Chapter Five

Rebecca couldn't believe she was doing this; she was having sex on a desk. Or . . . she was about to. Damon had led her to the nearest classroom and had locked the door behind her. Then he'd led her back toward the desk that the teacher would sit behind during the day.

Rebecca grabbed his shirt and pulled her to him, tugging his lips to hers. Damon's tongue forced her lips apart and she gasped.

Her butt hit the desk and she brought her legs up to wrap them around him and he let his hands wonder over her bottom

Damon unzipped his jeans and then he slid his hand under her dress. He stopped when he reached the apex of her thighs. He groaned against her lips because she wasn't wearing any panties.

She giggled and nipped at his chin.

Damon put his finger through one of the holes in the fishnet pantyhose and pulled, tearing them at the seams. He watched her face flush and her eyes widen.

Damon knelt down in front of her and he watched her mouth drop open into a surprised oh. She began to squirm, so he grabbed her hips to hold her still. He pushed her dress up and spread her legs wide so he could move closer.

It wasn't until they had both climaxed that Damon realized where they were. There was a chalk board, maps, and pictures of presidents on the walls. They were in Alaric Saltzman's classroom. They'd had sex in Alaric Saltzman's classroom.

He chuckled because he knew that if Rebecca got her senses back she'd been so embarrassed about it because she knew Alaric.

"So . . . where'd you learn to dance like that?" Damon asked, regaining control of his limbs enough to withdraw from her and tuck himself back into his jeans.

"Caroline actually hired someone, and when I saw this routine they had come up with I knew it would make you crazy so I did it. I learned it."

Damon helped her situate her clothing and saw her look around the room. Her eyes went wide and then she giggled, flushing red.

"We're in Ric's classroom." She glared playfully at Damon. "Did you know we were in his classroom?"

"Not until a few minutes ago," he admitted. "But, honestly, I didn't care enough to say anything."

Rebecca really didn't care either; she just wanted to make sure there were no tell-tale signs in the classroom for Ric to pick up on. But sadly there were. There were papers on the floor that had previously been on the desk; the desk had finger indents on it; the room reeked of sex, but Ric wouldn't be able to smell that because he was human.

"Help me clean up, Damon."

Rebecca began picking up the papers on the floor and Damon looked for some tissues that would clean off Ric's desk – there was sweat there.

Damon found the tissues under the desk and went to work.

After Rebecca and Damon were decent they decided they should go enjoy the rest of the carnival. Damon stayed close to Rebecca because if any vampires were around they'd be able to smell her arousal – unfiltered, thanks to the no-panties that Rebecca was sporting – and it would probably excite the predator part of them. He wouldn't leave her side until she was clean again.

Damon heard footsteps behind him and turned to see that Caroline had suddenly appeared.

"Oh, hey, Blondie," he said for once okay with being in her presence. It probably had to do with the recent orgasm he'd had. "They let you out?"

Rebecca grabbed Damon's arm because something was off with her blond friend. Caroline was pale and her makeup was darker than Rebecca was used to seeing on her.

"I remember," Caroline said.

"What do you remember?" Damon asked tiredly.

"I remember how you manipulated me," Caroline said, moving forward. "You pushed me around. Abused me. Erased my memories. Fed on me."

"You're crazy," Damon said.

"Well, the memories had been coming back. In pieces."

Oh, no, Rebecca thought. Caroline wouldn't be remembering unless . . .

"You can't remember. That's impossible," Damon said. "I mean, unless you're becoming a . . ."

Caroline smiled softly. "I have a message from Katherine."

Katherine! Rebecca groaned mentally. Katherine had gotten to Caroline while Damon's blood had been in her system. Because Rebecca hadn't killed Katherine when she could've Caroline was now a vampire.

"She said game on."

Caroline began to walk away and Damon grabbed her arm. Caroline shoved Damon halfway down the hall and, because she hadn't expected it, Rebecca was knocked down too.

"You suck," Caroline said to Damon and then walked away.

Rebecca got up faster than Damon did because she hadn't been thrown like Damon had.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"No, I'm not okay. Barbie's a vampire. We're in trouble."

