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edwardsgirl21: Oh we won't be seeing much of Johns face after this…
HEYITSJACE: Hope you enjoy what Maya does in this chapter as retaliation.
KaylaLove143: You're right, so far, Maya hasn't killed an innocent person, but Sheila and Bonnie just killed two.
Dark Angels and Light Angels: I get the feeling Kol's kind of possessive, so he'll probably be annoyed, but not so pissed off. Miranda should have trusted Jenna, but the two of them are on the outs. If she did, I'm guessing that she probably thought that untriggered wolves wouldn't be able to hear the noise, because the device attacked supernatural hearing. In her mind, they probably wouldn't have been affected because they were still human.
TikiKiki: Just take a look and see what Maya does!
musa22lbl: Maya is going to be handing out some punishment!
christopher03: Nik will be soon, we skipped ahead to February, it won't be long for May.
guest: Kol's not coming to town yet, but Caroline's got three Vampires there who will all help her learn how to be a Vampire.
Ashes2Dust18: Definitely a good thing that Rebekah gave Caroline her blood. It looks like some things were just meant to happen.
Dizzy Florian: Bekah's sireline is definitely the safest, it's the only one that wasn't tampered with in canon, plus, Caroline is so much like Rebekah that it just makes sense for them to be of the same bloodline.
Assenavira: There's some serious anger in this chapter!
NastySquire: Gotta love a cliff-hanger!
sammyleann: Kol's just gonna have to deal with it, he's the one that called Miss Mystic pointless!
Nicolle Cullen Masen: She's got Bekah's blood! She'll wake up!
Serena Salvatore: There will be definite suffering in this chapter!
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Saiyanprincess1511: It was probably for the best, I can definitely see Kol being annoying and holding it over Caroline's head if she was part of his sireline!
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Lourdes08: Eh, everybody hates John.
Minnie: Thank you! There's going to be a lot of anger going around the Sommers household, and a few of the Originals.
XxXLIFEafterDEATHXxX: Everybody's gonna be pissed, and thank you, I'm trying really hard to make this interesting for everyone.
Blu3b3rryT3a: John had Isobel in his ear, and he doesn't trust Jenna, he doesn't even know why she's on the Council. It's a good thing that Rebekah likes Caroline enough that she gave her blood.
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Enzo grabbed his chest, wincing as he felt pain lance through him, "Maya," he whispered, rushing out of the house and in the direction he felt she was in. He didn't know what had happened, but it wasn't good, Maya wasn't in pain, she was in agony, he needed to find her.
/ / /
Liz and Maya sped down the back roads in her police cruiser, Maya was directing her to where she'd last felt Caroline's presence. Liz slammed on the breaks as she came upon the scene of the accident. "Oh my God!" Liz whispered.
Maya raced out of the car the moment it stopped, "No! No! No!" she saw Caroline laid out on the ground, "CAROLINE!" Maya screamed, falling to her knees beside the body, "Caroline! No!"
Liz rushed up after her, and ended up on the other side of Caroline, "No! Caroline!" Liz reached for her daughter, checking her pulse. "NO!"
"Sunshine!" Maya gasped, "Sunshine please!" she shook Caroline's shoulders hoping to rouse the girl, "Please wake up!" she cried, tears streaming down her face, "Please don't do this!" she placed her hands on Caroline's chest, "Wake up!"
"Caroline," Liz was crying too, "Caroline, please I can't lose you!"
Maya couldn't stop crying, Caroline wasn't breathing, she had no pulse, she didn't know what to do, she threw herself over Caroline, sobbing, but just as she'd given up hope, her hands started to glow red, and she snatched them back in shock. "Oh my God!" she whispered.
Liz tried to hold back tears, "What is it?"
"There's magic in her," Maya gasped.
"What?! What does that mean?" Maya looked at Caroline's body in astonishment, "Maya! What does that mean?!"
"It means that she has Vampire blood in her system," Enzo said, appearing behind them.
Liz looked at him in shock, "What?"
"Rebekah's been giving Caroline her blood, in case of emergency," he looked down at Caroline's bloody body, her cuts and abrasions were slowly healing, too slow for a human to see, but not for him, "It looks like there was an emergency."
"Enzo?" Maya looked up at him, with tears in her eyes.
