Disclaimer: Don't own anything you recognise.
Thanks for the reviews and follows! Don't expect really fast chapters! I just had to get this out of my head!
musa22lbl: Hope you like this one! It's a short one!
jessisthebestduh: She definitely forgot!
xotinkerbella: Kol knows that Caroline doesn't see Matt as something long term, he's not insecure, he knows that she'll choose him when she's ready. I'm looking forward to Isobel's death, especially because Klaus has got his hands on her now. The truth about Damon and Enzo is going to come out soon enough!
HEYITSJACE: John and Katherine are going to freak out
ArtemisLuna85: Maya knows that no one does revenge better than Klaus, and she will definitely use that to her advantage. I think it's more that Vampires get possessive over people and Kol is possessive over Caroline.
WiseGirlDivergence46: Don't jump through the screen!
Blu3b3rryT3a: Isobel made a terrible mistake, and it was inevitable that Kol would do something stupid, at least it wasn't too bad! I'm sure he'll be forgiven soon!
dreamsnhugs: Thanks, hope you like this one!
Guest: Enjoy!
edwardsgirl21: I have a plan for Shelia, I know that no one likes her, but she's going to do something integral to the plot!
APridefulSin: You said it!
Starhunter18: It's coming, just be patient!
Saiyanprincess1511: Katherine is coming! So soon!
Dizzy Florian: Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! There are major points I want to cover right up until the sacrifice, after that, things go a little…wonky!
"Grams?" Bonnie asked, spotting Sheila pouring over Emily's grimoire, she has a small metal object on the table next to her, with several spell ingredients. "What are you doing?"
"Bonnie!" Sheila looked up, she didn't have the power to recreate Emily's spell, but with Bonnie's help, perhaps they could fix it. "Come here! I want to show you this spell!"
Bonnie brightened, her Grams had been teaching her magic, but very slowly, she didn't think that she'd get to do any of the spells in the grimoire for a long time. Putting down her bag, she came over to the table, "What is it?"
"Your ancestor, created a device to use as a weapon against Vampires." Shelia gestured to the small metal object on the table, "Of course Maya Sommers got a hold of it, and siphoned out all the magic, rendering it useless!" Sheila frowned, she'd had enough of that girl, taking things that didn't belong to her, destroying precious magical items that her ancestor had created. It was time to do something about her, she'd allowed an abomination to grow powerful in her town, but not any more, and she would start, by removing her Vampire protection.
"Why do you have it?" Bonnie asked, "What are we doing?"
"We're going to re-spell it."
"Wait, we?"
"Yes," Sheila nodded, "You're going to help me."
Jeremy had been dragged to the Founder's Day Parade by his mother and John, they'd abandoned him as soon as they saw the Mayor, all three of them looking very suspicious. The youngest Gilbert scowled; he was tired of being left out of the loop by his family. John kept dropping these un-subtle hints about Vampires, while his mother was trying to keep him far away from anything to do with them. They were obviously up to something, and he was going to find out what. He just needed a little help to do it, spotting his Aunt Jenna, he jogged over to her, catching her attention.
"Jeremy? What's up?" she thought he looked concerned.
"I think Mom and Uncle John are up to something, they've been sneaking around, and they've just gone off with the Mayor."
Jenna frowned, Maya had told her that she had a bad feeling about today, and a secret Council meeting didn't sound good. "Where did they go?" she asked.
"Towards dad's clinic."
"I'll deal with it." She said, "Go find Maya."
"What are you gonna do?" he asked.
"I'm on the Council now, I'm going to see what they're up to."
/ / /
Liz walked into the old clinic, after Jenna, her friend had texted her that there was some sort of Council meeting and they'd both raced over, just as John and Richard started talking.
"This is the key." John held up the part of the device that Sheila had given him, "Once inserted, the device will be activated. It will work only once for an estimated time of 5 minutes."
"How does it work?" Richard asked.
"It's a high pitched frequency that humans can't hear. Any vampires within a five-block radius will be incapacitated, exposing them. At that time, the Sheriff's Deputies will inject them with vervain and bring them here, where we will finish them all."
"There's been no Vampire activity since Damon killed the last one," Jenna said, "Don't you think you're wasting something you only have one shot with?"
John glared at her, "All signs indicate that there are Vampire's in town, what are you even doing here Jenna? You're not one of the Founding Families."
"A lot has changed since you were last here," Liz cut in, before Jenna went off on John, "She's a part of the Council, and she's right. There aren't any Vampires in Mystic Falls."
"And how can you be so sure?" John asked.
"Because I have this!" Liz pulled out her compass, "And unlike the Gilbert compass, mine covers the entire span of the town, as you can see, no movement what so ever. Which means, there's no Vampires here!"
"Where did you get that?" John asked, eyes widening.
"That's none of your business," Jenna replied, "You don't live in town anymore, so you don't get to know all of the Council's secrets."
"I'm inclined to agree," Mayor Lockwood said.
"Richard," Miranda admonished, "John's here to help us."
"By wasting a serious weapon that could be used against Vampires when there are none in town?" Jenna asked.
"The hospital-"
"There haven't been any more dead hikers, robbed blood banks, or mysterious disappearances since John brought them to our attention. How many Vampires do you even think are here?" Jenna was unimpressed.
"Twenty-six," John replied.
"What?" Liz asked, she knew that John was worried about Vampires, but to think that there were that many in town, that was ridiculous!
