Disclaimer- Since my last chapter I have not miraculously turned into the creator or producer of The Vampire Diaries, so no, I don't own it.
Chapter Eleven-Catch Me If You Can
Third Person P.O.V
"No way." Jeremy snapped at Klaus as he looked around at the innocent people Klaus had turned into vampires for him to kill, "I'm not doing this."
"What makes you think you have a choice." Klaus told Jeremy with a smirk
"You have to kill vampires to complete the hunter's mark." Damon reminded the young hunter as Jeremy glared at him. "Mark equals cure. You're in a bar full of almost vampires. So get your hunt on."
"Screw you." Jeremy spat as he continued to glare at Damon, " You said I wouldn't have to kill any innocent people."
"Jeremy, they're not people." Damon argued
"Enough!" Klaus said angrily, taking another step towards Jeremy, "Have at it or else."
Jeremy turned his attention back to the Original and took a step towards him so there was only a foot of space between them.
"I don't take orders from you, dick." Jeremy told him coolly before dropping the stake he had been holding since walking into the bar, "Hunter's can't be compelled."
"You're right." Klaus said with a laugh, not at all threatened by Jeremy, " I can't compel you. But if your conscience is getting in the way, then allow me to make this easy for you. Because I can compel them." Klaus gestured to the patrons of the bar that were being fed by the lone blond Klaus had left alive to do so, " I'm gonna give you a two minute head start. Then I'm gonna send every vampire in here after you. You kill them or they kill your friend Matt."
Matt had been silently listening to the conversation as he took in all the newly turned vampires but when he heard Klaus's last statement he finally broke his silence.
"Wait a second!"
"No, no." Damon said to Klaus, "You turn them, he kills them. That was the deal, Klaus."
"I'm taking artistic license." Klaus said with another smirk
"You know he can't take them all on at the same time." Damon argued, trying to get the Original to not go along with his new plan, fearing that Jeremy would get himself killed.
"With you as his coach, he'll be fine." Klaus said before shifting his gaze over to Matt, "It's Matt I'm worried about."
Damon and Klaus stared each other down for a few minutes before the younger vampire backed down with a sigh.
"Jeremy, go get the weapons out of the car. I'll be right behind you." Jeremy didn't say a word as he ran out of the bar to Damon's car. Damon, sensing the quarterback still standing to his right, turned and added, " Both of you."
"If I hear an engine start I'll kill Matt myself." Klaus yelled to Jeremy and Matt as they ran out of the bar.
Audrey's P.O.V
I drove up the driveway to the lake house and shut of my car before getting out and heading inside.
"Hello?" I called out but no one replied, which I found strange since Damon had called me less than an hour ago to meet him here.
I looked around the house but came up empty a few minutes later. I headed back outside, starting to get worried by the guys sudden disappearance, when I was suddenly struck by the smell of blood coming from the woods. I ran through the woods, following the smell, and a few moments later I saw Matt being tackled o the ground by a vampire. My instincts kicked in and I didn't hesitant to rip out the vampires heart out of his chest before throwing it to the side. I wiped the blood off of my hand before helping Matt get to his feet.
"Are you okay?" I asked him as I saw the blood dripping from his neck
Matt nodded as I heard the sound of footsteps coming towards us. I turned around and was relieved to see that it was just Jeremy.
"Get to the house!" Jeremy ordered and the three of us started running back
"Jeremy, what is going on?" I asked, wondering what the hell was going on, as we made our way up the stairs of the lake house.
"They're coming." Jeremy said vaguely as he looked back towards the woods
I followed his gaze and watched as a large group of vampires walked slowly out of the woods and towards us. I pushed Jeremy and Matt inside before following after them and slamming the door shut behind me.
As we waited for the vampires to run off, Jeremy and Matt explained everything that had happened since I had left and I was starting to get angrier and angrier with each new thing they told me. The sun started to rise not much later and Jeremy kept watch by the window as I was working on Matt's wound.
"Sun's up." Jeremy announced as he walked away from the window, "They're long gone."
