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Chapter 32
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A few days had gone by since the Elijah incident, and thankfully no one had questioned his disappearance that much. Becca was hoping that going back to school would give her some sense of normalcy, or almost normalcy, again, but she was far from right about that. Everyone kept asking her if she knew where her brother was or when he was coming back. They were starting to give her a head ache. If she knew where her brother was, she would personally high jack a car and go bring his ass home herself, license or not.
She was walking through the halls of school when she was suddenly pulled to the side. She yelped as she pulled inside of a broom closet. She looked up to find Jeremy hovering over her. "Jeremy, what are you doing?" She asked out to him, lowering her voice to a whisper when he motioned for her to be quieter. She was officially scared and confused. Wasn't the worst over for now? Elijah was gone, and there was still no word on whether or not Klaus knew of her and Elena being here. She didn't even know if this Klaus person knew about her.
He stayed close to her in fear that he would accidentally bump into something and look like a fool in front of her. He was tempted to kiss her, what with being so close to her and all, but he knew that she wasn't ready to take that step yet. She was still grieving her late boyfriend and her brother's leaving town without a word to her or anyone else. "Katherine's been let out of the tomb. I just wanted you to be on your guard. You could think that you're talking to Elena while the whole time it's really Katherine. She's done it before. I just want you to be safe." He whispered to her as he backed up a little.
He couldn't stand so close to her and not want to just kiss her or play with her hair, run his fingers around one of her curls and just twirl it around. She refused to meet his eye longer than a second at a time. "What do you mean before? When has she pretended to be Elena with me?" She asked him. They had vaguely explained Katherine to her before. She was suppose to look exactly like Elena, but she was a vampire like Damon and Stefan. She was the one who turned them back in the eighteen hundreds.
Jeremy sighed and looked up at her slowly. He knew that he had kept that little part about Katherine from her, but only because it was said and done with. There was nothing they could do, they were just lucky that she hadn't done anything to Becca that day. "The day of the party before you and Elena were taken. She was the one you went shopping with, not Elena." He told her sadly. She gave him a slight glare for keeping it from her, but her expression soon softened.
She reached up and placed her small hand on his cheek, giving him a small smile. He was confused by the smile, but he wasn't about to question it. "That's why you acted weird when I talked about it that night. I knew something was off about Elena while we were out, but I just brushed it off as worry for Jenna. Now, that we've talked about this, can we go out in the hallway? I still need to go to my locker and it's kind of crowdy in here." She asked him. He chuckled as she took a hold of his hand and pulled him out of the broom closet.
She hadn't let go of his hand when they started walking, again, not that he was complaining about it. He liked the feel of her hand in his. "So you coming to girl's night tonight at the house? I'm sure I can convince Elena to let me stay home." He said out to her as they stopped at her locker. He leaned against the locker beside hers as she scrolled in the combination.
She froze when she opened the door and looked up at him confused. What was he talking about? Since when had they planned a girl's night? "What are you talking about? No one told me about a girl's night tonight." She said out to him confused and slightly hurt when she saw his expression. He didn't need to say anything to her, the look of horror on his face was enough to explain everything. The girls had obviously made plans without her. "They didn't, um, say anything to me about a girl's night tonight. I, uh, I have to get to class. Bye, Jere." She hurried to grab a book and slam her locker shut before racing off.
He made a move to go after her, but she was too far away. He knew that she was now even more hurt. "I'm sure that they didn't say anything because of what happened with Elijah! Becca! Becks, wait!" He called after her, but it was no use. She was long gone and probably didn't even hear him. He groaned, running a hand through his hair in frustration. This week was just getting better and better by the second. He heard his sister's voice and saw her walking with Caroline and Bonnie.
His eyes narrowed as he went over to them. They stopped when he got to them and looked at him confused. They were even more confused when they saw the anger burning in his eyes. He was upset because clearly he was the only one that cared enough to let Becca in on anything. "Why didn't you invite Becca to your girl's night thing tonight? She's your friend too, Elena. She's been through so much lately, and now her own best friend don't even invite her to some stupid sleep over?" He snapped at his sister.
Elena couldn't believe that he brought it up to her. They hadn't invited her because things between them and Becca had been stressed and that was the whole reason for the girls night, a stress free night of just giggles and fun. "You told her about it? Jere, why would you do that?" She said to him angrily. He was blown away by his sister, he really was. She was more upset over the fact that Becca knew that she had been excluded than the fact that they had excluded one of their best friends and thought that they had a good reason for doing it.
This wasn't his sister, and he couldn't blame it on Katherine either because he was sure Stefan and Damon would have warned one of them by now of her not being back at the boarding house. "You're unbelievable, Elena. She's your best friend, she looks up to you, and you treat her like just some bug annoying you. Like you're better than her. She's been through a lot more than you have these past months. She's lost everyone and thing she's ever loved and she counted on her friend to be there for her like she was for them, and you know what she got? She lies and compelled by the people she counted on to be her friend, Elena. How's that for friendship." He growled at her.