He looked at her with sympathy, "It will be okay," he crouched down pulling her to him, "She's healing, I can see it." Liz and Maya looked back at Caroline, they couldn't see it. "Trust me love, Liz, she's going to wake up."
"When?!"
"As soon as her body's healed," Enzo replied, "We need to get her out of here."
"I-Wh-We can't, we can't move her," Liz said, still not really understanding what was happening to her daughter.
"Liz," he said, coming over to her, lifting the woman up, "The Council can't know about this, and Caroline shouldn't wake up here, she should wake up somewhere comfortable, safe."
"But-" Liz sniffled, looking at the carnage, the other car that she hadn't even checked on, "All of this…"
"I'll take care if it," he'd texted Rebekah and Damon the moment that he'd seen Caroline's body, strewn on the ground, "We have to go."
Rebekah appeared to see the disaster before her, "God!" she whooshed over to the women and Enzo, "What happened?!"
"Jesus," Damon looked around surprise, how had this happened? They'd gotten everybody to safety before John's plan could take fruition, they'd sent Caroline home to be safe, and now she was dead!
"Caroline's dead," Enzo said, taking charge of the situation, he knew that Maya and Liz wouldn't be in any shape to do anything, "You get her home," he said to Damon, "Rebekah, take them," he nodded at the two women, who hadn't let go of Caroline, "I'll take care of the car."
The Vampires nodded, the Original grabbed Maya and Liz, and sped to the Sommers House, Damon gently lifted the blonde's broken body, and took her back to their home. While Enzo grabbed Caroline's car, and dragged it far from the accident site. He wanted to rush back to Maya, knowing that she wouldn't be okay until Caroline woke up. But there was still the matter of Richard Lockwood, his car crumpled against a tree, the man himself, dead inside, he was the Mayor, Enzo couldn't just make him disappear. Sighing, he whooshed over to the Boarding House, grabbed the keys for Damon's car, and drove back to the accident, where he made a phone call to the Sheriff's department, and waited for a deputy to show up.
Maya was curled up on the loveseat across from the couch, Damon had placed Caroline down in the living room, Liz was holding Caroline's hand, sobbing, Enzo and Rebekah had assured her that her daughter would wake up, but she still hadn't, and every moment that passed made her pain grow. "This is my fault," Maya muttered, her hands in her hair as she shook her head, "This is my fault, this is my fault."
"Hey," Enzo said, grabbing hold of her, "This isn't your fault, you didn't do this!"
Maya shook her head, "I gave Bonnie the grimoire! The device didn't work, I made sure of it! Bonnie and Sheila re-spelled it! That's what made Richard crash his car!"
"Look at me!" Enzo demanded, "You didn't do this! Sheila spelled it, John set off the device, even though he'd been told not to. They are the ones to blame for this, not you, do you understand me?!"
Maya's eyes hardened as she realised that Enzo was right, there were two people responsible for Caroline's death, and she would make them pay.
Katherine walked into the Gilbert house with a smile as Jeremy invited her inside, thinking that she was Elena. She was pissed, John was supposed to kill the tomb Vampires, without going after the Salvatores, but her little spy in the Sheriff's Department told her that he'd set it off at the parade, when everyone was there. Not only had he betrayed her, but he screwed up, there were no Vampires in the town centre, she sighed, if she wanted something done right, then it looked like she was going to have to do it herself.
She walked into the kitchen and saw John opening the fridge, pulling out some milk, he shut the door and jumped when he saw her, "Elena! You scared me!"
"Sorry," Katherine shrugged.
Sighing, John put the milk down, "You know, I first met Isobel when I was a teenager. I fell in love with her instantly, although I'm pretty sure she never loved me… She was special. A part of why I hate Vampires so much is because of what she became, how it ruined her. I never would have sent her to Damon if I had known that she wanted to turn."
"Why are you telling me this?" Katherine asked, wondering what John was trying to accomplish, "It's my fault, I'm telling you because I hoped maybe you'd understand why I did what I did."
"It didn't work, you didn't catch any Vampires."
"Yeah," John nodded, "I'm starting to believe that Jenna was telling the truth."
"Jenna?"
"She said that the tomb Vampires are all dead, said that they'd been killed before I came to town."
"But you still used the device, you tried to kill Stefan and Damon!"
