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Third person p.o.v
Caroline shot up from bed in the middle of the night. What the hell happened last night? Elena came by but said her name was Katherine. How was that even possible? Caroline didn't understand the feeling she felt. She felt a little on the edge, and stood up to see if there were anyone nearby. There were no one out in the hall except one nurse sitting at her station.
"Excuse me, where is everyone?" Caroline asked.
"It's the middle of the night, hun." The nurse said.
"It is? Oh, have you seen my mom?" She asked.
"She left after dinner with your boyfriend, and then your friend Elena stopped by." The nurse told her.
"She did? Yeah, she did but she told me her name was Katherine. Can I just get something to eat?" Caroline asked, feeling very hungry.
"Breakfast comes around 7."
"But I'm hungry." Caroline argued like a little girl.
"You should go back to sleep." Caroline turned around to walk back to her room when she smelt something weird.
"What is that smell?" She asked and by now, the nurse had grown tired of her questions.
"Back to bed!" She said before leaving Caroline behind. Caroline tried to get her sudden rush of emotions under control and that was when she noticed the smell across the hall. It was a blood bag and she felt as if it was calling for her. She walked towards it and was about to grab it when the nurse suddenly stood behind her.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"I don't know." Caroline said dumbfounded.
"You need to go back to bed." The nurse said and followed Caroline back to her room. What the nurse didn`t see, was that Caroline managed to take the blood bag and studied it. This is the smell that was calling for her and she really wanted it. Slowly she took it up to her mouth and started sucking on it. She felt disgusted and threw the bag away. She tried to ignore it but it called out for her again and before she knew it, she dove over the bag and drained it, even though she felt disgusted by it.
Caroline Forbes was now a vampire and she had no idea that she was.
Sarah's p.o.v
Jeremy woke me up the next morning. It was Friday and it was the day at for the carnival. Who was the idiot that arranged the Founder's Day parade on a Wednesday and then have the carnival a few days later, that I couldn't understand.
"Why are you waking me?" I asked my brother, pulling the cover back over my head.
"Well, it's Friday, and that means school." Jeremy said.
"Hah! I've already talked to the school. I'm not going back until Monday" I said triumphant.
"Yes, that may be true but the truck with your things just arrived and you have to help Elena set things up for the carnival tonight. I knew I'm screwed and tried my best to get up.
"It should be illegal to get up before 8 am you know!" I called after Jeremy. He only laughed at me and I walked into the bathroom. After a few minutes, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." I said and Jenna poked her head in.
"Good morning. I hope you`re not going to be angry at me but I sort of called the therapist's office to set up your first appointment. I figured that you had enough to think about, with John leaving town, and with you coming back and everything." Jenna ramble on.
"It's ok, Jenna thank you. When is my first appointment?" I asked as I combed my hair.
"They could get you in first thing Monday morning, so you should also go to school today to clarify your absence the first two hours of school." Jenna told me.
"Ok, thank you." I told her as I followed her downstairs. I told the truckers where they could put things. I decided I could use weekend to pack my stuff away. Now I needed to get to the school and Jenna let me use her car. I was kind of excited for this carnival thing. But I was always a sucker for cotton candy and merry go- rounds.
Third person p.o.v
Mason and Tyler were out jogging in the woods not long from the Lockwood mansion. The boys were having a pissing contest and started racing each other back to the house. If was fun for them both, and they needed to blow off steam. Especially after Tyler's outburst late last night, and Mason was the only one who could calm him down. They came back inside Tyler beat Mason only by a breath. They walked inside and took something to drink.
"What was that? Seven?" Tyler asked his uncle.
"More like six. I don't count the last one, and you crawled it." Mason was mocking Tyler.
"What?"
"I think Grandma Lockwood actually passed you with her walker." Mason chuckled.
"Yeah well. Shoes off, mud and my mom don't mix well." Tyler said and Mason did as he's told.
"So, all this anger and aggression you`re talking about. You notice the difference when you exercise?"
"Dude I play three varsity sports, I work out four times a week and run three. I would say no." Tyler told him.
"Have you had episodes? I mean, what happens exactly?" Mason asked.
"Starts out normal, and then I get angry over nothing. I`m an angry guy and I just emphasize and go off." Tyler explained.
"You black out?"
"Yeah. It's like I go blind with rage." Tyler said and hands Mason another bottle of water.
"Is there a pattern, like once a month only at night?"
"All I know, is that I lose myself and by that time I become something else." Mason felt bad for Tyler. He knew what he was going through but he didn`t say anything about it.
