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A/N: Since I got so many nice reviews today, I stayed up to finish typing this up for those of you that are waiting for it :) Hope that you enjoy :) Some of you were looking forward to the Caroline/Future-Damon phone call... ;)
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Chapter 10
"What am I doing here?" Elena asked Caroline confused, finally recognising her surroundings.
"You were left outside of the boarding house while you were turning." Caroline advised. "Stefan brought you inside." She added.
"Why does Caroline's heart beat fast and your hearts beat really slowly?" Elena examined the brothers confused at the difference.
"We're vampires too." Damon stated motioning to him and Stefan and Elena's jaw dropped.
"You didn't tell me that." Elena said to Stefan in shock.
"I wanted you to get to know me first. I wanted you to know that I'd never hurt you." Stefan said sadly. He was particularly upset about Elena turning. He hadn't meant for her to be targeted and was worried that his association with her was why she did end up being targeted.
"But… but what about Jenna and Jeremy?" Elena asked Caroline worriedly. Elena was trying her best not to panic but the world she knew was flipped on it's head and no longer made any sense to her.
"Elena, nice and calm." Caroline encouraged and Elena nodded again and focused on breathing because she knew herself that she was letting herself be controlled by her fear. "You'll stay here for a couple of days, until you're safe to be around them. Don't worry about them. They're totally fine." Caroline soothed. "You just need to focus on you for a couple of days." She concluded.
"Where did you get the blood you gave me?" Elena tested, not entirely sure that she wanted to know the answer to that.
"The first glass was mine." Caroline admitted and Elena looked stunned that she would do that, but she felt like she should have known that her best friend would be supportive like that. "You need to complete the transition on fresh human blood because it helps your control, so that's why I gave you mine. The second glass was out of a blood bag from the hospital. So, nobody was hurt in getting that for you." Caroline explained and Elena nodded.
"Can I keep drinking that? I don't want to hurt anyone." Elena pleaded with tears pricking her eyes because she still felt so confused. It's not every day that you find out that vampires are real – let alone that you now are one and you're drinking your best friend's blood!
"Hey, you're okay." Caroline pacified her comfortingly. "Everything's going to be okay." She promised and Elena couldn't help it, she moved forward and hugged Caroline because she just needed it. She needed the comfort and Caroline hugged her back tightly.
"Caroline." Stefan warned and Caroline rolled her eyes at the 'older' vampire – my ass, she thought.
"Relax." Caroline sighed. She rubbed Elena's back to calm her and the boys didn't see Elena's face change as her head was on the side way from them. Caroline wasn't remotely surprised when she felt Elena bite her and she made no indication of pain as she didn't want to make Elena feel bad. "Elena? Remember in fifth grade when we went to camp? And we made those bracelets?" She questioned just then the boys noticed that Elena was feeding on her and Caroline held her hand out to stop them as they'd started to move to get Elena off of her. "The 'friends forever' ones at the lake?" She asked and Elena yanked her head back away from Caroline, wide-eyed that she'd just bitten her.
"Oh my God… I… I… I… I didn't mean to…" Elena started to panic and Caroline took her hand again.
"I know, sweetie. You just turned. It happens. That's why you need to stay away from humans for a few days until you won't feel that immediate urge." Caroline said soothingly. "Just take a few deep breaths again. Calm yourself down again." She lulled softly.
"I'm so sorry, Care." Elena sobbed.
"Don't worry about it. Hey, just focus on being calm, okay?" Caroline smiled as she wiped a drop of blood away from Elena's chin with her thumb.
"You're not mad at me?" Elena asked confused at Caroline still being so caring and Caroline just giggled at her silly friend.
"No, of course not. It's you. I know that you'd never mean to hurt me." Caroline smiled and Elena gave her a small smile in return for being so supportive.
"Here, drink this before the smell gets too much for her." Damon grumbled holding out his bitten wrist and Caroline drank down a mouthful of his blood then wiped her mouth.
"Thanks." Caroline winked at him and he smirked when he saw her close her eyes for half a second in enjoyment – he seriously couldn't wait for her to be a vampire.
"How will…" Elena's eyes widened when she saw the wound on Caroline's neck disappear. "Vampire blood does that?" She asked shocked.
"Mmhmm." Caroline nodded amused.
"Are you going to be a vampire?" Elena tested curiously though it was obvious that she really wanted Caroline to say yes, so that she wouldn't be alone in that.
"Yes. Damon's going to turn me in a couple of days probably." Caroline agreed.
