AN: Thank you so much for the reviews.

Chapter 10: I Remember

Charlene was running through the middle of the road, barefooted, as fast as she could as if death itself was chasing her. She looked devastated and terribly scared. Thankfully it was past mid night and the streets were practically empty. Tears were flowing out of Charlene's eyes. Even though she was running crazily but Charlene had a destination to reach. She was going to the only place where she could get help. Not to mention find comfort. Charlene ran past Whitmore medical hospital and reached Jo's apartment. She quickly climbed up the stairs. When Charlene reached the door of Jo's apartment, she started knocking loudly.

Jo and Alaric were sleeping that time. But the loud knocking sound on the door woke up the couple. They were confused at first.

"You stay here, I'll go see" said Alaric while getting up from the bed. Even though Alaric asked Jo to stay inside the bedroom but Jo couldn't help but follow him. Alaric looked through the magic eye on the door first to see who it was before opening the door. And when Alaric looked; it confused him to no limits. He looked back at Jo with furrowed brows.

"It's Charlene" said Alaric. Jo was shocked to hear that. She quickly walked up to the door and opened it. The moment Charlene saw Jo, she threw herself at her and held onto Jo tightly. Jo also embraced Charlene tightly even though she had no idea what was going on.

"Charlene, what happened? Why are you crying?" Jo asked feeling very concerned for Charlene. Something has definitely happened. Something bad. Jo wondered if Kai was responsible. The way Charlene was crying so hard, something terrible must have happened with her. Alaric as well felt very confused. He knew everything about Charlene being reincarnation of Evelyn. Jo couldn't keep it a secret from him. To say that Alaric was shocked to learn everything, would be a huge understatement. Before Jo could ask again what has happened, Charlene practically screamed out loud.

"I remember Jo. I remember everything."

Flashback

Another loud scream pierced through the air. Even though it has only been two hours but for Charlene it felt like she was going through hell for days. As Bonnie kept unlocking her memories from her past life, Charlene suffered from unbearable pain. She was on the verge of passing out. Not to mention remembering Evelyn's life was no less terrifying. Charlene remembered that her name was Evelyn Parker. She remembered being born as a witch in the Gemini coven. She remembered all their traditions and rules. And of course about the merging ceremony. The most important rule of Gemini witches.

Charlene remembered that her father was Joshua Parker, the leader of the Gemini coven. She remembered her mother who died after giving birth to the twins Lucas and Olivia. Charlene also remembered the rest of her siblings as well. Most importantly she remembered Kai in her past life. Eventually Charlene started remembering that Kai was actually Jo's twin brother. She remembered that when she was born as Evelyn, she and Kai were very close. He was the perfect big brother to her. But then she grew up and they became distant. Charlene remembered the days, when she and Kai barely talked to each other. Not to mention, Kai was acting really weird during that time.

Charlene remembered finding out one day that her brother Kai was a sociopath. And not long after that, Kai declared his attraction towards her and claimed her as his. Charlene remembered as Evelyn she fought Kai at first and tried to resist his approaches. How could she not? They were brother and sister after all. But then again, Charlene remembered slowly giving into Kai. She fell for him despite the fact that they were related by blood. She was in love with him. Even though she felt very guilty about it but Evelyn couldn't stop herself from getting involved with Kai. Charlene remembered all the times they passionately kissed each other and made love.

"Please stop! Stop it please!" Charlene screamed out loud. The pain she was going through only increased more as more memories unlocked in her mind. However Bonnie ignored her pleas and kept chanting the spells. Bonnie was feeling pain too. After all the spells were taking too much of her power but she was determined as hell.