"Since we're talking and bonding and stuff. What's going on with you and my ex? I saw the way you were looking at her yesterday. I have to say dude. That's a little creepy." Tyler said and smirked at him.
"There's nothing to tell. I mean, it was good to see her again after all those years, and yeah, she is insanely beautiful. How you could let her out of her life." Mason looked lost in his own thoughts.
"Dude, you're acting whipped." Tyler said with a laugh.
"Stop it!" Mason said, and threw his towel after him.
"All I'm saying is that; Even though I have to admit that this is a little weird, I say go for it." Tyler said to Mason's surprise.
"I'll always care about Sarah, but the most important thing is for her to be happy and to have someone to turn to. Just don't hurt her, or I will have to kill you." Tyler said punching his shoulder. Mason laughed a little and thought about the gorgeous girl that is Sarah.
Sarah's p.o.v
I walked through the carnival in the search of my sister. I found her soon enough and she was talking to Bonnie.
"Hey!" I said and actually feeling a little happy, despite having witnessed that Damon tried killing Jeremy yesterday.
"Wow. You're in a good mood considering what happened yesterday." Elena said and I sighed.
"Well. I decided that I want to look forward. Jeremy is safe and alive and I couldn't be happier. Plus, I have my first therapy session on Monday so I think I can hold it together until then. So, what are we discussing?" I asked and looked to Bonnie.
"Katherine." She said and it made me shutter.
"No offence, Elena but she's even a bigger bitch than you." I told her and got a foul look from my sister.
"So not funny." Elena said hitting me in the head with her clipboard.
"Katherine looked just like you. It was freakish." Bonnie said and I nodded in agreement.
"Well, she is my ancestor. Hey, I moved the student booth to the cafeteria." Elena said not wanting to talk about Katherine.
"Your vampire ancestor and she didn't just resemble you like a family member. She was you."
"I don't know, I can't explain it ok, it's creepy. That`s all I got." Elena said handling some stuffed animals.
"How do you know she's not out there still pretending to be you?" I asked as I helped her with the stuffed animals.
"I don't know but I can sit here and be tortured by the not knowing, or I can get these prizes to ring toss." Elena said handing me some more animals.
"Well, have you talked to Damon since he killed Jeremy? Or tried to kill Jeremy." Bonnie asked and I cringed when she mentioned his name.
"No Bonnie I haven't. I don't want to talk about Damon or anything else vampire related, ok and neither will Sarah." Elena said firmly and for once, my sister and I, had an understanding.
"Copy that." Bonnie said trying to be funny.
"We're human, and we have to do human stuff otherwise we're going to go crazy." Elena stopped herself looking at me.
"Sorry. I wasn't thinking." She started and I wanted to get angry but I stopped myself.
"It's alright. I can take it." I said forcing myself not to be so touchy about everything she says and does.
"And I'm sorry too. Let's focus. We have to make Caroline proud. Or she will kill us. I don't know how she does this all the time." Bonnie said and it made me laugh. Sadly enough, it was the truth. You did not want to mess up something Caroline was passionate about.
"Well, that's because she's not human obviously." Elena said checking another item of her list, just like a true Forbes would do. Caroline would have been proud of her if she could have seen it. I ran inside to talk to the office about Monday and I have to say, I have not missed this at all.
After my talk with the office, I ran into Stefan and my little brother and Jeremy looked rather pissed off. Not that I blamed him. Stefan's brother actually snapped his neck yesterday. Stefan gave Jeremy a vial.
"It's the same stuff as the bracelet Elena gave you." Stefan said.
"To protect me from compulsion." Jeremy stated.
"Vervain is toxic to vampires."
"Like poison?" I asked curiously, as Stefan handed me my own vial.
"Yeah. It's very poisonous. It will keep them out of your head." Stefan told us.
"But why vervain?" Jeremy asked.
"I don't know. A certain natural herbs and roots and other elements are just harmful to vampires." Stefan explained.
"Like a stake to the heart?"
"Right, but it has to be wood."
"Aren't you confident with yourself to telling us all the ways to kill you." I said and Stefan started to laugh.
"If I thought that you were going to kill me, we would have a completely different conversation." Stefan said sternly.
"Well. Damon is the one that deserves it." Jeremy said and I latched onto his hand.
"I want you two to forget about Damon. He's much stronger than you and right now he's not stable. Try and move forward."
"I was killed by a vampire, and brought back to life by a magic ring but that's not the worst part. He killed me in front of my big sister who just got back from rehab after our parents died. How do you move on from that?" Jeremy said and I had never thought about how my reaction had affected him and I felt a warmth in my heart. Jeremy really loved me and even though he was the one to be killed, he still thought about me.