"I was just trying to protect you Elena! Wherever Vampires go, death and destruction follow, I don't want anything to happen to you."
"I understand," Katherine nodded. She was done playing Elena, she looked at John with a smirk as he turned his back on her, she was about to attack him, when the front door burst open.
John rushed to the hallway, where Maya stood with Enzo, eyes ablaze with fury. "Maya! What are-"
She cut him off with a punch to the face, and he fell to the ground, Maya followed him down, slamming her fist into his face again and again. John tried to defend himself, but she was too strong, Enzo glared at Elena, when it looked like she was going to get involved, "Don't even think about it," he growled.
Maya wasn't even using her magic, her anger was what was fuelling her, "Maya!" Katherine gasped out, pretending that she was the human, in truth, Katherine was very interested in what was happening. Her spy didn't have much information on her, "What are you doing?!" she made to move forward, but the man with her closed the door behind him, and whooshed over to her, slamming her against the wall, he was a Vampire, how interesting. "Not a word Elena," he said, "John set off the device! It affected Richard Lockwood, and he crashed into Caroline's car! She's dead! Which means so is John!"
Katherine's eyes widened, Caroline was the Sheriff's daughter, if Richard had killed her, then he'd just activated his curse! That was very good news, "Stop her!" she mock struggled against the younger Vampire, she didn't know his name, but she'd find out, she didn't know that there was another Vampire in town.
Maya's last punch knocked John out, his face was covered in blood, but instead of stopping there, she wordlessly cast a spell to enhance her strength momentarily, and used it to snap John's neck. Standing up, she looked over at Enzo, "Let's go," she said, completely ignoring who she thought was Elena.
Enzo nodded and let go of Katherine, "Come on love," they had one more stop to make.
Bonnie was walking up the steps to her Gram's home, when she heard a noise from behind her, whirling around, she was met with a face full of powder, she coughed and realised that she couldn't feel her magic, "What-" she cut herself off as she saw Enzo stood in front of her, and it was then that she noticed Maya coming up behind him, a cold mask of rage on her face.
Maya glanced at Bonnie, but continued up the steps, she held out her hand to the front door, "Concutere!" the door exploded, and the Siphon walked inside.
"No!" Bonnie yelled, struggling to get free, she couldn't fight him off, her magic was gone!
"Struggling wont help," Enzo said, looking at the baby Witch, "That powder mutes your magic, it won't be back for hours."
"What are you doing?!"
"Your grandmother meddled in something she had no business in. She re-spelled the device."
"But you're fine!" Bonnie protested, "No one got hurt!"
Enzo glared at her, "The device affected Richard Lockwood, he was driving home, and crashed his car into Caroline's."
"What?" Bonnie stilled, what was he saying?
"The Mayor's dead, died on impact, and so did Caroline."
"Oh God! We didn't mean for-"
"I don't care what you meant, you took something that wasn't yours to take, destroyed something that was so much better than either of you! For that, someone needs to be punished."
"What are you gonna do?" Bonnie asked, but Enzo didn't reply, "Tell me!"
/ / /
Maya walked inside Sheila's house, the woman threw a spell at her, that she just knocked away, "Do you know what you did?" she asked, her voice ice, eyes glowing black and green, dark veins crawling across her skin, hair turning to midnight. "DO YOU?!" she thundered.
Sheila tried to stop Maya from advancing, "Phasmatos muro construere!" she erected an invisible wall in front of her, hoping to stop the girl, but the Siphon merely raised her hand, absorbing the magic of the wall until it disappeared.
"You killed Caroline!" Sheila's eyes widened, she hadn't touched the girl.
"I didn't!"
"You re-spelled the device! It didn't hurt the Vampires! It hurt the Lockwoods!"
Sheila shook her head in denial, that wasn't possible, neither of the Lockwoods were triggered, their hearing wasn't supernatural, "That's not possible!"
"Richard Lockwood drove his car into Caroline! She's dead!" A storm gathered in the air as Maya revealed the truth, lightning struck Sheila's garden, while thunder rocked the house.
"No!"
"SHE'S DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!" Maya roared, knocking away the older woman's hands and gripping her around her throat, "I SHOULD KILL BONNIE, I SHOULD MAKE YOU FEEL WHAT I FEEL!"
Sheila struggled against Maya's grasp, "Mot-"
Maya cut her off, choking her, "I'm gonna take something that you love."
