Caroline hummed happily as she tucked teddy into his pram, he had been giving everyone grief because he was teething he wasn't sleeping and what food he did get he threw it at them, they were all tired which was why the had bags under their eyes. harry was the most affected out of all of them, Teddy slept in his room and most of the time he kept Harry up crying.
Nothing they did seemed to work, they had even tried teething ring but no avail.
So Caroline had decided that she would take him out, see if a walk around Mystic falls would do him some good, if it didn't well they could cross another thing off the list that seemed to be ever growing.
"Now you be good for me okay?"
Teddy blinked at her, his eyes were wide but she could tell he was sleepy. He was tired and grumpy just like they all were. But still she had to try, and if anyone could say anything about Caroline it was that she didn't quit. With Teddy safely tucked into the pram and a blanket over him she left the house, she picked up her keys that were in the bowl and closed the door behind her.
Caroline took Teddy the long way around Mystic falls, she hoped that he would fall asleep along the way. She had no idea if he would or not but she still hoped, Caroline took a left down the old forest road. The road hadn't been used in years, not after it had flooded one year and people had died. So it should be safe for her and Teddy, she hummed as she walked along Teddy yawning every few moments, as his eyes dropped down. She gave a mental happy dance as he fell asleep.
Caroline looked around and smiled to herself, just as she was about to stop a dear came out of the woods and scared her. She gasped and as the deer hit the pram causing Teddy to roll into the middle of the road, she only had a few seconds to think before she had pushed him out of the way and her body went flying through the air.
Katherine had been stalking Caroline since she had left the house, she knew that they could be here one day and gone the next but still she wanted to protect them. She watched as Teddy dropped off, she gave a small smile it reminded her of what she could have had with her daughter before she had been taken away.
Katherine shook her head, she didn't want to think on that now. She couldn't if she did she feared that she would cause someone some serious harm, she hated her father for what he had did and she had wanted to kill him for it. But Klaus had beaten her to the punch when he had killed her entire family. Something that she had wanted to thank him for.
Katherine watched in horrid fascination as a deer, ran from the woods and knocked Teddy into the road. But before she had time to act, Caroline had pushed Teddy out of the way and her body went sailing through the air like a broken doll. Her body hit the ground with a sickening thud, Katherine rushed over and pulled Teddy to the side. She watched as the car drove off the driver putting his foot down, Teddy was still sleeping peacefully despite what had just happened.
Katherine had thought that he would of woken up, that he would of started screaming but no he still slept.
She looked down at Caroline's body and bit her wrist before pressing it to her mouth, she sighed when Caroline took a gulp of her blood. Katherine frowned when she noticed that her blood wasn't doing anything that Caroline was not healing.
"There must be too much damage."
Katherine did the only thing that she knew would help, she snapped Caroline's neck and began her transition into a vampire, she pulled Teddy out of the pram and made sure that he was safe in her arm before picking Caroline up and rushing to the house. She willed her body to go that little bit faster.
When she saw the house she nearly sighed in relief, and from the noise that was coming from the house everyone was home. She knocked on the door so hard that it rattled on its hinges, Liz opened the door and gasped
"Caroline!"
The rest of them came running as soon as they had heard Liz's gasp, they looked at Katherine, Teddy and Caroline Angela turned to Harry as she spoke with urgency
"You need to invite them in."
Harry turned to Katherine and spoke
"Come in, Katherine and Caroline."
No one need to ask why he had said Caroline, they knew what was happening. Katherine placed Caroline down on the couch as Sarah ran down to the basement were she worked and grabbed some blood bags before rushing back up stairs. John hobbled into the front room, having been woke up from the noise he had only been released a few hours ago. He looked at Caroline and Katherine his lips set into a grim line, he like Liz knew what was going on with Caroline there was no denying it.
Caroline was turning into a vampire.