"Well, today we have a nice little distraction in the curtesy of Elena. Hi Elena!" Stefan managed to rope himself in before she could understand what he was talking about and I had to laugh a little.
"Hey. Ok, Jeremy." Elena started but Jeremy cut her off.
"Yeah, yeah. Set up the goldfish toss, sell 300 goldfish. It's going to be epic." Jeremy said sarcastically and walked away from us. I decided to follow him.
"Jeremy, wait." I said and took a hold of his arm.
"What now, Sarah?" Jeremy snapped at me. I tried to stay calm but he didn't make it easy. All I did was giving him a hug.
"Thank you. For being my brother and looking out for me." I whispered and I was glad that he hugged me back.
"I'll always be your little brother." He told me.
"So. Do you want to help me with the goldfish?" Jeremy asked me even though he knew how much I hated it.
"No, no. I'm not touching any stinking goldfish." I said, trying to get away.
"Relax Sarah. They're in a bag. They can't get you." Jeremy said and held up a bag. Just looking at the thing swimming around in the bag was creeping me out.
"Keep that away from me!" I warned and when Jeremy started to run after me with it, I ran through the crowd screaming. Elena watched us with a smile on her face. She thought it was good to see us like this. To see me smiling and coming back.
Third person p.o.v
Stefan came back to the boarding house and walked into the living room finding Damon pouring himself a bag of blood into a glass. When he noticed Stefan, he smirked at him.
"Would you care for one?" He asked.
"No, thank you. I'm not hungry, just ate." Stefan said.
"Are you worried that one day all the forest animals are going to band together and fight back? I mean, surely they talk." Damon said only to mock his little brother.
"I'm just happy that's a blood bag and not a sorority girl supplying your dinner." Stefan said but Damon could see straight through him.
"I like this. You, walking on eggshells around me because you think that I'm going to explode. Does Elena worry too?" He asked with a smirk.
"I bet I'm your every conversation." Damon said smugly.
"Have you heard from Katherine?" Stefan asked but Damon quickly dodged the question.
"I think the Lockwood's have a dirty secret. Because the Gilbert device affected them but vervain didn't so they're not vampires, they're something else."
"Is this your new obsession?" Stefan asked not so much convinced.
"Well, would you rather have some unknown supernatural element running ramp in our town? Fine I'll drop it." Damon said.
"We haven't seen the last of Katherine, you do know, that right? We have no idea what she's up too." Stefan said.
"Sure we do. She came back to profess her undying and eternal love for you. So, I'm going to let you deal with her because I have more important thing to do like explode." Damon said as he started to walk away from his brother.
"Are you sure about that? What about Sarah?" Stefan asked.
"What about her?"
"She tried to kill herself after her parents died, and she wasn't even in the car. You killed her brother right in front of her 24 hours after she's out of the facility she spent the last seven months of her life. Do you feel any remorse for that?" Stefan said before leaving his brother alone with his thoughts.
Sarah's p.o.v
After I'd been chased around the carnival by my brother, I got very tired and had to go home for a while. If I didn't, I would never have been able to help during the evening. Therefore, I picked Jenna up from the town square where she had met some friends from college to study and drove us home.
"Are you sure that you are ok?" Jenna asked me as we parked the car.
"Honestly, I don't know. I guess I`m just tried from everything. For the last seven months, I had a strict routine with a small group of people around me. A team of four people that I saw every day. All of that got ripped away just like that and I was thrown back into my old life and it's not the same. People just seems to forget that I have trouble with going back to normal." I said.
"You will get it back." Jenna reassured me.
"I don't know if I will, but the last thing my therapist said at my last lesson with him, was that I needed to do things at my own speed and not overdo stuff and take things gradually but being back here makes me forget. I think that everything can go back to normal because I want it to. I just have to have the patience for it to happen." I told my aunt.
"Your doctor sounds like a smart man." Jenna said with a smile.
"Yeah. He was my rock, and he really helped me and I have to say that his extremely good looks didn't hurt either." I said with a smirk.
"Did you have a crush on him?" Jenna nudged me in the side.
"No. I was just daydreaming a little. That's all." I told her but she didn't look convinced.
"Will you stay home now, or will you go out again?" I asked her as I sat down on the couch.
"Well. I was thinking that maybe we could make some food and watch a movie or something." Jenna suggested.
"Sounds good to me." I said, but when Jenna said making food, she meant ordering Chinese. There was no way Jenna or I could cook to save our lives. When the food arrived, we sat in the living room eating straight out of the boxes, trying to use chopsticks but we couldn't and food flew everywhere. It was so much fun and of course, we talked about boys.