Elena opened her mouth to defend herself to him, but he wasn't about to hear anymore excuses from her. "Don't even try to find an excuse for this. Becca's as much your friend as they are. She's in much danger as you are. She's been there for all of you when you needed her. Bonnie, she was there for you when that stupid jock broke up with you in freshman year. Caroline, she's done everything to make it up to you for not being there when you needed her this year. Elena, I don't even know where to start. When our parents died, she was the first person over to the house. She stayed with you for a week straight and listened to both of us. She let us snap at her because she knew we needed to." He continued to chew them out.
They stood there guilty and ashamed of themselves. He wasn't done with them just yet though. He knew that this was coming for a while. He's watched them step over Becca and take her for granted for years, but he never said anything because she was okay and happy. She was oblivious to it. They were her friends and she was there for them, that was all that mattered to her. "Where were any of you when she found out her dad died, or when she found out that Mason was dead? Or how about the fact that she watched her boyfriend be killed right in front of her? Have any of you even tried to see how she's taking Tyler just leaving without a word? Or how she's dealing with everything that happened at the lake house? Elena, did you even bother to check up on her the next morning?" He turned his glare to his sister.
She continued to say nothing to him though. None of them made a sound. They knew that he was right, even if they didn't want to admit it. "Where were any of you when she collapsed all of those times for no reason at all? Did you know that she was seriously sick?" Again, no response from any of them. "No, of course none of you did because you're too caught up in your own lives to see that your best friend needs you all now more than ever. I've been there for her for everything. I've been there when she cried out for hours, making herself sick every single time. I was there even when she didn't want me to be because that's what friends do. They don't care if they're fighting. She needed someone, and I was there because none of you the hell were going to be." He continued on to tell them off.
He was trying to keep his voice from raising too loudly because some things they didn't need anyone over hearing, but this needed to be said right there and then. He couldn't keep it locked in any longer. "You all call her your friend because she sucks up what's going on in her life to be strong for you, but none of you can say the same for you. Elena, at her dad's funeral, you were more worried about some girl trying to take Stefan from you. Caroline, your heads been in Matt land since the carnival, and Bonnie? You've never once been there for her. None of you really have." He told them off.
Before they could say anything he held up his hand. He still wasn't finished with them just yet. "Before you make up some excuse as why you all were too busy with your lives to notice that she needed you? You should know that your 'best friend' is most likely crying her eyes out in girls bathroom right now. She won't let you know that though. No, of course not. She'll say that she's fine so you don't worry about her, but as your friends you should see right through her. You should know that no matter how many times she says that she's okay and that she's fine, that she's not. You should think about that the next time you exclude her from something." He told them before walking away.
They all stood there in shock, all three of them looking ashamed of themselves. None of them had wanted to admit it, but he was right. None of them even knew that Stevie was dead. They especially didn't know that she had been there to see him be killed. "Okay, is it just me, or do you guys feel like the worst person on the earth right now?" Caroline broke the silence. The other two just nodded their heads, not saying anything. "I'm suppose to be her best friend. We were like sisters before, you know, I died. I mean, you guys are her best friends too, but we're were like sisters, you know? I didn't even know that she had a boyfriend. God, I knew something was off with her the night in the trailer, but I didn't even think twice about it, not even once, when Tyler let us out. What kind of person does that make me?" Caroline said out to the two of them.
They weren't any better. They were probably worse than Caroline. They've been leaning on Becca since she came back to town for every problem they've had. They even went as far as telling her to suck it up and get over it when she found out about what was really out there. They didn't think twice about what was going through her head or the fact that she was probably scared out of her mind. They had all let her isolate herself from them. "I think we need to find her." Bonnie said out to them both.
They nodded before splitting up to go and look for the younger girl. Bonnie went to go find her next class to see if she went there while Elena checked the halls and Caroline checked the bathrooms. It was halfway through their next period before Caroline found her in one of the bathrooms crying her eyes out in one of the stalls. "Becca, you in there? It's Caroline. Can you come out?" She asked out to her friend. She heard some sniffling before the lock to the stall clicked open and Becca slowly came out.
Her eyes were red and puffy from crying so much. Caroline's heart broke when she saw how broken the girl looked. She looked as if she hadn't slept in weeks. How had she not seen this before now? She had dark bruises under her eyes, signs of not sleeping, and she was as pale as herself. "Sorry. I'm just tired. Long night. I should probably just go to the nurse and get her to let me go home." Becca brushed it off as nothing, like Jeremy had said that she would.
Caroline felt even worse when Becca went to move past her. Something was off though. She looked more than tired. She looked almost in pain. She was about to move past her when she suddenly stumbled into her arms. "Whoa, hey. Becca, I got you. Come on, lets find somewhere to sit you down." She told her before picked her up and using her vampire speed to race over to Alaric's class room. She knew from Elena that he didn't have a class right now.
When she had appeared in the classroom with Becca, she saw that she had interrupted Elena and Alaric's conversation. "I found her in the bathroom. She looked ready to drop dead. She practically fell into me when she tried to leave." Caroline explained to them both as she carefully laid her friend down on the desk. Alaric checked the young girl over while Elena stood off to the side with Caroline. He had seen Becca the night of the dinner party. He was surprised that she was fine only an hour later. She had looked sick then too.
