Kaylee's POV
You woke up and you weren't in the cellar anymore. It felt like you were in someones arms you could see the tops of the trees and all the stars that were out tonight. You had zero idea how much time had passed. "Why are you here Damon," you realized now you could identify people by their smells. "My brother called me saying you needed help. So of course I came," he kept his eyes forward looking as you walked through the forest. If it was cold at all you couldn't feel it. You couldn't feel anything except Damon's arms under your neck and under the crook of your knees.
"I keep remembering things. It's terrifying," you breathed out seeing your breath drift away in the wind as you continued looking up at the stars. It was like you were seeing everything through new eyes. It seemed weird that you weren't angry but it must have been from the shock and you knew it was gonna come at some point.
"Like what?" this time you watched him look down at you but you didn't meet his eyes honestly you were scared too. You were just thankful that there was a layer of clothes dividing you two from making skin contact. With your mess of emotions it was the last thing you needed. Especially because the animal side of you would take over feeding your desire over your logical human side.
"The night my father sent me away because he caught me kissing you. That I was arranged to be married. And that I lost my virginity to you. Wait does that make me not a virgin now?" you burst into laughter and he looked back down at you. "You're laughing," he stated shaking his head leaning down to make sure a branch didn't hit you. "I am. Why am i laughing? I should not be laughing," you continued to giggle holding your stomach that was starting to hurt. "It's like when you turn into a vampire all your emotions are heightened," he explained the scents of the forest hit your noise. Your brain dividing and identifying all of them at hyper speed. "You stink," you scrunched your nose. "Thanks doll," he smirked gripping on to you tighter and in a blur you were back in your room.
"Jackass," you hissed grabbing your stomach attempting to balance yourself as he set you down the motion sickness hitting you like a tone of bricks he was just admiring your room like he had never been in here. Looking at the pictures hanging around your room. All he did was look at you and flash a small smile. "I have to go meet Caroline. I can come back if you want," he leaned against your desk folding his arms over his chest. You turned raising an eyebrow, "oh don't look at me like that. I just wanted to make sure you're safe," he rolled his eyes. But he knew that you weren't falling for the innocent act.
"Take me with you," his gaze was fixed on you. "Are you sure? You should sleep," you immediately shook your head. 'I wouldn't be able to sleep anyways. It'll make me feel better not being alone," you moved across the room your stomach now settled and leaned against your desk next to him. "If you insist," he wrapped his arms around you and jumped off your balcony again.
You heard his phone buzz in his pocket and he pulled it out quickly answering it as you walked down the road. "So what do I do now?" Caroline of course.
"Just wait I'll be there in a minute," he said glancing over at you.
"Can you hurry? I have things to do." he wrapped his arms around you and whooshed to the old school warehouses in the back lot just behind Caroline. Your stomach wasn't as unsettled as it was last time as you stood next to him.
"You can give me that," he said behind her making her jump and turn towards both of you clearly annoyed by the facial expression she had on. You watched her hand over what looked to be a pocket watch.
"So why did you need me to do this?" she asked not even caring that you were here. "because I interfere with the signal," was all he said as he looked down at the old metal. "can I go now? This has blown like my whole day," she pressed her lips together. He looked back at you then turne back to her ctaching her eyes, "You do that. Get in your car and go home. Forget I asked you to do this." You rolled your eyes. "Ok. Bye now," she turned sending him a flirty smile as she walked back to the parking lot swinging her hips. when you looked at her it was like you were looking at a stranger. He turned back to the building and seemed to sense something as he walked towards the one door to get in. You followed behind him as he walked up the steps and broke the door handle opening it and you two walked in. It was dark and absolutely disgusting the smell of fresh blood burnt inside your nose. You hung back looking through everything as Damon went forward. The sound of gunshots made you freeze and you hid behind a couple barrels trying to see who shot him. Luckily he was already dead.
"i have tons of these wooden bullets. So... nothing funky," he pointed the gun back at him as he walked around him. Logan Fell? A vampire? he smelled similar to Damon. "You don't want wanna do this trust me," he groaned trying to dig the bullets out. You flinched and looked away when he shot him again. "Ahh. Ow!"