"So. Elena told me that you're going out with the history teacher at school, the one that replaced Tanner. Alaric, was it?" I asked digging into my aunt life. I like it!
"Well yeah. We've been going out for a little while now. I really like him but it's hard you know, dating." Jenna sighed.
"Tell me about it. I can't even think about going out with Tyler again. That part of my life is over but the weirdest thing, it doesn't scare me." I said with a sigh.
"I should hope not." Jenna said loudly and I looked like a question mark.
"Oh, don't play dumb with me missy. I saw the way Mason looked at you yesterday."
"Aunt Jenna! He's like 10 years older than me and he's Tyler's uncle. That just nasty!" I went into defense mode. Sure, I liked him but I couldn't be attracted to him like that. It was too weird.
"Don't get your panties in a twist. All I'm saying is that if you think that it's something there worth pursuing, don't let it hold you back. Don't be afraid to fall in love again and I`m not talking about Mason in this scenario." Jenna said.
"I appreciate it Aunt Jenna but I just got back and it's too soon for me to even start dating. I'm too mentally unstable to do so." I told her.
"I know. What I'm saying is that you shouldn't begin to distance yourself from boys. Maybe they can help you more than you think." Jenna had a good point. I shouldn't be afraid but it was hard.
When the night came, Aunt Jenna drove me to the carnival. I wasn't exactly sure what I was supposed to do but I knew I didn't want to help at the fish toss. I saw Elena walking around with her clipboard. I walked up to her.
"Hey! I'm reporting to duty." I said like a military salute.
"Hey Sarah." Elena said with a sigh and just then, Bonnie joined us.
"The ring toss is out of Bart and Homer dolls and Team Jacob Tees." Bonnie informed us.
"Ok. I can grab some from the science class. Also, we lost a speaker in the karaoke booth." Elena informed us and she looked stressed.
"Hey. All good Elena. Take a breath, and look around. This is a huge success." Bonnie said with a smile and I agreed.
"You mean I can do more than reek vampire havoc?" Elena said sarcastically.
"Imagine that." I blurted out making the two other girls laugh.
"I'm sorry! Dr. Smith told me that I should try to speak my mind more." I said with a blush and that they noticed.
"Wait. Did you have a crush on your doctor in Denver?" Elena asked.
"What? No!" I argued halfheartedly.
"You so did." Bonnie said with a laugh.
"Anyways. How are you going to fix the speaker?" I tried to fixate all the focus off me and onto something else. Elena turned around and saw one of the workers.
"Hey, Carter, right? You're with the carnival?" Elena asked him.
"That would be me." Carter said and then he noticed Bonnie.
"Wow. What do you need beautiful?" He asked her and Bonnie completely melted.
"Ehm… what do you know about karaoke speakers?" She asked all ditzy.
"Why don't you just show me the problem?" Carter asked.
"Yeah Bonnie. Why don't you do that." I said rubbing it in. Bonnie blushed as she showed Carter the way and I couldn't help but laughing. That's what she gets for teasing me.
"So, what do you want me to do?" I asked Elena as I went through her list.
"No, no. No working for you today. You just got back and you need to enjoy yourself." Elena said and took the list away from me.
"Then what am I supposed to do?" I asked.
"Go, have fun. Try to live a little." Elena smiled at me and pushed me forward. I turned around to tell her to stop but she was already gone. Oh well. I can have fun.
I walked around not really knowing what to do but then I saw Damon talking to Jeremy. This was not good. When I saw Damon holding Jeremy in a death grip, I ran forward and tried to push Damon away.
"Damon, are you crazy? Let him go!" I told him and surprisingly, Damon did as he was told and he looked at me with a hint of regret.
"If you want to tell people what I really am, go ahead and try." Damon said to Jeremy and showed him his Gilbert ring.
"I will shove this ring so far up your ass, you really have something to choke on." Damon told him and threw the ring back at him.
"Leave now." I growled at him as I held on to my little brother. Damon only rolled his eyes and left us alone.
"Are you ok?" I asked Jeremy but he ripped himself out of my grip.
"I'm fine." He snapped at me and walked away from me.
"Jeremy, wait!" I said but he didn't listen. I face palmed myself.
"My life can't get more complicated than it already is." I muttered under my breath.
"And what does the prettiest girl at the carnival alone?" I jumped at the voice behind me. I turned around and looked straight at Mason.
"Hey." I said with a blush.
"I just had a little trouble with Jeremy." I said and looked back to the place where he disappeared.