Sheila couldn't move, Maya's abilities were so vastly superior to anything that she was prepared for, she couldn't protect her granddaughter, Maya was going to take Bonnie from her, that was the only thing she could think off.
Maya's hands glowed red, as she began to Siphon from the old woman, "Abscindere naturam, magicam accipere illam," she chanted, and Sheila's eyes widened, struggling as she realised what Maya was doing, "Abscindere naturam, magicam accipere illam!" she couldn't stop the girl, her magic slowly draining away.
When Maya was finished, she dropped the Bennett Witch to the ground, "What have you done?!" Sheila cried out, she couldn't feel her magic, couldn't feel nature, she couldn't feel anything.
"I contemplated turning you into a Vampire, making you live forever, without nature, it's torture for a Witch, so few actually get through that loss. But then I thought, you don't deserve forever. Without your magic to sustain you, you will fade away. You will never practice magic, you will never feel nature, you will suffer being human, you will die broken, and alone, knowing that when you leave this world, you will never see your family again." Maya dragged Sheila over to the front, "Enzo," she called.
Enzo appeared at the doorway, he'd knocked Bonnie out, leaving her on the porch swing, he sneered at the old woman, leaning in, pupils widening as he compelled her, "You will leave Mystic Falls tonight, you will never contact the Bennetts again, you will never tell anyone who and what Maya is, you will never work against her, or her allies, you will leave, knowing that your granddaughter will suffer without you. Because the Originals are coming," he whispered, "And they're loyal to Maya, Bonnie will be punished for your indiscretions, and there's nothing you can do about it."
Without her magic, Sheila was no longer protected against compulsion, Enzo's words took hold, as tears streamed down her face, she couldn't stop him, she couldn't save Bonnie. The Original's would destroy this town, they would break her granddaughter, and she was powerless to stop them. She should have left Maya alone.
Maya dropped Sheila to the floor when Enzo was finished, "Enjoy life as nothing, Sheila Bennett."
Katherine walked over to John after Maya and Enzo left, it appeared that she had a lot to learn about the cousin and the new comer, she didn't like being kept in the dark and she didn't like wild cards, she would have to deal with them. She heard the door click and got on her knees, pretending to cry over John's lifeless corpse. "Oh God! Uncle John!" she said.
Miranda walked in and saw her daughter kneeling over John, "Oh my God!" she rushed over to the two, "What happened?!"
"Mom!" Katherine cried, "I walked in and found him like this! I think he's dead!"
"John!" Miranda reached for her brother-in-law, checking his pulse, "His heart's not beating!" she started chest compressions, "Elena call 911." She looked up at her daughter, "ELENA NOW!" Katherine jumped up and grabbed the phone, "I need an ambulance to 2104 Maple Street," she looked over at Miranda, "They're on the way." Katherine looked down at John again, a smirk creeping across her face, but it dropped when John coughed, and came back to life, that was impossible! Unless…there was something supernatural about Elena's cousin.
Maya and Enzo rushed back home, "Is she awake yet?" Maya asked.
"Maya!" Jenna exclaimed, her daughter was covered in blood, not to mention that her hand was all messed up, "What the hell happened?"
"I killed John," she dismissed, walking over to Caroline, who was still dead, but her body looked much better, the cuts and bruises were all gone, meaning that she should be up very soon.
"What?!" Liz turned around, it was the first time that she'd taken her eyes off of her daughter, and was horrified at the sight. There was blood on Maya's face, her clothes, her hands. Her right hand in particular looked severely damaged.
"He'll wake up," she said, "It was a supernatural death."
Before Liz could reply, Caroline woke with a start, "What happened?" she asked.
/ / /
"I'm dead?" Caroline asked incredulously, as she looked around the room, at Damon, Enzo, Jenna, Maya, Rebekah and her mom. "I can't be dead!" she said.
"Caroline," Liz started.
"No! No! I'm not dead! I'm not! I can't be I was just driving home! I'm fine!"
Maya went to move closer, but Enzo held her back, and Damon stepped forward, sitting down on the edge of the couch, reaching for Caroline, "Blondie, hey, look at me. Blondie. Caroline!" He took her arms in his hands, "Look at me. This is happening, Caroline, you're dead."
