CHAPTER NINE: IN MOTION
Caroline and Stefan had finished loading her things into her car when her phone rang.
"Hey Bon, I just finished loading my things into the car." she said. Ever since they found out she was pregnant, ever one had been extra careful and attentive around her, whether it was because she was pregnant or because she's sort of human again, she doesn't know. But Bonnie has been extra attentive of her ever since the whole 'Caroline-is-the-earth-being' news broke.
"Good. I just wanted to check up on you. I fixed our dorm by the way! And Liv has been helping me research the veil." Bonnie said.
"That's great! Any progress?" she asked as she and Stefan got back inside the house.
"No. We're still working on seeing how many types of veil there is around the world. So far we've only figured out two: me and the one in Wizarding UK." Bonnie said.
"Alright, well I still have to clean my room before leaving so I'll see you when I get there?" Caroline asked.
"You betcha. Bye Care." Bonnie said before ending the call.
Caroline and Stefan headed back into the house and while Stefan headed to the kitchen to fix them some drinks, Caroline headed upstairs to her room.
As Caroline heard Stefan moving about in the kitchen, she went on to clean her room. It wasn't until she was finally fixing her bed that she suddenly realized Stefan had stopped moving downstairs. Sensing something was wrong, Caroline went down stairs to see if Stefan was okay.
Only he wasn't. As she reached the kitchen, she saw two strangers inside her house and Stefan lay unconscious on the floor. Travelers.
"No! Stefan!" she said, as she tried to run towards him only to be stopped by a sudden pain shooting in her mind as if she was having a major aneurysm. The last thing she remembered was hearing someone scream, although she was pretty sure that was she, before everything turned dark.
TWO HOURS LATER:
Caroline woke feeling like she had gone through Dante Alighieri's nine circles of hell. However that was soon put aside as soon as she realized she was in the living room sofa instead of the kitchen floor.
"Caroline, how're you feeling?" a voice said. she tried to sit up to see who had spoken but she was stopped as soon as Matt moved in front of her.
"Awful. What happened? The last thing I remember was coming down to check on Stefan.." she said, suddenly realizing something bad had happened, "Oh my God Matt! They took Stefan! The Travelers took Stefan again!" she said, suddenly finding the strength to sit up.
"Woah, Easy Care" Matt said, "Take it easy."
"How did you know I was here?" Caroline asked. Knowing that everyone of her friends knew she should have been on the way back to Whitmore by now.
"Bonnie called me to check on you. She was worried cause you hadn't answered any of her calls and texts. I found you lying on the floor. Thankfully Damon said you and you baby seem to be okay." He said.
Breathing a sigh of relief, she hadn't even thought about how her actions could have affected her baby. She needs to remember that she isn't vampire Barbie right now. "Thanks Matt, but we have to go and help Damon get Stefan back." she said taking care to stand up slowly.
As Caroline and Matt arrived at the Salvatore Boarding house, they saw that Jeremy, Tyler the passenger and Damon were already in deep conversation.
"Hey, I was so worried! I came back as soon as Matt told me he found you." Bonnie said, attacking Caroline with a hug.
"I'm fine Bon, what's happening now?" Caroline asked. Matt had now joined in on the conversation and had left the two girls by the doorway.
"According to Liv and Luke, the travelers are completing the spell to rid Mystic Falls of anything that had been touched by witch magic in order to break their curse. Now that they have Stefan, they're going to continue draining him of his blood one more time to complete the spell." Bonnie explained.
"Oh my God!" Caroline said as she covered her mouth in shock. "What about Elena? Has she made it out of Mystic Falls?" she asked, scared for the safety of her best friend.
"Yeah. She got out luckily. Liv said they only need one Doppelganger to finish the spell. After that everyone of us, is gone." Bonnie said.
Their conversation was interrupted by Damon who said, "If you're done with the explanations, I'd like you're help in getting my brother back before he is fully drained of blood." And with that, they went and joined the others in the living room.
"I can't find him. They must have cast another cloaking spell." Liv said as she tried to locate Stefan once more. They can't let them kill Stefan to complete the spell. If that happens then magic of any kind will disappear.
"Try harder! It shouldn't be that hard! Witches are above travelers! You should be stronger than they are!" Damon said.
"Yeah but I'm not a thousand years old that came back from the other side!" Liv replied.
"You guys! Fighting won't get you anywhere! Just concentrate once more." Bonnie said to Liv as she gave Damon a 'shut-up-before-you-make-things-worse' glare.
Liv continued to attempt to locate Stefan with a locator spell unsuccessfully getting the same results for what seemed like an hour until Damon's phone rang.
Stefan could feel his insides begin to desiccate, he was barely conscious and aware of his surroundings now but he could feel himself slowly stiffen. He barely registered the door to his chamber open once more. He also didn't notice that his shackles had been loosened and the straps that were keeping him trapped in the wall.
He did notice though that the person was not Markos as this one was giving him a blood bag.
"Feed, then get out as soon as you can." The voice said. It was a woman. As soon has she had given him the blood bag, she left and left the door unlocked.
