hey every one i want to thank you for the reviews, i love getting them for my stories.
i just want to say to those who think Caroline is out of character im not trying to make these characters exactly the same as they are on the show i wanted to play around a bit with them , but i don't think shes completely out of character i just think for this story to work she needs to have progressed, and in the show she has these really sweet and motherly moments with people she loves or is trying to care about, so for the way she was with rebekah in the last episode i was just trying to show more of that.
i know there wasn't much of Stefan in the last chapter so this one will be packed with the Salvatore we all love, i hope you enjoy and as always let me know what you think :~) x
chapter 11
stefan was bored, highly bored and all he wanted to do right now was drink, but not wanting to go on a binge like he tends to do when he has the urge he has kept himself hold up writing in his room and drinking his way through the bourbon that is in the house, and not want to get into something with his brother if he ever ran in to him again,
so he decided after the 2nd bottle to leave and head to the grill what he wasnt expecting was to see the original brothers sat with frustrated looks on there face and a part of him, the part caroline liked to call the damon part wanted to enjoy it so he ordered a full bottle and went over to the booth taking swigs from it on the way over,
"well, whats got you all broody" he says causing them to look at him "what do you want stefan" kol asked look at a smug stefan "I was bored and you know me, not one to miss out on brooding so whats got you all in a tizzy" he says causing Klaus to smirk "oh are you the only one that can be broody" he ask causing stefan to laugh
"Elijah, Kol , Klaus, so are you going to tell me or am i just going to geuss" he ask pulling a stool from a near by table and sitting down becoming the head of the table,
"why are you here stefan" Elijah asks "i was bored care was busy will girl bonding time with your sister so" "she sent you to check up on us" Klaus asks interrupting him "no, like i said i was bored and didnt want to drink all the booze in the boarding house, and have the possibility to run in with damon" "why" stefan sighed before thinking about what he should do
"i'll tell you about my troubled relationship with my brother, if you boys tell me whats got you all broody" he says not expecting them to answer in detail about what has happened
"so what about you what do you think, about our woes" Kol asks from across the table "can i ask, when was the last time you hugged each other" stefan asks from the strange looks on there face he can tell it was a really long time ago "have you ever tried to live like humans before" to this they snicker
"no I'm serious, care made me do it a year ago, the rule was that we would be able to have 15 minutes in a day to drink blood but the rest we werent allowed to use our vampire abilities, so for 15 minutes in the morning we were able to drink blood, but after that no super powers, no compulsion, vamp speed every thing was human" he said remembering the week he spent with caroline in Miami as humans
"why would you ever do that for" Kol asks "to see what it was like from there point of view, look at it this way, human familys argue, bicker and fight all the time but they dont stab each other or snap necks because then they would be dead, they live shorter lives so the dont hold grudges for long, they hug and comfort each other, didnt you when you were human" he asks
"he's right, when we were human kol would play pranks but they never ended with a snapped neck, when bekah was upset we knew what to do, our first thought was to give her comfort not jump to the conclusion of being theatric, my first thought was to take myself away from her and the situation i wanted nothing more to dissappear i forgot how to be a brother in that moment" Elijah says before downing the rest of his amber liquid
"what do suggest we do then live like humans" Klaus asks from his seat "why not it could be a valuable learning curve" "humans are beneath us Elijah thats why we dont live like them because we are above them" Kol says glaring at his brother "no your wrong, we are not above them, we were them, they deserve to be given more credit then what we as a race do give them" he says gesturing to them all "we are not superior, we've had a 1000 years to learn and progress, and we have failed to do that" he says straightening his tie "so you suggest we live like humans and then what" Klaus asks
"no not live like humans but remember what we would do when we were humans, to really remember what we were like when we were human, our promise was never truer then when we were humans, how can we expect to bring a child into this if we dont remember how to show real emotions apart from anger or distrust, how can we show it the love and affection it will need if we find it this hard to show it now" Elijah says causing Klaus to nod his head,
after a pregnant pause Klaus ask Stefan what happened when they pretended to be human causing Stefan to sigh "well it was towards the end of the week any way and had a run in with my brother and got drunk and vamped out in a biker bar and caused a scene that the police came and tried to arrest us on our way to escape we crashed through the side of a police van and vamp sped down the high way away from some very confused officers, we woke up the next day glad that it was so late at night that there wasnt that many people around to witness it" they all laughed "so we tried to cover our tracks but some how Liz found out about it and tore us a new one, if theres one human out there that iI'm truly scared of is that woman" he says shivering from the memory of angry Liz
"ah yes sheriff Forbes, strong woman" Klaus says "yes she is a rather intriguing woman" Elijah says "its where Care gets her strength from thats for sure, its worse when i have both of them yelling at me" stefan says shivering again "your truly scared of them, how your a vampire and could kill them easily " Kol says "of course i am, never get on the wrong side of a Forbes woman" Stefan says.
