Chapter Seven: I'm Still Me

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3rd Person Pov

"Mrs. Lockwood, uh have you seen Matt?" Caroline asked as she went up to her mom and Carol Lockwood talking. "I thought he was working a catering shift at today's brunch." She said.

"No, I haven't, honey. Sorry." Carol responded. "But if you seen him, could you ask if he's heard from Tyler?" She asked her.

"Yeah, of course." Caroline responded. "Still no word from him?" She asked.

"No. The note he left said he needed time to figure some things out but I wish I knew where he was." Carol replied.

"Um excuse me." Caroline said as she spotted Elena and Stefan.

"Hey, Damon called and told me what happened. Any luck finding Matt?" Stefan asked.

"None." Caroline said. "What if he tells somebody? What if he tells everybody?" She asked looking between the two of them.

"We just gotta find him and make sure that doesn't happen." Stefan told her. "Do you have any idea where he could be?" He turned to ask Elena.

"I wish I did but he wasn't really one to run." Elena replied.

"You know, this wasn't how it was supposed to happen. I was supposed to tell him at the right moment, in the right way and he was supposed to be okay because he was supposed to love me for who I am and what I am not hate me for it." Caroline told them.

"We'll help you find him. I just have to accept this thing for Jenna." Elena told her.

"All right, well, call me when you're done and I'll be out looking for him" Caroline said before walking away.

Katherine opened the door to Damon's room. She started looking for the moonstone. A couple minutes went by and she couldn't find that damn stone. She was about to give up when she noticed something sticking out of his soap dish.

"Bingo" Katherine smirked.

Ric was walking to his car when he spotted a familiar figure.

"Hi Ric." She greeted him.

"Isobel. What do you want?" He asked.

"Just cleaning up some loose ends" She replied.

"Yeah, we don't have any loose ends." He told her.

"You may not but I do." She told him. "I need to apologize to you." She said.

"It's a little late for that." He told her.

"No, not for what I've done in the past. We're beyond that." She stepped forward. "I am sorry for outing you to your girlfriend. That was petty of me." She apologized.

"Look, whatever jacked up vampire amends that you're trying to make, I'm not interested." He told her.

"Of course not because I compelled you to let me go. I realized that I don't wanna do what I have to do without you knowing how much I loved you and I did. I loved you so much." She told him.

He just stared at her. For that millisecond he considered forgiving her.

"He's all yours." Isobel said.

Ric looked at her confused. Soon he was groaning from the mindgrain and then everything went black.

"And here to accept the donation to the Miranda Sommers Gilbert scholarship fund is...Elena Gilbert." Mayor said.

The crowd clapped as Elena when to get the donation. Meanwhile John is upstairs meeting with Isobel.

"What are you doing here?" John asked.

"I'm creating a distraction." She said.

John looked at her confused then he saw red veins appear under her eyes. Before he could register what was happening Isobel wooshed over to him and sunk her fang into the side of his neck.

"The historical event was my mom's baby. She considered all of you family and would be honored and touched by this gift." Elena said before they heard a thump behind them.

Everyone got up to see what made the noise. As Elena was about to follow behind, Katherine was in front of her.

"Nice dress." She said. "Mind if I borrow it?"

"How is he?" Damon asked as he came into the Lockwood mansion.

"He's dead." The sheriff told him.

Damon bent down to examine John's body. He then noticed the ring on his finger.

"He'll be fine in a couple hours." Damon sighed.

"What are you talking about? Damon he's dead." Carol told him.

"Well...here's the thing." Damon stood up and faced the two women. "John's ring, it's an old Gilbert family heirloom that protects its owner from death by a supernatural entity." Damon told them.

"But he's not breathing. He has no pulse." Carol told him.

"He will be. Trust me." Damon told them. "We're gonna need a cover story." Damon said as he dragged the body. "Epileptic fit, alcohol binge, banana peel. Whatever works." He told them. Right now, I just have to get him out of here." He said.

"Yeah, it's a false alarm at the Lockwoods." Liz said on the cell as she came out of the mansion."Okay, good. Thanks." She hung up. "Hey." She said as she saw Matt.

"Sheriff Forbes." Matt said.

"Matt, what's wrong?" She asked him.

"I wanna see Vicki's file." Matt told her.

"What?" She asked.

"My sister. I want to see her file." Matt told her. "I wanna see how you covered up that she was killed by a vampire." He said.

"Matt, you need to calm down. You're upset." She told him."You don't know-"

"Don't lie to me." Matt grabbed her by her shoulder.

"You need to calm down now." She told him.

"Hey, Matt, if you're listening to this it means you've listened to the last 25 messages I've left you which all say the same thing. So call me." She sighed before hanging up.

Caroline notices someone in her house. Matt. She went in.

"You're here." She sighed.

"Your mom brought me here." He told her.

"My mom?'' She asked.

"I accused her of covering up Vicki's death and she threatened to arrest me." He told her.

"Did you tell her anything else?" She asked.

"Nothing about you." He replied. "I got the feeling she wasn't gonna believe anything I said, so I shut up. She brought me here to cool down and then she got called away." He told her.

"Matt." Caroline said as she went forward but he stepped away. "Why did you stay if you're afraid of me?" She asked him.

"Because I need to know more." He told her. "About Vicki. About you." He added.

"I'll tell you anything you want to know." She told him.

"So after I hurt you in the woods, I made you forget and I promised myself I would stay away from you but I couldn't because I love you." Caroline told him. "I do. I love you, Matt, so much. And I'm sorry about what happened to Vicki. And I really wish you'd say something." She told him.

"I'm all alone." Matt said.

"No, you're not." She told him.

"My mom doesn't care. My sister's dead and all my friends are liars. And you're a-"

"I'm still me. I'm still me. It's just...I'm just a bit.." She started to say.

"Don't, no. This is too much. All of this is just too much." He said as he got up. " I don't wanna know this." He said.

"Tell me what I can do." She said. "Tell me what I can do. I wanna help you." She told him.

"You can make me forget." He told her. "You've done it to me before. Please make me forget, Caroline." He begged. "I don't want to look at you and see what I'm seeing right now." He told her.

"Okay." She said softly.

"Hey Bonnie said the spell worked." Damon said. "She's locked and loaded." He added.

"At Least something went right today." Stefan said.

"Yeah." Damon sighed.

Just then his phone rang. He looked at the caller ID.

"Hey how'd it go with busboy?" Damon asked.

"Damon…" Caroline sniffed.

"Hey you okay? What's wrong?" He asked as he got up.

"Can- can you come over please?" She asked trying not to cry.

"Yeah, sure I'll be there soon." Damon told her before hanging up.

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