CHAPTER 4: JOURNALS
THIS CHAPTER WAS A DOOZY TO WRITE! IT WAS SO HARD TO WRITE IT CAUSE THIS IS WHERE SOME OF MY MADE UP/"CUSTOMIZED" MAGICAL CREATURES COME INTO PLAY. LOL ACTUALLY I'M NOT REALLY INTRODUCING ANY CHARACTERS LIKE THAT, I'LL ONLY BE USING THEM TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING TO CAROLINE. I KNOW THIS CHAPTER MAY SEEM ABSURD BUT LET'S FACE IT, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES HAS HAD MORE THAN ITS FAIR SHARE OF ABSURDITY, LIKE THE FACT THAT THEY KILLED KATHERINE OFF! I MEAN REALLY!
ANYWAY, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT SO ANY WAY. LOL!
I DO NOT OWN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
1 week later:
The alarming of her clock waked Caroline up. As she woke up she checked the time and it read that it was 7:30 in the morning. Caroline grumbled as she got up to get ready for the day. Today was a big day, she dreaded this day, to be honest.
"Caroline, breakfast is ready!" Caroline heard her mom call out to her.
"Coming mom!" She shouted back. Caroline put her comb down and went down the stairs to greet her mom.
"Good morning mom" Caroline said as she kissed her mom by the cheek and sat down beside her at the breakfast table, which were laid with pancakes, chicken sausages and bacon.
"Good morning Care. How are you feeling today?" Her mother asked.
"I feel fine. I just want this day to be over with." Caroline said as she began stacking pancakes, bacon and sausages unto her plate.
"Sweet heart, I know going to be a long day for all of us. But you do have to do this. To figure out what you're going to do next." Liz said as she sipped her coffee.
"But mom, I made him promise not to come back here! To never speak to me again! And now that might not be possible anymore!" Caroline said as she doused her pancake with honey…as well as the bacon and sausages.
"Care, Whatever it is that's happening with you, he might be able to help, he is a thousand years old and partly cause he did this to you." Liz said as she ate her breakfast, "Now I don't like him as much as the next immortal person in this town but think about what this half hybrid baby could do to you? Okay?" she added.
Caroline shrugged, not wanting to talk about it anymore before she's had any breakfast.
Nothing more was said as the mother and daughter duo ate their breakfast. It wasn't until Liz finished her breakfast and began to clear her own plate and utensils that she spoke, "Sweet heart I have to go now. Don't forget to take your vitamins and try not to get into any trouble, if you need me, you know where I'll be the whole day." She said as she moved to kiss Caroline on the top of her head and made her way to the front door.
"Bye mom, take care," said Caroline as she continued to eat the remainder of the breakfast that her mother had cooked, still dousing everything with honey.
After Caroline ate her breakfast and cleared the table, she took her required her pre-natal vitamins and took a shower. Yes, that's right. Caroline Forbes, baby vampire Barbie, is pregnant.
As Caroline got into the shower, she thought about everything that's happened a week ago until today.
FLASHBACK:
1 week ago:
Caroline and Stefan entered her house to find Liz sitting on the living room sofa with a stack of old books that Stefan noticed looked like the family journals he had at his family's library, except where his books were covered with a rustic reddish color, these had a greenish muddy color.
"Hi Mom" Caroline said as she bent over to kiss her mom in the cheek before sitting down beside her. "What are these?"
"Hi honey, Hey Stefan" Liz said "why don't you sit down too Stefan, this might take a while." She said as she encouraged Stefan to take a seat in front of her and Caroline.
As Stefan did so, Liz turned to face Caroline and said "These are our family journals, dating back to at least 300 years ago, starting from when our very first family members arrived here from Ireland in 1714."
Liz took one of the books on the table that read 'Darragh Mac Carthaigh, 1714' and explained, "This is the first journal written by our ancestor about his life here in Mystic Falls and how he and his daughter, Apphia Cosmina Mac Carthaigh and his wife Demetra Mac Carthaigh. It says here that he had taken his family away from their home in Ireland because of the illness and famine that ravaged their village, leaving their land infertile thus, there were no food for them to sell and eat. Read this part here." Liz said as she pointed to a paragraph in the book.
January 04, 1714
'The land we travelled to is infertile, trees can grow but we cannot seem to grow crops, vegetables and fruit. We have been here for months and the seeds and plants we've taken with us are dying slowly. I must find another source of food for I fear that though we are now safe from the illness and famine that ravaged our land back home, we will die of starvation still.'
Caroline continued to read the next passage while Stefan and Liz looked on.
March 04, 1714
'Apphia was playing in the woods again. I called her for supper and when she did not come immediately I went and out to go get her. I found her in the patch of land I had tried to grow plants, kneeling in the ground.
I called her name and she did not respond, I thought something bad had happened because as I grabbed her arms so that she would stand up, I saw her hands bloodied. I asked her what had happened but she did not respond. It was as if she was in a trance until I shook her and then came out of her trance.
I asked her what had happened and she said that the land called for her to offer her blood, and so she did.
When we got home, her mother washed her hands to see what wounds she would need to heal only there was none. No scar no signs that she had harmed herself to bleed so much.
Something is going on. I will find out what it is.'
March 05, 1714
I went to the patch of land today to see what I could find out about what happened to my daughter last night.
Only to find that there were plants growing! Seeds that I had planted months ago that never grew, were now growing as how they should have had they lived months ago!
I immediately went home and brought my wife and daughter out to see what had happened. We had food! The land had given life!