Liz sat down on the couch she was in shock she didn't think that this could of happened, Harry had took Teddy and placed him in his cot. He didn't want Teddy in the room for what was going to happen. Liz stood up and exclaimed
"How the hell did this happen?"
They looked at Katherine who explained
"A deer knocked Teddy into the road, Caroline pushed him out of the way as a car came speeding down the road she got hit."
They looked at her, Caroline moaned as she came to
"What's going on? Why does my throat burn?"
Liz held her hand to her mouth as tears gathered in her eyes, she didn't know what to think or do. She had never thought that Caroline would be turned it hadn't even crossed her mind, but it was happening. Harry looked around the room, he knew that there would be fireworks he could see it. Bonnie was stood shaking her head in denial as she looked at Caroline.
"This can't be happening."
Sarah gave Caroline and Katherine a blood bag as she spoke softly to Caroline
"You are in transition, now you have two choices. One you can drink the blood bag and complete it, or the second one is you don't feed and you die."
Caroline looked around the room, the smell of blood was getting to her. But it wasn't John, Liz and Bonnie no it was Sarah, Angela and Harry. They smelled divine to her and she wanted a drink from them.
"I-I-I cant!"
Before anyone could do anything she launched herself at Sarah and bit into her neck, her fangs slid into Sarah's neck with ease, Angela and Harry held back John and Liz while Katherine had hold of Bonnie. They watched as Caroline drank from Sarah, Sarah stroked her hair as she murmured
"That's it Care, keep drinking."
Caroline pulled back in shock and horror, she could believe what she had did. She threw herself against the wall and looked at them with wide eyes
"Please don't."
No one moved, they didn't dare to move. But slowly and surely Sarah took step after step closer to Caroline, when she was right in front o her she pulled her in for a hug Caroline stiffened as she smelt the fresh blood that was pouring from Sarah's neck. She was struggling with herself everyone could see that, but there was still the fact that she needed to feed.
John and Liz had always been taught that vampires were evil, that they needed to be killed. They could say that they had never met a decent vampire in their lives most of them preyed on humans they killed without regret, but seeing Caroline fight with herself. Trying to stop herself from taking what was freely been offered to her made them pause, did they really know everything about vampires?
Or had everything they had been told and taught wrong?
They didn't know what to think, they didn't know what to do.
Sarah carefully pushed Caroline's mouth to the wound on her neck as she said in a firm tone
"Drink."
Caroline struggled she didn't want to hurt her!
But when Sarah wiped her bloody finger against her lips she lost the fight and bit back down onto the flesh underneath her lips. As Caroline drank she felt the burning in her throat recede, then suddenly it was gone. She took one last mouthful of blood before she pulled away, she smiled at Sarah who smiled back before she swayed on her feet. Katherine caught her before she had chance to fall.
"That was some impressive control."
Katherine didn't give out compliments easily, but the way that Caroline had fought over her instincts had impressed her. Normally a newly turned vampire attacks everything in sight until they are full, Caroline had fought it she had done what very few of them had.
Soon they were all sat down in the front room, Teddy was still asleep upstairs. They were not surprised that he had slept through what had gone on because Teddy could sleep through and earthquake.
The room was silent no one dared to talk, no one knew what to say until Caroline broke it
"What happens now?"
Liz didn't know what to say to it, because she didn't know what would happen. All she had wished for with Caroline was that she had a happy life and lived to a ripe old age, but now it looked like it wouldn't happen. It couldn't happen.
John knew that if he opened his mouth he would get punched, he knew that it wasn't Caroline's fault that she couldn't be blamed, but still years of teaching that had been taught to him told him that she was evil, that she was now a monster and needed to be killed.
Angela held a towel to Sarah's neck while glaring darkly at her
"What the hell were you thinking?"
Sarah gave a weak laugh
"That I make the better snack?"