"But-but I'm awake! I'm breathing!"
"Car-Caroline," Rebekah said, coming over to the young girl, "You died with my blood in your system, it brought you back, and now you have a decision to make."
Caroline teared up, her life as she knew it was over, "Maya?" she asked, looking over at her friend.
Maya tried to come forward again, but Enzo stopped her, "Enzo let me go!"
"No!" he said, "It's too dangerous!"
"I can take care of myself!"
"You're covered in blood!"
Maya rolled her eyes, "Lautus!" the blood disappeared. Her hand was still a mess, but at least there wouldn't be any extra temptation for Caroline, she shook off Enzo and rushed over to her best friend. "Sunshine, sweetheart," she slipped her hand into Caroline's.
"What am I supposed to do?" she asked.
Maya took a breath, she couldn't believe she was going to say this, "You're gonna do what you want to do, you have a choice too make. You drink human blood, and you become a Vampire, you'll live, but you'll be stuck at this age, forever, you won't be able to have children, at least, ones that aren't biologically yours, and then there's the bloodlust." She gripped Caroline's hand tighter, "But you'll live, you can see the world, do anything that you want to, be anyone you want to be."
"What's the alternative?" Caroline asked.
"You die," Damon said simply, "Those are your only options."
Caroline's eyes slid to her mother, "Mom?"
"Caroline," Liz said, brushing away her tears, "I can't lose you," she whispered.
Caroline looked between the Vampires, "Will you help me?" she asked, "Will you teach me?"
"Of course love," Enzo came forward then, "We'll show you how to survive as a Vampire. We promise."
Caroline turned her attention back to Maya, knowing that her friend wouldn't take away her choice, "I- I want to have a shower."
Maya nodded, "Okay, okay, come on," she got up, and helped her Sunshine stand up, "Aunt Liz, will you help me?" Liz got up and all three of them went upstairs.
Damon sighed, "I'll get a blood bag," he said, going to the basement, Jenna wouldn't let them keep the blood in the kitchen fridge, because she thought it was gross.
/ / /
Caroline was fresh out of the shower, in bed, with her mother and Maya sat opposite her, "How long do I have left?" she asked.
"Best estimate," Maya said, "A couple hours, you suffered a lot of damage in the car accident."
Caroline looked at her mom, "Mom, can I have a minute alone with Maya?"
Liz glanced at her god-daughter, who nodded, "Of course honey, I'll be right outside okay."
When she left, the red-head moved closer to the blonde, "What is it Sunshine? We talked about being a Vampire, I mean, that's why you have like four different pieces of daylight jewellery. What's going on?"
"What if I can't do this?" Caroline asked.
"What?"
"I'm not equipped to be a Vampire! I'm insecure, and neurotic, and a perfectionist! How is that going to translate into being a Vampire?!"
"Sunshine," Maya said, "I think, you're going to be amazing! And yes, it's gonna be difficult, and I'm not gonna lie to you, no matter how much and how hard you try, you will end up killing someone, I won't judge you for it, I'll never judge you for it. I mean I'm not one to talk, I just beat John Gilbert to death."
"WHAT?!"
"He killed you Caroline, what was I supposed to do?"
"You killed him for me?" she asked, her heart warming a little, which was a little worrying.
"Of course I did, I mean he was wearing his stupid ring, so he'll come back to life, but I'll do it again if you want."
"Don't kill him again! I'm sure Kol's gonna want to have a go," she shrugged, and Maya smiled.
"You want Kol to kill him?"
"I don't want it, but I don't see how I could stop it…"
Maya shook her head, "Okay, do you wanna run the clock out, or do you want some blood?"
"I don't wanna die," Caroline replied. Maya grabbed the glass from the nightstand, and cut open her hand, allowing blood to drip into it. "What are you doing?"
"Your first drink shouldn't be from some stranger, or a blood bag, it should be from someone who loves you, and trusts you." She handed the glass over, "Plus, I'm pretty sure that if you transition with my blood, it will seal the evasion spell on you. You'll be a baby Vampire, I want you to be protected."
Caroline looked at the glass, everything in her was telling her to drink it, so she did, her Vampire face coming to the surface the moment she swallowed the blood. She looked up at her best friend in worry, "I'm so hungry."
