Back to present... well season 2 "present"
Caroline wakes up with a start and goes out of the room. The nurse is the only one in sight, "Excuse me? Where is everyone?" She asks,
the nurse turns around and explains, "It's the middle of the night honey.
Caroline looks to the window, "It is? Oh, uh...have you seen my mom?"
"She left after dinner with your boyfriend and then your friend Elena stepped by." the polite nurse tells her,
Caroline is still confused, "She did? Yeah, she did but she said her name was Katherine. Can I just get something to eat?"
"Breakfast comes around seven."
Caroline complains, "But I'm hungry."
"You should go back to sleep." the nurse instructs,
Caroline goes toward the room but then she stops, "What is that smell?"
"Back to bed." The nurse replies more strictly,
The nurse leaves but Caroline stays in the hallway. She looks everywhere and sees a blood bag in a patient's room. She goes toward the bag and touches it but the nurse arrives.
"What are you doing in here?" She asks,
Caroline shakes her head, "I don't know."
She takes Caroline to her room and leaves. Caroline sits down on her bed and takes the hidden blood bag from her pocket. She drinks but she doesn't like it and, disgusted, throws the bag on the floor. She looks down at the bag on the floor, climbs down from her bed and picks it up. She starts drinking again and her fangs appear.
The Boarding House:
Damon is sitting the living room playing on his phone as Clara paces,
"It was good plan." She mutters,
"It was a great plan." he says sounding supportively even tho his attention is elsewhere...
"I was only trying to help."
"I guess not everyone appreciates just how caring you are." he says absently,
"I didn't even get to finish going over it before Elena stormed out." Clara complains working herself up a bit more,
"Temperamental teenagers, what can I tell you?"
Clara stops and stares at Damon now, "What are we supposed to do Damon, she's here... in town, right now."
"She said she was leaving," Clara's had enough and rips the phone out of his hand,
"And you believe her?" She asks,
Damon rolls his eyes, "No, I don't believe her! I just don't feel like starting my day talking about her."
"And what would you rather talk about?" Clara asks not seeing how anything could be more important than this,
Damon smirks and gets closer to her, he reaches behind her back and snakes his phone out of her hands, "Oh I don't know... Maybe wedding plans?" Damon says with a seductive smile turning his phone around to show her he wasn't playing a stupid game but looking at nearby venues,
Clara smiles despite herself, "Oh really, having fantasies of me walking towards you in a big white dress?"
Damon throws his phone on the sofa and returns both arms around Clara pulling her close but lowering himself slightly so the bulge in his pants lines up with her sweet core, "It's actually more about what's under the dress that giving me fantasies... look I just don't want to put our lives on hold because satan's mistress is sniffing around." He says as he lowers his lips to her neck,
Clara sighs, loving the feel of his lips on her sensitive skin, "I know, I don't either but wouldn't we just be antagonizing her?" Damon shrugs his shoulders not caring and pulls back to play with her lips
Clara soon caves, "Fine I'll start looking at magazines."
"Yes!" Damon exclaims as his raises his fist in victory, Clara chuckles at his enthusiasm and the two get lost in a kiss.
Back at the hospital:
Caroline is putting on her jewelry. She puts on the necklace Elena gave to her but it burns her skin so she throws it on the floor. The nurse arrives and picks it up.
"That's pretty." she tells her,
"Yeah, my friend gave it to me." Caroline answers not understanding why it just burned her,
The nurse leaves, Caroline too tempted by the smell of blood, drinks from a blood bag... she looks at herself in the mirror, her face is changing and her fangs appear. She screams,
"What's wrong?" The nurse asks rushing in,
Caroline turns and rushes at the nurse, she strangles her and pushes her at vamp-speed against the wall. "You can't tell anyone, you can't tell anyone!" She ends up unwittingly compelling her,
"I can't tell anyone." The nurse repeats in a monotone...
"You'll do what I say?" Caroline asks not understanding her own power yet.
but the nurse confirms, "I'll do what you say."
Caroline is relieved, "Good, because I'm starving." (She bites her.)
