"Is it ready?"
"Yes. We need her body, I need to make sure she survives the spell that I cast."
"I'll get her."
"No, Damon you prepare yourself, I'll get her. She's in the basement, right?" Damon nodded.
Caroline flitted down the stairs into the Salvatore's basement. After last night, Elena stayed over in the spare bedroom along with Bonnie and Caroline. No one wanted to leave Damon, not when he was prepared to give his life for Luce.
"Bonnie, have you seen Stefan?" Elena asked running down the stairs to discover a completely different layout within the Salvatore's living room. The sofa's that use to sit within the center of the room had vanished to make way for the massive dining table that now sat there, covered in lit candles splitting it into two sections. Next to the table was a raven bookstand, which held Bonnie's Grimoires'.
"He hasn't returned from last night. Stuff him. He's probably gone to see Klaus about this whole situation. Can't blame him, but I can bring her back- and if losing my soul is the cost, then so be it." Damon laid on the table as Caroline appeared with Luce's limp body placed on the side nearest Bonnie.
"Ok, Damon the pain you'll experience is unlike any other, so guys he'll yell and scream quite a lot." At that Damon shrugged it off, laying down next to Luce. He took her lifeless hand and stared at her pale face, closing his eyes.
"Ok, I'm ready." Damon stated.
"Very well. Elena could you remove the dagger from Luce?" Elena did as instructed, Bonnie flipping to the correct page of her Grimoire and reciting the revival spell.
All that could be heard were the witches angry with Bonnie for using the spell again, but they could understand why she was using it. Luce was not- after all- a vampire, but once again a human with supernatural capabilities, and she was still part witch, whether her powers were restored with the revival or not.
"Argh!" Damon yelled, gripping the table, crushing the material. His left hand was gripping onto Luce's hand, careful not to crush the entirety of it.
"Bonnie stop! It's hurting him too much!" Elena yelled, running over to the witch.
"Caroline don't let her stop! Let me do this!" Damon yelled through gritted teeth. Caroline nodded, knowing Damon's reason for this. She restrained Elena by standing behind her and pinning her arms behind her back, Elena giving up on trying to break free from Caroline's vampire strength grip.
In a flash Damon sat bolt upright, then flopped back to the table; a ripple effect happened, by where as soon as Damon made contact with the table Luce sucked in a breath and started coughing, gasping for the air she had been deprived of.
"Luce!" The girls shouted, Caroline releasing Elena so that they could attend to her and Damon.
"Elena?" Luce questioned, sitting up on the wooden table, noticing Damon on the table next to her. "No…" She choked.
"Luce!" Elena shouted once more pulling her into a hug.
"What happened?" Luce inquired.
"Basically, Klaus killed you, and then Bonnie used Damon's soul to bring you back to life." Luce's mouth opened- literally.
"What?" Luce yelled, rushing over to Damon's side, attempting to wake him up.
"Urgh." Damon groaned opening his eyes to see a worried Luce.
"Damon!" Luce cried, tears running down her cheeks. She was back where she belonged.
"You can get off me now." Damon pushed her off, trudging over to the bourbon and drinking from the bottle.
"Luce don't. He's not himself."
"What are you on about?" Luce asked, turning to face the now drunk Damon.
"Luce, when Bonnie performed the spell…" Elena stumbled, not brave enough to say the words that Luce didn't want to hear.
"All of Damon's emotions were sucked dry. He doesn't have a soul. Bonnie transferred it to you, so you could live." Caroline finished.
Luce froze, unable to shout back at Caroline, Bonnie and Elena, telling them that they were wrong. But somewhere deep inside Luce, it was telling her that it was in fact the truth. Damon had sacrificed his soul for her.
"Well, I'm headed to the grill to grab a drink, catch you later." And with that sentence, Damon disappeared.
"Damon!" Luce yelled, her body finally allowing her words to escape.
"Caroline, go after her. Bonnie and I will take Luce to mine. We'll all stay over there; there is no need for us to stay here anymore." Caroline disappeared, pursuing Damon.
"Come on Luce. Let's get you out of here." Bonnie grabbed her Grimoire and pulled up next the entrance in Elena's car, escorting Luce to the Gilbert household.
"Damon, come back here now." Caroline sternly told Damon. But he was having none of it. Caroline's thoughts of having 'no emotions' were completely different to what she had imagined, it had just seemed that Damon didn't care. That he had gone back to the original vamp that Damon use to be when first arriving in Mystic Falls, before she knew that the Salvatore's were actually vampires.
"Make me." Damon said, downing another shot of vodka and ripping his shirt open.
"She won't, but I will." A firm hand ran her nails down Damon's chest, the marks healing instantly.
"oh? Is that a challenge? Katherine?" Damon smirked, raising an eyebrow.