"that's what you get," he replied smugly still waving the gun in the air like a lunatic.
"For what?" seeing him hurting hurt you. But you couldn't survive the bullets at least not that you knew of. he leaned down, "You made me like this." He accused tapping the end of the gun against his temple as he passed in front of Damon.
"i killed you. I didn't turn you," he clarified still trying to pull the bullets out. Throwing each bloody one as far away from him as he could. "See I know what you and your siblings are. See I've been watching you 3," he was staring at one of the wooden bullets. "I also knew you would show up here. Which I'm glad you did cause I have some questions," you stood still playing with the wooden bullet in between his fingers. "Me first. Who turned you?" You could tell the bullets had done some damage to you and he wasn't nearly as strong as Logan was right now.
"How should I know? Last thing I remembered I was about to stake your sister and then you grabbed me that's it," he yelled in his face. "that's it. Until I wake up in the ground behind a used car dealership on highway 4. Someone buried me." He leaned down on his knees getting real up close and personal with Damon.
"it happens. Ow," he moaned finally pulling out one of the bullets in his thigh. "you bit me it had to be you," he looked like a maniac or someone strung out on crack. "Actually you have to have vampire blood in your system when you die. I didn't do that. Some other vampire gave you their blood," he groaned again laying back on the ground. "that's what I would like to know," his eyes flickered over to you before sitting back up. "Well it's not like there was a welcome wagon with a cake and a handbook. It's been a learn as you go process," he was waving that gun around like an idiot still, you were surprised he hadn't shot himself yet. "you know one minute i'm a small town news guy. And the next I can't even get into my own house. Because my foot won't go through the front door," and you watched his lips curl in irritation. "yo have to be invited in," he got another bullet out throwing it away from him. "I know. I live alone." You held your hand over your mouth containing your laughter. What a fucking idiot.
"Aw Heh. That sucks," he chuckled. "So now im at the ramada watchin' pay per view all day, eating everything in sight including housekeeping," he pressed the gun against his nose before standing and pacing again. "It could be worse," he turned towards you and his face broke your heart and you started looking around trying to figure out a way to help him. "All I can think about is blood and killing people. I can't stop killing people. I keep killing Heh heh. And I like it. I'm conflicted."
"Welcome to the club," he hissed. "Wait a minute cops only found 1 body."
"i left one I was tired," he raised his arms and shrugged. "But I've been hiding the rest of them. They're right back there," he pointed to a small gated area and you could see a persons leg hanging out of it. "You're kidding," Damon sighed looking over to the bodies.
"They're just piling up," his huge smile made you shiver. He paced around seeing like his brain was working a million miles a minute which you could relate. Until he sat across from Damon, "Why am I so overly emotional?" You found a a sledge hammer carefully picking it up. Moving behind them trying to be as quiet as possible. 'I can't stop thinking about my ex girlfriend I wanna be with her and bite her and stuff."
"Well you probably love her. Anything you felt before is only magnified now. You're gonna have to learn to control that," Damons eyes moved to you and widened slightly probably trying to tell you to stop. But you weren't just gonna let him hurt you. "What about walking in the sun? I'm a morning person. you can walk in the sun which if i might say is pretty cool. The council will never suspect you, that's not in the journals."
"the journals?" he squinted looking over at him.
"Yeah. the founding fathers they passed down journals to their kids. come on man you gotta tell me. How can you walk around in the sun?" He failed to realize he was giving Damon more then what Damon was giving him.
"Who turned you?" he through a question back. "How do you walk in the sun?" he asked again clearly loosing patience. "Who turned you?" Damon asked again.
"you know i've been real nice this far. But I will kill you," he put bluntly getting to his feet again pointing the gun back at D.
"Then you'll never know." You were waiting looking for the right opportunity to strike. Damon stood again probably getting most if not all of the bullets out keeping Logan's attention on him instead of you. "you haven't answered my questions."
"You first," Logan hissed. "Seems that we're at a bit of an impasse then, doesn't it?"
