THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF MARIAH APRIL MAY'S STORY "FORGET ME NOT" THIS IS CHAPTER 15 OF THE STORY, HER ALSO CHECK OUT HER OTHER STORIES
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"You've got to be kidding me." Damon shook his head in disbelief, he was even more uncertain than he had ever been, "So the ambulance is from my hospital?"
"Yes." Caroline swallowed thick as she drove the car, she had just realized that this revelation did more bad than good, fueling Damon's schizo thoughts, "Look I know what you're thinking but maybe it's just-"
"No Care." He mumbled more to himself, "Either someone's pushing me deep into this shit or either I am the lunatic Adrian thinks I am."
"Damon can you please stop for a while , why to you jump on an emotional bandwagon every two seconds." She squealed with annoyance , "I know you cant do this , I know." She parked the car in the parking space and sighed, throwing back her head, "You cant hurt Elena."
"How are you so sure? How can you trust me so much when I don't trust myself?" he asked her. She sat straight and turned to look at him, "Because you don't know you but I do, I know how amazing you are, how patient you've been with your wife after everything , even when she stopped loving you. You wanted to make it work always, you cant hurt her." Her eye balls dilating in admiration as she said the words. He looked at her with confusion, not able to believe her words, it was not her – it was his own self that he didn't believe in, he held her hand that rested by her side in both his and pressed it, "Promise me one thing. He said in a serious tone. She nodded to which he said, "If this is true , that me being a freak not knowing and hurting Elena, if we find her, you promise to protect her? Because I wont allow myself near her ever again, if it's me who-"
"Shut up." She whispered back, "Stop hurting yourself and trust me, you didn't do it; you'll not say a word about it to any one , not even Stefan that you're having these schizo thoughts , no one would spur things further that way."
He nodded, "Yes I understand but, in case."
"Okay I will , I promise , if the circumstances become as you say, I will protect her." She gave a tight line smile to him. They both got out of the car and went inside the hospital, Damon quickly got a hold of records and went to his cabin with Caroline, they began reading them, Caroline took out her phone matching the car plate number to each one of the entries, "That's it- that." She pointed on an entry on the date, "It's the same ambulance ordered, at about two am."
Damon read, "Name – Miranda gilbert."
Caroline looked at the muscles in his face tightening, he ran a hand through his hair , "No reporting back time , shit! It didn't come back!" he growled.
"So Miranda kidnapped her?" Caroline's brows furrowed in confusion, "I don't think so, she's not stupid enough to give her name- it's someone else."
At that exact moment his door got knocked at, Caroline closed the laptop they got from the counter and stood straight. The door opened and Officer Adrian came inside with a light smile playing on his lips, "Sorry to bother you again Doctor , however extremely sorry for following you and your girlfriend around."
"What?" he spat, "You must be out of your mind."
He shook his head, "Why did you need the records, to check for the ambulance I assume." Adrian picked up a pen from the table, playing with it.
"So you knew about this?" Damon asked with arms across his chest, "I didn't order an ambulance FYI and there's proof."
Adrian nodded feigning being impressed, "Could be , but you could be framing Miranda Gilbert. Calling her all the way to New York city to plan a murder, It's called from this hospital, where you work at, you don't have proof to prove yourself innocent."
"You don't have proof to prove me guilty." He shrugged. Caroline interrupted, "If you had been searching for her rather than accusing and cornering Damon maybe she would be here."
Adrian raised his hands in surrender, "Woah I am just doing my job, I have no whatsoever problem with your friend Miss Forbes, perhaps I am not doing it good enough- seeing how I haven't consulted you on your friendship boat with Mrs. Salvatore rocking way too hard last year." He raised a brow at her , Caroline cheeks went red and she nervously looked at her hands pulling at the hem of her shirt. "I want to see you for investigation tomorrow." He added and turned around to leave.
