After their epic kiss and moment the two caught sight of Tyler in the distance and she convinced Matt talk to him, to sort things out while she heads up to the powder room. She walks in to see both her sister and Caroline already in there. Caroline is reapplying lip gloss, looking in the mirror and Elena touching up her makeup when Alexis greets them."Hey girls."
"Hey." Elena notices the look on Alexis face and she immediately knows something good happened with Matt but doesn't get the chance to ask when Caroline looks over to the pregnant girl and speaks up.
"Hey. You look happy, so how are things with Matt?" Caroline grins at her best fried. Alexis blushes a deep red and looks down at the question, soft smile on her lips.
"Amazing..we may of just kissed." Alexis confesses, huge smile on her face and her cheeks a rosy red.
"Really?" Caroline seems excited but something is a little off. Alexis hardly notice it until she her eyes flick up and she looks at Caroline. The excited happy look slowly falls off the pregnant teen's face and morphs into one of concern as she notices something on Caroline's neck peeking out from beneath her neck scarf. Elena notices the sudden silence and is about to ask her sister what's wrong when Alexis speaks up, frowning. "What's that?" She questions reaching for the blonde's neck scarf. She looks curious and concerned for her friends who's been acting so strange lately.
"Don't!" Caroline shouts, alarm in her voice but Alexis manages to pull it up anyway only for it to reveal bruising and sores in the shape of what she thinks could be bite marks litter Caroline's pale neck because they are far to viscous to be hickeys.
"Oh my god, what happened?" Elena is the first to speak as she steps closer to Caroline, by her sister as they look at Caroline.
"Are you okay?" Alexis question voice gently, worried and fearful for her friend wondering what has happened.
"Yeah, it's nothing." Elena pulls down the sleeve of Caroline's shawl and both girls gasps at what they see.
"That is not nothing!" Alexis argues, looking at Caroline in shock just wanting to get answers but also wanting to comfort her.
"Did somebody hurt you?" Elena shouts, anger and concern in her voice.
"No, okay, nothing. It just...My mom would kill me." Caroline tries to tell them but it's the furthest thing from believable as she looks back into the mirror, acting as if she's perfectly okay. Alexis can see through it all, Caroline seems not only flustered but scared..its Damon, it has to be or she wouldn't be acting like this. It also explains how strange the blonde has been acting lately.
"Did Damon do this?!" Alexis demands sound heart broken and angry as her mama bear instincts kick in again. She wants to care and make sure Caroline's okay and wants to take action against Damon to protect her. She is normally protective over those she loves but lately she's been way more protective of them, probably cause baby is making her protective instincts so much stronger, with Jeremy for example.
"No! Of course not!" Caroline shouts very unconvincing and Alexis heart sinks further in her chest. Her best friend is being abused, her best friend is hurt and she can't believe she was starting to think for a moment Damon may not be a total complete bad guy like Stefan said but Stefan words were true. "Just leave me alone. Okay?!" Caroline shouts harshly before pushing past the twins and hurrying out of the room. That confirms it, Damon's hurting her. The sisters are breathless, looking to one another with shock and many other emotions on their faces.
A moment later Alexis storms out of the room, dead set on finding Damon but as she looking for him outside but she finds Stefan first and he can see clearly that something is very wrong with how distraught she seems. "What happened?" Stefan tries to stop her but she just looks to him and he can see the fire in her eyes. He can hear her heartbeat like a jack hammer in her chest and he can hear her babies heartbeat thankful not as aggressive as hers, the babies heartbeat beating as usual but he can here the unborn baby moving around.
"Stef, You were right about Damon." She tells him firmly but her voice sounds hurt. Alexis looks at him for just a moment but before she turns away to leave.
"Alexis, don't!" He tries to warn her, tries to stop her but he can't even follow her as she storms off to confront his brother because Elena is suddenly in front of him, grabbing his arm, stopping him. She finds Damon at the back door of the Lockwood mansion and he's smirking when he sees her beelining toward him. The smirk is quick to fall from his face when he sees the look on hers.
She shoves him, not hard, not truly following the urge she had to punch or slap him as she knew she wasn't that type of person but mainly because she was pregnant but she felt like she needed to do something.
"There is something seriously wrong with you!" She snarls at him, shaking her head looking at him like some sort of monster. "I know Caroline has a thing for bad boys but you're not just a bad boy, Damon Salvatore, you're a bad guy. You're brother was right about you and I swear if you come near Caroline or anyone else I will be going straight to her mother, the Sheriff. Got it?!" She tells his, voice so loud. Her eyes glisten with tears of both anger and sadness as she yells at him. He knows now he's completely villainized in her mind but maybe it's better that way but for some reason seeing her this hurt hurts him in a way he isn't used to.
She looks him in the eyes, can't continue or walk off before they are interrupted.
"What the hell is going on here?" A voice cuts in and both eyes snap to the door way to see that Tyler Lockwood who is stepping closer to them, head tilted up, eyes narrowed. Alexis relaxes her stance slightly seeing Tyler there and all she wants to do is leave here right now. Alexis reaches out and grabs Tyler's arm as Tyler starts to move himself to be between Alexis and Damon.
"Let's just go,Ty." She tells him, shaking her head, not being able to be around Damon for a second longer as she starts to drag Tyler off without giving him time to fight it. Tyler's tense but lets her pull him off, mainly wanting her away from the guy who is giving him really bad vibes and is making Alexis freak out but he doesn't let what just happened go.
He stops her from walking further, using her grip on his arm to force her to stop and look at him. Her eyes are wet, she's on the verge of crying and it almost him melt but it also enrages him that she's hurt.