"i have things to do. People to kill. Guess I'll be needing a little bit of a head start," and he started shooting him again you broke the end of the handle of the hammer using the gunshots as cover as you shoved it through his abdomen. He gasped looking back at you before the gun fell out of his hand and he disappeared leaving nothing but an icy breeze in his wake. "OW," Damon grunted his breathing growing shallow. You quickly ran and sat at his side. "you're gonna have to take them out," he coughed and you saw blood cake his lips. "Sorry," and you started digging in his chest pulling out 4 more bullets. His groans painful to hear but at least you were helping him instead of hurting him. "Okay I think I got all of them," you looked over his body before offering him your wrist. "Drink, It'll help," He placed his hands on either side of your arm before looking at you one more time searching your face to make sure you were okay with this and you just simply nodded watching his face change the blackness growing in the veins under his eyes. You gritted your teeth at the sharp pain feeling his fangs sink into your skin. He let you go taking a deep breath laying back against the ground. "Thank you," you just leaned over kissing his forehead softly and took his head watching all the bullet holes slowly close. "Come on let's get you home," you offered him a hand and wrapped his arm around your neck helping him up and out of this nasty warehouse luckily their house wasn't that far.
You finally made it back helping Damon up the stairs. "Come to watch me get naked?" he said as you moved his arm off you and he started unbuttoning my shirt. "not like I haven't seen it before," you smirked walking over to the window a vision of him taken flashed in your mind and you couldn't help but pull your bottom lip in between your teeth at the thought. "Crap I forgot it was career night," you whispered checking your phone seeing that everyone was asking where you were. I guess no one told him. You turned back gulping when you saw he was now shirtless.
"Logan fell's a vampire. And when I find him again I'm gonna destroy him limb by limb," he hissed into the phone smirking in the mirror when he saw you were you didn't even hear the phone ring much less him pick it up. "What happened are you okay? Is Kaylee with you?" he turned back towards you and raised a brow. "Oh yes she is we were just getting reacquainted with our bodies," you jumped over the bed slapping his arm snatching the phone. "he's fine. We were ambushed but I hid before Logan could see me and saved him from dying. Which has been so rude not to thank me," you looked over as he was standing in his closet grabbing another black button up and slipping it on. "He was shot a lot, and now from his face I think he's vengeful and probably really wants to find him."
"Well there's no need he's here at the school," you could hear footsteps coming up behind him on his end. "you're kidding," And you looked back at him, "Why would he be there?"
"He's working the crowd."
"okay we'll be right there," hanging up and throwing Damon's phone back to him. "Duty calls might want to do your hero hair," you winked and walked out swinging your hips knowing he was following and you took one hand throwing yourself over the stair banisters and landing at the bottom of the stairs before standing and grinning at him. "Come on old man," you called heading for the door. He of course appeared in front of you. "You are not going. You need to stay here and get some sleep," you rolled your eyes, "I'd like to see you try and stop me," you smirked feeling your eyes turn completely golden. You knew if you stayed here alone trying to "sleep" it would just lead you to remembering more. Wallowing in your misery and for right now you just wanted to keep your mind and self busy.
Damon of course used his speed to get you guys there. Being careful that no one saw you. You saw your dad outside with your brother and jeremy in the parking lot across from you and you knew that was never good. "Go find Logan and be safe. You'll owe me if I have to save you twice in one day," you winked and ran over to your dad and brother.
"Ok. Let's get this out of your system. Go head fight," he pushed.
"You want us to what?"
"I'm not gonna fight him dad."
"I don't think so sir," And you saw Jeremy move to walk away but your dad stepped in front of him.
"you don't fight in there like pansies. You take it outside, fight your battles like men and move on. Best lesson my dad ever taught me. So lets settle it. Fight," he barked glaring at your brother. You were still kinda far away from them but luckily saw Ric coming out of the school walking towards them. "Come on dad."
"It's not gonna happen."
You brother went to walk past him but your dad grabbed him throwing him against Jeremy, "I said fight!"
"Whoa what's going on here?" Ric asked walking towards them. Your dad turned, "just letting two kids work it out. We're good here. Go back inside," he turned. It made you sick to see your own dad like this. Someone you were always so close with act this way towards your brother and your best friend. "I don't to go back inside. What I want is an answer to my question. Whats going on here?" he frowned asking again. Your dad turned back to him, "Who do you think you're talking too?" he questioned, god he was a cocky asshole. He cocked his head to the side, "Do I look like a student?"
