Hello my lovely readers. I wanted to mention the two writers I'm betaing for KlarolineCinderella's story, Miss Me When I'm Gone, and KlarolineLover007's Visit as well as Feast or Famine: The Caroline Diaries.

This chapter is mostly from Caroline's perspective because I love her. Don't worry I do not ship Daroline as a couple except maybe like two percent of the time if Elena insists on being with Stefan. Writer shakes her head. I hope Julie Plec does not revisit that headache. I am a huge Klaroline shipper but I do like the idea of a Daroline friendship. Damon needs friends. Enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 7: Answers

Determinedly, Caroline walked toward the front door of the Salvatore Boarding House. She was tired of the way that Damon had been treating her this week. Even if they weren't dating, which they were, she would be worried because it was not like Damon to just blow her off all the time. There was something off in his behavior and she was absolutely sure it had something to do with the Salvatores.

Sucking in a breath to calm herself Caroline pushed the doorbell. Elena pulled the door open before Caroline's finger moved off the button. Elena's grin turned into a deep frown as her eyes narrowed. "What do you want? Because if you're here to sell Girl Scout cookies I would suggest you go somewhere else."

Biting her tongue, Caroline decided to be the bigger person. "Actually, Stefan and I are lab partners in chemistry class. And I came by to see if he had taken notes because I forgot to." It wasn't a lie. Caroline had been making notes on organizing a movie night and Stefan had been taking notes for both of them. Of course, she was here two hours early but this way she could have a little girl talk with Elena.

"Well, Stefan isn't home right now. So, you can just ask one of your cheerleaders to give you the notes." Elena started to slam the door in Caroline's face.

"Why are Damon and Stefan hanging out so much?" Caroline called before the door could close completely.

There was a brief pause before Elena pulled the door back open. "What did you just say?" Stepping outside Elena glared at Caroline.

"They're not like tight or something. That's weird, right? I mean Stefan's kind of my friend. But even so, we're not that close. But then Damon was talking to Stefan today and it looked intense." Before Caroline could finish speaking Elena grabbed her by the throat, lifting her off the ground.

"What did you hear?" Elena growled, tightening her grip. Caroline began to choke, she couldn't breathe. Elena was strong, too strong. She couldn't answer Elena's question and the other girl was about to kill her.

"Put her down." Damon yelled, appearing behind Caroline.

Elena sighed and then dropped Caroline to the ground. "She's been eavesdropping, Damon. I can't have the sheriff's little baby girl going around blabbing all my secrets around town. Can I?"

"I don't know anything." Caroline gasped, rubbing her neck. She needed to get out of here. Now.

"She saw you talking to Stefan. And soon she'll know too much. It's just a matter of time." Elena snapped, placing her hands on her hips while she glared at Damon.

Looking up at her boyfriend, Caroline did not know who to be scared of. The way he was looking at her it was like he could care less about what Elena did to her. "I don't kill every single person who knows my secret." He then looked at Elena. "The Elena in my world is Caroline's friend. She would risk her life to protect her."

Stepping closer to Damon, Elena glared at him. "Good for the goody-goody version of me. But I'm not her." Elena snapped, flashing over to Caroline and sinking her fangs into Caroline's neck.

Screaming in terror and agony Caroline began to feel that she was dying. She stopped trying to push Elena away as her blood pooled into what could only be a vampire's mouth. So, the stories were real. Vampires walked amongst them. One of the demons was sucking her blood like she was juice box.

"Elena, stop." Damon yelled at Elena as he sent a quick text message.

Elena withdrew her fangs. "Nope." She said with a wide grin before she sank her fangs back into Caroline's neck.

There was no way that he was in a position to fight a vampire and he really wasn't sure why he cared - but he began to look for a weapon. Finding a tree branch Damon used all of his strength to jam it into Elena's chest, beneath her heart. Elena screamed in pain. As she dropped to the ground Damon grabbed Caroline by the arm, dragging her into the house and down the stairs to the cell below.

Looking around desperately Damon knew that he had mere seconds before Elena would find them. He lifted Caroline into the freezer and laid her on top of the blood bags after pulling her sweater off. He threw the item into the cell and hid behind the door.

"God, Damon, you must be awfully stupid to hide in a vampire's house. Especially, my house. I can smell her blood, you know." Elena stepped into the cell, following the smell of Caroline's blood and was startled when Damon shoved the door closed. Moving swiftly, she began to force it open as he tried to push it closed. It was amusing to see the little human try so hard. But it was also terribly stupid.

Suddenly, her mind exploded into a thousand points of pain. She fell back into the cell as Damon and Stefan shut the door. "How?" Elena growled.

"With a little help from a friend." Stefan explained, looking at Bonnie Bennett as she approached the door.

"You will all regret that." Elena yelled at them furiously. They ignored her as Stefan pulled Caroline out of the freezer. He bit into his wrist and held it to her mouth.