Charlene curled up into a ball and closed her eyes shut. She was shaking terribly. Suddenly Charlene started remembering finding out about Andrew's murder. He was her boyfriend back then. Kai had killed him. Charlene remembered siding with their father and planning on imprisoning Kai in the prison world. She remembered hating Kai silently while she pretended to still love him. Unfortunately Kai found out about her intentions and he killed her. He killed the rest of her siblings too. Charlene remembered hearing their screams before she took her last breath as Evelyn. The nightmares made sense to Charlene this time. It was a glimpse of the horror from her past life. This entire time, she was having nightmares of that fateful night when she was murdered.

"Please no more!" Saying that Charlene passed out. Finally she couldn't take the pain anymore. Bonnie stopped chanting and looked at Charlene. Damon was standing close by.

"Did it work?" Damon asked curiously.

"It should" said Bonnie however she didn't sound confident at all.

"Well I guess we'll find out once she wakes up" said Damon. He walked over to Charlene's unconscious body and picked her up from the floor. Then Damon put her down on the couch. Right then Charlene's phone went off. Damon pulled out the device from her jacket pocket and rolled his eyes when he read the caller ID.

"It's Kai" said Damon out loud and answered Bonnie's unasked question in the process.

"Turn off the phone" said Bonnie. "I've put a cloaking spell on Charlene. Kai won't find her using magic."

"What if he comes here?" asked Damon getting a little worriedly. "You know he has a habit of stopping by here whenever he needs something."

"We'll deal with it then" said Bonnie. Damon actually listened to her this time and turned off Charlene's phone before putting it back inside her jacket pocket.

Sometime later, Damon went out to meet with Elena while Bonnie stayed back at the Boarding house to watch over Charlene. She didn't wake up for a long time and it was making Bonnie worried. What if she has done too much damage? Not to mention Kai must be going insane looking for her. It was only a matter of time before, Kai would suspect Bonnie behind the disappearance of his girlfriend. Bonnie was about to call Damon and inform him that Charlene wasn't up yet and that they should do something about it. Suddenly Bonnie heard a loud gasp and she saw Charlene snapped open her eyes. She was breathing in and out heavily. Charlene looked pale with fear. As if she just woke up from dead. Bonnie quickly went near her, however Charlene moved away from Bonnie.

"Hey, it's alright. I won't hurt you." Bonnie tried to assure her but Charlene was too confused and freaked out to understand anything.

"Charlene calm down. Do you remember anything? Charlene what do you remember?" Bonnie kept asking but Charlene behaved as if she couldn't even hear Bonnie. At last Bonnie ran out of patience. She grabbed Charlene's arms and shook her violently to snap her out of her panicked state.

"Evelyn, calm down!" Charlene immediately became still and she looked at Bonnie with wide eyes. There was complete silence for a moment or two before Charlene spoke up with shaking tone of voice.

"I need to see my sister Jo."

End Of Flashback

Before Bonnie could stop Charlene, she ran away from the Boarding house. It took Charlene a long time to find her way towards Jo's apartment. Not to mention she was on foot. But fortunately she was able to reach her sister before anyone else could get to her. When Charlene confessed that she remembered everything, Jo couldn't believe her own ears. She pulled away a little and looked into Charlene's eyes.

"Evelyn?" Jo asked with emotional tone of voice. Charlene nodded her head vehemently.

"Yes Jo, I know now that I'm Evelyn. I remember. And I also remember-" Charlene couldn't finish as a painful sob escaped her breath. Jo took her inside and made her sit on the couch. Alaric closed the door behind. He didn't know what to do but simply stand there. Charlene was kind of clinging onto Jo. She was feeling so terrified.

"He killed me Jo. He killed me." Charlene said in a whisper while still crying. Jo knew what she was talking about.

"I know. I know." Jo tried to comfort Charlene as much as possible. But Charlene was only getting worse.

"He killed the rest of the family too, didn't he?" Charlene asked calming down a little. Even though it happened eighteen years ago but for Charlene it felt like yesterday. Jo on the other hand sighed out heavily.

"Only me and the twins survived back then" said Jo. Hearing that Charlene closed her eyes shut and vehemently shook her head to herself as if she couldn't believe her own ears.

