AN: Thanks to Undying Love13 and . for the heads up. Sorry about that. I was super tried when I tried posting and I accidently uploaded the same chapter twice. Hope you two got a chance to read the REAL chapter which I posted right after I saw your guys' reviews. Thanks to Grandma406 for three really great reviews too. I'm really glad you like it so far. And thanks to OceanEye1235 (I just noticed there's no 4 in your name) Don't worry, you'll find out in this chapter! :D Let's just hope he's okay D: Alaric's Point of View
"What is this?" The man cried looking at his body. "I feel weird."
"Are you familiar with vampires?" Caroline asked, taking a step toward him.
"Vampires?" The man asked, looking at her like she was crazy. Then he laughed. "You all are complete freaks." Alaric didn't say anything. It was kind of true.
"Too bad you don't believe in them," Caroline said, "Because you're about to become one."
The man just laughed again, keeping his gaze on Caroline. He tried to stand up, but fell again. "What the hell is wrong with me?"
"You have twenty-four hours to drink the blood of a human, or else you die," Alaric said simply, even though it sure as hell wasn't simple.
"I'll call the cops on you," the man warned, making Alaric almost laugh out loud. Did this guy really think he was in any position to call the authorities? He was the one who abused his girl friend for who knows how long.
Caroline looked at him in the eyes and Alaric watched as her eyes changed and her fangs appeared making the man back away screaming and yelling.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" he screamed at her. He grabbed a table lamp that was sitting on the small table beside chair, and flung it at Caroline who simply sped out of its way.
The man looked in front of him, blinking looking around the room for Caroline. Little did he know, she was right behind him.
"Surprise," she taunted, kicking him in the back, causing him to land on his stomach.
"Get used to it," Alaric told him. "That's going to be you." Then he stopped. "For a few seconds anyway." He stopped. "We don't want to do it, but we're going to have to kill you."
The man looked up at Alaric. "You're going to kill me?"
"We have to in order to save out friend." Alaric gestured to the couch on the other side of the room.
The man looked back and forth between Alaric and Caroline. "I'm not going to let you kill me."
Alaric laughed. "You're weak. As of right now, you are slowly dying. I would just accept that fact and make this easier for everybody."
He nodded at Caroline who was standing behind him with the same table lamp the man had tried to throw at her. As soon as the man looked up, Caroline dropped the lamp on his head, knocking him out.
"Alright, let's get this over with," Alaric muttered. He walked into the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and headed back into the living room. Standing beside the man, he drew a thin line of blood and put it up to the soon-to-be vampire's mouth.
"He'll turn now?" Alaric heard Elena ask from behind him.
He turned to face her and nodded. "Yeah, and then we're going to have to kill him and get Damon to drink his blood. I'm not sure how it's going to work considering the face he's out cold."
"Is Bonnie coming?" She asked.
"We'll try to talk her into it," Alaric promised. "But there's no guarantee. She wasn't too thrilled about the idea of taking someone's life to save Damon."
"Let me talk to her," Elena suggested. "I'm her best friend and everything she's done so far, she's done for me. If anyone can talk her into coming, it'll be me."
Alaric nodded, dug his phone out of his pocket, and tossed it to Elena who caught it in the air.
"Alright, I'll go make the call," Elena said, heading on upstairs.
Once Elena was upstairs, Caroline looked at Alaric. "We can't stake him. He'll turn to ash and there won't be any blood. We can't decapitate him either."
"I know." Alaric sighed. "We'll use vervain to weaken him and then draw blood from him. I wish there was another way. Even this piece of crap doesn't deserve to die that way."
Caroline didn't answer. Instead she just sat in a chair and stared at the man. Alaric went over and sat beside her, and together, they waited for him to wake up once again.
Elena's Point of View"Elena, are you okay?" Bonnie had picked up just on the second ring and greeted her with a frantic, worried voice.
"I'm fine," Elena lied.
"Are you sure," Bonnie pressed on. "You can talk to me, you know that."
Elena nodded even though Bonnie wouldn't be able to see it. She bit her lip and drew in a deep breath. "It's hard," she admitted to the witch. Stefan has saved me countess times and I'm just sitting here, unable to return the favor."
"He knows you love him, that's the important thing," Bonnie reminded her. "You just have to remember that. I know he does. He knows you are doing everything you can along with everyone else."
Elena smiled. "Thanks, Bonnie."
"No problem. Now tell me what's wrong."
Elena took another deep breath. "There's something wrong with Damon."