Maya waved her hand and the door opened, "DAMON! BLOOD BAGS!" she yelled, the elder Salvatore whooshed in, carrying several.
"I'll take it from here." He said, ushering the Siphon out, knowing that Caroline wouldn't want Maya to see her during her first feed, it was never pretty for a newbie Vamp.
Elena came home with Stefan, she wanted to check on Jeremy, when she opened the door, she gasped, there was blood all over the floor, "Oh my God! Jeremy!" she called, racing upstairs, Stefan with her, "Jeremy!" she burst into her brother's room, but he wasn't there. "Stefan! Jeremy's gone!"
"Elena calm down, we'll call him, find out where he is, okay?"
Elena pulled out her phone and dialled her brother, "Jeremy? Where are you?"
"What do you mean, where am I?" he repeated, "We're at the hospital! You were with us!"
"What?! No I wasn't!"
"Yes, you were Elena! Mom drove us both! What's wrong with you?" Stefan grabbed the phone and hung up on Jeremy.
"Stefan, what-"
"Elena, he thinks that you were there with him! There's only one way he could possibly believe that."
Elena's eyes widened, "What are you-"
"Katherine's here!"
"Where's Caroline?" Jenna asked, it was first thing in the morning, and she saw Liz and Maya, but no one else, "Where are the guys?"
"Caroline needs to learn how to be a Vampire," Maya answered, "Damon and Enzo took her to Richmond, a big city is the best place to learn."
"And that's better than her being here in case she kills someone," Liz replied. Jenna and Maya looked at her in shock, "And I can't believe I just said that, but I'm gonna focus on Carol Lockwood and the fact that the Mayor is dead!" she headed out of the house, ignoring breakfast.
"She's not handling Vampire Caroline well, is she?" Jenna asked.
Maya shook her head, "Nope."
"I should probably go with her huh?"
"Yep."
Bonnie woke up with a start on the couch in her grandmother's living room, "Grams?" she called in a panic, she ran upstairs, and found her grandmother things missing, "Grams!" She ran back downstairs and found a note on the coffee table. Enzo had compelled Sheila to leave, compelled her to have no future contact with any Bennett's, but that didn't mean that she couldn't leave a note, she didn't want her granddaughter to think that she was dead.
Bonnie gasped as she read what her Grams had written, her mother had disappeared, her father was barely there, and now Grams was gone.
Maya and Rebekah walked up the drive to the Lockwood mansion, "I don't see why I should have to go to this thing, I didn't even know the Mayor."
"This is the perfect environment to get you invited inside, Carol's not going to be paying attention, and this place hosts most of the parties you need an invite."
"Fine," she sighed, "Let's get this over with."
"Tyler," Maya said, hugging him, "I'm so sorry."
"Thanks for coming Maya," Tyler said, hugging her back, tightening his arms around her, as he tried to keep a hold of himself. His father was dead, and though they didn't have a good relationship, it still hurt.
Maya pulled back, "This is my friend Rebekah, she moved to town recently."
"I just wanted to offer my condolences," the Original said, "I recently lost my father, I understand what you're going through."
Tyler nodded, "Thank you," he replied, "Please come in, my mom's inside with the Sheriff."
Maya and Rebekah nodded, crossing the threshold and walking in.
/ / /
Tyler's job was to greet everyone as they arrived to the wake, he hated it, but it was better than being inside, he was looking out at the driveway, when he spotted a black truck driving up, "So the black sheep returns," he said as a man got out of the truck and walked up the steps.
"Tyler?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"What happened to you? In my mind you were twelve years old."
"That's two years older than the last time you saw me, Uncle Mason."
Mason hugged his nephew, "It's good to see you again."
"You too, come inside."
/ / /
Elena was outside of John's hospital room, "Are you ready for this?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah, let's do this," Elena replied, they walked inside, "John?" she asked, and he opened his eyes. "It's Elena, I'm not Katherine."
John coughed, "Why- why would you think that? Katherine's here?!"
"Didn't she do this to you?" Elena asked confused.
"Maya did!"
"What?" Stefan asked, "Why would she do this?"
"She said the device affected the Mayor, he crashed his car into Caroline, she's dead."
"Oh my God!"
/ / /
"Who's that man with Carol?" Rebekah asked, eyeing him up and down like a piece of meat.
"The late Mayor's much younger, much hotter brother, Mason Lockwood."
