Part 10 - Reborn

"What if this doesn't work… what if it works too well and he gets stuck as a wolf!" Caroline panicked as they waited for night to fall completely. Damon stood behind Hayley waiting for her command.

"It's going to work Caro, it has too."

"Are we late for the party?" Klaus asked as he appeared in the clearing with Elijah.

"Just in time."

"Come here boy come here" Klaus called Damon to him and patted him on the head.

"What if his face gets stuck that way! How are you going to kiss him!" Caroline ignored Klaus and began a new tirade on what could go wrong while Bonnie ignored her insinuation of her and Damon kissing.

"The moon will reach its zenith soon." Hayley said sitting on a log and taking off her moonlight ring.

"You're going to change?" Elijah asked.

"I am going to induct him into my pack." Hayley answered.

"You think Damon would be happy with you as his Alpha?" Klaus asked.

"Damon would be happy to have the support of people who understand him each time the moon beckons us to change."

The rest of the wait was spent in silence expect for Caroline's tirades every now and then about what could go wrong.

Klaus was livid when he saw the human Caroline had found to sacrifice for Damon, livid and delighted. The fact that he was still under her skin, still affecting her, still angering her meant that she was still his and he would find a way to put his psychotic behaviour, as Elijah put it, behind them. It was going to take great efforts to win the fair Caroline's favour.

"It's time Damon – drink him dry" Hayley commanded as Damon bared fangs before pouncing on the man and exsanguinated the life from him. His body began convulsing as he dropped the corpse, his limbs twisted and contorted. In front of him Hayley cried out in pain as she too began the painful process of changing.

Bonnie looked away, she couldn't take the look of pain that contorted the faces of her friends anymore. Finally she heard a primal howl, she almost laughed when she saw that Damon had turned into a black wolf, a black wolf who was about to attack her and Caroline. A smaller greyish wolf knocked the black wolf over and growled at him forcing the black wolf to whine then bare its throat to the smaller wolf.

Hayley moved over to Damon and licked his face and nuzzled him before running into the forest with him at her flank.

"Where the hell are they going?" Bonnie asked.

"It's a full moon, the pack will be hunting. We might as well get out of these woods." Elijah answered offering his arm to Caroline who looked like she might bite it off. Klaus tried to glare a hole through the back of Elijah's head.

"I am not a savage like my brother I assure you. I just want to talk to you." Caroline huffed.

"Let's get Bonnie home first then we can talk over hot chocolate" Caroline said patting Elijah's hand and throwing her arm around Bonnie as she led her away.

"What are you playing at?" Klaus asked as he turned around to head for the Mikaelson compound.

"I am trying to fix the damage you caused."

Bonnie went to have a nap after making Caroline swear that she would let her know the minute Damon was back. Caroline sat before Elijah with her arms crossed waiting for the ancient to speak.

"I am sorry about my brother's transgressions."

"Sorry won't cut it, Klaus put his hands on me without my permission I might add. He hurt and humiliated me under my own roof!"

"I know Damon was livid when he came to see me"

"Damon was there for me?" Caroline asked.

"Before he was attacked he warned me to keep Klaus away. He said that you were off limits. He was extremely upset."

"I guess he really does care" Caroline said thoughtfully.

"Probably more than Nicklaus cares for us. I envy you truly"

"Damon wasn't like that I guess Bonnie and Elena really changed him."

"Maybe Nicklaus needs that kind of motivation."

"Maybe Cami can be his Bonnie. I am done with him. I thought we had something I guess I was wrong."

"Perhaps… you would like to join me for dinner sometime?"

"And risk Hayley ripping my face off; no thank you."

"How complicated our lives are…" Their little conversation was cut short when Hayley walked in covered in dirt and blood followed by an annoyed Damon covered in filth as well.

"Damon!" Caroline shrieked throwing herself at her sire and squeezing him as hard as she could ignoring the mud and twigs that were now all over her.