My wife had then told us that the mother Gaia gifted Apphia. She had been given the gift of becoming an elemental being. To give life as the controller and creator of earth creatures; from plants to animals to humans!
My wife further explained that a long time ago, Gaia had appointed four original elemental beings to create, control and protect her world; one for every element:
A being for air; to ensure the flow of life
A being for water; to ensure that the world could be cleansed and till the land
A being for fire; to ensure that coldness and darkness could be battled
A being for earth; to ensure that life will prosper and nature remain balanced.
There are no indication on how to find out an elemental being from a human, she said only that someone from her family had married the original being for the element of earth and while her family had prospered in crops and land, it took another 100 years before her family was gifted with another elemental being that carried the element of earth as well.
She said that according to her families' stories, Gaia herself chooses who becomes gifted with the element, and that usually she gifts one when there is a grave imbalance that must be corrected in nature.
Darragh.
"Whoa" Caroline said as she folded the corner of the page she had just read and closed the book.
"Are you saying that I'm some sort of elemental being that takes care of earth? What am I? A member of Captain Planet's Planeteers?!" she said loudly as she stood up and began to pace. She could not believe what she was hearing. This is insane!
"Sweet heart I know it's strange, probably stranger than anything I've ever heard, and that's saying something." Liz said as she stood up and went to the kitchen to make some tea, her daughter is about to have a full-blown panic attack and only a blend of chamomile, peppermint and honey could calm her down.
When she came back with the tray of tea, she sat back down and reached for another book.
"How could this be? I'm a vampire? I'm technically dead. How would I be gifted with the element of earth if I can't give life?" Caroline said, not really speaking to anyone but was just voicing out her thoughts.
"Sweetheart, there's more." Liz said but this time, instead of giving Caroline the journal, she handed it to Stefan to read.
"This one is from a person named Clara Forbes around 1814" he said as he read the front of the journal.
"Open it on where I put the bookmark" Liz said as she encouraged Stefan to do so.
February 04, 1814
'Lately I have been feeling very sick. I feel that something is changing within me but I cannot explain what.
I've asked mother and father to let me stay in he garden to get some fresh air, but it they refuse me, saying that I might catch something else out there or I might get too cold. All mother did was to open the window in my room to let air in.
Oh how I wish to be outside! Cora says the garden is a mess, rather dull since I haven't been taking care of it lately.'
March 04, 1814
'It has been a month since I've been sick, but today I decided to go out even though mother and father forbade me to. The doctor told mother and my nurse that it might do me good to get a little bit of sunshine so long as I don't exert myself too much.
I feel so much more alive there, even if the garden has become rather dull. I must get that fixed as soon as possible.
Mother was furious that I walked everywhere in the garden, I think I tired myself too much cause according to Cora I fainted somewhere in the forest behind our home, beside a bleeding rabbit. And I woke up in my bed with mother and father watching over me.'
"Hey, I think I remember her, father used to tell me stories of his friend Clara and how they played around whenever their parents met." Stefan said then he continued to read the last paragraph.
March 05, 1814,
I've never felt so alive! The doctor had finally told my mother I am free of my illness and that I can now move as please! I told mother I wanted to eat in the garden today, so that I can spend time outside the house.
As mother, Cora and I were waiting for father and the Fell's to arrive, we sat at the garden porch while the maids prepared the food. Imagine my surprise when Cora suddenly stood, dragging me near the edge of the garden to where the forest began and pointed to a rabbit. She said that was the rabbit they found beside me, bleeding to death when I fainted yesterday.
Mother followed us there, worried about my health and saw that it was indeed the rabbit. She then instructed us to go back inside the house and let her know when father comes while she went and locked herself in her study.
Tonight mother came into my room and gave me a journal of our ancestor Apphia Forbes, she said I should read it before anything else happens, she said something big is about to change and that it would do me well to be prepared.
Caroline was brought out of her thoughts when her phone rang. Caroline got out of the shower and put on her bathrobe before heading to her room to answer her phone.
"Hey Stefan, what's up?" she said.
"Hey Care, just wanted to check on you. You've been quiet for about a week now, we're all worried about you." Stefan said.
"Oh you know. Still trying to wrap my head around the fact that I've once again turned into a human and not only that but I'm also some sort of nature being with a magical baby on the way." Caroline said, trying to be light and sarcastic but failing miserably.
"Care, I'm here for you, you know that right?" Stefan said
"Yeah, I know. It's just so hard to believe this. It goes against everything we know and now I don't know what to do!" Caroline complained as she lathered lotion onto her skin.
"You know what, I'm coming over, I'll see you in thirty minutes. Do you need anything?" he asked.
"What? You don't have to come here I'm fine Stefan! I really am! But if you insist, can you please bring a turkey sandwich, peanut butter and chocolate Ice cream and my favorite fruit bowl from The Grill?" she said
Stefan chuckled and said "Well in that case, Caroline, I'll see you in an hour."
"Thanks Stefan!" she said before putting her phone down and getting dressed. She let out a huff, as she looked herself over in the mirror. It was going to be a long day indeed.
AN:
There you have it! Now we know what's happening to Caroline but we still don't know the full story now eh? It was really difficult to write this but I hope you still like it. Also can I say that last night ep (5x18) was so cute! I'm forever a Klaroline fan but those Carenzo scenes are just so cute! Also, do you guys like long chapters or do you prefer if I keep them around less than 3 or 2 thousand?
Also I know that the first recorded ancestor of Caroline was a Mac Carthaigh, but they had a daughter so that means she married into the Forbes Family. and well, you all know how that goes. :)