"He is something to look at, isn't he?" Rebekah replied.
"If I wasn't so into your brother, I would climb him like a tree." Maya saw Mason smirk, he'd definitely heard her, but she wasn't embarrassed, he knew that he was hot.
"Well, you are into my brother, and I'm very happily single," Rebekah replied.
Maya pulled out her phone and typed in a text, showing it to the Original, "He's sleeping with Katherine."
Rebekah made a face, "Oh please, as if she can compete with me," she tossed her hair over her shoulder and the girls walked away.
/ / /
Bonnie walked in to the Lockwood Mansion, looking for Maya, she spotted Katherine, posing as Elena and headed over to her, "Hey! Have you seen Maya?"
Katherine shook her head "No, why?"
"She came over to Gram's house last night, and now she's gone!"
"I'm sorry," Katherine said, "I haven't seen her. Are you okay?"
Bonnie touched her, and got the feeling that she'd gotten the first time that she'd touched Stefan, "I'm fine," she said abruptly, "I should go find Tyler," she turned around and headed into the next room, pulling out her phone, dialling Elena.
"Hello?"
"Elena? Where are you?"
"I know I'm late! I'll be there in five," Elena hung up.
Bonnie turned around, and came face-to-face with Katherine, "We haven't officially met, I'm Katherine."
"I know who you are."
"Of course you do. You're the best friend, right? I've been putting all the pieces of Elena's life together. Isobel told me it was a bit of a puzzle. I do know who Miranda and Jeremy are and I met that delicious ex-boyfriend Matt, he's sweet on Caroline, who's best friends with Maya, the Gilbert cousin, and then there's you, the Vampire-hating Bennett Witch. Did I do good?"
Bonnie tried to get out of Katherine's grip, but the Vampire was too fast, so Bonnie tried to use an aneurism spell on her. Katherine feigned being hurt for a second, before straightening with a smirk, "I've been around a long time Bonnie; you have to do better than that," she caught the Witch by the throat and slammed her against the wall, her face changed, moving to attack her. But Bonnie threw the doors of the room open, hoping to catch the attention of someone. "Nice," Katherine shrugged, before going in for her again.
"Leave her alone Katherine!" Stefan said, charging in.
"Okay," the doppelgänger shrugged. Dropping the Witch and walking out of the room.
The younger Salvatore followed her out, "What are you doing here?"
"I thought that a public place would be less violent," Katherine replied.
"You're taking this a little far don't you think? Elena could walk in at any moment."
"But that's part of the fun Stefan!"
"You need to leave now Katherine," the two of them were outside by the pool, thanks to the nature of the gathering at the Lockwood's, no one was there.
"You're hurting my feelings, Stefan. I'm sure Damon would be much happier to see me, where is your brother, by the way?"
"Katherine, I'm not doing this with you!" Stefan hissed, pulling her further away from the house.
"Okay, how about we don't have a couple's fight in front of all of your friends?" she asked, "Walk with me."
"Just tell me what you're doing here!"
"Maybe I missed you. Is that an acceptable reason?"
"What game are you playing?"
"Why?" Katherine asked, pressing herself against him, "You wanna play with me?"
"I don't know," Stefan shook his head, "How can I play if I don't know the rules?"
"No rules," Katherine pulled back, "Don't you remember?" She walked off and Stefan followed, "The Lockwood's have a lot more land than they used to. Those tomb Vampires built them quite a fortune."
"Yeah," Stefan said, "Why did you want them dead? You are the one who turned most of them," he didn't understand, why would Katherine want the tomb Vampires gone?
Katherine sighed, "There's nothing more annoying than revengeful Vampire Stefan. Just ask John Gilbert."
"You didn't hurt John, Elena's cousin did," Stefan shook his head, here Katherine was, trying to take credit for something that she hadn't done. "You haven't changed at all have you?"
"But you have. You're stronger, meaner, sexy."
"Don't flirt with me Katherine, I'm not Damon; I haven't spent 145 years obsessed with you…although, from what I've seen, he's over you too. He killed all the tomb Vampires, way before you even thought of coming back to town. Did you know that?"
Katherine scoffed, "Well I guess Damon has a temper, he must have been upset when he found out I wasn't in the tomb. And based on your choice of woman Stefan, I'd say that you're just as obsessed with me as Damon is. Although I will admit, it does bother me that you're falling in love with someone else."