Rebecca had called Elena while she let Damon call Stefan.

"Elena . . ."

"What's up, Becca?"

"I need to talk to you."

"Oh, no. More drama. I can tell by your voice. Whatever it is, I'm not interested," Elena said.

"I need to talk to you right now, Elena. Meet me in Alaric's classroom. Damon and Stefan will be there too."

Stefan had been keeping an eye out for Carter, the guy Damon had compelled to pick a fight with Tyler, and nothing had happened until now.

Carter had shoved Tyler in the parking lot and Tyler had gotten angry like Damon had said he would.

"Watch where you're going."

"You got a problem?" Carter asked.

"Yeah, you walked right into me."

"What're you gonna do about it?"

"You're kidding, right?"

Stefan watched Carter shove Tyler again, and Stefan had to admit Tyler was trying to keep his cool.

"You better back off," Tyler told the guy, but Carter just kept on coming – Damon's compulsion.

"You hit me again, I swear -" Tyler started but was interrupted by Carter punching him in the face.

Tyler reacted, but Mason, the mystery uncle, intervened.

"Hey! Tyler! Hey! Get back!"

Mason pushed Carter away from Tyler and yelled, "What the hell, man?"

Carter even tried to take out Mason by shoving him and punching him, which knocked Mason to the ground, but Mason was okay.

Carter, who had gotten hold of Tyler again, and threw Tyler to the ground. Mason jumped over Carter to get between the two teens and Stefan heard Tyler mutter, "Your eyes!"

Stefan focused his vision on the older Lockwood. Mason's eyes were yellow and they had an animalistic glow to them. He was definitely not human, that was for sure. Damon had been right to check this out.

Stefan watched as Mason hit Carter and knocked him out. Mason helped Tyler up from the ground and the two Lockwoods left.

Carter began to rise and Stefan went to him to make sure he was okay.

"Why did I just do that?" Carter asked, confused.

"You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time," Stefan said, thankful no one had been seriously hurt.

After Stefan was sure Carter was okay he checked his phone and saw that he had three missed calls and a couple texts; they were all from Damon.

Something was wrong.

Damon and Rebecca were in Ric's classroom waiting for Stefan and Elena. Rebecca didn't even want to see Elena's reaction. If Elena reacted like Rebecca thought she would, it wouldn't be pretty.

"I should've followed Caroline. I . . . she could hurt someone. And she's probably starving."

When Stefan showed up Rebecca noticed that he stopped right at the doorway and looked around tensely. He was breathing heavily. Damon was watching him closely, and moved closer to Rebecca.

Stefan looked closely at Rebecca, more intense than she'd ever seen him focus on her except for the time he'd killed her. This was not a good look. This was a very bad look.

"Damon . . ." she barely whispered. "What's he doing?"

Damon stepped in front of her so Stefan wouldn't be able to see the source of his sudden tension. Damon knew this would blow over quickly. The suddenness of the smell of sex had just gotten to Stefan because the classroom door had been closed and when Stefan had opened the door he'd gotten a big whiff of it. Not to mention, Stefan probably hadn't expected to smell sex in a classroom.

Stefan took a few deep breaths and was then fine. When Elena got there Damon and Rebecca explained what had happened and the brunette grew silent.

"How did this happen?" Stefan asked. "Hm?"

"Well, I fed her blood and Katherine obviously killed her," Damon said. "A plus B equals . . ."

"But why?" Elena asked.

"Because Katherine is a manipulative, nasty little slut," Damon said simply.

"And she said, "Game on"?" Stefan asked. "I mean, what does that even mean?"

"It means she's playing dirty. She wants us to know."

"Well, then we should play dirty right back," Rebecca said. "We need to stop her. She'll kill everybody in this town if we don't do something."

"Why Caroline?" Elena asked.

Damon sighed. "I don't know."

"Caroline must be completely out of her mind," Stefan said. "She has no idea what's happening."

"Oh, I think she does. All of my compulsion from the past started wearing off the minute she was in transition."

