The flirty girl behind at the desk was easy to get information out of, it only took some compulsion for him to view Caroline Elizabeth Forbes' files. Enzo smiles, she graduated top of her class, with her degree in English and minor in Philosophy.
"Thank you." Enzo says, and the girl blushes, "Anytime."
Enzo smirks as he makes his way to his car, driving to Mystic Falls to find her. What he finds makes his veins turn cold and heart skip a beat, according to the Mystic Falls Sheriff's Department, Caroline was killed during the summer of 1958, her head of severed from her body. The man gives Enzo a sad smile, "I'm sorry for your grandfather's loss."
"Thank you." Enzo says. He feels slightly guilty for lying to the man; telling him that his grandfather, who is on his deathbed, is looking for his lost love.
All signs point to Stefan, as he remembers the tales of his ripper period. Enzo creates the perfect plan to enact his revenge, and with the help of Liv after threatening her brother's life, everything works out. Well everything, until Stefan refuses to admit to killing her.
"I'm sorry for your loss, but I didn't kill her. I wasn't a ripper then." Stefan says, green eyes flickering between Bonnie, Elena, and Enzo.
"Liv, would you be a dear and take Bonnie upstairs?" Enzo asks, voice dripping with murder. He doesn't need the witch to try and interfere.
Liv sighs, but does as he asks, not wanting anything to happen to her brother.
Enzo grabs a chair, flips it and sits with his forearms resting on the back of it as stares at the two vampires in front of him. "Stefan, this would be very easy if you just told the truth."
"I am, I don't know who she is." Stefan says, voice on the verge of panic. Enzo is unpredictable, and deadly.
Enzo sighs, before standing up and breaking the chair, he has a piece of wood in Elena's stomach and she lets out a gasp with a few tears. "No!" Stefan says.
"This would be less painful if you owned up to your sins, Saint Stefan." Enzo mocks as he pulls the wood out of Elena and right into Stefan's gut.
Stefan grunts, "Fine, I killed her, are you happy now?"
"No." Enzo says, about ready to pull Stefan's heart our when Damon walks in.
"Enzo!" Damon says, seeing the state his brother's in.
Enzo turns to face Damon, "Good, you're here to see the show."
"Stefan didn't kill her, I did." Damon lies. He read the police report Liz gave him after Bonnie sent him a frantic text, apparently Caroline was found with her head severed, and they didn't take any pictures to cover up the fact that she was a vampire.
Stefan looks at his brother, while Elena cries silently. Enzo twists the stake in Stefan, and Damon steps forward, "Stop."
Damon looks wild, with his brother's life in jeopardy, "I killed her, I didn't know it was her. If you need to kill someone, kill me. Hate me, but leave Stefan out of it." Damon's eyes flicker to Elena, but he doesn't say anything.
Enzo's face falls, and Stefan feels empathy for the betrayal Enzo feels.
Enzo turns to face Damon. His brown eyes are dark, dark with pain, and shiny with grief, he not only lost Caroline today, he lost Damon. "Well, that's the problem, Damon. I don't want to hate you. Because if I hate you, then I have nothing left. There is another option." Enzo can feel the loneliness take over, and he can't live another second like that. Enzo closes his eyes, feeling the grief, the loss, the hatred, and the love of everything that was never his.
"Enzo!" He hears Damon call him, feels him as he grips his shoulders, but the only thing Enzo holds on to as he toys with the switch is Caroline's face, her sun kissed hair and sky blue eyes. The imagine soon changes to the description, of her head severed from her body and hate grows in his stomach.
Enzo lets out a breath, he opens his eyes, seeing a panicked Damon standing in front of him, "You're right, I don't care about anything." Enzo lifts the compulsion and the crowd goes nuts.
Stefan and Elena sit there tied up, while Damon releases Enzo to compel the kids before they leave to forget what happened. Enzo walks over to Stefan, puts a hand on his shoulder, "This wasn't personal."
Stefan nods, understanding where he was coming from. In one fluid motion Enzo pulls the stake out of Stefan and into Elena's heart. Enzo leaves while Stefan screams, but Damon's too slow to do anything.
Enzo walks out into the sun, letting go of his faux calmness, he didn't turn off his emotions, he just didn't want Damon to stop him; after all it was Damon's idea to kill everyone but one surviving member, the Gilberts will now be survived by Jeremy. Enzo slides into his car and takes the forty minute journey to Mystic Falls.
Enzo pulls up in front of the Mystic Falls Grille, slides onto a bar stool and orders a bourbon neat.
"Do you know where the cemetery is?" Enzo asks once the bartender places a drink in front of him.
The bar tenders hazel eyes show sadness as she relays the instructions.
"Thank you." Enzo leaves a nice tip and goes back to his car, making his way to the cemetery. As he drives through the sleepy little town with a dark secret, he doesn't see how it could do anything but stifle the girl so full of light. He hopes she found happiness in her short life.
It takes him a few minutes to find her, buried under an old oak tree with the setting sun giving her tombstone a soft glow.
Enzo sits on her tombstone, and all the words he's ever wanted to say to her are gone. He's lost in thought as he toys with his ring, but then is snapped out of it by the sound of leaves crunching.
An elderly man is standing there, observing the twenty something year old sitting their with grief painted on his face. Enzo doesn't look from the setting sun, even though he can feel eyes on him.
"Any relation?" a man asks.
"An old friend." Enzo says, not caring that her death date makes him older than his appearance.
"Hmm, my cousin would have been 85. You can't be more than 25." The man says.
Enzo looks to the man, he can see that they share the same eyes. He can also see Caroline in the way the man smiles, and that makes Enzo's heart ache a little. "About 136." Enzo stands, waiting for the stake that will end him, after all this man is a decent from the founders, he will know about vampires.
The man nods, "I'm Charles Forbes." The man sticks his hand out.
Now Enzo is on unsure footing, the man comes from a town of vampire hunters, shouldn't he be killing him or at the very least running for his life. Enzo puts one hand in his pocket and sticks the other out, gripping Charles' in a firm shake, "Lorenzo."
Charles shakes back, "Nice to meet you Lorenzo," Charles takes his hand back, "You don't sound like your from here, what brings you through?"
Enzo looks back to the tombstone, "I came to say thank you to an old friend."
"She's didn't die that day." Charles says, and Enzo's head snaps in his direction.
Charles smiles, "Not in the sense that the you're thinking."
Enzo's heart stops, knowing exactly what he's talking about.
A/N I personally hate cliff hangers, but I couldn't help but put one here (: Don't hate me too much.
"Well, that's the problem, Damon. I don't want to hate you. Because if I hate you, then I have nothing left. There is another option." - This line belongs to the CW, I just thought it was beautifully heartbreaking. I also loved the acting in that scene. No copyright infringement intended.
Until next time!
Loveklaroline: Thank you for your wonderful comments! I hope you enjoy this chapter! I'm have a vague idea on how Caroline and Enzo will reunite, but nothing's set in stone, so if you have any suggestions please let me know! What did you think of Elena? à la prochaine!