"Would you like me to keep you company?" He asked me and I couldn't think of a reason why he shouldn't.
"Yeah, ok." I said and walked with him through the carnival. It was actually nice to spend some time with him.
"So. How is it to be home?" He asked me as we walked over to the ring toss.
"Well, it's different. Nothing is what it used to be. Everything has changed, or maybe it's me that changed." I said with a sigh.
"You know what they say." Mason said and picked up a few rings.
"What?" I asked.
"Sometimes, change is good." He told me with a smile that could make flies drop, and I felt myself more and more drawn to him. Mason threw his first ring and won. He won himself a cute unicorn horse, all fluffy and pink.
"Aw, I must say Mason. A fluffy unicorn really suits your personality." I said as I patted him on the back. Mason gave it to me.
"Here. Every girl should have the experience of getting her first stuffed animal at the carnival." Mason told me with a grin.
"Well thank you, kind sir." I said with a smile and accepted the stuffed animal. Our hands brushed up against each other, and it made me gasp. I've never felt that before.
Mason and I walked around together and it felt nice to have someone to talk too. Mason bought me cotton candy as well. He was being a real gentleman. It was so good and I felt like I was in heaven.
"You really are an animal when it comes to sugar." Mason said with a laugh.
"I can't help it, cotton candy is like the best thing ever invented." I said with all seriousness.
"I can see that." Mason said as he used his thumb to wipe away some candy that had been stuck on my lip. My heart rate picked up and I wanted something to happen and we started to lean in for a kiss, but Tyler interrupted us.
"Hey! I'm going over to the arm wrestling booth. Do you want to come?" Tyler asked us and we joined him.
"This should be fun. Tyler hate losing." I said with a laugh. Mason and I watched as Tyler won round after round against his teammates and he was getting cocky.
"I think it's about time Tyler was brought down a couple of notches." I said looking up at Mason trying to hint that he should give it a go.
"You think? Well, maybe we should do something about that." Mason said with a grin and walked up to Tyler.
"I bet I can take you." Mason told Tyler.
"Ah, so you're showing off to my ex-girlfriend. Classic move. Bring it on." Tyler said with a grin. Mason won over Tyler as if it was nothing.
"Ok, he's a champ. Who wants to go next?" Tyler asked.
"Stefan would like to have a go." Damon said suddenly, standing right behind me.
"Yeah sure, I'll give it a go." Stefan said and walked up to the table. I turned towards Damon.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I asked quietly. "Stefan could seriously hurt him!"
"Relax, Stefan won't hurt your boyfriend over there. We're just testing something out." Damon said.
"Like what?" I asked. As on cue, Stefan lost to Mason and I knew that he lost on purpose.
"You didn't put in any effort at all." Damon spats at his brother.
"Yeah I did." Stefan said and that surprised me.
"Come with me." Damon said and left me behind. I wanted to follow them because I wanted to know more about what was happening, but before I could follow them, Mason walked up to me.
"What did you think about that?" He asked me. "Well, it did show that you're a man. So, tell me; do you find the need to crush teenagers?" I mocked him.
"Haha. You're a funny one aren't you?" He said as he put his arm around my shoulder. Then of course, Elena called me.
"And what do you want little sister?"
"Hey. I need to talk to you. Could you come and meet me in the history classroom right now?"
"Well sure I can."
Elena hung up the phone and I looked up at Mason.
"I'm sorry. Elena needs me. Catch up later?" I asked.
"Yeah sure." Mason said quickly but he looked disappointed. He gave me a kiss on my cheek and it made me blush.
I left him and walked back into the school, thinking about what he made me feel. I remember quite well where this history classroom where. I spent three years torturing Tanner in that room. Ah the memories.
"Glad you could join us." Damon said sarcastically when I finally reach the classroom.
"Shut up Damon." I spat back.
"Why was it so important that I had to meet you here?" I asked my sister.
"Well, I'm here to inform you that blondie Barbie is now a vampire." Damon said.
"Wait, what? Caroline?" I asked in a high voice. Damon ignored me.
"How did this happen?" Stefan asked.
"Well I fed her blood, Katherine obviously killed her. A+B equals?"
"But why?" Elena and I asked at the same time.
"Because Katherine is a manipulative nasty little slut." Damon told us and I wanted to slap the living crap out of him for some odd reason.
"And she said game on? What does that even mean?" Stefan tried to understand.
"It means that she's playing dirty and she wants us to know."
"But why Caroline?" Elena asked again.
"Caroline must be going out of her mind, she doesn't know what the hell is happening to her.
"I think she does. All my compulsions from the past started wearing off in the minute she was in transition." Damon told us.
