Caroline asked as she walked into her living room where Dean was waiting for her and she caught him looking at her family pictures of her with her mom and dad.
"Well, it's less bloody then before." Dean said turning around to face her now "Ready?"
"Yeah." Caroline said and looked at Dean's arm as he walked by her "Your arm okay?"
"It's fine." Dean said and head for her front door and opened it up for her.
"You know, Sam's gonna ask what happened to you." Caroline sighed and walked out the door
"Yeah, and he'll wonder even more when he sees a vampire bite there on my arm." Dean said "It'll be fine, we get hurt all the time, he'll think we had a crazy ghost on out hands, which, if you ask me, that chick was frickin physco" Dean said with a smirk
"She was pretty crazy." Caroline laughed "Thanks for saving me back there."
"How many times are you going to say thank you?" Dean asked
"Until I feel like I've said it enough" Caroline smiled
"Something tells me that I'll never want to hear the word thank you again after this." Dean sighed
Damon walked into the Boarding House, fed up with hearing Stefan going on and on about how he should just wait it out and see what the Winchesters are really up to. Caroline refused to answer his calls anymore and she was rarely at home again after the night he barged into her room, so he had to wait with Stefan until they found out more about the Winchesters. Damon walked into the kitchen and got a glass of blood before being startled by seeing Jeremy sitting there in the living room by the fire.
"Gilbert, how the hell did you get in here?" Damon asked "And how did I not hear you?"
"Door was unlocked." Jeremy said simply
"Well, what has Jeremy Gilbert in such a bad mood today?" Damon asked and sat down next to him in the living room "Keep it short, I really don't feel like hearing some big long sob story."
"I heard about the Winchesters, what they are, why they are in town. I don't like them." Jeremy said
"You and me both." Damon sighed "Who told you about them?"
"Stefan, he was telling Elena actually, but I heard him." Jeremy sighed
"Yeah, well, there's nothing we can do about them for now." Damon said
"Says who? Stefan and Caroline?" Jeremy asked
"…What's gotten into you Gilbert?" Damon asked strangely. "I don't like the Winchesters being here either, but we have to deal with them until we figure out why their here."
"And when will that be? When Elena's dead? What if they are here to break the sun and moon curse, what if they work for Klaus?" Jeremy asked "What will we do then?"
"…That's it, they are dying, tonight." Damon said and stood up off the couch. Jeremy hit a nerve in Damon when he said Elena. "Come on, I'm not letting those hunters stay in town another minute longer, if they are even really hunters" Damon hissed out and head for the front door with Jeremy right behind him, and a smirk plastered on his face, but out there in the dark, even Damon couldn't see that Jeremy's eyes were now completely blacked out and that he wasn't going to go kill the Winchesters with Jeremy, not the real Jeremy at least.
Caroline and Dean were sitting silently in the Impala as Dean was driving them back to the motel so that they could tell Sam that they found their ghost and that she said she would help them…as long as another vampire never came into her warehouse again. But Caroline's cell phone broke the silence and Caroline quickly answered it.
"Hello?" Caroline answered
"Caroline, it's Bonnie" Bonnie said sounding worried
"Hey, Bonnie, what's wrong?" Caroline asked and that caught Dean's attention
"I found out more about the ritual and, it's not good." Bonnie sighed
"What is it?" Caroline asked
"Well, if the spell isn't done exactly as it's written here, then…someone could die, or all of us could." Bonnie said "But, there is an upside."
"And what would that be?" Caroline asked worried
"If we do the ritual in an enchanted place, we all have a better chance of living. It's not that much better, but…" Bonnie sighed "Just don't worry about it Care, I'll handle this, just find the rest of the people we need with Dean and Sam, okay?"
"Okay," Caroline said "Everything will go off fine, alright?"
"Alright." Bonnie said "Bye."
"Bye" Caroline said and hung up and looked at Dean who looked back over at her now
"What happened?" Dean asked
"Well, as usual, the spell can possibly kill us all." Caroline said "But if we find a cursed place, we have a better chance of living."
"We'll add it to the list then." Dean said
Out of nowhere on the road, Damon appeared and stood in front of the Impala which caused Dean to slam on the breaks.
"What the hell? Is this town full of crazies!" Dean said and got out of the car
"Damon, what the fuck is wrong with you?" Caroline hissed at him as she got out of the car right behind Dean
"Wait, Salvatore?" Dean asked Caroline and she nodded "Look pretty boy, I don't know what your problem is but you nearly killed us back there!"
"Caroline would have been fine, but you…well, I don't think you'd be missed." Damon said with a smirk
"Damon, you're an-" Caroline stopped talking when she saw Jeremy walking up behind Dean slowly, getting ready to attack him. "DEAN! Behind you!" Caroline hissed
Dean turned around in time and was able to wrestle Jeremy down to the ground, but Jeremy was stronger.
"What are you gonna do, kill me?" Jeremy asked with a smirk and Dean saw his eyes black out
"He's a demon!" Dean said "Caroline, trunk of the Impala, get me the knife, we have to kill him!"
"What?" Caroline asked
"Just do it!" Dean said as he flipped Jeremy over onto his back now and had him pinned down and Caroline saw his eyes and Damon stared at Jeremy now too
"That explains why he wanted to kill you." Damon shrugged and stood there and watched them struggle
"Dean, we can't kill him, that's Elena's brother" Caroline said
"Right now, he's not." Dean said "Knife, now."