"No. You look like a full grown alpha male douche bag," you finally made your way in-between Jeremy and Ty. You all couldn't help but quietly laugh as you watched your dad get called out. "you don't talk to me like that. I can have your job like this," he stepped towards Ric snapping his fingers together. Ric laughed which impressed you even more. Not that you needed convincing to like him. "Ahh. You do that. And then it'll be you and me in this parking lot working things out," he stepped towards him leaving maybe a foot between them. "You cool with that?"
"You just marked yourself," your dad growled and turned back to you guys freezing when he saw you. "Kaylee," he gulped and you watched him soften turning back into the man you knew or you thought he knew. "What the hell is wrong with you?" you shook your head following your brother inside. Alaric giving you a small smile as you walked past him and back into the school. You found everyone gathered in Ric's classroom. "What's going on?" you asked. "Logan took Caroline," Elena answered looking over at you.
"Jesus christ," you ran your hand through your hair sighing. "You look different," Elena commented looking you up and down. You searched the rest of the room finding Kyle and walked over to him. "Another story for another time. We need to get Car," you smiled at her. "Kaylee with me let's go," Damon said starting to walk out. "I'll see you later," you turned to Kyle and kissed him knowing he didn't trust Damon but you pecked his lips quickly before heading out with him. "Can you smell him?" he asked as you guys walked to the middle of the road. You closed your eyes breathing in deeply, "this way," you pointed and he went to wrap his arms around you, "i got it," you grinned looking at him seeing the neon yellow reflecting in his eyes. You turned back pushing off the pavement with every ounce of strength you had following Logan and Caroline's scent.
You knew you were getting closer when you could hear him talking, "What do you want?" You heard Liz.
"The satisfaction of turning your oldest daughter into a vampire. Then I'll come back and get pretty little Megan." Hearing her name ignited a wild fire of anger inside of you as you came to where his car was stopped in the road yanking off his car door and throwing him out and over to Damon. Damon threw him a couple feet away but Logan quickly recovered getting back to his feet when Stefan and Charlie appeared next to you. But Damon had grabbed Logans gun from the car unloading the whole clip of wooden bullets into him. "Paybacks a bitch isn't it?" Damon called as Logan fell to the ground. "Get her out of here," he looked to Stefan and he just nodded disappearing with Caroline. "Charlie go now," Damon ordered and she just looked between you guys before disappearing. "Logan? Logan! What happened?" Liz yelled through the phone that was laying face down on the pavement. "Sheriff it's Damon," he answered picking it up. "Where's Caroline?" You could tell from her voice she had been crying. "She's okay. I'm on Elm street," he said before snapping the phone in half. Moving to the back of the car and grabbing a tire iron, "i'm gonna try this one more time," he said looking down at him swinging the tire iron in his hand. "Who turned you?" he said walking closer to him which means you moved closer as well not wanting a rerun of earlier tonight. "I told you I don't know," he groaned fighting to get up but you knew he couldn't unless he at least got some of them out. "See this tire iron here could take your head clean off. Is that your final answer?" he asked taking a practice swing. "how could you side with them?" he questioned looking at him with the most disgusted look on his face.
'i don't side with anyone. You pissed me off. Could have hurt her," he gestured over to you. "I want you dead. Who turned you?" you stood there watching them and you felt your fingers begin to tingle. "Oh well you're screwed," D shrugged moving his arms back to swing. "Wait wait wait! I do know," he cried holding his hands up as some attempt to stop him. "you're lying," he hissed keeping his stance.
"You think you're the only one that wants to get in that tomb under the old church?" He asked on his knees like he was about to beg for mercy. He lowered the tire iron and got down in front of his face, "if you're lying to me right now I will end you," he hissed and you felt a slight pang of jealousy in your heart. Katherine was in that tomb. "I am not lying," he pointed to him "there's another way to break the curse I can help you."