"We have to find her." Stefan stated.
"Yep and kill her." That didn't sit well with me.
"Absolutely not! If you do, oh so help me God!" I warned him.
"And what are you going to do about it, little girl?" Damon asked me and walked closer to me, making Elena and Stefan even more nervous. I didn't have the time to get scared, because I was fuming with anger.
"What was it that you said earlier to Jeremy? Oh yeah, it was something like this; I'll shove a stake so far up your ass, you'll really have something to choke about." I told him before walking away from them in a fit of anger. I had to find Caroline before Damon did. I couldn't let him kill my best friend.
Third person p.o.v
Tyler was walking to the parking lot leaving the carnival. Mason was busy with Sarah and he didn't see the reason to stay behind anymore. Suddenly someone just bumped into him.
"Watch where you're going." Tyler told him and by him, it was Carter.
"You got a problem?" Carter asked.
"Yeah, you walked right into me."
"What are you going to do about it?"
"You're kidding, right?" Tyler asked him and without warning, Carter shoved Tyler hard.
"You better back off. You hit me again, I swear to god." Tyler warned but Carter kept on attacking him, and that was when Tyler lost it. Before it could get ugly, Mason appeared out of nowhere and broke them apart.
"What the hell man?!" Mason said keeping Carter at a distance, but then he attacked Mason instead and he stumbled over a car. That got Mason angry and he leaped forward jumping over Carter whilst his eyes flashed gold.
"Your eyes." Tyler said dumbfounded. Mason turned around and punched Carter to the ground.
"Let's go." Mason said and helped Tyler out of there.
When they arrived back at the Lockwood mansion, Tyler broke the silence.
"Ok, now we're home, safe territory. Enough with the silence." Tyler argued.
"I told you to leave it alone." Mason said and walked away from him.
"What was that move you pulled?"
"Brazilian martial arts. I took some classes a while back." Mason told him.
"Don't lie to me." Tyler said.
"I`m not lying." Tyler argued back.
"I saw something." Mason walked back to Tyler.
"You didn't see anything."
"I saw your eyes. They glowed." Tyler stated.
"Reflection of a car light maybe, I don't know."
"Do you really expect me to believe that?"
"You want to know what I saw. You saw me get pissed off because I had to pull your ass out of a fight." Mason told Tyler and that made Tyler walk away.
"You know, it's one thing to not tell me the truth, but if you ever lie or hurt Sarah, things will not end well for you." Tyler told him, giving his uncle something to think about.
Sarah's p.o.v
I walked around wondering where Caroline could be, and I didn't know if she was still here. I heard some faint screaming in the distance and followed the sound. I started to run and when I came around the corner, I was horrified. Caroline was killing that guy Carter. Before I knew what, I was doing, I ran towards her.
"Caroline! Stop!" I yelled, but Carter was already dead and Caroline was freaking out.
"Oh my god! I can't believe I did that." Caroline said, trying desperately to get the blood of her clothes, hands, and face.
"Caroline, it's ok. Everything will be ok. I promise." I did the dumb move of touching her. She looked at me as veins appeared on her face, and her eyes turned red.
"I'm so sorry, Sarah, but I'm still so hungry." She told me ,and before I could run away, she shot forward and buried her fangs in my neck, making me scream in pain. It was the worst feeling I've ever felt. Cutting my wrists can't remotely compare to the pain I felt now. I thought I was going to die now.
Caroline jumped away from me like something burned her, and then I remembered I've been drinking vervain. Thank you, Stefan.
"I'm so sorry, Sarah. I didn't mean to hurt you." Caroline sobbed.
"I know Caroline. I know." I tried to ignore the throbbing pain I felt in my neck, because I knew I couldn't leave her like this. Since Caroline now couldn't drink my blood, I could comfort her the best I could and kept my arms around her. Not long after, Damon came towards us. When he saw how I looked, he rushed over to me.
"Are you ok?" He asked looking at my wounds, touching my cheek, checking me all over to see it I had other injuries. Why did he suddenly care?
"Like you care." I snapped.
"But yes, I'm ok." I said. Damon turned towards Caroline.
"He's dead. I killed him. What's wrong with me?" She asked on the verge of breakdown.
"Hey. It's ok. I can help you." Damon said and I knew that something was up. Damon didn't strike me as a guy to just help people. Not when he said he wanted to kill her earlier on.
"You can?" Caroline asked through her tears.
"I have too."
"What are you going to do?" She asked him.
"The only thing I can do." Damon answered. "I`m going to kill you."
"Damon!" I said but he didn't even listen.