"We have to find her."

"Yep," Damon agreed. "And kill her."

"What?" Rebecca said as Elena said, "You're not gonna kill Caroline."

"She knows who we are. She's officially a liability. We've gotta get rid of her."

"Damon. Absolutely not," Stefan said.

"Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan? Yeah. Caroline of all people will not make it as a vampire. I mean, her mother is a vampire hunter."

"And you're girlfriend is a Vampire Slayer! I'm doing okay."

Damon looked at her and sympathy pooled his features.

"Becca, come on. We all know how this story ends. So let's just flip to the last chapter and-"

"It's not an option, Damon," Elena declared.

"No?"

Stefan sighed and shook his head but didn't say anything.

"Your silence is deafening, Stefan," Damon said. "Wait, wasn't there a school event the night you staked Vicki? Talk about a town where history repeats itself."

"Damon . . ." Rebecca said. "We can't just -"

"You know I'm right."

"No, I don't. My dad works for the council and I'm a vampire. Caroline could . . . figure things out. We don't have to kill her. She's my friend. I can't kill her."

"It's the only way."

"No. I can help her. Teach her like you're teaching me. Killing her without giving her a chance is wrong. We just need to find her. We have more of a chance if we split up. I'm gonna call Matt and ask if he's seen her. Elena, try Care's cell; Stefan, try and track her. Damon, I understand if you don't agree with what I'm doing, and I also understand if that means you won't help."

Damon crossed his arms over his chest and pursed his lips. He was trying to look out for them; didn't they understand that? Caroline Forbes was a liability now. She could cause so many problems for them just because of the simple fact that she now knew what they were.

"We're not gonna kill her," Stefan said firmly. "Rebecca's right. We can find her, help her."

Damon watched Rebecca and Elena take out their cell phones and Stefan walk out the door. Elena quickly followed him.

Damon heard when Matt answered and then Rebecca said, "Hey, Matt. Have you heard anything from Caroline? I know she's around. I just can't seem to get in touch with her."

"Yeah, she's around. I saw her earlier, but she told me to leave her alone. She's obviously pissed at me for something. But for what? No clue."

"Well, what happened?" Rebecca asked.

"She freaked out and she's been like that all day. Cool one minute, and crazy and neurotic the next. I'm used to the insecurities and all that. It's who she is, love it or hate it. But this seemed . . . I don't know, different. More. I – I can't explain it."

"It's okay, Matt. You don't have to. I mean . . . I get it. She's . . . she almost died. It probably messed with her head."

"Yeah, I guess."

Rebecca who had been pacing back and forth, turned to look at Damon, but he was no longer there.

"Uh, Matt. I have to go. If you see Caroline, tell her I need to talk to her."

"Got it."

Rebecca hung up and raced out of the classroom. She knew where Damon was. He would've gone after Caroline even though he knew Rebecca didn't want Caroline dead.

Damon had left Rebecca to her conversation and was now on his way to wherever Caroline's scent was leading him. He picked up a small wooden spike on the way. He now had the weapon he would use to kill Caroline Forbes. It was a good thing, too, because Damon came across a bloody-faced Caroline not too long after he'd picked up the stake. There she was, crying, with a dead man behind her. His neck had been ravaged. Damon noticed that the man was the same one he'd compelled to fight with Tyler.

"He's dead," Caroline said. "I killed him. What's wrong with me?"

Caroline started sobbing and Damon placed a hand on her back.

"Hey. Hey. It's okay. I can help you."

"You can?" Caroline asked, hope filling her voice.

"Yeah. I have to."

"What're you gonna do?" Caroline asked, sounding like she already knew the answer.

"The only thing I can do." Damon caressed her head gently and said softly, "I'm gonna kill you."

Caroline didn't say anything for a few seconds, but then she faced him. "Please don't. I don't wanna die."

"Yeah, but you're already dead."

"No, I'm not. Don't say that, okay? Just help me."

"Okay." Damon gentled his voice and wrapped Caroline in a semi-friendly embrace. "It's gonna be okay."