-Elsewhere Elena Bonnie and Jeremy are setting up for the Carnival-
Back at the Boarding House:
Stefan comes in from hunting, Damon holds up a bag,
"Care for one?" he offers,
Stefan shakes his head, "No, thank you. I'm not hungry, just ate."
"Are you worried that one day, all the forest animals are gonna band together and fight back? I mean, surely they talk." Damon teases his brother,
Stefan smiles tensely, "I'm just happy that's a blood bag and not a sorority girl supplying your dinner."
Damon rolls his eyes, "Really still waiting for the other shoe to drop, face it Stefan I'm a changed man, no need to walk on eggs shells around me all the time because you think I'm gonna explode. We have enough suspense in our lives with Katherine making an appearance no reason to go looking for drama."
Clara comes down the stairs ready to go out, "Alright boys, play nice I'm going out to widen my palate, it's time to familiarize myself with whats modern in the culinary world."
"Why is that a sudden concern?" Stefan asks,
"Didn't you hear the great news Steffy? Me and the wife are renewing our vows, can't very well only serve up blood to the good people of Mystic Falls, they might catch on." Damon tells him
"Wait, what?" Stefan asks,
"Yup, we are having an honest to god wedding this time around and I know the real reason you've been brooding this past century and a half is because we didn't include you the first time around and I just want you to rest assured you will be receiving an invite." Stefan huffs ignoring is brother's poor excuse for charm,
"Do you guys think now's the right time to be doing this with Katherine around?" He asks,
"I think its exactly the right time, show that bitch how little we think of her and whatever game she set on playing." Damon tells him,
"Don't bother Stefan I already tried to get him to see reason, it's easier just to go along with it," Clara says as she exits the house,
"Wise words brother, by the way dropped in on the grieving widow and over heard Tyler talking to his mysterious uncle, I think the Lockwoods have a family secret because the Gilbert device affected them i.e Richard but vervain didn't... so they're not vampires, they're something else."
"Is this your new obsession?" Stefan probes,
Damon shrugs, "You'd rather some unknown supernatural element running rampant upon our town. Fine, I'll drop it."
"We haven't seen the last of Katherine, you do know that right? We have no idea what she's up to." Stefan says,
"Your girl is the one who wanted to do nothing, I'm just being a team player, plus She came back to profess her undying eternal love for you so I'm gonna let you deal with her because I have more important things to do like give my wife the wedding she deserves, cheers!"
Later at the Carnival:
Jeremy is buying popcorn at the carnival. Damon arrives, "Jeremy, good to see you alive."
Jeremy bites back, "Aren't you a little old for a high school carnival?"
Damon chuckles at the kid's attitude, "My bride to be saw it and had never been to one, simply doing my duty as a gentleman," (He takes some of Jeremy's popcorn and eats it.)
"You're pretty funny cracking jokes when I could I don't know...blow the whole lid off this thing by telling someone what you really are." Jeremy threatens,
Damon catches him around the back of his neck and takes him away from the crowd.
He trows his up against a tree, "So please tell me that that is not a threat." giving Jeremy a chance to walk back what he just said,
but Jeremy is foolishly undeterred, "Maybe it is." He arrogantly shows him the ring thinking he has one over on Damon.
But Damon just smiles condescendingly, he grabs Jeremy and chokes him from behind with an arm under his chin bring talking directly into his ear,
"There seems to be this misconception going on that because I'm happy I'm less dangerous... please, don't be stupid enough to fall for that. So this is what we're not gonna do- we're not gonna walk around like we are invincible when it's this easy for me to end you." He releases him and Jeremy struggles to regain his breath, Damon gets in his face again,
"If you want to tell people what I really am go ahead and try." Damon holds up Jeremy's ring; he stole it from his hand... shocking Jeremy, "I will shove this ring so far up your ass, you'll really have something to choke on."
He flicks the ring at Jeremy's face and leaves while Jeremy holds his face where the ring hit him in pain before looking down and quickly recovering the ring.
Elsewhere at the Carnival Caroline has shown up:
Clara recognizes her from the hospital, "Hey, it's Caroline right? You're Sheriff Forbes daughter? How are you? you look better."