"Hey, Caroline. You need to drink." Damon instructed Caroline whose head was lolling from side to side. She was paler than usual and Damon was concerned. That annoyed him. He did not do concern. He thought Caroline Forbes talked too much and was an insecure brat. Unfortunately, he couldn't turn his stupid feelings off in this body.

"Care," Damon called and Caroline forced herself to focus on his voice. She trusted Damon with her life. They had known each other since they were babies. She would do anything to protect him and he, her. So, when he told her to drink Stefan Salvatore's blood she complied. She really didn't know why. It tasted awful.

"Okay. That's enough." Gently pulling his wrist away from Caroline's mouth Stefan watched as the girl's coloring improved.

Sitting up, Caroline stared at Stefan. "Your sister's a vampire. A mean, crazy, bitch of a vampire. What the hell, Stefan, I thought that we were friends. Friends tell friends that their sisters are crazy, evil vampires." Whirling around Caroline glared at Bonnie. "And you, what are you doing here? Are you a vampire, too? Because if you are you are so not invited in my house anymore. I mean what the hell is going on here?"

Bonnie, Stefan and Damon watched as Caroline began to panic. "I'm going to compel her." He stepped forward when Damon blocked him.

"Not so fast, Stef." Damon held up his hand. "You seemed to be compel happy in this world but here's the thing. You compelled me to forget myself and now you want to compel Caroline. What if she becomes a vampire? Then she'll remember everything and she won't trust you one bit."

"What do you mean compel her?" Bonnie asked.

"Vampires can make humans believe things with this eye thing. If I were still a vampire I could do it. But I'm not. So, we're wasting time here." Waving everyone toward the stairs Damon turned to Elena. "'Night, evil Lena. Enjoy that cell I know I always did when I got locked up in it."

Damon turned to follow the others up the stairs but then stopped. He went over to the freezer and pulled out a blood bag. "You owe me one for doing this." He tossed the blood bag to Elena who sneered at him.

"You won't last the year in my world." Elena told him.

"That could be," Damon mused as he walked toward the stairs. "But I'm back home in my bed with my bro and his annoying morality long before then." Walking up the stairs Damon headed for the great room. "Okay, people what's the plan?"

"What do you mean, plan?" Stefan asked.

"Well, whenever I acted grr you always came up with some halfbaked plan to keep me from terrorizing the locals." Plopping down on the couch beside Caroline Damon began to examine her neck. "Ouch. She meant business."

"It's almost healed." Stefan said looking at the healing bite mark.

"Yeah, but she needs to be on vervain like yesterday. How 'bout you give her that pretty little necklace that Elena was wearing all the time?" Damon suggested.

"What necklace?" Stefan looked confused.

Thinking about it Damon pursed his lips. "It was this little silver ball looking thing."

Frowning in concentration it dawned on Stefan what Damon might be referring to. He sped up the stairs and then back down. "You mean this." He held out the necklace that Damon was so used to seeing.

"Bingo." Smiling Damon took the necklace and swiveled his finger indicating that he wanted Caroline to turn around. "There. That's perfect."

Caroline turned around and looked at Damon and, for a moment, he looked like her Damon. Then his guard went back up. "Hey, there, Blondie. You need to remember you may know me as your boyfriend but boyfriend material I am not." He wagged a finger at her. "You would not take me home to meet mom."

Frowning, Caroline stared at Damon and then she turned to Stefan. "Did you do this to him? I mean you're like a vampire, too. Right? I mean that's what all the talking downstairs was about. You're like a vampire and you made Damon forget who he is. Well, I want you to fix him. Right now."

Damon grabbed Caroline by the writ and spun her around. "Caroline, I am not your boyfriend. I'm supposed to be Damon Salvatore but somehow I'm here in this Damon Gilbert's world. I don't how this happened and I'm really sorry but that's the way it is. The sooner you accept that the better off we'll all be."

On the edge of tears Caroline looked at Bonnie. "Can you take me home, Bon? I can't look at him right now." Nodding, Bonnie gave Damon an evil look before she led Caroline out the door.

When the two girls were gone Damon sighed. "Now, back to the Elena problem." He looked at Stefan who was staring at the entryway to the room. "What, is someone coming?" Damon frowned waiting for someone to enter the room.

Stefan shook his head. "No."

"So, what is it?" Damon was confused as he stared at Stefan.

"It's Caroline… She wasn't supposed to find out like this…" Stefan was staring at the floor.

"Yeah. Okay." Struggling to figure out what was going on with his brother or Elena's brother. It dawned on him and he began to grin. "You like Caroline."

"No. No, I don't." Stefan shook his head.

"Yes, you do. This world really is full of surprises. Well, she is free now. So, go get her, champ." Grinning Damon leaned back.

"No. I couldn't. She's human. I couldn't kill her." Stefan protested.

"Whatever. You'll be fine. Besides she needs a shoulder to cry on. Go talk to her." Damon walked out of the room with Stefan following him. "Trust me. It couldn't turn out to be any worse than you and Elena."

"Dude, that is my sister." Stefan wrinkled his face.

"Not in my reality she isn't." Damon said with a smirk. Things were very different in his reality.

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