"You are?" Stefan asked his brother shocked and Damon nodded with amusement at Stefan's disbelieving reaction.
"Do you drink from blood bags too?" Elena asked the two boys quietly.
"No, Stefan drinks from bunnies and Damon fresh feeds on humans." Caroline answered despite the fact Elena had directed it to the guys.
"Bunnies?" Elena asked confused.
"Animal diet." Stefan clarified.
"But you are not doing that." Caroline cautioned.
"Why?" Elena asked sceptically.
"You don't seriously want to eat Bambi and Thumper." Caroline deadpanned and Damon laughed because he couldn't help himself while Stefan shot his brother an annoyed look for finding that funny.
"Well… no." Elena admitted.
"Caroline." Stefan said disapprovingly for talking Elena out of the animal diet by disgusting her. Caroline, however, chose to completely ignore Stefan.
"Stefan drinks animal blood because he can't control human blood yet. You just turned and you managed to sip from a glass and pull away by yourself when you bit me. You don't need animal blood. It does nothing for control and you need to be in control." Caroline explained and Elena nodded, still confused over the whole thing but she decided to just trust Caroline because she clearly knew what she was talking about.
"What do you mean 'yet'?" Stefan interjected diverted for the moment and Caroline smirked at him amused.
"You will eventually." Caroline said and both Stefan and Damon looked surprised as they hadn't thought that possible.
"How do you know?" Elena queried.
"I'll explain later. I promise." Caroline said and Elena nodded her acceptance. "Listen, why don't I head over to your house and get you some clothes and stuff while Stefan makes up a room for you?" She suggested.
"Is that okay?" Elena asked softly because that was really nice of Caroline to do that for her.
"Of course." Caroline smiled. "I'll tell Jenna that you're staying with me or something." She added.
Caroline and Damon left the boarding house while Stefan and Elena went upstairs to get her a room fixed. They got into Damon's car and he turned to face her.
"That was amazing, Caroline." He said sincerely.
"What?" Caroline tested confused as to what Damon was talking about.
"The way you got her to instantly have control. How did you do that?" He inquired still a bit shocked because he personally had never seen a just-turned vampire able to sip blood.
"I had to learn control on my own. I figured out really quickly that the calmer I stayed, the more I could control my hunger." She answered.
"How did you know that she would pull away?" Damon quizzed.
"When Elena's parents died, her friends became her family. I'm important to her, so I knew that having her relive a memory that was really special for both of us would make her realise that she'd bitten me in particular." Caroline explained and he smirked at her quick thinking.
"Stefan was watching you like you were some kind of messiah." Damon teased and she laughed.
"Stefan taught me the breathing thing after I killed someone the first time. I was panicking and hysterical and that's how he got me to calm down. I figured that if I got her to do that immediately, she wouldn't get to that point." Caroline shrugged.
Present
Elena had woken up the moment her past-self had. She was smiling so fondly at the memory of Caroline helping her.
"She really is amazing." Elena stated softly and Stefan smiled at her because he totally agreed. Damon was impressed too, even if he chose to stay quiet about that part.
"What happened?" Bonnie queried.
"Caroline got Elena to control her hunger in a way that I've never seen before." Stefan smiled. "Elena even bit her and Caroline was completely unfazed." He remarked.
"How did you stop?" Bonnie asked Elena doubtfully.
"She got me to think about that time we went to West Virginia for summer camp. Remember when we went out to the lake and made those promises to each other?" Elena smiled at Bonnie who looked just as fondly back at her because that had been a wonderful day.
"When we promised that the three of us would be the best of friends forever." Bonnie smiled. "So that got you to stop?" She tested and Elena nodded. "That was a really amazing day." She agreed.
"We should really go back there when she gets back." Elena grinned.
"Definitely." Bonnie settled happily. "You should try calling your house and see if Jenna picks up." She advised surprising Elena. She instantly got her phone out and dialled the number. It rang a couple of times then it answered…
"Hello?" Elena's eyes welled with tears at the voice.
"Jenna?" She asked softly.
"Elena? Are you okay, honey?" She asked and Elena tried not to sob while the grin spread on her face because she'd missed her so much.
"Yeah, of course. I just wanted to know if Jer was there." She lied, already knowing that he was out with a new friend he'd made.
"No, he's not back yet. Want me to get him to call you?" She asked.
"No, that's okay. I'll see him tonight." Elena replied.
"Okay, hon. See you later." Jenna accepted.
"Bye." Elena said then hung up and sobbed into her hands. Stefan put his arm around her and rubbed the top of her arm to soothe her. "That's so amazing." She sniffed and wiped her eyes.