I finished putting a bandage on Matt's neck just as Damon walked into the room.
"What the hell were you thinking?" I snapped as I walked up to him, " All I asked you to do was to teach him how to fight."
"He's not the best student in the world." Damon replied which just pissed me off more since he was trying to put this on Jeremy
"Wait. Now this is my fault?" Jeremy asked, obviously as angry as I was about the blame
"Stop talking." Damon told Jeremy before turning back to me, "Look, I know you're angry, but my way was the easiest, fastest, and safest way to complete his mark and get you the cure."
"I don't care about the cure, Damon." I told him, "Not if it means putting the people that I love in danger."
"Hey, there wouldn't have been any danger if he hadn't gone all bleeding heart on me." Damon defended
"He killed someone." I snapped, leaving out the fact that I had killed one of the vampire's as well, "These were innocent people."
"The mark grew, didn't it?" I looked at Damon with a mixture of anger and disbelief and did my best to calm myself down so I didn't do something rash
"Okay, look." I sighed "We need a plan. There's a group of compelled vampires out there and as soon as the sun goes down they are gonna come after Matt, so we have to find a way to protect him."
"Yes, I know." Damon agreed, walking over to Jeremy and resting his arm on Jeremy's shoulder, "But there will be no problem when big Jer and I go on a hunting expedition." When Damon saw the disapproving look I was giving him, he continued, "Audrey, I know, it's tragic. I get it. But we also agreed that he had to kill them. Now, we have added incentive. So you take the least most valuable player home; Jeremy and I will finish this."
"I'm sorry? Are you saying that I should leave him here with you?" I asked him incredulously
"Trust me." Damon said as he walked towards me, " I will keep him safe, okay."
I looked at him for a few moments, not saying anything, before turning to Matt who was still sitting on the couch.
"Come on, Matt." I said and he quickly got off of the couch and headed toward the door with me a few steps behind him. As I was about to walk out the door I turned back to Damon, "I love you, Damon. But if anything happens to him, I will kick your ass."
I didn't wait for a response before heading out the door to meet up with Matt as my car.
After a long and painfully silent drive back to Mystic Falls, I was relieved when I pulled up to my house and we finally got out of the car. I decided to break the awkward silence as we walked into the house.
"I'm so sorry." I apologized, "When I asked you to stay with Jeremy, I never thought-"
"What did you expect, Audrey?" Matt interrupted me angrily, surprising me with his sudden outburst, " It's Damon."
"I never wanted anyone to get hurt, Matt." I tried to explain
"Well, then you shouldn't have left him in charge." Matt snapped before continuing calmly, "Look. I'm sorry. I know you didn't have a choice. Sire bond and all."
"Sire bond doesn't work that way." I said
"All I know, Audrey, is the old you would have never left Jeremy with Damon, especially after what happened last night." Matt told me
"What happened last night?" Elena asked as she walked down the stairs
I was about to answer her when my phone started ringing. I looked down at the screen to see Jeremy's name.
"I'll explain in a minute." I told her before answering the phone, "Jeremy?"
"Audrey, we're in trouble." Jeremy rushed out
"Whoa, woah, woah, slow down." I told him as I looked up as Matt and Elena who were looking back at me, clearly worried, "What happened?"
"Listen to me. Kol attacked us." My blood ran cold when I heard this and I could barely register the sound of a car engine starting on Jeremy's side of the line, "I barely got away, but he has Damon."
"Jeremy, get back here as fast as you can, okay?" I ordered him, "No stops."
"Got it, but what about Damon?" Jeremy asked me
"I'll worry about that, you just worry about getting back here." I told him before hanging up
" Audrey, what the hell is going on?" Elena asked me as I shoved my phone back in my pocket
"Matt can explain everything to you while you guys wait here for Jeremy." I said as I opened the front door
"What are you going to do?" Elena questioned
"Something I was hoping I would ever have to do." I sighed, shutting the door behind me as I headed back to my car.