Harry leaned over and hit her on the shoulder causing her to wince slightly, her body was weak from the blood loss she knew that but she couldn't help but rile them up. Harry looked at Caroline and saw the guilt in her eyes, Bonnie he noticed wasn't looking at Caroline. Still they needed to sort out the problem.
"We help you, what happened wasn't your fault. If it is anyone's fault it is the person who hit you. Not yours Caroline."
Caroline sniffed
"B-b-but look at what I did!"
They looked at Sarah who was pale and having a towel pressed to her neck, Sarah pushed Angela's hand away and stumbled over to Caroline, once she got to the couch she practically fell into it. She pulled Caroline onto her lap as she said
"Afghanistan, 6 years ago. I was in a squad of specially selected people, there was one werewolf, two vampires a wendigo, a fae and a wood nymph. We had been given a mission to recuse a young fire sprite. She had been kidnapped by a group of humans who wanted her dead."
She rolled up the sleeve of her shirt to reveal a piece of muscle and flesh missing from her arm, she looked at Caroline and continued speaking
"Everything had been fine we had got her and she was safe, on the way back out one of the men who we thought was dead wasn't. He fired a full round into Chris who was the wendigo, I doubled back for him after telling them to keep going. I pulled him back behind some crates as I pulled the bullets out of him, I looked at him and frowned. I remember asking him why he wasn't healing, he laughed as blood trickled down his chin and asked me if he was the first one I had ever met. When I told him he was he told me that he lived of human flesh."
They all held their breaths, they suddenly knew were the story was going. They didn't like it, but they could see how it was helping Caroline, she didn't look so guilty, she didn't look as if she would walk out into the sunlight as a way to kill herself. No she looked at Sarah with a new light as she continued her story
"So I rolled up the sleeve of my arm and told him to take a bite. He looked at me like I was demented! He laughed thinking I was joking but stopped when he realized that I was been deadly serious, we fought until I shot myself in my arm with my gun. His eyes changed they went from his normal blue color to a maroon color, he looked at my bleeding wound with a intense hunger. I don remember what happened after that because someone had shot me in my side."
Caroline looked at her, even though she was bleeding she was still smiling, Angela stood up and pressed the towel back to her neck. She looked down and noticed that Sarah was passed out, Angela shook her head in exasperation as she said
"Stubborn fool."
Bonnie looked at Angela and asked
"Did that happen?"
Angela looked at her and nodded her head
"Yeah, I got a phone call saying that Sarah had been bitten by a wendigo and she was in the hospital been treated for it, she kept the scar to remind herself that not all 'dark' creatures are evil and some will fight their own nature."
They all looked at Caroline and understood that Caroline had been like Chris, she had fought against her own nature. She had fought against what she had been told to do, Katherine looked at her as she speaks
"You still need training, whether or not you can fight the urge to feed isn't the problem, the problem is you go to school. There will be a lot of people there and all that blood could tempt you."
Caroline nodded her head she could see the wisdom in Katherine's words
"But who will teach me Stefan? No thanks he will probably have me brooding by the end of the day."
They burst into laughter at Caroline's words, Katherine smiled as she spoke
"I will."
The gesture didn't go unnoticed they knew what it meant for Katherine to stay in one place, they knew that she had a attachment to them. But they had all learned something new, Liz and John had learned that while there was bad and evil vampires and other creatures out there, there was also the ones who fought their nature and fought to keep people safe.
They knew that they couldn't change their views over night but they were willing to try, after all they now had two vampires in the family.
Harry had always known that his family had put others before themselves and that had been proven by his aunt, but still they looked after each other as well. He hoped that they would find someone that would look after them like they deserved.
Bonnie knew that she couldn't judge Caroline for things that weren't her fault and had made up her mind to help her friend through this, she wouldn't turn her back on Caroline for something that wasn't her fault.
Angela sighed as she had bandaged her sisters neck sometimes only sometimes she wished that she would look after herself and realize that people would miss her if she died. But that was an issue for another day right now, she needed to put her to bed.