The girls waited until Alaric finished checking Becca' pulse and temperature. They were both worried for her. How could they not have none that she was sick? Jeremy was right, something was wrong with her. No one went from perfectly fine to ready to drop dead in a second. "Something's not right. We should cancel girls night tonight, Elena." Caroline told her as they watched Ric lift Becca up and place her in his chair behind the desk.
Elena crossed her arms worriedly as she stared at her unconscious friend. She had passed for while Ric was checking her over. "You're right. I want you to stay with her tonight. Maybe go over to the boarding house and see what Katherine knows. She's been around long enough, she might know something we don't about the Lockwood family line. Bonnie and I will try to find something in her books. Text me if something happens." Elena told her.
Becca started to come to after a minute and held her head with a wince as her eyes fluttered open slowly. "What's going on?" She asked out to the three around her. The two girls were instantly at her side, both hovering over her like a mother would their child. "Where am I? Elena? Caroline? What's wrong? Did something happen to Stefan and Damon?" She panicked as she hurried to sit up. Elena and Caroline shared another ashamed look.
She was more concerned about the people she cared about then she was about the fact that she had just passed out with no notice or reason to at all. Had it gotten so bad between them that she didn't think they cared about what was going on with her at all? "You're in Ric's class room. Becca, what happened? Are you sick? How long has this been going on?" Elena pressed on as she felt the younger girl's cheek. Becca looked up at her confused.
She didn't even know when this started. She just knew that she got a little dizzy sometimes. It wasn't that she wasn't eating or getting enough sleep. She was eating fine, her sleep could be a bit better, but it wasn't bad enough that she would pass out cold in the middle of the bathroom. She wouldn't tell them that she's been fainting like this since at least last year. She didn't want to bother them with it. "My side just hurts. I'm fine, nothing I can't handle." She told them.
It wasn't a lie. Her side had been bothering her since that night she stabbed herself at the lake house. Damon had healed her though. It must have just been a side effect from the vampire blood. The night she was shot it had hurt her for a few days as well, so she wasn't concerned about it. Elena and Caroline seemed to think differently about it though. "What do you mean? Let me see." She said out before she lifted up her shirt enough to see her side.
The girls gasped at what they saw, causing Becca to go into panic. On her side where she had stabbed the knife into her, was a dark, slightly crusted, bruise. It looked like Jenna's wound, only a little infected. Caroline was instantly beside her and holding her head to her chest, trying to calm her down and get her to stop fidgeting. Elena let the tips of her fingers touch the bruise, causing Becca to hiss in pain as she dug her nails into Caroline's arm. "We have to get her to the boarding house. Something went wrong with the healing." Elena told them.
Caroline nodded quickly, whispering to Becca to hold on and close her eyes before she carefully picked her up and took off toward the boarding house. She hurried into the boarding house and put Becca on the couch. She cried out in pain as it shot through her body. She had had this pain before when she was recovering from the bullet wound. She knew that by tomorrow the wound would be completely gone, but for now it hurt like hell. "Stefan! Damon! Katherine, I need help!" She called out through out the house.
The three vampires were in the room instantly, Katherine taking a little long for dramatic effect of course. They spotted Becca on the couch in pain and the two brothers hurried over to her. "She didn't heal completely. She basically passed out on me in the bathroom. Elena said to ask Katherine if she knew anything about the Lockwood line that we didn't already know." Caroline explained to all of them as she sat down on the couch and held onto her friend.
The brothers shared a wary look before looking back at a smug looking Katherine just standing there. Even with blood soaking her shirt, she still looked threatening. If some witch trying to awaken Elijah wasn't bad enough already, now something was happening to Becca. "Just to prove to you both that I am on your side in all of this, I will spare you all a little insight that I found out. Didn't any of you ever wonder why I didn't target baby Lockwood over there? Her werewolf gene is dormant forever. No matter what she does, accident or not, she will never be cursed. She'll still pass down the gene, but unlike the males, she won't be able to turn. It has something to do with the original descendant of her line that was female." Katherine started to explain to them all.
"Iliana," Becca gasped out.
Katherine nodded, now remembering the name of the woman Elijah had once told her about before she turned into a vampire. "Yeah, her. I don't know much about her, only what Elijah told me. He was in love with her and they were suppose to be married, but she died just after the wedding for some reason he didn't tell me." She explained to them all. "What he did show me was a picture of her. Klaus had a painting made in her memory centuries before they found me. You would think baby Lockwood here was her doppelganger." She said to them.
Damon snarled, wanting her to just get to the point already. Becca could be dying for all they knew. "Alright, relax, Damon. I'm getting there." She snapped at him as she plopped down into the chair after pouring herself a glass of blood. "Anyways, she still has the werewolf gene in her blood, and mixed with vampire blood, it balances each other out. So yeah, Damon fed her blood and she healed, but it was slowed down because of the werewolf gene in her. She'll be fine by tomorrow." She explained to them all.