"A bit ironic, you coming to for help." Klaus smirked as I sat across from him in the living room of his mansion. It was the last place on earth I wanted to be but Klaus was the only one that could control his siblings so I had to suck it up until Kol was taken care of, "Weren't your friends just trying to bury in a cement tomb?"
"This is your fault." I told him from my spot on the couch, "You started this when you forced Jeremy to kill all of those vampires."
"And now my little brat of a brother has gone and made things worse." Klaus added as he leaned back in his chair, "Well, he never did like Damon." I immediately thought back to the time Kol had beaten Damon multiple times with a baseball bat when we had gone to Denver to pick up Jeremy. I was pulled out of my memory when I heard Klaus continue, "I suppose I should do something, shouldn't I?"
"Call him off, Klaus." I demanded
"You are in no position to make demands, love." Klaus said calmly, "Whilst I'd like to cure you to make more hybrids, I do have other reasons for finding the cure, not the least of which is destroying it so you lot can't use it against me."
"Look, whatever our differences, we want the same thing." I said, making sure I didn't upset him to the point where he would refuse to call off Kol, "Please call him."
Klaus smiled at me before rolling his eyes and pulling out his phone to call Kol. It only took a few moments before Kol picked up.
"Little brother." Klaus said, not waiting for Kol to say anything, "Just two days home and I'm told you've already gone and made a mess."
As Klaus was talking my phone vibrated in my pocket and I pulled it out to see a text from Elena telling me that Jeremy was home. I sent back a quick reply saying that I would be back soon before putting my phone away and focused on the conversation Klaus and Kol were having.
"Come on, Nik. I was only having some fun." Kol whined and I couldn't help but roll my eyes. The Originals sure had a sick sense of humor, not that I hadn't realized it before with Rebekah and Klaus.
"Those vampires were for my hunter." Klaus informed his brother
"I'll make more." Kol assured Klaus, " There's no shortage of people."
"Where's Damon Salvatore?" Klaus asked
"I gave him a good and proper beating for old time's sake." Kol replied, I was a little worried by this but at least Kol didn't kill Damon
"Yes. Well, now you've had your fun. Now let him go and come home." Klaus ordered before adding, "Avoid anymore trouble or find yourself back in a box."
"Hey, no need to be nasty about it."
"On the contrary, I find nastiness to be essential whenever my siblings try to sabotage me. Listen closely, Kol. Stay away from the Gilbert boy." Klaus told him, " You understand?"
"Fine." Kol huffed in annoyance and I could almost hear him roll his eyes, "I won't touch him. You have my word."
The line went dead as Kol hung up his phone and Klaus put away his phone before looking at me.
"There, problem solved." Klaus said as I stood up, "Kol shouldn't be a problem anymore."
"Thank you." I thanked him before making my way out of the mansion
"Jeremy, it's over." I heard Elena say from the kitchen as I walked into the house, "You can put all of this away."
I made my way into the kitchen as saw that Jeremy had all of his vampire hunting weapons sprawled out across the table.
"Klaus still wants me to finish the mark." Jeremy told Elena as he loaded a gun with wooden bullets, "He's not gonna stop."
"Calm down, Jer." I said and both Jeremy and Elena turned to look at me, "Damon's gonna be back soon and then we can figure something out."
"Seriously?" Jeremy asked me angrily, "You still trust Damon?"
"He saved your life." I reminded him
"No, he saved the cure." Jeremy clarified, "He couldn't care less about me."
"I care about you." I told him, walking up to him and putting my hand on his shoulder but he quickly shrugged it off
"Don't." he warned me, "Whatever's inside of me that makes me want to hurt you, right now it's on overdrive."
"Jeremy." Elena called out and Jeremy and I looked down at his hand to see him holding a wooden stake
"I'm sorry." Jeremy apologized as he let the stake fall to the floor, "I know what I have to do, Audrey. I really want to get this cure but…I just don't know how I'm gonna do this."