"I was never in love with you, Katherine. You compelled me, so none of my feelings were real."
"Believe what you want Stefan, but I know the truth and deep down so do you."
"The truth? Well, the truth is, you're the same lying, selfish, manipulative bitch that you've always been. So, whatever it is that brought you here, why don't you just get on with it and leave town? Because if you don't, I will hunt you down and I will rip your heart out." He snarled, he wasn't going to have Katherine ruin his life any longer.
"You want to know why I'm here Stefan? I came back for you."
"Well the problem Katherine, is that I hate you," Stefan replied.
Katherine scowled, grabbing an iron rod, and stabbing him with it, causing him to groan in pain, "You hate me huh?" she twisted the pipe, causing him to fall to the ground, "That sound like the beginning of a love story Stefan, not the end of one." She yanked out the rod and dropped it on the floor, storming off in anger.
/ / /
"Stefan!" Elena gasped, seeing blood on his shirt, "What happened?"
"Katherine was here."
"What did she want?"
Stefan gave her a worried look, "She said she's here for me," he replied.
"What?!"
"She said that she came back for me, but she asked about Damon too, she was surprised that he wasn't here. And she tried to hide it, but she was even more surprised when I told her that Damon already killed the tomb Vampires."
"What are we supposed to do Stefan? I mean, can you even stop her?"
Stefan shook his head, "Not alone, Katherine's 500 years old, she's way too strong for me, we need help."
"Bonnie," Elena assumed.
"I was thinking more along the lines of Maya."
"After what she did to John! You can't be serious?!"
"She's powerful! That spell she did on Caroline, I've never seen anything like it before, and from what Damon tells me, she's been practicing magic since she was a kid. She has way more experience than Bonnie."
"So we'll ask Bonnie's Grams!"
"We can try, but Sheila's more likely to stop Bonnie from helping, she doesn't want her granddaughter mixed up in Vampire business."
"We have to try," Elena insisted.
"Alright," Stefan nodded, putting on his jacket, zipping it up to cover up the hole and blood on his shirt, "We can ask."
/ / /
"Maya!" Bonnie stormed up to the girl, she was out back, alone for the most part, there were a few people milling around, not too far away. "What did you do to my Grams?!" she demanded.
"What do you mean?" Maya asked, nonchalantly, she was waiting for Bonnie to come and find her, she just didn't think that Bennett Witch would confront her in such a public setting.
"She's gone! She left a note, saying that she's never coming back! She wouldn't do that to me!"
Maya rolled her eyes, and cast a silencing bubble around the two of them, "Caroline died last night Bonnie, and your grandmother's meddling was the cause. I stripped her of her magic, as a Siphon I can do that. Once she lost her Witch abilities, she was nothing more than a regular old human being. Enzo compelled her to leave, to live on her own, to never act against me, and to never contact her family again."
"Why?"
"Why? Why? BECAUSE SHE MURDERED CAROLINE! THE ONLY REASON I DIDN'T KILL HER IN RETURN IS BECAUSE CAROLINE HAD VAMPIRE BLOOD IN HER SYSTEM!"
Bonnie stopped short at that, "What? She's a Vampire?! Then she's not dead! How could you do this?!"
"Caroline may be walking and talking, but she is most certainly dead," Maya hissed, "Do you know what it means to be a Vampire? It means she'll never grow old, she'll never be able to settle in one place. She'll never be able to fall in love without thinking that the one that she loves won't want to be with her forever. She will have to watch everyone she loves die! And she'll never be able to have children! You may not be friends with her, but you know how badly she wanted a family! Your grandmother took that from her, took her ability to choose how to live her life! You're lucky that I didn't strip you of your own magic Bonnie Bennett! Because I know that Sheila didn't re-spell the device on her own. You helped her, you're lucky you didn't suffer the same fate!"
"People aren't your playthings!" Bonnie yelled back, "You can't just decide people's fate!" she concentrated and tried to cast a pain spell on Maya, but the more experienced of the two stopped her.
Maya grabbed Bonnie's top, yanking her close, her eyes turned black, and Bonnie shuddered in fear, all she felt surrounding her was death, "I can do whatever I want! Threaten me again, and see what I do to you."
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