"I am dirty, I smell like Stefan's leftover Bambi and I am now a mutt." Damon said dryly pushing Caroline away gently.

"I don't care you're alive!" Caroline squealed, once again hugging the older vampire with all her strength, before stepping away to take a look at her sire alive and undead once again.

"Well it was thanks to you" Hayley chimed in as she put her arm over Caroline's shoulders covering her in more Bayou muck.

"It is good to see you back to your senses Damon" Elijah nodded.

"Well the first thing I am going to do is rip out Ester's heart."

"Klaus has … taken care of Ester for now. I bid you farewell. I will see you in the morning." With that Elijah was gone.

"What about the sire bond?" Caroline asked.

"Once thing at a time. At least he isn't a growling drooling subhuman. Where's Bonnie?" Hayley asked and Damon growled lowly while she smirked at him.

"Crap! I forgot to wake her up as soon as you returned."

"Let her sleep, she must have taken a lot of strain, and I'd like to delay the aneurism she's going to give me for the morning. Right now I want to get clean and then I want some me time. Where the fuck is Kai, this house is a mess!"

"11 974 trees!" Kai said breathlessly before he collapsed on the floor of the kitchen.

"Klaus sent him to count the trees in the bayou." Caroline said looking down at the spent human.

"Maybe we should move, Italy is perfect this time of year." Damon said with a faux enthusiasm.

"We have to help Hayley and ensure our own survival by not letting Klaus die." Caroline sighed.

"We'll go after" She smirked and Damon patted her on the head before vanishing into his private bathroom.

"You'd leave us?" Hayley asked.

"We'll be back. I've just never seen Italy. I know Damon has a home with compelled owners just waiting for us."

"I guess I should also wash up and go to bed, see you in the morning Care." Hayley said stretching out as she headed for the guest bathroom.

Since when does Hayley live here? Caroline pondered.

You honestly haven't noticed that she's been staying in the room next to Bonnie since that stupid stunt the 2 of you pulled? Damon answered in her mind as he stepped in his shower.

"I thought you'd be asleep" Caroline asked a freshly cleaned and dressed Damon as he sat in the den with a glass of scotch.

"Can't too much happening." Damon sighed rubbing his palm over his eyes.

"It's disorienting, sounds are a bit louder, smells sharper. At least my taste is a little better than when I was a vampire."

"So you're almost turning again" Caroline said coming to sit cross legged on the floor in front of Damon.

"Thank you for bringing me back, I would still be some primal beast if it wasn't for you."

"That's what family does." Caroline shrugged and that is how they spent their night. In companionable silence watching the flames in the fireplace till they died down. That was how Bonnie found them in morning. Caroline asleep on the floor and Damon in his chair, she was going to kill Caroline… later… She walked over to Damon and ran her fingers through his hair, earning a sigh from the slowly awakening vampire. Damon held Bonnie's hand and pulled her to him. The young witch crawled onto his lap and sighed in content.

"Let's not die anymore, kay" Bonnie said burying her head in the crook of his neck and taking in his scent.

Sniffing me again…

Damon smirked stroking her hair.

"Oh come on would the two of you just make out already!" Caroline sighed from her spot on the floor, a teasing smirk on her face as Bonnie stuck her tongue out at her.

"How about you go kiss Hayley" Bonnie retorted at that Hayley walked in and pecked Caroline on the lips, then they both looked at Damon and Bonnie.

"You are impossible!" Bonnie growled and pecked Damon on the nose ever so lightly before hopping off his lap.

"Let's get going with breakfast, I'm hungry. Has anyone seen Kai" Bonnie said in a hurry as she rushed out of the den and away from Haroline as she had dubbed them.

"When she witchy migraines you don't come crying to me" Damon said standing up and stretching the muscles in his back.

A/N: Finally updated, I got a little stuck with the next part (Also distracted with X-men fanfiction - not the movieverse as they ruined it) but I think I have got it now. Hope you enjoyed the update.

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