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PAST
"Come in Stef." Elena said above a whisper to Stefan who was standing at the door, he gave a tight lipped smile and walked inside, closing the door behind him, Elena closed the book she was reading and sat straight in bed, her face still had bruises but not as bad as before, she tapped the space next to her and he sighed sitting with her against the head board, she tilted her face to him, "If you're here for the Kol is a monster lecture-"
He rolled his eyes, "Actually not."
"Hmm." She furrowed her brows, "Then what? trouble choosing your under wear. " she joked, he lightly elbowed her, "No I was here to see how you are doing ever since that thing with Kol, I came the other day but um apparently you were high."
"Was i?" she narrowed her eyes.
"Yeah you were singing some weird Beyoncé song." He shook his head, "The point is I was here to see how you were doing."
"Well I am fine thank you." She said in a formal tone. He finally turned to her holding the her hands that were placed in her lap, "Elena I hope you understand how bad this whole experience was, I hope you learned to respect yourself and not think of this as being self-fish."
"But aren't i?" she raised a brow, "Kol literally lost everything he loved for me."
"No." Stefan sounded exhausted, "Elena why do you guilt yourself into pitying people who are not worth it- just like Kol, he wasn't worth it and at the moment you realized it but as time passes you become unsure of that decision Elena, these bruises haven't even faded yet."
Elena pursed her lips, "I didn't let him go because I thought it was bad, I did it for Damon , he hurt Damon." She confessed in a low voice, "I don't know how I latch onto old feelings when it's about him Stef, but maybe Damon will always mean more than Kol , I find it so selfish but I just cant shake it off."
Stefan groaned , "Oh no Elena God no!" he paused for a moment to settle the tornado in his head from her words, "You don't owe either of them anything, you should be getting rid of Kol because he is Kol and Damon, if you want my advice it's not a good idea."
"But why?" she asked with a frown, "Did he say something? Is he with someone?" that couldn't be, she thought- she saw love in his eyes, so much unmeasurable love. Stefan shook his head and cupped her face, "Elena you're screwing yourself over with this repetitive Kol-Damon cycle, Damon is ambitious and busy and just someone you cant depend on." He explained , "I know he's my brother and it sounds like I am shitting on him, but I know the type of girl you are, the one who wants a family and the whole package and Damon cant even carry himself like that, he makes impromptu life choices not caring who he hurts in the process and you are a witness of that, Damon is not Kol, he is not abusive and I know he- cares for you maybe loves you but he doesn't have any plan."
"So you're saying he's going to pack up and leave." She asked sitting back, he nodded, "He has done it before, his career will take an incline In somedays and he'll forget about you, your feelings- you don't want to be pinned into his life with no expectations." That really broke her heart but it was true , she deep down knew he wouldn't prioritize her, by being happy about this start- it was just the honeymoon phase till Damon jumps down at the first sight of responsibility. She couldn't be this vulnerable again, she couldn't let him do that to her.
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She had been getting calls from him all day and she had cancelled them no matter how much tempted she got to answer the phone, she wouldn't, she had to be strong to let him go, she really thought about what Stefan said , he was right, what Stefan didn't understand was how much she yearned to talk to him, spend time with him, get his attention as desperate as it sounded she wanted all those things to herself, and she knew how hard she will fail once she gets to see him or face him, he would convince her one way or another. Her and Caroline were coming back from shopping and Caroline was driving the Car, "Just pick it up." She said looking over at Elena's beeping phone, She shook her head and sighed, "I need sometime to myself."
"Elena you're seriously being so extra, if I were you I'd pick up." Caroline dug her nails into the wheel. "I mean in your situation."
"I get it Care." Elena rolled her eyes, "But as much as I hate it, Stef's right, I get too serious in a relationship I guilt myself to stay with someone, I wait for people till it drives me insane, well I am not going to be that girl anymore, I rather be an ice cold bitch then ending up at the center."
Caroline gasped dramatically, "That's where all the overly attached girlfriends go."
"Well as you see my progress." She pushed the button on the stereo, the loud rap song muted the beep from the phone and she thanked the music to some what bring down her temptation to receive his calls, Caroline shook her head at her, "Muffling feelings with gangster rap."