Caroline looks Clara up and down not recognizing her, "Do I know you?"
"No, sorry. Hi, I'm Clara" She offers Caroline her hand but Caroline just stares at it, "Um my husband is friends with your mom, Damon Salvatore. I was at the hospital when you were admitted... glad to see you back on your feet, I guess it wasn't as serious as they thought."
Caroline nods slowly, "Yup, the doctor said I'm good as new. He signed me out. He said that I didn't have to wait 'til morning,"
Clara is surprised, "Wow so you just got out, shouldn't you be at home resting?"
"I'm the committee chair for the carnival and I'm worried it's gonna turn into a complete disaster without me. I mean god bless Elena, she does not understand the word fabulous."
"Oh well, I haven't been to many carnivals but it looks like they did alright in your absence," Clara tells her,
Caroline tired of exchanging polite chit chat tries to compel Clara like she did with the Nurse earlier, "I'm a little bit too busy to play welcoming committee so your gonna walk away from me and remember nothing,"
Clara watches Caroline walk off, and realizes she needs to find Damon asap.
Elsewhere, Damon is looking at Tyler who is arm wrestling in a competition. Stefan arrives.
"You're lurking." he whispers to his brother,
"I'm observing." Damon corrects,
"More like obsessing."
They watch Tyler win
"He's got strength." Damon remarks,
Stefan shrugs, "He's a triple letter varsity athlete, of course he has strength. You're reaching."
Mason arrives next to arm wrestle against Tyler...
"Enter the uncle." Damon narrates,
Clara spots the guys and goes over to them,
"That's ridiculous." Stefan says as Mason beats Tyler,
"Okay, he's the champ, who wants to go next?" Tyler asks
"Stefan wants to go." Damon says quickly volunteering Stefan,
"No he doesn't we need to talk." Clara says, the brothers look at her confused before Stefan replies to Tyler's challenge,
"Yeah, sure, I'll...give it a shot..." he turns to Clara as he walks away, "we'll talk later,"
Stefan joins Mason and Damon cheers him on, "Get him Stef!" He turns to Clara "So what is it you need to gab to Stefan about?"
"Oh just how I'm pretty sure Caroline Forbes was turned into a vampire and just tried to compel me." Damon takes his eyes of the match shocked by what Clara just said.
Mason beats Stefan and Stefan rejoins Damon and Clara,
"Did I just hear you right?" Stefan asks,
"Please tell me that's the only reason you lost?" Damon says,
"No actually, I was putting in effort he still over powered me."
Surprised and a little suspicious he tells his brother and Clara to, "Come with me."
Mason easily defeats the next contestant as Stefan, Damon, and Clara go in the hallway.
"Is he...?" Damon starts to ask Stefan,
"No, no, it wasn't that kind of strength but it was more than human, if that makes any sense." Stefan tells him,
"Guys, not the time... Caroline, remember?" Clara interjects,
Damon nods, "Right," They start walking again but Damon can't help himself, "What is up with that family? They're not vampires, what the hell are they?"
Stefan jokingly suggest, "Ooh, ah, maybe they're, um, ninja turtles!"
"You're not funny." Damon says unamused,
"Or no, zombies, werewolves." Stefan continues guessing,
"No comedic timing at all." Damon tells his brother,
Clara reprimands both of them, "Seriously, both of you if we don't find Caroline soon someone is going to get hurt, you get that right?"
"speak of the devil," Damon mutters as he spots Caroline and races over to her,
"Hey Blondie, they let you out?" he asks,
"I remember." Caroline tells him,
"What do you remember?"
"I remember how you manipulated me, you pushed me around, abused me, erased my memories, fed on me." She tells him
"What does she mean abused her Damon?" Clara asks,
Damon tries to shake off the question, "Nothing, she's crazy."
"Memories have been coming back, in pieces."
Damon squints his eyes at her, "You can't remember. It's impossible, unless Clara was right, unless you're a... but who would have turned you?"
Caroline smiles "I have a message from Katherine, she said Game on."