"Please don't! I don't want to die." Caroline sobbed.
"But you're already dead." Damon told her but Caroline refused to believe it.
"NO, I'm not. Don't say that, ok. Just help me." Caroline was freaking out again. Damon hugged her and for a moment, I thought he was actually going to help her through this, but that was before I saw him raising the stake.
"Damon, don't!" I screamed, and in the same second, Stefan came and forced the stake out of Damon's hand.
"Stefan!" Damon exclaimed. Elena came running but Caroline was terrified.
"Stay away from me. You killed me!" Caroline yelled at Elena.
"No, Caroline, that was Katherine." Elena tried to explain.
"No, then why did she look like you? and why did she do this to me?" Caroline asked hysterically.
"Stefan, we need to get her inside." Elena said and Stefan walked over to them.
"Come on Caroline, come with me." Stefan said and took her hand.
"She will die it's only a matter of time." Damon shot it.
"Yeah, well that time isn't right now." Stefan said and tried to leave with Caroline.
"Yes, it is." Damon said and lunged for her. Before I knew what I was doing, I stood in front of everyone, the stake nearly piercing my skin and that made Damon stop. He had this wild look in his eyes, as if he couldn't believe that he was inches away from killing me. My heart was beating so fast, I thought it would burst out of my chest.
"Damon, she's my friend. She's Elena`s friend." I said without hesitation.
"Whatever happens it's on you." Damon said to his brother, and to me.
Elena finally noticed the puncture wounds on my neck.
"Oh my god! Are you ok?" She asked looking at my wounds, making me groan in pain.
"Yes, I'm fine. It was an accident." I tried to make excuses for what happened.
"Caroline?" Bonnie came forwards.
"No, you're not. You can't be." Bonnie said as she touched her, and the looked at me. Caroline felt as if she had betrayed her. Elena made Stefan take Caroline out of there and stayed behind with me.
Elena found a first aid kit and helped my clean the wounds. Bonnie was a mess and she was crying. Why would she be crying? Nothing happened to her. Elena didn't speak or say anything, just tried her best to help me. It felt weird, because I didn't trust her. Hell, I didn't even like her.
"I can't believe this is happening." Bonnie said as she paced back and forth.
"Don't pout about it. We got a body to bury." Damon said as he returned with a shovel.
"Unless you're calling the shots." He told Elena and me. We only scolded at him.
"Sucks to be you, buddy." Damon said and suddenly he crumbled in pain. It was Bonnie who did it to him."
"I told you what would happen if someone else got hurt." Bonnie said dangerously.
"I didn't do this." Damon managed to get out.
"Bonnie, it wasn't his fault." Elena tried to say.
"Everything that happens is his fault Elena." Bonnie said as gasoline slowly crept towards Damon.
"Bonnie, what are you doing?" I asked worriedly and then fire appeared.
"Bonnie stop it!" Elena tried to say, but she didn't listen. Damon caught fire and screamed in pain.
"Bonnie stop it, you're killing him." I ran through the flames and pushed her to make her fall down, so she broke the connection.
"Why did you stop me?" She asked screaming, getting up and in my face. I've never seen her like this before.
"Because this isn't us. This can't be us." I said and Bonnie broke down, running towards Elena instead. The girls walked off, but I didn't follow. I looked back at Damon who slowly got up.
"I hope you're happy with yourself." I said crossing my arms. Damon didn't answer me and just walked up to me cutting his wrist open.
"What are you doing?" I asked alarmed, taking a step back.
"Healing you." He answered, and before I could say anything, he shoved his wrist into my mouth. I didn't have any other choice than to swallow it and at first, it tasted like hell, but then it kinda grew on me, and I held onto his hand, making him gasp. Damon grabbed me and brought me closer to him, pressing my back into him. His breath hit my neck, making me shiver a little, and surprisingly, turned me on a little.
It didn't take long before I could feel my neck healing and Damon let me go. I touched my neck and the wound was gone. I looked up at Damon.
"Thank you." I said, seeing the confused look in Damon's eyes. It was filled with lust, and then sadness, and anger.
"You saved me, and now I saved you. Don't think for a second that I care." Damon told me and left me standing all by myself and all I wanted to do was crying. He was so confusing.
Third Person p.o.v
Carol and Mason walked together through the house talking.
"I think it's good for Tyler to have you around here Mason." Carol said, glad that her brother-in-law was back in town for a while.
"I appreciate that Carol." Mason told her.
"Oh, and I can see if I can dig up that stone that you were looking for. It's bound to be tucked away between Richards old things." Carol said with a smile before walking up the stairs. Tyler joined Mason in the hall.