"Blondie wants you to call her. She says that she has questions." Damon informed Bonnie who looked surprised then dialled Caroline's number.
"Can I talk to her?" Elena requested unevenly as tears still streamed down her face and Bonnie handed the phone to her.
"Hello?" Caroline answered.
"Care, thank you so much. I love you so much." Elena said emotionally and Caroline giggled at her reaction.
"I love you too, sweetie." Caroline responded.
"Jenna's alive." Elena sobbed.
"She is?" Caroline asked delighted. "That's great! I'm actually heading over there with Damon. He's going to compel her. That's what I wanted to ask about. Do you want her to be compelled to know that you're a vampire and just not care or just to not worry about the fact that you aren't going to be there for a few days?" Caroline asked surprising her as she hadn't thought of that.
"Uh… I guess her knowing would be good. My past-self is kind of worried about that." Elena advised.
"Okay, that's fine. I thought of something else as well. What about Isobel? I know she's your biological mother and everything but she put you through a lot of crap. Want me to stake her?" She asked and Elena and the brothers looked surprised that Caroline would stake her.
"I think that she was the one who told Katherine about Stefan and Damon being in Mystic Falls." Elena agreed reluctantly.
"Katherine could be a danger to you. Especially because at this point, you and Stefan aren't all mushy in love yet." Caroline remarked and she and Stefan chuckled amused at her choice of words.
"But wasn't it John who told Isobel?" Damon tested.
"What did he say?" Caroline asked.
"Damon said that it was John who told Isobel." Elena repeated.
"Yeah, but I have a plan for John already." She refuted.
"What is it?" Elena probed.
"Don't worry about it." Caroline said surprising them. They gathered that she didn't want past-Damon to know.
"Congratulations on winning the lottery by the way." Stefan teased near the phone with amusement and Caroline laughed.
"Damon told you, huh?" Caroline giggled. "I know that it's kind of terrible but I'm going to need a vacation in some luxury resort in Hawaii when I get back." She muttered and they laughed.
"What's that supposed to mean?" The vampires heard past-Damon ask annoyed in the background and future-Damon was trying his hardest to stay unaffected but internally he was a teeny bit mortified because he knew what his past-self was thinking.
"Time travelling is stressful." Caroline pointed out amused.
"I'll relax you, princess." Damon said deviously and future-Damon cringed in embarrassment at his past-self continually calling her that while Elena and Stefan shook with laughter at both past-Damon's comment and the future version's expression.
"So… uh… I have to… uh… go. Uh… bye." Caroline said mortified then hung up and they laughed.
"Your past-self is so into her." Stefan teased and Damon deadpanned at him.
"Shut up, Stefan." Damon muttered and they laughed.
"I know why you were all wide-eyed earlier." Stefan smirked as his past-self had smelled it and he remembered that.
"What happened?" Bonnie bid nosily.
"Shut up." Damon warned his brother because he was sure that he was totally going to blush and Damon Salvatore does not blush, dammit.
"Caroline slept with Damon." Stefan revealed amused completely ignoring Damon and Bonnie and Elena snickered while Damon rolled his eyes at his little brother's big mouth.
"She did? Really?" Bonnie giggled surprised that Caroline had succumbed already – she knew that it was only a matter of time, but she figured that it would take longer.
"I think that Damon calling her 'princess' is so hilarious." Stefan guffawed and the girls laughed loudly while Damon scowled at nothing in particular.
Past
That evening just before Caroline went to bed, Bonnie called her again.
"Hello?" Caroline answered.
"Hey, it's future Bonnie." Bonnie said and Caroline smiled.
"Hey. Everything alright?" Caroline inquired.
"Damon said that his past-self just got back to the boarding house, so I figured that you'd be alone." Bonnie started.
"Yeah, I am." Caroline confirmed.
"What's the plan for John?" Bonnie asked.
"Remember when we stuck my mom in the cell to wait for the vervain to leave her system? I was thinking that I'd do that and compel him for the information that he has on everyone, all of the stuff that he didn't tell us about and how to contact Isobel, so that I can go take her out before she contacts Katherine or Klaus." Caroline answered surprising all of the others that she'd really thought the John dilemma through.
"That's a really good idea." Bonnie praised. "Why don't you want Damon to know?"
"Because if I explain what a douche John is, what do you think his immediate reaction will be?" Caroline retorted.
"Good point." Bonnie agreed knowing that past-Damon would just kill him.