"He didn't even spare Joey." Charlene said that more to herself than to Jo.

"It's all my fault" said Charlene which shocked Jo very much.

"What? No, Evelyn it was not your fault." Jo called her Evelyn because it was Evelyn who was feeling guilty, not Charlene.

"Yes it is. You know it is. He went crazy because I betrayed him. He wanted to punish me that's why he hurt everyone I loved and cared about."

"Evelyn, you were doing the right thing back then, planning to put Kai away. He is a psychopath." Jo tried to make Charlene understand that she has nothing to feel guilty about.

"What about loving him? You cannot say, it wasn't my fault" said Charlene. And the funny thing was, she fell for Kai all over again even in her second life. This time Jo remained quiet. What could she possibly say? Alaric took this opportunity to speak up and he asked Charlene something very important.

"Charlene how did you remember everything?"

"There is a witch named Bonnie. She unlocked my memories of my past life" replied Charlene not knowing that Alaric and Jo knew Bonnie well enough.

"Bonnie? Why would she do that?" Jo asked looking at Alaric. But he didn't have any answer to that question. However he had a guess.

"I guess it has something to do with her wanting revenge from Kai." Jo thought about it for a second and then she sighed out heavily.

"Of course. Since she can't kill him, making Charlene remember everything is a perfect way to take her revenge" said Jo, figuring out why Bonnie did this but it confused Charlene very much. She obviously didn't know what they were talking about. Thankfully Jo explained everything to her. How Kai met Bonnie and Damon in the prison world. How he used them to get out of there and left Bonnie all alone back in the prison world. Jo also told Charlene that Kai has merged with Luk and how he was the leader of the Gemini coven now. Thus all their lives were linked to him. However not Charlene. Because she wasn't a witch anymore.

"Are you sure you're not a witch?" Alaric asked curiously. "Perhaps you've powers, locked inside you; like your memories were."

"I don't know Mr. Saltzman. I've never done anything witchy since I was born as Charlene."

"So what are you going to do now? Kai must be looking everywhere for you" said Alaric with concern. They all knew it was only a matter of time before Kai finds out Charlene.

"I'm leaving this town" said Charlene at once. She figured out that now that she remembered everything, the longer she was going to stay at the apartment, the more she was going to endanger Alaric and Jo. Since they were the only ones Kai could use against her.

"And go where?" Jo asked worriedly.

"My boyfriend Daniel-" Charlene began to say but stopped for a moment and sighed out heavily. When Bonnie unlocked her memories, she broke Damon's compulsion as well. Therefore Charlene remembered everything about her breakup as well.

"Well my ex-boyfriend Daniel is studying in Standford university. I could go live with him. He was my best friend. I'm sure he would forgive me if I apologize to him for something I did unwillingly."

"But Charlene, I've talked to Kai. I know how possessive he is about you. I don't think he's going to let you go so easily. Besides, you don't have any magic. You wouldn't even be able to cloak yourself from him." Jo tried to make Charlene understand that running away from Kai would be nothing abut a failure.

"Then what do you suggest I do? Stay here and see his face every single day. I hate him Jo. I don't want him anywhere near me."

Just as Charlene finished saying that, someone knocked on the door. Jo, Alaric and Charlene looked at each other. Somehow they knew who it was on the other side of the door. And their suspicion was confirmed when they heard his voice.

"Jo, open the door. I know she's in there." Came Kai's voice. Charlene involuntarily gasped out loud. Fear spread over her face. Kai found her after all. Apparently Bonnie's cloaking spell wasn't strong enough. And Kai was after all the leader of the Gemini coven.

"Jo, don't make me break down your door."