Damon slowly brought the stake up so he could stab her through the back, but then someone grabbed his arm and shoved the stake out of his hand.

It was his brother.

"Stefan!" he growled.

Elena had shown up with Stefan, and Caroline was freaking out.

"Get away from me! You killed me!"

"No, Caroline! That wasn't me. You know that. That was Katherine."

"No, then why does she look like you? And why? Why did she do this to me?"

"Stefan, we've gotta get her inside," Elena said.

Stefan nodded. "Alright. Caroline, come with me."

"She will die," Damon said. "It's only a matter of time."

"Maybe so. But it's not gonna happen tonight."

Rebecca had been looking for Caroline when she heard voices. Damon, Caroline, Stefan, and Elena were arguing.

She raced to where the voices were coming from and saw that Stefan was leading Caroline away.

Rebecca almost stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Carter dead on the back of a wagon. She could smell the blood and she had to fight to control herself so her vampire face wouldn't surface.

But suddenly Rebecca didn't care about Carter or anything else except for the fact that Damon was going after Caroline with a stake. Without a thought for her own safety, she rushed toward Damon and Caroline and put herself in front of the blond.

"Damon, no!" she exclaimed and then doubled over in pain. Damon had stabbed her! He hadn't been able to stop fast enough and had stabbed her right in the chest.

"Becca!" Damon exclaimed, letting go of the wood. "Oh, no! Why did you do that?"

Damon watched in horror as blood spilled from Rebecca's chest. He could've killed her. Why had she gotten in the way? He'd had this under control; she should've stayed out of it.

Rebecca hit her knees and Damon quickly followed her to the ground. He blocked out the noise that Elena and Caroline were making because they didn't matter anymore, not even Blondie. All that mattered was Rebecca and the stake in her chest. The stake that he had put there.

"Rebecca, don't move. I'll pull this out and you'll be fine."

He could have killed her. A few more inches down and he would've hit her heart and she would've died. And he would've been the cause.

Damon noticed that Bonnie had shown up and was in denial about Caroline even though Caroline's new vampire state was obvious. Bonnie wasn't happy about Carter being dead, either.

Damon told Rebecca to brace herself and then yanked the stake from her chest, careful not to move the wood any closer to her heart.

Rebecca yelled from the pain and closed her eyes so she wouldn't have to see Damon's shocked face. She knew he had never meant to stab her, but Rebecca couldn't have just let him kill Caroline. Speaking of Caroline, Rebecca had to go to her, had to help her. So as soon as her wound healed she got up and started after Caroline and Stefan. They were headed to the school bathrooms.

Damon grabbed her arm to keep her from going anywhere and Rebecca yanked her arm back.

"Don't! You were just gonna kill her? Even after what I said earlier? She's my friend, Damon! And she deserves a chance to make it."

Damon glared at her. Yes, he was glad she was okay; he was ecstatic even, but Caroline being alive was going to cause so many problems for him and Stefan and Rebecca.

"Whatever happens, it's on you," he said. "Because I tried."

Rebecca noticed that Bonnie was at the wagon with Carter, the very dead Carter. Rebecca felt sympathy roll through her. Bonnie had just met the guy, but she and Carter had hit it off.

She gestured for Elena to stay with Bonnie and then she went after Caroline and Stefan. She found them in the girls' bathroom. Stefan was gathering paper towels and Caroline was staring at herself in the mirror and sobbing.

"It's a'right," Stefan said. "Come here."

"She hates me," Caroline said. "Bonnie hates me."

"No, she's just in shock. We all are, okay?"

Rebecca knew that what Stefan said was true. Bonnie was in shock, but that didn't mean that Bonnie was just going to accept Caroline's new life path. It had taken forever for the witch to accept Rebecca.

Stefan began wiping Caroline's face clean of blood and Caroline sobbed again.

"What about Matt? What am I supposed to do about Matt?"

"Shh. One thing at a time. Let's just get this blood cleaned off."

Caroline took the towel Stefan offered her and began cleaning her hands.

"I'm a – I'm a murderer. I'm a monster. That man – I killed that man."