"Oh stop judging me Caroline, I didn't judge you for almost marrying one guy in vegas after seeing him, what was his name again, yeah Tom."
"Well we are every good friends now as we were very good fiancés for three hours, that's all your happy times in relationships Elena." she snapped.
Elena's jaw dropped, "As if! Emm I forgot you guys fought over custody of a gold fish."
"Buzz of Elena! we bought the fish together and we both know, I took care of it, that's the only thing me and Tom ever fought over, that baby goldfish that he managed some how to take from me and later he forgot to feed it."
Elena nodded, "The toilet flush funeral broke my heart. Especially I loved the way you guys decorated the toilet seat for it."
Caroline parked her car and got out slamming the door, "It was the least I could do."
"Ahh that fish themed funeral- the little snacks out side the toilet-"
Caroline shouted, "ELENA!" in frustration and went to push the Elevator button, "Don't talk about swimmy I still miss him."
Elena snickered, "God Stefan and I had to stuff our mouths with that Fish shaped cookies to hold back the laughs."
Caroline clenched her fists, "Arghh it's okay Caroline calm down!"
"You're talking to yourself." Elena laughed at Caroline's red face, when the Elevator's door opened her smile faded as she Damon standing right behind the closed doors, still holding his phone, at her side her phone beeped loudly as they looked at each other , Caroline gritted her teeth, "Ouhh awkward."
Damon looked down at her hand then at her face with a question mark on his face, "Elena, I thought you were in trouble somewhere." He stepped out of the Elevator, "I rushed back home from the hospital when you wouldn't pick up." His voice held worry immediately sending Elena to guilt, "Damon em I was-"
Caroline coughed, "We were shopping , maybe there was a signal glitch."
"Yeah." Elena nodded.
"Can we talk?" he asked straight forward.
"Yeah why not, I'll take the stairs , good for heath." Caroline grabbed the bags from Elena's hands and went towards the stiars leaving them alone.
He directed her towards the door – outside and they went in silence , she bit her lip, waiting for him to talk, "Elena I know there was no glitch, you were ignoring me yet again."
"Damon I can explain."
"Is he back again?." He turned to her, "Is that what it's all about."
"No." she frowned , "It's just that I feel a little rushed, I want to take some time and it's good that you take sometime and think about, what you feel."
"I took four years Elena, I really know what I feel." He held both her hands, "I need you in my life. I know that."
"It's not about that." She huffed, "Don't you think I need you in my life, but we cant just think from our hearts, you've got to see other things too, like what paths we choose to be on , you want to be a surgeon and I want to be an actress- both of which requires a selfish schedule, you wont have time and I wont have time and when I'd have time you wouldn't be there-" he sighed and pulled her closer against him, "Do we really have to think about that? Right now when we're back with each other."
"Damon we have to think about the circumstances, Stefan is right-" she stopped when she saw the expression change on his face.
"Oh so Professor Stefan Salvatore is the reason behind this behavior, I should have known." He said sarcastically, "Elena, Stefan knows nothing about us, how we work- you know what I think, we should just sit back and let things work their selves out, the important thing here is that we care about each other way too much to let it go like this."
"I don't want to hate you Damon , when we break up-"
"We are not going to break up." He said in a sure tone, "Why are you so sure we will break up ever, I need one chance Elena to prove myself. Give me one chance." He said softly, one of his hand caressing her cheek, "I know I made a mistake in the past, but I regret that, I regret not being strong enough and if that ever happens again I'll make sure I make things work."
She wanted to believe him , let take over her inhibitions, he asked, "One chance Elena , I know you're scared but trust me I am here, with you."
His phone beeped and he looked down to check it, "surgery alert." He read, then looked up at her, "Yeah I had about one at eight , I'll be back in the morning, and sleep in for four hours after that maybe I'll take you out for some brunch, can you fit me in superstar?"
She rolled her eyes, keeping back her smile, "You can sleep six hours and maybe take me out for lunch Doctor." Her voice low and raspy, blushing from his lingering stare on her lips.