After Jeremy had put away all of his weapons he had decided to go to the Grill to make sure that Matt was okay. When he left I took a seat on the couch in the living room and waited for Damon while Elena went out to meet up with Caroline. It wasn't long before the doorbell rang and I opened the door to Damon.
"What happened? Are you okay?" I asked Damon as I rested my hand on his arm
"Kol happened." Damon told me vaguely
"Well, yeah, I gathered that much." I said, looking him over to make sure that he was okay, " Thank God you both got away. If Kol had taken Jeremy-"
"Is he here?" Damon interrupted me, looking through the door for him, "Cause I just wanted to talk to him really fast."
"Uh, he's at the Grill." I told him, "He wanted to check on Matt."
"Well, I should go apologize to him." Damon said, which was weird since Damon wasn't really one to apologize, "I was pretty tough on him today."
"Okay, I'll go with you." I said, grabbing my jacket before shutting the door. I watched Damon warily as we walked to his car. I didn't know what it was but something was definitely wrong with Damon.
Damon and I made our way into the Grill and quickly spotted Matt cleaning off one of the tables towards the middle of the room.
"Do you ever take a night off?" Damon asked Matt when we reached him
"I took two days off to help you out at the lake house, remember? I almost got killed." Matt reminded him
"Where's Jeremy?" Damon questioned him
In the back I think." Matt said and Damon headed off towards the back
"Are you doing okay?" I asked Matt while I watched Damon walk away
"Yeah. All things considering." Matt replied, " What's Damon's problem?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out." I said, looking around the Grill to see where Damon had gone, "I'll talk to you later, okay?"
I didn't wait for Matt to answer before making my way towards the back of the Grill where I found Damon walking towards a really freaked out looking Jeremy.
"Damon!" I called out and he stopped in his tracks and turned to face me with an unrecognizable look on his face, "What's going on?" Damon turned back towards where Jeremy had been a moment before but Jeremy had run off into the back room. Damon looked back at me for a second before heading after Jeremy.
"Damon, What the hell is wrong with you?" I asked as I followed him into the back room
"It was Kol." Damon said as he looked around the empty room for Jeremy, "He must have compelled me." He stopped for a minute when he saw that the entrance to the tunnels had been opened and then he looked back at me, "If I find Jeremy, I'm gonna kill him."
Before I could respond to that bombshell, Damon used his vampire speed to enter the tunnels.
By the time I got into the tunnels Damon and Jeremy were long gone. I could vaguely hear Damon yelling but it was impossible to tell exactly where it was coming from. I continued to walk through the tunnels and a few minutes later I heard the sound of gun shots and I could smell blood. I followed the smell to the Lockwood cellar but by the time I got there Damon and Jeremy were gone again. I heard someone walking up the stairs and out of the Lockwood cellar, into the woods, and followed after them. When I stepped outside I could see Damon walking a few feet in front of me.
"Damon stop!" I shouted and he turned to face me, "I know you don't want to hurt Jeremy, so please stop."
"I can't." he told me, pain evident in his voice
"Yes, you can." I assured him, taking a few steps foword, "You're strong enough to resist the compulsion. I know you are."
"Why, because Stefan did?" Damon asked
"Because I love you. Because you love me. You'd do anything for me, so please…do this for me." It seemed as if Damon was gonna give in when I started smelling Jeremy's blood again. I looked at Damon and I could tell that he had smelled it too.
"I'm sorry, Audrey." Damon apologized before running off to find Jeremy
"Damon!" I called out but he didn't stop, "Damn it."
I ran after him and showed up in time to see Jeremy pointing a gun at Damon, the latter of which was trying to get Jeremy to shoot him.
"Shoot me!" Damon said, walking up to Jeremy
"No!" I shouted as Jeremy was about to squeeze down on the trigger.
Suddenly the gun fell out of his hand and to the ground a few feet away from him. Jeremy looked down at the gun in confusion before looking back at Damon, probably trying to figure out the odds of getting to the gun before Damon killed him. I had to admit, even with me here to help him, it wasn't looking good. Jeremy bolted towards the gun and Damon ran towards Jeremy fully intent on killing him.