"No, your emotions are heightened right now. It's part of the transformation," Stefan explained. "It's completely normal. I promise you, okay?"

The blonde stared at herself in the mirror and Rebecca cringed at what must've been going through Caroline's mind. There was blood all around her mouth and down her neck. Red liquid was soaking into her clothes, and now veins were appearing below her eyes.

"Oh, why does this keep happening to my face? I'm hideous."

"Care," Rebecca said softly. "You're gonna be okay. Just breathe."

Caroline looked at her and blinked a few times like she hadn't realized until just then that Rebecca was even there.

"Becca?"

Rebecca smiled gently and breathed. "Watch me."

She took a deep breath and let her vampire rise to the surface a little, enough to let her face change.

"Oh!" Caroline exclaimed. "Becca, you -"

"Yeah. See, it's normal. Hardly attractive, but normal. Now breathe."

"When you feel the blood rush, you have to tell yourself you're gonna get through it. That you're strong enough. No matter how good it feels to give yourself over to it, you fight it off, you bury it. That's the only way you're gonna survive this thing."

Rebecca closed her eyes and took a deep breath so she would look human again. When she opened her eyes, she saw Caroline doing the same thing.

"That's good."

When Caroline's face was back to normal, the blond asked, "Why did Katherine do this to me?"

"I don't know," Stefan said, shaking his head. "I wish I did."

"Katherine's a bitch, that's why," Rebecca muttered. "She probably wanted you to do something for her."

"Deliver a message," Caroline said. "She wanted me to deliver a message."

"She wanted us to know she's willing to do anything to get at us. Elena, me, Stefan, and Damon."

"Why does Elena look like her? How am I a vampire? How are any of us vampires?"

Caroline started to hyperventilate, so Rebecca grabbed the blonde.

"Hey, Care. Listen to me. I know you're confused and scared, but everything's gonna be okay. We'll explain everything. I promise, but right now we need to worry about getting you out of here."

Caroline nodded eagerly. "Please. I wanna go home."

Rebecca looked at Stefan and gestured for him to take care of Caroline. He nodded and grabbed the blonde to lead her out of the bathroom. Rebecca followed them out and then let Stefan take Caroline away. Rebecca, however, went back to where Elena, Bonnie, and Damon were.

Bonnie was crying and saying, "I can't believe this is happening."

Damon, who had somehow found a shovel, said, "Come on, don't pout about it. We've got a body to bury." He noticed Rebecca and took in the fact that she was okay. There was still blood on her shirt, of course, but she was fine.

Damon placed the shovel on the wagon and looked at the man on the thing. "Sucks to be you, buddy."

Rebecca thought Damon was being highly disrespectful of the dead. She also thought that Damon was acting odd. He'd been acting weird every since he'd found out Katherine was here. It was almost like he'd gone back to how he'd been at the beginning. Katherine had made Damon give up some of the goodness he'd discovered in himself; she didn't want him to lose that because of the evil-monster-of-death.

Suddenly Damon was on the ground, holding his head and screaming. Elena was staring at Bonnie, who was glaring at Damon. Rebecca could tell just from Bonnie's expression that she was angry and she was taking it out on Damon.

"Bonnie, stop!" Rebecca said.

"No, I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt."

"He didn't do this," Elena exclaimed. "It wasn't his fault."

"Everything that happens is his fault, Elena."

Rebecca didn't know what to do. She didn't want to hurt Bonnie, not after all that time spent trying to get Bonnie to be okay with what Rebecca now was. She didn't want Damon to continue to be hurt either.

There was a water hose nearby and Bonnie turned it on and water sprayed everywhere. What was Bonnie doing? What was water going to do? The water was going toward Damon. Did Bonnie think she could drown him or something?

Suddenly the water turned to fire and went toward Damon. His legs caught fire first and then his screams filled the air.

"Bonnie, stop it!" Elena screamed. "You're gonna kill him."

Rebecca saw red. She was no longer Rebecca Stone, friend to humanity. She was Rebecca Stone, vampire. She was Damon's mate and Bonnie was a threat to Damon. Rebecca had to protect what was hers.