"Perfect." His thumb rubbed against her chin and when she looked up , his lips crashed against hers, she moaned against his lips , surprised at how he could still manage to cause butterflies in her stomach, she let her hands hold on to his neck , clutching his dark hair, she pulled away, "You haven't even took me on a date, don't kiss me yet."
He smirked, "Go on act like you didn't want to jump my bones in the middle of the street."
She gasped, "Get out."
"Hmm with that attitude- I'll have to re-think our date , I mean it's a bad idea."
"it's not a bad idea." She said still holding on to his neck and "we should go on a date tomorrow."
"Yeah given if I don't go abroad for years and you don't get into a relationship with a jerk who hits my head hard enough to forget I had to take you out." He cupped her face and smirked. She pushed him playfully, "We'll see about that."
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PRESENT
Damon was pacing around the Tv lounge in his house while Caroline and Stefan sat on the couch, lost in thought, Stefan sat up with a cough to get their attention, "So the hospital has no idea where the ambulance went?"
"They reported the police about it going missing." Caroline replied with disappointment, "The driver who was in the ambulance was found dead in a forest weeks ago."
"And where is the ambulance?"
"Probably with the murderer." Damon commented , "He has Elena in that car or maybe he destroyed the car and now he has her somewhere else."
"Adrian should stop focusing on you now, you were under Police observation all this time , you couldn't have killed the driver." Stefan said with a frown, "That takes one of our concerns away. That he would stop focusing on you and more on finding Elena."
"If he kidnapped her, he should at least call for extortion money." Damon said suddenly in frustration, "But it's been all this time and he hasn't called, Elena didn't ran away that's for sure, but there must be something, someone who wants revenge."
"What do you mean?" Caroline got up the couch folding her arms across her chest.
"An enemy that's what I mean, we have to list all the people who would want to hurt Elena for any reason." He proposed the idea.
Stefan shook his head, "Elena has millions of fans, what if it's a psycho fan."
"A psycho fan who would know about Miranda gilbert?" Damon tilted his head, "Not everything is on the internet, Elena never disclosed about her parents, so this person, who ever this is knows her closely."
"And what's your theory- Kol Michaelson?" Stefan too got up, Damon pursed his lips, "We are brothers after all Stef."
"Damon we cant go and question him, remember what you did to him?" Stefan raised a brow and sighed, "How about we stay and let Caroline go."
"What?" she snapped.
Damon instantly said, "No, Stefan if he is the 'potential kidnapper and killer' he could hurt Caroline. Just because I am desperate to get Elena back doesn't mean I'll be putting another life in the balance, we need to go together."
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Stefan and Damon stood by the Blonde's side as she rang the bell at the door of the house, the paint on the walls so old that it had turned ashy from white. It looked as if no one lived here much. When the door opened, Caroline pulled at her sleeve, "Hello Kol, we need to talk."
He looked at the trio in anger and was about to close the door in their face when Damon stepped forward pushing against the door, "We can talk the nice way or we can talk after you're bleeding, your choice Kol."
With a low growl he let the door open, 'What do you people want? I knew I'd be expecting you after the news on the TV."
"So no awkward convos Kol, where is Elena?" Damon asked in a low but dangerous voice. He shrugged, "How would I know, she could be dead for all I care."
"Kol." Damon warned, "Stop testing my patience."
Stefan interrupted, "Listen Doctor Michaelson , cooperate with us and we will leave, we just want to know if you have any clue about Elena."
"And we wanna search your place." Caroline said quickly as she entered.
"Look I already told you, I haven't seen Elena in over an year, she hasn't called me, doesn't want anything to do with me after the last time."
"And is that the reason you decided to kidnap her?" Damon snarled.
"Non sense , I got into one scandal that caused me my career because of her, I am finally in hope to get my license back, I would never let her screw me over with this kidnapping story." He huffed.
Damon looked at him with anger for a moment , wanting so much to punch him for no reason, he hated his guts, he hated this man like he never hated anybody, he was the reason he hurt Elena an year ago, he was the reason he turned into a monster that day and hit her, he hated himself that day, he wanted to end himself that day.