"What if he's the demon we need for the ritual!" Caroline said
"Son of a bitch." Dean sighed as Jeremy knocked Dean back now, but Dean got up and punched Jeremy right in the jaw, knocking him out unconscious as he hit the ground. "Fine, then help me get him in the car at least." Dean sighed and picked up Jeremy and Caroline rushed over to him to help
Once they got him to the car, Dean got him in there the rest of the way while Caroline walked over to Damon.
"You're an asshole, you know that, right?" Caroline asked
"So what? I'm an asshole now for wanting to protect this town? Because I want to kill your precious little boy toy there?" Damon asked with a smirk "I'll kill them both if it saves this town."
"Screw you Damon! I can't believe I lied to protect you. Burn in hell." Caroline spat at him and stormed off back into the Impala and slammed the door shut
"Hey, take it easy!" Dean said to Caroline. Dean shut the backdoor to the Impala and walked over to Damon who was still standing there with a smirk. "Stay out of my way and I'll stay out of yours bloodsucker."
"Stop trying to break the curse of the sun and the moon and I won't kill you." Damon said
"Sun and the moon? Look, you've got the wrong curse there pretty boy. Maybe you should read up on your town curses before you come storming in here with a demonically possessed teenager and try to kill me." Dean said and walked back over to the car, started it up, and drove around a stunned Damon who was still standing there in the middle of the road.
"Charles Winchester." Castiel said and out the journal back down in front of Sam "I met him once, a long…long time ago."
"You sure? Or…is that just the liquor talking?" Sam asked
"I'm sure!" Cas snapped back
"Okay!" Sam said "So…you were there when they made this stone?"
"Yep. Powerful witch made that thing…Bennett I think her name was." Cas said started dozing off in his chair
"Bennett…Bonnie's ancestor. You know who else was there?" Sam asked
"Uh…Gilbert, Forbes, Lockwood…Winchester…and uh, me. Oh, no wait, there was uh…Palmer too. Not a founding family, but they were on the council and they were there." Cas shrugged "Can I sleep now?"
"Yeah, sure." Sam said and finished writing down the last names as Cas passed out in the chair he was sitting in
A few minutes later after Sam did more research on the family names Castiel gave him, Dean and Caroline walked into the room lugging an unconscious Jeremy in there with him and laying him down on the bed.
"Uh…what's going on?" Sam asked confused and walked up to them
"Well, first, we found our spirit for the ritual. By the way, she's crazy as hell and tried to kill Caroline." Dean sighed "And second, on our way back here, we got ambushed by a vampire and this guy. Jeremy Gilbert, currently possessed by a demon." Dean said and looked over at Caroline and she gave him a silent thank you for not telling Sam about Damon yet.
"Gilbert…possessed by a demon?" Sam asked and walked over to where he wrote down the names "…Did you happen to get the ghosts last name?"
"I think she said Palmer while I was leaving, why?" Dean asked
"That's it!" Sam said
"What?" Caroline asked completely confused
"Bennett, Forbes, Gilbert, Winchester, Castiel; all our ancestors and well, Cas, were there when the stone was made!" Sam said "All we have to do is get Lockwood, which I'm betting is the werewolf, and then we can get on with this ritual!"
"Nice detective work there Sammy." Dean said
"So, all we gotta do is see if this stone glows for Tyler and that's it?" Caroline asked
"Well, we still gotta test Cas…when he's conscious." Sam said and looked over at him "And this Gilbert kid too, but yeah, that's pretty much it."
"Then we have to find some cursed place to do this thing." Dean sighed
"What?" Sam asked
"Bonnie called Caroline. Said that if we don't do this ritual in some cursed place…we could all die." Dean sighed
"Great," Sam sighed and just noticed the bandages around Dean's arm, he would have to ask him about that later. "Any idea where there are cursed places around here?" Sam asked Caroline and she just shrugged "This could be harder than we thought…"
Sam put a blanket on Cas since it looked like he was going to stay there passed out for the rest of the night. And Dean seemed to be glued to the TV, watching Dr. Sexy MD.
"What's going on?" Sam asked Dean
"Make out session in the elevator, same as always." Dean sighed
"So…what happened with that ghost? Did she do something to your arm?" Sam asked
"Uh…no, I scarped it on one of the crates in there." Dean shrugged "Better go change the bandages." Dean said and got up and walked into the bathroom
Sam sat there for a minute and was tempted to change the channel on Dean, but he knew Dean would notice. After a few minutes of not being able to take watching Dr. Sexy MD anymore, Sam went to check on Dean in the bathroom and caught him with the bandages still off and the vampire bite from Caroline on his arm, fully exposed.
"What the hell? Dean, that's not a scrape!" Sam said and grabbed his arm "…Who bit you?"
Dean let out a long sigh. "Caroline." Dean stated "That crazy ass ghost staked her right through the stomach, she lost a lot of blood and there was no way in hell I was driving back here with a blood deprived vampire." Dean said "That's like driving with a hungry lion in the car and you're the steak."
"Oh…" Sam said and clenched his jaw a little bit "Did you like it?"
Dean looked up at Sam as if he had three heads. "Did you trip and hit your head Sammy? It's a vampire bite, okay? Last I checked, I am not some vampire's man whore that let's them bite me whenever they want." Dean said
"Right…I know that." Sam said and nodded
"…I think you need some sleep Sam, you've been up the past two nights doing nothing but reading about this town's messed up history." Dean said
"Yeah, your probably right. Night Dean." Sam said
"Night." Dean said