"so do you make it a habit of pissing the Forbes women off" Klaus asks "Caroline sometimes but never liz" "whys that" "because one look from her and im a 12 year old boy again being told of" "So Stefan what is your relationship with Caroline" Kol asks, causing Klaus to become very interested in his reaction even Elijah seemingly taken interest in his answer "shes my best friend" "do you love her" Kol asks something glimmering in his eyes "with all my heart" he says not missing a beat "What!" Klaus errupts "Nik, he wants your girl mate" Kol says laughingly "no not like that, yes i love her with all my heart but in a shes my sister way not a i want to have sex way, your safe Klaus" he says
they make chit chat and elijah goes to the bar to order a new bottle while Kol tries it on with a female bar maid "your sure your not inlove with her" Klaus ask him again "yes, i still remember her telling me about you sleeping with her, I've never seen her so flusterd" he says "she told you" he nods "of course she did we always tell each other important things"
"you know i think its taken Caroline a long time to admit to her feelings for you" stefan says causing Klaus to disagree "thats not true its only until recently" "no your wrong" stefan says cutting him off "do you remember after your date with her, a few weeks later Damon and Elena wanted to use her as a distraction for you, she flat out refused, i never knew why until 2 years after that when she was drunk and the topic of you came up, and she told me the reason why" "and why was that" he asks raising an eyebrow at him "because and i quote, his british freekin dimples and big heart was getting to me stef, and i just couldnt do it any more' i said what play distraction with him, and just before she past out she had said it" stefan said remembering it he acted like he didnt hear her but he had "she said what" Klaus asks breaking him out of memory lane "hate him"
Klaus eyes widen a little surprised by it "thats thats" "look caroline couldnt hate you, she was falling for you she still is falling for you, but think about it she was 17 when she turned and she already had to deal with being tortured and compelled and then there was a 1000 year old hybrid wanting to woe her when she was barely a year old vampire it was all to much for her, so she hid behind it her friends hatred of you made it worse, because how was she able to even think about her confusing feelings for you when shes was meant to be with tyler and her childhood friends are pushing her opinoin on her, so she pushed it away" stefan says trying to make him understand
"then obviously they didnt mean much to her if she could just easily push them away" Klaus say "no, it wasnt easy for her, the thing with Caroline that people never seem to get is that she will sacrifice everything her own life if it was for one of her friends, so she did she pushed any thought about you away because she didnt want to hurt Elena and me or bonnie, so she did what she did but just because she ignored them didnt mean they werent there" stefan says refilling both glasses.
"so how is the last doppleganger" he ask "wouldnt know , havent seen them in years care spoke to her a few months back but other then that" "what happened" he ask refilling stefans glass again "where do i start" he says drinking his drink in one go where Klaus just raises his eyebrow "she choose Damon, after the whole Silas situation was finished she still wanted him and i had had enough so i left Care came with me, we went see tyler that ended as soon as we got there, so we just travelled for a while, then we ran into Elena and she caused a scene something about traverllers and then saying i should of been there for her, when care got involved she went on one saying that care left because she was in love with me and thats when i saw her for the real person she was" "well" Klaus ask after a while of silence "I always thought that she was different from katherine but if any thing shes worse, at least with Katherine she admits to playing me and damon, but Elena still hides behind the pretense that nothing is her fault, and for all those years every one would of laid there life down for her, we all nearly did on so many occasions, but she would of never done the same for us, so after i learnt that basically i hated wasted so much of love on her, i went rippah for a while, 3 weeks i was out of controll tore apart a whole town, care snapped my neck and vervained me and dragged me to some deserted place in russia it only took her 2 days to get me to turn my emotions back on, and ever since she was teaching me control" stefan says with a smile
"so how did she do it" Klaus asked "i was allowed small amounts of human blood a day, when it came from drinking from the wrist was when i got diffulcult after i killed some one, she got the idea of using a spray bottle, so if she felt i was going to far she'd spray me with it and i'd stop and it became a lot easier after that" stefan says "where did she come up with that idea" Kol asks coming back to the table having struck out with the bar maid "she was watching a programme about methods to train a dog and she saw that people used spraying water at them for bad behaviour, so she took that and adapted it with vervain, it worked to i refused to use humans so we started with animals until she convinced me to try, but i was still having trouble with the idea, so one day we were on our was back to the cabin when we found some on trying to rape a little girl must of been about 40 this guy and the girl was only about 13, she was going to snap his neck but some how i ended up biting him and learning control so then we would go around and looking for people who were what criminals and rapists and so after a year of that i had it down" stefan says
"so the rippah has gone then" Klaus ask "no, caroline thinks that he wont fully disappear until i learn to except him and love that side of me" he said laughing at Carolines hypothesises "it took you what 150 years and a 2 year old vampire was able to teach you control" Kol says laughing "why not she has the best control i know, even when she turned into a vampire she managed to feed of a nurse and compel her to forget she did it, and that was hours after her transition" "so who taught her then" kol asked "no one she woke up with out a clue of what was going on she was alone and scared the sun was burning her, she wanted blood and all these memories where coming back to her, so it wasn't until she had got out of the hospital that he had her first kill, but that was more of her needing to learn how to handle her emotions and being able to stop her emotions from effecting her blood lust, im still not sure how she does it, but shes able to have them in seperate areas, so for a baby vampire she has better control then 500 year old vampires" he says
"so is that what drew you to her nik" Kol asked "no, although her control is above par for a vampire of her aged, but i always knew she was special" "yeah shes lucky thats all" Kol says grumbling "oh stop Kol, your just mad because for once some one put you in your place with a few spoken words" Elijah says coming over with another bottle of bourbon "your also forgetting brother that she managed to throw him through a wall" Klaus says smiling from the memory
"like i said luck" Kol says frowning "dont worry Kol, she threatened to do the same to Elijah a few nights ago" stefan says remembering her words "yes that was amusing" Elijah says doubting she would of done it "i know that look, thats doubt right there brother" kol says pointing to him "you shouldnt doubt that, trust me carolines managed to take on Damon before and stake him a few times, and shes dealt with your brother" stefan says which causes Elijah to raise his eyebrow "really" he turns to look at Klaus for confirmation "yes, she has a good swing on her" "she was raised by a female sheriff" stefan says causing them all to laugh.