"Damon, stop!" I yelled and he went flying back into a tree a couple of feet back with a sickening snap before slumping to the ground, unconscious.
Jeremy had gotten his gun and was now looking at Damon in shock, obviously trying to figure what was going on.
"What the hell was that?" he asked me but I didn't answer him because I wasn't entirely sure myself.
I walked over to Damon and saw that his neck was snapped, which meant I had a good hour before he would wake up. I grabbed his car keys from his jacket pocket.
"Go home, Jeremy." I told him as I stood up
"Audrey, what the hell was that?" Jeremy repeated, ignoring me, "Did you do that?"
"I don't know, Jeremy." I snapped before taking a deep breath and continuing calmly, "I don't know. Just go home and I will meet you there after I figure out what to do with Damon."
Jeremy nodded slowly before heading off in the direction of the Grill. I pulled my phone out and quickly dialed Stefan's number.
"Well, if it isn't my least favorite psychic." The unmistakable voice of Rebekah answered Stefan's phone
"If it isn't the Original psychotic bitch." I replied, although there wasn't as much attitude behind it as usual, "Where's Stefan, I need to talk to him."
"He's not in the mood to talk." Rebekah told me which just set me off
"Tell him to get over himself and put him on the damn phone." I yelled into the phone and I heard something snap near me and I looked up to see a huge tree branch fall a few feet to my left, "Son of a bitch."
I heard a few muffled sounds as the phone switched hands and a moment later Stefan replied, " What is it?"
"Long story short, Kol compelled Damon to kill Jeremy. I stopped him and now he's laying in the woods with a broken neck and I need somewhere to keep him so he doesn't go after Jeremy again."
"You broke Damon's neck?" Stefan asked me in disbelief
"Not intentionally and not exactly the most important part of what I just told you." I said as I picked up Damon, wrapping my arm around his waist to hold him up, and headed towards his car, "A place to keep him, now that was important, Stefan. Suggestions?"
"You can keep him in our cellar." Stefan suggested, " I can keep an eye on him there and make sure he doesn't get out."
"Perfect, I'll meet you there in ten minutes." I told him, hanging up before he could reply.
Fifteen minutes later, I was leaning against Damon's car when Stefan pulled into the driveway.
I said ten minutes." I reminded him as he walked up to me
"I was out of town." he replied, "Where is he?"
I opened up the back door of the car and gestured to Damon who was sprawled out across the back seat. Stefan didn't hesitate to pull his brother out and walk into the boarding house. I followed him inside but when he headed toward the basement I took a seat on one of the couches in the living room. As soon as I sat down, everything that had happened in the last few days, and the fact that I had slept at all in the last two days, set in and I was immediately exhausted. I sat around the boarding house for an hour until I heard Stefan make his way back up the steps. I got off the couch and met up with him in the hallway.
"Going to see Damon?" Stefan asked
"No, he could ask me to let him out and I wouldn't have a choice but to do it." I told him, "And I can't watch Jeremy twenty four seven to make sure Damon doesn't kill him."
"Than what?" he questioned
"Are you and Rebekah together?" I asked him, guessing as much since Rebekah had answered his phone and I knew that they had a thing back in the twenties
"If I say yes are you going to yell at me and go on some rant about what a bitch she is?" Stefan questioned, crossing his arms across his chest
"No." I told him, shaking my head
"What?" Stefan asked in confusion
"No." I repeated, "Granted, I do think that Rebekah is a bitch, but it's not my place. Look, I know what it feels like to be in love with someone that everyone else you know hates. It feels terrible knowing that everybody you care about doesn't see the same thing in that person that you do. But, unlike you Stefan, I'm not going to continually tell you what terrible idea it is to be with someone you love. It's your job to decide who's the right person for you, not anybody else's." Stefan looked at me in sadness and I turned around and walked toward the door. I was about to leave when I remembered one last thing, "And Stefan, make sure to tell Elena it's over. She shouldn't have to wait for someone that isn't coming back for her."