Caroline gestured at Stefan to go, "Let's go we wont find anything here."
"Maybe." Kol started then stopped, Damon looked up at him, Kol stepped back raising his hands in surrender, "Just an idea Mister Husband of ex girlfriend."
"What?" Caroline asked urgently.
"Well you are all aware of Elena's panic attacks." He started , then slowly walked towards the window, turned to them leaning against it, "The same nightmare where she thinks a guy named 'Jeremy' would kill her."
"Yes, that's out of question since Jeremy died when he was one." Damon turned down his 'smart' idea.
He laughed , shaking his head, "Hear me out before you turn it down."
Stefan huffed, "Say it already."
"Once she had one of those panic attacks, you know what was weird about those panic attacks?"
"This guy is wasting our time." Damon shrugged turning to go.
"Panic attacks took place between twelve to three am, never eleven, never even four- it's dark at that time too, and that made me think, it's weird , she never had a day-time panic attack." Kol continued.
"So?" Caroline asked.
"Then I talked about it to one of my friends and he told me one or two possibilities, either Elena was faking it, either it's a routine- a possessed body."
Damon turned around to look at him, "What crap are you guys buying?" he asked Stefan and Caroline but they didn't move.
"Possessed by what?" Stefan asked
"He suggested it was a hypnotism episode." Kol nodded his head, "I told Elena if she wants to check and she wanted to, then when I said , they would have to hypnotize her in order to check, which means being out of control of your mind, she just got paranoid, she refused."
Damon knew why she wouldn't want to go through with that, she hadn't told about Jeremy to him for so long and she wouldn't want to be asked questions that could get her into trouble , where she couldn't lie or change the topic. But how would he know if she was hypnotized, he should have noticed something odd.
"There is a trigger, somewhere in her routine, which activates her panic attack mid-night, a trigger which stimulates the presence of a killer named 'Jeremy' wanting revenge." Kol said with a smirk, then pushed away from the window walking back, "But that's just my observation."
Stefan could practically see the wheels turning in Damon's head, "Come on , let's go." He said hurriedly.
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"Not this." He threw the pillow back, "We bought it last year, she has the panic attacks since she was 8."
They all searched the bedroom looking for different things, "Her phone?"
"Nope." Stefan said with a popping 'p'
"Some book she reads?" Caroline looked through the books on the nightstand.
"No."
They all sat on the bed exhausted after searching for hours. "There's got to be something." Damon said throwing his head back on the pillow.
"Maybe Kol was just fucking with us." Caroline said with a tired breath.
Stefan pursed his lips, "He sounded sure."
Damon nodded, "Kol is a motherfucker, but what he said did feel like logic, Jeremy can never kill Elena as Jeremy is dead, so Jeremy is a stimulation of Elena's mind, which has been fed to her head to scare the shit out of her , and I feel like that person knows where she is."
Stefan tossed the Teddy bear on the bed towards Damon , making space for himself, "I don't know what to believe."
Damon held the bear against him, his wife's toy, it still smelled of her , he could imagine how she would always keep it close to herself , since the start and now she didn't have it, the thought made him more depressed , he could perfectly imagine her sleeping with the bear pressed to her chest. He didn't know a grown man like him would hug this bear so tight to himself , just to feel close to her when she wasn't here. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open, he sat up, "Stefan!"
Stefan looked up with a raised brow and Caroline too looked at him. Damon showed them the bear, "It's been with Elena since the start- she sleeps next to it."
Stefan sat up too, "Yes, uh I never thought about it."
"Whoever gave her this bear- must be the person who did this." Damon checked the stuffed bear for any clues. When he found the zipper at the toe part he pulled it open and searched through the cotton, his eyes widened as he pulled out a recorder.
"This cant be it, because the person who gifted her the teddy bear is Stefan." Caroline said shaking her head.
Stefan swallowed thick. "I did gift her that on her eight birthday."
"And she has been having those panic attacks since she was eight." Damon said keeping the bear down.
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