Within seconds, Rebecca tasted the sweet ambrosia that was Bonnie's blood. She had dashed forward and yanked Bonnie's neck to the side and sank her teeth into Bonnie's neck. Bonnie hadn't even had time to scream.

Rebecca had enough control to stop herself from killing the witch. She didn't want Bonnie dead; she just hadn't wanted Damon to burn to death.

Rebecca let Bonnie fall to the ground unceremoniously and she noticed Elena was staring at her with shock.

"What?" Rebecca asked.

"This isn't us. We're attacking each other now? This can't be us."

Elena knelt beside Bonnie and checked her neck. Rebecca noticed that the fire was no longer burning Damon, but Damon was still in pain. Rebecca couldn't look at Bonnie. That hadn't been what Rebecca had wanted to happen. She hadn't wanted to attack Bonnie like that. She had just wanted Bonnie to stop hurting Damon.

Bonnie hadn't lost so much blood that she'd been knocked unconscious, so Elena helped her up and led her away. Rebecca went to check on Damon. Even though she was pissed at him, she still cared about him.

"Damon, are you okay? I mean, I know you're in pain, but are you gonna be able to heal okay?"

"Becca . . . I'm sorry I stabbed you," he said weakly.

"I know." She sighed and knelt beside him. She bit into her wrist and held it near his mouth. "Here. It's not human, but it'll help. You need to heal."

Damon gripped her wrist lightly and brought it to his lips. She gasped when his tongue flicked over her skin.

While he was drinking from her Rebecca thought about how different Damon had been since Katherine had come back. He was back to being reckless and ruthless. Katherine had destroyed what Rebecca had been helping Damon achieve over the last few months.

Once Damon seemed well enough to head home Rebecca helped him stand.

"I'm coming home to get a few things, but I'm gonna spend the night with Caroline. She's gonna need some support."

Rebecca felt a gust of wind behind her and turned to see Stefan. He was looking around and sniffing. He probably smelled the smoke. But when he looked at her his mouth fell open in shock.

"Rebecca, what happened?"

Rebecca lifted her hand to her mouth and wiped red liquid away.

"Bonnie," Rebecca whispered. "I bit Bonnie. She was going to kill Damon, I had to do something."

"Is she . . . ?"

"I didn't kill her. I barely bit her hard enough for a few sips to come out." Rebecca looked toward the guy on the wagon. "What about him?"

"We need to bury him," Stefan said. "You two are wounded. I'll do it."

"Thank you, Stefan."

At the Lockwood mansion Tyler and Mason had just gotten home.

"A'right, we're home," Tyler said. "Safe territory. Enough with the silence."

"I told you to leave it alone," Mason said, walking away.

"What was that move you pulled?" Tyler asked, remembering his uncle jumping over the guy that had been causing the problems.

"Brazilian martial arts. I took some classes a while back."

Tyler shook his head in disbelief. "Don't lie to me."

"I'm not lying."

"I saw something," Tyler said. "I saw your eyes. They glowed."

"Reflection of a car headlight, maybe, that's all," Masson tried to reassure him.

"Reflection of a car headlight? You really expect me to believe that?"

"Tyler!" Mason snapped. "You wanna know what you saw? You saw me get pissed off that I had to pull your delinquent tail out of a fight."

Tyler didn't believe Mason for a minute. There was something up with him. He'd come to town on the pretense of attending the memorial and funeral for his brother, but Tyler had found Mason in his brother's study looking for some rock think called a moonstone. Why did Mason want it? He's said there was little to no monetary value, so why did Mason want it?

Okay, so this is one of my favorite season 2 episodes and I don't feel like I did if justice. The main points of the story I wanted to make was the difference between who Damon was becoming and who Katherine made him to be - he's acting differently because of Katherine. Rebecca is also growing as a character because usually she let Damon do as he pleased, but she's actually calling him out on it now. In the first season she let Damon feed on Caroline because it was a part of who he was, yet now she's not willing to let him kill her just because she may cause problems.

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