Then I headed out of the boarding house and to Damon's car.
When I walked into my house and immediately walked into the kitchen and pulled a blood bag out of the fridge. I grabbed a glass out of the cabinet and filled it with the blood. I took a seat at the kitchen table but before I could take a sip from my glass Jeremy and Elena walked in and sat at the table across from me.
"We need to talk." Elena said
"Well, that's not ominous at all." I said to myself before taking a sip of my blood, " About what?"
"You." Jeremy replied
"Guys, I'm exhausted can we do this tomorrow or possibly never." I said, downing the rest of my drink
"No, we have to talk about it, Audrey." Elena told me, "Something's up with you. Aurora told me what happened when you guys were trapped in the school. You were mad at Stefan and every beaker in the room blew up."
"And?"
"And tonight my gun flew out of my hand when I tried to shoot Damon. Then Damon went flying into a tree so hard that his neck broke when he tried to kill me." Jeremy added and I stayed completely quiet as he continued, "And it happened because you were pissed off. You broke all those beakers, you sent the gun out of my hand, and you broke Damon's neck."
Even though I knew what they were telling me was true, I didn't want to believe that I could have done all that. That I was becoming an even bigger freak than I already was.
"It wasn't me." I denied
"How else would you explain everything that's happened?" Elena asked me
"How the hell should I know, Elena." I snapped, "It wasn't me so just back off."
I got to my feet and the glass that I had been drinking from shattered. I looked down at the broken glass for a moment and before Elena, Jeremy, or I could say anything there was a knock at the door. I made my way over to the door and sighed when I opened it and saw Klaus. Obviously I wasn't going to be getting a break anytime soon.
"Good evening Gilbert/Darke clan." Klaus greeted as Jeremy and Elena walked up behind me
"What do you want, Klaus?" I asked in annoyance, hoping to skip the pleasantries
"I've come to fetch my hunter." Klaus said, looking at Jeremy, "Seeing as how my brother's become a liability, Jeremy will be safer with me."
"I think I'll pass." Jeremy told him, " I've killed enough people for you today
"You think you're safer here? Hmm." Klaus mused, "Clearly you don't know Kol. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants, so strange as it may seem, I'm your best bet."
"Sorry, but I think we'd rather take out chances." I told him firmly
"Fine." Klaus said to me, "But when Kol does come, and he will come, be sure to let me know, preferably before he burns your nice little home to the ground." Then Klaus turned to address Jeremy, "And as for you hunter, there's no shortage of people to turn or loved ones to threaten." While Klaus said this his eyes drifted toward Elena before they made their way back to Jeremy, "So sleep well, we'll plan on finishing our work tomorrow."
When Klaus was finished he turned and made his way off the porch and I slammed the door shut.
After Klaus had left, Elena's phone started ringing and she headed up to her room to talk in private. When she answered I could just barely make out the sound of Stefan's voice on the other end and I immediately tuned it out, assuming that Stefan was taking my advice and breaking things off things with Elena for good. I knew the last thing Elena needed at that moment was me eavesdropping on her conversation. While Elena was in her room, I made my way back into the kitchen to clean up the broken glass and Jeremy followed after me.
"This is never gonna end." Jeremy told me as he leaned against the doorway to the kitchen, "If Kol doesn't kill me first, then Klaus is just gonna force me to kill more innocent people. How many is it going to take. Ten? A hundred?"
As I finished cleaning up the table I was struck with an idea.
"If you kill one Original vampire, their entire bloodline will die with them." I told him, "That's thousands, maybe tens of thousands of vampires." I turned to face Jeremy as I continued, "Kol compelled Damon to kill you but you're gonna kill Kol instead."
Author's Note
Done. Hope you guys like and please don't forget to review on your way out. Please forgive me for any mistakes, I really wanted to update before tonight's episode ( OMG I'm so excited!). Also, I have to warn you guys that I am starting a rather lengthy research project next week so it may effect my updates. I will try my best to update frequently but please be patient. Thanks and remember to review. Until next time...
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