Stefan did as was told and once he had finished the entire blood bag.
"Who knew connect calls were still a thing?" Damon asked as he answered the phone. As relieved as he was to hear Stefan was able to escape, he wouldn't be able to completely feel at ease until his baby brother was back beside him.
"Where are you? I'm coming to get you." Damon said.
"I'm in the middle of nowhere. I'll try to get back as soon as possible. In the mean time, stay safe." Stefan said.
"Alright. Stay safe too, brother." Said Damon as they both ended the call.
"He got out. Which means you can locate him now. Do your witchy thing, tell me where he is and I'll go get him." Damon ordered Liv and left the room.
"Why are you helping me?" Stefan asked.
"You know where my husband is. I need to get to him before Markos completes his spell." The girl Maria said. She was the one who had freed him from the chamber Markos had kept him in.
"Markos says he needs me to complete the spell. If he doesn't have me, then the spell can't be completed." Stefan said.
"Not really. He needed more of your blood so that he could link you to someone mortal. Even if he could kill you, it wouldn't be possible to complete the spell because you're a vampire; he needs to end your immortality, not your vampirism. They need you mortal to complete the spell and since the cure no longer exists, they found another way to end Silas' doppelganger line once and for all by linking you to another one of your kind.
"There's another me?" Stefan asked.
"Yes. And they have him right now. So tell me where my husband is so we can get the hell out before the spell is completed and I suggest you get out of town like we will." Maria said.
"Oh my God." Liv said.
"What now Witch 2.0?" Damon asked.
"I can't cast my spell." Liv said. "Luke, Try something!"
Her brother tried to cast a spell only to have nothing happened, "the spell's begun." Luke said.
"There's only one way now." Liv said. "The spell the travelers are casting will cause any witch magic to be undone. From your daylight rings to vampirism and the werewolf curse will unravel. Just like the veil. Which means all of you are about to die." Liv explained to everyone.
"We can't leave! Not until Stefan is back with us!" Caroline said, she wasn't about to leave her first vampire best friend in a town where he could possibly die!
Liv stood up and looked at Caroline. "He's good as dead right now. I suggest everyone get the hell out of town, as far as you can go cause right now the spell is only contained in Mystic Falls, but it will spread and the only way to end the spell is to send Markos back to where he came from."
"So we get out of town, regroup and plan how to end Markos?" Jeremy asked.
"That would be the best solution right now." Luke said.
Suddenly Caroline's phone rings, "Hello?" she said.
"Care. Get out of town now. The daylight rings are no longer working let the other know. I'll see you soon." Said the voice on the other line.
"Stefan? Where are you? We're not leaving without you!" Caroline said, but the line had already gone dead.
Damon immediately rushed to Caroline, but failed so he ran over to her side as quickly as he could. "What did he say?"
"He told us to leave and that the daylight rings aren't working anymore. He said he'll see us soon." Caroline said, eyes now being filled with tears of fear and worry.
"It's settled then, Jeremy, Matt and Damon, you three go now and we'll meet at the third city from Mystic Falls; Enzo and Caroline are coming with me." Bonnie said.
"I'm not leaving my brother, Bonnie! So you and everyone else pack up and go! I'll wait for him!" Damon said.
"We don't have much time Damon! Even if you do wait for him here, once the spell is completed both of you will be dead seeing as died to turn into a vampire! What good will that do to Stefan, to Elena, to everyone else?" Bonnie replied, "Truth is, Liv is right. We need to find a way to end this spell and we can't do it here."
As soon as everyone had agreed, they went to their houses to pack up what belongings they needed the most.
"Mom!" Caroline said, as she found her mom sitting in the couch when she entered the house.
"Caroline! I'm so glad you're safe! What's going on?" Liz asked, hugging her daughter.
Caroline explained to her mom what had happened and told her what they were going to do.
"We need to go. Far away from here as possible mom, okay?" Caroline told her mom.
"I can't leave Caroline, this is my town, it's my responsibility to protect it." Liz said.
"Mom! This town is filled with travelers! It's not what it was! I can't lose you mom! I already lost dad and you're going far away from here as you can!" Caroline begged her mom.
"Sweet heart." Her mom said.
"No mom, you can't say you're not going. Think about us for once. I need you. I'm having a baby and I need you." Caroline said, now crying.
Taking a deep breath, "Okay. Let's go pack." Liz said. Her daughter was right. She needs her, and her priority should always be her family.
As the mother and daughter locked the door of their home, they went to load their bags into the car and bade each other goodbye.
"Call me when you're out of town and safe okay? I'll go to where you are once you've settled down." Liz said, tears of worry and fear for her and her daughter's safety filling her.
"I will mom, call me too when you're safe." Caroline said, she wasn't really going to call her mom to follow her where she and the others were staying. It would be safer for her to not be involved in any of this.
With everything said and done, the two got in their car and drove off to different directions.
Bonnie had just finished packing when suddenly she felt someone behind her.