"I'm going to need to think of a reason to host the damn car wash so that you'll believe that you're a witch." Caroline grumbled.
"But last time it was for Mr Tanner." Bonnie tested as Caroline hadn't mentioned that and the blonde sighed.
"Uh… yeah, but Damon compelled him to quit instead of killing him." Caroline revealed.
"Really?" Bonnie blurted surprised. "You didn't tell us that." She obviously said to Damon.
"Crap. Let me speak to Blondie." Damon said annoyed then there was silence for like twenty seconds and Caroline guessed that he moved away from the others at vampire speed – she was so not looking forward to this. She was pretty sure that she was scarlet from embarrassment at the thought of speaking to future-Damon. "I need to talk to you about my past-self." Damon started and she sighed.
"I tried bringing up Katherine in front of him earlier in the hope that he'd still want to find her but he doesn't appear to be interested in that." Caroline pointed out surprising Damon as that was so not where he'd been going with it.
"He isn't. He only wants you." Damon agreed and she rolled her eyes.
"Well, I really don't know what to do about it, Damon. If you haven't noticed, I tried dissuading him." Caroline muttered.
"That's not what I'm trying to tell you to do." Damon replied annoyed surprising her. Damon was kind of annoyed at her for not realising that his past-self was him too…
"Then what is?" She tested.
"Can you just play along?" He requested and her jaw dropped – she hadn't expected him to say that in a million years.
"What?" She asked shocked.
"You told him that I want Elena and he's considering staking her just so that I don't." Damon advised and she gasped because she couldn't bear the thought of him staking Elena.
"What?" She repeated in disbelief. "Crap." She muttered.
"That and he's making all sorts of threats out loud so that I will hear and remember them. The latest is that if I don't do what he wants, he'll kill Ric before they become friends just to spite me." Damon stated bluntly shocking Caroline that past-Damon would go to that extreme just to get his way.
"So you want me to pretend to be in a relationship with your past-self." Caroline remarked dryly.
"You practically are in a relationship with my past-self. That's what he thinks is going on." Damon replied in the same way she'd spoken and she was sure that she was full on blushing in embarrassment.
"Yeah, well, I don't think that I can fake having feelings for him for 93 days." She countered irritated that he was making her talk about it.
"And how would you be faking? You clearly do have feelings for him already." Damon pointed out and she scowled because she kind of hated that they were technically the same person and that he knew that she had feelings for him.
"Yeah, well, I didn't know that you could be so damn charming when you want to be." She murmured then she heard him chuckle.
"I don't see why you're so embarrassed. It's my past-self that's running around calling you 'princess'." Damon pointed out amused and she smirked because she could hear his own embarrassment in his tone.
"Speaking of your past-self, I need some advice." She admitted surprising him.
"On?" Damon tested.
"I have another plan but it requires me to be human to do it and it'll take a little while to make it happen and he really wants to turn me… how can I keep him from doing it for a little while? Because I think that this version of you would just turn me whenever it suits him." Caroline rambled.
"That's true. He considered doing it earlier after your little bed session." Damon replied teasingly and she tittered mortified.
"So… the advice?" Caroline pushed ignoring him and he snickered amused at her trying not to talk about it.
"I can't believe that you bit back." He teased.
"Yes, well, whatever. Advice, Damon." Caroline muttered – sure that her new face colour was tomato.
"That was hot." He teased and she rolled her eyes at his inability to shut up when necessary.
"I really don't want to talk about it. So, advice or I'm hanging up." She murmured annoyed and he chuckled.
"Wait for a couple of days then when he asks again, just tell him that you want to go get eggs frozen, so that you can have children in the future." Damon advised surprising her.
"That's actually an amazing idea. Will that really be understandable to him?" She asked sceptically not thinking that Damon would give a crap about that.
"Yes. He'll even help you do it." Damon confirmed surprising her.
"Huh. Okay." Caroline accepted.
"What's the plan?" Damon queried.
"I'm not telling you." She dismissed.
"Why?" He probed.
"Because I don't want anybody stopping me." She declared.
"I'm not going to tell anyone. You're doing a really good job, so it's clearly important." He stated surprising her that he would say that to her.
"You swear you won't tell the others?" She examined.
"I swear." He promised.
"I brought Klaus' blood with me. Sheila and I are going to find him and stop his heart like in the future and I'm going to be Sheila's sacrifice." Caroline confessed shocking him…
A/N: Let me know what you think :) Do you want more Caroline/Future Damon interaction? More scenes between certain characters?