You turned hearing sirens, "meet me at the old church," he looked back seeing the red and blue lights coming towards you guys. "take me down. Make it look real," and you glared at him but it was no use Damon swung and logan threw him against the back of his car disappearing into the woods as Liz got out of her car. "Where is she?" she walked over to him, "She's okay," he groaned against the back of the car. "My brothers taking her home," and she sighed in relief "Oh god," she whispered looking up at the stars. "i'm sorry sheriff," he got up holding his arm really playing the wounded victim card. "I just wasn't strong enough," he finally got out between the fake rapid breathing he was doing. She looked over at you, "Are you okay?" and the anger disappeared like smoke with the way she looked at you. "i'm fine. I saw the fight and I was just making sure everyone was okay," you played off and she just nodded hopefully that was enough to convince her. Your high was quickly wearing off. That's all it took huh? A promise of katherine and he was willing to once again put everyone in danger and spare some dumbasses life.
She offered you guys a ride back to the school and you both thanked her and walked inside. "You're quiet," he stated as you walked up the the double doors. "Well I mean you did just find out there may be another way to get your neurotic crazy ex out of a spelled shut tomb because 150 years ago our family hunted all of them down and put them under a church and set it on fire. You're gonna get your happily ever after just like you always wanted," you looked at him for just a moment before heading away from him in the opposite direction but he caught your wrist spinning you around so you were looking at him.
"That's what this is about? Katherine?" he asked he looked slightly hurt? You yanked your arm out of his grip. "It's the same old games with you Damon. You pretend. You would make an amazing actor. But that's all this is. We don't have a weird connection and we were together over 150 years ago. I'm not the same girl anymore so you need to let it go. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go find my boyfriend and friends. I give you my blessing if Katherine is still in there and is somehow alive after all this time then you two really deserve each other," you nodded feeling how much it hurt your heart to say those words. But it was true. No matter what you guys did it would never work. "Goodnight Damon," you turned and headed back down the hall. This time he didn't fight you or follow you he let you go. You wrapped your hand around your mouth trying to fight the tears begging to come out. You just wanted him. To love him. To show him he deserved to be loved. You found Kyle talking with someone from your science class but he excused himself and walked over to you, "Caroline?" he asked taking your hands. "She's okay. Stefan took her home," you sniffled nodding and he sighed in relief pulling you to his chest resting his head on top of yours. It was weird you knew you had feelings for him but it felt like no ones else could make you feel safer or settle your demons more than Damon's but he was hung up on Katherine. You were gone for a long time in 1863 that's more than enough time to fall in love with someone. You needed to let it go too. It wouldn't work. Not anymore. "She was shaken up. But all she knows is Logan attacked her. Nothing else," you said watching all the other students enjoy the career fair. Students with normal lives having no idea the weird supernatural stuff just under their noses. "Where's Logan?" he asked pulling you aside next to some of the senior lockers. "Damon's dealing with him," you could tell his name made Kyle tense maybe even jealous?
"As in.." he trailed off and you just looked down. "Are you okay?" he asked placing two hands on either side of your face making you look at him. "yeah I think i'm okay. The nightmares are absolutely awful. But other than that i'm adjusting," you shrugged again attempting to smile. "My mom can make you something to help with the nightmares i get them too," he wrapped an arm around your neck and you two started walking down the hallway. "So you spent the day with Damon?" he asked and you looked down the hall seeing him talking to Charlie both of their eyes looked up and found yours but you quickly looked away. "is someone jealous?" you asked walking back into the career fair since you never got to look at any of the booths. "Maybe a little. I was just worried about you. But i had to keep up appearances at school. I take a week off before full moons and train. It doesn't really make it easier but it at least get's my mind off it," he said and you glanced around appreciating all the brightly colored booths and brochures trying to ignore the pit in your stomach when you remember the full moon was at the end of next week, the first time you would turn. "Are you scared?" he asked and you glanced up at him, "honestly a little."
"About what?"
You shrugged, "I guess the pain I don't want to hurt anyone. And when I was helping Damon with Logan I felt this urge come over me like i wanted to just pin Logan down and rip his heart out," you attempted to whisper not wanting anyone to overhear and thing you're insane.
"It'll be okay i'll show you the ropes it get's easier over time I promise," he took your hand squeezing it slightly. Everything was gonna be okay. It had to be. You may have hurt someone, killed them actually. But you had great friends and an amazing boyfriend to get you through this. You weren't alone. At least for now.