"In 1864, that church fire was a cover, in reality 26 Vampires were locked away in a tomb, they've just been let out."
Liz looked over at Jenna worriedly, but the younger woman shook her head and rolled her eyes, "That's what you're worried about? The tomb Vampires?"
"You know about them?" John asked, perplexed, he was expecting more scepticism from Jenna, but it was like the information wasn't new to her.
"Yeah," Jenna nodded, "I know about them, I also know that they're all dead."
"What?"
"What are you talking about?" Miranda asked.
"This is my home, my daughter's home, I couldn't take the chance that someone was going to come to town and let a bunch of angry starving Vampires out. So I had the tomb opened, and burnt the Vampires to ash."
"That's impossible!" John protested.
"Did you get Maya to do it?!" Miranda asked, horrified.
"Someone had to protect this town," Jenna shrugged.
"They can't all be dead!"
"You think I let any of them out?" Jenna held her hand over her heart, "They're vicious monsters John! I have a daughter, I'd never let her get hurt!"
John clenched his jaw, and moved to say something but Liz cut him off, "Is that all?" she asked, "Because if that's all we were here for, I think we're done. You should put the device back in the Council's archives, so that when we actually have need of it, we can use it."
"Agreed," Richard nodded, at John's look he elaborated, "You said the device will only work once, and we don't have any proof that there are Vampires in town. Get proof, and then we can use the device."
Maya pulled out her phone as it chirped with a notification she'd just received a message from her Mom, "The Gilbert device is working, get the guys out of here!"
Maya's eyes widened, that was impossible, she'd drained the device of all of it's magic, and Sheila wasn't powerful enough to re-spell it, unless… oh shit! Maya's eyes widened as she raced off to find her friends, Caroline and Damon were still on the float, she needed to find Enzo…and Rebekah! She put her phone to her ear, as she called her friends, "Rebekah!" Maya gasped as she picked up the phone, "Get home now! The Council is going to use a device to expose Vampires! Get out of here!"
"What about the boys?!" the Original asked alarmed, already headed home.
"I'll take care of it," Maya replied, "Just keep yourself safe, and make sure Nik's wolves stay inside too!"
She hung up on Rebekah, she couldn't find Enzo, but she did spot Stefan, "Stefan!" she called, he was stood with Elena.
"Maya?" Stefan was confused, she never really spoke to him without his brother.
"Stefan, you have to get out of here!"
"What?"
"What are you talking about Maya?" Elena asked.
"That device we gave to Isobel, John got the Bennett's to re-spell it, it's a weapon to use against Vampires, you need to get home, right now!" It was getting dark, and Maya could feel like she didn't have much time left.
Jenna was driving Enzo and Damon back to her house, they didn't trust that John would listen to her and needed to get inside before he set off the device. Liz and Maya had stayed behind at the parade to look for him, he'd disappeared shortly after they told him to give up the device. "Do you have any idea where he went?" Maya asked, looking around the people that had started to disperse.
Liz shook her head, "I checked the clinic, he's gone, Richard said that John kept the device with him, and some of my deputies are missing as well."
"Where's Caroline?" Maya asked, if she'd gotten in a car with Tyler, she was going to be in trouble when John set off that weapon.
"I sent her home."
"Alone?"
"Yeah," Liz nodded.
"Oh thank God," the red-head sighed in relief, there was no chance that Caroline would be in trouble tonight then. All they had to do was find John, and take the weapon from him.
/ / /
"John are you sure this is a good idea?" Miranda asked, they were in the apartment above the clinic, no one thinking to look there as it had been empty for years.
"Miranda I'm telling you, there are Vampires here, if we don't get rid of them now, then Jeremy and Elena are going to be in trouble."
Miranda froze, she couldn't bear the thought of losing either one of her children, she'd lost her husband, she'd be damned if one of her kids ended up hurt. "Okay," she nodded, "Are we ready?"
"The deputies are in place," John confirmed, checking his phone, he switched on the device, and peaked out of the curtains in the apartment, seeing if he could spot any Vampires dropping to the ground in pain. "What?" he muttered.
"What is it?" Miranda asked, coming over to the window.
"No one's dropping!"
/ / /
Maya spun around as she tried to get a lock on John, where could he possibly be? She resolved to head over to the clinic, and see if he'd left any clues, when she felt a stabbing pain in her chest. "AAH!" she screamed.
Liz grabbed her and pulled her up, and into the alley, "Maya! What is it? What happened?!"
Maya panted as she looked up at Liz in fear, "Caroline," she whispered.
/ / /
Richard was driving himself home, he'd sent Tyler and Carol ahead of him, his car was speeding down a back road, when he heard an ear-splitting screech. "Argh!" he groaned, letting go of the wheel, the sound got louder as his car swerved out of control, he didn't realise what had happened, but he'd sped up, he was going over twice the speed limit, and slammed into another car. Richard's chest cracked against the steering wheel, his air bag didn't deploy, as his car spun off and hit a tree.
/ / /
Caroline was on her way home, pissed because John Gilbert's little idea had ruined the rest of the parade, there were supposed to be speeches and fireworks, but it had been shut down, and her Mom had sent her away. Sighing, she slowed down as she came up to a stop sign, and just before she pulled off, someone slammed into her from behind. Her car flipped over, the latch on her seatbelt snapping open, and she was thrown through the windshield, landing on the ground ten feet from her car. Caroline Forbes, died before she hit the floor.
If you have time, please leave a review, they are awasome!