"Katherine we don't need you here right now. I've got this, please leave." Caroline told her.
"Oh, I don't think so, Barbie. I'm taking Damon away for a while. He needs to get his act sorted out, and Mystic Falls has too many distractions." Katherine winked at Caroline, the blonde vampire confused by the events that were taking place.
"Damon wait here, I'm calling Elena." Caroline walked into the ladies' restroom, getting out her cell and dialing Elena.
"Caroline? Have you found Damon?"
"Yeh, but Katherine's here to. She says she wants to take Damon away."
"What?" Elena said, raising her voice slightly. "Don't let her. Where are you now?"
"I'm in the bathroom of the Grill. Why?"
"Can you see Katherine and Damon?" Elena asked.
"No."
"Caroline!"
"Ok I've got the gist! Are you on your way?"
"I can't Caroline, Luce needs us right now. I wish I could help, but there's no way I can. Sorry you're going to have to deal with this on your own."
"It's ok Elena, tell Luce everything's going to be fine, I'll sort this."
"Ok then, bye."
"Bye Elena." And with that, the call ended.
"You realize that getting Damon away from Mystic Falls is exactly what he needs." A shadowy figure appeared from one of the stalls, her hair matching that of Caroline's.
"Georgia, am I right?" Caroline asked.
"Yes you are. Katherine said that you'd follow Damon here, so I asked her to try and convince Damon to leave Mystic Falls. He doesn't need this place."
"What are you on about? Damon needs his friends more than ever right now! Especially Luce." Caroline was sounding more and more like Elena, protecting the Salvatore brothers.
"No." Georgia snapped. "Luce is the one person he needs to be away from right now. Let me take him to Atlanta. There he'll be able to have some fun. Let loose and maybe gain a few of his emotions." Georgia smirked.
"What, you mean like the pleasure of killing and lust? I don't think so." Caroline stood her ground against the hybrid, her eyes pricking.
"Humph. Stubborn little vampire aren't you?" Georgia moved so fast Caroline couldn't catch her movements, and before she could stop her Caroline had a stake inches away from her heart, reaching up her stomach.
"Listen, Barbie. I didn't want Luce to die. She was my best friend, and seeing her killed by Klaus hurt me. Although I knew he was going to harm her, I didn't know that he was going to kill her." Georgia drove the stake up Caroline's chest ever so slightly, Caroline wincing in pain. "And because she died, Damon sacrificed himself. I knew Damon back when Luce knew him, and I was very close to him. Stefan and I were romantically involved, but Damon has always had the edge. There's something about those two brothers hat seems to attract the attention of supernatural beings like you wouldn't believe."
"What has this got to do with you taking Damon to Atlanta?"
"Damon has memories of Luce there, and that's where me and Katherine plan to use another's soul to resurrect Luce, but this time ask the witches to transform Luce into a sub-species of vampire." Caroline was shocked.
"What's the catch?"
"There is none. Whilst being with Klaus, I have realized how much Luce has ben kept out of the loop. When Klaus and I kidnapped her, she seemed to know nothing of what had happened nights previous, just that Jenna had died and certain events had taken place. Damon would not keep someone hidden like that unless he cared about them. Trust me, he did that to Katherine." Georgia withdrew the stake, Caroline placing her hands on her thighs, breathing a sigh of relief as the wound healed over.
"Ok." Caroline said, knowing Elena wouldn't be too happy about this.
"Thank you Caroline. Oh, and while I'm gone, if you run into Tyler, forgive him. He is working his hardest to forge a wedge between him and Klaus. He even commanded Klaus to have a talk, and that was just after Luce had been killed. They've been gone for days now, so whatever he wanted to talk about must have been serious." Caroline nodded, agreeing with Georgia. As she walked out of the bathroom, she passed Caroline a note. "Before I forget, if you see Klaus whilst you're protecting Luce, please give him this. You can read it, but I would not advise it if you don't want to get killed." As Georgia left the bathroom, the lights flickered off, leaving Caroline standing in the darkness.
"Georgia wait!"
"Yes, Caroline?" Georgia asked, hopping in the driver's seat of Damon's blue convertible BMW.
"Good luck." Caroline said, gripping the note tightly into her chest.
"Thanks." Georgia nodded, and sped off with Katherine and Damon, the emotionless vamp 'woohoo'ing down the highway.
"Caroline!" Bonnie shouted, running up to the blonde. "Where's Damon."
"Him, Katherine and Georgia have gone to Atlanta." Caroline said bluntly.
"What? Why?"
"I think you'll need to sit down, come one I'll buy us a drink." Bonnie nodded, scared at the prospect of needing a drink to consume what Caroline was about to tell her.
Damon's gone.