"Hey man, are you heading out?" He asked him.
"In a minute. Good night mom."
"Night Tyler." Carol said and disappeared. Mason looked at Tyler.
"Hey I'm sorry about earlier, are we all good?" Mason asked his nephew.
"Yeah, we're good." Tyler said. Mason touched Tyler's shoulder and walked towards the living room, when his phone started ringing. He had to smile when he saw whom it was.
"Hello?"
"Hey, I'm sorry I just ran off today. Family drama."
"That's ok. I had some family drama of my own to take care of. Are you ok?"
"Not really. I was just wondering if the offer for coffee and a talk still stands."
"Of course, it does. I can pick you up at home in ten."
"Ok, thank you. Bye."
When he hung up the phone, he sensed that she was having a very bad night and it made him feel angry and sad. All he wanted, was for her to be safe. Mason picked up his keys and headed out the door. Sarah needed him and he sure as hell were going to be there for her.
Sarah's p.o.v
How I got home by myself, I don't know. I ignored every call I got from Elena and Jeremy. Jenna was occupied in the kitchen so I just walked upstairs to change. When I looked in the mirror, I looked horrible. I had blood all over my neck and clothes. I tore the clothes off and threw them away before taking a shower and scrubbing myself almost sore. When I finally felt clean, I took on a new set of clothes and picked my phone up and dialed someone's number.
"Hello?"
"Hey, I'm sorry I just ran off today. Family drama."
"That's ok. I had some family drama of my own to take care of. Are you ok?"
"Not really. I was just wondering if the offer for coffee and a talk still stands."
"Of course, it does. I can pick you up at home in ten."
"Ok, thank you. Bye."
I hung up the phone and walked downstairs trying not to show that I was on the verge of tears.
Jenna had company from Ric and they seemed like they had a good time with each other.
I practically ran down the stairs, heading for the door, not wanting to talk to them.
"Sarah, where are you going?" Jenna called after me as I opened the door.
"Just out." I snapped at her, not feeling up to answer to her right now. Sure, we had a good moment before, but that moment was gone now. I still hadn't forgiven her for before. I ignored her calling my name, as I walked outside to wait for Mason.
Exactly ten minutes later, Mason's truck stopped down by the road. I wrapped my jacket closer to my body, and walked towards the car. I opened the door and jumped in.
"Hey." Mason said quietly. Eying my every move.
"Hey." I said and closed the door. Mason only looked at me, and could tell that I had a rough evening. He reached over to stroke my back, and I just broke down completely.
"Hey. Come here." He said and wrapped his strong arms around me. He easily pulled me onto his lap, and I buried myself into him and just cried. It felt good to just let everything go and I felt safe in his arms, and he smelled so good.
"Everything will be ok." He whispered in my ear, stroking my hair and my back. I really wanted to hope for that but right now, I couldn't see it even though I wanted too.
Mason let me sit there for as long as I needed, without even moving. I took a deep breath, before I sat back a little, looking into his gorgeous eyes. He smiled at me, wiping my tears away from my cheeks.
"Let's get you that coffee." Mason said and I nodded, jumping back into my seat, as Mason drove his car down the road.
"Do you want to tell me what happened tonight?" Mason asked as we sat on the hood of his car drinking coffee in the parking lot outside the Grill.
"It's a really long story and I don't know where to start or how to tell it." I said truthfully. I knew I couldn't tell him the whole truth.
"Why don't you start from the beginning and we'll see how far we can go." Mason told me, and brought me closer to him.
I put my head on his shoulder and started to tell him what happened in the best way that I could.
What did you think? I liked it and I like Mason together with Sarah. Some of you wants Sarah with Elijah, some with Damon, Klaus or someone from the scooby gang. All I can say is that you really gave me a few good ideas and I know more on how I will go on with the story :)
I also have to say that I think Damon is treating Sarah rather poorly in this chapter. He`s not being very nice to her and keeping his distance. Maybe there`s something behind it? Who knows?
Until next time xD
*cathrineoriginal*
*kineret: Thank you for your pointers. I know it seems as if Sarah is too forgiving. But she's like a roller coaster, she hasn't forgiven Elena just yet.
*strgzr1980: That's okay that you don't remember the last one, then it makes it easier to change the story. You won't have to wait too long to figure out who he is ;)
*ILOVETMI: thank you so much! It means a lot to me.
*Liliya: Thank you so much! I wanted to re-write a few chapters, before posting them, but here's the next one!
*Marina: Like I've said before, I will keep some things, and some things will change. You'll just have to wait and see. ;)