Tyler looks back at the offending man, Damon, puffing up his chest with a snarl on his lips. "No, What was that? That douche bag giving you trouble, want me to kick him out? Beat his ass?" Tyler asks her, rage boiling in his veins and his breath coming in shorter. The rage, the anger, the so called animal inside him surrenders to her but now as he sees her clearly distraught he feels the urge to defend her, attack whoever made her feel this way. He has never seen Alexis Gilbert kick off like that before, maybe except at him thought to a lesser degree, but that guy must of had done something really bad, truly horrible, to have such a forgiving girl look at him like he was a monster.
She shakes her head, knowing more violence is not the answer. "No, though he probably deserves it." She admits quietly, crossing her arms over her chest and he looks at her.
"What's going on, Al'? I thought'd you'd be on cloud nine right now, what changed? Are you okay? What'd he do?"
"With Matt? I'm so happy I can't describe it..but I just found out my best friend is being abused by her boyfriend...she's covered in bruised and all confused in her head." Alexis tells him, voice hitching. She sounds heartbroken and angry no wonder why she went off at the guy. Tyler wants to go off at the guy to but Alexis doesn't want that even though the guy needs that. He just asks her what she needs to help fix this and he can always do more later.
"What do you need me to do? Need me to get Matt? The sheriff? What?" Matt's off inside probably looking for Alexis as the blond said that's what he was going to do when they parted ways. She might want Matt right now and even want to talk to the sheriff but right now she has something more important to do and Caroline needs her.
"I need to find Caroline."
They look back inside for her, coming back downstairs they run into Matt and Elena. "Matt." She breathes out and they both feel it, they feel more at ease seeing each other, feeling almost happy but the fact Caroline is hurt is taking front seat.
"Alexis." He greets her, concern in his eyes seeing she looks like she's in duress so his eyes flick to Tyler who gives him a look that only slightly assures him.
"Do you know where Caroline is?" Elena is quick to ask, looking between Alexis and Tyler.
"No, What did Stefan say?" The pregnant girl questions, wondering just how much Stefan knew.
"He didn't even seem surprised! He knew!" Elena looked beyond furious at that, furious at him.
"Come lets go find her." Alexis tells them all.
"You okay?" Matt asks her before any of them move to leave, stepping forward and putting at hand o her upper arm to comfort her.
"I will be when we find Care." She tells him nodding slowly and he looks at her softly before she and Elena leave. While Matt and Tyler go to check the front yard and side of the house once figuring out she is not in the house the twins check in the back yard. They're looking around outside and finally find Caroline who is getting up off the ground outside, shaken up by the lake.
"Caroline? There you are. We've been looking everywhere for you. Are you okay?"
"Yeah. I'm fine." But it's clear she isn't actually as she says it she becomes more emotional as she tries to say she is okay.
"Caroline, what happened? Are you okay?" She feels her heartbreak more for her best friend and she can tell between now and the last time she saw Caroline something else has happened to the girl.
"I'm fine."
"No. You're shaking. Caroline, What-" Elena starts, looking so concerned but the blonde cuts her off.
"I'm fine!" Caroline argues, tears starting to spill down her face, clearly not okay.
"Caroline, come here, come here." Alexis tells her softly, pulling the girl into a hug where both twins wrap their arms around their friend, trying to comfort and sooth the hurting teen. "It'll be okay, Care, I promise." She whispers to her friend in a promise as Caroline lets it all go and starts sobbing.
She's standing with Matt Jenna's who is about to drive her home is talking to Elena a few feet away as she catches up with Matt. She's calmed down, of course she's still angry and upset but the she's more okay knowing Caroline is home safe right now."Tonight was.." He starts.
"Perfect one moment and messy the next?" She suggest with a tilt of her head.
"Exactly, but I'd do it again a million times over." She just laughs softly.
"Tonight, being with you, dancing with you and kissing you, that was incredible, Matt." She tells him sincerely, smiling softly looking up at him. "But then Caroline.."
"What happened with Caroline is horrible but it's over now, she's on the path to healing and she'll be okay and hopefully he'll stay far away."
"I should get going." She sighs, looking over her shoulder to her aunt and twin before looking back to Matt.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" He asks and she smiles.
"See you tomorrow..and does tonight mean we're actually together." She asks a little nervously, looking up to him with a smile. The idea almost sounds foreign but sounds so laughs softly at they way she says it.
"Depends." He says, easy look on his face that is more playful and doesn't make her anxious at the words. She gives him a curious look and he continues but he reaches out, grabbing her arms causing her to smile.
"Alexis Gilbert, Will you be my girlfriend?" Matt asks her, tilting his head and her heart flutters in her chest. Alexis looks at him because she wants more than she can describe and nothing else has ever felt so right.
"Yes." She confirms laughing in her voice as she's feeling very giddy, eyes lighting up and lips quirking up before she's smiling like crazy before she kisses him. After they part way she walks over to the car feeling giddy but also a little upset from the events with Caroline. her aunt gives her a soft look, one that says that they need to talk about something and Alexis just nods and Jenna leaves that at that for now, seeing how drained but happy the girl is. Alexis gives a play by play of what happened outside with Matt and Elena's grinning at how even though her sister is tired just completely lights up, of course, she's also happy for Alexis.
"That's sounds perfect...So you and Matt?" Elena tells her and Alexis nods
"It really was perfect Elena and yes we are together..the way he asked me was so cute." Alexis tells her sister softly smile on her lips and the only continue to talk for a moment before Alexis starts writing in her journal about tonight before she crawls into be, falling asleep straight away.
Thanks for reading sorry this 'day' toke forever to write and complete. Hope you enjoyed! Also yes I will be having Matt and Alexis talk soon about the summer how they didn't talk after they hooked up cause i feel like they kinda need to clear that up. Her and tyler thoooooo i like having the friend-tense-protective-all those moments with them. Let me know what you think!
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