Alaric quickly found himself a crossbow he owned. Even though knowing that he wouldn't be able to use it on Kai. Not without killing Jo in the process. Still he wanted to be armed. Suddenly the door burst opened, making everyone jump back a little. It revealed Kai. Charlene instinctively stepped closer to Jo. Kai let himself in. He noticed Alaric pointing the crossbow at him. It made Kai roll his eyes at him. Still Alaric remained alert. Kai then looked at his sister Jo and found Charlene there as well. Kai wasn't a fool. He immediately noticed the way Charlene was looking at him. Instead of love and affection, there was only fear and hatred in her eyes for him. Kai immediately knew something has happened during the time he couldn't find Charlene. However he didn't know what yet.

"Charlene, what are you doing here? I was looking everywhere for you. You know how worried I was." Saying that Kai approached Charlene but she immediately stepped back.

"Stay the hell away from me Kai." Charlene warned with both anger and fear in her voice. She vividly remembered how Kai repeatedly stabbed her with knife. Kai on the other hand, looked at Jo.

"What did you tell her?" He asked with stern tone of voice. It was no secret that Kai was inwardly enraged.

"We didn't tell her anything." It was Alaric who said that.

"She remembered everything on her own." Alaric didn't say anything about Bonnie. He didn't want Kai to go after her. Kai sighed out heavily. Obviously he didn't believe Alaric however he had bigger problems to deal with. Like Charlene remembering that she was Evelyn and that he had killed her. Kai looked back at Charlene. He hated to see the fear in her eyes for him.

"Charlene please, let me explain" said Kai with pleading tone of voice. However Charlene shook her head and looked at Kai with disbelieve in her eyes. She walked around Jo and stood in front of Kai. That time she felt more enraged than ever. And that rage suppressed her fear momentarily.

"Explain what? That you killed me and my family. Even this time, when you had the chance to do something right, you made Damon compel me to forget about my boyfriend and be with you. I hate you Kai and I'd die again rather than be with you." Charlene was about to walk away from Kai but he grabbed her arm and stopped her from leaving.

"You can't leave me Charlene. I won't let you. Not this time. Have you ever wondered why I get so crazy when it comes to you? It's because I love you. Even when I was a sociopath, I still had feelings for you. Imagine how much I love you now. I can't live without you. I've changed Charlene. I swear, I've changed. Please give me one more chance. Just one." Kai begged Charlene but he didn't know exactly how much she hated him.

"Prove it" said Charlene at once while jerking her arm out of Kai's grip. She didn't want him to touch her in anyway.

"Prove that you've really changed. Let me leave and don't come back into my life again because god knows I can't stand you. You repulse me Kai."

"Charlene please." Kai pleaded once again, swallowing the insults.

"No Kai, you either let me leave or kill me all over again" stated Charlene and she wasn't going to change her mind. Kai sighed out heavily. He obviously didn't want to let Charlene go. He loved her way too much. But Kai couldn't harm her in anyway either. Whether anyone believed it or not, he has changed. However, he hasn't changed completely. The sociopath was still alive inside him. And he was capable of doing many interesting things.

"I won't kill you Charlene. I won't repeat my mistake. However-" Suddenly, Alaric felt as if someone was strangling him. Apparently Kai was using his magic on him.

"Ric!" Jo exclaimed with shock. She quickly ran to him. Alaric was already on his knees. He was suffocating terribly.

"I can kill everyone else" said Kai completing his threat.

"So you either come with me or let everyone die."

"Kai stop it." Jo yelled at him but Kai was only staring at Charlene. Everything and everyone was depending on her decision. Charlene was looking in between Kai and Alaric. The professor was writhing in pain. She knew there was no choice for her but to go along with Kai. But the mere thought of being with Kai, was painful itself. But she would never be able to forgive herself if anyone else died at Kai's hand because of her. She did not get a second chance at life just so that she could get more people murdered. Before Charlene could voice her decision, she started feeling dizzy in her head. And before she could realize anything, she blacked out. Charlene started falling but Kai was quick enough to catch her before she could hit the floor. He immediately released Alaric from the spell and looked at Jo.

"Find out what happened to her, Now!"