"Yeah we established that. He needs vampire blood I told Alaric-"
"We were just wondering if you know where Damon's at right now," Elena said interrupting her friend.
"Isn't he on the couch?" Bonnie asked, sounding genuinely confused.
"Unconsciously," Elena explained. "We need to know if there's a way to pull him back so we can feed him the blood."
Bonnie was silent for a moment before finally saying, "I'm coming over."
Caroline's Point of View Caroline watched as the man woke up, this time more calmly than the last. He slowly opened his eyes and sat up. Instantly, Alaric offered him a glass of blood.
"You want it. Mentally, you may not know it yet, but trust me; your body is dying for it." Alaric handed him the glass and the man stared at it for a while in his hands.
"How do I know you didn't poison it?" He demanded.
"You can't poison a vampire," Alaric reminded him. "There's very little ways a vampire can die and poison is not one of them."
Finally, he took a sip. As soon as the red liquid touched his lips, veins appeared around his eyes, and the glass was drained. "I don't know what the point of offering me a drink was if you're just going to kill me-"the man stopped as he began making choking noises. He grabbed his throat and gasped for air. "What…is… this?" he asked between breaths.
"Vervaine," Alaric explained. "It's not poison it'll just weaken you."
"If you need me weakened, why didn't you just leave me unconscious?" The newly turned vampire asked.
"You weren't officially a vampire until you woke up," he explained.
Caroline sat there watching as Alaric talked to the man. She remembered being in the exact situation….Okay maybe not exact but she remembered what it was like after she had been turned: The confusion, the tears, the hunger…the lonely feeling.
STOP! Caroline ordered herself. You can't start feeling sorry for him! It'll just make it a lot harder. This guy was a horrible man. He had been abusing his girlfriend for who knows how long. He deserved it…right?
Caroline looked away as Alaric began draining the vampire of blood. She tried not to listen to his screams and pleas for reconsideration, but her vampire ears made it extremely hard not to overhear. How long does it take to drain a vampire? Caroline didn't stay in the room long enough to find out.
Damon's Point of View"Alright, this stopped being funny three hours ago," he muttered to no one in particular. He sat on the curb of the road, head in hands and was starting to give up. He had no way of knowing the way back to Mystic Falls and no way of knowing what to do next. He had no choice but to wait to see what happens next.
Before, he had begun to come to the conclusion he had died, but now he wasn't so sure. He didn't feel dead. It seemed weird to think that considering the fact that technically, he was dead. He just didn't feel dead, dead.
"Stop feeling sorry for yourself, Damon" he ordered himself. "Just remember that Stefan is going through so much worse. And thinking about that, he had the will power to keep fighting.
Bonnie's Point of ViewBonnie knocked on the Boarding House door for the third time. "Alaric, I'm a witch, you know I can come in anyway," she yelled.
He heard footsteps hurrying to the door and then there was Alaric opening it. "Sorry, Bonnie. I had to take care of something."
Bonnie didn't say anything. She knew what it was that he had to take care of.
"Thanks for coming," Alaric said. "I get that you don't want to be here right now, I really do, but I'm just really glad you changed your mind."
"Elena talked me into it," she said simply. "Where's Caroline?"
"She is with Elena I think," Alaric answered, gesturing with his head towards the stairs.
Bonnie nodded. She kept her gaze on Alaric's bloodied hands. "You didn't wash them?" she asked in disbelief.
"You didn't give me time to," he defended himself. "I was going to before you threatened to do something witchy to the door.
"Witchy?" Bonnie raised her eyebrows. "You're starting to pick up Damon's vocabulary. "Speaking of Damon, Elena wanted me to check up on him."
"Uh, yeah," Alaric said shaking his head. He and Bonnie walked towards the couch where Damon was asleep. She looked at him, actually taking in his condition for the first time since this whole thing happened. He wasn't looking too great and for a moment, she felt completely sympathetic for the vampire but she quickly got rid of the thought.
Just remember how much he has done to hurt you, she reminded herself.
"So do you know what's wrong?" Alaric asked jumping her back to reality.
She took a good look at him. "I think I've read about this once with my Grams. His body is here, but his mind is somewhere else."
"Like a dream?" Alaric asked, clearly not getting it.
"No," she said flatly. "Well, sort of. Except everything he sees is actually happening."
Alaric raised his eyebrows at her, waiting for her to continue.
"He's having an out of body experience," she tried to explain.
"And this all means?" Alaric gestured for her to continue explaining.
"This means that once Damon wakes up, we might have a location to where Stefan is."