"Grams. What's happening?" Bonnie asked as he neared her grand mother.
"The spell the travelers are casting, it's causing the veil to crumble even faster. You have to stop them Bonnie." She said.
"We're trying. But we can't stay here. We would be of no use." Bonnie said, tears filling her eyes.
Nodding, her grandmother took her hand, "Bonnie, in my room, there's a hidden passage under my bed. I need you to go down there and retrieve our family's oldest grimoire. It has some of the world's most powerful magic. Do not let anyone know of this, only those who must know it. Maybe there is something that can help you there." She said.
"I thought you gave me all of the grimoires before?" Bonnie asked.
Shaking her head, Sheila said, "I gave you all of MY grimoires. The ones I'm talking about are from our family's ancestors. I never read the whole thing; the power radiating from it was too much for me. But the grimoires there are old Bonnie. Old magic can be found in it and I don't want you to abuse it." She added.
Knowing that she meant about her past use of expression, "I promise I won't abuse it. I'll protect it." She said.
"Good. Now go. Hurry and leave town." The older Bennett said.
After leaving the other side, Bonnie immediately did as her Grams told her and soon she found three large and old grimoires. She wanted to leaf through them but decided that it could wait. She needed to pack these up and hide them.
Caroline and Bonnie arrived at the first meeting point out of Mystic Falls, relief washing over them to find that everyone had made it out safely. Everyone except Stefan, that is.
"Okay so what's the plan?" Bonnie said as they moved towards the others in a diner somewhere in the outskirts of South Carolina. They had driven for 5 hours late last night and arrived just in time to find the others had also just gotten there too.
"Well, we build upon what the twin witches said; get as far from Mystic Falls as we can, find a way to kill Markos and rescue Stefan oh and saving the veil." Damon said.
"Well where exactly are we going to go?" Caroline asked.
"We can head to Georgia or Florida, it's far enough to buy us some time before the spell catches up to us and it's not so far from Mystic Falls that we can drive and be there within a day." Jeremy said.
"It would make sense. Alright, all in favor of Georgia or Florida?" Matt said, when they all raised hands, " alright then, so which one?" Matt asked.
"I think we should go to Georgia, its closer and if we still need more time, we'll head to Florida." Bonnie said.
"Great. It's settled then. Let's go. We'll meet up at the first gas station we see when we get there." Damon said as he made his way to the car, "Little Gilbert and Donovan, come with me. Enzo stay with the girls." He added.
"Hey! Now wait just a sec! We don't need him with us!" Caroline said, as much as she didn't really hate Enzo, he was just so annoying and she doesn't think she could stand him and his flirting and snarky remarks for such a long drive.
"Face it Blondie, with you being all the 'vessel of Gaia' and such, and Bonnie here not being able to be all witchy, you two are going to need some form of protection, and seeing as there are only two vampires here, I'm going with you." Enzo said.
Caroline glared. She knew he was right. She was in no position to protect her and Bonnie but that doesn't mean she'll make it any easier for Enzo, "Fine. But I'm starving so I'm going to go inside that diner and get something to eat. Bonnie, let's go." She said as she stomped her way to the diner.
Enzo turned to Damon, you don't suppose you'd want to switch, do you?" he asked.
"Uh, no, she's all yours. Besides, she'll keep you entertained, whilst she'd drive me mad if I stayed with her. Just take care of them." Damon said as the three of them headed to the car.
"You're not going to eat?" Bonnie asked Jeremy before heading off with Caroline.
"No, Damon thinks its safer if we head on out first, so that if we encounter anything, we could warn you guys." He replied.
"Alright. Just, take care, Jer." She said, hugging him then kissing him before following Caroline into the diner.
AN: So here we are! I know I skipped a lot of scenes and episodes on both the vampire diaries and the originals but I didn't need all of them since I was changing it up a bit to fit my story. Anyway I hope you like it! I still can't believe they killed Stefan! I mean really! L
Hope you like this new chapter! Like I said before, I didn't follow all the episodes from both series so timelines might change. Up to now, Enzo did not die and Rebekah and Marcel's betrayal has yet to come to light (I'm not sure if I'll ever include that scene yet) so you see how different the timelines are? I'm going to take the scenes I like and incorporate it into this story! Hopefully you'll still stay with me up until I finish this! J
Also I think I failed to mention if Tyler was possessed by a traveler here, if I didn't mention it earlier, he did become one. J
NEW AN:Have any of you watched the season finale's of TO and TVD?! Can I just say I was sorely disappointed by TVD's season finale! I mean, really? IDK but maybe it was just cause TO got to air first and I thought that that finale was supercalifragilisticexpialidociously supermegafoxyawesomehot and fantabulously awesome and epic so maybe that's why when TVD's season finale aired, it sort of felt flat to me? I'm glad Alaric's back though! But Lexi (she should have returned btw) should stop pushing for Steroline! I prefer them to be a sort of BroTP (is that correct?I'm not sure) Anyway I'm abusing my punctuations now so, let me know what you think! Bye! J